Love Mom, Not WalMart boycott is that if WalMart's May numbers are down, they'll probably have to mention Mother's Day sales. We've seen that holiday sales figures are their go-to explanation for poor monthly showings (along with the weather) and that they'll go to any lengths to avoid admitting that a consumer action against them is working. But this May will be different. If the numbers are bad and they cite lower-than-expected Mother's Day sales, they'll be suggesting that the action worked.
It's crucial that we give the Love Mom, Not WalMart campaign our best efforts. If for no other reason, than to see how they spin any slow down.
Typically, the Progressive Grocer calls the Love Mom, Not WalMart campaign "negative."
APRIL 21, 2005 -- NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart is the target of several new negative campaigns being produced by the UFCW and other opponents to the retailer's power and impact on the retailing industry.
If you need a push to grab the banner for your site - and to download the flyers you can share with your neighbors, which would be equally important - climb in my wayback machine and read what WalMart said last year after their June numbers were bad: (from AOL News)
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. lowered its forecast Monday for June sales growth at stores open at least a year to a range of 2 percent to 4 percent, citing cool weather and disappointing Father's Day results.
The world's largest retailer said Monday during its weekly sales update that key categories were flat this year as compared to last year, when it had its best week of the summer
Now, I didn't buy that explanation then and instead attributed the bad sales to the bad press WalMart was pulling in. But I say for however long it takes, we make their cover story a reality. Boycott on Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Father's Day, the Fourth of July, Back to School, Labor Day (of course), Halloween (that will really hurt) ... you get the idea.
Boycotts scare the daylights out of retailers and rightly so. That's why I like them. But allow me to shine a positive light on avoiding WalMart by suggesting other places to buy stuff for Mother's Day and spring planting.
If you're looking for flowers and you can't shop locally, ProFlowers has comparable offers. And Union Plus has a discount site set up as well.
If you want to get supplies for spring planting and you can't find a local nursery with reasonable prices or one of those seasonal garden shops that set up in parking lots and price their stuff to move, then go to Home Depot or Lowe's.
We don't have to shop perfect, we just have to shop better. And better means anywhere but WalMart.
Raw Story has the details now. Apparently Jimmy Jeff was quite the regular White House visitor:
Guckert made more than three dozen excursions to the White House when there were no scheduled briefings. On many of these days, the Press Office held press gaggles aboard Air Force One - which raises questions about what Guckert was doing at the White House.
On at least fourteen occasions, Secret Service records show either the entry or exit time missing. Generally, the existing entry or exit times correlate with press conferences; on most of these days, the records show that Guckert checked in but was never processed out.
In March, 2003, Guckert left the White House twice on days he had never checked in with the Secret Service. Over the next 22 months, Guckert failed to check out with the Service on thirteen days. On several of these visits, Guckert either entered or exited by a different entry/exit point than his usual one. On one of these days, no briefing was held.
"I'd be worried if I was the White House and I knew that a reporter with a day pass never left," one White House reporter told RAW STORY. "I'd wonder, where is he hiding? It seems like a security risk."
Others who have covered the White House say not checking in or out with the Secret Service is unusual. The Secret Service declined to comment.
mmm. Hmmm. A 'top only' doing some secret servicing in the White House. Whose bottom?
Time to compare Jimmy-Jeff's known visits with a roster of whom on the senior White House staff was in the building at the same time.
Thanks to the keen investigative talent of the Professional Journalists at Pravda and ... oh, wait.
This news story is courtesy NOT of CNN, NOT of Izvestia on the Hudson, NOT of Pravda on the Potomac, NOT of *any* ProJo organization, but of Representatives Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and John Conyers (D-MI), who obtained the records under the Freedom of Information Act.
None of whom, apparently, thought there was anything worth following up in the story of a phony reporter from a phony news organization who routinely got into the White House to ask phony questions for two years ...
... and plagiarize ...
... after having worked as a $200/hour he-ho' -- or maybe while still working as a $200/hour he-ho' ...
... putting the "pross" in the White House Pross Corps for real ...
Yawn. Nothing there. Barely worth a mention,
Impersonates journalists, marines, and, apparently, businessmen. Moreover, and weird as it sounds, WE DON'T EVEN KNOW HE WAS A MALE HOOKER. We're going by the reviews of him by semi-anonymous people. He could have written them all himself. It's all out of Walter Mitty.
I think this might be an important tactical change, pass it on: Start calling him James "Catch Me If you can" Guckert.
So over and above the mad scientist aspect - do they really not understand that people will see a difference between human genes in food they're supposed to eat and human genes in bacteria used to clean up superfund sites?
Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that GM technology is creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the controversy surrounding it to new heights.
Even before this development, many people, including Prince Charles, have opposed the technology on the grounds that it is playing God by creating unnatural combinations of living things.
Environmentalists say that no one will want to eat the partially human-derived food because it will smack of cannibalism.
But supporters say that the controversial new departure presents no ethical problems and could bring environmental benefits.
Present GM crops are modified with genes from bacteria to make them tolerate herbicides, so that they are not harmed when fields are sprayed to kill weeds. But most of them are only able to deal with a single herbicide, which means that it has to be used over and over again, allowing weeds to build up resistance to it.
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But Sue Mayer, director of GeneWatch UK, said yesterday: "I don't think that anyone will want to buy this rice. People have already expressed disgust about using human genes, and already feel that their concerns are being ignored by the biotech industry. This will just undermine their confidence even more."
Pete Riley, director of the anti-GM pressure group Five Year Freeze, said: "I am not surprised by this.
"The industry is capable of anything and this development certainly smacks of Frankenstein."
So they will use these altered species to grow crops on contaminated fields and make chemical use more optimal. Is this the best use of genetic engineering, to adapt to already wasteful and dangerous uses.
I'm just worried about swarms of genedically modified rice escaping from a government lab and turning carnivorous.
Wait.... so using human stem cells to try to cure people of disease is wrong, but using human genes to fortify consumer goods is A Good Thing?
Raw Story 
So over and above the mad scientist aspect - do they really not understand that people will see a difference between human genes in food they're supposed to eat and human genes in bacteria used to clean up superfund sites? 
