01/15/2008 Blog «The Legel Report»

MjL 15 Jan 2008, 4:01 a.m.

15 Jan 2008, 4:42 a.m.

How To Save Our Planet?

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I drink coffee. I’ve always enjoyed coffee but since I found out about my diabetes I drink even more. Especially when we go out to eat.

I used to order diet cola but a couple times I got the real thing and my blood sugar told the story. So now I drink coffee or iced tea when we go out to eat because I know they can’t sugar me down with those.

Over the years I have tried most of the phoo-phoo coffees —— the Irish Cr�me, French Vanilla, roasted Hazelnut, maybe even roasted Acorns for all I know. I don’t care for most of them.

I even tried to be a coffee Snob for a while and bought the beans fresh and ground them every day with my own little special coffee grinder —— too much work for a cup of coffee. Now I just buy the plastic Folgers bucket of French Roast and drink a couple pots of that a day.

I say all that to give you my coffee credentials. I don’t mean to say I’m one of those sip-n-spit kind of experts who can tell you what day the beans were picked but I know what I like.

I have noticed a nice trend locally with coffee. We used to get the same old run of the mill hours old bitter coffee when we dined out. Now that we have a Starbucks in town the coffee is getting better. First, Stake-A-Shake started serving Seattle’s Best coffee and I was real happy. I first had that at Yellowstone and drove Tracey crazy wanting to take coffee breaks on vacation.

All of a sudden now the Blob Evans is serving a better brand of coffee and they are even bragging as how they are getting new cups. I don’t know what a new fancy cup does for the coffee but I suspect it will just be a smaller cup because the coffee will be more expensive for them.

Even MickeyD’s has come out with their own brand of McCoffee. I think all of this is because of Starbuck’s and the coffee snob culture they are creating. I’ve never been there but I hear you can order coffee there that doesn’t taste like coffee so people who don’t even like coffee will drink it. Whatever. I’m just glad they are helping to make real coffee taste better everywhere!

MjL 15 Jan 2008, 5:00 a.m.

Since Bill Clintoon has been saying Obummer’s anti-war credentials are a “fairy tale” I thought I would share this speech Barack made in 2002 before he was a U.S. Senator. I think it is pretty clear he was against the war and saying so while Hillarity was voting to go to war. I am disappointed that the Clintoons are acting more like Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove by saying Obama’s “record” is virtually the same as Hillarity’s. This is a “record” that is absolutely different than Hillarity’s.

Obummer’s Iraq War Speech

MjL 15 Jan 2008, 3:15 p.m.

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