Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Are you referring to "Democrat" Dan Rather in your post? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Ford" <dford@san.rr.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 9:14 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] Proper Peanut butter?? > blah, blah blah > No mention of more jobs created, no mention of price gouging by the local > store owners just rehashed BS from dan rather and the like in a nice neat > P.C. image of the big bad company. > Please Nathan don't get the impression that all of us Americans believe the > spew from 60 minutes and dan rather. The jobs created by Walmart and the > economic growth is rarely mentioned. Just some bleeding heart story how > nobody goes down town to mr. zifles to buy a 30 dollar hammer anymore and > talk about whos pig is bigger. And of course these rural folk are too stupid > to realize that if they don't support the WalMart it will go out of > business, and they wouldn't want that? > My brother lives in rural America and they drive out of their way to buy > goods at lower cost. Imagine that, the free enterprise system at work where > intelligent folk can decide where and when to spend their hard earned cash. > Why doesn't my idiot brother listen to the bleeding hearts spin on 60 > minutes? Doesn't he realize he should pay twice the price so he can preserve > the local color? Jeez, next thing ya know he'll be buying stuff off eb_y! > Call dan rather and tell'em to drive his Mercedes up here to do a story on > how the internet killed small town America. Next thing ya know mr ziffle > will be running a server in his back room selling goods and services to the > world....the nerve. > After all these bleeding hearts want to take pics of the 'real' small town > America with their 2 thousand dollar Leicas. Thank god these bleeding hearts > aren't deciding what small town America will be, the residents are. > The big bad walmart story paints a 'nice' P.C. image, but when you scratch > the surface it smells real funny. > On my way to Walmart...Doug > > This ones for the birds > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=442115 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Aram > Langhans > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 5:25 PM > To: wajsman@webshuttle.ch; leica users group > Subject: [Leica] Proper Peanut butter?? > > > Oh, my goodness, Nathan. Here in the US of A it is hard to find that great > peanut butter made of just peanuts and salt. Adam's Old Fashion is the BEST > peanut butter I have ever tasted. Mix it up, put it in the refrigerator and > enjoy. After years of Skippy and Jiff garbage it is great to taste peanuts > rather than sugar and who knows what else. Now that we have been eating > Adams, I hate going back to that other stuff. It is like spreading sweet > lard on bread. > > WalMart has messed up so many rural American towns it isn't funny. They > build a large WalMart in every town, even though they are only 15 miles > apart separated by miles of farmland. There is no way that the local > population can support so many stores. Then, after they have driven the > local businesses out of business, they close all but one of the stores and > leave the other one open. They killed the other towns. > > I have seen it done just down the road from where I use to live, and I have > seen reports on news programs like 20/20 or 60 minutes that documnets this. > They may be fine in the large cities, but they are killing rural America. I > didn't realize they were in Europe. They are the last place I would ever > shop. > > Aram > > > >Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:09:54 +0100 > >From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> > >Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW week 3: US imperialism in Germany > >Message-ID: <3C4BBEC2.CDB917D7@webshuttle.ch> > >References: > > >Last weekend we went shopping to Singen, a town just on the other side > >of the Swiss-German border. This time we went to a huge WalMart there, > >and my wife was in heaven, being able to stock up on a lot of local > >staples but also hard-to-find American items (such as proper peanut > >butter rather than the organic stuff with oil on top commonly found > >here). The German retail sector can surely use the kind of competition a > >WalMart provides. Having said that, I hate being inside such places, so > >I hung around outside with my Leica: > > This message is made of 100% recycled electrons. No new atoms were > destroyed in making it. > > Aram Langhans > Science Teacher, Naches High School > P. O. Box 159/101 W. 5th. St. > Naches, WA 98937 > > "Science Rules" > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html