What is that drink in this picture and what is on it? Is that beer? What do you put on top of beer?
Kosh's Shadow
8/19/2026 7:35:59 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 1:
Looks like something with maybe whipped cream on top.
BTW, Starbuk's bought a Massachusetts coffee chain, The Coffee Connection, and the coffee went way downhill from what they served before.
But that chain's signature drink was taken over by Starbuk's = the Frappucino. You see, "frappe" is Massachusetts-speak for milkshake.
JCM
8/19/2026 8:05:07 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 1:
Some frufru sugary thing sold in a woke coffee shop.
I apologize for inflicting it on you!
vxbush
8/19/2026 8:11:24 AM
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In #3 JCM said: Some frufru sugary thing sold in a woke coffee shop.
I apologize for inflicting it on you!
Frufru indeed. Next they will be putting Carmen Miranda's fruity hat on such drinks.
JCM
8/19/2026 8:36:44 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 4:
My search was for breakfast with iced coffee.... I blame AI! ;-P
Awhile back the Seattle Slimes had this HUGE exposé on Starbucks drinks and how much sugar was in them. Like they discovered something nobody ever knew.
Kosh's Shadow
8/19/2026 8:53:31 AM
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Reply to JCM in 5:
Since I strink black coffee, I doubt there is any sugar in what I get a Charbuk's.
Occasional Reader
8/19/2026 8:57:47 AM
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I somewhat-like Starbucks.
There. I said it.
#StunningAndBrave
vxbush
8/19/2026 9:05:50 AM
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In #7 Occasional Reader said: I somewhat-like Starbucks.
There. I said it.
My sister LOVES Starbucks flavored coffees. Something macchiato thingy. I hate coffee, and Starbucks coffee smells terrible to me--but then, no coffee smells good to me. Ever.
A former Minnesota poll worker told an investigative reporter that he realized people who seemed to be professional vouchers would help individuals whom he had deemed ineligible to vote in certain elections.
Cam Higby, an independent reporter, just attracted national attention by posting videos of himself wearing a full niqab and being approved to vote under a false name. Along with multiple other undercover reporters, he exposed the weakness and stupidity of the Minnesota vouching voter registration system.
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[...] Almquist stated the facts. “There would be people there that you were pretty certain they didn't know who the other person was, and they would fill up their — you know — eight people.” In Minnesota, every registered voter can vouch for up to eight other people for same-day voting registration. Talk about a system designed to facilitate fraud.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posted on X August 18, “The Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau just released its analysis showing more than 24,000 noncitizens illegally voted in the 2020 election. Not just registered but literally illegally voted. And that is just the beginning. More than 32 million more voters’ records will be analyzed in the coming weeks, and these records will likely show tens of thousands of additional illegal voters.”
A poll claiming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was leading Councilmember Nithya Raman by a wide margin — and picking up support from most voters who backed Spencer Pratt in the mayoral primary — was bogus, the company behind the poll acknowledged Monday.
The fake poll by Median Strategies showed Bass leading Raman by nearly 12 percentage points ahead of the Nov. 3 mayoral runoff, and said the results were based on a survey of 560 Los Angeles voters between July 30 and Aug. 5. It said it had a 4.1% margin of error.
But Monday, in response to repeated inquiries from The Times, the company said the purported “poll” was nothing of the kind.
“Median Strategies was created as a short term social experiment to examine how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification,” the company said in an email to The Times. “We are not seeking publicity or attribution for the individuals involved and are declining interviews.”
AKA Push polling, using polls to drive people to think someone is popular and therefore should win.
vxbush
8/19/2026 9:26:26 AM
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DOJ announces the first domino to fall in the COVID chronicles:
A former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) employee pled guilty in federal court, today, to a conspiracy charge stemming from a scheme to evade Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and the Federal Records Act in connection with communications about coronavirus research grants.
David M. Morens, 78, of Chester, Maryland, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit offenses and to defraud the United States. Morens served as a senior advisor in NIAID’s Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022.
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According to his guilty plea, Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, Co-Conspirator 2, and others conspired during the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud the United States after NIH terminated Co-Conspirator 1’s grant. NIH terminated the grant, Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence, based on allegations that COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan, China. NIAID awarded the grant to Company 1 and Co-Conspirator 1, who made a subaward to the WIV.
Following the termination, Morens and Co-Conspirator 2 pledged to help Co-Conspirator 1 restore the termination of the bat coronavirus grant and counter the narrative that COVID-19 leaked from a lab. In anticipation that their communications would be requested through FOIA Requests, Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, and Co-Conspirator 2 agreed in writing to intentionally hide their communications from public view by corresponding using Morens’s personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH email account.
I just cannot wrap my head around the Lindsay Clancy case.
Kosh's Shadow
8/19/2026 12:24:07 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 23:
My wife has been following that a lot. Clearly overprescribed and those prescriptions wer enot monitored or carefully controlled - apparently at least one was increased over time, but abruptly stopped.
PJMedia calls it "Murder by Rx" And someone my wife watches on youtube said the Boston area is supposed to have the best psychiatric hospitals in the country, and this is what she got.
Occasional Reader
8/19/2026 1:20:30 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 24:
I have trouble just blaming this on the medication’s. As you probably remember, I am not a believer in the supernatural, but this thing just seems absolutely demonic.
Occasional Reader
8/19/2026 1:21:25 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 25:
Apologies for the “grocer’s apostrophe”; voice to text absolutely loves doing that, and I did not catch it.
buzzsawmonkey
8/19/2026 5:13:14 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 26:
I assume a lot of the closed captioning/subtitles I see, not only on short online videos but even disks of movies or classic TV shows, is "voice to text." It is absolutely terrible; the substitution of sort-of-cognate words that render the meaning of the "caption" into gibberish is everywhere, it seems, these days.
Occasional Reader
8/19/2026 7:34:52 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 27:
“ I feel your pain”, in the immortal words of Bubba Clinton.
JCM
8/17/2026 4:57:37 PM
Kosh's Shadow
8/19/2026 7:35:59 AM