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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)

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 [...]

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. ~ Talleyrand
Happy 1st Blogiversary to:Drew Kaplan’s Blog
GOP Bloggers (Jonathan R.) Congressional GOP Again Displays Gross Incompetence — “Instead of using substantive issues on which the Republican position enjoys a clear advantage among the American people, the GOP scrambles to vote on [...]

It’s happened again. Somehow these three stories got mixed together. How does this keep happening?
U.N. officials said Hezbollah militants had been operating in the area of the post near the eastern end of the border with Israel, a routine tactic to prevent Israel from attacking them.
Speaking from prepared testimony, Bolton called for a [...]

The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks. ~ Sir James Mackintosh
Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Israel Rejects UN-Led Force In Lebanon — “Israel’s outspoken ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman, explicitly rejected the deployment of another United Nations-led force in southern Lebanon as part of any [...]

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~ Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr.
The Anchoress Hillary’s Bust? Egad! - UPDATED — “It’s…well, it’s pretty hideous. For some reason, Hillary - who is an attractive woman - here [...]

If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all. ~ David Letterman
Happy 1st Blogiversary to SerandEz
Confederate Yankee This, Too, Could Be Yours — “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again and again: importing poverty is never going to solve a nation’s problems and instead, can only add to them.”
Wizbang (Jay [...]

John Bolton’s recess appointment by President Bush looks better each time we hear what the ambassador has to say. In a phrase, the man gets it. Yesterday’s example:
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday told an influential pro-Israel lobbying group there is an urgent need to confront Iran’s “clear and unrelenting drive” for [...]