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From: Governor Blunt
To: All Missouri State Employees
Date: November 29, 2007
Re: "Merry Christmas!"
Dear State Employee:
Merry Christmas!
I hope that I am among the first to wish a Merry Christmas to you, your family, and friends!
As most of us know, some question the appropriateness of saying "Merry Christmas!" particularly by government employees.
By my directive, as a government employee, you need not worry about this strange effort to undermine the historical foundation of this wonderful time of the year into an arid "Winter Break". You need not check your religious views at the door, nor your affection for the season, nor the use of its ancient, time-honored greetings. The directive I have given to all executive agencies provides that no state employee will be reprimanded or disciplined in any way for saying "Merry Christmas."
Please enjoy the holiday season!
Feel free to spread your cheer by wishing your colleagues -- and especially the Missourians we all serve -- a Merry Christmas!
Sincerely,
Matt Blunt
Can't you just see the relief oozing from my pores? Thank you, thank you, Governor Blunt! However, I'm leaving my job and returning to retail and choose to be an evil Non-Christian and will greet people with, "Happy Holidays." No matter how much they screech back at me, "Merry Christmas!"
To: All Missouri State Employees
Date: November 29, 2007
Re: "Merry Christmas!"
Dear State Employee:
Merry Christmas!
I hope that I am among the first to wish a Merry Christmas to you, your family, and friends!
As most of us know, some question the appropriateness of saying "Merry Christmas!" particularly by government employees.
By my directive, as a government employee, you need not worry about this strange effort to undermine the historical foundation of this wonderful time of the year into an arid "Winter Break". You need not check your religious views at the door, nor your affection for the season, nor the use of its ancient, time-honored greetings. The directive I have given to all executive agencies provides that no state employee will be reprimanded or disciplined in any way for saying "Merry Christmas."
Please enjoy the holiday season!
Feel free to spread your cheer by wishing your colleagues -- and especially the Missourians we all serve -- a Merry Christmas!
Sincerely,
Matt Blunt
Can't you just see the relief oozing from my pores? Thank you, thank you, Governor Blunt! However, I'm leaving my job and returning to retail and choose to be an evil Non-Christian and will greet people with, "Happy Holidays." No matter how much they screech back at me, "Merry Christmas!"
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It's the one that's about JEEEEEEEZUZ. That automagically makes it a bajillion times more important than those others, because he died and rose from the grave (and NOT because he was a zombie, I'm told).
And the only people who celebrate those other ones are heathens and brown people.