Just the Facts, Ma'am

Wal-Mart opponents are constantly challenging Wal-Mart supporters to state facts and not suppositions. Yet Wal-Mart opponents consistently use the most absurd, touchy-feely, unsubstantiated reasoning to explain why they oppose the proposed Supercenter.

For example, in yesterday's Moscow-Pullman Daily News, city council candidate Judy "Nightmare on Main Street" Krueger said the following:

In my world view, quality of life beings and ends with personal spirituality (ed.- hence PARD's initial opposition to the Pullman Foursquare Church, oh brother), family connections and community involvement for the common good. Really, it's all about relationships.

She then explains Pullman's appeal in terms of the Kiwanis pancake breakfast and the National Lentil Festival (put on, by the way, by the Pullman Chamber of Commerce, which is in favor of Wal-Mart).

How in the heck will Wal-Mart ruin any of those things? How would Wal-Mart destroy "the sense of community that is our strongest asset?"

And who exactly determines the greatest common good? PARD? Judy Krueger? The United Food and Commercial Workers International? Al Norman? Howard Dean? Karl Marx? I and many other Wal-mart supporters have consistently shown facts that prove Wal-Mart is in the greatest common good because of the millions in tax dollars it will provide to the city and its residents over the years, not to mention the many charitable donations Wal-Mart will make. If Krueger, et. al. were interested in the greater "common" good, they would disband PARD immediately. They are merely interested in the greater "elitist" good.

What a bunch of New Age blather. Next thing you know, someone will compare Wal-Mart to Battered Wife Syndrome. Wait a minute.....

Did anyone else catch the Crimson and Gray reference by Ms. Krueger, the WSU Center for Human Rights Senior Investigator? In a Daily Evergeen article on September 26, it was stated: "Student leaders and WSU employees promoting book venders other than The Bookie may face consequences through Student Conduct." Uh oh.