People are in Need of a good fish slapping

Dear General Populous,

 

    It has come to my attention that you are all idiots and therefore in need of this notice.  Lets all take a look at our calendar's and realize that it is in fact only November.  I understand that you all seem to be caught up in Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat.  But lets pause and look at a few things.  For starters, we just wrapped up Halloween and as it should be Halloween stuff is on sale.  Now is the time that you should have thanksgiving stuff out.  However it would seem that Thanksgiving is too much of an honest holiday, it isn't about buying stuff and decorating and hoopla, it is about being home with your family, about being thankful that you aren't dead yet and perhaps wondering why there is a buckle on your hat.  But everyone seems to forget it.

   In stores Christmas trees are up, Christmas music is playing.  But to be politically correct we can't call a Christmas tree a Christmas tree, we should probably be calling it a holiday plant friend who allows us to live.   And you can gather round it and sing that you are dreaming of a Caucasian holiday.  (For more on that I would direct you to the Brad Paisley song found here.).  

   Back to the stores though.  For some reason, as I noted today on my twitter.  The Thanksgiving stuff is on sale, as though the holiday had come and gone.  It is shoved out next to the Halloween stuff as though we are done with it.  But it isn't for several weeks still.  Yet the Christmas stuff is out in force.

   Now then, lets remember that you can view Christmas from the secular season or as the religious season.  Now lets say that you want to go with the secular season.  Now, for this you need Santa Claus.  And we all know that he shows up at the Thanksgiving day parade.  So that is the start of the secular season, no problems putting up the tree and decorations after Thanksgiving.  Now lets say you want to go with the religious season.  Well for this one your waiting for Jesus to be born, so that season starts on Christmas (with midnight Mass on Christmas Eve).  That runs to the Epiphany.  Personally I do them both, put my tree up after Thanksgiving and then leave it up till the Epiphany, but thats me.

  I can't begrudge stores like Lowes and Home Depot, they have stuff out so that you can have it ready, but they don't have their stores decorated for Christmas and don't have the Christmas musics blaring when you walk into the store.  

So in closing... knock of these sheniganhs or you will be slapped with a fish!!

-Me