Posted on 11/18/2013 10:20:31 AM PST by Kaslin
Enjoy it now. Next year all disposable income will be going to Health Care premiums, co-pays, and deductibles.
I love the Brit adverts for Christmas, some Scrooge’s argue it’s become a competition of sorts. One of my favorites is the John Lewis advert from 2011 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSLOnR1s74o
Though the one they did this year is really lovely as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWig2WARb0
Enjoy!
“Marketplace Fairness Act”
It sounds like they pulled that name right out of Atlas Shrugged.
Atlas Shrugged isn’t a novel. It’s a documentary.
When Atlas is done shrugging, he’s going to pick up a gun.
Here’s my best Christmas story:
In ‘93, I was in Turkey over the Christmas/New Year holiday. Downtown Istanbul had more Christmas decorations than Seattle did.
NSA.
Lucky you. Poor Kerry was floating on a river in Cambodia while he was scrounging up a bandaid for a paper cut.
I hope the author didn’t hurt himself twisting this into a War on Christmas.
The existence of A “shopping season” IS the war on Christmas.
Not in 93
Huh?
I agree. I heard the first Christmas music in a store around November 8. The next town up the road has a “Christmas Festival, November 23.” Excuse me?
I heard that every time a Christmas song is played before Thanksgiving an elf kicks a reindeer.
I think I saw that, too. Someone’s tagline?
No joke.
Mine went up 50%. That's for a "comparable plan", which isn't really comparable. The plan that's actually comparable is more than my house payment, every month. So, that's not much of an option anymore.
Still trying to figure out what we're going to do, and hoping that common sense breaks out.
Atlas Shrugged.
This is the “equalization of opportunity act” to protect the buggy whip makers in the age of private air travel.
I wish there was a way to punish the box companies. If “best buy” lobbies for taxes then we can not only avoid them, but hit the shows they advertise around. hurt them in the pocket and make them a pariah.
If a congressman accepts money from this buggy whip makers then they pay the price.
at the voting booth.
I moved to the Seattle area in 72. I worked as an installer for a sign company that made and/or installed neon and electric business signs. Banks, car dealers, oil companies, McDonalds etc.
We had several crews installing decorations the week following Thanksgiving and removing them after New Years day.
The 90 feet high South Center Mall sign had provisions to bolt down a steel 30 foot, multi piece, ring around the base with eyebolts. The sign had corresponding anchors on the bottom. We spent a day attaching steel wire cables rapped with lights making a cone of light. Other crews installed smaller decorations on light standards. Similar things were done at other malls.
Four men spent a day with one guy hanging in a bosom chair from a 118 foot crane rapping light strings around a 100 foot fir tree.
Three men spent a day at the downtown Bon Marche. Above the main door they had 9 individual 3 foot letters plus a Logo at the top. We removed them using a window washer type stage their maintenance people provided. They installed a cross after we left. We took the letters to our shop where they were refurbish to be reinstalled after the 1st.
Ladybird Johnson campaigned for and help pass the “Help Beatify America act. It was to remove eyesores from the nations highways. Billboards were the first to come under attack. Oil company signs were next. Last was any large sign that could be seen from a freeway.
The 70s brought a wave of environmentalism. Large signs were a waste of electricity and ugly. You have no idea how hard it is for a business to have a sign big enough for people to even know they are there in some areas.
I have no first hand knowledge of what caused this area to stop putting up decorations but that is when it happened. BVB
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