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When I first moved here I was amazed at all the coffee stands.  From where I sit there are 5 or 6 Starbucks within just a few miles of my house, some of them literally in the same parking lot.

But whereas Starbucks has the big name recognition and a lot of saturation, there are just as many, if not more, small no-name Espresso stands scattered around the area.  The small stands have many types of draws to help complete with the giants.  Often it is just drink specials, punch cards and catchy names.

My favorite name for a Coffee Stand is "Jitters".

But a few stands have taken the gimic ideas to the next level:  Sex.

The stories broke a few weeks ago locally and on Fox News shortly after that.

Sexpresso? Seattle-Area Coffee ‘Cowgirls’ Show Skin to Get Business

Coffee-stand owner John Cambroto could not compete against the beautiful bikini-clad women selling espresso up the road.

"We had a much better atmosphere, good coffee. Unfortunately, they ran around half-naked and we didn’t," said Cambroto, who finally threw in the towel last spring and sold his business to his rival, the operator of six Cowgirls Espresso stands in the Seattle suburbs.

The naughty baristas of Cowgirls Espresso represent a new trend in and around Seattle — perhaps the most caffeinated city in America — and illustrate how cutthroat the competition can be in the hometown of the massive Starbucks chain, which has multiple coffee shops competing on the same block.

And right there is the blame for this, if you wish to find blame at all:  The cutthroat nature of the small business.

Starbucks can have their trendy music and Starbucks cards and do fine but the little guys need the edge.  The owner of Cowgirls found one more solution, another gimic if you will.  Since most coffee stands are staffed by young girls, dress em up sexy.  What better way to stand apart?

Afterall, would anyone care about Hooters if the waitresses were not clad in tight shorts and shirts?  It would be another boring resturant/sports bar.

Maybe not yet, but soon, I expect we will see it mounting.

You may ask why?  If the people showed a mandate by overturnign the republicans so forcefully why would they backlash now?

A couple reasons, I think.

One reasons is that the Democrat’s are giddy with power.  They have chaffed at being the second party since 1994 and they have never been graceful about it.  Now that they feel the Republicans are on the ropes, there is little they will not do hurt the republicans, and the war is their first target.

The War however may turn out to be more dangerous for them to end then keepign it going.

The danger is that to appease the nutroots they have to end it soon.  Hillary just released a telling video making this point.  She has been hammered by the far left for years on her consistent support of the military and they war.  But now that she has announced her bid for the Oval Office, that position is no longer acceptable,  If she wants their support, she has to flip.

And flip she did, in a big way.  Not just with a 6-18 month draw down.  She wants it to start in 90 days.  Of all the cut and runners, she is the cut and runniest.  Or something.  NO slow bleed here, she wants us to bleed out quickly.

Investers Business Daily ran a story just a few days ago, and they slammed the Democrats (with emphasis on Murtha) fairly decisively.

Unparalleled Perfidy

War On Terror: The party of John Murtha shamelessly seeks to defund and defeat U.S. troops on the battlefield and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The Congress the terrorists wanted is doing their bidding.

Ouch!

…We saw recently the futility of having 100 commanders in chief when the Senate tried to pass a resolution of disapproval of the war in Iraq and couldn’t agree on the terms of our surrender.