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Ga. Gov Changes 'Holiday' Press Release
AP ^ | December 3, 2005 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/02/2005 10:06:02 PM PST by george76

When it comes to Christmas, political correctness apparently only lasts about a half-hour in Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue's office.

A press release sent by Perdue's office Friday afternoon announced plans for a "holiday tree" lighting ceremony ...

Thirty minutes later, a second release went out reading: "It is, in fact, a Christmas tree."

That release blaming the earlier wording on "a politically correct staff brain-freeze," ...

Perdue spokesman Dan McLagan said there's no doubt where the Republican governor comes down on the issue.

"When the governor learns that one of my staffers even inadvertently used the words 'holiday tree,' I am probably going to be in trouble," McLagan said. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.lycos.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: brainfreeze; bush; bush43; christmas; christmastree; pc; perdue; politicallycorrect; sonnyperdue
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21 posted on 12/03/2005 9:27:59 AM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: george76

LOL BTTT!


22 posted on 12/03/2005 9:35:21 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: george76
A truly happy ending. It is past time that the majority stood up the the tyrannical minority.

BTW, Merry Christmas!

23 posted on 12/03/2005 9:45:29 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (De gustibus non est disputandum.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham; bitt; PhilDragoo; devolve; potlatch

Excellent Christmas news.
Merry Christmas to all!


24 posted on 12/03/2005 10:02:53 AM PST by ntnychik
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To: george76
"a politically correct staff brain-freeze"

ROFLMAO!

25 posted on 12/03/2005 11:44:17 AM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule Them All and to the Dark Side Bind Them)
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26 posted on 12/03/2005 11:56:26 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Did anyone get their Holiday card from the President and Mrs. Bush? My kids thought it was the coolest thing that the President sent us a holiday card.


27 posted on 12/03/2005 7:30:33 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
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To: armydawg1

I wasn't too crazy about the closing of the schools, but he is definitely better than what the Cynthia McKinney crazies will put up against him. : )


28 posted on 12/03/2005 7:36:53 PM PST by Politicalmom (Must I use a sarcasm tag?)
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To: george76

FINALLY someone has figured out that only CHRISTMAS has a Christmas tree!!!


29 posted on 12/03/2005 8:31:02 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience. T)
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To: ntnychik; devolve; PhilDragoo

It's happening in a lot of places.

My city had their 'Holiday Parade' this evening. The newspaper carried a story about all the people calling because of the name change, but the 'name' was published too late to get much done ahead of time.

I'm sure there will be a lot more about it in the next few days!


30 posted on 12/03/2005 9:46:16 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; dixiechick2000; Victoria Delsoul; Liz


Here I have seen "Giving Tree" on printed material.....

Two symbols at bottom - one in each corner -

One was rather generic.....

The other very religious.....

Two candy canes in each top corner -

The PC snakes are attempting to remove Christmas from Christmas and make it some "share-it-or-else" secular holiday
"Giftgivingday"

Amazingly - the "Giving Tree" printed requests for "Giving Presents" had no illustration of any sort of "tree" on it at all.....


Did this anger me?

Will it change all of my shopping, buying, eating, business, social, practices and habits now?

Take a big ol' wild guess!



There are a (very) few people on his tiny planet that you never want to ever cross or cheat or lie to or scam or con -

The bait & switch garbage just ain't gettin' it


This even angered my liberal NYC sister - what asked me to create an E-Card she can email out to all of her business buddies, relatives, and friends - many thousands of families and individuals around the globe

I made two Chrsitmas E-Cards up - one .wavs - one stereo .midis

After seeing and hearing them - both - my liberal NYC sister said to me - "If they don't like them....."


Hidden flaws are not a bargain -


..... and Zircons Are Not Forever.....





31 posted on 12/04/2005 6:34:32 AM PST by devolve (<--- (--------(--do not check out my lame FR home page--)-------)
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To: george76

I like your graphic too. May I please use it?


32 posted on 12/04/2005 7:54:34 AM PST by Landry Fan (Stand up for our Troops)
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Yes, share it with anyone.


33 posted on 12/04/2005 8:01:01 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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