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Heart disease day freemero wrote:triniterribletim wrote:redmanjp wrote:Boxing Day yes. I hardly see any open on Christmas Day except 1 or 2 drug store and bakery in St. James some years ago. And perhaps it was just half a day they open for. Even KFC who does open every other day of the year including public holidays does close Christmas Day. This is the biggest holiday of the year as it should be.
Independence Square KFC is packed out on Christmas day.
Kfc is closed on Christmas day padna.
eliteauto wrote:Turkey in the brine since yesterday, gonna take it out this afternoon, dry rub it, and in the smoker with hickory wood, also going to smoke a spiral ham ( first time buying one) with a honey glaze
redmanjp wrote:. . . Even KFC who does open every other day of the year including public holidays does close Christmas Day. This is the biggest holiday of the year as it should be.
eliteauto wrote:Turkey in the brine since yesterday, gonna take it out this afternoon, dry rub it, and in the smoker with hickory wood, also going to smoke a spiral ham ( first time buying one) with a honey glaze
Rory Phoulorie wrote:redmanjp wrote:. . . Even KFC who does open every other day of the year including public holidays does close Christmas Day. This is the biggest holiday of the year as it should be.
The biggest holiday in Trinidad is not Carnival Monday and Tuesday?
alfa wrote:eliteauto wrote:Turkey in the brine since yesterday, gonna take it out this afternoon, dry rub it, and in the smoker with hickory wood, also going to smoke a spiral ham ( first time buying one) with a honey glaze
What rub you use?
That's the hickory chips that comes in small bags for use with gas grills?
alfa wrote:Those aren't official holidays
pugboy wrote:99% of turkeys come brined alreadyeliteauto wrote:Turkey in the brine since yesterday, gonna take it out this afternoon, dry rub it, and in the smoker with hickory wood, also going to smoke a spiral ham ( first time buying one) with a honey glaze
mero wrote:triniterribletim wrote:redmanjp wrote:Boxing Day yes. I hardly see any open on Christmas Day except 1 or 2 drug store and bakery in St. James some years ago. And perhaps it was just half a day they open for. Even KFC who does open every other day of the year including public holidays does close Christmas Day. This is the biggest holiday of the year as it should be.
Independence Square KFC is packed out on Christmas day.
Kfc is closed on Christmas day padna.
Christmas is the observance by the Christian community of the birth of Jesus Christ. It is one of the two most important days on the Christian calendar. Over many years the religious significance of Christmas has been overtaken by commercialism. The underlying good of giving something to those in need or of gift giving as a means of showing our love to friends and family; or appreciation to colleagues at work, has been overwhelmed by the capitalist economic culture that places more value on the buying of items than on the birth of the Christ child.
In a real sense, this is the opposite of what the life of Christ was in practice. After all, He went into the Temple and threw out the money changers and other such opportunistic charlatans, turning over their tables and disrupting their trade which was to profit from the misfortunes of others. Famously, Jesus is recorded as saying “it’s more difficult for a rich man to go to heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle”. Throughout His life, He spoke about justice; and engaged with the poor, people who were discriminated against and those who did not count: fishermen who were among his disciples, a prostitute who was part of His inner circle; the lepers who were not shunned but healed. Indeed, Jesus came from a working class family – Joseph being a simple carpenter.
This should speak to today’s reality, where greed is good; where those who control political power in the world have implemented neo-liberal economic policies that have created a system of casino capitalism that has resulted in a handful of billionaires having the same wealth as billions of people. The most recent example of this was that in the days following the election of Trump as the next US president, the wealth of his crony Elon Musk went up by US$200 billion! What would have been Jesus’ reaction to this obscenity and the obscene income inequality that characterises Trinidad and Tobago and the world?
Would He have accepted that the way to deal with so many of our citizens living in great hardship, not having money to put food on the table every day, is to do good charitable work or is it to bring about fundamental change in the system that created the problem in the first place? Jesus challenged the status quo – the people in power that kept a corrupt and unjust system in place. Never forget that He challenged the Pharisees and the Scribe. His very birth scared King Herod, the brutal and oppressive ruler, to the point that Herod killed all the boy children under the age of two in an attempt to prevent Jesus from living.
Jesus is also described as the Prince of Peace. Today’s world is certainly not one where peace is on the minds of some leaders of the most powerful countries. In the very lands where Christ was born and lived there is a horrific example of inhumanity – the acts of genocide and apartheid by the state of Israel. Wars, death and the destruction of communities and the total disruption of the lives of millions of people continue around the world. The leaders of the western world seek as well to establish or reinforce their hegemony and global power through regime change; sanctions and other acts that do great harm to millions of people. Many of the wars are in furtherance of control of land, resources and wealth.
It is so hypocritical of all the leaders – be they occupiers of or aspiring to occupy the White House or Downing Street or those who are here in Trinidad and Tobago who promote policies that support the status quo - to issue Christmas messages singing praises for the birth of The Prince of Peace, and who gave us a living example of what justice truly is.
All this says to us in the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) that our mission is to keep alive the struggle for fundamental change; to ensure that the ideals of social justice remain alive; to constantly challenge the status quo; to speak truth to power. We wish the Christian community a very Holy Christmas and to all citizens a safe, peaceful and happy Christmas. As we celebrate the holiday season let us keep focus on the true significance of the birth of The Prince of Peace and enjoy the simple happiness that the coming together of family and friends brings. Let us too keep in our thoughts the families of the more than 600 persons who were murdered to date; those who lost loved ones through accidents and fires; and the families of workers who tragically died on the job.
David Abdulah
Political Leader
Movement for Social Justice
alfa wrote:Youths in PNM areas probably buying them as training aids
mero wrote:Them Boxing Day morning shits. Lawdamercy
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