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Thread ID: 20284 | Posts: 16 | Started: 2005-09-18
2005-09-18 18:30 | User Profile
[url]http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46371[/url]
2005-09-18 19:40 | User Profile
Starbucks is a scam, anyway, value-wise. I can't understand why would anyone pay 3 or 4 bucks for a coffee.
2005-09-18 23:38 | User Profile
Because they are trendy yuppies.
2005-09-18 23:55 | User Profile
[url]http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46371[/url]
Saturday, September 17, 2005 Starbucks cup promotes homosexuality? Baylor University orders removal from campus store Posted: September 17, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
é 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Officials at Baylor University told the Starbucks store on its Waco, Texas, campus to remove a cup said to promote homosexuality.
The offending cup, part of a series with quotes from various American thinkers called "The Way I See It," features the words of homosexual novelist Armistead Maupin.
It reads:
"My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short."
Baylor University, the world's largest Baptist school, refused to comment on the issue, said KCEN-TV in central Texas. Employees at the campus Starbucks said none of their customers had complained about the cup, but they removed it.
The cup also has drawn the attention of a national Christian women's organization, which accuses the Seattle-based coffee maker of promoting a homosexual agenda.
Concerned Women for America, which says most of the quotes are liberal, believes corporations have a responsibility to reflect the diversity of their customers by taking a balanced approach or staying out of divisive social issues altogether, the Seattle Times reported.
"Corporations have deeper pockets and therefore more influence than individuals do," said Maureen Richardson, director of Concerned Women for America of Washington.
"I think it's wiser for them to stay out of these issues so that they don't offend conservatives and people of faith."
Starbucks spokeswoman Audrey Lincoff told the Times the campaign is only to encourage discourse, not to take a political stand.
"If you think back to the history of the old coffee houses, before the Internet, these were places to converse," she said. "That's part of what the coffee culture has been for a century or more."
[B]The artists include actor Quincy Jones, New Age author and alternative-medicine doctor Deepak Chopra, radio host and film critic Michael Medved, rap artist Chuck D, Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan and National Review editor Jonah Goldberg.[/B]
2005-09-19 00:03 | User Profile
Starbucks spokeswoman Audrey Lincoff told the Times the campaign is only to encourage discourse, not to take a political stand.
As if the line-up of the people they've picked for encouraging discourse isn't a political statement. Kiko-nigger-hindoo-gookistan that doesn't represent the average American, let alone the only worthy kind (white European).
2005-09-19 00:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Concerned Women for America, which says most of the quotes are liberal, believes corporations have a responsibility to reflect the diversity of their customers by taking a balanced approach or staying out of divisive social issues altogether, the Seattle Times reported.[/QUOTE]
Using the idea of "reflecting the diversity" to make their point. That was actually quite clever.lol. I just hope they truly understand in saying this that their opinions and feelings on these things do not matter.
2005-09-19 00:25 | User Profile
[I]Concerned Women for America[/I] This organization is run by Beverly LaHaye, wife of "christian" ZionNut Tim LaHaye. They are clueless of what they wrote above, Starr.
2005-09-19 00:28 | User Profile
Businessmen are inherently nihilistic. In previous functional civilizations the capitalist class was ranked barely above slaves because of their lack of principle. The faceless global flow of schizophrenic capital is all that they are capable of understanding. Capitalists and laborers should have absolutely no influence whatsoever in the political process.
2005-09-19 00:34 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Concerned Women for America This organization is run by Beverly LaHaye, wife of "christian" ZionNut Tim LaHaye. They are clueless of what they wrote above, Starr.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I figured as much.
2005-09-19 00:40 | User Profile
MadRussian, you got that right. Here is a sight that explains how much of a rip off places like Starbucks are: [url="http://www.thecoffeefool.com/"]The Coffee Fool.[/url]
2005-09-19 01:15 | User Profile
Three Cheers for Baylor University for telling Starbucks to get that cup off campus! :clap: :clap: :clap:
2005-09-19 01:33 | User Profile
...that "diversity" is really just a ploy to get everyone used to a nice New World Order, where goods and lucre can be moved about freely without anyone caring about little things like culture, race, and nation-states...
Capital needs "diversity" (which is, in fact, far from embracing "diversity" - it really means - ya'll are free to buy the same products and download the same smut.) Capital needs everyone to embrace the lowest-common-denominator Undermensch epitomized by New United Nations Brown Skinned Man.
I hope I did not sound too leftist here, but I would imagine that most are quite aware of the degenerative nature of modern business and finance.
2005-09-19 01:40 | User Profile
Last_Chance_Armada - welcome, and no the influence of the finance puppets can not be ignored in these type of scenarios.
2005-09-19 10:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]Starbucks is a scam, anyway, value-wise. I can't understand why would anyone pay 3 or 4 bucks for a coffee.[/QUOTE]
However, if you get their venti/"large" size (24 oz., I believe) of unsweetened, brewed black tea (that's not the precise name, but there are three brewed teas, and one is green and one is caffeine-free, so eschew those; the one with caffeine, which I'm almost certain contains the word "black" in its name, is the variety to get), one is apt to find, as I did, it is one of the most savory and delicious experiences (albeit of a highly simple nature), particularly within the context of a heat-driven thirst, that I can ever recall enjoying in beverage form. And it only costs $1.79 (plus tax). The $2.15 hot chocolate beverage (you only get four ounces, I believe, but they are so rich and flavorful many people find it difficult to finish them; all gastronomically swoon upon tasting their first, including yours truly, though it is an especially ideal treat for the lady in your life, with regard to their seemingly greater appreciation of chocolate as a flavor per se) simply has to be tried to be believed; [B]DELICIOUS![/B]
At Starbuck's, like so many other places where one might spend money, it is often best to search the menu/aisle/product selection/etc., and seek out that which costs less than the average price....
2005-09-19 10:38 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Last_Chance_Armada]I hope I did not sound too leftist here, but I would imagine that most are quite aware of the degenerative nature of modern business and finance.[/QUOTE]
I don't think I would be presuming too much in saying that most ODers, like yourself and I, are hostile to the twin economic malevolencies of Communism and Capitalism (which is one reason I like it here so much).
I voted for Patrick J. Buchanan, while a registered Republican in 2000, and yet in 2004, as a registered Democrtat (who's political, socio-economic, and cultural views had changed very little over those four years), I cast a primary ballot for Rep. Denis Kucinich of Ohio, and in the general I cast a formalized (and thus presumably counted) write-in vote for Ralph Nader. Don't worry about blending the ideological stew in ways which sometimes put you in league with ideas traditionally associated with the left; nearly any serious and intellectually honest political thinker, trying to think us out of our myriad labrynth of socio-political quagmires and impending dooms, is apt to do the very same thing from time to time (at least, that is what I believe to be the case, in part due to seeing as how Yggdrassil, AntiYuppie, Il Ragno, IR's most Holy, Roman, Apostolic and Catholic nemesis Walter Yannis, and seemingly almost all the other unusually smart, pro-Western right-wingers on-line seem to be gunning for contemporary multinational corporate gangsterism/"capitalism"). I suppose its largely a question of better-late-than-never for many of us on the patriotic right, in so far as it comes to rejecting utterly the Mammonism of the Global Capitalist Demon Plague.
2005-09-19 14:25 | User Profile
"Communism steals a man's freedom while Capitalism steals a man's soul."
Nice post Kevin, btw.