When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, “Israel must be wiped off the map,” I don’t think anyone was expecting Target to go join that fight. Should we now add Target Corp to the Axis of Evil?
The trendy discount store, which has made some outrageous moves in the past, such as not allowing Salvation Army Ringers outside of the store during the Christmas Holiday season, has begun selling “modified” globes in the children’s department. Perhaps in a show of support for anti-semitics everywhere, Target has casually removed the word “Israel” from the country’s space on the map, replacing it with–you guessed it!–”Palestine.”
The globes have been yanked out of stores, and the idiots at Target responded to complaints with some hogwash about Israel being omitted due to space reasons.
Interestingly, “Palestine” is longer than “Israel.”
From the same people that told you that the anti-conservative indoctrination from Sesame Street was NBD comes a criticism of the popular childrens’ show Thomas the Tank Engine. The morningtime favorite is based off of a book series by a reverend, so obviously it is misogynistic and part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
According to The Daily Mail, professor Shauna Wilton is “uncomfortable” that most engines are men, women are secondary roles. This is a direct sentence from the “expose” on Thomas the woman hater:
Any attempt by the downtrodden workers to show initiative or dissent is met with punishment, she (Wilton) found. In one episode, for example, Thomas whistles impatiently at a police officer and is replaced with a different engine as a punishment for showing dissent.
Wait so teaching children a good work ethic and to be polite suddenly makes Thomas the Tank Engine a sexist?!
Personally I’m OUTRAGED that Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Brite, and My Little Pony featured female characters. Obviously there are an overwhelming majority of little boys who love baking cakes, rainbows, and unicorns. Probably the same number of little girls who throw away their barbies for Tonka trucks.
Any attempt by the downtrodden workers to show initiative or dissent is met with punishment, she found.
In the vein of true journalism, as seen in the now-famous leprechaun YouTube video, here’s another little gem from a local news station delivering hard-hitting reality about a Miley Cyrus doll singing “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” Problem is, the tween sensation’s signature throaty voice makes the line “later we’ll have some pumpkin pie” sound like “later we’ll have some f*ckin pie.” Happy Holidays!
Visible Spanx line and heinous cardigans sold separately.
Since wearing ill-fitting clothing and completely pissing off the Olympic Committee with arrogance are totally commendable, American toymaker Jailbreaker Toys has released a new line of action figures commemorating Michelle Obama and her husband. The toys are expected to be a big hit for Christmas, which is weird because it’s not even Halloween and instead of considering the dire straights our economy is in because of particular political figureheads, this company has decided to make toys out of them. Like they haven’t already done that for themselves.
The six inch toys will sell for a whopping $12.99. I’m not sure who has the money to be spending recession dollars on a doll of Michelle wearing that gaudy Narciso Rodriguez dress, but at least they’re not buying their children those skanky “multi-cultural” Bratz hoes.
