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Posted on 12/27/2007 2:49:28 AM PST by icwhatudo
Which means retailers will rediscover Christmas soon.
It was heart warming to see the Salvation Army and their Red Kettles back again at Wally World this year.
Perhaps Target will realize the error of their ways.
Islam is reforming? Only because the more radical Muslims are blowing themselves up.
I don’t buy the analogy, but agree with the principle (if that makes sense).
Well, I was thinking that the whole of Europe was full of Marxists and their fellow-travelers who were held rapt by the picture of a Christian despotism captured by a few of their number, who heroically held off the united forces of reaction and capitalism and were creating a citadel from which world revolution was to begin.
I was more or less thinking of how a few idiots can cause a lot of damage.
Our universities are still full of people who admire those idiots and who still pin fo the Soviet Union. Like a bunch of kids who discovered who was behind the beard!
Well, Marx, Lenin etc. are more dramatic and hence more interesting than, say, Adam Smith. And the Russian Revolution is less complicated than the Industrial Revolution. But for most of those academics — 99.999% — they’re abstractions.
The Solstice has not happened. Kwanza is just beginning. New Year’s is a week away.
The only way you can have an “After Holiday” sale is AFTER “the” Holiday that you don’t wanna really say.
Target has no problem celebrating Gay Pride Month as a corporate "holiday season" (check their website).
I’m in Houston and many people were still nervous about the matter and wishing “Happy Holiday(s)”.
So this New Year, when the ball falls at midnight, shout HAPPY HOLIDAY! And same with MLK Day, Presidents’ Day, Halloween, and Thanksgiving.
The next generation of American Christians will be like the ones in Europe: Churches with empty pews and aging leaders apologizing to Muslims and worrying about global warming to court favor with the media.
Over 80% of the buying public in this nation consider themselves ‘Christian’s’.
Hence, the business decision to address that largest of all possible markets.
Simple business practice.
What about Hanukkah?
I don’t mind a “Happy Hanukkah” sign. I wish my Jewish friends a Happy Hanukkah every year. None of them seem to get all bent out of shape if they hear “Merry Christmas”.
But the war against Christmas is largely driven by secularists, and they cover their tracks by insisting they only want to downplay Christmas so as not to offend Jews or other religious minorities.
Holiday classics coming soon:
RUDOLPH THE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY REINDEER: In this “holiday” treat, Rudolph and Henry the Transgender Elf overcome rejection for their differences and lead Santa and his team of organically-fed reindeer as they fly around in their hybrid-powered sleigh, delivering nonviolent holiday toys—assembled by Santa’s multicultural and unionized crew of elves—to boys and girls around the world without regard to children’s naughty/nice status, since “good” is culturally dependent.
A CHARLIE BROWN HOLIDAY: Charlie Brown is tasked with directing the play for his school’s Winter Season celebration. When Charlie fails miserably at picking out a proper holiday tree, Linus hops onto the stage to try to cheer him up with a moving monologue about the true meaning of Christmas. This upsets administrators, and once Linus mentions angels appearing before shepherds in the fields announcing the birth of the Savior in Bethlehem, he is suspended for imposing Christianity upon his classmates. Despondent, Charlie Brown returns home and finds that Snoopy’s light display has won the neighborhood’s holiday contest. In the end, Charlie Brown’s pals show up and help decorate his holiday tree, and cheering him up with a rousing chorus of nonoffensive holiday songs bereft of references to Christ or Christmas.
AL GORE’S FROSTY THE SNOWMAN: In this timeless classic, Frosty the Snowman appears to the delight of neighborhood children during the holiday season, but melts due to global warming. The global warming leads to rising sea levels and the dilution of the oceans’ salinity produces massive storms across the globe, thrusting the world into another Ice Age...and then Frosty the Snowman reappears to chide the children, as they flee to safety, about their parents’ polluting ways.
MIRACLE ON CAESAR CHAVEZ STREET: A heart-warming tale about how a family of illegal aliens in San Francisco get their holiday wish for amnesty. To raise funds for the family’s legal battle, a large department store sponsors a holiday pride parade with a gay Santa tossing condoms from a bag to the kiddies. Similar parades snowball across the land, and soon Congress has passed a comprehensive amnesty bill, over the frustrated objections of “anti-immigrant” activist Ebenezer Xenophobe.
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE RAMADAN: The intractably evil George W. Grinch is fed up with Ramadan and decides to stop the Whos in Whosistan from celebrating Ramadan. On the eve of the holiday, he descends upon Whosistan and rounds up Who women and children and locks them up in his cave. He torments them with his dog and forces them to watch as he flushes the Koran down the toilet. But after “freedom fighters” of the Islamic Army of Whosistan—led by the heroic patriot Whosama bin Laden—martyr themselves in “peace bombings”, the Grinch realizes that he is wrong and sets the women and children free on the final day of Ramadan. Starring Tim Robbins as Whosama Bin Laden. Directed by Brian DePalma and produced by Mark Cuban.
SHHHHHHHHHHHHH — don’t give them any ideas.........
BTW - that’s superb!!!
The solstice was on the 21st (or is it the 22nd?). But who cares, right?
Maybe they meant the Greek Orthodox Solstice
“Sick, crass, commercialization?...to some...to me it was just nice to see that the reason for the season is being remembered.”
Let’s face it, for the vast majority of retailers the reason for the season is one thing — cash. Whatever they think will sell more product is what they’ll do.
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