Coffee Party

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Furious at the tempest over the Tea Party — the scattershot citizen uprising against big government and wild spending — Annabel Park did what any American does when she feels her voice has been drowned out: She squeezed her anger into a Facebook status update. “let’s start a coffee party . . . smoothie party. red bull party. anything but tea. geez. ooh how about cappuccino party? that would really piss ‘em off bec it sounds elitist . . . let’s get together and drink cappuccino and have real political dialogue with substance and compassion. “

Friends replied, and more friends replied. So last month, in her Silver Spring apartment, Park started a fan page called “Join the Coffee Party Movement.” Within weeks, her inbox and page wall were swamped by thousands of comments from strangers in diverse locales, such as the oil fields of west Texas and the suburbs of Chicago.
“I have been searching for a place of refuge like this for a long while. . . . It is not Us against the Govt. It is democracy vs corporatocracy . . . I just can’t believe that the Tea Party speaks for all patriotic Americans. . . . Just sent suggestions to 50 friends . . . I think it’s time we start a chapter right here in Tucson . . .”

The snowballing response made her the de facto coordinator of Coffee Party USA, with goals far loftier than its oopsy-daisy origin: promote civility and inclusiveness in political discourse, engage the government not as an enemy but as the collective will of the people, push leaders to enact the progressive change for which 52.9 percent of the country voted in 2008……
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO_5HvnFEv0&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Coffee Party: How We Began[/ame]

:clap2::clap2: Great Idea!
 
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Furious at the tempest over the Tea Party — the scattershot citizen uprising against big government and wild spending — Annabel Park did what any American does when she feels her voice has been drowned out: She squeezed her anger into a Facebook status update. “let’s start a coffee party . . . smoothie party. red bull party. anything but tea. geez. ooh how about cappuccino party? that would really piss ‘em off bec it sounds elitist . . . let’s get together and drink cappuccino and have real political dialogue with substance and compassion. “

Friends replied, and more friends replied. So last month, in her Silver Spring apartment, Park started a fan page called “Join the Coffee Party Movement.” Within weeks, her inbox and page wall were swamped by thousands of comments from strangers in diverse locales, such as the oil fields of west Texas and the suburbs of Chicago.
“I have been searching for a place of refuge like this for a long while. . . . It is not Us against the Govt. It is democracy vs corporatocracy . . . I just can’t believe that the Tea Party speaks for all patriotic Americans. . . . Just sent suggestions to 50 friends . . . I think it’s time we start a chapter right here in Tucson . . .”

The snowballing response made her the de facto coordinator of Coffee Party USA, with goals far loftier than its oopsy-daisy origin: promote civility and inclusiveness in political discourse, engage the government not as an enemy but as the collective will of the people, push leaders to enact the progressive change for which 52.9 percent of the country voted in 2008……
Read more washingtonpost.com

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO_5HvnFEv0&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube - Coffee Party: How We Began[/ame]

:clap2::clap2: Great Idea!

corporatocracy....right out of the poli-sci classrooms of our centers for higher learning. Those bastions of neutral politics.

Amusing that they feel so threatened that they are now going to model their lives after the very people they have spent a year belittling.
 
I dont drink coffee. I dont really drink tea either, but the Tea party is based off a historic event that involved tossing tea into the Bay. So I dont really have a problem with that.

I do think it would be rather amusing if 100 years instead of the Democrat and Republican party, we have the Tea and Coffee parties fighting each other.
 
Coffee party? What historical event is that based on, a Starbucks grand opening?

I would think none. Progressives don't normally look back, they look forward. Unlike so-called conservatives, who constantly look back for answers, even though there are no answers in our past.
 
Coffee party? What historical event is that based on, a Starbucks grand opening?

I would think none. Progressives don't normally look back, they look forward. Unlike so-called conservatives, who constantly look back for answers, even though there are no answers in our past.

Yeah. How stupid to learn about what works and doesnt from people who have already tried things. We should just ignore them and make the same exact mistakes over and over again. That will show how smart we are.
 
Coffee party? What historical event is that based on, a Starbucks grand opening?

I would think none. Progressives don't normally look back, they look forward. Unlike so-called conservatives, who constantly look back for answers, even though there are no answers in our past.
Ban History as a subject to be studied! It's of no use to the left.
 
Coffee party? What historical event is that based on, a Starbucks grand opening?

I would think none. Progressives don't normally look back, they look forward. Unlike so-called conservatives, who constantly look back for answers, even though there are no answers in our past.
Yeah why bother with that nasty boring history.
It pays to look at history for answers, rather then forward to an imagined unattainable utopia that will never exist and will cause millions of deaths alone the way to ruin.
 
Coffee party? What historical event is that based on, a Starbucks grand opening?

I would think none. Progressives don't normally look back, they look forward. Unlike so-called conservatives, who constantly look back for answers, even though there are no answers in our past.

Thanks for the post, Ive never seen anyone take themselves out of the game so surgically.
Nice job.
 
Coffee party? What historical event is that based on, a Starbucks grand opening?

I would think none. Progressives don't normally look back, they look forward. Unlike so-called conservatives, who constantly look back for answers, even though there are no answers in our past.
Yeah why bother with that nasty boring history.
It pays to look at history for answers, rather then forward to an imagined unattainable utopia that will never exist and will cause millions of deaths alone the way to ruin.

Just because Socialism has caused hundreds of millions of deaths in whatever form it took during it's short existance on this earth, doesn't mean that Lefty's version will be unsuccessful. After all, he is smarter than all those people in the past. And He will do whatever it takes to learn from their mistakes... Oh wait... never mind.
 
Coffee party? What historical event is that based on, a Starbucks grand opening?

I would think none. Progressives don't normally look back, they look forward. Unlike so-called conservatives, who constantly look back for answers, even though there are no answers in our past.

Yeah. How stupid to learn about what works and doesnt from people who have already tried things. We should just ignore them and make the same exact mistakes over and over again. That will show how smart we are.

Yeah, it is stupid when you don't know the difference between looking back for answers and learning lessons from the past. Two very different things.
 
I would think none. Progressives don't normally look back, they look forward. Unlike so-called conservatives, who constantly look back for answers, even though there are no answers in our past.

Yeah. How stupid to learn about what works and doesnt from people who have already tried things. We should just ignore them and make the same exact mistakes over and over again. That will show how smart we are.

Yeah, it is stupid when you don't know the difference between looking back for answers and learning lessons from the past. Two very different things.

Yeah. I dont really see a difference between learning things.
 
Yeah. How stupid to learn about what works and doesnt from people who have already tried things.

Okay...So... why do Reps want to keep doing the same things that don't work over and over and over and over?
 
I would think none. Progressives don't normally look back, they look forward. Unlike so-called conservatives, who constantly look back for answers, even though there are no answers in our past.

Yeah. How stupid to learn about what works and doesnt from people who have already tried things. We should just ignore them and make the same exact mistakes over and over again. That will show how smart we are.

Yeah, it is stupid when you don't know the difference between looking back for answers and learning lessons from the past. Two very different things.

So we cant ask "what is wrong with Marxism?" and look back at Stalin and Hitler to find the answer? we have to try it again?
 

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