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Brooklyn Deli Clerk's Face Slashed Open For Refusing To Sell Beer For Food Stamps

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The face of Yemeni deli clerk Mutahar Murshed Ali was slashed nearly in two for committing that most grievous of offenses: refusing to "sell" a Colt 45 to a drunk 20 year-old in exchange for foodstamps (whose usage Zero Hedge readers know, recently reverted back to all time highs). Of course, Ali was perfectly in his right to refuse to exchange booze for EBT: we reported recently that "New York would prohibit welfare recipients from spending their tax-funded benefits on cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, and strip clubs under a bill passed overwhelmingly by the state Senate." That however appears to not have bothered the assailant, who nearly cut off the deli vendor's face off in retaliation for not getting the "entitled" quid-pro-handout.

From NY Daily News:"His face almost fell off,” said witness Abdul Bin Ock, 17. "His cheek ripped. There was so much blood. Every time he looks in the mirror, he has to see the same scar the rest of his life," Ock added. The suspect fled the blood-spattered bodega on Broadway near Gates Ave. — and is being hunted by cops. Ali, a married father from Yemen, was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he received multiple stitches... The slasher "was drunk, falling and stumbling." Prior to the confrontation, Ali said, he saw the man receive cash from an underage girl outside the store. Ali believes the man was planning to buy the beer for the girl — and make money on the deal by using his food stamp card."

In retrospect: cash in exchange for barter in exchange for handout... Not a bad idea for a nationa increasingly reliant on "assured" entitlements for its survival.

As for Ali: did the cut up foreign father and husband file for immediate disability benefits (for which he is ineligible)? "A shaken-up Ali returned to the store hours later."

More:

“It happened so fast,” Ali told The News. “He took the knife out of his pocket and it happened.”

 

A dramatic video obtained by The News shows Ali sitting in a chair behind the counter before the assailant slyly pulls out his blade. In a flash, he flops onto the counter and cuts open the helpless clerk’s face.

 

The suspect was described as a black man between the ages of 25 and 30, with short black hair and brown eyes, wearing black jeans and a white T-shirt — and carrying a black backpack.

And the video of the robbery:

 

 

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Fri, 08/17/2012 - 15:17 | 2714994 A Nanny Moose
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Aid.....to buy beer. We aren't talking trappist monks fasting here. This article merely confirms the behavior of any dependency class, when the free shit runs dry. It is so because they think food magically appears on the convenience store shelf, and money is merely conjured from nothing by Benny and the Feds, to provide for their comfort.

Wait for it....

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 16:18 | 2715203 CrockettAlmanac.com
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This article merely confirms the behavior of any dependency class,

 

On the money. Those who take this opportunity to vilify black folks as a group must be blind to the moral decay which is creeping through our entire society. This degradation is not caused by the ethnic origins of a few but rather by the tender mercies of a wicked government which thrives on contrived struggles between competing special interests.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:10 | 2714592 LMAOLORI
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"financial apoca...It furthers the ZeroHedge agenda"

You can always go back to the Daily (Commie) Kos

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:21 | 2714816 giggler123
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flesh eating zombies come from somewhere...

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:35 | 2714854 FoxMulder
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Yeah. I bet the guy with the knife was one of the Tylers, just looking to further the agenda. /sarc

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:31 | 2714416 Popo
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All news stories are isolated incidents. Put them together. Make your own pattern.

The crime wave that is coming in New York and across the USA is going to be legendary. Unemployed, impoverished and angry people living shoulder to shoulder with the world's richest is a very combustible formula.

Yes. This story is irrelevant alone. But watch the Y axis. The rate is increasing.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:39 | 2714443 Bring the Gold
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Oh yeah I get that. The way this story is written though shows a bias against Foodstamp recipients.

By all means fiscal types, cut food stamps out and you will fondly remember the days of mere face slashings. Meanwhile, the GLOBAL RAPE by the Oligarchs continues without slowing down. This is like telling a patient with stage IV Colorectal cancer they have a hangnail.

Admittedly this is a sad event for the victim and I feel for him. We aren't really concerned with the victim in the above piece are we? Nope, we're concerned with those nasty "entitlements". Food stamps are a drop in the fucking bucket compared to the what 17 Trillion the FED gave the banks both foreign and domestic that we KNOW ABOUT?!?

Perhaps the unprecedented GLOBAL crimes might matter just a wee bit more than some stupid punk ass kid assaulting a minimum wage worker? I do feel for the guy who's face was slashed he sadly will be left scarred for life.

This is a symptom of totalitarianism via the banks and a VERY minor one at that. 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:46 | 2714503 ZeroAvatar
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This is an example of how out-of-control things are about to get when da gubmint can't afford to pay welfare to all the diversities. When the EBT card gets shut off, the cities will burn. 

 

And you're right, there'll be more than just 'mere face slashings'.  That's why ZH'rs prepare every day for this eventuality.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:51 | 2714531 Bring the Gold
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That's like saying a german slapping a frenchman was a reasonable foreshadowing of WW II. This ain't shit and again ITS A FUCKING SYMPTOM! Create jobs and let people work...oh right we are just global wage arbitrage etc. etc. You lazy Americans need to except Chinese prison wages if you want to be LEAN and competitive...especially the lean part...real lean, like Ehtiopia 1983 lean.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:08 | 2714586 ZeroAvatar
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This is a symptom?  May I recommend a book:  The Bell Curve, by Herrnstein/Murray. 

 

You will discover that this behavior has everything to do with genetics, little to do with 'jobs'.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:17 | 2714626 GoldenTool
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Bell Curve is a good book so it Chaos:The making of a new science, by gleick.  Throw Machiavelli The Prince in and that's some good reading.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:19 | 2714632 Moe Howard
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Don't confuse the moron with facts and reality. After all, just look at all the sucess stories in Africa. Dang white man is keeping them down in the USA. Too bad they can't go back to the homeland in Africa and live the good life.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:27 | 2714665 YuropeanImbecille
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The biggest scam ever is that all men are equal, these half-human animals live by instinct, while the white crackers live by such racist things as logic and reason.

 

There are over 400.000 black on white crimes comitted every year in the US, and still the biggest fear for a fucktard white cracker is to be called a racist =)

Evolution is killing off the white americans, as they could not bare the burden of being labelled "rasist".

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:54 | 2714922 Uncle Remus
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Dat's rayciss.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 16:25 | 2715252 CrockettAlmanac.com
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It's mostly imbecilic. Not that I have anything against the painfully stupid, mind you. Some of my best friends are imbeciles.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 16:33 | 2715283 Uncle Remus
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There is that...

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 17:57 | 2715519 Moe Howard
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So we are imbeciles to understand the reality of the black in the USA? Because some suburban government employed black married into your family doesn't mean the ghetto is not there. I grew up near and worked in the SW side of Chicago. I had national guard jeeps escort me to work with M2's mounted on the back. I watched them burn their own stores, homes, community assets to the ground. I guess because you are offended I should pretend I never saw any of that, the fact I had to be armed every single day I went to work or I would die, I guess I should pretend that happened in a white cracker neighborhood. I served with many black people in the Army, went to war with them, they were fine soldiers, people you could depend on, at the same ratio as other races. Those civilized people are not what we are talking about here.

You are a blind fool when it comes to the racial situation in America. Where do you live, Alaska or some shit? Yeah, anyway, we can be sure very far from the ghetto.

Imbecile.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 18:15 | 2715575 CrockettAlmanac.com
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You are an imbecile because you discount the value of individuals based on collectivist labels. But stupidity is it's own reward, so you've got that going for you. For what it's worth I'm just another Western Pennsylvania redneck. We've got plenty of black folks around here, I'm just not particularly frightened by them.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 18:46 | 2715641 Moe Howard
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Whatever, jackoff. Just because some loser in your family married a black certainly doesn't excuse black crime.

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 19:11 | 2715666 CrockettAlmanac.com
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I excuse neither crimes committed by individuals nor the deranged opinions expressed by subpar intellects.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 20:23 | 2715825 g speed
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I got news for you crockett--the day that wonderful black person in your family has to choose between black and the wonderful white family he/she married into your white ass is on the spit-- trust me on this--

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 20:30 | 2715833 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Your family should not feel safe falling asleep while you are in the house -- trust me on this.

Sat, 08/18/2012 - 21:50 | 2717380 CunnyFunt
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Does that include those who appeal to Wikipedia as an authority?

Sun, 08/19/2012 - 01:26 | 2717670 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Of course not. If you don't like Wikipedia articles themselves then you can spend time reviewing the usual abundance of well linked source material.

Sun, 08/19/2012 - 12:32 | 2718123 CunnyFunt
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So then you defend those who employ the logical fallacy of appealing to authority, in this case Wikipedia? This is quite laughable given your disdain for "the deranged opinions expressed by subpar intellects." You have been found out.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 19:35 | 2715741 ZeroAvatar
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"I'm just not particularly frightened by them".

 

And that, my friend, is the lesson you have yet to learn.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 19:57 | 2715788 CrockettAlmanac.com
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So the fact that no black person has assaulted me in my entire 48 years is, in your opinion, evidence that any day now they're going to creep up on me and boy will I be sorry? That hardly sounds rational.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:46 | 2714727 Raymond K Hessel
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Catcha you dirty Euroasianfrican fascist prick.  You can't see past your own political agenda.  

I double dog dare you to go to that guy who got cut and shrug him off, like it's no big deal.

Well, it was a big deal to him, assmuncher.

This is not the forum for you.  You would like the HuffPost better.  

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:54 | 2714743 ArrestBobRubin
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except? You mean accept.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:53 | 2714921 Excursionist
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BtG - I think the disdain you're sensing here is aimed at the culture of entitlement currently running amok.  If I remeber correctly, about 1 out of 7 Americans is on food stamps today.  The program has metastasized into something unholy for which it was never intended when it was founded.  The program was originally meant to serve as a safety net for the most dire of cases and not for feeding 20-year old, healthy (albeit drunk) gang bangers.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 18:02 | 2715536 Moe Howard
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Or, in fairness racially, the two white trash generations in front of me at the grocery store, buying hot wings SNAP, smokes cash from a roll, mom and daughter both tattooed up, roll out in a 2 year old $50K plus giant 4x4. I don't think meth freaks should be getting food assistance either.

 

The sooner this country collapses economically the better.

Then it will be time to sweep the streets and take out the trash. Trash of every color and hue.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 19:41 | 2715755 ZeroAvatar
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That day cannot come soon enough.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 18:43 | 2715636 Overfed
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WTF do you mean "create jobs"? Like TSA/DHS jobs? Bridges to nowhere? The gov't is virtually bakrupt, they can't afford to employ any more people. There ain't no turnin' this ship around buddy, the iceberg is dead ahead.

BTW, how do you feel about that clerk being forced to be a victim by NYC's BS gun control laws?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:50 | 2714734 Dr. Acula
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>The way this story is written though shows a bias against Foodstamp recipients.

Why not be biased against receivers of stolen money?

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:53 | 2714915 SilverIsKing
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I thought it was an ad for Gilette razors.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 16:29 | 2715264 CrockettAlmanac.com
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How are you fixed for blades? Better look!

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6773526827418813060

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 19:45 | 2715757 ZeroAvatar
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Personally?  Pretty good....1 Machete, 3 Hunting, 4 throwing, 3 samurai, several pocket....what did I forget?

 

Edit: Oh, I know what I forgot, I forgot to SLASH SOME INNOCENT CLERK'S FACE WITH THEM!

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 20:02 | 2715795 CrockettAlmanac.com
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You forgot to call the clerk a sand nigger, that's what you forgot.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 15:23 | 2714974 Uncle Remus
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The way this story is written though shows a bias against Foodstamp recipients

Because it shows how people can game/abuse the system? Are you an entitlment apologist or on you on SNAP too? Fuck, there is fraud everywhere. Build it and they will find a way to game it - from EBT to TARP and beyond. There is no difference between that piece of shit attacker and that piece of shit Corzine, Dimon or Blankfein - they just have different approaches on how to do "God's work".

The gauzy filthy shit, vomit, urine and cum-stained curtain of "civility" that keeps this country calm like a b0mb doesn't stand a chance in gale-force reality.

Buckle up bitchez.

Sat, 08/18/2012 - 13:07 | 2716709 rambo1028
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I have a new favorite uncle...

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 15:39 | 2715065 A Nanny Moose
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No, it is called extortion. It is all a result of your consent to allow the exproprriation of your wealth by the coercive monopoly (a.k.a. government).

As such, your approval of payouts to individual welfare queens, is also approval of welfare for bankers, and all other corp welfare. A = A. Free shit army = free shit army. Corporations are legal fictions made of/by humans

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:37 | 2714450 AlphaDawg
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Really, where do you get such stats on this........or are you just basing your opinions on what you want to hear/believe?

Not saying you are wrong, just want some truths instead of opinions

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:40 | 2714465 fonzannoon
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I think the big point here is the poor will attack the slightly less poor who will wage war on the lower middle and all of them will claw at what is left of the middle class. All while the mega rich laugh at all of us from up above.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:52 | 2714536 Bring the Gold
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Bingo. So please lets complain about the class directly below us, but cower before the tiny, tiny elite.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:38 | 2714577 Oldrepublic
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national health insurance would have been enacted in the late 1940s

but failed because of the racial angle, many southern senators voted against the bill

On November 19, 1945, , Harry S. Truman sent a Presidential message to the United States Congress proposing a new national health care program.

President Truman's health proposals finally came to Congress in the form of a Social Security expansion bill, co-sponsored in Congress by Senators Robert Wagner (D-NY) and James Murray (D-MT), along with Representative John Dingell (D-MI). For this reason, the bill was known popularly as the W-M-D bill. The American Medical Association (AMA) launched a spirited attack against the bill, capitalizing on fears of Communism in the public mind. The AMA characterized the bill as "socialized medicine", and in a forerunner to the rhetoric of the McCarthy era, called Truman White House staffers "followers of the Moscow party line".*

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 18:05 | 2715546 Moe Howard
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You make a claim it went down because of race, then give the example it went down because of socialism communism fears. Make up your mind or seek a mental health professional.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:00 | 2714560 iDealMeat
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uhhhhmmm...  not really.. Lots of lower class gardeners, dish washers, care takers know where those "mega rich" live..

 

no where to run..  no where to hide.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:04 | 2714573 MsCreant
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Project Mayhem.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:35 | 2714704 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Project Mayhem can be achieved easily and peacefully.  We can take our rights back by simply exchanging the illegal and counterfit currency we receive from the unconstitutional income tax the Federal Reserve, IRS, and defacto fascist US government give us for silver and gold, which for thousands of years acted as money.

If we do that, then we will rid ourselves of the banking institutions that bankrupt us, the MIC that kills foreigners and our brothers and sisters, and the fascist government that dictates how we live our lives.

Free humanity from the status quo:

BUY SILVER!

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:22 | 2714642 Red Heeler
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"no where to run.. no where to hide."

Exactamente!

A broke, starving guy is looking for a place to break into for something to steal and a bite to eat (create your own scenario). Which place will he choose:

1) Mobile home with junk car in front

2) Small cottage with 1987 Buick in front

3) Two-story Tudor with two car garage.

These days it pays to look poor so that one can hide in plain sight.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:59 | 2714751 bankruptcylawyer
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I read a very good write up from a serb who lived in one of these bombed out 'towns' during the multi year war in bosnia. 

 

he had  a number of good points that he kept on repteating about how to live through the 'apoocolypse', which he had done succesfully with his family for quite a bit of time, ---living through  a situation of perpetual war, poverty, lack of basic items, persistent looting and theft by those who are starving.

1) loners all die, you survive in groups

2) stock up on ammo as it is the most reliably tradeable thing

3) learn how to fix things.

4) don't be flashy---always hide in plain site. the nicest houses and better looking people get singled out for looting/mugging. only the crappy looking places escape perpetual 'testing' by looters. 

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:08 | 2714780 Agent P
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Personally, I'd look for a house with a Prius in the driveway sporting an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, as the chances of encountering an armed homeowner in that scenario are slim to none.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:39 | 2714870 Miffed Microbio...
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Agent P, This was my greatest fear when I bought my Prius. I actually looked into buying a gun rack for it. The dealership really cocked their head at that request. Finally said it could not be done on a hatchback. So I had to settle for some interesting bumberstickers. "Squirrels, nature's little speed bumps" is my favorite.

Miffed:-)

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:34 | 2714700 JohnKozac
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"diversity" can be a B*tich.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:43 | 2714884 Henry Hub
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Well the rich have been expecting this and are prepared:

"CEO Michael Dell of computer company Dell Inc. spends nearly $2.7 million a year on security for his family..."

The poor will turn on each other and the middle class if they're handy. The rich will be safe (in case you were worried for them}.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 15:22 | 2715010 Uncle Remus
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I am guessing the biggest threat is from pissed off customers.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 16:09 | 2715174 Red Heeler
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Micheal Dell family held hostage by security.

Dan Ackroyd was asked about being rich and famous. He said the rich part was great but just about negated by the famous part because you are no longer free to go where you please when you please.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 16:33 | 2715284 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Dan who?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 17:52 | 2715505 Red Heeler
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He's safe around you.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:33 | 2714425 AlphaDawg
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Non story, crap like this and worse goes on all the time.........

Exactly what is the point trying to be made?

Or are we all supposed to get all excited and write sh1t like "knives bitchez"? Im missing the point?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:34 | 2714433 AlphaDawg
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Knives Bitchez.......right?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:49 | 2714515 ZeroAvatar
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Kudos.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 19:55 | 2715784 ZeroAvatar
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Hey, that was the first "bitchez" post!  Banzai comment protocol, remember?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:36 | 2714447 LetThemEatRand
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It's red meat for the "blame the poor" crowd.  Yes, there are a bunch of freeloaders who are sucking the system dry.  Most of them wear suits and bomb brown people for profit, but some of them are drunk minorities who want handouts.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:43 | 2714482 Bring the Gold
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Yep, pretty much nailed it. I remember all that talk of some invisible "Black Army" Obama was raising. Meanwhile the very real, very WHITE, TSA/Homeland Security/Alphabet Soup agencies that actually EXIST and DAILY suppress dissent are just kinda put out of mind. Pathetic. I'm white by the way, just not fucking stupid.

I actually kind of hope on some level, that the slash funds to the poor folks (but by all means ignore the financial rape by the elites) types ram their agenda through. Watch what happens guys. You think kids like this aren't gonna come for YOU long before the Rockefellers and Rothschilds? The only thing holding the **chortle** fabric of this society together at this point is full bellies.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:11 | 2714528 ZeroAvatar
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Not to worry. 'YOU' (us) is ready for them. Please, bring it. PLEASE!

 

You might say, on MANY levels, I hope they slash the funds for the poor.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:21 | 2714638 Moe Howard
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You are retarded. If you removed the BLACKS from government jobs, you would destroy the black middle class.

That is where they work. You are living in a fantasy world with no basis in reality.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 20:36 | 2715842 g speed
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well there are lots of black teachers in inner city public schools--I'll give you that

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:02 | 2714755 ArrestBobRubin
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"You think kids like this aren't gonna come for YOU long before the Rockefellers and Rothschilds?"

Yes, as we're more accessible to them. But they'll wind up looking like crimson Swiss Cheese if and when they do.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 15:03 | 2714841 The_Dude
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Pathetic. I'm white by the way, just not fucking stupid.

I would seriously reassess that statement if I were you. 

Also, I don't think anyone that comes to ZH is ignoring the Fascist Finance industry, politicians and the monied elites that are raping the system.  What people are calling for is the end of the corruption at all levels.  No one wants to have their pocket picked and told to suck it up because it is for someone elses good benefit, or worse, needed to support the victims addiction, laziness, or liberal driven cultural destruction.  Especially if the group that is supporting the cause is not willing to acknowledge the corruption because it furthers their own agenda.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:57 | 2714933 Excursionist
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BtG - You must not fly regularly.  Regardless of the domestic airport, the ratio of African American TSA agents to other agents is at least 4 : 1.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 20:39 | 2715846 g speed
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is TSA a govt job? just asking---

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 15:44 | 2715080 Totentänzerlied
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Most of them? Are you trying to make a fool of yourself? How dumb can you be, assigning all possible blame to a single very small class of people whose power exists only so long as the other classes, whose numbers are vastly greater, continue to obey it. I bet an evil Jew banker put that thug up to this, right? Poor people are all saints who deserve infinite handouts, rich people are all demons who eat babies, gotcha. Why is it so hard for your kind to accept that "the poor" and "the rich" are just like everyone else, only with lesser and greater means? Debt-based fiat is bad, right, but people who gladly use and abuse it are free of guilt? "They just can't help themselves" as the cultural Marxists say, regarding criminals and addicts - is that it? Sounds like blaming the poor after all.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 18:48 | 2715645 Overfed
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It can't blame the elite all of the time./s

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:00 | 2714556 pods
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This illustrates what can happen when a currency collapses.  What if the guy did not accept FRNs for that beer?

Food stamps have become a negotiable currency in the hood.

This story illustrates what happens when that negotiation breaks down.

Just have to replace FRN for the food stamps and there is your point.

"Exactly what is the point trying to be made?"

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 15:05 | 2714961 SilverIsKing
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Bingo!

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 19:14 | 2715297 CrockettAlmanac.com
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The slasher subscribes to Gresham's Law with a vengeance.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:29 | 2714676 DavidC
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Your comment indicates why he is more desrving of respect than you are.

DavidC

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:40 | 2714466 shovelhead
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You are one sick fuck. Get help.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:17 | 2714584 YuropeanImbecille
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How unexpected that a knife wielding black man whipped his ethnic culture out as soon as this racist bastard Ali refused the nobel victim his birth given right to alcohol. Alcohol that the working productive population had to pay trough the "slave tax" known as income tax after getting raped and robbed by said person.

 

Basically productive people PAYING for the privligage to have fine people like this drunk on the streets! You got to love obama the food stamp president! 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXcyX8blbu0

 

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:09 | 2714596 Rusticus
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Agreed, this story is mouthfoaming material   for goldbug forums.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:30 | 2714684 tenpanhandle
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why are you here? A closet goldbug, maybe?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:23 | 2714647 First There Is ...
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Try and focus here....I think the gist of the article is: FOOD STAMPS FOR BOOZE is absurd. The fact that some random, poor minority kid just happened to disfigure the guy for life in an uber-violent act is incidental albeit grotesque (but still somewhat germane). I think there are bigger themes that you may be missing like a general sense of entitlement by generations of people who should now be well on the way to realizing that these "entitlements" are but a fleeting attempt at bringing more people under the government yoke......only to have them yanked when the hammer finally drops. America's growing dependency on the government for mere day to day survival is but one of the tricks in their bag by which they'll lure us to the slaughter.

And while you may not give a fuck about his minority status, carving up the man's face or the entitlements, some who are a bit more polished and wise than yourself and see this exactly for what it is: another horrible incident that will only increase in frequency as more are denied government largesse or are told they can't buy Jack Daniels with SNAP cards.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:34 | 2714701 PiratePawpaw
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Firstly: I care. I care anytime someone is hurt. Either by the top 1% or the bottom 1%.

But I think the point of this article is that this is the kind of thing that we can expect more and worse of. And maybe the govt does too if their recent ammo purchases are any indication.

So maybe we better be ready for it too.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:25 | 2714829 Quantum Nucleonics
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Who gives a f#ck?  You should.  The US will spend $87 billion on food stamps this year, that's more than we gave GM or JPM.  One in 6 Americans is getting a bottle of Colt 45, er food, free from the government.  The number of people on food stamps has soared since the our Dear Marxist Leader took office.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:28 | 2714401 ghengis86
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Well, he should be happy; he's got more of a face left than those muppets who bought into Zuckerberg's wealth transfe- er, IPO.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:26 | 2714663 Dr.Vannostrand
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<Golf Clap>

Bravo Sir!

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:50 | 2714909 DollarMenu
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That's bullshit.

Look at the picture, jackass.

The toll was not digits on a screen to this man.

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:12 | 2714792 10mm
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Back in the day,my older brother and crew would of found the mother fucker,period.American pussification now.Knives,i would of taken the bullet instead.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 15:53 | 2715100 Votewithabullet
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Hippo...a negro slashing the face of another negro does not represent the end. He "lipped off" to the wrong brother. The nigger was going for the jugular vein, but he thought it was in his face? This shit just makes my day lmfao

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:43 | 2714477 quintago
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Damn crazies.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:48 | 2714508 Gringo Viejo
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Must have been Leroy Brown. I hear among other things "he got a razor in his shoe."

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:25 | 2714645 Gringo Viejo
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I've no problem with the negatives from the communists which have of late, permeated ZH. It's their "modus op.", shout down the opposition with meaningless emotional platitudes. For those capable of logic and critical thinking, I ask only that you consider this. The song "Bad Leroy Brown"was written by Jim Croce in 1972. (Croce, from Chicago, died in a small plane crash that same year.) My question to you is this. What's changed in 40 years? If you want to keep believing "it's all equal", knock yourself out. Call me a racist? I disagree. I think none harm. I speak none harm. I wish none harm. Nevertheless, I am above all else,a realist. And as one poster above noted..."it's coming."

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:24 | 2714826 ghengis86
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For real. I wasn't even alive in 1972, but for fucks sake I knew what you were doing there. And I got junked for saying this guy has more of a face left than the FB IPO buyers.

Now, does anybody remember how the referenced song ends? Me thinks the same is true for the pussy who slashed the hard working man

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 20:03 | 2715798 ZeroAvatar
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"Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone".

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 15:59 | 2715128 Votewithabullet
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Old man are you replying to your own post? thanx for the jim croce lesson I was unaware ...Whats fucking coming? tofuckingmorrow? Jusus? Hellfire and damnation? do tell. Its fucking coming. Is their a more stupider fucking statement?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 19:04 | 2715676 gmrpeabody
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"Is their a more stupider fucking statement?"

Well..., I think that's a contender... (the question and the answer, all in one)

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:14 | 2714799 ArrestBobRubin
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Beer Stamps Bitchez!

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 16:22 | 2715239 mr1963
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No one spotted the uniform of the gansta? White t-shirt and jeans? Just like chicago, try to get a conviction when every black guy on the street has the same clothes on...

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:20 | 2714368 Cognitive Dissonance
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Ummmmmm.......

Mutahar Murshed Ali should be out of work on workman's compensation. And don't forget the cash settlement for the rather large facial scar and emotional distress.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:30 | 2714413 Divided States ...
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Hey, as long as the DOW and S&P are up, anarchy, apathy dont mean shit anymore.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:19 | 2714629 YuropeanImbecille
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maybe it is safer in Iraq than in American "ethnic regions" ?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:44 | 2714722 Lednbrass
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Yeah, alot less dead in the Middle East.

Look up the number of soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan and compare to number of dead in Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis, etc. in the same time span.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:29 | 2714677 Rusticus
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I doubt a Bushwick deli clark is on the books or that the deli owner is paying any workers comp.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:21 | 2714370 fuu
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We should ban knives...

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:30 | 2714411 AL_SWEARENGEN
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Didn't England recently do just that?  Fucking cocksuckerz!

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:03 | 2714568 fuu
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"I wield a blade good with my left hand"

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:10 | 2714598 Chump
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Nah, they're just tossing around the idea of banning the pointy ones.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7508404.stm

You just can't make this stuff up.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:20 | 2714636 YuropeanImbecille
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The brits are useless cunts, so good for them that they are dying by the thousands every year in the hands of peace loving pakistanis and other beauitful people.

 

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 21:26 | 2715930 jwoop66
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What happened to you people?!

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:33 | 2714415 HardAssets
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He coulda used a broken glass bottle

ban glass

ban sharp or 'pokey' things or 'heavy' things that can be used as clubs

Hell, just ban everything . . . . and enforce selectively

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:40 | 2714464 Hippocratic Oaf
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Is that you Bloomberg?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:45 | 2714492 XitSam
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I suggest everyone read With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:30 | 2714680 johnQpublic
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i still have a mark on my hand from getting stabbed with a pencil in grade school

 

place pen is mightier than sword analogy here______________

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:32 | 2714423 Hype Alert
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They should ban big gulps and felonious assault. 

 

Oh wait.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:48 | 2714431 hedgeless_horseman
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We should ban knives...

No knives?  No Problem.

Kershaw's kitchen scissors come apart in a fraction of a second providing the holder with not one, but two very sharp and ergonomic fighting blades.

Don't run with scissors...stop and fight.*

 

*First, take a tactical folding knife class and practice, practice, practice.  Sharpies, shorts, and eye protection in the back yard make for a fun Fight Club party (malt liquor optional).  Running away is often the best response, and should also be taught in self defense classes and practiced.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:52 | 2714533 shovelhead
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Unfortunately, the Fiskars scissors were recalled due to occasionally bursting into flames.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:53 | 2714538 MsCreant
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In close quarters fighting, a knife often out performs a gun.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:25 | 2714587 hedgeless_horseman
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When death or serious bodily harm to you or a loved one is imminent, knowing where and how to cut an attacker's carotid, brachial, or femoral artery does usually stop the attacker very quickly.  Avoid light-colored carpets and hard-to-clean clothing.

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:29 | 2714674 resurger
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Serrated Bowie Knives smells blood really well, they can cut through the dragons skin.

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 16:57 | 2715358 Miffed Microbio...
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I worked trauma in the 1990s in san diego and was exposed to hundreds of knife fights . Most were random slashings but a few were extraordinarily organized. These were military fights. I remember one was some idiot who tried to carjack a marine using 357 Magnum. The guy was stabbed in the throat,chest and abdomen before he could get off a shot. For all intensive purposes he was dead before he hit the ground. We never saved one person attacked in this manner in the 10 years I was there. Though I can handle a pistol adequately, know in a close fight I don't have a chance against anyone well trained with a knife.

Miffed:-)

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:25 | 2714661 jumbo maverick
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I have taken said tactical knife class. Part of the class consisted of everyone standing in a large circle. Two students were picked at random and given a training knife. The blade was rubbed with lipstick. Then the two students fight.

Guess what everyone and I mean everyone got tagged multiple times. If you ever have some crazy going off near you with a knife, even pulling the knife out to show you are in big trouble. Draw down and get away.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:35 | 2714702 Divine Wind
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When knifes are outlawed, only outlaws will have knifes.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:43 | 2714718 resurger
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Nice Divine,

Am no pussy, i dont want to end up like those South African miners, i want to get this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_M82

10 rounds of hot leaded 50 calibar in less than 10 seconds... i would buy that shit and mount the knife to be a bayonet.

it will cost only $8,900 inflation adjusted price

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 20:58 | 2715867 ZeroAvatar
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When forks are outlawed, outlaws will eat with their fingers. KFC, anyone?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:34 | 2714434 SimonH
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We should ban rocks.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:35 | 2714439 vast-dom
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i prefer wholesale ban of humans.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:21 | 2714372 Freddie
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The clerk and assailant are the Chicago muslim's people. 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:33 | 2714430 Freddie
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Junk me more Hussein lovers and lib Dem scum. 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:39 | 2714461 silverserfer
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you make coservatives want want to hump a tree freddy. your not right wing your a a wing ding.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:15 | 2714613 ZeroAvatar
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You misspelled 'Chicongo'.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:49 | 2714517 chet
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Tyler, what do you gain from baiting these people? Do you agree with them, or are you just slumming for page views?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:19 | 2714634 ZeroAvatar
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Reading the comments is a great way to find out who amongst us is, shall I say, 'under hypnosis'.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:21 | 2714375 First There Is ...
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Just another day in the hood. I'm sure we'll see liberals soften their stance on food stamps for booze + (coke, syringes, bullets and switch blades) in order to pacify the mobs who will pull the racist card for denying them access to their cultural trappings.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:22 | 2714376 Marley
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And the war on the poor continues.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:47 | 2714505 Goatboy
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There is no alternative in current system. Huge masses of people have to be kept desperate and disciplined. Who would otherwise do all those nasty jooobs no one wants to do? Everyone, including participants of this forum, prefer to identify themselves with monkeys on top. Everyone thinks they are above average and better than "poor undeserving" people. Till they wake up and find out they became one of those and understand that human dignity cannot be counted and regulated more rigorously than financial operations.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:11 | 2714601 Marley
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Especially some participants of this form.  And this site which enables the discourse.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:22 | 2714377 Robot Traders Mom
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"A shaken-up Ali returned to the store hours later."

 

I didn't know that kind of work ethic still existed. We should pull the citizenship of someone on the 99 week unemployment plan and give it to him.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:26 | 2714397 LoneStarHog
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RTM, now do you see why birth control would have been a good practice back then?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:31 | 2714418 Let them all fail
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Too easy to get disability benefits these days...funny what happens when you actually have pride in supporting your family.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:35 | 2714437 Freddie
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Yeah.  Get back to the convenience store coupon fraud and other scams. 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 17:23 | 2715425 zerozulu
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Poor Ali still believes in American dream.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:23 | 2714378 Siegfried
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Again fucking nigga

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:27 | 2714399 BlowsAgainstthe...
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That's because all the white thug babies are at banks shakin down muppets and the Fed.  

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:23 | 2714381 SCswampfoxx
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Here in South Carolina I heard another sad food stamp story.  At a local grocery store, people had been trying to buy beer with their EBT cards.  The cashier continously refused.  One day he decided to call the local welfare office.  The lady at the office told him if that happened again to do the following: "Put the beer behind the counter.  Make the person leave the store.  The person will come back inside and ask to withdraw cash from their EBT card.  Give them cash and proceed with the beer transaction."

 

Pitiful, just plain pitiful.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:40 | 2714467 MsCreant
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I do not believe you can get Cash from an EBT card. There is no point to the card if this is possible.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:47 | 2714507 Big Corked Boots
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in NY, you can get cash from an ATM... even if that ATM is at a horse racing track, or a casino.

Think about that.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:09 | 2714532 MsCreant
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To be clear, you are telling me you can put an EBT card into an ATM machine and get cash in NY?

Edit: Looks like it is possible

http://otda.ny.gov/programs/ebt/

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 13:25 | 2714653 Big Corked Boots
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There's a liquor store in Troy, NY that has a small area set aside for groceries, and a big banner outside declaring "We Accept EBT!"

'Cause, y'know, when you stagger outside to get another bottle of Thunderbird, da babies can git da milk.

 

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