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Good morning, Netizens…
[Picture credit: KREM-TV]
If you think I am going to drive to my nearest shopping center to capture a live picture of insensibly insane people willing to stand in long lines in the rain for hours, waiting for the doors to open on Black Friday at 5:00 AM, guess again. First, I have a long-term allergy to huge crowds, especially if they are standing in the rain, and second, I have a TV card in my PC that allows me to capture television pictures, which is a valuable tool in this case.
According to KREM-2 TV this morning there were over 400 people standing in a cold rain in front of Target for the doors to open at 5:00 AM. Lines were worse at Best Buy, according to KREM, but the question stands.
It’s raining outside, the temperature hovering near 40 degrees, which is pretty chilly if you are wet to the bone, and all this for what? Were you among the crowds that flocked to the Big Box stores this morning? If so, what was your motivation? Was it worth it? Or did you sit in your chair watching the early morning debacle, amused at the mayhem?
Shopper or no? Which are you?
Dave
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Rifleman__Dodd on November 27 at 8:27 a.m.
We are being driven to consumerism. Beyond a warm place to stay and food on the table, do we need all that junk they are shoving down our throats?
Do we need more toys that require batteries or a computer and will be forgotten in six months?
yes the prices are attractive, but it just shows just exactly what the stores wholesale prices are and the ridiculous profits that are being generated by the big box stores with their barely educated minions scrambling around for just barely above minimum wages.
Why have we tied our personal happiness to the Dollar?
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empyrius on November 27 at 8:48 a.m.
“Why have we tied our personal happiness to the Dollar”?
The writing on the bill sayeth, “In God We Trust”.
“In God We Trust”, engraved on “our” money. Am I the only one who thinks this is really creepy?
So money is God? Or is some vague deistic “God” God? Or is this the God of the Catholic church? Or is this “God” an amalgamated representatuve of a thousand different Protestant sects? Why would people put “In God We Trust” on money?
After the federal, state, and City taxes portion of your paycheck should it not read “In Jesus name, Amen” . . .
Har har har har
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JeanieS on November 27 at 9:46 a.m.
I'm giving up Christmas for Lent.
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