Let’s see what this Christmas Season holds forth.
Today is Black Friday, which symbolically has lost its
meaning. As far as Lego is concerned, today is Brick Day. Forget the
traditional 6:00AM, 5:00 AM, or even 12:01AM store openings. Walmart and Kmart jump started Black Friday
by opening at 8:00PM Thursday, followed by Target at 9:00PM.
Most large retailers offer their Black Friday specials online as well as at stores. If you missed the pre-Black Friday and Black Friday
internet specials, there’s still Cyber Monday, which offers more of the same,
not to mention Green Monday, Super Saturday, Free Shipping Day, and January
bills.
The stores offered pre-Black Friday specials, which were
often the same as the Black Friday specials. Do not fret if you missed out on
these specials since most be will be perpetually on sale through Christmas into the post-Christmas sales.
The Grinch arrived early this year in the form of two
unions. The Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union played
chicken with Hostess management – not a tasty proposition. 18,500 workers
lost their jobs before Thanksgiving while Americans are, at least temporarily,
deprived of their sugar highs from Twinkies, Ding Dongs, and cupcakes.
No Ho Ho Ho’s for the workers and their families this
holiday season.
The SEIU was chagrined that 500 members, working for a
subcontractor at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), voted to decertify the
union. The employees felt the employer offered them more than they would
receive through SEIU’s collective bargaining.
Five other contracts are up for renewal with the risks that
these workers will also ditch the SEIU.
The purple clad SEIU members threw a hissy fit on Wednesday
afternoon, during the peak airline travel period, by mounting a demonstration
on Century Blvd. leading into LAX. They shut down access into LAX for 90
minutes. They were the true Thanksgiving turkeys.
Other grinches will steal from Salvation Army kettles. At least one department store Santa will be accused of inappropriate behavior.
LA Radio station KOCE doesn’t even wait until Thanksgiving.
It began playing Christmas Music 24/7 on November 20. Stan Freberg is still
Dreaming of a Green Christmas.
The networks will offer the standard fare of Charlie Brown’s
Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Miracle On 34th
Street, and It’s a Wonderful Life, interrupted by college football and
basketball games. The Clapper and Chia Pet ads will reappear.
Let us partake of our usual ginger bread, fruitcake, rum cakes, and
candy canes, while leaving milk and cookies out for Santa Claus on Christmas
Eve, unless we are still shopping the night before Christmas. Chick Fil-A, if you are part of the 50% of America who will patronize Chick Fil-A, offers a splendid Peppermint Shake.
We can expect the usual litigation over Nativity scenes and
crèches in public places. Santa Monica said “A Pox on all displays” by banning
all unattended displays in public parks, thereby depriving lawyers of a
seasonal source of income..
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, following the
earlier lead of Berkeley and San Jose, gave the world a great Christmas present
last Tuesday by banning public nudity, subject to a few exceptions. The sight
of corpulent middle-aged men prancing nude through the Streets of San Francisco
constitutes visual pollution.
Remember, only 32 shopping Days until Christmas.
Also, only 32 shoplifting days until Christmas.
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