fiyah pon misgiving day

[Tropicana]

I think you guys are all muddled and cockyed. Giving thanks has nothing to do with genocide. Onoo not making any sense.

Next time they are looking for models for the party pooper cartoons on Jackpot Party slot machines, I can think of at least 4 men on here they should call.

[blugiant]

Fi de las' time. Read my keystrokes. Thanksgiving is not Pilgrim's Day or Mayflower Day.

Just because some people abuse a holiday does not mean the holiday is not worth celebrating.

if yuh dare tropi

Ishakamusa Barashango European Holidays Vol.2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb0wQ5Df_q4

[Tropicana]

From mi see dis pawt a de title mi a seh A WHA DAT:

Ishakamusa Barashango


About to click the back button and then I realized it was somebody's name. I figured it was some way out super complicated mumbo jumbo about some ancient religion.



Next time do a lead-in like:

Ishakamusa Barashango's talk about the origin of European religion.

Too much cotton in my head for that today. I need light and fluffy content. But I will have some down time next week so I will check it out and let you know what I think.

[blugiant]

From mi see dis pawt a de title mi a seh A WHA DAT:

Ishakamusa Barashango


About to click the back button and then I realized it was somebody's name. I figured it was some way out super complicated mumbo jumbo about some ancient religion.



Next time do a lead-in like:

Ishakamusa Barashango's talk about the origin of European religion.

Too much cotton in my head for that today. I need light and fluffy content. But I will have some down time next week so I will check it out and let you know what I think.

see mii change itt

[Tropicana]

It still isn't clear that it is a man named Ishakamusa Barashango talking about European holidays. Worded the way it is I would never have clicked on that.

[jah_yout]

if yuh dare tropi

Ishakamusa Barashango European Holidays Vol.2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb0wQ5Df_q4

[Tropicana]

Oh no not too. Are you all undergoing the same programming?

[blugiant]

Oh no not too. Are you all undergoing the same programming?

"We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind; use your intelligence to work out the real things of life. The time you waste in levity, in non-essentials, if you use it properly you will be able to guarantee to your posterity a condition better than you inherited from your forefathers."

Marcus Garvey's original words

[blugiant]

Thanksgiving Openings Eat Into Black Friday Sales




There was lots of anecdotal evidence Friday that suggested malls may have been a little bit emptier the day after Thanksgiving than normal. And now we have numbers to back that up. Foot traffic on the biggest shopping day of the year was down an astounding 11 percent from 2012. And shoppers across the country spent $9.47 billion on Black Friday, a 13.2 percent plunge from last year, according to research firm ShopperTrak. But combined spending on Thanksgiving and Black Friday rose 2.3 percent to $12.3 billion, marking the weakest gains in holiday spending since 2009, highlights Bloomberg.

Despite the online protests and cries that retailers were ruining Thanksgiving by eschewing tradition and opening on Thursday, it seems people like the idea of shopping right before, after, or even perhaps instead of, eating turkey with the family. “The data reflects that Thanksgiving, which along with Christmas was one of two days a year that most stores were closed, is becoming an important day for major retailers,” points out the Associated Press.
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Yet the hope that the Thursday openings would lead to stronger sales overall was apparently dashed. As many had predicted, it just spread out shoppers more. “The Thursday store openings did well,” said Bill Martin, founder of the research firm ShopperTrak, according to the New York Times. “But a lot of it was at the expense of Black Friday.”

The continuing increase of online purchases may have also helped motivate some shoppers to stay at home rather than brave the crowds. Online sales rose 20 percent on Thanksgiving and 19 percent on Black Friday, according to IBM data quoted by Bloomberg. Adobe Systems has even more optimistic data, saying online sales soared 39 percent Friday and 18 percent on Thanksgiving, according to Reuters. The amount of mobile traffic is also seen as particularly significant, accounting for 40 percent of all online traffic on Friday.

“That’s pretty staggering,” Jay Henderson, strategy director for IBM Smarter Commerce tells the New York Times. “You hear a lot about the year of mobile, and this is probably the fifth annual year of mobile. But 40 percent of all traffic feels like a tipping point.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/11/30/shoppertrak_black_friday_sales_plunge_after_thanksgiving_openings.html