Call it what you want. But as we all know, the real problem is outsourcing!
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Outsourcing is a wonderful thing for the overall economy. It lowers the prices of goods and services and allows those of modest means to often live better than the kings and queens of a few centuries ago. What about those Americans who lose their jobs? I do not not have a perfect answer, but in the long run the good vastly outweighs the bad.
I agree with you about outsourcing, David, but I put up this link for its comedy value.
We’ve all been pissed at spending hours on the internet phone w/tech support trying to solve complicated computer problems with a guy at the other end who thought he spoke English. But, consider this, huge chunks of “Japanese ” autos are produced in America by Americans.
ìI agree with you about outsourcing, David, but I put up this link for its comedy value.î
Oh gosh, I didnít get the joke. I thought that everybody knew that Santa Claus was originally from Bangalore India! Whatís new about that?
ìWe’ve all been pissed at spending hours on the internet phone w/tech support trying to solve complicated computer problems with a guy at the other end who thought he spoke English.î
Some outsouring doesnít make sense. Many American companies merely wish to jump onto the ìme tooî bandwagon. Thankfully, the free market will ultimately straighten everything out.
and God bless us everyone.
I hope everyone who sees this has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.
I am going to have a white Christmas if I like it or not. We are currently under about 16 inches of snow.
I’m dreaming of a White Christmas
just like the ones I used to know…
actually I grew up in southern Oklahoma and Christams was usually about 50 degrees and sunny.
Happy Holidays folks.
It’s 5°F here Terrye. They promise a high of 8°F.
-15 °C. SOunds more impressive, doesn’t it?
Well, at least outsourcing in this case replaces the stereotypical old, fat white guy with a bi-lingual, racially diverse, multicultural male.
Although we still have that pesky male repressive “paternalism” issue to work through by next Christmas, until then
Merry Christmas, everyone
Disclaimer: By “everyone” I mean only those people who are not offended or threatened by the concept of a Judeo-Christian concept of religion that included a mono-theistic theme of a deity who may, or may not, be regarded as benign.
For everyone else, “Happy Holidays”
I’ll worry about outsourcing when the picture up top this page puts on a turban…
At this time of year as our thoughts turn to the Aztec community whose proud religion has been suppressed for centuries by the Judeo-Christian hegemony.
If anyone would like to attend a service to Huitzilopochtli please contact.
Dave Huehuecoyotl.
No6 The Step Pyramid
Triumphal Way
Ealing
London
UK
I agree with Virginia Postrel on the Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas wars:
Lileks is against it, and he’s part of a national movement. Among all right-thinking bloggers “Happy Holidays” is out and “Merry Christmas” is in.
To which I say, Come to Dallas. Nobody here (except me) will wish you, “Happy Holidays.” Everyone will ask whether you’re ready for Christmas and wish you a merry one. And if, like me, you don’t want to cause anyone to feel bad, you’ll respond politely and let them go right on assuming you celebrate Christmas.
I can’t blame Christians, who are the vast majority of Americans and the ones whose religion is celebrated in all those carols at the mall, for wanting their holiday acknowledged in public. I don’t get offended when Dallasites assume everyone, of course, celebrates Christmas. (Everyone they know does, after all.) And I hope to have a happy, though not necessarily merry, December 25. But I wish good-hearted folks like Lileks would consider that Christmas greetings don’t make everyone feel good.
Why criticize merchants for including all their customers in wishes for a happy holiday season? The holidays do, after all, stretch from Thanksgiving to New Year’s, both nonsectarian holidays. “Happy Holidays” includes Christmas, for those who celebrate it. But it also includes holidays we all share, as well as some others only a minority observe.
When you extend these greetings, are you wishing people happiness? Or affirming your Christianity? Do you want people who don’t celebrate Christmas to be happy (or merry)? Or do you want to make them at least mildly uncomfortable? The answers will determine what you say.
Peter:
They cut out people’s heart don’t they? Does not sound very merry to me.
Eric:
I like Virginia but she does not need to think so much…
somethings just are.
With all due respect to me it seems like this year it’s the militantly pro “Merry Christmas” faction that’s doing a bit of over-thinking this year. “Happy Holidays”, as I understand it, was initially conceived of as a nice, polite greeting that didn’t put people who don’t celebrate Christmas in a socially awkward position. It also has the added benefit of wishing people an even greater bounty of happiness. It includes everything from Hannukah to Kwanzaa to Chrismas to New Year’s to the Ascension to (in my addmittedly radical interpretation) Lunar (“Chinese”) New Year, which usually falls in late January/early February. That’s, like, two months of happiness! Now according to Bill O’Reilly and to the people who are joining the anti-Happy Holidays PACs and going to the stores and militantly insisting on being greeted a certain way, “Happy Holidays” – which is really an expression of midwestern politeness more than anything – is to be seen as the work of the secular elite trying to kick JC out of Christmas; in this country with an extraodinarily devout president and where something like 80% of the people profess to be Christians no less! It’s ludicrous.
“in this country with an extraordinarily(sic) devout president and where something like 80% of the people profess to be Christians no less! It’s ludicrous.”
Ah well, Eric, don’t you know that a perception is fact in the mind of the perceiver!!
Merry Xmas!!
Terrye,
There you go with your negative stereotyping,they are just celebrating their diversity.
Anyway have a Wonderful Christmas.