black Friday around the world

I reckon the Jewel in Old Dog's deep north neighborhood is far enough from me that I won't be cleaning out its shelves in my hoarding junket in preparation for the border wars.  By gum mebbe I oughta go down to Indiana and buy one of them cheap shooting irons and head down to the border to see if there are any big Herdez semi trucks idling south of the streets of Laredo and see what kind of persuading I can do with that big iron on my hip to get that truck through.  Yep, that's probably what I ought to do.

I didn't read real close on the tear gas on the border thing.  It seems maybe the issue is shooting our tear gas across the border into another country.  Just in the face of it, seems kind of rude.  Would we like the Canadians to build pancake houses on the border and send the smell of maple syrup wafting across the border.  Hum, well yes, I suppose we would, unless it was that syrup that made you shit on the spot.

This Friendsgiving sounds like those Champaign Thanksgivings of my yore with the cheap food in the ratty apartment and lots of beer.  I think it's more a thing of youth when you are a little estranged from your family and the allure of your cool new friends, so much cooler than your stodgy old family, is so strong that you would rather be with them than nagging mom and pop.  But t seems as years go by your friends begin to seem not all that good, and you family not all that bad.

At my Thanksgiving this year my nephew asked his girlfriend, who is a Filipina, if they had Thanksgiving in her country.  That was kind of a stupid question, but I learned later that the rest of the world, has adopted Black Friday.  Well why not they have adopted Christmas, the Santa Christmas, not the Baby Jesus Christmas, which I think makes perfect sense because it is even more blatantly about stuff than the 25th.

Beagles and I read the same article, but obviously we have different slants on the issue.  I like this fish patrol guys just fine, but I don't think they have much in common with the Cowboys and Mexican guys.  "Gentlemen, let's go down to the river and monitor the situation with the sturgeon and if there is something nefarious going on we shall alert the proper authorities." sounds pretty reasonable and if I was a bleeding heart sturgeon guy and had some time on my hands, I might be of a mind to join them,.

But if I hear somebody saying, "Hey guys let's grab our guns and go down to the border and keep them Mexicans out, and if we happen to run into some drug smugglers or whatever we'll let Old Betsy do our talking for us, what could go wrong?" I think I would discover that my calendar was all booked up.