Fri
Mar 4 2011
05:39 pm
How consumers can boycott the Koch Bros.
By: R. Neal

Here's an extensive list of products produced by interests of the billionaire Koch Bros., who are financing anti-teacher and anti-union legislation in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

Giving up Dixie Cups and Quilted Northern toilet paper might crimp your style, but I'm willing to take one for the team.

(By way of RoaneViews.)

P.S. Travis Tritt may need to update his lyrics, too:

Well I'm a member of a country club
Country music is what I love
I drive an old Ford pick-up truck
I do my drinkin' from a Dixie Cup
Yea I'm a bona-fide dancin' fool
I shoot a mighty mean game of pool
At any honky-tonk roadside pub
I'm a member of a country club

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Andy Axel's picture

Coolmax. Now that one

Submitted by Andy Axel on Fri, 2011/03/04 - 5:44pm.

Coolmax. Now that one hurts. About every item of warm weather performance gear made by Adidas and Under Armour uses that.

And Cordura? Man. Try finding a canvas toolbag anymore.

About every friggin' technical fabric not made by Gore is on that list.

Virgil Proudfoot's picture

Unfortunately . . .

Submitted by Virgil Proudfoot on Sat, 2011/03/05 - 10:18am.

It ain't just these two brothers, and I don't know where I can find any products around here produced by the Peoples' Republic of Noncapitalism.

redmondkr's picture

Be sure to add Domino's Pizza

Submitted by redmondkr on Sat, 2011/03/05 - 1:09pm.

Be sure to add Domino's Pizza to your no-fly list for their enabling of Rush Limbaugh.

Founder Tom Monaghan was also a big financial backer of Sam Brownback during his failed (thank God) 2008 presidential bid.

vernon's picture

I d rather boycott the

Submitted by vernon on Sat, 2011/03/05 - 6:24pm.

I d rather boycott the unions, their time has passed.I m so sick of seeing those worthless duds sitting on their asses all day calling for shame on Calhouns or some other local business.they don't even use their union members,they use guys from labor world and pay them minimum wage.Maybe some body should organize the sign holders.

fischbobber's picture

I d rather boycott the

Submitted by fischbobber on Sat, 2011/03/05 - 11:09pm.

I d rather boycott the unions, their time has passed.I m so sick of seeing those worthless duds sitting on their asses all day calling for shame on Calhouns or some other local business.they don't even use their union members,they use guys from labor world and pay them minimum wage.Maybe some body should organize the sign holders.

You know what, Vernon? A man's got a do, what a man's got to do. Do it. Drive around in your Yugo, cut off your TVA power, and compost your own human waste. You are a liar and a pussy. You are not a Prater land grant Frye , and I doubt you are really even a thieving lowland Scot Frye. You are just a liar and a pussy who hides behind a fake identity and takes part in drive by lying P.R. ploys designed to make the weak and ignorant and prejudiced feel their life has meaning. Man up. Boycott us and live in the stone age, pussy.

vernon's picture

When you make it personal you

Submitted by vernon on Sat, 2011/03/05 - 11:57pm.

When you make it personal you loose the argument, sorry I don t buy your load of crap little man.

fischbobber's picture

Looseing an argument

Submitted by fischbobber on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 12:20am.

It's not any more personal now than it was when I stuck up for you when you first claimed to be who you still claim to be.

If you really have got the testicular fortitude to do what you claim, then do it. Trust your business to FedEx, refuse all other shipments. Boycott. Do it. Boycott. You can't. And do you want to know why? Because your non- union guys can't get it done. That 7% of us that are left are pulling over 50% of the load and everyone that's working knows it. Shut down the teachers, the post office, the electrical workers, the Teamsters, and the AFL-CIO and see what happens.
You don't have a market. So don't give me this "little man" crap. Be a man and boycott. I know a guy at a local utility company who will be happy to disconnect you tomorrow. Give him the word. Tell him that's what you want done.

Pussy.

vernon's picture

Tennessee is a right to work

Submitted by vernon on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 12:38am.

Tennessee is a right to work state last time I checked. The clowns who hold the shame on calhouns signs are picketing any customer of the Wakefield corporation.They are a small local family owned drywall company whose employees voted not to unionize.So the union harasses all their customers and them.They hire minimum wage labor world thugs to sit at a sign all day.If you think so highly of the union you might want to tell them they are making themselves look stupid with this tactic.Do you honestly support those guys and those methods?

fischbobber's picture

Do your thing

Submitted by fischbobber on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 1:09am.

Do your thing Vernon. Man up and boycott. Tell everybody who you are and I will help you disassociate yourself with organized labor. We will work together to help you prove you are the man you claim you are and not the liar my research would indicate that you are. Stand up and be a man.

vernon's picture

You have not changed my

Submitted by vernon on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 1:22am.

You have not changed my opinion,I don t support unions as they have protayed themselves along the sides of the road here in knoxville,sorry,hate me.

fischbobber's picture

Hate

Submitted by fischbobber on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 1:43am.

I don't hate you. I hate ignorance and ideas whose time has long passed.

You need a middle class beyond what you even know. They are your market. They are most of the people that have ever, are, or will ever live here.

I pity you.

It's limited thought patterns like yours that caused me to realize that welfare is necessary for our culture to survive. We can't fight you and teach the poor at the same time.

vernon's picture

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/

Submitted by vernon on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 4:17pm.

(link...)

alan swartz's picture

Shut down

Submitted by alan swartz on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 10:51am.

“That 7% of us that are left are pulling over 50% of the load and everyone that's working knows it. Shut down the teachers, the post office, the electrical workers, the Teamsters, and the AFL-CIO and see what happens.”

Their jobs could easily be replaced with the presently unemployed.

7% causing 50% of the expense is more like it.

alan swartz's picture

Not environmental determinist theories?

Submitted by alan swartz on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 12:21pm.

That sounds like Cultural geography. You are probably right. Only you and Carl Sauer are qualified to speak on cultural landscapes, and Sauer is deceased. You should move to Berkley.

alan swartz's picture

No Berkley

Submitted by alan swartz on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 8:23pm.

University of Berkley

R. Neal's picture

I thought it was

Submitted by R. Neal on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 8:42pm.

I thought it was Berklee?

(link...)

R. Neal's picture

P. S. You're kidding, right?

Submitted by R. Neal on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 8:43pm.

P. S. You're kidding, right?

alan swartz's picture

Right!

Submitted by alan swartz on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 9:08pm.

Busted

vernon's picture

I can't imagine how the world

Submitted by vernon on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 4:21pm.

I can't imagine how the world would turn tomorrow if not for that critical lecture on those riveting issues.

redmondkr's picture

vernon is on your ignore

Submitted by redmondkr on Sat, 2011/03/05 - 6:56pm.

vernon is on your ignore list. Click here to view this post.

WhitesCreek's picture

I realize this will be hard

Submitted by WhitesCreek on Sat, 2011/03/05 - 7:43pm.

I realize this will be hard but I'm willing to do my best to boycott Koch products. I need a solid list to work with.

Tamara Shepherd's picture

Speaking of busted...

Submitted by Tamara Shepherd on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 9:47pm.

...moments ago, KNS for the first time ever removed one of my comments (in nearly four years time and over 2189 comments).

Here's what I'd shared, on that TEA rally thread:

TN tax burden per capita = 48th nationally

TN government spending per capita = 50th nationally

Per the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal study published 2010

Is anti-union sentiment that high among KNS moderators, for Pete's sake?!

Factchecker's picture

I'd love to see an official

Submitted by Factchecker on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 9:57pm.

I'd love to see an official response from KNS on that.

redmondkr's picture

Casting Pearls Before Swine

Submitted by redmondkr on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 10:01pm.

Quite honestly Tamara, I don't understand why you try to carry on a conversation in that quagmire.

Back when we had tag lines here, Cafkia reminded us on a regular basis in the words of William Gibbs McAdoo that "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."

Tamara Shepherd's picture

*

Submitted by Tamara Shepherd on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 10:23pm.

It's because that's where there's work to be done, Kenny.

It's awfully comfortable and continually affirming over here, of course, but that's not the point.

The point is that if we expect to win--or even to influence--all these public debates now underway, we've got to first PARTICIPATE in them. We can't just be rolling our eyes and mumbling under our breathe anymore.

I very nearly posted a blog here on this exact subject earlier this week, to urge KV folks' greater participation over at the KNS site, too.

I was having a difficult time articulating my worry, though, and I also hesitated to possibly offend some of you in my suggestion that you're not giving all our shared concerns enough real effort--where it matters, I mean.

There, I've said it now. Hope you all understood.

Tamara Shepherd's picture

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Submitted by Tamara Shepherd on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 10:34pm.

One more thought on this subject:

We should be mindful, too, that when we post at the KNS site we aren't reaching JUST that relatively small number of knuckle-dragging simians who post there most often.

The total KNS readership is huge, so we're reaching lots of quieter, non-commited folk, too.

Really, I try my damnedest to write my comments to speak to them.

A lot of you sure are stronger writers, though, and could do it more effectively.

Tamara Shepherd's picture

*

Submitted by Tamara Shepherd on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 10:37pm.

And finally:

Didn't Ted Kennedy work for healthcare reform for about thirty years or so, then die before he saw any semblance of it enacted as law?

Let's keep our eyes on the prize, eh?

Factchecker's picture

One of my favorite euphemisms

Submitted by Factchecker on Sun, 2011/03/06 - 11:10pm.

Tennessee is a right to work state last time I checked.

Ah, yes. Collusion between government and business to make collusion between workers illegal.

jbr's picture

Union might have kept four heros from losing their jobs

Submitted by jbr on Mon, 2011/03/07 - 2:53am.

Apparently a Union might have kept four heros from losing their jobs.

The article is about companies rules and policies designed to avoid lawsuits lead to dubious decisions like "four employees at a Walmart store in Utah lost their jobs for safely disarming a gun-toting shoplifter."

From MSNBC ...

And Walmart can enforce that decision, “no matter how stupid it is,” said Philip Mortensen, a New York management attorney.

“Utah is considered an ‘employment at will’ state,” he continued, so “baring a union or other contract for protection, Walmart would have been free to fire the security guards in Utah, provided no federal, state or local laws were being violated.”

The article

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