" LodiSafeway, I do respect your intelligence, but you have no common sense at all to go along with it. Your repetitive blogs are the same drivel time after time. I wish you would've kept your promise and and permanently excused yourself from more embarassment. "

" Gee loadeye, are you also taking the position along with Leonard (and others) that you are entitled to anything more than peoples' opinions here? Really, what is it with you poor creatures that while you have scant debating skills, to counter those deficiencies you need to retort with such sophomoric and decidedly "off topic" comments about who or what I may or may not be.

Clearly, if I bore you so with my comments regarding Wal-Mart (or anything else), where is it written that you must read what I've provided or comment at all?

Of course I understand completely what is going on, and I do sympathize. Those on the weak side of an issue who find it impossible to intelligently discuss the merits of the subject invariably must attempt to keep those paucities under wraps. The sad thing is that it just doesn't work for you. With every silly response you only further expose yourself as pathetic- it's that simple; sad, but simple. "

" Lodiwalmart.....Priceless! LOL! "

" Lodiwalmart, don't you have anything new to say, girard. You're so boring with your repetitive Walmart delusions. I thought you avowed to quit these blogs when you were girard? "

" A "worsening economy" should welcome the expansion of a successful business. Yup, there are businesses that are failing; Mervyn's is now absent from our "skyline." But Kohl's is set to move right in and occupy that space. Perhaps there should have been a meeting held to discuss the audacity of permitting another successful business from expanding in these difficult times.

As another's letter-to-the-editor revealed today, it appears that "fear" is driving many folks to reject the notion that a bigger and better Wal-Mart will bring nothing but woe and bad tidings to our fair city. I disagree. Even in "bad" economic times, the free market must be permitted to work. That market, along with the competition that it generates, is precisely what is necessary to boost consumer spending.

Cowering in a corner in the shadow of the Wal-Mart juggernaut is counter-productive. Will other business close in the future? Absolutely. Of course the question is "why" will they close? It won't be the big, bad and evil Wal-Mart empire (as it is depicted by so many) that forces the failures. "