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EE_
20th December 2011, 08:51 PM
Was on my way home and took a couple shots of the lights in my neighborhood. Most of the neighbors had already turned off their lights to save electricity or because it was getting late. They have a contest for the best lights every year and they did go all out again. Here's a couple. They got the spirit here!

http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/christmaslights002.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/christmaslights004.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww217/MaggiegirlEE/christmaslights001-1.jpg

Dogman
20th December 2011, 08:54 PM
Nice, have some in this area that are very good and tasteful. Will try and get some shots next night or so.

Ponce
20th December 2011, 10:34 PM
Wowwwwwwwwww real nice......... here my Christmas lights are the stars in the heavens.......clear night while taking my dog for his nightly walk and you could see the stars beyond the stars and they were all throwing kisses at me, I can only hope that they were all females hahahahahahahahaha.

joboo
21st December 2011, 08:22 AM
Looks good, but it's more or less a mental disease just going on storage requirements alone.

Ponce
21st December 2011, 09:36 AM
joboo? what do you mean by "a mental disease?"........I am not to clear what you are talking about.

lapis
21st December 2011, 11:02 AM
Was on my way home and took a couple shots of the lights in my neighborhood. Most of the neighbors had already turned off their lights to save electricity or because it was getting late. They have a contest for the best lights every year and they did go all out again. Here's a couple. They got the spirit here!

Holy yeah. I have some neighbors like that too, but not any around me, or else I'd do what these people did:

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ditto4.jpg

Dogman
21st December 2011, 11:05 AM
Holy yeah. I have some neighbors like that too, but not any around me, or else I'd do what these people did:

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ditto4.jpg They showed that on CNN and I fell out and LMAO ! Very cool and good move by the ditto household.

1915

lapis
21st December 2011, 11:30 AM
Wow on CNN, huh? Big news night? ;)

Dogman
21st December 2011, 11:42 AM
Wow on CNN, huh? Big news night? ;) They have their lighter sides. It was on maybe 3 days ago on a peice about the holiday season. I think it was tied in with that ath group messing with a town south of me. Was just a local news thing then it hit national levels.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4gi8wMO1HI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4gi8wMO1HI

Texas Town Braces for Battle With Atheists Over Nativity Scene


Driving through the tiny rural town of Athens, Texas, and you’d be hard pressed to find something that might catch national attention -- or so it was until about a week ago.
An hour and a half outside of Dallas, the Athens town square is dominated by the county courthouse, and this time of year, Christmas decorations are on each corner. But it is the nativity scene across the street from the Taco Bell that has caused controversy.
It started with a simple letter. As Henderson County commissioner Joe Hall tells it, he received the shock of his life when he found out a Wisconsin group was demanding that the nativity scene be taken down.
“We get a letter saying you better do this or we're going to do that," Hall said.
A letter from Wisconsin telling Texans what they ought to do?
“You come to my house looking for a fight, you're gonna get one," he said.
Since then, many folks in the county have come out in support of the nativity scene, which has been on the square in some form or another for three decades. But the group asking for it to be removed says it has legitimate concerns.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is an atheist group based out of Madison. Co-founder Annie Laurie Gaylor says the group received a complaint from one of its members in Athens. She says since the display is right in front of the courthouse, the nativity scene makes it look like county government is endorsing Christianity (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/relationships/christianity.htm#r_src=ramp).
“This excludes non-Christians and non-believers who are 17 percent of the U.S. population," Gaylor said. "So it's necessary there should be changes.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is not just asking that the nativity scene come down. It’s now also asking that a banner go up.
“One of the commissioners said to the effect that other people could put up their views,” Gaylor said. So one group member thought, why not put up a banner?
If you thought the nativity was controversial, wait until you see the banner. It reads: “At this season of the Winter Solstice, let reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth & superstition that hardens hearts & enslaves minds.”
There’s no word on when the banner might go up. If Hall has his way, it will be never.
In the meantime, one or two women standing stand each day in front of the nativity scene with a petition urging others to sign in support of keeping the nativity where it is. A group of pastors is also planning a rally this weekend. A pastor who’s planning it says he expects a couple thousand people to pack the square.
What happens next? Gaylor said the Freedom From Religion Foundation will wait and see what county government does, but the group’s next move could include legal action.
Hall has said if it comes to that, the county has already received offers of legal help. He also says the nativity scene will come down “after Christmas, or when hell freezes over.”


There is another at the link

more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/14/texas-town-braces-for-battle-with-atheists-over-nativity-scene/#ixzz1hCSep44A


Sorry for going slightly 1916

Serpo
21st December 2011, 12:49 PM
joboo? what do you mean by "a mental disease?"........I am not to clear what you are talking about.

He means storing all the lights ect is a mental disease.

joboo
21st December 2011, 12:56 PM
joboo? what do you mean by "a mental disease?"........I am not to clear what you are talking about.

It's like a part time job (+ storage + expense) once a year to make your house look better than everyone else to the point it's popped a few brain cells.