Comments on: What Time of Year Is It? http://www.bizzyblog.com/2005/11/29/what-time-of-year-is-it/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:12:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Bruce http://www.bizzyblog.com/2005/11/29/what-time-of-year-is-it/#comment-49546 Bruce Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:41:11 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=933#comment-49546 If anybody wants to use my new song to protest Best Buy's anti-Christmas sentiments, help yourself. It's a free download (though you may need to cut and paste the link depending on the software hooked up to this blog site) to get the song to play. Best Buy "Inn" Dr. BLT Words and music by Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen, aka Dr. BLT © 2006 http://www.drblt.net/music/BBInn.mp3 If you like the song, feel free to spread it around the blogosphere, and if you're a conservative radio talk show host, it's royalty free to you and you alone. If you'd like to read Dr. BLT's corresponding "Blog n Roll" blog entry, that link can be found here: http://people.bakersfield.com/home/viewblog.php?id=136&pid=2622 If anybody wants to use my new song to protest Best Buy’s anti-Christmas sentiments, help yourself. It’s a free download (though you may need to cut and paste the link depending on the software hooked up to this blog site) to get the song to play.

Best Buy “Inn”
Dr. BLT
Words and music by Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen, aka Dr. BLT © 2006
http://www.drblt.net/music/BBInn.mp3

If you like the song, feel free to spread it around the blogosphere, and if you’re a conservative radio talk show host, it’s royalty free to you and you alone.

If you’d like to read Dr. BLT’s corresponding “Blog n Roll” blog entry, that link can be found here:
http://people.bakersfield.com/home/viewblog.php?id=136&pid=2622

]]> By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2005/11/29/what-time-of-year-is-it/#comment-2654 TBlumer Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:33:15 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=933#comment-2654 #6, Merry Christmas to you too, smarty pants. #6, Merry Christmas to you too, smarty pants.

]]> By: Jeff Sinnard http://www.bizzyblog.com/2005/11/29/what-time-of-year-is-it/#comment-2653 Jeff Sinnard Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:29:35 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=933#comment-2653 Tom, Just wanted to be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas. Tom,

Just wanted to be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.

]]> By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2005/11/29/what-time-of-year-is-it/#comment-2645 TBlumer Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:53:16 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=933#comment-2645 <p align="left">#3, para 1. My beef is that Dec. 25 is (still) called Christmas, it's the occasion around which at least 90-95% of the gifts are given, and it's treated as if it doesn't exist. The Jewish population managed not to get bent out of shape over "Christmas" forever. It only began with the PC era. </p><p align="left">I guess a real good test would be whether retailers say that "must order by Dec. xx to guarantee that your package arrives by Christmas" or something else. If it's "something else," that would pretty much seal the deal that they're obsessed with not saying it. </p><p align="left">I think the boycotts are silly too for reasons you cited.</p> #3, para 1. My beef is that Dec. 25 is (still) called Christmas, it’s the occasion around which at least 90-95% of the gifts are given, and it’s treated as if it doesn’t exist. The Jewish population managed not to get bent out of shape over “Christmas” forever. It only began with the PC era.

I guess a real good test would be whether retailers say that “must order by Dec. xx to guarantee that your package arrives by Christmas” or something else. If it’s “something else,” that would pretty much seal the deal that they’re obsessed with not saying it.

I think the boycotts are silly too for reasons you cited.

]]> By: Editor http://www.bizzyblog.com/2005/11/29/what-time-of-year-is-it/#comment-2644 Editor Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:48:39 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=933#comment-2644 Hells bells... we survived the Roman Empire and evetually took it over. Surely we can withstand the wrath of a Wal-Mart greater. Hells bells… we survived the Roman Empire and evetually took it over. Surely we can withstand the wrath of a Wal-Mart greater.

]]> By: Kevin Irwin http://www.bizzyblog.com/2005/11/29/what-time-of-year-is-it/#comment-2641 Kevin Irwin Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:28:56 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=933#comment-2641 <p align="left">What about tolerance and inclusivity? Don't mistake the intentions of retailers. They are afraid of alienating people of other faiths, or those with a lack thereof. This isn't a grand scheme to marginalize the importance of Christmas, although marginalizing the consumerism surrounding it would probably be more inline with the teachings of Christ. I guess the question is which is more hypocritical, generic holiday messages to cover a more broad customer base, or actually contributing to the hysteria of the shopping season? </p><p align="left">As for these boycotts, go ahead. Boycott the retailers who depend on the profits of the Christmas season. They'll hire less workers, contribute less to charities, and pay less of a dividend to their shareholders. Which is more ethical, semantics or inclusivity?</p> What about tolerance and inclusivity? Don’t mistake the intentions of retailers. They are afraid of alienating people of other faiths, or those with a lack thereof. This isn’t a grand scheme to marginalize the importance of Christmas, although marginalizing the consumerism surrounding it would probably be more inline with the teachings of Christ. I guess the question is which is more hypocritical, generic holiday messages to cover a more broad customer base, or actually contributing to the hysteria of the shopping season?

As for these boycotts, go ahead. Boycott the retailers who depend on the profits of the Christmas season. They’ll hire less workers, contribute less to charities, and pay less of a dividend to their shareholders. Which is more ethical, semantics or inclusivity?

]]> By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2005/11/29/what-time-of-year-is-it/#comment-2639 TBlumer Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:11:47 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=933#comment-2639 <p align="left">#1, I purposely did not mention what AFA is doing as a result of what they learned (trying to do "boycotts and campaigns," which are ridiculous), and concentrated only on the results of their research (they call it a "survey," but all they did is look at a bunch of flyers--they didn't "survey" anybody). </p><p align="left">I, like the AFA and many others, find the ability of retailers to profit from Christmas shopping while fanatically avoiding the term quite hypocritical, and the AFA documented conclusively that this is what is going on.</p> #1, I purposely did not mention what AFA is doing as a result of what they learned (trying to do “boycotts and campaigns,” which are ridiculous), and concentrated only on the results of their research (they call it a “survey,” but all they did is look at a bunch of flyers–they didn’t “survey” anybody).

I, like the AFA and many others, find the ability of retailers to profit from Christmas shopping while fanatically avoiding the term quite hypocritical, and the AFA documented conclusively that this is what is going on.

]]> By: Kevin Irwin http://www.bizzyblog.com/2005/11/29/what-time-of-year-is-it/#comment-2637 Kevin Irwin Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:04:47 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=933#comment-2637 Isn't this type of campaign sort of ridiculous? Isn’t this type of campaign sort of ridiculous?

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