Posted on 11/23/2016 9:28:12 AM PST by TigerClaws
They always sellout when they play on Long Island even though they haven’t changed a word in their touring act in 25 years.
Well I’ve been to both Trader Joe’s (TJ’s) and Whole Foods (WF) and I experience a world of difference. First of all, TJ’s is owned by a German company, but they know how to run a good company as TJ’s is ranked #20 in the U.S. as the best place to work, and the atmosphere evidences that. People seem happy and the food is great. We live in AZ so our TJ’s has employees and customers who love Trump and are not stuck in hippiedom.
WF on the other hand seems dour, unfriendly, and very hippie-ish - the same vibe I get from Sprouts. I go to TJ’s all the time here and love it - they have menu and cheese samples and wine tasting every day. It’s almost like a destination here. I never go to WF and rarely to Sprouts.
However, I’ll have to see if they ever play “Sweet Home” - they’re always playing old pop songs - usually pretty good music.
It’s a hit song that made millions. Get over yourselves. Maybe they’d approve of some rap song with beat down whitey, kill cops and @#$^#$ white chicks.
Trader Joe’s is AWESOME.
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To hell with NE liberals.
They even like “Sweet Home” in France:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li1Rqo2UC88
The rhythm riff, unusually, strikes a minor chord.
Even the Russians like it.
i read but didn’t understand what precipitated the incident
Ask Boudreaux to explain it to you.
That was such an interesting documentary!
“The place was ridiculously expensive...”
6% off your total bill for seniors on Tuesday and Wednesday.
I am a nutritionist who specializes in diet and supplementaion.
I rate as follows:
Trader Joe’s: brilliant business model; very limited and erratic supplement department; virtually no product knowledge.
Whole Foods: overpriced, unless an item is bought in volume and sale-priced; fair-to-good supplement department (depending upon store size and location); unreliable product knowledge.
Sprouts: in-between pricing; some high-quality products in supplement department; product knowledge unknown to me as yet (too new to my area).
I shop for produce at TJ. Most of their supplements are little better than at a pharmacy chain - with even less selection; there are exceptions (such as Pycnogenol, which is a trademarked product). The employees are usually interested in a healthful lifestyle, but ignorant about nutrition and supplementation. The chain waits until a product becomes mainstream, then buys the cheapest source they can obtain for mass marketing.
I rarely shop at Whole Foods. They do tend to be large, and sometimes have products that smaller stores do not. Being on the Big Board, they stay away from anything controversial, even if it is clearly legal (such as raw milk in California). Although they have a fairly good supplement selection, there are glaring omissions; any questions about any product not very mainstream elicits a perplexed response from staff.
Sprouts: I am just starting to shop there. Their prices are better than WF, and there supplement department is vastly superior to TJ. I do not yet have an idea of employee product knowledge.
We Conservatives are always wringing our hands about the fact that Liberals seem to control American Pop Culture.
Most of us don’t even realize that when rock ‘n roll began in the 1950’s, the Left wingers hated it because they understood that it was a by product of American post war prosperity.
They preferred Commie folk music, the most un-glamorous, un-sexy, scolding music ever made. The musical equivalent of a lecture about what a rotten country America is.
Contrast that with the image of a teen aged kid, cruising down the highway, listening to Chuck Berry, and thinking that the world is his oyster, and there’s nothing he can’t accomplish, because he lives in America, the greatest country in the world. It’s no wonder why the Leftists hated rock ‘n roll.
In those days, rock songs were all about girls, cars, dancing, and hanging out with friends.
But then a funny thing happened. Bob Dylan, who loved early rock music from the 50’s, got sick of the Commie folk scene and wanted to make rock ‘n roll music, after hearing the Beatles and the Rolling Stones on the radio. But while he abandoned the overtly political tone of his early folk music, the lyrics of his rock songs were still much more intellectual and artsy than any other rock music that had come before it.
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and every other popular rock artist of the day were in awe of Dylan’s lyrical skills, and wanted to emulate him. This was the beginning of rock ‘n roll drifting towards the Left wing social consciousness of the Commie folk scene. In his attempt to abandon the Commie folk scene, Dylan inadvertently infected rock ‘n roll culture with the virus of Left wing thought.
Within a few years, every rock band was writing songs that expressed the same anti-American sentiment as Commie folkies like Joan Baez and Phil Ochs.
And that’s when we Conservatives totally blew it!! Rock ‘n roll culture was ours. It was pure Americana at it’s best. It rose from the rural heartland, not the urban coasts. But as soon as Conservatives saw all those long haired, flag burning, pot smoking hippies, they decided that they didn’t want any part of rock ‘n roll culture, and were happy to hand it over, gift wrapped, to the Left wing America haters.
By the mid to late70’s people were burnt out on socially conscious rock music. That’s when bands like Lynyrd Synyrd, AC/DC, and Van Halen created a renaissance of good old fashioned “cars and girls” rock ‘n roll. But by that time, social Conservatives had already condemned rock ‘n roll culture as decadent and downright Satanic.
This wrongheaded attitude on the part of my fellow social Conservatives, is why I take exception to the ridicule that they heap on marijuana smokers. I’m a long haired, pot smoking, rock ‘n roll loving, small government, pro-America patriot. And there’s plenty of other people out there just like me.
The bottom line, is that if we Conservatives want to take back American Pop Culture, then the first step is to stop associating rock ‘n roll culture with Left wingers, and reclaim it as our own.
There’s been a battle between the Country Club Republicans and the hard hat Nixon/Reagan/Trump Republicans.
But you make a great point. There’s also a battle between social conservatives vs. libertarian (socially do what you want as long as you don’t hurt other people).
Trump is an interesting guy. He’s super rich but is more at home with the six pack of beer Republicans. He’s also more libertarian on social issues. Don’t see him going after pot or touching the one-issue voter issues (abortion, homosexuals) other than appointing the judges he’s already listed.
There’s a ‘sweet spot’ for the Republican party right where Trump is: Big tent, avoid social divider issues, America first, practical, non-PC, libertarian, and focused on results.
“..Do what you want and don’t hurt other people..”
How about “do what you want & don’t hurt other people” AND DON’T EXPECT OTHERS TO PICK UP THE TAB FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF DOING WHAT YOU WANT!
This is the biggest reason I am against drug legalization of any type.
Alcohol is a drug. It’s legal and we have the same stupid consequences from making other drugs illegal.
People can kill themselves if they want. Eat too much, get drunk, kill brain cells, die.
Part of freedom is people make choices you may not.
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They are / were America’s band. Everybody loves Lynyrd Skynnyrd (every real American anyway).
And its bad enough abusers of alcohol can reach into my pocket for the consequences of their abuse! Multiplying the number of hands going into my pocket for other abuses is not an argument I am impressed with!
For the record I do drink alcohol!
How do others pick up the tab?
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Through your taxes!
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