Happy holidays, dammit! This holiday season, I am asserting my right to be mindlessly polite.

[blondeatlast]

On the streets where I live and malls where I shop, niceness is threatened by a group with a radical, hateful agenda. A search of a radical RRRW website finds no mention of being polite and friendly to other Americans. Appallingly, it's impossible to search this groups website for the words "please" or "thank you;" there is no search function! What part of their radical agenda are they hiding?!

Won't you please join us in fighting this threat to our values by signing below? Feel free to add your own message to these hateful radicals, as well! We must take our country back before it's too late!

Happy holidays!*

At PetSmart, Christmas doesn't exist. It is not to be found anywhere on their Web Site. AFA checked out the local PetSmart store and there was no Christmas there, either.

A search on PetSmart's home page found 252 references to "holiday." It also found 43 references to "Christmas." But, alas, this is very misleading. When you click on "Christmas" you are directed to a page containing the same gifts you get when you search for holiday. Of all the items that pop up when you search for Christmas, not a single one mentions Christmas or is identified as being a Christmas gift.

At PetSmart, everything is "holiday."

http://www.afa.net/emails/transform.asp?x=petsmart_111507&s=browser&y=2007&m=11

http://www.afa.net/Petitions/Issuedetail.asp?id=276

Oh, and !Salud!, too.
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*Even to John Gibson.

[TwilightGardener]

1. We should just call the whole season "Festivus" and be done with it.

[wtmusic]

2. my message:

Using the term "Holiday" is JUST FINE WITH ME

Dear Chairman Francis,

Please ignore the hateful people who feel that the holiday season belongs to them by demanding you use the word "Christmas".

(be sure to check the box assuring Philip Francis you will pray for him)

[bigtree]

3. ho ho ho

. . . and I mean that in a good way.

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. Why does the AFA hate Solstice?

I believe we were here first.

Tune: "Angels We Have Heard On High"

CHORUS:
Glorious!
Christmas time is pagan!
Glorious!
Christmas time is pagan!

Christmas time is here again,
Decorations everywhere.
Christmas carols ringing out,
Gentle pagans, we don't care.
(CHORUS)

Modern folks all celebrate
What they learned in Sunday School.
In December, they don't know
They are celebrating Yule!
(CHORUS)

Let them have their Christmas trees,
Decked in red and green and blue.
We rejoice at every one!
Christmas trees are pagan, too.
(CHORUS)

Bowls of bubbly Christmas cheer,
Fill your cup and quench your thirst.
They think the tradition's theirs.
Wassail bowls were pagan, first.
(CHORUS)

Every door and window bears
Wreaths of holly, wreaths of pine.
Circles represent the Sun.
Every wreath is yours and mine.
(CHORUS)

Christmas lights on Christmas trees,
Candle flames burn higher and higher,
Let us cheer along, my friends,
As they light their Yuletide fire.
(CHORUS)

There's a possibility
That this song is yours and mine
'Cause the tune was known to all
Back in A.D. one-two-nine.
(CHORUS)