Your post made me teary, too! It's a really GREAT group, with a lot
of thoroughly intellectual people, who clue me in to the "real" Asbury
Park. I can find something good in anyone! Everyone is redeemable
and worth listening to, (most of the time). I don't care if you are a
"newbie" an oldie, a lurker or God forbid, a TROLL. This is a very
diverse Yahoo Group and we all bring something to the table. It IS a
season of giving. Thank you!
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Gabrielle Obre"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> People do love to hate you Tommy, but I think you like it too. simple
> questions would have avoided the banter, which was pretty funny and
> gave me a great belly laugh.
>
> I think it would have been more fair for you to address the entire
> council on this at a meeting. You'd never see any of the other
> councilmen responding here. Keady is no messiah to me, but his
> continuous efforts at outreach and his attention to transparency are
> precisely what governments need. As well as the citizens to pay
attention.
>
> For those of you who love to hate Tommy, and I admit he is a baiter,
> Tommy is not way off in this if in fact the word Christmas has been
> somehow banned from city usage. Jews would flip, African Americans
> would flip and Gay people would flip. PC paranoia can make people lean
> toward fascism just as the right does. Watch that the oppressee in you
> is not becoming the oppressor. Get over your tribal self.
>
> If you have questioned Columbus day you must tolerate questions of
> Kwanzaa. Did that guy really do that? I will look it up. If anyone
> knows this to be untrue please speak.
>
> Tommy, human beings are violent creatures. We are getting better all
> the time and there is no need to deny colonization was ugly. You can
> still celebrate America and tell a little more of the truth about it.
> I know it has ugliness AND beauty, just like everyone of us.
>
> Jim's suggestion for going over items line by line would, I think
> force all this energy into something more productive and free from
> personalizing (which should be called ego baiting). Probably be
> interesting as well. That way we could actually know what is being
> spent on these events, if anything.
>
> I really did enjoy reading this thread. Tommy and Jim's intelligence
> and frat boy spats, the gang up on Tommy, Franks funny visuals,
> Sharon's description of Kwanzaa made me teary, Oakdorf's hilarious
> interjections and the grunts from jersy john, mike and jack..BTW Jack,
> Tommy got you on that. Really funny. Much better than anyone else's
story.
>
> I need to express my genuine affection and gratitude for this
> community and it is the thankful season. So thank you!
>
>
>
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Mike Hemeon <tvnetdude2000@> wrote:
> >
> > It is my culture too. It was probably more the booze than
Christianity.
> >
> > --- On Mon, 11/10/08, Jersey Shore John <jerseyshorejohn@> wrote:
> >
> > From: Jersey Shore John <jerseyshorejohn@>
> > Subject: Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Keady on Kwanza, Christmas and the
> City Budget
> > To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 6:39 PM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Christianity destroyed my Irish culture in Ireland, so... whatever.
> >
> > On Nov 10, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Jersey Shore John wrote:
> >
> > > Christmas is German.
> > >
> > > On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:30 PM, justifiedright wrote:
> > >
> > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, Jersey Shore John
> > > > <jerseyshorejohn@ ...> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Now this is treatment of you, personally? Oy.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > As an American taking part in the Columbus Day celebration whom
> > > Keady
> > > > calls liars, certainly. He was talking about me.
> > > >
> > > > As a Christian listening to a non-profit declare the word
> > > Christmas as
> > > > bad, certainly. It's my identity and culture under attack.
> > > >
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