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The Morning Coffee: December 2009

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The Best Part of Waking Up, is Some "Bitter Coffee" in Your Cup. TSA Wants to See Your Labia and/or Scrotum. Much has been made about the failure of the security protocols which allowed for Abdul/Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a plane with explosives placed precariously close to his family jewels. I would think that much. He is but a regular citizen expressing disappointment in "our" government. I digress…. I offer you a great article about this topic, and I hope that you'll read it. Word of the Day.

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The Morning Coffee: August 2010

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The Best Part of Waking Up, is Some "Bitter Coffee" in Your Cup. Coming Out of the Closet. Conversely, how can you want free markets but want draconian laws specifying who you can sleep with in your own house? What is my point, other than to compose beautiful writing on issues about which no one cares? When these people won’t admit to it? Hardly anyone even knows what a libertarian is, nor do they know what it would mean for them if libertarianism were popular (i.e. yes, Suzy, you can still belie...

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The Morning Coffee: October 2011

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The Best Part of Waking Up, is Some "Bitter Coffee" in Your Cup. Combat Stress and Moral Injuries.Or, PTSD. Stephen Sherwood returned from Iraq in the summer of 2005, along with the rest of his brigade combat team which included the 506th Infantry Regiment. You know of this regiment from the mini-series "Band of Brothers.". I am an American Soldier. I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values. I will always place the mission first. The Soldier&#...

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The Morning Coffee: October 2008

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The Best Part of Waking Up, is Some "Bitter Coffee" in Your Cup. Through the brain-splitting din of a weed-whacker and a lawnmower, I toil to Brew you the Morning Coffee. Nothing but the best for my legion of readers. Snuff Out the Vote. This ridicule, of course, assumes that in a democracy, the consumer (the voter) must buy what the salesmen (politicians) are selling. It's assuming that one MUST vote. If all the cars made by all the car companies of the world were terrible in craftsmanship and s...Refus...

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The Morning Coffee: May 2009

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The Best Part of Waking Up, is Some "Bitter Coffee" in Your Cup. Certainly, you've heard about this SCOTUS nomination business. And I'm sure you've heard that Obama has nominated 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Prior to this nomination, you'll remember that much was made of Obama's alleged desire for a judge with "empathy." But this Brew isn't about whether or not she has "empathy," whatever that might mean for Justice. Here's an introduction to the news on Judge Sotomayor:. On the gr...

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The Morning Coffee: September 2008

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The Best Part of Waking Up, is Some "Bitter Coffee" in Your Cup. Guest Writer - The Logician on the Economic Meltdown. Publisher's Comment: I'm not sure how the naming conventions for guest writers should work, having never had one, so mayhap this format will change.]. And a hex on Pyrrhic verse, and all those who force the practice on suffering young. Read on, grow wise. The easiest problem to understand is that people are losing homes. Who's responsible? The lending institution fails because it took ou...

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The Morning Coffee: June 2008

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The Best Part of Waking Up, is Some "Bitter Coffee" in Your Cup. Good Morning, dear Coffee Drinkers. Today is Father’s Day, so Happy Father’s Day to all you who’ve managed to procreate. If you have not done so, then I wish you a Happy Likely-Last-Coffee-In-A-While Day. I do not believe I’ll be able to write, to Drink with you for some months, possibly even *gasp* a year. I’m going to be taking a little trip to see a guy about a horse, or something like that. After all, I won’t be gone forever. I propose ...

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The Morning Coffee: August 2011

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The Best Part of Waking Up, is Some "Bitter Coffee" in Your Cup. Information Operations and the 9/11 Anniversary. A lot rides on these grand theatrical presentations and powerful images. One would think that such things have far less of a place in our Republic than they did in Imperial Rome, but have you ever stopped to look, and I mean really look, at even small town municipal buildings? I'm still alive, after all. Posted by Thomas Hobbes. Labels: 11 Sep 2001. I have traveled a great deal in my life&#46...

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The Morning Coffee: January 2010

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The Best Part of Waking Up, is Some "Bitter Coffee" in Your Cup. Greetings, Coffee Drinkers. Today is the second day in what appears to be the Most Optimistic Year in history. I suppose we'll see what everyone's saying around 31 December. If I had to guess, it would be something along the lines of, "Here's to hoping that 2011 is better than this year.". You like how I take that optimism and crush it under the boot heel of pessimistic realism? Blasphemers Will be Punished by the Hand of the…uh, Law. This ...

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The Morning Coffee: Combat Stress and Moral Injuries...Or, PTSD.

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The Best Part of Waking Up, is Some "Bitter Coffee" in Your Cup. Combat Stress and Moral Injuries.Or, PTSD. Stephen Sherwood returned from Iraq in the summer of 2005, along with the rest of his brigade combat team which included the 506th Infantry Regiment. You know of this regiment from the mini-series "Band of Brothers.". I am an American Soldier. I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values. I will always place the mission first. The Soldier&#...