Comments on: A non-battle in Seattle http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/ I used to be in the middle, but they keep moving the line! Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:38:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Polimom http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-52081 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:50:49 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-52081 You're having entirely too much fun here, Ed. :> I may have to take this as a challenge... You’re having entirely too much fun here, Ed. :>

I may have to take this as a challenge…

]]> by: Ed T. http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-52064 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:39:03 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-52064 Christmas in SeaTac - Pretty trees, no menorah. Rabbi is upset. Lawyer says "We'll sue" - The Man caves, trees are removed in the dead of night. Folks are not happy! They call the press, and then the blogosphere explodes. Rabbi now upset. "I'm not the Grinch!" he exclaims But folks are still mad. The Man caves once more - Trees are back up, and all is now right with the world. ~EdT. Christmas in SeaTac -
Pretty trees, no menorah.
Rabbi is upset.

Lawyer says “We’ll sue” -
The Man caves, trees are removed
in the dead of night.

Folks are not happy!
They call the press, and then the
blogosphere explodes.

Rabbi now upset.
“I’m not the Grinch!” he exclaims
But folks are still mad.

The Man caves once more -
Trees are back up, and all is
now right with the world.

~EdT.

]]> by: Polimom http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-51969 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:30:05 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-51969 Ed -- you're right! A boondoggle on this scale requires lots of laughter. I didn't realize you were a poet! Truly an man-made mess up there at Sea-Tac. Ed — you’re right! A boondoggle on this scale requires lots of laughter. I didn’t realize you were a poet!

Truly an man-made mess up there at Sea-Tac.

]]> by: Ed T. http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-51968 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:25:28 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-51968 MAD == Moronic And Dumb. Merry ChristmasSolsticeHannukahKwanzaaHolidays. :-) ~EdT. MAD == Moronic And Dumb.

Merry ChristmasSolsticeHannukahKwanzaaHolidays.
:-)

~EdT.

]]> by: Ed T. http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-51967 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:24:19 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-51967 I think this one needs a bit of humor, as all sides step back from the brink of MAD. So, I have my own observations, which you can read over at <a href="http://blog.etee2k.net/index.php/etee/2006/12/12/christmas_in_seattle" rel="nofollow">my blog</a>. ~EdT. I think this one needs a bit of humor, as all sides step back from the brink of MAD. So, I have my own observations, which you can read over at my blog.

~EdT.

]]> by: Ed T. http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-49534 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:34:46 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-49534 At the risk of appearing to have so little of a life that I respond to my own comments, when I first read about this in the MSM I thought: <em>what the *#$%?!? If the airport can accomondate Hare Krishnas and others in their "First Amendment" zones, why couldn't they simply relocate the trees there, and if need be put a menorah or two alongside of them to keep them company? At least they wouldn't need to be kept an eye on by our ever-more-paranoid security types, which keeps the cost to the taxpayers down and frees the TSA to do what they do best - <strike>feel up</strike> pat down people while looking for dangerous objects like tweezers and nail clippers and bottles of water and any liquid not in a 3 oz bottle sealed inside a 1 quart Zip-Lock baggie.</em> ~EdT. At the risk of appearing to have so little of a life that I respond to my own comments, when I first read about this in the MSM I thought: what the *#$%?!? If the airport can accomondate Hare Krishnas and others in their “First Amendment” zones, why couldn’t they simply relocate the trees there, and if need be put a menorah or two alongside of them to keep them company? At least they wouldn’t need to be kept an eye on by our ever-more-paranoid security types, which keeps the cost to the taxpayers down and frees the TSA to do what they do best - feel up pat down people while looking for dangerous objects like tweezers and nail clippers and bottles of water and any liquid not in a 3 oz bottle sealed inside a 1 quart Zip-Lock baggie.

~EdT.

]]> by: Ed T. http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-49531 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:45:22 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2006/12/12/a-non-battle-in-seattle/#comment-49531 I think this particular molehill became a mountain when the airport officials knee-jerkedly removed the existing decorations in order to avoid having to make any sort of real decision, then failing to correct reports of the reason for the cause-and-effect linkage between the rabbi's threatened legal action and their subsequent over-reaction. I could see this one coming as soon as I saw the first reports, and was planning on posting my own commentary on it (I may still do it, in fact) - but you (and it seems a whole horde of howling moonbats) beat me to the punch. This is another good example of controversy that simply didn't have to occur - if the two sides had actually sat down and worked things out before it got into the media, the folks in SeaTac would have been spared this latest skirmish in the War on Christmas <em>(I wonder if that makes members of the Salvation Army 'enemy combatants' and thus subject to military tribunal?)</em>, just as Katy would have been spared a whole lotta embarassment if Mr. Baker and the KIA had done the same (sat down and talked, that is. With a little additional thing called <em>listening</em> involved.) But, then, if we didn't have something stir the pot up now and then, the folks who make blood pressure pills and sell blogging sites would all go out of business. And, we can't allow <em>that</em> to happen, can we? ~EdT. I think this particular molehill became a mountain when the airport officials knee-jerkedly removed the existing decorations in order to avoid having to make any sort of real decision, then failing to correct reports of the reason for the cause-and-effect linkage between the rabbi’s threatened legal action and their subsequent over-reaction. I could see this one coming as soon as I saw the first reports, and was planning on posting my own commentary on it (I may still do it, in fact) - but you (and it seems a whole horde of howling moonbats) beat me to the punch.

This is another good example of controversy that simply didn’t have to occur - if the two sides had actually sat down and worked things out before it got into the media, the folks in SeaTac would have been spared this latest skirmish in the War on Christmas (I wonder if that makes members of the Salvation Army ‘enemy combatants’ and thus subject to military tribunal?), just as Katy would have been spared a whole lotta embarassment if Mr. Baker and the KIA had done the same (sat down and talked, that is. With a little additional thing called listening involved.)

But, then, if we didn’t have something stir the pot up now and then, the folks who make blood pressure pills and sell blogging sites would all go out of business. And, we can’t allow that to happen, can we?

~EdT.

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