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Wal-Mart Watch Daily Clips - April 16th
- Vendors
depicted as down a rung [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]
Indeed, the fourth rule for suppliers in the consultants' "4 New Rules to Thrive at Retail" was "You're not in control."
- Bennet
stays mum on union-vote issue [Denver Post]
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet on Wednesday declined once again to take a position on a labor-business battle royale over legislation that could make it easier for workers to organize.
- The
Real Boston Tea Party was Against the Wal-Mart of the 1770s [Huffington
Post]
The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence. This corporate tax cut threatened to decimate small Colonial businesses by helping the BEIC pull a Wal-Mart against small entrepreneurial tea shops, and individuals began a revolt that kicked-off a series of events that ended in the creation of The United States of America.
- Faux-Populist
"Tea Parties" Ignore Tax Breaks for Overpaid CEOs [Huffington Post]
While the Fox News-fueled coverage of the "tea parties" has hoodwinked major media outlets into believing it's just a spontaneous protest against high taxes, it's actually been a well-orchestrated campaign driven by lobbyists and right-wing corporate front groups that are seeking to keep taxes low and preserve loopholes for wealthy CEOs and corporations.
- OC
to give Walmart CEO award [NewsOK (Okla.)]
Mike Duke, Walmart president and chief executive officer, will receive the Christian Business Leader Award from Oklahoma Christian University.
- Thrift
stores' business booms across U.S. [USA Today]
Rummaging around for some good news in this recession? Try your local thrift store.
- Tesco
to announce £1bn weekly turnover [thisismoney (U.K.)]
Its domination of the British High Street has been absolute in recent years.
- Tesco
breaks through billion-a-week barrier! [International Supermarket News]
It is now thirty years since Tesco smashed through the £1 billion a-year mark. But the triumph that is set to be reached this week - which was announced by city analysts - puts it in the shade, economic conditions aside. Since 1979, the chain took over Sainbury's as the UK's number one supermarket retailer and the world's third largest, behind Wal-Mart and Carrefour.
- Every
little helps ... Tesco tills now ring up £1 billion every
week [Evening Standard (U.K.)]
THE Tesco juggernaut is set to crash through another symbolic barrier when its till takings exceed £1 billion a week for the first time.
- Carrefour
to open their first cash & carry in India [International
Supermarket News]
Carrefour has decided to throw its hat into the increasingly burgeoning Indian cash & carry ring, by opening their first store of that format in the National Capital Region (NCR) by mid-2009 - 2010.
- Li
& Fung, Posting 21% Net Drop, Sees No Growth for Retailers
[Supply Chain (China)]
Li & Fung Ltd., the biggest supplier of clothes and toys to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp., said customers will have no growth in 2009, as the Hong Kong company posted its first profit decline in seven years.
- Your
Say: Free Choice Act facts [The Reporter (Pa.)]
As Congress debates the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), many Americans are being misled to think this act would in some way remove the "secret ballot" provision of the current National Labor Relations Act.
- Letter:
Unions’ Role in Economic Recovery [New York Times]
Highlighting the seriousness of our unemployment woes, you rightly lifted up unions as a catalyst toward economic recovery (“Unemployment Rising,” editorial, April 5).
- From
the Field: Employee Free Choice Actions Everywhere [AFL-CIO Now Blog]
With members of Congress at home for the April congressional recess, the grassroots campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act is in high gear, with more than 300 events taking place around the country in support of workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain.
- Employee
Free Choice Act Supporters at Capitol [KFYR-TV (N.D.)]
Supporters of the Employee Free Choice Act came to the state Capitol to show their support for the bill, which Congress could soon vote on.
- AFL-CIO's
2009 Executive PayWatch Highlights 10 of the Worst CEO Pay Practices
[All American Patriots]
Retention bonuses. Golden coffins. Turbo-charged pension plans. Hefty severance packages. Lavish “executive physicals.” These are some of the outrageous CEO pay practices highlighted in the AFL-CIO’s 2009 Executive PayWatch website launched today at http://www.paywatch.org.
- China
Sees a Slight Lift in Factory Orders [New York Times]
Chinese manufacturers say orders are starting to recover from their steep plunge over the winter, but demand from Europe and, especially, the United States remains anemic.
- Hewlett-Packard
Takes Lead From Dell in U.S. Market [Bloomberg News]
Hewlett-Packard Co., already the biggest personal-computer maker worldwide, took the top spot in the U.S. market from Dell Inc. last quarter for the first time since 2001, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
- Wal-Mart's
Duke Talks the Economy [Women's Wear Daily]
When the head of the world’s largest retailer opines about the economy, people listen.
- Product
recalls: coffee makers [Associated Press via Chicago Tribune]
About 155,000 Philips Senseo One-Cup Coffeemakers, made in China and Poland and distributed by Philips Consumer Lifestyle of Stamford, Conn., because an electrical fault and calcium buildup from water can cause an obstruction in the coffee maker. As a result, the boiler can burst, which poses a burn hazard to consumers.
- Grilling
sauce sold at Wal-Mart stores recalled [Associated Press]
A grilling sauce sold in several Wal-Mart stores in Colorado is being recalled because it contains small amounts of anchovies not listed in its ingredients.
- Grilling
sauce sold at Wal-Mart being recalled [Colorado Springs Gazette (Colo.)]
A grilling sauce sold in several Colorado Wal-Mart stores is being recalled because it contains small amounts of anchovies not noted in its ingredients.
- Best
Buy slashing wages, eliminating jobs in stores [Star-Tribune (Minn.)]
Thousands of Best Buy store employees will see their pay slashed or their positions eliminated as the Richfield-based consumer electronics chain moves to reorganize its stores amid a weakening consumer spending environment.
- Sam's
Club Names Merchandising Chief [The Morning News of NW Arkansas]
The Sam's Club division of Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced Wednesday afternoon that Linda Hefner will be executive vice president of merchandising and replenishment.
- U.S.
Consumer Pullback Continuing [Reuters via New York Times]
Many economists expect the U.S. recession to end in the second half of this year, but companies catering to consumers showed on Wednesday that the prolonged downturn and rising unemployment are taking a toll on business in the near term.
VIRGINIA SITE FIGHT: ORANGE COUNTY SUPERVISORS REJECT WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD COALITION'S REQUEST TO JOIN PLANNING STUDY...
- Orange:
No to Wilderness gateway study [Free Lance-Star (Va.)]
The Orange County Board of Supervisors has once again rejected the Wilderness Battlefield Coalition's request to join a planning study for the State Route 3 area north of the Wilderness battlefield.
- Perhaps
a Wal-Mart at Omaha Beach? [Free Lance-Star (Va.)]
Perhaps a Wal-Mart at Omaha Beach?
- How
about a Wal-Mart next to the Washington Monument? [Free Lance-Star
(Va.)]
To those who argue that the Wilderness Wal-Mart issue should not be influenced by outsiders, would you like to see a big-box retailer next to the Washington Monument or the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, should zoning be permitted, even though you do not live there?
- Tinley
Park Wal-Mart? Builder has another idea [Neighborhood Star (Ill.)]
Bound and determined, George Hanus aims to transform five acres of vacant land on the west side of Tinley Park into a retail development.
- New
Lenox Wal-Mart on schedule [Neighborhood Star (Ill.)]
Construction of a new Wal-Mart store in New Lenox is still on target to begin this spring, even though the Illinois Department of Transportation has yet to sign off on the plans, which include extensive improvements to U.S. 30.
- West
& East Dundee, IL. Court Rules In East Vs. West Wal-Mart
Case [Battlemart Blog]
When two communities fail to plan together, they end up being played off one another---to a giant developer’s benefit.
- Windsor
waits for Walmart as Timnath store set to open [Greeley Tribune (Colo.)]
When Walmart opens its newest supercenter on the corner of Interstate 25 and Harmony Road in Timnath, the town of about 450 residents will boast its biggest employer with 438 associates.
- Court
appeal could delay second Raynham Walmart another year [Enterprise News
(Mass.)]
A recent appeal by DeMoulas Supermarkets Inc., owner of Market Basket Plaza in Raynham, could delay construction of a Walmart supercenter on Route 138 for at least another year, according to selectmen.
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COMMENTS
The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts...
What I find hilarious is that the vast majority of “Tea Party” attendees had no idea what teabagging really means. As in:
Let’s go teabag the Whitehouse! ((OUCH!))
“Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” ~ Benito Mussolini
Ken V in Texas
Thursday, April 16 at 12:32 PM
Maybe some people don’t live in the apparant gutter world you live in Ken. Think about it.
Mark in
Friday, April 17 at 08:04 AM
Why, Mark, whatever do you mean?
I’m not sure what world you live in but in my “gutter world” words have meaning. I found it amusing to watch Tea Party-ers calling for the teabagging of this, or the teabagging of that.
I do not feel being out of touch is a virtue.
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey. ~ John Ruskin
Ken V in Texas
Friday, April 17 at 09:08 AM
Maybe some people don’t live in the apparant gutter world you live in Ken. Think about it.
Or, could it be that our bud Kenbo is concerned because these movements are gaining momentum (and press time)?
bbrd in
Friday, April 17 at 02:47 PM
bbrd, er, Someone
Or, could it be that our bud Kenbo is concerned because these movements are gaining momentum (and press time)?
You mean this “movement” that was the brain child of and promoted by FOX NEWS. I thought that “NEWS” organizations were supposed to “report” on the news, not organize and manufacture it! But we already know that FOX has never been a creditable source for the truth.
“Here’s Fox News host Neil Cavuto talking with a producer at 12:10PM,
recorded on a live mic (update: Cavuto was in Sacramento):
CAVUTO: Any estimates on how many people are here?
PRODUCER: No, we’re trying to get…
CAVUTO: There’s gotta’ be 5,000.
PRODUCER: Oh, at least. You know, I mean the cops aren’t going to tell
us, and we’ve been trying to get ahold of the PR person to give us
their number, but I think 5,000. You can say it’s starting at 5,000
[unintelligble, but sounds like “and maybe it’s more."].
And here’s Cavuto less than ten minutes later, tripling his crowd
estimate during his on-air broadcast:
CAVUTO: I know you cover a lot of these things Shep, so you’re
probably better at estimating crowd sizes than I am. They were
expecting 5,000 here, it’s got to be easily double, if not triple
that.”
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.rush-limbaugh/browse_thread/thread/ce8d2570621a6380/f276f9682aef6d8a?lnk=raot
Big D in
Friday, April 17 at 03:43 PM
COULD IT BE…
that Mark came packing that same “holier than thou” attitude
that afflicts members of the Right? You seemed to connect
Ken V’s comment to “the gutter” quite easily. Perhaps
you’re familiar with the term “tea bagging” and have
spent a little time in the gutter yourself, Mark.
ScrewedbyWalmart in Anytown, America
Friday, April 17 at 03:43 PM
Not even close to the gutter that the left wing hacks on CNN and MSNBC have been over the past 2 days. Have you seen and heard the likes of Cooper, Garofalo, Maddow and Olbermann. Nothing short of disgusting vulger. And Garofalo is a pure wack job in her Olbermann stint. And the Left thinks they can run this country? One word. CLUELESS!
Mark in
Friday, April 17 at 09:39 PM
Mark
Remember it was the right wing and FOX NEWS that through their use of the term “TEA BAGGING have left themselves wide open to ridicule, and rightly so. Had they done ANY research at all they would have known that it has been used as a sexual term for some years now. You should blame those that promoted it for there lack of foresight and research. It would be NO different if they had called it hand job day, blow job day, jerk off day or any other slang sexual term.
But it’s always the same with the right, KILL THE MESSENGER..... Get over it.
What should really bother you is the fact that FOX NEWS manufactured, through their promotion of this, a news story. Then they LIED about the results. That should disgust us all, much more than people making fun of the fact that the right chose, because of their own ignorance, to use a slang sexual term for their big protest of the year.
You should have asked TED HAGGARD, JOHN HATHAWAY, LARRY CRAIG, MARK FOLEY, BOB ALLEN, GLENN MURPHY JR. what it meant, I’ll bet they would have known the answer. BTW, I’ll wager you have spent more time worrying about Keith Olberman’s jokes pertaining to this than you did for the right wing degenerates that I listed above!
The word HYPOCRIT comes to mind here!
Big D in
Friday, April 17 at 10:26 PM
Big D,
“Had they done ANY research at all they would have known that it has been used as a sexual term for some years now.”
Just because the homosexual community highjacks words and terms to describe their sexual escapades, doesn’t mean the rest of the world has to abandon them!! Used to be that the word GAY, meant ‘Joyful’, but now the word means one thing in the regular community and another in the homosexual community!! I know people, who have had to change their name, just because they were named Gay and have been teased constantly!! Then, what gets me, is you had better not use the ‘old words’ used to describe homosexuals or you are in big trouble, but, seems they can steal words and that’s A-okay!!
And I hope you don’t work at a baking company filling boxes, because if someone asks you what you do for a living, you might say “I’m a fudge packer” and some ‘gutter people’ will claim you are using some homosexual slang, even thought you meant something quite different!! That’s why Mark said your minds are in the ‘gutter’, because you choose to add that sexual content, instead of understanding what was really meant!!
RDS in
Saturday, April 18 at 12:08 AM
SPEAKING OF “HIJACKING,” WHO HIJACKED YOUR BRAIN, RDS?
I’m enjoying this immensely. It shouldn’t be long before we see your
fan club of 1, bbrd show up to congratulate you on another “fine” post.
I believe Ken V said that in his world, “words have meaning.” His comment
drew the ire of the latest Right Wing Wacko to haunt this site, Mark.
Isn’t it you RDS, that keeps whining about “personal choice?” Words only
have the power and meaning we personally ascribe to them. If you say
to a surfer or wind surfer, “I got tea bagged,” he’ll understand that to mean,
you got dunked beneath the waves.
So even in that context, the phrase “Let’s tea bag the White House,” is
simply ludicrous.
The problem with people like RDS and Mark is they spend too much
time listening to CNN and the likes of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh,
and Sean Hannity. Bring on Cooper, Garofalo, Maddow and Olbermann.
ScrewedbyWalMart in Anytown, America
Saturday, April 18 at 06:17 AM
My sincere apology to CNN! Of course I meant FOX News in my last post.
ScrewedbyWalMart in Anytown, America
Saturday, April 18 at 06:24 AM
Screwedby,
“I believe Ken V said that in his world, “words have meaning.””
Well, then be sure you watch what YOU say, never ask anyone to: ‘Go around back and come in the back door’!!
When you take normal terms and distort them to have sexual meanings, normal minds still see the original meaning, but sexual deviants go to the ‘gutter’ and see only their twisted meaning!! And, remember, SLANG, is the invention of the less educated!!
RDS in
Saturday, April 18 at 11:03 AM
...normal minds...
By all means, RDS, enlighten me on your view of a ‘normal’ mind.
What’s good for Wal-Mart is BAD for America!
Ken V in Texas
Saturday, April 18 at 11:37 AM
And, remember, SLANG, is the invention of the less educated!! -RDS
Well if that’s true RDS, that explains why you appear to be well versed
in slang terminology. Allow me to remind you that it was YOU who
brought the term “fudge packer” into the conversation. Now you’re
making a reference to “coming in the back door? Do you have a
fixation you’d like to tell us about?
ScrewedbyWalMart in Anytown, America
Saturday, April 18 at 01:29 PM
Screwedby,
“Well if that’s true RDS, that explains why you appear to be well versed in slang terminology.”
I am not ‘well versed’, I just repeated some things I have heard for my less educated friends!! Besides, Ken V. started this whole thing with his ‘tea bagging’ comment!! And, YOU seem to know that ‘slang’ quite well yourself!!
“Allow me to remind you that it was YOU who brought the term “fudge packer” into the conversation.”
Yeah, and what is wrong with someone working in a bakery and packing ‘fudge’ into a box? After all, that’s what I was talking about and then I said that some pervert would twist it into a sexual comment, guess I was right, because you DID!!
RDS in
Saturday, April 18 at 09:42 PM
And, remember, SLANG, is the invention of the less educated!! -RDS
Jargon is a synonynm for slang. Astrophysicists, rocket scientists, macrobiologists and brain surgeons to name a few have “slang terms” or “jargon” you and I could never understand. Does that make them less educated. Slang is a familiar word either made up or used out of context to describe an item or action. Education has NOTHING to do with slang.
What offends me is people today don’t even understand WHY the original Boston Tea Party happened, not their use of slang.
F.Y.I. my son’s hocey team of 10 year olds was laughing at the use of “tea bagging” all over the television. If they know what it is, trust me FOX news knew too. The just haven’t had this much press in years.
Wal-Mart start paying your way! in Baraboo, WI
Saturday, April 18 at 09:52 PM
Education has nothing to do with being a foul mouth jerk. I proved it with a Doctorate in Communications and a lawsuit up to the US Supreme Court over foul language on television.
Dr. George Carlin in
Saturday, April 18 at 11:32 PM
...what is wrong with someone working in a bakery and packing ‘fudge’...(?)
See, that strikes me as funny as hearing the tea partiers call for tea bagging.
It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear. ~ Frank Luntz
Ken V in Texas
Sunday, April 19 at 06:12 AM
OK, WE’VE ABOUT MILKED “tea bagging” TO DEATH!
One more for the road :
Heard on CNN this morning… Some woman political hack on
the Right said with a serious look on her face : “Teabaggers are
under represented in Congress.”
You couldn’t make that up unless you are RDS.
ScrewedbyWalMart in Anytown, America
Sunday, April 19 at 09:32 AM
Ken V,
“See, that strikes me as funny as hearing the tea partiers call for tea bagging.”
See, that only SHOWS how your mind works, just like the fact that you keep calling CNBC’s Erin Burnett a ‘bunny’!! And, when you ran a restaurant, you only hired ‘good looking’ women!! Face it, you have a ‘dirty’ mind!!
RDS in
Sunday, April 19 at 10:25 AM
Nothing short of disgusting vulger. And Garofalo is a pure wack job in her Olbermann stint.
Now that you mention it, I have a little something for Screwed 2.0—what’s this thing with left-wing talking heads all being comedians turned commentators (namely, Garofalo and the senator wannabee from Minnesota)?
bbrd in
Sunday, April 19 at 11:56 AM
See, that only SHOWS how your mind works, just like the fact that you keep calling CNBC’s Erin Burnett a ‘bunny’!! And, when you ran a restaurant, you only hired ‘good looking’ women!! Face it, you have a ‘dirty’ mind!!
Screwed 2.0 said I would be following-up on one of your posts (who am I to make a liar out of the great Tommy B?).
As for Kenbo, I wouldn’t sweat it—at the end of the day, you still have a wife/family/lifestyle you enjoy to come home to, while all he has is the latest copy of Maxim and a six-pack of beer to keep him company while he surfs the ‘net for looking for like-minded friends to share his “opinions” about WM.
Some life, huh?
bbrd in
Sunday, April 19 at 12:05 PM
History 101 (Crash Course)
For those that don’t know about history ... Here is a condensed version:
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.
The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1. Liberals, and
2. Conservatives.
Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That’s how villages were formed.
Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.
Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q’s and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement-(screwed, SdV etc)
Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided. (Screwed, SDV etc)
Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.
Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn’t fair to make the pitcher also bat.
Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Coors and Miller (and the occasional Bud). They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.
Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.(Screwed, SDV etc)
Here ends today’s lesson in world history:
It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.
A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to tick them off.
And there you have it. Let your next action reveal your true self.
Republican ends in ‘I can’ and democrat ends in ‘rat’.
Liberal Spin Checker in
Sunday, April 19 at 04:05 PM
I am a true believer. I championed the cause of Republican thinking and just because the conservatives are lost now is not my fault. We are not capable of problem solving, just blaming others in the Limbaugh tradition. I never produced anything except allowing the country to be attacked (even though they warned me at least 40 times in the NIE) and torture to make up for it at Gitmo and the torture Americans suffered in my representation of the USA in general.
After me and my buds trashed the US economy, knowing we will never get back in the White House, I’ve decided to remain in hiding long enough that people will blame that black dude for everything as we hope we conservatives ruined the economy enough to blame liberals again while we hope he fails. We are real Americans and you liberals ain’t.
George W Bush in remembering Conservatives like me
Sunday, April 19 at 05:52 PM
LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A PLETHORA OF PEOPLE WITH AN AXE TO GRIND!
First there’s one of my favorites, “bbrd” / Someone in USA. He just can’t
get past the fact that I EXPOSED (hey RDS, that isn’t a dirty term)
his dual identity here. Remember how I referred to you as a “cardboard
stand up figure” when you first started posting here? It’s more
true today. Your alter ego Someone in USA, is just frustrated that
the people at The Writing on the Wal didn’t accept him into their
community, and that WalMart didn’t respond to his overtures.
Now we gotta use our scroll bars some more to get past the tripe Liberal
Spin Checker has been littering the blog with. HINT: posting the same
comment to multiple threads does not make it twice as readable.
Lastly I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention RDS’ last contribution. So you’re having a
COW because Ken V used the word BUNNY? Maybe he thinks she’s a FOX!
What do the words MINK and BEAVER do for you, RDS?
ScrewedbyWalMart in Anytown, America
Sunday, April 19 at 06:44 PM
...senator wannabee from Minnesota...
Yeah, you have to feel badly for Norm Coleman. It must really smart to lose your senate seat to a tree-hugging, Liberal comedian.
How many Democratic senators will we have when they seat Al Franken? 60?
Some life, huh?
If my life is drab because of what I do, what does that make your life of commenting on it?
What’s good for Wal-Mart is BAD for America!
Ken V in Texas
Sunday, April 19 at 07:15 PM
Face it, you have a ‘dirty’ mind!!
Calling Erin Burnett a business bunny is really filthy! I think your sensibilities are too delicate for the internet, RDS. Cover your eyes before you’re corrupted.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. ~ George Carlin
Ken V in Texas
Sunday, April 19 at 07:21 PM
Ken
“How many Democratic senators will we have when they seat Al Franken? 60?”
I wonder just how many right wing nutz spat on their screens as they read that?
Big D in
Sunday, April 19 at 08:52 PM
bbrd,
“what’s this thing with left-wing talking heads all being comedians turned commentators”
You are so right!! There is also Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Bill Maher!! I think it’s funny that Liberals see their programs, as THE NEWS!!
Ken V,
“How many Democratic senators will we have when they seat Al Franken? 60?”
You will have 60 comedians in the Senate!!
“Calling Erin Burnett a business bunny is really filthy!”
It isn’ ‘filthy’, but it is degrading to her profession, much like the ‘blond weather girl’!! But, I wouldn’t expect a ‘letch’ like you to understand that concept!!
Screwedby,
“So you’re having a COW because Ken V used the word BUNNY? Maybe he thinks she’s a FOX! What do the words MINK and BEAVER do for you, RDS?”
Most people when they hear a woman called a ‘Bunny’, think ‘Playboy Bunny’ and Playboy magazine, thus ‘nude’ women!! I don’t think a professional woman like Erin Burnett prefers to be cast in that light!!
Does your current girlfriend, like to be called a BEAVER?
BTW: It was Ken V, who was having a COW about the use of the words ‘Tea-bagging’, in the first place!!
RDS in
Sunday, April 19 at 10:27 PM
RDS (Bob)
“You are so right!! There is also Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Bill Maher!! I think it’s funny that Liberals see their programs, as THE NEWS!!”
I sure as hell don’t know anyone that thinks that John Stewart, Colbert, or Maher are the NEWS programs. They are no more news programs that FOX NEWS is! the Difference is that Stewart, Colbert, and Maher have never claimed to be the news they have always said that they were comedy shows, on the other hand FOX NEWS does claim to be a “news” program, now that’s FUNNY!!!
Big D in
Sunday, April 19 at 11:36 PM
Most people...
That’s groupthink, RDS.
Hey, if I want to get my business news from a good looking woman rather than some hag, I guess you can call me a ‘letch’.
...‘nude’ women!!
Oh no! Not NUDE WOMEN!
Speaking of “Playboy magazine”, Hugh Hefner is a peer of yours, RDS. Just look at what he did with his life compared to you . Not only did he get rich but he surrounded himself with...bunnies!
Your view of women is...um....quaint.
What’s good for Wal-Mart is BAD for America!
Ken V in Texas
Monday, April 20 at 06:25 AM
P.S.
I don’t think a professional woman like Erin Burnett prefers to be cast in that light!!
...Burnett, known as the “Street Sweetie”...
Oops...wrong again!
http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=27&num=21774
Ken V in Texas
Monday, April 20 at 06:59 AM
First there’s one of my favorites, “bbrd” / Someone in USA. He just can’t get past the fact that I EXPOSED (hey RDS, that isn’t a dirty term) his dual identity here.
Anything you say, sir—who am I to argue with the great Thomas Boese?
But first, a question—do you really think there are so few people in the world who don’t think like you (and your fellow robots) where you, without any meaningful research, have to make frivoulous claims that several of us are the same person?
Chew on that for a while…
Remember how I referred to you as a “cardboard
stand up figure” when you first started posting here?
It’s more true today. Your alter ego Someone in USA, is just frustrated that the people at The Writing on the Wal didn’t accept him into their community, and that WalMart didn’t respond to his overtures.
Honestly, I don’t think “Someone” is losing sleep over it—I know I wouldn’t (since you seem to think he and I are one and the same, anyway).
bbrd in
Monday, April 20 at 08:45 AM
Take 2
First there’s one of my favorites, “bbrd” / Someone in USA. He just can’t get past the fact that I EXPOSED (hey RDS, that isn’t a dirty term) his dual identity here.
Anything you say, sir—who am I to argue with the great Thomas Boese?
But first, a question—do you really think there are so few people in the world who don’t think like you (and your fellow robots) where you, without any meaningful research, have to make frivoulous claims that several of us are the same person?
Chew on that for a while…
(Pardon my previous editing—does that mean that perhaps, the posting personality formerly-known as “ddrb” and I could possibly be one and the same?)
bbrd in
Monday, April 20 at 08:48 AM
Ken V,
“Your view of women is...um....quaint.”
I didn’t say that that was MY view, I said it was the view of most people!! That is why ‘Playboy’ comes in a ‘brown wrapper’ and the Playboy Channel isn’t primetime mainstream TV!!
“Oh no! Not NUDE WOMEN!”
Seems that society finds that offensive and has laws against women being NUDE in public!! And didn’t the whole woman’s movement decry being held up as ‘sex objects’? Maybe you think it’s cute calling women certain names in a public forum, but they might be offended by it!!
“from a good looking woman rather than some hag”
So, now we see that you think every woman who isn’t ‘good looking’, is a HAG!! How nice!! And you think MY view of women is quaint!!
RDS in
Monday, April 20 at 09:58 AM
Your defense of political correctness is understandable, RDS. If you can’t tell the difference in toilet paper, you probable find all women equally attractive.
“It (shopping at Wal-Mart) proves something I have been trying to teach for years: the indifferent equivalence of everything with everything else, for an audience that has no concern for that difference, and no discernment of quality.” ~ Marshall Blonsky
Ken V in Texas
Monday, April 20 at 02:26 PM
HERE’S THE CONTRADICTION…
RDS and his boy mascot “bbrd,” have a hard time accepting “left wing comedians”
as news commentators, but they have no problem accepting a clown in
the White House for the past 8 years.
ScrewedbyWalMart in Anytown, America
Monday, April 20 at 06:42 PM
Screwedby,
“RDS and his boy mascot “bbrd,” have a hard time accepting “left wing comedians” as news commentators”
The problem is, they aren’t even good comedians!! All they know how to do, is tell jokes in support of drugs and bash Conservatives!!
“but they have no problem accepting a clown in the White House for the past 8 years.”
That’s because he was at least ‘funny’!!
RDS in
Monday, April 20 at 11:38 PM
So let me get this straight—just because I am not some of mindless robot (like so many others, around here) and disagree with the village idiot-turned movie producer (Screwed 2.0), I am automatically-branded as a Bush supporter??
News flash, Mr. Screwball—I happen to enjoy thinking for myself and drawing my own conclusions (you should try it, sometime—it’s rather liberating)—I don’t need the likes of you or your boys telling me what is best for—me.
bbrd in
Monday, April 20 at 11:44 PM
“...just because I am not some of mindless robot...”
bbrd/Someone the automated brown-noser
Not so fast bbrd/Someone. Everything you have ever posted here reeks of a lack of meaningful contribution. Perhaps one day in the not to distant future you might stumble upon the idea that this site is about WalMart. But that would require the schizophrenic both of you to return to reality.
“A pig that has two owners is sure to die of hunger.” English Proverb
SanDiegoView in WalMart is American cultural suicide
Tuesday, April 21 at 03:12 AM
“the schizophrenic both of you”
Correct SDV! I’ve always viewed “bbrd” as a part
a “Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde” mutation of
Someone in USA’s over-sized ego.
So far, neither one of this “dynamic duo” has
even tried to put forth a semi-plausible explanation
of why one of “bbrd’s” posts a few months ago,
linked directly to Someone in USA’s blog.
ScrewedbyWalMart in Anytown, America
Tuesday, April 21 at 05:08 AM
“Everything you have ever posted here reeks of a lack of meaningful contribution. Perhaps one day in the not to distant future you might stumble upon the idea that this site is about WalMart. But that would require the schizophrenic both of you to return to reality.”
ROFL ROFL That’s just too funny SDV considering the source. A little (or should I say ALOT) of the pot calling the kettle black.
ddrb in
Tuesday, April 21 at 07:23 AM
That last post SCREAMED “bbrd”. I guess he misses having her around so much,
he’s now pretending to be her. How many other personalities do you have
inside you, “bbrd” / Someone? You’re gaining on Sybil.
ScrewedbyWalMart in Anytown, America
Tuesday, April 21 at 08:33 AM
Sorry, Mr. Screwed - “ddrb at 7:23 a.m.” wasn’t me...sorry to burst your bubble.
You should know by now that when I make reference to San Diego’s favorite shit-disturber, I simply rearrange his initials to something a little more “appropriate"…
I guess he misses having her around so much, he’s now pretending to be her.
I doubt that—but she’s like a bad case of zits—always popping up when you least expect it.
bbrd in
Tuesday, April 21 at 08:51 AM
...like a bad case of zits—
Finally, you’ve stumbled onto an area where you have some authority.
Wal-Mart is the exemplar of a form of corporate colonialism, which is to say, organizations from one place going into distant places and strip-mining them culturally and economically. ~ James Howard Kunstler
Ken V in Texas
Tuesday, April 21 at 10:29 AM
bbrd,
“he’s now pretending to be her.”
Pretty soon, they will claim YOU are everybody, even them!!
RDS in
Tuesday, April 21 at 11:25 AM
Screwedby,
“why one of “bbrd’s” posts a few months ago,
linked directly to Someone in USA’s blog.”
How do YOU explain that one of bbrd’s posts linked to YOUR blog? Is he you too?
RDS in
Tuesday, April 21 at 11:28 AM
That was a weak attempt on your part to cover “bbrd’s” ass. And it took
you to come up with that “explanation?”. Sorry! No sale.
ScrewedbyWalMart in Anytown, America
Tuesday, April 21 at 01:14 PM
Finally, you’ve stumbled onto an area where you have some authority.
Shut up, Ken.
Pretty soon, they will claim YOU are everybody, even them!!
Why not? So far, I have been you, Someone, and now, I’m none other than dd-what’s-her-name. It’s only a matter of time, I suppose…
How do YOU explain that one of bbrd’s posts linked to YOUR blog? Is he you too?
Lord, I hope not—Screwed 2.0 is enough of a social outcast, as he is…
bbrd in
Tuesday, April 21 at 03:37 PM
Oooooooh There’s the ultimate put down!
“Shut up, Ken. “
Has Matt been giving you lessons, “bbrd”?
ScrewedbyWalMart in Anytown, America
Tuesday, April 21 at 09:45 PM
“WAL-MART SUPPLIERS ‘NOT IN CONTROL’ OF OWN DESTINY?”
They are NOT supposed to be in control, the CUSTOMER is always in control and Wal-Mart is their customer!! When the customer is not satisfied with product or cost, they will always go elsewhere, so the supplier has to bend to the customers wishes or lose the business!!
RDS in
Thursday, April 23 at 09:54 AM
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