If you need any evidence that vile, hateful commentary is not limited to the left, why not take a gander at some of the threats Kos has received from O’Reilly’s viewers. “Irony” is apparently not a part of these peoples’ vocabulary.

Now, back to the argument. My whole point is that I believe that whether a particular company gets one’s business or not should be based primarily on its level of service (so for an airline it’s price, timeliness, amenities, etc.). You may disagree with other things that company does, but I believe that by taking your business elsewhere, you are ultimately hurting yourself. If they lose business and dunk, their good service will go away, and the plank for the entire industry will go lower. So I think a reasonable thing to do is to make your point of view known to the company — through letters or phone calls. But unless their offense is insanely egregious, taking away business from a company with good service values is, in my opinion, not effective.

well.. you can feel good about your arguements… obviously someone agrees with you as my response last night was deleted. But I’m going to post it again since I think it needs to be said.

I believe I said that I didn’t feel I needed to compromise my values so that you could have leather seats and directtv.

I also said that if you remember correctly… I AGREED with you. You said JetBlue wouldn’t lose any sleep over it and I agree. They won’t. It will make no difference to them whatsoever. They have calculated the cost of the few people who will actually boycott against the people they will pick up from their exposure at Kos. They are not out to crucify their bottom line. They are out to enhance it. And they will have covered all angles before they decided to sponsor the one of the internets most well known hate sites.

But YOUR arguement is about JetBlue. Not mine.

MY argument is about being called a hypocrit. And when I refuted it you proceeded to continue to call me a hypocrit.

as I said last night.. you can call me lots of things… from being stubborn to being a stupid b!tch… but I am NOT a hypocrit. I am stubborn. I am not a stupid b!tch I am a very smart one. But I am absolutely NOT a hypocrit.

Now I may not be the most clear writer depending on time of day and number of kids pulling on my coattails.. but I thought I made that clear.

I don’t CARE about JetBlue.
I don’t CARE about who does or does not use JetBlue.
I care about what I do. And what I believe in. And I will not use JetBlue services. Ever. That is my choice. I don’t choose what is popular. I often choose based on emotion rather than logic. I don’t expect anyone else to agree with me. That would be a freaking first. I’d probably have a heart attack from the shock.

And agreeing with me just to HOPE I drop dead… won’t work cause I know you’d be fibbing

Actually George Soros liquidated most of his holdings around 6/20 and now holds only 72,354 shares. (Click on the insider holdings link at Morningstar)

Not sure when the sponsorship took place or the timing of his large sale, or who he gifted nearly 4.5 million shares too.

Hmmmmm…. Could it be possibly the DailyKAOS??????? I would guess it would make them one of the majority shareholders, and give them enough muscle to leverage this incredibly stupid decision on JetBlue’s part. Safe to say, no JetBlue for my family ever again.

“On July 17th, 2007 at 9:31 am, MikeB said:
THE POPE IS A PRIMATE under all three definitions:

pri·mate /ˈpraɪmeɪt or, esp. for 1, ˈpraɪmɪt/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[prahy-meyt or, esp. for 1, prahy-mit] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
2. any of various omnivorous mammals of the order Primates, comprising the three suborders Anthropoidea (humans, great apes, gibbons, Old World monkeys, and New World monkeys), Prosimii (lemurs, loris, and their allies), and Tarsioidea (tarsiers), esp. distinguished by the use of hands, varied locomotion, and by complex flexible behavior involving a high level of social interaction and cultural adaptability.
3. Archaic. a chief or leader.”

It’s cute parsing outside the common usage of words to be adorable while infuriating like the example above which is why most everyone here think you’re a trolling little p*ick. To be blunt, if I were the management here I’d regard that one as the last straw and throw your sorry ass off the board.

Just because YOU think they are the best means nothing to me. Just because you think that I shouldn’t watch where my money goes as well as my vote means nothing to me. I serious doubt you give it a thought on a day to day basis. ‘Cause you are just that shallow.

I am not telling you what to do; I am arguing — that is what a discussion space is for, isn’t it? My argument is my own: you are free to disagree with it, as you do, but why not just state why you disagree, rather than resorting to name-calling? That’s just trolling.

Now, back to the argument. My whole point is that I believe that whether a particular company gets one’s business or not should be based primarily on its level of service (so for an airline it’s price, timeliness, amenities, etc.). You may disagree with other things that company does, but I believe that by taking your business elsewhere, you are ultimately hurting yourself. If they lose business and dunk, their good service will go away, and the plank for the entire industry will go lower. So I think a reasonable thing to do is to make your point of view known to the company — through letters or phone calls. But unless their offense is insanely egregious, taking away business from a company with good service values is, in my opinion, not effective.

I emphasized “I” statements to make sure you see that this is my opinion and not a suggestion of what you should do. Cheers.

I’m pretty sure Mikey hates everything.

Wonderful. I bet you also carefully avoid all “Made in China” products. Oh, and since Michelle supports Google by using their advertising products, and Google censors their results in China — aren’t you supporting them indirectly by reading her blog? Isn’t that just a tad hypocritical? Because as far as sponsoring a nutty website (JetBlue) versus helping a dictatorial regime (Google) goes, I’d argue the second is much, much worse.

I think the real problem with all of this is that if you dig deep enough, you can find something in any company that goes against your convictions. If you knee-jerk-boycott everything you see, there won’t be anyone left.

While we are at it, why not boycott BMW, Volkswagen, Krupp, and our IBM to boot, for aiding Hitler’s regime 60+ years ago? ‘Cause that beats even Google

Unlike you I don’t feel the need to dictate what others choose to do. I make my choices myself. I don’t have a particular problem with China, China is China’s problem. I objected to an ‘American’ company kowtowing to them and throwing away the concept of freedom of speech in order to make a dollar…. or whatever they use for currency there. It was Google’s choice to do that. Just as it is my choice not to use the Google Search Engine.

I don’t ‘knee jerk’ do anything. You are the one being a jerk here. Not I.

I agreed with you. You said you didn’t think JetBlue was going to lose any sleep over the boycotts. And I agreed, they won’t.

But as far as my personal position on who will get my scarce airline dollars? I think that’s still my choice isn’t it? And it won’t be JetBlue. And if I choose to use a different search engine than Google that is also my choice.

Just because YOU think they are the best means nothing to me. Just because you think that I shouldn’t watch where my money goes as well as my vote means nothing to me. I serious doubt you give it a thought on a day to day basis. ‘Cause you are just that shallow.

Oh.. and by the way.. I only buy American built cars. You can easily tell what country they were built in by the VIN.

Your original point was that we are hypocrits for using Google’s search engine. I said I didn’t. Now you want to make it that somehow that I have no right to be here because there are Google ads somewhere… whoopie.. let me think about it.. your opinion means… oh ya.. I’ve got it.. NOTHING to me.

You sound like a spoiled brat without a brain in his head. ‘Leather seats and Direct TV’… well.. if that’s what is important to you then you just roll with it. All I said was that it wasn’t to me. Just deal with it. Any argument you can make won’t change what is important to me.

Fly JetBlue
Use Google Search
Buy VW’s

I don’t CARE what you do. I only care what I do.

MikeB said:
THE POPE IS A PRIMATE under all three definitions:

Mikey, Mikey, Mikey – with your confessed lack of reading comprehension skills you’re not ready to go it alone.

Though it does help to assess the depth of your bigotry as you excuse the Kos hate site’s attacks on Catholics. So we can help you not only to learn basic reading skills, but to help rid you of some very nasty thought processes.

Do also share the Kos hatred for Jews or do you part comapny with the Kos hate site on that?

You were implying they fly a few flights to and from outer islands.

I’m not comparing them – I don’t recall Hawaiian leaving thousands of passengers stuck on the tarmac for hours…no comparison there.

I don’t even like them, I fly Aloha inter-island and others to the mainland and internationally, but they’re a serious airline and they beat JetBlue in your beloved statistics.

The point of course is that JetBlue has decided to piss off some of their customers by getting involved in politics. Many of these people will be ex customers. And their clueless leader doesn’t get it.

perhaps you are unaware (I could stop there) that they fly to places like

That’s disingeneous. Obviously Hawaiian Airlines flies somewhere, otherwise it wouldn’t be an airline. The point is that you can’t seriously compare their operation to that of JetBlue.

Many Japanese Americans refused to ever fly Hawaiian

See, now you are opening a whole new can of worms. The entire country discriminated against them in World War II, and justifiably so, according to Michelle’s book — so why aren’t they boycotting the US? Seems like that’s the proper target for boycott, Hawaiian Airlines were just following suit.