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BREAKING: A 3,500-year-old clay tablet with inscriptions in ancient Mesopotamian that was looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago and sold to the extremists at Hobby Lobby for $1.7 million is confiscated by US authorities and is being sent back to to Iraq, where it belongs.
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Casady1
(2,133 posts)would not return stolen property.
ret5hd
(20,493 posts)redwitch
(14,944 posts)I hope their brand dies. Never have set foot in one of their stores and never will.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I know a couple people who spend mega-bucks there, but not enough to keep the store open. I've always suspected they are a front for something bigger. Suspicious mind and all that.
hlthe2b
(102,289 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,264 posts)the were so inconsiderate with her regardinf her schedule.
Here she is telling them she is available for any shift except Thursday afternoon after 5. When did they schedule her? Thursday from 3 til closing.
What's up with that anyway? I swore that as soon as she quit and lost her quite good employee discount I would never give them a penny.
I will admit to dropping in from time to time to scop out their yarn just to see what they have which I then turn around and order from Michael's, JoAnne's, Amazon or the manufacturer.
keithbvadu2
(36,823 posts)Christianity and the Bible witnessed, honored, enhanced, exemplified, glorified and displayed by theft and fraud by the Hobby Lobby Museum..
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141964644
Hobby Lobby Surrenders 245 More Smuggled Iraq Artifacts
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)hlthe2b
(102,289 posts)reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)billh58
(6,635 posts)- Snip -
It is illegal to import into the United States any archaeological material illegally removed from Iraq. This clause is nothing but self-congratulation for following laws that the Museum of the Bible and Hobby Lobby are already obligated to followand which they have repeatedly broken. You dont get to issue press releases patting yourself on the back for cooperating with a murder investigationyoure simply obliged to do so!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-iraq-getting-screwed-in-a-looted-treasures-deal-with-the-hobby-lobby
Receiving and dealing in stolen goods is illegal. Possession of stolen goods is illegal. Aiding and abetting thieves (looters) is illegal. In every respect, Hobby Lobby and its owners are criminals, and looters of foreign antiquities.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215885463
tclambert
(11,087 posts)out of his funeral treasures.
The King Tut exhibit was very popular. I think that was in '75. I don't remember if they put his mummy itself on display. I do remember seeing mummies on display, though they may have been of lesser celebrities.
LeftInTX
(25,366 posts)I was stuck with the October meeting, so I had seen the mummies, so I thought..educational and cool...Let's go....
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)It was nothing like a traveling circus.
The exhibits were very impressive and shown in museums.
His body was not on display with the exhibit.
soldierant
(6,881 posts)nominal leadership and actual financing of the then Lord Carnarvon, and the archaeological leadership of Howard Carter. What you saw in the seventies was stuff they found in the twenties.
COL Mustard
(5,899 posts)Jesus was here 31 AD?
kairos12
(12,862 posts)raising2moredems
(639 posts)just ask them. Thieves are what they are and most would go to jail for a long time if caught doing this. I won't set foot in Hobby Lobby (or Chik-Fil-A).
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)I havent ever shopped there and that wont change.
I still subscribe to my local Newspaper and every Sunday Hobby Lobby has a full page AD. I rearrange that section so the Hobby Lobby Ad is on the front and I kind of use it as a food tray, love spilling bits of food on it.
That said I hope they go bankrupt.