Some good ideas here.


Christmas 2011 -- Birth of a New Tradition

As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high
gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods --
merchandise that has been produced at the expense of American labor. This
year will be different. This year Americans will give the gift of genuine
concern for other Americans. There is no longer an excuse that, at gift
giving time, nothing can be found that is produced by American hands. Yes
there is!

It's time to think outside the box, people. Who says a gift needs to fit in
a shirt box, wrapped in Chinese produced wrapping paper?

Everyone -- yes EVERYONE gets their hair cut. How about gift certificates
from your local American hair salon or barber?

Gym membership? It's appropriate for all ages who are thinking about some
health improvement.

Who wouldn't appreciate getting their car detailed? Small, American owned
detail shops and car washes would love to sell you a gift certificate or a
book of gift certificates.

Are you one of those extravagant givers who think nothing of plunking down
the Benjamines on a Chinese made flat-screen? Perhaps that grateful gift
receiver would like his driveway sealed, or lawn mowed for the summer, or
driveway plowed all winter, or games at the local golf course.

There are a bazillion owner-run restaurants -- all offering gift
certificates. And, if your intended isn't the fancy eatery sort, what about
a half dozen breakfasts at the local breakfast joint. Remember, folks this
isn't about big National chains -- this is about supporting your home town
Americans with their financial lives on the line to keep their doors open.

How many people couldn't use an oil change for their car, truck or
motorcycle, done at a shop run by the American working guy?

Thinking about a heartfelt gift for mom? Mom would LOVE the services of a
local cleaning lady for a day.

My computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young guy who is
struggling to get his repair business up and running.

OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts people spin
their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and pottery
and beautiful wooden boxes.

Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and leave
your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or ballet at
your hometown theatre.

Musicians need love too, so find a venue showcasing local bands.

Honestly, people, do you REALLY need to buy another ten thousand Chinese
lights for the house? When you buy a five dollar string of light, about
fifty cents stays in the community. If you have those kinds of bucks to
burn, leave the mailman, trash guy or babysitter a nice BIG tip.

You see, Christmas is no longer about draining American pockets so that
China can build another glittering city. Christmas is now about caring about
US, encouraging American small businesses to keep plugging away to follow
their dreams. And, when we care about other Americans, we care about our
communities, and the benefits come back to us in ways we couldn't imagine.

THIS is the new American Christmas tradition.

Pass it on.

On 06/11/2011 3:39 PM, John H wrote:

My computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young guy who is
struggling to get his repair business up and running.

Actually, do your family computer guy a favor and skip this. If I
charges my relatives for this it would be cheaper for me to buy them a
new one, then join the party having fun. If the user has messed it up
with too much garbage, hit the recovery button after backing up your
data. Or buy a new one from Cosco for $499 that will probably be 10
times faster to start with.

Sort of like the mechanic principle. I you have a mechanic everyone
wants a free $400 tuneup while you and others enjoy the booze and company.

For that reason, I tell relatives, buy a new one for your own present
and give them some ideal models. And not everyone needs a Mac or the
high priced models.

OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts people spin
their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and pottery
and beautiful wooden boxes.

And we don't need more Santa, I put my foot down this year when we tried
to count them and gave up at 150. 1/2 have never been used.

Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and leave
your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or ballet at
your hometown theatre.

Why? So someone else's whiny kid can scream all night in my ear?

Better, get some wine, not whine. A good prime rib roast you slow cook
all day. Give you a 2" cut for less than 1/8th the cost of going out
for some minuscule hag meat.

Oh, and put down the damned iPads and iPods, give everyone a deck of
cards and crib board with a card game book, yep paper. Or a chess
board. More social interaction that way.

As at the end of the day, Christmas as defined by retail stores are like
diamonds. Neither will keep your family together.
--
The reason government can't fix the economic problems is government is
the problem.

On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:45:41 -0700, Canuck57 wrote:

On 06/11/2011 3:39 PM, John H wrote:

My computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young guy who is
struggling to get his repair business up and running.

Actually, do your family computer guy a favor and skip this. If I
charges my relatives for this it would be cheaper for me to buy them a
new one, then join the party having fun. If the user has messed it up
with too much garbage, hit the recovery button after backing up your
data. Or buy a new one from Cosco for $499 that will probably be 10
times faster to start with.

Sort of like the mechanic principle. I you have a mechanic everyone
wants a free $400 tuneup while you and others enjoy the booze and company.

For that reason, I tell relatives, buy a new one for your own present
and give them some ideal models. And not everyone needs a Mac or the
high priced models.

OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts people spin
their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and pottery
and beautiful wooden boxes.

And we don't need more Santa, I put my foot down this year when we tried
to count them and gave up at 150. 1/2 have never been used.

Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and leave
your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or ballet at
your hometown theatre.

Why? So someone else's whiny kid can scream all night in my ear?

Better, get some wine, not whine. A good prime rib roast you slow cook
all day. Give you a 2" cut for less than 1/8th the cost of going out
for some minuscule hag meat.

Oh, and put down the damned iPads and iPods, give everyone a deck of
cards and crib board with a card game book, yep paper. Or a chess
board. More social interaction that way.

As at the end of the day, Christmas as defined by retail stores are like
diamonds. Neither will keep your family together.

I think you should spend Christmas day watching the business channel - with no sound or picture.

On 11/6/2011 10:05 PM, John H wrote:
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:45:41 -0700, wrote:

On 06/11/2011 3:39 PM, John H wrote:

My computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young guy who is
struggling to get his repair business up and running.

Actually, do your family computer guy a favor and skip this. If I
charges my relatives for this it would be cheaper for me to buy them a
new one, then join the party having fun. If the user has messed it up
with too much garbage, hit the recovery button after backing up your
data. Or buy a new one from Cosco for $499 that will probably be 10
times faster to start with.

Sort of like the mechanic principle. I you have a mechanic everyone
wants a free $400 tuneup while you and others enjoy the booze and company.

For that reason, I tell relatives, buy a new one for your own present
and give them some ideal models. And not everyone needs a Mac or the
high priced models.

OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts people spin
their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and pottery
and beautiful wooden boxes.

And we don't need more Santa, I put my foot down this year when we tried
to count them and gave up at 150. 1/2 have never been used.

Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and leave
your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or ballet at
your hometown theatre.

Why? So someone else's whiny kid can scream all night in my ear?

Better, get some wine, not whine. A good prime rib roast you slow cook
all day. Give you a 2" cut for less than 1/8th the cost of going out
for some minuscule hag meat.

Oh, and put down the damned iPads and iPods, give everyone a deck of
cards and crib board with a card game book, yep paper. Or a chess
board. More social interaction that way.

As at the end of the day, Christmas as defined by retail stores are like
diamonds. Neither will keep your family together.

I think you should spend Christmas day watching the business channel - with no sound or picture.

Have you forgotten the reason for the season? Doubt it. But I did have
to ask just to spark up ol Krausie and JPS.

--
Jack Schidt

On 11/7/11 7:47 AM, Jack wrote:
On 11/6/2011 10:05 PM, John H wrote:
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:45:41 -0700, wrote:

On 06/11/2011 3:39 PM, John H wrote:

My computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young
guy who is
struggling to get his repair business up and running.

Actually, do your family computer guy a favor and skip this. If I
charges my relatives for this it would be cheaper for me to buy them a
new one, then join the party having fun. If the user has messed it up
with too much garbage, hit the recovery button after backing up your
data. Or buy a new one from Cosco for $499 that will probably be 10
times faster to start with.

Sort of like the mechanic principle. I you have a mechanic everyone
wants a free $400 tuneup while you and others enjoy the booze and
company.

For that reason, I tell relatives, buy a new one for your own present
and give them some ideal models. And not everyone needs a Mac or the
high priced models.

OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts
people spin
their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and
pottery
and beautiful wooden boxes.

And we don't need more Santa, I put my foot down this year when we tried
to count them and gave up at 150. 1/2 have never been used.

Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and
leave
your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or
ballet at
your hometown theatre.

Why? So someone else's whiny kid can scream all night in my ear?

Better, get some wine, not whine. A good prime rib roast you slow cook
all day. Give you a 2" cut for less than 1/8th the cost of going out
for some minuscule hag meat.

Oh, and put down the damned iPads and iPods, give everyone a deck of
cards and crib board with a card game book, yep paper. Or a chess
board. More social interaction that way.

As at the end of the day, Christmas as defined by retail stores are like
diamonds. Neither will keep your family together.

I think you should spend Christmas day watching the business channel -
with no sound or picture.

Have you forgotten the reason for the season? Doubt it. But I did have
to ask just to spark up ol Krausie and JPS.


Most of us with working brains just giggle at your posts and the posts
of your butt buddies here, Jackoff.

On Nov 7, 7:53*am, X ` Man dump-on-conservati...@anywhere-you-
can.com wrote:
On 11/7/11 7:47 AM, Jack wrote:





On 11/6/2011 10:05 PM, John H wrote:
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:45:41 -0700, wrote:

On 06/11/2011 3:39 PM, John H wrote:

My computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young
guy who is
struggling to get his repair business up and running.

Actually, do your family computer guy a favor and skip this. If I
charges my relatives for this it would be cheaper for me to buy them a
new one, then join the party having fun. If the user has messed it up
with too much garbage, hit the recovery button after backing up your
data. Or buy a new one from Cosco for $499 that will probably be 10
times faster to start with.

Sort of like the mechanic principle. I you have a mechanic everyone
wants a free $400 tuneup while you and others enjoy the booze and
company.

For that reason, I tell relatives, buy a new one for your own present
and give them some ideal models. And not everyone needs a Mac or the
high priced models.

OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts
people spin
their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and
pottery
and beautiful wooden boxes.

And we don't need more Santa, I put my foot down this year when we tried
to count them and gave up at 150. 1/2 have never been used.

Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and
leave
your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or
ballet at
your hometown theatre.

Why? So someone else's whiny kid can scream all night in my ear?

Better, get some wine, not whine. A good prime rib roast you slow cook
all day. Give you a 2" cut for less than 1/8th the cost of going out
for some minuscule hag meat.

Oh, and put down the damned iPads and iPods, give everyone a deck of
cards and crib board with a card game book, yep paper. Or a chess
board. More social interaction that way.

As at the end of the day, Christmas as defined by retail stores are like
diamonds. Neither will keep your family together.

I think you should spend Christmas day watching the business channel -
with no sound or picture.

Have you forgotten the reason for the season? Doubt it. But I did have
to ask just to spark up ol Krausie and JPS.

Most of us with working brains just giggle at your posts and the posts
of your butt buddies here, Jackoff.-

If you had a working brain you'd read the headers and get a clue.

On 06/11/2011 8:05 PM, John H wrote:
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:45:41 -0700, wrote:

On 06/11/2011 3:39 PM, John H wrote:

My computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young guy who is
struggling to get his repair business up and running.

Actually, do your family computer guy a favor and skip this. If I
charges my relatives for this it would be cheaper for me to buy them a
new one, then join the party having fun. If the user has messed it up
with too much garbage, hit the recovery button after backing up your
data. Or buy a new one from Cosco for $499 that will probably be 10
times faster to start with.

Sort of like the mechanic principle. I you have a mechanic everyone
wants a free $400 tuneup while you and others enjoy the booze and company.

For that reason, I tell relatives, buy a new one for your own present
and give them some ideal models. And not everyone needs a Mac or the
high priced models.

OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts people spin
their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and pottery
and beautiful wooden boxes.

And we don't need more Santa, I put my foot down this year when we tried
to count them and gave up at 150. 1/2 have never been used.

Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and leave
your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or ballet at
your hometown theatre.

Why? So someone else's whiny kid can scream all night in my ear?

Better, get some wine, not whine. A good prime rib roast you slow cook
all day. Give you a 2" cut for less than 1/8th the cost of going out
for some minuscule hag meat.

Oh, and put down the damned iPads and iPods, give everyone a deck of
cards and crib board with a card game book, yep paper. Or a chess
board. More social interaction that way.

As at the end of the day, Christmas as defined by retail stores are like
diamonds. Neither will keep your family together.

I think you should spend Christmas day watching the business channel - with no sound or picture.

You should get together with some of the fleabagger hommies.
--
The reason government can't fix the economic problems is government is
the problem.

On 06/11/2011 7:50 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:45:41 -0700,
wrote:

Actually, do your family computer guy a favor and skip this. If I
charges my relatives for this it would be cheaper for me to buy them a
new one, then join the party having fun. If the user has messed it up
with too much garbage, hit the recovery button after backing up your
data. Or buy a new one from Cosco for $499 that will probably be 10
times faster to start with.

If that is your recommendation why not just tell them to format their
C drive and reload the operating system from the start up disk.?

Same thing, but most HP, Acer and many others, if you hold down the
recovery key on boot, you go to a recovery partition that is much
faster. And how many regular users ever made the recovery DVDs?

If they are just starting from zero, why not do it for free?

I never charge relatives, but I don't get stuck putzing with the
computer when I came over for social activities. Maybe for 5 minutes,
but you could kill a whole evening reclaiming a 5 year old infested
computer. I don't do that for myself. (but I don't load crud and spyware)

What you pay for is transferring all of the stuff you have stored and
getting the machine configured the way you like it.

I make them sit down with me and I talk them through doing it for
themselves. After that, they are on their own. See, select folder,
send to DVD, right click burn exit done. (or USB). Backup complete.

--
The reason government can't fix the economic problems is government is
the problem.

On 11/6/11 9:50 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:45:41 -0700,
wrote:

Actually, do your family computer guy a favor and skip this. If I
charges my relatives for this it would be cheaper for me to buy them a
new one, then join the party having fun. If the user has messed it up
with too much garbage, hit the recovery button after backing up your
data. Or buy a new one from Cosco for $499 that will probably be 10
times faster to start with.

If that is your recommendation why not just tell them to format their
C drive and reload the operating system from the start up disk.?

If they are just starting from zero, why not do it for free?

What you pay for is transferring all of the stuff you have stored and
getting the machine configured the way you like it.


Ahhh, the delights of an Apple computer...which makes the backup,
restore and setting up a new computer with your old stuff as easy
as...apple pi (yes, I know.)

On 11/7/2011 7:10 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/6/11 9:50 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:45:41 -0700,
wrote:

Actually, do your family computer guy a favor and skip this. If I
charges my relatives for this it would be cheaper for me to buy them a
new one, then join the party having fun. If the user has messed it up
with too much garbage, hit the recovery button after backing up your
data. Or buy a new one from Cosco for $499 that will probably be 10
times faster to start with.

If that is your recommendation why not just tell them to format their
C drive and reload the operating system from the start up disk.?

If they are just starting from zero, why not do it for free?

What you pay for is transferring all of the stuff you have stored and
getting the machine configured the way you like it.


Ahhh, the delights of an Apple computer...which makes the backup,
restore and setting up a new computer with your old stuff as easy
as...apple pi (yes, I know.)

Apples are designed to be user friendly to computer illiterates. Don't
puff yourself up too much Mr. Pufferfish. "Even an idiot can do it".
Yup, that applies to you Krausie baby.

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