Weekly Update for Elected Officials: Nov. 21, 2008

“Ole Lee” is steppin down, will he leave enough in the petty cash fund for Duke to take his management team to the Local Strip Joint for a celebration?

I’m sure the meeting will be mandatory! Female managers included! Of course they will be encouraged to partake in the entertainment to supplement their incomes with some tip money! Also they can serve up some drinks while the regular staff is busy with “Lap Dances"- “Team Walmart"-

Take one for the team!

Under the heading of Conspicuous by Their Absence:

Nike, Starbucks, others form clean-energy coalition BICEP

The ‘others’ are Levi Strauss, Sun Microsystems and Timberland. (What? No Wal-Mart?)

BICEP, or Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy — is calling for stronger policies to slash global warming and to create a clean-energy economy.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/2008-11-19-clean-energy-coalition-bicep_N.htm

Live Better In Cheap Underwear

the management in this stores location really sucks!  instead of havin 2 seperate shifts (perhaps a 9am-5pm and a 5pm-11pm) on Thanksgiving Day, the idiots who do the scheduling have decided to play God and make sure that certain employees cannot enjoy even a couple of hours of this holiday with their families---Thay have scheduled many people to work from before noon until well after supper time.  Hey Linda, have you ever heard of “family oriented”?  Apparently not!!  Happy Thanksgiving, hope you enjoy the time with your family--we certainly wont because of YOU!!  I hope your turkey is dry!!!!!

pissed off,

The kind of abuses you describe by management against its labor force is exactly why UNIONS are needed!

A double time & a Half pay clause, in a UNION negoitated contract, for Thanksgiving day and the day after would prevent Mgmt from that abuse, and you would have plenty of volunteers to work Holidays.

Wanna bet if that were the case, the beast would have a memo from corporate, to staff with skelton crews for those days. There would be more volunterers to work than “staffing needs” in that case! Over zealous & vindicative managers could not “punish” workers with their “games” without justifying to superiors why excess workers were scheduled and the labor cost for that day was extreme!

And for those who do not comprehend- The United Transportation Union has negoitated such benefits for their members. ( double time and a Half for Thanksgiving and Christmas and the day after each, if worked. They are also paid HOLIDAYS for those that dont.(Christmas & Thanks Giving)

Although the UTU does not represent Retail/Grocery, similar contracts can be negoiated, the Waltons aren’t poor and their Corporation can afford to treat their employees fair.

Unfair labor practices are an every day occurrence by the beast! Thats why they are constantly getting sued!. If ever there was a need for a UNION, Walmart is the model case!

The beast could save MILLIONS in law suits if it were to invest in their employees and treat them fairly. The savings from the law suits probably would not be as high as paying a fair wage and bennefit package!

We have to work full shifts here to.  No modified versions here. All of the MS’S and assistant mgrs are working modified since Black Friday is the following day with the exception of the overnight assistant mgr.

I predict that with the loss of jobs experienced from white collar workers being so massive- many will wind up working for Waltonista enterprises. THAT is when I think unions will take hold. When the former employees of defunct firms will refuse to accept WalMart’s indentrured servitude as status quo and realize that there IS power in numbers,and undaunted and cowed like many of the present associates are.

Houston Chronicle
Bloomberg News
Nov. 24, 2008, 11:46AM~~~~~~~~~~~~via DU

After skewering, auto execs may carpool for next to D.C. U.S. to give Citigroup $20 billion more in rescue plan October’s existing home sales fall more than expected The U.S. government is prepared to lend more than $7.4 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers, or HALF THE VALUE of EVERYTHING produced in the nation last year, to rescue the financial system since the credit markets seized up 15 months ago.

The unprecedented pledge of funds includes $2.8 trillion already tapped by financial institutions in the biggest response to an economic emergency since the New Deal of the 1930s, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The commitment dwarfs the only plan approved by lawmakers, the Treasury Department’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. Federal Reserve lending last week was 1,900 TIMES the weekly average for the three years before the crisis.

When Congress approved the TARP on Oct. 3, Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson acknowledged the need for transparency and oversight. Now, as regulators commit far more money while REFUSING TO DISCLOSE loan recipients or REVEAL the collateral they are taking in return, some Congress members are calling for the Fed to be reined in.

Bloomberg News tabulated data from the Fed, Treasury and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and interviewed regulatory officials, economists and academic researchers to gauge the full extent of the government’s rescue effort.

The bailout includes a Fed program to buy as much as $2.4 trillion in short-term notes, called commercial paper, that companies use to pay bills, begun Oct. 27, and $1.4 trillion from the FDIC to guarantee bank-to-bank loans, started Oct. 14.

William Poole, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said the two programs are unlikely to lose money. The bigger risk comes from rescuing companies perceived as “too big to fail,” he said.

The government committed $29 billion to help engineer the takeover in March of Bear Stearns Cos. by New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co. and $122.8 billion in addition to TARP allocations to bail out New York-based American International Group Inc., once the world’s largest insurer. Yesterday, Citigroup Inc. received $306 billion of government guarantees for troubled mortgages and toxic assets. The Treasury Department also will inject $20 billion into the bank after its stock fell 60 percent last week.

The worst financial crisis in two generations has erased $23 trillion, or 38 percent, of the value of the world’s companies and brought down three of the biggest Wall Street firms.
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The money that’s been pledged is equivalent to $24,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. It’s nine times what the U.S. has spent so far on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Congressional Budget Office figures. It could pay off more than half the country’s mortgages.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s, when almost 10,000 banks failed and there was no mechanism to bolster them with cash, is the only rival to the government’s current response. The savings and loan bailout of the 1990s cost $209.5 billion in inflation-adjusted numbers, of which $173 billion came from taxpayers, according to a July 1996 report by the U.S. General Accounting Office.

The 1979 U.S. government bailout of Chrysler consisted of bond guarantees, adjusted for inflation, of $4.2 billion, according to a Heritage Foundation report.~~~~~~~~~NOTE: This is an excerpt via link from Democratic Underground website

Isn’t this where RDS gives some ‘free market theory’ bullshit from the Bushco financial doctrine and hostility against the automakers?

WalMart- When we got our billions in taxpayer subsidies over the past 20 years, we didn’t know then to call them ‘bailouts’.

SDV,

“Isn’t this where RDS gives some ‘free market theory’ bullshit from the Bushco financial doctrine and hostility against the automakers?”

No, I guess it is better to hear your ‘socialistic theory’ and how ‘good’ it would be to ‘bailout’ the UAW workers who are making $70/hour (wages & benefits) and get the taxpayers, who make $20 to $30/hour (wages and benefits) to pay for it!!  Heaven forbid, if a union member making $70/hour (wages & benefits) should have to suffer, by taking a temporary pay cut to save their jobs, when you can get the ‘poorer’ taxpayers to pay for it!!  Don’t forget, UNION people are ‘special’ and deserve more than most other people get!!

I’m still having a hard time, understanding the anti Wal-Mart logic, that ‘lower prices’ are bad for people’s budgets and ‘higher prices’ are good for people’s budgets!!  And, the logic, that the best way to afford paying those ‘higher prices’, is by giving people raises, so the prices get even higher, instead of having them shop where the prices are ‘lower’!!

But, then again, you probably still can’t figure out why foreign cars sell better in America than domestic cars!!  Or, why ‘millions’ of Americans have been shopping at Wal-Mart for years!!

RDS,

Your hatred for the American worker is noted again as the stain of a ‘love of money’ psychopath consumed with the labor arbitrage impoverishment mentality.

Your view compels you to the circuit of continuous poverty, that it is better as an expanding ideology no matter how many it destroys to benefit a few Walton multi-billionaires disproportionately.

This is where you disavow the Waltons earned the wealth off the backs of labor and you claim the family that has inherited the money actually ‘worked’ for it.

The reason you are still having a ‘hard time’ understanding the reality of WalMart business theology remains the same. You are not willing to acknowledge the devastation and consequences of the WalMart model.

WalMart- Where your advanced payday loan dream job can become reality.

...Bushco financial doctrine and hostility against the automakers?

Didn’t realize your very own Nancy Pelosi and crew were all in bed with the outgoing President…

Will wonders never cease?

“Didn’t realize your very own Nancy Pelosi and crew were all in bed with the outgoing President… “

Since I’m not a member of the Democratic party, Pelosi can hardly be described as ‘your very own’. Yet another poor effort from you bbrd to ascribe falsely.

WalMart- How can we distance ourselves from George W. Bush and wash off our Republican war paint as Bentonville sleazebags?

Since I’m not a member of the Democratic party, Pelosi can hardly be described as ‘your very own’. Yet another poor effort from you bbrd to ascribe falsely.

Who said anything about Democrats??  Last time I checked, you claim to be a Californian...and she is one of your two senators, correct?

SDV,

“Your view compels you to the circuit of continuous poverty”

My view of ‘continuous poverty’ lies in the fact, that people who WORK, aren’t in continuous poverty and those that don’t WORK, are in continuous poverty!!  It has to do with people getting a job and staying there long enough for their wages to rise!!  It has to do with trying to make your life better, by showing up for work EVERY day, not just when you ‘feel’ like going in!!  And, it has to do with ‘learning’!!  Being in ‘continuous poverty’, means that you have ‘accepted’ that condition and maintain it!!  It’s saying to yourself, “This is who I AM, so why change”, it becomes your ‘comfort zone’, a place where you can blame others for your ‘plight’!!  It’s the “It’s not my fault, I am a victim of society” zone!!

Here’s an idea, next time you see someone in ‘continuous poverty’, adopt them and take them into your home, then see how long it takes before you ‘kick them out’!!

SDV: Here’s some recent Republican outreach activity:
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Wal-Mart fires lobbyist linked to Abramoff - United Press International

Wal-Mart fires lobbyist linked to Abramoff
United Press International - 17 minutes ago
Lobbyist Jim Hirni faces charges in connection with the federal corruption scandal involving Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is serving a federal …

Wal-Mart fires GOP lobbyist over Abramoff charges - The Hill
“Wal-Mart fires GOP lobbyist over Abramoff chargesThe Hill, DC - 17 minutes agoBy Susan Crabtree Wal-Mart has fired Jim Hirni, its top in-house Republican lobbyist, who is expected to plead guilty to...”
Wal-Mart Cans GOP Lobbyist After He’s Charged in Abramoff Scheme - TPMMuckraker
“TPMMuckrakerWal-Mart Cans GOP Lobbyist After He’s Charged in Abramoff SchemeTPMMuckraker, NY - 2 hours agoBy Zachary Roth - November 24, 2008, 3:10PM Wal-Mart has fired James Hirni, the former Team Abramoff lobbyist...”
New lobbyist implicated in Abramoff investigation - The Associated Press
“ABC NewsNew lobbyist implicated in Abramoff investigationThe Associated Press - Nov 21, 2008WASHINGTON (AP) — A former GOP lobbyist with ties to Jack Abramoff may be moving toward a plea agreement...”
New lobbyist implicated in Abramoff investigation (AP)
“AP - A former GOP lobbyist with ties to Jack Abramoff may be moving toward a plea agreement with the Justice Department in its wide-ranging corruption investigation, documents showed Friday....”
New lobbyist implicated in Abramoff investigation - The Southern Ledger
“New lobbyist implicated in Abramoff investigationThe Southern Ledger, TN - 1 hour agoBy (AP) A former GOP lobbyist with ties to Jack Abramoff may be moving toward a plea agreement with the..."~~~~~~~~~~~NOTE: How com WMW doesn’t have this story posted. This guy goes back to 2004 working for WalMart. According to various sources, he was fired just a couple of days before Duke was announced as new CEO of WalMart,last Friday.

SDV,

“This is where you disavow the Waltons earned the wealth off the backs of labor”

Did you ever stop to think, that the Wal-Mart workers are earning THEIR money off the backs of Wal-Mart’s customers?

Face it, you have a bad case of ‘class envy’, because they have more than you do and you believe they should ‘Share the wealth’ with people like YOU!!

Why Wal-Mart Works; and Why That Drives Some People C-R-A-Z-Y” was a documentary funded by the Wal-Mart as a rebuttal to the controversial documentary Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price. In the documentary it states its case that many of the criticisms are born out of jealousy.~~~~~~NOTE: RDS hasn’t gotten the memo that even Ron Galloway, who was hired to do the WalMart financed movie, eventualllly found a conscience and refuted the company later over WalMart’s wage capping.

James Hirni
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James F. Hirni
Nationality American
Occupation Lobbyist
Known for Jack Abramoff scandal
James F. Hirni is a Republican lobbyist who has been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud in the Abramoff scandal. A former aide to Sen. Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark.), Hirni became a member of “Team Abramoff” at Greenberg Traurig. He was a lobbyist for Wal-Mart from 2004 until 2008, joining Wal-Mart full time in 2007 as its executive director of Republican outreach from lobbying firm Cassidy & Associates. [1]

Abramoff Scandal
Events and scandals
Indian lobbying scandal
Guam investigation
Marianas/Saipan scandal
Internet gambling
Monetary influence
SunCruz Casinos

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Plead guilty
Jack Abramoff (70 months)
Trevor Blackann
John Albaugh
Jared Carpenter (45 days)
Robert Coughlin
Italia Federici (48 months probation)
J. Steven Griles (10 months)
William Heaton (24 months probation)
Adam Kidan (70 months)
Bob Ney (30 months)
Tony Rudy
Michael Scanlon
Roger Stillwell (24 months probation)
Neil Volz (24 months probation)
Mark Zachares
Convicted
David Safavian (18 months)
Indicted
James Hirni
Kevin A. Ring
Named but not charged
Todd Boulanger
Ed Buckham
Tom DeLay
Tom Feeney
Ernest Istook
Others
Team Abramoff
Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis
Grover Norquist
Amy Ridenour
Susan Ralston
Ralph Reed
Lou Sheldon

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In court documents filed on November 20, 2008 with the plea agreement of Trevor Blackann, Hirni, identified as “Lobbyist E,” was accused of getting legislative favors by providing illegal gifts to Blackann, a staffer in Kit Bond’s Committee on Environment and Public Works, and a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee staff member under Rep. Don Young identified as “Staffer D.” Wal-Mart fired Hirni on November 19, 2008. Another former Team Abramoff lobbyist, Todd Boulanger, was also named in Blackann’s plea ("Lobbyist D"). Boulanger was fired from Cassidy & Associates on November 21, 2008.[1]

Court documents filed November 21, 2008 charge Hirni with one count of “conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud” for giving Blackann and Young’s staffer an all-expenses paid trip to the World Series in exchange for an amendment to the Federal Highway Bill that benefited Hirni and Boulanger’s client, United Rentals.[2]

Hirni also worked… as a legislative assistant to Sen. Bill Frist and Sen. Jeff Sessions.[3]

Employment History-------James F. Hirni
Period Employer Title Additional Info
2007- Wal-Mart Stores
Revolving Door Personnel:  Sr Director of Federal Govt Relations Client
2004-2005 Rhoads Group
Revolving Door Personnel:  Lobbyist Firm 2003-2005 Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal
Revolving Door Personnel:  Lobbyist Firm 2003-2004 Greenberg Traurig LLP
Revolving Door Personnel:  Lobbyist Firm2000-2001 National Fedn of Independent Business
Revolving Door Personnel:  Client
Sessions, Jeff[Alabama]
Revolving Door Personnel:  Legislative Assistant
Hutchinson, Tim[Arkansas]
Revolving Door Personnel:  Legislative Director
Cassidy & Assoc
Revolving Door Personnel:  Lobbyist Firm Frist, Bill
Revolving Door Personnel:  Legislative Assistant ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Center for Responsive Politics

ddrb,

“RDS hasn’t gotten the memo that even Ron Galloway, who was hired to do the WalMart financed movie, eventualllly found a conscience and refuted the company later over WalMart’s wage capping.”

And, maybe you haven’t gotten the memo, that Wal-Mart doesn’t take directions on how to run their business, from people they hire to make movies for them!!  Just because he later disagreed with wage caps, doesn’t mean Wal-Mart has to agree with him!!  Fact is, most companies have some version of wage caps, even unions cap wages in their contracts for a fixed period of time (the lenght of the contract)!!  In the companies that have caps, you may hear the terms, levels, or grades, and once you reach the top of the level or grade, you can only get a raise, through COLA’s or moving up to the next level or grade (which requires upgraded skills)!!  Very few companies, have unlimited pay raises, while staying at the same level or grade!!  Wage caps are a normal business practice!!

The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they’re an irrelevancy.
The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything.
They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They’ve got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They’ve got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying – lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else,”

“But I’ll tell you what they don’t want, they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. You know what they want? Obedient workers – people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they’re coming for your Social Security.
They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club.”

-George Carlin

Hirni, identified as “Lobbyist E,” was accused of getting legislative favors by providing illegal gifts to Blackann, a staffer in Kit Bond’s ~~~~~~~~~~~~Note: Kit Bond represents[ed] Missouri, a state in which Walton interests have a huge stake, and much political contribution has flowed there.

Interviews with current and former FEC officials, as well as a review of FEC commissioners’ public statements, suggest that the commission could pursue an “audit for cause” of the Obama campaign, based in part on allegations of widespread fraud and illegal donors as reported by Newsmax.com and other publications during the election season.

“There are standards in a bureaucratic sense for who might be eligible for an audit for cause,” said FEC spokesman Bob Biersack. “Those are objective standards. Committees that meet those standards are eligible to be audited.”

Confusion or concern with information in the campaign finance reports submitted by the committees are generally what trigger such an audit, Biersack said.

Such concerns can include a significant number of donors who have exceeded the limits of $2,300 per election. According to the Obama campaign’s own disclosures, more than 4,000 of its donors fit that bill.

Those concerns also can include receiving money from foreign donors. The FEC compiled a list last month of more than 16,000 contributions from overseas sources. A Newsmax survey of roughly one-fifth of those names found 118 individuals who appeared to be foreign citizens.

The Republican National Committee based its demand for an audit of the Obama campaign on reports from Newsmax and other media organizations that suggested widespread irregularities, including taking money from foreign donors and from donors with fictitious names.

“We’re still awaiting action on our complaint and will press forward,” RNC spokesman Alex Conant told Newsmax on Friday.

Three Republicans and three Democrats now sit on the FEC as commissioners. But the commission was crippled until June because of partisan wrangling.

Helping impede the FEC was the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, who placed a “hold” on a Republican nominee in October 2007. That action had the effect of keeping the commission on the sideline for the entire primary season.

But will the commission act now? Incoming commissioners Don McGahn, a Republican, and Cynthia Bauerly, a Democrat, insisted that they would hear cases at the FEC in terms of their merits, not party affiliation.

the Obama campaign more often than not failed to respond within the statutory 60 day limit to the more than dozen letters it received from the FEC asking for clarification of apparent foreign donors, or the refund of excess contributions, a Newsmax review of the correspondence shows.

For example, on April 15, the FEC asked the Obama campaign to refund or reassign contributions from two brothers in the Gaza Strip, Hosam and Monir Edwan. Together, they had given more than $31,000 to the Obama campaign. But much of the money had yet to be returned three months later.

Most of the contributions from the Edwan brothers were made in October 2007, so the Obama campaign was able to use the money for cash flow when it needed it the most and when the FEC was down to just two commissioners.

In the April 15 letter, the FEC failed to point out that the two brothers had listed their address as “Gaza Strip, Rafah,” and had obviously used a foreign currency credit card to make the donations.

On May 6, the FEC questioned excessive contributions from a woman identified as Deborah Heitz of La Canada, Calif. As of Jan. 31, she had given $17,900 to the campaign, nearly eight times the limit per election.

In this case, the Obama campaign began refunding the money soon afterwards. But once again, they had gained precious cash flow at the peak of the primary campaign, without ever paying a price.

On June 25, FEC analysts sent the Obama campaign a sharply worded notice with a 58-page single-spaced list of donors whose contributions were over the limits.

The June 25 letter first identified excess contributions from a donor named “Will, Good” from Austin, Texas.

The list of Mr. Good Will’s contributions the FEC sent the Obama campaign ran seven pages. And yet, the campaign was slow to start returning the money

“...and she (Pelosi) is one of your two senators, correct?”
bbrd

Wrong again bbrd, as usual.

Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi...Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Since 1987, she has represented the 8th Congressional District of California, which consists of four-fifths of the City and County of San Francisco.
Wikipedia

NOTICE OF LODGMENT

bbrd,

As you RDS and Mark etc feel around in the dark of the new WalMart political cemetery, it is my pleasure to announce to you 3 blind mice that...Barack Obama was elected President of the United States of America 3 WEEKS AGO!

“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
Helen Keller

Socially Deranged Veneral Disease- (SDV) Read the book.

You liberals are about to get what you asked for!
Starting with your hopeful- not doing a damn thing to Walmart- account his Secretary of State- Billary Clinton owes to much a debt to Walmart- Politics as usual!- Your vote was for nothing!

The Unlikely Rise and
Unexamined Agenda of the
Media’s Favorite Candidate
You Don’t Know Barack Obama Until You Read This Book.

This new book — “The Case Against Barack Obama” is published by the same group that brought you “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry” — the book that defeated John Kerry in 2004.

How did someone with his meager record of accomplishment become the Democratic nominee for president? How did someone with the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate and long-standing relationships with a former terrorist, a racist minister, and the corrupt operators of Chicago Machine politics end up as a supposed beacon of a newer, cleaner, bipartisan politics?

Sober, fair, and thoroughly researched — and all the more powerful and provocative because of it — “The Case Against Barack Obama” removes the halo from a man less qualified, and more radical, than the mainstream media has let you know.

Find out why Barack Obama as our Commander-in-Chief could be the most dangerous fact in American history.

David Freddoso covers Capitol Hill for National Review Online, and was previously a political reporter for the Evans-Novak Political Report and Human Events. A graduate of Notre Dame and the Columbia School of Journalism, he lives in Washington, D.C.

“This new book — “The Case Against Barack Obama” is published by the same group that brought you “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry” — the book that defeated John Kerry in 2004.”
Mark the imbecile WalMart stooge

Alice Walton was the 20th largest individual contributor to 527 committees in the U.S. presidential election, 2004, donating $2.6 million to the conservative Progress for America group. Of that $1.6 million went to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. During the 2004 election cycle, Progress for America ran advertisements supporting the Iraq occupation and praising George W. Bush for preventing “another 9/11”. The ads were criticized for their inaccuracy. A 527 group, named after a section of the United States tax code, is a tax-exempt organization that is created primarily to influence the nomination, election, appointment or defeat of candidates for public office.

In 1989, Alice Walton killed a 50-year-old pedestrian mother of two, in an automobile accident in Springdale, Arkansas. Although Walton was speeding, and had been been ticketed multiple times over the previous year for reckless driving incidents, no charges were filed in connection to the 1989 fatality. In 1996, Walton was cited for driving while intoxicated and fined $925.

Mark,

You can sober up from the bitterness of political loss and WalMart/Bushco economic DUI by killing yourself like Larry did. But remember to buy your own body bag instead of dumping the cost on the taxpayers again as another burden from WalMartization retail propaganda and the Walton family public subsidies entitlement trough slobbering.

SDV: One of the many blessings for which I will give,and have given thanks,tomorrow and every day , is that you haven’t forsaken posting here. You are just a true treasure. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

Mark,

I find two things really funny, first, Bush was criticised for delagating too much authority to others in his cabinet, but, recently, Obama stated, that as he wasn’t an expert in all areas of the government, he was appointing people who were!!  Second, is that Obama’s campaign mantra was “CHANGE’, so what does he do, bring back all of the ‘old’ people, so we’ll get ‘change’ to the ‘same-old same-old’ thing we had before!!

waaagh war warhammer

ddrb,

I am honored. Thank you for your excellent materials and exercise here, it is righteousness in the national discourse. God’s blessings to you and yours-

SanDiegoView

Why are you right wing nuts all haters?

Any bunch that would make the likes of Newt Gingrich Speaker of the House has little room to criticize Madam Speaker.

Blessed be George Carlin!

SDV: One of the many blessings for which I will give,and have given thanks,tomorrow and every day , is that you haven’t forsaken posting here. You are just a true treasure.

Nice “ring” around the ol’ lips, girlfriend…

For anyone who disagrees—is it a blessing or a curse??

Ken V,

“Why are you right wing nuts all haters?”

And, who is it we are supposed to be hating?  I have heard no one say they hated Madam Pelosi, we have just said she is incompetent!!  Newt Gingrich had a lot higher rating than Pelosi does!!

As for being HATERS, I think your side takes the cake there, you hate Wal-Mart, Republicans, China, and anything or anyone, that is more successful than you are!!

...anyone, that is more successful than you are!!

You’re safe from our ‘hate’, RDS, but not our pity.

What’s good for Wal-Mart is BAD for America!

@sfv: “This is where you disavow the Waltons earned the wealth off the backs of labor and you claim the family that has inherited the money actually ‘worked’ for it. “

The people who inherited the money got it fair and square: someone who did earn it gave it to them as a gift. Last time I knew, there was nothing immoral about receiving gifts. At least they didn’t steal it.

Sam Walton earned his money off his own work. The other workers were paid fair compensation for their involvement.

Isnt it always a “curse” when the douche bag overloads!

Nice “ring” around the ol’ lips, girlfriend… ~~~~~NOTE: Spoken with authority by one who should and does know intimately about such things, our resident “rimmer”, the popinjay of pomposity.

WALMART FIRED LOBBYIST , HIRNI, SPEAKS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF ETHICS:~~~Wheaton College: Wheaton Quarterly: Thank you for smokingJan 30, 2007 ... As a senior vice president at Cassidy & Associates, James Hirni ‘95 is one of Washington, D.C.’s top lobbyists. ...
wheatoncollege.edu/Quarterly/Q2007Winter/hirni.html - 19k - Cached - Similar pages

Let’s Talk Pity Here!

Hey Ken… I think hate is too strong of a word… despise...detest, condemn but not hate.  I can’t think of anything I really hate in this world...except perhaps cooked cauliflower.

In this sense, RDS is safe from our hate.  Although I can’t speak for others, I’m confident in saying RDS is safe from my pity as well.  Although he is one of the most pathetic and despicable specimens of humanity I’ve ever encountered, I could never bring myself to pity him.  The prerequisite for having pity on someone is to care deeply about them.  In RDS’ case, I couldn’t care less.  In his deluded world-view, he’s somehow under the impression we secretly admire or envy him.

Now...I must confess.  I had the “opportunity” to witness first-hand my first (hopefully last) Black Friday at Wal-Mart.  I got a personal up close look into the world people like RDS and bbrd/Someone in USA inhabit.  It was full-blown hyper-consumerism at its worst.  One lady had 4 stuffed Kung Fu Panda bears in her cart.  I learned they were going for $19.96 each.  (Made in China of course).  I can’t tell you how many Plasma TV’s I saw being pushed out of the store.  They had sold about a pallet and a half of the Garmin 3.5 inch GPS’ at $97 each by 7:30 AM.  It was a cross-section of America’s urban working poor.  Lines 25-30 deep or more.  Carts so full they could barely be pushed.  Meanwhile the grocery section of the store was all but deserted. A real anthropological study!

Now RDS may be wondering what I was doing at a Wal-Mart store at 6 AM the day after Thanksgiving.  Let’s just say it was a “mission” and leave it at that.

By the way RDS....do you suppose you can use your connections with WM to get the manager(s) at this store to post their names on the prominent display board behind the customer service counter?  I posted this once before about 6 months ago, and nothing has changed.  The slots for both the store manager and the assistant manager are intentionally blank… but right beneath that are the words: “We’re committed to Customer Service.”

Only in the world of Wal-Mart.  Further proof that if you keep telling a lie often enough, some people start to believe it.

Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede
BY JOE GOULD
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Updated Friday, November 28th 2008, 12:17 PM

Police tape surrounds a Wal-Mart that was the scene of a deadly stampede.
Augustine for News
This photo was taken moments before the Wal-Mart store opened.

Wal-Mart stampede, caught on camera
Black Friday frenzy

A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.

The 34-year-old worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.

Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.

CAUGHT ON CAMERA: WAL-MART CROWD MOMENTS BEFORE DEADLY STAMPEDE
“He was bum-rushed by 200 people,” said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. “They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back.”
Photo Gallery
Wal-Mart stampede
Check out pictures of the chaotic scene, which left one worker dead, caught on camera~~~~~~~~~~~~NY Daily news via Democratic Underground

SDV,

“In this sense, RDS is safe from our hate.  Although I can’t speak for others, I’m confident in saying RDS is safe from my pity as well.”

I have never asked for ‘pity’ from anyone,especially YOU!!  Why would anyone who has everything he needs, seek ‘pity’ from an idiot, who has so much ‘hate’ in their life?

“Now...I must confess.  I had the “opportunity” to witness first-hand my first (hopefully last) Black Friday at Wal-Mart.  I got a personal up close look into the world people like RDS and bbrd/Someone in USA inhabit.”

Finally, SDV admits that he shops at Wal-Mart himself!!  I don’t go to Wal-Mart on ‘Black Fridays’, because of all the SDV types there on that day!!  Also, look at that New York store, where the CUSTOMERS killed a Wal-Mart employee, probably some Ken V, type shoppers, trying to get at the ‘Loss Leaders’!!

“Carts so full they could barely be pushed.”

A ‘good’ indication, that our economy is going down the drain, right?

“It was full-blown hyper-consumerism at its worst.”

As it is ‘consumerism’ that creates the need for jobs, then ‘hyper-consumerism’ creates the need for even MORE jobs!!

“Let’s just say it was a “mission” and leave it at that.”

A ‘mission’ to get some great values!!

“By the way RDS....do you suppose you can use your connections with WM to get the manager(s) at this store to post their names on the prominent display board behind the customer service counter?”

First, I have NO ‘connections’ with Wal-Mart, I’m just a plain old shopper!!  Second, why do you care if the manager(s) names are posted, do you plan a frivolous ‘lawsuit’ and want to know WHO to name in it (maybe that was part of your “mission")?  I’ve never had a ‘problem’ at Wal-Mart, and if I did, I could just ask for the manager!!

BTW:  Just how much money did you ‘save’ on your “mission”?

RDS,

Obviously in your Thanksgiving Day hangover from the despair of your empty life you have confused me with ScrewedbyWalMart in Anytown, America. But then again, attentiveness to reality was never one of your qualities even when you were sober.

WalMart- Save More. Get Killed.

RDS: You better get a hold of yourself,or your wife needs to pull the plug on the PC. The post about shopping at WalMartuary this AM was posted by Screwed,NOT SDV!!

WalMartuary....you can bet your life on it.

Can you really blame RDS for confusing the two? The variety of excrement that spews from their keyboards is awfully similar.

Thanks for the attempted rescue of my false accusations against SDV Someone with your lame excuse paranoia on behalf of the pro-Walmart baloney guild. Sorry about that cold nervous shiver that went down your spineless back again.

Having fun, SDV?

OMG

A shooting at Toys R Us? How dare those love of money psychopaths allow such a thing to happen!

Damn straight Someone, it should be easily ignored everywhere to help protect the Walmart image!!

SDV:Can you really blame anyone for confusing Someone and bbrd? The variety of excrement that spews from their keyboards is awfully similar. Please type “WalMart Downsizes in Japan” into the search engine here.The thread story,dated 9/29/08, has a comment dated Oct.1,2008- authored by bbrd. Click his name[in blue] and it will link you directly to Someone in USA’s site.

Selective Perception, Someone in USA?

How convenient of you to omit the person who was trampled to death today at a Wal-Mart store.

A ‘good’ indication, that our economy is going down the drain, right?

Damn straight RDS!  There was no shortage of people buying things they didn’t need and couldn’t afford and whipping out the plastic to pay for it all.

Citibank is already looking for a bailout.  Look for the credit card crisis to be the next big drain on the U.S economy.

“A ‘mission’ to get some great values!!”

It’s your story RDS, you can tell it anyway you want. (You usually do!)

U.S. Pledges Top $7.7 Trillion to Ease Frozen Credit

The U.S. government is prepared to provide more than $7.76 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers after guaranteeing $306 billion of Citigroup Inc. debt yesterday.

Webmaster’s Commentary:
Umm, did anyone think to ASK the American taxpayers their permission befopre sticking us with roughly $100,000 per household of new debt (plus accruing interest)?

I mean this is just plain silly. The US Government is taking $7.7 trillion (some put the number higher, at $8.3 trillion) away from us and handing it to the banks, so that they can loan it back to us at interest.

Let me repeat that one more time.

The US Government is taking $7.7 trillion (some put the number higher, at $8.3 trillion) away from us and handing it to the banks, so that they can loan it back to us at interest.

Just @#$%ing boggles the mind, doesn’t it?~~~~~~~~What Really Happened

ddrb,

“The post about shopping at WalMartuary this AM was posted by Screwed,NOT SDV!!”

Sorry, I guess I’M the first one to make that type of mistake, right?  But, you are right, I should have known it was Screwedby as he is still taking his ‘mommy’ to Wal-Mart!!

Screwedby,

“There was no shortage of people buying things they didn’t need and couldn’t afford and whipping out the plastic to pay for it all.”

And, who makes them ‘whip out the plastic’?  You can give someone a ‘credit card’, but you can’t MAKE them use it!!

“Look for the credit card crisis to be the next big drain on the U.S economy.”

And, if it happens, the fault lies with all those people who ‘whipped out their plastic to pay for it’!!

...who makes them ‘whip out the plastic’?

Employers who pay paltry wages thereby preventing a pay-as-you-go economy. Face it, RDS, American workers just don’t make enough money to support hyper-consumerism.

The Walmart mentality propagates the idea that more crap will make us happy. ~ Phil Butler

@screwed: “There was no shortage of people buying things they didn’t need “

They buy these things because they need them. Just because you do not need them yourself does not mean nobody else does. Why not run your own life and stop trying to run everyone else’s?

@ken v: “Employers who pay paltry wages”

If it is a low-skill low-worth job, then a paltry wage is a fair wage. Instead of whining about your fair wage, why not work harder and get more skills? Then the wage won’t be paltry.

@ken v: “The Walmart mentality propagates the idea that more crap will make us happy. ~ Phil Butler”

No. The idea is that a company that provides a better value will succeed, because who wants to pay too much for “Crap”?

Ken V,

“Employers who pay paltry wages thereby preventing a pay-as-you-go economy.”

Tell me somethng, if YOUR wages weren’t enough to support your family, what would you do?  Would you just keep charging things on your plastic?

“American workers just don’t make enough money to support hyper-consumerism.”

You are right, but, hyper-consumerism, is buying both things that you NEED and things that you WANT!!  Like my dad used to say, “If you can’t afford to pay cash for things, how are you going to pay cash plus interest later?”!!  Just think, if the average person has $5,000.00 in credit card debt, where are they going to get the money to pay for it?  Oh yeah, they just need to be given MORE money, right?  Maybe, if more people learned ‘delayed gratification’, instead of “I want it all and I want it NOW!”, they could learn to live within their means!!

U.S. Pledges Top $7.7 Trillion to Ease Frozen Credit

The U.S. government is prepared to provide more than $7.76 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers after guaranteeing $306 billion of Citigroup Inc. debt yesterday.

Webmaster’s Commentary:
Umm, did anyone think to ASK the American taxpayers their permission befopre sticking us with roughly $100,000 per household of new debt (plus accruing interest)?

I mean this is just plain silly. The US Government is taking $7.7 trillion (some put the number higher, at $8.3 trillion) away from us and handing it to the banks, so that they can loan it back to us at interest.

Let me repeat that one more time.

The US Government is taking $7.7 trillion (some put the number higher, at $8.3 trillion) away from us and handing it to the banks, so that they can loan it back to us at interest.

Just @#$%ing boggles the mind, doesn’t it?~~~~~~~~What Really Happened ~~~~~~~~NOTE: You should have given the “delayed gratification” speech to Citibank...and AIG...and Enron...and Global Crossing...and BCCI...and Lehman Brothers...and BearStearns....and Tom Coughlin .... etc....etc…

...provides a better value...

That’s the argument, isn’t it? Cheap crap does not equal “a better value”.

What’s good for Wal-Mart is BAD for America!

ddrb,

“Umm, did anyone think to ASK the American taxpayers their permission befopre sticking us with roughly $100,000 per household of new debt (plus accruing interest)?”

The answer is YES!!  It was a thing called ELECTIONS!!  As tthe Democrats were the majority ‘voting’ for this, everyone who ‘voted’ them into office, gave them premission to represent them and the ‘power’ to make those decisions!!

Ken V,

“That’s the argument, isn’t it? Cheap crap does not equal “a better value”.”

CRAP is in the eye of the beholder!!  Just because YOU believe that PRICE is representitive of quality, doesn’t always make it so!!  I define ‘value’, as getting something you need and it meets your needs at as low a price as possible!!  Not everyone uses a wrench enough to justify buying a ‘Snap-On’ or ‘Craftsman’, at $8.00, when a $1.00 wrench will meet their usage needs!!  Therefore, buying the $1.00 wrench, would be a better ‘value’ for them!!

Bush strips collective bargaining rights from federal employees.
Yesterday, President Bush issued an executive order “that denies collective bargaining rights to about 8,600 federal employees who work in law enforcement, intelligence and other agencies responsible for national security.” 900 of the employees affected were already represented by collective bargaining units. Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said that employees “had their collective bargaining rights stripped away for no justifiable reason.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dec.02.2008

A government job doesnt automatically entitle the government employee to collective bargaining rights. Government employees work and serve the TAX payer!

Why should a Government employee make any more than the same position in the private sector?

Hard to Justify a Postal clerk making $25.00 an hr for doing less than a Clerk at Mail Boxes etc. Who makes roughly 8.50 hr. Its examples like this and the over paid, lazy, incompetent government workers that have caused their own peril.

I’m all for equal pay for equal work, not less work for more pay!  The Federal employees that are whining about their collective bargaining rights should also have their pay lowered, and the excess re-distributed to U.S. soliders.

NOW THATS- how to “spread the wealth” to those that deserve more, by doing more, taken from those who do less & complain more!

Marxist: Just here to stir the pot till you get to go home,eh?