AFA e-mail of the week!

McDonald's gets all sorts of flak for all kinds of things. They are as a corporation reviled by liberals for a myriad of crimes from cutting down trees to being a purveyor of fat filled meals.

If anything, you'd think of them as being representative of the conservative US. Driven, focused on profits and a little old fashioned.

But, not so say the AFA!

McDonald's chooses to support homosexual agenda

Refuses request to be neutral in culture war

July 3, 2008

Dear Friend,

McDonald's has refused a request to remain neutral in the culture war, choosing to continue support of the homosexual agenda. AFA wrote McDonald's asking the company do two things:

* Remove McDonald's name and logo from the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) Web site listing McDonald's as a "Corporate Partner and Organization Ally" of NGLCC.
* Remove the endorsement of NGLCC by Richard Ellis, Vice President of Communications for McDonald's USA, from the NGLCC Web site.

McDonald's refused both requests. McDonald's donated $20,000 to NGLCC in exchange for membership in the NGLCC and a seat on the group's board of directors. The NGLCC lobbies Congress on a wide range of issues including the promotion of homosexual marriage.

This boycott is not about hiring homosexuals, or homosexuals eating at McDonald's, or how homosexual employees are treated. It is about McDonald's, as a corporation, choosing to put the full weight of their corporation behind promoting the homosexual agenda, including homosexual marriage.

Pat Harris, Global Chief Diversity Officer, Vice President, Inclusion & Diversity at McDonald's, responded: "I would like to take this opportunity to reaffirm our position on diversity." Notice that Ms. Harris said "reaffirm." Translated: McDonald's will not change their policy of supporting the NGLCC and their promotion of homosexual marriage.

Richard Ellis, who is openly homosexual, was given a seat on the NGLCC Board of Directors. He was quoted as saying: "I'm thrilled to join the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and ready to go to work. I share the NGLCC's passion for business growth and development within the LGBT community, and I look forward to playing a role in moving these important initiatives forward."

Addressing McDonald's promotion of social issues, McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner said earlier the company will aggressively promote the issues they approve. In remarks on its Web site, Skinner said: "Being a socially responsible organization is a fundamental part of who we are. We have an obligation to use our size and resources to make a difference in the world ... and we do."

Gay marriage is a culture war? Since when did a bunch of stay at home fundies become soldiers in a battle? And what's the war for? I mean, I know it must be hard for them to believe that people in homosexual relationships might want to permanently commit and build stable homes.. but I've yet to see how that threatens their marriages.

And, has anyone seen the homosexual agenda? Is it like a calendar or a to do list?

Anyway, go McDonald's!

Darling, what do crystal pixie castles look like? Via my lovely friend Dave

Sometimes the UK government says or does something that surprises me. It is, however, rarely good.

Every worker in Britain, from the head of a blue chip company to an office or domestic cleaner, must accept pay awards in line with the government's 2% inflation target if Britain is to avoid a return to the 1970s, Alistair Darling declared yesterday.

In one of the government's toughest warnings on the need for pay restraint, the chancellor said that "each and every one of us, from the top to the bottom" will have to accept pay awards consistent with the Treasury's inflation target.

Really?! Really? How much did you vote yourself Mr. Darling? Oh wait, yes, you guys generously gave up your 1.5%. However, you're more than happy to take 40,000 a year tax free on top of a 60,000 a year salary when you scrap your second homes allowance. You know what? I don't get a second home allowance. My company doesn't even pay for my extortionate 122 pound a month train ticket.

And your inflation index is almost as far behind actual projections as your lead in Henley! What, what's that..... a whopping 9% for some?! (I know it's the Torygraph, but the data is good.)

So, you want me to take a paltry 1.5% raise, the number your screwed up inflation calculations give you, when in actuality my cost of living might rise by 9%. By taking your advice, I am losing money. Thank god you're not a stock broker.

Oh wait, what was that? That 1.5% is your dreamland target and the actual rate of inflation is 3.3%? So, you want me to take a pay cut this year? Is that it? So, what do chocolate waterfalls and candy unicorns taste like? Do you like having a pillow made of fairy elf hair? Because you're off in damned fairy world while the rest of us are wondering how the hell we're going to afford our extra taxed gin to drink the pain and stupidity of your request away.

The chancellor said: "Pay awards in both the private and pubic sector have to be consistent with our inflation target, which is 2%. It doesn't mean they have to be 2%. But if you look at wage increases overall at the moment they're running at just about under 4%."

Wait, wait. Right. So. You know, part of the reason I have a review and perform well at my job is so I make more money. Essentially Mr. Darling is asking all of us to possibly lose money or stay the same by accepting lower pay awards. Which means, if you take the good Chancellor's advice, you're never any better off. Ever!

Darling's strong warning came days after Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, was forced to write an open letter to the chancellor to inform him that inflation hit 3.3% in May. King will have to write an explanatory letter every quarter as long as inflation remains above 3%.

The Bank governor told the chancellor that the increase in the annual cost of living was caused by global food and fuel price rises.

The chancellor seized on this yesterday when he said: "Unlike in the past, the inflationary pressures in this country are not homegrown."

Ok, so the inflation pressures aren't originated in the UK, but if we make less money it might stave off inflation? Really? Even though the UK consumer, presumably, isn't at all involved in what's causing inflation? Someone please explain to me how this works. Please.

Please.

Screw you Darling.

Darling begs Britain to accept 2% pay rises

More Wigan and Leigh Housing blunders

Man with Cystic Fibrosis, degenerating quickly, wants to move over to Ashton to be closer to his mother. Not just for the lovely family aspect, his mother is his primary caretaker.

He was put in band 4 (or the same band that Mr. Me and I would be,) then band 2 and now the highest priority, band 1. The latter only happened after the local paper intervened.

Mrs Ackers said Wigan and Leigh Housing contacted her after the Evening Post's intervention.

And they confirm that Mr Ackers' housing application has now been moved to band one category as a "medical and welfare" emergency.

A Metro spokesman said: "It is clear that Mr Ackers has considerable health issues. We have increased his priority for rehousing."

What I find the most interesting about this is the comments section of the article.

John LP seems to back up everything I said last week after finding out about Terry O'Mara's gossip.

What a disgrace !! Poor Colin has enough to deal with without all this, I just hope its sorted favourably towards him soon.

I have only ever had the misfortune to deal with the unprofessional, incompetent staff at Wigan and Leigh Housing 3 times so consider myself lucky as each time it was on behalf of some poor individuals who I knew personally and was trying, as a gesture of goodwill, to support them legally etc.

I can happily state from experience that the managers right up to the Chief Exec (who doesn't want to get involved at all) portray themselves as being bigger and better than 'Joe Public'.

Its about time the relevant governing body audited this department and the council officials took notice of what was happening in their borough to some of the most needy and deserving individuals instead of concentrating on petty, needless money wasting schemes !!

At least it isn't just us. I guess. It's still awful they can't work with the people who need it the most.

Terminally ill man fights for housing

Edit: It's worth mentioning, less than week ago a pregnant 19 year old was said to become homeless thanks to.... Wigan and Leigh Housing.

Barak underestimates voter intelligence

Wait, so, the thing Barak Obama has harped on about for the last month... he can't do, at all himself?

I love election season!

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Barack Obama, who's been scolding Hillary Rodham Clinton for not hastening the release of records from her time as first lady, says he can't step up and produce his own records from his days in the Illinois state Senate. He says he hasn't got any.

"I don't have - I don't maintain - a file of eight years of work in the state Senate because I didn't have the resources available to maintain those kinds of records," he said at a recent campaign stop in Iowa. He said he wasn't sure where any cache of records might have gone, adding, "It could have been thrown out. I haven't been in the state Senate now for quite some time."

Uh-huh. You know, I don't care what politician you are, like the nice people in the AP article say, you have an ego. And be it a long letter thanking you for your policy towards welfare, or just one saying you're a superstar hot man, you have to have kept something.

Obama, Who Rapped Clinton on Records, Says He Has None From His Illinois State Senate Days

Britain is mad Giuliani thinks the NHS sucks

Oh wait, I see. So, every British media outlet under the (S)un can point out the NHS is awful... but the minute someone from overseas does it to counter Michael Moore's idiocy, it's off limits?

Damned Limeys.

n the radio ad, Giuliani, who has suffered prostate cancer, said the U.S. survival rate for the disease was 82 percent, but the survival rate in Britain was just 44 percent "under socialised medicine."

Britain's Health Secretary Alan Johnson said Giuliani's figures were wrong and the survival rate under Britain's National Health Service was in fact much higher.

"The British NHS should not become a political football in American presidential politics," Johnson told The Times newspaper.

"Our rate of prostate cancer survival is actually much higher than has been claimed. The latest data show a survival rate of over 70 percent and rising."

From Cancerpage.com

Bad news there Johnson, it already has. You can thank Sicko for that.

(According to The Telegraph figures for England say they're actually 52.7% for all cancers in women and 44.8% in men. Didn't see any comment from Alan Johnson in that article!)

Edit: Where the hell are Forbes getting this from?! Today, rates are higher - 99 percent in the U.S. and an estimated 74 percent in the U.K.

And if he did...
The former New York mayor got his numbers from an article in the City Journal, a quarterly magazine published by the conservative Manhattan Institute think tank.

Then why is the Telegraph using the same data?

Bad AP.

Why Boris Johnson is the best thing ever.

A few weeks ago, Dave and Robin created a most magical picture. This was of the wonderful and glorious MP for Henley, Boris Johnson.



Now, occasionally, when I'm upset or annoyed at the world I like to do things to cheer myself up. Last week, in all of its dreadfulness, prompted the following letter to said MP:


Dear Mr. Johnson,

I tend not to write fan letters as they easily become embarrassing and a little gushy. I'll simply sum up my position as most decidedly pro-Boris and all things under the Boris Johnson banner. When I return to my country I shall tell wondrous tales of Boris Johnson and expose them to your wit and intelligence via the magic of YouTube. I noticed in your biography that you're actually American. How about returning and running for president? I would vote for you. If anything, the quality of the presidential debates would improve dramatically by your very presence.

My friends are also decidedly pro-Boris. So much so they've created a piece of propaganda specifically to further your cause. It's attached to this e-mail and I hope it brings you as much joy and amusement as it has us. The reference is from the popular animated television series Futurama, which has a hypnotic toad that controls the minds of the citizens of Earth via the television. We believe that if you could harness the power of the HypnoBoris, your rightful position as Prime Minister would be easily within reach.

I'll conclude my gushing fan letter by saying, in all seriousness, that your candor, wit and intelligence is proof that not all politicians have become bloated PC pansies paralyzed by their own self importance. In particular I greatly appreciate your attempts at getting the MP for Motherwell and Wishaw to clarify the term 'drunk' in 2003 and a wonderfully direct question regarding my government's failure to acknowledge the British government during the Iraq war in December. I only wish that my circumstances would allow me to run from Andy Burnham's constituency and into Henley.

Here is a link to HypnoBoris: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.langridge/obeyboris.gif

Kind Regards,
Tiffany Craig

Today I received the following response:

Dear Tiffany

Thank you for your lovely letter, and I will see if I can get anyone to obey me with your picture.

Best wishes

Boris Johnson



(ps we have put it on the office wall, from frances, Boris’s secretary?


I am giddy with joy.

I've notified the creators of HypnoBoris who are also most giddy.

Hooray for Boris!