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Posted on 12/17/2007 9:29:57 AM PST by XR7
An e-mail fracas at North Seattle Community College hits on why "the most wonderful season of all" causes us so much angst.
Here in Seattle, the phrase "Merry Christmas" has been largely expunged from public discourse. Haltingly and awkwardly, we wish each other happy holiday; we talk vaguely about a holiday season; we plan parties that by all appearances look like Christmas parties, but we never call them such. This despite every indication that Christmas, at least the consumerist trappings of it, is alive and well. Every Starbucks sign hawks a peppermint latte; the sound of Barbra Streisand belting out "Jingle Bells" can be heard all over town; whole city blocks are lit up like, well, like Christmas trees. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Seattleites more than any other citizenry I've witnessed seem to love themselves some Christmas lights. (Although not without challenge.) No doubt darkness by three o'clock in the afternoon has something to do with this, fueling one's desire to push back with gaiety against the dreariness of a Northwest winter.
So it came as no small surprise when the very people who are supposed to be stormtroopers in the so-called war against Christmas — college professors — leapt to the defense of a North Seattle Community College staff member who was chided for referring to "Christmas cookies" in a recent e-mail message...Apparently she sent out an order form for cookies, and these were supposed to have been holiday cookies, but she called them Christmas cookies. The reference slipped past most people's radars but was noticed by a human resources officer whose job it apparently is to sit in a mistletoe-free cubicle somewhere in the district, monitoring e-mail for vague religious references...
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I am moving to seattle in 08. You better damn well believe it will be Merry Christmas.
Here’s a card I got:
To All My Democrat Friends:
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 of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, 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 the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.
To My Republican Friends:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Whenever someone wishes me “Happy Holidays,” I always reply with “Merry Christmas.”
“Blessed are those who find no offense in me.” - Jesus
He saw it coming the second time even back then.
Which part?
Merry Christmas!
TS
Libertina, we'll have to welcome steel_resolve to the Puget Sound Chapter of Free Republic.
“Ah, let me have a solstice sandwich and a kwanze cup cake”
“OK Santa, anything else?”
“And a Christmas cookie please”
“How dare you!! Get out of my establishment, and take those reindeer with you.”
“Whenever someone wishes me “Happy Holidays,”
I reply what holiday?
Greenlake I think
...and Happy Holy Days to you, too.
I like Greenlake, although during most of summer you can’t swim their due to goose and duck poop. You shouldn’t be too far from the Woodland Park Zoo, which while not as nice as Point Defiance Zoo, is still very nice.
Hope you like rain, because we only have two seasons: Wet, and slightly less wet.
Have a sensational seasonal celebration of your selection. As for me and my house, we’ll celebrate the CHRIST mass.
Ohhh boy, are you in for a culture shock. Greenlake is as close to liberal ground zero as you can get. I fled Greenlake/Wallingford in August of 1982.
Welcome to the area, we need conservatives.
Sigh, yeah, that’s what I hear...
I will likely be in the Olympia to Seattle area in late 2008 or sometime in 2009. Together, we can give them some grief. :)
It’s ok. I love the Pacific Northwest, especially Seattle. A Starbucks and Tully’s every couple of blocks, tons of Salmon, the beautiful beacon that is the Space Needle. Sure, it rains, but that just adds to Seattles’, and Washington’s, beauty.
I like to ask the “happy holiday” types “which holiday are you wishing for? What do you believe in?” gets me nothing but crickets chirping and deer in the head lights looks.
I have so much fun doing that. LOL!
No wonder the suicide rate is so high up there
ROTFLOL
What a waste of words on the Dem side. I practically stopped read after the first sentance.
well last year i lived in cambridge mass, so at least i know what to expect...
I worked in Seattle one summer, from June to August, and I thought it was wonderful! I remember only two rain storms; the rest of the time it was mostly sunny.
I do recall one funny bumper sticker: "Seattle Rain Festival: September to June". :-)
I WANT TO TAKE CHRISTMAS BACK AND JUST LEAVE EM WITH HANUKAH, KWAANZA, AND THAT OTHER HOLIDAY THAT FLOATS AND GETS MIXED UP WITH WHATEVER HOLIDAY IS NEAR. none of them even begin to compare with the majesty or scope of Christmas and yet the very vocal minority and the retailers have stolen our holiday.
Merry Christmas to you too, my FRiend.
Good luck! Reading the comments to the article posted at the site should give you some idea of what you’ll soon be facing.
Merry CHRISTmas!
Those who celebrate Christmas will get the cookies. Those who deride those who are having a cheerful time should settle for the crumbs.
LOL! It sounds like you’ll enjoy the show. It really is a beautiful place to live. It doesn’t get extremely cold nor hot. No humidity, except for the rain. You’ll learn to walk between the rain drops after you live here a while. The Seattleites especially the ones around Greenlake, Fremont and Wallingford develop oily secretions that render them impervious to rainfall...and soap.
If you like to garden, you can do it all year long. We grow greens year round for the kitchen. We are also situated that within a couple of hour drives you can participate in ANY outdoor activity you choose.
All in all, it is a good place to be. Pssst...no income tax.
When they wish you “Happy Holidays” ask them “which one(s)”. And it’s always good to have a followup, if they say Hannukah or Kwanza etc let them know that one is over and the other is still weeks away.
Welcome to NSCC, where Thought Crime is is real and free speech isn’t.
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Seattle is godless.....good luck though. Why do all large metropolitan cities reject God?
Yes, this is very silly. People who don’t like Christmas should move to some place where it isn’t celebrated, such as Afghanistan or San Francisco.
It took folks about 20 minutes to get the 6 blocks from the freeway exit to the parking garage, and another 15-20 minutes to get their car into a slot.
Some folks were angy...some distressed....others were understanding after my apology and a quick bit of advice on how to most quickly get inside to spend money.
But, by far the persons who had to most positive attitudes, and expressed and displayed the sort of joy we prefer this time of year, were those people who took all of this delay and distraction and came by me standing in the rain and said,
THANK YOU....MERRY CHRISTMAS.
They, without exception, were women who had joy on their faces and a Christmas spirit in their heart.
They don’t need to move away but they should not insist that everyone else shut up about what day or “season” it is.
Of course!
Me, too!
I have a good friend who moved to Washington and likes it because “there are no republicans there”. I told him I wouldn’t be able to visit then if we aren’t wanted. He’s a great guy (I graduated from high school with him) but I can’t understand how a Christian can EVER be a liberal. Cheez.
You’ve had the training then...
Where are the Eid Al Adha cookies?
We look forward to your arrival. Start praying now for strength. You will need as much as you can muster.
what’s the buffoon HR Officer’s name?
Take heart, brother, you still have some FReeper bro's up here.
A good choice. Greenlake is known as the "Jewel of the Seattle Parks Department". I try to walk around Greenlake at least once a week. I couldn't tell you how many hundreds of times I have walked around it in my life, starting at about age eight.
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