It is Christmas time again! Come out and play...

[sistermagpie]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> So people think the list is too quiet hey??  Well it is time for 
our 
> yearly "I hate Christmas", "No I don't!", "Just say Happy 
> Holidays", "no it is Christmas!"... bar brawl. Is the Hogshead 
Barmaid 
> around to monitor? 
> 
> Just heard some guy on talk radio, forgot his name.. Anyway he was 
> commenting on some college taking the Christmas tree out of the 
Library 
> when they had had one for years because a few people found it 
> offensive. He said that 85% of Americans celebrate Christmas. Some, 
he 
> said, do it religiously, and many just enjoy the time for family, 
cheer 
> and a way to show love to others. He said that the consitution does 
not 
> guarantee that we will not be offended. Everyone is offended by 
> something everyday, he said. Then he went on to say "for the 
minority 
> who find Christmas offensive, just "shut the hell up, and suck it 
up". 
> I am just quoiting the man here, so don't yell at me... I'll have a 
> butter beer please, and a round for everyone....

Magpie:
Is there some special newsfeed talk radio hosts have that feed them 
constant stories about any time somebody removes anything Christmas-
related from anywhere?

-m