Kike Sailor LIES About Being On the USS Cole!

KIKE POS Sailor Fabricates Cole Attack


December 05, 2009
The Virginian-Pilot

http://www.military.com/news/article/sailor-fabricates-cole-attack.html?ESRC=nav\
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In early November, retired Senior Chief Jeffrey Sparenberg was the guest of
honor at military heritage day in Delaware.
Sparenberg spent 23 years in the Navy, including time on the destroyer Cole, and
he was at Fort DuPont State Park that day to donate a flag that he said flew
over the Cole shortly after it was attacked nine years ago.
The flag, he hoped, would be put on view at the planned Delaware Military
Museum.
A photograph from the ceremony shows Sparenberg on the steps of a shuttered
brick building. The left side of his chest is covered with military medals --
including a Bronze Star and Purple Heart, purportedly from the actions he took
and the injuries he suffered in that lunchtime attack.
Seventeen sailors died in the suicide bombing on Oct. 12, 2000, during a
refueling stop in Aden, Yemen.
Sparenberg's detailed account of that fateful day was published on Nov. 16 in a
front-page story in The News Journal of Wilmington, Del.
Now Sparenberg is back in the spotlight: The Navy and the ship's former
commander say he was not on the Norfolk-based ship at all on the day it was
struck.
They don't know whether the flag he donated actually flew aboard the Cole. And
the two most significant medals he wore to the Delaware ceremony are also in
doubt.
Lt. John Daniels, a Navy spokesman at the Pentagon, said Sparenberg's orders for
the Cole show him joining the ship on Oct. 16, 2000 -- four days after the
bombing.
Retired Cmdr. Kirk Lippold, the Cole's skipper at the time, said he distinctly
remembers being told after the attack that a new crew member was in Bahrain,
waiting to join the ship.
Someone back in the States asked whether they should send the sailor back to the
U.S., but Lippold -- who'd just lost 17 crew members, including a senior chief
-- knew he could use more help. He gave approval for Sparenberg to join the
crew.
"During the time he was on board the ship following the attack, he did an
excellent job in helping the ship through some difficult times," Lippold said.
However, he added, "I know for a fact he wasn't aboard the day of the attack."
The News Journal has removed the original story from its Web site and says it
will set the record straight after the Navy finishes looking into the matter.
Daniels said he wasn't sure how long that would take.
According to his personnel record, Daniels said, Sparenberg is not entitled to
wear the Bronze Star or Purple Heart. The highest honor he earned in the Navy is
a Meritorious Service Medal, shown to the right of the two combat honors in the
photo.
"He was not in the line of fire on Oct. 12," Daniels said. "Him making any
claims to being injured in the terrorist act on the USS Cole are not plausible."
Contacted on Thursday by The Virginian-Pilot, Sparenberg did not directly answer
questions about when he arrived on the Cole or whether he wore medals he did not
earn.
"I served on the Cole. I was with some of the greatest American heroes I know,"
said Sparenberg, who lives in Delaware.
He said he was trying to make sure the ship's crew was remembered and now has
come under attack.
"I'm not going to say anything. I have no reason to say anything. I have no
reason to prove anything," he said in response to a question about the medals.
Sparenberg said reliving the Cole attack is painful, and that he sometimes cries
at night "thinking about what I had to do."
"I want this part of my life to go away," he said.
Lorrie Triplett might wish the same.
Triplett, who lives in Suffolk, lost her husband -- Ensign Andrew Triplett -- in
the Cole attack. In the nine years since, she's raised their two daughters to be
proud of their father's service.
In the Delaware newspaper article, Sparenberg talked in detail about working
beside Triplett in the ship's fuels lab in the minutes before the blast. He
described how Triplett told him to go to lunch -- even mentioned the main entree
that day in the galley -- and how, seconds after he departed the lab, the
detonation rocked the ship. Triplett died; Sparenberg lived.
Lorrie Triplett said Thursday she has never heard of Sparenberg. She's talked at
length with two enlisted sailors who were in the fuels lab with her husband that
morning, and through their accounts, she pieced together an idea of what her
husband's final moments were like.
It's unsettling to her that someone the Navy said wasn't yet aboard the ship is
now claiming a part in the narrative.
"It's like tampering with what happened," Triplett said.
"Why would you want to fabricate something to this extent for that event? Why
would you want to say you were there at a tragedy?"

kikes and the war

"It's very good. Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy
(for Israel)". Response of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
when asked on September 11, 2001 what the attacks meant for U.S.-Israeli
relations.

Game theory war-planners rely on mathematical models to anticipate and shape
outcomes with staged provocations. For the agent provocateur, the reactions to a
provocation-as well as the reactions to those reactions-thereby become
predictable within an acceptable range of probabilities.

With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan poised to expand to Iran and Pakistan,
it is time to take a closer look at how conflicts are catalyzed-by way of
deception.
http://www.rebelnews.org/opinion/middle-east/130719-americas-terrorist-ally-a-cl\
oser-look-at-israels-role-in-terrorism?joscclean=1&comment_id=2837

Husseins bullshit NPP

By David Swanson

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-Rejection-Speech-by-David-Swanson-091210-254.html

That was not a peace prize acceptance speech. That was an infomercial for war. President Obama took the peace prize home with him, but left behind in Oslo his praise for war, his claims for war, and his view of an alternative and more peaceful approach to the world consisting of murderous economic sanctions.

Some highlights:

"There are the men and women around the world who have been jailed and beaten in the pursuit of justice; those who toil in humanitarian organizations to relieve suffering; the unrecognized millions whose quiet acts of courage and compassion inspire even the most hardened of cynics. I cannot argue with those who find these men and women — some known, some obscure to all but those they help — to be far more deserving of this honor than I."

Yet, you did argue. You argued by accepting the prize " and then making a false case for war:

"War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man. At the dawn of history, its morality was not questioned; it was simply a fact, like drought or disease — the manner in which tribes and then civilizations sought power and settled their differences."

This is simply not true of all tribes and civilizations, unless we include war making as a criterion for being considered civilized.

"The concept of a 'just war' emerged, suggesting that war is justified only when it meets certain preconditions: if it is waged as a last resort or in self-defense; if the forced used is proportional; and if, whenever possible, civilians are spared from violence."

How dare someone responsible for illegal occupations and air strikes and the use of unmanned drones say these words? (Responsible, that is, given the failure of Congress and of we the people to stop him.)

"America led the world in constructing an architecture to keep the peace: a Marshall Plan and a United Nations, mechanisms to govern the waging of war, treaties to protect human rights, prevent genocide and restrict the most dangerous weapons."

How dare a president refusing to support a treaty on land mines speak in these terms? Are we supposed to not see the actions and just hear the words?

"I make this statement mindful of what Martin Luther King said in this same ceremony years ago: 'Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: It merely creates new and more complicated ones.'"

Very wise. Very true. And completely violated by Barack Obama's actions and the better part of the words in this speech. Are we supposed to hear these words in a different part of our brains from the rest of the speech and its advocacy of war?

"A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al-Qaidas leaders to lay down their arms."

Now a group of fewer than 100 angry people in Afghanistan, and their allies elsewhere, are the rough equivalent of "Hitler's armies" and justify the brutal occupation of a nation by tens and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and mercenaries, tanks and planes, and unmanned drones? And negotiations, with the Taliban or anyone else, are not possible because " because " well, because of that rhetoric about Hitler's armies.

"The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea, and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans. We have borne this burden not because we seek to impose our will. We have done so out of enlightened self-interest."

A 1993 Congressional Research Service (CRS) study of the U.S. Navy's Naval Historical Center records identified "234 instances in which the United States has used its armed forces abroad in situations of conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes" between 1798 and 1993. This list does not include covert actions or post-World War II occupation forces and base agreements. In a 2006 review of this study and two others, Gar Smith found that "in our country's 230 years of existence, there have been only 31 years in which U.S. troops were not actively engaged in significant armed adventures on foreign shores." In other words, fewer than 14% of America's days have been at peace. As of 2006, there were 192 member states in the United Nations. Over the past two centuries, the United State has attacked, invaded, policed, overthrown, or occupied 62 of them. Read more.

"I believe that all nations — strong and weak alike — must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I — like any head of state — reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation."

The United Nations Charter, to which the United States is party, and which is therefore the supreme law of the United States under Article VI of the Constitution is apparently not a standard that governs the use of force, since President Obama has just thrown it away in a statement of Obama Doctrine that appears indistinguishable from the so-called Bush doctrine. Obama then doubles down with a Bush the Elder / Clintonian doctrine of humanitarian war:

"I believe that force can be justified on humanitarian grounds, as it was in the Balkans, or in other places that have been scarred by war. Inaction tears at our conscience and can lead to more costly intervention later. That is why all responsible nations must embrace the role that militaries with a clear mandate can play to keep the peace."

Obama equates non-military action, non-hostile action, with inaction, pure and simple. Where is aid? Where is diplomacy? Where is cooperation? Why are all non-hostile approaches to other nations banished from the text of a Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech a mere 25 years after 1984?

"Peace entails sacrifice. That is why NATO continues to be indispensable."

What can be said to render that statement less persuasive than it is on its own? Maybe this:

"That is why I prohibited torture. That is why I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. And that is why I have reaffirmed America's commitment to abide by the Geneva Conventions."

Torture was illegal internationally and in the US code of law before Obama became president. He publicly instructed the Attorney General of the United States not to enforce those laws. He claimed the power to "rendition" people to other nations where they might be tortured. His CIA Director and a top presidential advisor have claimed the president has the power to torture if he chooses to. And President Obama has here claimed the power to prohibit or un-prohibit torture, spitting in the face of the very idea of the rule of law. The prison at Guantanamo is not closed, and moving those prisoners to Illinois or Bagram or any other lawless U.S. prison will not bring the United States into compliance with the Geneva Conventions.

"I have spoken to the questions that must weigh on our minds and our hearts as we choose to wage war. But let me turn now to our effort to avoid such tragic choices, and speak of three ways that we can build a just and lasting peace."

At last, mid-speech, we are presented with a drop of that toxic trademarked substance: hope. Only to swallow a mouthful of this:

"First, in dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to change behavior — for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure — and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one."

Set aside the hypocrisy of the globalism and rule-of-law talk from a commander in chief escalating wars and occupying 177 nations around the world. The message here is that a decent alternative to war is crippling sanctions that "exact a real price." The wisdom of a creative nonviolent outlook has not yet penetrated. And the President does not develop the idea any further, turning instead to nuclear arms:

""those with nuclear weapons will work toward disarmament. I am committed to upholding this treaty. It is a centerpiece of my foreign policy. And I am working with President Medvedev to reduce America and Russia's nuclear stockpiles. But it is also incumbent upon all of us to insist that nations like Iran and North Korea do not game the system. Those who claim to respect international law cannot avert their eyes when those laws are flouted."

The United States is not seriously pursuing disarmament, is developing new nuclear weapons, is in clear violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. And Iran is not.

"America has never fought a war against a democracy, and our closest friends are governments that protect the rights of their citizens."

President Obama, in his famous Middle-East speech earlier this year admirably acknowledged the U.S. overthrow of a democratically elected president in Iran, and the installation of a dictator -- who, like many dictators than and now, was one of our closest friends. The greatest success of international law in recent years has been the precedent set by prosecutors seeking to hold responsible Augusto Pinochet. Does anyone recall how he came into power?

"So even as we respect the unique culture and traditions of different countries, America will always be a voice for those aspirations that are universal."

Indeed.

"Let me also say this: The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach — and condemnation without discussion — can carry forward a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door."

And there, as this reprehensible speech is dragging to a close, are the words with which it should have begun, the words denied by the thrust of everything else here and by the actions of the man delivering the words. And then there was a bit more:

"[A] just peace includes not only civil and political rights — it must encompass economic security and opportunity. For true peace is not just freedom from fear, but freedom from want."

A bitter statement for the people of Afghanistan or the United States to hear from a president who has acted to divert our resources upward to Wall Street and downwards into bombs and bases. But true and worth repeating nonetheless. Let's not imagine, however, that George W. Bush would not have said the same. He would simply have said it with a smaller military budget, a smaller war budget, fewer troops in the field, fewer mercenaries in the field, bases in fewer countries, and worse grammar.

David Swanson is the author of the new book "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union" by Seven Stories Press. You can order it and find out when tour will be in your town: http://davidswanson.org/book.

Gooks shoving toxic Zhu Zhu rats on Americans for christmas!

How Chinese products are stealing Christmas

Dangerous toys, clothes, appliances, even baby strollers, pacifiers flood U.S. stores

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Posted: December 07, 2009
9:47 pm Eastern

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Zhu Zhu Pet

WASHINGTON – Zhu Zhu Pets, furry robotic hamsters, are the hottest Christmas craze of 2009 – with millions being flown into the U.S. from China on 747s to keep up with the demand.

But, like so many other toys, clothes, appliances and even baby strollers and pacifiers on the market for holiday shoppers this season, they may be unsafe, say consumer watchdogs.

While Zhu Zhu pets have not faced a Consumer Product Safety Commission recall, a report from GoodGuide.com says they contain antimony, a toxic metal known as a carcinogen. The federal limit for antimony in products is 60 parts per million, while the Zhu Zhu has 93 parts per million in the fur and 103 in the nose.

"If ingested in high enough levels, antimony can lead to cancer, reproductive health and other human health hazards," said Dara O'Rourke, an associate professor of environmental science at U.C.-Berkeley and co-founder of GoodGuide.com. "If these toys aren't even meeting the legal standards in the U.S., then I would say that it isn't worth the risk for me to bring it into my household."

Get the full story of the Chinese product threat to Americans in "Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game."

Sources in Washington say a recall of the toys is unlikely because of the sheer volume already sold – millions throughout the U.S. The Los Angeles Times also reported later that a review by the Consumer Product Safety Commission said the Zhu Zhu toys were "not out of compliance" with toy standards for antimony. And GoodGuide later updated its report explaining that it used a methodology for its testing that is different from federal testing methods.

But other items imported from China just in time for Christmas are the subjects of recalls. Of the 28 products recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission so far in November and December, 16 were manufactured in China.

U.S. distributors of these products are increasingly paying big fines.

This month, for instance, Excelligence Learning Corp. of Monterey, Calif., agreed to pay $25,000 in civil penalties for selling Chinese-made toy shaving brushes violating federal lead paint bans.

Also recalled by the CPSC for lead exposure were children's metal pendants sold by Team Work Trading of Los Angeles, Calif.

Bicycles are always a favorite Christmas gift for kids. But 6,400 distributed by Easton Sports of Scotts Valley, Calif., and manufactured in China were recalled this season because of stem failure that cause the rider to lose control.

About 10,000 children's art easels distributed by MacPherson's of Emeryville, Calif., and manufactured in China were recalled in the last 30 days for containing levels of lead that exceed federal limits.

But it's not just children's toys from China that are getting recalled and posing safety hazards. Kids' clothing has also been a target of the CPSC this holiday season. Various kinds of hooded sweatshirts have been targeted as strangulation hazards because of unsafe drawstrings. Some of these items are sold in upper-end department stores like Macy's and Dillards – not just Walmart.

Only one major recall this season was highly publicized. That was Maclaren USA's voluntary action to pull from stores baby strollers that resulted in at least 12 finger amputations. About 1 million of them were in circulation – manufactured, of course, in China. They sold for between $100 and $350.

Thinking about giving someone a kitchen appliance this year? Be warned.

Haier America Trading of New York, N.Y., voluntarily recalled nearly 54,000 blenders made in China when it was learned the blade assemblies came apart or broke, posing laceration risks.

Or maybe you were thinking about getting Dad a gas grill. About 663,000 Perfect Flame grills made in China and sold in Lowe's were voluntarily recalled because they posed burn hazards to users. They caused at least 40 fires resulting in burns to hands, arms and faces and at least one eye injury requiring surgery.

Power adapters used with IBM back-up disk hard drives, also made in China, were recalled when it was found they were failing and exposing live electrical contacts that posed shock hazards to consumers.

Maybe you thought a travel mug made in China was a safe gift. Think again. About 15,000 had to be recalled by the "Life Is Good" company when it was found they posed burn hazards.

And before you get that new baby a pacifier for the stocking this Christmas, be sure to check it out. Some 641,000 "Bobby Chupete" pacifiers had to be recalled this season because they pose a choking hazard.

Not even that Christmas tree stand is necessarily safe. About 13,000 manufactured in China had to be recalled after causing users to fall and sustain serious injuries.

WND has reported previously on frozen catfish from China found to have been laced with banned antibiotics and scallops and sardines coated with bacteria.

Chinese toothpaste also has been found by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to have contained a deadly chemical used in antifreeze. In one case, four defendants pleaded guilty to importing from China more than a half million tubes of toothpaste falsely labeled as the popular brand Colgate that contained the toxic antifreeze ingredient.

According to a U.S. Department of Justice statement, the defendants were responsible for 518,028 tubes of toothpaste worth an estimated $730,419 that were shipped into the country and distributed to bargain retail stores in several states.

Chinese imports have been blamed for poisoning America's pets, risking America's human food supply and reintroducing lead poisoning to America's children.

For years, Washington has claimed to be working on the problem of defective consumer products being delivered from China to the United States. But it appears that the only permanent solution will be for the Chinese to have a higher level of concern about what they are exporting, U.S. government leaders have said.

niggers yell "Get That White Boy!!"

14!

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13936941?source=pop_section_news

For the victims, it was a terrifying experience — somebody shouts “get that white boy” and then they are surrounded by teens and young adults spitting out racial taunts, laughing, pummeling them with fists and kicking them in the head.

For the suspects in the attacks during the summer and fall in downtown Denver, the muggings were little more than pranks, they say, in which they stole money to rent hotel rooms for partying or beat someone up just because they were white and assumed to have money and to be drunk and defenseless.

One thing victims and attackers have in common: Both will be permanently changed by the events.

The victims, at least 16, suffered permanent facial damage, broken bones and cracked skulls. One was in a coma. The suspects, who thought they’d serve just days in jail if caught, are charged with felony robbery and bias-related crimes that could put them in prison for years.

“I don’t know how this thing became a racial thing,” said Ian Curwen, 31, now charged with two robberies and, like 34 others charged in the attacks, awaiting trial at the Denver County Jail. “I know some of these kids. They come from good families. They’re just kids being kids.”

Several of those charged in the wave of attacks have prior criminal histories, and some claim gang membership. At least two of those now awaiting trial were charged with similar crimes, also near downtown, in 2008, though charges were dismissed.

One of them, George Wright, was charged with robbery on Aug. 4, 2008, a few weeks before the Democratic National Convention, after an unidentified accomplice snuck up behind 26-year-old Michael Peters, at 1690 Pearl St. at 1:50 a.m., and began choking him, according to court records.

*js {I recently found out about something called juror nullification, from which I understand is a practice by black jurors to intentionally take sides with a black on trial REGARDLESS if the person is guilty or not.

http://law.jrank.org/pages/1440/Jury-Legal-Aspects-Jury-nullification.html. See the ninth paragraph “In a reversal of historic roles”. I never knew this, but suspected it.}


*a244 {“FIJA” stands for (F)ully (I)nformed (J)ury (A)ssociation.

FIJA goes into the issue of jury nullifacation in depth. FIJA may be browsed at http://www.fija.org.

A jury need not obey the “instructions” of a judge. Prohibition — a terrible law — went down, in part, because juries refused to convict for rum-running.

Judges have tried to punish jurors for exercising the right of jury nullification.}


Wright allegedly ran toward him and began to go through his pockets while a woman yelled “take his bag.” Wright allegedly said, “Don’t move, I have a gun. We’ll shoot you.” Wright was arrested five blocks east of the robbery. The other two suspects escaped.

The Denver prosecutor’s office dismissed the case in February, indicating it could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt
Michael, his girlfriend and another friend were barhopping in Lower Downtown when they walked in front of the hip-hop-themed Bash Nightclub at 1902 Blake St. They heard someone say, “It smells like white people.”

Christmas Trees BANNED by grinch cunt kike principal

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Christmas Trees and Santa Thrown out of Oregon School

www.LC.org

1070 Tolman Creek Road
Ashland, OR 97520
Phone: 541-482-1310
Fax: 541-482-2591
Contact: Michelle Zundel

A public school principal has banned Christmas trees and Santa Claus from Bellview Elementary in Ashland, Oregon. Principal Michelle Zundel removed a "holiday giving tree" from the school over Thanksgiving break and replaced it with two snowmen. The tree displayed tags suggesting gifts to donate for needy children, but now the swap has upset dozens of parents who say the tree was celebrating the Christmas season and helping those in need.

Principal Zundel defended her decision by stating: "The Christmas tree, while a secular symbol according to the Supreme Court, does symbolize Christmas, and if you are entering a public school and your family does not celebrate Christmas, then it feels like a religious symbol." She plans to discuss guidelines later this week that permanently ban Christmas trees and Santa Claus.

Absurd actions like those of this Oregon principal prompted Liberty Counsel to launch our Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign, which is designed to educate and, if necessary, litigate to make sure religious viewpoints regarding Christmas are not censored.

We have issued a letter to the principal to educate her about the law.

Read our News Release for more details on this outrageous Christmas hostility.

which stores are naughty or nice this year?

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117390

'Cuz 'season's greetings' just ain't good enough

Customer ratings system gives shoppers voice to demand stores honor Christmas

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Posted: December 01, 2009
9:10 pm Eastern

By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Shoppers fed up with stores swapping "Season's Greetings" and "Happy Holidays" for the more traditional "Merry Christmas" have a place to vent their frustrations this December and a resource for identifying those shops that still honor Jesus' birth as the reason for the season.

The Retailer Ratings system at StandForChristmas.com provides an up-to-the-second summary of how customers have rated 29 of the nation's largest store chains – from American Eagle Outfitters to Wal-Mart – on their acknowledgment of Christmas.

"Millions upon millions in our nation deeply value the great truths of Christmas and the holiday's inspiring place in American life and culture," the website states. "We're asking you to decide which retailers are 'Christmas-friendly.' They want your patronage and your gift-shopping dollars, but do they openly recognize Christmas?"

Discover dozens of Christmas gift ideas and real "reason for the season" messages in WND's Christmas Store!

The ratings system is a project of Focus on the Family and Focus on the Family Action.

In the past, Focus has created a shopping guide to rate retailers on their "Christmas-friendliness," but this year the organization has turned the ratings over to customers themselves.

"We're placing shoppers in the driver's seat," the website explains. "Through this site, customers can provide feedback directly to retailers and share their experiences with fellow shoppers!"

"There's nothing more effective than hearing from the customer," said Carrie Earll, director of issues analysis for Focus on the Family Action. "The customer's always right."

"Many retailers are waking up to the fact that it is more inclusive – not exclusive – to mention Christmas," she said.

Shoppers who visit StandForChristmas.com can not only rate the retail chains as being "friendly," "negligent" or "offensive" toward observers of Christmas, but also leave comments on specific stores.

For example, this piece of frosty feedback came from a customer regarding Banana Republic, the retail chain that at press time was rated the worst in Christmas-friendliness:

"I clicked on their ad and used their search function," the commenter writes. "Typing in 'Christmas gifts,' I got 'Holiday gifts.' Narrowing my search, I typed in 'Christmas' and got '0 results for this search.' They will get the same number of purchases from me."

When this article was written, Banana Republic was scoring an 82 percent "offensive" rating to an only 18 percent "friendly" rating.

On the far other end of the spectrum was Bass Pro Shops, which was scoring 93 percent "friendly" rating, with seven percent rating the retailer "negligent" and none rating it "offensive."

"In last Sunday's paper, it was one of only two retailers who had 'Christmas' prominently displayed throughout the entire ad," said one commenter regarding Bass Pro Shops. "They have a Christmas village set up inside the store (not a 'holiday' or 'winter' village), and it's an old-fashioned Christmas village where kids can get a free photo with Santa (who sends a letter to the child in the mail), lots of free games to play and employees dressed as elves. I give this retailer the highest rating."

At press time, the top five most Christmas-friendly stores were Bass Pro Shops, Land's End, Cabela's, Sears and Lowe's, all of which scored above 80 percent "friendly."

The most "offensive" on the list were Banana Republic, Gap, Best Buy, American Eagle Outfitters and Old Navy, all of which topped 60 percent "offensive."

The full ratings list can be seen on the Stand For Christmas website.