#OCCUPYXMAS begins
This years’ Black Friday was a resounding success. Fifty-five billion dollars chimed through cash registers across the USA. Two hundred and fifty-thousand people went into the malls and spent on average 400 hundred dollars each, the biggest shopping day ever. Some notable purchases included ten limited edition Ferraris with matching luggage from Neiman Marcus’s exclusive holiday catalogue, $395,000 each, gobbled up in under an hour.
We in the 99%, alongside our sympathetic friends in the 1%, need to challenge this “normal” way of doing Xmas and come up with a new normal. The holidays need another paradigm.
So what are we occupiers going to do different this season? For starters, we’re going to take the personal plunge and move our money. We’re going to take it away from the big banks and put it into our local credit unions. And that will be the one great first step in breaking beyond the encampments and into the new Xmas imagination.
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bcountry
Shop within, you need no money, just have to put in a little effort....oops that's the problem nobody is looking in the mirror. The gifts could be great especially if you make it beyond all the mind clutter to a personal level. These gifts keep on giving.
bcountry
Shop within, you need no money, just have to put in a little effort....oops that's the problem nobody is looking in the mirror. The gifts could be great especially if you make it beyond all the mind clutter to a personal level. These gifts keep on giving.
greg_2
A Christmas Story - Benji and his Toy Train
Benji loves the small, toy train he got for Christmas. Shhhh... Let's listen in on Benji while he plays.
"I love my new train set," he says. "It goes round and round like this. Watch!" click whir "Whoo, whoo!" he says smiling as the trains starts to go. jiggity jiggity jiggiy, jiggity jiggity jiggity, the little train goes around the track. "Whoo, whoo!"
"Thanks, Santa. I love you. You came all the way down that chimney with a sack on you back just for me. Whoo, whoo!" jiggity jiggity jiggiy, jiggity jiggity jiggity.
"What's that, Dad? Okay." Benji turned off his train and to the call from his father. "I wish we could thank Santa for all these gifts."
"Wha, what's that, Dad? Something important to say? Okay. What? You mean Santa is not real? But what about the gifts?"
At this point, Benji was getting a little scared, but Dad thought he was old enough to know the truth.
"You and Mom bought them? But... You bought the train at a toy store! But, Dad..."
A little tear now showed in Benji's eye, but Dad knew his boy needed to know.
"And it was made in a place called Taiwan? And that when it breaks in a few months we won't be able to fix it; that it'll go into the trash! And then brought to a landfill. And, and... buried?" Tears now streamed from Benji's eyes.
"But," Benji cried. "I don't want a bigger train next year! I want this train. You liar! You liar! Santa Claus brought it! Santa Claus brought it! Oooooo... I hate you. I hate Santa!"
Benji's father tried to hug his little boy, only to get a punch in the groin and he collapsed and Benji ran off.
"But that is Capitalism...," his father faintly called out. "Capitalism...!"
Well, that is our little Christmas Story. Or perhaps we should call it a Christmas Ghost Story?
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"Ho, ho, ho! Merrrrrryy Christmas!"
greg_2
A Christmas Story - Benji and his Toy Train
Benji loves the small, toy train he got for Christmas. Shhhh... Let's listen in on Benji while he plays.
"I love my new train set," he says. "It goes round and round like this. Watch!" click whir "Whoo, whoo!" he says smiling as the trains starts to go. jiggity jiggity jiggiy, jiggity jiggity jiggity, the little train goes around the track. "Whoo, whoo!"
"Thanks, Santa. I love you. You came all the way down that chimney with a sack on you back just for me. Whoo, whoo!" jiggity jiggity jiggiy, jiggity jiggity jiggity.
"What's that, Dad? Okay." Benji turned off his train and to the call from his father. "I wish we could thank Santa for all these gifts."
"Wha, what's that, Dad? Something important to say? Okay. What? You mean Santa is not real? But what about the gifts?"
At this point, Benji was getting a little scared, but Dad thought he was old enough to know the truth.
"You and Mom bought them? But... You bought the train at a toy store! But, Dad..."
A little tear now showed in Benji's eye, but Dad knew his boy needed to know.
"And it was made in a place called Taiwan? And that when it breaks in a few months we won't be able to fix it; that it'll go into the trash! And then brought to a landfill. And, and... buried?" Tears now streamed from Benji's eyes.
"But," Benji cried. "I don't want a bigger train next year! I want this train. You liar! You liar! Santa Claus brought it! Santa Claus brought it! Oooooo... I hate you. I hate Santa!"
Benji's father tried to hug his little boy, only to get a punch in the groin and he collapsed and Benji ran off.
"But that is Capitalism...," his father faintly called out. "Capitalism...!"
Well, that is our little Christmas Story. Or perhaps we should call it a Christmas Ghost Story?
--
"Ho, ho, ho! Merrrrrryy Christmas!"
Whatever
The world sucks because old people wanted it to suck for us and now it will probably suck for Benji, too.
So life sucks and then you find out your shit was made in Taiwan.
Whatever
The world sucks because old people wanted it to suck for us and now it will probably suck for Benji, too.
So life sucks and then you find out your shit was made in Taiwan.
greg_2
Benji goes on to become a rich hedge fund manager. So there.
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Goon: "Someone that is employed as someone's personal enforcer, such as either a personal bodyguard or a ruffian who is kept on staff to intimidate or assault people."
greg_2
Benji goes on to become a rich hedge fund manager. So there.
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Goon: "Someone that is employed as someone's personal enforcer, such as either a personal bodyguard or a ruffian who is kept on staff to intimidate or assault people."
Anonymous
Shhhhhh.... No one should insult fomer American furniture saleman and dual citizen like Benji Netanyahu. When Obama and Sarkozy made joke of Benji at recent G20 meeting in Paris - Abe Foxman, national director ADL, called it "anti-Semitism".
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/sarkozy-obama-kiss-bibi-to-make-up-on-iran/
Anonymous
Shhhhhh.... No one should insult fomer American furniture saleman and dual citizen like Benji Netanyahu. When Obama and Sarkozy made joke of Benji at recent G20 meeting in Paris - Abe Foxman, national director ADL, called it "anti-Semitism".
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/sarkozy-obama-kiss-bibi-to-make-up-on-iran/
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