Posted on 12/09/2007 5:12:23 PM PST by chardonnay
Seattle - In an open letter to Santa last week and a speech to children at Seattle’s Annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Westlake Center, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels last week offered a Grinch-like tone, grumbling about climate change threatening Santa, telling kids “I hope the reindeer can swim,” and blaming them and their energy-sucking video games for melting Arctic ice.
As Nickels spoke, his assistants handed out stickers admonishing the crowd to “Save Santa.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpolicy.org ...
http://www.seattlechannel.org/news/detail.asp?ID=7946&Dept=40
This guy really believe this.
Good Lord, talk about forcing your religion on others...
“In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.”
- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day 1970
I get my newspaper by snail mail.
I TIVO the news & wait a week to watch it.
I stay on dial-up, so even my FreeRepublic gets here late.
“In an open letter to Santa last week and a speech to children at Seattle’s Annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony...”
It seems like a violation of the separation of Church and State to me.
Did he really say that? Nice one.
Let me know when it is time to start marketing my ‘Al, I still believe!’ bumper stickers...
I think it’s all about selling those light bulbs. Laurie David peddles them too.
I worry about the mayors mental health.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper once called the Kyoto accord a “socialist scheme” designed to suck money out of rich countries...
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/30/harper-kyoto.html
Didn't the northwest have like 110 mph frigid bone chilling winds last week?
Where was “climate change” as a mainstream issue just a few years ago?
Oh, so all of the sudden it’s upon us? The natural forces at work must’ve just happened overnight. I mean, look how everyone’s just gotten on board in such a short time. Even the Seattle mayor now. Gotta be real, right? Can’t possibly be some self-serving politician’s fictional issue.
Oh...Maybe this is caused by global warming...Er climate change...Or Atmospheric Suction and Syphon or “ASS”.
ID10T
Only a liberal (read: demented sociopath) would ever insert politics into something like this.
NOTHING is sacred to these people.
YEs, it was 30 degrees or so, and snowed here last Saturday, then, sunday it rained like heck and melted the snow, flooding all of Lewis county, closing I-5 for a week. Monday it was 58 degree’s. Currently 36 degrees.
on a side note, the ice in Antarctica is growing, so it’s not like Santa will be homeless. maybe he could use his magic and bring up the MV Explorer.
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Way to go, Gregory. Congratulations. Using the tree lighting to scare children was just brilliant. “I hope the reindeer can swim.” That was really appropriate, huh? Scaring children at Christmas and making them worry that Santa’s reindeer could drown was quite a way to make a political point.
I hope someone has that on film. You really deserve to be mocked in a short documentary film. If given the opportunity, it would a labor of love for me to produce it and stick it to you with a YouTube.
How about this message next time? Warn the children that they might be killed by an illegal alien in your sanctuary city as was Rebecca Griego. Her relatives need to sue your city into bankruptcy.
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Upland, CA
*snort*
Tell me this is a joke........please.
Do you remember the environmentals that went up to the north pole in May of this year?....it was 125 below zero and they froze their butts off!
Also on the weather page of the Wash post earlier in the year they asked this question:
“When was the last time the temperature at the north pole was above freezing”?
The answer was “never since we have been recording temperatures”.
Boy did they slip up!
Isn't that the truth!
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