Posted on 11/18/2006 5:53:56 AM PST by Wil H
Best Buy is a "Happy Holidays" hold-out, so they are off my shopping list. They also have the most disgusting TV ads , particularly the slut who clears the table for sex when she sees her boyfriend at the door with a "happy holiday" Best Buy package. That's the true secular spirit of Best Buy's holiday, I guess, but I don't have to reward them for it.
If just 1/2 the energy you use to get people to say "Merry Christmas" were used to support the troops, perhaps they, too, could have a Merry Christmas.
Find a deployed serviceman (or womans ) family, and buy the kids toys, or pay their heating bill.
Buy some Christmas cards, and send them to the troops.
Gad, fight a fight that is significant.
I saw a Target ad last night that said "Merry Christmas". That and the Salvation Army donation will probably mean more Christmas spending for me there.
BTW, Prescott and the area around it are, IMO, are absolutely gorgeous. I love it up there. I'm stuck down here in the desert, so my shopping choices are kind of limited.
I thought we had enough about this last year.
There is no war, but constantly ranting about it will surely make it appear that way.
Someone, somewhere, is pulling in income off of this "war". It's probably a pretty good business too.
Really? Now that IS a switch (and good to hear about)
Target's ads of a couple of years ago so infuriated me that I've boycotted them eversince. They were the odious "Joy to the World" sung by 3 Dog Night ads.
I wrote letters informing Target I was disgusted by their popularized secularization of Christmas.
Perhaps somebody at the top got the message...
Christmas shopping is just shopping. If you want to turn it into a crusade, have a good time. Is that a good time???
Wanna bet? The ACLU would love to have Christmas banned altogether.
Does Target have the Salvation Army this year?
If I carried a letter for the store managers, it would be one I carried all year long and it would be about RUDE sales people, especially the ones who talk on their cellphones while they ring you out.
Walmart has a good selection of cards for the armed forces.
You imply that these are mutually exclusive events (protesting stores and supporting troops), which, of course, they are not, this something I will do this year in addition to my other Christmas activities.
And if I were a serviceman that was able to get back home on Christmas leave and found the place looking like it was mid-February, I would be pretty ticked.
They donated $1,000,000 to them. That is what I was referring to.
I am curious, btw. Does anyone know if this would be more oe less than what they would make outside the stores. I really want to know, this isn't a sarcasm thing.
LOL
Seems everyone is girding his loins for CHristmas shopping. I don't mind it so much now that our mall has Starbucks.
But I prefer shoppig in stand alone stores and on the internet.
Socks are a great gift this year. Go to Joyofsocks.com for great socks.
Complaining and whining that some retail outlet doesn't yell "Merry Christmas" at you with it's advertising isn't exactly spreading the message Christ brought.
With Consumers Day.
MERRY CONSUMERS DAY
Been posted many times here at FR the past week.
Target is donating one million dollars to Salvation Army but will not allow bell ringers again this yr.
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