Obama White House served acorn cookies at Monday's annual Christmas party

However, the “Merry Christmas is missing from the White House “Christmas” cards this year. The “Christian” couple doesn’t want to offend anyone, dontchaknow...

President Barack Obama and first lady send out holiday cards marked 'Season's Greetings'

LIBERALISM: The triumph of mindless, wishful thinking over logic, reason, and experience.

The fact that the WH Social Sec even considered it is the point on just how far the left has gone for the sake of Political Correctness.

The artical nor I said it was "happening" just that it was considered.. Different points on the same map.

"A little matter will move a party

~Thomas Paine"

FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees
DATE: October 1, 2009
RE: Gala Christmas Party
I'm happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place on December 23rd, starting at noon in the private function room at the Grill House. There will be a cash bar and plenty of drinks! We'll have a small band playing traditional carols... feel free to sing along. And don't be surprised if our CEO shows up dressed as Santa Claus! A Christmas tree will be lit at 1:00 PM. Exchanges of gifts among employees can be done at that time; however, no gift should be over $10.00 to make the giving of gifts easy for everyone's pockets. This gathering is only for employees!
Our CEO will make a special announcement at that time!
Merry Christmas to you and your family,
Patty

Company Memo

FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees
DATE: October 2, 2009
RE: Gala Holiday Party
In no way was yesterday's memo intended to exclude our Jewish employees. We recognize that Hanukkah is an important holiday, which often coincides with Christmas, though unfortunately not this year. However, from now on, we're calling it our "Holiday Party." The same policy applies to any other employees who are not Christians and to those still celebrating Reconciliation Day. There will be no Christmas tree and no Christmas carols will be sung. We will have other types of music for your enjoyment.
Happy now?
Happy Holidays to you and your family,
Patty

Company Memo

FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director

TO: All Employees
DATE: October 3, 2009
RE: Holiday Party

Regarding the note I received from a member of Alcoholics Anonymous requesting a non-drinking table, you didn't sign your name. I'm happy to accommodate this request, but if I put a sign on a table that reads, "AA Only", you wouldn't be anonymous anymore. How am I supposed to handle this?
Somebody?
And sorry, but forget about the gift exchange, no gifts are allowed since the union members feel that $10.00 is too much money and the executives believe $10.00 is a little chintzy.
REMEMBER: NO GIFTS EXCHANGE WILL BE ALLOWED.
Company Memo

FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director
To: All Employees
DATE: October 4, 2009
RE: Generic Holiday Party
What a diverse group we are! I had no idea that December 20th begins the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which forbids eating and drinking during daylight hours. There goes the party! Seriously, we can appreciate how a luncheon at this time of year does not accommodate our Muslim employees' beliefs. Perhaps the Grill House can hold off on serving your meal until the end of the party or else package everything for you to take it home in little foil doggy baggy. Will that work?
Meanwhile, I've arranged for members of Weight Watchers to sit farthest from the dessert buffet, and pregnant women will get the table closest to the restrooms.
Gays are allowed to sit with each other. Lesbians do not have to sit with Gay men, each group will have their own table.
Yes, there will be flower arrangement for the Gay men's table.
To the person asking permission to cross dress, the Grill House asks that no cross-dressing be allowed, apparently because of concerns about confusion in the restrooms. Sorry.
We will have booster seats for short people.
Low-fat food will be available for those on a diet.
I am sorry to report that we cannot control the amount of salt used in the food . The Grill House suggests that people with high blood pressure taste a bite first.
There will be fresh "low sugar" fruits as dessert for diabetics, but the restaurant cannot supply "no sugar" desserts. Sorry!

Did I miss anything?!?!?
Patty
Company Memo

FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All F*%^ing Employees
DATE: October 5, 2009
RE: The F*%^ing Holiday Party
I've had it with you vegetarian pricks!!! We're going to keep this party at the Grill House whether you like it or not, so you can sit quietly at the table furthest from the "grill of death," as you so quaintly put it, and you'll get your f*%^ing salad bar, including organic tomatoes. But you know, tomatoes have feelings, too. They scream when you slice them. I've heard them scream. I'm hearing them scream right NOW!
The rest of you f*%^ing wierdos can kiss my *ss. I hope you all have a rotten holiday!
Drive drunk and die,
The B*tch from H*ll!!!
Company Memo

FROM: Joan Bishop, Acting Human Resources Director
DATE: October 6, 2009
RE: Patty Lewis and Holiday Party
I'm sure I speak for all of us in wishing Patty Lewis a speedy recovery and I'll continue to forward your cards to her.
In the meantime, management has decided to cancel our Holiday Party and give everyone the afternoon of the 23rd off with full pay.
Happy Holidays!
Joan

I have laughed about this off and on all day! In my job I have to arrange luncheons and meetings for a very very diverse population . . .and I have had to deal with many of the things ole Patty mentions . . .One of my biggest challenges is the dietary requirements of so many nationalities. I don't mean to be rude, but if I were invited to a FREE lunch, if the food there did not appeal to me I would work around it; but not my guests, they want their special diet no matter what. One of my more memorable complaints was the fellow who wanted a vegetarian salad, so I ordered no meat, vegetarian salad, the salad had eggs on it, the fellow had a fit and went hungry I guess . . .too much effort to take the eggs off I guess. At any rate, I did love this trail of emails!!!

Love it!

In a funny way it supports my Real Americans response to you earlier.

You have a great sense of humor

Much ado about nothing. Every public room in the White House has been decorated using historic ornaments, etc. from past administrations. This house does belong to us - Americans - and visitors, public school tours, etc. will enjoy the beauty of the White House this year as in all past years. Now if you think that the Obama's will not have 'Christmas' in their private quarters, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you. And justwondering, he is living in the White House now as part of his duty as President of the United States. . .just like the Americans who held the office before him after the White House was built. Many are proud that he currently resides there ..and considers part of the house 'his'. I know most of you will choose not to watch, but the public will be invited to see the White House decorations during a TV program. . .and yes, the family sent out 'Christmas' cards. Obama and his family are Christians who try to follow the dictates of the New Testament. Those of you who profess Christianity – check out the writings of St. Paul. . . since some seem to have difficulty with the words of Jesus.

"Christmas" seems to be missing from the Obama's Christmas cards.

Uh-oh - What happened???

President Barack Obama and first lady send out holiday cards marked 'Season's Greetings'

LIBERALISM: The triumph of mindless, wishful thinking over logic, reason, and experience.

I went through "phases" but never "Reason For The Season!" Is it a season rather than a day? Aren't seasons about three months each---even though we are lucky to get two of them in Georgia.

Axial Tilt instead of Christmas IS the phase: reason for the season, I agree (what is it)? Do the moon have anything to do with it? Mars?

December would have been OK in Jerusalem---what with warm hay, swaddling clothes and a donkey to sleep with. May have been a
Three Dog Night?" No, that was Three Kings, was it not? They had franky, murr and copper, I think? Joe was glad to git it.

You might be right about born in the springtime. Beautiful place right there in Palestine in springtime. (wait did I say Palestine? Were the Palestinians there then? They don't much like Jews, do they? Or did they then?

I think it was a "tax thing," the reason for the phase. We just do it electronically now, or the boss takes it every payday.
I wonder if the King took the same percentage of earning from those like carpenters wages as he did from those who owned a bunch of slaves? Was there am asset tax on the Jewish slaves?

How did they know how much one made in wages? I;ll bet they just took so many shekels from everybody regardless of how much they made!
Shekels and cubits always did confuse me.

alls Hell day..for what it's worth..

We call it CHRISTmas.. that's what it is so go get your cauldron out and brew up a batch. It would suit you.

"A little matter will move a party

~Thomas Paine"

.Reid vs. Reid's Mouth
The Senate Majority Leader isn't backing down from his remarks comparing Republican opponents of the Democratic health-care bill to defenders of slavery

Anyone that is in office now please vote them out next time around. OH and Merry Christmas to everyone

I hadn't read the NYT article until now.

The White House should celebrate Christmas there as a traditional recognition of Christianity. Also, a celebration maybe at other times of other religions should be in order. I have noticed though that it is not.
Instead we are a "Christian nation."

In all likelihood we will stay a Christian Nation (laws resembling Christianity) until a majority of the voters says otherwise.

I also agree with some that persnickety and overbearing actions by a Social Secretary will only deter the progress that her race is making.
I understand the thinking of some of the new administration that they have been set aside all they intend to be and will simply overdo if necessary. That is a mistake and Obama needs to stop it.

As to the Secret Service allowing someone in to the function who was not on the list of approved personnel, whether or not someone from the social office was there is a mistake without a reasonable excuse.
The SS might as well not be there if they are going to make judgments which are not necessary. The Defense department lady who was trying to get these people in should also be counseled at least.

First thing you know we will be letting in Jews, Black people, Italians, Hungarians, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, and even Terrorists!

Why we might even have school kids trying to get properly educated from other counties coming to Fayette schools! Or even into Wisconsin or Arkansas Universities.

Some here may not get your sarcasm. I feel this is the 'prime' reason for the controversy:

This is the tale of a woman who, like Icarus, flew too close to the sun. The public conversation quickly turned to Ms. Rogers herself and whether she broke some unwritten code of social secretary dos and don’ts. She shouldn’t have attended the dinner as an invited guest. (Social secretaries rarely do.) She shouldn’t have paraded in front of photographers in an avant-garde Comme des Garçons gown. She should have been something Desirée Rogers is utterly unaccustomed to being: invisible.

This social secretary has, however followed the tradition of former social secretaries in bringing culture to the White House. In my lifetime, the social secretary of the Kennedy's was a hard act to follow. It's just a little difficult for some to see an accomplished Harvard graduate, former CEO, attractive BLACK woman - who is actually a friend and social/educational equal of the president 'step out of her place'. Oh well - deal with it.

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She has a primary job----seeing that the SS is furnished an accurate guest list. Even if she has forty degrees!
The SS will take the fall but this lady will never be Secretary of defense.
My only point was just that.

She gave them an accurate list. The 'crashers' were not on it. The email from the ‘friend’ in the Pentagon makes that pretty clear. By the crashers own words, they went 'just in case' their names had made it to the list. An email never came saying their names were on the list. Because the 'crashers' were 'cute', they should have been admitted? I think not. Now where is this the Social Secretary's fault? As has been pointed out, in today’s techy world, they could have reached her or her team and verified the names. NO CALL/MESSAGE WAS EVER MADE/SENT!!
There are reporters and staff - purple, green, plaid, who have been put off by Desiree Rogers - and there are those who are NOT COLOR BLIND. Pretending that race has nothing to do with some of these issues is just not realistic.

blog that does not have a BLACK issue in it (The caps are yours). I know you were replying to Bonkers and saying you got his sarcasm and yet you still had to make it a BLACK issue. It is commendable that Ms. Rogers has brought culture to the White House. If she were purple, green or orange she still should have been doing her job which was the reason she was at the function. I think it is hard for you to ever admit that there is a legitimate reason to comment on something a black person does regardless if they are right or wrong. This very educated, accomplished, and attractive lady may be a social/educational equal of the president but she is still an employee with a job to do. If they had wanted her there as their social equal I imagine she would have received the invitation that all other invitees received and attended as such instead of the employee she is. You, my dear lady seem to be so mired in the BLACK (or at least presumed by you) issue that you can't see anything else.
This really seems to be a problem for you and maybe you should consider dealing with it.

I know you are very intelligent - so I will only repeat this one more time. Four years ago I participated in this group to discuss 'race'. I have told you that before, and I will continue to do so. It appears that you are selective when reading my posts - since I have posted blogs that had nothing to do with race. I told you before, and I'll tell you again, you have the freedom of not reading anything I post. I really could care less about what you think about my opinion - but thank you for sharing yours. Happy Holidays.

If they had wanted her there as their social equal I imagine she would have received the invitation that all other invitees received and attended as such instead of the employee she is.

Who told you she wasn't invited? Maybe you should give Michelle Obama lessons on how to treat her 'help'.

Gee muddle, I read the article and did not find anything particularly nauseating, certainly nothing like I feel when I read about mountaintop removal coal mining. To each his own gag reflex I suppose.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

"MOUNTAINTOP MINING is simply coal mining activities that occur at the topmost portion of a mountain. There have been various emotional statements in the press about this form of mining that are neither based on fact nor supported by the truth."

Mountaintop Mining..Facts vs. Hysteria..Link

Hysteria makes me burp up a little..

"A little matter will move a party

~Thomas Paine"

CLICK HERE

There are a multitude of answers, but no political will.
A tax-credit, incentives etc.. and viola the Free Market will come up with a solution without destroying our economy..

Clean Coal is possible..Link

"A little matter will move a party

~Thomas Paine"

POLITICAL WILL I had a very interesting conversation with former military personnel. Political will is a very interesting and complicated topic.

I have now witnessed "Believing is Seeing" raised up to an art form. Awesome, and hysterical.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

and not every Corporation is EVIL..

I know Captain Planet and Anthropogenic Global Warming crowds would disagree.. but I gotta be me..
Not everything the far left and the uninformed hysterics crowd fear is in fact true.
Remember people feared the Automobile. They said it would end Americans way of life.
People fear what they do not understand.. understandable, but we don’t wreck our economy and trash our current way of life for some supposed 1 or 2 degree temp change over the next 200 years.
Climatologist can’t predict how the weather will be this weekend.. so I find it a little odd they can predict with certainty the temp a couple of hundred years from now.

"A little matter will move a party

~Thomas Paine"

Climatologist can’t predict how the weather will be this weekend.. so I find it a little odd they can predict with certainty the temp a couple of hundred years from now.

Amen to that. Thanks Lindsey. I for one appreciate the energy you have in debunking this crap. I was raised as a conservationist and one that takes care of the land. I still value and believe in that. However, these freaking fruitcakes are destroying opportunity and common sense for the sake of their own selfish ambitions. Thankfully, people are seeing through this crap. And these nut-cases will move onto to the next bogus world calamity and these blind left-wing followers will give them credence without hesitation and reasonable thought. Oh well... Press on brother. Merry Christmas.

Obama.... The Bernie Madoff Of Washington

shed some light on this story.
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You got that right!

The only possible harm that can be done on top of those WV & KY mountains is to foul the streams below.
In fact when they get through and spread out the dirt and rocks and sew grass and plant shrubs it is much better than before (I will say they didn't do any of that unntil they were made to do it).

However the streams run black while they mine it. The stench of sulphur is considered a food condiment in WV & KY.

One can even grow corn (no, just corn--not corn liquor) in those reseeded fields at 3000 feet once the mining is complete.
It is also harder to fall over the side of the mountain from the top but be careful down the mountain where it is steeper than ever.
Now another cash crop can be grown there on the side of these slooshes
and it has jungle overhead cover from the helicopters!
What timber is on top can't be logged out anyway---too steep and high.
They can roll the coal out, or belt it out, or sloosh it out.

I ain't agin it if dun keerect!

What they are saying..?

"A little matter will move a party

~Thomas Paine"

In an era when "public servants" want to be celebrities and "celebrities" want to be policy makers, I see no difference between Desiree Rogers (and the whole Obama crew) and the Salahi couple that crashed the state dinner.

Who are 'real' Americans'? The Choctaw or the Apache?

Maybe the Cherokee, or the Cheyenne? Maybe the settlers at Plymouth Rock? Maybe Betsy Ross? Maybe it is someone who came to this country legally to have a better life. Maybe it is someone who was born and raised here and wants America to be the same for her children and grandchildren.

Don't forget those whose ancestors were 'brought' here for labor against their wishes and have made America their home by hard labor, defending it since the Revolutionary War, and all of the subsequent wars, and today are contributing in all areas of American life. I agree with you - you just forgot a few folk.

The fact that I have to actually explain the definition of Real Americans is in itself a statement on how far we have declined as a country.

Well, David's Mom, since you asked, here is my definition of Real Americans:

Real Americans are first and foremost patriots who understand the sacrifices our forefathers made to establish our government and the quality of life we all enjoy - or would if you stupid liberals could stop asking for more handouts to the "less fotunate" (yes, I know that is a Neal Boortz term and I have credited it to him).

Real Americans in the spirit of their forefathers volunteer for the military and serve their country through good and bad times and through good and bad Commanders-in-chief. The abhor stupid liberal political policies such as "Don't ask, don't tell" and they dislike wars being fought with deadlines for surrender.

Real Americans work because they understand they should do their fair share to help themselves and contribute to the economy.

Real Americans support their families because it is the right thing to do. They don't run up big bills on their credit cards and skip out. They don't cheat on their spouse. They don't beat their spouse or kids. As a result, they don't go to jail.

Real Americans pay their taxes because they understand that the taxes they pay will be used for the essential services of government as outlined in the Constitution. Thus far, no Amendments to the Constitution about wealth redistribution, free abortions, health care defined as a right, welfare queens given $3,000 per month plus food stamps only because she has birthed 3 kids. But they pay their taxes anyway.

Real Americans get married and have an average of 2.3 children and pay for their support, educate them and remain in their lives - both the father and the mother. No mention of gay marriage or same sex marraige of life partners or any of that deviant behavior in the Constitution.

Real Americans vote and express their opinions freely whenever they can. Some protest government policies that they feel are wrong.

Real Americans do not attack and demonize other Americans who disagree with them.

Hope that answers your question, DM

The Native Americans to which you refered - some are Real Americans by my definition, some are not, most are dead.

Real Americans do not attack and demonize other Americans who disagree with them.

Your comment about ‘liberals’ disqualifies you for American citizenship - by your own definition.. so what are you? And most Native Americans are dead? I'm sure some members of the Indian nations will be surprised to hear that. A number of Native Americans reside right here in Georgia - Fayette County. You are classic sir.

My I suggest you make this a blog so it can have its own thread. This might get interesting.
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