Merry Christmas, my Democrat friends.

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Merry Christmas, my Democrat friends.

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This is an email that I received from a fellow engineer. I thought you guys might find it funny:
lulz wrote: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 2009, 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 all my Republican friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Yes, he's Republican. This is Alabama.
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GyroVorbis wrote:This is an email that I received from a fellow engineer. I thought you guys might find it funny:
lulz wrote: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 2009, 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 all my Republican friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Yes, he's Republican. This is Alabama.
hehe, made me giggle.
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Wow could that guy be any more PC!

Geez I consider myself republican just so I don't have to tip toe around shit :)

Marry Christmas and a happy new year!!
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M_D_K wrote:Wow could that guy be any more PC!

Geez I consider myself republican just so I don't have to tip toe around shit :)

Marry Christmas and a happy new year!!
yeah i was a little pissed off the other day, the UNC library took down all they "christian" decorations in the library cause it offended someone.
i think thats bull shit. i dont care when its some other religious holiday and they have AK47's and sickles up.
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At work, we don't have a Christmas Party, its an "End of the Year Celebration" /sigh We'd hate to offend anyone...

The other day I was at Wal-Mart and after checking out, the lady said, "Thanks, have a Merry Christmas!" In this watered-down, PC world we live in, I was surprised that they could actually say that.
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I wish that liberals and the Democratic party weren't like that. Respecting the rights of poeple to hold certain beliefs does not encompass society as a whole taking it in the ass from their beliefs.

I think that some people have this screwed up mentality of "if it offends your religion, it is violating your liberties." That's bullshit. The first amendment does not guarantee that your religion or custom is immune from criticism or anything that it deems offensive. As a matter of fact, I personally believe that not allowing us to express opinions that are offensive to particular groups, religions, sects, etc is an infringement upon our rights.
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Isn\'t it illegal for Santa Claus to say \"Ho, Ho, Ho\" anymore because some store Santa said that and some passerby bitch got offended?
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I haven't really experienced any of this personally myself. What religion/group of people tend to complain? Every Atheist I know celebrates Christmas. ;P
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LusikkaMage wrote:I haven't really experienced any of this personally myself. What religion/group of people tend to complain? Every Atheist I know celebrates Christmas. ;P
yeah the average atheist couldn't give 2 shits if there were Christmas trees(which really comes from pagans) and nativity scenes. but there are people that make a scene of it. and people who let people make them take down Christmas decorations because it offended them. are weak.

oh LusikkaMage you will love this. i was sitting in the lib with my friend. and this dude comes up and says to my friend, i can find bible in the religion section do you know where i can find it. so my friend (a christian) cool as can be says : "yeah dont you know, thats in the fiction section." the dude was so pissed.
i couldent stop lauging.
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avansc wrote: oh LusikkaMage you will love this. i was sitting in the lib with my friend. and this dude comes up and says to my friend, i can find bible in the religion section do you know where i can find it. so my friend (a christian) cool as can be says : "yeah dont you know, thats in the fiction section." the dude was so pissed.
i couldent stop lauging.
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Lol just the other day I was talking with a kid in the caf who was all mad about some dude's biography being put in the fiction section of our library, because apparently half the stuff in the book was illegal so the author had to claim it as fiction to not get arrested o.O
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