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The States: Mad Scientist Laboratories of Democracy

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Kepler said:
My problem with coffee is I hate the taste of coffee. Teas are fine; I don't have any real palate for the taste of it, but I don't find it objectionable. I do like things like Diet Snapple but I suspect they are lethal chemicals.
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I hated coffee too. Until I forced myself to acquire the taste. Start with coffee that has cream and sugar/whatever. Wean yourself off one (the sugar or cream, dammit). Then wean yourself off the other.

You need to find coffee that agrees with you. Be it bright, acidic, and light or dark and bitter. :)
 
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Yeah replacing pop with coffee is an easy fix. I quit pop for good ten years ago and dont ever miss it. Coffee takes a bit of time to get used to but once you do you wont even notice and you will get benefits like not snacking as much (the sugars in pop cause your stomach to empty their contents meaning your body will crave food) and it will boost your metabolism especially if you are getting more active.
 
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Kepler said:
Really? You actually changed your taste for it? I don't think I have ever done that with any taste. Maybe beer.
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Yeah. Same with tea.

COffee I remember very distinctly. I had to take a summer O-Chem course at the U. It was five days per week and started at 8 AM. I was commuting about 45 minutes with traffic and I am NOT a morning person. I decided that I wasn't going to drink a Mountain Dew every morning.

So I stopped in at Caribou Coffee, ordered a medium light roast coffee of the day, added cream and sugar, and choked down about half of it before I gave up. Every day I made a commitment to drink more of it. By the end of the first week I was drinking the whole thing. After a month or so I was drinking it black.

Tea was a longer journey. I just started drinking raspberry tea at lunch. Moved to just sweet tea. Now I drink unsweetened black tea.
 
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Terrific. The town in which I was raised ended up on a national political site.

In regards to a passing comment Maye Quade made, she is completely off her rocker with the purple comment because she's casting too wide of a net. When it's a district race, be it the 2nd Congressional or MN State Legislature seats - both senate and house, the city has been hard red for a long, long time. Statewide elections tend to go purple.
 
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A few thoughts:

1) Several problems with legalized weed that need to be addressed. People are correct in saying DUI laws most likely cover all forms of impairment (sniffing glue for example). Problem is the testing. I don't know how CO does it, but even if you DO arrest someone the chances of conviction seem to be slim as you can dispute the test. Until I see that this issue has been solved satisfactorily, I can't jump on board the pot train. And before somebody calls me a prude, I do really enjoy those Cheech and Chong movies. ;)

2) I knew people in high school who were dedicated to pot. I'm not saying it more addictive than any other substances, but there's got to be some continued allure there beyond just "I like to do it".

3) The last problem is smoke. Smoke travels. We've spent years getting second hand smoke out of people's lives who didn't want to partake in the smoker's habit. Now we're going to say don't do that but smoke weed wherever you please? Edible pot: No problem here. But I don't want a contact high smelling the stuff. That needs to be addressed. Someone will no doubt respond - "Oh well you can fine them". Why do I not think a $25 ticket will do the trick? You can't drink booze in public wherever you want. Not sure why we should treat weed differently.
 
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Kepler said:
Really? You actually changed your taste for it? I don't think I have ever done that with any taste. Maybe beer.
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Another thing that may help with taste is going to a reputable coffee place and trying different coffees. Like wine, there is a huge variety in taste of coffees based on where the beans are grown, how they are dried (sun, chemical, or fire), and additives. We're fortunate to have a local coffee roaster who has a coffee wheel and tries to match flavors of different areas with flavors we enjoy. They don't add any flavors, all the flavoring comes from the beans and roasting -- we've had everything from a Brazillian coffee that tasted of blueberries and orange (yuck) to an Ethiopian batch that was chocolate, nuts, and slight orange flavored (yum!). Here's a link if you're interested.. In addition, the roasting process matters. My husband and I do cold brew -- it can be made in batches and it's good for iced coffee, plus it has a lower acid content, but we also like the French press.

I see that you don't like tons of food prep, we make our cold brew in our french press now -- grind coffee, put it in the French press, let it rest for 12-24 hours, push down french press screen. Pour coffee into jar and put in fridge. Refill French Press. My current recipe is 4oz cold brew, 4oz whole milk, 1 tsp Sugar in the Raw, 4 ice cubes.
 
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Rover said:
A few thoughts:

1) Several problems with legalized weed that need to be addressed. People are correct in saying DUI laws most likely cover all forms of impairment (sniffing glue for example). Problem is the testing. I don't know how CO does it, but even if you DO arrest someone the chances of conviction seem to be slim as you can dispute the test. Until I see that this issue has been solved satisfactorily, I can't jump on board the pot train. And before somebody calls me a prude, I do really enjoy those Cheech and Chong movies. ;)

2) I knew people in high school who were dedicated to pot. I'm not saying it more addictive than any other substances, but there's got to be some continued allure there beyond just "I like to do it".

3) The last problem is smoke. Smoke travels. We've spent years getting second hand smoke out of people's lives who didn't want to partake in the smoker's habit. Now we're going to say don't do that but smoke weed wherever you please? Edible pot: No problem here. But I don't want a contact high smelling the stuff. That needs to be addressed. Someone will no doubt respond - "Oh well you can fine them". Why do I not think a $25 ticket will do the trick? You can't drink booze in public wherever you want. Not sure why we should treat weed differently.
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This was the problem we had when we were in San Francisco. Walking down the street, a couple in front of us was toking, which I don't care so much about, but it stank. I feel the same way about cigarettes.
 
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Kepler said:
Really? You actually changed your taste for it? I don't think I have ever done that with any taste. Maybe beer.
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I'm with you. I've never liked coffee. Diet soda and Snapples are my drink of choice.

One of the things that I haven't really gotten past with coffee is the fact that it's a hot drink, as opposed to something cold. In the middle of winter I suppose that's fine, but I am not a person who likes warm drinks. I've also developed a bit of an addiction to that acidic burn that comes from the first drink of a soda.

I've thought about making the switch to coffee. I know it can be done because when I was in college I switched from regular soda to diet. I'm just not sure that I want to develop a coffee addiction, though. Every time I go through a Starbucks with my wife and I see $5 going out for a drink, I cringe.
 
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bostonewe said:
This was the problem we had when we were in San Francisco. Walking down the street, a couple in front of us was toking, which I don't care so much about, but it stank. I feel the same way about cigarettes.
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I can see that. Maybe I'm just getting old, but its almost an invasion of your personal space. You'll go out to Boston Common for example and there's usually about 5 idiots sitting on the Civil War monument acting like its the hemp-fest rally. You want to get stoned be my guest, but is that really the place to be doing it? :rolleyes: I just don't believe the equivalent of a parking ticket is going to get these people to behave. If anything I think they'll be joined by a lot more smokers.
 
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St. Clown said:
Terrific. The town in which I was raised ended up on a national political site.

In regards to a passing comment Maye Quade made, she is completely off her rocker with the purple comment because she's casting too wide of a net. When it's a district race, be it the 2nd Congressional or MN State Legislature seats - both senate and house, the city has been hard red for a long, long time. Statewide elections tend to go purple.
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Wow. Just... wow.

Edit: Holy **** balls. Listen to the whole speech. It's awful. She had nothing formal prepared and it was bad. Really bad.
 
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Rover said:
I can see that. Maybe I'm just getting old, but its almost an invasion of your personal space. You'll go out to Boston Common for example and there's usually about 5 idiots sitting on the Civil War monument acting like its the hemp-fest rally. You want to get stoned be my guest, but is that really the place to be doing it? :rolleyes: I just don't believe the equivalent of a parking ticket is going to get these people to behave. If anything I think they'll be joined by a lot more smokers.
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Cigars are a hundred times worse. Nothing short of a tactical nuke is going to get the stench of cheap cigar stank out of Fenway Park. It's permeated the bricks and steel.

Anyway, the thing that ruins the Commons is (a) the tourists and (b) the locals with their cubic hectares of jiggling, zombie-white, Bostonian flab all spackled like a pointilist canvas with pustules, zits, and lanyards of rope-like arm and facial hair. And that's just the women.

I lived a block from the Commons for five years. That throwback fauna and the official scent of the Park Street Station (urine) are among the strongest memories of that cesspool of a city.

Though the brownstones on Comm Ave are pretty.
 
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Without a 2017 Illinois State fiscal budget, Chicago Public Schools threaten to stay closed this fall.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-springfield-inaction-met-20160601-story.html

Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) continues to hold out for a "balanced" budget. Speaker Michael Madigan (D) refuses to meet with Rauner unless his wildly out of balance budget gets passed. Junior legislators are willing to compromise just to get something on the books for 2016 and now 2017, yet Madigan refuses to allow the bills to be presented.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Wow. Just... wow.

Edit: Holy **** balls. Listen to the whole speech. It's awful. She had nothing formal prepared and it was bad. Really bad.
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What's really pathetic is that if she wanted to find someone to attack as representative of the decline of traditional family values, she should direct her attacks on her predecessor. Yeah, Tara Mack, who was caught cheating on her husband in a park with a colleague, was caught by a police officer, then publicly called the police officer a liar. Par for the course for the party of values.
 
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GrinCDXX said:
What's really pathetic is that if she wanted to find someone to attack as representative of the decline of traditional family values, she should direct her attacks on her predecessor. Yeah, Tara Mack, who was caught cheating on her husband in a park with a colleague, was caught by a police officer, then publicly called the police officer a liar. Par for the course for the party of values.
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Didn't Slick question the reports of his unfaithfulness?

And don't forget the Kennedys.
 
joecct said:
Your last sentence. Both parties have unfaithful spouses and holier than thouers.
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Certainly both parties are guilty of transgressions, but any suggestion that both parties similarly attempt to claim the family values high ground is utter nonsense.
 
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GrinCDXX said:
Certainly both parties are guilty of transgressions, but any suggestion that both parties similarly attempt to claim the family values high ground is utter nonsense.
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Understatement of the year...
 
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