Rachel and I just got back last night from our visit in Illinois. We had a great time. I also got to see my grandma who is doing better. I mean she is at least walking by herself with her walker (slow as she can be but she’s doing it).
I am a little tired this morning, but I’m sure I’ll get over it. Franklin Films is in the process of occupying a new office to go along with the current one so I need to get back to work.
I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while. If anybody is still checking this blog (which is not likely since I haven’t posted in, like forever) I have just been really busy. And it will probably get worse before it gets better unfortunately.
Rachel and I are in Illinois for Labor Day weekend. I don’t have to go back to work until Wednesday, so we won’t be leaving here until Tuesday.
Anyway, just wanted to post something.
Okay, I found this article through a forum that I visit often and thought it was interesting. Please feel free to comment on this article. I mean, should those of us who go to Star Bucks boycott it or not? It is pretty distressing stuff, assuming it is true.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
It’s been two weeks since my last Starbucks coffee. Admittedly, I am one of those who don’t think twice about dropping $4 for a cup of coffee that costs less than $.50 to make. I am a self-proclaimed coffee house junkie and need that wonderful yuppie, intellectual “atmosphere” and freshly brewed aroma as much as the caffeine. When I moved to D.C. right out of college, I encountered my first Starbucks drink, or should I say “experience”? Growing up in a military family, I loved chain restaurants because of the sense of familiarity they offered in every new town we moved to. So, to be able to get the same type of specialty coffee - grande, iced, skim, sugar-free vanilla, latte - everywhere, was an addiction waiting to happen. Fast forward four years, and about 800 lattes later - I’m a Starbucks addict! When a report came out earlier this year showing that none of Starbucks’ charitable contributions went to conservative causes, I didn’t blink—I bought a latte. When I walked by a liquor store in Northeast D.C. with a big advertisement for Starbucks liquor, I kept walking, stopped in at Starbucks and bought a latte! When I was at work a couple weeks ago, reading an e-alert from our California organization (yes, latte in hand), I finally had a wake-up call.
The alert described the annual “gay” pride events which are scheduled in San Diego each year:
OK, yes, that is all pretty disturbing, but daily, I read, write about and edit papers dealing with the homosexual agenda, so I was not at all shocked that this was going on. I was a little upset when I read that Starbucks was a sponsor. I took a sip of my latte as I read on:
OK - STOP, WAIT A MINUTE AND PUT THAT CUP OF COFFEE DOWN! Not only is Starbucks sponsoring “Pride” week, but an event that places innocent children in the middle of sexually explicit materials ... and registered child molesters will be there running the show? If Starbucks is doing this knowingly, it is blatant irresponsibility, and if they are doing it unknowingly, it is irresponsible of them not to have done their homework. I started pacing back-and-forth, and all I could think was “Starbucks hates children.” For the first time, I stepped away from my latte, faced my denial about this company and started to do some serious soul searching - I needed to find out what they really supported. Fortunately, I didn’t have to search very long because I have the Internet at my fingertips and one of the nation’s top experts, Robert Knight, just down the hall from me. Less than 30 minutes of research revealed the following:
So what do I do now? I am not a big fan of boycotts. A friend once told me if we boycotted everything we disagreed with, we would be naked and hungry. I’ve also heard something like, “It doesn’t matter what’s on the cup, but what’s in it.” I love Starbucks coffee and as I worked through this problem, I wasn’t about to give up without a fight - and I didn’t give up, but rather, I failed miserably. I overestimated, but discovered that if I drink five grande lattes a week for a year, the total number of lattes would equal 260, coming to a total cost of $1,040. So, in my four post-college years, I could have contributed as much as $4,160 to a company that supports the volunteer work of child abusers, “Pride” events, abortionists, and do I really need to go on? Back to that marketing director’s quote: “We’re committed to supporting things that matter to our employees and our customers.” Um ... HELLO, I am a customer, too! As I was searching the Internet, I saw a link to a site with words no Christian girl should repeat. I didn’t have to enter to read this: “Folks, if Starbucks is ‘too liberal’ for you then don’t buy their @#$# percent*# coffee.” Thanks for the tip! “Folks,” what you do is up to you, but as for me and my habit, I will no longer support Starbucks. Yes, I started as a Starbucks coffee snob, but I am very open-minded now - if you know any good coffee houses, please let me know!
Meghan Kleppinger is assistant to the national field director at Concerned Women for America.
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I went up to see my Grandma in the nursing home last weekend. We left Friday afternoon (I was able to get the afternoon off of work) at 3:00 from my dad’s place in Lobelville. It was Dad, Elise, Levi, Rachel and myself in dad’s car. The trip wasn’t too bad for me at least because I brought my laptop with me and worked on the re-designing of my website that I had started a couple of days ago. It’s amazing how much time that sort of thing takes. I spent hours in Photoshop and Dreamweaver. And it’s not a complicated site by any means. I can see how web design would be a full time job. But I’m getting side tracked.
My Grandma fell 2 weeks ago sometime during the night and broke some bones in her face. She then went to the hospital for a couple of days, and is now in a nursing home for rehabilitation. She DOES NOT want to be there, and that is one of the reasons we went up to see her. She needs a lot of love from all of us right now. It’s sad because she is completely with it, but has a hard time talking. Anyway, those of you who read my blog, please pray for her.
Also, Rachel and I went to visit her Grandma Price in the nursing home in Pekin, IL. She seemed to be doing okay for the most part, though she had lost her glasses. But she had found them again by Sunday so she was in a better mood then.
Okay, so I don’t have much more to say, but I just felt like I needed to post something on my blog. Seems I am too busy to post on it very much.
Here is a sample of the photos you will find on my hompage:
I finally got the pictures and last night and this morning before work, I worked on putting them on my site.
Very recently, I have again come across a very contradictory notion. I come across it often enough in the past, but every time I come across it catches me by surprise. The notion is contradictory in the fact that the very idea that this notion works toward is disbelieved when part of that notion comes to fruition.
The first part of this generally held notion, I totally agree with. That is that we should raise our children in a distinctly Biblical fashion. Indeed, we who are Christians (Christ followers) are commanded to raise our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. We should be actively discipling our children. Our children are actually Christ’s disciples. I whole-heartedly agree with this and am hoping to actively pursue this objective in raising my own children if God will grant me that privilege. However, what surprises me is when people who believe this are skeptical when their children talk and act like disciples of the Lord. They say things like, “Well, I am not sure if Johnny knows what he is saying. I just don’t think he really know what he is talking about. I think he is just regurgitating what he is told.” What??? Regurgitating what they are taught… how terrible… I guess?!?
I don’t know what to make of that. Don’t we want our children to regurgitate what they are taught? We teach them the ways of the Lord and then are surprised when they start talking about the ways of the Lord. It’s an interesting phenomenon, one that I surely don’t understand. Of course, as a covenantal Baptist it is hard for me to understand that at all, but even from a non paedo-baptist perspective, why would you be so shocked when your children regurgitate what you teach them, or act as if you didn’t think they could possibly know what they are really saying. After all, they are just children. But we seem to forget that Christ told us that we should become like unto a little Child. To be clear, this of course does not mean that we are to be childish in our ways and actions. But we are rather to have the faith of children. Now, if we are to have the faith of children, then why are we so skeptical that our children could possibly have the faith that they need in our Lord who loves them? Put more simply, we think that they need to grow up so that they can become like a child (Okay I’m confused now, can I go home?).
This is what I mean by saying that the very idea that the notion works toward is disbelieved when it comes to fruition. It seems they work hard to raise Godly children and then, when the children act Godly at a young age, they reject it. When we raise our children for the Lord, we should fully expect that they will act like the Lord’s. I won’t go into my views on baptism right now, I’ll save that for later.
