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Evidently, the Department of Transportation is celebrating Christmas by putting up a “Holiday” tree in their four main buildings:

The 6-foot-tall, light-covered trees inside the Department of Transportation’s four D.C. buildings are called “holiday trees,” said Carolene Bloomfield, a community-activity coordinator for the agency.

“When having a Christmas party, we don’t call it that,” she said. “Although it’s tradition to call it Christmas, we call it holiday.”

Miss Bloomfield also said the agency uses “holiday tree” so everybody inside the buildings “feels good” about themselves.

“You have to make it seem as though nobody is left out,” she said. “In America, you want everybody to feel special, so you call it a holiday.”

So, by the DOT’s spokeswoman’s logic, feeling good about oneself is not possible if you are not a Christian and you see a sign that says Christmas tree. That doesn’t pass the laugh test. Also, the “nobody left out” syndrome is actually poltically incorrect-speak for discriminating against Christianity. Do you think that the DOT would similarly call a Menorah a “Holiday Candlestick?”

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