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Thread ID: 4161 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2002-12-23
2002-12-23 13:20 | User Profile
The following is a safe and liability free Christmas Greeting.
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all; plus, "a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great, (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country, nor is it the only 'AMERICA' in the western hemisphere), and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual preference/orientation (the use of which terminology is not intended to imply a preference or deference to one theory or another on the physiological nature of sexuality) of the wisher."
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.
2002-12-23 13:32 | User Profile
A couple of years ago, my wife and I visited Jerusalem and Bethlehem and were shocked to discover that the Israeli/Jewish government would not allow christmas trees in any of the Hotel Lobby's. So much for Diversity!
2002-12-23 13:43 | User Profile
Odd, isn't it, how the tolerant, benevolent People of the Book object just as strenuously to Xmas trees in our hotel lobbies as well. And our own Israeli/Jewish government is getting closer to outlawing those hated Christian displays here.
2002-12-24 07:16 | User Profile
Happy kwanzaa, you white devils.