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Little Suppressors - Dealing with the bookstore clerk who hates you
Weekly Standard ^ | September 15, 2004 | Jay Nordlinger

Posted on 09/15/2004 5:04:36 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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Paranoia - a heightened sense of reality.

The rest of the article can be found at your friendly Borders or Barnes & Noble bookstores.
It is in this weeks issue of The Weekly Standard. Good luck finding it.

1 posted on 09/15/2004 5:04:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
CORRECTION CORRECTION!!!

It is in NATIONAL REVIEW!

Big Oops!

Sorry National Review.

2 posted on 09/15/2004 5:06:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: All

http://www.nationalreview.com/


3 posted on 09/15/2004 5:09:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

There WAS a Little Professor bookstore near me. It went out of business. I know why.


4 posted on 09/15/2004 5:10:47 AM PDT by Carolinamom (FR Truth Squad 24/7)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Find another bookstore that treats you better, spend your money there, write a letter to the CEO of the liberal bookstores on why you are not shopping there anymore.

Conservatives probably read more and spend more than the average bookstore customer. Look at CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC to what happens when you ignore at least 50% of your customers...they go somewhere else and spend their money on the competition (FOX).


5 posted on 09/15/2004 5:11:29 AM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I don't know how Barnes and Noble stores are elsewhere but the one in Burlington Vermont is a freak show. The employees look like they should have a circus barker introducing them.

"See the man with his eyebrows shaved off!!!"

"See the woman with tatoos covering her entire body!!!"

"See the woman with the bone through her nose!!!"


6 posted on 09/15/2004 5:13:11 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Back in the late 80's, as the Rush Limbaugh phenomenon was taking-off, National Review placed him on its front cover. My copy never made it to my Ann Arbor address. No worries, I said to myself, I'll simply go to the Ann Arbor Public Library and read it there. It wasn't on the shelf. So I went to the counter and asked to read the "journal" copy (the copy that is kept for later binding). It was missing. I just shrugged my shoulders, went home, and got stoned. Never did see a copy of that issue.
7 posted on 09/15/2004 5:16:41 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Can anyone find this site? "BorderUnion.org"


8 posted on 09/15/2004 5:20:11 AM PDT by Drango (What's the Font, Kenneth?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Why in the world put up with this nonsense, just buy your books on-line.

They deliver them to your door!!!

The two or three dollars shipping is worth not having to deal with the mentally diseased.

9 posted on 09/15/2004 5:20:53 AM PDT by Popman
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Save yourself the trouble and order off of amazon or similar site. Same price delivered to your door. It's virtually the only way I order books anymore.

Now I go to bookstores for coffee.

I go to coffee stores for music and pastry.

I don't go to music stores and bakeries no longer exist in middle america.

:>)


10 posted on 09/15/2004 5:21:21 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army and Proudly Supporting BUSH/CHENEY 2004!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Why buy a magazine from a bookstore is you read it all the time? Get a subscription and save 70%+ off the price to boot.

Don't these clerks realize that us conservatives are the ones with jobs that invest in the companies that pay their salaries?
11 posted on 09/15/2004 5:21:48 AM PDT by LetsRok
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To: Drango
Borders Union
12 posted on 09/15/2004 5:25:56 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I recently experienced this phenomenon at a Border's Books in Manassas, VA. Took in a movie with my wife, and we decided to drop by Borders to pick up a couple of books for a birthday gift. I went there to get two books - Unfit and American Soldier (Excellent book, BTW). As I walked into the store, I noted that on their front table were about 6 stacks for maureen dowd's "bushworld", two copies of American Soldier, and NO copies of Unfit. I sought out a clerk and was informed that Border's has a policy of only "Special Ordering" Unfit.

Now being a former Marine, and a FReeper (a dangerous combination...) I decided to have my own little FReep in the middle of the store. In my my incredulous and loud voice I stated "Do you mean to tell me that Borders does not have a book that has been on the NY Times Bestsellers List for three weeks?", before the leftist pincushion could reply, I said "I find it rather odd that you have stacks of Maureen Dowd's Anti-Bush screed - something fit only for use as toilet paper, a book not even on the NYT list prominently displayed at the front of your store." The pincushion just smiled one of those leftist scumbag smirks. I grabbed the store manager to complain, and this creep pointed to a crudely printed sign behind the counter that stated "Due to high demand, the book "Unfit for Command" is only being sold by special order". Creep #2 had the gall to ask if I'd like to special order the book. Back into FReep mode, I said "I came into this store to buy the #1 NYT Bestseller, since your store obviously has a political agenda in not stocking this book, I'll get mine from AMAZON!"

The frustrating aspect of all of this is that this in not the first time this has happened. I couldn't find and of Anne Coulter's books, and none of Sean Hannity's either. This tendancy of the left to censor anything that does not agree with their adgenda is perhaps the most distressing aspect of their cause. Perhaps a large-scale FReep of Borders is in order?

13 posted on 09/15/2004 5:25:58 AM PDT by GunnyB (Once a Marine, Always a Marine)
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During the really cold winter months when it's 20 below, I drive down to the Barnes & Noble and sip espresso while reading books and letting my kids run amock in the store. I keep an eye out in the parking lot for all the liberal dummies who have a dead battery and no jumper cables. Last winter I made over $100 with my diesel truck which has cables on a coil which extend 25'. Decent people I start for free. The whacky arrogant liberals I charge. It's funny that every time I start the whacky ones, they explain to me that it's not their fault they have a bad battery.


14 posted on 09/15/2004 5:26:17 AM PDT by blackdog (Proudly wearing Free Republic pajamas, just to piss off Dan Rather.)
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To: Drango

http://www.bordersunion.org/


15 posted on 09/15/2004 5:28:51 AM PDT by Born Conservative (Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric.)
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Why should we help destroy what is left of our country?" He asked, as he gladly restocked "Hustler" and "National Enquirer."

And they call us "Brownshirts."

16 posted on 09/15/2004 5:29:19 AM PDT by Dutchgirl (Gen. Tommy Franks,"We owe it to Osama to kill him.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

amazon


17 posted on 09/15/2004 5:29:29 AM PDT by samtheman (www.swiftvets.com)
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To: Drango

they forgot the "s"


http://www.bordersunion.org/


18 posted on 09/15/2004 5:29:57 AM PDT by OXENinFLA (W-"We stand for the Second Amendment which gives every American the individual right to bear arms.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The link listed in the article is missing the "s" in Borders. The correct URL is http://www.BorderUnion.org.

This link will take you straight to the Unfit for Command Forum thread http://www.bordersunion.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=1195.


19 posted on 09/15/2004 5:30:13 AM PDT by mconley22
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This reminds me of the when I was homeschooling my son. He was probably in 8th grade.

I had "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on his reading list, because we were using literature to reinforce what we were studying in history.

Anyhoo, when I went to pick it up at our local bookstore, I got a lecture from the bookstore employee how she thought it was improper reading for a teenager.

I don't think the clerk had ever read the book. I went on to explain why Harriet Beecher Stowe had written the book, etc. The clerk was clueless and was worried it would turn my kid into a racist, LOL!


20 posted on 09/15/2004 5:30:34 AM PDT by dawn53
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