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I’m in New Orleans for the weekend with my wife and her family and it is absolutely beautiful; sunny, cold (the way December should be), and teeming with Christmas shoppers. We checked out the shops on Magazine Street, saw the Christmas lights at City Park, got snowed on at Harrah’s, and ate some awesome food (Café Maspero was my favorite).
However, there are a couple of curious things I saw here. One was a homeless man who walked up to us and asked, “Do you have any change because Obama doesn’t have any?”
The other thing I saw was Christmas trees…everywhere; the nerve of some people to impose such a symbol on others. They were in homes, in businesses, in front of buildings, and two that I saw were even ninety or a hundred feet tall. Real trees, artificial trees, white trees, green trees, red trees---they were everywhere scaring and intimidating people back into their homes.
Back to the homeless man, his appearance drew pity and I avoided even beginning to think of what the cold night still held for his suffering, but I found his approach to begging to be both a clever pun and representative of America’s sentiment towards Barack Obama and just how deceiving his entire campaign was. Even this desperate, homeless man was convinced two years ago that Obama’s change was going to trickle down into his own tin cup.
Back to the trees; those colorful, ornamented and glowing trees of religious oppression and intimidation, with their popcorn strings and candy canes, that so many malevolent Americans maliciously cut down and put in their houses and businesses for the sole purpose of continuing a beautiful tradition of peace, harmony, prayer, thankfulness, appreciation, gift-giving, and a holiday that illuminates every child’s imagination more than any other day of the year, while making the hearts of adults, even the angriest grinch’s, every once in a while, glow as a reminder of why we are all really here.
See what just happened there? I switched it up on you to place emphasis on how ridiculous this “Christmas tree” debacle and “Merry Christmas” ban in America has become. What ties this whole post together is some news I came across today out of Southlake, northeast of Fort Worth, Texas, in which a branch of Chase Bank was forced to remove a Christmas tree that was donated by a friend of the branch manager. The artificial tree was assembled and decorated on the Monday before Thanksgiving and taken down one day later. Some complaints were filed by customers of the bank apparently leaving Chase Bank with no choice but to remove the offensive monstrosity of age-old American culture.
Happy Holidays!
1,832.3 miles to go.
I’m in New Orleans for the weekend with my wife and her family and it is absolutely beautiful; sunny, cold (the way December should be), and teeming with Christmas shoppers. We checked out the shops on Magazine Street, saw the Christmas lights at City Park, got snowed on at Harrah’s, and ate some awesome food (Café Maspero was my favorite).
However, there are a couple of curious things I saw here. One was a homeless man who walked up to us and asked, “Do you have any change because Obama doesn’t have any?”
The other thing I saw was Christmas trees…everywhere; the nerve of some people to impose such a symbol on others. They were in homes, in businesses, in front of buildings, and two that I saw were even ninety or a hundred feet tall. Real trees, artificial trees, white trees, green trees, red trees---they were everywhere scaring and intimidating people back into their homes.
Back to the homeless man, his appearance drew pity and I avoided even beginning to think of what the cold night still held for his suffering, but I found his approach to begging to be both a clever pun and representative of America’s sentiment towards Barack Obama and just how deceiving his entire campaign was. Even this desperate, homeless man was convinced two years ago that Obama’s change was going to trickle down into his own tin cup.
Back to the trees; those colorful, ornamented and glowing trees of religious oppression and intimidation, with their popcorn strings and candy canes, that so many malevolent Americans maliciously cut down and put in their houses and businesses for the sole purpose of continuing a beautiful tradition of peace, harmony, prayer, thankfulness, appreciation, gift-giving, and a holiday that illuminates every child’s imagination more than any other day of the year, while making the hearts of adults, even the angriest grinch’s, every once in a while, glow as a reminder of why we are all really here.
See what just happened there? I switched it up on you to place emphasis on how ridiculous this “Christmas tree” debacle and “Merry Christmas” ban in America has become. What ties this whole post together is some news I came across today out of Southlake, northeast of Fort Worth, Texas, in which a branch of Chase Bank was forced to remove a Christmas tree that was donated by a friend of the branch manager. The artificial tree was assembled and decorated on the Monday before Thanksgiving and taken down one day later. Some complaints were filed by customers of the bank apparently leaving Chase Bank with no choice but to remove the offensive monstrosity of age-old American culture.
Happy Holidays!
1,832.3 miles to go.
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