DOOLEY Observed: Happy Retail Savings Day to All

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."-- Thomas Jefferson

"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." .... jbd

"When once a job you have begun, do no stop till it is done. Whether the task be great or small, do it well, or not at all." .... Anon

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

Television is one daylong commercial interrupted periodically by inept attempts to fill the airspace in between them.

If you can't start a fire, perhaps your wood is wet ....

When you elect clowns, expect a circus ..............

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Happy Retail Savings Day to All

Let's face reality. December 25 is "Retail Savings Day." I thank God that I have old Christmas memories of the the 30's and 40's to look back on. How great a strategy is it, where EVERY kid needs a toy on this day, so head to Walmart, buy a toy, they will put it in a truck, and see that some kid gets it on Retail Savings Day. Columbus Ohio had four(04) Walmart Semi's FULL of toys, probably purchased at Walmart, paraded through the streets of Columbus, TELEVISED, on their way to a venue where they would be handed out.

I end my prayers each night with a "Happy Birthday." Now it is no longer CHRISTmas. At old Emerson Junior High School, years ago, the last day of school before CHRISTMAS, they put on a play, in the auditorium, with the baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the Wise men the Star, all performed by the upperclassmen. Then, we got a candy cane or a popcorn ball, and went home, to anxiously await, THE DAY.

We even went to church on Christmas Eve. The old First UB church in Dayton was filled with the scent of pine and candles, and Revered Herrick would offer his Christmas Sermon telling the story of the birth of Christ. I can still see the interior of that church at Christmas.

Someone should be convicted of stealing those memories from the young.

I am listening to CHRISTMAS MUSIC coming through our TV. Probably ten or twelve stations, Traditional, Pop, Ultra Hip, Classical, Modern Hits, Country, Navidad (Spanish), Soulful, just to name a few, all Christmas Music. I wonder when that will be forbidden. Come to think of it though, no "Away in a Manger," maybe is is already happening.