AtticaFlinch

Currently Dunvale is the only reasonable choice Walmart for inner-loopers, and when I lived in Greenway, without traffic, that journey took at least 20 minutes one way. Unfortunately, as I work for a living and don't like being inside of Walmarts, particularly that Walmart, at 3 am, I had to share my road space with other people... which made my drive considerably longer. When I lived in Montrose, at minimum an additional ten minutes was necessary for the one way trek to low price territory. I'd have shopped at the Meyerland location more often, but I hated getting in and out of the parking lot there. I really don't see what the big problem is. This is Houston, not Bumfart, Massachusetts. There are more than enough people here who will continue to shop at the smaller, local retailers. All that's happening now is the people who would spend their Walmart dollars in the Heights location are apending it in Dunvale or Meyerland, simultaneously increasing traffic congestion and, by default, air pollution. In other words, building a Heights Walmart will help to save the environment.

You can't help your dreams. I once had a dream that I was having a conversation with a rabbit who wore a top hat and a monocle. And I was on stage in my high school auditorium. Wearing only my underpants.

That's one way to frame it. The quality of life issue does seem to be the primary point of contention for one side, but spite is an askewed mischaracterization of those arguing from the other side. I think convenience and price would have been a better description, but I know that would have interfered with your love of hyperbole. It's happened before. Usually there's more in consideration than simply that a handful of people hate Walmart (ie. ecological or cultural concerns with the construction site). The vocal minority doesn't have the right to dictate the lifestyle for everyone, and when it comes to Walmart, if they think they'll be able to turn a profit, they'll build the store.

It never seems to fail that regardless of how many people take the dissenting view, only one person will ever become the lightning rod for personal attacks from the opposition. I'd try to take some of the heat off you by admitting that even though I hate McDonald's more than Walmart, I had two sausage McMuffins for breakfast yesterday (yes, I'm a big ol' hypocrite), but I fear they've already made you the figurehead of the pro-Walmart movement. Nothing will stop that now, and it doesn't matter your reasons. Emotions trump logic in nearly every argument ever debated. You're lazy. And worse, I hear you kick dogs. Edit: And to the guy who's throwing the negs out for no apparent reason other than to be vindictive, I'm going to counter those as much as I can despite the fact I fundamentally disagree with Niche's point too.

Here's the direct link. I posted the two visual aids on the top right of the screen. If you go to the homepage, be forewarned, you could easily spend all day reading up on this.

I just got home from grocery shopping with the family at Walmart. No one cares much on 1960 though. And before anyone asks, no, none of us were raped or robbed in the parking lot. That could have been due to the torrential downpour going on while I was loading the trunk though. Everyone knows criminals fear the rain.

They open on my smackberry, so I don't know. They're available on the EIA website. I'll track down the exact address when I'm back on my office computer in the morning.

Because you'll use it too. People always do. And not just you either. As the only inner loop Walmart location, people of all sorts of income brackets will drive in or ride a bus to use it. The Heights is centrally located and not a dangerous neighborhood. It's a pretty obvious choice for any major retailer to set up shop. Plus, it has the added benefit of having the Target in close proximity increasing consumer choice and competition. And don't get me wrong. I hate Walmart. I can't stand the place. I always feel like I need a shower after I leave one. It's obvious the employees hate their jobs. It's obvious the company promotes unethical business practices to keep their prices low. I hate that in their first foray into Mexico, they built a store practically atop the archaeologically priceless site of Teotihuacan. I lived in Austin when they built on the environmentally sensitive Barton Springs watershed despite thousands of protests from residents. I hate that all new Walmarts are built with a McDonald's in them as there's one company I like less than Walmart, and it's McDonald's. Yet, I can't not shop at Walmart from time to time. When you're on a budget or pressed for time, it's the best shopping option, even if it leaves you feeling unclean.

America's most recession-proof cities Texas and its circle of influence (of which I'd include Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma) looks pretty good.

Energy Flow.pdf This is an interesting graph that shows precisely how we source our energy, how we break it down by source and where we use it. Also, this: pecss_diagram1.pdf

The ranger station is near New Waverly. They can give you precise locations to go to. Otherwise, you'd probably prefer just to drive to a wide stretch in the road and hike into the first break in the trees you can find. Just make sure you have a compass, preferably a GPS and a map that clearly designates National Forest property boundaries. Nothing can spoil a hike more than stumbling upon some farmer's pot crop or some biker's mobile meth lab.

I disagree with your conclusion as to my motivations, but you are right in that I'm not doing it to be funny. If I was, I'd have used a better format than modified Yo Mama jokes. More than anything else, I was curious how long I could get away with making unfounded disparaging remarks against a religion that few people profess faith in (at least in this country and on this board). Four times, it turns out. I'll refrain from doing it going forward. To borrow a word from George W Bush, you've misunderestimated me. It's your website. I know I don't own anything written here. Don't jump the gun, Mother Superior.

Or France. Either way, it doesn't belie my assertion that the world will be a lot better off when the Middle East has been drained of all useful, exploitable materials and that the people of the area can return to their caves and other bass-ackwards ways. Almost forgot... Yo Mohammad so backwards, I tol' him Ramadan was aroun' tha corner an' he went lookin'.

Damn. You've blown the lid off my ruse. You win this round, samagon. Nah, the article and the graph just used oil measurements to make the data more accessible. It's discussing the total amount of energy used. I'm not sure what that is, but it does sound rather unpleasant.

In between Coldspring and Cut and Shoot, there are some old FM roads that can take you pretty deep into Sam Houston National Forest. Believe it or not, it's far enough away from all the city's ambient light to get a pretty great view of the stars.

It's kinda strange how you're expected to conform to their lifestyle while in their country, but they don't expect to conform to our mores when they're over here. It's a double-standard, pure and simple. In my office this morning, we were discussing another client's office, perhaps even where jgriff works for all I know. Apparently they've been importing tons of Saudis which has completely altered their office and lowered the employee morale. There's a double standard which permeates maliciously throughout the building, and beyond just the bathroom segregation, board rooms have been turned into prayer rooms and the women in this particular company are treated like absolute garbage. There's no expectation on the part of the American employers that the Saudi workers should adhere to that old axiom of "When in Rome..." Instead, they expect the American employees to bend over backwards to appease the Saudis. Now I realize this is more an issue of Saudi cultural intractability than just Islam, but considering Saudi Arabia is ground zero for Wahhabi fundamentalism, many of the worst qualities attributed to fanatic Muslims begin there. Yo Mohammad so dirty, he turn the local swimmin' pool into tha dead sea.

Well, most likely, if it's going on a lot sized for an HEB similar to the one on Buffalo Speedway, this lot will only be able to contain one of Walmart's high-end grocery concept stores. I doubt it'll bring in all the riff-raff associated with normal Walmarts.

Yes, it's gross. That said, the pork chops I bought at Walmart on the way home from work tonight were delicious. (The chorizo pizza will have to wait till the weekend. I don't want to subject my coworkers to the next day madness.)

I read the same thing he did. They must have edited it recently.

You're an epistemological nihilist. You don't believe anything. I've personally polled everyone in the world about this, including all the newborn babies, the mentally retarded and the certifiably insane, and they all said they didn't care.

It's just like Dallas' north suburbs but with more hills. The same type of people live in both.

No, I'd want her to have a CHL, a dead aim and no reservations with killing a man. I wouldn't want her quality of life to suffer because some sexually repressed dudes can't contain their wieners. If the state didn't mandate internet blocks for certain types of sites, then they could just rub one out after they turn off the "safe search" filter on Google. Yo Mohammad so loose, he wear a mattress like a backpack.

Reducing our dependence on petroleum and other fossil fuels has nothing to do with how much energy we consume. Those are two separate issues. If all our energy needs were met with wind turbines, hydroelectric dams and solar panels, no one would give two craps about how much power we use. The problem isn't how much power we use, but how much environmentally unsustainable power we use.

Yeah well, there's the big difference. We're not in the Middle East, nor is Mark Zuckerberg, nor is Salmon Rushdie, nor was Theo Van Gogh. If I was in the Middle East, I'd respect the rules of the country I was in. I'd totally throw battery acid in a woman's face if she spurned my advances, and I'm certain I'd join the firing squad to kill a woman that was raped. (Because it was totally her fault, yo. She shouldn't have revealed so much of her eyeballs.) Faith statutes are generally dumb. Faith statutes that arbitrarily enforce death penalties for inane, innocuous acts are dumb and dangerous. Yo Mohammad so fat, when he cut he bleed bacon grease.