A Bold Gubernatorial Statement On The Holidays

[dreiser]

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!"

Comments

[sulkygeek.livejournal.com]

hey you. I was mildly bummed out that you wanted to leave your job, because it seemed like a good fit for you, but I hear you about the stress and anxiety it brings. And you've always seemed happy doing retail, even when the customers sucked.

I thought of you tonight (although I am about to go to bed because I am congested up the ass) because i was goofing off on youtube and came across this:



Aw. Helena thinking the children sound like they are wailing cos they are starving. ROFL.

Anyway. I will talk to you soon. I still go on yahoo, but we never seem to be on at the same time anymore, which fills me with sad

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

It did seem like the perfect job at first but I found out quickly I could deal with the stress but I wasn't quite so comfortable with having so many bosses. Seriously, every day I had at least ten different people telling me to do things different ways, most of them high ranking and intimidating police officers. It got exhausting and frustrating really quickly.

Plus I've always loved retail, no matter how much I complained about it.

Mysterious Cities of Gold! "Ahhhh... someday we will find a city full of gnomes!" lol. I remember when you're friend from work got mad at you for screwing up the theme song.

Dude, I worry for Helena in the upcoming season. Why must she have the most shite of storylines? Uncool.

And we're never online at the same time. It sucks ass. I have tomorrow off entirely so maybe I'll try hanging out on the computer to see if I catch you.

[juwl.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, Merry Christmas is the more important side of this whole argument. It's not like there are seven or eight different holidays stacked up right next to each other within the space of a month. No, no, Christmas is the one that matters! Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, New Years, Solstice, come on! It'd be difficult to get all those into a single breath.

[cylver.livejournal.com]

Well DUH...

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.