Official 2011 Christmas Season vs. Holiday Season

[Conan71]

ANY INDIVIDUAL SHOULD BE ABLE TO CELEBRATE RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS AS THEY SEE FIT. 

Meh, I'm cool with that until it annoys me.

[guido911]

There is a really great band doing concerts up there this month and next.  Brule.  Good stuff - saw them on PBS a few weeks ago.
Oops...last day is the 19th Nov.

Would have to be this weekend.  I may have to run up there real quick...

It's a great venue too.

The CHRISTMAS tree lighting and parade at SDC is really a memory creator. Nothing like seeing the joy in small children's faces...

[guido911]

Not too off topic, but Beck gives women's shelter $55K to offset loss of government money because shelter has, gulp, Bible readings. I love the last minute because it goes right to the heart of the Jesus fear.

And I am not a Beck fan.

[Conan71]

Not too off topic, but Beck gives women's shelter $55K to offset loss of government money because shelter has, gulp, Bible readings. I love the last minute because it goes right to the heart of the Jesus fear.

And I am not a Beck fan.

Beck??

I see the microphone, but where's the two turntables?

[Teatownclown]

Please Guido. Why reach into the bottom of the barrel?

And who can stand 10 seconds of this idiot? 7 minutes? Seriously? In that time, Glenn could explain how evolution is not real....

[guido911]

Please Guido. Why reach into the bottom of the barrel?

And who can stand 10 seconds of this idiot? 7 minutes? Seriously? In that time, Glenn could explain how evolution is not real....

Yeah, Beck bailing out a women's shelter because it DARES to have a religious undertone is so bottom of the barrel. 

[Breadburner]

Please Guido. Why reach into the bottom of the barrel?

And who can stand 10 seconds of this idiot? 7 minutes? Seriously? In that time, Glenn could explain how evolution is not real....

You and him should get a 2 top together......

[BKDotCom]

Yeah, Beck bailing out a women's shelter because it DARES to have a religious undertone is so bottom of the barrel. 

The real reason for the donation is that it panders right to his audience, get his audience stirred up, and gets him attention/

[carltonplace]

The real reason for the donation is that it panders right to his audience, get his audience stirred up, and gets him attention/

Ding Ding Ding balloons and confetti.

[nathanm]

Yeah, Beck bailing out a women's shelter because it DARES to have a religious undertone is so bottom of the barrel. 

Making smile up, on the other hand, is not bottom of the barrel. Please point to the regulation that caused this women's shelter to lose funding because it has bible readings. (which is different than it being effectively a religious institution. If it is operating as a religious institution, it shouldn't be getting government money in the first place)

Also, I doubt $55,000 runs a women's shelter. Where are they getting the rest of the money?

[guido911]

Making smile up, on the other hand, is not bottom of the barrel. Please point to the regulation that caused this women's shelter to lose funding because it has bible readings. (which is different than it being effectively a religious institution. If it is operating as a religious institution, it shouldn't be getting government money in the first place)

Also, I doubt $55,000 runs a women's shelter. Where are they getting the rest of the money?

Do your own research. I am going with what the woman told Beck. And it's a women's shelter, not a religious institution. You are approaching another Clavin moment...

[Conan71]

Making smile up, on the other hand, is not bottom of the barrel. Please point to the regulation that caused this women's shelter to lose funding because it has bible readings. (which is different than it being effectively a religious institution. If it is operating as a religious institution, it shouldn't be getting government money in the first place)

Also, I doubt $55,000 runs a women's shelter. Where are they getting the rest of the money?

Did they whored hoard the rest themselves?

[heironymouspasparagus]

It's a great venue too.

The CHRISTMAS tree lighting and parade at SDC is really a memory creator. Nothing like seeing the joy in small children's faces...

Love the tree lighting at SDC!  Just like SDC in general.  A lot.  Would love to work there, but they aren't building the cabins for the campground anymore, so don't know what I would do.  Maybe a little blacksmithing.

Saw the Rushmore concert on TV and that would be my ultimate venue for them, but would still like to see at Branson.

 

[hello]

Has become much more elaborate celebration, but I believe that yes it was in the Bible to celebrate the birth - the visit by the three guys with gifts, etc.  Small, but still, in my opinion that sets the precedent.

The three wise men did not visit Jesus at his birth. If a manger scene shows them there with gifts it doesn't follow the Biblical account. They arrived possibly years after his birth with their gifts, when Jesus was perhaps 2 years old and I don't recall the date being related to the day he was born. 

[RecycleMichael]

The three gifts from the wise men were gold, francincense, and myrrh.

We all know what gold is. Frankincense and myrrh were tree sap, or a salve,  kinda like petroleum jelly.

What kind of gifts were those?

You got to be really, really good friends with someone to give them petroleum jelly as a gift.

I'm just saying.