How budweiser handled the Sept 11 situation

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How Budweiser handles those who laughed at those who died on 11 Sept 2001:

Thought you'd like to know what happened in a town north of Bakersfield, California. After you finish reading this, please forward this story on to others so that our nation and around the world will know about those who laughed when they found out about the tragic events in New York, PA and the Pentagon.

On September 11th, a Budweiser employee was making a delivery to a convenience store in a town called McFarland. He knew of the tragedy that had occurred in New York. He entered the business to find two Arabs whooping and hollering and really cheering it up. It was obvious they were elated with what had happened earlier. The Budweiser employee went to his truck, called his boss and told him of the very upsetting event. He didn't feel he could be in that store with those horrible people. His boss told him, "Do you think you could go in there long enough to pull every Budweiser product and item our beverage company sells there? We'll never deliver to them again."

The employee walked in, proceeded to pull every single product his beverage company provided and left with an incredible grin on his face. He told them never to bother and call for a delivery again.

Budweiser happens to be the beer of choice for that community. Just letting you all know how Kern County handles this situation! Pass this along. America needs to know that we're all working together.

Well, I need to add to this. My father in Nevada sent this to me. Fact is, I live not too far from McFarland here in Central California, and I heard about this at work the day after it happened. Seems a lot of people from work frequented the store in question. But it didn't end there.

As Paul Harvey might say, here's the rest of the story...

Seems the Budweiser driver had friends... in particular, the Pepsi route driver. The Bud driver called his Pepsi friend from his cell phone while he was still at the store and told him what happened.

Seems the Pepsi driver called his boss, and received the identical orders the Bud driver did. So Pepsi went in and took out everything in the store under their corporate brand. And if you know Pepsico (Pepsi, Frito Lay, etc.), that's practically EVERYTHING. Last I heard, that store has no product, no customers (word spreads fast in these small towns, y'know) and no hope. And I say good riddance to bad rubbish. I hope they enjoyed their cheers...it's the last they'll be doing in THIS country.

[Leon]

http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/bud.htm

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good find

[sbp]

Defeating 'the enemy within'

We hear much about "the enemy within" — namely, the suspected cells of Islamist terrorists and terrorist sympathizers still believed to exist within the nation's borders. But there is another enemy within so entrenched it defies conventional police detection. That enemy is political correctness.

It may explain why pro-American students standing for "God Bless America" at Amherst College respond to an ambush of flag-burners by denouncing the outrage as . . . "inappropriate." Or why, on hearing a stream of anti-American rhetoric at a University of Hawaii anti-war rally, a lone dissenting professor called the poisonous diatribes merely "troubling for me." It looks as if the fear of giving offense —PC's primary precept — has finally overriden the natural reflexes of self-preservation.

But not so in the case of Zewdalem Kebede, a senior at San Diego State University. Mr. Kebede, a naturalized American born in Ethiopia, was studying in a library on Sept. 22 when a nearby conversation caught his attention. Four Saudi Arabian students were speaking Arabic, which Mr. Kebede speaks fluently, and discussing their pleasure at the massacre of September 11. "They were very pleased," Mr. Kebede later told the campus newspaper. "They were happy. And they were regretting missing the 'Big House.' "

When Mr. Kedebe could stand it no longer, he approached them. "Guys, what you are talking is unfair," he later recalled saying in Arabic. "How do you feel when those five to 6,000 people are buried in two or three buildings? They are the rubble or they became ash. And you are talking about the action of bin Laden and his group. You are proud of them. You should have to feel shame."

A heated exchange followed, after which Mr. Kebede finally returned to his table. End of story? Hardly. The September 11-celebrating Saudis, exchange students whose only regrets stem from the continued existence of the White House (or U.S. Capitol), reported Mr. Kebede to the campus police. And the wheels of political correctness automatically began to turn.

Mr. Kebede went before the university's Orwellian-named Center for Student Rights for having been "verbally abusive to other students." An investigation ensued. Mr. Kebede had to meet with what's known as a "University Judicial Officer." He got off with a warning that threatened "severe disciplinary sanctions" should he ever again confront "members of the campus community in a manner . . . found to be aggressive or abusive" — i.e., should he ever again express a patriotic and a moral revulsion at carnage-crowing, terrorist sympathizers.

The warning letter went on to say, "You are admonished to conduct yourself as a responsible member of the campus community in the future." There's much to say about this final outrage, but Mr. Kebede may have put it best. "I'm naturalized American," he told the campus newspaper. "I have taken an oath to protect this country, so that is my part to do — for that I am happy. I am an honest citizen for this country. I showed those guys there are people who love America, who defend America. Is that a crime?"

Mr. Kebede deserves thanks, not sanctions. And those Saudi students deserve plane tickets home. Maybe they can take the Center for Student Rights with them.

[attgig]

so is that story for real?
or is that just more junk from the op-ed pages of wash times.?

[sbp]

Yes this sickening incident happened. Here is what The Daily Aztec, San Diego State University student newspaper had to say. http://www.dailyaztec.com/Archive/Fa...ty/city01.html

[spigidygak]

Ya gotta love how stupid some of these junk mailers can get. Pepsi and Budweiser are the same corporation. . . so technically the budwesier guy would have taken the Pepsi and frito crap already. . . note to all of you stupid junk mailers, GET THE STORY RIGHT FIRST.

[BrewMaster]

I hate those BS emails. People are lame....

[BrewMaster]

Originally posted by DarkFury

Who owns whom?

I own everything. I am the BrewMaster.

/me steps down off of my soap box.

[theorangeone]

Originally posted by DarkFury

Ummm Hmmm... Is that so...

Last I checked, Bill Gates owned everything... Since when did you overtake him?

maybe he is bill gates

[spigidygak]

Originally posted by DarkFury

When did that happen? (Pepsi and Budweiser being the same...)

Pepsi is owned by Pepsico (which owns all of the Pespi brands, Frito-Lay, KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut)

Budweiser is owned by Anheuser-Busch.

When they come together under a coporate umbrella? Who owns whom?

Well I'm pretty sure they're related somehow. 'Cause I remember seeing on the news this dad gave his 6 year-old son a pepsi. . . then notice his son walking funny. He then looked at the can and there was beer in it but it was a pepsi can. . . And with closer inspection on the top of the can it said anheuser-busch on it. Maybe they just share bottling plants. . .

Also all anheuser-busch parks, no coke, pepsi.

[fakesurfers]

SBP's article is completely true. They actually picked up one of those Saudis. He failed a lie detector test when asked if he knew one of the hijackers. He should be deported soon.

[attgig]

Originally posted by DarkFury
Ok then.. but honestly, I think that they are 2 separate enitities, and that the serving of Pepsi in Anheuser-Busch sponsored parks is just a coincidence.

from what i gather on the net (and of course, the net is always right), they're 2 separate comps