# News Flash: 'Bush Gives Away Store...Kisses Dictator's Ass!' in recent China crisis

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 24, 2001, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-bush-gives-away-store-kisses-dictators-ass-in-recent-china-crisis/63115 "2001-04-24T11:11:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amedeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Amedeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amedeus)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-bush-gives-away-store-kisses-dictators-ass-in-recent-china-crisis/63115/21 "2001-04-25T02:15:43Z")

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> \*Originally posted by vanilla \*  
> \*\*Actually, what I THINK Mr. Bunny meant was that now that Sam Walton(owner of WalMart) is now the richest man in the world, theyre sending WalMart over to China.  
> It will now be a China based company. \*\*

Uh, isn’t Sam Walton dead?

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-bush-gives-away-store-kisses-dictators-ass-in-recent-china-crisis/63115/22 "2001-04-25T05:18:33Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Amedeus \*
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> Uh, isn’t Sam Walton dead?

Oh, please. Since when as a minor thing such as a fact stopped BB?

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**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-bush-gives-away-store-kisses-dictators-ass-in-recent-china-crisis/63115/23 "2001-04-25T05:42:31Z")

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As a slight hijack, I see where Bush held a ceremony today to honor the nations “Top Environmental Youths”.

Ummmmm . . . . isn’t that kind of like having a boyscout host the G.L.A.A.D. Convention ?

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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-bush-gives-away-store-kisses-dictators-ass-in-recent-china-crisis/63115/24 "2001-04-25T13:30:16Z")

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No, Sam Walton was just named richest man on the planet recently.  
Maybe he died from too much money.  
Maybe the Taiwanese could welcome the Mormons(not called that anymore?)

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**Author:** ![Amedeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Amedeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amedeus)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-bush-gives-away-store-kisses-dictators-ass-in-recent-china-crisis/63115/25 "2001-05-01T00:56:51Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by vanilla \*  
> \*\*No, Sam Walton was just named richest man on the planet recently.  
> Maybe he died from too much money.  
> Maybe the Taiwanese could welcome the Mormons(not called that anymore?) \*\*

Recently as in 1985…  
And yes, he is dead, it says that he died on April 5th 1992 in Little Rock Az at this site:  
[http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/walton.html](http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/walton.html)

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