"America" doesn't need Wal-Mart
According to Publishers Weekly, Wal-Mart decided not to carry Jon Stewart’s America: the Book in their stores because of a satirical spread that pastes the heads of Supreme Court justices onto naked bodies.
In other news, it’s still the number one best selling hardcover nonfiction book in the U.S.. I dread the day when Wal-Mart finally takes over the world.
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Of course, selling guns that can shoot the heads off bodies is perfectly OK.
Ugh… I’m so depressed.
First, Kerry and Edwards lose (by about 150,000 votes) and dimWit thinks he has a “mandate”.
Then there are the Supreme Court justice appointments that are sure to come up in Shrubbie’s second term. He says he doesn’t have a “litmus test” but that’s bullshit - he picks judges who are as far right as he is.
And now Jerry Falwell has declared that he’s now on an “Evangelical Crusade” - “god” help us!
What does this have to do with Wal-Mart? It’s just more proof that the mulleted, xenophobic, mouth-breathing morons who patronize abusers like Wal-Mart are starting to vote en masse (shudder) and are changing our great nation into a paranoid, small-minded, simpleton theocracy.
I swear Canada looks better and better…
I’m thinking that my PBS money is going to the ACLU for the next four years.
Man, you guys are sure angry, and insulting. I would gladly help you pack and drive you to Canada myself.
Hey, who’s a small-minded paranoid xenophobe? You just labeled 7/8 of the country who have shopped at Wal-Mart “mulleted mouth-breathing morons.”
No, I’m just labelling as morons the 51% of the electorate that gave Bush his “mandate.”
By the way, I’m not a xenophobe if I’m wanting to move to Canada — which looks tempting considering that more and more power seems to be going to right-wing religious nutjobs.
Don’t mind J., he’s just a big fan of alliteration. However, I will echo the sentiment that Wal-Mart represents pretty much everything that I think is wrong with this country: unchecked capitalism at the expense of mom-and-pop merchants, not to mention its own exploited employees. Oh, yeah — and the First Amendment, too.
Sorry, let’s not forget the mom-and-mom merchants, or pop-and-pop merchants.
I’m not quite sure how giving $ to the ACLU makes me angry or insulting, Charles.
Perhaps we need to start the Friday cat blogging on Thursday this week :-)
Not a good idea. If there is one thing that get’s me fired up more than liberals it’s cats. I saw a bumper sticker once that I found amusing. It said “I love cats, they taste like chicken”
“I love cat, they taste like chicken”
Aw.…. the compassion of Christ’s followers.….
If you are so enlightened you might have the same compassion for “mulleted, xenophobic, mouth-breathing morons”, as you do for cats.
Ah, but I don’t claim to be a “believer,” and I never advocated the eating of “mulleted, xenophobic, mouth-breathing morons.”
I DO feel sorry for them however - sorry that they voted against their own economic/foreign policy (present and future) best interests when they chose Bush. I’m sorry that they think outlawing gay marriage is more important than education, the environment, Iraq, healthcare, poverty, etc. I’m sorry that they think a imbecilic, former cocaine user that used his position of privilege to get out of Vietnam and to bail him out of numerous business failures, is a “moral” man. A man who put more people to death in Texas while he was Governor than the rest of the states had in 20 years combined. A man that has at best, a lack of understanding, and at worst, open contempt for the poor and underprivileged.
Not very “Christ-like” is he?
Re: the cat comment. I’m sure it was a joke. C’mon now, really.
For most conservatives, and most Christians, as I understand it, outlawing gay marriage was actually very low in anybody’s priorities when it came to deciding whom to vote into the presidential office. Most of the conservative political blogs out there will confirm that. Abortion was WAY higher on the list. Can you understand why?
Bush was not solely responsible for putting people to death in Texas. He was upholding state law, and those people I dare say were subject to justice. If you want to blame Texans for putting the penalty into law, that’s fine, but don’t blame it all on Bush.
As far as Bush’s personal past is concerned, Christians believe that people can change. That’s what happens in conversion—God changes you, makes you into a better person. We’re not perfect, nobody’s perfect this side of heaven—everyone’s basically selfish and unloving at root. If President Bush isn’t perfect yet, well, neither are we. That doesn’t mean we don’t expect him to behave ethically and professionally while he’s in office or that we don’t criticize him; it’s just a fact.
That doesn’t mean we don’t expect him to behave ethically and professionally while he’s in office or that we don’t criticize him; it’s just a fact.
Yes, but “you,” to generalize, reëlected him. And he’s behaved in every way except ethically and professionally.
Someone asked me the other day how Kerry’s plan was better than Bush’s. My reply was, “Does it matter? At least it won’t be predicated on lies!” The person’s reply was, “What lies?” How frustrating to battle ignorance. (Not to mention faith.)
I apologize for missing the early parts of this discussion — go out of the office for two days, and all sorts of stuff breaks loose!
Are you sure your colleague wasn’t just asking you to elaborate? “We” who opposed Kerry are getting pretty sick of the generalizations and vague accusations. It’s easy to call people morons if you won’t talk details and give them the chance to defend their positions.
Actually, I’ve heard the analysts on both sides say there really isn’t much difference between the Kerry plan (at least what he’s said publicly and recently in the campaign) and the Bush plan when it comes to how to deal with Iraq. As opposed to say, Nader’s.
Are you sure your colleague wasn’t just asking you to elaborate?
Completely. When the word “lie” came out of my mouth, I immediately became both ignorant and unpatriotic — and was informed about “my ways,” in case I was unsure.
The emotions on this one are still red-hot and, it seems, not dying down one bit after the election. “Good,” I say, because the more truth gets out, the more Bush supporters I believe will realize the mistake they’ve made, despite the best intentions.
Of course, both Kerry and Gore believed that if they put the truth out there people would make informed decisions, and look where they are.