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WalMart 
Mon Oct 12, 2009 at 03:03:23 PDT
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( - promoted by buhdydharma )
Crossposted at Daily Kos. Look in the Comments Section of Daily Kos for more cartoons on the economy and sports. Somehow, I couldn't fit them in the main text of the diary.
THE WEEK IN EDITORIAL CARTOONS
This weekly diary takes a look at the past week's important news stories from the perspective of our leading editorial cartoonists (including a few foreign ones) with analysis and commentary added in by me.
When evaluating a cartoon, ask yourself these questions:
1. Does a cartoon add to my existing knowledge base and help crystallize my thinking about the issue depicted?
2. Does the cartoonist have any obvious biases that distort reality?
3. Is the cartoonist reflecting prevailing public opinion or trying to shape it?
The answers will help determine the effectiveness of the cartoonist's message.
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Glenn Beck's Fear and Paranoia
Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com
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Sun Dec 07, 2008 at 11:36:11 PST
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(noon. - promoted by ek hornbeck)
Forget Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Valkyrie Friday (well, this year it's Friday) is the day after Christmas! The shopping mall battlefields are strewn with the dead and wounded misfit toys that didn't make the cut while the wild-eyed mobs ran through the aisles like the bulls at Pamplona. Fly, fly, my sisters and brothers, and rescue the heroic offerings presented to you by a desperate consumer kingdom as is your sacred duty!
While those who have fulfilled their glassy-eyed Christian obligation to obtain material goods by a certain morning rest at home, replete with sated consumerism and shaking the blood of WalMart employees from their shoes (PAAAA-RAIZZZE JEEZUS!), those of us who have resisted the multi-limnal marketing bombardment of the previous weeks for whatever reason now have our chance.
Everything is half price! Some stuff is less than half price! This is all the STUFFFFFFF!!!!! that didn't move, and now it can be YOURS!!!!! Can I get a "HOI KRIEGER!" everybody! Heed the wise post-9/11 words of Der FucktardFuhrer and GO SHOPPING!
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Thu Nov 27, 2008 at 22:13:59 PST
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It's ironic that WalMart has become an iconic symbol of the very same small towns that they've destroyed. Main Street sits, rotting if even in a beautiful way, as a vacant reminder of the not-too-distant past when we built walkable communities that worked. Places worth caring about, aesthetically pleasing mixed-use human scale neighborhoods that grew organically over time as the need arised. Buildings designed and built by real people, kept up with pride by the business owners who lived in an apartment on top of the store itself, or in a house a few blocks away. One with a long porch, on a street with sidewalks...so they could greet their neighbors as they walked by on a Sunday morning.
I'm not gonna think that I can influence the shopping habits of America with one blog post, but I am going to ask you the favor of at least considering what I have to say. If you're gonna shop tomorrow, at least consider our neighbors and our neighborhoods. America is in the late stages of a serious disease, but fortunately there's a cure...
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