Posted on 01/13/2014 1:50:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Yep. I’m guilty as charged. Its not books, but lots of other items.
The problem is - I would boycott Amazon and all other liberal companies, products and services. But then I would be a hermit spending no money and going no where.
Abercrombie & Fitch used to be an elegant gentleman’s clothing store, with emphasis on sporting goods. When I was in my preppie phase, I wouldn’t wear any other kind of raincoat.
But what killed them was their sudden move into porn, porn, and more porn. Naked bodies in the catalogues, naked guys in the windows. GAY naked guys in the windows. It was enough to drive you over to the other side of the street.
I have no great quarrel with any of the others on the list.
But I agree that GE is evil.
Verison tops my list. Don’t think I have ever entered or left there with a smile on my face.
Curious...
The Umbrella Corporation
I really have no reason to hate McDonalds.
Abercrombie has earned my ire as a major cause of the ongoing Sluttification of America.
Not a gamer, don’t care about EA.
The emotion that comes to mind when you say Sears is pity.
Don’t have Dish Network (though I know people who do and have no complaints)
Only problem I have with Walmart is they keep caving to the Feds on the green enviro nonsense.
ALL big banks are kind of on my crap list after we had to bail them out.
No idea who luluemon is.
Nothing against Blackberry products, but their CEO Jim Basille is a slime weasel. Made a very smarmy attempt to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins and move them out of town. Then did the same somewhere else.
JCP permanently lost my business with the queerfest.
1. McDonald’s. I don’t hate McDonald’s.
2. Abercrombie & Fitch. Near-pornographic catalogs aimed at youths. Hate them.
3. Electronic Arts. They have messed up some big games recently.
4. Sears Holdings. This company (KMart parent company) thinks singing genitals is appropriate ads celebrating the birth of Christ. Oh yes, hate them.
5. DISH Network. If I had ever been a DISH subscriber, I would probably hate them.
6. Wal-mart. I loooove Wal-Mart. They p!ss off liberals.
7. JPMorgan Chase. Definitely hate them.
8. lululemon. WHO?
9. BlackBerry. They used to be a player. Not any more. Why hate them?
10. JCPenney. Definitely hate them too
I have, and never had a problem, but I flew most of my career on the “old” Pratt engines, which was picked because you could more-or-less substitute it into an F-15. Never had a problem with them, either.
We pretty much switched over to the GE-100 universally, I think. Comments are positive because the power is greater, but crew did not care for them.
I flew a UAE F-16 prior to delivery that had the big GE engine. (Yes, Israeli pilots train UAE pilots — in the USA.) Very impressive burn rate of fuel.
Shush, don’t tell anyone I own a bunch of GE stock.
I can’t believe that Honeywell isn’t on the list- It used to be in the late 20th century. It has a lot in common with GE.
RE: 7. JPMorgan Chase. I rate them a 7 out of 10 on my hateometer.
People know more about JP Morgan because of Chase, their retail banking division.
However, not many know that Goldman Sach’s influence in government is GREATER than JP Morgan ( many of their alumni are either working for the Fed or the Treasury Department ( and in the case of Hank Paulson and Robert Rubin, were head of the US Treasury ).
How about the infamous Jon Corzine? Famed Obama bundler and former Senator and NJ governor, who got away with what happened at MF Global? Yep, he was once CEO of Goldman Sachs.
See this list:
TITLE: A List of Goldman Sachs Ties to the Obama Government–including Elena Kagan
And let’s not forget how Greece managed to join the EURO by helping the country MASK its true debt.
See here:
No wonder people in the know snidely call them : GOVERNMENT SACHS.
If more people knew this, they’d be number 1 on the list.
My 10:
1. ACME Plumbing
2. Joe’s Hardware
3. Bill’s Drugs
4. Law firm: Metter, Fuchter, & Lefter
5. Tijuana Pizza Place
Well, OK< so it’s only five.
I sure can’t understand why Walmart isn’t #1, after all it has the most employees and customers of any company on the list.
Dish Network:
Charlie Ergen
Didn't they merge with...Dewey, Cheatham, & Howe?
The liberal "solution" is to force McDonald's to pay more or raise the minimum wage. A conservative would point out that maybe we shouldn't have a welfare state where some on minimum wage (a very low percentage of workers) get $1.2 billion in public money.
The employees at my local JCP are happier now.
“4. Law firm: Metter, Fuchter, & Lefter”
Isn’t that John Edward’s old firm? Or Hillary’s?
I don’t hate McDonald’s, but their management seems to have lost focus. Once upon a time, they had a relatively simple menu: 5 or so burger options, sodas, shakes, a couple sizes of fries, a fish sandwich, McNuggets, coffee, milk and that was pretty much it. Has anyone been in a McDonald’s lately? Whoa... the menu now is so elaborate that the densely packed overhead boards can no longer even handle it. The McDonald’s that I was in had laminated menu cards between the cash registers that supplemented the overhead boards with dizzying array of dozens of burgers, wraps, wings, smoothies, coffees.
I’m, so far, surprised Dish in on the list. IMO Direct TV is worse.
But that’s my personal opinion after a recent problem. I cancelled the Direct TV after 12 years at my mother-in-laws house because we bought here a new HDTV and we needed the converter box upgrading. The service was horrible and they cancelled the install twice.
I called Dish Network one afternoon and by 8am the next day they had an installer there and by 10am was up and running.
Direct TV spent more time AFTER I cancelled calling and emailing wanting to know why we left. If they had spent that much time getting me upgraded they’d still have the contract.
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