Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts

Sunday, September 16, 2012

One Obama Hug Sparks Boycott Of Pizza Shop!


Republicans Threaten to Boycott Florida Pizza Shop Because Owner Hugged President Obama
A Huge Hug Pisses Off Conservatives.

You realize that this is going to be likely victory for Barack Obama. This type of nonsense is allowed when an all out hatred of a person they'll never meet in their sad pathetic lives. When a person supports President Barack Obama, expect them to get shuffled around by these conservative agitators. Death threats by the disturbed and boycott of businesses.

This is coming from Gawker and Complex Magazine online.

Scott Van Duzer became a pop culture phenomenon when he gave President Obama the ultimate bear-hug last week at his Florida pizza shop, and now he's facing absurd backlash from local Republicans who are threatening to boycott the place, all because he showed the President some love. The most absurd part of this whole mess is that Van Duzer is a Republican himself. Apparently, he's a traitor and poor businessman now.

Obama paid Van Duzer a visit because he was impressed with the man's charity work. Van Duzer was aware of the President's arrival, but lost his composure as soon as he saw him. See, even proud Republicans get starstruck at the sight of the POTUS. Bitter Republicans retreated to Yelp to criticize the hug, saying it would hurt his business, but most of those comments have been replaced by overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Come one folks, your pizza isn't tainted because the shop owner hugged the President.

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Chick-Fil-A Deep Fried In Controversy!

          

The legendary chicken restaurant is under fire for its founder's controversial stance towards the LGBT community.

Chick-Fil-A, is an Atlanta based company that serves peanut oiled chicken tenders, grilled chicken sandwiches, milkshakes and the legendary waffle fries.


S. Truett Cathy is the founder of the restaurant. He is a fundamental Christian activist who is strongly against the notion of gay marriage in America.


His company is known to serves its food everyday except on Sunday.


According to The Politico, many Republicans praised the company for standing forth. Many LGBT and liberal activists are planning on boycotting the company. Same-sex marriage opponents cheered the Georgia chain for standing its ground and continuing to hold conservative values despite pressure from liberals and the mainstream media, while some supporters of same-sex marriage say they won’t frequent the chain because of the company president’s public comments on the issue.

The fervor over the restaurant’s politics began when Chick-Fil-A president Dan Cathy said earlier this week that Chick-Fil-A is “guilty as charged” in support of “the biblical definition of the family unit.”

“We are a family-owned business, a family-led business and we are married to our first wives,” Cathy said in an interview with Baptist Press.

Chick-Fil-A’s Christian culture has been widely discussed and panned. The chain closes on Sundays – to the chagrin of many customers – because the founder, S. Truett Cathy wanted a day to attend church and spend time with his family.

The restaurant released its own statement, which appeared aimed at mitigating a brewing political firestorm, saying that “going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena.”

“The Chick Fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect — regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender,” the statement said.

Online, Cathy’s comments sparked a frenzied between those who supported the owner’s comments and others, who support same-sex marriage rights and called for a boycott of the restaurant chain.

And in Boston, Cathy’s comments led the city’s mayor to go so far as to say he’d fight to keep the chain out of the city, as he believes it to be at odds with Boston’s values.

“Chick-Fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston,” Thomas Menino told the Boston Herald. “You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population. We’re an open city, we’re a city that’s at the forefront of inclusion.”

                    


When you're a restaurant operating to the needs of the consumer. The backlash may have an impact on the company. Chick-Fil-A is a good establishment. I don't support the views of the company's founder. He's entitled to his opinion. I won't boycott this industry because of a few harsh words. 


Eventually the tide will turn and people will finally awaken to the change of this country.


Hell, I adapted to the LGBT community. I have no problems with them. 

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Meghan Williams Update

Thanks Ann for keeping her alive in our hearts and minds. She needs all the help we can get.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Sketchy Thoughts: MOVE 9 Prisoner Janet Africa Harrassed

Sketchy Thoughts: MOVE 9 Prisoner Janet Africa Harrassed: "It seems Janet Africa - one of the MOVE political prisoners - is being harassed by guards at SCI Cambridge Springs. The following alert from Ramona Africa:

ONA MOVE! This is an alert to all of our supporters that the guards at SCI-Cambridge Springs, where our sisters are housed, are starting trouble.

Our sister, Janet Africa, was stopped by a male guard who said he wanted to pat search her. Janet informed him that it's against our belief to have a man feeling on her body and that she wanted the option of having a female guard search her as provided by prison policy.

She was taken to a female prison guard named Dover who became beligerant and told janet that she wasn't special and wasn't getting any special treatment. Dover then told the male guard to take Janet back where he got her from and go ahead and search her. Janet start putting some information on the guards when another guard came to see what all the commotion was about.

Dover then tells him that he should give Janet a misconduct and put her in the hole.. This was obviously a set-up from the beginning because all of those prison officials know who MOVE people are and know our policy about male guards searching our women."

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