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The World's Largest Retailer is at it again
I saw this on Buzzflash today:
Here's why you can't buy the News Journal at Wal-Mart from the Pensacola News Journal.
The WLR is so fickle. They won't sell a newspaper because a columnist was harsh towards them. That is ridiculous...but I guess that is what you get from a store who won't sell unedited music cds, but has no problem selling violent video games (Grand Theft Auto) or movies with foul langauge and sexuality (8mm, Wild Things).
Obviously the issue is money, they can get away not selling a newspaper because they don't make much money off of it. If they did not sell violent video games, that would definitely hurt their business. I am just glad to see that there values show through, money really is more important than free speech, and money is more important than traditional values. It amazes me that since I have lived in Wally World for the past 2 years, I've never heard of a conservative religious group boycotting them and the "filth" that they sell (that is supposed to be sarcastic).
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
We're Back!
So vacation is over, and work has been pretty busy since then. We are in the process of hiring our new boss, so that has been pretty interesting.
Vacation was wonderful! We had such a great time.
The whole trip is highlights, but some of the really cool things:
- Miller Brewing Company: Jenn and I have completed the tri-fecta tour of major breweries here in the US. The best was the AB (read Budweiser) brewery in St. Louis, than a close second is Miller in Milwaukee and a distant third, as much as I hate to say this being from Colorado and all, Coors in Golden, CO. Coors offers more samples, but they lack on the atmosphere and description of history.
- The family reunion...particularly the softball game...longish story here...
- Visiting LeahJ in Chicago. We had a wonderful time, and Jenn swears we are moving there next.
- Visiting University of Notre Dame except for the two guys who tried to run me over with their golf cart.
- Hanging out with Jenn's dad and little sister in Ohio.
Hopefully I'll get some pictures up here at some point or another.
Anyway...we also saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I love Tim Burton movies and this was no exception. Do not expect to see a remake of the movie from the 70's with Gene Wilder. This is a different movie. Yes, there are similarities, but Burton includes more of the book (like the songs that Roald Dahl wrote in the book), and includes his own flare for the wacky.
I also did purchase the new Harry Potter book. Because of work and the fact that I am still catching up on sleep I am not as far along with it as I would like to be....so far so good!
So vacation is over, and work has been pretty busy since then. We are in the process of hiring our new boss, so that has been pretty interesting.
Vacation was wonderful! We had such a great time.
The whole trip is highlights, but some of the really cool things:
- Miller Brewing Company: Jenn and I have completed the tri-fecta tour of major breweries here in the US. The best was the AB (read Budweiser) brewery in St. Louis, than a close second is Miller in Milwaukee and a distant third, as much as I hate to say this being from Colorado and all, Coors in Golden, CO. Coors offers more samples, but they lack on the atmosphere and description of history.
- The family reunion...particularly the softball game...longish story here...
- Visiting LeahJ in Chicago. We had a wonderful time, and Jenn swears we are moving there next.
- Visiting University of Notre Dame except for the two guys who tried to run me over with their golf cart.
- Hanging out with Jenn's dad and little sister in Ohio.
Hopefully I'll get some pictures up here at some point or another.
Anyway...we also saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I love Tim Burton movies and this was no exception. Do not expect to see a remake of the movie from the 70's with Gene Wilder. This is a different movie. Yes, there are similarities, but Burton includes more of the book (like the songs that Roald Dahl wrote in the book), and includes his own flare for the wacky.
I also did purchase the new Harry Potter book. Because of work and the fact that I am still catching up on sleep I am not as far along with it as I would like to be....so far so good!
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
The Road Awaits
This shall most likely be the last post for about two weeks. We are heading on a tour of the midwest (okay, not of the WHOLE midwest, but Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Missouri). We are visiting family and friends, including Leahj (her blog is listed on the sidebar).
From Parker Palmer's Let Your Life Speak "Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let you life tell you what truths you emobody, what values you represent"
"All who follow the leading of God’s Spirit are God’s own
sons. The Spirit you have received is not a spirit of slavery
leading you back into a life of fear, but a Spirit that makes us
sons."
- Romans 8:14–15
This shall most likely be the last post for about two weeks. We are heading on a tour of the midwest (okay, not of the WHOLE midwest, but Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Missouri). We are visiting family and friends, including Leahj (her blog is listed on the sidebar).
From Parker Palmer's Let Your Life Speak "Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let you life tell you what truths you emobody, what values you represent"
"All who follow the leading of God’s Spirit are God’s own
sons. The Spirit you have received is not a spirit of slavery
leading you back into a life of fear, but a Spirit that makes us
sons."
- Romans 8:14–15
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Searching for what was lost
I am drained. I don't know if it is because I need a vacation, or because I need to make a change with myself. I don't know if it is because I (we) need to get our arses out of Arkansas or if it is because, as Jenn likes to remind me, I over analyze the situation.
Forgive the moments of frank thoughts from a weary mind, but I don't know if I should do what I am doing because I don't think what I am doing helps anyone at all. Or maybe we should just get out of Arkansas...
As my grandfather said "don't let the bastards get you down".
I am drained. I don't know if it is because I need a vacation, or because I need to make a change with myself. I don't know if it is because I (we) need to get our arses out of Arkansas or if it is because, as Jenn likes to remind me, I over analyze the situation.
Forgive the moments of frank thoughts from a weary mind, but I don't know if I should do what I am doing because I don't think what I am doing helps anyone at all. Or maybe we should just get out of Arkansas...
As my grandfather said "don't let the bastards get you down".
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Juxtaposition
From The ONE Campaign
"ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans – ONE by ONE – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. The ONE Campaign is engaging Americans through a diverse coalition of faith-based and anti-poverty organizers to show the steps people can take, ONE by ONE, to fight global AIDS and poverty."
"ONE percent of the U.S. budget is $25 billion, and redirecting that much money would have to be done over time. Directed to honest governments, private charities and faith-based organizations, this support would provide the tools and resources they need to really make a difference. American support would be part of a compact with poor countries who fight corruption and use their own resources to help their people out of poverty. American leadership would be an example for rich countries in Europe and Asia to do their share to help the poorest people in the world."
From Cost Of War the current amount of money spent by the U.S. on the war in Iraq: 178 Billion F'in Dollars
From The ONE Campaign
"ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans – ONE by ONE – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. The ONE Campaign is engaging Americans through a diverse coalition of faith-based and anti-poverty organizers to show the steps people can take, ONE by ONE, to fight global AIDS and poverty."
"ONE percent of the U.S. budget is $25 billion, and redirecting that much money would have to be done over time. Directed to honest governments, private charities and faith-based organizations, this support would provide the tools and resources they need to really make a difference. American support would be part of a compact with poor countries who fight corruption and use their own resources to help their people out of poverty. American leadership would be an example for rich countries in Europe and Asia to do their share to help the poorest people in the world."
From Cost Of War the current amount of money spent by the U.S. on the war in Iraq: 178 Billion F'in Dollars
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
How Absurd!?!
From Think Progress, The Bush Administration Was For Amnesty International Before It Was Against It.
It makes sense, really. Amnesty International is a great organization, but, you know, sometimes they just make a mistake with their reports. Especially when the people reporting the abuses hate America.
I am sure that the POWs in Vietnam, or from any other war loved their captors. I bet that the survivors of the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulags also loved their captors, even though they reported the abuses that they endured while at these places. These people certainly did not hate their captors, because then their reports of abuses would be biased. And that just wouldn't be right, not to mention, unAmerican.
/end sarcasm
I am in no way comparing the Guantanamo Bay "prison camp" with the Soviet gulags or Nazi concentration camps. However, I am also not saying that G Bay is a wonderful place to stay, if you are a "guest" (remember, those at G Bay are not prisoners of war or political prisoners). If you listen to the actual statement by GW Bush about the AI report, you will think you are watching a bad Western movie and the Sheriff is telling the townsfolk that the bank robbers are lying when they say that they overheard plans by some of the townsfolk to have the them lynched. The Sheriff believes that the report is absurd because the bank robbers hate the town, and so they are lying about the lynching plot.
We Americans are such Lemmings.
From Think Progress, The Bush Administration Was For Amnesty International Before It Was Against It.
It makes sense, really. Amnesty International is a great organization, but, you know, sometimes they just make a mistake with their reports. Especially when the people reporting the abuses hate America.
I am sure that the POWs in Vietnam, or from any other war loved their captors. I bet that the survivors of the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulags also loved their captors, even though they reported the abuses that they endured while at these places. These people certainly did not hate their captors, because then their reports of abuses would be biased. And that just wouldn't be right, not to mention, unAmerican.
/end sarcasm
I am in no way comparing the Guantanamo Bay "prison camp" with the Soviet gulags or Nazi concentration camps. However, I am also not saying that G Bay is a wonderful place to stay, if you are a "guest" (remember, those at G Bay are not prisoners of war or political prisoners). If you listen to the actual statement by GW Bush about the AI report, you will think you are watching a bad Western movie and the Sheriff is telling the townsfolk that the bank robbers are lying when they say that they overheard plans by some of the townsfolk to have the them lynched. The Sheriff believes that the report is absurd because the bank robbers hate the town, and so they are lying about the lynching plot.
We Americans are such Lemmings.
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