Black Friday shoppers tend to be ignorant sheep

  Today is the busiest shopping day of the year. This is the day when retailers have their 'biggest' sales of the year and offer their 'biggest' deals. Most of the big name stores, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, etc. all feature about 10 different headlining deals that cause holiday shoppers to flock to their stores. Usually, the special deals are offered in limited quantities and the best deals sell out within minutes.
  So, if this is the case, what are customers shopping for, say, a few hours after a store is open? The best deals are gone (although shoppers are hopeful something fell through the cracks).
  What else is there besides a stores other everyday wares?
  The answer, basically, is crap. Merchandise that a buyer purchases, probably very cheaply, and tries to turn a big profit from. Yes, these 'special purchases' are offered at a 'discounted' price. But why would a person who lives in an urban city in the south need camouflaged, fuzzy sleep pants? What kind of gift says 'I love you!' like a piggy bank with Christmas trees painted on the poor pigs side?
  Which brings me to my point: Black Friday shoppers are ignorant sheep.
  Unless a person is actually willing to camp out a stores front doors hours before the store opens, odds are they're not going to get what the intended to purchase. So why not go home and eat leftover turkey?
  Why? Because people will shop and spend money because America tells them that they need to shop and spend money. Followers. Sheep.
  If people would be more patient to buy that perfect Christmas present, they'll find that stores offer equally special deals leading up to Christmas. Instead of having ten different special deals during a sale, a store will offer two or three at a time and spread that out over the course of the four weeks between Christmas and Thanksgiving.
  So, be patient, you'll get your deal.

• Black Friday is no longer a single day of discounts, but rather a month-long extravaganza of consumerist frenzy.

2nd Blog: Obesity

• Fact: 2,500 people die of obesity every day in the US.

  In a world of fast food, grab n' go meals, sodas, snacks, and high fructose corn syrup it is easy to lose focus on our most important thing to take care of: our bodies.
  Remember that while its okay to indulge occasionally in snacks and treats, to make sure that we control our diet and exercise regularly. That way we can live longer and enjoy our lives and families better.
  Just a little reminder here on this Turkey Day.
  Later, I'm going to enjoy turkey and all of the fixings.
  I hope you enjoy as well.

1st Blog

This blog is going to be fun and full of useless facts and interesting (hopefully funny) things that cross my mind.

  Today for example, I've been thinking about people who slip through the professional cracks. Someone who maybe never had the opportunity to attend college and therefore does not have the same opportunities available to them that someone with a degree has.
  Many jobs in this day and age are of a specialized sort that does require a higher education. Doctors, pharmacists, computer programmers, etc. But there are others such as high retail management, construction foremen that a person with experience and no degree could oftentimes do just as well or better than someone with a college education.
  Could an employer not offer jobs, albeit at a lower pay, to someone with the personal qualifications to carry out that job?
  Just wondering.

Fact of the day:

•  A squirrel cannot contract or carry the rabies virus.