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MORFORD: Can You Still Hate Wal-Mart?
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 5/24/6
| Mark Morford
Posted on 05/24/2006 7:44:47 AM PDT by SmithL
It's a shockingly eco-friendly plan from the world's most toxic retailer. Did hell just freeze over?
Sometimes you just have to let the possibility breathe.
Sometimes you just have to allow that something grand and good and healthy might actually be born from the bowels of the dank and ravenous megacorporate world, like flowers from a dung heap, like vodka from old potatoes, even if it comes right alongside the nastiest, most abusive federal environmental policy you will see in your lifetime.
Take Wal-Mart, the most famously offensive, town-destroying, junk-purveying, labor-abusing, sweatshop-supporting, American-job-killing, soul-numbing, seizure-inducing, hope-curdling retailer in the known universe (just ask the fine local town of Hercules), moving upward of $300 billion in cheap mass-produced slurm every year via nearly 5,000 landscape-mauling eyesore stores stretching all the way from Texas to China and Argentina and South Korea and Mexico and your backyard, with U.S. stores accounting for fully 8 percent of all retail sales in our entire nation.
There has been, to date, very little good to say about this most voracious and powerful of low-end, trashy retailers, and certainly nothing from anyone even remotely concerned with the health of the planet and of the attuned consumers who inhabit it. Wal-Mart has always been, quite appropriately, the devil.
Until now. As juicy and warmhearted eco-blog Treehugger mentions in its latest Wal-Mart roundup (and as the New York Times later discussed in its huge "Business of Green" section last week), it seems that back in October, Wal-Mart's president, Lee Scott, delivered a "secret" speech to employees about "21st Century Leadership," in which he outlined . . . agenda items to help ensure the future health of the world's biggest shopping hell.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
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Morfordite Alert`nuff said!
1
posted on
05/24/2006 7:44:49 AM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
Wow. 4 full paragraphs without a single reference to anal sex!
2
posted on
05/24/2006 7:47:11 AM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Unfettered gun ownership is the highest expression of civil rights.)
To: SmithL
Such obvious snobbery against WalMart and those who shop there. Apparently these libs feel we should shop at overpriced boutiques, paying inflated prices for designer gear created by fussy homosexual designers in urban lofts.
3
posted on
05/24/2006 7:50:42 AM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
To: SmithL
4
posted on
05/24/2006 7:53:18 AM PDT
by
MarxSux
To: Disambiguator
Wow. 4 full paragraphs without a single reference to anal sex! However, I have to note it has possibly the highest "hyphenated hate word-to-paragraph" ratio of any LibSpeak I have ever read.
5
posted on
05/24/2006 7:54:11 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(ST3d: Real Star Trek 3d Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
To: 50sDad
Yes, Morford is the master of the breathless run-on sentence that contains many juvenile-sounding adjectives and makes you wonder what kind of grades he made in English classes in school.
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posted on
05/24/2006 7:55:46 AM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Unfettered gun ownership is the highest expression of civil rights.)
To: Disambiguator
>4 full paragraphs without a single reference to anal sex
"... you just have to allow that something grand and good and healthy might actually be born from the bowels of the dank and ravenous ..."
To: theFIRMbss
That's a bit of a stretch.
:^)
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posted on
05/24/2006 7:57:12 AM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Unfettered gun ownership is the highest expression of civil rights.)
To: SmithL
The whole Walmart "debate" really exposes the left's priorities and concerns. Never mind that Walmart enables the poor person's dollar to stretch farther or the fact that they offer jobs where none existed before, they're still evil incarnate because they reject the unionists. I love shoving these facts into my leftist acquaintances' faces and watch them fumble for words.
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posted on
05/24/2006 7:57:56 AM PDT
by
MNnice
(Da ma Dakota)
To: atomicpossum
Such obvious snobbery against WalMart and those who shop there. Actually, it transcends snobbery and enters the realm of bigotry.
10
posted on
05/24/2006 7:58:41 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
To: SmithL
I would SWEAR that everyone from SF is absolutely NUTZ. If someone lives there and help me find ONE normal (conservative.)
I read news from SF and always shake my head in wonder at the stupidity.
To: SmithL
And I thought it was just a store. (Slaps forehead).
12
posted on
05/24/2006 7:59:29 AM PDT
by
Socratic
("I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa.")
To: SmithL
Good Grief that Morfordite is full of himself, and what he's full of is excrement (IMHO).
Of course, I am one of those lowlife dupes who is addicted to Walmart because I can buy groceries, hardware, pet food, clothes, and about anything else for at least a third less than the other retailers around here.
To: Winston Smith
I would SWEAR that everyone from SF is absolutely NUTZ.I blame it on the Rice-a-Roni. There's GOT to be something in that SF treat.
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posted on
05/24/2006 8:02:07 AM PDT
by
Socratic
("I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa.")
To: SmithL
Well, maybe I'll start hating WalMart a little less. Morford is a yutz as usual.
15
posted on
05/24/2006 8:04:11 AM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(If you don't understand the word "Illegal", then the public school system has failed you.)
To: sockmonkey
and about anything else for at least a third less than the other retailers around here.One of the reasons the Left hates Wal-Mart is because their success is the epitome of how the free market works.
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posted on
05/24/2006 8:05:48 AM PDT
by
MNnice
(Da ma Dakota)
To: atomicpossum
Such obvious snobbery against WalMart and those who shop there. Well, here in the Bay Area, the very few WalMarts that exist are primarily patronized by poor blacks and Hispanics...so Morford is actually looking down upon the Democrat voting base, not the stereotypical Bible Belt fundamentalists he likes to satirize.
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posted on
05/24/2006 8:06:53 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: sockmonkey
I also like Walmart for the one-stop shopping. Saves gas. Aren't the greenies always telling us to save gas?
To: Winston Smith
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posted on
05/24/2006 8:08:02 AM PDT
by
SmithL
(I voted)
To: SmithL
If WalMart's world headquarters were somewhere other than Arkansas, and founded by someone NOT from Arkansas, they wouldn't hate them so much.
Its ALL bigotry!
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posted on
05/24/2006 8:09:26 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Shawnlaw
(No NAIS! And the USDA can bugger off, too!)
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