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Members of the House of Representatives are being told that no holiday greetings, including “Merry Christmas,” can be sent out in official mail. According to the Washington Examiner, members who submit official mailings for review by the congressional franking commission that reviews all congressional mail to determine if it can be "franked," or paid for with tax dollars, are being told that no holiday greetings, including "Merry Christmas," can be sent. "I called the commission to ask for clarification and was told no 'Merry Christmas.' Also told cannot say 'Happy New Year' but can say 'have a happy new year'...

Silvia Bello, Simon Parfitt and Chris Stringer from the Department of Paleontology, The National History Museum (London, UK) recently reported the discovery of the earliest Ice Age cups made from human skull/p> . Such macabre cups and bowls are known at least since the 5th century BCE, when ancient Greek historian Herodotus portrayed the Scythians as people who drank from the skulls of their enemies, and similar traditions have been described by the ancient Chinese historian Sima Qian in the 1st or 2nd centuries BCE. Still, archaeological evidence of how skull cups were made is extremely rare. Bello, Parfitt and...

Christmas is a busy season, but also one that invites reflection on the things that touch us deeply. Whether it is wrapping presents, sending cards or attending a Christmas party, we find ourselves trying to connect with each other in a meaningful way. We value our relationships.

To All My Liberal 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 2010, but not without due...

This year was a lean year as far as Christmas presents go. We didn’t exchange with family that was ‘far away” so that cut down out costs, but it also severely cut the number under the tree for the two kids. Our kids knew it had been a tight year and when they gave us their lists, I could tell they were being conservative on purpose (despite being teenagers) by the number of items on their list. You know, my husband has a well-paying job – and after three friend’s husband’s losing their jobs this year, I am truly grateful...

This is a parody about retailers eliminating the word Christmas because someone might be offended. http://www.citizenlink.org/Stoplight/A000005834.cfm?eafref=1

Christmas cards! Yes, Christmas cards. This is coming early (really early) so that you can get ready to include an important address to your list. Read on........ What a GREAT idea! Fun with the ACLU...... Want to have some fun this CHRISTMAS? Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD this year. As they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this holiday, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN, card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world. Make sure it says "Merry Christmas" on it Here's the Address, just don't be rude or...

FUN WITH THE ACLU Wanna have some fun this CHRISTMAS? Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD! As they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this holiday, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN, card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world. Make sure it says "Merry Christmas" on it. Here's the Address, just don't be rude or crude. ACLU 125 Broad Street 18th Floor New York, NY 10004 Two tons of Christmas cards would freeze their operations because they wouldn't know if any were regular mail containing contributions.. So spend 39...

From: Your friend... To: Subject: Merry Christmas from Baghdad Date:24 December 2005 Dear Friends and Family, Merry Christmas and Blessings from Baghdad. Thank you all for all the cards, emails and prayers. Well it's been almost a year now and I am really looking forward to coming home in a couple of weeks. Two out of the last three Christmas's away from home is enough for me. Hopefully this will be my last one as I am looking forward to retirement. The Army has been good for me, but it also has had its challenges. It's been very busy here...

Merry Christmas, America!click here to see it reeeeeally large!This cartoon/graphic is free for any noncommercial use:emails, blogs, forums, newsletters, flyers, whatever! 

¡Cristo ha nacido! ¡Venid, adorémosle!The Christmas Kalend or Proclamation In the year 5199 from the creation of the world, from the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth; 2,957 years from the flood; 2,015 years from the birth of Abraham; 1,510 years from Moses and the Exodus of Israel from Egypt; 1,031 years from the anointment of David as king; in the 65th week of Daniel's prophecy; in the 194th Olympiad; in the year 752 of the foundation of Rome; in the year 42 of the reign of Octavius Augustus; the whole world being at peace; in the...

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A group of us thought it would be nice to have a thread where we could all be on Christmas Eve, to share our homes and thanksgiving. What better place to be and enjoy the season than right here, with the friends we have fought along side for the last year to make our country a better place. We have a LOT to be thankful for this year.

I know i have not been on this board for very long. Its 12:24 on the 25th.. Merry Chirstmas from the almost red state of NJ...... atleast my county went very red (Monmouth County) ;) Love ya's! Your the best!

I searched under Christmas, but found no formal exchange of greetings thread. So, let me start it off.

Allow me to be the first Jew to say to you "Merry Christmas." Not "season's greetings." Not "happy holidays." Merry Christmas. Nothing added, nothing taken away. Once, not so long ago, the chief challenge for Christians at this time of year was putting Christ back into Christmas -- reminding the faithful that Christmas isn't just about egg nog and presents, but that it was a celebration of the Christian God and his birth. Today, of course, the battle isn't to keep Christ in Christmas -- it's to keep Christmas at all. Foremost in the war to deracinate anything Christian in...

Dec. 22, 2004Merry Christmas from IPWHere are a few of the political faces of 2004...   This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

Bill O'Reilly, one of the most ardent defenders of Christmas interviewed Peter Boyles of KHOW 630am radio about the talk radio and grass roots movement that put Christmas back into the annual Parade of Lights celebration here in Denver, Colorado. The local talk show hosts here in Denver who led the charge were Gunny Bob Newman, Mike Rosen, Donna Star all on KOA 850am and Dan Caplis on KHOW 630am. Add to that the coverage on FoxNews, Michelle Malkin's Lump of Coal campaign idea and the grass roots effort from the great Americans in our state and electronic activism from...

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Bruce Bain doesn't attend church regularly, but nothing was going to keep him from showing up on the corner of 17th Street and Tremont Place on Friday night. "How can you have the Parade of Lights without the 'light of the world'?" he asked. "Christmas is a religious holiday." So the 56-year-old Englewood man joined hundreds of Christmas carolers from metro-area churches and sang along the Parade of Lights route. They sang on 15th Street. They sang at Court Place. And they sang at Colfax Avenue and Bannock Street. What they didn't do was raise hell. Yes, it was a...

Gunny Bob Newman just had Denver mayor John Hickenlooper on the air for the beginning of his one hour gig on KHOW 630am here in Denver. The mayor has changed his mind and will not be removing the Merry Christmas sign in 2005 from the Denver County Building which is all lit up in a spectacular way for the Christmas Holiday Season.

On the Gunny Bob Newman show and the Donna Star show here in Denver on KOA 850am tonight they have been talking about Denver mayor Hickenlooper's decision to ban the words 'Merry Christmas' from the traditional Parade of Lights downtown parade as well as any 'Christmas' float.

I've got a bunch of Christmas cards ("proudly MADE in the U.S.A.") that will be going with the last Christmas care packages for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with candy canes and other goodies, and I need some fun jokes to go in them! Please both post your joke here and then send a copy to me by FReepmail with your first name, town and State at the bottom. I'll print them up and tuck them in the last 4 or 5 dozen cards going out tomorrow and Tuesday.

Dancing girls and the merry Magdalenian Archaeologists believe that 13,000-year-old cave paintings in Nottinghamshire were part of a continent-wide culture Sean Clarke Thursday April 15, 2004 The Guardian (UK) The people who created the first surviving art in Britain were committed Europeans, belonging to a common culture spanning France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, according to the man who discovered the cave art in Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire. And the essential preoccupations of this single market in ice-age art, it seems, were hunting and naked dancing girls. The discovery of 13,000-year-old rock paintings in Nottinghamshire last year rewrote ice-age history in...

A merry mess: Yorkshire claims Robin Hood Lizette Alvarez/NYT Tuesday, February 17, 2004 NOTTINGHAM, England Not since Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union has there been such a fuss over a man in tights. For centuries, Robin Hood, the dashing, chivalrous hero to the oppressed, has been the property of Nottinghamshire in the midlands - land of Sherwood Forest, Nottingham Castle and one nefarious sheriff. But now, in a brazen grab for bragging rights, Yorkshire, an adjacent county, is laying claim to the 800-year-old legend and demanding, by way of a parliamentary motion, immediate redress. In a country where...

I’ve been thinking about everything I’ve learned on FR. Now I know the meaning of:1.BUMP2.ROTFLOL3.I know what Prayer Warriors do4.I know that Canada is a place where we store our extra trees5.I know How Many Freepers it takes to change a light bulb6.I know a vanity when I see one ;)What did you learn on FR that you needed to know in life?