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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:20 PM
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Being liberal.....
...means I don't have to care which holidays you celebrate or don't celebrate.

It means if you decide to put a pine tree in your house and decorate it with tiny Buddhas, it's no skin off my nose.

It means if you decide to greet people with "Merry Spelunkeroo!" or "Happy Dizzledeedob!" then hey, whatever floats your boat.

It means I don't have to send around angry emails requiring that you call things certain words in order to make me happy.

It means if you want to color eggs and hide them on December 25, or read the Koran cover to cover, I don't have to feel threatened.

It means I don't have to call in to radio stations and demand that everyone greet me the way I want them to greet me, or else.


In other words, it means I don't have to feel angry and threatened over issues that are a matter of personal choice and freedom. It also means I still have something called manners, and when anyone greets me in a nice way, I remember that the appropriate response is "Thank you, and the same to you."

It's great.

Happy Whatever, Y'all!

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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:22 PM
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1. Bouncy Ball, why do you hate America?
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:26 PM
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2. I know, I know.
LOL!
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:27 PM
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3. Happy Dizzledeedob!
:)

and a Jovial Annual Turnover Period!

Shoobie!
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:29 PM
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4. Manners? MANNERS?
You pinko commie, terrorist loving, liberal hippie. Who do you think you are displaying manners like that. It's people like you who are bringing this country down. Get with the program. Celebrate torture, war, racism, divisive politics, irresponsibility, and for God's sake get out there and spend, spend, spend!
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:33 PM
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5. Lots of religious people feel that way too. It is just the war on xmas
gang of pundits and right wingers who worry their followers so much.
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:34 PM
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6. Happy Socrates Birthday!
Have a drink! Noo! Not that one!
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:44 PM
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7. What is so nice about greeting somebody with 'Merry Christmas'?
Isn't that pretty insensitive if the person you are talking to has a grandmother who was run over by a reindeer?

But wasn't it the liberals who got angry about 'Merry Christmas' being said to Wiccans, atheists, Jews, Muslims, Zoroastrians, Mithraists, Jainists, Buddhists, Hindus, and Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. and insisted on the more inclusive 'Happy Holidays'?

Plus, I thought we were all boycotting Festivus this year because of Richards?

Also, I am not sure how the Sierra Club feels about chopping down all those pine trees for decorations.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:44 PM
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8. On this most Holy Day in the Holy Week of Kerflufflepoof
How could you Bouncy, HOW COULD YOU???? :cry:

Won't someone please think of the chihuahuas?



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