The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

With another year almost complete, upon us is another year in the War on Christmas, so says Fox News and its followers. From people abbreviating Christmas to Xmas to "Merry Christmas" becoming "Happy Holidays" to Christmas trees being called holiday trees, the spirit of the Christmas season is obviously becoming no more. Christmas should be a time to celebrate family, tradition, commercialism, and the Jesus. Yes, we've taken the Christ out of Christmas, but not through silly symbolic measures such as abbreviations. No, if Fox News and the like want to go after people for waging a war against Christmas, perhaps they should look elsewhere, which this following story should illustrate: Setting: Outside of a Wal-Mart just before Black Friday begins ::Wal-Mart officially opens on Black Friday:: Cindy Christ: ::pushes people:: "Out of my way! Get the hell out of my way, people! Hey, you over there - you better not be going for that doll! That's min...

Tony Rohr - an employee at a Pizza Hut in Indiana for 10 years and until just recently, a manager there - has been fired because he refused to open the restaurant on Thanksgiving. He told his managers that Pizza Hut could "be a company that stands up and says we care about our employees and they can have the day off." Instead of complying with the suggestion, he was asked to write his resignation. In response, he made the following statement: "I am not quitting. I do not resign, however I accept that the refusal to comply with this greedy, immoral request means the end of my tenure with this company [...] I hope you realize that it's the people at the bottom of the totem pole that makes your life possible." I hope more people follow Tony Rohr's lead so that more families can enjoy time together during major holidays such as Thanksgiving and hope that a more loyal, family-oriented business hires Mr. Rohr very soon. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2...