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If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all. ~ David Letterman

Ah! How sweet the coffee’s taste is,
Sweeter than a thousand kisses,
Milder than sweet muscatel.
Coffee, coffee, I must have it,
And if someone wants to treat me,
Ah, my cup with coffee fill! ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (Koffee Kantate)

I had planned to post more today. I should have had the time. It just didn’t work out that way.
Of course the big news is the cease-fire in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. To discribe this as fragile would be overstating reality.
Also in the Mid East is the story of the two FOX-TV [...]

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul. ~ Isak Dinesen
Blue Crab Boulevard Sanity? — “More Muslims have been saved from death in the past decade by the Western governments than by the Muslim governments. More Muslims have been killed by the [...]

Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It’s the only thing “real” men do that doesn’t seem to threaten their masculinity. ~ Erma Bombeck
FYI: I’ve been playing around with my Thunderbird Email client this morning instead of working on this First Cup post as I should have been. I’ll get back to [...]

This one makes the list because it only tells part of the story. And in this case, only telling part of the story changes the entire story.
U.S. directs criticism at Israel
The White House said Wednesday neither Israel nor Hezbollah should escalate their month-old war, as Israel decided to widen its ground invasion in southern Lebanon.
White [...]

When Nasrallah has this to say about the proposed cease fire, it has to tell you something:
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday called the U.S.-French draft cease-fire plan “unfair and unjust,” but said he supports a plan to deploy the Lebanese army in south Lebanon.
[...]
“The least we can describe this (draft resolution) is as [...]

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odour to the nostrils. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Happy 2nd Blogiversary toRamble Strip
Captain’s Quarter (Ed Morrissey) More Double Standards At The UN — “The UN should not even bother investigating Lebanese and Hezbollah complaints until they make an effort [...]

Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring. ~ U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849
Happy 2nd Blogiversary toInside Larry’s Head
Also, a happy 1st blogiversary to Eric at The Pool Bar. [...]

The drink that comforteth the brain and heart and helpeth digestion. ~ Sir Francis Bacon
Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) There’s Gotta Be Irony In Here Somewhere — “Israeli PM Ehud Olmert has told an interviewer that he wants German troops in any international force protecting the Jewish state.”
Iowa Voice (Brian) Senate Dems Block Minimum Wage Bill [...]

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (Beth) 2996 - Tribute to 9/11 Victims — “2996 is a project organized by D.C. Roe, to have 2996 bloggers (!) all posting a tribute to a 9/11 victim (names are assigned) on September 11, 2006–the five-year anniversary. [...]

The first cup is for the guest, the second for enjoyment, the third for the sword. ~ An old Arabic saying
Iowa Voice (Brian) Interesting Omissions From The New York Times — “Reading this article, you’d think that every single big-wig who hides his money offshore is a Republican, right? I mean, they cite some [...]