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* DRUNKEN MONKEY *
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Holidays in school
Is Christmas celebrated in schools where you live? I ask because it's not allowed in schools around me. There are no Christmas tree, (although they
have a "holiday tree"), kids aren't supposed to say merry Christmas, or celebrate any aspects of it. Christmas carols are banned, as is anything
related to Christianity. I ask because this became an issue for me lately. My niece is 11, and at her school Christmas is not allowed for fear of
alienating anybody or offending anybody. At the same time a notice went out for muslims/middle eastern kids saying that there would be a private
celebration for Eid (and something else I forget the name of) during the lunch hour. The kids dressed up in traditional clothing and their parents
came and they danced and listened to traditional music and ate traditional foods. Sounds like a holiday celebration to me. When My sister asked the
prinicipal about it all he could say was that it was on the lunch hour and it was a private party. It's strange, but there were no "private parties"
for Christmas, Chanukka (sp.?) or Kwanza. My sister was so mad that she wrote a letter to the local paper and it was printed. She actually had
people looking her up in the phone book to call her and tell her how much they agrred with her.
Now here is where some people call me a racist. Why the fuck to we have to give our holidays? I could care less if a person who isn't even from this
country doesn't like it. CHristian holidays are the traditions passed down to us by the people who built this country. Europeans built the cities,
enacted governments, passed laws, and made this great nation what it is. Why should we give up those traditions because people of other backgrounds
move here. If they don't like it, they shouldn't move here. I am sick to death of seeing everything I grew up celebrating and believing in get
thrown away in the name multiculturalism.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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upyerbum
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People have become so phobic about it that its actually beginning to polarise communities.
Divide and conquer. We can't fight them if we're fighting each other...and such and such.
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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DeathByForce
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Yep, it's a fear of offending. This is the result of PC.
You speak out against it, you're deemed a racist.
\"rap isn\'t music\" - mozart
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* DRUNKEN MONKEY *
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Political correctness can suck my nuts.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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Voodoobillyman
The Artist Formerly Known As...
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A decade of Clintonian policy has really run this country into the proverbial ground. Imagine what his wife would do were she to become the
Prez.................scary
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moron
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My elementary school used to celebrate Christmas bigtime. We'd all gather in the gym and sing Christmas carols and decorated the school for Christmas
blah blah... all that shit. I remember there being one family of Muslims in my school, but I didnt really know anything about their beliefs and as
far as I knew they celebrated Christmas too. Same goes for the one Jew that I was aware of. She did all of the Christmas stuff with us. Thinking
back on it now it's really strange that there was no recognition of their beliefs at all. For the longest time Jews only existed to me in books and
on tv. Would be nice to have learned a bit about other religions and cultures. Having an all out ban of everything Christmas is also strange to me
though.
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