22 Responses to “Holiday Open Thread”

1. #1 |  Andrew |  December 24th, 2007 at 12:01 pm

   “Happy Christmas” instead of “Merry Christmas”? How dare you perpetuate the War on Christmas(tm). I’m calling Bill O’Reilly!

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2. #2 |  Charles |  December 24th, 2007 at 1:45 pm

   Merry Christmas, Radley. I’m grateful for your tireless work. I share your posts with plenty of people. They do have a positive effect.

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3. #3 |  jeff cohen |  December 24th, 2007 at 4:18 pm

   how about happy holiday of your choice

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4. #4 |  Libertalien |  December 24th, 2007 at 5:08 pm

   Merry Holidays!

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5. #5 |  Tom Sullivan |  December 24th, 2007 at 5:13 pm

   May your (fill in the blank holiday) be a safe and happy one!! Keep up the good work Radley.

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6. #6 |  Marty |  December 24th, 2007 at 5:20 pm

   Radley and all. Merry Christmas!

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7. #7 |  Edwin Sheldon |  December 24th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

   This agnostic minarchist heathen would like to wish everyone a Merry CHRISTMAS.

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8. #8 |  the friendly grizzly |  December 24th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

   Bill O’Riled-up and Sea Harp-edy would be beside themselves with joy if they were in Nashville right now. Interstate Air Conditioning has this big LED sign. It is flashing (I am paraphrasing here) For Politically Correct [some pejorative] It’s Merry Christmas. Not Happy Holidays. Deal with it.

   While I am not Christian, I am not the slightest bit offended by “Merry Christmas”. That being said, I will say this. I am doing some remodeling on my house this spring and it includes a new HVAC “pack”. Interstate will NOT be on my list of bidders.

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9. #9 |  the friendly grizzly |  December 24th, 2007 at 6:05 pm

   Oh, and from my cave to yours: Merry Christmas to you!

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10. #10 |  Psion |  December 24th, 2007 at 7:36 pm

    Bah.

    Humbug.

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11. #11 |  Bronwyn |  December 24th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    Merry Christmas!

    Or, for those who are more inclusively minded - or for those who just like a little of everything - Happy Thanksgivoweenmashanukwanziwali!

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12. #12 |  Gavin |  December 25th, 2007 at 12:02 am

    Hah! Bumhug!

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13. #13 |  Brian N. |  December 25th, 2007 at 6:40 am

    Happy Zagmuk!

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14. #14 |  TC |  December 25th, 2007 at 7:22 am

    Merry Christmas to all!

    And to all
    a good night!

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15. #15 |  Erik |  December 25th, 2007 at 9:11 am

    Radley….When are you going to debate O’Reilly? That would be entertaining!

    Keep up the good work.

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16. #16 |  Knight |  December 25th, 2007 at 1:18 pm

    Thanks for your efforts in exposing truth and justice.
    I follow your pages often, keep up this good work, hopefully it will wake up AMERICA.

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17. #17 |  pris |  December 25th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

    Merry Christmas, Radley
    Go Pats!

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18. #18 |  Chris Grieb |  December 25th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

    Radley; Merry Christmas! Thanks for all your good work.

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19. #19 |  Bob McKenzie |  December 26th, 2007 at 1:30 am

    and a joyous boxing day to you!

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20. #20 |  fleem |  December 26th, 2007 at 7:42 am

    Erik said: “Radley….When are you going to debate O’Reilly? That would be entertaining!”

    The real question is, “When is ANYONE going to debate O’Reilly?”. It appears to be physically impossible.

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21. #21 |  Michael McAuliffe |  December 26th, 2007 at 9:55 am

    Io, Saturnalia to all who visit here

    Since this is an open thread, here’s somehing I just saw:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071226/ap_on_re_us/police_academy_slogan

    “Each class at the Idaho Police Officer Standards and Training Academy is allowed to choose a slogan that is printed on its graduation programs, and the class of 43 graduates came up with “Don’t suffer from PTSD, go out and cause it.”

    ANother fijne example of the new professionalism.

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22. #22 |  Circus Dave |  December 26th, 2007 at 10:03 am

    Hey agitators,

    Can any of you recommend a book that written on roughly a 4th grade level that explains markets (either economics in general or financial markets or just how capitalism functions)?

    I know a very precocious 8-year-old who like reading science books. (Things like “Physics for little kids”, “How things work”, etc.) I think he might like to read something about economics so he can get an idea of how goods & services get produced. I didn’t see anything on amazon, but I figure you guys might know of something.

    Thanks!

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