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Is Starbucks A Cult?
The Daily Caller ^ | Mickey Kaus

Posted on 12/27/2012 8:26:28 AM PST by US Navy Vet

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To: billorites

>> “The free market is a wonderful thing.” <<

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Probably would be if we had one.


81 posted on 12/28/2012 9:50:43 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: stuartcr; longfellowsmuse

>> “ I spend my money on the product. What is done with the profits is irrelevant to me.” <<

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Well, Stu, that is what makes you the epitome of what is wrong with this country, and a total misfit at FR.

We care about things that turn our country into a toilet here, and can’t even imagine what vital anatomical part you were born without. (actually we can, it’s the thing that is supposed to occupy the space between your ears)


82 posted on 12/28/2012 10:00:02 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: RJS1950

>> “Of course, the clientelle there is somewhat more select.” <<

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Not for long! :o)


83 posted on 12/28/2012 10:03:07 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

???


84 posted on 12/28/2012 10:04:03 AM PST by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to, otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: editor-surveyor

???


85 posted on 12/28/2012 10:04:18 AM PST by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to, otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: dennisw

‘The rise of Starbucks tracks the decline of America’

What does that mean?


86 posted on 12/28/2012 10:10:05 AM PST by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to, otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: editor-surveyor

Thanks, that was refreshing and a bit original.

Happy Holidays


87 posted on 12/28/2012 10:14:38 AM PST by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to, otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: stuartcr; dennisw

>> “The rise of Starbucks tracks the decline of America”

>> “What does that mean?” <<

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It means that America was once a sensible nation that would never have tolerated the acceptance of the kind of mediocrity that StarPukes and similar businesses gratuitously embrace.


88 posted on 12/28/2012 10:32:55 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

When was that? Which businesses do you consider to not be mediocre?


89 posted on 12/28/2012 10:39:43 AM PST by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to, otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: editor-surveyor; stuartcr

Exactly. The rise of Starbucks and other foo-foo food and retail outlets signal brain rot and the feminization of the economy and society. Less production oriented and more consumption oriented. Complete with female heroine movies, the epitome being “Hunger Games”


90 posted on 12/28/2012 10:41:30 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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