Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree...

Ahhh, yes. It comes to that time of year when Federal, State, AND Local governments start spending hundreds AND thousands of dollars to celebrate a Christian holiday.
Huh, silly ol' me thought there was some sort of a separation of Church and State. I'm so dumb sometimes. Besides, Christianity needs all the substantiation it can get to give it that main stream feel. Otherwise we might wonder why they demand 10% of our wealth to be donated (or is that just Catholics that have it down in writing?). We wouldn't want people to start thinking its all just a big scam...

The reason I bring this up is the city and county of Milwaukee weren't content with cutting down a gigantic tree somewhere in the woods of Wisconsin then trucking it down to the big city. To spice it up, they got themselves a defective tree (Could it have been the drive south? (en: Yes, it broke while being loaded into the truck)) that lost its top. Rather than taking all this as a sign from god, they have city AND county crews on the scene repairing it. I'll bet these guys are making hazard pay for being toted around in emergency repair vehicle buckets over 40' off the ground.

City Christmas tree loses its top(MJS)

Money WELL spent. Just think of the cheer it will bring!

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