1/23/2005

Buy Red

Here's a good one - BuyBlue.org.

Their mission?

Mission Statement: BuyBlue.org supports businesses that share our progressive values and ideals. BuyBlue.org uses our power as consumers to vote with our wallets, supporting businesses that abide by sustainability, workers' rights, environmental standards, and corporate transparency. At the same time, BuyBlue.org focuses sharply on businesses that violate the essential values of a sustainable, fair and profitable society through their policies and the politicians they support.

Their message?

Why was BuyBlue.org started? On the morning after the 2004 election, half of the country woke up in disbelief and disgust. Shortly afterwards it turned to anger and bitterness and many were entertaining moving to another country. It didn't take long for all of us to collectively realize that we had lost our country to the other side and we wanted, no needed to do something about it.

Did you catch that? "...realize that we had lost our country to the other side..."

"We" are the "other side" - not terrorists...not enemies of the United States..."US" - you and me

That, in a nutshell, captures the essence...the idiology...the anger and the hatred of the Looney Left. And they aren't finished yet with spending every waking hour trying to think up ways to punish "us".

So how does that pertain to "us", you ask?

Well, their list not only contains "blue" companies, but "red" ones too....

....so....playing by their rules, mind you...but in 'alternate universe' fashion... AVOID the blue companies and SUPPORT the red ones...maybe someone will come up with the same website for 'red' ones...

...and just in case they get wind of us tapping into their website and taking the information down, here is the list (remember the percentages come from the liberals, so the numbers represent the amount of support these companies gave to the Democratic Party):

Reddest Companies - (*My note: these are the stores to SUPPORT )

Best Buy Co., Inc. 0%
Cintas Corporation 0%
Dollar General Corporation 0%
Fruit of the Loom 0%
Lowe's Companies, Inc. 0%
Outback Steakhouse, Inc. 2%
CBRL Group, Inc. 4%
Geico 5%
Wendy's International, Inc. 6%
Darden Restaurants, Inc. 9%
Circuit City Stores, Inc. 10%
Saks Incorporated 11%
Dell Inc. 12%
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. 12%
Kroger Co. 12%
Ahold USA, Inc. 13%
Hallmark Cards, Inc. 14%
American Greetings Corporation 15%
Adolph Coors Company 16%
Brinker International, Inc. 16%
Helzberg Diamonds 16%
Limited Brands, Inc. 16%
Marriott International, Inc. 17%
Shell Oil Company 17%
Target Corporation 17%
Southwest Airlines Co. 18%
The Home Depot, Inc. 18%
Campbell Soup Company 20%
YUM! Brands, Inc. 21%
Longs Drug Stores Corporation 22%
May Department Stores Company 22%
Continental Airlines, Inc. 25%
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC 25%
Guess?, Inc 27%
Ford Motor Company 28%
Safeway Inc. 30%
Northwest Airlines Corporation 32%
Sears, Roebuck and Co. 34%
Sprint Corporation 35%
Walgreen Co. 35%
Blockbuster Inc. 40%
Amazon.com, Inc. 41%
Delta Air Lines, Inc. 43%
AT&T Corp. 44%

Bluest Companies - (*My note: these are the stores to AVOID )

Aloha Air Group, Inc. 100%
American Apparel, LLC 100%
BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. 100%
Borders Group, Inc. 100%
CompUSA Inc. 100%
Diamond Resorts International 100%
Foot Locker, Inc 100%
Fry's Electronics, Inc. 100%
Google Inc. 100%
Hard Rock Cafe International, Inc. 100%
Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. 100%
Loews Hotels Holding Corporation 100%
MetroPCS Communications, Inc. 100%
Powell's Books, Inc. 100%
Progressive Corporation 100%
Sonic Corp. 100%
Starbucks Corporation 100% (personal note: gulp! this is a difficult one, because I love Starbucks...but if I am asking you all to do it, I will suck it up and find another coffee bean-ery...)
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. 100%
Trader Joe's Company, Inc. 100%
True Value Company 100%
Whole Foods Market, Inc. 100%
Costco Wholesale Corporation 99%
Amerada Hess Corporation 98%
Bed, Bath & Beyond Inc 97%
Hyatt Hotels and Resorts 93%
Sharper Image Corporation 93%
Signet Group plc 93%
Hilton Hotels Corporation 84%
Gap Inc. 78%
JetBlue Airways Corporation 75%
Netflix, Inc 72%
Triarc Companies, Inc. 59%
Brown-Forman Corporation 57%
eBay Inc. 57%
CVS Corporation 51%
UAL Corporation 51%
Kmart Holding Corporation 50%
Yahoo! Inc. 47%
Alaska Air Group, Inc. 45%
AMR Corporation 45%

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I tell ya, keeping track of these loonies is almost a full time job...

Desert Rat