The War on Christmas 2016 has begun… and the very first causalities could be the brave Americans who fought in our REAL wars!
As workers everywhere attempt to put a little holiday cheer into their offices, a Christmas tree at a Veteran’s Administration office in Philadelphia had the PC police out in force.
A boss at the agency sent out an urgent memo saying a tree found in that department needed to go ASAP – or it would be tossed into the trash!
“I can understand if it’s a couple of weeks after Christmas, but it’s a couple of weeks before Christmas,” a VA official told the Washington Examiner. “The Grinch might have stolen everyone’s Christmas tree, but he never actually threatened to end its life by a certain date.”
The office workers protested, and rightfully so.
Christmas-hating bosses don’t have a leg to stand on, not even in Barack Obama’s politically correct bureaucratic monstrosity.
There are no government rules that forbid celebrating Christmas in the workplace – only crazed left-wing managers trying to push their anti-Christian agenda who go too far, as may have been the case here.
And as the story blew up in the media, the agency quickly went into CYA mode… pretending it was all just a misunderstanding.
Now, n VA official told the Washington Times was a tree in a closed box – complete with its ornaments – and after the memo went out, someone in the office claimed it.
But even if that was the case, an urgent memo calling for the removal of a Christmas tree – and threatening to toss it out – shows exactly how screwy the agency’s priorities are.
“With veteran suicides at record highs, is this really the most pressing issue for the management at the Philly VA — one that demands a maximum effort and an all-employee, urgent email … to declare war on Christmas?” an official said to the Examiner.
Indeed, the same politically correct bureaucrats who have no problem tossing out Christmas trees while they lord over their agencies have are ignoring the very reason for their jobs.
And the VA is the worst example of that.
The agency has FAILED in its most basic duty, allowing America’s brave combat veterans to literally die waiting for the healthcare they earned through years of loyal service to our country.
And while veterans suffered, the agency wasted millions – including $20 million spent on overpriced artwork between 2004 and 2014, according to an ABC News investigation earlier this year.
Among the other items identified as wasteful spending by the VA? A $21,000 artificial Christmas tree!
They’d better hope it doesn’t get set up in the Philadelphia office.
— The Horn editorial team
Thank God for our new President elect Donald Trump and his administration. Finally there is hope for our Vets and their families.
American is back on the right track.
MERRY XMAS TO ALL and a Healthy, Peaceful and Happy 2017. I know it will be under Donald Trump.
YESSSS… I remember when my father was in the VA hospital, he fought in WW11 and the Korean war.. the VA always decorated the hospital for the Veterans, putting up a huge tree outside of the hospital.. just about every room had decorations and trees and everyone said ” Merry Christmas” they would have Christmas music playing, showed Christmas movies..Not anymore.. afraid it might “offend” someone..to friggin bad.. theses liberals can be offended..Will be so glad when President Trump gets in office and turn this country back to the way it was..and have our veterans be treated the way they should be.. with honor and respect..
MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR VETERANS!!!!!
Merry Christmas! We fought for that right. What convoluted soul allows desecrating and burning the American flag and abolishes Christmas celebrations? Someone is in dire need of education and be released from all responsibilities of leadership as this proves incompetent incapable inept and unfit to be in such an office for our veterans. Trump hurry and fix this, too. Merry Christmas!
Amen!
Amen
It is high time that sensible people stood up for their right and tell dusbin PCs what to do with themselves.
Love your message, but must correct your greeting. Christ is the reason for the season, therefore, please use Merry CHRISTmas!
From the roman times x has been used for Christ not as a slight but to keep the objecting romans from finding Christ’s worshippers as x is a cross and if you study Latin you might find another meaning !!
they were decorating trees long before christ was born so it,s not his birthday…just pagan sun worship..
The Christmas tree originated with the Durids, when the missionaries converted the Durids to Christianity, the tree came with them….the tree is a symbol now, of the word being spread.
The Durids worshipped trees/the forest, not the Sun…The Soltice is another pagan religion, not the one the trees came from.
Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, is also celebrated around this time of year, the 25th day of the month of Kislev, through the second day of Tevit…..this year, that makes it Sunset on Dec 24 – Night Fall, January First. The celebration always happens around the same time Christmas is celebrated, but is based on the re-dedication of the Temple in 165 BC.
We celebrate Christmas around the times of the other celebrations, probably to bring more followers into Christianity….appropriating culture as was done with the tree.
The original birth of Christ probably wasn’t in December though, because the Bible said that the shepherds were in the fields tending their sheep, and December would probably not been a comfortable time to be out in the fields, even in the Mid East, Decembers can be cold.
Thank you. I really resent the fact that people, for expediency, leave Christ out of Christmas. How much longer does it take to add to the x 5 more letters. Now that we have a Christian leading this country we need to step up to the plate and do it right. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL.
That ‘VA official’ is probably a Muslim….FIRE HIM!
YES I AGREE AND. THE PENCIL NECK WHO THREATENED THE CHRISTMAS TREE NEEDS TO BE SENT TO THE PTSD WARD TO EMPTY URINE BAGS THEN FIRED, THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
I believe Donald will allow Christ to be put back in Christmas. You take Christmas you destroy the Day. We are celebrating the day Jesus was born and without that be reason for celebrating his birthday you take away the Holiday. I think the liberals in this country are trying to take away the reasons this country was founded on.
I agree. Thank God for Trump. And, hopefully, part of his “draining the swamp” will include getting rid of the sludge at the VA. These are the kind of people who really need to go. Merry Christmas to all of the veterans!
I agree. How evil ,these Veterans and Troops fought for the right to celebrate Christmas. They need all the cheerful things possible. Why try to take away what little joy they can to celebrate the birth of our Lord. Obama has no class or compassion. I pray that God will take care of this evil spawn of Satan.Leave our Veterans alone. May God bless our Troops and Veterans.
Let’s hope Trump will fire all those liberals and appoint retired veterans to run the VA… While my husband has had wonderful care in the Hospital in Miami and Palm Beach there is so much lacking.. All medical facilities need updating. They need more doctors to get involve with these facilities also.. They need more help with the Vets on drugs and the ones that are homeless.. These men and women gave years of their lives for America and the treatment they get is so unloving, outdated and unsure. Takes forever to get an appointment at times. Praise God Trump won the election and let us pray together for His safety.. Theses Democrat’s have all lost their minds….. It’a shame…. In my 80 years I have never witnessed anything like what going on in America today…
We have to call on God and keep calling on Him to bless our country and our new leaders… Asking that He give them knowledge and wisdom to do His will for America… Please join me!!!!!!
Yes, I have been praying for our people to seek God for quite some time. Also, please pray for those lost souls…ALL of them. The Lord requires us to pray for our enemies, too. When you think about it, when more people turn to Christ, it will have a positive effect here in the U.S. and all over the world. I just pray for their salvation and let God sort it all out as He sees fit. Can you even imagine what a saved Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, George Soros or ISIS terrorists would look like and how they could make major positive changes in the world?? And, NO, I am not looney tunes! I am just doing what God asks me to do. Give it a try and feel the blessing. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND GOD BLESS Y’ALL!!!
Maybe we can get rid of all vets hospitals and give vets free medical cards to be used at any place they choose of course this could be ripe for fraud
Surely we should toss Mosques into the trash and preserve our own foundations. Christmas has been with us for more than 2,000 years. Islam has been with us for 8 years, thanks to Obama, so please throw him out too! Jews do not complain about Christmas trees. Hindus do not complain about Christmas trees. Buddhists do not complain about Christmas trees. The only ones who complain are Muslims because they find them offensive?? So if you don’t like it your are more than welcome to go back to Barbaria where you came from. Muslims are less than 3% of the population so they should not have any say at all. Its just another case of liberals trying to force views onto the majority. Many liberals are Democrats and they too have Christmas trees and even Clinton goes to church but sadly not to pray for the rebuilding of the USA but for the destruction of all Republicans. Is it not fascinating that Liberals try to use religion for the achievement of evil ends – this is how Islam works? Religion and politics are mutually exclusive. Leave the trees out of this and deport the Muslims.
When referring to Christmas no one should use XMAS!!!!
Judith Marlowe I find something rather strange in your post. You said, “Thank God” then later posted “Merry “Xmas”. You used the atheists’ designation. For me it is CHRISTmas.
Jan 20, the lights go off on the turds and takers
Never say Merry Xmas, it’s Merry Christmas, because it is the celebration of our Lord Jesus Christ Birth
The new VA Chief needs to borrow Trump’s famous phrase, “You’re fired!” And this new boss will have to say it repeatedly. Start with these Tannenbaum haters. (You do know the translation of this word?)
Trump needs to dismantle the VA as it is now and replaced with a more veteran oriented medical organization!
Salary hungry bureaucrats are now manning the top heavy organization.
It won’t be long before you are fined or locked up for displaying a Christmas tree.
Obama needs to GET OUT!!! He is a lousy muslin LAME ( very Lame) DUCK, and must be stopped trying to ruin this country.
ALL VA Management should be FIRED…, they ate a disgrace to Our military personal… perfect president to do that…. RIGHT ON TRUMP!!!
osama get out of Our White House, you are not wanted nor liked,,,,,, and mostly There is NO respect for people like
in this country. nor in the rest of this world. Go back to your lousy lying musilm cult, and take the murderer clintons with you..
Commonsenseamerican ,I coulnt have said it any better , you hit the nail on the head. Odumbassa worst president ever, what a POS he is !!!
To bad there isn’t a like button because I would had clicked it 1,000 times.. Obumass is the worse pres this country ever had..only true thing he ever said was ” I will stand with the Muslims”.. Our Military hate him..my son was in the Army,( he was killed last yr) and he hated him, he said “I respect the position but I don’t respect the man..”..
Right on Obama, Trump is coming after you all!
Obama needs to be impeached before he declares Marshal Law & ruins this Great Country & Trump can do the job.
um “locked up for having a Christmass tree”? Did you miss the results of the election? The far left is no long in charge – not in the Senate, not in the House, not in the oval office, and soon to be NOT in charge of the SS. Hopefully this sht will stop asap. Let us get through the next 50 days.
Unfortunately, the leftist government IS still in charge and we still have to survive until our new leaders are sworn in and can take over on January 20, 2017. I pray that our Congress will do everything they can to minimize the damage and to have the wisdom, courage and stamina to do what they need to do.
Not when Trump come on board… I don’t think so.. Stand up for your traditional belief and don’t be afraid.. That is if you’re a true American.. The problem with Christians and all that believe the American way is we don’t fight back.. Well it’s time we stood fast and never back down.. I’m putting up a big nativity scene and I dare anyone to mess with it.. Big dogs and bad watchman on duty 23/7…..
I’m a Christian and I don’t believe that the American way is to not fight back. After all, we are fighting against the black spirit of Satan. I’m also a military veteran and take full advantage of my 2nd Amendment rights. I’m prepared to do my duty for my country and her people, as I swore to do many years ago. BUT, you might consider that I have God on my side to protect and guide me. I pray to ask God for wisdom and guidance in all that I do. If I should not survive, I, at least know that I will be spending eternity in Heaven with Him. THAT is the best place to be, no matter what comes our way! I pray that y’all have a most blessed and Merry Christmas!!
Read and heed 2 Chronicles 7:14.
Drain the swamp, Jan 21 can not come soon enough
It’s not his hospital. It is the veterans hospital and they have the say. Don’t like it get out and by the way the SOB needs to be fired. Where do these people come from and who were their parents? Wasn’t abortion the thing back then? We have too many of them.
Its going to change when Trump gos in and he will not forget.
I think the Veterans Administration is going to get the good house cleaning it so richly deserves. Trump knows how to say, “You’re fired” instead of promoting idiots sideways, as was done in the past.
I made a complaint about a VA interview when he talked to my husband like he was stupid, I was told that if the VA administration got to the complaint, that if they felt like the person needed to be fired it would take up to 6 months to get him gone. my husband pass away this past May, guess what, never heard a word from my writing & verbal complaint. VA needs replacing all personal.
The Communist, Atheist and other malcontents want to destroy the Christian influence in the United State and our will
to oppose them and their lack of Morals and integrity at ever opportunity. This will not happen, there are far more
Christian in the USA than they realized and while many are weak in their faith, they still honor and respect those
traditions that have made us the Great Nation we are. In the past election we saw many of the Christians come forth
to stand for what is right in our Nation and preserve out Faith from the enemies of democracy. Atheist, muslims and
others are afraid of the Christian God and know we will stand strong.
I say a big AMEN to that!!
Fire the sob we still have the Christians trees in the va at Indianapolis.
Every high up in the VA should be fired and the money saved used for the Vets that made this conutry and saved this country from outsiders. However now we need to save the country from stupid over paid managers and incompetent people that suck the very life blood out of America. I say drain the swamp and a good way to save Am is to cut the following department budgets by 50% EPA Labor dept,Education Dept and Osha is this was done the budget would be balanced. Veterans are the most abused part of society yet they gave it all for the country.
We need a clean sweep at the VA!
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Why can’t the news get names of those responsible for the memo’s being sent out so that those people can be held accountable…
The VA needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. With big brother watching, I can’t tell you what to do with all of the VA bureaucrats once they’ve all been herded up. I’m a veteran who used to work in a VA hospital and I couldn’t work there anymore. I couldn’t look my fellow vets in the eye and listen to their valid complaints. Everyday was a battle for me against the hire-ups, it was too much, I finally had to bail out to save myself. It’s overwhelming, the **** that goes on. The VA accused me of earning an income and not reporting it to them, they threatened to cut off my benefits after I provided them with documents showing them the mistakes they were making, they ignored me and continued to threaten me. Finally, I went to my accountant at Jackson-Hewitt. They wrote a very sweet letter to the VA explaining everything to them on my behalf. I mailed it certified return receipt, signature required, and the VA has been silent ever since. I actually became a patient at this very hospital where I worked and they almost killed me. I kept telling them I needed surgery, they gave me oral antibiotics again and again in the ER until I returned one week later on a Saturday morning. Two hours after walking into the ER, they were surgically cutting me open to save my life after a stat MRI and bringing in the surgeon on call. At times the VA has been a big help, but mostly it comes from the goodness of INDIVIDUALS who work there. God bless the ones who continue to do the work that I walked away from, God bless them, and God, and fellow vets, please forgive me.
I can understand how hard that must have been to watch suffering and not be able to do anything about it. The VA is all I have, too. There are lots of problems with the whole system, but we do need them, especially as we have so many unusual issues that aren’t as common in the rest of the population. Just ask God for forgiveness and to give you peace. I pray that all goes well with you. May God’s sweetest blessings be upon you and yours! Merry Christmas!!
90% of the Chaplains in the military are Christian…for a reason. Democracy (not the electoral college) prevails below the fed level and that means something to Vets who understand the Judeo-Christian ethical beginnings of this country. Tradition prevails as Christianity espouses “Peace on Earth” for a good reason…with all its symbols. Like our Flag. We are principally and substantively Christian, and as such allow for other faiths (of peace) to engage, but not ‘predominate’ to offend our ‘MAJORITY’!.
Keep the tree and throw out the real trash, all of our POS presidents cronies.
I think the VA has more important things to focus on than Christmas decorations. Hopefully the people with misplaced priorities will find themselves unemployed when President Trumps team takes over.
Defund the VA N**0**W
Did our brave soldiers from all of our nation’s past wars shed their life’s blood so that these so called “politically correct looney tunes” can spout their guts at people who do celebrate the Christmas, Channnukah, or Kwanaa holidays?. Would these lamebrains rather have us celebrating the birth of homicidal idiots like Mao Tse Deng, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, or Pol Pot? HMMM???? If my feeble memory is at least somewhat intact, weren’t the philosophies (and, yes, DEMONS) that drove these guys the very people our Founding Fathers tried so desperately to eradicate from this world?
That is very low, that VA head at the VA in Philadelphia sure has a lot of nerve, but yet he didn’t say get rid of the Halloween decorations & Halloween is a satanic holiday. That boss didn’t say get rid of the Valentine’s Day, Fourh of July decoration in their office. That boss is far worse than Scrouge at his worst, he makes Scrouge at his worst look like a new born baby in a hospital nursery in comparison.
Good Grief!! It’s going to be wonderful to rid ourselves of these insulting people who pretend to work for the VA and other government agencies. They will not succeed in destroying Christmas or any other of our traditional holidays. They should have learned that fact from the recent election. Socialism is dead in this country, hopefully FOREVER!!!
Trump needs to Clean House !! All these asses obummer put in Everywhere have to GO !! I get really upset when I hear crap like this and it’s a real slap in the face to Our GREAT VETERENS !! I can’t wait till Trump is in and this crap stops Real Fast ! All you leftist morons who condone and push this crap , go live in the Middle East , or somewhere else where you really belong . WE WILL NOT GIVE UP OUR CHRISTIAN VALUES !!!!
this is why Trump won, its because of the immorality running rampant in the democratic party
I’m a disable vet.I havent been to the VA in the last 55 yrs because of the lack of compasion FOR ALL OF US THAT HAVE GIVEN TO OUR COUNTRY1111
My father was a Korean Vet. This will be my second Christmas without him. Sadly, he was one of the Arizona VA patients. And sadly, they PUSHED meds on him,and didn’t HEAL HIM. he DIED, and was NEVER TREATED for the real issue. Just pushed meds and pacified him.
My father LOVED CHRISTMAS. This is NOT acceptable.
I am hoping and praying for the future of all veterans. TRUMP loves our military. !! He will do his BEST to get things turned around.
And the PC loving idiots need to get out. The VA is NO PLACE for PC BS!!!
Obama is a joke!
A VERY BAD joke!
Worse than destroying Christmas trees at the VA, do you remember that when Slick Willie and the Hellbat were in the White House, they would decorate the inside Christmas tree with condoms? Total hatred for and ridicule of a major symbol of the Christmas season!
beatupoldt/sgt- Reviently made some ph. calls concerning my nephew-NOT getting the care from va. he was sluffed off sent around & -well -you know. 2-3 days after calls were made he began getting positive results. It seems some one lit some fires under some va personne
So . if you arfe having prob w/ the va Medical- CALL your SENATORS/ CONGRESSMEN !! Tell them it’s time they earned their pay, that you need help. Call Your Governor. Same thing! If you cannot call , GET family member, friend-anyone- Just call.
Most likely Pres. -elect D.Trum will need some help also for his many prog’s. To Help call= & e-mail & keep it up until WE get results
Also- just poss. Mr speaker- Paul Ryan most likely will ” NOT” be helpful to D. Trump. I believe he bares close watching. In speech- concerning Carrier -not once did he mention Pres. Elect D. Trumps name. Knowing that the whole idea was D. Trumps -he still did not mention his name.
I do not believe this was accidental. He’s just to slick for me to like !
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Touch that Christmas tree and you’ll be in the first wave to get fired. Make it happen, Don.
Here we go again with the Anti-Christmas people! I can’t wait till the Socialist, Muslim Traitor, Racist and Lying Scumbag gets out of the White House! We never had a Muslim problem in America till he came into office! Good riddance, LOSER!
Typical VA reaction…….the VA with it’s massive, ever growing corruption should be DEFUNDED so that all US Disabled Vets can get FASTER – BETTER health care – – where & when needed. Far too many Affirmative Action DemonicRATs, PC LiberalRETARDS employed by the VA, at outrageous salaries, enormous perks/benefits, huge cash bonuses, days off with full pay (some for YEARS) and of course protected from being arrested charged with felonies, and hanged for their crimes.
DEFUND VA……truly/really help our Wounded Warriors……save Billions of tax dollars…..DEFUND THE VA
what is so funny they light up the D.C. christmas tree..ohh wait i remember..the tree is a paganistic symbol for a pagan religion , it has nothing t do with Jesus..my my–they are denigrating a pagan symbol..go ahead make my day obama!
I don’t have a problem with people having Christmas trees, however, I would like to point out that Christ was born in the Fall according to historical records so Christ is not the “reason for the season”. Although I am a Christian, I took Christ out of Christmas many years ago when I learned the truth about Dec. 25 originating as the Sun god’s birthday. I celebrate it now as a secular holiday. Happy Holidays everyone!
Donna, Get a real life…pagans have been saying those “same words of so-called wisdom” for centuries now!
This liberal political one sided correctness if not put to a definite stop now will eventually divide this nation to the point of Civil War.
These Godless, disgusting slim balls better get ready for the unemployment line experience!!!
I thought that we had freedom of religion. If a certain group wanted to pray in the middle of the street it would be o.k. This wasn’t approved, but developed from 8 years of left wing influence. Thank God it will soon be over,
Let those of us American’s who want to worship Christmas, to be able to worship, and celebrate our God and share seasons greetings with those of like mind. If the VA oversight / management makes a move to abandon or revoke the Christmas celebration for our Veterans, so they can be “politically (in) correct” , then we should insist on the removal and discharge of all remaining department heads and upper level managers involved in making that decision.
Better name DVA Secty Soon & Fix this, or fire this mgr ertc alone.
NOT Fair for OUR Vets.
Privitze VA HC & have em compete for other HC save major surgeries due to war wounds etc.
…whoever gave the order to trash the tree needs to be immediately shot dead…not a bad idea to invade his home and kill his family too….
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, as the swamp gets drained of this discrimination against WE THE PEOPLE.
THEY fought for OUR rights and FREEDOMS – Do they not have the right to their “free speech”, “religion”, and “mental health” that a Christmas Tree might bring them??? Or do they only have the “RIGHT” to have a Quran, a Hajib, a Prayer Room for Muslims, etc….???????????????????
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Bible believing Christians celebrate the birth of Christ Jesus on December 25th. Why? God’s Spirit enlighten our early church fathers about changing the pagan belief of sun-worshipping to Son-worshipping. Worship the Creator instead of the creatures/objects of the creation. The Christian tree became Martin Luther’s main Christmas symbol. Why? The tree is evergreen like God’s eternal love and it doesn’t change. The lights/lights on the tree is a symbol of the Light of Christ Child –the Light of the World began to shine in the midst of the darkness of sin and death. Thus we sing:” O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight”
In other words, we sinful human beings still have all our hopes and fears of all our years that met Christ’s Everlasting Light on a day we call ChristMASS. Christ’s Mass.
I rang a bell for Salvation Army recently and every time a donor gave I said Merry Christmas. I dare anyone to tell me not to say it. ANYONE!!!!!