There is a lot of negative press regarding Haters trying to destroy our American customs and our country. The Haters mainly use old fashioned brainwashing to make us think we dare not say things like Merry Christmas.
Even famous writer and community leader, Dave Anderson, recently published a letter in The Suburban Times titled, Bah Humbuggery.
Dave’s letter talks about elements in society promoting “Bah humbuggery” in an effort to kill off Christmas, Santa Claus, and now it has gotten all the way down to Frosty The Snowman. It is like societal cancer eating away at our happiness, values, and future survival of our country.
Separation of Church & State, political correctness, along with massive meanness, stupidity, and a lack of common sense, are raging out of control.
The downside of this nonsense is kids are robbed of their childhood imagination and the joy of celebrating Christmas. Our country’s internal enemies are succeeding in killing off holidays, church, and a belief in God. Because these historically significant activities are shrinking towards extinction, we are losing values. High-quality human values serve as the GPS for how we each conduct our lives and how we treat each other. Without values, life will become a sewer.
I am well aware that the Political Correctness zealots don’t want me to say Christmas, Santa, God, Holiday, or even Frosty the Snowman. I am charging ahead using any words or concepts I choose, because I still have my Constitutional right to free speech. They cannot fire me no matter what I say because I do not have a job. There is a certain kind of power in being unemployed.
So with my Freedom of Speech intact and a strong desire to act according to my values, I am making it practice to speak with Santa Claus anytime I see him.
Santa and I made a deal, and we shook on it. Santa promises to visit all the boys and girls in Lakewood, Dupont, Steilacoom, University Place and Tillicum. David Anderson, I made certain your Tillicum kids were included in the deal.
Santa plans to use his usual point of access to each child’s home by dropping down the chimney. In case the kids do not have a chimney, or if there is a roaring fire in the fireplace, I taught Santa how to pick the back door lock using a lock pick set I took of a burglar. With the right tool and well learned felonious lock picking talent, I can get in the back door faster than the home owner with his key.
I ask you, if we do not allow our young children to experience believing in the goodness of Santa Claus, how will these same children as adults be able to believe in the goodness of Democrats and Republicans?
Let’s not rob our children of their youth, imagination, and excitement for Christmas. Let’s fight back. I will start right now.
Happy Halloween, and following our November holiday, have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Ho, Ho, Ho, says, Joe!
Adding to the fun and frivolity of most folks’ favorite time of year – like falling flakes frosting as a cake the frozen surrounds – here, to add to the naughty-list are, well, the following flakes (‘someone thought reliable but is found otherwise’).
It’s a holiday tradition for Rand Paul, Kentucky GOP Senator, to publish what might rightly be called the foibles of government flakes – those who spend exorbitant amounts of taxpayers’ money for the frivolous, the frolicsome, the flippant.
Like a half-million on a self-cleaning toilet in a single D.C. Metro station they no longer know the location of (the toilet, not the station). When you must go, but the toilet (self-cleaning or otherwise) is gone, there’s a problem you know?
Last year the highlight of Rand’s Waste Report was the money spent studying the mating habits of quails high on cocaine. (I’ll just leave that right there).
In the spirit of the season, and Boyle’s article, what would you say is the common thread (some might have used ‘ribbon’ instead of thread but the former is synonymous with Christmas and with the latter – Christmas – having come under fire, ribbon is sure to be anathema too) that ties all these together?
A Texas HOA says Frosty the Inflatable Snowman can make an appearance only when they say so?
The Gig Harbor City Council declares the Nativity as history (as in gone – like the aforementioned toilet) from public property?
An Elementary school administrative policy in Frisco, Texas bans the colors red and green and Christmas trees too (because they’re green? How about flocked?) and no elves on shelves. (Speaking of banning, the parents should have banded together and all wore red and green to that holiday concert).
Amazon – amazon-ingly and alarmingly – joins the chorus (not Christmas caroling) and rather pompously pronounces the children’s Christmas Nativity Story as “Christian Holiday Fiction.”
Durham, New Hampshire will have a tree but formally issues – in no-doubt official ‘whereas’ form – that while holiday trees are ok, formally lighting them is not. And btw, Santa will not – as in will not – arrive by sleigh, much less town fire truck. So there. Oh, and no wreaths on lamp posts either.
Tony Evers, Democrat, gov. for but one year (so far) in Wisconsin, has unilaterally renamed the green-thing-with-branches, what the year before had been the Capitol Christmas Tree.
Starbucks coffee cups will not – not – warm the hearts, much less the hands, of consumers this year as the greeting “Merry Christmas” will not – not – be found on any – any – of their cups, no matter the size, but rather will meekly offer the words ‘merry coffee’ in its place (insert wimp and whimper).
And to think there are people like Joe Boyle who rebels against it all.
May his Santa-welcoming, Merry-Christmas-wishing, GPS-values-restoring, child-inspiring tribe increase.
Well said and well done! The words, “Thank you”, are in place.
I woke up with my brain still at rest this morning so “what they said” will have to suffice. Good job and Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen!
Have a Merry Christmas while dancing on the lawn, in the snow, with Frosty, to Angels We Have Heard on High, in front of a Nativity Scene. Then, back inside to sip some hot Christmas nog while listening to “Santa Baby” by Eartha Kitt and “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (any duet you like with the original lyrics, my new fave is Michael Buble and Idina Menzel!) .
All of that should be enough to cause, at least a few, hum-buggers to experience a real Lakewood Blue Christmas
Thank you, Joe and Don!
I keep wondering what people are celebrating on December 24,25, and 26. If it’s not Christmas, what holidays do you mean? Why celebrate what you don’t believe in? (Or, wait, is that me being intolerant now?!)
But seriously: Don’t people have other problems than some people’s Christmas joy?! Can these oh so tolerant, politically correct people just be tolerant enough to let religiously related customs stand, even if they are Christian? You don’t have to partake. You can pass Frosty with eyes averted – after all most people do that with the human beings they pass by, too.
You can wish me Happy Holidays if it makes you feel better. But you will always get a “Merry Christmas” back from me!
Thank you for putting my thoughts for years into words. Would it be OK to say “I’m offended that ‘they’ are offended?” Not really, because I allow beliefs other than my own to exist.
Thank you; I love common sense!