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No. If all else fails there's always 'Festivus for the Rest of Us' with my favorite part, the 'airing of grievances'.<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus<br><br>-Scott<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 08:06:20 -0800<br>From: donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com; thansen@moscow.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Atheists Want Sign at Capitol<br><br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top"><div>Don't ya just hate it when groups try to ruin your Christmas?</div>
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<div>Merry Christmas and Happy Holydays,</div>
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<div>Donovan Arnold<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 12/6/09, Tom Hansen <i><thansen@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><br>From: Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br>Subject: [Vision2020] Atheists Want Sign at Capitol<br>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><br>Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 2:09 PM<br><br>
<div class="ecxplainMail">“In this holiday season let us remember that kindness, charity and<br>goodwill transcend belief, creed or religion.”<br><br>Courtesy of today's (December 6, 2009) Spokesman Review.<br><br>------------------------------------------------<br><br>Atheists want sign at Capitol<br>Seattle group’s request coincides with tree-lighting<br><br>OLYMPIA – A Seattle-based atheists group asked state officials Friday for<br>permission to display a placard outdoors on the Capitol campus over the<br>holidays.<br><br>Jerry Schiffelbein, the treasurer for Seattle Atheists and an activist in<br>other “free-thought” groups that advocate separation between church and<br>state, said the sign’s message is less provocative than those that the<br>Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation put up last year.<br><br>The proposed 18-by-30-inch sign says, “In this holiday season let us<br>remember that kindness, charity and goodwill
transcend belief, creed or<br>religion.”<br><br>The request to put up the sign came the day that state officials lit up a<br>48-foot holiday tree inside the domed Capitol rotunda, a yearly tradition<br>now entirely under state sponsorship. The evening event featured Gov.<br>Chris Gregoire; Army Staff Sgt. Stephanie McDowell, who recently returned<br>from Iraq; and a children’s chorale.<br><br>The atheists’ request – just like two requests to display a Jewish menorah<br>Thursday through Dec. 19 – will be considered under the state policy<br>adopted after last December’s ruckus over holiday displays inside the<br>Capitol, Department of General Administration spokesman Steve <span><span>Valandra</span></span><br>said Friday. He expects a decision on the requests Monday.<br><br>“We thought we would get more requests. There is still time,” he said.<br><br>Last December, the GA declared a moratorium because it had about a dozen<br>requests
from groups wanting to put up displays, and a third-floor area<br>for displays was getting crowded. The GA had approved a half-dozen of the<br>requests, including a Nativity set, an atheist placard that mocked<br>religion as superstition, Christian placards that mocked atheism, and a<br>9-foot menorah.<br><br>Requests halted by the moratorium included a “Festivus” pole from the mock<br>holiday celebrated on the TV show “Seinfeld,” a “flying spaghetti<br>monster,” and one from a Kansas church that assails homosexuality.<br><br>Before the controversy ended, someone stole the atheists’ placard.<br>Thousands of complaints flooded the governor’s office and the GA after a<br>national television commentator condemned the state for allowing the<br>atheists’ display near the Nativity scene.<br><br>The GA has approved one display request so far this year. It was one of<br>two submitted by Chabad Jewish Discovery Center in Olympia for a
9-foot<br>menorah. The approved request is for Sylvester Park, a state-owned<br>property in downtown Olympia; the other is for a menorah next to the<br>Tivoli Fountain on the campus lawn.<br><br>------------------------------------------------<br><br>Seeya round town, Moscow.<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<br>and the Realist adjusts his sails."<br><br>- Unknown<br><br><br>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/">http://www.fsr.net</a> <br> mailto:<a href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><br> <br /><hr />Chat with Messenger straight from your Hotmail inbox. <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.aspx?ocid=PID23879::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-ww:WM_IMHM_4:092009' target='_new'>Check it out</a></body>
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