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Jennifer Giroux, the "Bracelets for Baby Jesus" lady whom we last discussed on Friday. Now even BBC News <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4512156.stm> has heard of her and her "group" (by which I suppose they mean the nine children, the youngest only five, who work in her "Just Say Merry Christmas" sweat shop).

Her group has tapped into a current craze for rubberised wristbands, producing a green and red version emblazoned with the slogan "Just say 'merry Christmas'".

What began as a local campaign has swiftly mushroomed.

She has already sold 15,000 bracelets at $2 each. A further 43,000 are on their way to customers.

"We just wanted to encourage Christians to have the courage to say 'merry Christmas' instead of 'happy holidays'," she says.

"We had no idea that it would tap into a national frustration.

"People are tired of being told not to celebrate Christmas, they are tired of the ACLU. This is just parents saying they want to preserve Christ in Christmas."

Yeah, this is all for the children. (You will recall that WorldNetDaily reported, "The bracelets are not a moneymaker for the Girouxs whose goal is to reclaim Christmas and its meaning.")

But colored rubber bands can't cost $2 each (commenter Bea, who says that she's in the promotions business, indicated that similar bracelets "start at $.50 with a minimum of 500". And labor costs for the Girouxs shouldn't be too high, since they're using their nine children, plus some nieces and nephews (and probably some kids from a local orphanage whom they invited to a "special Christmas activity") to fill the orders for the bracelets. So, if the BBC's cited sale figures for the bracelets are correct, it would appear that the Giroux have made close to $87,000 from their plan to save Christmas.

Baby Jesus must be so happy.