Posted on 11/29/2013 4:53:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Give us a break...watch the kids while we go shopping.
Thanksgiving is a meal thing. You think the pilgrims partied day and night? It got dark at 5.
I went out and bought a headlight. I noticed it was out Wednesday night. The mobs at the auto parts store were docile.
America has entered an era where stoicism, religious devotion and selflessness has yielded to crass epicurean behavior,earth worshiping neo paganism and decadence. It was no accident that Obama received 52% of the vote.
There were examples of rabid conspicuous consumerism in Terry Southern’s The Magic Christian (I have only seen the 1960s filmed version, never read the book) and Ivan Stang’s 1970s pre-Bob Dobbs subterranean clown world “future” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHx2nLFMAzE).
I have an old book on “the madness of crowds”. The behavior is nothing new (even if it is rude).
Not me. I was home in front of a roaring fireplace sipping Kentucky bourbon.
Yes, it’s nothing new. You should have been in the Eastern Block when the Berlin Wall fell (heck, even before.)
Nothing wrong with shopping, go ahead make a holiday out of it. Better than drawing straws to see who gets stoned.
The average small business retailer probably does 70% of their business between Black Friday and Dec Jan 1. I know my Bookstore does. I gross more from Late November to Jan 1st then I do the rest of the other 10 months.
Working as a bookseller this year. Selling tattoo magazines, filthy sex books, bad sci-fi, gothic romances, extremely stupid novels (”8th in the ‘trilogy’”!) while the science and history book languish, has reminded me that “black Friday” and the American Dream have become nightmares.
Just because obamaramadingdong “received” 52% of the vote does not mean that 52% of the voters cast a ballot for him.
It’s funny you should say that. I found remnants of ‘soviet bloc syndrome’ when I visited Poland and waiting in line at a bank. Let’s just say......there are no rules for breaking in line. We were at the teller’s window when a woman shoved right in front of us. Thought she was trying to grab our money. No one batted an eye.
Oh, wait!
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What sort of fool would one have to be to show up at a Walmart on Black Friday?
I pledged to myself that I would not shop on Thanksgiving OR black Friday....I took my dog to class in a Pet Smart...as we walked the aisles during training, I kept seeing things on the shelves, but I kept my pledge and walked out without making a purchase. No materialism for me over this holiday weekend. I think I have the shopping gene, but I overcame it.
;^)
When Republicans Call Obama Marxist They are Condemning the Pope, Thomas Jefferson, and Jesus
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/11/29/republicans-call-obama-marxist-condemning-pope-thomas-jefferson-jesus.html
It was the Shutnado’s fault! Globalist Warming no doubt!
Supplies can’t get through!
Dr. Preppers got ‘em all!
Horders they are!!!
Obama doesn’t believe in Jesus, so let’s remove that last one from the list without any further discussion. Any references made by Obama to Christ are strictly to shuck and jive those who “cling to religion” in the black community.
I don’t consider wanting to buy Christmas presents for my family as greed. But I have only gone shopping on Black Friday once and that was several years ago. I swore never again. Just not worth it to me.
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