As Americans face a fiscal cliff, the Obamas make do with 54 Christmas trees (cost, high school)
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You wouldn't give him credit for being green if they did that, you would start a thread about how the President was destroying the traditions of Christmas in the White House because he was a godless Muslim or something equally inane.
An incredibly silly tradition. "Boy, is that tree not pretty?" "Let us cut it down and drag it into our house to watch it die!" "Fire hazard?" "Nonsense, it is TRADITION!"
A few years later, "Boy, this hill looked a lot nicer when there were trees growing on it."
Some traditions are just too stupid to be upheld, and this is one of them.
What, are you trying to put the christmas tree farmers out of business?!!
An incredibly silly tradition. "Boy, is that tree not pretty?" "Let us cut it down and drag it into our house to watch it die!" "Fire hazard?" "Nonsense, it is TRADITION!"
A few years later, "Boy, this hill looked a lot nicer when there were trees growing on it."
Some traditions are just too stupid to be upheld, and this is one of them.
Huh?
Christmas trees are a crop. They are grown much like any other crop (except they take longer than, say, corn) on "farms."
I have a big Christmas tree farm across the highway from me. They start their harvest around the end of October/early November, employing a number of seasonal workers (one of my sons worked there two seasons).
They harvest what they can each year and they replant for future crops.
Sheesh......it's not like they clear cut hillsides just so we all can hang ornaments and tinsel on something every Christmas.
Christmas trees are a crop. They are grown much like any other crop (except they take longer than, say, corn) on "farms."
I have a big Christmas tree farm across the highway from me. They start their harvest around the end of October/early November, employing a number of seasonal workers (one of my sons worked there two seasons).
They harvest what they can each year and they replant for future crops.
Sheesh......it's not like they clear cut hillsides just so we all can hang ornaments and tinsel on something every Christmas.
Do you also harvest corn stalks and drag them into your house to watch them die? Do you harvest any other "crop" and drag them into your house to watch them die? Like I said, it is a silly tradition.
Do you also harvest corn stalks and drag them into your house to watch them die? Do you harvest any other "crop" and drag them into your house to watch them die? Like I said, it is a silly tradition.
No, I don't drag the corn stalks into my house and "watch them die." They die all by themselves out in the garden at the end of the season.
No, I don't drag the corn stalks into my house and "watch them die." They die all by themselves out in the garden at the end of the season.
So, what's your point?
My point is that if you want to decorate a tree for the holidays, decorate a living tree. Leave it outside, where trees belong. Do not kill it merely for the sake of tradition. I am certainly no tree-hugger, but I consider killing anything and not putting it to practical use to be a waste. There are many things that can be done with trees, from making objects to fuel for heat, but cutting down and decorating a tree merely to watch it die is a waste.
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