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Airport spokeswoman Terri-Ann Betancourt said the Port's decision was not as simple as whether to put up a menorah. "Our thought was if we remove the trees and stave off this decision until after the holidays, which is our busiest season of the year, then we can give more careful thought and discussion to this," she said.

Well it's CHRISTMAS for cryin' out loud!
The trees were up already.
What was there to think about?

"What we have are holiday trees," she said. "If we are going to display symbols representing other cultures, we have to think what that means and what's respectful and what would make a good display. Maybe it would be 'Holidays of the World.'"

Puhleeeese.
Overpaid/bloated government bureacracy at work here folks.
And the media frenzy continues...

By 9 p.m. Sunday, www.seattletimes.com had received about 800 comments to a story that, in print editions, topped the front page.

Keep FReepin' 'em!

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"What we have are holiday trees," she said. "If we are going to display symbols representing other cultures, we have to think what that means and what's respectful and what would make a good display. Maybe it would be 'Holidays of the World.'"

Wasn't it someone on FOX who said "if one is a holiday tree, the other is a candle holder"?

(Just using the words 'holidays of the world' set the dreaded 'It's a small world..." disney song going through my brain - that's usually good for about ten hours of torture.)