DUmmy MichaelHarris spins a bouncy tale about bumper stickers hostile to the jug-eared Kenyan muslim. He loses just a tiny bit of credibility when he confuses True Value and Ace Hardware, and thinks it was a True Value selling Ace merchandise. He loses a ton of credibility when he claims to be assembling an 1851 Colt, not exactly a common pastime for a Dummy:
MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-31-10 07:50 PM
Original message
President Obama and True Value
Write the True Value headquarters until I can verify it also sells Ace stuff.
Yesterday I went into True Value in Clarkston, Washington looking for a gun bluing kit for an 1851 Colt Navy revolver that I'm building. No, this is not a gun post, I could have been looking for duct tape. This post is one of the reasons I'll never support the NRA or any other Second Amender.
When I got past the fishing section and into the hunting section there was a 6 foot revolving display of bumper stickers. Every single one of them had violent hate filled messages about our President. Some even had gun sights superimposed over his face. I normally have a camera with me but I didn't today. There were over 150 stickers and each one had a different vile message.
Above the revolving rack there was a large sign that read, "If these messages offend you then GOOD! Maybe it's time you read the Constitution again, especially the second one." I told the manager, after I dropped the items I was going to purchase in the middle of the floor, that I have read the constitution and no where in it did I see the President depicted as a pimp or a monkey. I also mentioned the fact that depictions of the President, any President, with rifle scopes aimed at them could be construed as a threat. I know the Constitution gave someone the right to make those stickers with those messages just as it gave me a right, ergo the reason for this post.
I will exercise that right now. Please join me in a letter writing campaign to the corporate offices of True Value voicing your concerns over threats and racial depictions of our President. Just as they have the right to print the hate-filled messages, we must exercise our right to not shop at ANY True Value. From the Corporate website:
http://truevaluecompany.com/home/flash.asp
we've created a compelling shopping experience for consumers
It seems the one in Clarkston is owned by a bigot and hate-monger who wants to promote fear and sell bullets.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7614585I shopped for years at big Ace and True Value stores in Ohio. I don't remember a fishing section or hunting section, but I suppose it's possible at some franchisees. It isn't possible to have Ace merchandise at a True Value franchise store. It also isn't possible for someone who likes to assemble firearms to refer to ammunition as "bullets". (Unless it's a joke. I've many times heard shooters at a skeet range saying they need to go to their car for more "bullets" to shoot another round. But DUmmies do not joke.) A bullet is a component in reloading.
KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-31-10 07:55 PM
Response to Original message
2. That store is a franchise owned/operated by someone other than Ace Hardware.
Now you can suggest to Ace they should stop supplying that particular store or pull the license or some such.
I would probably just make a quiet phone call to the FBI about that one bumpersticker.
Why not suggest it to Sears? They are just as involved.
MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-31-10 08:02 PM
Response to Reply #2
7. It is privately owned but
the question becomes, does Ace want to be associated with this message? Do they want their corporate logo tied to this message?
You cannot find a privately owned store that sells guns, ammunition, or reloading components that does not have some kind of bumper sticker, sign, or even target that is unfriendly to the muslim. He is universally loathed among their customer demographic.
KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-31-10 08:13 PM
Response to Reply #7
18. Thanks, a letter to Ace should be polite and just alerting them to the problem. Got it!
I am glad you took your business elsewhere.
A doubter:
tammywammy (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-31-10 08:05 PM
Response to Reply #3
9. Yes, I shop at my local Ace hardware all the time
There are actual people there to help you and are knowledgeable, as opposed to Home Depot. I've never seen anything like this in that store, and I've been going there since I was a kid with my dad.
I would stop shopping there if there was something like that.
Another doubter. The bouncy is starting to quiver:
LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-31-10 08:06 PM
Response to Reply #9
10. The one by me is fantastic.
The prices are reasonable, the staff is helpful, the store is squeaky clean. They definitely don't have anything like that at all either.
The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-31-10 07:57 PM
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4. It's absolutely crazy when you consider that Obama hasn't done anything
to provoke those bastards. Nothing except of course, be the wrong color.
Nothing, aside from being an anti-American, anti-military, anti-Second Amendment, ineligible, foreign, muslim leftist radical.
brewens (249 posts) Sun Jan-31-10 08:12 PM
Response to Reply #8
17. STOP THE PRESSES!!!!! It's not Ace it's True Value.
They are not the same.
What?!!?? You gotta be kidding!
MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-31-10 08:15 PM
Response to Reply #17
23. Thanks for that!
I'm trying to fix it now. The do carry Ace stuff I think.
DUmmy MichaelHarris persists in his ignorance.
8 track mind (937 posts) Sun Jan-31-10 08:13 PM
Response to Original message
19. go back and get some pictures
and post them. We can attach them to the e-mails we send.
We're really sorry, but that just won't be possible.
