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To: Lane3 who wrote (150244)	12/8/2005 4:05:10 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 793914

Exactly. But look what happened after 9/11. It turned out that a lot of people were on top of things, had raised the alarm about OBL, etc., but were ignored. Ignorance is only temporary bliss. It has a way of turning into shock and sorrow.

To: Lane3 who wrote (150244)	12/9/2005 11:36:17 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793914

I just came across this tidbit I hadn't seen before. Never occurred to me. "4. "Happy Holidays" was not created to soothe the non-Christians. It was meant to shorten the traditional "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year". Only recently did some people see "Happy Holidays" as a way to respect non-Christians - especially considering the commercial nature of the season and the fact that the birth of Jesus had and has so little to do with Christmas. Nobody says, "Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year" because everybody recognizes that the New Year is one of the holidays. Ironically, New Year's Eve celebrations reflect the more traditional ways that people celebrated Christmas - through raucousness and drunkenness. Thus, the overall "Holiday season" nicely pulls together modern Victorian and post-Victorian family-centric and commercialized Christmas along with the traditional wild Christmas celebration though now relegated to New Year's Eve. " themoderatevoice.com