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The push toward a cashless society is becoming more of a shove. Before today I had never heard of “The Visa Cashless Challenge”, but after reading about it I have to say that I am quite alarmed. Visa is trying to “encourage” businesses to go cashless, and one of the ways that they will be doing this is by “awarding up to $500,000 to 50 eligible US-based small business food service owners who commit to joining the 100% cashless quest”. The food industry is still one of the last bastions where cash is used very heavily, and so it makes...

It must stop NOW! The only way to fight these people is by hurting them where it counts. They must be punished. Please, call all the sponsors who have dropped the Rush Limbaugh Show as an advertising vehicle. BE BREITBART Please CALLL THEM AND TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL. This does two things. 1) It gives them valuable feed back about how their customers and potential customers feel about their disrespect of free speach rights. 2) It clogs up their phone and E-Mail causing them to lose serious income in the process. The offenders: SELECT COMFORT Live Product Support Call...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A Portland man is urging people to boycott the Boy Scout Christmas tree recycling program to challenge the organization's position on gay rights. Richard Kuhns posted flyers throughout the Laurelhurst neighborhood where he lives, complaining of the Boy Scouts’ national stance against gays. Local Boy Scout leaders said the tree recycling program has traditionally been one of their biggest yearly fund-raisers. Boy Scouts of America issued a statement Thursday that said in part, "The BSA recognizes that some do not agree with its position on this single issue, but values the freedom of everyone to express their...

Our view: Hispanic Institute's boycott of CNN over Lou Dobbs puts networks on notice public won't tolerate hateful lies Tucson, Arizona | Published: 06.08.2008 advertisementThe Hispanic Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group, last week launched a national boycott of CNN, the cable news channel, to highlight unrelenting and erroneous attacks against Latino immigrants by talk-show host Lou Dobbs.

Many a fake doctor has brought about the death of a patient. But one does not have to be a member of the medical profession to fraudulently pretend to have a remedy for one or another shortcoming in a particular body. The body politic has always had, and will have, false messiahs, men, and lately also women, who profess to have the answer to a nation's, or even the world's, ills. In the United Kingdom, such incidents are not rare. We even find them in our Trades Union, where a few misguided left-wing activists are trying to poison and brainwash...

UPDATE: Snickers parent company Mars has pulled the anti-homosexual ads it was hosting on its website—expressing regret and saying it will never air them again. # Earlier: Snickers aired an ad during the Super Bowl that featured two men reacting in violent disgust after accidentally kissing while eating a candy bar. While the ad may be a satirical dig at homophobes, the candy company appeared to affirm an anti-gay message on its website—where there were, until a few hours ago, videos of NFL players grimacing in similar disgust at the kiss. (Message to viewers: Manly men should be disgusted by...

May Day: El Gran Boicotposted at 1:58 am on May 1, 2006 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly It’s moonbat Christmas, the perfect day for millions of illegals to take to the streets, bring their best friend — American business — to its knees, and do their level best to alienate most of the rest of us. Unsurprisingly, the Times and WaPo both report a split among immigration advocates over the wisdom of staging a boycott while legislation is pending in Congress — not to mention doing it on May Day. WaPo: Carlos Castro, a leader in two...

We've made our list and checked it twice - Blue Christmas is here! Announcements | BuyBlue News Posted by Raven on November 21, 2005 - 3:08pm It seems like only yesterday, but it was one year ago that BuyBlue launched on December 1, 2004 with our Blue Christmas list of products and services, and the campaign contributions of the companies that make them. If you are new to BuyBlue, you might be asking yourself what "Blue Christmas" is all about. Retailers make a significant portion of their yearly sales during the Christmas season. At this time of the year, we...

Today I saw a comercial set like a game show with two queers competing against a single man for some prize. It was to advertise http://www.orbitz.com/gaytravel/. My wife and I just sat there staring at each other in amazement. I promptly got up and went back to the computer. It is no wonder I don't watch television anymore. Orbitz just added themselves to a list of companies I will never do business with.

Claiming success, pro-family groups called off a boycott on Procter & Gamble that was prompted by the Cincinnati-based corporation's "support for the homosexual agenda." The American Family Association, with backing from Focus on the Family and others, garnered nearly 400,000 signatures on a pledge to stop buying some of the corporation's signature products, including Crest toothpaste. "Judging by all we found in our research, it appears that our concerns have been addressed," said Donald Wildmon, AFA's chairman. Based on AFA's monitoring, Wildmon said P&G has stopped sponsoring homosexual Internet sites and TV programs such as "Will and Grace." According to...

Please don't fly JetBlue Airways--as George Soros is the major stockholder in that airline. Every time you fly JetBlue (stock symbol JBLU)--you are helping to fund George Soros's efforts to defeat the President! http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=JBLU By checking the ownership of JetBlue--you'll see that Soros himself owns 5,896,797 shares of JBLU--worth about $150,000,000.Soros Fund Management, LLC, owns 11,803,916 shares of JBLU--worth about $298,000,000! Please pass the word about JetBlue and George Soros!!!!

Stand firm against the United States? Try—not too hard—to make friends again? France's leaders are divided, and debating THE further the Americans and British have got mired in Iraq, the harder it has become for the French to conceal their sense that their opposition to the war has been vindicated. So far, despite lingering bitterness at their treatment by George Bush's team, Jacques Chirac's have put on an air of studied non-triumphalism, and a public tone of reconciliation. Franco-American difficulties “have been essentially superficial,” said the president in his usual July 14th television interview, saying the media had exaggerated them....

BORDEAUX Something was missing from the country's largest wine fair here last week, and it was not just the air conditioning in one of the exhibition halls (where temperatures rose so high, corks popped). The usual contingent of American wine merchants were mostly absent, confirming to many in the trade fair's bottle-filled booths that American ill will over France's opposition to the war in Iraq has bruised more than egos. French wine exports to the United States, which was once French winemakers' most promising market and is now one of their greatest competitors, are going down the drain. "It's clear...

French wine producers feel squeeze of U.S. boycott By Claude Cannellas BORDEAUX, France, June 25 — Calls to boycott French products during the transatlantic spat over Iraq contributed to a slump in U.S. sales of French wines, which were down by about a quarter from last year, wine merchants said. With the weak dollar also weighing, flagging sales to the United States left an air of gloom over the Vinexpo wine fair in Bordeaux, which a warm handshake between French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and U.S. Ambassador Howard Leach could not lift. Full article here (MSNBC Articles must be excerpts)

Arab NewsSAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=16195 Boycotting US goods: No faltering pleaseBy Nourah Abdul Aziz Al-Khereiji Published on Friday, June 21, 2002 A recent report that airline reservations from the Kingdom to the United States were 40 percent of what they were last year shocked me. I had hoped that the number of Saudis traveling to the United States this year would be only five percent of what they were last year. It is understandable that there are emergency situations in which businessmen or students will have to go to that country.How can we Arabs want to go...

SPECIAL THANKS TO SHELDON COHEN FOR THIS CONTRIBUTION Where to buy gasoline and not support terrorism...actually is food for thought. Yisrael Medad of the Begin Center sent the following information. Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy from gas companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis. Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family and my friends. I thought it might be...

Belgian foreign minister Louis Michel said Sunday the European Union (EU) should reconsider its trade relations with Israel after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon barred an EU delegation from meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "Naturally this was an affront. The EU should give a diplomatic and political answer," Michel told the VRT network on Sunday, according to AP. He said the 15 EU foreign ministers should review at their next meeting on April 15th the possibility of suspending the association council, which regulates economic relations between the EU and Israel or recalling their ambassadors for consultations. Last Thursday, an EU...