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Politically correct Santa gives up the pipe
GOPUSA ^ | December 12, 2012 | Leanne Italie (Associated Press)

Posted on 12/13/2012 5:21:11 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

NEW YORK (AP) - Santa has kicked the habit in time for Christmas. No, not the sugar plum habit, or his fur-wearing habit, or his penchant for romping recklessly around open flame.

No, gentlepeople, this is the year the man in red gave up pipe tobacco, at least in a new book version of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" that has received attention from some lofty corners, including the American Library Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nightbeforechristmas; pamelamccoll; santa; smoking
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1 posted on 12/13/2012 5:21:16 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; traviskicks; bamahead; CSM; ...

Nanny State PING!


2 posted on 12/13/2012 5:22:44 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Obama should change his campaign slogan to "Yes, we am!" Sounds as stupid as his administration is.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; traviskicks; bamahead; CSM; ...

Nanny State PING!


3 posted on 12/13/2012 5:23:23 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Obama should change his campaign slogan to "Yes, we am!" Sounds as stupid as his administration is.)
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I think it was censored by a new writer or something. Gave up a lot of things. This PC stuff is getting out of hand.

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4 posted on 12/13/2012 5:24:27 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Next, no kids sitting on his lap. Oh wait, that’s okay with Muim pedophiles...never mind...


5 posted on 12/13/2012 5:25:22 PM PST by jsanders2001
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Next, no kids sitting on his lap. Oh wait, that’s okay with Muslim pedophiles...never mind...


6 posted on 12/13/2012 5:26:21 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Nanny State? From the article: “She mortgaged her house and sunk $200,000 into her telling of the 189-year-old holiday poem, touring the states to promote it ahead of its September release.”


7 posted on 12/13/2012 5:26:21 PM PST by sagar
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Ah what an pleasurable aroma that pipe Santa was smoking put out! Probably the best tobacco that could be found! IMHO nothing like puffing on a good pipe stoked with a treasured tobacco!


8 posted on 12/13/2012 5:27:10 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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9 posted on 12/13/2012 5:27:20 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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It’s just a transition. He’ll probably be toking on a reefer next.


10 posted on 12/13/2012 5:27:52 PM PST by inpajamas (http://outskirtspress.com/ONE)
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The political correctees probably wouldn’t have a problem with Santa having a joint hanging from his lips like some sort of red-suited Barack Obama.


11 posted on 12/13/2012 5:30:29 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I feel sad for my once great country. We deserve everything that is about to happen to us.)
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Obama Santa never uses coal.


12 posted on 12/13/2012 5:31:09 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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13 posted on 12/13/2012 5:31:23 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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or turn him into a homey to “reflect the changing demographics” (or whatever liberal white guilt BS)


14 posted on 12/13/2012 5:32:17 PM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Despite the "SAMPLE"....


15 posted on 12/13/2012 5:48:47 PM PST by WXRGina (Further up and further in!)
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...And she included a letter from Santa on the back jacket flap announcing that "all of that old tired business of smoking" is behind him, claiming (by the way) that the reindeer can confirm his fur outerwear is faux out of respect for animals, including the polar bears of his beloved North Pole.

"There is a huge debate raging," McColl said of the attention. "I have been called every name in the book. One person said the only wreath they want to see this Christmas is one on my grave.

Ho, Ho, Ho!!!


16 posted on 12/13/2012 6:20:10 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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This is so stupid. Just tell people he’s smoking weed and it will be OK.


17 posted on 12/13/2012 7:20:49 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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Soon it will be ‘Good by Mrs. claus, Santa’s moved in with the head elf’


18 posted on 12/13/2012 9:47:59 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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Soon it will be ‘Good by Mrs. claus, Santa’s moved in with the head elf’


19 posted on 12/13/2012 9:47:59 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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But, Santa is, still, too fat for the politically correct!


20 posted on 12/13/2012 10:14:32 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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