Starbucks Dumping Millions of Gallons H20, Daily!

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Monday October 06, 2008 · 9:29 AM PDT

2008/10/06 · 09:29

A report published today in the UK's Sun is nothing short of shocking. The report, with video evidence, shows Starbuck's shops around the world are leaving water taps open permanently and pouring millions of gallons of water down the drain every single day.

The giant coffee chain has a policy of keeping a tap running non-stop at all its 10,000 outlets worldwide, wasting 23.4 MILLION litres a day.

Why would you keep a tap running non-stop? To more efficiently rinse spoons, of course. According to the report, Starbucks has a policy of keeping the tap running permanently to prevent the buildup of germs. With 10,000 stores worldwide, that's an estimated 23 million litres of water poured down the drain in order to rinse the spoon used to ladle the foam on your latte.

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 4:53 PM PDT

2008/09/26 · 16:53

I've been watching, aghast, all of the compiled Clips of Sarah. Sarah with Couric. Sarah with Hannity. Sarah with Gibson. Sarah on foreign policy. Sarah on the economy. Sarah, always, on John McCain the Maverick (TM). And like everyone else commenting on the clattering noise that comes out of her mouth, I'm stunned, embarrassed and horrified that this woman is standing on our national stage. Who does she represent? And then it hits too close to home.

I grew up in a charismatic church. I watched the videos of Sarah's favorite witch-hunting pastor and it looked like my church. Right down to the red carpet and pews. The pastor sounded like the visiting pastors that would come to my church and tell us amazing stories about missionary work, about the spirit of God moving in the world. And the words of that pastor, praying for Sarah Palin, sounded exactly like so many prayers I heard from the pulpit as a child. "Lord, make Sarah an instrument of your will. Send your spirit to be her voice, to be her words in this national election."

And that's when it struck me. All the millions of good people around the country today that must be praying for Sarah, and frankly, praying for a miracle.

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 8:32 PM PDT

2008/09/25 · 20:32

Yes. This is a terribly short diary. Sue me. The video is funnier and more poignant than anything I have to say at this depressing moment in US history. It's a mashup of Sarah Palin answering Couric's questions on her foreign policy credentials, with the image of South Carolina's Miss Teen USA candidate blowing the interview. Hilarious. Poignant. Scarily uncanny.

McCain Just Demoralized His Base

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 7:48 PM PDT

2008/09/24 · 19:48

A few months back I wrote a diary about my best friend of many decades who is a hardcore midwest conservative. He never liked McCain before he became the Republican candidate, and when Obama and Hillary were duking it out, he made a startling conversion. He got on the Obama-train and started examining his fundamental beliefs. He was asking questions he had never bothered to ask before. He was sincere. I was flabbergasted.

And then the primaries were over. The excitement waned. The questions stopped. One day he announced he was embracing McCain. His reason: Obama had gone back on his promise to accept public campaign financing and had shown himself to be no different than the rest of the politicians. I couldn't believe it. The more I argued with him about the scope of McCain's hypocrisy, the more entrenched he got. He transformed over the last few months into a hardcore McCainiac.

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 3:41 PM PDT

2008/09/23 · 15:41

McCain came out boldly today with a brand new plan featuring specific changes to ensure the viability of the bailout. Oh, wait. The specifics are not brand new. Most of them were in Obama's response to the initial bailout details emerging over the weekend.

This past Sunday, Obama responded to the emerging details of the bailout plan. He put forward specific principles that would guide his ultimate response to the bailout:

First, there must be no blank check when American taxpayers are on the hook for this much money.

Second, taxpayers shouldn't be spending a dime to reward CEOs on Wall Street.

Third, taxpayers should be protected and should be able to recoup this investment.

Fourth, this plan has to help homeowners stay in their homes.

Fifth, this is a global crisis, and the United States must insist that other nations join us in helping secure the financial markets.

Sixth, we need to start putting in place the rules of the road I've been calling for for years to prevent this from ever happening again.

And finally, this plan can't just be a plan for Wall Street, it has to be a plan for Main Street.

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Saturday September 06, 2008 · 4:36 PM PDT

2008/09/06 · 16:36

At the end of Sarah Palin's speech on Wednesday night, the McCain campaign blasted out Heart's iconic song "Barracuda" to pump up the atmosphere--as if to say, "look out, this woman is dangerous". Only problem is, as we all know by now, they were violating copyright law by using Heart's song without permission. Heart issued a complaint and Sony and BMG issued a cease and desist the next day.

This latest episode is just the latest in a long string of at least eight copyright violations by the McCain campaign and state Republican parties this cycle. Each time they violate the law, we hear about the artist complaining, there are a few stories, and then we move on. But it's time to stop moving on. How can we allow a campaign to claim "country first", when they repeatedly and cynically violate the country's laws and the rights of American citizens who make their living from their art?

For a look at the breathtaking cynicism, follow me over the jump.

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Thursday May 08, 2008 · 2:09 PM PDT

2008/05/08 · 14:09

I peeked over at MyDD to see how they're parsing the day's events, and came across this ironically revealing quote from Todd Beeton:

...there's no getting around the fact that declaring victory with simply a majority of pledged delegates qualifies as moving the goal posts and changing the rules in the middle of the game, something Obama supporters have long chided the Clinton campaign for doing. So, while the Obama campaign will try to end it after Oregon and Kentucky vote on May 20, I suspect this thing will only end when Senator Clinton says it does.

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Tuesday March 18, 2008 · 10:30 AM PDT

2008/03/18 · 10:30

A couple of months ago I wrote a diary about a died-in-the-wool conservative friend of mine from Ohio who's become an Obama convert. He's been my best friend for 3 decades, and we've always argued passionately from opposite sides of the political spectrum. I'm having a hard time grasping the depth of his conversion.

We were talking yesterday about the Rev. Wright controversy, and he told me about a co-worker who confessed her fear of Obama, and what a black president might mean for America. He tried to engage her in discussion, and she spouted all the talk-show talking points about radical black politics and culture, anchored by references to inner-city violence in their town. My friend kind of joked to her, "what, are you afraid Obama's going to wear his suit pants low on his hips and bring a bunch of gang-bangers into the white house?" But her fear, as ignorant as it was, was real.

So today, my friend drops me an email. He watched the speech and was really impressed. Knowing it'll be skewed by Limbaugh and Fox for conservative consumption, he invited his coworker into his office to watch the speech on YouTube...

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Thursday February 07, 2008 · 9:59 AM PST

2008/02/07 · 09:59

Wow. I knew there were a lot of Hillary camp pundits in the mainstream media, but any mask of objectivity has slipped from the face of mainstream media in the wake of Super Tuesday. On ABC Tuesday night, Donna Brazile and George Stephanopolous spun everything in Clinton's favor, casting doubt on the sustainability of Obama's surge. Yesterday, Juan Williams sounded angry while parsing the incomprehensible rise in Obama's momentum.

But today, Jake Tapper and ABC jump the shark. Tapper spins the enthusiasm of Obama supporters as verging on a cult. He draws on the MSM's own echo chamber, citing a string of media pundits who have compared Obama's surge to some kind of Second Coming of Christ as proof that voters have become unhinged.

The Holy Season of Lent is upon us. Can Obama worshippers try to give up their Helter-Skelter cult-ish qualities for a few weeks?

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Friday February 01, 2008 · 4:06 PM PST

2008/02/01 · 16:06

My best friend is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. The kind that voted for Bush twice. The kind that tunes in to Limbaugh, and Hannity, and Fox. The kind that would send me subscriptions to the Limbaugh letter just to get my goat.

For the past 15 years, we have argued passionately at polar opposites of the universe. He's never been a "knee-jerk" Republican. He had his qualms about the Republican scandals, about Terry Schiavo, Abramoff et. al. He would always fall back on the idea that all politicians are corrupt, but for better or worse, the Republicans had the policies that resonated with his conservative world view. He's always hated Bill Clinton, and laughed at the eneptitude of the Democratic congress.

But today, he called me with an unbelievable confession....

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Monday January 07, 2008 · 10:19 AM PST

2008/01/07 · 10:19

I'm one of 10s of thousands of people in California still without power after a major storm 4 days ago. And let me tell you, it's cold. I've lived in the Bay Area for 30 years, through many big storms, and I cannot recall there ever being a time when so many were left without power for so long. And yet, all the newspapers continue to spout PG&E spokes-messages without an ounce of critical reporting.

"Our operating crews are at capacity," they say. And the newspapers report it. "It's one of the biggest storms in 50 years," they say. And the newspapers report it. "We'll have everything back up and running real soon now." No questions asked.

What the hell does it take to get a damned newspaper to do some REPORTING?

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Tuesday July 31, 2007 · 11:09 AM PDT

2007/07/31 · 11:09

The point and counter-point on Mike Starks' O'Reilly ambush is an important and fascinating dialog. A group of people otherwise united in their disgust for O'Reilly is divided in their opinion of acceptable tactics for taking him down. It's the Fight Fire with Fire side versus the "Don't Sink to Their Level" side, and each has some compelling points.

But at the end of the day, I come down on the side of the outcome. I think Stark has mistakenly elevated a story about tactics, not about substance. And this is where I think he went wrong. He wants to compare himself to Michael Moore--after all, Moore engages in a lot of stunt advocacy along with his reporting, but I think there's a fundamental difference between Moore and Stark....

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