If the Republican establishment really wants to get rid of
Mr. Trump they need to convince people he is one of them. Part of his popularity
is because he is an outsider. Well, maybe they should convince all his
followers that this was the plan along and he has always been an establishment
guy. I mean he is a billionaire and all, it might just work. Couldn’t be any worse than anything else they
are doing.
Was watching CNN with the sound down because I had no
control over the situation. One of the headlines was that there was a school
doing the Charlie Brown Christmas special as a play and were taking out the
biblical verses and the one song. I am presuming they mean the ending rendition
of “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”. So the only commercial Christmas show that
even mentions God/Jesus is going to be edited in a play version because
why????? I guess it will be called the Charlie Brown Winter Holiday special.
Whether you believe or not, you must agree if you are going to be talking about
Christmas you have to have Christ or it is absolutely nothing. Bad enough we
are subject to two months of commercialism for the birth of someone that
represents Joy and Love.
And the flip side of it all: Walmart represents everything
gone wrong with the crass commercialization of Christmas and maybe retail completely. I was
shopping with my wife. Her work had given her money to buy toys for some
children that were struggling in life. The store we were at didn’t have the toy
one of the children had put on his list. (Actually we only found two of the
toys on the lists at two separate Walmarts even though they had looked at
either the website or something else from Walmart to make the lists.) I went to
the customer service desk and asked if they could call another Walmart to see
if they had what we needed at another store. The clerk just looked at me. She didn’t
give me any other direction or suggestions. Finally she took my paper and
walked off and was gone for about ten minutes while I stood there. No idea what
she did, but came back and said no. I do
not know if the no was for cannot call or was not at another store. I didn’t
ask. So here we were trying to do a
small part to make some children happy and the company who makes the most money
for this season was completely apathetic. I will say every now
and then I do find a very helpful person at Walmart, but the attitude of the corporation
is very indifferent to their customers.
Boggles my mind how they can stay in business. They really aren’t that
much cheaper and even though it seems like they have a large selection in
general, they don’t have many choices within a category.
What if Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders both ran for
President as independents? I have been waiting decades for something like this
and I couldn’t vote for either. One of them scares me and one because I have
virtually no agreement with policy. Some goals maybe, but the policy and
politics of getting there are just completely wrong to me. Go figure the luck.
Which leads me to this thought, finally the rest of the country
is ready to make a change, but I never thought it would be to drive off a
cliff.
So lets be positive. …………………………………………oh well I tried. And actually I had some more thoughts, but by
the time I sat down, they had crawled out the side of my head through my ears
and ran down the street.
Have a great weekend everyone.
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