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StarBucks CEO grew up in Housing project

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I saw this sotry on Sunday and it blew me away that the Startbucks dude lived in Public housing during his childhood.
 
Here is a link to the whole stoy on the CBS website.
 
 
Who would have believed that Americans would line up by the millions to pay $4 for a cup of coffee? Who would have imagined we would go into a coffee shop and casually ask for a double tall, one pump, vanilla skim, caramel macchiato? What the heck is a macchiato anyway?

Well the guy who did believe is Howard Schultz, the star of Starbucks. Schultz is given to leaps of imagination — he had to be, as he started out as a poor kid in Brooklyn who sold his own blood just to get through college.

Today as head of a $29 billion multinational, Schultz is not without his critics; some mockingly call Starbucks "Fourbucks." But when 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley met Schultz, he found a salesman and a showman, who is creating his own subculture and intends to take the whole world along.
 
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Starbucks is theater. That showmanship and salesmanship have made Schultz something close to a billionaire.

But that is something that he could never have imagined as a boy. Schultz grew up broke living in a public housing project in Brooklyn. There are bullet holes in the door leading to apartment 7G, in the building where he lived.
 

Calling her own shots

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On Thursday, the C.I.A. fired Ms. McCarthy, 61, accusing her of leaking information to reporters about overseas prisons operated by the agency in the years since the Sept. 11 attacks. But despite Ms. McCarthy's independent streak, some colleagues who worked with her at the White House and other offices during her intelligence career say they cannot imagine her as a leaker of classified information.

As a senior National Security Council aide for intelligence from 1996 to 2001, she was responsible for guarding some of the nation's most important secrets.

"We're talking about a person with great integrity who played by the book and, as far as I know, never deviated from the rules," said Steven Simon, a security council aide in the Clinton administration who worked closely with Ms. McCarthy.

Others said it was possible that Ms. McCarthy — who made a contribution to Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004 — had grown increasingly disenchanted with the methods adopted by the Bush administration for handling Qaeda prisoners.

Ms. McCarthy, who began attending law school at night several years ago and was preparing to retire from the C.I.A., may have felt she had no alternative but to go to the press.

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CIA officer fired after admitting leak

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WASHINGTON - In a rare occurrence, the CIA fired an officer who acknowledged giving classified information to a reporter, NBC News learned Friday.

The officer flunked a polygraph exam before being fired on Thursday and is now under investigation by the Justice Department, NBC has learned.

 

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Protester Yells at Hu; Bush Apologizes

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In a surprise outburst that cast a diplomatic shadow, a screaming protester confronted President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao and interrupted the welcoming ceremony on the White House lawn Thursday. Bush later apologized to the Chinese leader.

 

 

   

Improving the lexicon

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A running list of my attempts to improve human communication


Commercial People: Users on a social network that are not real people. They are mearly shell people that represent some porn site or other commercial entity.
 

Example:  Due to the problems in Iran the system of checks at twitter.com was overwhelmed and many new commercial people came on the site to try to market porn to the masses.


Californicating:
Cal·i·for·nicating   (kăl'ĭ-fôr'nyə, -fôr'nēica-əted)
1. Attempting to make the entire US or the World for that matter in to a broke assed state like California. Where all of the energy is imported, all the debts are bigger than other people's entire budget. Where illegal labor is accepted part of the economy and massive "Stateisim" controls every minute of your life from cradle to grave and every deviant behavior is condoned. 

Example:
If Obamma has his way the whole dam country is going to be Californicated.

2. To make mofifcation to an existing product so it will conform to extremely restricive California State Regulations.

Example:
All new firearms sold in California are californicated so that the criminals are better armed than the citizenry.


Comutard :  A person that thinks socialism will work to manage the economy of the United States. A person that ignores the history of the US economy or thinks that corporate and public welfare works. Any person that wants to change any part of the constitution to fit current circumstances or social mores.

Example : Hey Lisa, that chick Marsha at yoga class is a full on comutard!
Your right Jenny, she is a real tool!

Comutards are a psyco-social class of people that hate the rich but want all of the benefits of living in a captalist society. They are ctypto-collectivists and some even fall in to the anarchist class of individuals.

Psycho-Social Class is a group of people that are united by a common emotional state or some misunderstood political princpal. People in the liberal or progressive Psycho-Social Class most often posesses a  victimhood and a person in this class may infact be from any income, racial or religious group. When we speak of the progressive or liberal Psyco-Social class they are often dependent on the government for enployment, if infact they have any employment at all.

Example: The only thing that held the political power base of the old guard socialists together was that they had roped an entire city of people,  into the same psyco-social class by forcing them to attend the government schools that had failed to educate the children of many generations. 

Armchair Insurgent- (adj.)A person or persons that claim to have special knowledge of 9-11 being an inside job or controlled demolition (see:tin foil hat brigade) . A person who hates George W. Bush so much that any bad news about the war is good news to them because it proves to them that Bush is the cause of all problems in the world today.

Cowboyphobe- (n.) 1. A person afraid of people who can make decisions (see Anti-Decider) 2. a person who beleives that no risk is worth taking and nothing is worth dieing for.

Educution- (v.) Using capital punishment a deterrent against horrific juvenile crimes. In particular this method is suggested when someone kills Grandma or Grandpa or say kills one of their friends when they are pretending to wrestle. The primary way educution will work is by showing young people what happens when they kill someone at school.

Goreon- (n.) People prone to hysterical eco-wacko pronouncements and scare mongering.

Peacecreep- (adj.)a person or group of persons that uses the death of a service person to further the aims of organizations, who’s aims include the downfall of the American government; or of creating a check on American power by weakening American foreign policy and or the resolve of the American people by protesting the war or the strategies used to win that war.

Sandalistas- (n.) Old school hippy Liberials who believe that you would agree with their liberal view points if only you had the education that they had. (see also Bearded Sandalistas or Pony Tail Sandalistas)

Vagitarian- (n.)Those people that are predisposed to eat at the Y and only at the Y.




Commercial People: Users on a social network that are not real people. They are merely shell people that represent some porn site or other commercial entity.... See More

Example: Due to the problems in Iran the system of checks at twitter.com was overwhelmed and many new commercial people came on the site to try to market porn to the masses.

Californicating:
Cal·i·for·nicating (kăl'ĭ-fôr'nyə, -fôr'nēica-əted)
1. Attempting to make the entire US or the World for that matter in to a broke assed state like California. Where all of the energy is imported, all the debts are bigger than other people's entire budget. Where illigal labor is accepted part of the economy and massive "Stateisim" controls every minute of your life from cradle to grave and every deviant behavior is condoned.

Example: If Obamma has his way the whole dam country is going to be Californicated.
2. To make modification to an existing product so it will conform to extremely restrictive California State Regulations.

Example: All new firearms sold in California are californicated so that the criminals are better armed than the citizenry.

Comutard : A person that thinks socialism will work to manage the economy of the United States. A person that ignores the history of the US economy or thinks that corporate and public welfare works. Any person that wants to change any part of the constitution to fit current circumstances or social mores.

Example : Hey Lisa, that chick Marsha at yoga class is a full on comutard!
Your right Jenny, she is a real tool!

Comutards are a psyco-social class of people that hate the rich but want all of the benefits of living in a capitalist society. They are ctypto-collectivists and some even fall in to the anarchist class of individuals.

Psycho-Social Class is a group of people that are united by a common emotional state or some misunderstood political principal. People in the liberal or progressive Psycho-Social Class most often possesses a victim hood and a person in this class may in fact be from any income, racial or religious group. When we speak of the progressive or liberal Psyco-Social class they are often dependent on the government for employment, if in fact they have any employment at all.

Example: The only thing that held the political power base of the old guard socialists together was that they had roped an entire city of people, into the same psyco-social class by forcing them to attend the government schools that had failed to educate the children of many generations.

Armchair Insurgent- (adj.)A person or persons that claim to have special knowledge of 9-11 being an inside job or controlled demolition (see:tin foil hat brigade) . A person who hates George W. Bush so much that any bad news about the war is good news to them because it proves to them that Bush is the cause of all problems in the world today.

Cowboyphobe- (n.) 1. A person afraid of people who can make decisions (see Anti-Decider) 2. a person who believes that no risk is worth taking and nothing is worth dieing for.

Educution- (v.) Using capital punishment a deterrent against horrific juvenile crimes. In particular this method is suggested when someone kills Grandma or Grandpa or say kills one of their friends when they are pretending to wrestle. The primary way educution will work is by showing young people what happens when they kill someone at school.

Goreon- (n.) People prone to hysterical eco-wacko pronouncements and scare mongering.

Peacecreep- (adj.)a person or group of persons that uses the death of a service person to further the aims of organizations, who’s aims include the downfall of the American government; or of creating a check on American power by weakening American foreign policy and or the resolve of the American people by protesting the war or the strategies used to win that war.
Sandalistas- (n.) Old school hippy Liberials who believe that you would agree with their liberal view points if only you had the education that they had. (see also Bearded Sandalistas or Pony Tail Sandalistas)

Vagitarian- (n.)Those people that are predisposed to eat at the Y and only at the Y.
   

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Fairly Odd

Fairly odd news from around the Globe
  • Messed up!
    A zebra and horse crossbreed named Eclyse is pictured at the Safari park in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, western Germany. The father of Eclyse is a horse from Italy, her mother is a zebra from the Safari park in Germany.
  • Women tried to smuggle corpse onto plane?
    (Reuters) - Two women were arrested at a British airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle a dead relative onto a flight bound for Germany, police said on Tuesday. The 91-year-old deceased man was pushed in a wheelchair through Liverpool's John Lennon airport wearing sunglasses before check-in staff became suspicious and he was prevented from boarding the plane. He was believed to
  • N.Korea leader sets world fashion trend: Pyongyang
    AFP - The trademark suit sported by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is now in fashion worldwide thanks to his greatness, Pyongyang's official website said Wednesday. Uriminzokkiri, quoting an article in communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun, said the modest-looking suits have gripped people's imagination and become a global vogue. "The reason is that the august image of the Great General,
  • Teacher-on-teacher bullying
    Most schools have policies that target bullying, but they are usually aimed at students. Now, school districts in Iowa and California are developing rules to prevent teachers from bullying teachers. "Kids are very vulnerable to what adults say. Adult modeling is a very powerful force in shaping youth behavior," said Stan Davis, a school guidance counselor in Sidney, Maine, and a bullying
  • Giant Gas Bubbles in Indiana Dairy Farm's Waste Pond Frighten Neighbors
    WINCHESTER, Ind.—Like many of his neighbors, farmer Tony Goltstein has to deal with the aftermath of the dairy bubble. But besides his mounting financial troubles, Mr. Goltstein also must contend with bubbles the size of small houses that have sprouted from the pool of manure at his Union Go Dairy Farm. Some are 20 feet tall, inflated with the gas released by 21 million gallons of decomposing
  • Playing Opossum
      PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa.State police have charged a central Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen giving mouth-to-mouth "resuscitation" to a long-dead opossum along a highway. Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal along Route 36 in Oliver Township Thursday about 3 p.m. The
  • Pollution from Asia's booming economies rises into the stratosphere
    Pollution from Asia's booming economies rises into the stratosphere during the monsoon season then circles the world for years, according to a report out Thursday. A study by the Boulder, Colorado-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) said the strong air circulation patterns linked to Asia's monsoon rainy season serves as a pathway for black carbon, sulfur dioxide,