Sales down 40% last month. Please shop at your local antique store for unique gifts this Holiday season.
Do not be tempted to go to a Wal-Mart type store to purchase crap.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Besides, Wal-Mart threatened their employees and told them they better keep voting Republican. That is enough for me to shop elsewhere.
Patrick_Bateman
· 1 year ago
Indeed, as well as 4 year old Chinese girls don't make stuff the way they use to. ;>/
anarchy
· 1 year ago
I prefer most any old stuff over the crap that's being manufactured today.
vinyl records, not CDs. I cook with cast iron not fancy-pants non-stick garbage. plus, vintage clothes are the coolest!
the sole modern conveniences that I can't do without are my iBook and my iPod - but I bought both of 'em secondhand.
I'd be tempted to go to Wal-Mart to steal stuff and/or destroy goods so they cannot be sold.. but I'm better than that.
Patrick_Bateman
· 1 year ago
Better to not feed that particular temptation. ;.>)
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Don't forget! Oxycontin man, and Republican hero Rush Limbaugh is already calling this the Obama Recession when Obama ISN'T even in power. Really? Republicans... you really need to get a new idol.
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
That didn't take long
What a douche bag
grandma
· 1 year ago
All that's left of the GOP is the likes of Limbaugh,Hannity, O'Reilly and now Palin.
Keep it up losers.
woodroad34
· 1 year ago
Palin, in another photo op statement, urges Republican Governors to keep the Democrats honest. Is that Republican honesty, Lil' Miss GOP Fashion Welfare Mom (as in I'll sleep with my husband's partner, lie about all my experience, take money from oil companies and blames Bush for all your problems and not your own intellectual inferiority). That kind of honesty? http://apnews.excite.com/article/20081113/D94E7...
anarchy
· 1 year ago
well at least Lush Rimjob has the funds to travel to Thailand so he can have sex with little boys.
I don't understand how anybody could listen to his drivel, but there's the effect of the dumbing-down of America for you.
he IS the drive-by media, for sure.
Cpeterka
· 1 year ago
WANT TO REALLY START STOMETHING? Get a Referendum going to "Repeal ALL Marriage Laws". Make EVERYONE Equal. Make them all file the Civil forms. Slogan: "Marriage is a religious ceremony and has NO Place in America." "Separation of Church and State" "Not with my religion you don't !" "Marriage only belongs in Church, not in a State" "There should be no State of Marriage". Scare the be-jebus out of them. If they won't let Gays marry, then lets throw out the marriage with the bath water.
SCLiberal
· 1 year ago
I like it. Religion already has nothing to do with marriage: two atheists can go before a justice of the peace and get just as "married" as Billy and Ruth Graham.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Absolutely.
MaudGonne
· 1 year ago
Alistair Darling will forecast a short, sharp recession in his crucial pre-Budget report in 11 days' time, with the economy contracting by more than 1 per cent next year but bouncing back strongly in 2010. In an exclusive interview, the Chancellor told The Independent yesterday: "We are going into recession. I remain confident that we will get through it." It was his clearest admission yet that a recession is inevitable. Mr Darling was speaking on a day when unemployment rose to 1.82 million, its highest level for 11 years. He said the Government needed to get "sharper and smarter" about getting people into new jobs.
In his Commons statement on 24 November, he is expected to reveal a dramatic increase in public borrowing, up from the £43bn for the current financial year he predicted in his March Budget to around £65bn. Next year, as the recession bites, it is likely to rocket to more than £90bn. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/d...
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
And, I believe this is the beginning, not the end. All those layoff announcements in October and this month have even yet to begin; even Wachovia (bought by Wells Fargo) in Charlotte has yet to lay off anyone--they're sweating bullets. Then there's DHL, and the various financials, of course, and the tangential small businesses connected with all of them.
No, this thing is just really getting started. There is one sector I'd really like to see lay everyone off: rightwing talk radio and TV. And how will they explain their huge salaries when their listeners, most of whom are Joe the Plumber types, are sitting around the house, idle, listening to them blame the depression on Obama? Of course, the dumbass listeners won't get the irony, of course.
SCLiberal
· 1 year ago
I'd like to know how many people have run out of unemployment benefits and still have no job. I know that food banks are seeing record numbers of people seeking help. The picture is much worse than the "official" stats reveal.
anarchy
· 1 year ago
I was laid-off from a job I'd held for 12 years in November of 2006.
at the time, I had severance pay, money in the bank and some small investments - and I have NONE of that now.
my Illinois unemployment benefits ran out and I've been scrambling ever since to make ends meet by selling stuff on Craigslist and/or ebay as well as taking any temp job that pays.
this year I defaulted on a bunch of credit card debt when I had to make the choice of paying rent and eating OR paying off the balances.
I only wish I had done so much earlier.
I've been telling the collection agencies that they are bottom-feeders and they can fucking sue me, garnish my wages (hah!) or put a lien on my bank account (3.46 in my checking, 2.02 in savings as of this morning)
MNUSA
· 1 year ago
I wonder how many people, like me, are looking for work and can't find it but who never filed for unemployment benefits.
anarchy
· 1 year ago
you definitely should do so - you've paid in to the kitty for years and it's your RIGHT not some sort of a welfare hand-out.
woodroad34
· 1 year ago
I'm surprised we even got up high enough employment numbers following the debacle of the early Bush years. Remember when they were going to make extraordinary spikes in employment in a few short months and that fizzled (well, duh! McDonald workers became manufacturers--not unlike ketchup being a vegetable). One good thing about this is that, for the most part, it's like Bush never existed. Our income and job levels are back to 2000 levels-- one horrible, eight-year nightmare...the downside is the nearly $1 trillion headache in debt that's been incurred from this fratboy drunk. He's got a lot of nerve giving advice to the World summit when his policies and inaction caused this problem. So many crisises, so little thinking.
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Sales down 40% last month. Please shop at your local antique store for unique gifts this Holiday season.
Do not be tempted to go to a Wal-Mart type store to purchase crap.
manufactured today.
vinyl records, not CDs.
I cook with cast iron not fancy-pants non-stick garbage.
plus, vintage clothes are the coolest!
the sole modern conveniences that I can't do without
are my iBook and my iPod - but I bought both of 'em
secondhand.
I'd be tempted to go to Wal-Mart to steal stuff and/or
destroy goods so they cannot be sold.. but I'm better
than that.
What a douche bag
Keep it up losers.
to travel to Thailand so he can have sex
with little boys.
I don't understand how anybody could
listen to his drivel, but there's the effect
of the dumbing-down of America for you.
he IS the drive-by media, for sure.
Get a Referendum going to "Repeal ALL Marriage Laws". Make EVERYONE Equal. Make them all file the Civil forms.
Slogan:
"Marriage is a religious ceremony and has NO Place in America."
"Separation of Church and State"
"Not with my religion you don't !"
"Marriage only belongs in Church, not in a State"
"There should be no State of Marriage".
Scare the be-jebus out of them. If they won't let Gays marry, then lets throw out the marriage with the bath water.
In his Commons statement on 24 November, he is expected to reveal a dramatic increase in public borrowing, up from the £43bn for the current financial year he predicted in his March Budget to around £65bn. Next year, as the recession bites, it is likely to rocket to more than £90bn.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/d...
No, this thing is just really getting started. There is one sector I'd really like to see lay everyone off: rightwing talk radio and TV. And how will they explain their huge salaries when their listeners, most of whom are Joe the Plumber types, are sitting around the house, idle, listening to them blame the depression on Obama? Of course, the dumbass listeners won't get the irony, of course.
The picture is much worse than the "official" stats reveal.
in November of 2006.
at the time, I had severance pay, money in the
bank and some small investments - and I have
NONE of that now.
my Illinois unemployment benefits ran out and
I've been scrambling ever since to make ends
meet by selling stuff on Craigslist and/or ebay
as well as taking any temp job that pays.
this year I defaulted on a bunch of credit card
debt when I had to make the choice of paying
rent and eating OR paying off the balances.
I only wish I had done so much earlier.
I've been telling the collection agencies that they
are bottom-feeders and they can fucking sue me,
garnish my wages (hah!) or put a lien on my bank
account (3.46 in my checking, 2.02 in savings as
of this morning)
in to the kitty for years and it's your RIGHT
not some sort of a welfare hand-out.