You might be right about the oil, Kootchie-Koo, but I rarely have to visit a gas station regardless. Re the Gingrinch-stole-Christmas nonsense, thank you for the link. The opinion column was by Newt’s daughter. And one of the commenters was most interesting:

Newt’s ex-wife told the Washington Post in a Jan. 3, 1985, profile:

“He walked out in the spring of 1980 and I returned to Georgia. By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said Daddy is downstairs and could he come up? When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from the surgery … To say I gave up a lot for the marriage is the understatement of the year.”

And whether it’s true or not, whether Newt lizard cheated on his cancerous wife or not, he’s still a glaring example of a sleazy oleaginous politician.

Oh, and from other postings, I am happy that your “handle” Kootch has other, more wholesome meanings besides the naughty one (as vividly defined in the Urban Dictionary).

Why don’t you guys go ahead and boycott some of those businesses.

I will enjoy the peace and quiet when I need to shop at those businesses.

In fact, I find many of you on the left very snobbish at times. (As I have also noticed snobbery on the right). You guys are very humorous to listen to sometimes.

In fact, I find many of you on the left very snobbish at times.

oh. i’m sorry.

You guys are very humorous to listen to sometimes.

and you guys can be very condescending and dismissive of liberals. most of the time you just call us moonbats or socialists and move on without engaging in any meaningful discussion or understanding the reason for our political leanings.

i like to think that i at least show you guys the courtesy of discussing philosophical, core issues.

back to the boycott topic, the bigger picture is that i can spend or not spend my money wherever i see fit for whatever reason i choose. that’s the free market at work. that’s freedom of choice.

boycott? not so much. but if i have the choice between home depot and junction true value, i’ll take the latter. alki lumber? those guys are obviously dino rossi supporters, but they’re a local business, and i’d rather buy lumber from them than the corporate big box.

nothing wrong with shunning the big retailers. doing so helps local businesses.

back to the OT, i believe most les schwab stores are franchised – at least the one in ballard is. so there are two layers of businesses to “boycott” there.

actually, there are three – if you don’t like buying chinese rubber.

The way campaign finance laws are written, employees of companies large and small have to list their employer on their campaign contributions over 200.00.

This is the origin of some of the statistics which are used to claim a particular company is either favoring the democrats or the republicans.

When you remove employee contributions from the statistics and track corporate donations to PACS, spending on lobbyists and advertising bought as bribes on corporate TV networks and cable companies (those ads for companies that don’t sell anything to regular people ie Boeing, Cargill, Archer Danials Midland…) Then you see which companies are actually involved in the struggle to return us to feudalism with the corporation as the aristocracy.

Local companies have sometimes labeled themselves as wingnut to my satisfaction by the campaign signs they put up and the crazy paint jobs with Hitler quotes on their box vans :)

I take care not to leave any dollars at these locations.

And CJB – your comment about political masturbation makes me want to construct a trophy for you that heralds your accomplishment of winning the internet. I’ve had a hard time explaining that very thing on here so thanks for putting your finger on it… no pun intended. OK maybe some pun intended.

I’m not going to try to put words in anyone’s mouth here but I think we all know that no one is referring to productive or meaningful conversations as political masturbation, Jan. You also know me well enough to know that already so I don’t know why that was necessary.

We’re not having a conversation here about changing minds, we’re talking about boycotting a business for (in my opinion) little to no reason based on misguided information. That has been cleared up. If we want to have a discussion about boycotting and it’s benefits, I say do it – but let’s make it separate from a conversation about a specific business so people don’t have to wade through 33 comments (and may not bother) to figure out if they should do it because my fear is that some people won’t and will think “Oh no, they’re Republican supporters” the next time they drive by and take business elsewhere when that’s not the case.

Hey @cbraley12, your name has the word “BRA” implanted firmly inside it and I don’t like the lack of research you did jumping from Charles Schwab to Les Schwab. So to protest that flagrant violation of journalistic internet integrity I propose most (not all) women should stop wearing bras! Who’s with me on this?

Hey DBP (formerly DP), So what do you think about this dress attire?

Hint: the correct response needs to include “I really like the tattoo but I also like the tutu too, 2”

Sonoma… old news, oft asked, oft answered, ad nauseum. Your sharp eye has many predecessors. WS’ites, garbed and bedecked with Chinese petro synthetic clothing, whilst stalking the urban landscape with shoes of similar origin, Target WalMart, KMart..etc. So Job, we added 180K seasonal workers for 60 days..wonder how many Chinese jobs we “supported” in doing so.? The refrain… from Bille Dee.. ” walking contradiction, partly truth, and partly fiction”… True Value has as much cheap crap as Hopeless Depot. In fact, even cheaper crap.

2MuchWhine…

like all aspirations..

yours is based on too much fantasy…

have you seen the size and shape of construction required to keep what gravity calls … upright?

Trust me..

you are absolutely tickled that i wear a bra.

JoB n’ kootch . . .

STOP HI-JACKING THIS THREAD!!!

It’s not about politics anymore, okay?

It’s about more pressing issues . . .

Dream girls also keeps the money in the local economy. Much nicer than traveling to Vegas. Plus, they don’t wear bras