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Last week, Starbucks asked its American customers to please not bring their guns into the coffee shop. This is part of the company's concern about customer safety and follows a ban in the summer on smoking within 25 feet of a coffee shop entrance and an earlier ruling about scalding hot coffee. After the celebrated Liebeck v McDonald's case in 1994, involving a woman who suffered third-degree burns to her thighs, Starbucks complies with the Specialty Coffee Association of America's recommendation that drinks should be served at a maximum temperature of 82C. Although it was brave of Howard Schultz, the...

Video at youtube link. Last month I posted here on Free Republic about Obama's "Militaristic Youth Corp Commercial" video on this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252854/posts That video is now gone due to a copyright claim by City Year. However this video that I found is almost equally as eerie. Granted it is over 2 years old, it was posted May 7, 2007. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfWgwnRE7h4 Watch for this quote at the 1:09: "For me the red jacket is about shedding our personal skin and taking on a universal skin; it's about creating one world and your work is going to be powerful." - Cora,...

British Army Pressured to Replace Hats By CARA NEW, Associated Press Writer Sat May 14, 7:26 AM ET LONDON - The British army's towering bearskin hats have been a well-known sight outside royal palaces for almost 200 years, but their days may be numbered. Animal rights activists are demanding the hats, made from the pelts of North American black bears, be replaced by artificial fur, and one protester plans to follow Queen Elizabeth II in a bear costume when she visits Canada next week. "It is time to confine bearskin to the history books, just as bearbaiting was confined to...