Support Starbucks Against Anti-Gay Boycott

Thank You Starbucks

Starbucks stuck its neck out to publicly support the right of all people to marry, regardless of the gender of their partner.

Now it is under attack by the ironically-named, ultra-conservative American “National Organization for Marriage”. Already over 4,000 NOM members have pledged to boycott Starbucks.

Let’s blow the right wing out of the water by getting more than ten times as many consumers from around the world to thank Starbucks for standing up for gay marriage.

Join us in showing our support for Starbucks by signing our giant Thank You card. If 40,000 of us sign it, we’ll deliver it to Starbucks executives to give them moral support to keep standing up for equality.

NOM is targeting Starbucks because the company recently stood up publicly to support gay marriage legislation in their home state of Washington in the United States. When it passed, the bill’s lead sponsor said that support from business convinced moderate legislators to vote for it. Without support from companies like Starbucks, the gay marriage law might have failed.

Now, if Starbucks backtracks because of opposition, then it will set the gay rights struggle back to a time when big corporations couldn’t come out and support gay people for fear of public backlash. Even worse, it will embolden anti-gay activists around the world to target other companies that support gay rights, and serve as a lesson to other companies to stay out of the fight for equal rights entirely.

Starbucks isn’t perfect — and in the future we’ll probably be asking it to improve its policies on other issues. But it’s a big deal when a giant multinational corporation with no particular connection to the gay community realizes that there are real business benefits — from better employees to happier customers — to standing up for progressive ideals. As SumOfUs members and ethical consumers, we can’t just criticize corporations when they do bad. We also want to encourage them when they do good.

Let’s show that supporting equal rights is good business: Add your name to this thank you card.

Peace

There HAD to have been advance warning signs that this guy was a danger to himself and others...

Army Sergeant Accused of Slaying 16 in Afghan Village

Everything will be hush-hush and we'll never know the real story...

Thoughts, prayers and wishes of peace for all the victims and their families.

Soooo sorry.

Silence Rush Limbaugh

These are Rush Limbaugh's remaining sponsors...

Let them know what you think of their corporate choices to support Rush Limbaugh's promotion of bigotry, hate, and ignorance...

Boycott Carbonite
Boycott Oreck
Boycott Century 21
Boycott Legal Zoom
Boycott eHarmony
Boycott AutoZone

Boycott Rush Limbaugh

ToppleBush.com seems to be the point blog on all of this...

Oppose SOPA and PIPA

Tell your Representatives that you oppose SOPA and PIPA.

Why? SOPA and PIPA would put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA would build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.

In a world in which politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money, Wikipedia — and sites like it — cannot survive.

Congress says it's trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the "cure" that SOPA and PIPA represent is worse than the disease. SOPA and PIPA are not the answer: they would fatally damage the free and open Internet.

Mayor Bloomberg Earns Olbermann's Special Comment

See Brett Whitmoyer's wonderful pictures of Occupy Wall Street and here are some more.

Obama’s and Bush’s True Contributions to the Deficit

Despite Republican squawking... the fact of the matter is that the Deficit is to be blamed SOLELY on the lap of horrific Republican policy...

When will America learn to stop electing Republicans?

Source: The Washington Post.

What’s also important, but not evident, on this chart is that Obama’s major expenses were temporary — the stimulus is over now — while Bush’s were, effectively, recurring. The Bush tax cuts didn’t just lower revenue for 10 years. It’s clear now that they lowered it indefinitely, which means this chart is understating their true cost. Similarly, the Medicare drug benefit is costing money on perpetuity, not just for two or three years. And Boehner, Ryan and others voted for these laws and, in some cases, helped to craft and pass them.

To relate this specifically to the debt-ceiling debate, we’re not raising the debt ceiling because of the new policies passed in the past two years. We’re raising the debt ceiling because of the accumulated effect of policies passed in recent decades, many of them under Republicans. It’s convenient for whichever side isn’t in power, or wasn’t recently in power, to blame the debt ceiling on the other party. But it isn’t true.

By Ezra Klein.

The President Has Asked Me to Tweet

Today, President Obama asked Americans to voice their views about all this debt mess in emails, phone calls, faxes and on Twitter...

Here's my three civic tweets of the day:

1. POTUS asked me to tweet. So here goes:.. REPUBLICANS SUCK! They're financial policies are only proven to be DISASTROUS time & time again...

2. I SUPPORT a balanced approach to tackling US deficit incl VERY strong revenue increases on wealthy & corps... !

3. I think Obama is waaay too diplomatic w/ the selfish greed driven corporately controlled Congress Republicans!

So there...

Here's more fun on my Twitter profile.

Christine Quinn: Behind the Smile

Film by Donny Moss

Go 'To Hell' Daddy Dot Com

Boycott GoDaddy.com! GoDaddy is done!

If you agree that GoDaddy CEO Bob Parson's elephant kill needs retribution... Here's a couple of ways you can speak up...

Visit DoneDaddy.com

You could write him a letter that if he wants a productive way to feed a village, that spending his money on sustainable food programs might be more helpful than a safari vacation/ blood bath...

You also might suggest that he try to develop technologies and innovations for the farmers to protect their crops from the innocent beasts that were driven from their habitats by other greedy millionaires like himself...

You can sign this petition on the PetitionSite.com... And mention these points, or make your own, in the comment section on the petition...

PETA has their own GoDaddy petition here.

If you have a GoDaddy hosted website, you can take your website and run... Namecheap.com is running a special deal... Transfer from GoDaddy to Namecheap.com: $4.99 transfers for com/net/org domains with 20% of proceeds going to savetheelephants.org. Go here for the deal... There are plenty of other hosts that would love your domain...

If you know of a website that is GoDaddy driven, drop them an email that a boycott of GoDaddy clients is also bound to happen soon, so they might as well get snug into some new servers before the mad crush begins...

PETA left GoDaddy in protest. You can too. You can also donate to PETA...

Why Our Billionaire Mayor is a Failure

Two scholars make the case that with Bloomberg, underneath all the billionaire's publicity machine and self promotion lies a Mayorty with little to show for itself.

"There's no there there".

Have a look at this NY1 Inside City Hall video clip of the Manhattan Institute's Fred Siegel and Sol Stern articulating their case.

Here is their NYPost opinion piece... Bloomy's Bubble Bursts

Image by Leah Tiscione for the New York Post.

'America is Not Broke' Declares Michael Moore

Read Michael Moore on America's economy...

"America is not broke.

"Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich.

"Today just 400 Americans have the same wealth as half of all Americans combined.

"Let me say that again. 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have as much loot, stock and property as the assets of 155 million Americans combined. If you can't bring yourself to call that a financial coup d'état, then you are simply not being honest about what you know in your heart to be true."

Read him or watch his speech here.

Here's What I Think...

I THINK, therefore, I am....

I THINK Bill Clinton should be allowed to be President again... Remember when he left us with a balanced budget? (Saw Chris Matthews' special this week on the Billster!)

I THINK the attack on teachers across this country is reprehensible...!

I THINK the timing of Obama's DOMA Executive Order was a trap to get the Righties all squawkie about this issue while the government was on the precipice of budgetary shutdown... To make the Repubs look small and shrill... Looks like the Repubs haven't taken the bait... Not yet... (Except for the frothy mix guy, but he's on the sidelines). But... the Repubs know that when this makes it to the Supremes the deck is stacked in their favor...

I THINK the attack on unions is a right wing attempt to destroy the Democratic party (see Rachel Maddow's excellent coverage of that thesis!)

I THINK Charlie Sheen should go start a Charm School.

I THINK an Arab neighbor needs to conquer Libya and then liberate them...

I THINK Michelle Obama will some day be the nation's first female Vice President...

I THINK it's tragic the way the powers that be are ignoring climate change...

I THINK it's somewhat shocking that the USA is still so dependent on oil...

I THINK that's enough of my completely unsolicited, uninformed wild guess appraisal of the issues of the week!...

(Image from Zazzle)