Al Norman: Wal-Mart Shoppers Are Trained To Be “Savages”…At Wal-Mart, they know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. It was the manager at the Rapid City, Michigan Wal-Mart store who said what the company’s top brass in Bentonville could not say. “There’s nothing in my store that’s worth people’s safety [...]
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By PETER S. GOODMAN
From the Great Depression, we remember the bread lines. From the oil shocks of the 1970s, we recall lines of cars snaking from gas stations. And from our current moment, we may come to remember scenes like the one at a Long Island Wal-Mart in the dawn after Thanksgiving, when 2,000 frantic [...]
1. White House sends out Christmas-themed Hanukkah invitations.…
President and First Lady Bush recently sent Jewish community leaders invitations to a Hanukkah reception at the White House next month. But as the New York Post reports, the invitations “raised more than a few eyebrows” because the image on them was that of a “Clydesdale horse hauling [...]
I can’t be the only one that thinks this is severely messed up:
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‘Beauty machine’ makes everyone pretty
Researchers say device transforms any woman’s photo into model-likeness
Researchers have created a “beauty machine” they say can turn a woman’s photo into the likeness of a cover model with the push of a button.
The goal is not just to [...]
Purging Voter Rolls–One Hollywood Liberal At A Time…
It ended up taking five hours for Robbins to vote. While it’s somewhat tongue-in-cheek to say that of course someone as outspoken as Robbins would be stricken wrongly off the voting rolls, it’s something else he said that should give pause: according to Robbins, 30 others got the [...]
This blog is fast becoming one of my favorites. While I don’t want to stumble around in sewers (my inner Virgo is screaming in horror), I love reading about these guys doing so. Love the pics, love the writing, love the adventures.
Check them out, it’s well worth it! Here’s a post snippet, fer yer perusal…
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By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com
Posted on October 31, 2008, Printed on October 31, 2008
How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the United States come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind’s closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How [...]
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Back to future for hard-hitting bruiser
…Diesel shudders to think that Babylon A. D. might be a snapshot of what the world will look like in a couple dozen years. “The whole film is basically about the difficulty of transporting somebody across a border and I think … we’re coming into an age when borders [...]
from Huff Po by Naomi Wolf
The following is an excerpt from my book Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries:
What are we supposed to do to reclaim freedom? We need to understand that we are bombarded with both fake patriotism and fake democracy. Only then can we get to the real American mandate.
The key [...]
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By BOB HERBERT
Detroit
It was as though the Champagne had been on ice for half a century or more. On Thursday night, with Barack Obama formally accepting the Democratic presidential nomination at Mile High Stadium in Denver, African-Americans from coast to coast and beyond felt they might now dare to pop the corks.
Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them
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