Why Santa flies charter

And we thought Muslims were the major threat to America's airports: last weekend atheists seized control of a major American airport and held it for three days. On Friday, officials the Seattle-Tacoma Airport removed the Christmas Trees from the terminal after receiving complaints from a local Rabbi, only to put the trees back three days later. For those of you scoring at home, Rabbi Bolgimilsky never wanted the trees taken away, he just wanted a Menorah so that the Jewish peoples of Puget Sound and visitors to the area would feel included in the airport's recognition of the holiday season. By this logic, you could go to Sea-Tac, ask for an upgrade on your flight to First Class, and instead they rip up everyone's boarding pass.

The bad news is that Rabbi Bolgimilsky and the Jewish community will be pegged by the Bill O'Reilly's of the world as enemy combatants in the "War on Christmas" (c) Fox News, which is idiotic given that Seattle-area Jews are probably among the world's most open-minded and tolerant. In fact (and this really happened), this page attended a Seattle Mariners game back in August which was billed as "Jewish Community Day". Which prominent Washington Jew got to throw out the ceremonial first pitch? None of them, it was James Cavaziel, whose only claim to fame is starring in Mel Gibson's Anti-Semitic rant, The Passion of the Christ.

That marketing faux pas never made the Seattle Times or Post-Intelligencer, so why does the Terminal Clearcut rate such a big deal? As the song says, It's the most wonderful time of the year...to be sucked in by the psychotic seasonal vortex of political correctness and fundamentalist backlash. "Happy Holidays" is not an abominination: "Happy Holidays" includes Christmas, Hanuakkah, Kwaanza, New Years, and in some years, Ramadan (oh, and Boxing Day in Canada). Come on America, how can a country with a hundred brands of beer in the liqour aisle at Fred Meyer not grasp the basic concepts of inclusiveness and diversity?