The Cruel (Christmas) War Is Raging!

And it's being fought in America's Heartland^TM...

Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

Where most people are white, of German ancestry, and Where rape, robbery, assault, and larceny are the most popular crimes. Where the median income is $27,259. Where the Black race population percentage is significantly below state average, the Hispanic race population percentage is significantly above state average, the number of college students is below state average, and the percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher is significantly below state average.

Get the picture?


Grinchy remark sends kids home in tears
By RORY SCHULER
Staff Writer
Lebanon Daily News

Theresa Farrisi stood in for Schaeffer’s regular music teacher one day last week. One of her assignments was to read Clement C. Moore’s famous poem, “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” to a first-grade class at Lickdale Elementary School.

“The poem has great literary value, but it goes against my conscience to teach something which I know to be false to children, who are impressionable,” said Farrisi, 43, of Myerstown. “It’s a story. I taught it as a story. There’s no real person called Santa Claus living at the North Pole.”

Farrisi doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, and she doesn’t think anyone else should, either. She made her feelings clear to the classroom full of 6- and 7-year-olds, some of whom went home crying.



Santa a famiy (sic) tradition
By CHRIS SHOLLY
Staff Writer
Lebanon Daily News

CAMPBELLTOWN — Don’t tell Cindy Risser there is no Santa Claus. She knows him personally. Her father, Mark Houser, is the town Santa.

In fact, playing Santa Claus has become a family tradition for Houser, who took over the role from his father, Norman Houser, in 1986. Norman, who died of cancer in 1988, had been the town Santa for 45 years.





Holiday decorators show patriotism
By KAREN SHUEY
Staff Writer
Lebanon Daily News

This Christmas, employees at Good Samaritan Hospital traded traditional holiday colors of red and green for red, white and blue.

The hospital held its annual decorating contest earlier this month, and this year’s theme focused around patriotism. --snip--

Dr. Carla Pielmeier and the other four members of her office received first-place honors for their patriotic salute to American troops overseas. Her display included a mannequin dressed in Army fatigues with the words freedom, liberty and justice flowing out of his knapsack. In his arms, the soldier holds a baby and a package named security.



Ho, ho, oh, no!
Lebanon Daily News

Warning: Adult content ahead. This material should be reviewed by parents of young children to determine if it’s in their best interests to share it.

Sometime late tonight, or at least before dawn, a time when not even the mice are stirring (implying a rodent-infestation problem of which you may not be aware) a number of consternating things will occur on your property. --snip--

The more litigious of our population will find no end of reasons to run off to the corner lawyer for a snowstorm of lawsuit-filing and cease-and-desist order-demanding. --snip--

Just how jaded have we become? Have we forced all the magic out of the world? Have we legislated it away, or deleted it due to religious zealotry, or merely ignored it to death?



Don’t shackle intelligence gatherers
By Dan Sernoffsky
Lebanon Daily News

It is frustratingly ironic that the so-called civil libertarians of the left have become so enamored with their hatred for the liberties put forth in the Constitution that they insist upon shielding Americans from Christmas by invoking a nonexistent “separation of church and state” (while ignoring the clause that says “Congress shall make no law ... prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...)



Churchman: Right jolly old elf promotes ‘idol worship’
By RORY SCHULER
Staff Writer
Lebanon Daily News

BETHEL — While controversy swirls over a substitute teacher who told first-graders that Santa Claus doesn’t exist, a local dairy farmer and church deacon has put the same message in a very public place.

By erecting a sign along the eastbound side of I-78, between the Bethel and Grimes exits, Leonard H. Martin has taken it upon himself to shatter the myth of Santa Claus for any youngster able to read the message from the back seat of a car as their parents drive by.

It marks the second consecutive year that Martin has posted what he termed a spiritual message on his land adjacent to I-78.

Last year, the sign stated, “Santa is a myth, lying to our children brings moral decay.”

For this season, Martin toned it down slightly. The sign now reads, “Worship God, who is all knowing & all seeing, Santa is a Myth.”

Yes, it's Christmas Eve in Lebanon, and the cruel war rages on.

Thank God and Santa for Wal-Mart! Otherwise, the good citizens wouldn't have a definitive authority to turn to for guidance!

File this under: America's Heartland-- wherever you find the most dumb asses per square inch pretending to be the country's moral compass.