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BTW, you are wrong about Starbucks.
<><> Starbuck's coffee shop recently had the most poignant Memorial Day salute to the fallen:
As you walk in, at the entrance, a table is set, covered w/ a pristine white cloth, with one place setting and a fallen soldier's camouflage hat. The place setting and overturned wine glass await the fallen soldier... a bud vase w/ a red rose, and a lighted votive candle salutes our fallen heroes.
It brought tears to the eyes of many coffee buyers.
At Starbuck's near military bases---soldiers get free coffee all day--their kids get cake pops.
<><> CEO Howard Schultz is in a program to encourage US industry to hire vets.
<><> Schultz has come out for conceal/carry---and though he has said he would prefer guns not be brought into Starbucks, I have seen coffee buyers sporting hip holsters at the counter.
dear liz,
as to what to do, etc. ... I agree with your suggestions.
I do not use ‘social media’, nor do I have a blog ... I am a ‘half-Luddite’.
The local media are so ensconced in Obama’s alimentary canal, it is not funny.
Write companies? Just don’t buy their stuff!
As to the Clintons, I want hillary to run so hard, and so deep, that she falls down in front of the camera, and is taken away, frothing at the mouth!As for Bill, ditto.
Now, as to Starbucks, wayyyy before a lot of things brought Starbucks to the limelight, when all that combat started in Afghanistan and iraq, GI’s here in the CONUS 48, wanted to send their buddies Starbucks coffee. Does this story come to mind, now? Ever since then, Starbucks has been on my ‘fecal matter’ list.