Posted on 12/26/2007 11:29:01 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Sitting at my desk looking at my (now empty) Starbucks Cup.
It says:
The Way I See It #289
So-called "global warming" is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy independent, clean our air and water, improve the fuel efficiency of our vehicles, kick-start 21st-century industries, and make our cities safter and more liveable. Don't let them get away with it!
--Chip Giller Founder of Grist.ort where environmentally minded people gather online.
Do even the enviro-whackos start to see the idiocy of Global Alarming?
Buy your overroasted, overrated, overpriced coffee somewhere else.
The best thing about free markets is that they are, well, free, don’t you think? - I.E. we each vote with our own dollars?
Yes. Switch to Dunkin Donuts or continue to pay to support that nonsense.
I’m in a quandry with what to do with the $50 Starbuck’s gift certificate given to me by a co-worker. I know he means well, but... .
yeah, but Dunkin Donuts has...you know...donuts, and cream filled at that. This means death to the scales.
j/k
How about you decide where to go with your dollars and I decide likewise with mine? Seems to me that is the optimal way in which things should work.
That’s what I said in #4. Touchy, eh?
$50?
That’s coffee, a sandwich and a cookie for you and a friend.
Have fun!
Smarmy liberals. Their cup runneth over.
The attraction of many Consumers to Starbacks is hard to understand. Considering it is overpriced and also it is a scam considering many of their coffee drinks are light and any additional shots attracts extra charges.
Or 4 lunches of that curried chicken salad.
Yes, I know Starbuck’s.
Sure that’s a given - but I was struck by the fact that their support for their god was wavering just a bit - I mean one doesn’t give up on one’s beliefs all at once but rather little by little. Many people have said that global alarming is this decade’s version of Y2K - maybe they are switching their tack?
India and China are ramping UP for a new industrial revolution. It is foolhardy to believe that American industry (especially with all of the outsourcing of production and the loss of technological advances to competitors who manufacture for us) will always be on top.
The nations that are coming up to speed don’t even NEED to adopt fossil fuel technology, but they are anyway. They could leapfrog the technology and go with something else and drive development of the next leading technology.
But the movement is really just anti-Western. We need to live in huts like the third world.
Ted Danson has finally conceded that he engaged in “hyperbole” (not lying) back in the 1980s when he said that our oceans would be dead within 20 years.
He says now that he needed to make an extreme statement to focus attention on the issue.
Just as JFKerry now says that his talk of “war crimes” in Vietnam was just the ranting of an angry young man, that he does not stand behind all of his own claims now.
Socialists lie.
You are expected to buy coffee and snacks for the department some morning...
The attraction? It’s trendy, gives off an air of an intellectual habitat, and not reasonable.
Sound familiar?
uh, which department are you in?
My department is overrun with liberals. I’m always in trouble here.
Totally agree - that’s where I was going - just like Dan Rather - fake but accurate - the end justifies the means. Don’t bother us with the facts because we so clearly mean well.
I mean $50 for a coffee place is not likely to be a single visit, unless you are buying for a group.
It seems more like one of those gifts that someone gives “that keeps giving”.
And while you bring in breakfast some morning, he’ll brag about how he paid for it...
Hear, hear!
Yes, you’re right...this gift card will keep on giving, and it will give to the person behind me as well.
Now that’s one good thing I like about Starbuck’s, is the pay-it-forward attitude.
Maybe you have a moonbat relative you can regift it to.
I do, actually, have a moonbat relative...but quite frankly she’s too smart for Starbuck’s. She doesn’t have time for that trap.
The corner Quick Stop has one of those capicino machines that cranks out a much better drink for only 99 cents.
This is my new New Year’s Resolution—no more Starbucks. I’ll save money and calories—and probably have to get a prescription for Dexedrine to stay awake—but no more Starbucks.
Good luck - think I saw something on FR that said that Caribou Coffee was something like 10% owned by some islamic group so stay way from them too!
I never heard of Caribou Coffee before this post.
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