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It's getting so that I can't remember who I don't want to talk to and who doesn't want to talk to me. So I'll talk to you long enough to tell you that I don't know which sabbath to keep any more. Jesus kept Saturday and most Christians keep Sunday. Anyway, tomorrow I will take a break from this bickering and leave these poor people alone until Monday, God willing.

Now maybe in the meantime the whole thread will be pulled.

Tomorrow I plan to relax and outline my will which needs doing.

Then I need to get to work and try to find something to do to make my corner of the world a better place.

Guess I'll give what I have left to be divided and invested in the stock market and only take dividends for the first five years. I'll figure out the rest tomorrow. This has been eating away at me for years, and now I have an idea how to put that problem behind me.

Good night. May God have mercy on us all.

My comments on this thread are one of my best pieces of work of my life. I stood up to a mob. Now if I could only do that in real life, have all these people yelling and screaming at me and not back down. My kids said I never stuck up for them. They will know that I woke up and decided to stick up for somebody, starting with myself and Wal Mart employees who are unhappy. If the others are happy, I guess they don't need sticking up for, but there have to be others out there.

Yeah, we need more of that in the world, people sticking up for others. I know there are times I wish someone would have stuck up for me along with times I should have stuck up for someone else.

One book series I'm starting to read is J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter," I saw the first two movies and I liked the premise of the first movie that could be applied here. I remember towards the end where Harry, Hermoine and Ron were going down below Hogwarts to take on Voldemort but one of their fellow Gryffendor Housemates tried to stop them for the sake of Gryffendor honor. Each of the four Houses were in competition for points to see who had the best House at the end of the school year. Well, the three heroes froze their Housemate so they could go on. Well at the end of the year, Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster at Hogwarts was tallying up the points and Gryffendor and Slitherin were tied and Dumbledore awarded a 10 entra points to Gryffendor because of their friend who wanted to stand up to his friends because he felt they were doing the wrong thing even though he failed to stop them.

One saying that I take to mind that Albus Dumbledore said after the award was "it takes great courage to stand up to your enemies, it takes greater courage to stand up to your friends" when you know they are doing wrong.

I know there are some who take Ayn Rand to heart with her writings but I know myself, I'm more of a reader of writers in the Victorian/Edwardian era as well as the muckrakers of the time such as Jack London, L. Frank Baum, David Graham Phillips, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Drieser and some others. Even though some of them advocated pure socialism which I don't agree with, understanding that it was untested at the times they wrote their books, they did a great job at showing the problems in society at that time with power and money in too few hands as well as show a possible window to where we are headed in the future. Charles Dickens is another favorite of mine too.

I think all in all, we are seeing new paradigms that go beyond the muckrakers, socialists and capitalists to where either or will not be a true viable way of answering the ills and problems we have in society. We could be on the cusp of more automation in the future where a lot of jobs will be taken by robots, what then? I really don't know. I know I've eluded to some Third Way ideas, I am open minded enough to say that we need to take a look at some of those ideas, perhaps we need a synergy of government, business and labor to achieve our goals.

In some ways government has to be th first to take a step, I know when Columbus sailed to the New World, Queen Isabella, well government funded the way. Thomas Jefferson, again government opened the way to the West. Same with my one of my pet programs, space travel. After a while, let private enterprise or a combination of government/business take over, or let anyone who has the will enter the arena.

I really don't see government as evil although in recent years, it has done a lot of evils like Elian Gonzales, Waco, and who slew of other things, but I think it boils down to the lack of accountibilty and responsibility that it isn't held to by the people. I know I went on how big business should be held responsible and accountible, so should government. The keys are accountibility and responsibility.

Wal-Mart, well, it's much bigger than that but it sticks out like a sore thumb so in a way, the topic and discussion of Wal-Mart is like a symbol of the bigger picture in all of this.