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Monday, October 22, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Walmart Smiley Frowns At Shutterbugs
Don't expect me to say anything good about Walmart any time soon.
I was in the "Holiday" section taking pictures of some decorations.
Some withered crone of a manager jumped all down my throat, asking me what I was taking pictures for.
I responded for my own pleasure.
She replied it was not permissible to take pictures in Walmart.
Are they afraid I was going to document them mistreating their employees?
Maybe I was taking the pictures to send to the Chinese slave children that made the ornaments but don't get to enjoy Christmas.
I guess a multibillion dollar corporation is afraid me making a dollar or two trying to sell the pictures at some rinky-dink craft fair is going to collapse their corporate structure.
I replied that I did not realize Walmart was so PISSY and walked off.
Those that worship at the altar of big business rather than common sense will reply that Walmart can set whatever policy it wants.
Fine.
I am just as free to bad mouth them over my experience as much as I want.
From that smoking hag's response, you would have thought I was in the lady's lingerie department aiming my camera up under the fitting booth.
There wasn't even anybody else in that part of the store where this encounter took place.
Walmart needs to advance with the times on this issue.
We are well into the second decade of the 21st century.
Likely over half of those walking into these stores already have photographic technology on them in terms of either their smartphones, their tablet computers, or even stand alone pocket cameras.
You can't tell me other people don't take pictures of things in these stores that catch their eye. Perhaps some brave souls should start Take A Picture In Walmart Day.
by Frederick Meekins
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
A study indicating that multivitamins can decrease elderly White men from contracting certain forms of cancer was poo-pooed in a radio account of the findings because the study focused on White men. But what about the incessant reports lamenting the health woes of minorities and WOMEN? Doesn’t this also indicate that the races are not as biologically non-distinct from one another was the multiculturalists dupe the masses into believing?
In the second presidential debate, Obama enunciated his desire to see cars go further on a gallon of gas. Then his supporters turn around and gripe how revenue from gas taxes will drop, insisting on the need to enact an additional mileage tax that will track your vehicular movements by GPS monitoring sensors.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Monday, October 08, 2012
Students Punished For Knowing More Than Teachers
A number of high school students were suspended for ingesting energy mints on the grounds of their Perkin, Illinois high school.
The thing of it is, the confection is perfectly legal as it consists primarily of caffeine.
Thus, they are technically no worse than popular energy drinks.
But despite learning this, school administrators intend to let the suspensions stand.
The Superintendent insists the suspensions are justified because the students "displayed gross misconduct for taking an unknown product."
The students could have full well know what they were taking.
This is all bureaucratic smokescreen and euphemism that the students are being punished for knowing more than the teachers and for exercising their own judgment apart from certified state authority.
Eventually, this kind of reasoning will be applied to anyone that ingests anything other than the school-provided lunches.
After all, how can teachers be absolutely certain those brownies brought from home don't contain a little flavor enhancing "greenery"?
by Frederick Meekins
In a Marvel Comics universe so politically correct that in many versions of the character Nick Fury has been switched from White to Black, was Hawkeye's comment about the SHIELD director's one good eye on an episode of The Avengers relevant? Are snide remarks made about Professor X being in a wheel chair?
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