Normal people must help save Wal-Mart from the liberals

[tni]

The jerk is at it again:

Normal people must help save Wal-Mart from the liberals

Sunday, September 28, 2003

By Michael J. Bowers
Star columnist

A writer in Colorado — I wish I had saved the column — had a grand time recently with the report that said that people who live in the suburbs weigh more than people who live in the city. The difference in most cases was a fraction of a pound, he said, so what's the point?

The writer answered his own question: The weight study is another attempt by the Left in America to stop normal people in Middle America from doing what they want to do.

In this case, they want people to live in the city. It's safer for the planet somehow. I never have quite figured that one out. But "suburban sprawl" is their bogeyman. I, on the other hand, like suburban sprawl. It gives me more places to park.

I'm mostly a normal person from Middle America, so let's take a look at some of the ways that I violate the unwritten laws of the Left:

http://www.starnewspapers.com/star/spedit/col/28-co11.htm

[LittleApple81]

1. According to him, anybody that wants something good for the

planet is against American liberties. But censoring magazines (and I don't like Maxim) is OK. If Walmart is the only store left in your locality, you won't be able to read what you want. And in some localities in the US it is getting almost to that point.

[UCLA02]

5. My "island" town of 30,000 in the Mojave Desert

Has a Wal-Mart and KMart and that's about it. They've driven every Ma and Pa out of business. You LITERALLY have to drive 90 miles to Walmart's competition. And the sheeple in my town think that Walmart is the greatest thing that ever happened to this town. Disgusting. There are probably 4-5 times the number of cars out front of Walmart than at KMart. I guess my wife and I singlehandedly help keep our KMart in business.

[liberalmuse]

11. I shop at K-Mart, too...

since I've been boycotting Wal-Mart for years. I guess a lot of people don't mind supporting what is tantamount to slave labor, dead peasant policies, and unfair competition if they can get a 10 cent price cut.

[Sweetpea]

2. Yeh...blame liberals for local store closings too....more lost jobs.

[Sephirstein]

3. lol...

After seeing this piece or morannery, I'll have a harder time ridiculing my local paper, as this seems to be written by a columnist as oppose to a reader.

[Fridays Child]

10. This is an excellent word: morannery.

Is it your work, Sephirstein? :thumbsup:

[eileen_d]

12. Yes, an excellent word

I also like "moranitude." And then there's the old standby: "assclown", which perfectly describes this columnist. I wonder if he writes love letters to Mallard Fillmore.

[sasquatch]

4. Typical repug bigoted moron

Charactizes Liberals as "pot smoking, sandal wearing, tree hugging, guitar playing freaks".

[gulliver]

6. Normal people don't use terms like "the Left"

Funny. I remember when it used to be normal to walk down to Main street (or ride my bike), walk into the bakery and buy a couple of cookies and a milk for fifty cents.

I remember McDonald's fries when they only came in the small bags. They even tasted better.

The guy behind this article is just some right wing political flak trying to fight left wingers. And he uses the term normal to describe himself even though his opinions are anything but normal.

It is not inherently "normal" or even conservative to let big businesses like Walmart destroy small retail businesses. It may be inevitable. It may be legal. It's not my idea of normal.

[ComerPerro]

7. You know, if this fucko is a "normal" person

Then I am gald that I am not "normal".

Fuck him.

[Ivory_Tower]

8. Wow...I never realized this

"I'm sorry about the mom-and-pop stores that have failed because of the growth of big chains. But you know, change happens. Liberals need to get used to it. They don't make buggy whips anymore either."

So the rise of corporate behemoths that smother small business is sign of progress!!! Interesting, since the right-wing always claims to be a friend of the small businessman. But clearly small business is an antiquated notion, not something fit for the new century.

I guess I'll tell my family to go shut down their small business -- it's an out-dated concept.

Oh, the rest of the article is drivel, too. (I didn't realize I'm not allowed to like football.)

[Mari333]

9. What a whack job...!!

The reason people are fatter in the suburbs is partly because of the layout of the planners who build them..
You drive from your suburban house to a myriad of malls and drive thrus and never leave your car...no calories spent.
This guy needs so study history/
Back in the 50s, we had corner groceries (all gone now, thanks to WalMart )..we walked, with sidewalks, to businesses owned by mom and pop stores.
I live in the country AND Im a liberal. I prefer it. But there are NO sidewalks, so we walk alongside the road. There are NO bicycle paths, as in Europe, so we take our lives in our hands if we bicycle.
When I was in small villages in Ireland I was delighted to see small businesses like shoe shops, butcher shops, small corner groceries such as the ones we had when I was a kid.
As I recall, as a child, our small towns did NOT have more then a couple fat people. My mother dragged us in a little red wagon to the corner grocery, and we had a garden, and chickens, and we went fishing for dinner.
No, this guy is so bad he sounds like he should be writing for a high school newspaper. He does not a lick of research.
Add to that www.walmartsucks.com where he could learn a few things about the destruction of small towns and small businesses and people's livelihoods.

[liberalmuse]

13. I've already e-mailed this nut job...

over his last anti-liberal spew. He replied in a civil e-mail (though he could've been insulting me), suggesting that I send it to the editor to have it published. I didn't.

[usrbs]

14. How about a few more "unwritten Liberal law violations"?

1. You're selfish and don't care a bit about the environment, American dependence on foreign oil, or the future of the planet...
"My car has an eight-valve engine. Strike 2. If I have to have a car at all, liberals want it to be a small, underpowered deathtrap that uses less gas."

2. You're not compassionate yourself, and you mock others that try to choose lifestyles that minimize suffering to other beings.
"I lost some weight on the Atkins diet. Strike 5. Liberals want us to eat fewer dead animals, not more"

3. You're stupid and/or willfully ignorant - "How can you disapprove of Wal-Mart?" - If you did the slightest bit of research you would have discovered plenty of additional reasons such as selling slave labor goods, widespread discrimination against women, and abusive labor practices..

Hmm, selfish, uncompassionate, willfully ignorant - he’s right - he sure isn’t a Liberal…

[Renew Deal]

15. You can't post this...

It's not anti-clark.

[Zorra]

16. How sad......

This quote from your post says it all:

"I'm mostly a normal person from Middle America,..."

I would lay odds that this quote could also be accurately finished with: and I listen to Rush Limbaugh and watch Fox News like everyone else.

[sandnsea]

17. Selfish, short-sighted Americans

Never look at how your own behavior is affecting the rest of the world. Just stay in your little suburban Wal-Mart world and consume, consume, consume.

I emailed and ended with this:

And if you're not careful with your urban sprawl, you might just find yourselves sprawled all the way to both coasts and I guess by your logic, the whole country would then be liberal. Aaaah, heaven on earth! Maybe sprawl isn't such a bad thing after all.

[Logansquare]

18. After attending a party in Lake County, IL

I feel at least like anecdotally backing this report--my Cook County, IL husband and I were probably two of the oldest people there (mid 40s) and also two of the thinnest people. And I'm officially overweight according to standard BMI charts! We couldn't believe 1. the number of obese people just into their 30s, and 2. the number of holiday sweaters. I'd like to throw out an alternate hypothesis: sweaters embroidered with pumpkins or reindeer cause obesity.