Well the Clown is going after Starbucks? Why? Because he too busy selling cheap burgers to the tourist in bad shorts and herds of screaming kids and are not selling as much coffee? How silly is this? The Clown's management team is going the coffee market by putting up bill boards of " four bucks is DUMB". Well if four bucks is dumb then how about Starbucks coming back with "lets all have a Big Mac Heart attack" Will the Clown try and crush the little guy as Wally world (wal-mart) has done to local communities? And we all see Wal- mart as a corner stone of society right?
If I am going to meet someone for coffee for an after dinner meeting or just go out on the town with the wife for the evening I am not going to say "hey let's go over to the Clown's joint for a cup of brew!" I think the atmosphere at a Starbucks is far more pleasant then say the kiddy play ground at the Clown shop. A clown severing coffee just doesn't seem to be conducive to pleasant quiet atmosphere. Most of the time these severs of death have their air conditioners turned down so low you don't want to stay around. They must sell more of there fatty greasy patty's of death to more and more and MORE! So they run you out with a snow storm.
To bad Mikey D's you have really lost me as a customer of your acrid brew. I have always said your brew was good, however it is not getting my dollar anymore. Starbucks is half the size of the Clown shop. Do you dare take on someone your own size? No, it is more fun to be mean today then to be competitive.
The article I picked up from Seattle tells the rest of the story. And even it is basis to a purveyor which started within it's very own city. They could not interview someone who likes Starbucks they had to find someone who didn't like them to go along with the mean spiritedness of the Clown.
Glad the death dealing Clown feels the need to go after the little guy.
Good for you Mr. Schultz for not responding to the Clown.
Please read the link below you will see what I am talking about.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/391566_sbuxrivals11.html
Friday, December 12, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
We have lost the fear
Our society and world have lost the fear of God. I was listening to the radio this morning and a pair of robbers took over a house, police arrive and one of the men shoot at the police. They killed him, rightly so policemen have a dangerous job and if someone is shooting at them, well too bad for the bad guy. The problem here is the robber did not have a fear of the after life. What will happen to me once I am on the other side of the curtain? Is there a God? Well the robber knows now the answer to both of those questions. A few weeks ago, my wife and daughter and I went to a fast food joint. Before we even began to eat we were heckled for dressing like Christians. Funny they know what we look like. We prayed over our food and then the harassment really kicked in. I must say I was not intimated at all. I felt sorry, these kids were not raised with a healthy fear of God. Having a fear of God is not bad is it? I know there is a movement a foot which does not believe in God. Do these people not have a fear of the system which is in place to protect all from wrong? I believe many people who do not believe in God do have a fear of the system which states thou shall not kill or steal or any other anti social behavior. However, there is a growing generation of people which have No Fear. This No Fear generation take their fearlessness too far.
I raised my hand and said I do,and joined the military for this nation, I set aside 4 years of my life to serve this great nation, so young people can have the right to be fearless. It is just too bad there are people with in our society which find it necessary to be rude to others. However they are free to do it. Because I set aside time out of my life so they could still be free. Try mocking a communist in China and see how far you get.
Everyone have a Merry Christmas, oh yeah even this is becoming a problem. Well I say it to everyone I meet at this time of year. Rarely do I get any blow back of PC talk. In fact many clerks and people just get a big smile on their face and say Merry Christmas to you too!
I raised my hand and said I do,and joined the military for this nation, I set aside 4 years of my life to serve this great nation, so young people can have the right to be fearless. It is just too bad there are people with in our society which find it necessary to be rude to others. However they are free to do it. Because I set aside time out of my life so they could still be free. Try mocking a communist in China and see how far you get.
Everyone have a Merry Christmas, oh yeah even this is becoming a problem. Well I say it to everyone I meet at this time of year. Rarely do I get any blow back of PC talk. In fact many clerks and people just get a big smile on their face and say Merry Christmas to you too!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Steam Boat Willy
Well Mickey turns 80 years old today!
This little mouse has made millions of children smile. Along with my wife.
Maybe we will go to Disneyland before the end of the year to see Mickey.
Not everybody turns 80 you know.
This little mouse has made millions of children smile. Along with my wife.
Maybe we will go to Disneyland before the end of the year to see Mickey.
Not everybody turns 80 you know.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
What is Mc Cain thinking!
As I read the news this morning I see Mister McCain is looking to get a "pro choice" Veep?!
A passing comment I made several weeks ago in front of my wife and pastor was I am thinking of NOT voting for this "republicrat". Both insisted I was throwing away my vote. I had made mention I was looking to the Libertarian party to vote.
The Supreme Court is an issue seeing the average age of the court is 68.5 years old.( Stevens 88, Scalia 72, Kennedy 72, Ginsburg 75, Roberts 53, Sout6er 69, Thomas 60, Breyer 70, and Alito 58) Yes, I fully understand what is at stake here, however will he put in a conservative Judge? Or will he just keep leaning the same way LEFT! If I can't trust him with the nation, trusting him with the court is just not worth considering.
I fully understand what they are feeling and thinking. With Mr. Perot in the early 90's running for the pres. split the conservative vote and actually helped elect Clinton, and yes I criticized those who voted for him, however I cannot vote for this Benedict Arnold of the republican party if he insists on going down a path of leaning to the Demicommies! There are a few principles I hold near and dear to me and this guy keeps treading further from all of my core beliefs with each passing day.
If Mister McCain insists on flipping the conservatives of this nation the bird then he can send the country to hell I WON'T VOTE FOR HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A passing comment I made several weeks ago in front of my wife and pastor was I am thinking of NOT voting for this "republicrat". Both insisted I was throwing away my vote. I had made mention I was looking to the Libertarian party to vote.
The Supreme Court is an issue seeing the average age of the court is 68.5 years old.( Stevens 88, Scalia 72, Kennedy 72, Ginsburg 75, Roberts 53, Sout6er 69, Thomas 60, Breyer 70, and Alito 58) Yes, I fully understand what is at stake here, however will he put in a conservative Judge? Or will he just keep leaning the same way LEFT! If I can't trust him with the nation, trusting him with the court is just not worth considering.
I fully understand what they are feeling and thinking. With Mr. Perot in the early 90's running for the pres. split the conservative vote and actually helped elect Clinton, and yes I criticized those who voted for him, however I cannot vote for this Benedict Arnold of the republican party if he insists on going down a path of leaning to the Demicommies! There are a few principles I hold near and dear to me and this guy keeps treading further from all of my core beliefs with each passing day.
If Mister McCain insists on flipping the conservatives of this nation the bird then he can send the country to hell I WON'T VOTE FOR HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Teenagers are wonderful?
As I flip through my photos I see my son. Lovely boy indeed. Just look at this photo, he is showing his best pose for the camera.
Now I come across one of his girl April and my daughter Nicole, with Jade posing in the back ground. Lovely children indeed, doesn't everyone wish they had kids like these?
Don't children know how to behave anymore? This bunch is never tame. Truly the unwashed.
Nicole, Jill, Becky, and David left to right. And my loving caring wife in the middle. Doesn't she just seem thrilled?
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Now I come across one of his girl April and my daughter Nicole, with Jade posing in the back ground. Lovely children indeed, doesn't everyone wish they had kids like these?
Don't children know how to behave anymore? This bunch is never tame. Truly the unwashed.
Nicole, Jill, Becky, and David left to right. And my loving caring wife in the middle. Doesn't she just seem thrilled?
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Friday, June 6, 2008
I have lost my mind
So a few weeks ago I discover our medical card for insurance has too much money on it. If we don't use this money we lose it, lovely thought indeed. So I make a decision which should be reserved for mental patients. He maybe I should go in to the dentist for a little torture. Isn't congress debating torture? Isn't there laws against such random acts of violence? Not in this case, I decided to have my teeth fixed and have appliances installed in my mouth. (Braces):(
I seat here this morning picking at last nights fine culinary delight from Panda Express, trying to eat and all my mouth is saying STOP IT! Yesterday was a great confidence builder, The torture chamber ghoul, oh I mean dental assistant informs me having braces installed is the best weight loss program known to man. Indeed I believe he is correct, all I have had done is let them place spacers inside my mouth and all ready I am miserable. I know of no other place we go to embrace such pains other then the dentist. We as lemmings go of to this house of pain to have our mouths torn at, poked at, pried on, and just in general tortured. Are we all nuts? Should we all see a shrink? Is there no relief from our on insanity?
I will surely regret my decision to have these chains laid across all of my teeth for the next year. I guess the up side here is, I will be about as fat as Twiggy was in the sixties.
Save yourself from yourself DON'T GO TO THE DENTIST!
I seat here this morning picking at last nights fine culinary delight from Panda Express, trying to eat and all my mouth is saying STOP IT! Yesterday was a great confidence builder, The torture chamber ghoul, oh I mean dental assistant informs me having braces installed is the best weight loss program known to man. Indeed I believe he is correct, all I have had done is let them place spacers inside my mouth and all ready I am miserable. I know of no other place we go to embrace such pains other then the dentist. We as lemmings go of to this house of pain to have our mouths torn at, poked at, pried on, and just in general tortured. Are we all nuts? Should we all see a shrink? Is there no relief from our on insanity?
I will surely regret my decision to have these chains laid across all of my teeth for the next year. I guess the up side here is, I will be about as fat as Twiggy was in the sixties.
Save yourself from yourself DON'T GO TO THE DENTIST!
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Boredom and babies
Well, it is Sunday afternoon and I am bored. Arising from a quick 20 minute nap I quickly realize I am desiring something new and sweet. I grabbed the Taste of Home Cookbook the wife has in her library of cook books, did I say library? I fully mean BOOKSTORE! Someone could get lost for weeks perusing her collection of literary works of food. Indeed one day I will surely fall into the trap she has set and I will emerge from the kitchen nothing more then a rotund troll.
So I see a recipe which peaks my curiosity. A Dutch baby, I have never heard of such a wonderful treat. I embark on a tour through the internet to seek out what exactly this culinary delight could be. I see it is nothing more then a souffle type pancake. So I embark on this worthy journey with the thoughts of finding something new to tease the taste buds with.
As the process begins I quickly realize the refrigerator lacks the 1/2 and 1/2 needed so I proceed to the pantry. Where there is the evaporated milk! None, alas I find one lone can of Eagle Brand Sweetened condensed milk. I rummage through the kitchen drawers and find the ever present 'Church Key'. I quickly open the can, and discover the contents have turned to caramel. I fully open the can to discover, yes, indeed it is all solid. So I decide to taste it, yes its good. I proceed to scope out some of the coagulated contents and put it in with the eggs and flour, I add water and start the butter. Using a cast iron skillet with far too much butter for the process I pour the liquid into the skillet. Then push the pan into the oven already heated to 425 degrees and wait.
What comes out is something I have never had before. I top it with zested lemon, squeeze on some of the juice, sprinkle with powdered sugar and WOW! Debbie had a small portion, I indeed finished off the rest. Yes, once again over stuffing my face.
This is a project I will surely repeat over and over.
So I see a recipe which peaks my curiosity. A Dutch baby, I have never heard of such a wonderful treat. I embark on a tour through the internet to seek out what exactly this culinary delight could be. I see it is nothing more then a souffle type pancake. So I embark on this worthy journey with the thoughts of finding something new to tease the taste buds with.
As the process begins I quickly realize the refrigerator lacks the 1/2 and 1/2 needed so I proceed to the pantry. Where there is the evaporated milk! None, alas I find one lone can of Eagle Brand Sweetened condensed milk. I rummage through the kitchen drawers and find the ever present 'Church Key'. I quickly open the can, and discover the contents have turned to caramel. I fully open the can to discover, yes, indeed it is all solid. So I decide to taste it, yes its good. I proceed to scope out some of the coagulated contents and put it in with the eggs and flour, I add water and start the butter. Using a cast iron skillet with far too much butter for the process I pour the liquid into the skillet. Then push the pan into the oven already heated to 425 degrees and wait.
What comes out is something I have never had before. I top it with zested lemon, squeeze on some of the juice, sprinkle with powdered sugar and WOW! Debbie had a small portion, I indeed finished off the rest. Yes, once again over stuffing my face.
This is a project I will surely repeat over and over.
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