Canada Free Press:
There was a time when I did not care where I bought my Christmas gifts from. It was in the late 1970s when Sears and J.C. Penney delivered their heavy Christmas catalogs to our rural and urban homes and women spent hours perusing the tome for the latest toys for their kids, home decorations, furniture, clothes, Christmas wreaths and trees, bedding, and other necessities for our homes. Men bought the dependable Craftsman tools. We shopped for our TVs, camera, stoves, refrigerators, microwaves, washers and dryers from Sears. The famous brand, Kenmore, came in special colors like puke green and we could order those for $10 extra.
Today progressives tell us that we must not offend new arrivals with our Christmas traditions
We had fewer choices, true, and there was no Amazon monopoly that conveniently dropped packages on our front doors even on Sunday via USPS or even drones. The mailman came bearing our packages. If we wanted variety, we drove to Walmart or Kmart which had not yet become superstores to make them one stop for everything.
We knew that what we ordered by mail was made in America, with proud American labor. We did not spend any time worrying about the CEO’s socialist all-encompassing political views now expressed overtly for all to see and hear. We did not spend a minute’s time thinking about the company’s anti-American stance before we opened our wallets to shop.
Credit cards were not a common thing and you had to be quite wealthy to have a Visa, a Mastercard, or an American Express card. Cell phones did not exist for the average Joe and Jane and kid’s toys were quite advanced if they had a battery that allowed children to learn spelling, counting, addition, and subtraction. Kids had to use their creativity to play outside.
We loved Christmas time and people and merchants festively decorated with their best Christmas displays, shop keepers wished everyone a Merry Christmas and the Christmas tree had not yet become the holiday tree. read more
FUDGE new arrivals. 😡
It isn’t just new arrivals that are offended by Christmas and Christian traditions and values. There have always been offended Americans making demands for change, it is just that through the years they have acquired more and more political and community control powers. When Christmas trees, crosses, and scripture can’t be displayed in offices, buildings, or government properties/schools, it wasn’t Muslims that started that, but they are now in this country to do it more than ever.
Progressives, go f–k your mother.
Oh. You already did that. And posted the video online.
We just got more foreign freeloaders (libs call them “New Mainers”) in Portland this week. Already refusing free housing that is not near the other muslim foreign freeloaders. No one is questioning them wanting to live in a central location. They don’t like to work much so we don’t see them in most stores.
Thankfully I work at Cabela’s. Most everyone there is happily America loving gun owning citizens.
I care not if someone is offended by my love for Jesus. That is their problem and an opportunity to talk about Him, the after life in general, or just creation.
The nostalgic take is another thing, though, I even comment to the young un’s about what it was like before the 90s. When no one had a pc, mobile phone (only Docs had pagers!), mail took a week to go across town, tires were often bias ply and a 200 mile trip to Austin was full of enough danger and probable breakdown that we always had a check-in during gas stops calling home to assure we were Ok – so far. Don’t miss any of that!
But, how far back is he going? Everything was NOT made in America when I grew up. In the 60s, many many cheap things were “Made in Japan” and if something needed assembly, the instructions may not even be in English. If they were, they came in crude translations that often didn’t make sense.
I remember turning things over looking for Made-in-Japan stickers. It was a sign of poorly made products that would quickly fall apart until the vehicles and electronics became quality things. Latter half of the 70s?
Until then, “Made-in-Japan” was everywhere and meant cruddy, cheap products.
Made-in-Mexico gave Japan a run for it’s money in who could be cheaper and fall apart quicker. Maybe that was a border state thing. I dunno. I’m still leery of Made-in-Mexico, but it’s not as bad now.
As for Craftsman tools – even the life time warranty wasn’t enough to keep me as a customer in the 80s. I calculated how much time I spent standing in the return line for broken sockets & ratchets, tin snips that wouldn’t cleanly snip after one job of working with aluminum coil stock, malfunctioning electric drills & saws, and decided the higher end tools were worth the money spent.
Kenmore appliances were not better quality. Just a store label slapped on another low-end product.
I do not long for these golden days except for the simplicity of them where relationships with your neighbors had high value and your dogs, guns, and neighbors were your security system.
As for buying American? Toyota has factories here. With American workers. Your Ford is likely to be made in Canada or Mexico now. What is American these days if you aren’t buying it from the local guy that actually makes the product?
“Have an issue?
Here’s a tissue.”
Funny, but no one is upset over MY distress at having millions of illegal alien invading rat people infiltrating MY country, sucking the welfare system dry, and then pretending to be offended by MY way of life!
In life, we rarely get what we deserve – and that’s a GOOD thing!
(think about it)
When the illegal alien invading rat people finally get what they deserve – there will be a crying of woe, a rending of clothes, and a gnashing of teeth such as has never been – all in some foreign garble.
izlamo delenda est …
10 paragraphs in and still no point made. I give up. When will writers learn to make their point, then support it, not waste the reader’s time “setting the tone” for 80% of the article?
If you buy stuff made in the USA a fellow American gets to prosper.
If not some other Bastard gets to prosper.
I search out the Made in the USA label
I just wish there was a catalogue of made in the USA vendors I can buy from
…I’ve been a professional mechanic in one way or another my entire adult life, and I was working if the service bays at Sears when they killed Craftsman and Die Hard.
…Craftsman were once just that, tools for craftsmen. You could buy an amazing variety of sometimes highly specialized tools right there in a HUGE tool department, and know they were solidly USA and would never snap in your hand or round themselves or your fastener instead of getting the job done.
Then Sears moved to their cult compound in Hoffman Estates, and having isolated themselves, proceeded to make one stupid decision after another, one of the WORST being offshoring Craftsman tools. Now, the tools are badly designed, poorly made, and even the metal is cheap. I work with my hands, and don’t need them scarred up by pot metal wrenches breaking in them. Pass. They have since sold off the rights, now you can buy “Craftsman” in a lot of places, not that there’s any REASON to.
…same thing with Die Hard. I once (as a young man) was proud to sell a Die Hard, it was a premium battery that lived up to it’s name, and I could install them confidently because they were well-made.
Then Sears started playing games. They farmed them out to inferior battery companies, and they went through several, but I best remember the day I got a skid of “Die Hard” batteries and they were CLEARLY Gould batteries, just with poorly-applied stickers that said “Die Hard”. I even and if they were counterfeit, but was told no, that’s the new battery.
It just went straight to hell from there.
I won’t bore you even more with details, but I will say this. My 5 and 10 year pins have the “Sears Tower” on them, and they were a good company with a quality product then. My 15 year pin does NOT, and they were shit by then. I left for good shortly after.
Sears is a case study of what happens when greedy leaders try to isolate themselves from reality, from negativity, from anyone who disagrees. They were EVERYWHERE before that, but I bet you can’t find one NOW.
…nations can die the same way, too. If the Democrats get in, the USA will be the Sears of the nation-state, and for many of the same reasons…
I buy american every time I can regardless of any additional expense. It wouldn’t be necessary if all of us weren’t betrayed by the profit chasing corporations who’ve opted to build a middle class in China and abandon the one here.
Internationalists care about nothing about their countrymen and I care nothing about them.
SUPER SHADE,
I bought Sears “road handler” tires
a while back.They were made by HanKook !
all 4 are out of round… 1 delaminated
and beat the tread off!
…the tires went to hell awhile ago, too, @RADIOATIONMAN…they were out of round so often that Sears used to offer “tire matching” to grind them round on your rim….THEN CHARGE YOU FOR IT!
…turned out they ALSO stole a patented idea for that, though, or the machine OEM or somebody did, and one day Hoffman Estates sent an edict to take all the matchers out back and hammer them to pieces, and that was the end of THAT…yes, RoadHandlers DID have some separation issues, but other major brands like Firestone sold dippy ideas like the”721″ tire (7 steel cords around 2, wrapped by 1) that proved to be poor ones, so not sure bad tires were exclusively Sears as the whole industry seemed to forget how to vulcanize for awhile…most tires are just red labels of other tires, like your Handkooks, and so tire quality is kind of flat since there’s only s couple of REAL manufacturers anyway…Sears also had problems with wheel offs since they didn’t know how to run a “service” and so hired no-nothings as tire busters, who sometimes didn’t know how to tighten lug nuts…they tried “Torque Rods”, which were sticks of metal with a socket on the end that were supposed to prevent OVER torquing, but with weak shop air guns, actully promoted UNDER torquing…I could go on, but TL:DNR already, so I’ll stop…
…God bless, SNS
All they’re getting for Christmas is an AR-15 – lovingly built by Dad & uncle B.
And/or ancillary EQ.