Chesterson Sunday ☕️

 

GK Chesterton

You can read some Chesterton with your ☕️ coffee...

Coffee: A Gift From God ☕️🤗

 

Should the west feel bad about the Crusades? Short answer: No. It gave the West a taste for spices, sparked the Age of Discovery and the Reinassance. 

And the events of the Crusades gave us coffee. 

[Pope Clement] praised coffee saying that such a beautiful drink could not have been the creation of Satan. He lamented the idea that banning the substance meant only the heathen Muslims would have the opportunity to enjoy it. Hence, to the dismay of the anti-coffee clerics, Pope Clement VIII “baptized” coffee as a Christian drink for all to enjoy.

Pope Clement and Coffee 

AoSHQ: Morning Report 06.02.23

Instapundit : Coffee is a Wonder Drug and Crusade Guilt Trip? 

Saint Michael the Archangel, Pray For Us 👼🏾☕️

 

Talk about a self inflicted wound, Black Rifle Coffee goes off on "extremist" and "racists." Absolutes are stupid. You can denounce racism and illegal behavior (who doesn't) and also understand people labeled with that are not necessarily racists or criminals. Sometimes it is better to not comment.  

I and many others think Kyle Rittenhouse is not a criminal. Foolish perhaps for going in harms way, but he did not break the law doing so and was attacked. So why did Black Rifle Coffee feel compelled to throw him under the bus?  

The Proud Boys are labeled by the media and left as brown shirts, even though more than a few of them are sorta brown. So the left pivots and declares the Proud Boys are guilty of multiracial whiteness, whatever that means. Just because the grifters at the $outhern Poverty Law Center declares you a racist, doesn't mean you are a racist.  

Maybe Black Rifle Coffee should not have stepped into this. The CEO of Black Rifle Coffee said if you support any of this they don't want you. Really? Ok, I don't buy Starbucks, so not buying Black Rifle Coffee is easy enough (and yes I have bought BRC previously). If you want to alienate your own base, this is a good way to do it. Get woke, go broke. 

Saint Michael the Archangel is racist? If you do not believe in God or angels, that is up to you, but why would you think angels are racist? That is projected baggage, not the truth. Maybe I like my angels black, like my coffee? 👼🏾☕️ Here's a protip: Angels aren't human and don't have a "race." They reflect God (who created them). The various depictions of angels in art are often human, but usually reflect the person painting them. As Andrew Breitbart would rightly say, So?

Instapundit: PJ Media: Black Rifle Coffee Denies It Went Woke, RedState: Black Rifle Coffee: Get Woke, Go Broke and Proud Boys

Victory Girls: Black Rifle Coffee Company Insults Their Customer Base

AoSHQ: Morning Report 07.19.21 and Grift: Left and Right

NBC News: Proud Boy Leader burned BLM Flag

Da Tech Guy: I’m Not A Coffee Guy Myself

“It’s such a repugnant group of people.”

The executives behind @blckriflecoffee, a coffee and lifestyle brand hugely popular with conservatives, has some choice words to describe part of its customer base. https://t.co/BxTpq0kfQY pic.twitter.com/mbdrBSpwGs

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 16, 2021

Here's something I never expected...

Amusingly, I was the guy telling my con friends, furious at #BlackRifleCoffee's perceived betrayal of its customers by dancing like organ grinder monkeys for the mainstream media, to give BRCC a chance to tell us its side.

I guess it has. pic.twitter.com/7dymLxELvi

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 18, 2021

After the #BlackRifleCoffee revelations, how do you feel about BRCC and what it seems to think of conservatives?

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 19, 2021

Pumpkin Spice Time 🎃☕🍂

The Root: Pumpkin Spice Brings My Inner White Girl To The Yard 

It's fall and there is a helluva lot of Pumpkin Spice out there!

EBL: During Medieval times was pumpkin spice more valuable than gold? 🌟🎃🌶️ 🤔, Cockentrice: Medieval Turducken 🐖🐔,  and Halloween is Coming 🎃🧙‍♀️

"I love pumpkin spice a latte."

Pumpkin Spice Review (video)

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Woodsterman: Fun Y'All

EBL: Hillary Hokey Pokey

357 Magnum: Ginger Baker

Hogewash: A Modest Proposal

Bacon Time: Wednesday Links

AoSHQ: Morning Report 10.07.19

American Elephants : Reading List

The Feral Irishman: Baby Eating AOC

The Right Way: Rule 5 Saturday Link-O-Rama

Political Clown Parade: Flowing Curves Of Beauty

Diogenes Middle Finger News: A Good Monday Morning

Proof Positive: Vintage Babe of the week and Best of the Web

Pirate's Cove: Pinup Part II, If all you see... , and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Mark Steyn: Baby Food for Thought and Michael E Mann, Loser, Liar, and Scoff Law

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links

TOM: Illegal Alien Who Admitted Transgender Shooting Turned Loose by Dallas Judge, Biden Accuses Americans of Ignorance, Warns of Anti-Gay ‘Terrorist Groups’, In The Mailbox: 10.11.19, Shep Smith Out at Fox News, Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge, Anti-Trump Riot in Minneapolis, ‘The One Where Nobody Gets Raped’, In The Mailbox: 10.10.19, #UkraineGate: The CrowdStrike Angle, BREAKING: Giuliani Ukrainian Associates Charged in Campaign Finance Case, In Georgia Divorce Case, Lesbian Claims Her Same-Sex Marriage Wasn’t Real, Ukraine Official Says Joe Biden Got Paid $900,000 to Lobby for Burisma, In The Mailbox: 10.09.19, Crime: The Facts Are Racist, ‘Chuck Todd Is a Disgrace’, In The Mailbox: 10.08.19 HUGE: Former Top Spy Admits Obama Ordered Investigation of Trump Campaign, Professor Chikaodinaka Nwankpa, The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved: Yale Is Now America’s Rape Capital?, In The Mailbox: 10.07.19, Ilhan Omar Is Divorcing Her Husband (The One Who’s Not Her Brother), Our ‘Objective’ Media, The Eternal White Guilt Trip, Who Is Murdering Whom? And How?, ‘Inappropriate Behavior’: Elizabeth Warren Fires Organizing Director, ‘The Patron Saint of Incels’, Angry Biden: ‘It’s Not a Conflict of Interest … I’m Not Going to Respond to That’

A collection of sites known for appreciation of Rule 5 and pumpkin spice 🎃☕🍂:  

TOTUS

Egotastic

Dust bury

HeroPress

Hogewash

BaconTime

Theo Spark

Daily Gator

O.K. Corral

Daily Caller

Wired Right

Pirate's Cove

Woodsterman

Proof Positive

DryBonesBlog

The Right Way

RULE 5 SITES

Blazing Cat Fur

MissK's World...

By Other Means

American Power

Irons In The Fire

Guns and Bikinis

SayanythingBlog

Raconteur Report

Doubletroubletwo

Angrymikes hood

The Last Tradition

Adrienne's Corner

The Feral Irishman

Camp of the Saints

Animal Magnatism

Maggie's Notebook

The Classic Liberal

The Rio Norte Line

Randy's Roundtable

A Nod To The Gods

Small Dead Animals

Raised On Hoecakes

Grouchy Old Cripple

Sonoran Conservative

My Muse Shanked Me

Political Clown Parade

24 Femmes Per Second

The Vulgar Curmudgeon

A View From The Beach

Diogenes' Middle Finger

Your Crazy Uncle Bubba

Old Retired Petty Officer

Ninety Miles From Tyranny

The View From the Lady Lake

Knuckledraggin My Life Away

In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

GOODSTUFF'S CYBER WORLD (RIP)

No More Kings: Schoolhouse Rock

Thanks to WJJ Hoge for the reminder!

No, Elizabeth Warren was not there!

Lem's Place: Happy Birthday!

National Coffee Day

National Coffee Day!

AoSHQ: Saturday is Coffee Day at Ace

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Mark Steyn: Fever (sometimes it's all about the bass)

EBL: Annabel Scholey, #NationalOneHitWonders: Bunty Bailey and Carole King

TOM: In the Mailbox 09.28.18, Your Tax Dollars At Work, Late Night With The Mailbox 09.24.18, A Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization As We Know It, A Steaming Pile of Bad Journalism, The Ramirez Smear, Parenting in the #MeToo Era

A collection of sites known for appreciation of Rule 5 and favorite morning beverages:

TOTUS
Egotastic
Dust bury
HeroPress
Hogewash
Theo Spark
Daily Gator
O.K. Corral
Daily Caller
Wired Right
Pirate's Cove
Woodsterman
Proof Positive
The Right Way
RULE 5 SITES
Blazing Cat Fur
MissK's World...
By Other Means
American Power
Irons In The Fire
Guns and Bikinis
SayanythingBlog
Raconteur Report
Doubletroubletwo
Angrymikes hood
The Last Tradition
Adrienne's Corner
The Feral Irishman
Camp of the Saints
Animal Magnatism
Maggie's Notebook
The Classic Liberal
The Rio Norte Line
Randy's Roundtable
A Nod To The Gods
Small Dead Animals
Grouchy Old Cripple
Raised On Hoe Cakes
Political Clown Parade
24 Femmes Per Second
The Vulgar Curmudgeon
A View From The Beach
Diogenes' Middle Finger
Your Crazy Uncle Bubba
Old Retired Petty Officer
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Knuckledraggin My Life Away
In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

GOODSTUFF'S CYBER WORLD (RIP)

An Important Announcement From Starbucks Coffee™...

With the Starbucks™ new policy, might want to wipe that table before you put your baby on it...

EBL: Starbucks™ to Open 8000+ Homeless Day Centers Across USA

Powerline: Ramirez for the Win

h/t: James Woods

TOM: In The Mailbox 05.30.18: Twitchy: Ben Rhodes Manages To Make Obama Sound Even More Inusfferably Arrogant, Power Line: More Evidence Of Mueller’s Overreach, also, Bureaucracy All The Way Down, Mark Steyn: Most People Want To Be Like Most People, also, Mac Attack

Starbucks™ to Open 8000+ Homeless Day Centers Across USA

Anyone can use a Starbucks™. No need to buy anything to hang out or use the rest room. 

Enjoy that over-burnt coffee with the homeless!

I get that the two black guys who went into that Philly Starbucks™ were not homeless, just waiting for a friend without buying anything. When asked to leave they refused and were arrested for trespassing (which they were). Ultimately they were not charged, but I am sure a lawsuit is coming against the City and Starbucks™. Starbucks™ coffee sucks, but if I need to use the restroom or hang out in a Starbucks™ I at least buy something. That is how it should work, because even Starbucks™ needs to pay the rent and it is a business.

But if social justice trumps capitalism, then heck, the homeless need a place to go. I encourage them all to hang out in Starbucks™!

Twitchy: Audio of Starbucks™ manager doesn't sound that racist... and Is it ever ok to kick someone out of a store?

Instapundit: Homeless guys sleeping at Starbucks?, Blowback, and The Onion: It has really been on a roll lately...

Hot Air: Starbucks schedules racial bias training at its 8000 stores

Wombat: Don Surber: Starbucks Feels The Trump Effect

NPR: Starbucks™ is the homeless place to be in LA

Money: Arrested men meeting with CEO

American Mirror: Coffee Reparations!

Powerline: The War on Standards

CBS: Howard Shultz Ashamed

Stuff White People Like: #1

I love living in a country with so little racism, we have to manufacture two loiterers who refused to buy even a $1.50 coffee into Selma 2.

This is a sign of just how good and tolerant life is in America.
#MasturbationNation

— All CNN Does Is Lie (@NolteNC) April 18, 2018

I FOUND WALDO. pic.twitter.com/2BEgUEUXeM

— All CNN Does Is Lie (@NolteNC) April 17, 2018

VIDEO: Black man demands free coffee as 'reparations'... https://t.co/tPKg0S8he9

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) April 18, 2018

Demand your free coffee, it is all about the reparations!

I think I'll go to Starbucks HQ and ask if I can hang out in the board room while I'm waiting for a friend.

— Michael Haz (@Michael_Haz) April 19, 2018

BREAKING: Starbucks Announces That All Baristas Will Begin Wearing Body Cameras Immediately. pic.twitter.com/lBHKwMhs6n

— Matt’s Idea Shop (@MattsIdeaShop) April 19, 2018

American Exceptionalism: How Waffle House Responds To National Disasters

Instapundit: Saving America, One Hurricane or Disaster At A Time

Embrace the healing power of waffles, eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, and coffee!

Instapundit: Watch Anthony Bourdain experience Waffle House for the first time...

A Beacon Of Hope

"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults." Alexis de Tocqueville

AoSHQ: Scenes from Houston

Goodstuff's Cyber Blog: The Harvey Heroes

EBL: How To Contribute To Hurricane Harvey Relief, Fish In House, Harvey Girls and Harvey's Peggy Dow

Instapundit: Lower your risk of death, drink more coffee, Eugene Volokh: Responding to Kevin Storey's tweet and job

The Last Refuge: National Weather Service: Harvey rainfall has broken all contiguous mainland records for rainfall 

Wombat: Twitchy: Will This “Keep Your Job” Tweet Work For Prof Who Called Harvey Flooding “Instant Karma” For Texas?

Rush Limbaugh: JJ Watts of Texans steps it up for relief, Trump kicks Big Government Into Action, but people of Houston help each other, What's happening in Houston is not the worst ever, and Hurricane Harvey still better than Hillary

That is impressive latte art...

Wow, that is impressive

I remember being impressed when a bartender put a shamrock in the foam of my Guinness.

Eater: Latte Art Virtuoso makes masterpieces out of foam

Hogewash: Hot Spots on Jupiter

Coffee Baristas Rule 5

AoSHQ reminds us that coffee is the most important meal of the day...

Custom message for special customers!

I am sure guys go to this stand for their custom coffee roast...

Did Tilted Kilt open a coffee stand division? 

Violating a coffee stand non-compete clause?

Is your Starbucks barista flirting with you?

The Onion (as usual) reveals the truth about your barista.

Instapundit: More Good News About Coffee

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Just asking questions…

Just asking questions!

Why did Starbucks' PR executive delete his Twitter account?
This is what happens when you go to Starbucks and ask about race…
Instapundit: Starbucks' cringe worthy #RaceTogether campaign
Stuff White People Like: #1 Coffee (Starbucks) and stickers showing up in Austin, TX

Now I agree there is nothing funny about peace, love and understanding, but there is just a wee bit of hypocrisy, condescension, and poserdom by Howard Schultz' proclamation.
Protein Wisdom
Instapundit: Get your race conversation right here, taking on the racists at Starbucks, where only the coffee is black, and let's talk about pop culture racism.
Twitchy: Starbucks shamed by its own questionnaire
Van Jones Responds
Jon Gabriel is spot on with this observation

Coffee rust fungus is threatening farmers and driving up prices

What is Coffee Rust?

The Coffee Rust is an obligate parasitic fungus, which means it is a microorganism that must take energy and nutrients from a specific live host (coffee) and reproduces differently than either plants or animals. Coffea arabica is the most susceptible species to this fungus, but C. canephora (Robusta) can also be affected. The fungal life cycle is a complex and ingenious one, where organisms asexually produce thousands of tiny spores (reproductive bodies) that can travel in water, rain, or air and remain viable for long distances (Kushalappa and Eskes 1989; Gouveia and others 2005). Once a spore lands on a leaf, it can sit until conditions are right. At that point, it germinates and enters the leaves through stomata, the pore-like openings utilized for plant gas-exchange (Muller and others 2009). The coffee rust is an obligate parasite to coffee, meaning that it must find a coffee host in order to complete its life cycle. Most scientists believe that it once had or still has alternative host, but one is yet to be identified. Despite the importance of this destructive organism there is still much to be learned on the biology of coffee rust.

Many blame climate change for this outbreak.  Yet there have been significant outbreaks in the past, including the collapse of the coffee industry in Ceylon in the 1870s (and since then the island shifted to tea production).  Climate may be a factor (as well as weather), but planting practices, natural cycles, and other variables all play a roll.  

Johnny Cash: Don't Take Your Guns To Town

Don't Take Your Guns To Town Starbucks...

Magic beans of goodness...chocolate helps you lose weight!

Chocolate helps you lose weight!  

Instapundit has more...

And let's not forget that other "magic bean"...is there anything coffee can't do?  

They have an awful lot of coffee in Brazil...

I needed a pick me up.  Here is another... (I ♥ her, she was an amazing artist)