Saturday, June 30, 2007

Jeep Cherokee Molotov cocktail


Jihad going downscale?
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13 comments:

Pepe le Pew said...

Why don't these wackos do something useful instead and bomb the local WalMart that puts all the locals out of business & turns our beautiful city into a suburban strip mall?

Some good could come out of terrorism if these people used minimal common sense.

6/30/2007 6:29 PM
Tecumseh said...

More here:
"We tried to subdue the guy, but he's a bad boy, he's not for being subdued," said airport worker John Smitten, who ran to help police in the aftermath of the crash. "He was shouting something. 'Allah,' something, ''Allah.' Every time he threw a punch, he was saying 'Allah.'"

So, Pepe, what was you alter ego sayin' to Mr. Smitten? Perhaps, it was just "Aloe"?

7/01/2007 1:22 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Why don't these wackos do something useful instead and bomb the local WalMart that puts all the locals out of business & turns our beautiful city into a suburban strip mall?

Pepe, not every American can afford to shop at Nordstrom's and Neiman Marcus like you.

To discuss Walmart seriously, the great paradox about it is that it supposedly hurts (the economically poor) the people that benefit from it most (again, the economically poor).

7/01/2007 1:40 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

AI, to make the Mercedes connection, Jeep is connected with Chrysler which is connected with Diamler nowadays (at least the last I heard). But to counterpoint my point: a Chrysler ain't a Mercedes...

7/01/2007 1:48 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

Pepe, not every American can afford to shop at Nordstrom's and Neiman Marcus like you.
Have we met?

7/01/2007 11:44 PM
Tecumseh said...

I don't shop at either store, neither do I go to WalMart (I've only been there a couple of times, and it was rather junky stuff). Heck, I almost never go shopping -- it's just too painful to mill around with thousand of crazed shoppers jabbering in their cellphones. Besides, I never can find anything on my size. So why bother?

7/02/2007 6:19 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

I understand Pepe's disdain towards the magnum parking lots and über-sized Walmart buildings. But, in many cases, with every weakness there is a strength. When I used to live in the Twin Cities not long ago, I'd go to Walmart every now and again for monetary reasons. Their stuff was cheap (like shampoo and such). First-generation immigrants also use Walmart to a great extent for the same reason.

7/02/2007 8:04 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

There is no question WalMart is cheaper, and in suburbia, it doesn't clash with the rest of the surroundings and there is not much of a problem. But in a beautiful historic city like New Orleans, the endless parking lot and the neon signs are an eyesore, not to mention the destruction of historic buildings is very short sighted. Add to that all the mom & pop stores like flower shops etc... that can't compete and disappear there is a real question as to whether the benefits aren't hugely outweighed by the social cost.

7/02/2007 9:46 PM
Tecumseh said...

I reluctanly need to agree with Pepe on this one: keep Walmart (and other big chains like that) outta city centers -- put them somewhere in the burbs or out in the fileds, no problem, but not in Faneuil Hall or Battery Park. As for prices, yes, they may be cheap, but I like other cheapo stores better -- and one of the few things I ever bought at Walmart was a crappy chair made in Thailand, that I ended throwing away, so uncomfortable it was.

Nuff of that -- let's get back to more familiar ground, and argue about Jihad and the Frechy gauchistes with Pepe, willya?

7/02/2007 11:13 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

oh, right. sorry. death to america!

7/02/2007 11:42 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

in a beautiful historic city like New Orleans, the endless parking lot and the neon signs are an eyesore, not to mention the destruction of historic buildings is very short sighted. Add to that all the mom & pop stores like flower shops etc... that can't compete and disappear there is a real question as to whether the benefits aren't hugely outweighed by the social cost.

Well holy shit, Pepe. Why don't you just explain it in that way the first go-around? Otherwise it just sounds like an Ameri-phobic incantation.

You are correct about suburban Middle America (apparently it's become part of the south too): spend-spend-spend to keep up with the Johnson's while not really analyzing the spending in the first place. Historic preservation (still somewhat an oxymoron in America, at least to a European) is EXTREMELY important. Without some type of nucleus (the historic areas that you mention), cities are just meaningless sprawl (I call it Spew, only to offer an idea about how I feel about it).

7/03/2007 12:52 AM
Pepe le Pew said...

Why don't you just explain it in that way the first go-around? Otherwise it just sounds like an Ameri-phobic incantation.

First time around: Why don't these wackos do something useful instead and bomb the local WalMart that puts all the locals out of business & turns our beautiful city into a suburban strip mall?

How did this sound like america-phobic incantation ???

7/03/2007 11:44 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Pepe, the comments you've made throughout the history of your blogging contributions suggest Ameriphobic tendencies. So, contextualizing your most recent contribution with your past blogging comments led me to make the statement I did.

It was a departure from the norm, however, to hear you remark about how you enjoy the historic districts of New Orleans, and care about its thoughtful and deliberate historical reconstruction.

7/03/2007 12:13 PM

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