Happy Thanksgiving! Great clips!

Did you notice how many stores are open today? I think that's sad. In our rush to expand the consumer society, businesses have decided their employees don't need a day off. It can't be easy to work at Big Lots and then they have to work on Thanksgiving. I propose we give thanks for the beautiful sunny day in East Tennessee and get out for a walk or stay in and snuggle with our favorite person or animal and take time to breathe. Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

as far as the holidays are concerned...

Sadly I have nothing to celebrate..although I don't resent those who do celebrate...
I'm happy for all of you...

I spent time on Insessions arguing with republicans/conservatives about Obama..I got in trouble with the moderator..who tends to be oversensitive about such matters..for my efforts but I feel like I was right to do so.

It livened things up for me.

I did go out and eat breakfast at IHOP..a lot of restaurants were open..I noticed that.
Of course businesses take advantage of lower paid workers.
That the way things are now.

especially here in the anti-union south.

Of course I had the day off.

smile.

Argue all you want to with me.I doubt you're as bad as others I have debated with.

from the sick bay:

KPD, KSCO Issue Citations for Holiday Violations
Knoxville Poultry Division, Knox County Shopping Office cite 1,213 for holiday gaucherie

From APB reports. KNOXVILLE - A special joint task force of the Knoxville Poultry Division and the Knox County Shopping Office reported issuing 1,213 citations for various violations of holiday etiquette over the long Thanksgiving weekend.

Senior Shopper Kim Klatch-Kargough was unhappy to report that violent altercations at shopping centers were down this Black Friday.

"It's not that we condone violence, but if retailers are going to jingle all the way to the bank, it's shoppers' patriotic duty to be out there fighting for bargains on Black Friday," explained Klatch-Kargough. "This year, we had some baby-boomer grandmas trying to relive their glory days by hoarding the 2009 edition of the Cabbage Patch Dolls™ and some Generation-Z dads trying to squirrel away all the Zhu Zhu Pets™ Hamsters, but that was about it. Everyone else pretty much behaved themselves and stuck to their shopping lists and went for practical items - and in a consumer-oriented economy, 'practical' is the kiss of death. This holiday season, consumers need to be out fighting tooth and claw for items they don't need for the good of capitalism."

Klatch-Kargough then delivered an impassioned plea for the preservation of conspicuous consumption.

"You consumers who are reading this interview instead of being out consuming, you should be ashamed of yourselves," he lectured. "Seriously. We are at the pinnacle of western culture, and if we're going to stay there, you have to buy things you don't need. In the name of all that's shoddy, to save civilization as we know it, go out and shop!"

However, shoppers seemed indifferent to Klatch-Kargough's inveigling.

"Isn't consumerist shopping - by which I mean shopping at big-box shopping centers like Wal-Mart - contributing to the death of western civilization, by driving out mom 'n' pop shops and concentrating wealth in the hands of a few corporations while simultaneously making us little people more dependent on them?" protested Fredo Peebles. "How is consumerism patriotic? I'm so confused."

"Yeah," agreed Zazu Watts. "Why would I worry about western civ? I got a C- in it. I just gotta get a new Dustbuster and get outta here."

"Let western civilization fall, what do I care?" declaimed Zelda Kvetchsherald. "What is it to me? As long as there is champagne and caviar and chocolate - and chocolate-flavored champagne - and champagne-flavored caviar - and caviar-flavored chocolate - I am content."

Although caviar-flavored chocolate seems gauche in the extreme, Chief Chef Sterling Silverware, the Fork, explained that most of the holiday gaucherie his department deals with is of a more mundane sort. He said his department is mainly concerned with keeping amateur cooks and their guests safe during the intense meal preparation hours from 5 p.m. Wednesday through the drowsy post-dinner period on Thanksgiving Day...