[briant]

I'm sorry, but this kind of language strikes me as being too similar to populist/communist street rhetoric for comfort. Regardless of our disagreement, I still intend to stay away from Wally.

That's an irony that usually comes up in these discussions. Some people think it's there right to buy whatever product they want, and call you a communist if you disagree with their buying goods made in communist/third world sweatshops.

[niteowl77]

Populist/communist rhetoric is not necessarily populist/communist action; "do as I say, not as I do" has always been alive and well in any socialist (and "social justice") camp. On this thread, I am being polite and somewhat tentative, because I have no idea whether someone is being funny, raving like a loon, swallowing lies, deliberately trolling or just plain cranky.

And I don't particularly care right now. Aside from supporting our troops - and their morale - 100% (and thus consigning the appeasers and defeatists to some psychic purgatory), very little matters to me right now.

I breezily give a sweeping flip of the bird to big business AND big labor on this festive day, upon which I shall shop at my local retailers (in preference to stepping across that giant parking lot strewn with used Pampers and assorted garbage, just to shoulder my way through a crowd that appears to be a solid 'rat voting bloc).