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Why I Give Starbucks A Fake Name
Aug 4th
I came up with a “coffee name.” Something simple that a coffee jockey can scribble on a cup without thinking. And, after taking a survey, it’s clear that many others have come up with a similar solution.
…otherwise, it takes forever,” he says.“M” is the java code for Midwin (a grande sweetened ice coffee) who says that it’s mostly the spelling that baristas get hung up on. “See?” she says when we asked to spell her name. “Everyone asks how to spell it!”
Starbucks employees are well aware of the game. The only problem, says a barista at the 8th Street Starbucks, is when a customer loses track of his or her coffee alias.
“Yeah, people will forget what name they gave us,” she says. At that point, two frappucinos for Eric were sitting at the bar…and only one Eric showed up. Another employee at the 8th Street Starbucks says there is one customer who comes in everyday with a new name. “And it’s a foreign name, too,” she says. “Like ‘Sven,’ I mean you can tell that’s not his name.” She hears customers use their street name or last name.
The barista at the Union Square Starbucks says he never uses his own name. “I say something like ‘Cool Guy.’ But sometimes we hear the wrong name, or sometimes the customer…
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Drunk Driver With Revoked License Not Guilty In Fatal Crash
Jul 25th
Jury members said they didn’t buy Grand Rapids Police testimony about a crash that killed a motorcyclist. Ronald Windom was driving drunk with a suspended license when he collided with a motorcycle, the impact causing the rider to be thrown 125 feet where he landed on a sidewalk and died. The cyclist’s “crotch rocket” exploded into flames.
…GRAND RAPIDS — Ronald Windom was driving drunk with a suspended license when he collided with a motorcycle, the impact causing the rider to be thrown 125 feet where he landed on a sidewalk and died. The cyclist’s “crotch rocket” exploded into flames.Yet a jury decided Thursday that it was cyclist Stafford Ray who was responsible for his own demise. Windom was acquitted of causing the man’s death, which had Windom facing a potential 15 years behind bars.
“It’s not fair, it’s not right,” said Frankie Ray, mother of the 41-year-old who died in the Sept. 5 crash on South Division Avenue, south of Hall Street.
Ray said she was shocked that Windom would walk out the door, a free man without any responsibility for the crash. She has filed a civil suit against Windom, according to court records.
The criminal trial began Monday. Assistant Kent County Prosecutor Joshua Kuiper told the jury a blood test taken three hours after the crash showed Windom had a small amount of active THC, the part of marijuana that…
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Man Converts Truck into Meth Lab
Jul 16th
A New Mexico man seems to have thought to himself “Hmm, how can I make my meth lab even more dangerous than it already is?” That might be why police say he packed it into a stolen pickup truck and took his meth-making show on the road.
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Right-Wing Bloggers Think World Cup Was Anti-American
Jul 13th
Glenn Beck: I don’t get the baseball thing, but the soccer thing, I hate it so much — probably because the rest of the world likes it so much, and they riot over it, and they continually tryto jam it down our throat… It doesn’t matter how you sell it to us…We don’t want the World Cup. We don’t like the World Cup. We don’t like soccer.
…But rightwingers do have their own shibboleths and standards. They love oil companies and Sarah Palin, for example, and hate Teddy Roosevelt, Captain America, and Muslims.And they have their own strong feelings about “culture” — which, in their usage, is always on a little teeter-totter with the word “war.” They are particularly exercised by pop culture, as that is easier and more fun than the other kind, and come up with all sorts of interesting theories about movies, TV shows, and even crap like the Miss USA contest.
If liberals are driven to examine at the labels on their pouches of frozen vegetables, conservatives obsessively inspect, and pass judgment on, the alleged ideological contents of the most innocuous artworks and pastimes.
Take the recently-concluded World Cup matches. While people around the globe were innocently excited by them, conservatives were glumly explaining to one another why soccer was either unAmerican or unAmerican with an explanation.
“Every four years,” bitched…
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‘DAILY KOS’ ADMITS PUBLISHING FRAUDULENT POLLS -POLITICO.com
Jun 30th
Guessing whether pollsters simply concoct their data — it’s cheaper, and more likely to please a client looking for a specific result — is a parlor game among political consultants. That’s what Markos Moulitsas is charging here.
…Of course kos is charging polling fraud. What gave it away? The numbers that were completely different from virtually every other poll? It would seem that research 2000 was engaging in push polling because they knew exactly what Kos and his followers were hoping to read. They believed exactly what they were given because they WANTED to believe it and looking for internal disparity didn’t enter the picture. I notice the Kos kids berate Rasmussen on a near daily basis, however Rasmussen has a PROVEN track record and he uses true non partisan polling by using only REGISTERED voters and by using ROBOcalls which seem the best way to keep from influencing the outcome by voice inflection,etc. As a previous political pollster in my younger days, we learned early how to manipulate polls to get the outcome we wanted. It was too easy-word placement,voice inflection,adding key leading words,order of questions being asked,polling only adult voters,polling in friendly areas,etc. As a matter of fact, we did many exercises…
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The $400 Billion Scribble
Jun 25th
That scribble up there, It was added last night to a proposal from House Dems, and it could put banks on the hook for the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Politico reports. That’s likely to cost about $400 billion, and until now everbody has assumed that the government would bear that cost.
…instead, CNBC reports, there will likely be a cap placed on how much money a bank can use for speculative investment somewhere between 2 percent and 5 percent of capital. (For more on banks making speculative bets, listen to our podcast from a few weeks back.) Will banks have to spin off their derivatives units? A provision in the Senate bill would require banks to create new, separate units to sell derivatives, financial instruments that allow companies to make bets and to hedge risks. Creating separate units would require banks to set aside more money, as a cushion against losses. This would reduce the risk in the system, but also eat into banks’ profits. It could also push the derivatives business overseas, and reduce the supply of credit, according to opponents. Liberal Dems want to keep the provision, but moderates want to make it weaker, to give banks more leeway. The Washington Post has the latest on the debate over this amendment….
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Top 10 Tweets to a Dead Gary Coleman
May 30th
“Damn Playboi You Dead” and many more
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Ex-Interior Sec Walter Hickel dies at 90
May 8th
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Former Alaska Gov. Walter J. Hickel, who served as Interior secretary under President Nixon until he was dismissed for objecting to…
…our young people, Hickel wrote.
Days before he lost the post in Nov. 1970, Hickel had told CBS’ 60 Minutes that he would not quit under pressure. He said he would only go away with an arrow in my heart, not a bullet in my back.
Nixon spokesman Ron Ziegler said Nixon took the action because his relationship with Hickel lacked essential elements of mutual confidence.
Hickel had never held elected office when he upset two-term Democrat Gov. William Egan in 1966.
Hickel resigned in 1969 to become Interior secretary and quickly made national headlines as the environmental movement began to take root in America.
Hickel imposed stringent cleanup regulations on oil companies and water polluters after an oil rig explosion off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. He also fought to save the Everglades from being destroyed by developers and advocated for making Earth Day a national holiday.
An Alaska boomer with complex views on environmentalism and developing the state’s oil-rich resources, Hickel railed against…
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