AFDI/SIOA Protest December 14: NYC lobbies for Ground Zero victory mosque while banning Wal-Mart
The New York City Council has declared Tuesday, December 14 to be “Hate Wal-Mart Day,” and will hold a hearing against Wal-Mart entitled “When Wal-Mart Comes to Town.” AFDI/SIOA will be there to point out the City’s astounding inconsistency and hypocrisy in working to ban Wal-Mart from New York while doing everything it can to facilitate the construction of an Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero.
This is not about Wal-Mart. It is about consistency from City officials, and about justice for the 70% of Americans who oppose the Ground Zero mosque.
Please join us and send this to your email lists, groups, list servs, and tea party people.
AFDI/SIOA is calling on all freedom lovers, free market lovers, infidels, proud Americans, and people of conscience to stand for American values and against Islamic supremacism.
Walmart finds site for first North Side Chicago store
After years of foot-dragging by Chicago’s City Council and its union allies, Walmart reached an agreement with the city officials this summer to greatly expand its Chicago presence from its one West Side store.
Two South Side Walmarts will open about a year from now, and the retail giant has found a location for its first North Side store, near Broadway and Diversey, Crain’s Chicago Business is reporting.
Chicago’s unemployment rate is 8.9 percent, but that does not include people who have given up looking for work.
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Janet Napolitano’s Walmart Strategy
Now that Big Sis has made air travel safe with porno scanners and public groping, it’s time to move on to the next big initiative: securing Walmarts with the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign, which entails forcing shoppers to watch this at the checkout line:
Just don’t see or say anything involving Muslims, because that would be offensive. Religion of Peaceniks can probably find denser gatherings of innocent people to murder at places other than Walmart anyway.
Meanwhile, the open border remains unsecured.
Hat tip: CameraFRAUD.com. Tip from G. Fox.
Surveillance Video Shows Missing Girl Brittany Mae Smith & Jeffrey Scott Easley at Walmart
Um, this case just got even more disturbing … The below picture taken from a survielance video from Walmart shows missing 12 year old Brittany Mae Smith and 32-year-old Jeffrey Scott Easley. The video was taken Friday night between 8:00 and 8:30 p.m. Brittany Mae Smith’s mother, Tina Smith was found murdered in the family home. According to reports, Jeff Easley used Tina Smith’s credit card to purchase items in the store.
Authorities in Roanoke County have released an image taken at a Walmart in Salem, Va. which they say shows 12-year-old Brittany Mae Smith and the man suspected in her disappearance.
Brittany is believed to be with 32-year-old Jeffrey Scott Easley, a friend of Brittany’s mother, whom the woman met online.
The video was recorded Friday night between 8:00 and 8:30 p.m.
Authorities say 32-year-old Jeff Easley used Tina Smith’s credit card to purchase items in the store. Salem Police have issued warrants for Easley for credit card fraud and credit card larceny, reports CBS affiliate WDBJ.
Here is another rather disturbing issue when dealing with this case, On Facebook, Brittany Uses Last Name of Man Who May Be Holding Her
For further updates and to provide your opinion, go to Scared Monkeys.net Missing Persons Forum: Brittany Mae Smith.
Janet Napolitano Announces New Walmart Cameras For DHS
Janet Napolitano announced Monday an expansion of the Dpeartment of Homeland Security’s campaign “If You See Something, Say Something” to include hundreds of Walmart stores:
More than 230 Walmart stores nationwide launched the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign today, with a total of 588 Walmart stores in 27 states joining in the coming weeks. A short video message, available here, will play at select checkout locations to remind shoppers to contact local law enforcement to report suspicious activity.
The program:
The “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign—originally implemented by New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and funded, in part, by $ 13 million from DHS’ Transit Security Grant Program—is a simple and effective program to engage the public and key frontline employees to identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to the proper transportation and law enforcement authorities.
So while standing in line with your inflatable lawn Santa, tampons, dog food, and waiting for your tires to be rotated, you’ll be treated to a freakish video of Napolitano doing anything but actually stopping terrorism, like securing the borders (9/11 began as an immigration issue with the hijackers here on expired visas), paying closer attention to the FBI watch list, and implementing effective security protocols at airports instead of get-lucky random searching.
If only the Department of Homeland Defense followed its own advice.
Deputy Walmart: New front in homeland defense
The folks at the Department of Homeland Security think they have denied safe havens to terrorists in the U.S. Monday, the department announced a new partnership with Walmart — the nation’s largest retailer — as part of its ongoing “see something, report something” programs.
The new partnership launched Monday in 230 stores, and in the coming weeks Walmart will have 588 stores in 27 states participating in the program.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has this to say on the new program in a press release:
“Homeland security starts with hometown security, and each of us plays a critical role in keeping our country and communities safe. I applaud Walmart for joining the ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ campaign. This partnership will help millions of shoppers across the nation identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to law enforcement authorities.”
The release said the program was a simple way for people to help law enforcement fight terrorism and crime. The Department of Homeland Security oversees a vast bureaucracy of programs including the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Border Patrol and more.
Walmart is no stranger to the DHS, however. In 2005 it agreed to pay the federal government $ 11 million in a four year long criminal probe into the company which found its contractors were hiring undocumented workers.
SCOTUS Certs: Wal-Mart and aggrieved Energy Companies
SCOTUS Blog has a great summary of the certs recently issued. Here’s the opening shot:
The Supreme Court stepped into two major controversies on Monday, agreeing to sort out when a class-action lawsuit may be filed when employees are seeking back pay for alleged workplace discrimination, and to clarify whether companies claimed to be a major source of global warming can be sued under the law of nuisance. The first issue is raised in an appeal by the discount retailer, Wal-Mart Stores; the second an appeal by four large electric generating companies that have been sued by a group of state governments. The cases are likely to be heard in March or April.
SCOTUS Certs: Wal-Mart and aggrieved Energy Companies
SCOTUS Blog has a great summary of the certs recently issued. Here’s the opening shot:
The Supreme Court stepped into two major controversies on Monday, agreeing to sort out when a class-action lawsuit may be filed when employees are seeking back pay for alleged workplace discrimination, and to clarify whether companies claimed to be a major source of global warming can be sued under the law of nuisance. The first issue is raised in an appeal by the discount retailer, Wal-Mart Stores; the second an appeal by four large electric generating companies that have been sued by a group of state governments. The cases are likely to be heard in March or April.
Wal-Mart Coming to DC
I’ve never lived near a Wal-Mart, and since I don’t own a car that means my Wal-Mart shopping experience has been very limited. Apparently, though, their plan to move into Washington, DC includes plans to build a store very close to my apartment. I’ll be a real American at last. Currently I cherish my memories of Wal-Marting in Ellsworth, ME and Kitty Hawk, NC but those are places I go on vacation. Now I’ll be like a real citizen of the USA. It’s very exciting:
The blueprint is part of a national effort by the chain to expand beyond rural and suburban areas, where its low prices and massive stores transformed the retail landscape, into urban markets. Although Wal-Mart already operates stores in Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland, it has never had a store in the District.
The four stores would be built in D.C. neighborhoods where retail options are relatively scarce: on the site of a former car dealership on Georgia Avenue NW; at New York Avenue and Bladensburg Road NE; as part of a new mixed-use development on New Jersey Avenue NW; and at East Capitol and 58th streets SE.
On a more serious note, while of course one has to hope and insist that these projects be well-designed for an urban environment, I think it’s very much a good thing whenever major national chain retailers want to move into one’s city. The great advantage of dense urban areas as centers of commerce is that they have the customer base to make niche business operations realistic. But the exclusion of big tentpole retailers from these areas makes them less attractive to residents, and drives too much of the city’s small-scale retail activity to tiny high-cost low-quality shops rather than to innovative niche firms.
Meanwhile, DC will always have enormous potential for niche retail and small businesses simply because so much of the “bones” of the existing built environment is so clearly unsuitable for giant retail chains. The question the city needs to cope with is how to make it simpler for entrepreneurs to set up businesses in those spaces so that we don’t have so many of them lying vacant.
Med. marijuana lawsuit against Walmart to begin
A lawsuit against Walmart for firing a Battle Creek man for using medical marijuana to help with an inoperable brain tumor despite such usage being legal in Michigan is set to begin on Friday in federal court in Grand Rapids.
Joseph Casias uses medical marijuana in full compliance with Michigan law, but Walmart still fired him for a positive test for the drug even though he was the employee of the year in his store just two years earlier. The ACLU is representing him in court.
Wal-Mart Moms Breaking For GOP
So-called “Wal-Mart Moms” -women who have children under 18 and shop at Wal-Mart at least once a month — are breaking solidly Republican this year, according to polling out Tuesday.
The polling has found that 15 percent to 17 percent of the electorate in key states is composed of these Wal-Mart moms. The label has come to represent working and middle class mothers, a pivotal demographic in recent elections.
The results are yet another sign of an oncoming GOP wave on Election Day.
The surveys were conducted by a Republican firm — Public Opinion Strategies — and a Democratic firm — Momentum Analysis. The two groups first conducted an online nationwide survey in May to identify women that fit the demographic and record a benchmark of their political views. They have since conducted focus groups and telephone surveys.
In this most recent batch, the two firms surveyed 250 Wal-Mart moms in five states — California, Colorado, Florida, Missouri and Pennsylvania — from October 7 to 13. Each survey had a margin of error of +/- 6.2 percent.
Some of the key findings: In 2008, Wal-Mart moms were likely to report voting for Pres. Obama and self-identified as Democrats. This year, however, they are leaning toward supporting a Republican for Congress. In all five states, more Wal-Mart Moms now identify as Republicans by statistically significant margins.
In all of these states, a plurality is also supporting Republican contenders for the Senate. A double digit percentage, however, hasn’t made up their mind — suggesting that at least some of this voting bloc is still up for grabs.
Of the five Senate races surveyed, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is the only Democrat running competitively with Wal-Mart moms, but even she trails Republican Carly Fiorina, 37 to 33 percent.
Pennsylvania Senate contender Pat Toomey performs best of the five Republican Senate candidates tested. Fifty-six percent of Wal-Mart moms are supporting him, compared to 32 percent who are supporting Rep. Joe Sestak (D).
Really? Yeah, union uses non-union labor to picket Wal-Mart
Who could have ever guessed … minimum wage, no benefits, and reduced hours. The very same thing the union is demanding Wal-Mart not do. Whew.
As you watch, remember something: They’ve been pulling this stunt since at least as early as 2005.
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