US coffee chain Starbucks has come under fire for a new logo that critics say is offensive and overly graphic.

The Resistance, a US-based Christian group, has called for a national boycott of the coffee-selling giant.

It says the chain's new logo has a naked woman on it with her legs "spread like a prostitute... The company might as well call themselves Slutbucks".

Starbucks says the image - based on a 16th century Norse design of a mermaid with two-tails - is not inappropriate.

Rather, the image is a more conservative version of the original Starbucks design, which hung above the chain's first store when it opened in Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1971.

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This is not scientific at all, but it's been my experience that people who have trouble with things like coffee company logos and and statues with bare breasts don't have similar qualms about violence, whether it's state sanctioned violence against defenseless countries, execution, torture, or lurid end of the world violence in which people who don't believe as they do either convert or die.

I heard their leader on the Thom Hartmann show a few weeks ago.
He seemed to have trouble with applied critical think.

I googled their website The Resistance
Just scanning the page leaves me with the impression that this group will fade away like so many others. It seems to be charismatically driven by one man, Mike Dice. And the site is all about selling his book and all about him. The info about his book on the page is all rehashed conspiracies.

I'm not trying to dis all folk who believe is conspiracies, but this guy/group leaves me with the impression of just being a nuts with a major attention whore complex. In other words ignore.

The one thing you should check out is the bottom of the page where it lists Talk shows that this guy bugs. Most all are right wing nuts like hannity, o'really, and limppaw. Looks like they don't like him either.

Mark Dice, A.K.A. John Conner, is a very vocal critic of the official 9-11 story. Some things I like about him, but the religion aspect I can do without.

There is a way to get your point across intelligently without bringing religious superstition into it.

I thought this video was interesting.

Mark Dice INVITED to Speak at San Diego State University--video