I think that’s an excellent and innovative idea. You go to school in the Tenley Town section of DC, right?

How do you like that section of DC?

You know I graduated from GW? Way back in the day.

Making a Lisa Madigan T-shirt and selling it to Illinois. Of course it should deprecate her in some way. Try putting an image of her face on the front side with a blurb that says something like: “you can’t sell your coffee here”

Then on the backside, “Nor will I let you have have freedom of expression. I’m a democrat can I have your vote.”

You are a bright intelligent person. Porn sucks, I’m happy you are working out. But working out in LA means that you are probably too into it and have your own personal desires as a means to an end for working out. When I say means to an end, you probably might be delving into narcissism, obsessiveness over the body, or an agenda of being a legitimate film actor or porn actor. Or just trying to get the ladies by having an Adonis type of body.

It is all just vanity. LA is the bastion of it. Like I said in my post before there are several things that might make you instantly disgusted with porn. I’m tired and want to do some meditation, but I will give you a list of why nots:

First: I love freedom of expression and the right to have sex on film or make a really weird commercial.

But as far as having sex on film think of the following:
1) What is on video will live on for ever
2) When you have kids, they will find out
3) Even though porn is so wide spread – on the internet. Your kids will find out
4) You’ll hate yourself after your first scene, but know its too late after you sign the photo release.
5)You’ll know the Horses Have Left The Barn after your first shoot, so you’ll think what’s another 2 or 3 scenes. Those extra 2 or 3 will turn into 50 with at least one STD that will pop up no matter how cautious you are.
6) There is still pressure for males and females not to use a condom during the act – because they get paid less for the scene if the male uses it. So, it puts pressure on the guy twice. One: the girl may want the extra $$$ and TWO: You may want the extra cash and Three: you don’t want to be a party pooper to your producer and director for the scene.
7) The smells are disgusting. No matter how many times you and the girl shower before session. The lights and activity create smells
8) More smells. You are working in a big production lot with tiny over used stalls where hundreds of scenes have been filmed. THink old Jizz, old blood, and old ass stains that your knees will be scraping into. (THere is no Union in Porn; so no one cares about the cum stained canvass sheets that were used the day before for a shoot.
9) Sex is a personal thing. I don’t care if you are religious or not. Even animals feel embarrassment and coyness in the act of sex or cleaning there private parts in front of their masters. So, if dogs and cats have sex in private, don’t you think nature intended it also.

I hope this keeps you from getting into a disgusting business.

Drink some meth-coffee and keep on programming. You have a marketable skill and seem to be super bright. Love yourself, first. Meditate. Take heed in the Present. And look for some meditation groups in your area. Zen-Buddhism helped me with my issues. Maybe it will help with yours or may be not.

You are a bright person. Stay away from something that isn’t you.

May peace be with you and have a good journey, Asynchronous. This is my last posting.

I’m retiring soon. I look back on my teaching career and think was it worth it. Did I touch lives. Do kids remember me?

I got into teaching in 1980. That’s when this field just started taking a nose dive into a trend. Just stop worrying.

Since I’m over at your house, while you’re taking a dump – I just wanted to write something to you on the sneak.

enjoy that poop. At 45 you still say Ahhh after you let when plop. Nice.

Yes, I agree with you, also. It’s nice to see people who like to get involved with issues. That Lisa Madigan is a turd.

Some of my punctuation marks have gotten cut off during my prose. I do not like this – me being an English teacher! Furthermore, I have stated I’m an English teacher, as well. The implication being – it doesn’t make me look too well if my grammar and punctuation are off.

When I said to buy your coffee like you buy your wine, I meant to make an analogy: meaning, twist off caps to wine is like already ground beans is to coffee. In other words they both suck.

Even many wines with a cork suck, at least you know it has a better chance of being better than a wine bottle that is a twist off.

But really. The bag is artsy in a way. It sits next to my $14 grinder and puts a little accent into my kitchen with the hues of different grays and black. It’s the first thing I notice when I get up – A cute little bag of coffee that gives my kitchen some flair.

Kudos. I’m a wine and coffee drinker. I’ve been reading and enjoying everyone’s posts. Since then I ordered a bag of Meth Coffee in beans. Good stuff! Everyone, like wine, always buy your coffee by the bean and not ground, it just stays fresher longer, and it tastes as it should.

Anyway, let’s talk about the coffee – Meth Coffee. Aside from the zany artwork its a pretty damn good cup of coffee. Some nice hues of flavor that work for my taste buds.

With the Yerba Matte, I guess like ginseng, it gives you an extra boost. The boost is like drinking a Mountain Dew Plus, if there ever was such a thing, without the calories that pot belly English teacher has at 45.

Kudos to this site and the intelligent posters who aren’t sitting on their asses watching “Laguna Beach” or whatever the hell you xyz generations do these days.

There is hope, yet. Now, if I can get my juniors to write with such passion – that would be a good thing. Maybe they should have a cup or two of Meth Coffee in the morning, ha!

I’m not to sure of the the zen-buddha verbiage. but yeah, you got my point. you even put a better spin on it i guess. you kind of expanded it a bit.

also: I’ve done some Googling about methamphetamines and found that you were right about meth and normal amphetamines being used by the armed forces. They were and still are called “Go Pills”. The analogy I guess meaning go time to kill, kick ass, and not have a sympathetic heart while you’re killing the other guy, I guess.

I’ll post a few comments that I found. Just an admonition, though – not everything on the net is true. However, just like a doctor who uses inductive reasoning by sign, I guess if many sights are saying that our military (even through today) and our enemies’ military used it/still using it, then it’s safe to say there is validity.

Here are some quotes from Websites. Me being the anal retentive ethics-programmer man, I felt compelled to put the name of the sites down:

allpositiveoptions.com Created an Article called:
“Meth in the Military”
The following are excerpts from that article.

“In December 2002, an installment of ABC’s 20/20 news program examined the use of “go pills” in the military. During that program, Dr. Robert DuPont, one of the leading authorities on drug addiction in the U.S., stated he was shocked to learn the U.S. air force encourages, if not mandates, the use of amphetamines for pilots.

“People who get strung out on amphetamines are usually crazy,” DuPont said. “They’re paranoid, they stop eating … Their judgment is impaired and they do very bad things … They are the sickest of all drug addicts.”

Same site/new quote:

“Meth was also used by the U.S. Air Force and Navy in the Vietnam War. From Vietnam up through “Operation Desert Storm,” the U.S. Air Force has employed the use of both amphetamines (the military slang is “go pills”) in selected aircraft for specific missions, as well as sedatives to aid sleep when necessary.”

same site/new quoted paragraph:

The flight surgeon’s guide to “Performance Maintenance During Continuous Flight Operations” (written by the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory in Pensacola, Florida) mentions such possible side effects as euphoria, depression, hypertension, and addiction. There’s also the possibility of “idiosyncratic reactions” (amphetamines can be associated with feelings of aggression and paranoia) as well as getting hooked on the “cyclic use of a stimulant/sedative combination.”

Same site/new quote:

During World War II, soldiers in all the forces (Allied and Axis) were given liberal amounts of speed. Pilots, tank drivers and infantry used (Dexedrine) and methamphetamine (Methedrine) to stay awake for long periods of time and “enhance” their level of courage and bravado. (see “Meth In The Military”) Almost 72 million tablets were provided to British forces alone (and an estimated 200 million tablets to US forces), prompting a London newspaper in 1941 to carry the bizarre headline “Methedrine Wins The Battle Of London”.

Want more legit proof? How about MSNBC?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3071789/
Excerpt by the reporter: By Jon Bonné
SEATTLE, Jan. 9, 2003 – In conflict after conflict, whenever one of its most deadly enemies rears its head, the U.S. military employs a potent weapon: a little orange pill. The enemy is fatigue, a foe that claimed more deaths among military pilots in the past two decades than combat duty. The solution is selective use of amphetamines, an effective stimulant that has kept military aviators fierce-eyed and alert from the Battle of Britain to night strikes over Afghanistan. With air wings deploying again to the Persian Gulf, questions are surfacing about the safety of “go pills” in the cockpit.

I can go on and on.

Why doesn’t Madigan, A democrat, sue the government for the arm twisting it does on its own military to take amphetamines and methamphetamines from WW2 through at least the first Gulf War?

Maybe Lisa Madigan should make a case and the first statement, as in all cases goes something like this:

“The State of Illinois vs. The Armed Forces of the United States.”

I’m pretty sure that Veterans of Foreign Wars from WW2 through this war have been arm twisted into taking some stimulants for
“Go Time” – Nice way to treat our 19 year old’s, Exxon-Bush!

Hmmm: Coffee and Yerba Matte or Amphetamine use during
“Go Time” Mr. Commander in Chief?

“Well, Amphetamines are stronger, right?

“Yes, Much-Much-Much stronger times 10, Mr. Exxon-Bush, err, I mean Mr. President.”

“Fuck it: go with Amphetamines, I never used them; I liked using cocaine when I was at Camp David when my pops was president. But, if it helps our men kill people better, without falling asleep on the job, make em’ take em!”

“What is coffee and yerba matte, anyway?”

“It’s just that, Mr. President.”

“What’s its street value.”

“Um, sir, it’s not illegal, nor does it have illegal properties.”

“Well what do we call it when it’s not illegal?”

“We call it ‘Market Value’, sir. When the supply and demand lines converge.”

“Oh yeah. No fun in buying anything that has market value except a Hum-Vee. Kinda would like a Hummer right now with a cup of coffee – and not from my wife – get it…see, that’s street value. Cuz getting a blow-job from a prostitute is illegal and has street value, get it guys? Ha-Ha.”

“Yes, Mr. President, I got it.”

“Well get me a hooker, a cup of coffee, and some coke that’s bitches. Let’s go, get to work.”

“Yes, Mr. President.”