America is so awesome, apparently, that our Chinese overlords have seen fit to award us an additional 11 states and have presented us with a new 61-star flag for use in our Patriotic Observances:
Dollar Store in Dallas sells American flag with 61 stars
by Damanick Dantes
Jun 29th 2010 at 5:00PM
Filed under: In the News
Tim Childress thought he was being patriotic when he went to buy an American flag at his local Dollar Tree store in Dallas. But he soon discovered that his purchase was a cheap impostor of Old Glory that was emblazoned with a not-so authentic 61 stars.
Childress noticed the strange crooked pattern containing eleven extra stars when he returned home from the store, local television station WFAA-TV reported. The extra stars defy the standard set by President Eisenhower that requires the American flag to contain 13 stripes and 50 stars on a field of blue in the upper left corner. The plastic flag was made in China and marketed by a Virginia company, the television station reported.
Tim returned to the Dollar Tree store and explained that there should only be 50 stars to represent each state. "They need to correct this or at least get the Chinesse supplier to correct this," Childress said to WFAA-TV. The Dallas Dollar Tree assistant store manager did not want to comment in front of the camera when the local television station arrived at the location. Off-camera, the manager for the Dollar Tree store said that the flag is just a 'patriotic banner,' not an American flag.
After the report was aired Sunday night, Dollar Tree told WFAA-TV that all of the 61 star flags had been destroyed. WalletPop reached out to Dollar Tree, but did not receive a response by press time.
How patriotic is that? Buying a plastic flag made in China from a dollar store..
Fucking cheapskate got what he deserved. Old glory indeed......
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
This is the true cost of your dollar /pound shop...
High Street shopping chain Poundland is launching an inquiry after a boy of seven was found to be working 100 hours a week in an Indian sweatshop producing goods for the store.
The child, known as Ravi, was reportedly earning just 7p a hour to make napkin rings for the cut-price chain.
Poundland, as its name suggests, sells all its items for £1 each.
The boy was found to be working and sleeping in the sweatshop in Delhi.
His ‘wages’ of under £7 a week are sent to his widowed mother in a poverty-stricken rural village hundreds of miles away in the eastern state of Bihar.
The cheap trinkets he decorates are bought by Trishulin Overseas, a Delhi company which has orders to supply Poundland.
The chain was founded by Britons Dave Dodd and Stephen Smith in 1990, but sold in May this year to U.S. private equity firm Warburg Pincus for £200million.
Poundland has more than 250 outlets across Britain, and employs about 7,000 people.
The company confirmed last night that it had placed orders with Trishulin, but said it was a new supplier and they had not yet received any of the goods.
‘Poundland does not tolerate child labour under any circumstances and will not work with companies that employ children,’ a spokesman said.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
And do you not think that "dollarland" would have products made by such labour?
It was an indictment of all such shops, and our need for cut price crap at cheapest cost.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
...turning your flag upside down is a form of distress call.
