Walgreens is the largest pharmacy chain in the U.S.

It’s also corrupt.

For years, they secretly altered their customers’ prescriptions, without their doctor’s knowledge, in a giant insurance scam across 42 states. They targeted Medicaid, the program for low-income Americans. So they were stealing from taxpayers and the poor at the same time. That kind of big thinking is why Walgreens is number one.

Walgreens replaced inexpensive drugs with drugs that were up to four times more costly. Only when an honest pharmacist finally blew the whistle on them were they stopped — and fined a whopping $35 million.

Are you ready to take moral lessons from Walgreens? Because they’ve just announced that they’re switching their trucks to fuel that doesn’t come from Canada’s oilsands — as an ethical statement.

Taking ethical guidance from Walgreens is sort of like taking abstinence lessons from Hugh Hefner.

I’d call for a boycott of Walgreens, but they don’t have any stores in Canada (and, despite their name, they are no relation to Walmart).

But Walgreens isn’t the only moral hypocrite to come out against Canada. So did The Gap, which also owns Banana Republic and Old Navy.

Do yourself a favour: Don’t buy their clothes.

This applies especially to Albertans, whose jobs depend on the oilsands. There are 26 Gaps, Old Navys and Banana Republics in Alberta. Boycott them.

But it goes for Ontarians, too, where more people work for the oilsands now than work for the Big Three automakers combined.

And it goes for anyone with a pension — odds are some of your savings are invested in the oilsands. The Gap could hurt your retirement. So hurt them back.

Not just because they are boycotting Canadian oil. But because they’ve had their own ethical failings, too.

In 2008, a shocking TV report out of India showed children as young as 10 working in sweatshops sewing clothes for The Gap. One child had been sold to the factory as a slave, and had not been paid in four months.

Sorta gives “Baby Gap” a new meaning, doesn’t it? Banana Republic isn’t just a brand name, it’s the location of their factories.

The Gap claims they were shocked to learn about this. Just like they were shocked a few years earlier to learn their factory in Saipan kept indentured workers in with barbed wire, and bullied pregnant workers into having abortions, so as not to lose time off work.

They’re shocked a lot over at The Gap.

And now they say they’re shocked by Canada’s oil.

But Canada’s oil isn’t produced by 10-year-old kids or abused Chinese women.

Yet we’re supposed to take moral lessons from the likes of them.

There is a question the fools at Walgreens and The Gap haven’t answered: Where are they going to buy their gas from, if not Canada?

Saudi Arabia? Could there be a more unethical barrel of oil than one from that racist, misogynistic, terror-sponsoring dictatorship? Venezuela, to enrich strongman Hugo Chavez? Iran, with its nuclear plans?

We should boycott The Gap because they’re thumbing their nose at us. And because they have used what looks an awful lot like slave labour.

But we should also boycott them because they’re making an unethical fuel decision: Swapping Canadian oil for Saudi or Venezuelan oil.

How could you in good conscience give money to someone like that?

**Thanks to the Marginalized ACTION Dinosaur for pointing this out to The Mayor

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First seen on Ka-Ching

* In 1974 with 36.1% of oil from foreign sources, President Richard Nixon said, ‘At the end of this decade, in the year 1980, the United States will not be dependent on any other country for the energy we need.’ * In 1975 with 36.1% of oil from foreign sources, President Gerald Ford said, ‘We must reduce oil imports by one million barrels per day by the end of this year and by two million barrels per day by the end of 1977.’ * In 1979 with 40.5% of oil from foreign sources, President Jimmy Carter said, ‘Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 – never.’ * In 1981 with 43.6% of oil from foreign sources, President Ronald Reagan said, ‘While conservation is worthy in itself, the best answer is to try to make us independent of outside sources to the greatest extent possible for our energy.’ * In 1992 with 47.2% of oil from foreign sources, President George Bush said, ‘When our administration developed our national energy strategy, three principles guided our policy: reducing our dependence on foreign oil…’ * In 1995 with 49.8% of oil from foreign sources, President Bill Clinton said, ‘The nation’s growing reliance on imports of oil…threatens the nation’s security…[we] will continue efforts to…enhance domestic energy production.’ * In 2006 with 65.5% of oil from foreign sources, President George W. Bush said, ‘Breakthroughs…will help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025.’ * In 2009 with 66.2% of oil from foreign sources, President Barack Obama said, ‘It will be the policy of my administration to reverse our dependence on foreign oil while building a new energy economy that will create millions of jobs.’”

Originally from TYWKIWDBI

The Classical Liberal was at a hospital in cheesehead country last week and when he tried to access Mitchieville, this is what he got.

I’ll be perfectly honest with you, this really upsets The Mayor. I try to run a classy operation around here. If you care to notice, I’ve really cut down on the swearing in the last few years, I’ve stayed away from overt sexual references, stopped posting (mostly) semi-clad women, and have really given this place a makeover. And then I get this? Wow, that hurts down deep.

Tasteless & offensive? Man, I don’t have a clue where they got that from.

Anyway, come back to Mitchieville later tonight for another segment of I Can See Your Pee Pee.

Mitchieville – now with 75% more pee pee!

**Click for larger image (something you can’t do on Andy’s site)

The citizens are in their usual state of panic, just as City Council wants them. Supplies of red mittens are running low, as the last of the free tickets to events have been sold online. People are frantically scraping the sides of their freezers for the precious ice particles, hoping that they won’t have to truck in any further snow. The homeless are huddled around a pile of burning Miga dolls, frantically trying to keep warm and cook their crack to a toasty golden brown.

We’re a destitute bunch, and the invasion force has not even arrived. We stand vigilant, gritting our teeth in the knowledge that our fragile bodies will be subject to the most violent of deluges. Crashing bodies hurling into us, so utterly devoid of mercy or even reason that they threaten to fracture our bones to powder. It’s not a SkyTrain; it’s a high-speed coffin delivering us straight into the gullet of hell.

For those of us who don’t thirst for the blood of our enemies gushing down our throats, we steel our genitals to face the horror of the desecration of the fair athlete:

Vonn is first a GREAT athlete, but she also represents norm of feminine attractiveness. The combination of athleticism and attractiveness make Vonn the likely poster girl of the US Olympic Team, and the media hasn’t disappointed in constructed her as such.

Not to be left out, Sports Illustrated is featuring Vonn on their Feb. 8, 2010 cover. For those of you who follow SI Covers, know that female athletes are RARELY featured on the cover.

This quote comes from the website WomenTalkSports, and apparently they don’t talk to all that so good-like. (I have my own mishaps with editing, admittedly, and maybe I am being fussy by counting “media” as plural, but oh my goodness.) The women female writers are upset that on that rare occasion when a woman is featured on the cover that she is posed “provocatively.” The only way that pose is provocative is if she positions herself over the salad bar.

Maybe only 4% of the covers featured women, but 100% of the Swimsuit Edition covers featured women. What is up with that? It’s like…I dunno…SI is just interested in catering to the massive demographic that reads the magazine or something!

It’s all we can do to stave off the creeping madness, clawing into our already fragile minds and destroying our souls. We say a silent prayer for Lindsey Vonn, the latest fatality in the Olympic onslaught.

A man in Chicago was on the receiving end of a bit of fun this Christmas:

A Chicago man could be unwrapping the hundreds of Christmas gifts spread around his apartment for days, even weeks.

Trouble is, they aren’t really presents. They’re his own belongings meticulously wrapped by friends as a prank while he was out of town.

Louie Saunders’ packages contain everything from couch cushions to the beer in his refrigerator.

His friend Adal Rifai masterminded the scheme after Saunders gave him a spare key. It took 16 people, 35 rolls of wrapping paper and eight hours to finish the job.

Saunders tells the Chicago Sun-Times he’s only been able to unwrap about 10 percent of the packages.

He jokes that the upside is that, with each package he unwraps, he finds something inside that’s just what he needs.

Mr.Saunders is still trying to find his wife in one of the boxes, but admitted he’s not in a hurry to find that one.

I am always a little suspicious at accusations of profiling, but I am here to make one! Cabbies around Vancouver are known for coming from certain regions nearly exclusively, and sometimes they don’t have the greatest diplomatic skills, but they seem all right, willing to work hard here in Canada. The usual rules are in place: no smoking, don’t chat on the phone too long, be polite to the clientele. I just don’t know if this stipulation from Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada is really necessary:

If the contractors are caught using the money to fund terrorist groups, the document states, they will be dismissed immediately.

Whoa! That seems a bit harsh. Oh well, at least you should be glad you’re not a Polish immigrant hanging around YVR.

It might not be all that far-fetched, however. The For Dix plot to murder 100 US soldiers was thwarted two years ago, and Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer was a cab driver in Philadelphia. Mahmud Abouhalima, a Manhattan cab driver, conspired to blow up the World Trade Centre in 1993. Habib Ahmed, arrested in Manchester, England, after having been suspected of planning a terrorist attack and having trained in a terrorist camp in Pakistan. There was also a 2007 guilty plea of a DC-area cabbie, Mahmud Faruq Brent, who acknowledged he had trained in a terrorist camp in Pakistan.

Are there no stipulations about refusing fares who might be carrying alcohol or dogs? This was a problem in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area a while ago, where Muslim drivers refused to allow passengers having either, even if it was a seeing-eye dog for the blind. I don’t know–if you’re going to profile them for being Muslim or Sikh, you need to cover all the bases. I also like how they were simply be dismissed for supporting terrorists. That’s giving them the old sporting chance to get away with it, RCMP!

What is it with economists in the antique media who hate the free market? Paul Krugman, Dierdre McMurdy–they just can’t stand a growth market.

Oh, and Diane Francis wants to decimate the world’s population. By half.

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**More demotivational posters can be found right about here…

The file name for this picture is *anti-semetic (sp) currency*, but I see nothing anti-Semitic about it. Actually, it’s rather pro-Semitic. Now, if the President’s name on the bill was Jacksonstein and he was eating some hamantashen and drinking an gogl-mogl, and the $20 bill was changed to $20 shekels, well, someone would definitely have some ’splainin’ to do.

For now though, you apikoros’ need to settle down.

A 12 year old Virginia girl has doctors baffled, baffled I tells ya!, as they can’t figure out the reason she sneezes over 12,000 times day:

It is so bad that she sneezes up to 20 times a minute, or 12,000 times a day.

The non-stop sneezing began two weeks ago when Lauren from Virginia in the U.S. caught a cold.

Lauren can’t go to school and is even struggling to eat. 

The only relief she gets is when she falls asleep each night. Her condition has left doctors baffled.

During a five-minute interview on the Today Show in the U.S. Lauren sneezed hundreds of times, her speech interrupted every few seconds. 

The 12-year-old – dubbed the ‘Gesundheit Girl’ said: ‘I can’t stop.

‘I thought it wouldn’t last this long but it’s been two weeks now.’

She said she is not in pain – simply in discomfort.

‘It’s primarily the sneezing,’ she added.

‘Maybe I’ll get a raw nose from the tissues but that’s it.’ 

They tried hypnosis but it did not work.

Lauren has also seen a therapist in case a psychological factor is triggering the physical reaction.

Doctors believe it may be that she is suffering from an ‘irretractable.

I feel terrible for the little girl, but I also feel terrible for her mother who must be fed up saying “Bless You”. After the 75,ooo time she must have been like, “What the hell already?”

I suppose the little girl can’t go out in public either, especially nowadays with the heightened awareness and panic over the banyard flu. Can you imagine what would happen to the poor thing if she was on the subway and she started sneezing uncontrollably? She would be treated worse than the balloon boys balloon when it landed and law enforcement officials starting pitchforking it thinking it was some sort of alien spaceship or something.

Nothing good can possibly come from this story, I really can’t see any type of happy ending. Then again, I have no idea what I’m talking about and haven’t taken the slightest interest in it. I do know however, that if given a chance, I would like to sneeze directly into the face of the momma. Then after I did that, I would say, “Oh my, let me clean that off for you”. Then I would take out my hanky – (because all the cool guys carry hankys) and wipe her face. Unbeknownst to both of us, my hanky would be covered in spaghetti sauce, and every time I wiped baby mommas face, it would get more covered in red sauce. After her face is totally covered in sauce, I would scream, “Oh my God, you’re a monster just like your daughter”. And she would break down and cry and I would walk away knowing that my words and actions were mean, but completely necessary.

Some would say I would be a hero, and it would be hard to disagree with those people.

A woman who spotted her next door neighbour pleasuring himself in his backyard, says that her life has been forever affected, and she has had to turn to anti-depressants just to cope:

The victim of garden pervert Paul Darlow – who told a court he had put her off men and sausages for life – has told how she still suffers flashbacks.

Denise Woodage saw oddball Darlow pleasuring himself in his back garden in Churchwood Walk, Calcot, and frequently spotted him going about his chores naked – save for a pair of boots.

That’s nothing, I’ve never seen this woman pleasure herself, and yet by just looking at her picture, I’m not only off women, I’m also off solid food.

In November 2008 – after capturing Darlow on film flashing his bits yet again – he was arrested and charged with indecent exposure.

He initially denied the incidents but during his trial, before Judge Zoë Smith, he confessed to touching himself outdoors.

However, he claimed he did not realise Mrs Woodage could see his actions and he did not intend to cause her distress – a claim the jury did not believe.

Mrs Woodage told the Post: “I am now on anti-depressants and also sleeping tablets – this has really affected me. There are not many houses in this street and [there are] a lot of children. I would’ve hated for them to see Darlow flashing.

“I didn’t even know his name when I first saw him but I was horrified. I couldn’t believe it.

“He looks younger than he is and he was well-endowed and really hairy.

She sure got a good look at buddys junk before she came to the conclusion she was horrified, didn’t she? I figure if you can spot a guys mole on his inner left thigh from 200 feet, that means you’re not horrified, that means you’re in love. Then again, who am I to say, it’s not like I’m an experienced magistrate like Judge Zoë Smith. What a name for a judge, that’s like being tried by Judge Bubbles Jones, or Judge Bambi “Beefeater” McGraw.

I think I can safely say that we have all learned a lesson tonight. The Mayor learned that it may not be a great idea to mow the lawn whilst naked and treating ones organ like an amusement park ride. Cudgel learned that if you want to shun obese and unattractive females, simply pull down your fly, grab a gardening tool, as start singing, “If you like my body and you think I’m sexy…”. And Dmorris learned, well, dmorris didn’t learn anything, and that’s because dmorris already knew all about this kind of thing.

It’s all about experience, boys and girls, it’s all about experience.

Now how about a hug? Uh uh, first you go and put on some pants, you kinky knucklehead.