I just decided to buy a shitload of stuff at Lands' End

[OldLeftieLawyer]

Yes, it's still me inside this mornings' news section of the Washington Post.

This article - http://tinyurl.com/afs8o - on the front page, contained this quote:

"Donohue said that Wal-Mart, facing a threatened boycott, added a Christmas page to its Web site and fired a customer relations employee who wrote a letter linking Christmas to 'Siberian shamanism.' He was not mollified by a letter from Lands' End saying it 'adopted the ."holiday" terminology as a way to comply with one of the basic freedoms granted to all Americans: freedom of religion'."

And now, I shall proceed to landsend.com, great big credit card in paw, and proceed to buy something for everyone, and for me, of course, at the same time making sure that I email a message to their management, thanking them for their Constitutional and American stance, and reminding them that the First Amendment also offers us all freedom FROM religion.

Money, money, money - I'm gonna spend it at a place where religious freedom is not only understood, but celebrated.

[swimmernsecretsea]

1. Oooo! Goodie!

That reminds me to log on to them later! Enjoy!

[ret5hd]

2. Do i need to email you my shipping address?

my hobby is woodworking, and also it's getting pretty cold here.

[ret5hd]

3. Never mind... i see it's not YOU doing the spending.

[DancingBear]

7. I have a Powermatic 201 22" planer in the basement

I love that thing. :)

[AzDar]

4. Good idea! Loves me some Land's End...(cashmere for me, please) OLL!

[chunkylover55]

5. This country was founded on the principles of religous freedom, not

freedom from religion. In other words, seperation of church and state. . . . government can't pass any laws endorsing religion, etc.

I fail to see what private enterprises saying "Merry Christmas" have anything to do with "religious freedom".

I couldn't care less if a company says Happy Holidays. But, I admit I do get irked when they remove all references to "Christmas" because its the PC thing to do and they want to be sensitive to the 10% of people that don't celebrate Christmas.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

8. I think the whole point of America

is that the rights of the few are as important as the rights of the many.

Welcome to DU.

[asjr]

6. For many years I have done all my Christmas

shopping from Land's End and have never been disappointed.

[jokerman93]

9. Wal-Mart is anti-intellectual too! Imagine that!

"Donohue said that Wal-Mart, facing a threatened boycott, added a Christmas page to its Web site and fired a customer relations employee who wrote a letter linking Christmas to 'Siberian shamanism.'"

Yes! The reindeer and the red-man; references to the hallucinogenic mushrooms that grow in the droppings of Siberian reindeer. The flight of the reindeer; the receiving of gifts from the spirit world -- so much of it is rich with ancient shamanic themes. Yes, the primitive sources of the north-pole santa myth are true and documented. Praise Jeebuzz.

Apparently some hapless Wal-Mart employees still know how to read. Guess they'll be fixing that though.

:think: