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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 09:27 PM
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From Sunday's NYTimes: Commercialize Christmas, Or Else (Hello, Target)
This is great. Here is the link; you don't have to pay premium to get it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/opinion/04sun3.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

This Season's War Cry: Commercialize Christmas, or Else
By ADAM COHEN
Religious conservatives have a cause this holiday season: the commercialization of Christmas. They're for it.

The American Family Association is leading a boycott of Target for not using the words "Merry Christmas" in its advertising. (Target denies it has an anti-Merry-Christmas policy.) The Catholic League boycotted Wal-Mart in part over the way its Web site treated searches for "Christmas." Bill O'Reilly, the Fox anchor who last year started a "Christmas Under Siege" campaign, has a chart on his Web site of stores that use the phrase "Happy Holidays," along with a poll that asks, "Will you shop at stores
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 09:43 PM
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1. Love it ! ! !
This is great. . .and this should be thrown at every one of those scheming hypocritical treasonous unpatriotic bumbling idiots ! !
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 09:43 PM
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2. Bingo. I was wondering why all the hue and cry when this crap
started.
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 09:56 PM
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3. Target is about the only retailer left that let's the Salvation army on it
Property.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 10:09 PM
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4. So true!
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SW FL Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 10:30 PM
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5. Brilliant!!
And very much on point.
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