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Post by sandsman1 on Oct 19, 2004 12:55:52 GMT -5
hi all a friend from the internet just sent me this ,, i dont drink there coffee cause i dont care what it taste like i aint paying that much for a cup of coffee hahaha but if you like starbucks this might change your mind i think they had guts sending back this letter
Dear everyone:
Please pass this along to anyone you know, this needs to get a out in the open.
Recently, marines serving over in Iraq supporting this country wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their coffee and try to score some free coffee grounds.
Starbucks wrote back telling the Marines thanks for their support in their business, but that they don't support the War and anyone in it and that they won't send them the Coffee.
So as not to offend them we should not support in buying any Starbucks products.
As a War vet, and writing to you patriots, I feel we should get this out in the open. I know this War might not be very popular with some folks, but that doesn't mean we don't support the boys on the ground fighting street to street and house to house for what they and I believe is right.
If you feel the same as I do then pass this along, or you can discard it and I'll never know.
Thanks very much for your support to me, and I know you'll all be there again soon when I deploy once more.
Semper Fidelis, Sgt Howard C. Wright 1st Force
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shorty
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Post by shorty on Oct 19, 2004 14:21:21 GMT -5
hi sands i dont thank we should loose all the troups we lost over there just send bombers and be done with the ragheads and for starbuckes they can kiss my american a;; the basterds who needs there coffey any ways maxwell house is a lot better then thers just my opinion assholes
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shorty
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Post by shorty on Oct 19, 2004 14:22:23 GMT -5
i was a viet nam vet to so i am with you
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Post by docone31 on Oct 19, 2004 16:11:51 GMT -5
It sounds like Vietnam all over again. I would think we had learned something. Let us say, they are correct, do we punish the poor grunt who has no choice, like we had happen to us back then? My wife's daughter is an Anthrax victim. I believe, if Starbucks won't send some coffee, I just might. I think I am going to send some correspondence to Starbucks just to know for sure. I get so irritated at that stuff. Us retired Vets, know what it is like. I have given a lot of stuff to Gulf war Vets that came to our shop. I try to show I appreciate what they went through.
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Post by sandsman1 on Oct 19, 2004 16:30:59 GMT -5
i think thats a disgrace they could have sent acouple hundred lb of coffee over to them and gave them a treat for a day and who knows even i might have went a bought a coffee from one of there shops just for them doin that but you can bet ill never open one of there doors for sure after hearing that
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llanago
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Post by llanago on Oct 19, 2004 18:19:07 GMT -5
I sure as hell don't support this God forsaken war of Bush's based on lies and deceit - BUT I definitely support the troops. They sure didn't ask to be there.
I don't drink coffe, wouldn't buy Starbucks if I did - $12.95 for a lb. of coffee. give me a break! I will definitely send coffee if someone knows where to send it. They kinda forgot to include that! Although I know several folks that have been to both Iraq and Afganistan, they are all back to the states now. Thank goodness!
Anybody watching CBS Evening News? They are doing a report of the families of the troops who are having to depend on the various food banks to eat. Makes me so mad I could and would be more than willing to **************. I'll let ya'll fill in the blank. These folks are shedding their blood in some hell hole in a war we shouldn't even be in and they are not paid enough to feed their families. THAT is so far beyond a disgrace I can't even put a name to it.
Starbucks can eat s**t and die along with those in the District of Criminals and other elites that are always so willing to use the Americans as cannon fodder in d**n, nasty wars. God d**n them all to hell for an etermity! Why don't they send their own d**n kids and grandkids? If Bush is so hot for this war, why aren't his daughters and nephews over there instead of flitting around wherever.
And it's going to get a whole lot worse before it ever gets better. Although Bush has said there will be no draft if he gets re-elected, he is once again, lying through his teeth There is already in the works legislating to reinstate the draft for applicable to ANYBODY between the ages of 18 and 35. That includes even those couples that have children. If both the father and mother are called up, and if there is no relative to care for the children, the government will put the children in foster care until one of the parents return. That is some depraved, sick nuts. Just got an email today from one of my law/government/research groups today regarding how the Selective Service has contingency plans for a draft of medical workers -doctors, nurses, lab workers, etc.
So Americans better get ready 'cause it ain't gonna be pretty. Bush/Cheney and the rest of the thugs in DC already have the plans on the table to attack Iran.
Sheesh, and I wasn't gonna rant anymore.
llana
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Post by krazydiamond on Oct 19, 2004 18:30:35 GMT -5
ice packs all around, thought we weren't gonna do this people.....?? no politics, no religion, no racist stuff, just ROCKS and tumblers and saws and jewelry and yummy stuff.....
i know it's difficult this close to the political 4 year peak, but please, don't go nutzo bonko.....get within the stone, nothing else really matters, noone can really change the world, there will always be strife, there will always be poverty, always be difference of opinion....no matter who wins, no matter who loses.....
we all win when we are united, and in here we are united in ROCK, say true!
KD
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Post by docone31 on Oct 19, 2004 18:31:26 GMT -5
The one thing people here forget, is the president is only an elected figuire head, not monarch. Both the house and senate approved the action. Those poor folks who are doing the grunt over there, I will tell you what, I am going to take time out for each and everyone I meet. When I came back from Viet Nam, because I was there, and got shot up protecting a Vietnamese I was fired from my job, dismissed from college, evicted from my apartment, and my ex dragged me to counselors out of my pocket because I caught her doing the single thing while I was there. For right or wrong, I will do my part to support those who have no one to speak with. If I can help further, I will. Violence is indeed the weapon of the ignorant, it does however take strength on an individaul level to be a pacifist. I have found that out many times.
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Post by connrock on Oct 19, 2004 19:09:46 GMT -5
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Post by connrock on Oct 19, 2004 19:10:40 GMT -5
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Post by docone31 on Oct 19, 2004 19:44:37 GMT -5
Thanks for the site Tom. I also found the same thing. Krazy is right. I sure hope this site does not go on the rocks. I made a funny.
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shorty
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Post by shorty on Oct 19, 2004 20:06:25 GMT -5
hi all ha decone haha are you calling me ignorant i some times get hostile hahaha just kidding
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Post by docone31 on Oct 19, 2004 20:24:41 GMT -5
Shorty, you all right in my book. You and I survived something that has left its mark. My wife subscribed to a jewelery forum that was great and it got involved political rhetoric. It went down the tube. I get sucked into it, and I do have opinions. I can be the most flagrent of them all. One moment I am lucid, the next I am having a Floyd/Morrison moment. Help, I am typing and I cannot think!!! As sappy as it is, especially with what we have been through, we gotta keep it simple.
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Post by Original Admin on Oct 19, 2004 22:06:23 GMT -5
When I see a star at night - blipping away in the blackness shedding its relative droplet of energy - light years away in a time since past, things here on earth seem to shrink.
After all - as Ive said b4 - we are tiny tiny tiny things in space. How therefore can our views seem so large? How can a view generated by something so small as a brain become so large?
Because - Large=Small.
Its the only way to be for me.
Nature is violent in the extreme - and we are only a part of nature - NOT ABOVE or OUTSIDE it.
Its not my realm anymore - the things Ive seen on the net about Iraq make me think I am just not clever enough to understand things. Its gods realm, and Im too insignificant to even comprehend whatever he or it is, and what his plans are.
Instead - I find solace in the Milky Way or Andromeda and realise nothing.
So all becomes smooth - like the stones.
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Post by cookie3rocks on Oct 19, 2004 22:29:52 GMT -5
Well said, Andy.
cookie
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Post by rockyraccoon on Oct 19, 2004 22:43:22 GMT -5
tom thanks for that info.
as for me starbucks wasn't going to be getting my money no matter what they did. i've never seen one. i did a search to see if we have them in mississippi and yes we do but as with everything else like malls, home depot, lowes they are all 3 hrs away and if i go to those places i'm gonna be so tired from shopping i'll just whip through mcdonalds for a cup of coffee ;D.
kim
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llanago
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Post by llanago on Oct 19, 2004 22:56:36 GMT -5
Kim, I didn't know you were from Miss. For some reason I thought you were from the midwest. Where from in Miss? I lived in Laurel in '79-'80 or around that time.
the closest Starbucks to me is in San Antonio. My siis always stops there when she's on her way home. She loves their coffee and said she would buy it all the time if she could afford it. So, I bought her a couple of lbs.for Christmas a couple of years ago. Nearly fell over when I saw it was $12.95 a lb.! Sheesh, that's expensive! Glad I don't drink the stuff!
llana
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Post by RiverOtter on Oct 19, 2004 23:03:24 GMT -5
I believe there is alot to be learned from the posts in this topic. I won't insult anyone's intelligence by stating them here. I think we can all draw our own conclusions.
Otter
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Post by sandsman1 on Oct 19, 2004 23:18:09 GMT -5
well even though it was false info --it got you all up and posting hahahaha----(my job here is done ) hahaha
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Post by rockyraccoon on Oct 19, 2004 23:31:29 GMT -5
llana i'm in the ms delta - small town surrounded by smaller towns lol. we are deprived! we go to see my sister outside of atlanta and think waffle house is a luxury - we do have a walmart - if they don't have it there you must make the full fledged shopping trip 3 hrs away and come back with the rear riding low ;D - country mouse in the city kind of thing. laurel is even farther - about 5 hrs. and we have no rocks . kim
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