Posted on 10/24/2011 7:34:36 PM PDT by Immerito
We to have a curfew need to move Halloween to only daylight hours. Certainly dangerous and scary at night.
So is he going to ask that All Saints Day be declared to always be the day after Halloween?
lol. I was just being sarcastic.
Picture explains one of the reasons obamao is figuratively dismantling/pussifying the Corps...Where are all those old-style, turned-commie exMarines when we need them?
I heard about this on the morning news and it made sense. By the time I get home from work on Monday Oct. 31st there will already be kids running around my neighborhood in the dark.
halloweek is more like it around here. there was a parade in the city where my kids live on friday for last football game/ halloween, a parade in my town last night, and all week the malls and downtown areas will be doing trick or treating at the stores on various days, costume parties at the bars friday and saturday, most churches will do trunk-or treat sunday and monday nights.
and of course my favourite- GWAR in detroit, which is always the saturday before halloween.
And totally forget about New Years Eve. It’s too dangerous with all those drunks riding around.
it's for the chillrun!
I hate coming home from work only to see a bunch of kids already lined up at my house to get candy. We used to wait until after 7PM to start trick or treating, now they pretty much start when the sun goes down.
There’s a simple solution. Have the Gubermint declare “All Saints’ Day” a national holiday.
Actually, in Europe, especially in Catholic countries, this is precisely the practice.
It would be nice to be able to go to mass on HDOOs without trying to squeeze it in before or after work, but we already have too many federal holidays IMHO and the private sector never gives these secondary holidays off (like Columbus Day for example). So for most people it wouldn’t make a difference.
I think the kiddos like having a mid-week festival even if it means they’re a little groggy at school the next day.
Heck in this day and age I’m surprised we still get Christmas off, aka “Winter Holiday”. If the holiday had not become largely secularized we probably would not at this point.
My hubby never forgets my birthday! Why? Because my birthday is Halloween Oct 31st. There will be NO changing of the date of Halloween! :)
Besides, I really wish people would leave some American traditions unscathed. Although Halloween’s origin is a religious eve before All Saints Day, MOST American kids just “celebrate” with costumes, candy and fun. Halloween, Thanksgiving and Fourth of July are ‘holidays’ that we all share despite your individual religion....part of the American experience! And if Halloween offends you or is inconvenient for your schedule, here’s a novel idea: DO NOTHING that day.
Unless they haven’t had the good fortune to be born yet.
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“Nope, it’s dumb and a further erosion of Western and American tradition.”
nail on the head. thanks jtal, for bringing reason to this.
They should worry more about their high corporate tax rates, ask GE.
Looney Larson wears a pirate costume on Halloween.
Jes sayin’
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