Newark already has a home depot. Actually 2. Ok, so they are glasgow and christiana, but are we so lazy we can't drive 10 minutes in either direction?

The parkling footprint alone would be atrocious in the proposed location. . . I like myself some home depot, but we already have enough, that you.
jason | Homepage | 05.11.06 - 11:09 pm | #

"....are we so lazy we can't drive 10 minutes in either direction?"

Like I said, I can and do. This matters little to me. I don't care if there's a Home Depot there or not. I would like to know that the supposed "fabric of Newark" is though. Maybe it's the local K-Mart because....at least it isn't a Walmart?

Fabric....hmmm. Ironically, when it comes to politicians these days the very same Leftist that is set against Walmart or Home Depot will be for illegal immigration. What happened to the fabric, mom and pop, etc.? Leftists apparently cannot be bothered to go and seek out the people whose wages are depressed by illegal immigration and point out the effect on social services while Rightists who formerly complained about Walmart undermining Americana and using cheap illegal labor in China now want the same cheap labor themselves. Apparently we are to believe that American culture is being destroyed by Walmart or a new store or building in which people choose their culture but not by people from another culture who begin their stay in America as criminals?

It's interesting to note at a broader level that all technological progress, progress in infrastructure, etc., can be argued for and against all the time. E.g., one could say against your argument that the extra driving causes traffic and pollution and note that the general old negative attitude towards all progress that seems typical to Newark is one of the reasons that its infrastructure is what it is when it comes to traffic. Do you "need" a bypass, no, as you can get by without one. So we get by without one, then maybe you're stuck without one. After the brute physical basics of life, it's hard to say what is "needed." Yet when anti-progress attitudes are taken beyond being against a Home Depot building on a plot of land that probably won't amount to anything anyway it reminds me of more serious and broad issues like the way Greens generally went all phobic, neurotic and mentally retarded about progress that could have been brought about by nuclear technology. Ironically, most of what they accomplished is that we shift to progressing towards other technologies that pollute more anyway.

I don't believe progress is all that complicated. There's a lot of people and barring catastrophe there will be more and more because most of them like to have sex. There's also going to be more and more things that we do not technically "need" derived from technology that emerges from the fact that once basic needs are met we still pursue and consume things that we do not need anyway. (E.g., the space program....couldn't all that be spent on feeding starving Africans, etc.?) There's going to be subduing the earth combined with being fruitful and multipying and progress given the basic facts of life, pretty much no matter what. The Luddite types, progressives and Greens need to get over their phobias, stop fear-mongering over every little thing in the name of "saftey," and just deal with the fact that progress is as inevitable as the end of the planet as a habitable place.

The human race wanted to run itself, so now it will run itself into the ground.

When it comes to need, we could probably get by on growing our own food and do not need a supermarket either, most people around the world still do not have them and yet they somehow find what they need. Some of the people in this hack job against Walmart looked like they could stand to grow their own food for a time. It's doubtful that they'd be quite so set against new forms of progress, distribution, etc., brought about by greedy lovers of money if they had to do without its fruits. I suppose they could always sue those who tend bring about progress for enticing them or giving them the opportunity to make themselves fat though. I don't know that I can listen to people snivel about their supposed decision on whether they will buy medicine or food without breaking out the satire. Gluttony is not so different from greed. The manufacturing of the "I have to decide between food and medicine!" meme on this seems to stem from a Leftist talking point these days, yet when Leftists go to the morbidly obese poor in America to have them repeat their talking point anyone with eyes in their head can see the plain empirical facts. It is interesting that they had a segment on sweatshops in the documentary and those people were actually quite slim, every single one. If they said that they were choosing between spending money on food and medicine at least the empirical facts would not reveal them to always be choosing food over medicine or reveal them as a big fat liar. Are the Walmart corporate types motivated by money and greed? Yes. Are many of the people condemning them so different? Perhaps not, they're usually just not as good at making money, perhaps the lottery fails them and so on. Would most of the very same people rendering their judgments make as much money as they could if they were actually good at it instead of being bad at it and so poor? Probably. Who can say but God, the interesting thing to me is that we all seem to know the forms of good and evil that we usually try to judge someone else with.
mynym | Homepage | 05.12.06 - 9:56 pm | #

This entry had me LOL !!!!
one of my faves.
Nancy Willing | 05.13.06 - 2:58 pm | #

How do you intend to ever use that door with your desk and nightstand in front of it?
jason | 05.13.06 - 10:08 pm | #

"How do you intend to ever use that door with your desk and nightstand in front of it?"


From the photograph, it appears to me that the door is locked.
Carl | 05.14.06 - 1:00 am | #

How do you intend to ever use that door with your desk and nightstand in front of it?

I don't.

This entry had me LOL !!!!
one of my faves.

I don't know how accurate it is. When it comes to the city, it is what they seem like. At least they built a new reservior, although I'm sure that has its own story. Hmmm, I wonder if they allow windsurfing on it. Probably not.
mynym | Homepage | 05.15.06 - 4:51 pm | #

this is my city too and you are spot on about much of the backwater attitudes
Nancy Willing | Homepage | 05.15.06 - 9:35 pm | #