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Vancouverites can now purchase coffee for only $15 a cup.  That price tag alone would be enough to wake me up in the morning.

At a staggering $15 per 8-oz cup ($135 per half pound in bean form), the Panama-grown, 100-per-cent geisha varietal bean is the most expensive coffee ever to hit lips in this coffee-crazy city.

Caffe Artigiano's five locations start brewing it today and despite the price, Hastings store manager Joaquin Quian is confident it will sell. The chain has 80 pounds of the black gold to carefully measure out.
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It's also best to make the coffee in a French press, Quian said. Coffee fans could put it through a drip machine and add cream, but Quian said that would be akin to using an excellent wine to make sangria or a spritzer.

Who would even think of doing something so gauche?  No one in Vancouver, surely.

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New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson earned a big fat zero on a supposedly easy question during the Democratic candidates’ dog-and-pony show on gay issues last week.  Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post reports.

Wrong Answer, Governor
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Bloomberg News columnist Margaret Carlson and I were stealing glances at each other when singer Melissa Etheridge asked New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson an easy question: "Do you think homosexuality is a choice, or is it biological?" His response was quick: "It's a choice!" My visible reaction to Carlson was equally quick: "Oh, no, he didn't!"
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Clearly, Richardson's head needed some work. Even his campaign recognized this — it issued a "clarifying" statement not one hour after the event. And on a gay radio show the next day, Richardson told host Michelangelo Signorile that he didn't understand the question because of jet lag.

That rationale and his initial answer are inexcusable. To gays and lesbians, flubbing the choice-vs.-nature question is like botching the answer to "What's one plus one?" Note to Richardson's current and former gay staffers and supporters: Do an intervention — and get him an Ambien — before he implodes again.

The real joke, of course, is that there’s no generally accepted scientific evidence for the homosexual lobby’s preferred answer.  The simplistic either-or question asked of Gov Richardson is tendentious and uninformed by current knowledge regarding sexual orientation.

h/t: contentions

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The National Health Service can’t risk offending Muslims, don’t cha know.

DOCTORS and health workers have been banned from eating lunch at their desks - in case it offends their Muslim colleagues.

Health chiefs believe the sight of food will upset Muslim workers when they are celebrating the religious festival Ramadan.

The lunch trolley is also to be wheeled out of bounds as the 30-day fast begins next month.

The directive, sent by e-mail from the Equality and Diversity Officer of NHS Lothian, also says that Muslim staff must be given prayer breaks and time off to celebrate Eid, the festival marking the end of Ramadan.

An NHS director refused to confirm the contents of the e-mail, but health officials in Greater Glasgow and Clyde are also said to have adopted the directive.

No word yet on what doctors will be required to forego for Lent.

h/t: Religion News Blog

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