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City installs Festivus pole
The Daily Redundancy ^

Posted on 12/20/2007 10:35:01 AM PST by chordmaster

NEW HAVEN, CT (TDR) - In an effort to recognize the diverse traditions of the holiday season, the City has installed a Festivus pole in the Market Street square. A dedication ceremony is scheduled for Saturday afternoon. With the addition of this new holiday centerpiece, the square is now thought to be the most diverse public display of late fall holiday symbols in the country...

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TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: festivus; satire
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

You’ve been a member too long to write that post off to just ignorance or stupidity. That’s the most racist thing I’ve seen posted here in a couple of years.


21 posted on 12/20/2007 10:56:57 AM PST by elfman2 ("As goes Fallujah, so goes central Iraq and so goes the entire country" -Col Coleman, USMC ,4/2004)
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To: chordmaster
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24 posted on 12/20/2007 11:00:33 AM PST by Jackknife ( "The Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco, and Firearms should be a department store, not a gov't agency.")
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To: ChiMark

You nailed it. Just as they’ve used it against whites, males, Jews, and Asians.


25 posted on 12/20/2007 11:01:03 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: elfman2

whatever, “Anywhere we are, Us is.”


26 posted on 12/20/2007 11:01:57 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: ChiMark

Nothing the left promotes is up front and honest.

Diversity is their cover for destroying Western Culture.
Voters’ rights is a cover for promoting vote fraud.
Global Warming is a cover for global socialism.
Stem cell research - devaluing humanity to promote abortion.


27 posted on 12/20/2007 11:04:54 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Uncledave

LOL.


28 posted on 12/20/2007 11:12:00 AM PST by rineaux (How dare you, how dare you question the Clinton's wrecked record.)
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To: Clemenza

“YES! Will they allow the airing of grievances at city hall?”

“Let’s get rid of the jerk(s) that decided New Haven CT would be a ‘sanctuary city’!!”


29 posted on 12/20/2007 11:14:32 AM PST by VOA
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To: Clemenza

Looks like they have their’s up in NOLA.


30 posted on 12/20/2007 11:16:45 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: chordmaster

31 posted on 12/20/2007 11:27:48 AM PST by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: Bosco

Looks like a coat rack for one coat.


32 posted on 12/20/2007 11:29:01 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Squawk 8888

“The article is satire (sad when it’s hard to recognize as such).”

Especially when just yesterday there was the thread on the bill from the Senate to ban incandescent light bulbs being delivered to the Whitehouse in a Prius. (I had to check four times to make sure it wasn’t satire! And am still thinking/hoping that it was!??)


33 posted on 12/20/2007 11:32:39 AM PST by geopyg (Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory. ------ www.gohunter08.com ------)
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To: Uncledave; MotleyGirl70; Cagey; Mr. Brightside; jdm; Rb ver. 2.0

Yes, the Human Fund. I’m, um, taking donations now!


34 posted on 12/20/2007 11:33:04 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: Larry Lucido

Most artificial Christmas trees are made in China. Festivus poles are made in the good 'ol USA by Americans, dammit!

35 posted on 12/20/2007 11:43:19 AM PST by Cagey (Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.......Thoreau)
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To: Larry Lucido

Wait until the Festivus/Kwanzaa riots start.


36 posted on 12/20/2007 12:19:25 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (Global warming is the new Marxism.)
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To: chordmaster

http://www.festivuspoles.com/pages/festivus/me_and_my_festivus_pole.htm


37 posted on 12/20/2007 12:22:42 PM PST by vandalay
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To: Cagey

Why is he putting a condom on that pole?


38 posted on 12/20/2007 12:24:27 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: Squawk 8888
The article is satire (sad when it's hard to recognize as such)

Exactly....these days you just never know.

39 posted on 12/20/2007 12:24:41 PM PST by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: ChiMark

Or simply a way to determine who among us cannot understand satire.


40 posted on 12/20/2007 12:27:14 PM PST by trumandogz (Hunter Thompson 2008)
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