Posted on 09/29/2006 9:14:41 AM PDT by restornu
A great source for information on early American family life is diaries by women and children.
Something that stuck in my mind from a book about women's diaries written on wagon trains was that the men wanted the women to abandon their dresses and wear more practical pants.
The women absolutely refused, telling the men that they would not give up all their womanly rights to the brutal nature of the wilderness, and the practical desires of their husbands.
I gather you are an agnostic or atheist?
LOL!
I boycott Wendey's, Denny's, Best Buy, Casey's General Stores, Bush's canned vegetables and a few other businesses and products.
I won't even bother to tell you why but believe me, I have sound reasons for doing so. Neither will I suggest that you should boycott them too, as I believe you to be a thinking adult and you can make your own decisions.
Those businesses and products that I named continue to thrive without my patronage and it doesn't piss me off in the slightest nor does that fact instill in me a feeling of jealousy or rage or a need to rant on and on about them on this forum.
If one searched the archives of FR for articles on various businesses I believe that it would be found that articles about Wal-Mart would hugely outnumber any other business. The reason for that is that it's the biggest and most sucessful business on earth.
Liberals/socialists/communists/unionists types can't stand that and those types do have a compelling need to make all others believe the same way they do.
There are numerous businesses and products that I don't patronize or use for various reasons. If the topic comes up I will explain my reasons, but I don't push it on other people..........I don't particularly care where a person shops, or eats, or what products he/she buys or for what reasons.
And I know you have a similar attitude, but then again, you and I are thinking adults and not Liberals/socialists/communists/unionists types or fundamentalists who wish to impose our ideals on others.
I'm not happy with WalMart doing away with lay-a-way, but not unhappy enough to stop shopping there. In fact my husband is going in the morning to get what I currently have on lay-a-away, and on Monday morning we'll be going back to put the major part of our daughter's Christmas presents on lay-a-way
Actually I collect and read a lot of old books too. And also more recent historical studies of the 19th and early 20th century U.S. Certainly it wasn't just a sea of miserable marriages. But there were plenty of people for whom the overwhelming social and legal pressure to get married and stay that way "til death do us part" left them stuck in misery -- either unmarried or married. More ordinarily, people just didn't expect anything out of marriage except some economic and physical security, which probably a solid majority of them got. People want more from life now, and I think that's a good thing.
Their margins are skin-deep on everything they sell. Too much evidence exists that they are beginning to make business decisions for the pandering effects towards liberals, and I believe their decision to get rid ofg guns is one of them.
Ed
"Actually I collect and read a lot of old books too. And also more recent historical studies of the 19th and early 20th century U.S. Certainly it wasn't just a sea of miserable marriages."
You can try what I do now, I mostly quit reading non-military, American history books written since the late 50s.(mostly)
I have a library full of leftist books written by college professors, especially women that portray a dark sinister past, where women were nothing but chattel, or slaves.
In recent years main stream scholars have started fighting back, now you can find many books that are written without an agenda.
I come from an interesting family, on my dads side they are less than thirty years away from celebrating their 400th anniversary here. On my mothers side they never had any money and very little research has been done on them, but they have been here for over 200 years at least.
There is a lot of history in my family and much hardship, but I never picked up even a hint of self pity.
My mom's side have been hardscrabble Scotch-Irish Southerners that migrated to California as they picked cotton and fruit.
I never met any one in that family, or heard any history that sounded anything less than happy and proud.
My grandfather rode a horse drunk into a church to propose to my grand mother, but in marriage he is described as a very quiet, strong figure, that was a deacon in the Baptist church.
My grandmother is described as a somewhat dangerous, violent Indian, that while tough on every one else, loved her quiet, soft spoken husband very much.
Even when she shot a hole in the ceiling to break up my uncles, everyone was only amused by it, sadly at her age they managed to take the gun away from her for good, so that she was forced to sleep with a hatchet instead.
Since childhood I have sought out the stories of old people, usually women because they are more willing to talk, that means I have talked to many people born in the past from reconstruction to the Geronimo days, to the Rough Riders and the great depression.
I didn't find sad, passive women of limited options that had to marry a man to eat, or that couldn't leave a bad husband because she would be damaged goods, or starve.
If you want women in sad circumstances, that seem desperate and feel hopeless, at the mercy of the world, then look around today, and the surveys I've seen reflect that.
How much money did AFA bring in last year compared to Walmart?
Maybe one-hundredth-of-one-percent -- $25-million dollars. What did AFA contributors receive in return compared to what WAL*MART customers got in their exchange?
I won't say all 3 things are present all of the time, but when I lived in Lakeland, FL, and one referred to "the great unwashed" with Wal-Mart, it was not necessarily the customers. Friend of mine said she couldn't tell customers from employees.
One of my particular peeves was younger women of a certain ethnic persuasion being consistently surly. Like you were interrupting something important they were doing when you wanted to get rung out at their register.
One of my non-favorite women working there had 8 studs in her ear, 1 1/2" black finger nails, tattoos on both arms and legs and was very creepy. I refused to use her register, gave me the heebees to get near her.
They are "getting rid of guns" only in market areas where they don't sell well. It's a business decision and guns will still be sold at Wal-Mart's where there is a demand for them.
Likewise they are eliminating layaway, also a business decision. Renting trailors for storage space at Christmas time is a very big expense. In other words they are trying to maximize profits. As a stock holder that's exactly what I want them to do.
"Gay rights" are as phony and contrived as the "right to choose."
Amazing what liberals can find in the Constitution, queer rights, the right to kill the unborn but they can't see anything about the right to keep and bear arms.
Then you would see your check number and the amount of your purchase. It takes approximately the same amount of time to reach your bank as the check.
How is this more revealing on your personal information than the check you used to leave behind?
The check you used to leave behind contains your name, address, phone number, accounts numbers, signature etc.
Butt-ugly?
Let me tell, you, one of my chores is grocery shopping on Saturday morning. I LOVE shopping at Wal-Mart for all the hot babes in there, and several male acquaintances of mine feel the same way.
In fact, I was perusing a new product in the granola section a few months ago and this hottie walked up and told me she really liked that item, so I got a box of them. If she'd said "You know, these dog bicuits are great in a bowl of milk", I'd have thrown a box of them in the cart and headed for the dairy aisle!
FYI, this is in Store #1 right here in Rogers, AR, where my wife and 16yo son are employed part-time.
I live at Wal-Mart ground zero, Rogers, AR. Company GO is right next door in Bentonville. Every year during shareholder meeting week, associates come from all over the world, and Store #1 is a MUST visit.
The first place these people go is to the gun section, and let me tell you, they are FLOORED that we sell them over the counter here in the good ol' USA!
Some of the Sears Craftsman line is manufactured for Sears by Black and Decker. The parts, batteries, etc. are interchangable. The only difference is the nameplate.
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