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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:15 PM
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Poll question: Does this message at the Wal-Mart check-out line remind you of "Big Brother"?
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:16 PM
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1. fucking creepy.
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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:17 PM
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2. If I were a Senator, I would have voted down her confirmation.
I would vote down all DHS nominations as I oppose the office.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:17 PM
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3. Truly. nt
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:18 PM
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4. The Nazi's used to ask neighbors to spy on each other as well
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MedicalAdmin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:32 PM
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17. So did the US government. Many times.
This is nothing new. We've done this before.

The question is will be take this like good germans or will we stand up and throw a monkey wrench into the works and shut them all down.
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:19 PM
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5. Leave it to this admin. to work in partnership with Wal-fucking-mart to scare people. nt
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:26 PM
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13. This seems like a confusing message, considering that 'this administration'
consists of the occupant of the White House, the Senate, and for a few more days, the House.

All these people are somehow in cahoots with WalMart?
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:30 PM
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16. The House and Senate aren't part of the administration. nt
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:53 PM
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26. I can change that post. But won't. Instead, it looks confusing in that
current occupant of the WH had two years of appointing various staff and cabinet members, and at the same time his own party was in the majority in both houses of congress.

So all the discretionary staff, cabinet appointees (and any holdovers) are in cahoots with Walmart?

Better?

And with all those majorities for two years, what we have seen is the best that could have been done? That is sad.
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:55 PM
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27. Don't know what you mean by "cahoots" - I was thinking...
...leave it to this admin. to "reach out" to people like Wal-fucking-mart execs.
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 05:56 PM
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36. Cahoots - collaboration;, secret partnership;, an accountant in cahoots
Edited on Tue Dec-07-10 05:57 PM by Obamanaut
organized crime (for example)

And there is this, from your earlier post “Leave it to this admin. to work in partnership with Wal-fucking-mart to scare people’

That reads (to me) like an administration in cahoots with - in partnership with - an organization that many people love to hate because of their employment practices, their globalization efforts, their exploitation of workers, etc.

Now you say “…leave it to this admin. to "reach out" to people like Wal-fucking-mart execs…”

Reaching out to execs and scaring people just simply don’t look the same to me. Can you see how one might be confused?
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:19 PM
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6. Holy crap! That is weird !!
:wtf:
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Newest Reality Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:21 PM
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Well, Big Brother didn't have the power of
Walmart, (and other fine stores) peddling his propaganda products.

Stasimart! "Where your dollars help fight the terrorist in you!"

I'm waiting for, "Having terrorist thoughts lately, (see list)? Isn't it time to turn yourself in?"

Orwell, you will soon realize, was an optimist.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:21 PM
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7. WTF indeed.
Un. Fucking. Believable.

I wonder when everywhere we go we will see that message?

There is no cause for this, none at all.
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we can do it Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:21 PM
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8. WTF Is WRONG with the Obama Administration?
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dd2003 Donating Member (198 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:22 PM
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9. Yep!
Which is why I do not shop there!
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:22 PM
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10. Senator McCarthy was reincarnated as a woman? nt
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:23 PM
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11. after looking at that "people of walmart" site
and with what I've seen there with my own two eyes, I have to pose the question....just how am I supposed to know what the hell is "suspicious" ? :rofl:
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MedicalAdmin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:34 PM
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18. +1 -- excellent analysis!
That site, which I love for the pics and hate for the snarky comments below the pics, is just freaking wonderful..... suspiciously wonderful.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:24 PM
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12. She partnered up with Sherriff Joe Arpaio to get elected AZ governor--I'm not at all surprised.
She one o'them lawnardor folks and always has been.
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Write Left Donating Member (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:28 PM
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14. That reminds me of a crazy person who doesn't know right from wrong.
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:29 PM
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15. Fascism. This is the government and corporations attempting to control The People. n/t
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axollot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 05:27 PM
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33. *shivers* The curtain has been falling so I'm not surprised either. n/t
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WhaTHellsgoingonhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:34 PM
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19. At the Wal-Mart check-out line?
Edited on Tue Dec-07-10 04:35 PM by WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Really? I guess we're back Bush's terror alert system. Scaring the Walmart clientel? That's level red.
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axollot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 05:28 PM
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34. LOL Thank you for the best lol that something like this deserves! n/t
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:35 PM
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20. Why is she getting involved in police work?
And what's the backstory? Why did she do this for Walmart?
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Mimosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:38 PM
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21. I'm curious about the back story too.
And what other corporate government alliances are in the future.

Certainly when I have a security concern, I will take it to a nearby Wal-Mart store manager. I bet they've been trained...for something.
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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:45 PM
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23. ROFL!
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Kaleko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:43 PM
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22. Do they want every intelligent person to leave the US?
This looks like yet another calculated assault on people's braincells.

Truly surreal.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 05:01 PM
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29. Why yes, they do!
a Nation of frightened, obedient dimwits who are just smart enough to do the service jobs they are told to do and mindlessly consume the Chinese crap that Walmart peddles is exactly what "they" want.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:47 PM
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24. thank you for yet another reason to say "fuck you Walmart"
this holiday season.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:51 PM
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25. Made In China
that's about all I see on the rare occasion I go to Walmart.
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Mimosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 04:57 PM
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28. Wal_Mart has case before SCOTUS: it seems GOV agencies ought to keep distance. n/t
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 05:11 PM
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30. She obviously has never been to a Walmart
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golddigger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 05:12 PM
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31. Another dumb ignorant moronic mind blowing
Edited on Tue Dec-07-10 05:15 PM by golddigger
stupid move from this administration. Let the witch hunts begin. Don't like your neighbor, see them at walmart turn them in. Mad at a family member turn them in. See a stranger that's getting on your nerves turn them in. This is the same shit that was going on in the old communist and Nazi regimes.
Fuck Janet, the administration and walmart.

edited to add: Lets fuck up people lives we have a grudge against.

:mad: :argh: :wtf: :grr: :nuke: :banghead:
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axollot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 05:18 PM
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32. OMG did it. WTF? WTF?
A chill went up my spine.

I went into over drive. "names and faces flashed on screen" and they'll use it for good. "missing child" but nefarious "enemy of the state"

*going to go suck my thumb now*

Cheers
Sandy

:scared:
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 05:28 PM
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35. What do you want to bet it's only the stores frequented by the peons
that get the Big Brother tape. Unlikely the Tiffany shoppers will be subjected to it.
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Dappleganger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 05:58 PM
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37. Walmart managers are trained in anti-terrorism?
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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