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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 09:35 AM
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This makes my blood simmer just a bit.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 09:39 AM
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This is America
And we talk about people being oppressed.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 11:31 PM
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37. America - where we're afraid of all the wrong things.
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 09:39 AM
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1. I don't get the connection between the two photos.
Edited on Sun Feb-06-11 09:40 AM by lunatica
I do see how unfortunate the first photo is with gun magazines in the 'family' section. The second photo is about 'family' too, but other than that I gon't get why it makes you angry.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 09:40 AM
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3. It was the protect young shoppers shield on the second photo
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 09:41 AM
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6. That looks like a bad photoshop job to me
Did you see it in person?
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 12:20 PM
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22. +1. nt
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Curmudgeoness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 08:01 PM
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29. This was actually reported on national news sometime this week.
They interviewed the store manager and he said that they use those covers if they get any complaints from customers.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 09:40 AM
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4. They seem to have deemed it necessary to cover a pic of a happy
gay couple with their baby... "to protect" youngsters.
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 09:44 AM
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8. As I said in reply #6 it looks photoshopped to me
I'm not trying to be argumentative. It really looks like a bad photoshop job. The angle of the words doesn't match the angle of the shield
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customerserviceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 02:51 PM
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23. Plus, the shadows on the shield
don't seem to look quite right. I think this is a photoshopped job, too, and because of the angle of the writing on the shield, it's a poor one, at that.
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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 09:40 AM
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5. The point is, the 'shield' over one and not the other.
It's ok to have scads of guns and ammo in the family section, but not okay to show two guys with a baby.
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kayakjohnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 09:42 AM
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7. It was pesented in the store as you see on the right. I believe the poster wanted to show the whole
cover on the left, so you could see what was being 'shielded' from the kids.
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 08:29 PM
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34. There's no evidence that it's even from the same chain/store...
The gun magazine display is from 2007.

Either that, or someone is REALLY slacking off on rotating/removing outdated material from the shelves.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 09:39 AM
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2. Sad isn't it.
There are no gun mags in our local Stop & Shop. And I don't think it occured to any of the staff or management here to cover a baby picture.
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RegieRocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 09:47 AM
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9. Your fixation on guns is just the opposite as
the people you despise. It is still a fixation though.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 10:58 AM
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19. Because guns are so family friendly!
:sarcasm:
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RegieRocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 12:04 PM
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21. You mean the military family? Or how about the police family?
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KansasVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 07:55 PM
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27. Really? You actually compare the two? LOL...!
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NuclearDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 07:59 PM
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28. Not the point
It's a statement that America thinks guns are a family-oriented subject, but a gay couple with a baby isn't.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 09:58 AM
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 10:05 AM
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12. Nice, never let an opportunity to insult a large group of people go unused.
You stay classy, ok?
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 10:04 AM
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11. The US magazine "shield" looks like a photoshop job.
Did you take these pictures or did you get them from another website?

If not your original photos, link please?
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 10:09 AM
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13. For what it's worth..
Edited on Sun Feb-06-11 10:11 AM by Fumesucker
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350891/Picture-Elton-Johns-baby-covered-family-shield-U-S-supermarket-protect-children.html

ETA: The actual picture may or may not be a 'shop job but it seems fairly well established the incident in question did occur.
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 10:14 AM
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14. Yeppo, people just want to believe it's a photoshop.
It isn't. It's a bunch of bullshit, still, but it's on the part of the bigoted chain.
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 10:18 AM
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16. Hey, thanks, that add some credibility to the story.
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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 01:13 AM
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38. Also ABC News link w/ video of The View discussing it
Grocery Store Un-Censors Elton John's Baby Picture
Arkansas Supermarket Hid Image of Elton John, His Partner and Their Baby


http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/grocery-store-censors-elton-johns-baby-picture-with-shield/story?id=12770479
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Fla_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 10:16 AM
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15. Me too,
:wtf: is it that they have to hide the guns magazines back in the books and magazine section, but think they could just stick Us Weekly right up by the registers for impulse buyers.


For the record... in the section that held the magazines..... was the Us Weekly covered? :shrug:


Hint: Apples and oranges
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WingDinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 10:55 AM
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17. Here, this is more family friendly
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Capitalocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 08:07 PM
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31. THAT is some quality photoshop, my friend!
haha
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 10:57 AM
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18. What store is that?
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Upton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 11:02 AM
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20. Elton John's face should be covered up..
I mean, didn't he sing at Rush's wedding? And unlike the guns, John, his lover, and his baby.. can't help me protect my loved ones...
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 02:53 PM
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24. Guns= family values
a loving, different family, not so much.
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Control-Z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 07:48 PM
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25. Seriously? Wtf?
I guess with such a graphic photo, even kids too young to read are at risk. I mean, you've got to admit, two guys and a baby are pictured. What were they thinking when they allowed that?

As for kids who can read? Well, damn. It's practically criminal. They're going to find out Elton John has a new baby named Zachary, that David Furnish is the other guy in the photo and that the picture was taken at Elton John's house.

What will they tell children?
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 07:53 PM
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26. There's a publication dedicated to black rifles?
It's a special country we live in.

:eyes:
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 08:12 PM
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32. This being DU...
I'm surprised that someone hasn't pointed out the subtle racist tone of that particular magazine.
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 08:04 PM
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30. +1, but in fairness...
Those opaque sheets are used in the checkout line.
The guns mags are in the magazines aisle.

And it could be a straight couple and the tabloids would still be covered.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 12:00 PM
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42. When did they ever cover a straight couple up?
That was placed there specifically because Elton & David are gay, and had the audacity to adopt and love a baby.
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 01:33 PM
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43. oh no, no, no.
In our very conservative area, those sheets cover up the magazines (mostly tabloids) in the checkout aisles. Doesn't matter if it's a gay couple or mickey mouse.
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 08:19 PM
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33. Damn...
talk about grasping at straws.
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kickysnana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 08:58 PM
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35. We cannot confuse the conservatives by showing a happy GLBT family. n/t
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-11 10:02 PM
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36. K & R!
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 09:10 AM
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39. "Gay people don't exist if I don't see them or hear about them. They don't exist. They don't exist."
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Zax2me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 11:53 AM
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40. One pic bothers me, the other does not.
I don't think the Us Weekly should be shielded, silly, actually. Don't get it.
But placing it beside ammo and gun unshielded mags provokes no emotion in me.
I don't think either should be shielded.
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snooper2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 11:59 AM
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41. you might want to see a doctor, that could be a sign of a fever...
If you have warm blood flow sensation in the groin artery that could be related to taking medication like Cialis- FYI
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