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2. That's OK, I Wasn't  Using My Civil Liberties Anyway

3. Let's Fix Democracy in  this Country First

4. If You Want a Nation Ruled By  Religion, Move to Iran

5. Bush. Like a Rock - Only Dumber.

6. If You Can Read This, You're Not Our President

7.  Of Course It Hurts: You're Getting Screwed by an Elephant

8.  Hey, Bush Supporters: Embarrassed Yet?

9.  George  Bush: Creating the Terrorists Our Kids Will Have to Fight

10. Impeachment: It's Not Just for Blow Jobs Anymore

11. America: One Nation, Under Surveillance

12. They  Call Him "W" So He Can Spell It

13. Jail to the Chief

14. No, Seriously, Why Did We Invade Iraq?

15. Bush:  God's Way of Proving Intelligent Design Is Full of Crap

16.  Bad President! No Banana.

17. We Need a President Who's  Fluent In At Least One Language

18. We're Making Enemies  Faster than We Can Kill Them

19. Is It Vietnam Yet?

20. Bush Doesn't  Care About White People, Either

21. Where Are We Going? And  Why Are We in This Hand Basket?

22. You Elected Him. You  Deserve Him.

24. When Bush Took Office, Gas Was $1.46

25. The Republican Party: Our Bridge to the 11th Century

26. One Nation under Clod

27. At Least Nixon Had the  Decency to Resign

28. Iraq, Arabic for Vietnam

Reprinted from the Washington Post: Here

Robert B. Wegman; Supermarket Innovator

By Matt Schudel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 22, 2006; B06

Robert B. Wegman, 87, who introduced the idea of one-stop shopping at his family-owned chain of supermarkets, which are the envy of the industry for their unparalleled levels of customer and employee loyalty, died April 20 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. The cause of death could not be learned.

In more than a half-century at the helm of Wegmans Food Markets Inc., Mr. Wegman built an innovative company that combined business success and humanitarian ideals. He pioneered the concept of one-stop shopping and the superstore, with bakeries, imported foods, cafes and photo labs all under one roof. He was a leader in adapting technology to the sale of groceries and helped introduce the Universal Product Code, the identifying computer markings now standard on most packaged goods.

With the success of 70 stores in five states, including Virginia and Maryland, Mr. Wegman helped raise the standards of service in the supermarket industry while instilling an enlightened treatment of his employees. Last year, Fortune magazine named Wegmans the best company in the United States to work for. This year, it was ranked No. 2.

In 1994, supermarket analyst Neil Stern told the Wall Street Journal that he considered Rochester-based Wegmans "the best chain in the country, maybe in the world."

A hallmark of Wegmans is its customer service. The company has been known to send a chef to people's homes to correct a food order and to bake Thanksgiving turkeys for people whose ovens were too small.

In January 2005, Fortune magazine described the Wegmans experience: "Each Wegmans store boasts a prodigious, pulchritudinous produce section, bountiful baked goods fresh from the oven, and a deftly displayed collection of some 500 cheeses. You'll also find a bookstore, child play centers, a dry cleaner, video rentals, a photo lab, international newspapers, a florist, a wine shop, a pharmacy, even an $850 espresso maker. . . . But the biggest reason Wegmans is a shopping experience like no other is that it is an employer like no other."

Each year, Wegmans receives thousands of requests from the public asking the company to open supermarkets in their communities. (In the Washington area, there are Wegmans in Sterling, Fairfax and Hunt Valley, Md.)

"I always said we didn't want to be the largest," Mr. Wegman once said, "but we did want to be the best."

Mr. Wegman was born Oct. 14, 1918, in Rochester, two years after his father, Walter, and his uncle Jack began selling vegetables together. The brothers bought a grocery store in 1921 and quickly built their company into a leading local emporium.

In 1930, they opened a store with a cafeteria and an overhead vaporized spray system to keep produce fresh. They were also among the nation's first grocers to install windows to display refrigerated food.

In his youth, Mr. Wegman was an excellent baseball pitcher and golfer. After graduating from Niagara University in 1941, he spent three years in the Marine Corps during World War II.

In 1946, he went to work as a meat cutter. He became a store manager the next year. After the death of his uncle in 1950 -- his father had died in 1936 -- Mr. Wegman became the company president.

He immediately raised the wages of the staff and inaugurated a comprehensive health insurance plan. He broke down the corporate hierarchy so completely that, in one of his first acts, he fired his mother from her position as vice president. She didn't speak to him for three years.

Nevertheless, Mr. Wegman diligently kept the company in family hands. He once rejected the opportunity to be chairman of Kroger, the country's second-largest supermarket chain, because it would have meant giving up family control of his own company.

Wegmans is now one of the nation's 50 largest privately held firms, with 35,000 employees and annual sales of $3.8 billion. Mr. Wegman's son and granddaughter are the current chief executive and president, respectively.

In 1974, after Mr. Wegman chaired an industry committee that developed the now-familiar UPC codes, his stores led the way in using computerized scanning at cash registers. In 1985, he went to court to gain the right to place ATMs in his stores.

The company's worker satisfaction derives from generous wages -- salaried workers make an average of $92,000 -- as well as health programs and $56 million in scholarships to employees since 1984. A youth mentoring program sponsored by the company received the grand prize at a 1991 White House "Points of Light" ceremony.

In recent years, Mr. Wegman gave away about 70 percent of his income, mostly for educational causes. In 1995, he donated $25 million to help Rochester children attend Catholic schools. It is believed to be the largest gift to Catholic elementary education in the United States.

Survivors include his wife, Peggy Wegman of Brighton, N.Y.; four children; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Upon learning of his company's top ranking in last year's Fortune survey, Mr. Wegman appeared at his company's Rochester headquarters and spoke to an appreciative audience of employees.

"This is the culmination of my whole life's work," he said. "When I became president of our company in 1950, after working in our stores for a number of years, I was determined to make it a great place to work."