MEMORIAL DAY - JOHNNY CASH THAT RAGGED OLD FLAG

AT YOUR SERVICE ? CLERKS ARE JERKS and OTHER FACTS OF LIFE 2011

DON'T YOU WISH? Seems like we've encountered a lot of clerks who are jerks lately. Sadly, most of them seem to be youthful, first job out of high school or college, and deeply unhappy with their minimum wage or not much better job. We know what it is to work a cash register in a retail store, or waitress in a restaurant where the tabs aren't too high and neither are the tips.


But a job is a job, and when it's service it's service - until you can do better.


We're not saying to put up with a customer being ABUSIVE to you but most of the time the cranky ones are tired, hungry, been on their feet too long, or SIMPLY TIRED OF SPENDING THEIR MONEY WHERE THE SERVICE HAS GONE TO HELL!


Many of us cannot seem to locate an employee at all to help us find products and we ARE SAYING THANK YOU TO BUS DRIVERS AND CASHIERS who should be saying THANK YOU TO US!

THRIFT STORES GO BEGGING?

BEEN TO YOUR LOCAL THRIFT STORE LATELY?

You may have noticed that the racks and shelves look a bit sparse. That's not just because more people are shopping at thrift stores but also BECAUSE DONATIONS ARE DOWN.

According to the management of one thrift store we went to, donations are down because now people are selling their things rather than donating.

And we notice that garage sales on lawns seem to be happening more in neighborhoods where the people who donate live!

DESECRATION OF THE AMERICAN FLAG TO SELL CARS?

Desecration of the American Flag? This car dealership went wherever (belly up?) on Van Nuys Boulevard and Chandler Boulevard, in Van Nuys California, Los Angeles. For months the shredded American Flags flew. We were horrified that the business was not required to take these flags down. WE SERIOUSLY QUESTION THE USE OF OUR GREAT AMERICAN FLAG AS A MARKETING TOOL, if the flags are not well cared for.

We were ready to contact the City Councilman of this district to protest, but we went back out there and a new business seems to have opened at this location.

CRACKER JACK

Frito-Lay of Plano Texas includes ALL AMERICAN CRACKER JACK as one of their brands and you can link to Cracker Jack's own website.

WE LIKE THE PRIZES WHICH INCLUDE ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND GEORGE WASHINGTON face puzzles!

Guaranteed Fresh (this is easy because we eat Cracker Jack so much it's unlikely you'll ever find a stale bag at the store!

"Cracker Jack brand has been an American favorite for more than 105 years. The delicious blend of caramel coated popcorn and peanuts is just as good as you remember. And who can forget the thrill of opening the toy surprise inside!

BIN LADEN DEAD and so NOW WHAT?

We believe that the beginning of this Great Depression was the 9/11 terrorist attack orchestrated with Muslim fundamentalist terrorist pride, by Bin Laden. (Link to a Christian Science Monitor article about him as a FAILURE and a FRAUD.) This was also the end of our assumption that we could walk into grocery stores, public buildings, airports, and hospitals and NOT go through low dose X-ray type machinery, body searches, and bag checks. NO AMERICAN IS NOT WHAT IT ONCE WAS when everyone is suspected of being a terrorist.

Our usual television programming was interrupted to bring us the news, and how we wish the death of this person would mean the END OF TERRORISM, and THE END OF A CRUSHINGLY EXPENSIVE WAR! Instead, our city is on terrorist alert.

Once again we advise you to do everything possible to buy American! It is a start and something you CAN DO to stimulate the economy even coming from a very low income.
BUY AT GARAGE SALES and THRIFT SHOPS, RECYCLE things you don't want any more, anything to buy new imported products.

ARE YOU STILL DRIVING YOUR CAR WITH GAS AT OVER FOUR DOLLARS A GALLON?

JOE LOUIS PATRIOTIC POSTER

It's not that we're hawks. We believe in a strong DEFENSE. We believe in keeping our own country strong. To do that we have to have and keep PROSPERITY. We have to take care of our own first, before we can afford to be generous to other countries and their people! How easy it is for them to make us feel Guilty.

But we are still waiting for paybacks.

And no matter who the President is it's lousy financial policy to let those Countries default on us!