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Conservatives have responded poorly to Chic-Fil-A’s abandonment of The Salvation Army. The problem is not that the company has arguably joined the Left’s zeitgeist with its corporate donations. The problem is that companies make donations at all.
A corporation is just individuals working as a team for business purposes. Whatever money donated by the company is taken from the same revenue that supports wages/salaries and can be invested in the company for the good of all employees.
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Halloween is not immutable. Common American traditions today bear only the slightest resemblance to druidic rituals and superstitious people casting frightened glances over dimly lit turnips. Trick-or-treating today isn’t even the same today as it was just 30 or 40 years ago. Heck, some families meet in parking lots to distribute candy from car trunks, because walking a neighborhood at sundown is apparently too dangerous for attended kids.
Few today believe in whatever these traditions once stood for. Halloween is not connected to All Hallows’ Day in most minds. It is not about dodging ghosts or nodding to ancestors.
Halloween is simply an occasion for fun. Americans don’t have many holidays; fewer still not initiated by government. Halloween is about candy and silly costumes and pumpkin carving, and all those things that can get little children excited.
The rise of socialism and nanny state ideologies in the West demands a response, but a cheerful and hopeful one. Too often conservatives are caught in anger explaining why the Left’s ideas won’t work instead of happily explaining why our ideas have succeeded and could succeed again.
It all reminds me of a child learning to ride a bike.
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Autumn hit like a hammer this year. In little more than a week, coastal Texas dropped from blistering 100-degree days to chilly 50-degree nights. In the middle there, if only for a day or two, is perfection.
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No Greater Love is a documentary by a 101st Airborne chaplain interviewing his fellow soldiers about their time in Afghanistan. It is currently included with Amazon Prime for streaming. It’s the best insight into modern soldier experience as I’ve seen.
No dramatizations. Just the soldiers’ own accounts punctuated by pictures and the chaplain’s video camera footage. From combat and strategy to difficult recoveries and processing memories, it is brutal (though no violence or injury is shown) but worthwhile.
Is there a limit to how long the global warming / climate change scam can be kept alive? Is there certainly a point at which predictions of global climate catastrophe must be admitted incorrect?
Honestly, I thought the fear mongering would have lost some traction by now. But every other day I read about some new marketing tie-in.
While conversing with an old friend from Mexico, she mentioned that travel is more dangerous than it was when she first made the (legal) border crossing. “Men with guns” now ride the bus with her.
Of course, a conservative Texan wouldn’t be uneasy around “men with guns” so long as they were good responsible men with guns. It is generally easy to distinguish someone who carries for protection versus a gangster thug who wants everyone around him to feel threatened. But such a distinction between lawful gun carriers and dangerous criminals doesn’t occur to someone living where only criminals carry weapons.
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Halloween is not immutable. Common American traditions today bear only the slightest resemblance to druidic rituals and superstitious people casting frightened glances over dimly lit turnips. Trick-or-treating today isn’t even the same today as it was just 30 or 40 years ago. Heck, some families meet in parking lots to distribute candy from car trunks, because walking a neighborhood at sundown is apparently too dangerous for attended kids.
