"No Easy Day"

This thread reads like one of the question sequences on an episode of "Would I Lie to You?":

 

What's wrong with K - Cups? I would not think that such a socially and environmentally conscious company as Green Mountain Coffee would sell anything that would not pass muster with Earth First.

Please tell me you are kidding. I don't want to have to go back to my French Press.

 

Which BTW I receive on my Kindle - again to save trees.

 

K-Cups kill kittens.

 

EarthFirst is going to hunt you and Moddy down like something out of Hunger Games.


www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/01/03/an_environmental_quandary_percolates_at_green_mountain_coffee_roasters/

www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/business/energy-environment/04coffee.html?pagewanted=all

latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2012/01/keurig-environmental-impact.html

www.carbondiet.ca/green_advice/food/k-cup_coffee_maker_garbage_an_environmental_issue.html

www.coffeehabitat.com/2010/08/single-use-coffee-waste/

 

This is a strange conversation.

 

Apparently, the book was delivered to the house today. I mean, if the Govt REALLY found classified information in the book that was illegally printed, couldn't they have stopped the book from being sold, at least for a while?

 

Prior restraint does exist. It also stirs up more shit than it's worth normally. In the Internet era, the information is going to get out either way.

 

I save my K Cups and donate them to a local handicapped group who uses them to make Christmas ornaments that they sell.

I'm always tickled by the Green Mountain mission statement:

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (GMCR) is focused on creating positive and sustainable change for people and ecosystems in the places where we do business through focused sustainability endeavors. We are committed to social and environmental responsibility and continue to evolve our company’s corporate citizenship and community outreach efforts. We’ve operated under the core belief that our strength as a business, our support for our employees, and our commitment to our local and global communities are inseparable; each supports the others in a powerful synergy that drives our success."

 

If they were concerned about classified information they should have put a muzzle on John Brennan. Perhaps there is something to it though as it was just removed from my Kindle.

 

Noticed a note on my Kindle receipt which I've never noticed before:

"Price set by publisher"

I bet a lot of lawyers batted that one around for a while.

 

Yep, that's what I'm going to do.