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Thursday’s Worst Person in the World on Countdown included Wal-Mart for the second day in a row. The retail giant took the bronze for unforgivably suing Deborah Shank, who was severely brain damaged after a car accident, for pretty much every penny she had. As it turns out, Shank’s son died in Iraq a week after losing the law suit and because of her severe memory lapses, she doesn’t remember that he’s dead — which means that every time she asks about him it’s as if she’s hearing it for the first time, EVERY TIME.
The silver went to Senator Lindsey Graham for telling FOXNews that John McCain never said that the Iraq war would be easy, except that he did in 2002, 2003 and 2007, and the gold went to Homeland Secretary, Michael Chertoff. He gets the award on behalf of all the politicians who have done their best to scare the crap out of the American public. Olbermann relates a story from a recent appearance Chertoff made in Washington where the citizens in attendance learned that a DHS agent stopped a car because it set off a sensor triggering a nuclear alert. When they stopped the car they found a CAT with a tumor who had been treated with radiation three days earlier.
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“When they stopped the car they found a CAT with a tumor who had been treated with radiation three days earlier.”
Am I the only one who’s super-impressed by how sensitive that sensor must have been?
Well damn, that sensor was pretty sensitive. I guess that’s a good thing.
Lindsey Graham is just a backup for Lieberman if Lieberman decides to become a democrat again.
Bottom line on the Walmart story is the company sucks for so many reasons and this story is one more of those reasons.
Sven @ 2:
Nope, that was my first thought too
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I want chicken I want liver, Michael Chertoff please deliver…
Sven @ 2:
Seriously. I wonder how often they pull over people coming from Home Depot who bought a smoke detector (the type with Americium) for their house.
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Lets make it simple for everybody and for the ultimate safety of the US public at large. All those beings (humans and animals) that comes into contact with some sort of radiation (be they X-ray, chemo, or some sort of radiation) must be quarantined, and guantanmo-ed for they have the potential to hide nuclear weapons, consort with the enemies and used their illness as a cover to detonate nuclear device. They must be guantanamo-ed period !!! It’s for the safety of US public Public safety rules !!!!
That Darned Cat!
HATE TO LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG BUT—————->
BUT IT WAS AN EVIL CAT…
BELONGED TO EL CATTA
HAD SPRAY OF MASS DESTRUCTION
WAS A PERSIAN CAT
WAS WINNER OF A CAT-ASS-TROPHY
IT WENT CATATONIC
THEY HAD TO KILL IT NINE TIMES BUT ONLY COUNTED THE BODY ONCE
————-stop me before i kill again……. (quote Rummy 2003)
well they at least didnt tase the driver or cat .
And they had their meeting on SJ island ( Friday harbor , lived there for 5 years ) , Bet they flew in , just cant see them waiting in a ferry line for hours and hours and then taking a 2-3 hour ferry ride .
OOOPS…TOO LATE…. wanted to waterboard him BUT decided on a cat-o-nine-tails
Radioactive speeding cat setting off a detector sounds like BS to me, next they will be telling us it was alive/dead in a box.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JuVHCJVYf4
YES K.O. beat this story over Wal-Marts heads until they back off that lady and her family and give them a little tiny bit of piece of mind…. On the ’slightly’ radioactive cat… My question is… IF these sensors are ‘that’ touchy as to flag medical treatment residual effects, be it cats or humans, which is going to happen as well since people get radiation treatments for cancers and such… It appears to make this clearly, a ridiculous situation, because, while the authorities might chase a cat or a cancer patient down for a looksee, some real bad guy just might take advantage of that and slip in behind, piggybacking on the situation… Then really, all other harrassment issues of people or family pets aside.. Just how fucking much safer is anyone..really??? Secondary question.. Given the sensitivity of these instruments, are these tools being applied to cargo/container ships coming into American ports every hour of every day? That seems like a better application to me. Reason being that it seems to me that rather than pointing this tool at people, the better strategy for U.S. security agencies is to be pointing these instruments at ships coming here from overseas, and maybe come up with some other method for checking people at a distance if this sort of monitoring strategy has any validity at all… Frankly, I’m not sure it does as being utilized, if what it leads to is scaring the family pet… Not to mention the wasted time, manpower and energy involved, oh yea, And finally, given it seems the whole freakin nation is tettering on the edge of bankruptcy, ya gotta wonder about the tax money being put into this bit of security as well. All this shit does involve using out tax dollars ya know. I have no faith this administration uses those tax funds properly at this point anyway………..JD
The Wal-Mart story is sad, but earlier articles stated most insurance companies have the same policy and I bet most of us who have employer provided insurance could possibly face the same fate if our insurance carriers wanted to.
Chertoff also told every bad guy with internet and or MSM access the approxamate spec of monitoring systems.
They now know how to beat the system due to the anecdotal ‘feel good’ story to make the DHS look good and get more taxpayer monies.
I will never shop at Wal-Mart again. I e-mailed everyone I could think of to boycott their stores. This so-called American Company who treats their employees like crap. That poor woman. Unbelievable!
Was the cat named ‘Toonces’ by any chance?
Yeah, maybe the cat set off Michael Chertoff’s GUT, which is, apparently, the most sensitive terrorist alert device ever created.
Sven @ 2:
I wasn’t surprise because I have heard this before — my friend was stopped in the middle of NYC after she had left Sloan Kettering following a test for her liver cancer. She thought it was usual midtown traffic until the officers surrounded her car screaming, “over here”. She asked what the problem was and they immediately asked were she was coming from. Sure enough her radioactive body sent off sensors even though she was in her car, in the middle of winter so all windows were closed! She had all the paperwork from the hospital right next to her so it was easy to prove that this “terra-ist” was really a 50-year-old cancer patient from LI. She laughs about it now but I’m sure it wasn’t so funny. But the good news in all of this is that the test proved she is cancer-free after her original doctor gave her months to live!!!!!!!!
Is it any wonder
Wal-MartWally World is no longer worthy of your confidence and trust?Don’t forget about the TSA (allegedly) making a woman remove her nipple rings before boarding her flight.
WTF is wrong with this nation?
So they finally caught a cat with a dirty bomb? Good for DHS.
i guess everyone is a little catta tonic today
Now..
Do you believe me when I tell you that we would SEE a Nuclear weapon from SPACE long before it ever reached our shores…
While I highly doubt the cat would trigger off the satellite detection system…
A lump of fissionable material would sure as shit!!
DO NOT LET THEM FOOL YOU INTO THINKING WE ARE IMPOTENT AGAINST A NUCLEAR BOMB BEING SET OFF IN THIS COUNTRY BY TERRORISTS!!!!
IF ONE GOES OFF….THEY LET IT!
the cat had been treated with radiation because of cancer. people who love cats are terrrrrrists!
Dr. Acula @ 23:
so janet jackson is on the no fly list?
CoIntelPro - against Divisive Democrats @ 27:
We must sacrifice our cancer laden pets for security…otherwise…the terrorists win.
Why oh WHY do cat lovers hate America?!?!
for the record, for all you who did not grow up in the nukular scare days like I did, it takes two feet of lead or 20 feet of concrete to shield radiation from detection.
ashton @ 24:
next stop guantanamo!
Pericles @ 20:
and no doubt the funniest prop ever provided to Keith Olberman
Dana @ 19:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_YVJOl3JA
Way to go
ChertoffSkelator. I hope you waterboarded that traitorous cat and sent it packing to Gitmo. God knows we were in such mortal danger.Wonder if the DHS might like to help lower the national debt and do something vaguely useful, by offering a cat litter tray cleaning service.
I would pay for the atypical steroidal DHS types to come and clean my cat trays, a bonus if they are Repug voting types, they can keep the cat candy.
Soon they’ll rename the joint the Department of Fatherland Security.
ysbaddaden @ 36:
Yeah, that’s what that name has always smacked of to me. After that we can pick up some more isotopes!
Thank god I threw out my old glow in the dark wristwatch. Gee I feel safer. Was the ladys pussie questioned or arrested? I would not by a cracker from wallmart if i was near death! What a bunch of greedy little pricks. Graham parades around in his uniform every chance he gets, why is this cute little sissie not in Iraq with a rifle in hand? He is happy to send other peoples family off to war.” We are the country our parents warned us about”.
bilhelm-hussein-X @ 37:
Why would we want to buy Springfield’s only baseball team?
You must be from Albuquerque.
bmw H. 528 @ 34:
The torturers would end up tortured.
Have you ever tried to bathe a cat?
Wal-Mart does about $11 billion in profit annually. What they are doing is beyond immoral. It’s evil. I hope that this story reaches their customer base.
Lindsay Graham. You mean people actually listen to that douchebag?
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ysbaddaden @ 40:
I have.
The fur tastes horrible.
I’ll bet that half of the people criticizing Walmart still shop there. I haven’t been inside a walmart in over 2 years now. I have also convinced friends to stop going. Guess what? criticizing is not enough.
Good to see Olbermann is gonna stay on Wal-Mart for their unforgivable act.
Dr. Acula @ 23:
they just wanted to look at her nipples…rules are rules, after all…;P
rduke @ 26:
You’re partly right, Randy. A Geiger counter, like the one the border patrol was using is great for detecting fissile material from a distance of five feet. If they’re going to start using a cat allergy as a justification for the trillion or so dollars that The Shrub’s STAR WARS project is going to cost, that’s a different story entirely.
CoIntelPro - against Divisive Democrats @ 32:
Actually, I liked all the fuss about Michael Chertoff’s ‘GUT’ telling him when there’s going to be a terrorist attack. Do you remember an old B-movie called A Touch of Evil, where Orson Welles was a corrupt police detective who’s GAME LEG would tell him who the criminal was. Then, rather than collect evidence to convict him, he’d just frame the guy, based on the fact that his game leg was never wrong. Well…that’s pretty much what’s going on here.
What would it take for Olbermann to get Wal Mart to pay for that cat’s radiation treatments?
Wal-Marts response to my email. How many other’s have written them?
It may be common, but I’m getting really tired of being tossed around by big business given carte blanche by the Republicans, Democrats, and Supreme Court. With the new credit laws we’re working hours and have rights not a lot better than the robber baron days of early America. I hope other people write too.
Juan @ 44:
Besides boycotting them , go to city council meeting when they apply for the permits and vote them out of town . Suggested by Jim Hightower .
rduke@26 if one goes off ………………www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread302187/pg3 ——-they let it. Read this I think you may find it of interest