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Archive for the ‘Wal-Mart’ Category

December 4th, 2007

How Can You Avoid Lead Toys For Christmas 2007?

Well, my best piece of advice would be to buy your children no toys this holiday season. Do like the olden days and tell your child to find a stick and go play down at the creek. Of course, this will not be acceptable to your child as there will surely be many items on their […]

By Alex -- 5 comments

November 23rd, 2007

Everyone Move the Hell Over, It’s Black Friday!

Well, it’s Black Friday so that means it’s every man, woman, child and invalid for themselves in order to get the best deals. There are only so many discounted mega plasma LCD HDTV’s so if you’re not bigger, faster and more brutal, chances are you won’t get your paws on one.
Actually, as long as you start […]

By Alex -- 4 comments

October 25th, 2007

Corporate Gigante Juevos Hits Near High With Taco Bell in Mexico

“We want to appeal to consumers who haven’t tried Taco Bell, for whom this would be their first experience with Taco Bell.” That was the statement made by Javier Rancano, Taco Bell’s director in Mexico on the opening of a Taco Bell in Mexico City on October 9th. A common comparison to this business decision is […]

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September 6th, 2007

Around the Internets…

Apparently ‘The Decider’ has a shitty diet to go along with his shitty decisions.
John McCain threatened one high school kid who asked whether McCain was too old to be Prez “Your drafted!” Yes and I would like to draft McCain to do karaoke at the old folks home.
Anti-Walmart play “Walmartopia” opened in New York to poor reviews. […]

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February 14th, 2007

China Has Stephen Colbert Shaking In His Trousers

On last night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert addressed the reasons why we should fear China. He coined the word “frenemy” to describe them seeing as how they are both a friend and enemy to our interests. They make cheap tube socks but compete for the fossil fuels we are willing to kill for.
The Chinese keep making more […]

By Alex -- 2 comments

December 19th, 2006

Wal-Mart Off The Hook

A federal court ruled today that Wal-Mart cannot be held responsible for their worker’s rights overseas. We are not talking about the conditions of the suppliers here, but workers in actual Wal-Mart’s in countries like China.
There have been accusations of forced overtime without pay and workers being fired for trying to organize unions. Some of these […]

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December 6th, 2006

Why We Should Leave Iraq…

These statistics say it all right here. This is courtesy of CNN and Crooks and Liars.
Unlike Crooks and Liars, we would like to add a few other reasons why we should leave Iraq. And give George Bush some additional advice not included in the Hamilton-Baker report.
1) Iraqi’s are what are called Muslims, meaning they believe […]

By Alex -- 2 comments

October 2nd, 2006

Wal-Mart Rolls Slave Trade Forward

Wal-Mart has just ”rolled back benefits” again! The company has decided to implement wage caps and force around the clock availability in an effort to get rid of long time higher paid employees.
Human resources at Wal-Mart has concluded that more experienced employees are actually detrimental to their bottom line. The more senior the employee, the more they make […]

By Alex -- 0 comments

September 18th, 2006

US Shows Steady Growth in Trade Deficit

Today the Commerce Department reported that the US trade deficit reached the 2nd highest in history from April-June 2006. The deficit hit $218 billion and represents a 2.4% increase from the years first quarter. The only quarter in history to achieve a larger deficit was $223 billion from October-December 2005.
The US has had a trade deficit for 5 consecutive years and we […]

By Alex -- 1 comment

September 18th, 2006

How Wal-Mart Sees the World

Welcome to the world as Wal-Mart see’s it. A vast market of cheap labor to undercut American manufacturing jobs. By purchasing cheap overseas goods and paying low wages to their employees, Wal-Mart is able to “Roll Back Prices.”Wal-Mart is the 2nd largest publicly traded company worldwide, they had been the largest before being surpassed by […]

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