So... companies wanting to search your bag = UNACCEPTABLE.

[redqueen]

But allowing our top tier candidates to silently support the Iraq Oil Law and god knows how much more occupation... that's okay?

I'm just trying to figure this out here.

Cause there's an assload of threads about fucking receipts and bag searches.

But nobody wants to talk about how our candidates are apparently willing to murder people to get their oil.

[BobRossi]

1. Priorities priorities.

If the bag was searched by Hillary all would be ok.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. ...

[hlthe2b]

6. ok....

Please explain to the uninitiated, the significance of the holy pear?

It sure is purdy, though! LOL

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Yes, exactly.

:thumbsup:

[redqueen]

24. Are you saying you're unaware of the Iraq Oil Law?

Or that you're unaware which, if any, of the "top-tier" candidates support it?

Or that it doesn't matter, and we should indulge in a few more assbaggery receipt threads, just for kicks?

[jberryhill]

31. Isn't that the law where...

...every tanker captain leaving Iraq has to show a receipt for the oil?

[WildEyedLiberal]

34. That is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen

Where on earth did you FIND that? :scared:

[Mythsaje]

3. Oh, no... No one on DU ever discusses THOSE things.

:sarcasm:

Give me a break.

[redqueen]

7. Well... which "top-tier" candidates are refusing to sign on to steal their oil?

Huh?

Tell me, please.

I'd really like to be wrong about this. I'd love to be wrong.

[angstlessk]

4. redqueen...searching OUR bags vs IRAQ'S oil...this is about America

not Iraq...there is a difference...IRAQ IS WHERE AMERICAN TAXPAER MONEY IS BEING SPENT!

[redqueen]

10. And where civilians are being murdered so corporations can steal their oil.

I still don't get how everyone getting all outragey about corporations wanting to inspect bags trumps trying to elect someone who won't help commit murder for oil.

:shrug:

[angstlessk]

13. Well, we are not republics, we CAN chew gum and walk at the same time

I agree about the oil law, which is just our military fighting for the profits of exxon/bp...but I want to fight for our rights as citizens also!

[redqueen]

15. So are you supporting a "top-tier" candidate?

Does that candidate loudly proclaim they WON'T be supporting that theft?

[angstlessk]

20. In the primaries I am voting Kucinich...he has done videos on the theft of

Iraq's oil! But I think Edwards will be in the general, and I will vote for him in the general elections.

[redqueen]

21. Thank God you at least give a shit.

Look at all the responses.

Nice to know so many care.

[EFerrari]

5. It's a continuum of compliance and complicity, as far as I can tell.

They're not the same but they sure as hell are related.

I'm HAPPY to see DU thinking and talking about this very basic issue. :shrug:

[redqueen]

8. Murder? Or bag-searching?

Which basic issue were you referring to there?

[EFerrari]

11. How citizens are handled in general. Did I miss a murder?

holy cr@p!

[redqueen]

12. How many kids have been run over in Iraq?

I'm not even talking about all the civilian deaths... just wondering how many children have been run over by tanks that have been ordered not to stop for any reason... so the kids that had come to expect soldiers to stop and associate them are just being flattened.

But hey... the top-tier candidates sure are running GREAT campaigns, huh?! :party:

[EFerrari]

18. I know. And, maybe I'm really wrong.

But the same mindset that runs over our civil rights ran over those kids.

I hope we can manage to do better.

:(

[renie408]

14. There must be something wrong with me. I don't care if they want to check my

purchases.

I feel so...unliberal. It never even occurred to me to feel violated. *sigh*

[redqueen]

16. It's a fucking DISTRACTION.

I can't put into words how disgusted I am that so many are so willing to be led around by the nose.

[renie408]

22. Only for the distractable. n/t

[redqueen]

23. No shortage of those.

*sigh*

[The Vinyl Ripper]

38. None of us really care if you want to let them check your purchases..

That is your right.

It is also my right not to let them check my purchases if I so desire.

That is the entire point of all the arguments.

[musette_sf]

17. Queenie, i love your posts on feminism

but i'll never spend my money where "security" thugs treat paying customers like criminals.

i can't make Senators Clinton and Obama act like rational human beings, but i can decide where and how i spend my money.

[redqueen]

19. I don't wanna force anyone to shop there. Or not to file lawsuits aplenty.

I do. not. give. a. fuck.

What I do give a fuck about is how disastrously wrong this country is going, and how apparently blind to it so many are.

It's okay though. I'm about ready to give up anyway.

[redqueen]

25. Last minute kick.

What the hell... might as well give it a shot.

[flvegan]

26. Well, the "top tier" voted FOR the war, so...

[fed-up]

27. BINGO-maybe a national case of ADD-can't keep our eye on the right ball nt

[canetoad]

28. Here, let me figure it out for you

DU could be one big long thread about Iraq Oil Law, or it could be lots of different threads about all sorts of stuff. Does that make it any fucking clearer?

[The Vinyl Ripper]

29. LOL, start a thread about the fact that America has the highest incarceration rate in the world

And watch it drop like a freakin' stone..

[XOKCowboy]

30. The Hide Thread function had come in very handy today...

I was just about to add yours but I think I'll recommend it.

[jberryhill]

32. Well, if we had paper ballots in the election....

...then someone could check the receipts on our way out of the voting booth.

[Ravy]

33. WHAT??? And see how I voted????

When will these invasions of our privacy end????

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. Continuum of compliance and subservience

to authorities

No tyranny comes sudenly

read some history, might be good for you


By the way, some of us can chew gum and WALK at the same time...

I know our congress criters seem incapable of doing such... and sadly many on DU as well

Oh and as to top tier

Well we both know the two suspects... need I need to mention them to convince you that I do know the answer

Free hint I like Edwards and Kucinich... but hell whatever...

Chew gum and walk at the same time

[Evoman]

36. So if I get mad at littering, I won't have enough anger left over for global warming.

Same shit....its not a fucking distraction. Its part of the same fucking problem, complicity. See, if you want them to check your bags, then let them check your bags. But don't presume to tell others they shouldn't care, or that they are distracted.

This bullshit is completely disenginious. How much percentage of my mind do you think circuit city takes in my fucking head? I'll tell you - about 0.2346666 percent. In fact, since I don't stop to show anyone my fucking receipt, I have even MORE time to deal with all the worlds pressing concerns.

[mhatrw]

37. This seems to be another thread about receipts.

All we have to do to win the receipt battle is for 2% of us to start acting like people with rights instead of sheep with none. Winning the Iraq oil battle will take far greater more effort. Of course, I am ready and willing to fight both battles with all my might. Are you?

[progressoid]

39. This is big. Really big.

Circuit City is in cahoots with Bushco doncha know. And this receipt scandal is just the tip of the iceberg. Soon Circuit City will have a no-bid contract with the Ministry of Love to install the monitoring TVs in every home in Amerika. It's doubleplusungood I tell ya.

I think you're looking at this the wrong way. Instead of seeing the whole picture, you need to narrow your focus to this one poor man's plight. You need to understand - he's the next Nelson Mandela or Gandhi or Obi Wan Keno-bi.

When he wins his fight (and he will win), it will be the beginning of a new Renaissance in America. Maybe even the world. Future generations will see his victory as the most noble since the cornbread incident at Grover Cleveland Elementary in 1974.

[WinkyDink]

40. Since we are all basically in agreement over the thieving, murderous "benchmark" of the Iraqi

oil law, what else IS there to say?

WE AGREE.

Why not pose this question with any other of the myriad topics; e.g., "People post silly CAPTIONS when there's a thread on the Iraq Oil Law!" Or: "How can DU'ers post in the Lounge, when there's an Iraq Oil Law to protest?"

[Virginia Dare]

41. OMG, I thought about what I was going to have for lunch today..

I guess that must mean I don't give a shit about the fucking Iraqi Oil Law...