Irritated Colon
Today Alicia Colon, one of our favorite wingnuts, is making, via the New York Sun, her debut appearance at Sadly, No! Affectionately known as Staten Island’s smartest, and New York’s least intelligent, pundit, Alicia has made a way into our heart for her trademark blend of factual inaccuracy, fractured prose style and lunatic worldview. Think of her as a mash-up of Megan McArdle, Pastor Swank and Tom Sowell.
For her debut here, Alicia is defending Wal-Mart because, of course, Wal-Mart is incapable of defending itself from the scurrilous attacks of liberals:
Liberal New Yorkers can be somewhat elitist and associate Nascar with rednecks and, gasp, Republicans. . . . That same discriminatory attitude is behind the anti-Wal-Mart fervor that scuttled the Staten Island site for the superstore giant.
Hey, people, we’ve been caught. Alicia has single-handedly uncovered the great liberal plot to keep Republicans from shopping. That way all the Republicans will starve (although some will take longer than others) and we can take over the world! Bwahahaha!
Recently, I caught the documentary ” Wal-Mart — The High Cost of Low Price,” and marveled at how manipulative it was. It was truly worthy of a Michael Moore.
Somehow, I don’t think that’s a compliment. But, let’s be quiet for a moment . . . the lights are dimming . . .
A scene opens with the heading, ” WAL-MART DESCENDS ON MIDDLEFIELD!” Bulldozers are shown on the construction site for the town’s new Wal-Mart. The camera pans to a notice in the window of H&H Hardware that reads: “Inventory Closeout Sale. After 43 years, H&H Hardware is closing down.” What does the filmmaker want his audience to think — that Wal-Mart was responsible for this?
I don’t know, Alicia, why don’t you tell us?
The owner, Jon Hunter, has said that he told the film’s producers not to link the store’s closing to Wal-Mart. His business closed because of his own bad business decisions. That’s not explained in the film.
Possibly it’s not explained in the film because it isn’t true. Let’s hear from Mr. Hunter himself:
Wal-Mart’s arrival represented an indirect factor in the closing of H&H Hardware.
At the same time that Wal-Mart announced they were coming to Middlefield, I was counting on a new business plan and bank loan to continue to support my hardware store – the loans depended on the value of my business and the building. When I went to secure the loan, the appraiser devalued the building at a drastically lower price than I expected – this was directly related to Wal-Mart coming into town. The appraiser told me that banks knock the values of other stores down when Wal-Mart opens in town since “sooner or later there will be a bunch of empty buildings.” I was turned down for the loan. So, Wal-Mart was a related factor to my business closing down.
That’s certainly what we call a Megan McArdle moment. Now for a Tom Sowell moment:
Mom-and-pop businesses may go belly up . . . but not necessarily because of competition by a retail giant. The convenience store is called that because that’s what it is — convenient — [Thanks, Alicia, we never would have figured that out! — ed. note] and as long as the economy is strong, customers will pay more for prompt good service and an accommodating environment that they can’t get from the larger merchandiser.
Er, no, at least according to actual studies, like this one, which, needless to say, are rather more reliable than the stuff that Alicia makes up. And, if she really believes that people love to pay more for things at he mom-and-pop stores, what’s she doing jonesing for her very own local Wal-Mart?
Now that we have your appetite for Alicia’s antics whetted, you can find more of her wit and wisdom here.
Now where did I read that (KOS, Crooks & Liars?) a recent study shows Walmart prices are NOT, for the most part, lower than other stores. Only the things displayed next the the entrance, and whatever is on sale that day. I can’t stand the store, it makes me claustrophobic. Maybe it’s the shelves towering over my head. Living in earthquake land it makes me nervous.
Noooooo!!!! I can’t take another one.
Is there a clone army of idiot wingnut pundits? Do they simply sign off on some wingnut template essay that makes them all sound the same? Is there some deep cavern in the bowels of some godforsaken island where these things are hatched?
SN –
I doubt that you all get thanked enough for causing yourself irrepairable brain damage in order to actually read all this assorted garbage and to provide a synopsis for everyone so we can laugh our asses off. So,…, thanks!
Hey, what’s that, I’ve got some brown stuff on my nose…
Full disclosure: I work for a midwestern superstore with locations in five states, and we are obviously in direct competition with Wal-Mart. Everyone in our company, right on up to the CEO and owners, understands that Wal-Mart is trying to destroy us. I can’t even imagine what it’s like to be a mom-and-pop operation in competition with them.
Anybody want a gallon jar of whole cucumber pickles?
CHEAP!!
The woman who really irritates my colon is Hillary, aka
Ghost of Clinton Past
Dr BLT
http://www.drblt.net/music/GhostOFClintP.mp3
Oh dear, they’ve spawned another one. Somehow I think that she was hatched on Michelle Malkin’s behalf, solely for the purpose of harvesting her organs, so that Michelle can promote Flock of Seagulls events in perpetuity.
you can find more of her wit and wisdom here.
A veritable Colonnade.
Now, come on, Dr. BLT — that’s a pretty thin thread to hang your link-whoring on. You can do better than that. Or maybe not.
Wingnuts create their own reality, Clif, and you can but study it. Judiciously.
Actually, I thought a Thomas Sowell moment would be to recommend that Wal-Mart snipers would take out competitors from a moving helicopter. Now that’s an unregulated capitalist market, beee-yatches!!
They can’t sell this Neo-Con loss leader,so they just dump copys on every doorstep and give never ending free trial subscriptions to boost their numbers.I have been getting a copy in my Grandfathers name who has been dead for about 20 years.Good crossword puzzle though,and arts section,rest goes directly in the recycle bin.I think it’s the Manhattan Institutes house organ,man they love Liberman and Guiliani.
Who needs Iceland, when you got Staten Island?
That’s what I call a courageous free market supporter.
Reluctant to speculate, too.
It’s just like liberals to snub Nascar culture.
Who the hell do they think they are, anyway, petitioning government like it has the authority to referee competing public and private interests?
Blech. I don’t know how you guys do this shit every day.
I’ve been dragged out in a rip tide.
I’ve been in combat.
Hell, I’ve been in hand-to-hand combat.
I’ve been in jail.
I’ve been in car wrecks.
I’ve been in motorcycle wrecks.
I’ve been in bar fights.
I’ve been to family reunions.
But when I went in WalMart in Mountain View to get a cheap mp3 player for my new car, it was by FAR the scariest moment of my life.
I just panicked. Somewhere between the size 42 teddies and the 144 count huggies I just freaked and ran for the exit. Jeez, those places are not only purest evil, but they simply radiate suckage from every corner…
mikey
I understand why a “convenience store” is called that because it is convenient. But that’s only half the explanation. Why is it called a store?
Why is it called a store?
Perhaps you store things there. I wonder if Megan knows?
And I think it’s worth mentioning that ESPN has the Yankees Red Sox game, at least out here. And while I won’t turn up the sound, it’s unbearable, they seem to have a tall blonde on-field reporter named Erin Something that is screamin HOT!!
Hopefully she’ll be fully utilized…
What???
mikey
I can’t stand the store, it makes me claustrophobic. Maybe it’s the shelves towering over my head.
It’s the GUM aesthetic.
My mom shops in the Wal-Mart that has devastated all the small businesses in her small East Texas town, so I go there with her when I visit.
But otherwise I have only willingly stepped inside a Wal-Mart one other time. There’s one in the West Valley. Shares a mall with a Target, which is interesting – wonder how their sales compare?
Anyway, I went in there because I was doing a party with a trailer-trash theme and wanted to get some cheap crap to make centerpieces, and figured it’d be just the place.
Well, I did find some good cheap crap, but you know what? It was so cheap and so crappy that it barely fulfilled the function I had in mind – a one-time use as a party decoration. About 25% of the things fell apart while I was putting the things together.
“Now, come on, Dr. BLT — that’s a pretty thin thread to hang your link-whoring on. You can do better than that. Or maybe not.”
There’s only room under this blog thread for one sandwich doc. One of us must leave. I think you and I both know which one of us that’s going to be. Me? :()
Guess again!
I say we keep the guy who’s guestposting.
For the record, a lot of people shop at WalMart because it’s the only damned store they can get to. And it’s often the only damned store within miles because they shut down the competition. It’s got nothing to do with superior service or prices. Not that Alicia would understand that. I’m sure she would just demand to know why they don’t get a car or something.
Wait a second, the liberals invaded Staten Island? Is there no sacred homeland left for wingnuts?
Besides, whores do it for the money. I honestly don’t care about making money with my music.
What I do is strictly for the purpose of pissing off liberals. I’m kidding of course. You all know that I love you, well, most of you. The ones that have been civil and somewhat sympathetic towards me.
Wait another second. Do liberals really snub NASCAR culture? I’m as knee jerky as they come and I’ve been rooting for Jeff Gordon forever. You know, Jeff Gordon, my wingnut acquaintances call him “The Fag”, so he’s a special match for me.
The old hackneyed strategy of ignoring the troll (or the recovering troll, in this case) won’t work. I love to be ignored. It forces me to search deep within my soul for validation, and thus, it allows me to establish and maintain an internal as opposed to an external, locus of control.
Walmart sucks in ways that go beyond the standard definition of sucks. It is a bizarro doppleganger of the old Soviet department stores, but instead of having only a few things for sale and that are all total crap, Walmart has hundreds of things for sale that are all total crap. Now that is certainly something that made winning the Cold War worth it, doesn’t it?
I know what you’re saying as applied to Wall Mart. As Dennis Miller (the comedian liberals love to hate) once said, “Two of shit is still shit.”
I don’t understand NASCAR. It’s just not interesting to watch. They have made rules that enforce some kind of strict techonlogical parity when the history of the culture is one of out inventing and out driving the competition. They can’t pass, they whine about bumping, they only turn left. Jeez, that’s just dumb, and it’s nothing like the old moonshiners, who must be rolling over in their graves.
They all go the same speed in the same direction in the same cars with the same fuel and the same engines and the same ground effects. What part of the SAME is interesting or exciting? Auto racing, with it’s kinetic appeal and the risk factor should be the most exciting spectacle in sports. When Williams/Henin or Henin/Sharapova is more interesting, more exciting and more engaging than a car race, it’s time to re-think your car race rules, is all I’m saying…
mikey
That’s why “2 for the price of 1” at stores like this was never a big selling point for me.
Wait a minute. Is her last name really “Colon”? Oh dear. I would have taken care of that in a court of law as soon as I became a legal adult. Imagine what her tender years must have been like, schoolkids being as kind and accepting as they are and all. I’ll bet she suffered terribly from the nicknames and hurled insults. Poor girl.
Well, things are tough all over. She’s still a fucking idiot.
I will not geek about auto racing at Sadly, No!
I will not geek about auto racing at Sadly, No!
I will not geek about auto racing at Sadly, No!
I will. not. geek. about auto racing at Sadly, No!
Colon is an Hispanic name. It is pronounced Cologne. My partner is Latino and one big branch of his family is named Colon.
I wonder how she feels about Teh Reconquista . . .
mikey,
I’ve been to that store back when I lived out there, I suddenly realized one day that you got the Target just across the street. Target sucks, but not nearly as bad as WalMart.
WalMart has some kind of evil oxygen-shortage, like the fat broads have used up all the air in the place. Every WalMart across the country, and I’ve been in dozens, sadly, there’s the same sort of toxic atmosphere.
Hey, BTW, if you go to the Trader joes out there, pick up a bottle of Cabernet called “3 Knights”. It’s about 7 bucks, but it’s a serious bottle of wine … it could go for 25 … trust me here, I got sources.
Hell, yeah, zsa, I get my olive oil (a california oil with tons of spice) at that TJs for like four bucks, my flat bread, a whole bean kona coffee that KILLS, lots of things. Hell, I eat lunch in that Chilis once a week, and the Armadillo Willy’s HQ place is right across el camino.
That’s all mikey central…
mikey
It’s funny an’ all, but if I was going to create an imaginary wingnunt I think I’d have the class to name her something other than Colon.
For shame Libturds, For SHAME(The ‘one’ key is completely missing from my laptop)
(The ‘one’ key is completely missing from my laptop)
And what, ctrl-v is on vacation?
Pssshhh. Kids today. Just lazy….
mikey
I dunno,. I know WalMart devastates local communities, but we are talking about Staten Island. Few communities are more deserving of some high-quality devastating.
Staten Island is the most wingnutty place on Earth, appropriately enough for somewhere built on a giant pile of garbage.
You want suckage?
My truck needed a shovel to pass a safety audit and a Walmart out past the new suburbs happened to be the only place open one winter morning. I had to navigate crap-jammed aisles looking for the tool dept. and was struck by the sound of whoops and hollers drifting across the store from a distant corner. Being curious and always on the lookout for cultural enrichment, I crept over as close as I dared. There among the clothing racks was a circle of sales clerks and a manager standing in the middle leading the group in an early AM pep cheer.
Minimum wage AND the Jim Jones treatment. Yeesh.
I will admit that the shovel continues to serve me well.
I call fake Dr. BLT.
Sure, she’s an idiot, but her prose looks downright classy next to, say, Kaye Grogan. And therefore, less funny.
Guys, thanks for reading this stuff for us. My stomach (and Colon) churn whenever I try to read it unfiltered.
they seem to have a tall blonde on-field reporter named Erin Something that is screamin HOT!!
mikey –
That would be Erin Andrews, who got her start as the roving rinkside reporter for the Sunshine Network’s Tampa Bay Lightning telecasts. She has climbed the sports broadcasting ladder with surprising speed since she left a couple of seasons ago.
She’s quite something to look at, but not all that great as an actual reporter.
With those eyes, fish, she could DOMINATE porn. I dunno what her career plans are, but if it’s about money, she needs to show more flesh. If it’s about fame, well, dammit, she’s on course…
mikey
A thwap on Sadly’s Noggin for bringing yet another wingnut, and this one’s name is COLON no less.
“You know, Jeff Gordon, my wingnut acquaintances call him “The Fag”, so he’s a special match for me.”
I don’t care much for NASCAR, but Jeff Gordan is a hottie! I’d watch him pump gas any day.
I think I’ll check out the Sun to see if colonoscopy has any dish on the NASCAR hotties…
1. Yes, Erin Andrews is quite pleasurable to the eye.
2. Go Kevin Harvick.
The appraiser told me that banks knock the values of other stores down when Wal-Mart opens in town…
Damn, that’s corporate capitalism at its finest.
I was at a family reunion recently, and I made the mistake of saying I boycott The Mart, because of the evil and all. Well, that was met with howls of indignation because of all the “new” jobs created by The Mart, and I was just hurting the working people there. I tried to explain how exploitive these “new” jobs are, how even the act of simply organizing can get your American ass fired. Apparently, all those studies, lawsuits, and eventual settlements are based on lies. I learn something everyday; the power of a $12 toaster is inexorable.
Later in the evening, a drunken Uncle was telling everyone not to buy the Citgo gasoline. Communism, you know.
I love my family, and I love them more when there are 3,000 miles between us.
Nascar;Traffic as a sport.?
For the record, a lot of people shop at WalMart because it’s the only damned store they can get to. And it’s often the only damned store within miles because they shut down the competition. It’s got nothing to do with superior service or prices.
Excellent point, D. Sidhe. When even the WSJ and the Economist look askance at how much Wal-Mart’s policies put them in harmony with their favorite ChiCom supporters, it’s a bit late for the fourth-rank Wingnut Welfare Wankers like Colon to pretend that Wal-Mart and Teh Free Market have anything in common. One of the few silver glints I see in the upcoming mortgage-bubble depression is the hope that it may eliminate Wal-Mart before WM can destroy any more American businesses and communities.
Of course, people from Staten Island all shop across the bridge in Jersey where the sales tax is lower, but they ought to have a WalMart anyway, because there are too many people in Staten Island who work for a living. It lowers the tone.
Alicia’s been at the forefront of her paper’s jihad against the arab language magnet school in Brooklyn. Apparently they named it after a pacifist maronite christian as a head fake, and they’re really going to be teaching islamofascism. Alicia knows this because, um, she writes for the Sun.
and as long as the economy is strong, customers will pay more for prompt good service and an accommodating environment that they can’t get from the larger merchandiser.
which translates to me as “Since the economy for the last six years has been SHIT, no wonder Wal-Mart is SOOOOO POPULAR!”
Of course, maybe Americans are just fucking spoiled brats who’d rather load their lard-ass family, complete with slackjawed screaming idiot children, into their giant gas-sucking Hummers, drive 40 miles round trip across town to go to The Bad Place (as I like to call it) to buy cheap (and we find out now, often toxic) crap from China, probably imprinted with a goddamn Disney character, and get shitty unhelpful service while they’re at it in order to “save a few bucks”. Maybe we’re just a nation of cretinous semi-literate mouthbreathing penny-wise-and-pound-foolish masochists.
Nascar;Traffic as a sport.?
People down here certainly fucking DRIVE like it, that’s fersure.
Nascar, feh! Pokey slow crap driving in eternal circles. Give me Formula 1 or Indy Car instead any day.
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julia said,
September 15, 2007 at 4:59
“Of course, people from Staten Island all shop across the bridge in Jersey where the sales tax is lower, but they ought to have a WalMart anyway, because there are too many people in Staten Island who work for a living. It lowers the tone.
Alicia’s been at the forefront of her paper’s jihad against the arab language magnet school in Brooklyn. Apparently they named it after a pacifist maronite christian as a head fake, and they’re really going to be teaching islamofascism. Alicia knows this because, um, she writes for the Sun.”
Hey they got a non-Arabic speaking Orthodox Jewish woman to replace the Principle they hounded out,so all is right with the world.Pere-Ubu Rally racing fast as you can over fucked up terrain,cooler cars.
“I call fake Dr. BLT.”
What can I say? g’s gone exposed me. I might as well come clean.
I’m not the real Dr BLT, but a fake one. I thought I could get away with it by posting a song I thought sounded like something Dr BLT would have written, and I tried to sound like a right wing-nut, but not so much like one as to alienate the mushy middle.
But I’ll let all of you know that I’m not giving up until I have all of you convinced that I’m the real deal. Real bacon, real lettuce unite with the right, and real tomatoe (spelled the way Dan Quale would have spelled it). I’ll be back, even if the real Dr BLT has abandoned us forever.
Is Target okay or is it just a lesser evil? I like their clothes.
Well, it certainly beats Best Buy, aka…
The Best Buy Inn
Dr BLT copyright 2006
http://www.drblt.net/music/bestBI.mp3
…where they won’t even allow the baby Jesus at Christmastime.
This time, g, don’t question me. I’ve studied his style for years, before he even started trolling here. This is exactly how he would comment, and what I’m doing is at least a dead ringer for his mode of operation. You will give me that, won’t you.
“Is Target okay or is it just a lesser evil? I like their clothes.
Are you kidding me? Didn’t you see Lord of the Rings? Where do you think Tolkien got the idea for Sauron’s eye (and before you suggest CBS, let me assure you that Father Tolkien died well before Katie Couric took over the evening news).
Myself, I only shop where I know they use free range slave labor and organic lead based additives.
“and as long as the economy is strong, customers will pay more for prompt good service and an accommodating environment that they can’t get from the larger merchandiser.”
*cough, splutter, double-take*
Let’s ignore the fact that the economy is very much not strong.
No.
The only reason people will not shop at Omnistore is if the store does not cary the exact item needed, or if the Omni store is so mind-bogglingly poorly run and maintained that shopper there is actively dis-pleasant. People don’t want an accommodating atmosphere; they want to get the hell in and get the hell out.
Target is fine, I think. They main focus is on clothing, everything else is secondary/impulse purchases.
Target is apparently less likely to squeeze their suppliers past the point of profitability. But that’s probably because they’re still honing their business model. I think they pay their employees slightly more, and if nothing else there’s no morning pep rally.
‘Necks watch NASCAR ’cause they want to see a wreck. Also, it’s manly ‘Murkin cars, not them needle-nosed furrin open-wheel sissy-mobiles.(What Toyota is doing in NASCAR is beyond me.)
And from today’s edition of That Which Lines Princess Lillie’s Pan™:
Not the entire column, & I’m simply too effin’ lazy to put the snips in!!
Target has the same shampoo for $1.00 less than the local Rite-Aids (also a shitty, low-paying, non-union co.). One of those “who gave what to whom” campaign contribution websites indicates that the CEO of Target gives big to Republican candidates, but what the fuck can you do? I have to wash my hair a couple of times a month, even if it doesn’t need it.
Actually, the Sun has a decent sports section, too. Steven Goldman of Baseball Prospectus does frequent pieces for them.
But yeah, it makes the Post look professional and considered, mostly.
As for Walmart, I’ve been in one once. In Florida, visiting the parents, in desperate need of new headphones. There was a McDonalds right in it, where (I asked) you can place order then pick them up when you’re done shopping.
It scared the shit out of me, mikey is absolutely right.
However, the blog Behind the Counter is awesome, if you’re into amusing displays of the lowest dregs of humanity. By an educated gay man in Florida who works customer service at the most ghetto WM in the US. Also, it taught me something important; only suckers pay for what they get from the Mart.
Inre: Nascar, several have already inadvertently paraphrased George Carlin’s wise take; hicks driving in a circle 500 times isn’t very impressive.
I try to do most of my shopping over the intratubez,rather not deal with anybody when I’m shopping if I can help it.But out of the big cities you don’t have many choices for necessities.Here it’s all Duane Reade all the time.NY is turning into a big strip mall,it’s breaking my heart.But your right about the Sun Dif-Brad but it takes this faux didactic tone about all it’s booga-booga.
Look, I swear I ain’t no hippy, and people gotta buy their clothes somewhere and unless you belong to the Federalist Society you probably need budget your expenses, but the shit we buy (myself included) at Target, or K-mart, or T.J. Max, or Best Buy (never again, I swear), or Costingtons is made by the same little old Chinese lady chained to a sewing machine in a bunker buried under Tiananmen Square. Her coal-fired sewing machine is spewing atmospheric pollutants that are reaching the US West Coast, her neighbors are snapping up Hyundai Elantras and burning oil like a Republican, and the local water supply is poisoning her daughter’s kids.
I ain’t saying everybody needs to go cold turkey or that the old Chinese lady doesn’t need to feed herself or that I’m gradiose enough to ignore my own trespasses. But I don’t think it’s just Walmart (…I spit on Sam Walton’s grave, pitooie) that’s the problem. We gotta try something different cause this shit ain’t working for anybody.
mikey,
next time you think about walmart in mountain view, I’ll take you for tacos instead.
Do not speak of the Red Sox game. I have banished it from my mind.
The “Spanish” guy who “discovered” America in 1492 was named Colon. Cristobal Colon.
The more you know…
It’s been fairly commonly reported that Wall Street has long been angry with Costco for maintaining their employees’ pay and benefits far above their warehouse club rivals, and their CEO tells the short-sighted investor class idiots to screw off, basically, which is one reason I shop there, that is, when I really, really need a 20 pack of toothbrushes or a 5 lb bag of tortilla chips.
What I love about that article: using their per store profit numbers, Costco (which doesn’t have the advantage of 800-lb gorilla leaning on their suppliers) is making over ten billion dollars more sales with 25% fewer stores than Sam’s Club.
Second runner up: “One analyst, Bill Dreher of Deutsche Bank, complained last year that at Costco “it’s better to be an employee or a customer than a shareholder.”
and what kind of business model is that for retail sales? Clearly saying fuck you to employees and customers is doing Sam’s Club a world of good.
Attention, K-Mart shoppers! Blue light special on ladies underwear for the next fifteen minutes only! That’s ladies underwear. All sizes and styles.
And now, back to our Muzak special – Neil Diamond sings Barry Manilow. Thank you.
cliffy-
Alicia has single-handedly uncovered the great liberal plot to keep Republicans from shopping. That way all the Republicans will starve (although some will take longer than others) and we can take over the world! Bwahahaha!
Have you ever been to a Wal-Mart? I’ll guarantee that my grocery bill is still lower than it was 5 years ago when I was split between ‘Big Bear’ (“Penn Traffic”- now bankrupt) and ‘Kroger’…
I would also bet that 70-80% of both the ‘customers’ and the ’employees’ at my local Wal-Mart are “Democrats”!
(but, we know that the “leftist elite’ hates poor people…) So—
Wal-Mart– BAD!
Jane~
Penn Traffic is not bankrupt. I have a friend who works there and in fact I sent a resume there a few days ago.
Uhhh, nevermind. Apparently they declared bankruptcy in 2004. I live in Columbus and the last we heard of them was when Big Bear left town, but now that I am moving to upstate NY they operate P&C up there, so I figured things had changed.
I, uh, don’t split my attention well. Never mind me…
Simba-
Can we hear some more about your friend’s ‘application’!
uhhh, nevermind
Oops! I have the giggles!!!
I also live in Columbus!
I also was an employee of “Big Bear”- at their warehouse on Goodale Ave. –until they “filed for bankruptcy”- and “fired” me.
I just simply blame George Bush (so that all you leftists will love me!)
Simba-
I was laughing so fucking hard that I blew my tag…
Apparently they declared bankruptcy in 2004.
I guess it takes a ‘Community-based Reality’ to miss three years of the real world!
m bouffant-
Target has the same shampoo for $1.00 less than the local Rite-Aids (also a shitty, low-paying, non-union co.)
Like “Jet-Blue”- the official airline (and sponsor) of YearlyKos…
Wal-Mart loves poor people, like they love their poor employees. Hmm, how can they fuck them even more? Oh, let’s float “on demand” scheduling for less than full time employees! Do you think they pay them to sit around and not be able to work other jobs so they can meet peak demand for lead coated plastic crap, for the making of which the only way to meet corporate demands is to DEFRAY all environmental and societal costs into some nether region while suppliers chew their arms off to land the only deal in town. Great, thanks for the low prices Wal-Mart, once everyone in the world is out of business they can set whatever prices they want for the growing underclass that exists in a choice-free environment.
Hey, mikey, did you go to the screening of The High Cost of Wal Mart at the comic store in the plaza next to Costco? That was pretty fun.
The only time I shopped at Wal Mart was when I lived in Arizona and it was the only discount marketer in the urban srea; we didn’t buy groceries there, but we needed things like particle and cardboard furnature and such.
Still, Target sells better crap than they, for the same price.
Hmmmmm. A Talkin’ Michelle Malkin wannabee.
Are we sure she’s not plagarizing the Talkin’ one?
And an appropriate surname for sure – tells you exactly from where she pulls her material.
Advice – if you dare read any of Ms. Colon’s work (or Talkin’ Malkin’s for that matter), be sure to bring:
1. A pair of latex gloves;
2. A biohazard suit;
3. Bleach;
4. A ziplock-type biohazard disposal bag.
…And once finished, please dispose of in your nearest incinerator.
Rufus said,
September 15, 2007 at 16:21
The “Spanish” guy who “discovered” America in 1492 was named Colon. Cristobal Colon.
He was an Italian, born in Genoa, sailing for Spain, by the name of Cristoforo Colombo.
Pere Ubu:
Nascar, feh! Pokey slow crap driving in eternal circles. Give me Formula 1 or Indy Car instead any day.
Amen, brother Ubu. Sad to see how Indycar and F1 drivers are starting to show up in NAStyCAR land, though. Montoya, Franchitti and Villeneuve at last count. I have a feeling that this will only increase.
My hope is that these drivers come to dominate the series and really piss off the good ol’ boys.