The Ponderosa: Prissy rejects Wal-Mart bux

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Friday, February 03, 2006

Prissy rejects Wal-Mart bux

Hillary Clinton Returns Wal-Mart Cash

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton gathered checks from Hollywood friends, John Kerry's wife and even a former Republican congressman, but records filed Friday show she returned cash from an even older ally - Wal-Mart.

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Clinton returned $5,000 to the political action committee of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a company with long ties to the Clintons dating back to their days in Arkansas, where Wal-Mart is headquartered.

Clinton campaign spokeswoman Ann Lewis said the money was returned 'because of serious differences with current company practices.'

The senator served on the Wal-Mart board from 1986 to 1992, and was close with the Walton family that created the nation's largest retailer.

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This is ... praising with feint damn? (Hey, that's not bad!)

Wal-Mart is an incredibly innovative and productive corporation that provides goods and employment to millions -- a great proportion of whom are lower income Americans.

Prissy provides ... hmmm ... nothing of any worth to anyone.

You can't make this stuff up.

The Ponderosa

Friday, February 03, 2006

Prissy rejects Wal-Mart bux

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