Thoughts on Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day

On thanksgiving my family and I usually have a lot of people over our house and we all eat and mingle and such. Everyone usually brings some food and we make the most food because we're hosting and everyone seems to have a good time. There are a bunch of kids and its always my job to entertain them but I don't really mind as long as people are having fun. Thanksgiving has become more of a family time then anything, people do lose what the whole holiday is based on though which is genocide. Genocide did come up during the break but not until Saturday and it was very brief as if no one really wanted to speak about it. On Friday my family wanted to go shopping but we decided not to because we didn't think it would be worth it because of all the craziness. The Wall mart incident that happened on Black Friday really opened my eyes because is it really that big a deal that people couldn't have waited a couple more seconds to go inside the store like normal people? It really has become the AWOL to consume as much as possible, especially on things we might not need but because its on sale people make a big deal. Im not complaining about this way of life I just feel as though things could be done differently.

Deeper In The Constitution - B

In section 1 of Article 4 it states that each state has to respect the laws of every other state. What that says for gay marriage is that if two people of the same sex get married in one state that means they are married in another state. While Gay Marriage is not legal and accepted in many states, they will have to accept them as a married couple. The Full Faith & Credit provision allows people to have more freedom because they can do things that are legal in the state where they live and states where it isn't legal.
The amended portion of Article 4 which begins "No Person..." means that slaves that are in one state, run away to another state will not be free due and must be returned to that state. This is important because back when there were slaves (and who knows there still might be some slaves out there in the US) will not be able to become free just by running away, if this law didn't exist then slaves all over would attempt to run away more then usual.

The 2nd amendment states that a well guarded militia has the right to bear arms. That I believe is because the Government controls that militia and it is to guard the country only, to protect and to serve. The 2nd amendment says nothing about regular citizens owning guns and that could mean if a state were to ban guns completely that would be allowed because it doesn't say in the constitution that regular American citizens who are not in a "well guarded militia" have the right to bear arms.

Lethal Injections and/or the Electric Chair completely contradict the 8th amendment. They both contradict it because the 8th amendedment states that those kind of things shall not be deemed necessary. So the fact that this stuff still happenes is a violation of the constitution which is also reffered to as the "Highest Law of the Land".