Ah, the "anti-Christmas, let's not make anybody feel left out" season is starting earlier every year, isn't it?
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (AP) — A famed fireworks company is pulling out of a holiday boat parade because "Christmas" was dropped from the event's name.
Fireworks by Grucci won't lend its sparkle to Patchogue's Nov. 23 parade — decorated yachts on the Patchogue River — because the organizers have renamed it the Patchogue Holiday Boat Parade. It was the Patchogue Christmas Boat Parade last year, when the Grucci company donated $5,000 worth of fireworks.
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Organizers in the Long Island town said the parade has had several names over its roughly 15-year existence. The name was changed again this year after complaints that the use of "Christmas" seemed to make the parade less inclusive.
The Christmas-Is-Exclusionary season used to start right after the Native-Americans-Hate-Thanksgiving season, and here it is already this year, and we haven't even celebrated the Halloween-Offends-Christians season yet.
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Seems like the War on the War on Christmas starts earlier and earlier every year.
Got my OWN names for the "seasons"..
(ahem)
Hallowe'en :
The Great Beg-A-Thon
(and stay off my lawn)
Thanksgiving:
The Great Glut-A-Thon
(pass the Pepto)
Christmas:
The Great Gift-A-Thon
(so, where's MINE, huh?)
Actually, I don't "do" hallowe'en (and you'll see why in an upcoming post), I COOK everything for Thanksgiving and haven't lost a soul yet, and I do honestly like CHristmas, even though I DETEST the electronic "challenges" that accompany it (lights that don't work, decorations by the bazillion), and I cook for that too.
Its New Years EVE I REALLY hate (another year older).
PUH-LENTY of illegal guns (of all calibers) going off ALL around our house, and NEVER any POLICE around to catch them.
(note to self: look for holiday "sales" for level III body armor and PAS/G headgear).
And THEN there's Hannukah...
Yeah...curmudgeon to the last.
That's me...lol.
;)
There is an old movie quotation that identifies a common, built-in solution within every rant of an anti-American-tradition fringe dweller:
"Let him rave on, that men may know him mad."
Let's not forget the worst offender of them all.....
Columbus Day...
Jon:
I thought that was LEIF ERICKSON DAY???
;)