Show Me The Money

 

1. If one of the tracks on the CD had contained the word “nigger,” or “faggot,” as can be found on many an Eminem CD, do you suppose Wal-Mart’s CEO would “get the chair”?

   Frankly, if serious tort reform isn’t passed pretty damned quick, commerce in this country will grind to a complete stop.

   Posted by Francis W. Porretto       12/12/2004  at  07:29 AM  



2. Every Evanescence CD I’ve seen has a parental advisory on it to warn buyers of its content. Since it DID have an advisory on it, what were these folks expecting, the freakin’ MUPPETS?!!!

   Posted by Annoying Little Twerp       12/12/2004  at  09:30 AM  



3. That news should have been followed shortly thereafter with headlines that read, “disabled man dies in mysterious house fire.”

   Posted by Vilmar       12/12/2004  at  09:54 AM  



4. I sometimes wonder if the record companies deliberately mis-label certain albums and ship them to see what kind of reaction they get. I cannot say whether this is done to gauge whether it would be more profitable for companies to endure lawsuit after lawsuit, rather than the government to regulate their industry...which would be a dream come true for Tip Her Gore!

   BobF: Are handicapped people pissed off at you when you decline their request for assistance...and then you tell them WHY?

   Posted by Macker       12/12/2004  at  11:02 AM  



5. A little secret here. WalMart is the main
   reason China is not in much the same shape
   as N.Korea.

   China has a trade surplus with us that is
   horrendous in its bulk.

   China buys (with that surplus) much of
   our debt via ‘safe’ bonds and T-notes.

   18 billion dollars of WalMart’s inventory
   is in China. That’s INVENTORY.

   China artificially supports its currency
   so that it is somewhat viable, and ties it
   to our dollar.

   The recent ‘decline’ in the dollar will
   first do one thing ... strangle China’s
   currency and buying power.

   That is important because China buys and
   uses almost as much oil as we do.

   This will make their goods more expensive
   and give rise to industry in Pakistan and
   Malaysia.

   Which will further undermine China’s
   ability to maintain their current rate
   of growth.

   When they start unloading bonds and T-bills
   it will bouy the dollar like no other such
   influence in recent memory, except perhaps
   when Japan had to divest itself of all that
   real estate owned in the US. And debt (90s!)

   Basically it comes down to this, WalMart
   is a premptive strike on China from which
   China will not recover unless it is at the
   behest of our largesse.

   And we have safe guards employed. Were
   we to ‘re-negotiate’ China’s ‘favored
   nation status’ ... the paper they hold with
   our guarantees on them would be denigrated
   by a huge percentage.

   Which only exacerbates their dilema.

   China is screwed. They know it. They will
   use this wave to prop their pop ... but they
   know the day will come to which I refer.

   AND that is why China has been making
   rumblings toward Taiwan. Taiwan’s economy
   is WAY stronger and world-based, not just
   on us.

   BUT, China thought Hong Kong might provide
   much the same salvation. But those entities
   knew beforehand and vacated. China got ...
   screwed.

   But with Taiwan, they can (so they think)
   dictate the time and step in ‘nationalize’
   the indigenous industries.

   By taking Taiwan, (when was the last time
   you read a label Made in Taiwan?) China will
   only piss off the rest of the world ie, the
   EU.

   This also explains why China is so adamant
   about drilling the oil reserves off of
   Vietnam. Who said we had no reason to be
   there? Anyway...it would take them near
   10 years to tap a hole AND they’d need our
   help.

   And it wouldn’t ofset their oil demand a
   whit.

   WalMart rules. China is screwed. We erase
   a huge portion of our debt and developing
   (Pakistan, Malaysia, South America) places
   get a big boon.

   Cool huh?

   I probably should have run all this by my
   freind Jayson over at Political Vice Squad,
   but...I’ve been thinking money and markets
   since his parents were kids. But feel free
   to run it by him.

   I kinda think he’ll back me.

   Hope that didn’t hurt yer head. Hurt mine.

   Posted by Steel Turman       12/12/2004  at  11:53 AM  



6. I’m wary of the Chicomms.  If ever they get into the same kind of oil crunch that Japan got into in 1941, will they be above solving it THEIR way?  Their masses of “Red Army” clones aren’t merely a parading force.

   Posted by Tannenberg       12/12/2004  at  12:12 PM  



7. They have to eat to mass or march. They have
   to have oil to do either. They have to have
   money to solve both.

   Next.

   Posted by Steel Turman       12/12/2004  at  12:26 PM  



8. Sorry for displaying my ignorance, but who or what is an “Evanescence”?  And he/she/it/they has/have more than one cd?

   Going to put on a Steely Dan or Little Feat cd now....

   Posted by Illegitimi Non Carborundum       12/12/2004  at  01:49 PM  



9. INC, I have no idea who or what an “Evanescence” is either. I just checked my CD collection and could find nothing between “Eagles” and “Fog Hat”. Hmmmmm ....

   Posted by The Skipper       12/12/2004  at  02:23 PM  



10. I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t shop at Wal-mart because the smell of that disgusting popcorn makes me sick- that smell permeates the store...........Plus the aisles are not placed in any normal order.........the whole place is a stinking, disgusting, disorderly store...........

    Posted by Dottie       12/12/2004  at  10:20 PM  



11. The only Evanescence I know of is the rather young goth-esque group with 2 songs on the “DareDevil” soundtrack; “Bring Me To Life” and “My Immortal”. I have the album these come from, “Fallen”, and it had no such parental warning, simply it had no such language anywhere on the 11 tracks. I also looked at Amazon.com and WalMart.com for their most recent release, and their first release, and neither one had a parental warning. I looked at the lyrics online for all the songs for which lyrics were available, and there was no f-word anywhere to be found.

    Either this pissant’s talking about an album named Evanescence, and not the group, or he and his family are smoking something. Since it was their 13-year-old daughter buying the thing, I’m inclined to think it was the group I have mentioned, and they’re high. It’s not there.

    Posted by Red Five       02/02/2005  at  05:25 PM  



12. OK, I stand slightly corrected. The group’s website didn’t have the lyrics to the song in the complaint. Upon further searching, I found it does indeed have the f-word in it. According to the USAToday story (great pillar of journalistic integrity, that), the family making the complaint is saying Wal-Mart shoulda known that there was a censored version available, and are blaming them for the production company’s failure to apply for the advisory sticker.

    Question: how many times do you figure the girl has heard the f-bomb? How many movies has she seen, or friends at school, who use that word? Do her parents sue any of those people?

    Didn’t think so.

    Posted by Red Five       02/02/2005  at  05:34 PM  



13. One final correction to my previous correction (I promise, then I’ll go away): The reason the f-word is in there is that it’s a cover of a Korn song. Amy Lee didn’t write it herself, and I don’t think she would use such a word in her own work. Korn’s not exactly known for good, clean wholesome fun, if you know what I mean.

    Posted by Red Five       02/02/2005  at  05:36 PM  

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