"Tchiowa" wrote in message
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> Sancho Panza wrote:
>> "Tchiowa" wrote in message
>> news:1166490744.193838.246350@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com...
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>> > Ray Fischer wrote:
>> >> Tchiowa wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >Mark K. Bilbo wrote:
>> >> >> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 05:16:48 -0800, Tchiowa wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Ray Fischer wrote:
>> >> >> >> Tchiowa wrote:
>> >> >> >> >PTravel wrote:
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>> >> >> >> >> Sorry, but that makes no sense whatsoever. Christmas isn't
>> >> >> >> >> objectionable.
>> >> >> >> >> No one thinks so, and certainly no one has said so. What is
>> >> >> >> >> objectionable
>> >> >> >> >> is government subsidization of the cultural traditions
>> >> >> >> >> particular to one
>> >> >> >> >> religion, particularly to the exclusion of all others.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >This is not government subsidization of *anything*!
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Yes, it is.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Who did the government give money to?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Sea-Tac International Airport.
>> >> >
>> >> >So the airport is a cultural tradition??????
>> >>
>> >> So you're an illiterate moron?
>> >>
>> >> >Statement made was that the government was subsidizing a cultural
>> >> >tradition.
>> >>
>> >> Christmas, in particular.
>> >>
>> >> > Unless you're claiming that the airport is a cultural
>> >> >tradition your reply was nonsense.
>> >>
>> >> The airport is government, idiot.
>> >
>> > First, the airport is *not* government.
>>
>> Which company owns it?
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> It's not owned by a company. It's a municipal corporation. Do you need
> that defined?
No. Maybe someone else does. "Municipal corporation," no matter what word
games anyone wants to play, is part of the government.
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>> > Second, if they are subsidizing
>> > something who are they giving money to?
>>
>> It wasn't crystal clear, but all the published reports indicate that the
>> airport bought and paid to install the decorations.
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> Then they didn't subsidize someone else, did they?
Of course they did. They at least installed, maintained, guarded and
uninstalled the decorations.
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