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		<title>By: JB</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/08/20/d-c-gop-to-counter-whole-foods-protest/comment-page-1/#comment-647809</link>
		<dc:creator>JB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>IQ, I can almost guarantee you my IQ is higher than yours.  99th percentile on standardized tests, chump.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IQ, I can almost guarantee you my IQ is higher than yours.  99th percentile on standardized tests, chump.</p>
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		<title>By: IQ</title>
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		<dc:creator>IQ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JB sounds super smart.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JB sounds super smart.</p>
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		<title>By: JB</title>
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		<dc:creator>JB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;barrage of $3 organic tomatoes&quot;

That would be assault.  I wouldn&#039;t mind seeing some Leftists get their teeth knocked out as a result of assaulting someone.  Leftist thugs, no wonder they worshiped Stalin.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"barrage of $3 organic tomatoes"</p>
<p>That would be assault.  I wouldn't mind seeing some Leftists get their teeth knocked out as a result of assaulting someone.  Leftist thugs, no wonder they worshiped Stalin.</p>
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		<title>By: Bryan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The D.C. Republican party... that&#039;s funny...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The D.C. Republican party... that's funny...</p>
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		<title>By: Brandon Green</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brandon Green</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Both sides of the healthcare debate could spend their energies in better places than picketing Whole Foods.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Both sides of the healthcare debate could spend their energies in better places than picketing Whole Foods.</p>
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		<title>By: Fred</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m so confused!!

Wait. No I&#039;m not. I never believed that WF was, for example, a food co-op. Now if the head of a food co-op had written that, I would be kind of mad, and would be inclined to do something about it. But WF is an animal of a different stripe, isn&#039;t it? Who is being fooled here? I admit that I am not much of a protester, and God bless those who are, and who make a difference (and thank you), but I do know if this were something to get really fired up about, I would. I just was never fooled into thinking that WF was anything like a food co-op. Yes, maybe he should not have written that, especially in the WSJ. 

I don&#039;t know. Am I that alienated?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm so confused!!</p>
<p>Wait. No I'm not. I never believed that WF was, for example, a food co-op. Now if the head of a food co-op had written that, I would be kind of mad, and would be inclined to do something about it. But WF is an animal of a different stripe, isn't it? Who is being fooled here? I admit that I am not much of a protester, and God bless those who are, and who make a difference (and thank you), but I do know if this were something to get really fired up about, I would. I just was never fooled into thinking that WF was anything like a food co-op. Yes, maybe he should not have written that, especially in the WSJ. </p>
<p>I don't know. Am I that alienated?</p>
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		<title>By: Concernedaboutdc</title>
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		<dc:creator>Concernedaboutdc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who cares...no such counter protest will remove the foolishness of this executive that doesn&#039;t have the intelligence of a first year MBA student to know that as a CEO what you say can have an impact on your bottom line. He is in business to make money. PERIOD. His is entitled to his political opinion. However, a smart businessman would not publish it in a newspaper knowing it will be counter intuitive to his/her balance sheet. 

Business 101 people, Business 101.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who cares...no such counter protest will remove the foolishness of this executive that doesn't have the intelligence of a first year MBA student to know that as a CEO what you say can have an impact on your bottom line. He is in business to make money. PERIOD. His is entitled to his political opinion. However, a smart businessman would not publish it in a newspaper knowing it will be counter intuitive to his/her balance sheet. </p>
<p>Business 101 people, Business 101.</p>
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		<title>By: Jamie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>$3 for an organic tomato at WF? What a fantasy! You could pay that much for an onion there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>$3 for an organic tomato at WF? What a fantasy! You could pay that much for an onion there.</p>
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		<title>By: Our Morning Roundup: Boycott City - City Desk - Washington City Paper</title>
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		<dc:creator>Our Morning Roundup: Boycott City - City Desk - Washington City Paper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Lefties will picket the Whole Foods at P Street. Tomorrow: Righties will respond by handing out Whole Food CEO John Mackey&#8217;s Wall Street Journal editorial. In the near future: At least one person plans to boycott Wal-Mart to punish the mega retailer for [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Lefties will picket the Whole Foods at P Street. Tomorrow: Righties will respond by handing out Whole Food CEO John Mackey&#8217;s Wall Street Journal editorial. In the near future: At least one person plans to boycott Wal-Mart to punish the mega retailer for [...]</p>
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		<title>By: dc foodie</title>
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		<dc:creator>dc foodie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fred - WF is a major corp and as their CEO Mackey has a lot of discretion over the type of health care they offer AND has a lot of sway in the business community. 

Furthermore, as a corp that holds themselves up as a paragon of purity and fairness then the fact that they are not supporting reform of the insurance system in this country so that it actually works (versus the f-ed up system our pseudo-free market capitalism has created for it), they open themselves up to this type of boycott.

It all comes down to power in numbers. Just like th eprotestors have power in numbers, America&#039;s employers and corporations have power to change things.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fred - WF is a major corp and as their CEO Mackey has a lot of discretion over the type of health care they offer AND has a lot of sway in the business community. </p>
<p>Furthermore, as a corp that holds themselves up as a paragon of purity and fairness then the fact that they are not supporting reform of the insurance system in this country so that it actually works (versus the f-ed up system our pseudo-free market capitalism has created for it), they open themselves up to this type of boycott.</p>
<p>It all comes down to power in numbers. Just like th eprotestors have power in numbers, America's employers and corporations have power to change things.</p>
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		<title>By: angelique</title>
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		<dc:creator>angelique</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In my neighborhood Whole Foods, (in NYC) there won&#039;t be many Republicans handing out literature, but I don&#039;t think there will be much of a boycott, either because 1) there is no other grocer in the neighborhood and 2) so many people have lost their jobs that they can&#039;t shop there anymore. But a Mc Cain/ Guiliani bumper sticker would be most unwelcomed...especially the Guiliani part...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In my neighborhood Whole Foods, (in NYC) there won't be many Republicans handing out literature, but I don't think there will be much of a boycott, either because 1) there is no other grocer in the neighborhood and 2) so many people have lost their jobs that they can't shop there anymore. But a Mc Cain/ Guiliani bumper sticker would be most unwelcomed...especially the Guiliani part...</p>
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		<title>By: Fred</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I haven&#039;t been following this real close. I want a public option for health care, but I&#039;m not going to boycott WF. It&#039;s just one person&#039;s opinion. Are people really boycotting them? Or is it a big deal out of nothing?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven't been following this real close. I want a public option for health care, but I'm not going to boycott WF. It's just one person's opinion. Are people really boycotting them? Or is it a big deal out of nothing?</p>
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		<title>By: D.C. GOP to Counter Whole Foods Protest - City Desk - Washington &#8230; &#124; Counter tops live today</title>
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		<dc:creator>D.C. GOP to Counter Whole Foods Protest - City Desk - Washington &#8230; &#124; Counter tops live today</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] prefabricated existence a Democrat so such more entertaining! &#8230;   See the example place here: D.C. party to Counter Whole Foods Protest - City Desk - pedagogue &#8230;      Posted in Uncategorized &#124;  Tags: all-the, and-not, democrat, gop, has-made, have-been, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] prefabricated existence a Democrat so such more entertaining! &#8230;   See the example place here: D.C. party to Counter Whole Foods Protest - City Desk - pedagogue &#8230;      Posted in Uncategorized |  Tags: all-the, and-not, democrat, gop, has-made, have-been, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Downtown rez</title>
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		<dc:creator>Downtown rez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bonus points if their literature is printed on recycled paper bags.  Otherwise, meh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bonus points if their literature is printed on recycled paper bags.  Otherwise, meh.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Last I set foot inside a Whole Foods.  Fascist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last I set foot inside a Whole Foods.  Fascist.</p>
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