When I was a kid, you could count on a few things like clockwork.

The Dutch closed their businesses on Sunday. No exceptions.
The Jews closed their businesses on Saturday and sometimes Sunday.
The Poles, Czechs, Slovaks were open every day. They may not have actually worked Sundays themselves but their businesses were open.

All the businesses I worked at were open Christmas Eve, though only for a few hours. And if Christmas happened midweek we worked the days after. Thanksgiving was the same.

The steel mills were oblivious to holidays. You didn’t shut down a multimilliondollar blast furnace because of Jesus. Well, you could, but the money lost is insane. Same with Coke furnaces. Rolling mills can shift their schedules, but the base operatons of steel mills do not stop. Refineries are similar. Newspapers still get printed on Christmas day.

There has been a notable drift away from celebration of religious holidays. Nobody can have a nativity scene, or a menorah.

So why all the whining about working thanksgiving, or Christmas? Why are morons protesting outside of walmart, if thanksgiving means nothing?

Sounds like they are fine with the holiday so long as it suits their purposes. As long as they can use it to further their agenda.

Today I went out to pick up some hardware items. I’m clearing a space in the office for some new equipment and needed to tie some wires back so I bought a small handful of Cat5 wire clips. I bet I have two thousand but I’d never find them here on a bet.

What I saw were people doing their jobs. Most of them pretty happy. Probably, in this economy, happy to have a gig. Sure, there were some pained expressions as they dealt with morons, but in the main, normal people doing business in the normal way.

Having worked those hours myself, in factories as well as in retail, I know what it can be like. SO I am unfailingly polite to people- I always try to be anyway, but on days like today especially so. I know those salespeople are dealing with the worst people can be, and they are trying to do so with as much professionalism as they can muster. Some are doing better than others. I cut them all a break because they earn it, in my mind.

The left can’t be tied to anything because like a kid caught in a lie they change their tone as often as it suits them. Call them on it, and you’re racist, bigoted, whatever. Once upon a time there were adults in charge who spanked them down like the children they were, but the hippies that brought us the summer of love are now our educators, our media, our union leaders, and our politicians.

We’ve left the children in charge a very long time. We are witnessing the truth about Obamacare etc. hitting home, and people are beginning to be very upset; if at some point we manage to tell the children they can’t have what they want, we will witness a tantrum the likes of which nobody anywhere has ever seen.

At present, the Catholic Church has a leader who seems to have his head firmly implanted in his rectum. This is not news, we have had really horrible popes in the past. It doesn’t reflect back on the faithful except to the point they pay attention to him. Remember that as the President is not America, the Pope is not Catholicism. Through bad popes and good, the Catholic Church has survived- thrived, really. Just as Americans have thrived despite a string of really horrid Commanders in Chief. We adapt, we improvise, we overcome. New wealth is created despite the government’s attempt to turn us into a society with a small but powerful investor class and a large FSA class and a wide band of plough horses separating them. When the FSA is no longer of value to the Investor class they will be allowed to starve, and the Investor class cannot live at all without the labor of others.

Just as the faithful of the Churches- all of them- have kept Christianity alive, the faithful of the Dream with keep America alive. It may exist only in black markets and in bitcoin and barter, and it may be driven underground, persecuted, prosecuted. That spirit is an essential part of human nature; striving has been bred out of the FSA but it is still what makes the rest of us get out of bed every day to go make a difference.

Nobody can take my holidays away. Nobody can make me be uncivil to a fellow human just because that is how I’m ‘Supposed” to act. Nobody can take away my faith, because they didn’t give it to me in the first place. And nobody can take way my rights, for the same reason.

Happy holidays, folks.