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We are so ahead of the curve; Go coffee!
Topic Started: Mar 13 2010, 08:26 AM (164 Views)
Copper
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/12/coffee.party.people/index.html?hpt=C1

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Meet the people who are percolating in the Coffee Party

Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- In one chair sits a rural retiree, his financial security shot in the slump, a humble Southerner who's never thought much about politics. In another seat is a born Northerner, an inner-city native, a relative of a civil rights giant. And nearby, circling a table, are an economist, an artist, a onetime John McCain supporter and a long-haired guy who's rich in Woodstock memories.

Meet these members of the Coffee Party Movement, an organically grown, freshly brewed push that's marking its official kickoff Saturday. Across the country, even around the globe, they and other Americans in at least several hundred communities are expected to gather in coffeehouses to raise their mugs of java to something new.

They're professionals, musicians and housewives. They're frustrated liberal activists, disheartened conservatives and political newborns. They're young and old, rich and poor, black, white and all shades of other.

Born on Facebook just six weeks ago, the group boasts more than 110,000 fans, as of Friday morning. The Coffee Party is billed by many as an answer to the Tea Party (more than 1,000 fewer fans), a year-old protest movement that's steeped in fiscal conservatism and boiling-hot, anti-tax rhetoric.
This new group calls for civility, objects to obstructionism and demands that politicians be held accountable to the people who put them in office.

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Big John
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Wow that's really cool. I'm going to check it out.





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Big John
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how unlikely is it that, of 130,000-plus fans, apple should pop up in the random six to the left?

:D





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Mikhailoh
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It's not. You are friends with her on Facebook, are you not?
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i was checking out the Kansas City coffee party.

apparently, there are 37 people meeting today (right across from my old family house). I didn't recognize any of the names.
it behooves me to behold
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Dewey
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Hmm, well, except for that whole "civility" comment, I'd say we were the Coffee Party prototype. ^_^
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Mikhailoh
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I don't know - we're awfully civil these days. :yawn:
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http://coffeepartyusa.com/content/about-us

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About Us

Coffee Party USA aims to reinvigorate the public sphere, drawing from diverse backgrounds and diverse perspectives, with the goal of expanding the influence of the People in America's political arena. We do not require nor adhere to any preexisting ideology.

We encourage deliberation guided by reason amongst the many viewpoints held by our members. We see our diversity as a strength, not a weakness, because we believe that faithful deliberation from multiple vantage points is the best way to achieve the common good. It is in the responsible and reasonable practice of deliberation that we hope to contribute to society


Sorry. As a lib that is just one deliberation too many for me.

I'm out.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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John D'Oh
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I'd like to start the Beer Party.

Our motto: F*ck Washington, let's go get drunk!

(I'll leave it to you to decide whether by Washington, I'm referring to DC or George)
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Mikhailoh
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Are you kidding? That's already the largest party in the US.
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Mikhailoh
Mar 13 2010, 01:17 PM
Are you kidding? That's already the largest party in the US.
I said Beer with a capital B, not that putrescent swill those NASCAR people drink. We'll bring a bit of culture to the political scene. Joe Biden need not attend.
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Mikhailoh
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Aw' c'mon. He'll bring his bitchin' Trans Am.
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Mikhailoh
Mar 13 2010, 01:25 PM
Aw' c'mon. He'll bring his bitchin' Trans Am.
After he cleans up all the coffee stains:

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Mikhailoh
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Uh.. that's brown, but it's not coffee.
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Mikhailoh
Mar 13 2010, 01:29 PM
Uh.. that's brown, but it's not coffee.
After it sits for a while, it does turn brown. :hair:

Trust me, I'm a doctor.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
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Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

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