It is a family owned business, and the family is very much on the Religious Right. They don't open on Sundays, and will not provide health care to employees which includes contraception or terminations. A friend of mine on the liberal left, who knowing I loved the store - they have branches in Norman and Mid West City - once suggested I should boycott it. Weeeeeellllllllllll. Even if I agreed with boycotting, or the reasons for boycotting this store, that would never happen. I think I told him that is where my principles would meet their Waterloo.
There's also going to be a Pet Smart, which is a HUGE supermarket for pet supplies. Who knew there's so much that pets need that there are mega superstores to supply them.
I've just seen King Abdullah of Jordan on tv, at the White House. He was born in 1962, he's about the same age as my sons, and I remember when his parents married. His mother was English, she was Toni Gardiner, a telephonist from Suffolk. She met King Hussein because her father was in the diplomatic corps in Amman. I met her once shortly after they were married at a reception in Amman (goodness knows what I was doing there, I've forgotten) and she was very sweet and unassuming. .
So I've always taken notice of King Abdullah when he has been about in the news, and I think we are just about to see a great deal more of him in the news. I understand he is spitting feathers at the announcement today that the captured Jordanian pilot was burned alive by ISIS, the terrorist jihadists, and is vowing swift and dire retribution. I think he might be about to take out ISIS and not before time.
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