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Subject: Re: [Leica] Proper Peanut butter??
From: "Don" <don.ro@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 21:52:14 -0600
References: <LPBBJMBJAOBBBNDIFCEFCEHKCLAA.dford@san.rr.com>

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"
>
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