Do the right thing

Yo Wal Mart, do the right thing and pay for not only for the guy who got trampled to death in your store's funeral, also find out if he had any kids or not and if he did then pay into a trust fund for their upkeep until they turn 18. And while you're at it do the following things:

• Stop helping create a culture of need where people who have everything think they need more and more.
• Stop helping make an environment where people get trampled to death in your stores.
• Stop buying so much shit made in China and other places. Seriously, it's going to be better for all of us if you buy stuff for resale that's made in the USA. Yes, you're going to have to raise your prices a bit but it's better for all of us in the long run.
• Stop being so anti union. You let your stores in China have unions and by golly they still run and make a profit for you. Stop being such greedy bastards and let your employees share in the wealth.
• Stop building so many stores. Smallish communities don't need your super stores, they need mom and pop businesses that give more back to the community than you do.
• Start giving more and more back to the community you cheap bastards.

It's about time you started operating in the national interest and stopped being all about profit at any cost. I hope people get so sickened by the trampling death at your store that they decide to stop shopping at your stores because they fear they will get trampled as well.

I'm going to do my part and keep reminding people that people get killed at your store until you do your part and start acting like a responsible corporate citizen.

Be afraid Canada, very afraid

We're coming for your oil. And we may take your maple syrup too but you can keep your icky national single payer health care for all and your lax marijuana laws too. And Celine Dion, you can keep her too.

(Tip o' the fez to MWB's World which is where I found the link.)

And now here's a brief message from Grace Bledsoe Blankenship Jr.

Hey ya'll, how ya'll doin'? Listen I just want to tell ya'll that I just got done praying to Jesus and he told me ya'll are not saying "ya'll" enough. So if you want everything to be totally awesome between you and the son of God then ya'll better start saying ya'll more often! Woo hoo! Praise his holy name and make sure that dudes don't kiss! Amen. I gotta run, theys getting ready to mark down this morning's doughnuts at Wal-Mart and I gotta git some for my husband, Billy Ray Joe Bob.

From out of the mouths of bakers

We stopped by Scratch, a great locally owned and operated deli/bakery/pizzamakery on Sunday afternoon and Jamie, the gal who runs the place with her husband, said, "Hey you guys, try some of this." She opened the lid to a crock pot on the counter.

I asked, "What is it?"

"It's almost chili. It's not quite regular chili, it's just to the right of it," she replied. Then she smiled and said, "Since it's not quite Chile, we're calling it 'Argentina.'"

Sparky and I ate the little samples Jamie gave us and we laughed at her joke. Then we turned and began to look at the assorted breads they had for sale. Sparky tapped me on the shoulder a moment later and said, "Look." She was pointing at a sign on the refrigerator case that was taped up in front on some containers of what Jamie had just given us samples of. The sign said, "Small containers of Argentina $4, Jars of Argentina $8." We both had a laugh again but Jamie got the last laugh because we ended up buying some Argentina and we'll be having it for supper later tonight.

So who was it again that wanted to start World War 3?

Well according to the National Intelligence Estimate it's not Iran. So it must be:

But you knew that already, didn't you dear readers? Of course you did. Maybe now the drumbeat for war with Iran will stop. Somehow I doubt it though.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out Gonzo

"Hey, I'm not going anywhere!"

Sorry Gonzo, I didn't mean you.


I meant this Gonzo:

He said he was gonna stay in office so he could protect the kids of this country. I'm not clear from whom he was going to protect them. It may have been from his law breaking bloodthirsty boss. Or it may have been the many Reich wing religious sex perverts. Or perhpas it was from all those voters who registered and voted illegally.

No, I got it, he resigning to protect the kids from his incompetent stupid toadying self. Good thing too because kids, and no one else for that matter, don't need an Attorney General with unlimited powers. They don't need an Attorney General who stood by and let his boss's brain politicize the one cabinet department that should remain neutral. They don't need an Attorney General who chooses to only enforce laws that benefit his corporate overlords. And they damn sure didn't need an Attorney General who thought that the Geneva Conventions were "quaint."

I throw up in my mouth a little every time I think of Alberto Gonzales holding the office that Robert F. Kennedy once held. Kennedy used his time as Attorney General to help people and to make things right. Gonzo used his time in the same office to help the Chicken Hawk in Chief grab more power and to oppres the citizens of this country and abroad. I shudder to think that that prick Gonzo might still be helping Iraq set up a justice system.

Do the world a favor Gonzo, slink back to Texas and crawl back under the rock you used to live under. And don't letthe door hit you on your way out.

Why I hate Wal-Mart

Sure I hate Wal-Mart because they are a huge crazy greedy corporation that has put thousands of Mom and Pop businesses out of business. And yes I hate them because they pay their employees who slave away in their stores next to nothing and they do their best to stop those same employees from unionizing. And of course I hate them for advertising that they buy American whenever possible but in reality if they can get the same item made in China for a penny less then they say "Screw America." Yes, I also hate Wal-Mart because Hillary Clinton was on their board of directors for many years.


But my hatred for them runs deeper than those things. In fact I hate Wal-Mart for three very specific reasons. And those reasons are:


1) A few years back my girlfriend had her identity stolen by someone who was able to obtain a number of credit cards in her name, which they promptly ran up huge balances on and never paid off. One of the cards they were able to get was a Wal-Mart Visa/Mastercard that was backed by Chase bank. They were so fucking greedy to get that credit card business they did not bother to check out the bogus address this person used on their fraudulent credit card application. We went through hell getting her credit cleaned up and Wal-Mart never said they were sorry or that they even did anything wrong.


2) I used to have a membership to Sam's Club that was sponsored through a previous employer. I would buy mostly Marlboro Lights by the carton and beer by the twelve pack there, although sometimes I would relent and I'd get a couple palettes of picante sauce, a truck load of Apples Jacks, and if I was feeling good, a solid metric ton of prime rib, geez, no wonder I had a fucking heart attack and quadruple bypass surgery huh? Anyway, one day the gf and I were shopping there and we bought shit load of stuff. I paid and the cashier handed me my receipt.

As we were walking out the employee at the door said, "Can I see your receipt?" I handed it to her and I admit I was tired and cranky when I said, "You can keep it." And we proceeded to walk out.

The employee shouted after me, "Sir! You need your receipt!"

In not too nice a tone I told her to keep it and we proceeded to load up the car with our purchases. I figured that my trip to Sam's was done.

But when we got home the phone was ringing. I answered it and the manager of that Sam's Club was on the line. He wanted to know why I had been so rude and why I did not want my receipt. I told him that I was rude because I had to pay to be a member of his store in the first place and then I paid to buy all that shit and I felt it was pretty shitty of them to station an employee by the door to try to make sure no one stole anything. I went on to say that I did not need the receipt because we had bought only food items and we would not need to return any of them. He got huffy with me after that so I hung up on him.

I put the whole mess behind me and I went on with my life. About a month later I received an envelope from the local Sam's Club. I opened it and inside was a check reimbursing me for my membership and a note saying that I was no longer welcome in their store.


3) One day last December my gf took a day off from work and since we had not been out to lunch together in quite sometime I took us out to a local Thai restaurant. We had a nice meal and then we decided to go browse in the Barnes and Noble that is next door to this Thai restaurant. As we were browsing we heard a huge explosion and then we heard rocks and debris hitting the roof of the store. We looked at one another and then we heard a louder explosion and even more rocks and debris hit the roof and the power went out in the store.

Not being the brightest light on the Christmas tree I ran out of the store to see what was happening. It turned out that they were building a Sam's Club just up the hill from the plaza where the Thai restaurant and the bookstore were located. They were blasting rock out in order to make the future parking lot area level.

The parking lot looked like a scene from Lebanon in the 1980's or what like most of Iraq looks like now. Cars were smashed and debris was everywhere. My gf's Toyota Corolla, which had just been worked on to the tune of over $1000 was hit badly in the blast. The windshield was smashed in, the drivers side door was smashed up and the dashboard was hanging by a thread. Glass was everywhere in the car and it looked like hell.

A few days later they totalled out the car and we began trying to get her money out of the insurance company of the construction company that Sam's Club had hired to do the blasting. Their insurance guy was a total dick so we went through her insurance company and we let them go through the agony of dealing with that dick wad.

Neither Sam's Club nor Wal-Mart apologized for wrecking so many cars and nearly killing us and all those other people.

And that is why I hate Wal-Mart.

I could not resist this last post before I go

I found this on Boing Boing and they got it via MSNBC.com:

Wal-Mart Pays Teens $0 an hour!!!

The young (14+) teenagers that Wal-Mart employs as after-school baggers at its Mexican stores earn nothing at all -- paid only in tips. Technically, this complies with local labor laws, while violating the hell out of their spirit.

The company doesn’t try to conceal this practice: its 62 Superama supermarkets display blue signs with white letters that tell shoppers: OUR VOLUNTEER PACKERS COLLECT NO SALARY, ONLY THE GRATUITY THAT YOU GIVE THEM. SUPERAMA THANKS YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING. The use of unsalaried youths is legal in Mexico because the kids are said to be “volunteering” their services to Wal-Mart and are therefore not subject to the requirements and regulations that would otherwise apply under the country’s labor laws. But some officials south of the U.S. border nonetheless view the practice as regrettable, if not downright exploitative.

In the interests of fairness we invited the CEO of Wal-Mart to defend his company and he took us up on our offer.

"Heh heh heh, looks like ya'll smarty pantses caught us. Heh heh heh. You know what tho? Them stores are in Mexico and not News Mexico, so the US labor laws don't apply to them peoples. Like we care about labor laws anyways, heh heh heh. Them Mexican teens is glad to work for tips, just like them rabbis in the leper colonies, heh heh heh, thass a joke. But they is glad to work for tips I tell ya. They's just earning enough money to pay a coyote to git 'em over here when they's old enough to work our good payin' fruit and vegetable pickin' and construction jobs here in the USA of America. What?...

Why is ya'll lookin' at me like that?

We didn't do nothin' wrong. My law attorneys telled me it wasn't illegal. What?

Stop looking at me like that!!!

Ya'll go on and go shopping and leave me alone.

We's Wal-Mart and we kin do anything we dang well want!!!

Now go on and go shop in one of our fine stores or Ah'm turnin' you in for being a terrorismist."

Buy local and screw the corporations

One of the easiest things you can do to stop the greedy bastard multi national corporations from taking over your life completely is to buy locally made products from local or what's known as 'Mom and Pop' businesses.

If you don't buy from Wal-Mart then you are not helping Wal-Mart fuck over your local area. If you stop buying a few things at Target that you can get from your locally owned store then Target loses money and they lose clout in your area. If you go shop for produce at your local farmers market or from your regional grocery store chain then Kroger or Safeway or A & P or Albertson's or fill in the name of the mega grocery store chain near you make less money and more money stays in your community.

We here at el Casa de Monkey try to shop at locally owned businesses first and try to eat at locally owned restaurants, but that is becoming increasingly harder here in Johnson City. We stopped shopping at Wal-Mart altogether a few years back, and one day I'll tell you why, and we try to cut back on what we buy from Target. Yes we pay more for some things but we know that more of the dollars that we spend in locally owned businesses stay in our local area.

I caught the tail end of a documentary on the state of Mom and Pop businesses the other night on Sundance and they showed some shrill twat from Wal-Mart who was squawking that the anti Wal-Mart campaign was being funded by rich leftists and labor unions who wanted to bankrupt Wal-Mart. We almost died laughing when we heard that "woman" say that. Wal-Mart has gleefully put thousands of businesses out of business and then they turned around and hired the people they put out of work and they paid them a fraction of what they used to make and gave them no benefits. It's fucking insane. Yet people keep shopping there.

But I want to try and be a positive force for change so I'll stop bashing Wal-Mart (for now anyway) and I'll tell you about a locally owned businesses here in my area that rocks hard.

Scratch Foodworks is owned by a hardworking fun and funky couple who have a smart as a whip young daughter. They are basically a bakery that also makes all sorts of other foods. They make bread, pizza, and pastry in their wood fired oven and they also smoke meats and make other foods like pestos and the like. They also cater as well.

The wood fired oven of Scratch.

If they say the Habanero bread is vicious, believe it.

The bread runs $4 a loaf but it's a big ass loaf, that reminds me they also make something they call a 'Big Ass Danish' which I can't eat anymore since my heart attack but it looks delicious. We buy a couple of loaves usually on a Saturday and it lasts us all week. If you go on a Sunday you can get great deals because they try to sell off all their bread because they are closed on Monday and Tuesday.

If you get to Johnson City go by and buy something at Scratch and tell Jamie that Dr. Monkey sent you. And if you never get to Johnson City, then start buying stuff from the locally owned businesses in your area because it's the right thing to do and it screws the corporations when you do it.

More Action Figures for Wal-Mart Shoppers!

Wal-Mart, in case you have not heard, is going to start selling Biblical Action figures soon in stores that have big sales of Bibles. So now your kids can have hours and hours of thrills playing with a graven image of our alleged 'Lord and Savior.' But for those times when plain old Jesus is not enough, there's Deluxe Jesus! Now with two jugs of water waiting to be turned into wine, 30 % more fish, and 15 % more loaves! He's also packing, if you know what we mean, under that robe.

The super prim and highly intellectual Jane Austen action figure had better watch out then! If Jesus gets a hold of her with his divine 'rod' and 'staff' there's no telling what ol' Jane might do!

Also new for the kids is Chuck Norris "barely in the closet" GI Joe. The gun and the knug fu grip mean he's all man but the swingin' medallion means he's all play when it counts!

For the less manly boy in your life there's the new George W. Bush/Trent Lott male cheerleader doll. This doll smashes through sexual stereotypes like a weaponized depleted uranium bomb exploding through an Iraqi home. "Rah, Rah, Rah!"

For the girls there's Skeletor,

and her sister Anorexia Disgustia! Also available is their bff action figure, Sassy Black Friend Man!

But the figures that are expected to take the toy and collecting world by storm is the Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein trio of terror figures! You can get Communist monkey,

Teddy Kennedy at the beach monkey,

or smooth and silky monkey!
Collect all three or give them to a kid and stand back as that child's face is filled with delight.

Please note that not all figures will be available at all Wal-Mart locations.

I'm sorry

A little while back I wrote about a Cars song that had a huge effect on me when I was young and when I went back and I re-read that post I came to the conclusion that some of you might have thought I was slagging the entire south when I what I meant to do was to only slag Lee County, VA in the mid and late 1970's.

I've lived down here since 1974 and I consider myself a Southerner now. In an effort to smooth out any feathers I may have ruffled among my Southern readers out there I proudly present this list of things I love about the South:

1. Southern women. My girlfriend was born here.

2. College football. I thought people in the Midwest loved their Big Ten football, but honestly compared to people down here, they seem like pikers. College football is a religion here.

3. The high rate of mullets.

Oh man, what a mullet! It's so classic that I want to touch it.

4. All the coolest bloggers live down here. There's me, D Cup, Blue Gal, Phydeaux, Beth who writes Cup of Coffey, Boxer, Doug from Hey, Jenny Slater. If I missed any others then I'm sorry.

5. One word: Bar B Que!

6. Humidity. I like to sweat my ass off sometimes. No, really I do.

7. The mountains. How great are the mountains? They keep us cool in the summer, the block some bad ass winter storms in the winter, they are alive with all kinds of kick ass plant life in the spring, and they look unbelievable in the fall when the leaves turn.

8. The beach. Especially Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.

Atlantic Beach is Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein approved for sun, fun, and good times! And it's also where we vacation most years.

9. Banana pudding. Mmmmmm, pudding. So who cares if I have to make it with fat free milk? It's just as good without the fat!

10. Sweet tea. Putting sugar in iced tea that is already cold does not a glass of sweet tea make. You must put the sugar in the tea while it is hot so it melts into the tea if you really want true sweet tea.

11. The preponderance of commercials that feature animals who want to be eaten! This company, Valleydale Meats, used to run an ad on TV that showed these three pigs gleefully tossing packages of sausages, bologna, and ham into a shopping cart while they pranced around and sang in a supermarket.

It was horrifying but funny as hell to see them engaging in such happy cannibalism. And if they were stoked about eating each other, then why shouldn't I enjoy eating them as well?

12.. Flea markets. You can find almost anything at flea markets in the South. Look at what I found at one last weekend:

13. Winter is pretty much over by the first week of March. Once in a great while we might get a March snow, but by and large once we clear February, we're home free of winter.

14. TBS. Despite the fact they show god awful TBS made sitcoms and they run that Raymond show with that horrid Republican twat Patricia Heaton, TBS does run some good stuff like Seinfeld reruns, Family Guy reruns, and they do show some good movies late at night.

15. Old barns. I love to see old barns on people's property. The older, the better, especially if they look like they are gonna fall down at any second.

16. Asheville.

It's progressive oasis in an otherwise conservative area. It has a great downtown, some neat street festivals, a bitchin' art house movie theatre, and two of the best restaurants in the world, Thai Basil and the Asian Bistro. Unfortunately it also has a well known shit ass independent bookstore that is located downtown on Haywood street that claims to be progressive and gay and lesbian friendly but who would not stock my novel because they claimed it was "inappropriate" for them. If you know Asheville then you know what store I am talking about, boycott them for claiming to be open minded while they keep my book off their shelves.

That's all I can think of now, but there are many more reasons why I love the South. Seriously, if any of you who do not live here have not visited lately, then come on down!

Screw you two

I have never EVER been comfortable with Hillary Clinton. Not as a US Senator and not as my potential President. Now I hear she wants to cut the other "fringe" candidates out of the debates so she and her top rivals can have more air time? That's just what I'd expect from a corporate candidate. She never met a defense bill she didn't fucking want to vote for and sleep with, and she keeps saying she'll beef up defense spending. Who benefits there Hil? Your pals in corporate America.How about you go fucking sit back on the Wal-Mart board for a few more years while they rape their employess and small businesses everywhere and import more shit from China. Or how about you act like a decent person and admit you made a mistake when you and your pal John Edwards said you wanted to cut the others out of the debates and that your vote to go to war was a big blunder and you did it because you wanted corporate America's support. You damn fraud, take those fingers and shove them where the sun doesn't shine.



Hey Johnny E. I had more respect for you when you kept your pretty mouth shut about the other candidates and talked more about the two Americas. I told myself that out of the three corporate cocksuckers in the field that if Dennis loses the nomination then I'd support your fancy hair do having ass. But guess what dick juice? You're out now. Out on your ass and if you keep trying to make excuses for your stupid un-Democratic Party like attitude towards the other candidates, then I'll withdraw my support from your wife too. You fucking make me puke. We've got enough people in this country who are trying to shut the other candidates up, we don't need your dumb ass to call for them to be quiet too. And you know what else Johnny? You're a fucking loser already. You lost to that Idiot in '04 and I hope you lose now. You damn ass hat you.


Hmmm, who has never said he wanted anyone to shut up? Which candidate is for all the candidates speaking at every debate? Which candidate has never taken corporate money?
Which one supports universal health care? Has ALWAYS been against the war? Which one has never changed his position on any issue due to corporate influence? Who? Who? Who?

Oh yeah, now I remember. Dennis Kucinich. That's who.

Screw you Hil and John Boy, I hope you both have a train wreck of a campaign now. I'm more firmly with Dennis now than ever.

My lawyers are making me do this

My attorneys, aren't they cute?

My crack legal staff has informed me that if I want to do more of the Crunky posts, then I must put out the following disclaimers:

• The makers of Crunky do not give 15 percent of their after tax profits to the Church Of Satan.
• Crunky will not make you live forever and give you a musky virile Bruce Campbell like scent.
• Crunky should never be used as a weapon, a method of birth control, or a pawn in a game of emotional chess.
• There are absolutely no plans whatsoever to start marketing an avocado flavor Crunky.
• Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung did not invent Crunky nor did they sanction it's use in any Politburo meetings.
• Crunky was not on the grassy knoll. Ever. No matter what it looks like on the Zapruder film.
• Crunky did not impregnate a 16 year old virgin in Hokkaido. She was 18 and she'd been around the block.
• There are no tribes in the rain forest that worship Crunky, although there are three who worship a plastic bag from Wal-Mart.
• Crunky will not ever turn a gay person straight. It will only make them a little more chubby.
• You will not get cooties from Crunky.
• You should never raise your voice in anger to Crunky and be careful not to make eye contact with Crunky if you are menstruating.
• All of you need to ask yourselves the following question before making a big decision, "Will this decision I am about to make potentially hurt or help Crunky?"
• Crunky will not answer to any pet names whatsoever, although Crunky will come if you call it 'Clifford' or 'Janelle.'

The above fulfills my obligations in the Crunky v. Monkey Muck suit. I can now do more Crunky posts. So for the literally ones of you who said they missed them, Crunky posts will resume tomorrow.

And now a message from our Idiot in Chief

"Hey Amurica, sit on this and spin. I'm tha decider and I decide that Scooter don't have to go to jail. If ya'll don't like it, then ya'll kin suck my balls. I'm the rich white guy who done be yer boss so ya'll got ta do what I want.

I could care less if I sentence thousands of brown skinned people to a life of hell, theys not Jesus lovers like me anyway so fuck them. I don't care if your sons and daughters go fight them brown skinned pagans either. If they die too, then that ain't no skin off my ball sack. My kids is safe and so is mah familys. See Amurica, I only care about you if you is rich white and on mah side.

I could care less if Scooty-pooty was convicted in a court of law that was presided over by a Republican appointed judge and prosecuted by a Republican Federal DA dude. It don't make a damn to me if the appeals court that said Scooty-bab-ooty should go to jail right now is made up of mostly Republicans. Theys all gots it wrong. I may not know my ass from a hole in the ground but I knows I'm right and theys be wrong.

This communism-utation should send a signal to all ya'll whiners that I look out fer people, people who hepped me. The rest of ya'll can suck my ass."

And now my response to the Idiot in Chief:

You god damned criminal pig fucker you. How dare you stop the wheels of justice so you can spare your lilly white assed friend? How dare you corrupt our system of justice and our government more than you already have? What kind of twisted ethics and morals do you have that condemns so many people to die but spares a convicted felon who was caught doing your evil bidding?



People of America, citizens who still value justice and sanity in this world, is this Libby sentence commutation the outrage that will finally send you over the edge?


IMPEACH THE MOTHERFUCKER ALREADY!!!!!!!



I want you to stand up and demand that Bush/Cheney be impeached and imprisoned. To the barricades my brothers and sisters! Get rid of the traitors by all legal means!!!

Sorry guys

Hey you hackers in the Netherlands, your little hack didn't last long you Dutch pricks. It was pretty obvious that you hacked into my PC and so I did something about it. I disconnected my cable modem and went to Office Depot and I got an anti virus/anti spyware/firewall program. Guess what you pricks? The price was $39.99 but when the gal rang it up it rang up at $5.00. I told her the price difference, she checked it out, and she told me that the price she rang it up as was correct. So I got a 40 dollar anti your thieving ass piece of software for 5 bucks and change. After I installed it, it found your hack and booted you. So long you Dutch parasites. Bye bye Euro trash. Go hack your fucking selves and if I catch you with your wooden shoe wearing ass finger in a dyke, then I'm getting the Cap'n and she and I will kick your sorry asses from here to Ghent.

Really?

It's the white boots. They sap your will to live.

How dare you!

Hey Dumb Ass, yes Dumb Ass, I'm talking to you. Not that you fucking care or that you might read anything you might disagree with but Pam at Musings of a Working Mom put your stem cell veto into perspective for everyone. Not that she needs any back up, because if you ask me I think she can take care of herself in a street fight and in a battle of wits with your stupid fucking ass, but I just wanted to take her point a step further.

You tell us you vetoed the stem cell bill so that Americans would not be financing the destruction of human life. But what you fucking meant was that you wanted to make sure that people who look like this:

And this:

can have babies when they want.

But it's okay to kill and maim people who look like this:

because their skin is brown, they have no money, and they have a different religion than you.

You know what Dumb Ass, someone should have taught you that all human life is sacred not just white Christian life. Someone should have taught your stupid ass that real power is knowing when not to strike out in anger and that sane people use diplomacy and not bombs. And finally, someone should have taken you out behind the wood shed and gave you an ass whippin' for being stupid enough to get us into this mess. I'm praying that you don't start anymore wars before you leave office and I'm praying that when you do go, you'll be led off in handcuffs and put on trial for your crimes.

Note to self:

Never ever EVER go to Martin Luther King Jr Harbor Hospital in Los Angeles. They suck ass.

And the ER staff will let your ass die if you are vomiting blood.

More Corporate Crap, guess who it lands on?

You got it Sparky, you and me. Yet again. I'm tempted to write that the pigs are "at it again" but then I stop and think and then I remember that they never fucking stopped.

We watched a great little gem of a documentary on Sundance tonight called The Refugees of the Blue Planet. Basically it was about the refugees that are made when a corporation gets to toss people off the land and take it over and the refugees who are forced to live elsewhere due to climate change, which is caused by corporate greed and burning fossil fuels. According to the filmmakers these types of refugees now outnumber the ones we are used to, you know the ones who get displaced by war, which is usually waged on behalf of corporations.

They focused on some islanders in the Maldives who are losing their homes due to rising sea levels, some Canadians in Alberta who are losing their homes due to oil companies drilling, and on some Brazilians who lost their homes and farms because a paper company wanted to build a eucalyptus on their land.

Looks nice huh? All those trees. Well guess what? These eucalyptus trees suck the ground dry and the people who live near them are forbidden to cut them. The corporate pigs use literally tons of pesticides to kill bugs that might harm their trees. And the company that grows these trees forced thousands of farmers off their farms so they could grow more of these trees. You know what they make out of these trees? Pulp for paper. And 95% of that pulp is for the North American and European markets. The paper they print their obscene yearly reports on, the paper they use for their advertising, the paper that they want us to buy, is made from the trees that are breaking the backs of many of our Brazilian American brothers and sisters.

Now in Canada the oil companies have pretty much free reign to drill where ever they want. And when they drill, especially in Alberta, they hit what is known as "sour gas" which is a highly poisonous gas. If some of this gas leaks out while they drill for oil, it can kill you almost instantly. They make the oil companies draw up evacuation plans in case some leaks out, but everyone knows that if enough leaks out, everyone in the area will be dead before any bogus plan can be implemented. The sad thing about this is that the government of Canada and the oil companies could care less about the ordinary citizens fear about the drilling and the sour gas leaks. They just want all the fucking oil they can drag out of the fucking earth so they can fucking sell it to us here in the US of fucking A.

Now what they're gonna tell us when we complain about it is this, "We need the oil, we need to make gas out of it. We need that pulp to make more and more paper. If we stop then the economy will grind to a halt. We must have more, we must make more, and damn you for saying anything different."

You know what? These were the same pigs who said that ending child labor was a bad idea, that labor unions were a bad idea, that the 40 hour week was a bad idea, that putting people before profits was a bad idea.

You remember the things they thought were good ideas? They thought that unlimited use of pesticides that ruin our drinking water, World Wars 1 and 2, the Korean war, the Viet Nam war, the war on Iraq and Afghanistan were good ideas. They think that raping our planet is a good idea. They think that helping the Bush Junta silence all dissent is a good idea. They think that lying to us about what we actually need and want is a good idea. They think that fucking over anyone who does not live in North America or western Europe is a good idea. They think that not paying you a decent wage for your the labor that makes them rich is a good idea. They think that them not paying taxes is a good idea.

We say: stop the madness, stop the mindless consumption, stop falling for their lies, stop being their partner in raping the planet and in their abuse of others, and stop voting for the bastards who support their bullshit.

We can fight them, there are things we can do, all of us. We can and should: shop local, eat at locally owned restaurants, buy organic food when possible, buy locally grown food and support politicians who support a sustainable viable future.

We've listened to rich white pigs who do not have our best interests at heart for long enough. It's time we took our country, our market place, and our planet back. Let's stop acting like the pigs want us to and start taking care of the things that matter to us.