One of the great things about being in charge of a web site is the opportunity to become published. Since I am the one who writes the pages I get to say what I want. And, unlike the newspaper, the web site cannot be simply thrown away, the pages I write stay here as long as I continue to pay for the site (and don't manage to upset the people that I rent the site space from). So, I thought I would start this page and provide you my opinion on a few topics that I believe are very important. So, here is, exactly "How I See It".

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1. Coffee, Hot Coffee. Like many sailors, I became addicted to coffee while I was in the Navy. I start my day off with a cup of coffee, I normally nurse two pots throughout the day. As I get older, it has started causing me some problems so now I try to have my last cup around 4:00 in the afternoon. Coffee (in my opinion) was meant to be served hot. I remember when I would sit with my father in the morning and chat while we had our first cup of coffee, hot coffee, at the kitchen table. My dad was a coffee with milk and sugar kind of guy, comes from only spending 4 years in the Navy I think. For him it was fill the cup, add the milk and sugar and then the stirring of the coffee. Stir, stir, stir. On and on it went. That was because the coffee was HOT and stirring it helped cool it enough so that he could drink it. Me, I have always been a black coffee type of guy. Nothing as good as that first cup of Hot Black Coffee in the morning. I have just shared some of my fondest memories with you. A typical morning at my dad's house, the clinking of the spoon as my dad and I shared our morning coffee. Stir, stir, stir, sip while I would blow, blow, sip.

At home I have coffee throughout the day. When about half of the cup is gone, I simply refilled it. That way it is always fairly hot or at least warm. Of course when I get to the last cup I end up drinking cold coffee. But, a true coffee drinker would never consider throwing it away.

Coffee, HOT coffee......... I was a sailor, I did sea duty. I learned many things at sea. For example, I learned that when the seas were rough, a person should hold the cup of HOT coffee out a bit with the arm extended, always keeping the cup moving. Doing so prevented you from spilling the coffee. I still extend the cup of HOT coffee when I am walking and drinking coffee, when I am driving and drinking coffee or when I am doing almost anything while holding a cup of HOT coffee. The reason is simple. Nobody wants to spill the coffee and certainly nobody wants to get burned by the HOT coffee because HOT coffee is HOT.

I don't know her name, I don't even remember what year it happened. What I do know is that that woman's stupidity was the beginning of the end of HOT coffee. McDonalds, I think McDonalds came before Starbucks. McDonalds always had good coffee, and it was HOT too. Not once in my life did I ever think to get a cup of HOT coffee and balance it on my head while I walked to the table. Not once in my life did I ever consider taking a paper cup full of HOT coffee and pushing it into my pants pocket. But, if I did, and it spilled, I would automatically assume that I would get burned. Why, because HOT coffee is HOT. And spilling HOT coffee on myself would mean that I would get burned.

Why in the world would a company like McDonalds pay millions of dollars  http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm to this woman?  Why does the rest of the world suffer because of her stupidity?  The bigger question however is why do the rest of us tolerate it?  The answer is simple, it is in many cases because or lawyers, the people who make stupidity a profitable profession. 

Lawyers........   Have you seen the commercial for Lowell "The Hammer" Stanley?  How about Fred, "The Screw Driver" Smith or Steven "The Vice Grip" Johnson?  These are the educated professionals who, in my opinion, make this world a better place, at least for them that is.  Good old Lowell, he will hammer the insurance companies to make sure you get every dollar you deserve from the insurance company.  Fred will screw anyone and everyone to make sure you become wealthy if some unfortunate schmuck makes a mistake and it costs his client anything ranging from inconvenience to injury.