Re: Batch of Mirepoix

Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-02-19, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2025-02-19 10:15 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-02-19, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

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When I was a kid, we got Good Friday off and no bones about it.  At
some later point, someone said, "What about the Jews?" and they
stopped calling it that.
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Like Boxing Day, Easter Monday is not much of a thing.  Wikipedia
tells me it's observed in some cities in Michigan, but I've never
seen it.  Perhaps in old Hamtramck, when it was majority Polish.
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Except for Thanksgiving and Christmas, most holidays are seen as
prime retailing opportunities.  Banks and the government are closed,
but pretty much everything else is open.

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I don't really see much the point of paid holidays if they are just
going to be retail sale events.  Banks, major businesses and government
offices shut down for the day and everyone goes out shopping, so the
lowest paid sector of the economy end up having to go to work. Nuts to
that. If it is a statutory holiday everyone should have the day off.

 You forget that the only real religion in the U.S. is money.

Indeed, we are a nation founded by the Ferengi peoples from a distant part of the universe.
You should have noticed that we recently elected a new Grand Nagus to preside over the earth colony. And, always remember to obey the rules of acquisition, but nothing else.