Archive for December 24th, 2003


Discovered memo

Discovered memo


From: John Ashcroft, US Attorney General


To: Tom Ridge: Department of Homeland Security


Subject: Santa Claus: Threat to the nation


This Santa character. We need to keep an eye on him. He dresses in red and appears to be a ringleader for wealth distribution across the planet, with this giving-away-toys-for-free ploy of his. Seems like a damn Socialist to me. And I find those talking reindeer flying through the sky to be highly suspect. Witchcraft, that’s what it is!


However Santa does have a potentially highly useful list of who’s been good and who’s been naughty. If we could gain control of this list, it could prove useful in our fight against terrorism - and against our political enemies too!


I propose we preemptively arrest this Santa character on some pretext, cruelty to reindeer or violating labor laws by making the elves work without overtime pay. Yes, we will have to arrest him based on those noxious liberal animal cruelty and labor laws, painful as this may be to us - however, hear me out.


We arrest Santa, then lean on him. Sleep deprivation, etc. Let’s get that naughty/nice list! Feed it into Department of Homeland Security computers, and I’ll bet we’ll be able to indict, prosecute and jail tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands!


Have a blessed Christmas!


John Ashcroft


PS
Further thoughts regarding the S.A.N.T.A. conspiracy:  Elves — are they undocumented alien migrant worker agent provocateurs?


Fact #1: They accept slave wages. In fact, they work for nothing. Obviously, they are undocumented, for what worker possessing proper valid identification would work for less than minimum wage?


Fact #2: They speak “elf,” hithertofore unknown to government linguists, perhaps of the Indo-chinese branch of languages. Then again, it could be code.


Fact #3: They are short — very short — and strangely dressed. Obviously not of Anglo-American extraction, hence by nature, suspect. They wear small green uniforms in an ornate Turkish military style.


Fact #4:  They toil for the furtherance of the redistribution of worldwide wealth. 


Re: the leader of S.A.N.T.A. He distributes to the “good” toys such as DVD players and Britney Spears CD’s. The “bad” receive charcoal. Could this be a plot to redirect the most promising possible future executives away from the oil and gas industries, by brainwashing them that “coal” and other energy sources are “bad”?


Re: the reindeer. Weapons of Moosely Defecation? Laugh if you will, but I find it a strange and ominous coincidence.



Merry Christmas Everyone!


(The “further thoughts concerning the S.A.N.T.A. conspiracy” are from Deep Audit. The rest, I take full blame for!)

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Yesterday, several million Americans decided…

Yesterday, several million Americans decided to go vegetarian


Mad cow disease discovered in the US


Our government is doing just what the Brits did when Mad Cow was first discovered there - they said it’s not a serious threat to humans. One hundred people in England eventually died from this non-existent threat.


Several countries immediately banned US beef exports.


In perhaps the silliest news of the day, our government assured us the Mad Cow was not due to terrorists. As if anyone actually thought it was.

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Teamsters still striking Vons grocery…

Teamsters still striking Vons grocery distribution centers


You heard it here first!


Teamsters have NOT returned to work at four Vons grocery distribution centers in the Los Angeles area, and the picket lines are blocking trucks and becoming more militant.


This is a union-sanctioned action. Vons is owned by Safeway, whose CEO, Steven Burd, has said he wants to break the unions. Thus, Vons distribution centers are being targetted.


Word is these picket lines are growing both in numbers and in militancy. Stay tuned…

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Christmas solidarity, one union to…

Christmas solidarity, one union to another


Via Friends of Labor newsletter


The Longshore union gives children of striking grocery workers a nice Christmas party.



International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) presented the children of the UFCW with “A day with Santa Claus” last Friday. Hundreds of UFCW children with their parents visited the ILWU Local 13 Hall to meet Santa, enjoy cake and hot chocolate and choose a Christmas gift from the thousands of toys on display donated by the ILWU dockworkers..


For over five hours the children searched thousands of toys to find their favorite to take home for Christmas. In a sign of solidarity with the UFCW, ILWU members posted a six foot stuffed Grinch in a pile of coal from dock 212 and a banner reading “SAFEWAY CEO STEVEN BURD”.


Following the toy giveaway, a twenty foot trailer of toys was delivered to UFCW Local 1442 in Santa Monica.

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The Wal-Mart limbo dance

The Wal-Mart limbo dance


From Patt Morrison in the LA Times



It’s the Wal-Mart limbo dance: Whether it’s price or public responsibility, how low can you go?


I tell you, who needs an exotic overseas vacation? Let Wal-Mart take you on a tour of the far-flung souks and sweatshops of the world, brought right here to your own hometown.

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If they play ‘Jingle Bell…

If they play ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ one more time, I’m going postal



Czech Republic trade unions demanded that stores stop playing Christmas carols incessantly or compensate sales clerks for emotional trauma.


Some stores play the same songs all day and employees say shifts have become unbearable.

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