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Yep, it's beginning to look a lot like (there's a war on) Christmas (after all).From those purveyors of innocent merriment at WNBC: Antonio Martinez stops to snap a photo of a knife-wielding Santa Claus holding a bloody head on display outside the home of Mildred Castellanos and Joel Krupnik, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005, in New York. Krupnik says the display is intended to call attention to the commercialization of Christmas. Upper East Side Home Bedecked With Bloody Santa December 13, 2005 NEW YORK -- It was quite a sight in front of a multimillion-dollar Manhattan townhouse: a bloody-bearded Santa, holding...

NEW YORK - It's usually easy to tell where a person stands in the culture wars, but whose side is someone on when his Christmas decor is a blood-spattered Santa Claus holding a severed head? Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos decked the front of their Manhattan mansion this year with a scene that includes a knife-wielding 5-foot-tall St. Nick and a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls. Hidden partly behind a tree, the merry old elf grasps a disembodied doll's head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets. No one answered the family's door to explain on Tuesday, but...

Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos decked the front of their Manhattan mansion this year with a scene that includes a knife-wielding 5-foot-tall St. Nick and a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls. Hidden partly behind a tree, the merry old elf grasps a disembodied doll's head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets.