How Christians will soon be treated at McDonald's
-Headline of the day-
"McDonald's gives support to homosexual activists' agenda."
The Baptist Press reports that a "McDonald's executive has joined the board of directors for the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce." This, apparently, means that the time has come to freak out. Fundies may impose economic sanctions on the Golden Arches.
"I think what we plan to do right now is wait and see how McDonald's responds," says Patriot Pastor Don Wildmon. "If they continue like they're going, then I think we would very seriously consider looking at a boycott. Following our success with the Ford boycott, I think we could generate some numbers that would impress McDonald's."
About the "success" of that Ford boycott; it wasn't a success. In 2006, Ford Motor Company didn't hate gays, so Wildmon called for a boycott. It had pretty much the opposite of the intended effect. In fact, as I posted at the time, Ford actually did better than everyone else. A piece in the NYT told us, "Ford was the only Detroit automaker to increase its market share in June, to 16.7 percent from 16.1 a year ago. The second-largest automaker sold 8.6 percent more passenger cars but 14.8 percent fewer trucks and SUVs, according to Autodata."
Says a McDonald's spokesclown, "Please, please, let them boycott us!" (Baptist Press)
-That didn't take long-
There's a new blog out there, Bitter Voters for Obama -- catch-phrase; "If you are not bitter, you are not paying attention."
Tongue is nowhere near cheek here. This guy's pissed. (Bitter Voters for Obama)
-Bonus HotD-
"McCain campaign blames recipe ‘debacle’ on ‘low-level unpaid’ staffer."
In an attempt to lure people to his site, John McCain's campaign staff added what they called McCain "family recipes" to his website. Some might call this blatant Google-baiting -- and those some would be right. But getting people looking for chicken recipes to go to McCain's website isn't the problem. The problem is that the "old McCain family recipes" were plagiarized.
The report tells us they were "word-for-word copies of recipes on the Food Network site." Apparently, the McCain family doesn't have any family recipes -- which isn't all that surprising, considering that John Sydney McCain III is the son of an Admiral and wife Cindy's a beer-fortune heiress. The closest either of them have ever come to a kitchen is screwing the cook.
At least one recipe was stolen from FN's premiere hyperactive knife-wielding maniac, Rachel Raye. I don't have to tell you how dangerous that could've been. The recipes have since been scrubbed from the site and the whole thing blamed on a "low-level unpaid" staffer who has been "swiftly dealt with."
I'm guessing he was stuffed with croutons and walnuts and sent to the eastern front. (Huffington Post)
