A Wal-Mart Mom Speaks Out About “Wal-Mart Moms”

Jessica Knows:Hey,Jessica,do you know that a LOT of those WalMart moms actually work AT WalMart? Do you realize Debbie Shanks was a WalMart mom? BTWJessica, as a female ,this story may be of particular interest to you,or it should be-to ANY woman. Do you KNOW about this?~~~By H.J. CUMMINS, Star Tribune July 1, 2008 ~~~~~~

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. broke Minnesota labor law more than 2 million times over six years, routinely forcing some employees to work off the clock through lunch and rest breaks, a Dakota County judge has ruled.

The violations were willful, said District Judge Robert King in a ruling Monday in Hastings. They could bring a penalty of up to $1,000 per violation, which could mean a $2 billion fine for the world’s largest retailer. A jury will decide the size of the penalty during the second phase of the trial, expected to begin Oct. 20.

Nancy Braun, one of four named plaintiffs on the suit, said Tuesday that she was “ecstatic” about the judge’s decision. Braun, who worked in an Apple Valley store for about 14 months beginning in March 1998, said the store repeatedly didn’t find people to give her breaks when she was the sole cook and waitress at the store’s grill.

In several instances no one came in time for her to go to the bathroom. “I would end up soiling myself,” said Braun, now 53 and living in Rochester. “Sometimes I’d have other clothes with me in my locker, or they would say to me, ‘We have clothes in the store you can buy.’”

Braun said she kept complaining, “and they kept promising to get me help, but they never did it.”

In his ruling, King especially noted Braun’s treatment and a similar episode with a menstruating employee, calling it “dehumanizing and reprehensible” but also an “aberration.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~WMW~~~Note:  Are these the kind of practices that a” WalMart mom “ is willing to approve and financially support by continuing to shop at WalMart?

only fools like ddrb buy all this united food and commercial workers union bs on here.picking at straws again wmw

Obama-ACORN Root Causes of Mortgage Crisis?

FBI Investigates U.S. Financial Crisis - Where Did $1 Trillion Go?

The high-risk subprime mortgage social engineering community service experiment by left-wing ACORN and Obama has created the largest financial crisis since The Great Depression.  The full reach of the corruption and scandal may never be known but those who created it must not be rewarded.  The architects, primarily left-wing Democrats, created laws, took donations, looked the other way and instead were too busy overseeing donations to their own presidential campaigns and robbing main street blind.  Now these same left-wing Democrats blame everyone else and get up on their high horses and say, “we are here to save you” from the crises they created

Yes, Mr. Obama knows a great deal about the mess.  He is a central figure in the left-wing ACORN exploitation of financial institutions and pressuring them to make high risk loans.  The very same left-wing ACORN was guilty of voter fraud in the last presidential election.

Now these same Democrats want to do another high risk “community service,” social engineering experiment. They want to elect a high-risk, low experience, socialist one of the same community organizers that created the mess to be our next president.  We cannot experiment with the office of president and learn as we go. Barack Obama is not qualified and has no history of success as a leader in government or business.

The FBI investigation
An FBI investigation is under way at Lehman Brothers and three other contributors to America ’s financial crisis to determine whether they put pressure on ratings agencies to award top ratings to securities they issued.

Concerns that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG or Lehman may have sought to encourage agencies to inflate their ratings — by offering higher fees or the promise of more work — form part of a broad inquiry by the bureau.

The agencies are widely regarded as having failed debt holders by attributing the top ratings to many securities that turned out to be extremely risky and have lost investors hundreds of billions of dollars.

The FBI, which is also investigating whether any of the four institutions deliberately misled investors about the true health of their assets, is expected to demand that they “hold all papers and e-mails under lock and key” as it sifts through the evidence, a source said.

How did we get here?

FOLLOW THE MONEY AND CORRUPTION!  A Lending Policy created by democrats for democrats run by democrats monitored by democrats enforced by community organizer democrats and profited from by democrats.

The following information is condensed from an article by Stanley Kurtz. O’s Dangerous Pals.

Fannie and Freddie acted in response to Clinton administration pressure to boost homeownership rates among minorities and the poor. However compassionate the motive, the result of this systematic disregard for normal credit standards has been financial disaster.  ONE key pioneer of ACORN’s subprime-loan shakedown racket was Madeline Talbott - an activist with extensive ties to Barack Obama. She was also in on the ground floor of the disastrous turn in Fannie Mae’s mortgage policies.

Obama Trains ACORN Staff in Shakedown Tactics

It would be tough to find an “on the ground” community organizer more closely tied to the subprime-mortgage fiasco than Madeline Talbott. And no one has been more supportive of Madeline Talbott than Barack Obama.

When Obama was just a budding community organizer in Chicago , Talbott was so impressed that she asked him to train her personal staff.

He returned to Chicago in the early ‘90s, just as Talbott was starting her pressure campaign on local banks. In those years, he also conducted leadership-training seminars for ACORN’s up-and-coming organizers. That is, Obama was training the army of ACORN organizers who participated in Madeline Talbott’s drive against Chicago ‘s banks.

Obama Funds ACORN

More than that, Obama was funding them. As he rose to a leadership role at Chicago ‘s Woods Fund, he became the most powerful voice on the foundation’s board for supporting ACORN and other community organizers. In 1995, the Woods Fund substantially expanded its funding of community organizers - and Obama chaired the committee that urged and managed the shift.

That committee’s report on strategies for funding groups like ACORN features all the key names in Obama’s organizer network. The report quotes Talbott more than any other figure; Sandra Maxwell, Talbott’s ACORN ally in the bank battle, was also among the organizers consulted.

More, the Obama-supervised Woods Fund report acknowledges the problem of getting donors and foundations to contribute to radical groups like ACORN - whose confrontational tactics often scare off even liberal donors and foundations.

(cont)

Indeed, the report brags about pulling the wool over the public’s eye. The Woods Fund’s claim to be “nonideological,” it says, has “enabled the Trustees to make grants to organizations that use confrontational tactics against the business and government ‘establishments’ without undue risk of being criticized for partisanship.”

Obama Aware of Intimidation Tactics

The Woods Fund report makes it clear Obama was fully aware of the intimidation tactics used by ACORN’s Madeline Talbott in her pioneering efforts to force banks to suspend their usual credit standards. Yet he supported Talbott in every conceivable way. He trained her personal staff and other aspiring ACORN leaders, he consulted with her extensively, and he arranged a major boost in foundation funding for her efforts.
And, as the leader of another charity, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama channeled more funding Talbott’s way - ostensibly for education projects but surely supportive of ACORN’s overall efforts.

In return, Talbott proudly announced her support of Obama’s first campaign for state Senate, saying, “We accept and respect him as a kindred spirit, a fellow organizer.”

In short, to understand the roots of the subprime mortgage crisis, look to ACORN’s Madeline Talbott. And to see how Talbott was able to work her mischief, look to Barack Obama.

Walmart Moms: Are They Self-Righteous Too?

The so-called “Walmart Moms,” are just the latest “PR tool” Bentonville is using and manipulating to promote the WalMart agenda.  Walmart Moms are deluded “sock puppets,” and may even share the same self-righteous outlook on life as RDS.

Self-righteous?  That’s right.  This is the core of what makes RDS “tick.”

Have you ever noticed that RDS has an opinion about everything and that he’s prone to offer his opinions, even when they’re not wanted?  When you say white, he says black.  If you say up, he says down.  If you say good, he says bad.  But afterall, he’s right.  Everyone else is wrong.  Because of this, RDS often comes across as being smug, condescending, narrow-minded, and all together too self-assured.  He believes he has the answers to all of life’s problems.

Self-righteous people like RDS have a hard time being empathetic.  How often haven’t we seen RDS accuse people for being “too emotional.” RDS is so preoccupied with sitting in the front pew in his Church of Self-Worship, he can’t imagine walking in someone else’s shoes.

If WalMart Moms aren’t “self-righteous,” then perhaps they are self-centered.  Self-centered people have a hard time seeing someone else’s point of view.

I think RDS is driven most of the time by something called, reaction formation. Wikipedia defines reaction formation as: “...a defense mechanism in which anxiety-producing or unacceptable emotions are replaced by their direct opposites.”

For people like RDS, it’s too fearful, too anxiety-producing to think that WalMart may be bad for America, that the George W. Bush administration has been bad for America, that the war in Iraq was a mistake… so they go out of their way to take the opposite point of view.

Self-righteous and self-centered people like RDS are so sure of their opinions, they will stick to them at any cost, and will willfully choose to ignore any evidence that contradicts their mindset.  People like RDS will never change their opinions based on new information.  The end result is a narrow-minded, intolerant, and prejudiced state of mind. 

Has anyone else also noticed RDS’ obsession with “following the rules” or “right and wrong?” This creates the tenstion in RDS’s life.  He obsesses with being “right” because on some level he really fears that he may be wrong!

Are You Obsessed Too, Larry?

Just substitute your name everywhere I used RDS in my previous post, Larry.

Screwedby,

“Walmart Moms are deluded “sock puppets,” and may even share the same self-righteous outlook on life as RDS.”

As YOUR MOM is a Wal-Mart mom and you have said that SHE is deluded as well, it is not strange that you would feel that way about the hundreds of thousands of mom’s that shop at Wal-Mart and try to do the best for their families!!  Seems everyone is deluded, except YOU and a few others here, right?

“Self-righteous?  That’s right.  This is the core of what makes RDS “tick.””

I believe that it is YOU that is self-righteous, YOU who proclaims to know what is best for everyone!!  I’m for people choosing where they want to shop, YOU demand they listen to you and shop where you want them to!!  After all, YOU know better than they do, even better than your own mom!!

“When you say white, he says black.”

No, I talk shades of grey, you talk black and white!!

“Self-righteous people like RDS have a hard time being empathetic.”

I guess to someone who has been ‘sucking’ off of their parents for 50+ years and refusing to go out into the world and take responsibility for themselves, people who do take responsibility, do appear self-centered and sef-righteous and not empathetic!!  We just get tired of people like you thinking YOU deserve to have everything GIVEN to you and feel you have NO responsiblity for your actions!!

“For people like RDS, it’s too fearful, too anxiety-producing to think that WalMart may be bad for America, that the George W. Bush administration has been bad for America, that the war in Iraq was a mistake… so they go out of their way to take the opposite point of view.”

No, some people just don’t have a total ‘negative’ view of life and look for ‘boggey men’ around every corner!!  And, they don’t see that the world is against them, I think you are being quite ‘paranoid’!!  You see everything as one big conspriacy against you!!  You are also so insecure that you can’t do or think anything other than what your ‘anti-groups’ tell you to do and think!!

“People like RDS will never change their opinions based on new information.”

If that were true, I would have stayed in favor of unions, and would still be living in Wisconsin, my views and opinions keep changing all the time!!  Fact is, YOU are the one who refuses to change, that’s why you can’t leave the nest and go out into the world on your own!!  And, that is why you accept the ‘rights’ America gives you, but are ready to run, if you are asked to support the U.S.!!  You even call your mom, a person who “Makes bad choices”, even though she supports your lazy butt (In that I agree with you)!!

You call me self-righteous and self-centered, I and many others call it being self-dependant and self-assured!!  I left the nest 45 years ago and have taken care of myself without HELP from others, which is the total opposite of what you have been doing!!  Do yourself a favor, GET A JOB AND GET A LIFE OF YOUR OWN!!

‘NYT’ Sunday Preview: Top Republican Quits Congress, Compares Party To ‘Dog Food,’ Wonders About Palin

By Greg Mitchell

Published: October 02, 2008

NEW YORK Coming in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine: A profile of a former “star in the Republican party,” Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia. As the heading has it: “Now, like dozens of his GOP colleagues, he’s quitting Congress, fed up with his party, his president and the process.”

In other words: “Tom Davis Gives Up,” as the Times puts it.

The article by Peter Baker fashions Davis as “moderate” who is outraged by super-partisanship and the “social conservatives” who have “hijacked” the party. Davis’s favorite line about the GOP is, “if we were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf.”

Mocking an average day of meaningless bills before Congress he quips, “tell them about the important work we’re doing while Rome burns.” Baker (who met Davis 22 years ago) comments: “After 14 years in Congress, Tom Davis is giving up his place in the bucket brigade. Someone else will have to put out the fire. If anyone wants to try.”

Davis calls the McCain-Palin ticket “a marriage of convenience. What are the negatives? What about her resume? I got through it in about 10 seconds. Does that hurt? He’s the guy running on experience...And she’s a heartbeat away.”
And aptly, in light of the start of the baseball playoffs, Davis, 59, cracks: “You know, the Cubs fans used to put the bags over their heads. That’s what I feel when you say you’re from Congress, because there are just so many things we’re not doing.”

The article points out that 26 Republicans are stepping down this year compared to only six Democrats. Many of he GOPers are moderates. “There’s no question, we’re a dying breed,” says Rep. Jim Ramstad of Minn~~~~~~~~~~~~NOTE: “Davis’s favorite line about the GOP is, “if we were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf.” I guess it would depend where you or your family shop,Representative Davis.( Didn’t WalMart sell a lot of pet food with melamine in it last year, dog food and jerky treats that WEREN’T pulled from the shelves,resulting in many pet deaths?)A dying breed,indeed!

Good post RDS.
I didnt know screwed was a “mama’s boy” still living at home.

That explains it all.

The village idiot is actually mama’s bitch!

The village idiot is actually mama’s bitch!

Larry in USN WWII (Ret.....?) : Larry,you shouldn’t talk about YOURSELF that way.Allow others the privilege of doing it for you!

Mr. Screwed started this by calling-out RDS.

Let’s see if the “man” can take it back as well as he dishes it out…

You saying rds is outed , THOUGHT SO

Hey Screwedby, I’m still waiting for you to tell us all where in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, it says that the Government or the Company a person works for, is responsible for making sure a person has a job, healthcare, a ‘living wage’, affordable housing and the other things you mentioned, don’t duck it, show us!!  Just saying the word “LIFE’ describes it all, doesn’t cut it!!

You called me self-centered, what I call self-centered, is someone who thinks it is okay for them to live off the efforts of others!!

JOE,

Just because you are a loser, doesn’t mean everyone else is!!  If you choose to pay ‘high prices’ for things, that’s your right, just don’t tell everyone else that they have to too!!

You are a real GEM, making judgements of people you don’t even know or have even met, that makes you a ‘LOSER’!!  You aren’t Joe Sixpack, you are Joe Twentyfour pack!!  Go suck another BEER and shut up!!

ddrb,

Bet Larry doesn’t live with his Mamma!!  And, if someone complains about living next to a Wal-Mart store, and continues to STAY there and says she had NO knowledge that the store was going to be built there before hand, probably is a ‘village idiot’ as well!!

You are a real GEM, making judgements of people you don’t even know or have even met, that makes you a ‘LOSER’!!  RDS: But isn’t that what YOU DO,ALL THE TIME?????

Hey Joe… Hey ddrb...

Don’t pay attention to RDS and Larry.  Judging by their reactions, I’d say my assessment of those two yahoos was right on the mark!

HE TELLS ME TO GO DRINK , ISN’T that his problem .

ALCOHOLIC .

By the way , how was your LIFE as a substance abuser .

By the way , how was your LIFE as a substance abuser .

And where is you work again, Joey?

Thought so.

bbrd,

Notice that Screwedby didn’t deny anything I said!!  He and JOE never answered the questions I asked either, about having jobs!!  Takers are always sympathetic of other takers and they all hate the ‘haves’, because they envy their successes and, besides, the takers think the ‘world owes them a living’, that’s why Screwedby calls ‘personal responsibility’ a WACKO concept and why he says the DOI and Constitution guarantee him everything!! I know many people like him!!  I have tried to be nice, but, they pushed me past my limits, with their insults, so I had to expose them for what they really are!!  Oh, add ddrb to the list of ‘deadbeats’, she probably doesn’t have a job either, based on the hours she spends ‘googling’ and posting here!!  Just today, she posted at 10:45am, 1:22pm and 5:00pm just on this thread!!

I also have my doubts about Bobby too, with all his talk about knowing people in high places, traveling around the country, being close friends with “well knowns” and running businesses, yet, he is anti business himself!!  I think most of what he says, comes from the fantasies in his mind!!  He probably just worked once at Wal-Mart, got fired and couldn’t find anything better!!  He too seems to have a lot of time on his hands based on his lenghty posts!!

First off bb I never told you where I work.

What does that have to do with rds being an ALCOHOLIC .

WE all know how they treat their wife’s .

He is nothing but a fake , making up stories .

Are you two together , because I notice you always answer up for him??????????

Joe, Joe, One Punctuation Mark Please!

We’ve been trying to break RDS for months of his stupid habit of using the “dreaded double exclamation” at the end of his sentences.  You can see it hasn’t worked.  Since you are a newer visiter here, this is just a little tip:  As hard as it may be sometimes, never allow Trolls like RDS, Larry, and bbrd to “bait you.” This is what Trolls do!

Scroll back a page and check this thread out:

WAL-MART MOMS: CONCERNED WITH THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY WAL-MART

RDS in
Friday, October 03 at 11:17 AM
RDS in
Friday, October 03 at 12:12 PM
RDS in
Friday, October 03 at 05:08 PM
RDS in
Friday, October 03 at 11:26 PM
RDS in
Friday, October 03 at 11:40 PM

Now what were you trying to tell us about ddrb posting so often, RDS?  Does the phrase, “The pot calling the kettle black” mean anything to you?  Can you say, du-plic-i-tous? I think Ken V understands you accurately when he said this about you:

”You make sweeping all-or-nothing statements like that and then wonder why your intelligence is questioned.”

Understand this:

1) Because you say something, that doesn’t make it true.
2) With all of your talk about “personal responsibility,” you should realize that others have the choice to either engage you, or ignore you.  You can’t demand that they answer you.
3) If somebody chooses to ignore your speculations, imaginations, distortions, half-truths, and outright false statements, this is not a validation of your veracity or credibility.

”I think most of what he says, comes from the fantasies in his mind!!” ~RDS, The King of Fantasy Land

Lead-laced children’s products sold in Toronto stores
Updated: October 4 at 07:54 AM CDT
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/story/4234657p-4876422c.html

TORONTO—A Toronto newspaper reports finding children’s toys and jewelry laced with lead for sale across the Greater Toronto Area.

The Toronto Star says tests found lead in items ranging from a dollar store pacifier to a Hannah Montana bracelet bought at Wal-Mart.

The newspaper says testing showed that some of the tainted products, such as costume jewelry, contained levels of lead illegal under Canadian law.

The Star report today says a pendant labelled as “lead free” contained nearly double the legal limit for lead.

And the necklace clasp tested at nearly 150 times the legal limit of lead, a toxic metal that affects the development of children’s brains and motor skills.

The newspaper says it shopped at 18 Toronto area retailers and found lead in about one quarter of all products purchased.

Toronto Star / The Canadian Press

First off bb I never told you where I work.

You didn’t have to—it’s pretty obvious, don’t you think?

What does that have to do with rds being an ALCOHOLIC .

Do you know for a fact RDS is an alkie? 

Did you attend AA meetings with him?

Here’s some free advice for you, bud—don’t go slapping “labels” on people you know absolutely nothing about—that would be the same as me, calling you a “loser”, or something…

WE all know how they treat their wife’s .

Really?  How do they treat their wives?  Tell me, please…

He is nothing but a fake , making up stories .

And you are little more that a member of the peanut gallery—always chiming-in with a bunch of nothing…

By the way, weren’t you the one who kept “pushing the envelope” by showing Google Earth images of RDS’ house?

Are you two together , because I notice you always answer up for him??????????

I wouldn’t know RDS if he showed-up on my doorstep, but he seems to have all his marbles in the same bag, which is more than I can say for guys like you!!

Why RDS constantly engages with you bozos is completely beyond me…

Screwedby,

“Now what were you trying to tell us about ddrb posting so often, RDS?”

That’s just my point, I DON’T have a job, so I have time to post many times a day!!  But, I don’t have time to surf the web and watch as much T.V. as ddrb does, so, I could conclude, that either she works LESS than me, and I don’t work, she can’t have a job!!

“Understand this:

1) Because you say something, that doesn’t make it true.
2) With all of your talk about “personal responsibility,” you should realize that others have the choice to either engage you, or ignore you.  You can’t demand that they answer you.
3) If somebody chooses to ignore your speculations, imaginations, distortions, half-truths, and outright false statements, this is not a validation of your veracity or credibility.”

Nice way to try to DODGE the issue, don’t DENY, just put the ball in the other court!!  You say that “Because you say something, that doesn’t make it true.”, but, You have said many things about me that weren’t true, false statements, half-truths, speculations, imaginations, and distortions, so what do that say about YOUR credibility?  But, I guess you got JOE, to believe your crap, because he is just like YOU, he ‘follows the leader’!!

Now, go to mommy and cry about how the bullies are picking on you!!

JOE,

“What does that have to do with rds being an ALCOHOLIC .

WE all know how they treat their wife’s .”

What you fail to understand, is that I"M NOT AN ALCOHOLIC!!  I have had any alcohol in over 25 years, and I’ve never been to an AA meeting, that’s all some B.S. made up by Screwedby, based on the fact that I once used to drink beer with my buddies and stopped when I saw that it was a waste of time and money!!  Just because someone drinks, doesn’t make them an alcoholic, it’s when you can’t control your drinking that you become an alcoholic, therefore, if someone gets so drunk, they burn CD’s on their B-B-Q grill, they might have a problem with their drinking habits!!

“WE all know how they treat their wife’s .”

And, do you know this first hand?  I treat my wife just fine, that’s why she has been by my side for 45 years!!

BTW: I didn’t ask WHERE you worked, just what kind of work you do!!

bbrd,

“Why RDS constantly engages with you bozos is completely beyond me…”

It’s kind of why you engage ddrb, to expose these frauds for what they really are!!  And, you notice they still haven’t denied anything!!  That’s because they are ‘leaches on society’!!  Besides, it’s fun watching them trying to promote their futile endeavor!!

Correction: It should have read “I haven’t had any alcohol”

“that’s why I push for ‘reality’” ~RDS

Is that why you watch all of that “reality” TV, RDS?

“I DON’T have a job, so I have time to post many times a day!!  But, I don’t have time to surf the web and watch as much T.V…”
RDS in
Saturday, October 04, 2008 at 08:53 PM

This isn’t another one of your half-truths, is it, RDS?

“I also get a charge out of ‘Sanford and Son”, “Green Acres” and ‘Good times” as well, because they show how people accept ‘poverty’ as being the best way of life.”
Posted by Bob - June 11, 2006 03:06 AM

”Guess you don’t watch much late night T.V. infomercials!!” RDS in
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM

rds btw you need a new roof , on both houses . The landscaping could be upgraded .  Spend some of million.
You aren’t going to live forever, and you can’t take it with you.

I’d appreciate it if you made a couple of corrections here in your post.

1) I don’t blog for Walmart.  I blog for myself.  JessicaKnows.com is a blog about me and if you read it, you’ll see that my involvement with Walmart’s campaign is just one of many, many subjects I blog about.  I have created money saving videos for the campaign, but no blogging.

2) My post was all about generalizations but you wrongly generalized that I am a “working class” mom.  I’m not.  I stay at home with my son and work virtually part-time for a start-up in a high level position.  My whole point was that I’m a Walmart mom via their campaign but I don’t fit the demographic of what most consider a Walmart mom.  Let’s be clear though, I don’t find the term insulting at all, it’s just incorrect.

One thing you did hit the nail on the head?  Yes, I plan to vote to change things at Walmart but I look at it more as changing things for corporate America too.  Walmart is not the only corporate entity in our country that has some changes to be made.  Myself, along with some of the other Moms have already started to do that.  But not because you tell or anyone else tells us to. 

Let’s get one thing straight. I’m no sock puppet for Walmart and I will not be a sock puppet for anyone.  One of the great things about living in this country is a right to free speech and a woman’s write to vote.  I do both and it is my hope that more and more women will do the same.

Thank you for highlighting this post I wrote.  I have received lots of great comments and it’s created healthy discussion so far, I hope that continues.

You totally missed the point! Jessica’s article was not about whether or not she’s voting for McCain- Palin, but rather how she’s SICK of being classified by pollsters and pundits into one category, as we all are. Its insane. I myself have been referred to as a “soccer mom”, ridiculous since my son is only 9 months old. I’m sure the “Joe Six Packs” (whoever the heck that is) feel the same way. Do your research before you write a post, and stop trying to make finding poll data easier by creating these imaginary groups of people that nobody actually fits into!

Although I respect your voice to “change” Walmart the intent of Jessica’s article was to speak up against the generalization of moms, “Wal-mart Moms” connect with with Palin on a personal level and there for feel emotionally obligated to vote for her.  Jessica simply was speaking out against that generalization- and how it matters to her having a working relationship with Wal-mart.
I can see you also didn’t do much research on Jessica beyond the article that article you postes, so your sweeping generalizations are just as bad as the media’s generalizations on Wal-Mart Moms

So let’s not only pick on Jessica because she is pointing out that the MEDIA is generalizing about who us MOMS are going to vote for, lets also jump on the “Let’s get that ‘BIG OL’ MEAN COMPANY” bandwagon too! If you look at the LARGE CORPORATIONS in America and abroad there are all kinds of problems and violations, and mistakes that are made. If you don’t like that a company has done that, STAND UP AND MAKE A CHANGE. Don’t hide behind your computer and bully someone who is stating how she wants to and INTENDS to make those changes. Rehashing events from the past does nothing positive for change.

“Place In Hell Reserved For Women Who Don’t Support Other Women”
October 5, 2008 ----------------Huff Po

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At a rally today in California,(10/04/08) Gov. Sarah Palin offered up a rather jarring argument for supporting the Republican ticket. “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women,” the Alaska Governor said, claiming she was quoting former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

The statement came after Palin had recounted a “providential” moment she experienced on Saturday: “I’m reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, ok? The quote of the day… It was Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State [crowd boos] and UN ambassador. ... Now she said it, I didn’t. She said, ‘There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women.’”

Actually, Albright didn’t say that. The real quote is, “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t help other women.” (Sources made the same point to CBS’s Scott Conroy.)~~~~~~~~~HuffPo~~~~~~~~~~~~NOTE: Hell’s going to do some extensive renovations to accomodate all the “reservations” of women who WON’T be voting for her. Also, to include women ,in positions of authority to make a difference, yet DON’T ,to help other women in the workplace get equal pay and equal rights.(BTW, is the pricey indulgence in Starbucks really identifying with ANY working person concerned with how to buy food or gas?Just askin’?)

Here’s an interesting article from Consumerist.3.06.2007 . To wit:~~~~~~~~~
Which Wal-Mart Demographic are you?

The Consumerist is posting slides from Wal-Mart’s new demographics campaign, otherwise titled “Wal-Mart Shopper Segmentation”.

According to Wal-Mart, there are 3 types of shoppers:

Price-Value Shoppers
Brand Aspirationals
Price-Sensitive Affluents

Wal-Mart has gone to great lengths to define and identify each category of shopper:

Price-Value - The poorest among us. Loyal to Wal-Mart, to a fault. Primarily young, rural, Baptist women. Uneducated beyond high-school. More worried and in poorer health than average. Watches Lifetime and ABC Family. Reads Better Homes & Gardens. Drives a used car which he/she still owes money on.

Brand Aspirational - His/Her image does not fit with the reality of his/her economic situation. Often a racial minority. Less technologically savvy than other demographics. Sports oriented, with a skew towards the NFL. Watches Fox Sports and reads automotive, athletic and fitness magazines.

Price-Sensitive Affluent - Highest income category. White, male, over age 45, highly educated. Very technologically savvy. Will compare products on the internet then purchase them for a better price in a retail store. Watches PBS and The History Channel. Reads National Geographic. Owns a completely paid for vehicle that is a newer model and was new when purchased.

Here’s another take:
Price-Value - Needs the most bang for their buck in order to survive. Can afford to eat healthier and clothe their children more effectively by shopping at Wal-Mart. Don’t care where a product comes form if it’s cheaper. Doesn’t care that Wal-Mart employees are not paid fairly because these shoppers often work for minimum wage themselves. Only has Cable TV because their neighbor does. Game show - Deal or No Deal, because “It’s OK to dream, isn’t it?”

Brand-Aspirational - Can’t afford to shop at The Gap or A&F;, so they buy cheap knock-offs at Wal-Mart to boost their self-esteem. Doesn’t care where a product comes from if it looks like a more expensive product. Doesn’t care about Wal-Mart’s treatment of their employees, because “It’s, like, their fault they work at Wal-Mart”. Owns a newer car that he/she owes more money on than it’s worth because he/she rolled over the balance owing on his/her trade-in. Game show - Wheel of Fortune - “Because it’s, like, soooo easy.”

Price-Sensitive Affluents: Can afford whatever they want, but like to buy it cheaper so they can have more of it, even at the expense of child-labor and Wal-Mart’s poor employment policies. Drive their 2006 Mercedes to Wal-Mart to save $65 over Amazon on an approximately $1800 50” Wega HDTV. Game show - Jeopardy - “Because anything easier insults my intelligence.”~~~~~~~~~~~Consumerist ~~~~~~~NOTE: Evidently WalMart has no problem with “sweeping” generalizations.

Hmmm....Is anyone really suggesting that we chose a woman just because she’s a woman?  I like to think that we’ve all evolved to the point that we want to choose the best person for the job carefully considering the issues without regard to race or gender.  Jessica, Thanks for being an Icon who is brave enough to start controversial discussions.  It can’t be easy for you.  I support women for sure but first I support individuals and their uniqueness because we are all fantastic and have a perspective to offer like no other.

From Wal-Mart Moms to Facebook Independents, GOP Targets Voters ----April 5,2008

SANTA ANA PUEBLO — Remember the soccer moms?
The top campaign official for presumptive Republican nominee John McCain on Friday identified five groups of target voters, a wide-ranging bloc that includes young people, Hispanics and what he called “Wal-Mart moms,’’ “Rehab Republicans’’ and “Facebook independents.’’
Addressing the Republican National Committee’s meeting of state chairmen at posh Tamaya Resort, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said those voters will play a major role in this fall’s general election.
He urged GOP officials to familiarize themselves now.
“Go to Wal-Mart and stand next to the greeter for 20 minutes,’’ he said. “Go see the voters we’re targeting. If you see them, you’ll understand them.’’
Such political and cultural talk rises every four years, when campaigns identify groups that are evenly divided over which presidential candidate to support, as well as the issues those people view as most important.
This year, Davis said it’s not just McCain’s White House bid that stands to benefit from securing support from targeted groups, but also GOP candidates for federal offices and state legislative seats further down the ticket.
Davis listed the targeted voters in this order:
_ Wal-Mart moms. The description sounds like an updated version of soccer moms, battling a sluggish economy. “They shop at Wal-Mart,’’ Davis said. “They don’t have expensive tastes. They are suburban by nature.’’
_ Rehab Republicans. Longtime GOP members “who are not so enthusiastic over the last few years,’’ Davis said. “We’ve got to get them back.’’
_ Youth. Davis acknowledged the energy and enthusiasm Democratic candidate Barack Obama is drawing at rallies attracting thousands of young voters.
“We’ve got to go after this segment,’’ he said, suggesting outreach and education efforts through improvements to campaign Web sites.
“Obama’s site looks like a Calvin Klein commercial, very hip,’’ Davis said, adding that McCain’s site, while quite productive for campaign fundraising efforts, “is like a Buster Brown commercial.’’
_ Facebook independents. Tech-savvy, social networkers who are fiscally and socially conservative. “A critical, growing group,’’ he said. “They spend a lot of time on the Internet. When they pick a candidate, they tend to become activists.’’
_ Hispanics. “This group is critical to our party, not just in the Southwest or Florida but the whole nation,’’ Davis said.
Spanish-language versions of McCain television advertisements will air in key markets, Davis said. “We’re putting our money behind this effort. We’re putting our time behind this effort,’’ he said.~~~ (Courtesy Wake Up Walmart)~~~~~~~~~Note: The thread story states that the NBC unit that clinched the multimillion dollar deal with WalMart ,was formed in May- the month immediately following the GOP announcement by Rick Davis ,in April,that the Republicans would be targeting “WalMart moms. “
(I read somewhere that WalMart privately refers to the poorest shoppers as “barnacles’ or “bottomfeeders’.)I don’t
why doesn’t Wal-Mart make nice-nice with the ONE MILLION PLUS women involved in the Dukes discrimination suit first? Now THAT’s putting your money where your mouth is!Don’t working women at WalMart,or Main Street, deserve a financial bailout,too?

Did anyone actually bother to look up what the media is considering “Walmart Moms”?  JessicaKnows doesn’t even fit into the generalization.  A “Walmart Mom” is a mom in her late 40’s/50’s that has children in school and is also trying to support her parents.  It’s the “sandwich generation”.  Therefore they have to save in order to support both her kids and her parents. 

Granted - it’s still a generalization… but it’s nothing against JessicaKnows.  No offense - but Jessica - you aren’t the face for “Walmart Moms”.

To Reach Mothers, Wal-Mart Signs Deal With an NBC Unit [New York Times]

Forget about support groups, posses and circles of friends. The first advertising sales deal for a new unit of NBC Universal — signed with Wal-Mart Stores — is all about the “momtourage.”

The fanciful play on entourage refers to the people who help mothers be better parents, including family members (maybe even fathers?), teachers, neighbors and baby sitters. Wal-Mart is sponsoring momtourage material that is to start appearing this week on two NBC Universal outlets: the iVillage Web site (ivillage.com) and the “Today” show on NBC.

The unit of NBC Universal that landed the multimillion-dollar deal with Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest retailer, is known as Women@NBCU (for Women at NBC Universal). The unit, formed in May, offers advertisers access to female-friendly assets of the company, a division of General Electric. Those include cable networks like Bravo and Oxygen and shows like “Lipstick Jungle.”

“We are going to get value from our great content through trying to find identifiable consumer targets” coveted by advertisers, said Lauren Zalaznick, president for the women and lifestyle entertainment networks at NBC Universal.

The deal with Wal-Mart covers the third and fourth quarters, Ms. Zalaznick said, when the retailer is eager to sell back-to-school and holiday merchandise. The deal was made by the Wal-Mart media agency, MediaVest, part of the Starcom MediaVest Group division of the Publicis Groupe.

“We’re trying to provide something to the audience of real value,” said Anne Elkins, senior vice president and group client director at MediaVest, “usable, tangible information that ties back to the advertiser in a way that doesn’t hit you over the head.” Another appealing aspect is that “the content is being built to be sustainable” over time, Ms. Elkins said, “and not be a one-off.”

As a result, the deal includes “options to renew all the way through 2009,” she added.
. Vignettes on “Today” will be followed by commercials for Wal-Mart.
The deal and the formation of Women@NBCU are indicative of increasing efforts by marketers, agencies and media companies to reach women in general and mothers in particular.

Other examples include consultancies like G23, Mom Central Consulting and MomWise; companies like Miles of Marketing; and editorial features like “My Life as a Mom” in Ladies’ Home Journal.

Monday, July 14, 2008(WMW)

I SEE WE HAD A CONFERENCE CALL TODAY .

I don’t think the “drop-ins” really care about those “cloned posts” from HuffPo, Consumerist, etc…

Face it, ddrb’s schtick is getting old and tired!

bbrd: While it may be old for you,it might be brand-spanking news to somebody else!

Wal-Mart Moms as voters
By Linda P. Campbell
10-04-2008

Some thoughts to ponder the next time you’re standing behind 10 people in the slowest line in the local Wal-Mart, grousing that you won’t ever shop here again, or at least not until you absolutely need to:

• Every week, 137 million Americans file through Wal-Mart, including one of every five women.

• Wal-Mart’s why you can now pay around $5 a pound for salmon, why double-strength liquid laundry detergent has become ubiquitous.

• Wal-Mart shoppers — women, specifically — supposedly are the swing voters who’ll decide the presidential election between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama.

Pollsters and political reporters, from Time to Business Week to Britain’s The Financial Times, have been analyzing the campaigns’ efforts to woo “Wal-Mart Moms,” a shorthand for middle-age white women, mostly lower income and without college educations. Wal-Mart’s taken its own snapshots of its shoppers, and here are some of the results that corporate communications VP Mona Williams shared at the recent National Conference of Editorial Writers convention in Little Rock:

• People more likely to shop at Wal-Mart in August than six months earlier: 54 percent.

• Women more likely: 57 percent.

• Minorities more likely: 73 percent of blacks, 70 percent of Hispanics.

• Political leanings: 63 percent of Democrats more likely to shop Wal-Mart; 48 percent of independents; 46 percent of Republicans; 48 percent of undecideds.

• Undecided voters who shop Wal-Mart regularly or occasionally: 71 percent.

Among Wal-Mart Moms, Williams said, 63 percent agreed that “I worry about having enough money to pay for my daily necessities like groceries and rent.” Forty-five percent of them consider their financial situation the same as six months ago; 35 percent feel worse off, and 19 percent are better.

A September poll taken in five battleground states (Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia) depicts “Walmart Women” as pragmatic and focused on pocketbook issues, a Sept. 23 company memo says.

“Walmart Women” work (74 percent), are married (70 percent), attend church regularly (47 percent), have college degrees (34 percent) and call themselves politically moderate (42 percent), according to that survey. “Walmart Moms,” though, are more often married (86 percent), less likely to work outside the home (68 percent) and lean more conservative (44 call themselves Republicans, 34 percent Democrats.)

The common wisdom says that McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to lure Wal-Mart Moms to his camp.

The hunter, fisher, wife and mother, former small-town mayor, regular gal might even shop at the Wasilla Wal-Mart: she did cut the red ribbon when it became a Supercenter last November, after all.

Democratic VP pick Joe Biden, by contrast, was chiding Wal-Mart in 2006 for what he called inadequate wages and employee health benefits.

But the key question isn’t whether a President Obama or a President McCain could feel the pain and frustration of Wal-Mart shoppers. (I can’t see McCain buying Better Homes and Gardens accessories at Wal-Mart for any of his multiple luxury abodes. Obama probably doesn’t pick up his arugula there, though it’s available in salad mixes.)

The question is which of the presidential candidates is likelier to have smart, workable ideas for improving the areas that regular people care about and struggle with every day: educating their kids and sending them to college; feeding their families on wages that are stagnating when prices are rising; paying the mortgage, the utilities, the gas to get around, taxes and other essentials; saving for retirement; affording doctor bills and prescription costs.

Which of the vice presidential candidates can bring a big-picture view to the discussion, as well as an understanding of how to get workable legislation through Congress?

These issues aren’t important just to Wal-Mart shoppers. And they aren’t the only voters the candidates still have to convince.

NOTE: According to Mona Williams, Democrats and minorites shop more at WalMart,yet the “WalMart mom” profile portrayed in media and targeted by GOP is that of white ,lower middle class moms.Aren’t a lot of the Democratic Hispanic,African American, and other minority shoppers mothers,too? Aren’t many of these same women WalMart employees ,too? How do THEY feel about being influenced to vote Republican, by WalMart management?

What About Your”schtick," bbrd?

Didn’t you ask why RDS “engages” us?  What’s just as puzzling is...“Why do you keep hanging around?”

Are you going to let RDS speak for you?

Most of us considered you to be DOA, bbrd.  You bring nothing to this blog.  You were so unimaginative in choosing a blogging “handle,” that you had to go with a play off ddrb’s.  You hang “in the shadows,” only to emerge just long enough to tag your “two cents” onto some sophistic soporific point that RDS is trying to make.

Talk about foreign investors, The foreign investments into Obamas campaign- by Muslims, Saudi’s and the like-ILLEGAL!

Two apparently fictional donors using the names “Doodad Pro” and “Good Will” gave Obama more than $11,000 in increments of $10 and $25, according to Newsweek.

Other news accounts suggest that roughly 11,500 donors who gave a total of $34 million to the campaign may be citizens of foreign countries, who are not allowed to contribute to U.S. elections, the RNC said.

“We see a lack of control, a lack of willingness on the part of the Obama campaign to ask relevant questions,” Cairncross said.

How much did Ayers donate? Is he “Doodad Pro"- Interesting.

“This is someone who sees America as ‘imperfect enough’ to work with a former domestic terrorist who targeted his own country,” Palin said of Obama. That was a tamer description than Palin used at rallies in California and Colorado over the weekend.

McCain Still Receives Big $$$s from Keating S&L;Figure Linked to BCCI and Organized Crime
Posted by leveymg
Thu Aug 21st 2008,
A lot of people are familiar with S&L;crook Charles Keating’s illegal contributions to John McCain in the 1980s. What most don’t know, however, was that Keating was implicated in the BCCI takeover of a number of S&Ls;, including his own. With me, so far?

Carl Lindner, an Ohio billionaire who owned Chiquita Bananas, was Charles Keating’s original partner, banker, and mentor. Lindner got Keating wrapped up with schemes involving the usual cast of BCCI characters, shady Saudi bankers, the Bush family, and Iran-Contra money laundering. Keating was always a sort of pass-through guy, without any real money of his own. But, a lot of money flowed through Keating to McCain and his wife, Cindy, in an Arizona real estate scam. Lindner who was recently convicted of financing Right-wing death squads in Colombia, is still giving big campaign checks to McCain. Now, that’s a story that the American people need to hear.

leveymg’s Journal - THE CRIMES AND COVERUPS OF JOHN McCAIN, “REFORMER” Jun 3, 2008 ... Like the Bush Family, McCain had his Hand in the BCCI and S&L;Scandals McCain claims that his involvement in the Keating S&L;scandal wasn’t ...
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/… - 48k

McCain Backer’s Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In Colombia ...Jul 2, 2008 ... Late last week, Lindner co-hosted a $25000-per-person fundraiser for McCain and the Republican Party in the wealthy Indian Hills ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/02/m… - 146k

The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a major international bank founded in London, United Kingdom in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a leading Pakistani financier. The company was registered in Luxembourg. At its peak, it operated in 78 countries, had over 400 branches, and had assets in excess of US$ 20 billion making it the 7th largest bank in the world by assets.

BCCI became the focus in 1991 of the world’s WORST financial scandal and what was called a “$20-billion-plus heist”. Regulators in the United States and the United Kingdom found it to be involved in money laundering, CIA,bribery, support of terrorism, arms trafficking, the sale of nuclear technologies, the commission and facilitation of tax evasion, smuggling, illegal immigration, and the illicit purchases of banks and real estate. The bank was found to have at least $13 billion unaccounted for. The bank was dubbed satirically the “Bank of Crooks and Criminals International.”

Investigators in the U.S. and the UK revealed that BCCI had been “set up DELIBERATELY to AVOID centralized REGULATORY review, and operated extensively in bank secrecy jurisdictions. Its affairs were extraordinarily complex. Its officers were sophisticated international bankers whose apparent objective was to keep their affairs secret, to commit fraud on a massive scale, and to avoid detection” BCCI organized its own intelligence network, diplomatic corps and shipping & trading companies.~~~~~~~~~~~~~NOTE: $700 Billion is a whole lot MORE than $20 Billion,otherwise it sure sounds familiar…

BTW: In a synchronicity of ultimate irony,both BCCI and the Keating Five S&L;scandal BOTH occured during the Presidential administration of yet ANOTHER Bush-namely, that of G.H.W.. “Poppy” Bush, father of the current President .

Hey, Larry, what about the First Dude? Don’t those terrorists he pals around with count too?

Isn’t it strange that no one is questioning Palin’s husband, Todd, “First Dude” Palin and his connection to the AIP? You ask, “What is the AIP?

The founder of the Alaska Independence Party—a group that has been courted over the years by Sarah Palin, and one her husband was a member of for roughly seven years—once professed his “hatred for the American government” and cursed the American flag as a “damn flag.”

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-105779

I hear there’s quite a lag in getting a passport these days, Larry. You might want to get started since you probably won’t feel very welcome here in the USA after November. Take RDS with you, huh?

“once professed his “hatred for the American government” and cursed the American flag as a “damn flag.””

Sounds like Screwedby’s kind of person!!

Spoken Like the True WalMart Zombie You Are, RDS

Only a WalMart lover like yourself...oh yeah let’s not forget about Larry, would ever admit to “loving the American Government,” in its present form.

Just because someone advocates changing the ways of our government does not make him or her “anti-American.”

Lately RDS, your posts more resemble the rantings of a frenetic lunatic than the reasoning of a “logical” person. 

You and Larry seem to be experiencing the same desperate crescendo of John McCain, because he’s beginning to realize that he and the Republicans are going to get their asses handed to them on a platter November 4th.

Question of the Day:

When have RDS’ posts not resembled the rantings of a lunatic?

Discuss.

When have RDS’ posts not resembled the rantings of a lunatic?

Funny, I have often wondered the same about you, yourself.

You bring nothing to this blog.

In your opinion that is probably correct.

You were so unimaginative in choosing a blogging “handle,” that you had to go with a play off ddrb’s.

Didn’t realize it was trademarked.  Sorry.

You hang “in the shadows,” only to emerge just long enough to tag your “two cents” onto some sophistic soporific point that RDS is trying to make.

And, don’t forget the part where I make a fool out of you…

Screwedby,

“Only a WalMart lover like yourself”

You still don’t get it, I’m not a Wal-Mart lover, it is just one of many stores I shop at!!  But, being a Wal-Mart hater, I guess everyone who disagrees with you must be a Wal-Mart lover!!

“Just because someone advocates changing the ways of our government does not make him or her “anti-American.””

Then, why does Ken V., chastise Todd Palin for doing it?

“When have RDS’ posts not resembled the rantings of a lunatic?”

Like I’ve said before, to a person who depends on others to be responsible for them, my rantings about ‘being responsible for yourself’, must sound like the ‘rantings of a lunatic’!!  After all, you must be a ‘lunatic’, if you ‘Do it yourself’, right?

“You and Larry seem to be experiencing the same desperate crescendo of John McCain”

Where have you seen me backing McCain here?  I have said I was a Libertarian and you once claimed that I was FOR Ron Paul, and critized me for that!!

bbrd,

“And, don’t forget the part where I make a fool out of you…”

Guess that is why you don’t post that often, because Screwedby does a ‘good’ job of making a fool of himself!!

John McCain wants to “Change America” by making trillion dollar cuts to Medicaid and Medicare,in addition to deregulating and privatizing Social Security AND grant LARGER tax cuts to corporations like Exxon-Mobil and WalMart. They would wind up with over a billion $$$ a year in tax write offs. I don’t think voting year after year AGAINST a national MLK day is patriotic,but that’s what McCain did.Another question of allegiance to represent ALL segments of our country.

McCain Linked To Private Iran-Contra Group
Ties To Group That Supplied Aid To Rebels Re-Examined As Campaigns Probe Candidates’ Pasts

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2008

GOP presidential nominee John McCain has past connections to a private group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the Iran-Contra affair.

McCain’s ties are facing renewed scrutiny after his campaign criticized Barack Obama for his link to a former radical who engaged in violent acts 40 years ago.

The U.S. Council for World Freedom was part of an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. The group was dedicated to stamping out communism around the globe.

The council’s founder, retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, said McCain became associated with the organization in the early 1980s as McCain was launching his political career in Arizona.
The renewed attention over McCain’s association with Singlaub’s group comes as McCain’s campaign steps up criticism of Obama’s dealings with William Ayers, a college professor who co-founded the Weather Underground and years later worked on education reform in Chicago alongside Obama. Ayers held a meet-the-candidate event at his home when Obama first ran for public office in the mid-1990s.

Obama was roughly 8 years old when Ayers, now at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was working with the Weather Underground, which took responsibility for bombings that included nonfatal blasts at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. McCain’s vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, has said that Obama “pals around with terrorists.”

Covert arms shipments to the rebels called Contras, financed in part by secret arms sales to Iran, became known as the Iran-Contra affair. They proved to be the undoing of Singlaub’s council.

In 1987, the Internal Revenue Service withdrew the tax-exempt status of Singlaub’s group because of its activities on behalf of the Contras.

Elected to the House in 1982 and at a time when he was on the board of Singlaub’s council, McCain was among Republicans on Capitol Hill expressing support for the Contras, a CIA-organized guerrilla force in Central America. In 1984, Congress cut off CIA funds for the Contras.

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Months before the cutoff, top Reagan administration officials ramped up a secret White House-directed supply network and put National Security Council aide Oliver North in charge of running it. The goal was to keep the Contras operational until Congress could be persuaded to resume CIA funding.

Singlaub’s private group became the public cover for the White House operation.

Secretly, Singlaub worked with North in an effort to raise millions of dollars from foreign governments.

McCain has said previously he resigned from the council in 1984 and asked in 1986 to have his name removed from the group’s letterhead.

Singlaub does not recall any McCain resignation in 1984 or May 1986. Nor does Joyce Downey, who oversaw the group’s day-to-day activities.

“That’s a surprise to me,” Singlaub said. “This is the first time I’ve ever heard that. There may have been someone in his office communicating with our office.”

“I don’t ever remember hearing about his resigning...... “ said Singlaub~~~~~~~~~~Thousand Reasons

The U.S. Council for World Freedom was part of an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America.McCain was elected to the House in 1982, and while still ON THE BOARD of Singlaub’s council, McCain voted against creating Martin Luther King Holiday- in 1983. McCain voted AGAINST a motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of the late civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The motion passed 89-77,nonetheless. [HR 3706, Vote 289, 8/2/83; CQ 1983]~~~~~~~~~~~

Huntley Brown is a Black Christian pianist & has his own web site-Interesting prespective he has on Obama!

Why I Can’t Vote For Obama

By Huntley Brown

Dear Friends,

A few months ago I was asked for my perspective on Obama, I sent out an email with a few points. With the election just around the corner I decided to complete my perspective. Those of you on my e-list have seen some of this before but it’s worth repeating..

First I must say whoever wins the election will have my prayer support. Obama needs to be commended for his accomplishments but I need to explain why I will not be voting for him.

Many of my friends process their identity through their blackness.

I process my identity through Christ. Being a Christian (a Christ follower) means He leads I follow. I can’t dictate the terms He does because He is the leader.

I can’t vote black because I am black, I have to vote Christian because that’s who I am. Christian first, black second. Neither should anyone from the other ethnic groups vote because of ethnicity. 200 years from now I won’t be asked if I was black or white. I will be asked if I knew Jesus and accepted Him as Lord and Savior.

In an election there are many issues to consider but when a society gets abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning to name a few, wrong economic concerns will soon not matter.

We need to follow Martin Luther King’s words, don’t judge someone by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I don’t know Obama so all I can go off is his voting record.

His voting record earned him the title of the most liberal senator in the US Senate in 2007.

NA TIONAL JOURNAL: Obama: Most Liberal Senator in 2007 (01/31/2008)

To beat Ted Kennedy and Hilary Clinton as the most liberal senator, takes some doing.

Obama accomplished this feat in 2 short years. I wonder what would happen to America if he had four years to work with.

There is a reason planned parenthood gives him a 100 % rating.

There is a reason the homosexual community supports him.

There is a reason Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Hamas etc. love him.

There is a reason he said he would nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court.

There is a reason he voted against the infanticide bill.

There is a reason he voted No on the constitutional ban of same-sex marriage.

There is a reason he voted No on banning partial birth abortion.

There is a reason he voted No on confirming Justices Roberts and Alito. These two judges are conservatives and they have since overturned partial birth abortion. The same practice Obama wanted to continue.

Lets take a look at the practice he wanted to continue.

The 5 Step Partial Birth Abortion procedure

A. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby’s leg with forceps.

(Remember this is a live baby)

B. The baby’s leg is pulled out into the birth canal.

C. The abortionist delivers the baby’s entire body, except for the head.

D. The abortionist jams scissors into the baby’s skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.

E. The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child’s brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.

God help him.

There There is a reason he went to Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years.

Obama tells us he has good judgment but he sat under Jeremiah Wright teaching for 20 years. Now he is condemning Wright’s sermons. I wonder why now?

Obama said Jeremiah Wright led him to the Lord and discipled him. A disciple is one in training. Jesus told us in Matthew 28:19 - 20 ‘Go and make disciples of all nations.’ This means reproduce yourself. Teach people to think like you, walk like you, talk like you believe what you believe etc. The question I have is what did Jeremiah Wright teach him?

Would you support a White President who went to a church which has tenets that said they have a

1. Commitment to the White Community
2. Commitment to the White Family
3. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
4. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community .
5. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
6. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
7. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.
Would you support a President who went to a church like that?
Just change the word from white to black and you have the tenets of Obama’s former church.
If President Bush was a member of a church like this, he would be called a racist. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been marching outside.
This kind of church is a racist church. Obama did not wake up after 20 years and just discovered he went to a racist church. The church can’t be about race. Jesus did not come for any particular race.

(Continued from above)

( Jesus) He came for the whole world.

A church can’t have a value system based on race. The churches value system has to be based on biblical mandate. It does not matter if its a white church or a black church it’s still wrong. Anyone from either race that attends a church like this would never get my vote.

Obama’s former Pastor Jeremiah Wright is a disciple of liberal theologian James Cone, author of the 1970 book A Black Theology of Liberation. Cone once wrote: ‘Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him.

Cone is the man Obama’s mentor looks up to. Does Obama believe this?

So what does all this mean for the nation?

In the past when the Lord brought someone with the beliefs of Obama to lead a nation it meant one thing - judgment.

Read 1 Samuel 8 when Israel asked for a king.

First God says in 1 Samuel 1:9 ‘Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.’

Then God says

1 Samuel 1:18 ‘ When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day.’ 19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. ‘No!’ they said. ‘We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out befor e us and fight our battles.’ 21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD. 22 The LORD answered, ‘Listen to them and give them a king.’

Here is what we know for sure.

God is not schizophrenic

He would not tell one person to vote for Obama and one to vote for McCain. As the scripture says, a city divided against itself cannot stand, so obviously many people are not hearing from God.

Maybe I am the one not hearing but I know God does not change and Obama contradicts many things I read in scripture so I doubt it.

For all my friends who are voting for Obama can you really look God in the face and say; Father based on your word, I am voting for Obama even though I know he will continue the genocidal practice of partial birth abortion. He might have to nominate three or four supreme court justices, and I am sure he will be nominating liberal judges who will be making laws that are against you. I also know he will continue to push for homosexual rights, even though you destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for this. I know I can look the other way because of the economy..

I could not see Jesus agreeing with many of Obama’s positions.

Finally I have two questions for all my liberal friends.

Since we know someone’s value system has to be placed on the nation,

1. Whose value system should be placed on the nation?

2. Who should determine that this is the right value system for the nation?

Blessings,

Huntley Brown

The Palins’ un-American activities
Imagine if the Obamas had hooked up with a violently anti-American group in league with the government of Iran.The Republican ticket is working hard this week to make Barack Obama’s tenuous connection to graying, ‘60s revolutionary Bill Ayers a major campaign issue. But the Palins’ connection to anti-American extremism is much more central to their political biographies.

Imagine the uproar if Michelle Obama was revealed to have joined a black nationalist party whose founder preached armed secession from the United States and who enlisted the government of Iran in his cause? The Obama campaign would probably not have survived such an explosive revelation. Particularly if Barack Obama himself was videotaped giving the anti-American secessionists his wholehearted support just months ago as Palin did.

By David Talbot

Oct. 7, 2008 | “My government is my worst enemy. I’m going to fight them with any means at hand.” Ayers?Hardly.
The quote is from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, that’s the very SAME secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that Sara Palin sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year. ("Keep up the good work,” Palin told AIP members. “And God bless you.")

Thanks for your support.
AIP chairwoman Lynette Clark told me recently that Sarah Palin is her kind of gal. “She’s Alaskan to the bone ... she sounds just like Joe Vogler.”

So who are these America-haters that the Palins are pallin’ around with?

Before his strange murder in 1993, party founder Vogler preached armed insurrection against the United States of America. Vogler, who always carried a Magnum with him, was fond of saying, “When the [federal] bureaucrats come after me, I suggest they wear red coats. They make better targets. In the federal government are the biggest liars in the United States, and I hate them with a passion. They think they own [Alaska]. There comes a time when people will choose to die with honor rather than live with dishonor. That time may be coming here. Our goal is ultimate independence by peaceful means under a minimal government fully responsive to the people. I hope we don’t have to take human life, but if they go on tramping on our property rights, look out, we’re ready to die.”

This quote is from “Coming Into the Country,” by John McPhee, who traipsed around Alaska’s remote gold mining country with Vogler for his 1991 book. The violent-tempered secessionist vowed to McPhee that if any federal official tried to stop him from polluting Alaska’s rivers with his earth-moving equipment, he would “run over him with a Cat and turn mosquitoes loose on him while he dies.”

Vogler wasn’t just a blowhard either. He put his secessionist ideas into action, working to build AIP membership to 20,000—an impressive figure by Alaska standards—and to elect party member Walter Hickel as governor in 1990.

Vogler’s greatest moment of glory was to be his 1993 appearance before the United Nations to denounce United States “tyranny” before the entire world and to demand Alaska’s freedom. The Alaska secessionist had persuaded the government of Iran to sponsor his anti-American harangue.

That’s right ... Iran. The Islamic dictatorship. The taker of American hostages. The rogue nation that McCain and Palin have excoriated Obama for suggesting we diplomatically engage. That Iran.

AIP leaders allege that Vogler, who was murdered that year by a fellow secessionist, was taken out by powerful forces in the U.S. before he could reach his U.N. platform. “The United States government would have been deeply embarrassed,” by Vogler’s U.N. speech, darkly suggests Clark. “And we can’t have that, can we?”

Where’s the outrage, Sarah Palin has been asking this week, in her attacks ? The question is more appropriate when applied to her own DEEPLY disturbing associations.~~~~~~~~~~~~~Thousand Reasons~~~~NOTE: Apparently Jessica knows enough to distance herself from an “iota of identification” with Sara Palin.

But during last night’s (9/16/08) interview with Greta Van Susteren, Palin’s husband Todd explicitly distinguished “Alaskan families” from “American families.” It was a jarring suggestion that they’re not all part of the same country.

Palin responded, “I think they look at us as another Alaska family, that adapts to job situations and enjoys Alaska. So they can relate to us. You know, we’re just another family that, you know, juggles kids’ busy schedules, juggles jobs, and still has fun doing all that stuff. And so, you know, there’s, there’s lots of Alaskan families that do that and then really there’s a lot of American families that do the same.” ~~~~~~~~Newshounds~~~~~~

NOTE: From the sound of that statement,it doesn’t sound like he ever left the secessionist party, at all.

Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are

By Emily Wilson, AlterNet. Posted September 18, 2008.

Rob Walker, author of a new book on consumer culture, explains how consumers embrace brands as part of their identities—often without knowing it. Conventional wisdom says that today’s savvy consumers are immune to marketing and unaffected by advertising. Rob Walker, the “Consumed” columnist for the New York Times Magazine, disputes that and says there is an important shift going on, which he calls “murketing”—a blurring of the lines between marketing and everyday life. Rather than disappearing, he says, marketing is just harder to detect, and many consumers, rather than rejecting brands, are giving their own meaning to them and embracing them as part of their identity. In his new book, Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are, Walker writes about the intersection of identity and consumer culture, how marketers want us to think we’re beyond advertising, and just how Pabst Blue Ribbon got so popular. AlterNet’s Emily Wilson spoke to him by phone at his home in Savannah, Ga.

Emily Wilson: You say that a lot of people don’t think of themselves as consumers and they reject corporate culture, so they think advertising doesn’t affect them. You call that dangerous. Why?

Rob Walker: Well, I think it lulls you into a false security. Some people associate branding with just a logo. And they say “Well, I would never wear a logo on a T-shirt,” and that’s fine, but branding is more complicated than just a logo or a slogan; it’s the process of attaching an idea to something. Often people who say they don’t buy into corporate culture are hyper-aware of the brands they’re buying ...-- but they often have very specific opinions. Sometimes those choices are based on rational thinking, but sometimes they’re based on assumptions or emotions, and it’s hard to see that.

EW: In Buying In you write about the secret dialogue between marketers and consumers. How do you hope that dialogue might change after reading the book?

RW: Well, what I’m trying to do is pull back the curtain and say, Here’s how two things work: one, the marketing industry, and two, your mind. I call it a secret dialogue because there’s a lot going on there that we sort of overlook. We think we understand, but we really don’t.

And I believe we do, by and large, care about the impacts of our consumer decisions on our own lives and on the planet. In survey after survey, people will say they care about those things, but we don’t really behave that way, so I hope this will let people be more equipped to make the decisions that are more satisfying to them.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Alternet~NOTE:The phrase"murketing" reminds me of the “Momtourage “ campaign developed by WalMart and NBC.

To Reach Mothers, Wal-Mart Signs Deal With an NBC Unit [New York Times]

Forget about support groups, posses and circles of friends. The first advertising sales deal for a new unit of NBC Universal — signed with Wal-Mart Stores — is all about the “momtourage.”

The fanciful play on entourage refers to the people who help mothers be better parents, including family members (maybe even fathers?), teachers, neighbors and baby sitters. Wal-Mart is sponsoring momtourage material that is to start appearing this week on two NBC Universal outlets: the iVillage Web site (ivillage.com) and the “Today” show on NBC.

The unit of NBC Universal that landed the multimillion-dollar deal with Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest retailer, is known as Women@NBCU (for Women at NBC Universal). The unit, formed in May, offers advertisers access to female-friendly assets of the company, a division of General Electric. Those include cable networks like Bravo and Oxygen and shows like “Lipstick Jungle.”

“We are going to get value from our great content through trying to find identifiable consumer targets” coveted by advertisers, said Lauren Zalaznick, president for the women and lifestyle entertainment networks at NBC Universal.

The deal with Wal-Mart covers the third and fourth quarters, Ms. Zalaznick said, when the retailer is eager to sell back-to-school and holiday merchandise. The deal was made by the Wal-Mart media agency, MediaVest, part of the Starcom MediaVest Group division of the Publicis Groupe.

“We’re trying to provide something to the audience of real value,” said Anne Elkins, senior vice president and group client director at MediaVest, “usable, tangible information that TIES back to the advertiser in a WAY that doesn’t HIT you over the head.”

Vignettes on “Today” will be followed by commercials for Wal-Mart.
The deal and the formation of Women@NBCU are indicative of increasing efforts by marketers, agencies and media companies to reach women in general and mothers in particular.

Other examples include editorial features like “My Life as a Mom” in Ladies’ Home Journal.

Purging of the Voting rolls has begun! Blocking Voters Appear Illegal
By John Amato Thursday Oct 09, 2008 And so it begins.

Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.

The actions do not seem to be coordinated by one party or the other, nor do they appear to be the result of election officials intentionally breaking rules, but are apparently the result of mistakes in the handling of the registrations and voter files as the states tried to comply with a 2002 federal law, intended to overhaul the way elections are run.

Still, because Democrats have been more aggressive at registering new voters this year, according to state election officials, any heightened screening of new applications may affect their party’s supporters disproportionately. The screening or trimming of voter registration lists in the six states — Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina — could also result in problems at the polls on Election Day: people who have been removed from the rolls are likely to show up only to be challenged by political party officials or election workers, resulting in confusion, long lines and heated tempers.

Some states allow such voters to cast provisional ballots. But they are often not counted because they require added verification…

Republicans know that when mistakes are made they always hurt the Democratic Party. That’s just a fact.

Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio seem to be improperly using Social Security data to verify registration applications for new voters.

In addition to the six swing states, three more states appear to be violating federal law. Alabama and Georgia seem to be improperly using Social Security information to screen registration applications from new voters. And Louisiana appears to have removed thousands of voters after the federal deadline for taking such action.~~~~~~~~~~Crooks and Liars~~~~~~~~~NOTE: I wonder how many are WalMart moms? WalMart employees?  WalMart Shoppers?

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