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Damn you're good!
The Obozo pushing the shopping cart is F'n great.
Would you like a CDS with your order?
mcdonalds blows .... i do enjoy a five guys burger once a week ... that is some good food right there
it ain't really food but a culturally
conforming derivative with corresponding
poison. here we go .....have been going.
who will stop the rain?
link from the wordy radical dude.
Dr Russell Blaylock: Nutrition and the Illuminati Agenda
"The Brain Consumes 20% of All the Oxygen
in the Blood, 25% of All of the Glucose
in the Blood and It's Only 2% of the Bodyweight."
- See more at: http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/chemtrails/dr-russell-blayloc...
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http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/chemtrails/dr-russell-blayloc...
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hugs ..
Debt Bro, Broke Bro.
Tony Rice Unit - Shady Grove - Live at Fur Peace Ranch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXKwmiOuoYc
OK. Anyone notice how thin Oboma is getting? Any thinner and he'll soon disappear. Weird eh? Probably because he's thinking and worrying that he MIGHT be expected to solve some problems rather than play golf. Drat. He no doubt wishes he'd taken the blue pill.
My theory, silly one of course, is that he wasn't supposed to be president yet. Imagine we'd continued down the communist path for another decade and Then he'd been elected; there'd been now turning back. Still time to save this nation.
1. STOP All immigration.
2. Elect ONLY those with no cultural ties to foreign countries as first generation or second generation or who have parents who are foreigners.
3. Elect only those who speak native English, without eubonics or foreign accents. We don't need no foreigners telling us how to run our country. The head of the vet admin in my state speaks with a very heavy spanish accent. Why should our service people deal with that?
4. Tell the CDC to do its job and stop being political. Why are there 50,000 new Aids cases each year? Cause the CDC doesn't want to say communicable disease should be stopped, now. All those cases are men-having-sex-with-men.
5. NO Foreigners in govt jobs. Why are our own unemployed while the communists stuff the govt with foreigners? Maybe one-half of those at my local post office speak English without a heavy foreign accent. No foreigners get govt jobs in their lifetime. You immigrate then you bring your own job.
His head seems to be getting fatter though.
Warren Zevon- Seminole Bingo(Studio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbNhWbeP-k0
Biden isn't anywhere near smart enough to work at a MacDonalds.
He only knows how to grift the taxpayer till.
FASTER! BIGGER! FATTER! FRIEDER? FIFTY CORN FED FED BUCKS FUCKERS!
the wahlberg's got that new restaurant chain. Why doesn't gene simons and paul stanley start their own fast food place, heck they could bring in ozzy and serve fresh bat as well.
so.
gmo in the gut producing
pesticides. food become poison for
adults and babies.
take charge of your health
genetic roulette
Friday September 5 1:00pm 1 hour
Public Affairs
and...
9/11 pentagon dialog, inside missile and bomb attack. no plane.
guns and butter
Friday September 5 9:00am 1 hour
News
http://archive.wbai.org/
Craig Murray Dance Party - UK Ambassador Blows Whistle on Torture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb49AyZHUbA&list=UULi4Ug4BWI78QWg2DmHAKyA
Can you get Freedom Fries with that.
Yes, but they are called Freedom Balls from this day fourword....Four!
hillbilly, attention deficit end times party.
i'm surprised mcdonalds hasn't got a liquor
license by now.
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Choctaw Bingo by James McMurtry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nggqe-L9ZQ8
gs/stuff ou after a certain hour they are
the only drive thru available
man
just when you are getting off
the road, it is late,
and you want the comfort of
a controlled substance
(commercially retailed,
advertised and marketed)
you have fries, colas and
simulac meat muffin fat and
tasty things/stuff.
anyway .....
WB: With special thx for the ice bucket challenge and the subtle but hilarious enlargement of the NK General's hat.
Always been fascinated with those covers. Double as mess kits? Latrines?
As George Constanza said: "It's the hats".
Dan Quale was pilloried for mis-spelling "potato" as "potatoe", but Henry Fries Burger gets a free pass?
There's no JUSTICE in this world I tell's ya!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdqbi66oNuI
How'd you get him to pose for this one? Promise of a free fries with that?
I see Obama as more of a menacing IT type of clown.
Now that thing *is* scary when it pops up.
Long live the dollar menu.
Fast Food Nation - awesome book, terrible movie.
Typo in the Hamburger University letter, unless they actually put toes in their spuds, which would not suprise me. :)
Been awhile William. Sterling job as usual mate.
Ooops ... you beat me to it, but I went with the Dan Quale angle thus, ageing myself.
Ok, if they protests much more, their competition will be the "borg". A friend of mine francises 5 "fast food" restaurants in the Pac NW. He's told me that for a relatively small investment, he could cut half his staff via automation. And this is right now TODAY. The payback on that investment is less than 2 years. If he has to start dealing with his mostly mexican employees protesting about how they deserve higher wages and risking the quality of service of his business, he say's he'll implement the new production "machines" without hesitation. This is today's reality. And no, I'm not being nationalist (as I'm sure Mexican is not a "race") when I say Mexican as that just is what it is... fact. These employees have zero leverage, yet they haven't a clue. I feel sorry for them, but protesting will only hasten their jobs' demise.
Your friend should get a few orders in, I'm pretty sure in the coming year automation orders will go through the roof and be backordered...
mcdonalds isn't the only problem when it comes to a living wage, walmart underpays its help which puts more people into the category of working poor who need some kind of aid to get through. new walmart stores are always reviewed by the local city council, mcdonalds not so much (although la jolla -where mitt romney lives in one of his houses - refused to allow a mcd because they thought it was not in step with the high income community) at these hearings people always raise the same argument against walmart that they create more gov dependency, not more jobs. the low cost solutions of the 90s are becoming symptoms of the failed policy of economic benefit these corporations claimed to represent, and to throw more fat in the fryer, notice that amazon is charging more than some local stores for the same items, and their (free) shipping policy results is long long wait times. the retail miracle in america now appears to be have been a snake oil show with no lasting benefits, other than creating powerful megamillionaires who now run american industry in order to destroy competition and small business startups and entrepreneurs (bills gates can eat shit we now have linux). the end of the retail miracle .
Your post seems earnest, not that of a troll. I don't know where people come up with these concepts. Walmart is a retailer. They are not in the business of picking winners and loosers. they don't drive import .vs. domestic manufactured strategy. Their job is to define a target market and provide goods and services that market can afford. I think it is rather snobbish and elitist to think that everyone needs to shop at a Wholefoods or buy their tools from Festool, Snap-on, X-mark, etc.
If Wal-mart was wrong in their merchandising strategy, the market would show them by leaving their stuff on the shelves. But it seems there is a market for their products. It's called choice. No one is forcing anyone to buy there. I don't shop at Wal-mart. I just don't like the brands they carry. But, I can afford to buy what I want, when I want - I don't think that my tastes are any better than anyone elses. In my consulting years we did strategy work there. There was no one in the board room boiling babies or talking about fucking the poor. There was lots of talk about whether it was strategic advanatge to own trucking .vs. outsource it (they own so that they can fulfill their shelves and avoid stock-out), what partnerships to make with vendors, how to reduce cost in their supply chain to maintain the EDLP strategy.
Retail is a competitve business with lots of niche areas as well as mass-market. Margins are low and competition fierce. The animosity Wal-mart receives is very strtegically played by those that don't care about consumers, American products or well made products. It's about union dues, politician payola, etc. I'm always amazed how well that stuff gets regurgiated....
you dont understand the arguments made AGAINST new walmart stores before they are built. i am super size surprised at the red arrows, but i guess that people who dont HAVE to shop at walmart consider themselves above all this. (and evidently the ZH crowd is not part of the working class, well good for fucking you) they dont know what having a full time job that doesnt make you self sufficent means? i suppose maybe this is the crowd that lost their 401K in the stock market in 2008, now they are bitter, but not not put upon enough to shpt with the poor folks. ask your average walmart shopper worker what losing your 401K means to them, as for walmart employees, i feel like kissing every one of them. and you, you can kiss my .........
My problem with Walmart is not labor practices nor ideological. It is embedded in the concept of Walmartisation and all it entails. Yes it is a free country and they can do what they want. But like the concept of fast food, one may legitimately ask the question has this been a net positive for modern America.
Ironically, the French are now wondering whether big box retail and fast food has had a positive impact on their way of life.
You can argue that this is progress. But there are still some places in the world that have not been penetrated by this global meme and I would argue that the quality of life in those few places is not too shabby.
WB7, genuinly curious what you mean by Walmartisation. I've heard this term thrown around a lot but I don't recall it being explained.
I am sure someone has concocted a standard definition. But to me it means:
1. Sourcing all manner of junk from a source of cheap foreign labor/manufacturing (China);
2. Loading it all onto a 24/7 conveyer belt of gigantic container ships that consume massive quantities of fossil fuels to transport it all to the US (logistically just in time).
3. For delivery for sale through a massive cookie cutter network of warehouse style stores strategically placed near geographic hubs to suck up all of the small retail vitality within a specified radius.
4. Which local Mom & Pop "Mainstreet" retailers cannot possibly compete with.
For the small retailer, the double whammy is Walmart on the one side and the Amazon on the other.
Some would argue that these efficiencies are good because they save time for people who have to flip burgers as a profession and want to consume massive quantities of breakable plastic junk.
I will tell you that a great deal of the excess junk produced in Shenzen winds up in junk shops in Hong Kong where the local Chinese marvel at things like electric salad spinners and the question of who would buy such a thing.
The suffix "ization" for me also denotes a particular phenomena. Conditions in the US are ideal for this mode of small retail suffication. Hence the massive rollout we have witnessed in the past several decades. Although the warehouse retail concept may have originally surfaced in France of all places, Walmart has truly taken it to its logical extreme.
There are many many questions that can be pondered in terms of how this all impacts the quality of life of employees as well as consumers. That is another discussion.
Progress...
I remember a time when WalMart proudly advertised "Made In America". Then they advertised that - and their stuiff wasn't. Now it is as you define it. And they are complicit with the former USA manufacturers who have offshored the making of just about all of the products in question. The whole supply chain is rotting along with the consumption chain.
no it hasnt been a net positive, but what did anyone do to stop outsourcing to CHINA? the big box retailers are dying out, and with them substandard jobs, so are all these people going back to sustinence farming? it looks good on paper, but the availability of quality land and the rising population (2x world pop growth in 100 years) raises some real problems. if there is no water in the central valley of california for commerical agriculture whats your chances of homesteading a plot? we have serious planning issues to deal just with the last 4B people added to the number of consumers. the pols deliberately avoids these problems, or fix the 1% at the expense of the rest. walmart is a business response to an opportunity which should have never been allowed to exist, now they control a large part of the labor and retail supply chain. but dont lose your humanity over their corporate dalliance, any more than obamas policies would cause me to turn against america, only the other way around.
Pleeezzzeeeee! Was there EVER a time when being the "fry station" cook or lettuce slicer at a fast food joint constituted a "career" that paid you enough to raise a family (besides perhaps the manager)? Have we all gone Baggonzo here??? These have historically been high school / college kid jobs.
They still work harder than the average millionaire CEO.
Hey, I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. But now... now I'm washing lettuce. Soon I'll be on fries; then the grill. In a year or two, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.
Then you'll enjoy this from "In Living Colour" 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwz9RAVou1U
In a couple years you could make crew chief at Winky Dinky Dog.....Now we talkin' 'bout makin' it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msbo6TiwA5A
Afterall America is the country where McDonald's Managers live in 8 bedroom McMansions, drive BMWs and have a TV in every bathroom.
Yes Walmart is in the same dumbdown spectrum. Only to flip burgers and make fries you need some minimal borg training.
To work the floor at Walmart all you need to know is how to hide from the customers and spray pepperspray in the Nike aisle on Black Friday.
if you hae not seen this movie you may enjoy http://www.putlocker.tw/watch-for-no-good-reason-online-free-putlocker-2...
nothing wrong with the people its the culture but it seems to be getting better. they even have organic vegetables. their strategy of building outside of populated areas is starting to backfire, now people dont want to waste the gas. i know people are complaining about inflation, but we have enough retail competition to keep prices low. and we have vegetables from mexico, where i guess there is no drought.
but the amazon concept is unraveling, keep an eye on that. i would say fast food is considered better emplyment than amazon fullfillment. my cousin works fast food, low wages, but his best friend works in food service / catering / delivery, and is making huge money for a young kid with ltd ed. i think when it comes to seeking employment at entry level you probably should go big or stay at home.
I have vegatibles in my back yard. Just made some green chile cornbread tonight with some of them, in fact.
I foretold this in 1980; when Bill Clinton signed the "most favorable nation" trade status graned to China by a bought and paid for Congress; We will become a national economy consisting of minimum wage earners flipping burgers for each other.