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LaColombe Coffee Just Got Political
Philly.com ^ | 2/7/2017 | BrandonS

Posted on 02/12/2018 7:36:56 AM PST by SparkyBass

"When I turned 18, I registered to vote and according to my grandfather, that’s the day I became a politician. “If you can vote, you’re a politician,” he would say.

... The policies and the rhetoric coming out of the Trump administration no longer represent the values that I hold true. The wealthy are favored at the expense of the vast majority of working and middle-class families. Too many are denied access to basic health care. Millions of people – mostly black and brown – are preyed upon by a system that favors profit-driven mass incarceration over rehabilitation.

And the future doesn’t look any brighter. There will be attacks on Dreamers and immigrants, cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and a dangerous ratcheting up of war-laden rhetoric."

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Society
KEYWORDS: activism; coffee; idiot; popcorn
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Well, my favorite coffee roaster just got stupid... political.

That's brilliant Todd, tell us how wonderful you are and how stupid at least half your audience is.

Now I will be taking my business elsewhere.

Recommendations? Thanks!

1 posted on 02/12/2018 7:36:56 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: SparkyBass

Black Rifle Coffee.

Veteran owned.


2 posted on 02/12/2018 7:38:50 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: SparkyBass

He’s quoting Nasty Piglosi talking points and ignoring reality.


3 posted on 02/12/2018 7:39:35 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: SparkyBass

The last good thing that came out of Philly was the Declaration of Independence, which would probably be voted down in Philadelphia today.


4 posted on 02/12/2018 7:40:51 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: 2banana

Looking at that site right now.
The moron was already doing GOOD things... of his own volition. No problem. But he just jumped the shark and the comments at philly.com are great. He’s losing customers big time.


5 posted on 02/12/2018 7:43:27 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: 2banana

Good coffee, too.


6 posted on 02/12/2018 7:43:37 AM PST by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: SparkyBass

That company is not big enough (like Starbucks) to withstand criticism from taking an unpopular political stand.


7 posted on 02/12/2018 7:44:37 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: SparkyBass

Everything this a$$wipe said is false. It’s like he’s reading from the Marxist (dem) talking points.


8 posted on 02/12/2018 7:44:50 AM PST by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: SparkyBass

Huh? This guy sounds like your typical died in the wool, day one commie?

He trying to say that at some time he was an independent, or “moderate”? Yeah right...


9 posted on 02/12/2018 7:46:14 AM PST by Professional
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To: SparkyBass
About to go the way of Conquistador Coffee....


10 posted on 02/12/2018 7:46:29 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: SparkyBass

‘Millions of people – mostly black and brown – are preyed upon by a system that favors profit-driven mass incarceration over rehabilitation.’

isn’t this dude a little too old to be sounding like a brain addled female college student...?


11 posted on 02/12/2018 7:48:26 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: SparkyBass
The comments section is great...

"He sprained his wrist patting himself on the back. Tool bag"

12 posted on 02/12/2018 7:49:02 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: SparkyBass

Recommendation:

Get a hot air popcorn popper. $3 at Goodwill.
Order a green coffee sampler pack from SweetMarias.com - 4 or 8 pound, world or African.
Pour 1 cup of beans into the popper. Turn on (outside, gets a bit smoky). Wait 8-10 minutes (somewhere between the first and second round of cracks you’ll hear). Cool the beans _quickly_, stirring them in alternating metal pans (cold).
Flavor will change as the week passes.
Brew in a proven brewer ($10-100), such as: AeroPress, Chemex, Clever Coffee Dripper, or small Hairo vacuum siphon.

You’ll not want to buy pre-roasted coffee again.

You’ll enjoy fresh-roasted (as in still warm) thru week-old (flavor does change, you may prefer) coffee.
You’ll savor the differences between coffees, to the point of articulating the flavors like a sommelier describes fine wines. Bright/light fruity coffees, robust dark hint-of-chocolate coffees, other variations of rich flavors.
Cost is about $5/lb, getting about 30 cups (2 heaping tbsp beans each) out of a pound, about $0.20/cup.


13 posted on 02/12/2018 7:51:08 AM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: SparkyBass

That’s how the radical America-hating left thinks. Don’t give them any of your money.


14 posted on 02/12/2018 7:53:04 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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Too many are denied access to basic health care

I stopped reading right there. No one in need is denied health care.

My niece (5'3" 300 lbs.) and her husband (6'0 400 lbs.) go to the emergency room about 25 times per year and they pay...nothing.

15 posted on 02/12/2018 7:54:26 AM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: SparkyBass

Hey Todd,

There are so many great coffees out there. Thanks for helping me to prune that selection tree...


16 posted on 02/12/2018 8:10:41 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: SparkyBass

A thought....coffee bought thru brokers in Colombia IS NOT premium select...all the ads and claims are bogus.
I’m in the coffee region now and know brokers.


17 posted on 02/12/2018 8:17:10 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: SparkyBass
So he's another socialist entrepreneur, eh? I wonder just how little of the company profits he keeps and how much he dives to the poor and downtrodden he so strongly feels for? Somehow I bet he's another do as I say not as I do socialistas.

I may not like Gates or agree with some of the things he does and supports, but at least he is really giving away his wealth not just spouting the same old tired every other rich person that's Conservative is Dick. And they and you need to step up and share your hard earned cash with lazy turds, but not them, they're giving and sharing by pontificating!

18 posted on 02/12/2018 8:33:46 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: txrefugee
Get a hot air popcorn popper.

The older ones are best. Look for one with a metal ring of angled vents, rather than a newer one using a metal screen.

19 posted on 02/12/2018 8:41:58 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: ctdonath2

M4L
Coffee


20 posted on 02/12/2018 8:46:34 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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