Let me guess - Borders is based in Seattle.

Gee, where's the 9/11 commission report to finish off the Moonbat Library?

And you'll notice that all three books are red-tagged for clearance.

Bwahahaha

W looks like he's ready to kill someone in that picture....

Such a threat can only be countered by an honest and sound search for answers accompanied by an unwavering commitment to the respect necessary to protect the space through which such search is possible.

"Run from the Borders"...

These people are sooooo...clever! They should be running the country. Such nuance, such subtlty, why, they are almost French!

Heh.

Re my No. 3

Oops. That book on the Holocaust is actually a decent book. (I was too busy sneering at Bob Woodward to pay proper attention. Sorry, everybody.)

Moonbat library science at work.

Nuke Borders.

#1 Carl in Jerusalem: Close. Ann Arbor.

# 12 doppelganglander

Same thought process.... My next guess was Dearborn....

Is it any coincidence that Seattle is earthquake country?

Along with San Francisco, and Iran.

They never miss an opportunity, do they?

I am urging action:

Every time you go to Borders, move Mike-whale Moore and Numb Chimpsky's books to the FICTION section!

Speaking of San Francisco, while lightning detection has only picked up what looks like 2 cloud-ground strikes in the last 60 minutes, some impressive looking showers moving through the Bay Area.

If we can just get a little sun between showers in San Joaquin/Sacramento valleys, we could get a decent outbreak of marginally severe hail and some funnel clouds later this afternoon.

Something to look forward to.

FFS. Why do people who work in book stores think they're doing the world a favor? (Full disclosure - I work in the antiquarian book market.)

How much you wanna bet that they never had Clinton's book "My Life" (or whatever it was) braced by Caligula and Pinocchio?

Oh that is just so clever.

Obviously, this is just a coincidence. . .

Move all of the korans to the GAY/LESBIAN section.

i live in Olympia (pancake corrie town)
if you think this is funny just think what the independent book stores display here

I don't get it

It must be to subtle

/

Actually I have "Hitler and the Holocaust" by Robert Wistrich. A very good book.
Obviuosly the arrangement was not accidental.

olympia is in washington state 45 miles south of redmond.
/should have pointed that out above

Teeheehee

/moonbat orgasm

This is a perfect example of why I moved to Hooper, on the "Red" side of the beautiful state of Washington.

#30 tfk

That link sends me to their site map.

How awfully not-surprising. These people are not even hiding their biases at a friggin store. I wonder if they would have been able to do the same if they lived in Hitler's Germany. Sickening...

Are those DVDs of Farenheit 911 on the next shelf down?

This was probably arranged by a 'judge-not-lest-ye-be-judged-big-tent-can't-we-all -just-get-along-we-need-to-understand-our-differen ces' types.

Hypocrisy - thy name is liberalism.

I know that photo would come in handy someday. I actually raced home to get my camera.

You mean the rest of the country isn't like here? You aren't still looking at Kerry-Edwards bumperstickers?

#30 tfk

Here we go.

Borders and Barnes & Nobles have been a disappointment for me ever since I worked at the local Used Book Fair. For me, they are a place to meet friends for coffee, buy magazines and take my kid when he wants a new book in whatever series he is reading. There also good if you are into a pulp fiction series.

If I really want to buy a book on a particular topic, I do my research on the net and end-up buying a used copy on-line. 9 times out of 10, the book isn't on the shelf at Borders or Barnes & Nobles, but they can order it for me.

They are in business to make money, they stock what the publisher thinks will sell.

Even our local library is a disappointment for me.

#25 blutonazi98 4/4/2006 09:09AM PDT
i live in Olympia (pancake corrie town)
if you think this is funny just think what the independent book stores display here

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*Falling Off Chair*

You mean my hubby and I aren't the ONLY conservatives in Olympia?!?!?!?!?!

#18 (and anyone else discussing messing with Borders)

I'd rather not see people sink to that level. On a personal note, I have family members who work at Borders (used to be an independent store, bought out by Borders). The picture doesn't display corp policy, but more likely store culture. Remember most book store clerks are humanities majors (or drop outs), so they all tend to be pretty liberal.

It does make me depressed seeing how Borders is selling out their ideals for money. Back when they were suppliers, they would carry The Satanic Verses and never give orders about how to stack books on shelves. Just like Google, they found their ideals to be cramping business and pitched them.

Soldier'sDad blog is predicting 'Endgame' in Baghdad with the upcoming confrontation with al-Sadr (for the third time). Sadr and his Mehdi Army have said they'll fight if Jaafari is rejected. SoldiersDad blog has the story here:

[Link: soldiersdad2.blogspot.com...]

#38 pbird

An older moonbat lady in our neighborhood (next door to some friends of ours) has Kedwards stickers on the front and rear bumpers of her SUV.

Some one needs to do these three

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

in one Bin

Leftists work at book stores and universities.
Horray for our kids!

*spit*

ChimpyMcHitler - Too funny!

How clever.Too bad the two bit Castro wannabe shelve stocker could not think of a way to get CMDR Gigalo-McBragg elected in the last election.

I suspect that they are still double dosing their prozac and zoloft in a futile bid to stem thei rampant P.E.S.T.

(Nelson Muntz voice)... HA HA!

#25

Tumwater, here. Gotta love it, huh.

I posted this last week, but what the heck......

In 2004, the various local Borders, featured almost exclusively hate-Bush books in the feature Current Events display near the front of their stores. Generally about 24 anti-Bush books to 3 or 4 pro-Bush ones. This is the area near the new releases where the books face flat with their covers facing out.

Then back in the main current events section, one local Borders (next door to where I work) had a Michael Moore endcap for over 3 months.

For comparison, I would check out the Barnes and Nobles. They tended to be very balanced.

Guess where I spend my book dollars? Either B&N or independent stores.

#41
ssssshhhhhhh
you will blow our covers and then we will get a "non-violent"
protest on our front lawns.

in the name tolerence of course

/there are more of us; you can tell by the key scratch'es on our cars

I see their deep sense of respect only goes so far and never extends to 'Amerikka'.

What, no "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" to round out the shelf?

OT: Katie Couric going to CBS

Good riddance. She'll fit right in over there. I wish NBC would replace her on the Today show with Laurie Dhue.

Maybe they could put Hillary's "Hell to Pay" book next to a lesbian book, next to an anger management book.

#40

You got that right. I pretty much buy 90% of my books online. I tend to only buy the latest Star Wars books from Borders or B & N. I like military history, the more obscure the better, & you just can't find anything like that in the big retailers.

50 jimg 4/4/2006 09:20AM PDT
#25

Tumwater, here. Gotta love it, huh.

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HA! I grew up there...graduated from THS! :) Of course, I was a liberal back then. But Tumwater is at least better than Olympia. I'm technically in Lacey, which is better than downtown, but still fairly liberal.

And they're talking about opening a Borders store in our area now. Closest one right now is in Tacoma.

We have a bunch of self proclaimed "Intellectuals" in Madison (Home of the "Midwest Moonbats") that would pull crap like this but complain when it is done to one of their "heros". (Che, Castro, Mao, Kerry, Clinton, etc.)

Borders should realize that about 50% of the country (i.e. their customers) voted for Bush in the last election. Why would they want to alienate 50% of their customer based?

I bet they thought they were being clever.

Stupid moonbats.

While the islamic world are busy discovering ever new ways to blow themselves up, Stanford researchers are developing "bionic eyes"

Western Civilization, hard at work...

You see the same lame-ass attempts at concatenating falacious imagery at the collectivist propaganda bureaus every evening (ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/Al-Jazeera/Radio Havana/etc).

Nevermind the internal slant to each story, it's also how the broacast is constructed that forms part of their strategy as well.

Hell, I saw a Mondale/Ferraro bumper sticker on an old Toyota at the Park 'n Ride in the Twin Cities. I was just getting back from Colorado, and my camera was dead or I would have had a picture of that. The sticker was faded, but still quite legible. And there was a Wellstone sticker that probably dated back to his first campaign.

#38

You mean the rest of the country isn't like here? You aren't still looking at Kerry-Edwards bumperstickers?

I still see them on Rhode Island and Massachusetts cars here.

These people need to "moveon"..

Few weeks ago went to a Minnesota Art Show.
One of the artists was showing a portrait of the Wellstone Bus.
I gagged.

#63 MN_but_Red:

"Hell, I saw a Mondale/Ferraro bumper sticker on an old Toyota at the Park 'n Ride in the Twin Cities."

That's almost standard fare around me (I live in southern Minneapolis). My favorite recently has been a "Redistribute the wealth" bumper sticker juxtaposed over a Kerry 2004 sticker.

Someone calling for wealth to be redistributed who voted for one of the richest men in the senate. Talk about cognitive dissonance.

The best part of any bookstore is the employee selections section. I've yet to find a book that isn't entirely critical of President Bush show up on these sections throughout the Chicagoland bookstores.

That's bad for customers because the employee selection can be quite good as many of the employees of bookstores are very well read and bookworm types to begin with. It's a shame they do not recommend titles to induce critical analysis from their customers.

I get frustrated at the quality of the 'best-sellers" list. The non-fictions that are featured on BookTV that I might like to read, are often very scholarly. This type of book isn't generally going to be a best seller.

The I/hate/bush/cheney/hitlar conspiracy theory books are written to appeal to the "average" reader --which I don't think is even at 6th grade level these days.

There is a law about this --"good money drives out bad" ?

I've had better luck at university book stores. Best-sellers aren't usually the topic of college level courses.

If you have a topic you are knowledable about and do active research in, I think you are always going to be disappointed with regular retail book stores.

#59

Borders should realize that about 50% of the country (i.e. their customers) voted for Bush in the last election. Why would they want to alienate 50% of their customer based?

Lefties make poor capitalists.

#65: LOL
"What would Wellstone Do?" and "Wellstone!" bumper stickers are everywhere around me.

Wellstone is a martyred god to these leftist athiests idiots

I think it's nice to see both sides of the fence sitting there, on book covers.

But what does the chimp have to do with it?

A fascist, a man fighting fascism, and an animal?

#67 Axiom

It's a shame they do not recommend titles to induce critical analysis from their customers.

In order to do that, they'd have to read books supporting an opposing viewpoint.

It's a rare leftist who can tolerate listening to or reading a well-constructed argument that leans right.

Honest, this is kiddy-play stuff and its pretty hard to get offended by it.

Is anyone really shocked to find out that bookstore employees are lefty, or that some of them hate Bush?

No matter who is President, somebody is going to hate them. That's just an indication that the President is doing his job correctly. I wouldn't begrudge someone their political beliefs, no matter how irrational or juvenile.

And speaking of doing their job correctly, if that were *my* bookstore, the person doing the shelf arranging would get a little talking to before the end of the day.

That book on the Holocaust is actually a decent book.

It probably is.

It is books about the Holocaust that convinced me that fighting fascist regimes is necessary and that sometimes war is better than peace.

Had Hitler been allowed to continue ad remain in power, had Saddam been allowed to continue and remain in power, what would be left of Jews and other ethnic minorities in their respective areas of influence?

Does somebody at the NWS Storm Prediction Center read Little Green Footballs?

Look what I posted at 11:01 CDT

Speaking of San Francisco, while lightning detection has only picked up what looks like 2 cloud-ground strikes in the last 60 minutes, some impressive looking showers moving through the Bay Area.

If we can just get a little sun between showers in San Joaquin/Sacramento valleys, we could get a decent outbreak of marginally severe hail and some funnel clouds later this afternoon.

Something to look forward to.

Now look at the Storm Prediction Center "blog" aka "Mesoscale Discussion"

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0426
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1142 AM CDT TUE APR 04 2006

AREAS AFFECTED...CNTRL CA

CONCERNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL

VALID 041642Z - 041845Z

THUNDERSTORM INITIATION WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND SCNTRL COAST THIS AFTERNOON. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL HAVE A POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL AND A WW MAY BECOME NECESSARY.

LATEST SFC ANALYSIS CURRENTLY SHOWS A MOIST AXIS EXTENDING FROM THE SANTA BARBARA VICINITY NWD ACROSS THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE MID 50S F. PARTIAL CLEARING IS EVIDENT ON VISIBLE IMAGERY OVER THE VALLEY WHERE TEMPS HAVE WARMED TO NEAR 60 F. ADDITIONAL DESTABILIZATION COMBINED WITH STRONG VERTICAL SHEAR WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR ROTATING STORMS. COLD AIR ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH AN APPROACHING VIGOROUS UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO STEEPEN LAPSE RATES OVER CNTRL CA THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE THREAT FOR LARGE HAIL GRADUALLY INCREASING. ISOLATED WIND DAMAGE AND/OR BRIEF TORNADOES MAY ALSO BECOME POSSIBLE AS SFC HEATING FURTHER DESTABILIZES THE AIR MASS

..BROYLES.. 04/04/2006


ATTN...WFO...HNX...LOX...STO...MTR...

They said the same thing I did, 40 minutes after I did.

Can someone explain to this young pup who Wellstone was and why the lefties love him?

/blushes

#59 Lively

Borders should realize that about 50% of the country (i.e. their customers) voted for Bush in the last election. Why would they want to alienate 50% of their customer based?

Lefties tend to be socialist/communist in economic thought. The goal of both socialism and communism is the public ownership of the means of production, they only differ in how to they to that point. Therefore, Lefties are not real worried about serving a customer base, which smacks of capitalism.

#18 Doug

Every time you go to Borders, move Mike-whale Moore and Numb Chimpsky's books to the FICTION section

You know, it's been raining an awful lot down here at Moonbat Center (S.F. Bay Area). Doesn't sound like a bad way to spend a lunch hour. I have Stacy's Books a block from my office, and they put the jackasses at Borders to shame. I received snot comments and dirty looks when I purchased an Ann Coulter book. (I could, of course, spare myself this and buy her books online at Amazon but why should I - the fact that they have to handle her book and knowing she's made another just pisses off ALL the right people).

Chimpy+Bush+Hitler -- nice pun

Must be a KOS display

/bookstores...hiring the handicapped (DU syndrome especially)

#77 me

Second to last sentence should finish up "in how they get to that point."

Dang work is distracting me from my blogging :)

18 Doug

Every time you go to Borders, move Mike-whale Moore and Numb Chimpsky's books to the FICTION section

I usually turn them around and replace the front book with something written by the likes of Michelle Malkin.

Bwahahahahaha.

#78 Carolina Girl

If you really want to drive them up a wall, ask for a book on Reagan, or Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Smith's book is the seminal basis for Classical Economic thought, and it makes true moonbats go off like a fire cracker.

Wellstone was the uber-lib Democrat Senator killed by a Halliburton hit team while on his campaign jet.

In an Oct. 28 article published on an alternative journalism Web site under the title "Was Paul Wellstone Murdered?" Buffalo State College journalism professor Michael Niman wrote, "There is no indication today that Wellstone's death was the result of foul play. What we do know, however, is that Wellstone emerged as the most visible obstacle standing in the way of a draconian political agenda by an unelected government. And now he is conveniently gone."

In the article, posted on AlterNet.org, the professor expressed surprise that Wellstone had "lived this long."

Niman's article was also followed by a number of similar pieces in the left-wing press, notably one by syndicated cartoonist and commentator Ted Rall speculating that Wellstone was killed so Republicans could regain control of the Senate. "Did government gangsters murder the United States' most liberal legislator?" Rall wrote in a column Oct. 29.

^`

Discounting weather, pilot error or mechanical problems in Wellstone's flight, Fetzer's articles have seized on the possibility of sabotage brought on by a futuristic electromagnetic pulse weapon that he said could have disabled the plane's computerized components.

76 megscole64

Can someone explain to this young pup who Wellstone was and why the lefties love him?

Senator from Minnesota who died in a plane crash. His memorial service turned into a DNC rally. Truly disgusting display...

#81 loppyd

Hey loppy, go Red Sox. :)

85 3 wood

Hi!

The Red Sox win was a great b-day present! :)

#76 megscole64

He was a fairly far to the left senator from Minnesota. Died in a plane crash when his pilot made the decision to fly in horrible weather (freezing rain, low visibility) in north western minnesota. Some leftists think it was an assassination.

He did his campagin tours with this old green bus.

Even though he was pretty far to the left, he wasn't a complete fool and he stuck to his positions. He also wasn't dangerous the way Murtha/Kennedy/Kerry are.

Republican Senator Norm Coleman won his seat. You may remember him from the Galloway congressional testimony.

If you're bored: http://www.wellstone.org/

Thanks, guys. I do vaguely remember that now. I guess I'm not *that* young. ;) LOL I think I was still in my transition from liberal to conservative at the time.

#42 bianchi_roadie

The picture doesn't display corp policy, but more likely store culture

Perhaps, but the corporation decides what books to carry and the quantities. Below a list of just a handful of titles that I tried to purchase that were either not in stock or had just a single copy.

Eurabia, The Euro Arab Access - Bat Ye'Or,
Borders (it wasn't even in their system)

The Rage and the Pride - Orianna Fallaci
Barnes & Noble - Not in stock

The Force of Reason - Borders - Not in stock
I found a copy, the only copy, at Barnes & Noble, Woodinville, WA, last week and purchased at great peril. I was given the serious hairy eyeball by the clerk waiting on me and the clerk next to him. She actually came over, looked at the book and then looked at me, offering up yet another another hairy eyeball! IT WAS BIZZARE.

Think a second time - Dennis Prager - Barnes & Noble
They did not stock any of his books - I couldn't even order it. I found a copy, the only copy, at Borders (must have been an oversight on their part). The clerk who helped me was wonderful. He was familiar with Dennis and his books. He was a conservative Jew from LA. However, he left the company shortly after that.

Dereliction of Duty - Patterson - Border& B&N - Not in stock

When I do happen to find a conservative book at either of these locations, it's a single copy on the back shelve.

There are always PILES of books by the usual suspects, Oprah, The Clintons, Franken, Dowd and other assorted Bush haters, by the door, right up front! Corporate policy.

BTW, these suburbs of Seattle are pretty conservative.

#89 Megscole

And what's really sad about the Wellstone Martyr's Brigade is that while Wellstone may have been a die-hard liberal, he was regarded by both sides of the aisle as a gentleman & not a foaming at the mouth kook.

Loppy D

162 wins is still up for grabs in the Red Sox pool.

Happy Birthday? 29?

Endangered in Mass

I'm ashamed to admit that I couldn't figure out how that pool you sent me worked.

Thanks! 36. Yikes.

#82 3 Wood

And if you buy a PRO-Bush book at Stacy's, I think the cashier has to take a break and "lie down". What I find amusing is that at lunch hour, at Market and Montgomery, you either have the LaRouche or Moonbat brigades handing out literature and/or stomping and yelling. And NO ONE is paying any attention to them.

One day they might discover capitalist corporate types with limited lunch time resources are not exactly their "target market."

I was able to order Eurabia and Oriana Fallaci's book from Amazon. The Waldenbooks south of Houston aren't bad. I've been able to get Coulter, Prager, Swift-Boats and a few others without any trouble, but I usually shop during the am, and the booksellers are close to my age (not a spring- chicken age) and tend to be more conservative.

#93 Loopy D

How many games do you think the Sox will win this year(regular season)? I cover the enty fee. Last years two winners split 135 "points" (for recreational purposes only)

My Borders must be an oddball- they had a big stack of Force of Reason right on the front table of New Releases- as well as Prayers for the Assassins and all the good ones (Islam and Iraq related) over the last few years- I don't see the leftoid tomes more prominently placed at all. I will go see if the Korans are on the top shelf, though-

The manager must not be a moonbat!

If you think that's bad my College library only has one "openly" pro bush Book #14 in this search. [Link: wmars.cwmars.org...]
Ther are others wherre they will debate the pors and cons of the Bush policies, but Bush Country is the only one dedicated to why Bush is a good president. It is buried somewhere in the back of the 2nd floor.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

i wonder if the authors of all those books has a last initial of W. That would explain a lot of things. The clearance explains why the dissimilar books are next to each other. The authors would explain why those specific books are next to each other.

Hey, if you were living with your parents, making $18k a year with no benefits with a college degree, I think you'd be angry too.

Its their little way of "getting even". No matter how petty, irrelevant and pathetic.

Bush runs the most powerful and wealthy country of the world, setting policy for the next 1000 years.

They put stickers on books and tell people where to find the John Grisham section!

Its the revenge of the nobodies!

I happened to be in Syracuse prior to the last election and went into a Borders in one of the malls to buy a copy of the Swift Boat Vets book.

When I took it to the counter to pay the clerk,looked like a college student, looked at me like I was crazy.
I asked him what the matter was and he told me that he thought the book was a bunch of lies from some crazy Viet Nam vets out to get kerry.
I just rolled up my sleeves.

#95 Traumakitty

I now order all my books, DVD's, CD's, and various other products from Amazon. There are some great prices too over at Used & new

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (Hardcover - Feb 22, 1989)
Books: See all 2 items
Buy new: $27.95 $17.61 Used & new from $1.99 Usually ships in 24 hours

I just ordered a brand new copy of Rushdie's Satanic Verses for $6.00.

Traumakitty, you're in Texas. That explains alot.

We just came back from college shopping the Dallas/FW area. We had a blast. Nice folk down there (good BBQ too). My son loved it and has his heart set on Baylor.

103 sheepdogess. Stock up on No-Doz for that one. Incredibly boring.

#42 bianchi_roadie

Remember most book store clerks are humanities majors (or drop outs)

There's a difference?

Gah...that is the closest Borders to my house, now that the one at Bellevue Square closed its doors.

The Seattle area (King County) has an interesting political dynamic, sort of a microcosm of the country as a whole. Seattle is as liberal as it gets. The east side of Lake Washington and beyond votes conservatively, by and large. (Redmond is on the eastside). I live in a solid red district, and I commute to the heart of McDermottland every day. I am sure you all remember "Baghdad Jim". It is truly a painful experience. I see more faded "No Iraq War" stickers, democratic presidential election stickers for the last 2 elections, and all manner of messages conveying Bush Derangement Syndrome in a day than most of you will see in a lifetime. I see a few cars with W'04 stickers...but most have been defaced. I got into a debate the other day with someone that I have known for 30 years, an otherwise-intelligent professional...he was actually trying to argue that Evangelical Christians are more of a threat to the USA than the Islamist headchoppers.

Fellow lizardoids who live in liberal areas understand. The rest of you, consider yourself blessed.

B & N is just as bad. I get perverse pleasure in turning certain books upside down.and uh, sort of moving them around!

a) massive reshelving campaign
b) boycott of borders by all sensible people.

LGF needs to start a book store chain, with shares only available through LGF and with approval by Charles or some subordinate designated for the job. After all, I need some book store to shop at, and it looks like we're currently letting the LLLs get a monopoly on this particular front.

One of my favorite sporting activities is to go to Seattle, especially Capitol Hill, where Baghdad Jim McDimwitt gets 95% of the vote, park my full size Dodge pickup with W04 stickers on both sides. I get out wearing a leather jacket, wearing a USS Ronald Reagan CVN 76 hat, swagger into a Starbucks or similar establishment and wait...

The looks I get are priceless, I wish my hearing was good enough to hear the whispered comments.

So far no one has had the courage to engage...

My only overt acts have been comments to anyone wearing Che shirts or buttons, "have you every heard of 'La Violencia'?" Response is usually a head shake. "Thought not. No who has would wear a the murdering thug on their shirt!"

Life in the Peoples Republic of Seattle and environs can be entertaining.

Last!