Juliette of Baldilocks slices and dices TurkeyGate.
Hard on the heels of the show turkey scandal is Jelly DonutGate; the Bush Administration's abject failure to regulate food advertisements and ban Jelly Donuts.
Switzerland to remove offending Christian symbol from flag! CBS declines to run "Christmas Special " ...the material deemed too offensive, will run on Showtime in March.
No, not really, but this story is a mind boggling example of political correctness run amok. Following the 9/11 fund debaucle, the Red Cross seems determined to destroy it's reputation and public support.
Seems our fellow North Americans are succuming to the PC removal of the word Christmas from the holiday well:
Posted by feste at December 5, 2003 12:03 PM | TrackBack
Canada's Christmas tree controversy
In Canada, as in many other parts of the Christian world at this time of year, it is hard to escape the sights and sounds of Christmas.
In these commercial times it seems that no self-respecting shop or home is without its gaudy decorations and fairy lights.
Certainly the one thing nobody overlooks is the all important Christmas tree - except in Toronto. City officials there have decreed that the 15-metre pine recently erected in the city centre is not a Christmas tree - but a holiday tree.
"That object is identified as a Christmas tree - it's not a Hannukah bush, it's not a winter tree, it's not a festival tree - it's a Christmas tree" -Professor Barry Levy.
