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Deja douche - sounds like the feeling I had in 2012 when I found out that Obola got reelected.
Hey! How bout some ISIS porn instead of regular old ebola porn this morning?
Islamic State Grants Non-Infidel Certificates
"To whom it may concern,
We hereby notify you that the one named Na’il Salu bin Basaam of the people of the al-Raqa emirate took and satisfactorily passed a course on Repentance.
Based on this, we hereby grant him this certificate confirming that he is not an infidel [kafir] and that it is impermissible to lash, crucify, or rape him, unless a legitimate reason arises for the soldiers of the caliphate or if it’s been established that he has returned to apostasy and wants his freedom."
Wait, wut?
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/10/07/islamic-state-grants-non-infidel-certificates/
Is there one of these for Christian heretics? Patriot backsliders who forget to wear their American flag lapel pin? The American Caliphate is probably the best, because the list of heretics is long, everyone we throw in jail gets raped.
Hilarious!
lol...apparently wanting the freedom to live your own life in anyway you see fit involves being lashed, butt fucked and crucified by the "holey warriors" of the new caliphate, as evidenced by the last line...
"...or if it’s been established that he has returned to apostasy and wants his freedom."
...death = freedom!
Nice ;-)
yOU'VE Done better.
head of the Bizarre at the Casbah
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Moms and Pops could retrain like my mom and pop did and do something other than the Mom and Pop thing. It used to be called rugged individualism, Yankee Ingenuity or protestant work ethic etc. It is harder with gov taxes and regulations now but what's left? Walmart is not going anywhere for a while but Amazon's super thin profit margin will catch up and then Moms and Pops will have a fighting chance again
It is hard to see why Amazon has any fans when you consider how they abuse and exploit the brick and mortar stores that line streets throughout America. These are the stores that employ our family members, support little league teams in the community, and add value to our lives.
These stores build or lease space, buy supplies from the other local businesses, and pay both sales and real-estate taxes. While Amazon sends out the signal that their customers are smart, forward thinking, and upscale they exploit America and have an evil side, this is a side we should and must recognize. More on this subject below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/10/amazon-not-answer.html
ah the argument that technology destroys jobs. hasn't this been refuted a million times? i'd expect more from a ZH reader.
all the jobs that were lost as a result of the expansion of amazon were lost because amazon's model could perform these workers' tasks in a more efficient manner. to the people that lost their jobs, this looks bad.
however prices for the rest of americans go down, and resources that were previously being inefficiently used are freed up. this means that people can buy more. it means that peopl have more to save and more to invest. it also means that these inefficient workers who lost their jobs to amazon can now go out and find a new job where marginal effiency is lower and increase productivity in that job and industry.
take a lap, then read some hazlitt.
It may have been refuted a million times, but still be true.
I do as much shopping as possible at locally-owned small businesses. They probably cost a bit more than a multinational corporation, but I get better service from locals. Also, locals pay taxes IN MY CITY, which helps keep the roads and sewers I use fixed. The multinational corporation might not pay any taxes any where. Also, the locals act, in many unquantifiable ways, as my fellow citizens, and therefore possible elements of my Stuff-Hits-The-Fan support network. If the bottom ever falls out, the "efficient" multinational corporation is definitely NOT part of my SHTF network, because its owners don't even live here. They live in places like London, Beijing, Tel Aviv, the Cayman Islands, New York City, and Riyadh.
quick note. this is how things should work in a fully functioning free market. obviously there are lots of other factors at play that skew this reality (thanks to the federal reserve and the government), however your argument that there is some sort of exploitation or abuse because amazon is implmenting labor saving techonolgy is fundamentally wrong.
IT'S THOSE DAMN SEARS CATALOGS I TELL YA.
THEY'RE RUINING AMERICA.
YOU CAN EVEN BUY A DAMN HOUSE.
A HOUSE!
Bright green truck delivering EVERYTHING as hard as I try look black to me - run by global monster that Amazon is.
Sorry for offending John Galt in you though...
So Walmart hurt mfg and mom and pop stores but Amazon gets the blame more?!
It's not just any one company but all of them combined... Even before all that you had mail order, the internet digitized that process so much easier and not need to mail / fax / talk to someone!
And what would add more value to our lives is when the munis reduce gov't costs.
Well you see it is like this, Amazon is at the top of today's news feed. Nevertheless, I think Amazon primarily killed the book and record sellers.
Walmart always has the most interesting-looking customers. :-)
The cities all have "sign ordinances" now.
Businesses can't put up large signs (like the old Piggly Wiggly signs that made us kids beg our parents to let us sit in the car and watch while they shopped because it was so much fun just to watch those signs). So what businesses did was cut down all the trees and make the entire building a sign. (That entire Walmart Supercentre building is a sign.)
Large businesses like Walmart can put up medium-sized signs, and of course their big buildings are big signs. But small businesses like retails in storefronts can only put up tiny signs that, if you are driving in your car, you can't even read the lettering on, so you don't even know that the small retail businesses exist.
This helps force small retail businesses out of business.
You can thank your local Chambers of Commerce and City Commissions, in all cities, servants of the multi-national-corporations, and enemies of small businesses.
If you ask your City Commissioner about this, he might say something like, "Duh? Doesn't everybody else do that, too? Are you proposing that I actually THINK FOR MYSELF, and WALK MY TALK by PROTECTING the small (local) businesses, instead of enacting ordinances that drive them out of businesses?"
do they sell golf clubs are Walmart?
The Network of Global Corporate Control
It is very easy for the crowd to fall prey to the conclusion that cheap is better. However, the long term impact in terms of quality of life and social well being is quite another matter.
Myself, I used to enjoy browsing in book and music stores and invitably I would wind up buying something.
Those were the days.
See what has happened to all those leisurely shopping hours now spent by the masses mesmerized on Farcebook.
I thought Amazon already had a showroom. They called it "Best Buy".
I would say this is a truly iMoronic development, right up there with pizza delivery drones and I am glad that I am nowhere near it.
My Dad said to me: guess what, now we can all look forward to going shopping at the Amazon store and I thought he was kidding.
What are people going to buy there, MP3 lawn mowers or designer salad shooters?
Jeff Bozos is an expert at misdirecting Wall Street's attention from his bottom line. I can just hear him explaining how he needs just another 10 years to reach critical retail mass. Why not buy Sears?
New Yorkers can now look at this new AmaShithole and marvel at all the fine book and record stores he strangled out of business.
BTW, does anyone know a millennial who has actually read an entire book or listened to the full contents of a CD or record or MP3 file or whatever the fuck they call them nowadays.
Better buy the latest version of Fired Magazine to learn where this incredibly amazing new long tail development will lead us.
You really have no street smarts until you look up into the old two stall outhouse and see turds hanging out of your great aunt's and (female) third cousins ass. The unusual breeze they feel makes them wiggle a little.
makes sense from a scatlogical point of view
PLAN FWD SOVIET
Security Clearance: IN YOUR FACE
Phase 1: Front for CFR Statist corporate fronts
Phase 2: Destroy Main Street
Phase 3: To maintain the illusion for the coppertops, present CFR Main Street facade for the MNCs who dictate their corporate policies through the State as laws (ie. why quasi-private corporate telecomm objectives & STASI surveillance are protected by lieu)
KPIs: Adhere to plantation weath apportionment matrix
My son was a millennial. I once punished him when he was 14 by taking away teevee, computer & making him read "Great Expectations".
It turned out to be his favorite book.
you should have given him Thomas Hardy i think
Dickens is Britain's Mark Twain, Twain is America's Homer.
If I could, I would send a copy of the original printing of "The Life and Times Of Sir Archie". But you can find a copy for him. Progenitor of Secretariat, Man Of War, Seabiscuit, and many more I can recite when I am not drinking Kentucky Whiskey. A Monad and especially a W Groper would probably like it too.
Look here :-)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Life-Times-Sir-Archie/dp/B000VAYH9E/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1413048461&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=The+Life+and+Times+Of+Sir+Archie
Be Here Now.
Oops, duplicate, thanks Firefox!
Rent seeking didn't help them either. Commercial rent is so high even in a small town. How do you overcome 4-5 figures every month on the margins that a small retailer has access to? Trick question - you don't.
Let us zoom out one step: retail rents driven up by the the unlimited amount of fiat toilet paper printed to save the Wall Street banksters who are ever continuously levitating the perpetual loss generating machine known as Amazon...it all makes cents.
There are so many malinvestment consequences, I don't know where to begin.
the entire economy, including all the parts of the old main economy which no longer work, is based on the insurance company business model. food is starvation insurance. mcluhan said about the MSM (50 years ago) that the news was there to help sell the products being advertised, (those products now are medications) and it all takes the form of insurance. my friend laughing said of a celebrity death recently, i didn't think rich people had to die of cancer.. we are marketed to use all of these things, get married, married people live longer.. a job is insurance, (a government job is better insurance) just as a car is a computer (that will drive itself pretty soon) and all propaganda is total. obama is such a dull boy, he just mandates more of it. (bombing terrorists is insurance, Cheney calls it the 1% rule, if there is a 1% chance they might hurt us we have the right to take preempitve action against another sovereign nation)
so read Doug Nolands reprint of his take on this at PrudentBear, CC bulletin this week. in his analogy about a town along a river that floods, and how insurance creates economic growth and malinvestment.
Love your work dude. Making the world a more informed place through your art. Where are the other artists? Any muscians out there with a bit of creativity?
WB7, I am the best witness/story of the dream that was a miraculous from unfelt dirt to the sweetest dream of the greatest short little run of Patriotism, Freedom, Bloodstained no problem. Can never pretend that it could ever be imagined.
But oh yeah, I was the first, the last and the real guy that could only walk into an ancient of humble or majestic architecture/craftsmanship with no real good excuse for being such a poor, proud dude that took them years to admit they admired. But a forty fifty year old primo dudes tells you that he admires you after thirty some years. It makes it all worth it. Thanks for all you do.
You should see the sunset shining on the earliest tounge and groove heart pine. And salvaged at the risk of broken everything, White marbled Italian Marble and Beautiful African Granite. From early 1900's bank buildings. Then they began lending money to every fucking idiot. I stopped real, sustainable restoration that day. I have proofs that I was a Master.
Owullllllllllllllll!
I hear Eddie Lampert might have a big portfolio of vacant space to lease soon.
Another zero margin business to grow revenues with. Yea, yea, they can flip a switch and show a profit whenever they want. Yea, sure.
From here on in it's a race to the bottom and (S)HE who gets there first WINS. Amazon is well placed as in a few months or years you can exchange an iPhone for 2 Ebola jabs drone delivered. Here's seeing you! I am not a number, i'm a free man. Ha haha hahahaha. . . .
I buy nothing at Amazon any more. They charge sale tax.
I get stuff for the same price with free shipping and no tax from mon and pop on Ebay.
The stuff gets here in the same amount of time. The difference is that you have to use PayPal.
Once they put a physical location, either a distribution facility or a store, they have to remit sales tax to that state.
The " no tax" benefit had to go sooner or later. .gov needs its cut.
Red and Yellow and Pink and Blue, Orange and Purple and . . . . i can see a Wwainbow see a wainbow see a . . . TWOO. .
the Amazon business model is the same one supermarket chains used for years, they build a new store in a town with only a few mom and pop groceries, and they sell below cost for as many months as it takes to drive out the M&Ps, once that happens they raise their prices again and recover all the money they lost. and running a large corp you can afford a few writeoffs to get market share as they refer to it now. theres nothing new under the sun. oh and i didnt mention that once they drive out the competition in blighted urban areas, they cut costs, which means product availability and quality, in order to make the store profitable. now consumers are going to get act II of retail impoverishment of consumers, i just wonder how can they top themselves?
Same as the WalMart model, but WM was more cunning and aggressive.
They ran that game plan in the smaller markets around the big cities, then once they got critical mass and could afford to buy the needed advertising proffitably in the major market, they attacked the city. Worked every time.
jeez you make it sound like the huns sacking Rome
WalMart has caused far more casualties.
If you had seen as many independent merchants and smaller chains go out of business over the past 25 years as me, you would understand the affects they have had on communities all over the country.