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2006-11-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-11-09 08:53|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...appropriate to their race or religion, including Happy Kwanzaa..."

I'd like to see them wish my black daughter-in-law a Happy Kwanzaa 8^)

The presumption that blacks belive in that pseudo hippie prison crap would backfire all over their ass. And my son wouldn't even have to help.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2006-11-09 09:52|| 2006-11-09 09:52|| Front Page Top

#2 A year after religious and other groups boycotted retailers, including Wal-Mart (WMT), for downplaying Christmas, the world's largest retail chain will have an in-your-face Christmas theme this year.

Anyone who's been stationed in Japan or South Korea know that the local merchants have adopted the holiday as well even though they're not Christian nations. If you look into the background of the Christmas as practiced today, it has strong ties to the efforts of New York merchants of the early half of the 19th Century to promote commercial business more than tied to a 'Christian' religious celebration with significant pagan rituals and associations. Its a feature, not a bug. Just enjoy.

Posted by Procopius2K 2006-11-09 10:40|| 2006-11-09 10:40|| Front Page Top

#3 South Korea is quarter Christian (same as Buddhism) and Christianity will be the undisputed largest religion. In addition many are more fervent than in the West.

Posted by ed 2006-11-09 10:52|| 2006-11-09 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 PS. Happy Festivus.

Posted by ed 2006-11-09 10:53|| 2006-11-09 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5 lol, ed. This announcement the day after I got a notice that Wal-Mart will be donating 5% of its online sales to homosexual agneda-pusher.

~~Marry~~ Merry Christmas, indeed!

Posted by BA 2006-11-09 11:26|| 2006-11-09 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 YA,BA I got the same notice from AFA Action alert. Ya'll go there and sign the petition!!

Posted by ARMYGUY 2006-11-09 11:47|| 2006-11-09 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Happy "Give-me-my-freaken-toys-damnit!" Christmas.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-11-09 12:35|| 2006-11-09 12:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Arrrrrggggghhh. Spell check is your friend.

That should be "homosexual agenda-pushers"

Yeah, ARMYGUY, that's where I got it too.

Posted by BA 2006-11-09 13:28|| 2006-11-09 13:28|| Front Page Top

#9 yes they have, like the day after Hallo-frickin-ween. No Christmas decorations until AFTER the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade has launched all the balloons. dammit.
/thank you

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-11-09 13:58|| 2006-11-09 13:58|| Front Page Top

#10 The old low-sales shoe is beginning to pinch, eh Wal-Mart?

Remember, this one single organization is responsible for a solid ten percent of our trade deficit with communist China. Help wipe out America's manufacturing base while supporting the politburo, shop Wal-Mart. For those unfamiliar with the topic:

Wal-Mart and China

Wal-Mart buys much of its merchandise from China

Wal-Mart reports that it purchased $18 billion of goods from China in 2004.

Wal-Mart was responsible for about 1/10th of the U.S. trade deficit with China in 2005. [U.S. Stock Investors Wary of Analyst `Yuan Plays': Taking Stock, Bloomberg, 7/1/05]

If Wal-Mart were an individual economy, it would rank as Chinas eighth-biggest trading partner, ahead of Russia, Australia and Canada. [China Business Weekly, 12/02/2004]

Many of Wal-Mart's American Suppliers actually manufacture most or all of their products in China

An example of an American Supplier is Hasbro, headquartered in Rhode Island. Today, Wal-Mart is the largest purchaser of Hasbro productsaccounting for 21 percent of all Hasbro goods or more than $600 million in sales. But Hasbro reports, We source production of substantially all of our toy products and certain of our game products through unrelated manufacturers in various Far East countries, principally China. Hasbro specifies that the substantial majority of our toy products are manufactured in China. [2004 Hasbro 10-K filed with the SEC]

Wal-Mart's Chinese factory workers are treated poorly

Workers making clothing for Wal-Mart in Shenzhen, China filed a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart in September 2005 claiming that they were not paid the legal minimum wage, not permitted to take holidays off and were forced to work overtime. They said their employer had withheld the first three months of all workers' pay, almost making them indentured servants because the company refused to pay the money if they quit. [New York Times, September 14, 2005]

Workers making toys for Wal-Mart in Chinas Guangdong Province reported that they would have to meet a quota of painting 8,900 toy pieces in an eight hour shift in order to earn the stated wage of $3.45 a day. If they failed to meet that quota, the factory would only pay them $1.23 for a days work. [China Labor Watch, December 21, 2005]

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-09 14:25|| 2006-11-09 14:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Its about friggin time! How about some of those jelly-for-backbones politicians steeping up to the plate?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-11-09 17:38|| 2006-11-09 17:38|| Front Page Top

#12 Zenster - I can't believe that you fell for all that "for the children" hype. Do you think that Macys or Staples doesn't get their stuff from China? Unless you are buying wool sweaters knitted by your neighbor, or wooden spoons whittled by the guy down the road, it's made in China. Boycotting WalMart is like buying the New York Times instead of the Boston Globe.

When mega corporations spend their millions to produce documentaries to tell me I shouldn't shop at their competetors - I'm there, baby. I want to see what they don't want me to see.

Posted by anon 2006-11-09 22:10|| 2006-11-09 22:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Z: Remember, this one single organization is responsible for a solid ten percent of our trade deficit with communist China. Help wipe out America's manufacturing base while supporting the politburo, shop Wal-Mart.

As a New Yorker, I don't shop Wal-Mart at all. Not because I hate Wal-Mart - it's just that I have to go into the burbs to do that. And let tell you - despite not shopping at Wal-Mart, almost every one of the little knick-knacks I buy, ranging from nail clippers to photo frames, all come from China. There's no way to avoid it. In time, Chinese wages and commercial rents will rise, and we will get our junk from somewhere else. Until then, it won't do any good to boycott Wal-Mart - we'd simply be buying the identical Chinese-made goods from Wal-Mart's competitors, but at a higher price.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-11-09 22:39|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-11-09 22:39|| Front Page Top

#14 that reminds me something funny. I knew a guy who was hooked into the local surf scene. He used to make a pretty good summer profit by repackaging suntan oil and slapping his own label on it. Then he would pay cute girls go into the local drug stores and surf shops and ask for it for a couple of weeks before he'd go in and pitch it to the store. Then he and his friend would bad mouth any other product they saw someone using.
Your using that? Did you know that caused an outbreak of rashes? You're using that? It's tested on animals. I know a girl who got third degree burns after using that... it turns your skin yellow - etc.

Then he'd tell them you should use (his) product X because everyone is using it, it's great. Often they would be using the same product he was selling. He made a pretty good profit.

Posted by anon 2006-11-09 23:21|| 2006-11-09 23:21|| Front Page Top

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