I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Power surge!
Power surge unplugged!
impeachment surge!
Bush's surge. Up or down?
Those poor people. Temperatures at 120 degrees and no electricity. Criminal, to say the least.
OT: Foot and Mouth disease outbreak in UK was from a vaccine lab.
Frifth !
Sell then Generators!!!!
/wingnut OFF
Well, I suppose that if your parents named you after a monkey, you'd be an ass, as well.
Pay attention to the locals unplugging their generators from the grid; I expect that to start happening in the US before this decade is over.
no water either - With temperatures in Iraq edging close to 120 degrees Fahrenheit, there could not be a more dangerously inconvenient time for Baghdad's decrepit infrastructure to fail on the delivery of water.
Residents and city officials said large sections in the west of the capital had been virtually dry for six days because the already strained electricity grid cannot provide sufficient power to run water purification and pumping stations, according to the AP.
Adel al-Ardawi, a spokesman for the Baghdad city government, said that even with sufficient electricity "it would take 24 hours for the water mains to refill so we can begin pumping to residents. And even then the water won't be clean for a time."
http://www.iraqslogger.com/
index..._in_Summer_Heat
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins | 08.04.07 - 5:19 pm | #
what got really wiggy for me was getting to know the professor who taught me African history. he is Ethiopian and was there during the famines and political troubles. to hear him matter of factly discuss running from the city to the country and back to escape the violence was sobering.
when he saw I was the only one affected by rwanda he went off - told the class either they were not human or they did not do the readings.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | 08.04.07 - 5:22 pm |
We've got quite a few medical residents from Africa.
It's very sad when they tell me I'm really the first American they've met who knows much about the continent (particularly the genocides/mass murders). And I really don't know much.
I think that I'm something of an empath, that's why it affects me, but I still keep reading. I need to try and understand as much as possible.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins | 08.04.07 - 5:26 pm |
Damn you mer!
And the power grid in Philadelphia is much worse!
Aren't Hoof & Mouth and Antrax related?
Seems I recall something along those lines.
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's electricity grid could collapse any day because of insurgent sabotage, rising demand, fuel shortages
Why can't you see the progress????
The Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus has announced plans to invest $234m (£115m) in solar energy.
Archbishop Chrysostomos II said the church would build a factory that would make photo-voltaic panels to capture the sun's energy.
He said proceeds from the investment would be used to provide financial help to clergy and fund other social work.
The government has warned of power cuts in 2008 if the island does not secure additional electricity supplies.
The move follows criticism of the state-run Cyprus electricity authority's apparent failure to cope with increased demand during the recent heatwave which triggered power cuts on the island.
The Orthodox Church is among the island's biggest landowners with sizeable investments in banking, construction, hotels and wine-making.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europ...ope/
6931310.stm
Bill Kristol thinks this is good news.
Fuel shortages in Iraq is an anomaty.
Uhh, Anthrax.
Not the band either.
The surge is working it is just not electrical in nature?
"I will kill myself. I have no meaning in life after you," al-Jibouri cried, standing at the gate of a morgue awaiting his sons' bodies. He kissed each of them before their coffins were closed.
piffle. we know they don't feel things the way we do.
spinoza
Philly is a good place to be; grid likely to stay up due to PJM.
My guess is that the midWest will be the place where some governor says, fuck that shit, I'm keeping my local grid on during the summer or winter and fuck the rest of the country, FERC doesn't have troops at its disposal.
Those poor people. Temperatures at 120 degrees and no electricity. Criminal, to say the least.
mer
How did they ever get by until a/c was invented?
How did he C&P from the monitor?
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Plum P and Hecate and Uncle Smokes: this is as bad as it gets. We walked to the train station through the bleak landscape. On the rise of a hill just above the station, we saw a scene before us that is burned forever in my memory. They say that time is a constant, but it was not that day. Instead, the scene before us appeared no more than a bleak watercolor painting. As we gazed, it seemed that everyone and everything was locked into their ositions as if they were afraid to move. It is a scene I will never forget.
As we stared at the still life watercolor with its gauzy images displayed before us and tried to understand what we were seeing, our vision was disturbed by an approaching train as its mournful whistle ripped the sky. Its stack belched dark clouds into the still blue and white world, and its driving wheels beat out a mechanical background to the sterile scene.
As we stared, we noticed that there were Nazis lining the tracks. Spaced about thirty feet apart, they stood with their weapons ready. Some carried rifles, and a few had automatic weapons, but all were poised for action.
As the train entered the station, we could see that the train’s cars, usually reserved for transporting livestock, were filled with people. Even with a casual glance, I could see that these people looked no more than walking skeletons. They were so pale and thin their bones were clearly visible in their hands and faces as they pressed against the slats exposing them to the elements. I thought they looked like they were already dead, and I wanted to avert my eyes: I did not. Instead, some force drew me to stare at this maudlin scene.
As the train came to a stop, I noticed that a board on the side of one of the cars had come loose. A young Jewish woman delicately pushed a small infant through the crack. Why she did this, I have never understood. What did she hope to accomplish? To this day I cannot say that I know with any certainty. I suppose if I had been her, I might have done the same. But, of this, I am less than sure. I understand it better now, but I still do not think I could have done what she did.
A German soldier moved toward the baby where it lay crying on the white snow. I reached for my father and felt his strong arm on my shoulder as he pulled me close. The soldier stood over the baby with his weapon in a firing position. It looked as if he were readying the gun for firing, but my mind would not let me believe that anyone could do this. The mother managed to jump from the car but landed wrong. When she tried to walk, it was obvious that her leg was broken. Disregarding the pain, she began moving toward the baby, hopping on her good leg and dragging the other behind her. From my vantage point, I could see the panic and hatred in her eyes. The soldier’s upper lip twitched as he walked close to the infant, lowered his rifle to the baby’s head, looked the other way, and squeezed the trigger.
Recession peers over the horizon
How did he C&P from the monitor?
.
agave
Mad skillz. And awesome secret internet powers.
Continued
The mother’s scream ripped from her heart as she limped pitifully toward the soldier. As the seconds passed, I could tell she was cursing him as strongly as I have ever heard anyone curse another. As I stared, I realized that she looked like she was on the verge of death as she staggered to her dead baby.
Helplessly, with tears streaming, she told the soldier that his time was coming. With no expression whatsoever, the soldier raised his weapon to her head and pulled the trigger again and again.
With each retort of the rifle, an involuntary spasm rocked my body. These visions are still with me. I cannot loose them from my consciousness. They have become part of me, and damn them for that. It was at that moment that I learned that hate is not always a bad word. Sometimes, hate is necessary to understand that which cannot be understood without the benefit of this lens to sharpen our focus.
I heard my father cry, “Oh, my God.” I looked at him. His face was pale, and he clenched his fists time and again. I turned my head toward him, clung closely, and let my tears fall.
Now that I am no longer banned, I have nothing pertinent to say outside of a string of expletives, from which I will spare you.
Pelosi/Sheehan : so, everyone's so cool with Pelosi's (and the House's) inaction on the war and on Bush that no one should run that can push her further to the left? They shouldn't be challenged to do what they promised us they'd do in 2006?
Meander, embittered liberal
plantsman -- of course, my expectations are unrealistic. I keep expecting Democrats to oppose Republicans. How unrealistic.
Those poor people. Temperatures at 120 degrees and no electricity. Criminal, to say the least.
Making bush live, and work in that crawford pig farm without AC if it again was a working farm, would be a good place to incarcerate him.
So elevators now have TV's in them?
Now that I am no longer banned, I have nothing pertinent to say outside of a string of expletives, from which I will spare you.
Please do. Be my honored guest.
So elevators now have TV's in them?
I know there are refrigerators with TV's in them.
The rethugs in the House are going to scream bloody murder that they haven't been able to vote on the FISA bill, but in the meantime they keep dragging out voting on the Energy Bill.
Next they're going to put them in restrooms.
If they haven't already.
I have nothing pertinent to say outside of a string of expletives, from which I will spare you.
i don't know enough expletives. or strong enough.
and i used to be a dockworker in jersey city.
At least nine people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in northwest Pakistan.
The bomber car rammed his car into vehicles parked near a bus station in Parachinar, in North West Frontier Province near the border with Afghanistan, security officials said.
"Five people died on the spot while four died in the hospital," Hanif Jan, senior doctor at the main government hospital in Parachinar, said on Saturday.
He said that 35 people had been wounded, some critically.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...B943512666C.htm
and i used to be a dockworker in jersey city
dirk, if you really wanted to put a good string of expletives together, you should have joined the Marines.
dirk, if you really wanted to put a good string of expletives together, you should have joined the Marines.
Barndog, fully Blissed
so i've heard - mostly from the ex-marines on the docks.
but i actually don't think there are sufficient expletives for the way i've been feeling.
I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood and thought I knew them all. Then I logged on here.
OK, you refreshingly rational Moonbats, the well-dressed man is here, wanting to buy me some dinner, and I believe that I will let him. Stay human. It's not as easy as it sounds. If I am lucky, I'll talk with you later tonight.
#$%@!! *&^%!!
#$%@!! *&^%!!
#$%@!! *&^%!!
and furthermore...
but i actually don't think there are sufficient expletives for the way i've been feeling
I understand this issue.
OK, you refreshingly rational Moonbats, the well-dressed man is here, wanting to buy me some dinner, and I believe that I will let him. Stay human. It's not as easy as it sounds. If I am lucky, I'll talk with you later tonight.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
If he plays his cards right, will he be showing you his O-Face?
Shock and awe was a fucking great success was it not?
Blowing shit up is what Chimpy is good at. Putting it back together is not so easy.
#$%@!! *&^%!!
and furthermore...
C'mon Gomez - you're an attorney. I've known many in my years. You can do better.
is thebewilderness someone with a beard, dogs and carpentry skills?
CHICAGO - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton refused Saturday to forsake campaign donations from lobbyists, turning aside challenges from her two main rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination with a rare defense of the special interest industry.
"A lot of those lobbyists, whether you like it or not, represent real Americans, they actually do," Clinton said, drawing boos and hisses from liberal bloggers at the second Yearly Kos convention.
Why anyone supports HRC or anyone with this mindset is beyond me.
bye for now 
the well-dressed man is here, wanting to buy me some dinner, and I believe that I will let him.
I'm very glad you're still letting him buy you dinners. Wear your pearls, won't you?
is thebewilderness someone with a beard, dogs and carpentry skills?
This has my vote.
"A lot of those lobbyists, whether you like it or not, represent real Americans, they actually do,"
Awww geeez...
the well-dressed man is here, wanting to buy me some dinner,
dressed?
i'm sorry.
This has my vote.
Barndog, fully Blissed |
08.04.07 - 5:44 pm | #
Hmmmm.
Money comes and goes - but awesome cooking skills do not.
http://www.comcast.net/news/nati.../04/
731505.html
Okay - HOW does someone FORGET that they left TWO kids in a car?
i've got to be going soon. plus, i've got a run in my tights and have to pick up another pair.
"A lot of those lobbyists, whether you like it or not, represent real Americans, they actually do,"
As opposed to fake Americans; who only appear on blogs.
And some lobbyists, who don't represent anyone, but are merely confused and can't find their way home. Oh, and those lobbyists who represent foreigners. But foreigners merely sap our purity of essence, so they should be disregarded.
i've got a run in my tights and have to pick up another pair
A real man knows how to sew, and knit.
A real man knows how to sew, and knit.
Barndog, fully Blissed | 08.04.07 - 5:47 pm | #
i can't see or reach the area that needs repair.
She didn't forget:
Sametta Heyward was in a bind. The single mother was scheduled to start a double shift at 3 p.m. and her baby sitter had just canceled.
"She was either told to come to work or be fired or she was afraid to call in sick _ one of those things," said police Lt. Michael Fowler.
"A lot of those lobbyists, whether you like it or not, represent real Americans, they actually do," Clinton said, drawing boos and hisses from liberal bloggers at the second Yearly Kos convention.
I told you they were hateful people.
/Bill O
She didn't forget:
Sametta Heyward was in a bind. The single mother was scheduled to start a double shift at 3 p.m. and her baby sitter had just canceled.
"She was either told to come to work or be fired or she was afraid to call in sick _ one of those things," said police Lt. Michael Fowler.
Culture of TrÜth
Don't we have emergency rooms for this kind of thing?
i can't see or reach the area that needs repair
I was under the impression you were naked most of the time, dirk.
Am I misinformed?
She didn't forget:
Sametta Heyward was in a bind. The single mother was scheduled to start a double shift at 3 p.m. and her baby sitter had just canceled.
"She was either told to come to work or be fired or she was afraid to call in sick _ one of those things," said police Lt. Michael Fowler.
Culture of TrÜth
Almost every other civilized country has day care. But not Murka.
Oh, no......
So, she'll be damned for working.
And she'd be damned if she was on welfare.
I was under the impression you were naked most of the time, dirk.
Am I misinformed?
Barndog, fully Blissed | 08.04.07 - 5:49 pm | #
most of the time.
but i have a show tonight.
no, not that kind of show 
She had left Triniti and Shawn with battery-powered fans, food and drinks, but it was not nearly enough to combat the sweltering conditions inside. She later told relatives that when she got to the car at 11:30 p.m., the children were unconscious and had weak pulses.
Heyward, 27, was charged with two counts of homicide by child abuse. A funeral for the children was held Saturday.
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Sametta Heyward was in a bind. The single mother was scheduled to start a double shift at 3 p.m. and her baby sitter had just canceled.
I'll bet she wasn't getting a dime of child support, either.
but i have a show tonight.
Dammed glad I'm staying home.
She worked at a group home.
Residents probably would have liked to have some kids around.
She worked at a group home.
Residents probably would have liked to have some kids around.
Culture of TrÜth
Perhaps.
But would her bosses?
Dammed glad I'm staying home.
Barndog, fully Blissed | 08.04.07 - 5:52 pm | #
you are correct.
the show sucks. worst director i've ever worked with.
i hope spielberg doesn't finally show up to see me perform after all these years.
Her friends and her bosses and even the officers who arrested her say Heyward had been trying her best: working long hours and providing for her children.
She and her children had moved in May into the $185-a-week apartment in Hanahan, a bedroom community of about 14,000 people some 15 miles from Charleston.
A few months before the move, she put a newborn up for adoption. A 12-year-old son lives with his father in Maryland.
@#$%^&!!! "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!" "@#$%^&!!!"
Ahhhh.
A 12-year-old son lives with his father in Maryland.
Culture of TrÜth
27 with a 12 year old.
Damn.
Perhaps.
But would her bosses?
Terry C - Wingnuts R WATB
Just speculating about wastefulness in the system as a whole. That this should not have happened.
Iraq's electricity grid could collapse any day because of insurgent sabotage, rising demand, fuel shortages and provincial officials who are unplugging local power stations from the national system, electricity officials said on Saturday.
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She later told relatives that when she got to the car at 11:30 p.m., the children were unconscious and had weak pulses.
haven't said this in a couple days:
fuckity fuck fuck fuck.
fucking stupid world. really. just doesn't make sense.
ok, that's all for me.
i'm off.
No electricity means no way to power the water pumps, which means no water.
We really need to send kristol over there.
Is Enron in charge?
it is the fault of the leftwing bloggers and their mean spirited attacks from Micheal OHanlon
That this should not have happened.
Culture of TrÜth |
No, it shouldn't have.
Women shouldn't have to choose between their kids' safety and losing their jobs.
I'm not saying stuff like this doesn't happen in Canada or France of Britain or Oz - it does. But not as a direct result of the very nature of government.
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Those green zone burger king signs glowing in the otherwise black-out Baghdad night should only help to increase our popularity.
WASHINGTON - Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest this year that cements its status as the world's near-sole supplier of the heroin source, yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials say.
High Fives at the CIA!
If they don't have electricity they won't have to watch Glenn Beck's shitty show.
How could she not have known that keeping them in a locked car was dangerous. I bet it's not the first time she did it.
"candlelight dinners are great! no air conditioning in 130 degrees is just what the surgeon general ordered"-Ken Pollack
Caring about animals....or afraid it will lose money?
ATLANTA - Michael Vick lost another sponsor - Rawlings.
The sports goods company said Tuesday it was ending its relationship with the Atlanta Flacons quarterback because of dogfighting conspiracy charges.
``Rawlings recognizes that Mr. Vick has not been convicted of the charges stemming from his recent indictment,'' the St. Louis company said. ``However, we have determined that ending our relationship with Mr. Vick at this time is necessary.''
Rawlings used Vick's image in promotional displays in stores, and its decision is the latest commercial setback for the NFL star.
Last week, Nike suspended a lucrative contract with Vick, and Reebok stopped sales of his No. 7 jersey. Upper Deck removed all Vick autographed memorabilia from its online store and said it was removing Vick trading cards from NFL sets to be released in October.
``Rawlings is disappointed about the charges brought against Mr. Vick for his alleged participation in a dogfighting operation,'' the company said. ``Dogfighting is illegal and entirely unacceptable to Rawlings.''
yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials say.
I wonder if they're using heroin at that debate.
Re-HICA!
Speakin' of 130°, it's 101°F here in the 37209, today.
I've had two naps, and I still feel like hell. Maybe I have some dread disease. Yesterday just sucked the life right out of me.
I'm thinkin' I may take a run over to the local Messican restaurant for dinner, to treat myself. I kinda need to hit Target, and it's in the same area. Plus, I could stop and get a Redbox flick.
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I guess if Sametta Heyward had been a white fundie like this woman, offers of help would have come from everywhere:
http://health.discovery.com/conv...s/
jennifer.html
Terry C - Wingnuts R WATBs | 08.04.07 - 6:05 pm | #
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
"candlelight dinners are great! no air conditioning in 130 degrees is just what the surgeon general ordered"-Ken Pollack
jr
Actually, what he said was, if there isn't a political solution, the lack of electricity could be a problem.
And there should be a political solution, because America kicked over the Iraqi ant mound, and now is leaving it to them to repair everything. Why they can't just work together and create democracy out of chaos (something that has never been done in the history of the world, AFAIK), is apparently the Iraqis fault.
But Pollack and O'Hanlon regret that their comments were misconstrued.
Large families are a blessing. As long as they're white and Christian.
/Winger.
Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest
Poppy harvest - Isn't that Barbara Bush's nickname for her kids?
Large families are a blessing. As long as they're white and Christian.
/Winger.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi
You forgot rich; or at least upper middle class.
Well, isn't THAT just special.
August with no electricity. I guess Iraq will be nice and peaceful once the rest of the people flee.
August with no electricity. I guess Iraq will be nice and peaceful once the rest of the people flee.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork?
No one will be left by September but terrorists. Then we can dust off and nuke the whole place from space.
I just hope they get through summer soon in Iraq. That is one thing we aren't really appreciating. At best 2-4 hours of electricity a day on days that get into the high triple digits. For years now.
How would we be reacting if this was going on in Houston or Miami for this long?
August with no electricity.
No wonder the Iraqi government lit outta town.
Re-HICA!
Speakin' of 130°, it's 101°F here in the 37209, today.
Wow.
It's only 91 here. In August. Crazy.
How would we be reacting if this was going on in Houston or Miami for this long?
trifecta
Or New Orleans.
No one will be left by September but terrorists. Then we can dust off and nuke the whole place from space.
I think you've identified Plan B.
Large families are a blessing. As long as they're white and Christian.
/Winger.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi
She's going to keep on having them till menopause shuts her down.
The news may sound unsettling over there,
But mind you, there's no reason to despair,
In fact, there's every reason to keep grinning:
Petraeus will, next month, report we're winning.
Hey, it's going to cool down to 104 on Wednesday in Iraq. That's something.
They could use our chickenhawks for fuel.
Then we can dust off and nuke the whole place from space.
That option will always be on the table, and you can't make me take it off!!
How would we be reacting if this was going on in Houston or Miami for this long?
trifecta
I'd have driven to Washington and put a head or two on my pitchfork.
But I'm cranky that way when I get hot.
August with no electricity. I guess Iraq will be nice and peaceful once the rest of the people flee.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
Or die from the heat....or from thirst.
I just went out to take more photos of my scooter handiwork from this morning, and it's like a fucking oven outside.
.
I feel guilty now that I have AC.
Hey, it's going to cool down to 104 on Wednesday in Iraq. That's something.
trifecta
Well, it's a dry heat....
...so that's something.
They could use our chickenhawks for fuel.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi
Throw in Patraeus and you're talking my language.
No electricity means no way to store baby food or medicine.
Culture of life! Culture of life!
Or die from the heat....or from thirst.
When the electricity goes they won't have any potable water either.
August with no electricity. I guess Iraq will be nice and peaceful once the rest of the people flee.
Or they all die of heat exhaustion and dehydration...
When the electricity goes they won't have any potable water either.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork?
That's already in short supply. Makes concerns about a/c rather irrelevant.
A friend of mine is over there right now.
Ack.
I think he's coming back this week though.
Or they all die of heat exhaustion and dehydration...
NTodd, Foaming At The Mouth
I wonder if that's the plan.
That's already in short supply. Makes concerns about a/c rather irrelevant.
I think they're mostly concerned with getting water and keeping their food from spoiling.
I read this as Dirk Diggler:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...d=moreheadlines
Citizens of the US depend so much on electricity, all they need is the lack of - 1-2 weeks, for white flags to hang from each house.
Oh well, in happier news, I ordered mah new car today.
Woo hooo!!
Citizens of the US depend so much on electricity, all they need is the lack of - 1-2 weeks, for white flags to hang from each house.
Gilly Gonzylon | 08.04.07 - 6:18 pm | #
Lets face it. A day without TV would cause a revolution here.
Fit?
Pelosi/Sheehan : so, everyone's so cool with Pelosi's (and the House's) inaction on the war and on Bush
I applaud Sheehan. Pelosi and Reid are a disgrace to the billions of people that hoped they would stand up to Bush and Cheney.
I think they're mostly concerned with getting water and keeping their food from spoiling.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork?
Yup. You can tell how far removed from the reality of no electricity we are. I know people who saw their first electrical appliance as young children, and then it was a demonstration. They still live in the Houston area, having grown up without a/c. But they had wells for water.
A/C you can live without. Water is another matter. And even NPR was reporting this a.m. that potable water is in short supply in some areas. That situation is not improving, either.
But Kristol sees more clearly than we, and knows all those thirsty people are just ingrates who don't appreciate our gifts of freedom.
Foot-in-mouth disease found in the White House?
4LGS what kinda car did you buy?
Fit?
Culture of TrÜth
Yah, this one.
http://automobiles.honda.com/
too...A20070804221350
It's almost obnoxiously bright.
Citizens of the US depend so much on electricity, all they need is the lack of - 1-2 weeks, for white flags to hang from each house.
Gilly Gonzylon | 08.04.07 - 6:18 pm | #
American's priorities have reached the point where they would much rather give up their constitutional rights than their cars or air conditioners
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4LGS what kinda car did you buy?
Honda Fit.
It's perfect for me- I mostly just drive around the city. Has lots of space for tripods and stuff.
Citizens of the US depend so much on electricity, all they need is the lack of - 1-2 weeks, for white flags to hang from each house.
Gilly Gonzylon
3 days, and they'd be going nuts or giving up. I was in Houston when Rita knocked out our power for about that long. I recalled farmers who'd lived in the area 70 years earlier, who would have simply cleared the debris and re-lit the lamps and pumped water out of the well and lit the fire.
We had to have matches to light the gas stove, batteries to keep the radio going, and no lights at all when the sun went down, except flashlights. Such is progress.
I'm waiting for the Smart to arrive next year.
It's been a pleasure.
HEY DUMBASS BROWNS MANAGEMENT - SIGN BRADY QUINN
The Steelers are tired of tackling Charlie Frye - he doesn't bathe regularly.
P.U.
American's priorities have reached the point where they would much rather give up their constitutional rights than their cars or air conditioners
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Tacitus Voltaire
Sad, but true.
Color?
I'm waiting for the Smart to arrive next year.
I'd be too frightened to drive one of those here.
But the Fit should be fun- it's small and kind of peppy and even rather hip among the young crowd.
Great gas mileage too.
American's priorities have reached the point where they would much rather give up their constitutional rights than their cars or air conditioners
Cars and A/C ARE our God-given rights! And all the energy we need, forever, to run 'em on!
Yah, this one.
http://automobiles.honda.com/ too...A20070804221350
It's almost obnoxiously bright.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork?
Fella on my street has a bright red one.
feel guilty now that I have AC.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 6:15 pm | #
No need to feels remorseful, cool the air,
If fact, throw in a can of frosty beer:
As Chimpy says, if we don't beat the heat there
The heat will come and fight us over here.
Vivid Blue pearl.
I figured since I wuz geting a funky car it should be a funky bright color.
What are the Browns offering the boy?
Fella on my street has a bright red one.
I love the red, but I'd have had to wait until late September for a red one.
We had to have matches to light the gas stove, batteries to keep the
radio going, and no lights at all when the sun went down, except
flashlights. Such is progress.
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We have my husband's grandmother's oil lamps on the sideboard. He's 72...and remembers their complete self sufficiency. Thinking of installing her woodstove as auxilliary heat in winter. Can't imagine what we would do without the A/C...suffocate probably.
A collapsing electrical grid actually is good news since it means Iraqis are learning to conserve. It will be the first "green" democracy in the Middle East. Green is on the March!
Or something.
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Fella on my street has a bright red one.
I love the red, but I'd have had to wait until late September for a red one.
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Nothing wrong with the blue.
My town is really getting into the alternative fuel thingy. Within a mile of the house there is a biodiesel station, and this week-end a natural gas filling station for vehicles just opened.
Can't imagine what we would do without the A/C...suffocate probably.
I would die.
I'd be too frightened to drive one of those here.
But the Fit should be fun- it's small and kind of peppy and even rather hip among the young crowd.
Great gas mileage too.
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08.04.07 - 6:24 pm |
I saw them all over Paris in 2001. If they can handle Paris traffic they should do Austin just fine. I understand they are quite well rated for safety. You made a good choice though considering your photography gear has to go somewhere.
Nothing wrong with the blue.
No, I really like the blue.
Walked around Austin yesterday. The heat (the humidity wasn't that bad, compared to Houston) got to my daughter much worse than it got to me.
All a matter of what you're used to. I spent my childhood summers out doors in East Texas. A/C was a luxury. Now, it's as common as drinking water.
So it goes.
Fly,
Are you sure you're not Calvin Trillin?
If they can handle Paris traffic they should do Austin just fine
Paris isn't filled with assholes driving gigantic SUVs, Hummers and pickup trucks.
But yes, I do need me some cargo space.
What are the Browns offering the boy?
billy b - west coast blues
8 mill guaranteed. Around 1 mill per year base.
Incentives. He wants more.
When the electricity goes they won't have any potable water either.
They already don't have potable water.
Blue would be my choice too.
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
I got a Fit it's great - and safe as well
Its the reason the Browns suck.
You pay extra for a first round QB to get him into camp.
FUCK the money. They print it in the NFL.
I still have the loaner car from the Acura dealer.
I've felt guilty driving around in the TSX all week- it's not that big of a car, but does one person need that much automobile?
I think not. (thanks Al Gore for making us all think about these things)
They already don't have potable water.
NTodd, Foaming At The Mouth
Why would anyone want to pote it? Just drink it, for goodness sake!
I got a Fit it's great - and safe as well
Excellent.
Fun to drive? did you get a manual or automatic?
Why would anyone want to pote it? Just drink it, for goodness sake!
Hey, different cultures do different shit. Who am I to judge?
RMJ,
It has been fairly pleasant here in the Hills if you ignore the flooded and impassable roads we have had up here All the rain has really helped keep the temps down. As 4LGS said earlier it has been unusually cool.
I grew up in L.A. without A/C until I was 10 in 1970. Box fans work really well.
This Iraq war talk is harshing my NFL buzz.
Blue would be my choice too.
Why, you have excellent taste sir!
Would you like cheezburger?
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only....
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
I only drive manual but yeah it's fun as much as it can be without being a Porsche
Gotta go fire up the charcoal.
hellkitty, I keep forgetting you're in my vicinity.
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
Would you like cheezburger?
DUZ IT HAZ FLAVR?
Paris isn't filled with assholes driving gigantic SUVs, Hummers and pickup trucks.
But yes, I do need me some cargo space.
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08.04.07 - 6:29 pm |
you have a point there...but then Paris is filled with Parisians who don't really like traffic laws too.
I grew up in L.A. without A/C until I was 10 in 1970. Box fans work really well.
therealhellkitty
I miss the attic fan of my childhood. Like sleeping under a prop plane. Once you learn to tune that noise out, you can sleep through anything.
I only drive manual but yeah it's fun as much as it can be without being a Porsche
Nice. Glad to hear it.
I drove a Civic but found it boring. The Fit just seems more fun.
4Legs, how are the darling Gurrlzz?
DUZ IT HAZ FLAVR?
Oh yes.
From the jalapenos.
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
It has been fairly pleasant here in the Hills if you ignore the flooded and impassable roads we have had up here All the rain has really helped keep the temps down.
I do miss the Hill Country.
hellkitty, I keep forgetting you're in my vicinity.
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Are you north or south?
I don't really care much as long as I get from A to B and it's small. But it even has all around airbags - that's an improvement for me
8 mill guaranteed. Around 1 mill per year base.
Incentives. He wants more.
That ain't much.
4Legs, how are the darling Gurrlzz?
They are great, though poor little Ripley is teething and her little mouf is a little swollen.
So funny, her adult canines are coming in but her baby canines haven't fallen out.
So she has four.
G'evening, bats.
I'm scheduled to go to a wedding reception soon, so please, give me an excuse to stall...
I went to the every Saturday book sale at the public library. It was entertaining to see all the 'make a million in real estate' and 'make a million in the stock market' books piled high. Even funnier was one of those cheap self-published books that those wealth hucksters sell at their 200 dollar seminars for sale for a buck.
Are you north or south?
Central.
Shoal creek area-ish.
I do miss the Hill Country.
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08.04.07 - 6:36 pm | #
We had another inch of rain Thursday. The creek below my house was roaring over the bridge. Soils here are totally saturated.
I saw the Ronald Reagan book at the dollar store.
(Great place to shop, btw)
Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated.
Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.
The sums were done by Chris Goodall, campaigning author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, based on the greenhouse gases created by intensive beef production. “Driving a typical UK car for 3 miles [4.8km] adds about 0.9 kg [2lb] of CO2 to the atmosphere,” he said, a calculation based on the Government’s official fuel emission figures. “If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories. You’d need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of emissions, or four times as much as driving
I don't really care much as long as I get from A to B and it's small. But it even has all around airbags - that's an improvement for me
That's my feeling too.
But for a little, inexpensive car, it has a little style and fun.
For those who didn't get near enough Shad! earlier... 
.
Shoal creek area-ish.
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08.04.07 - 6:38 pm |
nearish to Grapeving Mkt?
Iraq's electricity grid could collapse any day because of insurgent sabotage, rising demand, fuel shortages and provincial officials who are unplugging local power stations from the national system, electricity officials said on Saturday.
The war supporters keep on thinking that Iraq is a military problem, and with their video game mentality, think that we will soon 'kill all th' bad guys' and then the bell will go off and declare Bush a winner.
The fact is that we are failing to own and operate a country of 23 million people. The war is just a part of it...
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Can't imagine what we would do without the A/C...suffocate probably.
I would die.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork?
Phoenix loses power during the summer with fair regularity. Either the grid goes down for some reason or another, or somebody decides taking out a main connexion is a good idea. What do you do? Why, you do what we did in the old days. You go outside, sit under some shade and be quiet. If you're lucky and you have a pool, you sit in it. If not, and you don't have an outside, you draw yourself a nice cool bath and sit in that. If the outage goes on into the night, which it often does, and if you want to honor the history of the region, you wet down some sheets and hang them up under the porch or ramada and let the night breeze bring down the temperature. It's not the most fun thing in the world, and you're right - the primary issue is what is driven by electricity - but it's manageable. We here always refer to residents as those who came here before a/c and those afterwards. And the parts of town reflect what period they were built in. After a/c? No porches to speak of. Before a/c - big wide verandas, sleeping porches, overhangs, ramadas - and summer kitchens out in the back.
The thing about losing power in Iraq is of course analogous to losing power in Chicago. Iraqis any more have no real familiarity with how to live without a/c of some kind - any more than residents of AZ who arrived here in 1999 do. A lot of people are going to die because of it.
If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories.You’d need about 100g of beef to replace those calories,
or.. um... two pieces of fruit or a granola bar?
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Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
666
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
nearish to Grapeving Mkt?
Closer to central market.
“If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories. You’d need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of emissions, or four times as much as driving
Is this a fucking joke or what?
8 mill guaranteed. Around 1 mill per year base.
Incentives. He wants more.
That ain't much.
billy b - west coast blues
They are 3.5 mill apart.
1 mill on the guaranteed money 2.5 on the incentives.
Cheep Cheep. Cheep.
And they wonder why they have no rings.
Sudden update of Surveillance act
well this isnt nice - but what has been nice in the past 7 years? Get used to it - u dont need a brain. Throw it away - fodder it to starving kids in Africa-do sth useful.
Yes it is
o porches to speak of. Before a/c - big wide verandas, sleeping porches, overhangs, ramadas - and summer kitchens out in the back.
the sleeping porch... what a wonderful concept....
Closer to central market.
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08.04.07 - 6:40 pm |
another wonderful destination.
The thing about losing power in Iraq is of course analogous to losing power in Chicago. Iraqis any more have no real familiarity with how to live without a/c of some kind - any more than residents of AZ who arrived here in 1999 do. A lot of people are going to die because of it.
Yes.
Got no porch or ramada here.
Another added bonus to destroying the nation's industrial base is that things like fabric is manufactured overseas and is now costly to buy because of fuel costs. I went to the local fabric store to look into buying fabrics to make a crazy quilt and was stunned at how much gingham, corduroy, and muslim is. And not the fancy stuff either. I wonder when they will go back to selling flour in flour sacks with the printed fabrics.
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
RMJ: then there was my fifth floor window overlooking Broadway and 115th St, that was wide open from April until June.
Sleepaway camp in western Connecticut at 12 yo was my first encounter with silence and darkness. It was like being wrapped in black velvet; it was wonderful. And all those stars up there.
I dunno what's happened, but now the temp is down to 99.5°F.
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“If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories. You’d need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of emissions, or four times as much as driving"
somebody is getting paid to do these calculations?
See? That beef thang is another reason to get a scooter!
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Worth remembering that they need electricity to pump water...
Worth remembering that they need electricity to pump water...
Yep. I said that earlier.
And to run the water treatment plants.
They are pretty much fucked.
or four times as much as driving
I call bullshit. The gas burned is only counted towards its carbon footprint but not the carbon load to get that gas to you. Additionally, anyone on an all beef diet probably drives a SUV and isn't going to walk anywhere.
Enjoy yourself while you can, fy.
I've been in touch with the gentleman who wrote the killfile script.
He's agreed to try to modify it especially to kill YOUR scroll trolls.
Your days here as a pest are numbered.
HAW! HAW! HAW!
Yes, sleeping porches. I saw a picture of one of those in the magazine AMERICAN BUNGALOW. Like camping outside but without bugs. Another thing they used to have was the breeze-way. They were like open air rooms with a weather-proof roof and usually connected the house to the garage. Sitting in one of those while the rain drummed on the roof was wonderful.
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
Either vegan bullshit or gas lobby bullshit.
Yes, sleeping porches. I saw a picture of one of those in the magazine AMERICAN BUNGALOW. Like camping outside but without bugs. Another thing they used to have was the breeze-way. They were like open air rooms with a weather-proof roof and usually connected the house to the garage. Sitting in one of those while the rain drummed on the roof was wonderful.
My new house has two porches.
I'm really excited.
4Legs, here's a comic strip you'll enjoy. Granted, some of them are only for ubergeeks, but most of them are hilarious to anyone.
<a href="http://xkcd.com/archive/">Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language</a>
I recommend 'In Ur Reality' and 'the difference' for openers.
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only.....
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
Worth remembering that they need electricity to pump water...
ProfWombat
If you need electricity to pump water then what you really need is an infrastructure to move the water to the pumping station. And that's the crux of the matter, and the difference between an ancient civilisation and a recent one. Now, Mesopotamia used to have some pretty darned good canals set up to move water, just as the Anasasi set them up here in AZ. I'm not sure tho that those canals still exist, or, if they do, they move enough water to supply current population centers. Generally, since the second war, such geographically sensible infrastructure apparatus were destroyed or superseded by modern systems - which were all powered electrically rather than by gravity or flow. My guess is that the ancient systems no longer are in much use - and that things like known backup wells are wildly insufficient or inaccessible.
Either vegan bullshit or gas lobby bullshit.
Sounds like oil lobby nonsense.
from BBC:
Bibilomulas are travelling libraries on the backs of mules in the Venezuelan outback, now equipped with laptops and projectors.
"We want to install wireless modems under the banana plants so the villagers can use the internet," says Robert Ramirez, the co-ordinator of the university's Network of Enterprising Rural Schools.
4Legs, apparently the new script doesn't like html.
xkcd.com/archive/
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sallyh! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
How ya, today? Hot enough for ya?
.
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
Is that green ho working my side of the street again?
Someone needs to beat his green ass.
My guess is that the ancient systems no longer are in much use - and that things like known backup wells are wildly insufficient or inaccessible.
Yep.
Did you see the article on CNN about the villages in India that are going solar?
{{{Jeffraham!!!}}}
How're you and the boys?
“If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories. You’d need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of emissions, or four times as much as driving"
Indeed, BEEF IS WHAT'S FOR DINNER and the only way humans can replace 180 calories. Been that way since the dawn of time.
Jeffraham, it's actually not that hot here. We've got the doors open and fans on but no AC.
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Some art experts in Australia are red-faced after a Vincent Van Gogh they said was worth $21 million was proven to be a fake
(snip)
The painting was purchased and brought to Australia by newspaper publisher Keith Murdoch in 1939.
Keith Murdoch is the father of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
http://www.knbc.com/news/1381332...322/
detail.html
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks.
my guess is hillrhc has done any testing on the effect his spam has.
4Legs, apparently the new script doesn't like html.
I'm sorry, what?
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...((*)
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
RMJ,
It has been fairly pleasant here in the Hills if you ignore the flooded and impassable roads we have had up here All the rain has really helped keep the temps down. As 4LGS said earlier it has been unusually cool.
I grew up in L.A. without A/C until I was 10 in 1970. Box fans work really well.
therealhellkitty | 08.04.07 - 6:33 pm
Helps if the house is built well.
My apartment house is 70+ years old, but crappy, absorbs heat and cold.
I have friends living in historic homes, with nice thick brick outside walls, so even w/o AC they're not as hot.
just to give you some idea of what uncompetitive electricity costs....I live within the area served by Pedernales Electric Cooperative. There is no other option for power suppliers here. My monthly electric bill on the "level pay plan" is $169.00 per month. This is an all electric house and there are only two of us here. A friend of mine lives in Austin...and pays about $13.00 per month for her electric.
Actually, beef IS what's for dinner in mah house.
"Is that green ho working my side of the street again?
Someone needs to beat his green ass."
It's in the works!
He'll be SO fucked it woun't be funny.
Well, he won't think it's funny.
The rest of us, though...
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...2
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
Sleeping porch, Ford Hotel, Phoenix, 1914.
4Legs, visit http://xkcd.com/archives/
You'll enjoy. I recommend 'The Difference' and 'In Ur Reality' for starters.
Sallyh: How're you and the boys?
Enjoying the processed air, today! It was 101°F an hour ago.
Otherwise, I've been sleeping my ass off, all day, almost. I'm either dying, or just getting too old to go through all-day walking and standing ordeals like yesterday.
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My monthly electric bill on the "level pay plan" is $169.00 per month. This is an all electric house and there are only two of us here. A friend of mine lives in Austin...and pays about $13.00 per month for her electric.
Okay, that's fucked up.
My bill never goes above $60, even in the summer.
Good luck Chris
Remember to vote for Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
And during the dog days of summer we have a repeating troll named hill ass.
I can picture it.
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
6666
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
Lobbyists have feelings too, yknow.
I think I'll vote for HIllary just to piss off the scroll trolls.
fourlegsrgood: My bill never goes above $60, even in the summer.
Mine was almost $80, last month, and that's with the thermo set at 82°F. I have that cheap TVA electricity, too! Then again, I have a very leaky condo.
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We have zero choice. We are all electric. We pay about $150 in the summer, $200 in the winter, and about $80 or so in the spring and fall.
We set the thermostat fairly high too. We use the AC to put the house down to 80 in summer time. Heat it to 68 in the winter.
Otherwise, I've been sleeping my ass off, all day, almost.
_____
You're not the only one. Good thing I'm off this month.
The poor lobbyists
Just nurses and teachers and Girl Scouts- according to Hill
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
Yes, sleeping porches. I saw a picture of one of those in the magazine AMERICAN BUNGALOW. Like camping outside but without bugs. Another thing they used to have was the breeze-way. They were like open air rooms with a weather-proof roof and usually connected the house to the garage. Sitting in one of those while the rain drummed on the roof was wonderful.
sekmet | 08.04.07 - 6:48 pm
My grandparent's house in Indy had a breezeway and radiant heat. I loved it.
I think I'll vote for HIllary just to piss off the scroll trolls.
______
Ditto, anything to piss off a scroll troll.
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...666
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
Hosama, Hosama,
If I could just pronounce Hosama, I'd still have a job.
My bill never goes above $60, even in the summer.
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08.04.07 - 6:54 pm |
yup, it sure is. The house is 1600 SF and pretty well insulated. We have an efficient A/C unit and a low consumption washer....so tell me why my water bill should be $120.00 for 3,600 gallons? Aqua TX...has the monopoly on this area.
el: Ditto, anything to piss off a scroll troll.
Best way? Use greasemonkey killfile, and set phasers to HEAVY ignore.
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You'll enjoy. I recommend 'The Difference' and 'In Ur Reality' for starters.
Hee.
Love that.
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...1
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only........
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
We didn't need air conditioning in June. Our electricity/water bill was $90. We turned it on in July, our bill was $140. We have TVA too.
My grandparent's house in Indy had a breezeway
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Grandma's breezeway had a rocking couch in it. In the summer, the only place to be.
In New Orleans, the French would build their city houses around a courtyard that usually had a fountain in the middle. They preserved one of these in the Pontalba Apartments. Three stories high, each story has an outside walkway on all sides looking down on the courtyard and large windows that can be opened. I toured it in August and the thing was cool and comfortable because of the thick walls and all that ventilation.
the question I've asked myself over and over the last 6 years is whether the democrats are chickenhearted idiots or just in the bag. It maybe just wishful thinking that keeps me from knowing.
Most people just ignore him. It actually gets less annoying after a hile. I just scroll down and ignore it like background noise.
"Best way? Use greasemonkey killfile, and set phasers to HEAVY ignore."
And soon, we'll use his own words against him!
Bwahahahahahahahaha!
Mine was almost $80, last month, and that's with the thermo set at 82°F. I have that cheap TVA electricity, too! Then again, I have a very leaky condo.
My place is really well insulated, and replacing a few bulbs with compact flourescents has actually made a difference.
GE is making 'em now with "daylight" coating. Bought one today. I guess I'll get used to it.
I must go put my new big umbrella into the vegetable patch. Discovering that my theory that I can keep things growing happily if I can just keep the direct sunlight off them has made my cucumbers and melons and beans happy and productive.
In New Orleans, the French would build their city houses around a courtyard that usually had a fountain in the middle. They preserved one of these in the Pontalba Apartments. Three stories high, each story has an outside walkway on all sides looking down on the courtyard and large windows that can be opened. I toured it in August and the thing was cool and comfortable because of the thick walls and all that ventilation.
sekmet | 08.04.07 - 6:59 pm | #
French Quarter architecture is largely Spanish in design.
Cheap shotgun houses are also designed to maximize airflow.
4Legs, there are a fair number of cartoons dealing with cats. Cats and math are never far apart
rorschach: Cheap shotgun houses are also designed to maximize airflow.
How about expensive Italian ladies' shotgun houses?
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"I just scroll down and ignore it like background noise."
--trifecta
Me too. Just an extra click of the mouse to get pass the nonesense.
Summertime, blogging to my neighbor's insane laugh which I don't hear all winter.
Keeping cool with one window AC. We close all the rooms except the open kitchen/dining/living room. Stay up late, when it gets cool enough in the rooms to use plain old fans.
sekmet | 08.04.07 - 6:59 pm | #
French Quarter architecture is largely Spanish in design.
Cheap shotgun houses are also designed to maximize airflow.
and the Spanish borrowed it from the Moors.
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only...
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
VoTe GrEen nOt BlUe
Never for Hillary
The lobbying queen only.....
How is the Orange fascist meeting?
Like the good ole days in El Salvador.
Nutroots was a big swindle, where was Jerome.
Look at the votes on Fisa from the nutroots candidates. Take your money and vote with Bush.
If you like Bush you will love Hillary
My grandparent's house in Indy had a breezeway
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Grandma's breezeway had a rocking couch in it. In the summer, the only place to be.
el | 08.04.07 - 6:59 pm
I think they started off with the rocking chairs. Then they put in the older couch and a tv. The 'old folks' would watch their tv in the sitting room and I'd watch in the breezeway. Or just sit and watch/listen to the summer storms.
And in the winter, curl up under the kitchen table and enjoy the radient heat while Grandma was cooking breakfast.
How about expensive Italian ladies' shotgun houses?
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:04 pm | #
That lies outside my experience.
Wut sallyh was talking about:
http://plush-life.blogspot.com/2.../08/oh-
hai.html
I may just make biscuits and gravy for dinner. It's still to hot to go outside.
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Ah cats. I forget all winter how LONG they are. They actually triple in size, weather like this.
How about expensive Italian ladies' shotgun houses?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Often used to give elderly Republican lawyers a Cheney facial.
Evening, rational people.
I've got Bonus Critter Blogging up, and JohnJS has really outdone himself this time.
4Legs, there are a fair number of cartoons dealing with cats. Cats and math are never far apart
Naturally.
I tried telling the green troll last night that Markos would have to have been nine to participate in the El Salvador death squads.
Like preaching to the pelicans.
Cheap shotgun houses are also designed to maximize airflow.
Mine's a derringer.
L.E. seems to be growing at about 5% a day. He's really in a growth spurt, right now.
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4Legs, why thank you
Summertime, blogging to my neighbor's insane laugh which I don't hear all winter.
Yup. I decided last week the worst thing about no A/C isn't the heat, it's the freakin' noise.
L.E. seems to be growing at about 5% a day. He's really in a growth spurt, right now.
Feh.
I hope he's not radioactive like Maddie.
She's the biggest fucking kitten of all time.
Cheap shotgun houses are also designed to maximize airflow.
Mine's a derringer.
NTodd, Foaming At The Mouth | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:07 pm | #
Last one I lived in barely qualified as a musket. Didn't even have a stove in the damn thing.
It's a balmy monsoon afternoon here.
74F, without any need for AC, or any other kind of cooling. Since there are already some covered porches, the windows below them can also be left open for anything but the most violent rain storms.
I'm eventually going to surround the most of the house with covered porches. They reduce the heat load on the the house by shading the sun from the walls.
There's a big difference from having to insulate the effects of ambient 100F air, and having the walls reach well into the high 100s.
4Legs, why thank you
No, thank you.
Cheap shotgun houses are also designed to maximize airflow.
And hold weddings.
Last one I lived in barely qualified as a musket. Didn't even have a stove in the damn thing.
So, a pop gun?
4Legs, don't forget to check out the Blogofractal
Diane C. Barking-Mad,
Publisher is sending SILENT SCREAMS to a big printer for the second printing to do a MASS printing.
140 degrees and they have no water in Baghdad.
The children have no water.
what can one say.
Re: bonus critter blogging
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the Siamese reminds me of our boat cat, the whole litter born on board and only given away to live aboard boaters.
Mr. El got our kitty (now deceased)while making a passage from Chesapeake Bay to home.
So any news from Iraq? Is Bush's spurt working?
In some cities you need a license for a shotgun house.
Last one I lived in barely qualified as a musket. Didn't even have a stove in the damn thing.
So, a pop gun?
NTodd, Foaming At The Mouth
a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot, Range Model Air Rifle house?
So, a pop gun?
NTodd, Foaming At The Mouth | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:09 pm | #
Given the violence that transpired in that place, I reckon a bit more than a pop gun...
Last one I lived in barely qualified as a musket. Didn't even have a stove in the damn thing.
rorschach, futon djinn | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:09 pm | #
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It's not really down market if it's not mostly held up by tar-paper and some magazine pages stuck to the wall and with a couple of funeral home fans for air-conditioning.
The children have no water.
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Maybe soon available between 2:00 and 2:20 am, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot, Range Model Air Rifle house?
Jim
You'll put you're eye out.
No water. Now, possibly going from little electricity to no electricity. Less food.
What the hell have we accomplished since March of 2003????
Publisher is sending SILENT SCREAMS to a big printer for the second printing to do a MASS printing.
DWD - Reaching Tinder Point
Yahoo!
Now that's the kind of news I like to hear.
Congrats, DWD!
There's a big difference from having to insulate the effects of ambient 100F air, and having the walls reach well into the high 100s.
Doug | 08.04.07 - 7:09 pm |
If I'd realized that I would be in this building for 16 years, I'd have planted a tree on the south and west sides. The south and west sides have no shade, and the heat builds up something awful.
i've put in reflective insulation in my side of the attic, goddess knows how much hotter it'd be inside without it.
"Publisher is sending SILENT SCREAMS to a big printer for the second printing to do a MASS printing."
--DWD
Reading that made me happy.
What the hell have we accomplished since March of 2003????
We've killed a lot of Muslims. But I think they still outnumber us worldwide, so we have some more work to do.
soon 'we' can make sure the iranian children have no water.
hey who needs a ride to church? pastor's talkin' bout' sancitification today!!!
We've killed a lot of Muslims.
Which explains why Bush is so upbeat.
He's always happiest when he's killing something.
We've killed a lot of Muslims. But I think they still outnumber us worldwide, so we have some more work to do.
NTodd, Foaming At The Mouth | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:13 pm | #
It's hard work.
We've killed a lot of Muslims. But I think they still outnumber us worldwide, so we have some more work to do.
NTodd, Foaming At The Mouth
We also ruined the Bill of Rights.
I lived in a camelback house which had transoms over the doors for air circulation. Also high ceilings and a front porch.
What the hell have we accomplished since March of 2003????
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who needs food, water, and electricity when they have a Constitution.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
who needs food, water, and electricity when they have a Constitution.
They don't apparently have a government. But:
PURPLE FINGERS, PURPLE FINGERS!!!
What the hell have we accomplished since March of 2003????
jawbone | 08.04.07 - 7:12 pm | #
Well, GE and Haliburton execs have made a fortune in stock options.
"No water. Now, possibly going from little electricity to no electricity. Less food.
What the hell have we accomplished since March of 2003????"
--jawbone
Really. Makes me heart sick for the citizens of Iraq. Bush&co should pay a price for this.
If I call a medium coffee grande, does that meke me an elitist?
is the long train of abuses and usurpations still going on in the real world?
i'm too far removed from reality to know what is being fed via msm to the masses.
What the hell have we accomplished since March of 2003????
We have paid half a trillion dollars to Bush's Carlyle Group, Cheney's Halliburton and Rumsfeld's Bechtel. Oh, and Rice's Chevron is in good position to take title to the Iraqi oil fields.
"No water. Now, possibly going from little electricity to no electricity. Less food.
What the hell have we accomplished since March of 2003????"
--jawbone
Really. Makes me heart sick for the citizens of Iraq. Bush&co should pay a price for this.
Maybe the next National Review cruise can be up the Tigris.
Tiger is still a kitten sort of but he's not getting very big.
He is ferocious though. He bit me twice this morning.
*Gomez thinking about blasting holes in his apartment walls for air circulation*
can the president be held responsible for crimes committed in office once he has left office?
Thanks Mer and Diane. I am kind of chuffed. I am thinking of leaving the classroom and just trying to travel to schools as a presenter on the Holocaust Forgotten and as person to introduce the art and science of writing to kids. . . .
Might be an idea. Might be a nightmare. I dunno. I really do not feel well enough to resume my job and I am not sure of my choices at this point.
What the hell have we accomplished since March of 2003????
jawbone
accoring to Cal Thomas, Bill Kristol and much of their ilk, we're on the verge of victory. They base this on...
The O'Hanlon-Pollack article!! two well known Democrat Bush critics and war opponents. Even the liberal New York Times could see the value of their irrefutable observations, and so decided to publish them.
Tiger is still a kitten sort of but he's not getting very big.
He is ferocious though. He bit me twice this morning.
He wants cheezburger.
If I call a medium coffee grande, does that meke me an elitist?
No, it just means you buy overpriced brown water from a Starbucks.
can the president be held responsible for crimes committed in office once he has left office?
therealhellkitty
ABSOLUTELY
Well, this is getting depressing. I will distract myself with some TV, and come back, later.
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WE IZ WINNING!!
USA AM AHSOM!
the only way we could more winning if we set ourselfs on fire and roll around in gunpowder!
WEEEEEE!!!
4LG, I was checking out the kitty pics and saw Maddie (?) feasting on corn on the cob.
I had an Abby who loved corn on the cob so much I couldn't leave it around. One night I forgot about some unused cobs in the kettle, covered. Found it in the morning knocked to the floor, enamel broken and cracked, water on the floor--and the gnawed on cob dragged to a drier place for munching.
Always double checked the corn pot after that....
Teehee.
I'm extremely lucky that Maddie is NOT ferocious.
can the president be held responsible for crimes committed in office once he has left office?
Why do you think Bush is buying land in Paraguay?
No, it just means you buy overpriced brown water from a Starbucks.
George Johnston
Have to. The Krispy Kreme went out of business.
can the president be held responsible for crimes committed in office once he has left office?
therealhellkitty
Don't be surprised if Reid and Pelosi decide to impeach Clinton for Bush's crimes in the name of bi-partisanship.
Congratulations, DWD. That's good news
4LG, I was checking out the kitty pics and saw Maddie (?) feasting on corn on the cob.
Oh, that's not Maddie, though she'd eat corn if I'd let her.
That came from I Can Has Cheezburger.com
Instead of impeaching Bush, why don't we just stop paying him?
I'd have planted a tree on the south and west sides
This winter, I'm going to finish my gray water recovery and rain collection system, and put in two cisterns to hold the resulting water.
I'm thinking I'll be able to drop the house hold water usage by half, and have a lot more water for various purposes, gardening, two stage evaporative cooling that according to some of my simple tests can even cool the house during humid weather, while not raising the humidity inside the house. (basically a water sculpture, that cools one of the cisterns during the nighttime)
(I want to plant some sub-tropical giant bamboo on the south side of the building, in the Tucson area those grow to about 100' tall if you can get enough water on them)
Have to. The Krispy Kreme went out of business.
Are you serious?
Oh, and Rice's Chevron is in good position to take title to the Iraqi oil fields.
George Johnston | Homepage
They may be disappointed: the Iraqi Parliament took their summer recess before passing that oil law.
Are you serious?
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork?
Yep. They put in a Chick-Fil-A in its place.
(I want to plant some sub-tropical giant bamboo on the south side of
the building, in the Tucson area those grow to about 100' tall if you
can get enough water on them)
Doug |
08.04.07 - 7:22 pm | #
be very careful. Bamboo roots can crack foundations and clog up your water system.
Have to. The Krispy Kreme went out of business.
Krispy Kremes did not do well in SoCal. Most of them are gone. Having tasted their product once, I can understand why.
Maybe we could move Bush's desk until its in the basement.
Sad isn't it how gullible consumers are to marketing messages... $2 for a medium coffee is too much but $2 for a grande is a fair price even though both are less than 12 ounces...
Instead of impeaching Bush, why don't we just stop paying him?
That way, the problem...takes care of itself.
Why do you think Bush is buying land in Paraguay?
NTodd, Foaming At The Mouth | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:20 pm | #
That's why it's important to support our troops. Once they come back and discover how their comrades died to profit boosh and cheney, they may want things, like, oh, exact latitude and longitude.
Krispy Kremes did not do well in SoCal. Most of them are gone. Having tasted their product once, I can understand why.
Heresy!
Their glazed donuts are divine. Probably too sweet for SoCal though.
'course, Bush might burn down the White House if we take away his stapler.
4Legs, I think Krispy Kremes are like Sliders--you have to be raised on them to appreciate them.
I'm gonna have to ask you to go ahead and move your illegitimate administration down to Paraguay...kay? Greeeeeat.
I hate Starbucks.
It's not just about the price, I just don't like their coffee.
I like Dunkin Donuts, which we don't have here.
'course, Bush might burn down the White House if we take away his stapler.
NTodd, Foaming At The Mouth
Or his rug.
Buckeye--is the reflective insulation the stuff mentioned in comments awhile ago? I bookmarked the mfr's site, but Google lost all my bookmarks (or I did something I had no idea about...gee, which is more likely???).
Anyway, if it is--or someone else has that info, I'd appreciate it. Thnx.
Oh, and can you imagine what Merkins would do if their overlords could not supply them with electricity and fricken' water? And with temps in only the upper 80's into 90's--not 120 degrees.
There would be blood in the streets--suburban streets outside muni offices and any water/electric company offices.
Their glazed donuts are divine. Probably too sweet for SoCal though.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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08.04.07 - 7:24 pm |
I was thinking that it might be a regional taste thing. Crispy Cremes are a very Southern thing.
Or his rug.
It really ties his wars together.
They may be disappointed: the Iraqi Parliament took their summer recess before passing that oil law.
Diane C. Barking-Mad
Sad isn't it? Iraqi lawmakers stand up to Bush even though he bombs them while Reid and Pelosi just bend over for him and ask for another.
Or his rug.
Hell.
He can have his fucking rug. I'll even pay for it.
JUST GO AWAY chimpy.
Oh, no - the size 2 dingdong is back on the Nutrisystem commercials.
She had a baby - chripes, just what we need....more dipshits like her around.
I like Dunkin Donuts, which we don't have here.
I don't like Starbucks coffee either. Much prefer MacDonalds.
I was thinking that it might be a regional taste thing. Crispy Cremes are a very Southern thing.
I think you're right.
I love them, but just once in a while.
4Legs, have to agree with you on coffee. I miss Dunkie's. They got a lot of my business at the Cape
can't stand Starbucks...it all smells burnt to me.
'course, Bush might burn down the White House if we take away his stapler.
NTodd, Foaming At The Mouth
They took his stapler off him in August, 2001.
Didn't MacDo's make really good coffee for a while, but stopped cause their customers didn't like it?
(I can't go in there, especially in the morning. No will power. God help me I love me some egg mcmuffins)
Not paying BushBoy won't do any good--his masters will just increase donations to his overseas secret accounts, along with a generous allowance.
4Legs, have to agree with you on coffee. I miss Dunkie's.
French vanilla!!
and hellkitty, I agree, Starbucks smells and tastes burnt.
I like Dunkin Donuts, which we don't have here.
They closed down the Dunkin Donuts in 2002 here and replaced it with the Krispy Kreme which failed.
I am currently donut shop-less.
Instead of impeaching Bush, why don't we just stop paying him?
Gomez
Wouldn't work.
He'd just ask Bar to raise his allowance.
Sad isn't it? Iraqi lawmakers stand up to Bush even though he bombs them while Reid and Pelosi just bend over for him and ask for another.
George Johnston
Ayup.
McDonalds still has good coffee (IMHO)
And I buy just the coffee - they can keep the rest of the grease filled junk.
Oh, and can you imagine what Merkins would do if their overlords could not supply them with electricity and fricken' water? And with temps in only the upper 80's into 90's--not 120 degrees.
Wait, didn't something like that happen in New Orleans, and merkins didn't get upset? Oh right, those were brown people. And Barbara Bush welcomed them to Texas.
Sad isn't it? Iraqi lawmakers stand up to Bush even though he bombs them while Reid and Pelosi just bend over for him and ask for another.
George Johnston | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:26 pm | #
And that's actually a sign of hope. Once the USA becomes full-fledged facist and millions of americans dissapear into concentration camps, people might actually grow some balls.
Krispy Kremes did not do well in SoCal. Most of them are gone. Having tasted their product once, I can understand why.
Heresy!
Their glazed donuts are divine. Probably too sweet for SoCal though.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:24 pm | #
Agreed.
But I dig Ken's Donuts down on Guadalupe above all others.
Sad isn't it how gullible consumers are to marketing messages... $2 for a medium coffee is too much but $2 for a grande is a fair price even though both are less than 12 ounces...
George Johnston | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:24 pm
At work you can buy the 'fancy' coffee, and pay out the wazoo, or go down to the cafeteria and pay less than a buck, and add the tasty stuff yourself.
Most people seem to go for the expensive stuff.
I loved me some Dunkin Donuts lemon filled donuts.
Not paying BushBoy won't do any good
Are you ready for the kicker. Did you know there is a punchline?
Bush gets paid twice as much as Clinton did.
Didn't MacDo's make really good coffee for a while, but stopped cause their customers didn't like it?
They offer Paul Newman's/Green Mountain Coffee Roasters now.
(I can't go in there, especially in the morning. No will power. God help me I love me some egg mcmuffins)
My secret sin...
CHICAGO -- The second YearlyKos convention is a show of strength for the new blogging establishment: A parade of Democratic politicians, and almost every presidential candidate, will troop to Chicago today to show their respect for 1,500 bloggers and activists.
And yet the influence of the liberal blogs on the Democratic presidential primary is a shadow of what it was in 2004.
Then, a united blogosphere propelled Vermont Gov. Howard Dean to prominence and struck fear into the hearts of cautious, establishment Democrats. Now, the blogosphere is divided on which candidate to support, and the two leaders -- Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.) -- have ignored pressure from online activists to move left on important issues, including the speed of withdrawal from Iraq.
The change: Democratic presidential candidates have started treating the blogosphere like any other special interest. They’ve reached the conclusion that the liberal bloggers are more a community than an ideological movement, more like, say, the Armenian-American community than NARAL.
When it comes right down to it we are nothing more than special interest. We're not special.
I am currently donut shop-less.
Gomez
The cops there must be miserable.
and hellkitty, I agree, Starbucks smells and tastes burnt.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:29 pm | #
Charbucks is teh nastiii.
But I dig Ken's Donuts down on Guadalupe above all others.
Those are delicious too.
In case you missed it Rory, I ordered my Fit today.
Wait, didn't something like that happen in New Orleans, and merkins didn't get upset? Oh right, those were brown people. And Barbara Bush welcomed them to Texas.
spinoza Neque lugare, neque in | 08.04.07 - 7:29 pm | #
They never shoulda lived in a city below sea level!
/Wingnut
I pay $1.87 for the medium coffee at Starbucks.
Bush gets paid twice as much as Clinton did.
Well, he does clear more brush than Billy ever did.
Not paying BushBoy won't do any good--his masters will just increase donations to his overseas secret accounts, along with a generous allowance.
jawbone
Who has more money, Bush or Cheney? I remember Cheney was said to be worth about 25 million at the first term, third in wealth behind Rumsfeld (40-50 mil) and Paul O'Neill (around 250m, IIRC). Now Paulson is in first (Goldman Sachs money, so at least a hundred million).
They don't worry about the eyes of needles, those folks.
be very careful. Bamboo roots can crack foundations and clog up your water system.
Well, two things will work in my favor to prevent this.
1/ the ground is pretty dry in Tucson in spite of the summer monsoon rains. If you don't do anything to capture it, the rain runs off, and goes down stream, due to the kalechi soil.
2./ the bamboo will be planted with plastic and concrete barriers in place just in case during monsoon it starts growing roots and runners quickly enough that I don't catch it right away.
I've been researching this, including talking to people in both the Phoenix and Tucson area who already have groves of this growing. (where I'll be getting starter plants from)
In case you missed it Rory, I ordered my Fit today.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:30 pm | #
Congrats!
NPR reported tonight that the Rethugs in the House are doing anything and everything they can to disrupt orderly business in the House--to make the Dems look bad!!
And, unless the MCM* actually reports that they will succeed. NPR did a bit toward uncloaking them, but closed with saying the House will probably go along with the Senate in caving to Bush because they don't want the Rethugs to say they're a do nothing Congress.
We need a better press corps. This one is a zombie, walking corpse.
*MCM--Mainstream Corporate Media
Bush gets paid twice as much as Clinton did.
For doing a fraction of the work.
And doing it badly.
I like McDonalds egg on a biscuit.
Luckily there is no McDonald's on my way to work.
When it comes right down to it we are nothing more than special interest. We're not special.
I'm special.
Congrats!
Thank you. I'm rather psyched.
republicans in disarray?
via drudge:
Gingrich says war on terror 'phony'
Former speaker says energy independence is key
Washington — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday the Bush administration is waging a "phony war" on terrorism, warning that the country is losing ground against the kind of Islamic radicals who attacked the country on Sept. 11, 2001.
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"We were in charge for six years," he said, referring to the period between 2001 and early 2007, when the GOP controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. "I don't think you can look and say that was a great success."
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/...3/
newt0803.html
Buckeye--is the reflective insulation the stuff mentioned in comments awhile ago? I bookmarked the mfr's site, but Google lost all my bookmarks (or I did something I had no idea about...gee, which is more likely???).
Anyway, if it is--or someone else has that info, I'd appreciate it. Thnx...
jawbone | 08.04.07 - 7:26 pm
I bought the first batch from Home Despot, but the rest from here:
http://www.insulation4less.com/
I think I will open a coffee shop. Chemex with Equal Exchange Columbian brew. I can only serve four or five folks at a time, but I quarantee, you'll be back for more.
Not paying BushBoy won't do any good--his masters will just increase donations to his overseas secret accounts, along with a generous allowance.
jawbone
He can always hit his Saudi masters up for more money.
Well, he does clear more brush than Billy ever did.
NTodd, Foaming At The Mouth
And the press corps blows him for free.
You're special, special,
Everyone is special,
Everyone in his or her own way...
I like toddlers, but am grateful not to be required to share Barney with my kids anymore...
Their glazed donuts are divine.
As a donut afficianado from way, way back, let me just state for the record: Krispy Kremes sucked big time.
The little town of 16,000 people out in the middle of nowhere had a an absolutely divine little donut shop that would run rings around Krispy Kreme on their worst day.
BTW, if you're in SF, Bob's Donuts on Polk Street are the absolute best. Esp. at around midnight, when they start whipping up the morning's batch...
Gingrich says war on terror 'phony'
Former speaker says energy independence is key
I wouldn't believe anything that scuzzball had to say.
We do have doughnut shops every 20 feet in L.A. All owned by Thai or Vietnamese bakers. Who, strangely enough, make awesome doughnuts and croissants.
*MCM--Mainstream Corporate Media
jawbone
or Million Corpse Media
We do have doughnut shops every 20 feet in L.A. All owned by Thai or Vietnamese bakers. Who, strangely enough, make awesome doughnuts and croissants.
Nice.
Not that many donut places here.
ProfWombat!
the Persian food was delicious. But I'm in the mood for Laotian. Surely we can find a delicious place...
Oh, no - the size 2 dingdong is back on the Nutrisystem commercials.
She had a baby - chripes, just what we need....more dipshits like her around.
Terry C - Wingnuts R WATBs
I prefer her to the has-been football coach with the trophy wife.
Okay, I'm gonna go make myself a cheezburger.
BBL
K thx bai
I prefer her to the has-been football coach with the trophy wife.
____league
Oh, Don and Mary Ann?
Roses will bloom in Goerge Bush's black heart and the Cubs will win the World Series before the United States attains energy inderpendence...
Gingrich says war on terror 'phony'
Former speaker says energy independence is key
Yeah, but per the MSM, when a publican says it, its like the oracle on high.
When dems say this, they're wusses.
But I dig Ken's Donuts down on Guadalupe above all others.
Those are delicious too.
In case you missed it Rory, I ordered my Fit today.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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08.04.07 - 7:30 pm |
What's the cross street for Ken's? They sound worth making a trip for.
I'll be damned. According to Open secrets, Bush is only worth between 10 and twenty million, and poor Condi barely qualifies as a millionaire.
I love me some egg mcmuffins
My secret sin.
You can make yourself a lower calorie, tastier version of this at home;
English Muffins,
poached eggs cooked to the right egg yoke consistency.
some cheese, (Gouda, provolone, or whatever you prefer)
bacon slices.
Oh, thank you, Bucky! Thank you.
Now, you used it in the attic, right? But it can do on walls?
If I already have drywall and insulation, can't add. But in the areas where the insurance company cut out my drywall and insualtion--no problemo. Have to figure out how to do the attic--does it go right on the underside of the roofing boards?
Thanks.
I stopped eating donuts when I stopped smoking dope. Around mid-seventies. Too sweet for me.
Roses will bloom in Goerge Bush's black heart and the Cubs will win the World Series before the United States attains energy inderpendence...
ProfWombat
One of these things in gonna happen this year!!!
Roses will bloom in Goerge Bush's black heart and the Cubs will win the World Series before the United States attains energy inderpendence...
ProfWombat
YAY!!! GO CUBS!!!
sallyh: how about French/Cambodian?
http://elephantwalk.com/
No kidding...
I'll be damned. According to Open secrets, Bush is only worth between 10 and twenty million, and poor Condi barely qualifies as a millionaire.
Jim
No one said they were efficient thieves.
We do have doughnut shops every 20 feet in L.A. All owned by Thai or Vietnamese bakers. Who, strangely enough, make awesome doughnuts and croissants.
There's a strong influence of the French in Vietnamese cuisine.
The best beef bourguignonne I ever had came from a little Vietnamese pho shop in SF. Absolutely gorgeous!
ProfWombat, now that sounds beyond what angels eat
and hellkitty, I agree, Starbucks smells and tastes burnt.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:29 pm | #
Charbucks is teh nastiii.
rorschach, futon djinn | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 7:30 pm |
I'm not a coffee expert. When I was in Seattle last year, I had a cup from Tulley's, since I can get a Starbucks anywhere.
They put a Starbucks in our main Community college's library. So at the grand reopening, they had free Starbucks. Other than that, I see no need to pay for it.
So, is Webb an idiot?
http://www.raisingkaine.com/show...59?
diaryId=9735
You can make yourself a lower calorie, tastier version of this at home
Where the hell's the fun in that?
No one said they were efficient thieves.
George Johnston
Poor Fredo only clocks in at half a million. I thought he was a big time real estate lawyer before Bush put him on the Texas SSC because he didn't drink and beleeves in Jeebus.
If science can put a man on the moon why can't it make a spinach salad look and taste like a doughnut?
I'll be damned. According to Open secrets, Bush is only worth between 10 and twenty million, and poor Condi barely qualifies as a millionaire.
Jim
I've been stealing him blind.
I know that if the Cubs play anyone other than the Red Sox, I'm rooting for them. I like to imagine Steve Goodman smiling:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ciczbU6I-J8
You can make yourself a lower calorie, tastier version of this at home
Where the hell's the fun in that?
NTodd, Special
and how do you get somebody to pass it through your car window without even gettin' off yer lazy ass?
(I am feeling so proud to be an American right now, where at least I know I'm free to get junk food at a drive up window!)
my litle town (Pop 3,497) has a doughnut shop run by a Chinese family. It is in a location where every prior business has failed.
They cook until they are done, sell out of D-nuts and then go home. They must be doing something right.
sallyh: only needs your good company, m'dear...
Hey, there's a lot of CATS here.
ROWFF!!!
So, is Webb an idiot?
http://www.raisingkaine.com/show...59? diaryId=9735
Bjorn,a poor young country boi | 08.04.07 - 7:39 pm | #
No, but he articulates Bush's talking points better than Bush himself. All this talk about "technological updates" is a red herring. The issue boils down to: Do you trust the Executive Branch to oversee wiretapping without court supervision and authorization, or not?
I don't.
I've been stealing him blind.
Barney
Or is it the compromising photos of you, Bush and Santorum?
Oh, thank you, Bucky! Thank you.
Now, you used it in the attic, right? But it can do on walls?
If I already have drywall and insulation, can't add. But in the areas where the insurance company cut out my drywall and insualtion--no problemo. Have to figure out how to do the attic--does it go right on the underside of the roofing boards?
Thanks.
jawbone | 08.04.07 - 7:37 pm
I used it in the attic, on the roof, not the floor (there's already insulation there). I've taken down the two bats of old insulation I used and put this up instead.
Here's the info on the one I used:
http://www.insulation4less.com/
p...prodex_Ffmf.asp
I'd call the manufacturer and ask questions.
Or is it the compromising photos of you, Bush and Santorum?
George Johnston
I try not to think of that.
my litle town (Pop 3,497) has a doughnut shop run by a Chinese family. It is in a location where every prior business has failed.
They cook until they are done, sell out of D-nuts and then go home. They must be doing something right.
The fucking Yellow Menace is stealing our donut jobs!
well, it looks as if the scroll troool is gone. wonder if the killfile got him?
What's the cross street for Ken's? They sound worth making a trip for.
therealhellkitty | 08.04.07 - 7:37 pm | #
It's right down by campus, maybe around Dean Keeton? Just south of the Burger King and such.
NTodd, what, no Dunkie's in your town?
BBaH: I don't trust the executive branch at this point at all, for any reason, and view any further granting of power to the executive branch as utterly foolish...
The fucking Yellow Menace is stealing our donut jobs!
NTodd, Special |
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well, while they are occupied with that they aren't busy behind the tastee freeze, so there is some advantage to it.
The fucking Yellow Menace is stealing our donut jobs!
NTodd, Special
You don wan donut.
Donut bad for you.
Have nice egg roll.
well, it looks as if the scroll troool is gone. wonder if the killfile got him?
therealhellkitty
He's giving his mom a bikini wax.
"Have nice egg roll."
--Chinese Guy
Tofu cheaper and better for you.
http://xkcd.com/95/
For NTodd.
He's giving his mom a bikini wax.
Gomez |
08.04.07 - 7:49 pm | #
just so long as he remembers to get her moustache too.
BBaH: I don't trust the executive branch at this point at all, for any reason, and view any further granting of power to the executive branch as utterly foolish...
ProfWombat | 08.04.07 - 7:48 pm | #
Agreed. It's just so frustrating that the dems allowed themselves to be bullied on this. Chimps approval ratings hover around 30%. Why they give him ANYTHING he wants is beyond me.
Oh, Don and Mary Ann?
Terry C - Wingnuts R WATBs
Turns out that I was unfairly snarky.
Coach Shula's first wife, Dorothy Shula, fought breast cancer for six years. Just before her death in 1991, Coach Shula formed the Don Shula Foundation for the purpose of finding a cure for breast cancer
The dems could very well be giving president ghouliani these powers.
I'll be damned. According to Open secrets, Bush is only worth between 10 and twenty million, and poor Condi barely qualifies as a millionaire.
Jim |
Why, practically destitute.
From "No Child Left Behind" to tax cuts to the Patriot Act, to the Iraq War voting against Chimpie has repeatedly proven to be the sane and prudent thing to do.
I'll be damned. According to Open secrets, Bush is only worth between 10 and twenty million, and poor Condi barely qualifies as a millionaire.
Jim |
What about Prescott's nazi money?
Turns out that I was unfairly snarky.
____league
Understandable mistake, since so many of these "successful" men like to dump the woman who was with them on the way up.
What about Prescott's nazi money?
Bjorn,
Bar's not done with it yet.
Actually that's a good point. I wonder if family trusts are included.
What about Prescott's nazi money?
Daddy Warbucks still has it.
From "No Child Left Behind" to tax cuts to the Patriot Act, to the Iraq War voting against Chimpie has repeatedly proven to be the sane and prudent thing to do.
George Johnston
Only if KKKarl does not have any compromising tapes of you or someone you care about.
What about Prescott's nazi money?
Bjorn,a poor young country boi
Poppy and Bar have yet to croaky croaky.
Have nice egg roll.
Chinese Guy
GOOD egg roll is de-voon!
No electricity and now no water, How could we have possibly fucked these people worse?
If america ever discovers tofu, they will wrap it around cheap chocolate, and deep fry it with pork rinds, and sell it in a tastee freeze.
No electricity and now no water, How could we have possibly fucked these people worse?
MP
If you can answer that question, you are REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER.
Odds are the Bush family's funded the odd trust or two.
Y'know, you have ten million dollars, you can earn half a million on it yearly, easily, and spend it without touching principal. Not a small hunk of change to reward a career so rich in business achievement as W's...
Spinoza, yuck.
Just...yuck.
Now I need a vodka tonic to wash that image away.
Has Mrs. Spinoza ever told you how disgusting you are?
No electricity and now no water, How could we have possibly fucked these people worse?
Soaring cancer rates and birth defects due to exposure to depleted uranium ammunition.
Poppy and Bar have yet to croaky croaky.
Gomez | 08.04.07 - 7:55 pm | #
I see Bar's disembodied head in a glass jar screaming Schnel! Schnel! in the back of a limo. In 2073.
No electricity and now no water, How could we have possibly fucked these people worse?
MP
Well, we still haven't stolen their oil, so there's still more to come.
looking thru my limited collection of dvd's... have narrowed down my late night viewing to:
something's gotta give
sideways
national treasure
any suggestions? i'm incapable of making a decision.
We're the anti-Gunga Din.
No electricity and now no water, How could we have possibly fucked these people worse?
MP
If you can answer that question, you are REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER.
I wouldn't invade Iraq once. I would invade it twice.
Mitt Romney.
Fokowi, Scifi Saturday Night Original Pictures.
But only if we get eatage.
(Goes to check listings)
Odds are the Bush family's funded the odd trust or two.
I gather the serious money, at least pre-Carlyle Group, came from great-grandpapa Walker.
At least without electricity they don't have to watch pox news.
It's a balmy monsoon afternoon here.
74F, without any need for AC, or any other kind of cooling. Si
Lucky thing - it's still 101 to your north. What you all have in your favor as well is your elevation - you're at around 2000ft above sea level and we're at about oh, 2. Maybe three feet. And I'm six foot, so, call it ten feet total if I stand on the curb.
So the Senate vote was 60-28. That leaves a lot of votes unaccounted for.
At least without electricity they don't have to watch pox news.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi
Or American Idol
Fokowi, forget it. They're trying to pretend to show a quality movie tonight.
This makes me sad.
sallyh: you do live in the country that gave the world the Deep Fried Twinkie, and compounded the gaffe by labeling it a foodstuff...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee...p-
fried_Twinkie
If america ever discovers tofu, they will wrap it around cheap chocolate, and deep fry it with pork rinds, and sell it in a tastee freeze.
spinoza Neque lugare, neque in | 08.04.07 - 7:57 pm | #
Lookslike the Japanese beat us to it
Has Mrs. Spinoza ever told you how disgusting you are?
She actually does wonders with tofu. Something about growing up in Korea I guess. I grew up in Ohio and for a long time thought spanish rice was exotic.
What the hell have we accomplished since March of 2003????
jawbone
Why, my dear, we've destroyed the world's most ancient civilisation.
.
ProfWombat, the only good fried food is Ipswich clams.
Sorry if this got posted earlier, but Greenwald nails it.
Choice passage:
...Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, with revealing symbolism, (have cancelled) their scheduled appearances this morning at Yearly Kos because George Bush ordered them to remain in Washington in order to re-write and expand FISA -- a law which he has repeatedly refused to allow to be revised for years and which he has openly and proudly violated. Congressional Democrats know virtually nothing about how the Bush administration has been eavesdropping on our conversations because the administration refused to tell them and they passively accepted this state of affairs.
The intense rush to amend this legislation means that most of them have no idea what they are actually enacting -- even less of an idea than they typically have. But what they know is that George Bush and Fox News and the Beltway establishment have told them that they would be irresponsible and weak and unserious if they failed to comply with George Bush's instructions, and hence, they comply. In the American political landscape, there have been profound changes in public opinion since September of 2001. But in the Beltway, among our political and media establishment, virtually nothing has changed...
If america ever discovers tofu, they will wrap it around cheap chocolate, and deep fry it with pork rinds, and sell it in a tastee freeze.
spinoza Neque lugare, neque in
Shove a stick in it and slap Jimmy Dean's name on it somewhere, and I think you're onto something.
NTodd, what, no Dunkie's in your town?
Hah! Closes is a 25 minute drive.
Hah! Closes is a 25 minute drive.
NTodd, Special | Homepage | 08.04.07 - 8:03 pm | #
Wicked!
That's 3 towns away...
i purposely don't have tv at the lake... so, i'm immune from whatever stimulus you all are having to put up with tonight.
just me and the laptop, cell modem and a few dvd's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee...p- fried_Twinkie
ProfWombat | 08.04.07 - 8:02 pm |
Fried Ice Cream
i'm too far removed from reality to know what is being fed via msm to the masses.
fokowi at lake cabin hungover
Lucky and wise...Has we larned not to shive a git?
There's a Sci Fi flick halfway over, and one starting at 9:00 called "Bram Stoker's Way of teh Vampire"
Her friends and her bosses and even the officers who arrested her say Heyward had been trying her best: working long hours and providing for her children.
I'm a single mom. A few years ago when work was really really intense, I had a nightmare, very realistic, that I'd had to go some where on assignment, and had to leave my 9 year old on her own for three days.
The pressure is really intense, if you don't have backup.
When I went grocery shopping earlier today, I had a sudden craving for liver and onions.
Now, as I contemplate fixing dinner, that craving has completely disappeared.
I hate when that happens.
...uh, oh. We're in trouble. Something's come along and burst our bubble.
.
.
.
There was a lovely, quirky Bill Forsyth movie called 'Comfort and Joy', that resolved its plot around the existence of fried ice cream...
ProfWombat, the only good fried food is Ipswich clams.
Sallyh for Hussein, Grandmere
Feh. The only good fried food is my own, superlative, fried chicken. You have not lived til you've tasted it, and it's unlikely that you will, seeing as I haven't made it in ten years. There must be an occasion, you see. Maybe if Our Al announces - then....
EAT MOR CHIKIN!!!
for all of you Meerkat lovers I understand that there is a new season starting soon. other than the umpreengazillionth running of the Godfather, it seems to be the only thing on the tube these days
Hey Atrios, why can't you get Washlet to advertise here?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
Happy butts!
Auntie GWPDA, when our Al announces--and I believe he will--I will rush to Phoenix and will expect your delicious fried chicken.
TCM: Bridge on teh River Kwai
Diane!
I believe it's time for the secret family summer dish.... YOU KNOW THE ONE.....
I'm a single mom. A few years ago when work was really really intense, I had a nightmare, very realistic, that I'd had to go some where on assignment, and had to leave my 9 year old on her own for three days.
The pressure is really intense, if you don't have backup.
Fuck. Don't tell Tom Tacredo. He will have you deported. In his view, everything in america is wonderful xcpt for things outside his fascist bubble.
I don't eat an animal's organs, and I prefer not to eat an animal who is stil kinda carcassy at meal time.
Y'know, you have ten million dollars, you can earn half a million on it yearly, easily, and spend it without touching principal.
You can do very well on half a mil as well. But there's a real difference between living on interest after a lifetime spent hardscrabble and living on interest after a lifetime spent as a wastrel. It's not the money - it's what was done to produce it.
I believe it's time for the secret family summer dish.... YOU KNOW THE ONE.....
GWPDA, Roving Historian
Nooooooooo!
OMG.
Now you've done it.
...don't ever do the bills drunk. There's no rational-check on your emotions.
I crave Indian food. It's times like this I wish I lived in the great big city....
NJN public TV, metro NYC area and NJ, airing Acuna, an Irish music group. Ethereal type, but nice so far.
Insurgents doesn't do justice to what goes on there. It's murders, criminals, psychopaths, sociopaths and fanatics who are ripping Iraq up.
As the car bombings started a suicider drove his carbomb under a gasoline tanker with a school bus sitting right next to it. Dozens of school kids were blown up or burned to death. It's pretty hard to top that for sheer insanity.
We in the reality community learned it would be bad but I doubt many imagined how bad.
GWPDA: the difference, seems to me, is moot in someone with the utter lack of self-insight and demonstrated sociopathy of our president...
It's not the money - it's what was done to produce it.
...and then there the borrow-and-spend scenario.
...don't ever do the bills drunk. There's no rational-check on your emotions.
Darryl Pearce
I always drink while doing the bills. And listen to Harry Shearer via the web.
Auntie GWPDA, when our Al announces--and I believe he will--I will rush to Phoenix and will expect your delicious fried chicken.
Sallyh for Hussein, Grandmere
Bring Jameson's. And some of those nice big cheap doggie biscuits from Basha's.
.
Insurgents doesn't do justice to what goes on there. It's murders, criminals, psychopaths, sociopaths and fanatics who are ripping Iraq up.
Negroponte's work.
i think i'll go with sideways...
but, i'm looking forward to national treasure II when it comes out. the first one is quite clever, actually.
plus diane kruger is very hot.
It's murders, criminals, psychopaths, sociopaths and fanatics who are ripping Iraq up.
...four million displaced Iraqi's.
GWPDA: the difference, seems to me, is moot in someone with the utter lack of self-insight and demonstrated sociopathy of our president...
ProfWombat
he's aware enough, on some level, to have needed to create a delusion of divine-right entitlement to protect himself from having to address his inadequacies.
GWPDA: the difference, seems to me, is moot in someone with the utter lack of self-insight and demonstrated sociopathy of our president...
ProfWombat
The difference is implicit. Shrub's sociopathy is the definition of how his ilk 'earns' its money.
Pfui. Arthur wants his dinner and I want to make sure he has it.
but, i'm looking forward to national treasure II when it comes out. the first one is quite clever, actually.
I have Pan's Labyrinth from Netflix, which I've never seen but I'm feeling lazy, so it may be Harold and Maude off the DVR, which I've seen a thousand times, or the Godfather, which I've a bajazillion times, which as someone said earlier is almost certainly on somewhere (and I have the DVD).
...four million displaced Iraqi's.
Darryl Pearce
Essentially that nation's professional class made an exodus, I've heard it said.
Essentially that nation's professional class made an exodus, I've heard it said.
...wouldn't be the first Trail of Tears left in the wake US hegemony.
Looks like they were better off before us.
Democratic Shirts
When they say "eat the rich", it's the Bushes they mean.
Arthur: how about a little friendly butt sniffing and newspaper munching? And my humans left a full bag of tortilla chips where we can get 'em...
I have Pan's Labyrinth from Netflix, which I've never seen but I'm feeling lazy...
Save it for later, then.
Superb movie... not necessarily enjoyable to watch.
Worth it, but not when you're not prepared to engage with it fully.
YMMV.
OT, but extra-special animal shelter blogging!
I'm not too worked up about that FISA cavination. Does anybody think Bush would have abided by either the Dem version of the law, or the one they are passing? Does anybody think their international communations are free from being monitored? Hell, I assume data from my domestic communications are showing up in a govt disk drive somewhere.
BBaH: I don't trust the executive branch at this point at all, for any reason, and view any further granting of power to the executive branch as utterly foolish...
ProfWombat
I think it's safe to assume we've all been data-mined already, so my response is to stop volunteering ANY information to anybody for any reason, even the "demographic" folx like Time-Warner.
The older the data is, the more useless it is...
Gotta go oil up mah shredder...
I crave Indian food.
That's a great idea. I think I'll go for some Tandori.
A couple of days ago, a teenager on long island died from carbon monoxide poisoning. his family's electricity was cut off for nonpayment, his dad borrowed a generator from work and evidently it leaked fumes. rest of the family got very sick but are apparently okay.
Y'know, you have ten million dollars, you can earn half a million on it yearly, easily, and spend it without touching principal.
If you're doing that (spending all of the interest you earn off the money yearly) then you're losing money to inflation.
That said, actually managing to burn through $500,000 annually (assuming you are healthy) when you have the kind of money where you're not worrying about a mortgage or car payments would be incredibly lavish spending.
Especially when the education expenses for your children are probably paid through trusts that were set up years ago.
The older the data is, the more useless it is... - radar -
good point.
Does anybody think Bush would have abided by either the Dem version of the law, or the one they are passing?
Congressional imprimateur on Executive Branch hijinks means something. Or used to anyway.
Interesting post and comments at FDL:
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/...ter/#more-
10728
Save it for later, then.
Superb movie... not necessarily enjoyable to watch.
Worth it, but not when you're not prepared to engage with it fully.
YMMV.
SteveLG | 08.04.07 - 8:19 pm | #
I found it an incredible movie to watch. Outstanding visually. But it's certainly not a popcorn flick.
Hey, dave™©, please contact me at wileybad@msn.com re: a biz idea...
Bas-O-Matic: my guess is that Jenna's and Barbara's educational expenses aren't a big consideration in W's financial planning...
That's a great idea. I think I'll go for some Tandori.
Doug |
Would you bring me some roghan josh, a tandoori chicken appetizer, three garlic naan, and some of that spinach and lentil and/or potato stuff?
I'll pay you back on Tuesday
meanwhile, Dimocrats and their fellow-traveling trust-fund-sco-twits scold the American people schoolmarmishly:
'you should drink chlorinated/floridated tap water, me lovelies, because plastic bottles, yes PLASTIC BOTTLES, THREATEN YOU, YOUR FAMILY AND THE PLANET!"
[...hilarity...]
Aw...
Trademark Dave, those are great pics. It's just a good thing I'm several hundred miles away.
lubyanka... why are you here? seriously.
Save it for later, then.
Superb movie... not necessarily enjoyable to watch.
Worth it, but not when you're not prepared to engage with it fully.
YMMV.
SteveLG | 08.04.07 - 8:19 pm | #
I found it an incredible movie to watch. Outstanding visually. But it's certainly not a popcorn flick.
Bas-O-Matic
Thanks. pretty much what I was thinking. It's definitely a popcorn flick kind of evening.
fok,
because you nutroots are, wittingly or unwittingly, very very funny!
Congressional imprimateur on Executive Branch hijinks means something. Or used to anyway.
MP
Now it only means something when a Dem is president, especially when he gets a blowjob. After all, Dems don't know their place and trash the beltway village.
'you should drink chlorinated/floridated tap water, me lovelies, because plastic bottles, yes PLASTIC BOTTLES, THREATEN YOU, YOUR FAMILY AND THE PLANET!"
[...hilarity...]
Yeah, that's hilarious, dipshitz haderach.
Lubyanka... why are you here? seriously.
fokowi at
Magda had to take a break from lubing and yanking, 'cause it was starting to hurt.
most likely your funniness in unwitting, as is your wont
I watched
Q of the Day:
why can't liberals be more earnest and humorless?
Congressional imprimateur on Executive Branch hijinks means something. Or used to anyway.
I am slightly worried that Webb thinks he is living a Tom Clancy novel and voted for further presidential powers so that when he gets elected president he can pull a weapon out of his pants and shoot Osama bin Laden in front of the Lincoln Memorial after which an Ayn Rand girl offers to make him forget the pain of killing muslims.
There is bottled water that is just municipal tap water, especially from the soda giants (aquafina & dasani). The first thing Coke did when it opened a plant in India was to try to sell the local village's own water to it at a huge upmark.
lubyanka... why are you here? seriously.
fokowi at lake cabin satiated
To convince herself that she is condescending. A fate she has met many times in her life.
because you nutroots are, wittingly or unwittingly, very very funny!
Lubyanka | 08.04.07 - 8:28 pm | #
ok. i'm cool with that. however, since empathy isn't usually a strong suit for anyone with a passion for something... why don't you try a different approach of engagement in here?
you know, like maybe make a comment that makes us think, perhaps. your MO seems to be that you just want to provoke an emotion. tell me i'm wrong.
Bas-O-Matic: my guess is that Jenna's and Barbara's educational expenses aren't a big consideration in W's financial planning...
Josie Wombat | 08.04.07 - 8:25 pm | #
Trust me Barb and George senior set up a trust to pay for pre-school through college the second Jenna and not Jenna were born.
And I watched Hero on our new HD set last weekend. It really is one of the prettiest movies I've ever seen (even if it is rather thinly veiled totalitarian propoganda.)
The fight between Snow and Moon in the ginko grove is incredible.
Oh, lawzy. I just et a WHOLE bunch of pasta shells.
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I know that if the Cubs play anyone other than the Red Sox, I'm rooting for them. I like to imagine Steve Goodman smiling:
Steve Goodman
ProfWombat
Hey, I'm a White Sox fan, and I'm rooting for them. The Red Sox won, the White Sox won, it's the Cubbies' turn. Lou Piniella is a great coach, and if it's good for Chicago, it's OK by me.
...those are great pics. It's just a good thing I'm several hundred miles away.
Not really!
Actually, we sent one cat home with a new family today, and another was supposed to go this afternoon (after I'd left). Also several dogs, but who cares about them?
The little black cat I've named "Sabrina" is the one I'm kind of worried about. She was socialized poorly and has apparently bitten and scratched some of the staff, though I've played with her a few times and haven't had any problems. There's some talk she might be reclassified "unadoptable," which means they'll try to place her with a rescue group. But I think she just needs the right home - one without young kids, preferably...
I'll be damned. According to Open secrets, Bush is only worth between 10 and twenty million, and poor Condi barely qualifies as a millionaire.
Jim
It will take a decade to track down the billions that gang has scimmed off the war, etc, and stuffed into off shoar accounts.
http://www.wickedthemusical.com/
Hecate will like this, I think.
JP what did you put on them?
Gnawing on kittehs just wasn't filling enough.
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Reid's "only temporary" explanation of the vote is unspeakably cowardly, IMO. You either is or you ain't for the Constitution. They ain't no "temporary" about it.
Q2 of the day:
can "progressives"' earnestness and humorlessness actually be an inadvertent source of funniness?
[hint: absolutely!..]
The first thing Coke did when it opened a plant in India was to try to sell the local village's own water to it at a huge upmark.
It's only a matter of time before they tax marital sex and oxygen.
therealhellkitty: JP what did you put on them?
'mater sauce, from Aldi, of course! And grated parm.
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What age are we living in?
I have a beautiful nutsac. And someday I'm going to show it to real live girl!!
[hint: Not my mother or a 'pro']
[hint: absolutely!..]
Lubyanka
Again, notice the attempt at condescension.
lubyanka... why are you here? seriously.
fokowi at lake cabin satiated
Why are ANY trolls here?
I wonder what kind of cocktail party sell out Duncan is at tonight? Probably having rumaki and gin rickies with Joe Klein
Bas-O: undoubtedly; that's how those sort of folks work...
By posting here, the trolls reveal how utterly bereft of meaning their pathetic little lives are. You might contemplate for a moment the sadness and emptiness of their existences and then you might thank whatever deity or lucky stars you have that unlike the trolls you have a fulfilling and meaningful life.
[hint: absolutely!..]
Lubyanka
Again, notice the attempt at condescension.
cosmic tumbler
And notice the truncated ellipse. Trademark or Brian Hardig in his liberal jeenyus manifestation. Or infestation.
'mater sauce, from Aldi, of course! And grated parm.
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When I feel better I think I'll make some white clam sauce...mmmmm.
there's old Dave, masquerading as dear old Lubyanka...
Never ceases to amaze me how rightards call US "humorless".
I guess anything that isn't mean-spirited or condescending isn't funny to conservatoids.
The Age of Treason
Someone just died from a sudden desert flood at 7 falls near Sabino Canyon.
A picture showing what that place looks like.
http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/
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terry,
progressive earnestness is a humor-machine!
BBL.
Oh, we keep totally forgetting to do this, but the new electro-indie hotness we're addicted to is FREEZEPOP, Bostonian minimalist dance in the general ball park of Lali Puna and Ladytron. Check youtube for these excellent songs: "I Am Not Your Gameboy," "I Am A Bike [Thief]," "Super Sprode," "Tender Lies," and "Less Talk More Rokk."
And yet the influence of the liberal blogs on the Democratic presidential primary is a shadow of what it was in 2004.
Then, a united blogosphere propelled Vermont Gov. Howard Dean to prominence and struck fear into the hearts of cautious, establishment Democrats. Now, the blogosphere is divided on which candidate to support, and the two leaders -- Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.) -- have ignored pressure from online activists to move left on important issues, including the speed of withdrawal from Iraq.
The change: Democratic presidential candidates have started treating the blogosphere like any other special interest. They’ve reached the conclusion that the liberal bloggers are more a community than an ideological movement, more like, say, the Armenian-American community than NARAL.
Who wrote this?
A picture showing what that place looks like.
Spectacular!
TerryC: we don't go around calling our friends by affectionate nicknames like 'Turd Blossom', for instance. Jeez. How uptight can you get? Must be the Chardonnay...
I guess anything that isn't mean-spirited or condescending isn't funny to conservatoids.
Terry C - Wingnuts R WATBs
They always require an enemy (preferably powerless), and their humor always requires a recipient of vitriol (preferably powerless).
The change: Democratic presidential candidates have started treating the blogosphere like any other special interest. They’ve reached the conclusion that the liberal bloggers are more a community than an ideological movement, more like, say, the Armenian-American community than NARAL.
Who wrote this?
Thomas Macaulay?
Democratic candidates are ignoring the blogosphere just like they ignore America, because their Owners are their only real special interest. That's no fault of the blogosphere, far from it.
We can only hope to be as funny as Dennis Miller.
The Apotheosis of Nutroot Power:
Dean after his defeat in Iowa:
"...and we're going to Poughkeepsie and we're going to Ponca City, Oklahoma, and we're going to Truth or Consequences New Mexico, and we're, going to eeeerrrooyyaaaaaarrrrrrgh..."
Shrub couldn't have acted more like a confused bully who just got hit in the snout, after 9/11. Just swinging wildly around, who gives a shit who gets in my way.