I have a great idea. One week a year, or maybe just one day a  year, all the networks broadcast the classic sitcoms in prime time: I Love Lucy, Andy Griffith show, Gilligan's Island, etc. I'll bet the viewership will be high and some of the youth will be surprised at how good some of the old TV was. And then add to all that, classic B&W movies staring all the greats.

I was once  the principal of a private school and decided to do an experiment. I showed Mr. Smith goes to Washington and got groans and "Oh no it's not even in color." after about 30 minutes they were on the edge of their seats. Nothing beats a good story and good acting. And you don't even need four letter words and sex - shocking.

Hello, I have been trying forever to get some help with this matter, but nobody seems to care at all. There is a very serious problem of fear of reporting unfair labor practice in Walmart. I worked there for almost 10-years with an excellent work history, up until we got a new store manager who was extremely verbally abusive to employees including a mentally handicapped female who he would bash until she was hysterically crying. You could hear her wailing across the store, and when I suggested to employees that we report it they said they were afraid they would be fired. I said we have rights and laws in this country and we do not need to be afraid to report abuse, especially of the handicapped. They said I was naive, and that everyone knows Walmart controls the government and everything with its money and lawyers and prides themselves on being able to get away with doing anything they want, I had more faith and trust in our system than that. I told myself from the begining, do the right thing, tell the truth, follow the rules, and trust God, and i began reporting the abuse to upper management. Before you know it the abusive manager started letting me know he was angry with my reporting him and fired me. That was just the begining of the mess. I went to the NLRB and they filed a charge on walmart for firing me for engaging in protected activity.
Walmart then forced me to drop the charge before they would reinstate my job, and then harshly retaliated on me in many ways including false write ups and 2 more wrongful terminations shortly after i returned. When I went back to the NLRB as they had told me to do should this occur Walmart gave perjurious testimony to the NLRB and told numerous extremely slanderous and defamatory lies in order to have the case dismissed. I have struggled very hard through 2 dismissals before obtaining my NLRB files through FOIA and managing to prove so many lies that walmart had told the NLRB, that i believe that is why The Deputy General Counsel finnally told me to re-file my case. It is now back open, but not going well.
Walmart has gone to great lengths, by doing things like what they did to me, in order to instill an atmosphere of fear of reporting in the employees. Everything is not fine at all in Walmart, in fact nobody has any idea how bad it really is because walmart has carefully ensured that the employees are so afraid to report wrongdoing that they won't even say anything when they hear a mentally handicapped female hysterically wailing across the store and hiding in the break room from the ongoing extreme verbal abuse of the store manager, and when the one guy naive enough to say something speaks up, he is promptly fired and subjected to many forms of retaliation up to and including false terminations and having his name defamed and slandered to the NLRB. I could go on and write a book about everything that I alone have been through, not to mention what others have been through with this evil tactic used by walmart to keep their employees quiet about the truth of what really goes on in those stores on a daily basis, but it seems nobody would probably even care.  Meanwhile I have lost my job, my career of nearly 10-years, and probably any chance at ever retiring in my lifetime all because I reported employee abuse including of a mentally handicapped female by a store manager in our walmart store. Robert Snodgrass, 715 Taylor rd., Downingtown, Pa 19335,   Thank You. God Bless you, and God Bless America

ohhh poor things, evil is offended by good

E-books will soon become more popular than print.  On line music has replaced records and CD's.  On line shopping has in many cases replaced the need or desire to shop big box stores including Walmart.  Price is only one of the reasons. Better product information and excellent service from Amazon is another.  Blockbuster Video and others replaced by technology.  Walmarts recent move was petty and foolish, one less reason to visit a store with at best marginal service and uniformed help.

Before you all go bashing Walmart and praising Amazon, you should think about the dangerous monopoly Amazon has created in the book industry. Now that they deem themselves 'publishers' they're pushing out all other retailers, and even publishers, trying to make themselves the sole source - and we suffer because their atrocious, unedited self-published 'books' are mixed in with the good ones, books that had an actual editor and went through a selection process at a professional publishing house.

amazon is an amazing company

 

jeff bezo's is an amazing guy

 

i HATE WAL-MART.

 

Wal-Mart is represents everything that is bad about our country