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phil has 12 comments and is ahead of the game like the national anthem.
beth has 11 comments and is bad to the bone like osteoporosis.
Joe is in your face like your own skull with 8.
Tiffany! has the capabilities to pay the utilities with 8.
prof. fancy pants just wants something to dance to and has 5.
DirtyDanSin has 4 and is on fire like a pile of tires.
jon has 3 comments and needs to raise the stakes like when the camping trip is over.
Stace has only 2 and needs to step up like when the escalator is broken.There’s a hoax currently going around that involves the Obamas decorating the White House this season with a “Holiday Tree” (instead of calling it a “Christmas Tree”).
How would you feel about it if this were true? Would “Holiday Tree” be too politically correct? What’s your reaction when people try to de-Christ-ify and non-denominationalize Christmas?
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beth
// Nov 17, 2009 at 11:04 am
Holiday tree would not bother me in the least.
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phil
// Nov 17, 2009 at 11:18 am
No it doesn’t matter to me. Christmas is already pretty secular and so am I.
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Joe
// Nov 17, 2009 at 11:26 am
“Holiday tree” would make me barf. Blood.
It sounds like the kind of stupid shit that is probably already going on up in marin.
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Joe
// Nov 17, 2009 at 11:34 am
“You know what would be fresh? If life was blander, and more boring! That would be awesome. Fleece vests for everyone. Pass me a bottle of trader joes eggless holiday drink. Did you get your swine flu shot?”
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phil
// Nov 17, 2009 at 11:41 am
First of all the creeping secularization of Christmas isn’t happening, it’s a made up thing that Bill O’Reilly complains about. If it happened at all, it happened in the 70s.
When I was a kid, it was often referred to as X-mas and they would say “Seasons Greetings” on TV instead of “Merry Christmas” and none of this was by the government or anything but by department stores who wanted to make it clear that they would allow non Christians into their stores for the sale-a-brations.
I think a lot worse than that is the halloween parties they have at Christian schools that are called “harvest festivals” as a way to de-witchcraft them and take it back even further into the past than halloween already does.
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Joe
// Nov 17, 2009 at 11:46 am
thats funny because it also makes it even more people against goodness and normalcy
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c lo
// Nov 17, 2009 at 11:54 am
I am a Christian and I don’t really find any bit of Christ in how we celebrate Christmas anyway. I really don’t care what they call the ding dang tree, really.
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Tiffany!
// Nov 17, 2009 at 11:54 am
Growing up in a town with more than one Hanukkah bush at friends’ houses, I don’t think I would be offended by the term Holiday Tree. More confused. I mean, holiday tree reminds me of Arbor Day. I have very little association to Christ in the Christmas Tree, and having studied the bible (for the purpose of my English literature degree) I have zero recollection of any magi coming bearing a coniferous tree.
Thus, I’d prefer it was called a Christmas tree so I wouldn’t have to change my lingo.
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jake
// Nov 17, 2009 at 11:55 am
What we really need to do is find a way to add witchcraft to Christmas.
I’m on the “Who gives a shit how other people celebrate their holidays?” side of this discussion.
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jon
// Nov 17, 2009 at 11:55 am
@ joe I dont think that kind of stuff is going on here in Marin. I think the most we have are sustainably grown, organic christmas trees or something. I would expect to see a ballot initiative in SF officially banning the use of the word Christmas in favor of Kwanzmaskah. That way a multi-ethnic group of politically active freelance bloggers could obtain seasonal employment
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feverishpoptart
// Nov 17, 2009 at 12:15 pm
I don’t care, and people who get their panties in a wad over stuff like this are silly.
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Stace
// Nov 17, 2009 at 12:23 pm
I only celebrate Festivius. Therefore I’m highly offended that it’s not called a Festivius tree.
Oh no wait, it’s a tree you stick things on people. Who cares what it’s called? My tree is a tiny purple metallic one cause the green ones are so the ’90s.
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beth
// Nov 17, 2009 at 12:57 pm
@ jon oh! but making sure “politically active freelance bloggers [can] obtain seasonal employment” is what the holidays are all about!
Brotherhood, sharing and freedom of speech! These are the reasons we update the names of meaningless symbols of holiday cheer to less offensive, but hip nonetheless, labels of snooze. (who cares, right?) BTW, Season’s Greetings!
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NateG
// Nov 17, 2009 at 1:33 pm
i mean… christmas is all about tradition and changing the name almost takes away the history of that celebration…
so its ridiculous. Religion has influenced our lives and our history. Even though i am definitely not a religious person, it seems foolish to try and not acknowledge that history or to be in some kind of deep shame from it. Most of our names are insprired by religion — is that going to be a problem too?
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ball sack jake
// Nov 18, 2009 at 2:02 pm
de-christ-ify christmas?….wtf kinda question is that didnt the christians de-pagan-ize the winter solstice in the first place. silly christians….
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