Hobby Lobby in a little bit of a . . . Messapotamia

[Bullneck 18987]

 

BTW, I ripped off that thread title.  Saw it on a tweet.

[Bullneck 18987]

 

 

[Guest Lobo]

Well, Indiana Jones #5 sounds fucking lame, takes place in a fucking big box strip center?  

Oh wait, are there Hobby Lobby Nazis?  I hate Hobby Lobby Nazis.  

[Bullneck 18987]

 

Here's the news on Wu Tang:

 

 

Edited July 28, 2021 by Bullneck

[wildcat09 29258]

I can’t tell if this is one of those things where I’m just internet brain damaged or what, but I figured everyone knew by now that Hobby Lobby funded ISIS. Is that not something everyone knew?

[Biff Tannen 45498]

15 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

 

Here's the news on Wu Tang:

 

 

I thought the Wu Tang part had to be a joke. Well played, simulation. 

[Zepol87 9171]

Hobby Lobby? wtf

[Guest Lobo]

The Garden Ridge Antiquity Wars have begun.  And as irony would have it, they will start on a Sunday. 

Edited July 28, 2021 by Lobo

[F250 28691]

Hasn't this been going on for a decade? It seems like they get something confiscated every few years.

 

[DigglerontheHoof 21065]

buncha Christian cunts in that company. 

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

Gilgamesh Dream Tablets were better in the '80s....I remember when they were still legal and people would just leave out a salad bowl full of them at parties. Good times, my friends, very good times. 

[Underdog 28457]

Is Chachi out of another job? 

[Blotto 23434]

7 hours ago, F250 said:

Hasn't this been going on for a decade? It seems like they get something confiscated every few years.

 

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As Candida Moss and Joel Baden write in their study of the Green family’s Evangelical vision for America, Bible Nation, Hobby Lobby’s decision to ignore expert advice on antiquities collecting led to several high-profile forfeitures of illegally trafficked items and the purchase of several counterfeit objects. In 2017, the organization agreed to a settlement with the United States Attorney’s office in Brooklyn, in which they paid $3 million and eventually returned over 11,000 pieces — mostly papyrus fragments, cuneiform tablets, and small clay seals — to Egypt and Iraq. “I knew little about the world of collecting,” Hobby Lobby president Steven Green told The Wall Street Journal last March.

 

Green apparently has evangelical fuck fudge you money.

[hpslugga 4044]

Gee I wonder why they'd do such a thing.

[bernorange 8348]

So the tablet was seized from Hobby Lobby in 2019.  Why is this news now?

Also, from the info posted above, it looks like the auction house is the one that committed fraud by selling it with false provenance.  Details are lacking in the report above, but it's possible that Hobby Lobby didn't know the tablet was illegal goods.

[wildcat09 29258]

57 minutes ago, bernorange said:

So the tablet was seized from Hobby Lobby in 2019.  Why is this news now?

Also, from the info posted above, it looks like the auction house is the one that committed fraud by selling it with false provenance.  Details are lacking in the report above, but it's possible that Hobby Lobby didn't know the tablet was illegal goods.

Hobby Lobby definitely knew.

[kevwun 15653]

They knew because they have been doing stuff like this for the last few years.  This wasn't a one time ooops.

Edited July 28, 2021 by kevwun

[Blotto 23434]

1 hour ago, bernorange said:

So the tablet was seized from Hobby Lobby in 2019.  Why is this news now?

It's in the news now because, and bear with me here because this is where it gets tricky.....there was a new development. In a similar fashion to how when a murder is committed, the media covers the murder, trial, and subsequent verdict. Next level stuff, I know.

1 hour ago, bernorange said:

but it's possible that Hobby Lobby didn't know the tablet was illegal goods.

[Foosters 17734]

Hobby Lobby's robby hobby: Hammurabi

 

*stolen from twitter

 

[wildcat09 29258]

It's sad how credulous Bern suddenly becomes whenever conservatives turn out to be bad. 

[elfenix 34171]

hobby lobby drapes itself in 'mericuh!, but (at least the one in lawrenceville, nj) doesn't offer a military discount.  unpatriotic fucks.

Edited July 28, 2021 by elfenix

[Bullneck 18987]

1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

It's sad how credulous Bern suddenly becomes whenever conservatives turn out to be bad. 

I'm waiting for Incredulity to become credulous.  

[RDCanecutter 26281]

I had lumped in Hobby Lobby with boring sanctimonious businesses like Chick-fil-A. Now that I know they deal in illegal goods, they are actually more interesting to me. Maybe I should go see if Chick-fil-A has a secret menu with shots of moonshine on it.

[wildcat09 29258]

1 minute ago, RDCanecutter said:

I had lumped in Hobby Lobby with boring sanctimonious businesses like Chick-fil-A. Now that I know they deal in illegal goods, they are actually more interesting to me. Maybe I should go see if Chick-fil-A has a secret menu with shots of moonshine on it.

Hobby Lobby also doesn't scan barcodes for products because too many of their customers are loons who think barcodes are the mark of the beast.

[hpslugga 4044]

1 minute ago, wildcat09 said:

Hobby Lobby also doesn't scan barcodes for products because too many of their customers are loons who think barcodes are the mark of the beast.

Wait til they hear what’s actually in the Epic of Gilgamesh

[Chooky 13302]

13 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

I can’t tell if this is one of those things where I’m just internet brain damaged or what, but I figured everyone knew by now that Hobby Lobby funded ISIS. Is that not something everyone knew?

This has not occurred to me, dude.

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

First time I saw one I was really excited. I thought it was going to have cool stuff like model trains and army men you could paint. So I took my son down there and I have never seen so much nothin' under one roof in all my life. It's like there was stuff in there, but so valueless to me it appeared to be invisible. 

[Gatorubet 30113]

Hobby Lobby also doesn't scan barcodes for products because too many of their customers are loons who think barcodes are the mark of the beast.

If your hobby is worshiping Beelzebub, you are shit outa luck at Hobby Lobby…..so…..like…..false advertising?

[Blotto 23434]

3 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

Hobby Lobby also doesn't scan barcodes for products because too many of their customers are loons who think barcodes are the mark of the beast.

5 yrs ago, I would have been inclined to consider that a sarcastic comment  . Today, with the galatic stupidity exhibited by the GOP on a daily basis, I have to assume its reality.

[hornmpa96 2598]

I took this story as a positive. I assumed Hobby Lobby bought the tablet to burn it as it didn’t confirm the Earth was 5000 years old.

[atomheartbevo 89449]

3 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

First time I saw one I was really excited. I thought it was going to have cool stuff like model trains and army men you could paint. So I took my son down there and I have never seen so much nothin' under one roof in all my life. It's like there was stuff in there, but so valueless to me it appeared to be invisible. 

Hobby Lobby has a lot of stuff I'd buy and put in my home if I was selling it and wanted potential buyers to tour it.

[elfenix 34171]

shit dr. rick would throw in the trash.

 

[Bullneck 18987]

5 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

First time I saw one I was really excited. I thought it was going to have cool stuff like model trains and army men you could paint. So I took my son down there and I have never seen so much nothin' under one roof in all my life. It's like there was stuff in there, but so valueless to me it appeared to be invisible. 

Not really a store for guys.

[Pescado_Rojo 19331]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Hobby Lobby has a lot of stuff I'd buy and put in my home if I was selling it and wanted potential buyers to tour it.

They should have a department called “Generic staging supplies” you could even leave the pictures of the models in the picture frames.

6 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

Not really a store for guys.

I bought $.33 cents worth of felt in there yesterday for fly tying. Same felt cut down into smaller pieces is $5.00 at the fly shop

[DigglerontheHoof 21065]

On 7/28/2021 at 12:00 PM, wildcat09 said:

Hobby Lobby also doesn't scan barcodes for products because too many of their customers are loons who think barcodes are the mark of the beast.

[ROFL BOX 6647]

On 7/28/2021 at 3:37 PM, Gatorubet said:

If your hobby is worshiping Beelzebubba, then Hobby Lobby is like Green Acres.
 

"...It's the place to be"

[ROFL BOX 6647]

On 7/28/2021 at 7:37 PM, Pescado_Rojo said:

They should have a department called “Generic staging supplies” you could even leave the pictures of the models in the picture frames.

I bought $.33 cents worth of felt in there yesterday for fly tying. Same felt cut down into smaller pieces is $5.00 at the fly shop

No "Michaels Arts & Crafts" anywhere near you?

[gsoda3 3236]

the museum and hobby lobby were the ones who alerted authorities to the questionable provenance.  they did this in 2019.  they had asked christie's for additional documentation, christie's refused, so they (HL and the museum) started their own investigation and found inconsistencies with what christie's had said.  the museum voluntarily gave up the tablet back in 2019 and it was just made official last week.

[wildcat09 29258]

Ah yes, let's trust Hobby Lobby. The organization that hired an expert in the field who told them all of the things not to do, and then did all of those things, and almost certainly helped fund terrorists in the process.

[formermav43 4599]

1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

Ah yes, let's trust Hobby Lobby. The organization that hired an expert in the field who told them all of the things not to do, and then did all of those things, and almost certainly helped fund terrorists in the process.

Well when you put it that way, it just sounds like standard American policy in the Middle East.

[Bozo_Casanova 26284]

On 7/28/2021 at 7:28 PM, Bullneck said:

Not really a store for guys.

It's the only store I know about that stocks C.S. Lewis and the Duck Dynasty guy on the same shelf.