My dad sent me an email and he immigrated to this country with his parents during WWII. I think Teddy Roosevelt says it best:

“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equalitywith everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against anysuch man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of anation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

Theodore Roosevelt, 1907

So yeah, seems retailers all over from Wal-Mart, to Target, to Walgreens are all running with their hair on fire from the work ‘Christ’. All of these guys are resorting to the safety of ‘Happy Holidays’ or something more bland for their Christmas season advertisements. How brave of them. I think i heard a stat  where Wal-Mart said that ‘we figure that 18% of our customers could be offended by the word Christmas. 18 percent??!! are you nuts what about the over 82% of your customers that think its O.K.? What about the people in rural areas that made you Wal-Mart? Most of the conservative Christians! a bunch of monkeys… all of em!

I have also heard that Walgreens MAY change their advertising next year as the out-cry against their anti ‘Christ’ message during the holidays has been huge. BTW, don’t they know that the word ‘Holiday’ comes from the words ‘Holy Day’? Watch out guys, that word will be next!!

That’s right, an old Kulvinskas tradition… Basically involves shouting:

“Pinch and a Punch for the first of the month!”

[pinching the person]
[punching the person]
[running away]

The pinched/punched person cannot retaliate.

Seems with technology and distance we have revised the rules. We can call each other and when you can identify the person’s voice on the line with a “hello” you can then virtually pinch and punch the person by saying the fabled line above. Seems i fall for it every time and am caught on my laurels. Anyway, if you are reading this on the First of December…. “Pinch and a Punch for the first of the month!”… consider your self pinched and punched.

-e to the k