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Yada, yada, yada . . .

And you people all will argue "there no requirement for a company to pay decent wages, provide insurance or allow your workers lunch breaks."

Come off it. I wish you'd come up with your own material (as opposed to Dem talking-points), instead of spending most of your time frantically stuffing words into other people's mouths.

As far as pointing out that the largest corporation in the United States is periodically subject to legal challenges of one sort or another, why don't you try arguing that such legal challenges would not occur in the absence of Wal-Mart?

Your first link in post 173 is from http://www.mindfully.org/About-Mindfully_org.htm Here is a little from their mission page.

"The completely negative and overbearing influence of the US is presently being felt throughout the world in ways that are most damaging to all life in all nations. The economic, social, environmental and physical well-being of all people has been and is being irreparably harmed by the ideas and methods of bringing them to fruition.

Fox News is a great example of such a blend of fact and fiction, and so is most mainstream media. If this were not so, then there would be front page headlines about the intense level of fraud that took place at the poll and is still taking place at the highest levels of the Bush administration. The American public, more than any other, seems blind to a multitude of facts that other nations have considerably less trouble seeing. A great deal of this ignorance of fact is directly attributable to the right-wing owned and operated US media. The deception of most of the US has been accomplished with great ease.

How is it that the World Trade Center could be destroyed by jets crashing into it? This is the only instance of such a thing happening either before or after 9/11. Jet fuel does not burn hot enough to melt steel. A scientist from the testing agency that rates steel for fire resistance thought so, and he was fired for making this known to the public. If one watches videos of the WTC falling, it is plain that by the way it fell into itself and the way it seemed to explode into tiny fragments, that this was a demolition job. The smoke coming out of it wasn't even the right type of smoke for the supposed cause of the smoke. A good report on the 9/11 Commission Report tells a lot about this. But even that doesn't go far enough. One of its many failings is to not have included the bulk of NY Fire Department and emergency worker testimony that required a lawsuit by the New York Times to make public. Those oral histories point out that eye witnesses feel that this was an intentional demolition job. Many people have some pretty good ideas about what happened. For starters, there were far too many coincidences for the attack to be called an accident. In the special PBS documentary, "America Rebuilds," the owner of the WTC complex states that building '7' was "pulled," which is the industry's own language for "demolished."

"I remember getting a call from the Fire Department Commander, telling me that they were not sure they were going to be able to contain the fire. I said, 'You know, we've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it [demolish it].' They made that decision to pull. Then we watched the building collapse." — Larry Silverstein, owner of the WTC complex. [MP3 audio of Silverstein (228 Kb)].

Did any of the mainstream media alert the public to these facts in a meaningful way?? Of course not. The complete front page of the San Francisco Chronicle a couple days ago was about the murder trial of a pregnant woman. We agree that this is a dreadful crime, but what about the thousands of innocent people who are being killed on the streets of Iraq? And there are purposefully no statistics kept on them, at least not officially. Such outrage for one person is presented on page after page, but for thousands we feel no compassion? We agree that there are terrorists in Iraq. But how is this defined? And who do you call when the police are the problem?"

Every body should look at that link, it confirms what his promotion of WakeUpWalmart.com had revealed.

This guy is a DU troll.

Hey ex, why don't you just start your own retail chain. You could call it Whacky Mart, and run it any way you want to. Let Wal-Mart be Wal-Mart. (By the way, glad your an ex.)