Getting a teensy tinsel bit contemplative the week before Christmas. What does Christmas mean to you? Are we feeling Christmas-y in this country this year?
As I walked the center of Wayne this week, I saw the trappings of Christmas. I was actually thrilled that people were saying "Merry Christmas" and not just "Season's Greetings".
The phrase "Season's Greetings" and the phrase "Happy Holidays" bugs the crap out of me. Say the word people, you won't burn in hell. It just befuddles me that we can wish each other well for every other holiday known to man and co-opted by Hallmark, yet that "Christmas" word starts a war each year.
You have the politically correct versus the super conservative religious right. Where do those of us in the middle go? The ones who celebrate Christmas and wish their friends well who have alternative celebrations and traditions?
I saw this comment on a Chicago Tribune editorial today that says:
Twas the night before the war on Christmas and all thru Fox News,
not a free thinker was stirring, because you know it's not news.
The talking points were placed in the prompters with care,
in hopes that Fox viewers would be clueless and scared.
The pundits were nestled all smug at their desks,
as delusions of Glenn Beck haunted the rest.
And Greta with her lockjaw and Sean with his yap
had just settled down after broadcasting their crap.
When out from the Mainstream there arose such a clatter,
Bill-O sprang from his compound to see what was the matter.
Away to the media he flew like a flash,
and tore into sinners and deemed them all trash.
When what to his cynical eyes did appear
but a fake War on Christmas like he fights every year,
Most vapid crusaders like lemmings they came
and he whistled and shouted and called them by name.
Now Brett Baer, now Britt Hume, now Glenn Beck and Van Sustern,
On Cavuto, on Kilmead, on Doocie, John Gibson!
To the edge of insanity and the thick on the brawl
now bash away, bash away, bash away all.
Bill-0 Sprang from his program to his team gave a whistle
and again they all whined like crazy wing-net people.
And I heard him complain like he does every night,
Happy War on Christmas to all and to all a fake fight!
Hat tip to Ken in Cleveland and Shayno.
zabes_ (12/18/2009, 7:50 AM )
So as we get ready for snow, and as I officially had my feet run over by the snow crazies in Genuardi's this morning, are we in the Christmas spirit? Are we feeling Christmas-y? Or are we all just quasi blah humbugging along because our country is in the economic toilet in hell?
Everyone I know is afraid to spend money...well almost everyone I know. Some of the spend gals oblivious who haven't worked since dinosaurs roamed the earth or since they bagged their own Daddy Warbucks are ch-ch-charging away.
So will it be a year of simple gifts or spending like the world is coming to an end?
Heated debate again over 'War on Christmas' claims
By Kristi Keck, CNN
December 18, 2009 8:01 a.m. EST
Americans are in a war that pits the politically correct against Christmas carolers, some say. They say it's a battle that plays out in the halls of Congress, retail stores and public schools across the country, and it's one that's been raging for years.
Republican Rep. Henry Brown of South Carolina introduced a resolution this month asking that the House express support for the use of Christmas symbols and traditions and frown on any attempt to ban references to the holiday.
"Each year, I could see a diminishing value of the spiritual part of Christmas," Brown said. "It would seem like another group would go from the Christmas spirit to the holiday spirit."
"What I'm afraid of -- if we don't bring some kind of closure to this continuous change, then in 20 years it will almost be completely different from what we see today ... and so we would lose the whole emphasis of what the very early beginnings of Christmas was all about."
So far, the resolution has one Democrat and 72 Republicans as co-sponsors. The House hasn't taken it up, but the chamber adopted similar resolutions in the past....some people feel a "false sense of some kind of attack on Christmas" if a school holds a winter concert instead of a Christmas concert, or if retailers declare "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas."
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