[vision-master]

Then what?

Wait until they get stocked again?

[dolanbaker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'T')hen what?

Wait until they get stocked again?

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WildRose', 'W')e're cutting back some more this year. We (hubby, kids, extended family) realized that we don't usually remember what anyone gave us for Christmas six months later, unless it was really memorable, like a kid's first guitar or something. We all talked about and decided we'd rather just get together and have fun, have game nights and movie nights and maybe go bowling and tobogganing. Personally, I came to detest spending weeks running through malls trying to pick out the perfect gifts for everyone on my list. The family are all quite relieved that gifts won't be the focus of our Christmas - it means we'll have more time to relax and more money in our wallets come January.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WildRose', 'W')e're cutting back some more this year. We (hubby, kids, extended family) realized that we don't usually remember what anyone gave us for Christmas six months later, unless it was really memorable, like a kid's first guitar or something. We all talked about and decided we'd rather just get together and have fun, have game nights and movie nights and maybe go bowling and tobogganing. Personally, I came to detest spending weeks running through malls trying to pick out the perfect gifts for everyone on my list. The family are all quite relieved that gifts won't be the focus of our Christmas - it means we'll have more time to relax and more money in our wallets come January.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')img]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/111126034847-walmart-grandpa-scene-story-top.jpg[/img]


Newman was among a throng of shoppers crammed into a Buckeye, Arizona, Walmart soon after it opened late the night of Thanksgiving.
"They were just letting people in; there was nowhere to walk," said his daughter, Berneta Sanchez, who was also in the store. "Teenagers and adults were fighting for these games, taking them away from little kids and away from my father."

The suspect's grandson, Nicholas Nava, told CNN affiliate KNXV that Newman had grabbed one video game and put it under his shirt so that others jostling for the game didn't take it from him. One person alerted a police officer, who then approached Newman.

David Chadd, a CNN iReporter from Las Vegas, was among the crowd shopping for video games set up in the Walmart's grocery section. He said Newman "was not resisting" arrest as he was led away from the crowd by a police officer.

That officer, Chadd said, then suddenly hooked the suspect around the leg, grabbed him and "slammed him face first into the ground."
"It was like a bowling ball hitting the ground, that's how bad it was," he said.

Video, recorded by Chadd and later posted on CNN's iReport, shows an apparently unconscious Newman head-down on the floor in a pool of blood. As he's turned over, Buckeye police officers appear to try to revive him -- at which point his face, covered mostly in blood, is revealed.

Several voices, apparently those of fellow shoppers, are heard saying, "Why would you throw him down so hard? All he did was shoplifting and you threw him down like that?" Another person says, "They threw him down. He wasn't doing anything wrong."

Two citizens then appear to come to Newman's aid by applying paper towels to the man's nose. Chadd estimated Newman was knocked out for about 10 minutes, all the while gushing blood and handcuffed.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/26/justice/arizona-walmart-arrest/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

[scas]

Don't worry, as climate change, resource depletion, and economic depression set in, the middle class will be fleeced by the power-elite and brutalized by police that more and more resemble violent power-hungry thugs working for the 1% mafia.

[Novus]

It is standard procedure what the police do to people now. It is called a face take down where they grab a person and throw them down face first into concrete often the cop landing on top of the man. It is brutal and should not be taught to police. The thing is there is systematic militarization of the police that is training them to be gestapo stormtroopers. To the police all people are seen as "Perps" guilty until proven innocent where the system has given them almost unlimited "authority" to act as judge, jury, and executioner.


Also part of the problem is the country has a bad case of the Bystander effect. Out of 100+ people standing around nobody had the balls to stand up to that pig with a badge. Nobody said hey take those hand cuffs off this man needs an ambulance. We are just talking basic human dignity here. Our society is completely and utterly morally bankrupt at this point.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'O')ur society is completely and utterly morally bankrupt at this point.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'T')here is only one way to win this battle; and that is to never place yourself in a situation where it has any modest probability of occurring.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', '
')
There is only one way to win this battle; and that is to never place yourself in a situation where it has any modest probability of occurring.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'T')here is only one way to win this battle; and that is to never place yourself in a situation where it has any modest probability of occurring.

[Sixstrings]

Police arrest Frosty the Snowman, dragged him right out of the Christmas parade because Frosty made some comments about the police dogs..

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/26/article-2066700-0EF4E1ED00000578-512_233x464.jpg[/img]

A man in a 'Frosty the Snowman' costume was arrested Saturday during the annual Christmas parade in Chestertown, on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

He's accused of scuffling with police and kicking at a police dog.

Sgt. John A. Dolgos tells The Star Democrat of Easton that 52-year-old Kevin Michael Walsh became agitated when a dog-handling officer tried to escort him away from the crowd.

Walsh told The Associated Press that he has dressed as Frosty in the parade for at least 10 years. He says he did nothing wrong and was wrongfully arrested.

He says an officer hassled him after he made a joke about the police dog's presence at the parade.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066700/Frosty-Snowman-arrested-brawling-police-Maryland-Christmas-parade.html

[Novus]

Progress would be no waiting line in the medical office and affordable doctors.

The good ole days were before greed controlled every facet of our lives. A Christmas without gifts would be amazing and wonderful.

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'P')rogress would be no waiting line in the medical office and affordable doctors.

The good ole days were before greed controlled every facet of our lives. A Christmas without gifts would be amazing and wonderful.

[Novus]

The waiting lines to see a Doctor is case artificial scarcity. The AMA restricts the total number of schools and students who can become doctors. Although the number of students applying to be doctors is increasing the number actually allowed to go on to medical schools has been flat for a decade. Do a little research next time before you blame waiting lines on socialism.

[Oneaboveall]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', '.')..Also part of the problem is the country has a bad case of the Bystander effect. Out of 100+ people standing around nobody had the balls to stand up to that pig with a badge. Nobody said hey take those hand cuffs off this man needs an ambulance. We are just talking basic human dignity here. Our society is completely and utterly morally bankrupt at this point.

[Fishman]

Are we talking about the same Black Friday? One cop goes over the line in a mass of insanity. People crushed people on this day for a few dollars, people pepper sprayed folks to get farther ahead in line, and dozens of other insanity. Thieves robbed people in parking lots, and you focus on ONE cop. Get a little perspective. This case should be evaluated thoroughly but I certainly would have hated to be a cop on duty Black Friday.
Six you made a tiny bit of sense in your first post till you got to the 99% part, then I broke out in laughter. Widespread breaking the law, incredibly passive cops. OOOHHH, someone got pepper sprayed, blood in the streets. ROTFLMAO

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'H')ow do you "never place yourself" in this kind of situation? Police everywhere have been militarized -- from the college campus to Walmart. So how can you avoid the police state, when the police state is everywhere?

[dinopello]

We'd have more good samaritans if they get treats from the cops like they do around here.

Seriously, though it seems like there wasn't much problems this year. Out of a nation of 300 million where not one extreme event in any corner goes unnoticed, this is very scant.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('beamofthewave', 'T')he only things I am buying are already used things from estate sales. There is enough stuff on the planet already, no need to buy new stuff at all.