{"id":14540,"date":"2009-04-14T20:38:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T02:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14540"},"modified":"2014-11-07T09:06:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T16:06:48","slug":"java-jive-or-no-tea-party-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/java-jive-or-no-tea-party-for-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Java Jive, or, “No Tea Party for Me”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With all due respect to those who entertain different political<\/a> and economic<\/a> ideas, I do not feel particularly put upon, tyrannized, nor conspired against<\/a> by the current Administration. I do not feel, in these troubled times, “T<\/span>axed E<\/span>nough A<\/span>lready,” nor do I wish to support the machinations<\/a> of Fox News<\/a>, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck<\/a>, nor the various Astro-turf<\/a> organizations egging on the tea-party folks. Nor do I think I am alone<\/a> in this.<\/p>\n

I will therefore, though I am regularly a tea drinker,\u00a0make a point tomorrow to drink solely coffee<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0No tea party for me.<\/p>\n

I may, in fact, instead stimulate the economy (and pay additional sales taxes to my local socialistic community) by drinking coffee, not from the office break room, but from the plethora of Starbucks, Peets, Daz Bogs, Caribous, Peaberries, and other coffee shops around my office.<\/p>\n

Just doing my small part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all due respect to those who entertain different political and economic ideas, I do not feel particularly put upon, tyrannized, nor conspired against by the current Administration. I do not feel, in these troubled times, “Taxed Enough Already,” nor do I wish to support the machinations of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, nor … Continue reading “Java Jive, or, “No Tea Party for Me””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-fourth-estate","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/imagescoffee-guy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49422,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/29\/rt-neiltyson-you-can-neither-cajole-nor-charm-the-laws-of-physics-into-agreeing-with-you-if-your-ideas-arent-based-in-objective-realities.html","url_meta":{"origin":14540,"position":0},"title":"RT @neiltyson You can neither cajole nor charm the laws of physics into agreeing with you if your ideas aren’t based in objective realities","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 29-Jan-15 8:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @neiltyson You can neither cajole nor charm the laws of physics into agreeing with you if your ideas aren't based in objective realities View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27031,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/10\/the-obama-second-term.html","url_meta":{"origin":14540,"position":1},"title":"The Obama second term","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Mar-12 3:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... will be neither as awesome as his most fervent fans think it will be, nor as horrific as his most paranoid detractors claim it will be.In fact, it will probably be ... well, a lot like his first term. 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