Nobody’s Perfect: Stealing: The Rich VS the Poor
Nobody Perfect:
Famous-Barr. Maybe you haven’t heard the name. It was a big department store that used to be a favorite place to shop here in St. Louis. Every single Mall outlet for miles around in the Midwest had a Famous-Barr anchored at one end. They were one step up from Sears and J.C. Penny’s and just one step down from Macy’s. In fact, they probably took most of Macy’s customers away.
Macy showed them. They put Famous Barr into the dustbin of history. That’s saying something for taking over the first department store in the United States to have air-conditioning.
Famous-Barr, originally owned by the May Company, had a big office building downtown..where it employed literally hundreds of people. I use to go downtown St. Louis to met my old girlfriend for lunch who had a good paying job there. Many an afternoon was spent in the Famous-Barr restaurant chatting about boys over French Onion soup. It was the best in the city.
A few years ago, when I was feeling rather poor, I used to go to the nearest Famous just to try clothes on for fun. I couldn’t afford any of them, but it gave me a lift just to try on something new. Once in a great while, I wanted to buy something, and I was always shocked that you could never find anyone to help you. In the whole huge place, you had to search desperately for someone to ring you up. Cameras’ were watching you..but no people.
One day, around about 2001, I asked a lady at the perfume counter if anyone ever stole stuff from them.
“Oh yes,” said “Once a week, four big burly men come into the perfume department, and stack as many boxes of perfume that they can carry, and just walk out the door.”
“You’re kidding!” I said. “Don’t you have Mall security?”
“Yep. They can’t do anything, and they always get here too late.” The attendant didn’t care at all. In fact, she was used to it.
Now, according to experts, one out of eleven people steal: in fact, Twitter has made it a favorite Friday night pastime. (See Video)
During the four weeks leading up to Christmas, an estimated $1.8 billion in merchandise will be shoplifted this year, according to The Global Retail Theft Barometer, a survey of retailers worldwide. That’s up about 6 percent from $1.7 billion during the same period last year. In the four weeks leading up to Christmas, retailers in the U.S. are expected to lose $5 billion in theft and other crimes. About 36 percent of those losses come from shoplifting. Employee theft represents about 44 percent. Vendor theft and administrative error make up the remainder.
Nobody Imagines what the economy would be like if all these people that are stealing, stopped.
Why do people steal? No morality. And it can be fun..to some a thrill. AND they all figure..if Wall Street can steal, why can’t they? Superficially, it’s a good point.
As we all know, the rich hardly ever get caught, and they steal big time. Except for Winona Ryder, who was caught on tape stealing $5,500 worth of designer clothes at Saks Fifth Avenue. Hopefully they let her keep that swan outfit, in her last movie.
How can all these people be stealing?
Our government turns a blind eye to stealing, unless you are one of the 99% that didn’t pay your taxes. But— over in Saudi Arabia, they are teaching 15-year olds that thieves who break Sharia law should have their hands cut off for a first offence and their feet amputated for a subsequent crime. Teenagers are presented with diagrams showing where cuts should be made.
If we had Sharia law here in the United States, not many people would be walking around.
I’m just saying.
When Time Magazine puts the window-smashing, flash-mob-stealing hoody person, as “Man of the Year” what can you expect?’—a President that works hard to bring the crime rates down?
No…government is going to do what it does best: Create the problem, then come in with the solution.
Something tells me, Nike’s aren’t going to cut it.
Stealing is now a Prime Time is any good time, national occupation for the rich, and the poor. 
The poor stole $1.8 billion this year just at Christmas, and the rich stole…trillions. The poor are bound to catch up. All they need is four more years of Obama.
Can We FAKE a LOVEJOY?
Nobody Reports
Glenn Beck posted this little gem on his website, and I just had to post it, because I’ve read just about everything about the moon landing being faked that there is, and I still have no idea, who or what to believe.
I must admit, with the evidence coming out everyday as to just how much our government lies…it’s pretty easy to believe they would “fake” at least the first moon landing, and then later on, got it right. So, why not fake a comet sighting? NASA has to look as if it is doing something, don’t they?
But I like this guy…astronaut Dan Burbark. He seems pretty sincere, and just because of the fact that he even mentioned Tasmania, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. He really DID see a putty-tat.
Not so, a few of Glenn’s readers–one guy had THIS to say:
- love almost all your videos SA, but this NASA Lovejoy noise is all a HOAX, i’m serious, the facts don’t add up, the size the trajectory, all of it and the CGI of night flight of ISS, take a look at the posts everywhere on ISS night flight, THEY ARE ALL CGI, look closely and think, and remember the ISSS is supposed to be over 340 km above us, THIS IS FAKED and bad CGI, LOOK PEOPLE, LOOK AT all the ISS Night Flights, they are FAKE and bad CGI.
I’d say, he sounds pretty convincing, whoever he is. I would look closely at the CGI if I knew where it was.
Does that stand for “Cool, Graphic, Interface?” “Common Gerbil Intelligence?” “Centrifugal Germane Inkblots?”
And what is ISSS?– “Intelligent Suckers Still Supplementing? “I Still Stand Stupid?” ” Imminent Superior Soccer Stars?”
So I remained…stumped, until I continued reading and found my answer:
sumstuff46 said: maybe the earth ended and we are living in another dimension! 😉
That’s sounds good to me, sumstuff!
Anyway, Dan can come to my dinner table any old-time he wants, fake or not. He has real enthusiasm. I’m sure Tasmania will welcome him with open arms once he comes down.
The Final Global Colonoscopy
Nobody’s Opinion
I had a different plan this year for our annual Christmas dinner with the family. I was NOT going to express any opinions about politics, but instead…just ask for…everyone’s else’s opinion— something that is almost impossible for such a political animal like myself. Besides, my family pretty much looks on me as the “looney bin who was never committed” so I was determined to get in better graces by keeping silent.
My son’s great Christmas dinner was over, and we were all marvellously sleepy, and sitting around on comfortable couches, when I thought it was a safe enough time to cautiously take the step— I asked my brother:
“So,..do you think the country will survive?”
“I don’t care anymore!” he barked out. And he meant it. And then..he went into a good half hour of an angry citizen’s tirade. Most of the points made was how ruthlessly they destroyed Sarah Palin, and Herman Cain, and how he can’t get decent health insurance. He was afraid of Obama getting in again, and how Obama was just a puppet, and a few men run the world like chess pieces, and all Obama does is take vacations…etc., etc..”
“Calm down!” said his wife, Kimme. Then she looked at me and said, “We’ll just close up our house, move to the Cayman Islands, become bartenders, and come back in four years.”
She was serious. My brother and his wife have a D.J. business, and the economy has hit them hard…just like millions of other small businesses that are struggling.
Next year, we are being told, by dozens of experts, a great depression is going to hit the whole world. And the “elites” are not going to let this news go to waste..they are already priming the fear factors.
Christine Lagarde, the French women who was “chosen” so graciously to take over the IMF, after Dominique Strauss-Kahn was caught in a trumped-up “rape” in a hotel in New York, and then taken to jail and later released on either—there was not enough proof, or he handed over the right amount of money to the right politician (take your pick) —sits at the head of the class when it comes to more great threats of doom:
Part of the problem, she said, has been national calls for protectionism, making it “difficult to put in place international coalition strategies against it.” Lagarde added: “National parliaments grumble at using public money or the guarantee of their state to support other countries. Protectionism is in the debate, and everyone for themselves is winning ground.”
Interpretation: “We, the few elites that run this piggy bank, want the handpicked elites of the EU to control all 27 countries together. We want these parliaments to stop being pigheaded and hand over their countries to us..for us to control, because we know best. We also want England and America to send us more money.”
It’s every elitists most favourite new word: “Protectionism.” They use it as parent would to tell a child they are being “selfish.” for wanting to keep his own toy, and not “share” it with another child. Astonishingly, that’s how many of them look at us: as children to be ruled.
As Nobody Remembers, President George W. Bush said this very same thing about “protectionism” and how we must never go back to “protecting” ourselves. This was around the time he thought it was a good idea to put the “protection” of our ports in the trusting hands of the Muslims of Dubai— many of whom cannot be trusted.
The Americans knew enough to protest this insanity: It’s one thing to give the toy to another child, but not if there is a chance that the other child could destroy it. Everyone was shocked that the same man, who had stood on the site of the World Trade Center and rallied the troops, could even have the nerve to mention it.
Wasn’t that nice of him? So, what else don’t they tell us? This from Alex Jones:
The ‘52 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations’ and their “Israel First” followers in the US Congress, State Department, Treasury and the Pentagon will push for war with Iran . If they are successful it will result in a regional conflagration and world depression.
The US and England will be the biggest losers from the Iraqi post war economic reconstruction. Of $186 billion dollars in infrastructure projects, US and UK corporations will gain less than 5% (Financial Times,12/16/11, p 1 and 3). A similar outcome is likely in Libya and elsewhere. US imperial militarism destroys an adversary, plunging into debt to do so, and non-belligerents reap the lucrative post-war economic reconstruction contracts.
(Like China, Japan, Russia…)
Could this man be right? Hasn’t the “I’m against all wars” Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, been getting ready for the last war in Iran? Is THAT why Obama and Michelle have been sucking up to our soldiers and the military this last year..something they so blatantly avoided in his first year of office? 
Could Ron Paul actually be right about Iran? Mmmmm….
My brother, who thinks “elites” rule, might have agreed that the chess pieces are being put into place in order to collapse the world economies, so that MS. Lagarde will finally be “forced” to get her wish: She can then put the final ‘international coalitions ‘ together.
Whatever that means.
Something tells me, whatever it means, it’s so dire, they know a world governmental dictatorship will upset us— so they will tell us at some later date, like after we’re all dead to spare us…pain and suffering.
How nice of them.
My brother ended his tirade with, “They Want a New World Order.” And then he said he doesn’t care if he dies, he is NOT going back in for another colonoscopy.
Little did he know, he pretty much summed up what seems to be coming our way— a global colonoscopy. Not that he cares. He can move to the Cayman Islands, which is a good thing. He won’t have to listen to his sister ranting all her opinions at the next Christmas family dinner.
Next Christmas…Nobody will be able to keep quiet.
About
I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
Joyanna Adams
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