"These kids can't wait to get on the bus and see what I've done, to see what hat I'm wearing," Klepy said.

I believe she may be overestimating how much the kids care about this issue.

In all fairness, they were scaring the hell out of the children.

Angels are symbols of the more traditional, less secular Christmas. The horror. The horror.

"This is not a religious thing, this is about Christmas."

Um...

Yeah. That's it, Christian repression. It has nothing to do with visibility or bus safety. It's the War on Christmas!™

Fabric_Man: Yeah. That's it, Christian repression. It has nothing to do with visibility or bus safety. It's the War on Christmas!™

cgraves67: Angels are symbols of the more traditional, less secular Christmas.

WHAT?

/i'm not celebrating this 'christmas'
//i'm celebrating the winter solstice
///by decorating an evergreen tree and leaving wrapped presents under it
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No Xmas Herbs? You're harshing my buzz dude.

Hmmm...I wonder if there is a bus out there decked with images of menorahs, dreidels, and a few Star of Davids

Honestly, I would rather have the freedom to put whatever holiday you want decorations on a bus, other then no decorations at all.

Do people get angry at 4 leaf clover stickers during St. Patricks day?

sigdiamond2000: Welcome to Obama's America, in full effect.

HAHA! I like Christmas and all, but people like you make me sad.
And by the way, I'm for this only for the fact that half the drivers up here either get into a crash or are late, so lets not have ANYTHING in their way while driving, eh?

"Christmas crackers"? That's racist!

When I was in grade school, my principal used to dress up as Santa Claus every year. We had Christmas trees in the halls, wreaths on the doors, and Holiday music blaring over the intercom system. Even then, I thought it was one of the most offensive things I'd ever experience. My parents actually had values, so we shirked the commercial aspects of Christmas and concentrated on faith, charity, and love. We hand made gifts for one another and celebrated Christ with pious songs, not gaudy renditions of Jingle Bells. And then, through the force of truancy laws, I had to go to a public facility that forced the greed and consumerism and idol worship onto me.

Then one year, over the two week Christmas break, one of the science teachers left the heat lamp on in the snake cage. Eventually the bedding got hot enough, caught fire, and burned down the school, tasteless decorations and all. I'm sure the dried out pine trees contributed to the severity of the blaze. I thought it was fitting that the snake was involved. Even the Devil hates Christmas because Santa Claus dilutes his power. If kids are busy worshiping Santa, being good for him, then the pull of not only God, but also Satan, is diminished. Commercial Christmas is truly an unfettered onslaught against the entire religion.

What was even more fitting was that because our school was in a rural area, the school was supposed to be subscribing to fire service based on the square footage of the building. The principal had used the subscription funds to purchase Christmas decorations, pay for the parade, and a huge liquor fueled sin fest at the Holiday Inn for the teacher's and staff. Well, the bill for the fire came out to over $100k which the school could not pay and the insurance would only cover $500 of it. The principal lost his job, was held criminally responsible for defrauding the district, and was cited for exposing his genitals at the Christmas party. So, he dressed in his Santa suit, walked to the center of town, and just as Church was getting out on Christmas morning, he turned a shotgun on himself. The snow fell red and Santa's headless body flopped in spasm, forming the most perfect angel in the middle of the square. God always wins.

spentmiles: [cautionary Christmas tale]

I wish I had the skills to make a flash movie of that, with David Tennant providing the voice-over.

spentmiles: When I was in grade school, my principal used to dress up as Santa Claus every year. We had Christmas trees in the halls, wreaths on the doors, and Holiday music blaring over the intercom system. Even then, I thought it was one of the most offensive things I'd ever experience. My parents actually had values, so we shirked the commercial aspects of Christmas and concentrated on faith, charity, and love. We hand made gifts for one another and celebrated Christ with pious songs, not gaudy renditions of Jingle Bells. And then, through the force of truancy laws, I had to go to a public facility that forced the greed and consumerism and idol worship onto me.

Then one year, over the two week Christmas break, one of the science teachers left the heat lamp on in the snake cage. Eventually the bedding got hot enough, caught fire, and burned down the school, tasteless decorations and all. I'm sure the dried out pine trees contributed to the severity of the blaze. I thought it was fitting that the snake was involved. Even the Devil hates Christmas because Santa Claus dilutes his power. If kids are busy worshiping Santa, being good for him, then the pull of not only God, but also Satan, is diminished. Commercial Christmas is truly an unfettered onslaught against the entire religion.

What was even more fitting was that because our school was in a rural area, the school was supposed to be subscribing to fire service based on the square footage of the building. The principal had used the subscription funds to purchase Christmas decorations, pay for the parade, and a huge liquor fueled sin fest at the Holiday Inn for the teacher's and staff. Well, the bill for the fire came out to over $100k which the school could not pay and the insurance would only cover $500 of it. The principal lost his job, was held criminally responsible for defrauding the district, and was cited for exposing his genitals at the Christmas party. So, he dressed in his Santa suit, walked to the center of town, and just as Church was getting out on Christmas morning, he turned a shotgun on himself. The snow fell red and Santa's headless body flopped in spasm, forming the most perfect angel in the middle of the square. God always wins.

Nobody cares.

Liberal "tolerance"

Claude Ballse: In all fairness, they were scaring the hell out of the children.

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Hey wait. I saw that episode...

*BLINK*

School bus drivers ordered to remove Christmas decorations, including ribbons, bows, snowflakes, Christmas crackers, snowmen, elves, Santa Claus and angels from their buses. That's stup-- angels? BURN IN HELL OTTO...

I don't get it... How will the kids get to school?

Burr: Hmmm...I wonder if there is a bus out there decked with images of menorahs, dreidels, and a few Star of Davids

Honestly, I would rather have the freedom to put whatever holiday you want decorations on a bus, other then no decorations at all.

Do people get angry at 4 leaf clover stickers during St. Patricks day?

You mean Irish drinking day?

I think the solution here is to just get everyone drunk. I mean mind numbingly, irresponsibly, inexusibly, smash-your-brain-with-a-gold-bar-wrapped-in-silk drunk. Then we'll see who still gives a damn about this symbolistic nonsense.

School bus drivers ordered to remove Christmas decorations, including ribbons, bows, snowflakes, Christmas crackers, snowmen, elves, Santa Claus and angels from their buses. That's stup-- angels? BURN IN HELL OTTO

Then who are they driving to school?

StrangeQ: Burr: Hmmm...I wonder if there is a bus out there decked with images of menorahs, dreidels, and a few Star of Davids

Honestly, I would rather have the freedom to put whatever holiday you want decorations on a bus, other then no decorations at all.

Do people get angry at 4 leaf clover stickers during St. Patricks day?

You mean Irish drinking day?

I think the solution here is to just get everyone drunk. I mean mind numbingly, irresponsibly, inexusibly, smash-your-brain-with-a-gold-bar-wrapped-in-silk drunk. Then we'll see who still gives a damn about this symbolistic nonsense.

Good plan. Get a schoolbus full of kids drunk and their parents probably won't even think to ask how the bus was decorated.

Claude Ballse: In all fairness, they were scaring the hell out of the children.

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That would scare the kids a hell of a lot less than the way that Angels are actually described in the Bible

Read the headline, immediately thought "well, this is probably the result of some bus driver taking it to the point where it's either creepy as all hell or leaves a gigantic mess behind, so they have to take it away for everybody". Read the article, and sure 'nuff... picture makes it pretty clear I called that one quite well.

Plus they keep complaining about the hat when no evidence is presented that the order said anything whatsoever about the hat, so it's pretty plain that it's not the company that's being unreasonable there.

JacksonBryan: spentmiles: When I was in grade school, my principal used to dress up as Santa Claus every year. We had Christmas trees in the halls, wreaths on the doors, and Holiday music blaring over the intercom system. Even then, I thought it was one of the most offensive things I'd ever experience. My parents actually had values, so we shirked the commercial aspects of Christmas and concentrated on faith, charity, and love. We hand made gifts for one another and celebrated Christ with pious songs, not gaudy renditions of Jingle Bells. And then, through the force of truancy laws, I had to go to a public facility that forced the greed and consumerism and idol worship onto me.

Then one year, over the two week Christmas break, one of the science teachers left the heat lamp on in the snake cage. Eventually the bedding got hot enough, caught fire, and burned down the school, tasteless decorations and all. I'm sure the dried out pine trees contributed to the severity of the blaze. I thought it was fitting that the snake was involved. Even the Devil hates Christmas because Santa Claus dilutes his power. If kids are busy worshiping Santa, being good for him, then the pull of not only God, but also Satan, is diminished. Commercial Christmas is truly an unfettered onslaught against the entire religion.

What was even more fitting was that because our school was in a rural area, the school was supposed to be subscribing to fire service based on the square footage of the building. The principal had used the subscription funds to purchase Christmas decorations, pay for the parade, and a huge liquor fueled sin fest at the Holiday Inn for the teacher's and staff. Well, the bill for the fire came out to over $100k which the school could not pay and the insurance would only cover $500 of it. The principal lost his job, was held criminally responsible for defrauding the district, and was cited for exposing his genitals at the Christmas party. So, he dressed in his Santa suit, walked to the center of town, and just as Church was getting out on Christmas morning, he turned a shotgun on himself. The snow fell red and Santa's headless body flopped in spasm, forming the most perfect angel in the middle of the square. God always wins.

tl;dr

To sum it up, buy cool shiat, blow all your money on hookers and booze, then go out with a bang and people will remember you forever!

Why do they decorate school buses at all? It seems awfully distracting.

daveUSMC: spentmiles:

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Nobody cares.

Speak for yourself.

apoptotic: StrangeQ: Burr: Hmmm...I wonder if there is a bus out there decked with images of menorahs, dreidels, and a few Star of Davids

Honestly, I would rather have the freedom to put whatever holiday you want decorations on a bus, other then no decorations at all.

Do people get angry at 4 leaf clover stickers during St. Patricks day?

You mean Irish drinking day?

I think the solution here is to just get everyone drunk. I mean mind numbingly, irresponsibly, inexusibly, smash-your-brain-with-a-gold-bar-wrapped-in-silk drunk. Then we'll see who still gives a damn about this symbolistic nonsense.

Good plan. Get a schoolbus full of kids drunk and their parents probably won't even think to ask how the bus was decorated.

Exactly.

Proving once again, that something

Reminds me of the time, years ago, that a local guy with a lot of time on his hands was ticketed because the wreath on the front of his vehicle partially obscured his license plate. He pointed out that the cop had a wreath on his car that covered his own license plate and demanded the cop write himself the same ticket. Yada yada yada, every government vehicle had to remove all holiday decorations.

smedrick: Why do they decorate school buses at all? It seems awfully distracting.

Yet they had been doing it for many years without incident. The distraction is from those attention whores who have nothing better to do.

sigdiamond2000: Welcome to Obama's America, in full effect.

You're about as smrt as this nitwit from FTA:

"This is totally not a religious thing. This is about Christmas," said Klepy.

Burr: Do people get angry at 4 leaf clover stickers during St. Patricks day?

I do. Ever since my first run-in with what I call "the Irish Mob" in 3rd grade. Denise O'Brien jabbed me with a pushpin because I wasn't wearing green on Saint Patrick's day. So for me, Saint Patrick's day is all about thuggery and intimidation.

HailRobonia: I do. Ever since my first run-in with what I call "the Irish Mob" in 3rd grade. Denise O'Brien jabbed me with a pushpin because I wasn't wearing green on Saint Patrick's day. So for me, Saint Patrick's day is all about thuggery and intimidation.

Well it's the Irish, of course they are about thuggery and intimidation?

I went drinking one night in Jerusalem with some Palestinian Christians who were Fatah and I've been in some sketchy Irish bars and I felt safer out with the guys from Fatah.

blackhonda: As a Canadian, I have celebrated Christmas all my life."

Didn't realize it was a Canadian Holiday

And I thought it was a 1 day a year kind of thing.

Does this company serve any of Ontario's seperate Catholic or Protestant schools? Can they decorate the school bus for Christmas if they drive for one of those?

sigdiamond2000: Welcome to Obama's America, in full effect.

Wow, you dinks are still harping on about manifest destiny?

For the millionth time, Canada isn't part of the USA

I see nothing wrong with this (removal). If it's their house or their own personal business they can do whatever they want, but they're employees of a transport service using a vehichle to move kids of all kinds of different backgrounds and belief. Wear the hat, heck, it's an expression of personal belief, but It isn't their bus and it isn't their business.

Conversely, you have to think of the response you would give if the owner of said bus service was a Muslim and insisted on decorating it with symbols of Islam (not that I know they do this or not)....but the point remains...would everyone be so tolerant of that?

I prefer Organic Outrage, subby.

oldfarthenry: sigdiamond2000: Welcome to Obama's America, in full effect.

And leaking across the northern border (if you RTFA).

Subtitle reads: Canada - 0 Miles North of America.

sigdiamond2000: Welcome to Obama's America, in full effect.

What kind of bait you usin' there, a jig? Sure works pretty good! Well done!