[enrisaabsotte]

Why can’t we in America handle to truth anymore? We constantly believe lies the media spouts and spread them as fact and we can no longer be truthful with ourselves. For example, the media and almost everyone in the US said the Gulf Oil Spill was a mega-disaster and it was going to kill the state of Florida and parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. However, it was not a disaster, not even close to being one. I live in an area that was supposed to be decimated by the oil spill and we didn’t get even a single tar ball. Instances like this happen all of the time and yet we continue to believe lies and lie to each other. Case in point; Today on CNN.com this article (http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/opinio...hop/index.html) was posted about not shopping on Black Friday. On the homepage there is a pole in which 84% of the people said that retail stores should not be open on Thanksgiving because god forbid people have to work and earn a pay check. Last time I checked people who work in retail can quit their jobs if they don’t want to work. Here’s where the intellectual dishonesty comes in; 84% of people in the poll said stores should be closed, yet I promise stores will be full of people on Thanksgiving. So here we have 84% of people saying stores should be closed knowing they will be in those stores shopping on Thanksgiving. Let’s be honest, as a majority, no one cares about the people who work on Thanksgiving. Just admit it. If we really cared, we would not shop on Thanskgiving and no one would commit crimes because we wouldn’t want the police to have to work. We also will cook Turkeys outside so we don’t burn our houses down so the fire department won’t have to work. Of course none of this will happen because we don’t care about whether anyone has to work on Thanksgiving, but we don’t want to admit to it. Instead we want to lie and say we do care because all we really care about is our image.

[Mymnnarry]

Well, I'm not shopping on Thanksgiving.

You have my word.

[stadiaKab]

ATTACK OF THE WORD WALL!

[gZAhTyWY]

Hey! Stop it! I live in the mid west, and I have claimed destruction to my property from the oil spill! You are going to spoil the oodles of money that I have made off of this!

Living in Missouri is hard enough, without having BP paying me scads of money for their mistake! Don't let them see your complaint, or I may get into some sort of trouble!

Heh heh heh...

[RLRWai4B]

Why can’t we in America handle to truth anymore? We constantly believe lies the media spouts and spread them as fact and we can no longer be truthful with ourselves. For example, the media and almost everyone in the US said the Gulf Oil Spill was a mega-disaster and it was going to kill the state of Florida and parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. However, it was not a disaster, not even close to being one. I live in an area that was supposed to be decimated by the oil spill and we didn’t get even a single tar ball. Instances like this happen all of the time and yet we continue to believe lies and lie to each other. Case in point; Today on CNN.com this article (http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/opinio...hop/index.html) was posted about not shopping on Black Friday. On the homepage there is a pole in which 84% of the people said that retail stores should not be open on Thanksgiving because god forbid people have to work and earn a pay check. Last time I checked people who work in retail can quit their jobs if they don’t want to work. Here’s where the intellectual dishonesty comes in; 84% of people in the poll said stores should be closed, yet I promise stores will be full of people on Thanksgiving. So here we have 84% of people saying stores should be closed knowing they will be in those stores shopping on Thanksgiving. Let’s be honest, as a majority, no one cares about the people who work on Thanksgiving. Just admit it. If we really cared, we would not shop on Thanskgiving and no one would commit crimes because we wouldn’t want the police to have to work. We also will cook Turkeys outside so we don’t burn our houses down so the fire department won’t have to work. Of course none of this will happen because we don’t care about whether anyone has to work on Thanksgiving, but we don’t want to admit to it. Instead we want to lie and say we do care because all we really care about is our image.

I'm laying back and visiting family today.

I haven't bothered to look this up, but I suspect thanksgiving itself doesn't have a lot of shopping - Black Friday, however, probably does. But even that I would call an "artificial" shopping spree. AKA - there's no particular reason for people to want to shop that day, but businesses have declared it a good day to shop, there's a lot of advertising, and sales and coupons to encourage people to shop.