Worshiping Wal-Mart

Tonight I watched some of the Nissan pre-game show to the State Farm National Champion Football game at the Mercedes Bend Super Dome in New Orleans. I might have got the sponsor of the game wrong, it might have been All-State, but you get the idea, commercialization has taken over sporting events. Maybe we can get commercial sponsors for other events like Taco Bell Occupy Wall Street or the Miller Light movement to stop teaching killing at Marquette University.

These suggestions might seem silly to you but who would have thought a few years ago that Wal-Mart, the largest discrimination business in the market place would be sponsoring the Tavis Smiley public TV show with a commercial using the name of Martin Luther King Jr. Or, as I recently wrote about, Wal-Mart the largest corporation in the world selling tainted Chinese products sponsoring “The Good Food Revolution” of Will Allen and Growing Power here in Milwaukee.

However, corporations sponsor or donate to organizations and events when it buys better public relations and thus more sales or to buy the silence of a company.

Today I read an article in Common Dreams called: New Report Details Extent of US Military Reliance on Drones. As Killer Drones become more popular and more used maybe the government can get sponsors for each drone. How about Bayer Pain Relief Drone, Exlax Drone, Coca Cola Drone, Big Mac Drone or Goodyear Drone. Where there is buck to be made, even with a Killer Drone there is a possibility. Budweiser, for a price, can say on the side of the drone missiles: “This drone is for you.”

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