Speak your mind even if your voice shakes
* does that make us political southpaws?
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How many times have you seen the Wal-Mart smilie face going from sign to sign dropping prices. Sometimes it’s just all too much. Enough in fact for one man to take it upon himself to do his own price chopping.
MONROE, La. (AP) – While Wal-Mart is known for dropping its prices, one West Monroe man took the ad campaign seriously when he dropped the price of a plasma television from $984 to $4.88. Police arrested Chandon L. Simms, 23, on Tuesday at the retail store on a charge of felony theft.
According to police reports, Simms carried a 42-inch Sanyo Plasma TV to a self-checkout aisle after switching the original price tag of $984 with one for only $4.88. Wal-Mart Loss Prevention officers witnessed the alleged transaction and called police.
Back in May P’n’P tagged me for this meme.
Yesterday Unrepentant Old Hippie tagged me, so lets see if I can come up with any more interesting(and I use the term loosely) facts about me;
The rules are as follows:
• Each player creates a list of eight random personal facts/habits.
• At the end of your post, list eight people who you want to tag to also do this meme.
• People who are tagged will write their own list of eight personal facts/habits and, if they have a blog of their own, post these rules and their list.
1. I hate peanut butter
2. I always cry when Matthew reads Funeral Blues at Gareth’s funeral, in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
3. I love gadgety goodness. If I had the money I would buy the gadgets. On my list of things I’d like to aquire, digital camera, video camera, cell phone, PDA, laptop. Not exactly newfangled devices but first I need to catch up. 
4. I used to adore Black Magic chocolates, but haven’t liked them since Nestlé took over Rowntree’s.
5. My idea of hilarity often fails to be found funny by others. Oh well.
6. I cannot wrap my head around why people like Ann Coulter get so much attention, fame (infamy? ) and money, when there are intelligent human beings trying to make a real difference whose voices are never heard.
7. I’m not a good winter person. Every March I wander around my property looking for signs of spring and life.
8. If I had to do one of those crazy pageant wishes, it would be to bestow empathy and compassion on everyone. I believe that it is the lack of these two attributes that is responsible for most of the harm that people do.
Consider yourself tagged. 😛
Murdoch has bought the WSJ for 5 billion dollars.
Showing his usual grace and class he was quoted as saying,
“When the Journal gets its Page 3 girls, we’ll make sure they have MBAs.”
The News Corp. chief also tells Eric Pooley, relating to negotiations with the controlling Bancroft family: “They’re taking five billion dollars out of me and want to keep control … in an industry in crisis! They can’t sell their company and still control it — that’s not how it works. I’m sorry!”
He adds: “The price of the Journal is $60 plus vitriol.”
It would appear there may be a number of job losses in the near future;
On his plans for the Journal: “What if, at the Journal, we spent $100 million a year hiring all the best business journalists in the world? Say 200 of them. And spent some money on establishing the brand but go global … and then you make it free, online only. No printing plants, no paper, no trucks. How long would it take for the advertising to come? It would be successful, it would work and you’d make … a little bit of money.”
Bill Moyers’ of Bill Moyers’ Journal on PBS, let his views on Murdoch be known in no uncertain terms.
“If Rupert Murdoch were the Angel Gabriel, you still wouldn’t want him owning the sun, the moon and the stars,” Moyers starts his video essay. “That’s too much prime real estate for even the pure in heart.
“But Rupert Murdoch is no saint, he is to propriety what the Marquis de Sade was to chastity. When it comes to money and power, he is carnivorous, all appetite, no taste. He’ll eat anything in his path,” Moyers adds. “Politicians become little clay pigeons to be picked off with flattering headlines, generous air time, a book contract, or the old-fashioned blackjack that never misses, campaign cash.
“He hires lobbyists the way Imelda Marcos bought shoes. And stacks them in is cavernous closet along with his conscience. This is the man, you remember, who famously kowtowed to the communist overlords of China, oppressors of their own people, to protect his investments there.”
Union issue also here
Womens Enews has an article today on lesbians and the immigration system.
Some things I didn’t know, gay couples are not allowed to sponser each other in the same way that hetrosexual couples are.
One major barrier is U.S. refusal to recognize same-sex relationships for immigration purposes, which means that U.S. lesbians are unable to sponsor foreign partners as hundreds of thousands of heterosexuals do. In 2006 about 27 percent of the total grants of permanent residency were awarded to members of a heterosexual couple.
“If someone is straight and in a relationship, boom-boom-boom and they’re done,” says private attorney Noemi Masliah in New York. “Same-sex partners have to jump through the hoops and find different ways. Or some just give up . . . It’s not fair that a lesbian’s status is employment-based and the other (straight) piece is family-based. I think it’s very sad and very dismal and very unfair.”
I saw this on Red Jenny and Unrepentant Old Hippie, so of course gave it a shot.
And I needed a distraction from my last post
My rating
This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
* sex (9x)
* breast (8x)
* gun (5x)
* vagina (4x)
* rape (3x)
* abortion (2x)
* gays (1x)
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