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136 comments:
I think that the Jesus freaks got a point: Indeed, evolution doesn't exist.
I'm only buying people books this Christmas
I just see a bunch of mongrels, which the US has become. The USA of ole days is simply dead and the payment for letting the only free nation the world has ever seen to fall into decadence and debasement will be slavery.
It's hard to believe that humans act so much like herding animals.
We have been brainwashed that happieness is attained by spending till it hurts, a spiritual holiday is turned into something so commercial and shallow.
Pretty sad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day
FLASH---> My reading of my Magic 8-ball ( I hope is right!!!)
January 21,2009 -- President Bloomberg just release his domestic agenda emergency action plan. less than 24 hrs after taking office. It includes:
* The creation of an US Army Foreign Legion Corps - whose job will be to absolve all illegal immigrants into it. The illegal immigrants can join for a 10 yr service plan, exiting as US Citizens or be deported.
* The Foreign Corps will work with the US Army Corps of Engineers in several areas. With The Dept of Energy in building 30+ Solar Power Stations in the western states Deserts, which will generate Electricity, Desalinate pumped in sea-water, and pipe out Hydrogen, in a bid to replace natural gas and switch them to Hydrogen power stations. With the HUD to rebuilt in a green way, abandoned and foreclosed real estate and provide the new housing units to local housing agencies for distribution to the needed. With the Dept of Transportation to acquire and rebuild an all high speed electrified railroad network, that not only would handled scheduled passenger and cargo, but the ability to have point to point computerized guidance -just like an internet packet data gets from A to B.
===End of Magic 8 ball report====
The above is what we need in a new PREZ anything else will probably be bull.
Couldn't disagree more with this post - contempt for people is at the root of this evil.
Buying crap from Communist China at WalMart is EVIL
Scenes like this will seem like distant memories during the next Depression/Recession
The lines then will be for food and government handouts, not more cheap crap from China
Don't buy anything tomorrow HP'ers. And ESPECIALLY don't buy any sh*t from China
The herd mentality is strong in the U.S., but it's even stronger in China. People get trampled to death during sales there in China.
Check out the sole white lady in the bunch... lolllzzz
Keith...have you seen the film 'Manufactured Landscapes' yet?
here's the link to the trailer on youtube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ie5SJ39LsDg
Can I start the I HATE HOLIDAYS Blog???. . .
Number ONE on the list would be
-LAZY MSM - every frickin year they pull out the same homeless shelter stories for Thanksgiving, the same "shop till you drop" stories, the airport delay stories (hey it ALWAYS snows in Chicago Ohara on Thanksgiving). . .the sheeple just see to eat this shit up. . .I did NOT have turkey today. . .we went for a nice walk, a little tennis, and tonight some pasta and a salad! Bah Humbug!!
This has become knock the US at every angle blog. While you are having your holiday fun with your comments realize that every hour of every day the United States is providing security for the world repeat security for the world. Our son's and daughters in uniform provide the world the balance of power required to counter our enemies which some of you have forgotten exist and will kill you and I in a heartbeat given the chance. I am no fan of this administration, present congress, Wall Street money games, but am a fan of America which will survive as it always has and will continue long after we are just memories to our families. Happy Thanksgiving America.
Things like this didn't happen back when people went to church. People with empty spiritual souls seek slavation in the form of material goods.
well, I went to the store today and got a pair of pants! tommorrow, I go to a thanksgiving get-together with family; when I last saw them, I had a 42 inch waist and the pair I bought had a 30 inch waist!
I'll be excited to say: "can u believe,... I lost a foot?"
Just a report from the field in Virginia, had a new floor poured in the garage and got to talking to the concrete guy. He was waiting on a concrete truck and couldn't get one that day and had to wait till the next day. He was saying that the concrete trucks are super busy moving concrete to other jobs. Just drive around here and there is a ton of commercial building going on, not really sure what those people are thinking.
"contempt for people is at the root of this evil."
WTH? People with contempt for themselves and others is the root of evil fool. There is a reason why the French coined the term Petite bourgeoisie. Not because of Marx's usage of the term but because the French middle class had become like the US middle class - scum with too much money (credit). This post does not have contempt for the average slob who works hard, it has contempt for the Petite bourgeoisie who acts like the wealthy but who is not. and these Petite bourgeoisie screw up the future for the rest of us slobs who hard hard, try to save money, and invest our life earnings where ever we can protect it.
The lines then will be for food and government handouts, not more cheap crap from China
Will be? Bush's America has a lot of poor and hungry now. He doesn't give a crap though, because him and buckshot dick got theirs.
That's the last place in the world I'd want to be. Hate crowds.
It's true that people are starting to feel the financial pinch with their house foreclosing and all, but the T.V. tells them to go. Besides, their children won't love them unless they buy every crappy unsafe toy from China.
Saw them lining up at Best Buy at 7pm
on Thanksgiving. They were wrapped around the corner of the building.
Sick... Why?
I was thinking of waking up early just to check it out- maybe walk right up to the head of the line and cut in front of a bunch of people. I can see it now...
"Hey, you can't do that."
"Why the f*ck not. What, are you the line police?"
I wonder if it would start a riot- it would be great.
On my way home from my sister's for Thanksgiving dinner, I drove past WalMart and saw the parking lot was full of cars. What kind of sick society is this that people spend Thanksgiving shopping for crap?
The best x-mas present to me would be a donation to Ron Paul.
"We have been brainwashed that happieness is attained by spending till it hurts, a spiritual holiday is turned into something so commercial and shallow.
Pretty sad."
Could not have said it any better.How f@cking pathetic is this.Bunch of darelicts with shopping carts.Go take an iq test at these shopping binges and see how f@cked this country is.Let the sheeple piss away more money on crap.
I just don't get it! There are people sitting outside electronics places at 10:00 pm tonight. I was watching it on the news and they interviewed a person in line and all he said was he wanted to be first through the door!! Reminds me of iphone! It will be there on monday when everyone is back to work or even find it online!! How stupid are these people!! BAaa!!
flying drones coming to a facist town near you.
vote ron paul
wake up you sheeple
http://www.click2houston.com/investigates/14659066/detail.html
see the vid
"Buying crap from Communist China at WalMart is EVIL"
And buying the very same crap elswhere is not? Lord, save us from idiots.
Couldn't disagree more with this post - contempt for people is at the root of this evil.
Don't you get it man? If you saw there was a housing bubble, you are way superior to these other animals who mean nothing?
Geez.
Scenes like this will seem like distant memories during the next Depression/Recession
Yes, and we'll all live in McMansions we bought for pennies on the dollar thanks to the fortunes we made on our gold holdings while the DOW plummeted all the way down to 1500.
Is that the alarm clock ringing?
The Chinese credit God's won't notice our dying currency if you just keep filling your cart up with Chinese crap wal mart shoppers! Max that card out so he can feast. This should buy us a few more months before he starts unloading the buck. What else can we send the God's after we've sent him most of our money and manufacturing? Clams? Iou's written on a Chinese post it? He's going to be very, very upset soon. Got Dim Sum?
Of course, none of those of you who are slagging the people in this photo have *ever* stepped foot in a mall. Right?
Posts like this should be beneath you, keith. Not only are you preaching to what you imagine is your choir, the misanthopy makes you seem like an out-and-out crank, which devalues anything else you might have to say.
This is simply poetry. Thank you to the poster.
"I just see a bunch of mongrels, which the US has become. The USA of ole days is simply dead and the payment for letting the only free nation the world has ever seen to fall into decadence and debasement will be slavery."
10:15 pm The fat dumb sloppy idiots are lining up in their gas guzzling SUVs here in No. Cal for a midnight (T-giving) mad rush to debt and slavery. They will risk life and limb and their children to buy more shit (sorry @language)they don't need and cannot pay for.
I will personally delight in throwing them into the street and watch them starve if called upon to do so. We need debtors prisons, or a Red "B" tatooed in forehead as a condition of bankruptcy...
Happy Thanksgiving to all HPers!
anonymous the 1st 9:56 - Ha ha ha ha! Very good.
Man, I just don't get it. I read an article in the NY Times and they referenced a young single mother college student whose budget for Xmas is $1500. WTF?!? When I was growing up we didn't celebrate Xmas and I really missed partaking in the present orgy. SO we celebrate with the exchanging of materialistic grub, cause I find it fun. But in serious moderation. I spend 100 bucks for my 1 kid (on made in Germany non lead infused seriously well designed Playmobil), 10 bucks each for my husband and myself, and 70 bucks in total for the rest of my family: bottles of wine, books, cd's, joke gifts. Total less than $190. Nothing on credit. And it seems like plenty. I mean it feels fun and abundant. Where and how the hell this chick spends $1500 blows my mind.
Pigs, sheep and wolves, keefer, pigs, sheep and wolves.
Americans are fat.
look more like pigs.
To anon 10:14: Mongrels are the future. Fat white people are the past. Mongrels have good genes, are generally smarter and healtheir.
As for Tokyo Girl's comments on Fat Americans: Have a look on the Tokyo streets. Notice how fat young Japanese are getting as they abandon the traditional Japanese diet? If you're a girl you may end up with a super-sized mate, it's happening in all the countries that used to be thin that I travel to.
A skinny white guy who is avoiding Chinese junk when possible.
To Anon @ 6:17 AM: not that I support that kind of violence but we might see a new crediting scheme soon - Body Equity Withdrawal (BEW). A kidney gets you $15k at 10% p.a. Your credit score doesn't matter. If you fail to repay, you are operated. Simple! What's really frightening is that BEW has the potential to materialize...
This has become knock the US at every angle blog. While you are having your holiday fun with your comments realize that every hour of every day the United States is providing security for the world repeat security for the world. Our son's and daughters in uniform provide the world the balance of power required to counter our enemies which some of you have forgotten exist and will kill you and I in a heartbeat given the chance."
Give me a break! America is a trouble maker, no more no less. To know whether I should trust you or not, I always ask myself what's in it for them?
Hey man don't knock the sales so fast. Last year I joined the sheep and bought a 42" LCD for $700. Same model goes for about $1100 today and was $1500 last year. I'll wait in line 4 hours to save $800...$200 an hour is worth it.
I was going to buy a new TV so the sale was great. What I think is retarded is people going to these sales and buying things only because they are on sale.
Enjoy watching the football games on your 13" b&w sets boys. Oh wait I forrgot you don't watch football, that's too American for you. OK enjoy watching the BBC bash America 24/7 then.
PS: And no I didn't buy it on credit nor with a HELOC. Paid with my Discover, got 1% cashback and paid off the balance in full the next week.
Things like this didn't happen back when people went to church. People with empty spiritual souls seek slavation in the form of material goods.
Hah.
Hahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!
This is the funniest thing I've read all day.
I saw an ad for a VW lease with $0 down, $0 deposit, drive and sign thing.
Countrywide is offering $0 closing cost mortgages including to those with bad credit.
Every week I get 2-3 offers for 0% credit cards.
I keep hearing about this credit crunch. Where is it? All I see is lenders throwing money at anyone who will have it.
The radio reported that one of the Best Buy stores here in San Diego had 1000 people in line at 5:00 AM, some of which have been there since Wednesday evening. What a country of losers.
This town needs an enema
I suppose "Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Baaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! " is as good a caption as any. I'd also add "Debtor Nation". I mean really, how many of the people in that pic are paying for all that stuff with cash or a debit card ? Moi? Like the other poster, I also hate crowds , and I also hate the four letter word, "debt". My two younger sisters and I made a pact to give each other something sort of novel. That thing is called financial serenity. I.E. we buy each other nothing, nada for Christmas. We all have more important things to do with out money. One has kids to put through college and the other one just doesn't make that much. I have a 401K that I'd rather squirrel away money into. As for my 5 nephews, I just buy them savings bonds each year until they hit 18. Funny the bank lobby is very empty this time of year. No lines -:) . The only "things" I buy are for my parents. These are needs, not wants. I bought dad a new draw knife to replace the one that's going bad. I'm still waiting for mon to tell me what she needs. I'll just ask for jeans/shirts to replace the ones I have that have worn out. (They have holes and such). The end result is the whole family is gets through the holidays on cash.
A kidney is worth $60,000. A piece of your liver could go for $100,000
At least there will be less ILLEGAL Mexicans at WalMart today
ROFLMAO!!!!
I just returned from Target. My girlfriend is working today for black friday. I droped her off at 6:30 am (they wanted her to start at 5am) I decided to see what all the hype was. People fighting over parking spots, I finally park the prius and join the madhouse. I spot a vacuum for 35 bucks we needed one . I saw several people with big plasma screens, guitar hero, and other cheap elecronic gadgets. Only some deals and they were not that great of savings and seemed to be shit you dont need and only buy because its cheap. as Im loading the vaccuum in the car I notice "MADE IN CHINA" on the box and realize this is all plastic. At that point all I could think of is those 1970's hoover vaccuums mom used as a kid that were made of US STEEL IN AMERICA and lasted forever.
By the time you factor in the interest and late fees the sheeple will incur on there credit cards to buy chinese made crap today, they will end up paying more then the sale price they get today in many cases.
Just making an observation here, but, when you really look at the pictures, why is it that most of the people doing the whole "black friday" thing appear to be illegals, asians, and other types of colored folk. And yes, there are a few WTs, but I am just saying.
gwk, you are so brainwashed it isn't even funny.
"Mongrels have good genes, are generally smarter and healtheir."
Classic
"I keep hearing about this credit crunch. Where is it? All I see is lenders throwing money at anyone who will have it."
It takes time. The housing bubble didn't materialize overnight; it took a few years and so will the upcoming credit crunch as lenders find out more and more that debtors can't pay back all the credit they've spent. Patience.
Well, I bought one of those GPS map things in Radio Shack for $150 with tax. It was $250 before tax up to this point.
They opened at 6 so I drove up at 8 minutes till. There were maybe 15 people in line in front of me but it was very civilized. Everyone went in single file. I got an associate and asked for exactly what I wanted. Three minutes later I am in my car driving home.
Well, with $5 gas to come within a few years I dunno how much use I will get out of this thing but it had been a long time since I bought a toy. My 68 yr old dad went with me and thought it was the coolest thing how it traces in real time where you are located. I got a kick out of that so it was worth it.
I was suprised the other day I was buying something for my girlfriend at mervyns and I found several jewlery companies that still made stuff in the USA. I bought a butterfly pin from a company called 1928. It kinda excited me to see things Made in the US still
I love the people that think they're scoring getting 1% back on their credit card. Discover is charging the store a transaction fee to let you use your card. That fee is passed on to all of us through higher prices unless you can get the vendor to give you a cash discount.
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I'll buy it!
honica
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@Anon 10:56 PM
Actually, you have a point.
People make stupid decisions sometimes. It's part of the human deal. Any smokers/former smokers in the audience?
This human tendency does not make them contemptible, or uniformly "AZZHATS" (whatever the heck that means), or a conglomeration of pustulent maggots deserving only of being incinerated in an abandoned Wal-Mart Supercenter.
It means they've made a mistake, a bad decision, hopefully one that neither I nor other HP'ers will make. I hate shopping anyway, so the folks in the picture can have those plasma-TV "bargains" for themselves. Now to turn to my day, which I hope will be productive and healthy.
So what I am reading basically says nobody should ever buy anything.
Shopping has become a form of worship at the altar of consumerism, bigger cars ,suvs,etc. Looks like the 1st commandment doesnt matter anymore.
CLOSE OUR FREAKING BORDERS,AND GET OUR TROOPS OUT OF ALL FOREIGN COUNTRYS NOW.
Our son's and daughters in uniform provide the world the balance of power required to counter our enemies which some of you have forgotten exist and will kill you and I in a heartbeat given the chance.
You mean: "the selfish and materialistic American Baby Boomers create phony wars, bogeyman, and unnecessary conflicts to make money, and then send someone else's sons and daughters to get killed or lose limbs while they buy useless crap from China and stuff their faces with food." Go wave your flag now, sheeple.
Once for all, put his in your heads: There's no noble cause behind the US policing the world or fighting wars. It's all an excuse to make money to the same cronies. Don't let them brainwash you with false patriotism.
Some people misinterprets correcting what's wrong with America with "hating America". The old Republican fallacy game. HP'ers are more Americans than some of you.
Things like this didn't happen back when people went to church. People with empty spiritual souls seek slavation in the form of material goods.
Oh yeah, the church full of priests who molest children. Larry Craig is a "religious Republican", too.
One thing has nothing to do with another, Jesus freak.
You can buy used DVDs, CDs, and Books, that are like new at amazon.com, as xmas gifts, for 1/5 of the original price. You can't even notice the difference if you buy from amazon sellers that sell them as "like new condition". I've done it many times.
Save you money, don't support evil box retailers that are sending your jobs overseas.
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I am as guilty as anyone but,
What is with this materialistic society?
I love Christmas, always have but now I'm 48 and am starting to see, and have for a few years, how ridiculous all this buying to buy and out-doing everone else is.
These young kids, especially the young girls 13 to ? With the Gucci, Coach, Dooney & Burke etc. All this very overpriced crap that are must haves.
Fancy high-end cars, over-sized overprices sunglasses....
Just watch 'My Sweet sixteen' or Housewives of Orange county, and listen to what they say and how they act, how they treat their kids and how their kids act.....it's an abomination!
I just don't get it!
PS: And no I didn't buy it on credit nor with a HELOC. Paid with my Discover, got 1% cashback and paid off the balance in full the next week.
Check out the new Amex "plum card" - if you pay in full within 10 days of the closing date they give you 2% cash back. I run about $25k through my business Amex each month so I'm definitely getting one.
You people need to get out more. If you think the "fat and greedy Americans" are the only ones to indulge in excessive shopping.
I remember Xmas in France 15-20 years ago. Picture a two-story mall. Many small shops with the French equivalent of a super wall mart right in the middle. The parking garage is massive (two decks) and full. People are fighting for spots or making their own.
Inside the supermarket that constitutes the core of the building (actually they call them HYPERmarkets over there because they're so huge) there are 35 to 50 cash registers on each level and each has a line that is 5 or 6 carts deep.
Not quite the socialist utopia you America-haters had pictured uh?
This is what happens when southern presidents have run the show for the last couple decades. The US has simply become a plantation or colony.
One more thing...
"The Chinese credit God's won't notice our dying currency"
Don't contradict yourself because China is pegged to the dollar! Of course, Chinese credit God must be feeling approx. 8x the amount of inflation we feel.
Things like this didn't happen back when people went to church. People with empty spiritual souls seek slavation in the form of material goods.
Ha - that's because the churches took all their money leaving none to spend on crap. I dated a religious girl once and went to church with her 2 or 3 times and a disproportionate amount of the sermon went to guilt-tripping everyone into donating $$$.
You people need to get out more. If you think the "fat and greedy Americans" are the only ones to indulge in excessive shopping.
On the whole "greedy American" thing I always laugh because I've met a ton of European women when I was single and they were all bigger golddiggers than even Scottsdale chicks. I'll stick with my American woman, thank you.
Well, with $5 gas to come within a few years I dunno how much use I will get out of this thing but it had been a long time since I bought a toy. My 68 yr old dad went with me and thought it was the coolest thing how it traces in real time where you are located. I got a kick out of that so it was worth it.
November 23, 2007 4:52 PM
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Welcome to the 21st century. I had a GPS system 7 years ago. Hey did you also hear about this neat-o invention called the telephone? It rocks. You can actually talk to someone thousands of miles away. No kidding.
Andy in San Diego said...
I love the people that think they're scoring getting 1% back on their credit card. Discover is charging the store a transaction fee to let you use your card. That fee is passed on to all of us through higher prices unless you can get the vendor to give you a cash discount.
November 23, 2007 5:04 PM
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That is a silly comment. Whether I use Dicover or cash or Visa I pay the same amount. Why not get the credit card points/cashback/miles if I can? Of course it is passed on to me in one way or another but I can't control that. It's not like I have a choice in saying I'll only pay cash and doing so will lower prices. I am too small to make any change on my own. So I may as well get the maximum value from my purchases.
get it now?
"Some people misinterprets correcting what's wrong with America with "hating America". The old Republican fallacy game. HP'ers are more Americans than some of you."
HPers are American. So is Harry Reid. So is Hillary Clinton. All of you are American-hating Americans. You are the American version of the self-hating Jew.
the god of the church has been replaced by the god of materialism. we worship ourselves instead of a higher being. we find our salvation at amazon or target instead of spiritually.
"This has become knock the US at every angle blog."
some of the wise old philosphers have said that the worst thing that society does is socialize people. some folks drink the KoolAid and others don't, no big deal!
To Anon @ 6:17 AM: not that I support that kind of violence but we might see a new crediting scheme soon - Body Equity Withdrawal (BEW). A kidney gets you $15k at 10% p.a. Your credit score doesn't matter. If you fail to repay, you are operated. Simple! What's really frightening is that BEW has the potential to materialize...
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Aren't the dutch seriously considering that? something like free health insurance for life if you donate a kidney?
I keep hearing about this credit crunch. Where is it? All I see is lenders throwing money at anyone who will have it.
Sure, that's why Bernanke and European central banks have to be injecting billions every week. Some people didn't believe in the housing bubble either.
HPers are American. So is Harry Reid. So is Hillary Clinton.
So is Bush, Cheney, Karl Rove, Larry Craig, Libby, Bernard Kerik, Duke Cunningham.
And not, HP'ers just hate American scum. It seems that you belong to that group, so yeah, we hate you too, douchebag.
Wanna see a portrait of American culture? Just watch that TV program "Real Housewives" on Bravo.
That's what America is about these days. Oh and before you GOP whores come bitching, all those people are hardcore Republicans. Watch one episode of that program to see what your country has become. I dare you.
On the whole "greedy American" thing I always laugh because I've met a ton of European women when I was single and they were all bigger golddiggers than even Scottsdale chicks.
Hey Frank, bride catalog is not the appropriate place to meet decent European women. But coming from AZ, I'm not surprised that you're confused.
I've dated many women from Europe and Scandinavia that were great.
Why is it that everyone hates a misanthrope these days? Lighten up.
"Mongrels have good genes, are generally smarter and healtheir."
Classic
Heterosis is a term used in genetics and selective breeding. The term heterosis, also known as hybrid vigor (or hybrid vigour) or outbreeding enhancement, describes the increased strength of different characteristics in hybrids; the possibility to obtain a "better" individual by combining the virtues of its parents.
Welcome to the 21st century. I had a GPS system 7 years ago. Hey did you also hear about this neat-o invention called the telephone? It rocks. You can actually talk to someone thousands of miles away. No kidding.
Work gave me a GPS system and a satellite phone almost 10 years ago. I never NEEDED them, so I never used them.
Now be a good consumer and go add either 6" to your T.V. size or 3" to your penis.
I remember Xmas in France 15-20 years ago. Picture a two-story mall. Many small shops with the French equivalent of a super wall mart right in the middle. The parking garage is massive (two decks) and full. People are fighting for spots or making their own.
That's such a lie. I've studied and lived in Paris for a long time and there's nothing like that going on. There are shopping galleries inside historical buildings, which sell mostly French products, and small markets selling local produce. You know nothing about France, ugly American tourist who spends a couple of days there and think that 's an expert.
And whatta hell France has to do with anything? Ohhh, you've been brainwashed by the GOP or work as its boot licker. Everybody who disagrees with the crooks in power is a socialist now, and we have to compare everything to France because Bill O'Reilly and Hannity said so.
However, the Republican Fascists have no problem giving their money and future away to communist China, Israel, and the muy amigos Saudis.
A couple of days ago, an American investigative reporter showed the Chinese child slaves fabricating crucifixes to be sold in the Christian stores in America. You people are soooo religious, buying "Christian" items fabricated by Chinese child labor.
Hypocrites!
Happy holidays, Republican "Christians":
Crucifixes allegedly made in Chinese sweatshops
NEW YORK (AP) -- A labor rights group alleged Tuesday that crucifixes sold in religious gift shops in the U.S. are produced under "horrific" conditions in a Chinese factory with more than 15-hour workdays and inadequate food.
"It's a throwback to the worst of the garment sweatshops 10, 20 years ago," said Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee.
Kernaghan held a news conference in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York to call attention to conditions at a factory in Dongguan, a southern Chinese city near Hong Kong, where he said crosses sold at the historic church and elsewhere are made.
Spokespeople for St. Patrick's and another New York landmark, the Episcopal Trinity Church at Wall Street, said the churches had removed dozens of crucifixes from their shops while they investigate the claims.
"I don't think they have a clue where these crucifixes were made -- in horrific work conditions," Kernaghan said.
Kernaghan said the factory's mostly young, female employees work from 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. seven days a week and are paid 26 cents an hour with no sick days or vacation. Workers live in filthy dormitories and are fed a watery "slop," he said.
Kernaghan said factory workers took photos and smuggled out documents detailing practices there. While none of the crucifixes sold in New York were identified as made in China, they bore serial numbers matching products made at the factory in question, Kernaghan said.
http://tinyurl.com/yobzlq
Keefer can you rename this blog to what it really is...
Socialists Of the World Unite
"the United States is providing security for the world repeat security for the world. Our son's and daughters in uniform provide the world the balance of power required to counter our enemies which some of you have forgotten exist and will kill you and I in a heartbeat given the chance."
I want to thank those who put on the uniform for their service. I applaud you for your good intentions. Unfortunately, our country has been co-opted by evil NWO corporatists. It would be too montrous to really know how they are manipulating the patriotism of good honest americans. Imagine if their evil doings were to see the light of day. The country would unravel immediately. We've been duped.
anon 11:23 you need to get back on the meds asap before you hurt someone
I guess DummyCrat Fascists don't buy anything made in China? They don't own any electronics or clothes? Where was your computer made? How about the components in your car? Your furniture?
We all know the Europeans are not greedy. I mean, there isn't a real estate bubble in London or Madrid, right? In fact, they don't even have money over there. Everything must be free. You DummyCrats are a funny species.
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What about the American flag for 4th of July.....made in China?
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Wanna see a portrait of American culture? Just watch that TV program "Real Housewives" on Bravo.
Typical Dummycrat morons. They think that reality TV is real. Would you leftard idiots act the same if there were cameras following you around. Would the cameras be following a boring average family around? You DummyCrats are such bores and idiots. Besides, why are such superior, intelligent beings doing watching Real Housewives? I must have been for a social experiment, right?
BTW - Hollywood is full of leftwing idiots like you. They are the ones putting that crap on TV.
HP'ers just hate American scum
So they hate themselves
I bought some sourdough rolls today for leftover turkey sandwiches...otherwise nothing.
Anonymous said...
>>This blog has contempt for the Petite bourgeoisie who acts like the wealthy but who is not. and these Petite bourgeoisie screw up the future for the rest of us...
November 23, 2007 1:35 AM
Well said! I am so with you on this thought.
Tokyo Girl said...
Americans are fat.
look more like pigs.
November 23, 2007 8:43 AM
LOL! Oh naive Tokyo Girl... China will soon follow!
Tokyo Girl said...
>>Americans are fat.
look more like pigs.
November 23, 2007 8:43 AM
Oops! I meant to say Japanese will soon follow LOL But you still can include Chinese.
Think about the new generation JUNK fast food mentality. This applies all around the world.
Keith,
We are seriously thinking about emmigrating to Canada or Northern Europe. How freindly are these countries to people from the U.S.A.? We have gauranteed monthly income.
Do we have a chance?
Anonymous said...
>>I keep hearing about this credit crunch. Where is it? All I see is lenders throwing money at anyone who will have it.
November 23, 2007 2:25 PM
Dude, you just don't get it do you? 0% offers = desperation! That's how they get you hooked/hawked in debt. Just like a drug dealer would offer you free drugs at first... then you come back for more because you are now addicted and KAPOW! pay up
Welcome to the 21st century. I had a GPS system 7 years ago. Hey did you also hear about this neat-o invention called the telephone? It rocks. You can actually talk to someone thousands of miles away. No kidding.
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And how much did something you really do not need cost you 7 years ago?
I refused to pay $1500 to have it come in the dash of the car from the factory and over $1000 for stand alones back in 00.
Learn to get a deal and try sending smoke signals cause it is cheaper than paying the phone company.
Keith,
I've been lonely for a really long time. Ever since I was 20 (1990) and I got my first credit card. I ALWAYS paid it off. Nobody told me to. My friends marvelled at tbe $800 I had sitting in my account back then (working part-time and going to San Diego State) and yes, I'm a good looking woman!
Is fiscal responsibility genetic or is it dysfunctional, like co-dependence? I am the only person I know who has their house paid off at 38.
"Socialists of the world unite"
You are a lame brain, there are some anti American people here, however the majority are just anti stupidity.
You havent read enough to see that the "dummycrats" are loathed just as much, if not more.
I always voted Republican, even voted for W the first time, life member in the NRA, hate Clinton and her husband, etc etc.
But this country is heading down the wrong path.
Hp'ers hate stupidity, and government incompetance, together with this fraud that has been foisted appon us, called a economic miricle.
Wealth without work how novel.
I want my kids to grow up in a strong and free America like I did, and anything that puts that at risk I will loath.
Afghanistan was neccesary, Iraq was criminal, wealth in the early part of this century was real, aquired through manufacturg inovation and hard work.
Everyone in the world wanted a made in USA Caddilac, this new so called wealth is through fake asset appreciation, our manufacturing base is gone, we just trade houses like baseball cards.
This GOP is proven to be a failure, it was on their watch this happened, but come back next year when the Democrats have taken over, and see if find any love on this post, I guarantee you will find very little for the incomming socialists.
I dont hate America, I would lay down my life if it was needed, I just hate stupid people who are going to ruin a good thing.
Lots of venom and hatred spewing from the looney leftards here. Is there something wrong with people going out to buy gifts for their loved ones? Maybe the leftards don't have any loved ones and that's why they're dripping with jealousy and hatred. I'm not too worried. the world will go on. In capitalism, their are booms and busts. In socialism, there are only busts. Why do you think the USSR collapsed? Why do you think North Korea is poorer than South Korea? Why do you think China dumped socialism? Only a few idiots in the world, Chavez and Castro, still cling to failed Marxist ideas.
Anonymous said...
>>HP'ers just hate American scum
"So they hate themselves"
November 24, 2007 12:04 AM
>>All of you are American-hating Americans. You are the American version of the self-hating Jew.
November 23, 2007 8:59 PM
WTF?!?!? This is an OPEN forum for everyone (internationally) to share opinions, ideas and comment on a subject.
Besides, if you hate us sooo much... why even waste your precious time reading this blog? Keith was very specific that this is a blog with an ATTITUDE problem. People are just venting! An OPEN conversation if you will.
If you can't take the HEAT, then you should get out of this kitchen... LOL ;)
Anon, you should also be aware that most of the American hating comments are from people living in other countries!!!
Ergo, before you start making FALSE accusations you should start paying more attention.
RE: My 68 yr old dad went with me and thought it was the coolest thing how it traces in real time where you are located.
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Welcome to the 21st century. I had a GPS system 7 years ago. Hey did you also hear about this neat-o invention called the telephone? It rocks. You can actually talk to someone thousands of miles away. No kidding.
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RE:RE: I guess my take is that you're pissed off at this guy for buying a BETTER GPS unit than you did, at only $150, while you purchased a HIGHER cost GPS unit (7-years ago) - which is now like an out-dated, low-feature ancient antique - which cost you $1,248.
I guess I can see why you're pissed off at that guy. Bwaaa!
Actually Body Equity Withdrawal is the norm in many parts of Asia.
But most people who run such scheme are thugs. The rate is more like 10% per MONTH, and the operators make sure they get their collateral in time.
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To Anon @ 6:17 AM: not that I support that kind of violence but we might see a new crediting scheme soon - Body Equity Withdrawal (BEW). A kidney gets you $15k at 10% p.a. Your credit score doesn't matter. If you fail to repay, you are operated. Simple! What's really frightening is that BEW has the potential to materialize
the leftwing nitwits and peabrains here are worse than any walmart or target shoppers. i guess thos enitwits don't buy any household products or food?
"Lots of venom and hatred spewing from the looney leftards here. Is there something wrong with people going out to buy gifts for their loved ones?"
There's nothing wrong with buying gifts for others as long as you don't go into debt doing it like so many are now.
"We are seriously thinking about emmigrating to Canada or Northern Europe...."
Hey, I'll help you packing!!!
More than 90% of the public don't participate in "Black Friday shopping."
It's all hype to get you thinking you should be out buying too.
What did I tell you all before ?
This land of Americano is full of Shit-People. Do you see it now ?
Man, what pathetic nation, what pathetic citizens...
And you wonder why there is/was/will a housing bubble in this land of DUBYA SHRUB + PENIS SHOOTER !!!
sorry i cant afford that stuff today as i gotta get ready to start growing the body part replacement parts
"I'm really looking for the bargains this year because I'm losing my job; they're moving our plant to Mexico after the first of the year, so I have to be careful," said Tina Dillow of New Richmond, Ohio, who camped out at a Best Buy store near Cincinnati at 3 a.m. because of a great deal on a laptop.
This was a qoute from some idiot interviewed in an article about the Christmas shopping season Can you believe this You are losing your job but yet you are spending money on crap you do not need.
This country is toast put a fork in it.
Anonymous said...
Lots of venom and hatred spewing from the looney leftards here. Is there something wrong with people going out to buy gifts for their loved ones? Maybe the leftards don't have any loved ones and that's why they're dripping with jealousy and hatred.
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BINGO!!
They are nothing but sad, lonely people. Pathetic creatures really. On Christmas day they will be enjoying their turkey frozen dinners, alone, in front of the 13" black and white TV inside their 1 bedroom apartment.
I'd be spewing a lot of venom and anger too if that were me.
For all you America haters:
Google Boxing Day in Canada and England. This is the day after X-mas where people line up in the middle of the night for sales. People are stupid all over the world. Your hatred of your country is blinding you to this.
It's like binge drinking. They have to get it out of their system by shopping.
Just another manifestation of our sick society.
To the douche who asked about buying a GPS for $1000 and buying something I don't need. You see unlike you I like living well. I like owning the latest technology. That includes a device like a GPS system that has been very good. It didn't cost $1000, it was more like $700. And over the past 7 years I would say $100 a year is more than worth the value I received from it. $8 a month for never getting lost, for having turn by turn directions any time I get in the car....yea I'd say it was worth it.
You Ludites will never get it so there's no point in arguing with you. Enjoy fubling with a map and saving a couple of dollars. Maybe in 20 years when you buy a 2007 model car you'll finally have one.
Anonymous said...
the leftwing nitwits and peabrains here are worse than any walmart or target shoppers. i guess thos enitwits don't buy any household products or food?
November 24, 2007 6:30 AM<<<
what is the definition of ...left wing....??
couching arguments in terms of left and right is being totally intellectually dishonest and lazy, wouldn't you say?
when you go to walmart, it is like going to a foreign country. God what is happening to this land?
the ten stages of a nation:
the first stage moves from bondage to spiritual faith. The second from spiritual faith to great courage. The third stage moves from great courage to liberty. The fourth stage moves from liberty to abundance. The fifth stage moves from abundance to selfishness. The sixth stage moves from selfishness to complacency. The seventh stage moves from complacency to apathy. The eighth stage moves from apathy to moral decay. The ninth stage moves from moral decay to dependence. And the tenth and last stage moves from dependence to bondage.
winston churchill said one time, that... "The one thing we have learned from history is that we don't learn from history." God , how true that is now. We just do not learn from history. We forget. We become lazy. We become what we used to hate in other nations. We are our own worst enemies...
Tokyo Girl said...
Americans are fat.
look more like pigs.
November 23, 2007 8:43 AM<<<
fat girls are cool...that is called big bootay....
I remember Xmas in France 15-20 years ago. Picture a two-story mall. Many small shops with the French equivalent of a super wall mart right in the middle. The parking garage is massive (two decks) and full. People are fighting for spots or making their own.
Inside the supermarket that constitutes the core of the building (actually they call them HYPERmarkets over there because they're so huge) there are 35 to 50 cash registers on each level and each has a line that is 5 or 6 carts deep.
Not quite the socialist utopia you America-haters had pictured uh?
well since you saw it once its true?
try this chart http://tinyurl.com/2o9cz4
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A friend of mine and I installed a high end GPS in his car many years ago, then took a road trip.
the unit was kinda cool, but on long legs in the desert it was boring.
The unit also would tell you to exit the freeway at the exact point of the crossroads, which was to late.
the unit had way to many funtions of use, and this units operating manual was huge, thick and small print! You did not have that kind of time or comprehension of figuring it all out!
But, it would tell us the exact time we arrived....so did the cars clock and my cheap watch!
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To the douche who asked about buying a GPS for $1000 and buying something I don't need. You see unlike you I like living well. I like owning the latest technology. That includes a device like a GPS system that has been very good. It didn't cost $1000, it was more like $700. And over the past 7 years I would say $100 a year is more than worth the value I received from it. $8 a month for never getting lost, for having turn by turn directions any time I get in the car....yea I'd say it was worth it.
You Ludites will never get it so there's no point in arguing with you. Enjoy fubling with a map and saving a couple of dollars. Maybe in 20 years when you buy a 2007 model car you'll finally have one.
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Do you comprehend written language?
How will I be fumbling with a map when I said I just bought the GPS unit for $150? Explain this.
Maybe in 20 years you will learn to understand what you read.
Like the other guy said, I think you are really pissed that what you bought is obsolete and low tech now but like a total imbecile you had to have it when it was still being developed and the low feature models were made for more money.
I have to know if you are being foreclosed on as well cause you sound stupid enough to have signed an interest only loan with no fixed rate and closed on a house in the peak of the bubble's inflation at 3 times what it is really worth.
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Buying crap from Communist China at WalMart is EVIL
November 22, 2007 11:06 PM
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Being a fat-ass hoity-toity obese, diabetic, piece of human excrement, up-in-debt-to-your-eyeball but still think you are wealthy, Americano is the ROOT of all roots of evil.
Praise the Lord for the of Armageddon soon on this stinky fat-ass land. The land of sheeples.
Americano = Fat-Ass Sheeples
Yeah, the leftwing nitwits didn't get involved in the housing bubble. Home prices in San Franfreako and Boston are bubbly at all. They're just going to zoom by everyone else. I'm sure no leftwing peabrains pulled out some equity or took a HELOC. You leftwing nitwits are a joke.
More than 90% of the public don't participate in "Black Friday shopping."
It's all hype to get you thinking you should be out buying too.
Hype is what works on the leftwing nitwits. They take a look at a few nuts charging through a store and think that represents all 300 million people. The peabrains sit at home angry and bitter about life and think they are above it all. I plan to be happy and enjoy life no matter what happens. The nitwits can sit at home behind their computers and stew for the next few decades.
Anonymous said...
>>The peabrains sit at home angry and bitter about life and think they are above it all.
November 24, 2007 10:48 PM
You know after reading the repetitious peabrain and nitwit comments you have made throughout this blog...
I have to wonder who here really is the one with the ISSUES of hate, contempt and sadness?! You have made no real contributions to this blog.
You and Andrew Hac have soooo many issues you can NOW bind them up into volumes.
I for one am at peace with myself, preparing to help those who will need it when the time comes.
Hype is what works on the leftwing nitwits.
Hey Republican Fascist™, keep doing your low life job of licking the boots of your corrupt GOP, so you can buy something from your master China. The things that some American scum have to do for a living...so sad.
They are nothing but sad, lonely people. Pathetic creatures really. On Christmas day they will be enjoying their turkey frozen dinners, alone, in front of the 13" black and white TV inside their 1 bedroom apartment.
Not really, I'll be in one of the best tropical islands in the world, where I bought a house after selling my American condo at bubble's peak. To give you an idea, Michael Schumacher is there right now on vacation. The place is a paradise: Beautiful ladies (including supermodels) from all over the world, 42 white sand beaches around the island, great nightlife, excellent food, friendly people, scuba, sailing, kite surf, surf, etc. The island was chosen as top 10 most dynamic cities in the world by Newsweek.
As usual, I'll be there for a couple of months, while you enjoy the American meltdown. Keep spinning that hamster wheel hard because the GOP is not done yet with you, sheeple.
Signed: Proud HP'er, Ron Paul voter, and Schiff follower.
I remember Xmas in France 15-20 years ago. Picture a two-story mall. Many small shops with the French equivalent of a super wall mart right in the middle. The parking garage is massive (two decks) and full. People are fighting for spots or making their own.
Inside the supermarket that constitutes the core of the building (actually they call them HYPERmarkets over there because they're so huge) there are 35 to 50 cash registers on each level and each has a line that is 5 or 6 carts deep.
Actually, I am French and I can tell you that it's completely true. France has laws forbidding large supermarkets in downtown areas and in urban areas, but they thrive in undeveloped suburbs. If you go to your local little bakery, cheese store, fruit and vegetable store, etc., you pay about twice as much as if you get into your car and drive for 30 minutes to the nearest "hypermarket". Most of the people I know do their big weekly or bimonthly and holiday shopping at those monstrous places, and only buy what they have forgotten and their daily baguettes at the local stores. Since those hypermarkets are closed most Sundays by law, if you go there on Saturday it's a zoo, exactly like in that anonymous person's description. Some of those places: Carrefour, Mammouth, Centre Leclerc, Auchan.
If you have visited France as a tourist or even a student, you could stay in Paris proper for 6 months without realizing the existence of those gigantic shopping malls.
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his has become knock the US at every angle blog. While you are having your holiday fun with your comments realize that every hour of every day the United States is providing security for the world repeat security for the world. Our son's and daughters in uniform provide the world the balance of power required to counter our enemies which some of you have forgotten exist and will kill you and I in a heartbeat given the chance.
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That is the most crap-shit I have not heard in a freaking long ass time. How the hell invading Afghanistan and Iraq constitute provision the world the balance of power ? Was this the same "World Security Provide" slogan applied during the Vietnam war ?
Pathetic headlight-blind-eye deer patriotic trailer trash !
My favorite part is the MSM interview:
MSM Dbag: You were in line at two AM, in twenty degree weather in order to take advantage of the MegaSuperBlackFridaySale--how much did you save?
Semi-Thawed Sheeple: I bought a 50-inch flat screen TV (in order to replace my 42-inch flat screen TV) and saved $500!!!!!
My imaginary interview:
MSM Dbag: Mr. Rental Patient you're sitting on your a$$ at home--how much did you save?
RP: Well, annoying Dbag MSM TV host, because my pappy taught me that you can't save money by spending it, I slept-in, threw on some jeans and went down the street to have pancakes w/ my wife. Then we took a walk around the neighborhood before going home to watch a bunch of popsicled idiots crawling all over each other on our crappy $150, six-year-old, 19-inch TV (w/ stolen cable.) I guess by the flawed logic of consumerist sheeple everywhere, you could say we saved thousands.
"I'm really looking for the bargains this year because I'm losing my job; they're moving our plant to Mexico after the first of the year, so I have to be careful," said Tina Dillow of New Richmond, Ohio, who camped out at a Best Buy store near Cincinnati at 3 a.m. because of a great deal on a laptop.
She bought the laptop so she can do a computer course in speaking Spanish and learning Mexican customs, then she's off to Mexico to get her job back.
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