Today is “Black Friday”, called Black because it is the day that retailers get out of the red and into the black. This is the beginning of the Holiday Season. The sick season that was set up by corporations, large retailers and the media for the sole purpose of getting people to spend above their means, buy stuff no one will ever need nor would ever buy any other time, and help out the retail giants bottom line.

Why does everyone fall into it? hell, I really do not know, but it probably has to do with all media hype. Only fools believe that Christmas is about religion, Xmas in America is about consumer spending and companies spend millions on ads making sure that you spend your paycheck on a new TV instead of rent and food, if you are short on cash… no worries, they give you credit so you can pay $5000 in interest for your $500 dollar purchase. Sadly, sheep always seem to follow the pack, even if its into the jaws of the wolf.

Riots, stampedes, killings… its a crazy day. But why all the craziness on this one day? Well, because we have been conditioned for months by advertisers… You better buy it, and you better buy it today, do what you have too, fight, beg, borrow and even steal because come tomorrow, that TV will not be there. That is the message sent and below is the result.

Today, on TV, I have seen people lining up at Best Buy at 1 AM waiting in line for the store to open at 8. I have seen riots is mall parking lots, robberies, burglaries, assaults and shootings over parking space. All this because the media convinced the public that they MUST shop today. Its crazy when you think about it.

Scenes like this have re-played in every shopping mall in the US.

Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies said they dispersed about 1,000 people who had already gathered at the store by midnight Friday morning. They were told to come back at 3 a.m… 1k people that can’t wait to rid themselves of their cash and will riot to do so.

speaking of Best Buy

Check out the warm Xmas scene below where everyone shows “good will” towards fellow man.

and some more craziness

These scenes are repeated year after year, town after town, city after city and state after state as the American people do exactly what the large retail stores have conditioned them to do, shop like today is the very last day to spend that hard-earned dough.

And that craziness over shopping is not confined to the US alone. A few weeks back in China…

BEIJING, China (AP) — Shoppers eager to buy goods on sale stampeded at a Carrefour supermarket in southwestern China on Saturday, trampling three people to death and injuring at least 31, state media reported.

Shoppers slipped as they rushed through a door at the Carrefour in Chongqing city at 8:30 a.m. to snap up sale items, and those that fell were then crushed by other shoppers, the Web sites of the Xinhua News Agency and People’s Daily reported.

The People’s Daily said the shoppers had lined up outside the store since 4 a.m. to buy discounted rapeseed oil used for cooking. (sounds like the US “Black Friday”, except they are buying food items and not playstations)

In addition to the three dead, Xinhua said that seven among the 31 injured were seriously hurt. Police in Chongqing said they had heard about the accident but declined to independently confirm the media accounts.

So, I have never even heard of rapeseed oil, but apparently its so good to cook with that people in China die for it. At least there, it was over a food item, here in the US its way more sick, they kill and die over Playstations, Cabbage Patch Kids and large TV’s(so they can watch more commercials)… thats some sick ass shit for sure…

may everyone have a very happy and commercial holiday season!

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I found this on another site…

Perceptions of beauty in women over geographies and time have been diverse.

In ancient times, women followed practices like - Chinese foot binding, wearing golden rings to streach the neck and wearing whale bone corsets that crushed ribs to give perfect shape to the body. These are barbaric in the least.

Things that a modern woman does - wearing make-up, piercing the skin, etc might pass of as a woman’s right to make a choice. But, consider these - liposuction, silicon implants, extreme dieting, induced vomiting and six inch heels. Now a days, 12 year old girls resort to dieting. Are these practices a result of carefully considered choices?

Media sets the perception of beauty today. Not just that. It propogages the assertion that, such beauty is achivable.

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This is a funny, well disgusting commercial, with a cute doggie in it. The title above though has me thinking about the dog and how long it took the trainers to get the dog to shit on the bed? I guess I can only wonder… hell, I know it takes me 2 months to teach a dog to not shit on the bed! maybe its easier the other way around, for the dog at least.

I guess the entire point there was “clean the shit up… MOFO’s”

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