DUmmies Discuss A New Whole Foods Outrage And Bug-Eaten Produce

[GOBUCKS]

You may recall that the CEO of Whole Foods, the moonbat grocery store where DUmmies buy bug-eaten, misshapen produce for double the normal price, enraged the DUmmy universe by opposing the Kenyan's plan for socialized medicine. The DUmmies vowed to buy their bug-eaten produce from some other source. Now the same guy has gone and done it again. His most recent blasphemy is as bad as his objection to communist healthcare - he has had the gall to express doubt about the democrat religion of manmade global warming!

Whole Foods is staggered by the loss of DUmmy BallardWA's food stamps:

BallardWA (33 posts)      Mon Jan-04-10 01:32 PM
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Whole Foods CEO Takes on Climate Change
 Source: The New Yorker

Mackey is an example of what you might call the auteur C.E.O. Like Steve Jobs’s, his personality is entwined in his company’s. He doesn’t bother with day-to-day operations; he’s not a technician or a face man.

He sits in a recliner, surrounded by stacks of books. He gives them a good working over, marking them with underlinings, highlighter, and Post-its. He is, as he says, an intuitive-thinking type, on the Myers-Briggs scale. When I asked him recently what he was reading, he named half a dozen books and then a few days later had a press person send me a list of thirteen.


One of the books on the list was “Heaven and Earth: Global Warming—the Missing Science,” a skeptical take on climate change. Mackey told me that he agrees with the book’s assertion that, as he put it, “no scientific consensus exists” regarding the causes of climate change; he added, with a candor you could call bold or reckless, that it would be a pity to allow “hysteria about global warming” to cause us “to raise taxes and increase regulation, and in turn lower our standard of living and lead to an increase in poverty.” One would imagine that, on this score, many of his customers, to say nothing of most climate scientists, might disagree. He also said, “Historically, prosperity tends to correlate to warmer temperatures.”
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/04/100104fa_...
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So the guy that was against the Public Option has just come out against the theory of climate change. Can he really be that dumb? I know he's stepping down as CEO of Whole Foods, but this is yet another reason to continue my boycott...

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DUmmy alstephenson, and probably his "partner" as well, will look elsewhere for double-priced, bug-eaten organic produce:

alstephenson  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jan-04-10 01:34 PM
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1. No Whole Foods for me. eom

 

Doremus  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jan-04-10 01:36 PM
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2. He'll still be Chairman of the Board. (IIRC)
The guy is either an idiot savant or too rich to care whether he keeps his job.

Amazing.

onehandle  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jan-04-10 01:38 PM
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3. They forced him out of Chairmanship. Obviously that wasn't enough. Depose him as CEO...
 ...and I will return to Whole Foods.

And if they kill him, DUmmy onehandle will shop twice a week!
 

DUmmy Warpy, still humiliated and hurt from being demolished by Pam Dawson and undergroundpanther in the Top DUmmy competition, suggests the Whole Foods CEO must be ill:

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jan-04-10 01:43 PM
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4. OK, now I'm really starting to wonder about that guy 
 He kept a pretty low profile for years, although people close to him knew he was a libertarian nut.

One has to wonder why he's unable to shut his trap now, especially after the fallout the last time he said something really stupid and counter to the beliefs of most of the people who shop there.

A medical workup might be in order. 

And the workup needs to be done by lunatics like Warpy and Patriot Lady. 


Really, deny manmade global warming? Come on, he's gotta be kidding, right?

Robb  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jan-04-10 01:52 PM
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5. I'm starting to think he must be pulling our legs. 
I mean, really. No one is that tone deaf.

 


DUmmy beac is angry, because he knows he'll be right back at Whole Foods, picking out his bug-eaten produce, clutching his food stamps in the checkout line:

beac  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jan-04-10 02:21 PM
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6. More proof that the POS is all about the money and doesn't give a d@mn about
 'whole food' or the planet. He's a greedy capitalist and might as well be the CEO of Exxon. 

[thundley4]

beac  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jan-04-10 02:21 PM
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6. More proof that the POS is all about the money and doesn't give a d@mn about
 'whole food' or the planet. He's a greedy capitalist and might as well be the CEO of Exxon.

Dayum, you catch on quick.  Those high prices charged at the stores didn't give you a clue that it was about the money?  He's a capitalist, and a smart one that knew his main market was a bunch of idiots. 

[IassaFTots]

Hmmmm.  I buy my laundry detergent and soap there, because they are one of few distributors in town that carry the brands I need, and they sell em cheaper than the others.   I don't buy much else there, because it is so darned expensive.  But now, I kinda feel guilty.  I mean, if this CEO is so on-board with my way of thinking, it seems a shame that I am not spending more money there.  

Seems to me this man is a genius.  Exploiting the hippies desire to be for green, to make some green.  I say more power to him.  

[The Village Idiot]

Yep. Thats on the money!

[Chris_]

All talk no action.  I wish we had a Whole Foods here.   

I sure like that Mackey guy.