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or should I say Holiday gifts, is the word Christmas allowed anymore?

Are you a school administrator who's gotten in trouble for pressuring kids to celebrate the birth of another religion's deity? No? Then have you ever experienced a situation where someone told you not to use the word "Christmas" during the Christmas season? Seriously, I'm not just being snarky, I'm actually curious.

If not, please don't fuel the fake "war on Christmas" flamewar that only serves to demonize disestablishmentarians. We're not trying to steal Christmas from any of the Whos in Whoville. We promise.

Watches his karma go up in smoke...

You live a sheltered life, doncha? There are quite a lot of people who think the government is big and greedy. They're called Republicans.

You are joking, right?

Have you been paying attention to what Pres. Bush has been doing? You'd think he had eliminated the dept of education, welfare, medicare, and social security all last year given by how conservatives seem to think that his becoming president is like the second coming of jesus. But clearly, he's done the opposite. He not only wants to make these programs bigger, he wants to make them globalized. He's even turning out to be a bigger pork barrel spender than Bill Clinton was (and that's even if you take away his "defense spending" for the WoT and Iraq).

Republican might say that government is too big and too greedy, but they contribute to its size and greediness just as much, if not more so, than the democrats.