Northern weather

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rush says it's a hoax...he must be back on the pain-meds...

C'mon, healey. Rush did NOT say that. Al Roker said that Rush said that. Never put it past a liberal idiot to try to embarrass a conservative to try to make him look like a fool. Look up Rush's transcript. He never said that.

You guys just eat up that mainstream bullshit!

You’re right, Mitch, he never says it’s a hoax. He says it’s (1) an embellished fabrication by the government to support their contentions regarding climate change, and (2) a conspiracy by local government, the media and the American retail industry to drive rampant consumerism.

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/09/05/my-analysis-of-the-hurricane-irma-panic/

But he never said it was a hoax.

[robert.]

My electric bill. A cool summer helps.

[J. S. Bach]

You got me beat, my last was $24.01. But then my central air is not working properly and I can not afford to have it fixed at this time. And in a month or so it will not matter.

[v8vega]

After leaving the pil0t light on my heater on all summer because it's a pain to light. Now on the 1st cold morning it somehow got blown out recently. Arrg.

[rex desilets]

Rush says it's a hoax...he must be back on the pain-meds...

C'mon, healey. Rush did NOT say that. Al Roker said that Rush said that. Never put it past a liberal idiot to try to embarrass a conservative to try to make him look like a fool. Look up Rush's transcript. He never said that.

You guys just eat up that mainstream bullshit!

Oh, you've noticed, too?

[robert.]

Kind of early

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Kind of early

Where?

I'm so tired of this starting the Christmas stuff before Halloween is over.....bad enough before Thanksgiving. Really defines an aspect of our society - use every holiday to its max to sell crap as fast as you can. Who would have predicted that GW's and Abe's birthday would be celebrated by mattress sales,

[rogruth]

Several different chain stores in our area have Christmas. Halloweeen and Thanksgiving all out now.
Maybe they are trying to tell us to get it before it is destroyed by various means, fire, flood, riot,
hurricane, war, etc.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Several different chain stores in our area have Christmas. Halloweeen and Thanksgiving all out now.
Maybe they are trying to tell us to get it before it is destroyed by various means, fire, flood, riot,
hurricane, war, etc.

Those might be good reasons, if they were in play - it's just greed.......that sadly most folks just go along with.

[robert.]

Wally World had the trees. Candy was in a specialty store(world good/market).

[up148]

Everything for the almighty dollar. They've been pushing holiday sales earlier and earlier for years, but christmas in September is ridiculous. Totally destroys the specialness of a holiday season we knew as youngsters.

BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Totally destroys the specialness of a holiday season we knew as youngsters.

That got done for me when Black Friday became a "holiday" that celebrated the stupidity of folks that have forgotten what Christmas is all about and why we celebrate it.

[rex desilets]

Totally destroys the specialness of a holiday season we knew as youngsters.

That got done for me when Black Friday became a "holiday" that celebrated the stupidity of folks that have forgotten what Christmas is all about and why we celebrate it.

Back in the 17th Century the Puritans forbade celebrating Christmas as being pagan. Perhaps they foresaw the late 20th/21st Centuries.
BTW- their prohibition didn't last very long as too many of their flock snuck over to have fun with the Anglicans.

[rex desilets]

What is Christmas all about? Silly man. It's the occasion wherein you buy a load of cheap Chinese plastic crap at Toys-R-Us or Walmart, disposable by New Years, to gratify the "unbridled avarice" of young children conditioned by hours of watching TV. Later, it's the electronic gimcrackey that every older child must have.
I know whereof I speak, from sad experience of 4 children and eight grandchildren. *snort*

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What is Christmas all about? Silly man. It's the occasion wherein you buy a load of cheap Chinese plastic crap at Toys-R-Us or Walmart, disposable by New Years, to gratify the "unbridled avarice" of young children conditioned by hours of watching TV. Later, it's the electronic gimcrackey that every older child must have.

Not round this home, it's not like that all all. We exchange thoughtful and oft-times truly useful gifts interlaced with those designed to generate a good laugh when possible.

However, I do deeply appreciate the use of the word "gimcrackey" despite my thinking it was "gimcrackery"........ Archaic vocabulary applied correctly,

I know whereof I speak, from sad experience of 4 children and eight grandchildren. *snort*

That may fall within the large master file labeled self-inflicted wound,