Re: Please, Don't Scare The Kids
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:33 am
Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate any holiday, nor do they celebrate birthdays, IIRC. They are not actually Christian. I suppose they regard Jesus as a good man, but he is not the Son of God to them, and they do not celebrate Christmas or Easter. I don't know if their opposition to Halloween is specific to that holiday, or if it is just an extension of their general disregard of holidays.
We are seeing very little political activity in middle TN this year. It is odd. My impression is that TN has become such a red state that neither party is bothering to campaign here. I haven't even seen any TV ads. Just an occasional bumper sticker on a car. This is not normally the case during a Presidential election. And it's not as if TN doesn't matter. We have 11 electoral votes, which is the exact number Al Gore needed to win back in 2000. If he had won TN (supposedly his home state), Florida and its hanging chads wouldn't have mattered.
We are seeing very little political activity in middle TN this year. It is odd. My impression is that TN has become such a red state that neither party is bothering to campaign here. I haven't even seen any TV ads. Just an occasional bumper sticker on a car. This is not normally the case during a Presidential election. And it's not as if TN doesn't matter. We have 11 electoral votes, which is the exact number Al Gore needed to win back in 2000. If he had won TN (supposedly his home state), Florida and its hanging chads wouldn't have mattered.