Drink Dunkin Donuts coffee, bomb an Iraqi child

[Atman]

That's pretty much it in a nutshell.

The Carlyle Group, top-secret bomb maker and chest deep in everything evil going on in the world, this month completed its acquisition of Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robins. Curiously, Dunkin Donuts stores, at least a hundred of them across the country, were cited in the recent GOA report as having gotten their hands on emergency funds after 9/11. The Bush's are involved...is that coffee and ice cream really THAT good?

[pilgrimm]

1. No it sucks and it's the last coffee I'll buy there

[marmar]

2. Thanks for the info...

I guess I shouldn't feel so bad about my $20 a week Starbucks soy latte habit.

[yknot]

3. NOT ONE FUCKING DIME!

good catch

[niyad]

4. thank you--will never set foot in either again--not that the coffe, or

doughnuts or ice cream were actually any good to begin with.

[Terran1212]

5. Howard Zinn is a HUGE Dunkin Donuts fan...

Will he stop going there now? Damn that Carlyle Group!

[niyad]

6. could you provide a link, please, as I wish to annoy my bushbot trolls

on another forum.

[stillcool]

10. Here's one from a while back...

Dunkin' Donuts Reportedly Sold

By TSC Staff
12/12/2005 4:58 PM EST

http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/stocks/food/10257073.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
Dunkin' Donuts' future will be charted by three private equity firms that reportedly have won the auction for the Pernod Ricard (PDRDF:OTC - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) unit.

Two Boston-area giants, Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee, will join the Carlyle Group in buying the doughnut and coffee chain, whose strongest presence is in the Northeast, several reports said


Every time I think I want a carmel latte...I think of James Baker III...that image makes me sick.

[Atman]

11. Current link...

http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/stocks/food/10257073.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. Is The Carlyle Group as bad as some suggest?

if so, why has George Soros invested money with them? :shrug:

[niyad]

9. do you have a link for this information, please?

[Freddie Stubbs]

27. Here you go:

Carlyle - whose high-profile investors include George Soros and Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal - refutes suggestions it profits from war. Co-founder William Conway even went on record saying 'no one wants to be a beneficiary of 11 September.'

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,919897,00.html

[Warpy]

12. Stop thinking Soros is a saint. He's a businessman,

one who knows the current crop of supply side dreamers and neocon hustlers are killing the goose that laid all his golden eggs.

Yes, the Carlyle Group is just that bad. They've gobbled up many large military contractors, their basic business worldwide is dispensing horrible, violent death.

It's really too bad. A lot of anti coffee snob types are going to miss that Dunkie's coffee.

[Freddie Stubbs]

28. How exactly does Dunkin Donuts fit into

"their basic business worldwide is dispensing horrible, violent death?"

[AntiCoup2K4]

23. The Carlyle Group is merely the corporate wing of the Bush Criminal Empire

....can't get much worse than that.

[Open Mindz]

8. Bankrupt baskin robins!

I'm not too worried about this, I just wrote a letter to my local baskin robins store and told them in no uncertain terms that I will be taking all of my business to my good friends ben and jerry! if enough of us do this we not only support a good cause in ben and jerry but also we can put baskin robins out of business and cause the carlyle group to go under!

[Atman]

15. Welcome, Open Mindz

Jesus, 83,000 users and no one thought of Open Mindz until now?

Welcome to DU! I admire your spirit, but I don't have any expectation of putting a dent in Carlyle...they're massive, with long-reaching tentacles. But it woule be a good message to any company; climb in bed with BushCO, say bye-bye to a large portion of your business.

Hey, as the Streeters like to say, it's only business!

[asthmaticeog]

20. Um, yeah...

The Carlyle Group makes obscene amounts of money from other things besides donuts and ice cream, but I'm *sure* they're still trembling at the might of masses of informed junk-food consumers.

[VaYallaDawg]

13. More reasons to buy Ben & Jerry's.

As if Cherry Garcia wasn't enough already!

Dunkin Donuts are just greasy sugary little artery cloggers anyway.

[donheld]

14. Drink 7-up or Dr Pepper same thing

Carlyle owns them

[KamaAina]

16. Pick up the phone in Hawai'i, bomb an Iraqi child

The evil warlords at Carlyle bought our local telco from Verizon. I'm too dadgum lazy to switch to a cell, plus I'd have to get cable just for the broadband. :puke:

[global1]

Caryle Will Krispy Kreme The Iraqi's......... n/t

[Ksec]

17. I read that the DunkinDonuts had gotten alot of that 911 money

And I figured what Atman has said in his post would be found. Its a real apparent that these bastards in the White House are the most corrupt we will EVER see/Ever.

And Carlyle keeps its secrets well, thats why its so hard to catch them . Carlyle has a long history of hiring the Bushs to get free money from the taxpayers, I believe Senior bush was CEO there at one time.

[WilliamPitt]

18. My Baskin Robins story

I worked the Baskin Robins in Harvard Square in the summer of 1993. If you saw "Good Will Hunting," you know the place; it's the one where Damon put the phone number to the window and said "How do you like them apples?"

The place also had a Dunkin Donuts attached to it. We had a mouse problem, so the owner salted traps all over the back room. He took one, a stick trap, and frizzed it through a hole in the wall underneath and behind the back counter in the service area. The trap landed underneath the cake refrigerator.

And the trap caught a mouse. And the mouse died. But because the owner had thrown the trap so far into the hole, he couldn't retrieve it. So the mouse rotted.

At first it was odor. Then it was Odor. Then it was ODOR. Then we had flies. This was August, btw. Got to the point where I started hating customers who ordered ice cream from that side of the store.

The owner had also installed multiple video recorders and microphones to monitor his employees.

I quit at the end of the summer, and a couple of years later, the place went thankfully out of business.

I haven't been back to a B$R since then. As for Dunks, fuckem. There's a great independent coffee shop around the corner.

[Atman]

22. True DD Story...

Not far away, in downtown Springfield, MA. This was at least five/six years ago. I ordered a bagel, and the girl behind the counter didn't use the bagel slicing maching, she picked up a big serated edge knife and started slicing the bagel in her hand! You know where this is going already...she sliced right through the bagel, into her hand, gushed blood, screamed, ran to the back room...I stood there stunned...I had half my order, the coffee, which I had yet to pay for. I didn't want to just leave...but then...

The girl came out of the back room with gauze wrapped around her hand. She proceeded to pick up the same bagel and the same knife and finished slicing my bagel. I kid you not. I stood there in shock as she wrapped it and handed it to me, and told me the total for my order.

"You can't be serious? I can't believe what I just saw! Keep you coffee and bagel! Bye!" and I left, went to my office, and immediately picked up the phone and called DD's HQ and told them what just happened to me. The woman on the other end of the line was as incredulous as I was.

A week later, I received a coupon for one lousy box of doughnuts, with a form letter thanking me for alerting them to a problem in one of their stores. Customer loyalty among the doughnut set comes cheap, I guess!

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19. I wonder what some of the counter help will think about this?

In my neck of the woods anyways, there's quite a few people of Middle Eastern/Islamic descent working
for DD.

[sakabatou]

21. Guess that means Ben and Jerry's for a while...

[0007]

24. The Carlyle Group plans on making Dunkin Donuts a profit

sharing plan for the fighting troops that have added trillions to their coffer. Wink wink


Your normal Dunkin Donuts clientele
There's hundred of millions of them out there!

[progressivebydesign]

25. Buh-bye 31 flavors!!! Coldstone Creamery is much more fun! n/t

[symbolman]

26. Hey ALI, TIME FOR ICE CREAM!

What? You have no ARMS? Don't worry, YOU'RE the POSTER CHILD FOR Compassionate Conservatism - we'll GET you NEW ARMS and THEN YOU can have ICE CREAM!

After that you can be a Policeman in Iraq, won't that be FUN?




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