Brotherhood of the Bean » vote http://blog.brotherhoodofthebean.com Coffee Cultists of the World Unite! Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:23:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Drink Some Coffee, then Get Out and Vote http://blog.brotherhoodofthebean.com/2008/11/03/drink-coffee/ http://blog.brotherhoodofthebean.com/2008/11/03/drink-coffee/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:21:08 +0000 Brotherhood of the Bean http://blog.brotherhoodofthebean.com/?p=282 If your office is like mine, you no doubt have had an buildup of coffee talk over the last few weeks concerning the election tomorrow.  That is a good thing, and coffee is an excellent catalyst for discussion as we all know.  To that end I just wanted to remind everyone to vote tomorrow.

Frankly, if you don’t vote — you have no right to complain when things are in the crapper.  To that end, I just wanted to give everyone a link to an Election Protection website that has information about what is needed to vote in your state.  Take a minute to look at this site, I’d hate to see anyone turned away who should be able to vote.  See you at the polls!

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During the latest Saturday Night Live, Starbucks did its best to tempt people get off their asses and vote on Tuesday with a simple message delivered in the soothing Starbucks colors:

“What if we all cared enough to vote?”

The better question is “Why don’t we all care enough to vote?” . Its something I have never understood, the apathy that so many people have for something so simple, yet so radically important. But that’s a question for another time.

The message ends with an offer —

“If you care enough to vote, we care enough to give you a free cup of coffee. You and Starbucks. It’s bigger than coffee.”

So there you have it, vote Tuesday and get some free drip coffee from Starbucks. As far as I can tell its an honor system, so I imagine some people will lie to just get some free coffee. But I imagine a certain percentage of people will go out and vote because of this offer of free coffee

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