Posted on 12/21/2016 3:26:30 PM PST by madprof98
On the day leading up to the final rally of Donald Trump’s “thank you” tour, city officials in Mobile, Ala., raved about its plans for a festive, Christmas welcome for the president-elect. The mayor’s chief of staff tweeted that the city “did the impossible,” erecting and decorating a 50-foot Christmas tree as a backdrop for Trump’s speech.
But some Mobile residents soon speculated that the majestic cedar tree was one they had seen before, AL.com reported. Just over a mile away from the stadium where Trump would speak, in a public park, a massive cedar tree was gone.
As skeptical residents raised questions with the mayor, city officials confirmed that, indeed, the tree had been removed from Public Safety Memorial Park and taken to Ladd-Peebles Stadium. In emails and across social media, residents erupted in outrage.
“Our city parks aren’t Christmas tree farms,” one woman said she wrote in an email to Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson. “An old growth tree from a city park for backdrop? Insane.”
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Really?
You're "outraged," value "old growth," or both?
What is your malfunction?
Secondly...I think...it's possible that the article was wrongly stating...it as a mature "public" tree...that the "public officials" decided to cut down....without public comment....
If you would like to go ahead..and continue. You have the floor.
Making specific statements, and asking relevant questions when those statements are blithely dismissed.
If you didn't want to talk about it, why respond to my post? I responded to yours to engage you in discussion.
That's what we do, here.
I never said you were outraged.
I asked which thing I stated were deserving of contempt were you identifying with.
You're "outraged," value "old growth," or both?
I rest my case.....
How? Are you not familiar with how a sentence ending is a "?" is a question. Statements end in "."s.
Wasn’t exactly a shrub, but wasn’t a stately cedar tree either - looked like a large fanned out series of smaller “trees” - might have been considered a “weed” and incongruous with whatever area it/they had resided in before the evil Trump came along and caused it to be exterminated.
// “It was an ugly tree anyway.” //
The source, no doubt, of ugly sticks.
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