a low-back went-out day

photos: CBS News website
info: Don Cooley/Mavis/Doyle by emails

HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?

This should boggle your mind!! And scare you as well!

HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?

1 . At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.

2 . This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!

3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

4 Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer. And most can't speak English


6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.

7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.

8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).

9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.

11 This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.)

12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart

13 Let Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street, and GM, and Ford, and Chrysler......

here comes the other craps

GOP Budget Plan: Slash $10 Billion From Schools

by: Matthew Yi, The San Francisco Chronicle

War Talk, the Death of the Social, and Disappearing Children: A Lesson for Obama

by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Mr. Obama, Weigh the Price of War

by: Douglas MacGregor, Defense News

Former Army Col. Douglas Macgregor urges Obama to look at war in a different way than President Bush. (Photo: Getty Images)

The Crisis: An Opportunity to Save the Planet

by: Antoine Reverchon, Le Monde

"It would be a very serious mistake to believe that we must hold up long-term investments and policies because of the crisis," argues Sir Nicholas Stern in favor of policies that address global warming and speed economic recovery. (Photo: David Rose / The Sydney Morning Herald)

the cyst's gone, but the sore remains, for now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B4y5sZKdI4

Bush Sneaks Through Host of Laws to Undermine Obama

by: Paul Harris, The Guardian UK

As his term winds down, President Bush is easing regulations on infrastructure and the environment. (Photo: Reuters)

Across Mideast, Arabs Hail Shoe-Hurling Journalist

by: Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Omar Sinan, The Associated Press

A journalist, Muntadar al Zeidi, is being held by police after throwing his shoes at George Bush in Baghdad. (Photo: Sky News)

Auto Bailout's Death Seen as a Republican Blow at Unions

by: Jim Puzzanghera, The Los Angeles Times

For some Senate Republicans, a vote against the bailout was a vote against the United Auto Workers, and against organized labor in general.

NOW | Climate Change Crisis: An Entire Nation Being Washed Away

by: NOW, t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

Si Se Puede! Yes, We Can!

Workers win a big round in Chicago factory sit-in

By MICHAEL TARM (Associated Press Writer)

From Associated Press

December 10, 2008 1:24 AM EST




... and who's laughing now?!!

the days are gettin' shortta & coldda

sittin' out da crappie time... i am...


Shameful BoA CraaaPP!!

Workers Occupy Factory in Chicago

by: Rupa Shenoy, The Associated Press

Workers in Chicago who were notified that their factory was closing are staging a sit-in. (Photo: Getty Images)

early december's new moon crest

When the Fall is deteriorating into a further Unknown...

A $1 Trillion Answer

By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ

Published: November 29, 2008


Could Do; "If the president comes to town with the Secret Service, they're not going to let him be arrested. And it's not like the Brattleboro police are going to say, 'Let's get in a gun-shoot with the president's men.'" – Rich Garant, Brattleboro, Vermont | 'No One Should be Above the Law'; "I've heard some talk that he might be considering a trip here in the last couple of weeks of his presidency." – State Republican Party Chairman Rob Roper

long day working

humming crap?

Subject: Hummingbird Lane
From: Roseann Traynor
To: Dessie Henion
From: Dessie Henion
To: me

This woman lives in a Hummingbird fly zone. As they migrated, about 20 of them were in her yard. She took the little red dish, filled it with sugar water and this is the result.

The woman is Abagail Alfano of Pine, Louisiana - she has been studying them daily and one morning put the cup from the feeder, with water in it, in her hand; as they had gotten used to her standing by the feeder they came over to her hand. She says in touching they are as light as a feather. Abagail also said, 'if she had known her husband was taking pictures she would have
put on makeup.'

de first day of de last month

crap-o-cruelty

Deer gets revenge after hunter shoots him

From Associated Press

December 01, 2008 8:13 PM EST

damn, he's alive while the buck's dead.



de crap-o-century!

Paulson and Bernanke Spread the Wealth Around

by: Dean Baker, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Wealth is spreading right now as a result of the bailouts and most of it seems to be going upward. (Photo: Getty Creative)

During the campaign, Barack Obama provoked a media flurry and right-wing outrage over his comment to Joe the Plumber about "spreading the wealth around." They told us that this view was contrary to the American Way, that this was socialism.

Given all the concern over Obama's ideas about spreading the wealth, it is remarkable how little attention is being given to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke's much more ambitious effort to spread the wealth. They are putting in practice measures that swamp any plans put forward by Obama in the presidential campaign; yet, this massive government redistribution of wealth is drawing almost no attention whatsoever.