Lord, strike these diversity muthas down (UPDATE)
As the month of November sighs and seethes and reaches its conclusion (with all signs of bleeding into December), is it too much to expect these courthouse workers to be behind their desks on 12/25? Can only hope John Wayne’s looking down and wondering how his beloved Orange County lost its backbone.
The removal of a Christmas tree from the Orange County Superior courthouse Monday has prompted a petition among court employees to have the tree – connected to a gift drive for poor children – put back.
“It’s a public building and we have to serve the diversity of our community,” court spokeswoman Gwen Vieau said.
UPDATE: Lord must have done some striking and smiting somewhere, and oh-so-nice when being right actually coincides with the right thing being done. Congratulations to all who fought the good fight and brought the pressure!!!!
Congrats to the Honorable Kim Dunnings for changing her decision on the Christmas Tree in OC Superior Courthouse. Tree was removed on Monday and returned to its rightful spot on Wednesday. Now, 400 needy children will have their Christmas wishes granted.
double h/t Megan Barth
Guess Christians aren’t part of that diversity
They are the wrong caste.
I bet they put it back…..
OK I knew outrage would spark the return of the Christmas tree…..
I could never understand how you could banish things from the public sphere in the first place, whether it’s the ten commandments, a Christmas tree or otherwise. If it’s in the public, isn’t it open to freedom of expression?
Kind of a given, but please don’t ask the ACLU that question, JFN. Apparently, they’re more concerned with allowing bums, transients or whatever else they want to call their sponging and scamming selves to hang out in my neighborhood, under the auspices of “freedom of expression.” Yup, lovely ACLU even filed a grievance against the North Hollywood Police Department, accusing them of harassing the smelly MFers.
Still, for now, I wanna focus on the positivity now emanating from the former stompin’ grounds of your namesake.
And what positivity would that be?
Did you somehow miss the update? It’s him, right?
I gotta ask… why is there a bag of meatballs up there?
It’s a sack of rocks, what I sincerely hope court spokeswoman Gwen Vieau has waiting for her under her diversity tree.
Jeez, just ’cause I have an Italian wife, it’s meatballs…
I knew it was, Eric (also, I mous’ed over the image and the text helped me out…). Floyd should also recognize it from his days of trick or treating.
Eric, it’s only a nationality slur if you allow it to be.
Rufus, Floyd actually received lumps of coal in his stocking at Christmas! I’d heard somewhere that he was never allowed to trick or treat because he mooned those who didn’t give him the candy he thought he deserved! That was most likely not much of a treat and was the worst of tricks.
My wife doesn’t cook, so it’s a moot point anyway. Now, how many more days till Christmas and the visit to her parents, where her mother’s meatballs are, as the stereotype goes, to die for. Hmmm, considering the alleged mafia ties, might want to watch the verbiage, eh?