The Ungrateful Ones

I digress from my current pattern of humorous and amazing posts to bring you an important message that was discovered upon by my friends and me just recently. I apologize for my inability to thoroughly explore this topic as I'm not an English major ;) I hope instead that this may spark the interests of the rest of you to write some amazing philosophical writing that would change the world. Something like what the transcendentalists did way back when. (I guess I should cut to the chase, hehe)

We, my friends and I, have discovered a sign of the times. We are very disgruntled by the fact that stores and homes around the nation begin decorating for the Christmas holidays directly after Halloween. Even BYU has caught the bug! I witnessed three plastic Christmas trees being placed in the library the other day. Tinsel has been wrapped around various stair railings on campus too. What happened to Thanksgiving? Everyone has a blast decorating, dressing up, and partying for Halloween. Wouldn't you consider Thanksgiving more important than Halloween? Do you get days off of school for Halloween? What about Thanksgiving? I venture to say that this nation is becoming ungrateful for the basic provisions that have been provided! With regard to Christmas, I agree the principle and season of giving is important. But is it more important to give gifts or to give thanks? At least pay a little respect to this dwindling holiday and wait until after Thanksgiving to bring out the tree. It won't kill you to have the decorations up for 1 month instead of 2!

While we're on the subject of debate, another politically active friend of mine from eastern Oregon and I have come up with a brand new idea that we feel has very much potential for success. Here is a political map I put together (thank you CNN.com for the pics) of Washington and Oregon with the current boundary line between the two (red is Republican-dominant, blue is democrat-dominant):

Here is our new proposed boundary line between Washington and Oregon:

Don't you think this will solve so many problems!!!

Now my friends and I don't really plan on debating these topics thoroughly because we were just giggling about them.

"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these [words] did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;"

But comments on this one are always appreciated ;)

In other news, I really felt like posting up this video I took on my phone Halloween night. We were at the dollar theater waiting for a movie to start. We were having fun with the air hockey paddles when we discovered this awesome thing you can do with them:

Try it sometime!