Here is my example with WFTD:
It is by no means clear, for example, Martha Stewart label would be welcomed at a Kmart rival like Wal-Mart, which doesn't use celebrity endorsers anyway, or even Target Corp., which has been doing fine without celebrity pitchmen also.
As for Kmart itself, well, it seems pretty clear that Wall Street has basically written the company off. At the stock's current price of $1.73 per share, investors are valuing the entire business at less than $800 million, or not much more than one-tenth its stated book value, which investors obviously think is a joke. Not a comforting thought for Kmart's stockholders, even if they've lost a bundle already. The message of the market is that more bloodletting may still be to come.
Now this is an interesting little development. Kmart is bleeding profusely from the books and there doesn't seem to be any way to stop the cash flow. I wonder if Martha Stewart is watching this closely? As most of you know, I am no great fan of Martha and any corporation that solely bases 80% of their operating cash on one outlet is not doing good business. Target, which I prefer over Walmart, and Walmart do not need to bring in high profile names and tricks to get people into their stores. So I doubt they are going to buy into the “Martha Stewart” branding policies. It certainly repudiates the claim that celebrities “sell” a business. Doesn’t look like all those high priced pitchmen did any good, now does it?
While MLK's dream was laudable, it has been warped by the current day civil rights movement. Randall Robinson is speaking at Syracuse University today, xshub's alma mater, and the title of his speech is "The Dream and the Debt". Xshub is explaining to xsteen what that speech is going to be about and the distinctions between MLK's dream and Randall Robinson's dream about REPARATIONS!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020118-10.html
National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2002 by the President of the United States of America a Proclamation
This Nation was founded upon the belief that every human being is endowed by our Creator with certain "unalienable rights." Chief among them is the right to life itself. The Signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their own lives, fortunes, and honor to guarantee inalienable rights for all of the new country's citizens. These visionaries recognized that an essential human dignity attached to all persons by virtue of their very existence and not just to the strong, the independent, or the healthy. That value should apply to every American, including the elderly and the unprotected, the weak and the infirm, and even to the unwanted.
Thomas Jefferson wrote that, "[t]he care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government." President Jefferson was right. Life is an inalienable right, understood as given to each of us by our Creator.
President Jefferson's timeless principle obligates us to pursue a civil society that will democratically embrace its essential moral duties, including defending the elderly, strengthening the weak, protecting the defenseless, feeding the hungry, and caring for children -- born and unborn. Mindful of these and other obligations, we should join together in pursuit of a more compassionate society, rejecting the notion that some lives are less worthy of protection than others, whether because of age or illness, social circumstance or economic condition. Consistent with the core principles about which Thomas Jefferson wrote, and to which the Founders subscribed, we should peacefully commit ourselves to seeking a society that values life -- from its very beginnings to its natural end. Unborn children should be welcomed in life and protected in law.
On September 11, we saw clearly that evil exists in this world, and that it does not value life. The terrible events of that fateful day have given us, as a Nation, a greater understanding about the value and wonder of life. Every innocent life taken that day was the most important person on earth to somebody; and every death extinguished a world. Now we are engaged in a fight against evil and tyranny to preserve and protect life. In so doing, we are standing again for those core principles upon which our Nation was founded.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Sunday, January 20, 2002, as National
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Sanctity of Human Life Day. I call upon all Americans to reflect upon the sanctity of human life. Let us recognize the day with appropriate ceremonies in our homes and places of worship, rededicate ourselves to compassionate service on behalf of the weak and defenseless, and reaffirm our commitment to respect the life and dignity of every human being.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-sixth.
GEORGE W. BUSH
BRAVO!
Happy Day!
I am feeling better, but am one of those that does have today off. I have a lot to do so thought I would take a short break to try to add to the grade book.
See you all later.