The much-loved Zilker Park Trail of Lights had to be seriously scaled down this year because of cutbacks:
The city has had to make quite a few changes in Austin’s holiday festivities: The Trail of Lights, the name of the festival in years past, used to last two weeks but has been cut back to nine days, and with about half the displays as in previous years, the length was cut from 1.25 miles to a half-mile walk on the south side of Barton Springs Road. It takes about 10 minutes to walk through.
But this is Austin.
Which means that the stupid Liberals and hippies (not necessarily one and the same — while all the hippies are Liberals, not all of the Liberals are hippies) are still pissed that the City of Austin is “promoting” Christmas and Christianity.
I’ve never quite understood why American Liberals hate Christians and Christianity so much, but it drives them Absolutely. Batshit. Crazy.
Driving through Zilker Park this morning on my way over to the disc golf course, I noticed these signs on the edge of the Trail of Lights Christmas zone:
Austin Liberals: Protesting Christmas
That’s right, a “Designated Free Speech Zone” so that Austin’s perpetually-outraged professional Protest Clowns can come out and — that’s right — protest Christmas. Probably yelling, “There’s no such thing as Santa” at passing children.
Seriously — if you are one of the Protest Clowns who bundle up, head out into the cold, and get your panties in a wad over Christmas — you’re an asshole.
I can explain that easily.
It’s a very, very short drive.
I live in the most liberal precinct in Austin, and I have never heard any protests about this nor have I heard anyone disrespecting my faith, which is deep and public. If a couple of separation of church and state people put out signs, so be it, but I have noticed that many of those folk tend to be libertarian or of a different faith, and not exclusively of a liberal bent.
As a Christian, I am pretty forgiving of those who think differently. I pray that their hearts might be touched by the love of God, and while I do that, I don’t call them a-holes.
Just sayin’.
Yeah. whatever SLAC. anyway.
Went to Barton Creek Mall last week. On a weekday. No Christmas decorations were up, no Christmas music was playing in any store and no clerk said “merry Christmas ” to us. Wrote the mall owners, Simon something a letter, of course got no reply. I will never go back there. The statists feel their power, I would say.
That is truly pathetic.
I’m glad I left Austin when I did.
It’s bored idiot watching at it’s best:)
All I see is signs that say “Free Speech Area” and “Free Speech Zone” but nobody protesting Christmas. For all I know, those signs are there for the fundamentalist preachers who object to Christmas decorations as sacrilegious.
Just wondering.
Have they come for your guns yet?
It’s almost been a year. What do you think is taking them so long?
Perhaps you’d venture to guess a date. Go for it.
Has the Psychiatric Emergency Team come for you yet, whackjob? Wait, I think I hear them knocking on your door. Go for it. And don’t hurry back.