For the record I've never been to a Starbucks. I don't like coffee, no matter what kind of artificial flavoring one adds to it. I just don't like coffee. But with all the fuss over Starbucks the last few days, I wanted to get my two cents in. The most likely scenario here, is that Starbucks created this whole situation which makes them geniuses, Anyways, here's my blog on the current "hot topic".
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OK my turn. Boycott Starbucks? Hmmm........well let's see.
Boycott Starbucks over a red cup? Nah, I love red cups, especially at parties when I can write my name on them and still lose them.
Boycott Starbucks because they are anti-christian? Nah, the worlds anti christian but we cant boycott living - that would be anti christian. Although if all folks that claimed to be "believers" did happen to boycott Starbucks they would most likely go bankrupt. Not to mention they did publicly state that if you don't like their political stance on same sex marriage that you should sell their stock, and buy your coffee elsewhere. So they don't care about you or your faith. But christians aren't going to boycott anything, they are too busy arguing about if it's right or not to boycott. I guess at the end of the day, the jokes on you Mr and Mrs Christian person. But this isn't about that, this is about boycotting Starbucks.
Boycott Starbucks because they dont have "Merry Christmas" wriiten on their cups? Nah, Christmas has nothing to do with God, Jesus, or love, and everything to do with greed, wealth, and the American way. It has it's origins in paganism; the same folks that give us Halloween. Jesus wasnt born in December, and what you are celebrating is the winter solstice, the time that the sun is at it's lowest for 3 days and then starts to raise again in the sky. Everything that America has turned the holiday into is absolutely contrary to what Jesus taught. Greed, buy, over buy, spend, material things, jeeesh, how did we get here? Again, not what this post is about...........
Boycott Starbucks because they are too expensive? Well this would make the most sense, but then that wouldn't be boycotting, that would only put you in the same category as me - BROKE and too CHEAP to spend 10 bucks on what I can get for 2 bucks somewhere else. (This kind of fits right in to my thoughts about Christmas.................you think about that for a minute).
Nah, if ya'll gonna boycott Starbucks, boycott them because they caused the extinction of the local coffee shop. You know the place where the community went and hung out, old men played checkers, old ladies gossip and read books, the place where young men and women were given their first job, the owner was your neighbor, and most importantly the place where a kid and his/her guitar could show up on a Friday night and play some music. Yep, that's why we should boycott Starbucks, they KILLED the local coffee houses, and that's where many rock n roll dreams were born. I missed the coffee houses of the 70's and early 80's, (I was too young) and that bumbs me out. Maybe if we boycott the big chains, the locally owned, locally served, coffee shops could make a comeback, and these kids could have another place to play their music, while I sit and play checkers..........
