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World News: Asian Pupils Dominate Math, Science Now, read books on Google! For any IE users and the feature for tonight, Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Christians Aiming to Boost Religion: "Emboldened by their Election Day successes, some Christian conservatives around the country are trying to put more Christ into Christmas this season." So the story is that the "Christian conservatives" are petitioning retailers to replace their Happy Holidays and Seasons Greetings signs with Merry Christmas signs (I realize these aren't your moderate, or even moderately conservative, Christians). Personally, I'm not offended by Merry Christmas signs. In fact, I've subconciously dealt with it for about all my life, so my advice to the people who are actually pushing for this Christmas revival: Shut up and just deal with it. It's not important what a company greets you with, because the manager putting up a "merry christmas" sign has about as much religious motivation behind it as me trying to get free food from a youth group meeting. Meaning, sure, the act may come off nice and religious, but it's really got the devil's intent behind it. bwahahahhahahha (btw, i've lost track of all the free food i've gotten recently. a lot. enough to go from $100 below budget in meal points a month ago, to now, on budget for meal point. If you want your churches or relgious groups to be more overt about your faith, fine go ahead and petition for that. "Thou shalt only buy from Christian merchants" is not the missing commandment. I am not offended by Merry Christmas signs. Although it would make my head turn, I would not be offended at all by Happy Kwanza or Happy Hannukah or Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah (the cell phone holiday). For my flexibility, I am rewarded with being able to shop at any store that I want, even Spencers with the anti-all faiths products, if I so wished. I guess, if you want to keep on protesting people saying "happy holidays" to you, go ahead. Your loss, my gain (less demand means cheaper prices! wooOO!)