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Burger King's greasy campaign(Target Rich Opportunity)
Boston Globe ^ | December 9, 2008 | Derrick Z. Jackson

Posted on 12/09/2008 6:10:39 AM PST by GQuagmire

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Lastest rantings of Boston Globe "columnist" Derrick Z. Jackson. Assbag.
1 posted on 12/09/2008 6:10:40 AM PST by GQuagmire
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To: GQuagmire
How about the workers paradises of North Korea or Cuba...
2 posted on 12/09/2008 6:12:09 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: GQuagmire

I really see no problem with these ads. I have a bigger problem with the Boston Globe calling me every few weeks to reup my subscription that I cancelled years ago...When I lived in MA...Which I no longer do!


3 posted on 12/09/2008 6:12:38 AM PST by Holicheese (Get up Tom Brady, get up! PLEASE!!)
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To: GQuagmire

Those commercials have the lefties up in arms.

Yesterday FoxNews had some old woman on whining about them. She didn’t have much of a stand, so she complained that these commercials caused people to eat more meat, resulting in the need for more animals who would produce more methane, thus.....global warming.

It was laughable.


4 posted on 12/09/2008 6:14:28 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: GQuagmire

I thought the world was overpopulated according to the left?

I, personally, don’t eat this stuff, but I’m also not in the biz of telling other people what to do with “their own bodies”.

I do know that I don’t want to be locked into a universal healthcare plan with people that make whoppers a regular part of their workout routine!


5 posted on 12/09/2008 6:15:03 AM PST by incredulous joe ("No road is long with good company. " - Turkish Proverb)
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To: GQuagmire
No creative or independent thinking can be expected of Jackson. He's just recycling the party line.
6 posted on 12/09/2008 6:15:49 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: GQuagmire

To quote a local talk guy on Derrick Z. Jackson, “The Z stands for ztupid.”


7 posted on 12/09/2008 6:15:58 AM PST by Y2Bogus
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To: GQuagmire
The sin is that the only burgers that the “natives” get to try is the cr$p made by BK and MickeyD’s.
8 posted on 12/09/2008 6:16:01 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit.)
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To: GQuagmire
Oh for crying out loud. I saw a segment on this yesterday on FNC. There is nothing wrong with these ads at all. First of all these areas and people are not being exploited. Secondly, they are not poor and third, they are meet eating societies so its not like anyone is forcing them to eat high cholesterol against their will.

They simply have eaten Whoppers or Big Macs before. Period. That's makes these ads great! LOL

McDonald's is probably upset that they didn't think of it first. These ads are 1000% better than those faggoty 'breakfast with the king' commercials. jmo

9 posted on 12/09/2008 6:16:48 AM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: GQuagmire
I always love these Derrick Jackson columns. I actually didn't think this one was that bad (relative to his usual delusional rants) until I got to this convoluted paragraph:

All this, to spread disease to developing peoples. And Burger King knows it. The Westernization of the global diet, led by America's fast-food giants, is helping spread obesity and diabetes as it has never been seen before. It's not enough that those diseases are off the charts with Native Americans here at home. Now we want to seduce Inuits abroad. Even if levels of obesity stay what they are now, the number of people around the world with diabetes will explode from the 171 million people of 2000 to 366 million by 2030.

In his zeal to damn all contact between Western civilization and the less developed people, Derrick converts obesity into a disease (a disease which these starving people might actually benefit from, but that's besides the point). Overall, another enjoyable screed from the Globe's most Left-wing lunatic.

10 posted on 12/09/2008 6:17:09 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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WAIT! Hold the presses! You mean the germs that killed Indians were UNINTENTIONAL??

Wow, that goes against every history telling leftard I have ever heard!

The real news is that the left finally admit that Whitey didn’t commit germ warfare on Natives!


11 posted on 12/09/2008 6:18:50 AM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Perhaps Mr. Jackson would prefer to return to his ancestral roots in Africa and live off the land for a time and turn his back to Westernization diets. I think we know the answer to that.......


13 posted on 12/09/2008 6:20:50 AM PST by GQuagmire ( A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.)
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Moral to the story - no restaurant of any sort should be adopted as a daily diet.


14 posted on 12/09/2008 6:22:48 AM PST by Senator John Blutarski (The progress of government: republic, democracy, technocracy, bureaucracy, plutocracy, kleptocracy,)
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To: autumnraine
When these Left-wing zealots get on a roll about how Westerners “brought disease” to the Indians, they make it sound like a unique historical event. They forget that non-Westerners “brought disease” to Europe over and over and over again, from Roman times through the Black Death and onward. I guess the Westerners deserved those plagues though for being so evil.
15 posted on 12/09/2008 6:24:41 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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All this, to spread disease to developing peoples. And Burger King knows it. The Westernization of the global diet, led by America's fast-food giants, is helping spread obesity and diabetes as it has never been seen before. It's not enough that those diseases are off the charts with Native Americans here at home. Now we want to seduce Inuits abroad. Even if levels of obesity stay what they are now, the number of people around the world with diabetes will explode from the 171 million people of 2000 to 366 million by 2030.

Gee, I think he left some important info out of the article.

Globalization of the food supply, which enables shoppers to buy fresh fruits and berries in the middle of winter, also presents the potential of allowing pathogens from developing countries entry into our food supply. For example, Cyclosporia cayetanensis, a unicellular intestinal parasite not reported as a cause of disease in the United States until 1995, has recently been responsible for a number of significant foodborne-illness outbreaks related to raspberries imported from Guatemala. There was also a nationwide outbreak of hepatitis A related to frozen strawberries from Mexico, distributed from a San Diego company to 16 state lunch programs.

16 posted on 12/09/2008 6:25:03 AM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: incredulous joe
"I, personally, don’t eat this stuff"

That's quite understandable, but not many people know that Burger King also serves veggie Burgers which are pretty good. It's puzzling, but they don't advertise the fact either. I found out about it from a McDonald's executive when I suggested that McD's consider selling Veggie Burgers nationally as they do in a few McD's in Manhattan.

17 posted on 12/09/2008 6:26:05 AM PST by PUGACHEV
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To: Senator John Blutarski
Moral to the story - no restaurant of any sort should be adopted as a daily diet.

The moral of the story is that life is full of CHOICES. You can have the Whopper or you could have the salad with grilled chicken on it. Same thing with restaurants. You can have the dinner with the heavy cream and fat based sauce or you could have baked fish with rice pilaf and tossed salad.

A Whopper now and then isn't so bad, you just can't or shouldn't do it every day. jmo

18 posted on 12/09/2008 6:28:47 AM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: TomGuy
A few years ago, one of the Sunday talking heads shows had an old Lib woman on taking about gay adoption. Big thick glasses, funky mannish clothing. Anyway, halfway through the piece, she's going off about her pet project and she said something on the order of "my group believes every human being should have the right to abort a child."

Now of course, what she had meant to say was "my group believes every human being should have the right to adopt a child." But this little Freaudian slip comes out, and suddenly, there's dead silence in the studio as everyone else realizes what she said. (One poor despirate staffer tried to his at her, "Adoption! adoption!" but deaf and blind like, she just plowed ahead with the Important Messager she Had To Delviver.) A more transparent comment on the Left I have never seen!

19 posted on 12/09/2008 6:31:29 AM PST by 50sDad (-/\/\/\- Obama's coming; be a Resistor!)
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To: GQuagmire
I thought those commercials were funny.

But the Big Mac is way better.

20 posted on 12/09/2008 6:34:05 AM PST by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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