Safeway to Open on Christmas (The unraveling of an American Tradition?)

The Washington Post ^ | 12/11/04 | mek1959

[mek1959]

Safeway Inc. yesterday said that for the first time, it will open many of its supermarkets on Christmas Day, a move that triggered an angry protest from the union representing the grocer's Washington area employees.

Safeway will become the region's first -- and only -- major supermarket chain to operate stores on Christmas, one of the last holidays observed by U.S. grocers, which now routinely open on Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

[Dog Gone]

Yeah, I'm just a dumb quasi-Christian.

Thank God there are smart perfect Christians like you to set the rest of us straight.

[iconoclast]

I'm just a dumb quasi-Christian.

God only knows what we are ... but I'm inclined to take your word for it.

[Dog Gone]

I was repeating your insult toward me for sarcasm purposes which obviously went right over your head.

Merry Christmas.

[cyncooper]

Would it be closer to the point to presume that you don't care?

No, it wouldn't.

[iconoclast]

You didn't confuse me ... your name is legion ... Merry Christmas to you.

[Dog Gone]

You're pathetic. I know who Legion was.

You're no Christian. You're some smart-ass fart who thinks it's fine to dish out insults in the name of God. You did one too many, old-timer, and it was way over the line.

May God have mercy on your soul, because I'm in no mood to do so.

[iconoclast]

I know who Legion was.

"Legion" wasn't anybody. The phrase means "one of many".

I apologize if you were insulted by ANY of my posts.

There is a lesson here for me, believe me.

[Dog Gone]

Luke 8:30

And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

I thought you were referring to that, and I can't begin to tell you how much offense I was taking to it.

[MikefromOhio]

that must be it...

or just the fun of saying

PouB-BLIX over and over :)

Gotta get phonetical.....

[Happygal]

I'm in Ireland, and the biggest panic of Christmas Day overe here, is that all of the pubs are closed.

Only two days of the year that you can't get a drink in Ireland...Christmas Day and Good Friday!

And I have to say...I like it that way. (Well, I dated a barman for years! *S*)

[Happygal]

I would say, only Christians can have the day off. Let's take this and turn it around on these anti-Christian/Christmas people. Step backwards with labor rights they have fought for. This is a sure way to errode their support base.

I think you may have a good point!!!

If Muslims are allowed time to pray during work time, well, there are quite a few 'Holy Days of Obligation' in the Catholic Church calandar. A religious work to rule may be what's required! ;-)

[MilspecRob]

This is one of the most incompressible threads on this board I have read in a long time. But perhaps I've lived in the land of the free dollar (capitalism in CA) too long.
Don't want to shop, stay home! I might need somthing.

[freedomdefender]

You seem awfully attached to the world."""

I think that what goes on in the world is important, if that's what you mean. Being Christian doesn't mean living outside of the world, or not caring what goes on in the world. Jesus came into the world, took on human flesh - and by doing so said, in effect, that the here-and-now is important.