re: #47 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I read a story a few months ago, either on NPR or VOA, about how shopping malls have had to adapt to the loss of their anchors — stores like Macy’s, Bloomie’s, Sears, etc. — which have fallen on hard times. Some have done away with anchors altogether, using those large areas for community markets or bazaars. Others have added fitness clubs, movie theaters, upscale restaurants, etc., to encourage people to spend the whole day at the mall.

Monument Mall has one anchor store: a K-mart. (They took over the space from another like Sears.)

re: #50 Patricia Kayden

I grew up in Canada and didn’t know anything about poutine until a few years ago (from reading American blogs like this one). It sounds …. interesting to say the least.

I was blown away by KFC in Manitoba and northern Ontario selling the Colonel’s poutine. Harland Sanders would likely roll over in his grave if he knew.

Tim Horton’s opened a shop near my hometown. Ontario already has my home state of Michigan surrounded; now they are moving in for the kill.

re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They need a few fundamentalist Islamic mosques as co-plaintiffs in this case just to highlight the sheer Righteousness of their bigotry…

None of those here, anyway (no mosques at all I am aware of). The closest is in Grand Island, several hundred miles away from here, or in Denver, Colorado. (Colorado is not part of this wingnut suit.)

democracynow.org

A mosque in Omaha was attacked for the fourth time in one year though. I am pretty sure wingnuts don’t want mosques as part of their suit.