I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Urgh.
Nope...no oil spilled from something like this...no way...la la la...can't HEAR you!!!
good gravy
morning uncle smokes.
on my way out to play.
Smokes!
Got the CD yesterday; will listen today.
Deadthreaded by the skin of my teeth!
I'm out, gotta get to the station and meet up with the beau. Have a good morning, beautiful people!
Good thing they're stopping solar projects for environmental impact studies. Imagine if a solar panel fell over!
Yup, mr. ql has commenced pacing. Next he'll copy Moe and go stand by the car and mope. Later peeps.
NYT: WASHINGTON — The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information — like credit card transactions, travel histories and Internet browsing habits — about people on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
And then they link up the computers and the world shrinks a little more ... along with our freedom.
does it matter?
even when you correct the assholes on the right, the average viewer believes the lie. to be a rightwinger you have to be simple, you have to not 'care'; it even goes beyond that to the point of feeling oneself superior and thus incapable of having belief in lies
Good morning QL...
I need to pack for my trip to see my brother in Texas, but I'm procrastinating...discovered this morning I forgot to buy coffee...damn.
It's gonna be hotter than hell in Texas, but I suppose I'll be basking in the heart of all the oil wealth, spilled or not.
You know, Dallas and its suburbs and exurbs are so spread out, I imagine anybody with less than a six-figure income is hurting from the price at the pump.
OT: Here's a quote from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Sen. Russ Feingold knows he's eventually going to lose the fight against wiretapping legislation he says does little to protect Americans' privacy rights. But he's planning to use every legislative tactic at his disposal to try to block the bill from moving forward."
Go, Sen. Russ! I wish we had a senator we could be proud of.
I still think this story is cool as all get out. I'd sure like to have it thriving nearby when we buy property up north.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs...METRO/
806280341
Well, according to the Wingnut Lexicon, Katrina never happened. Or it'll be that way soon.
Remember, they're showing pictures of Iowa and marveling how there are no looters ...
I wish we had a senator we could be proud of
Yeah, we get Levin (who isn't half bad), and Stabenow - who is fucking worthless.
Well, Katrina caused no real damage, you see. It was all from people shooting and raping each other in the streets while looting the homes of fine patriotic Americans.
Trufax. I heard it on Rush.
A.
Good article, Barndog.
Russ Feingold never did a video where he dressed up like a cowboy.
Got the CD yesterday; will listen today.
Molly Ivors
Cool! Lil' Thers makes a couple of appearances...at the end of track one, where he summarizes us blog folk in a single phrase ("blah blah blah blah").
Listen hard enough and you'll pick him out in the mix of "Does Anybody Know Where We Are?" We're walking to breakfast he smells bacon, waffles, and syrup in the air...a useful talent.
Now...I wonder if he'll still deny it's his voice?
And I owe Sinfonian a coke. 
"Sen. Russ Feingold knows he's eventually going to lose the fight against wiretapping legislation he says does little to protect Americans' privacy rights. But he's planning to use every legislative tactic at his disposal to try to block the bill from moving forward."
I love this man and want to have his Senatorial babies.
A.
I hear ya re: Stabenow, Barndog -- but isn't she better than the alternative?
Those oil spills were caused by those inscrutable Chinese wells that have sprouted up all over our shores. Everybody knows this.
Good article, Barndog
Yeah. I hope at some point they do something about Nirvana - a few more miles North of there (maybe 40 or so).
Nirvana was a major hippie hangout in the 60's & 70's. Woodstock holdovers.
A., you already have a blog-spouse.
Oh, and a real one, too. 
Jrette. is under my bed. "I'm hiding!," she just exclaimed.
Almost-3 is a cute age.
I hear ya re: Stabenow, Barndog -- but isn't she better than the alternative?
Well, she did take one term wonder (and John Engler's butt-boy) Spence Abraham's seat - now into her second term.
Those oil spills were caused by those inscrutable Chinese wells that have sprouted up all over our shores. Everybody knows this.
Ralphie
[I will file that under "Damn...Should've Come Up With That One."]
Republicans are lying on TV?
OMG!
(And the media never challenges the lies?)
OMG!
SS/DD
Oh, and the governor of Louisiana is a douchebag.
Might explain his separation from facts. That and the "R" next to his name.
I am blog-polyamorous, at this point, being married to half the men and a third of the women on this blog, plus Dodd, Feingold, Kerry, Dean, Edwards, Patrick Murphy and, when he's not being a fucking tool, Obama.
A.
My boy is 3 and I am still supposed to pretend that he is invisible when he walks around the house with a sheet or a blanket over him.
Almost-3 is a cute age
Sometimes I wish mine had stopped at that age.
LA politics is out there beyond the edge of the map. You don't want to go there -- Thar be dragons!
What? The media still fluffs Republicans even post-Timmeh?
No one could have predicted that.
I met an ultra-liberal friend of a friend the other night. She said something respectful of Timmeh, but I explained that while I regretted his death, his enabling of the warmongers and his fluffing of the Bush crime syndicate was hardly "journalism."
Almost-3 is a cute age
My darling goddaughter is this age. She met the weasels this spring and now every white cat she sees she yells, "Puck! Puck!" thinking it's a really big ferret.
A.
Dunno what's going on with my flicker account, but I uploaded plenty o' kid pics to Facebook, too.
I am blog-polyamorous, at this point, being married to half the men and a third of the women on this blog, plus Dodd, Feingold, Kerry, Dean, Edwards, Patrick Murphy and, when he's not being a fucking tool, Obama.
A.
Athenae
What?! You didn't tell me that when you blog-proposed in Philly!
I want a blog-divorce!
[sobs uncontrollably]
The immaculate destruction.
My boy is 3 and I am still supposed to pretend that he is invisible when he walks around the house with a sheet or a blanket over him.
trifecta
He's not? NOW you tell me!
Sinfonian, dude, come on. People in space knew about me and Kerry. We weren't exactly discreet.
A.
Sinfonian, dude, come on. People in space knew about me and Kerry. We weren't exactly discreet.
A.
Athenae
But I thought that was, you know, over.
All right, off to the farmer's market to supply a dinner party. I love Epicurious' recipe for prosciutto & melon:
Take melon slice.
Wrap prosciutto around it.
Moron.
Have a lovely day, lovely moonbats.
A.
I could use a spare husband.
Big Russ video, take that, Cornyn.
http://www.progressivepatriotsfu...dent-
video.html
Okay, I have to put food on my children.
Catch you patriotz laterz ...
Take melon slice.
Wrap prosciutto around it.
Yuk. Maybe some asparagus wrapped in prosciutto - then grilled.
But melon? Ick.
The difference as we will see between Obama and Feingold is that when Russ says he will do everything in his power to make this FISA bill squirm and crawl all over the Senate he will actually do it.
When Obama says he will "try" to change the immunity parts he will actually live on his "sound bite" reputation and sit on his hands.
The kicker is that I'm not even sure why it's relevant whether oil spilled as a consequence of Katrina, and how that, specifically, is something Republicans need to "refute."
The GOP's reflexive lying is so ... pathological.
Piyush means "dumber than a box of rocks"?
Good morning, all. It's either very hazy here or I need more coffee.
I could use a spare husband
I would have offered myself to you, Molly.
But, my back is fucked up.
I could use a spare husband.
Molly Ivors
Take mine. Please.
But, my back is fucked up.
Awww.
Take mine. Please
Rodney?
Funny thing is, a Hemp Oil spill would be good for land & sea.
1 acre Hemp = 4,000 gallons Cellulosic Ethanol.
That's why it's illegal: it is too democratic.
Got land? Then you got fuel.
You can't monopolize it.
Thus, media blackout.
I could use a spare husband.
Molly Ivors
Several guys here may be available. Depending, of course, on the duties you have in mind.
The kicker is that I'm not even sure why it's relevant whether oil spilled as a consequence of Katrina, and how that, specifically, is something Republicans need to "refute."
R: We need more off shore drilling!
D: Are you crazy? It won't help and those areas are notorious for powerful hurricanes!
R: Katrina caused no oil spills although it was strong enough to destroy an entire city!
D: Ack!
Hemp is close to pot, and the government doesn't like pot - since they make sooooooooo much money off it's prosecution.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...g_n_103045.html
My first thought was what a whack job this guy is but......after 8 years of Dick and Dubya in the White House maybe we do need an exorcism. Have we all misunderestimated John "Straight Talk" McCain?
Of course, republicans believe you can smoke hemp oil, and get stoned.
I could use a spare husband.
You mean we don't need to get rid of the Lout?
[looks at NTodd, drops shovel]
Geez,
All of those who are so hypercritical of of GM really ought to read this article: but then ignorance is nearly always preferable to knowledge.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/2...general-motors/
Depending, of course, on the duties you have in mind.
Gromit
IOW, don't count on getting the lawn mowed.
I wish Bobby Jindal had waited for McCain to pick him before he spontaneously combusted.
I never watch Fox and I heard the same claim within the past few days. Must be a talking point lie to go with the latest drilling push.
.
D: Are you crazy? It won't help and those areas are notorious for powerful hurricanes!
oic. It's a dumbass weakman argument. seethe
Hemp is close to pot, and the government doesn't like pot - since they make sooooooooo much money off it's prosecution.
That would explain the ongoing destruction of the Constitution & Bill of Rights, which were written on hemp paper and, thus, have lasted this long.
But perhaps not much longer...
Wow, I had no idea I was so popular!
I wish Bobby Jindal had waited for McCain to pick him before he spontaneously combusted
As Mick Jagger lamented, "You can't always get what you want."
But with McCain, I have this sense that we may get just what we need.
Three of the Four Tops met their future wives at Idlewild ... man, I wish I could have heard some of the music at the clubs there.
IOW, don't count on getting the lawn mowed.
'zactly. The women here understand men all to well, and refuse to fall for our pitiful schemes.
Wow, I had no idea I was so popular!
You're kidding. Everyone loves you.
Is it safe for lawyers to post here yet? =p
Everyone loves you.
Objectively not true. But then, it doesn't have to be.
*mwah!*
Every time they mention taking Pawlenty because it might help the GOP win "the swing state of Minnesota" I giggle.
Please do.
From that article, Given the challenges, standard procedure dictates first building and testing the battery, and only then designing a car around it. That process, however, would take until 2012 or 2013—time GM does not have if it wants to beat Toyota. The only hope of meeting the 2010 deadline is to invent the battery while simultaneously designing the car. Just-in-time inventory is common now in the car business, but just-in-time invention on the Volt’s scale is new to GM and probably to the modern automotive industry.
Many in the industry will tell you there’s a good reason car companies don’t do things this way. Toyota, which is proceeding much more cautiously with its own plug-in car, has made no secret of its belief that neither GM nor anyone else can keep the Volt’s promises. When I called Menahem Anderman, a prominent battery consultant in California, he said the lithium-ion battery will be expensive—far too expensive to make sense as a business proposition as long as gas is $3 or $4 a gallon. (“At $10 a gallon we can have a different discussion.”) Its life is unproven, and unprovable in the short time GM has allotted. To deliver tens of thousands of vehicles in 2010, Anderman said, “they should have had hundreds of them already driving around for two or three years. Hundreds. Not everybody can say it publicly, but everybody in the high-volume industry is saying, ‘What are they thinking about?’
So, GM is building a car designed to use a battery that does not exist. They are betting hundreds of millions of dollars that the battery will exist and that will be cheap enough, small enough, rugged enough, and dependable enough to use in their car.
I am sorry: that takes innovation, guts, and a little desperation.
(Hope it works)
Is it safe for lawyers to post here yet? =p
As long as you don't use any of your lawyerly Latin-language tricks on us.
The women here understand men all to well, and refuse to fall for our pitiful schemes.
I really think it's high time for a matriarchal government. New Amazonia, or something.
All of those who are so hypercritical of of GM
This refutes them how? The EV-1?
Wow, I had no idea I was so popular!
You could have a husband in every county. Your own grassroots organization for your 2016 presidential run.
You have no rights. They are only temporary privileges.
By the way...if you wish to wade into Louisiana politics, you could inoculate yourself by reading some Suspect Device strips.
Here's a good one.
New Amazonia, or something.
Can I be the Labour MP from Brixton?
She met the weasels this spring and now every white cat she sees she yells, "Puck! Puck!" thinking it's a really big ferret.
Used to have a mongoose family guarding the carport at the house where I lived in Fiji. They lived in the downspouts and roof gutters. The downspouts ended over grated drains surrounded by a little concrete bunker at each corner of the house. They worked hard to keep the minah birds out of the carport. Gutter line was twenty feet up from the carport. A mongoose could get from the yard to the roof in about three seconds.
Can I be the Labour MP from Brixton?
Well, with 592 kids, you certainly know from labor!
[/runs out of the room]
Objectively not true. But then, it doesn't have to be.
*mwah!*
Well, I sure do. Always have. Always will.
That means a lot to me, Vicki. Thanks.
wt, are we on for next weekend?
I really think it's high time for a matriarchal government. New Amazonia, or something.
watertiger
I dibs Deputy Commissioner of Towel Boys!
Every time they mention taking Pawlenty because it might help the GOP win "the swing state of Minnesota" I giggle.
Bring that one on!
[crash!]
Time for me to go polish a whiffletree ... have a day, Atiotganders.
Can I be the Labour MP from Brixton?
Move to refer the whole issue to zoning.
I really think it's high time for a matriarchal government. New Amazonia, or something.
Fine by me. Have at it. We'll cook, raise kids and perform marital duties.
Snow, you read the article then?
Or just snapped off a reply without reading?
wt, are we on for next weekend?
*splurk* didn't hear anything from the lout or Bill - gonna be extra spendy to get a car at this point...
let me talk to Bill directly.
Is it safe for lawyers to post here yet? =p
My guess is that a sizable minority of the posters here are lawyers.
Another group (larger) have lawyers for relatives and their opinion of the profession has more to do with the fact they don't like their lecherous Uncle Joe.
Then there are individuals like Putzhole who are customers.
Just lay low, claim you are a teacher and you'll be fine.
Honda, at least, has actual fuel-cell hydrogen cars.
let me talk to Bill directly.
Okay. I should have known better than to leave it to them.
Those oil spills were caused by those inscrutable Chinese wells that have sprouted up all over our shores. Everybody knows this.
A wingnut was hyping the Chinese myth yesterday at work.
I called him a liar.
Is it safe for lawyers to post here yet? =p
Man, it better be. I went to law school so I would fit in here.
Okay, off to walk four miles. Peace.
Okay. I should have known better than to leave it to them.
Sadly, yes.
See "New Amazonia" comment above.
Honda, at least, has actual fuel-cell hydrogen cars.
And almost no infrastructure for fueling them.
Hmmm, I'm really a teacher. Should I pretend to be a lawyer?
you read the article then?
Or just snapped off a reply without reading?
Oh I see. It doesn't, so distract with a personal attack.
Did GM have anything to do with McCain's $300 million battery prize?
You'd think that GM, at the very least, would understand the R&D cycle. But building a car with an empty space marked "future miracle battery goes here" does not sound like a good plan.
But, in Southern California, where the Hydrogen cars will be leased there are at least some hydrogen fueling stations.
But building a car with an empty space marked "future miracle battery goes here" does not sound like a good plan.
No wonder their stock has dropped to 50-year lows.
But building a car with an empty space marked "future miracle battery goes here" does not sound like a good plan.
1. Have fabulous, energy-saving idea.
2. ???
3. PROFIT!
building a car with an empty space marked "future miracle battery goes here" does not sound like a good plan.
Get serious. That space is marked "Mr. Fusion."
The Volt is Vaporware, or as Samantha from Bewitched would have called it, Wishcraft.
Well...those bags won't pack themselves.
In case I'm not back tonight, y'all take care of your good selves come the Fourth.
Thanks for a little morning gab.
[Now play nice.]
But, in Southern California, where the Hydrogen cars will be leased there are at least some hydrogen fueling stations.
According to a news report I saw last week, there's one.
According to a news report I saw last week, there's one
And, they think gas lines are long now...
19 or 20, from the story I read. Better than none.
"Hmmm, I'm really a teacher. Should I pretend to be a lawyer?
Molly Ivors
It was entirely understandable that people had strong opinions on the, erm, spirited disagreement that the we were having yesterday about the rules of evidence, but when it started deteriorating into "lawyers are cockroaches," it felt like Free Republic. That was disappointing =|
plantsman,
The hydrogen car is my dream as well but the problems seem damned near insurmountable.
Someone was online a week ago or some explain them: and they are legion.
1. Have fabulous, energy-saving idea.
2. ???
3. PROFIT!
watertiger
HOW TO DO IT
Q: What do you call 20 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A: A good start.
DWD, The Honda FCX Clarity is in production now. Google the name for the website.
afternoon moonbats
Oh I see. It doesn't, so distract with a personal attack.
I don't get the stupid/ignorant thing in regard to GM. The company has had 35 years to get it's act together and hasn't done so.
Note: I've owned a GM vehicle for each of those 35 years.
If we replaced every automobile with a plug-in today, what would it change?
Q: What do you call 20 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A: A superfund cleanup site.
The hydrogen car is my dream as well but the problems seem damned near insurmountable.
I'd be more excited about hydrogen cars if they were talking about individuals making hydrogen on their own out of water and renewable energy. As it is, most of the talk is about having oil companies make it from natural gas.
Moon! Is Britain celebrating July 4th with a poodle parade?
Note: I've owned a GM vehicle for each of those 35 years
One Ford, and one 1967 Chrysler Newport 2 door (complete with woodgrain down the side).
It was entirely understandable that people had strong opinions on the, erm, spirited disagreement that the we were having yesterday about the rules of evidence, but when it started deteriorating into "lawyers are cockroaches," it felt like Free Republic. That was disappointing =|
Nim, ham hock of liberty
That wasn't me.
And Snow, no. You were the one who attacked.
My point was being that they are trying to move forward and it is risky. They are treading into untried territory in an effort to be innovative, cutting edge, fuel efficent, and ecologically responsible all of the things that many say they will not do.
Just a point.
Honda FCX Clarity website:
http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx...om/fcx-clarity/
southern Arizona poster Doug has info on cracking hydrogen out of water with a common substrate.
civilization is really quite a thin veneer isn't it? - It may not be quite like the film Mad Max out there, with violent gangs roaming Britain in search of the few remaining drops of fuel, but for farmers like Eddie Cowpe it feels a little bit like it.
He returned to his farm shop in Lancashire recently to find that thieves had emptied his 10,000-litre diesel tank. What they did not take they let drain away on to his stone yard and into the water course, leaving Cowpe facing a bill of almost £70,000 for the fuel lost and the clean-up.
"I said two years ago that this country was going to see serious civil unrest and riots because of food and fuel shortages," said Cowpe. "It's going to come true. It's a frightening scenario. These people are morons and vandals. They just don't care. I don't know where it's going to end."
In the week that Rosemary Dove, a farmer's wife from Co Durham, collapsed and died after an alleged diesel raid, the fuel crisis is hitting farmers, truckers, motorists and householders in the pocket - and making them feel rather less safe.
With oil prices jumping to another record high yesterday to break through the $142 a barrel level, it is likely to become an even more attractive target for thieves.
The latest surge in prices took oil up to $142.26, with Opec predicting that it could soon hit $170 a barrel.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/
200...me.ruralaffairs
*mwah* Smokes!
Moon! Is Britain celebrating July 4th with a poodle parade?
Gromit | Homepage | 06.28.08 - 9:31 am | #
lol
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonl...4193/873/
537130
I guess I just don't understand the fuel economy issue.
GM's Z0-6 Corvette - complete with over 600 HP, gets around 22 mpg highway.
Now, tell me they don't have the technology to build a vehicle that gets 50+ mpg?
Yeah, right.
If we replaced every automobile with a plug-in today, what would it change?
Snow (D-SC)
Ummm, everything?
If we replaced every automobile with a plug-in today, what would it change?
Snow (D-SC)
[An old joke]
If ants were the same size as humans...something would be different.
[Now I really gotta go...damn...just when it's getting more fun.]
Good morning.
All American car companies are hurting because they refused to be forward thinkers.
Healthcare costs and stupid car making decisions.
One Ford, and one 1967 Chrysler Newport 2 door (complete with woodgrain down the side).
I've bought a couple of Fords, a Toyota, and a Hyundai during that time. I never drove them as the vehicles were the wife's or the daughter's.
You were the one who attacked.
Yes, responding to a statement calling people ignorant by asking how the Volt refutes those "ignorant" people is most certainly a personal attack.
Now replace every automobile with a Volt and tell me what changes.
1967 Chrysler Newport 2 door (complete with woodgrain down the side)
Classy!
Ummm, everything?
Naaaaaa. They'd just burn more coal.
If we replaced every automobile with a plug-in today, what would it change?
Some very mellow drivers?
Oh, wait, that's not what you meant by "plug-in", is it.
If we replaced every automobile with a plug-in today, what would it change?
Electricity demand would skyrocket, but ideally more people would install solar.
90% of vehicle trips would require no gasoline at all. Many fewer gas stations would ensure supply would shrink with demand and keep prices up, or more likely, higher.
Air pollution would drop a lot.
If we replaced every automobile with a plug-in today, what would it change?
How fast that little wheel spins in the meter out back. Wheeeeee!
I've bought a couple of Fords, a Toyota, and a Hyundai during that time. I never drove them as the vehicles were the wife's or the daughter's.
Now there's an age-old story.
BTW -the Ford was a 1972 Maverick 4 dr, puke green.
It's brighter side was the 302 engine.
I'd eat 340/360 Dodge Dusters for lunch daily with that sleeper.
The northern city of Mosul is the second-largest in Iraq (Basra is a close third). Despite the scarcity of news from Iraq lately, you may have heard about the launching of a long-delayed offensive last month to regain control of the ruined city of nearly 2 million people for Nouri al-Maliki’s Green Zone government. The grandly-named "Operation Lion’s Roar" was hyped by the U.S. government as "wiping out the last urban bastion of al Qaeda in Iraq." Here’s a brief sitrep on Mosul.
The Iraqi security forces are unable to secure Mosul, according to the Iraqi daily Azzaman. Here’s what happened in May: given six months warning as a result of many delays, the Sunni insurgents who were supposed to be attacked left town. American, Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces had to content themselves with arresting about a thousand former Baath officers, Islamists and other "usual suspects," few of whom could be truthfully described as insurgents. In keeping with the hype, Iraqi officials told the Americans that they had caught "some very big fishes."
To the puzzlement of most local observers, the U.S. Army then proceeded to build an earthen berm around Mosul that was immediately mocked as another Maginot Line or Bar Lev Line. Following the "Lion’s Roar" operation, there was an insufficient number of Iraqi troops available to maintain security. Militant groups re-entered the city and gunmen reportedly are roaming the streets in force.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4524...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
There's a Starving Artist Art Sale at a motel in Salem, OR this weekend. May I say what a dreadful idea the whole thing is ?
Guess there are no answers: we should just kill ourselves then.
And Snow, you were the one being rude. Not me.
Sorry.
Didn't Toyota offer to pretty much give away their hybrid technology to GM three or so years ago?
And now they have an earthen berm to protect them.
I agree with Snow.
When you plug in a car, you just use different energy.
Now if the energy came from solar or wind, it would be better.
Guess there are no answers: we should just kill ourselves then.
I like the suffering part myself. Builds strong character.
One -- count them -- one public hydrogen refueling station in California.
LOS ANGELES, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The first public hydrogen station in California with integrated hydrogen and gasoline refueling opened Thursday in Los Angeles, as part of the U.S. government's program to test and promote vehicles using alternative energies.
The west Los Angeles station, operated by Shell Hydrogen, is the company's third vehicle refueling stations in the United States, after one located in Washington, D.C. and another in New York.
BTW -the Ford was a 1972 Maverick 4 dr, puke green.
I remember Mavericks as being driven exclusively by very attractive young women.
Didn't Toyota offer to pretty much give away their hybrid technology to GM three or so years ago?
"A car that runs on batteries AND gas? Riiiight, and a tornado will hit Brooklyn."
[/American automaker executives]
And now they have an earthen berm to protect them.
You have encountered an
Earthen Berm
HP: 1,000,000
CHR: 3
AGI: 0
One -- count them -- one public hydrogen refueling station in California.
Oh, the humanity.
Automobiles account for 40% of oil consumption while foreign oil accounts for 50% of our oil. So you don't even eliminate oil imports. You do nothing about the requirement for highway construction, which is about 3% of oil consumption. And you need more power production which would likely be coal.
One is still better than none, and there won't be huge numbers of hydrogen cars to use it soon. One must start somewhere.
I remember Mavericks as being driven exclusively by very attractive young women
Those were Pintos around Michigan.
Now there's an age-old story.
I've bought several new cars in that time. I haven't had a new car myself since I was a junior in high school.
I almost bought a new truck a few weeks back. When I looked at the price tag ($18000) versus what it cost to fix my current truck, I changed my mind about the new one.
Would a plugin with rooftop (on the car) solar panels work in our sunnier climes, at least for short commutes where they sat in the parking lot all day. (Looks out at Vermont gloom)
My dad had a baby blue '76 Maverick. It lasted about six months before it was stolen.
probably by an attractive young woman!
When you plug in a car, you just use different energy.
But that's the point. You're using energy now, but you only have one way to produce it, gasoline. With plug in hybrids you have limitless ways to produce energy, some better than others.
Even an increase in the "bad" ways of producing energy would be an improvement for a while, if it was followed by a transition to renewables.
I've attached a spinnaker and mainmast to my Scion. I sail to work but tacking can be tricky on the interstate.
When I looked at the price tag ($18000) versus what it cost to fix my current truck, I changed my mind about the new one.
Mine was $37.5k when new (what I paid anyways).
5 years (and 80k miles)later, it still bluebooks for over $22k.
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2008 (Xinhua) -- Taliban has regrouped and is likely to boost its presence in new areas of Afghanistan, said a Pentagon report released on Friday.
According to the first report on the security situation in Afghanistan presented to Congress, the militants were still fighting in the south and eastern areas while pushing their frontline in other parts of the country.
"The Taliban will challenge the control of the Afghan government in rural areas, especially in the south and east. The Taliban will also probably attempt to increase its presence in the west and north," said the report, titled "Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan."
Despite its acknowledgment of "setbacks" that the international forces has brought to Taliban, the report concluded that the militant group has continued to grow in strength and "coalesced into a resilient insurgency" almost seven years after the U.S. military-led coalition launched attacks at the country.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4524...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
You know what it is? We really need to work on managing our reliance on our assumptions about people and what they say to rein it all in.
For example,
Just because someone has a lot of bon mots, has a rich father, has good political opinions, and can talk to you about what Noam Chomsky said doesn't mean he/she wouldn't falsely accuse someone of being a stalker, or be prejudiced.
Just because someone talks about "getting tough" on crime or terrorism or rogue states doesn't mean that he or she actually has a good opinion about what "getting tough" on any of these things should include.
oops. 6.3 earthquake off India.
One must start somewhere.
True. I'm just saying that Honda's rush on their hydrogen car with virtually no supporting infrastructure is no more business savy than GM pushing to make a car with a battery that has yet to be invented. Both face tremendous obstacles.
Alistair Darling must do more to help the 1.1m low-income households still losing out as a result of the scrapping of the 10p tax rate, MPs have said.
A £2.7bn emergency package announced by the chancellor last month did not go far enough, the cross-party Commons Treasury committee said in a report.
The money had not been "well-targeted", with £2bn going to middle-income workers who had not lost out, it added.
Mr Darling has said he wants to do more to help those not already compensated.
The committee's report said the chancellor's decision to raise the income tax threshold by £600 in May, at a cost of £2.7bn, was "probably the least bad option" to mitigate the impact of the abolition of the 10p rate.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_po...ics/
7478287.stm
All American car companies are hurting because they refused to be forward thinkers.
Healthcare costs and stupid car making decisions.
The health care costs they earned, cause they fought to keep the health care and pension plans in house. Unions long ago wanted those benifit plans to be under the control of the worker.
Auto decisions? Well what you can buy from US auto makers are shoddy, old tech answers. The Lincoln navigator is a perfect example. An expensively priced sheet metal auto body slapped on a PU truck chassis. No quality engineering was done, to create this just marketing. Crap to sell to the rubes.
When you plug in a car, you just use different energy.
Now if the energy came from solar or wind, it would be better.
Well electric vehicles at least make clean transportation reachable in a way the internal combustion engine can't.
Silly me, I always thought the purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect you From the Government.
But apparently to our modern media it is the Freedom of the Government to use the First Amendment through the Press to ruin a citizen's life.
AWESOME!
Shame of me for not fully understanding this matter.
Mine was $37.5k when new (what I paid anyways).
5 years (and 80k miles)later, it still bluebooks for over $22k.
The 18K was the work truck I mentioned a week or two ago. I also looked at an extended cab that listed for $32 grand that they came down to $24000 on. It was achweet. But, with a kid starting college this fall, I couldn't see taking on a $500 car payment for 5 years.
oops. 6.3 earthquake off India.
leibniz
Bobby Jindal to deny massive curry spill.
Shame of me for not fully understanding this matter.
It's because you're a lawyer.
[ducks and runs]
My worry is that McCain will lull people into accepting more coal-fired plants and fission plants without either affordable stack-scrubbing technology nor nuclear-waste storage answers, all the while mouthing how much he cares about climate change.
Both face tremendous obstacles.
True, but Honda is in a position to try this and fail. And they have hydrogen cars on the street today.
I'm not entirely convinced that GM is going to survive long enough for the Volt to hit the streets.
'mornin'
It's easy to hate on GM, which has always placed marketing ahead of engineering. But they've made a lot of money, for a long time, doing that. I don't like SUVs much, and would never drive one unless I needed to be off road a lot, but fact is, a lot of folk liked SUVs, and still do, except when they fill up their tanks, and GM, and Ford and others, made a lot of money making them. And when they did, they employed a lot of people, and subcontracted to a lot of companies, and it was good for the economy, in a way that, say, making the same amount of money as a hedge fund quant isn't.
And the GM managers are under pressure not just from, say, lefty bloggers, but from Wall Street analysts to meet next-quarter expectations, foreign manufacturers and suppliers--many of whom don't pay health cost for employees while paying much lower wages and spending less money on being ecologically responsible--and a domestic political environment that really, really doesn't care if whole cities, states and regions lose their key job base, while worshipping the economics of comparative advantage.
So good luck to GM; hope they prove the naysayers wrong.
Bobby Jindal to deny massive curry spill.
It was just God exorcising India to rid it of those pesky Hindus.
But, with a kid starting college this fall, I couldn't see taking on a $500 car payment for 5 years
Oddly, the truck I drive today, was the first ever new vehicle I ever purchased.
I spend 30 yrs driving $1500/2k beaters - without much issue.
SPENT.
Goddamm fingers.
Molly,
doing research. thus far, all cars are sold out for that weekend.
It was just God exorcising India to rid it of those pesky Hindus.
Ganesha's going to kick his wrinkled old ass.
Morning, all.
.... that's all I got.
wt, see the game.
Someone pointed out the other day that Toyota and Honda are required to assemble most of their cars in the US and Canada out of US parts, while GM is assembling them in Mexico and Canada from outsourced parts.
i've never gotten those people who insist of driving 4by4s in city centres, ok i accept if you live out in the sticks but not in an urban setting
and did i mention how much car adverts annoy me, they are pretentious and bear little reality to what the cares are really used for.
take for example those 4x4 ads where its being driven around some rugged terrain, when in real life is clogging up city centres and taking up parking spaces
Automobiles account for 40% of oil consumption while foreign oil accounts for 50% of our oil.
There's no such thing as foreign oil. Oil belongs to Exxon or Shell or BP.
Chelsea Tractors
I spend 30 yrs driving $1500/2k beaters - without much issue.
heh. Me too. Either that or the hand-me-down from the wife.
I paid $8000 for the truck I'm driving now. Ironically, it's the only one that crapped out before it was completely gone. Which is why I'm going to fix it.
I'm not even sure how this little bit of wingnuttery - that Katrina caused no oil spills - got into the conservative bloodstream.
Not ONE drop was spilled, is what I heard.
Thousands of people in Indian-administered Kashmir have again protested over the transfer of land to a Hindu pilgrimage organisation.
The BBC's Altaf Hussain says that it appeared as if the entire population of the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley had taken to the streets.
It is the fifth consecutive day of protests over the land transfer.
In the summer capital, Srinagar, at least 30,000 people converged on the historic Lal Chowk monument.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/
7478008.stm
i've never gotten those people who insist of driving 4by4s in city centres, ok i accept if you live out in the sticks but not in an urban setting
It was my understanding that people in Surry needed 4-wheel drive cars because there are leaves on the road (a little Jeremy Clarkson snark).
There's no such thing as foreign oil. Oil belongs to Exxon or Shell or BP.
OK, but it is cheaper to pump it from Saudi sand than Texas sand.
Right, and the Superdome vame thru without any damage -- oh, no it didn't.
"Someone pointed out the other day that Toyota and Honda are required to assemble most of their cars in the US and Canada out of US parts, while GM is assembling them in Mexico and Canada from outsourced parts."
that seems to indicate there's no such thng as an 'american' car anymore, which seems correct, looking at the stickers..
Funny thing, Moon - my diesel 4x4 gets better milage city or hwy - than most 2 wheel drive trucks.
The neighbor's new 2 WD V-6 pickup can't come within 4 mpg highway of me.
And, it's a 6 sp manual transmission. I have a 5 speed auto.
I certainly hope that GM has a revival, but it's gonna require their leadership to make better decisions.
With the stock price so low, this may be a time to take the company private (at least their auto divisions) so tht they can be freed of Wall Street albatross around their necks.
Attaturk: good pickup, a great example of the incestuousness of the government and the press. In that case, as in Kristof's, the government was clearly leaking to the media to suit its own purposes. It's rather frequent to see people tried and convicted in the press well before their trial. The election of DAs and, in some jurisdictions, judges exacerbates the problem.
They desperately needed to appear to be making progress in a nightmarish scenario. Hatfill was the goat. Ideally, were there interest in him, they'd have investigated, and, were they stil suspicious but without sufficient evidenc to charge, they'd have followed him, hoping to uncover it, or associations to other people of interest, or limit the harm he could do. They kept Spanish Civil War vets under surveillance for decades...
Eddie Izzard was wonderful last night.
The longest comedy show I've ever seen, he did two solid hours, basically covering the whole history of the universe, with assorted side trips.
Mrs. Gummo was a mite disappointed that he wasn't in drag, but Eddie's gone mainstream.
Speaking of internal combustion engines, what does it mean if the lawnmower quits working and the pull starter thingie won't pull out. Please tell me it is only out of gas.
Oh, Gummo, I'm jealous! Sounds great!
It means the rope is stuck.
Speaking of internal combustion engines, what does it mean if the lawnmower quits working and the pull starter thingie won't pull out. Please tell me it is only out of gas.
I would check your oil, or lack there of. I had a mower that my stepson decided to run without oil, and it locked up just like that.
Speaking of internal combustion engines, what does it mean if the lawnmower quits working and the pull starter thingie won't pull out. Please tell me it is only out of gas.
Lawnmower is on strike.
what does it mean if the lawnmower quits working and the pull starter thingie won't pull out
I would say, check your oil more often.
It may be seized.
GM isn't doing as bad as Ford though.
There was a tender offer a couple of weeks ago.
A hedge fund (I think) called Tracinda offered to buy 30MM Ford stock for $8.50 a share.
I had 1 client alone that tendered 20MM shares.
The proration was killer. Out of over 1 billion shares tendered a little under 2% was accepted.
Tracinda, aka Kirk Kerkorian.
Ford is fucked because of the Lions.
Che Guevara's face is one of the 20th century's most iconic images, adorning posters in student bedrooms and T-shirts across the world. But not content with this, the mayor of a small Spanish town decided the guerrilla fighter deserved to be commemorated in style.
Ángel Garcia Seoane, an independent who governs Oleiros in Galicia, secretly used €179,000 (£142,000) of public money to build an eight-metre high (26ft) statue of Guevara. Conscious, perhaps, that the town's residents might be concerned by this use of council money, Seoane arranged to have the works carried out at night. The figure is due to be unveiled today.
Seoane claims to be a personal friend of Fidel Castro, whose family was Galician. He hopes the statue will not only be seen by locals, but by aeroplane passengers flying over Oleiros.
News of the statue, created by two Cuban artists, was revealed not in the local press but by the Cuban daily Granma.
Seoane said Guevara deserved such a monument because he was "a soldier of freedom, an international guerrilla aid worker, a dreamer of feasible utopias and a symbol of all the world's revolutionaries". But many of the town's 32,000 residents are less enthused. Pablo Cobin, leader of the conservative Popular party in Oleiros, said: "This is a waste of money, a pet project of the mayor's and an act of arrogance."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/...08/jun/28/
spain
Not a good sign. If it doesn't turn when you pull it, then you might have been running it under-oiled, and it's telling you it needs to be taken apart and rebuilt--a big job.
Sorry...
facts mean nothing to republicans.
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Indeed plantsman.
Tracinda is Kerkorian.
Now he's got a say in that company.
what does it mean if the lawnmower quits working and the pull starter thingie won't pull out.
Might just be the rope starter mechanism or...
dija ever check the oil level? If you haven't it might have been running dry and is froze up.
Attaturk: I'd also note that Judge Reggie Walton is one of the good guys, more often than not...
The soaring cost of oil has led to the slowing of vehicles of almost every type in Britain, from planes to trains, ferries, merchant vessels, buses and private cars.
Pilots and ships' captains have been ordered to go slow, train drivers have been asked to switch off engines and coast downhill and bus companies are training staff to drive more smoothly in order to cut costs.
As the oil price hit a record high of $142 a barrel (£71.14) yesterday, two big British airlines, easyJet and BMI, confirmed they had asked their pilots to fly more slowly. EasyJet, Europe's second biggest budget airline, said it had cut flying speeds on some routes by up to 2% to conserve cash. "It's like travelling in a car. If you take your foot off the gas slightly, you use less fuel," said an easyJet spokesman.
BMI, Heathrow airport's second biggest carrier, said it had dropped its average flight speed by around 3mph.
The rail industry is also taking measures to reduce the energy consumed by trains, amid high diesel and electricity costs. FirstGroup, one of the biggest rail businesses whose four franchises include First Great Western, is retraining drivers to drive more smoothly between stops instead of wasting fuel by accelerating and braking sharply.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
enviro...ndtransport.oil
I certainly hope that GM has a revival, but it's gonna require their leadership to make better decisions.
I was reading about the Volt in Motor Trend yesterday. The writer mentioned that GM's track record in innovation over the past 5 decades is not too good: the Corvair, the Vega, and the Olds diesel engine.
The guy was fairly impressed with the concept of the Volt, tho.
fuck you haloscan
Hell, I own a 1975 Wheel Horse tractor.
First thing I do is check the oil. Kohler motors are the shit, but, even they won't run without oil.
Consumers are saving at the lowest rate in half a century as their incomes are squeezed by the credit crunch and rising inflation. Economic growth was also slower than previously thought in the first quarter of this year, marking Britain's weakest economic performance in three years and prompting fears of a recession next year.
The economy grew only 0.3% in the first quarter, rather than the 0.4% estimated, as the service sector slowed to the lowest pace in more than 10 years, the Office for National Statistics reported yesterday. Growth had been 0.6% in the previous quarter.
The figures alarmed City economists, who had not expected any revisions. They warned of a prolonged slowdown in the economy, with "a very real chance" it could slip into recession next year. Annual growth was revised to 2.3% from 2.5%.
Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec, said the figures "open up the possibility that growth will continue to weaken from a lower base, and although we take the view that the economy will avoid a recession, our confidence is ebbing. Indeed, speculation over a recession, coupled with the likelihood of a further 1% increase in inflation over the next three to four months, will make for a very uncomfortable summer."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/
...gs.creditcrunch
Bought a Toyota Rav 4door in 1996 for F$27,000 and sold it in 1999 for F$27,000. Fluctuations between the dollar and the yen in that period mean that I bought the car for USD$20,000 and sold it for USD$11,500.
The soaring cost of oil has led to the slowing of vehicles of almost every type in Britain, from planes to trains, ferries, merchant vessels, buses and private cars.
Fuckin' Euroweenies are slow enough as it is. I hope they don't come over here and hold up OUR traffic.
Thanks, guys. I was afraid it was seized & it probably is. That 9" grass couldn't have helped matters.
Morning, Moonbats!
Despite pledges during his 2005 confirmation hearing to hew to judicial centrism, Roberts has shown himself to be a reliable member of the Supreme Court's right flank—rarely, if ever, disagreeing with its positions on civil rights, gun control, the death penalty, affirmative action and a host of other issues.
That may come as no surprise to those who paid close attention to Roberts' career before his elevation to the high court, but the picture is at odds with the non-ideological face he presented after his nomination.
"I come before this committee with no agenda, no platform," Roberts told the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2005. "I will approach every case with an open mind."
what a wonderful country, where an asshole can bullshit their way into a very powerful position...i have been using the bullshit argument for a few years now and it's gotten me further and closer to my ideal position; dog bless capitalism
Willendorf Venus
It's either the starter mechanism or an engine seizure. Either way it's gotta go to the shop. Someone in your area must fix and sell old mowers. Sorry.
The Oldsmobile diesel was a farce. A compression pumped gasser 350, and a worthless transmission.
I made cubic fuckloads of money working on the trannys of those.
It is very hard to see how any responsible politician could spend any amount of money on any statue, let alone on a statue kept secret from the constituency for fear they'd never approve of it.
First thing I do is check the oil. Kohler motors are the shit, but, even they won't run without oil.
True that.
Hell, a Briggs will run forever if you keep oil in it.
Mrs. Gummo was a mite disappointed that he wasn't in drag, but Eddie's gone mainstream.
He's gotta maintain that facade while employed by "The Riches".
Giraffes?
That 9" grass couldn't have helped matters.
May be even worse - you could have bent the output shaft.
Oh, Gummo, I'm jealous! Sounds great!
Molly Ivors
And out of 2 hours, I recognized maybe 5 minutes from his old HBO special, which for a comedian is just amazing.
It was the first time I've been in Radio City in 10 years. They've really renovated it beautifully. He joked about how 10 years ago, he was performing at PS 1 (or some other art space) in front of 80 people.
Villagers in Devon are in revolt after the local lord decided to raise a little extra cash by painting double yellow lines at popular parking spots and slapping charges on motorists who use two car parks.
Locals and visitors to Yelverton, on the edge of Dartmoor, have long parked for free on a road leading to the church and beside the recycling bins. If they could not find spaces there they drove into free car parks on land owned by Lord Roborough, also known as Henry Massey Lopes, a wealthy landowner and racehorse breeder.
But from today motorists risk having to deal with parking officials from a private company if they dare to leave their vehicles on the newly painted lines. If they venture into the car parks at St Paul's church, which is close to a playground, or at the other car park near the Leg O'Mutton pub, they will have to pay and display or face fines or being clamped.
The prices are not huge - 40p for one hour - but people say they will think twice before forking out to stop at the shops.
Residents accuse Roborough of penny-pinching. Newsagent Richard Eales said: "We have had no consultation. My customers are up in arms. We are a rural business and people around here rely on cars." Eales said he thought Roborough's estate was "cashing in" after businesspeople had worked hard to improve the area.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/
200...fairs.transport
The Oldsmobile diesel was a farce. A compression pumped gasser 350, and a worthless transmission.
My mother and a friend both had one. Both lasted 2 years.
Remember the diesel Toronado ?
Thanks, guys. I was afraid it was seized & it probably is. That 9" grass couldn't have helped matters.
Willendorf Venus
Take out the plug and spray loads of CRC into the hole before you give up.
What is frustrating about problems in a GM electric car is that this is not innovation, THIS IS SOMETHING THEY GOT RIGHT BEFORE. You know, that other electric car they went through so much trouble to destroy.
I keep thinking the coolest kind of backyard alternative engine would be a sort of solar concentrator steam powered 'walking beam engine' used to run an electric generator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p...h?
v=pUDQYzE9gcM
Not the most efficient.
I remember Mavericks as being driven exclusively by very attractive young women
Ford Probe. Seemed like lots of them had custom tags indicating the girl behind the wheel was named Diane. Just an observation.
"I come before this committee with no agenda, no platform," Roberts told the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2005. "I will approach every case with an open mind."
And the stupid fucking Democrats believed him!!!
What about the Canadian Cityzenn? I thought it was supposed to go online next year. All electric, 400 mile range, rechargeable in 4 minutes, 1/10 the maintenance cost of an internal compustion engine.
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So if some airlines cut their speeds by 3 mph and the others don't, won't there be a lot of very slow rear-end accidents?
Giraffes?
watertiger
Hide! Now pivot!
That was the only bit that rang a bell -- everything else was new!
"Badgers CAN be choosers!"
Ford Probe. Seemed like lots of them had custom tags indicating the girl behind the wheel was named Diane. Just an observation.
Camaros were often driven by gum chewing women with big hair named Donna.
That 9" grass couldn't have helped matters.
Willendorf Venus | 06.28.08 - 10:01 am | #
My poor push mower may not make it through my fields of green, either. And if it stays this hot and muggy, that grass is gonna get even taller.
The good news is the fireflies love it.
Here's simpler version of the walking beam steam engine.
http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/
...IBeamEngine.JPG
Publication of royal travel costs in the annual report show that, despite officials' claims that the royals are trying to save money on journeys, there were extraordinary costs to some of their travel.
Prince Charles used the royal train to travel from Kemble, near his Gloucestershire home, to Penrith, Cumbria, to visit a pub - part of the "pub is the hub" initiative to revitalise village life - at a cost of £18,916, which may make it the most expensive pub visit ever made. The prince also used the train to get to Edinburgh (£21,460) and during a trip for various engagements in Wales (£43,25
.
The prince, Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen are the only members of the royal family allowed to use the train, which had 19 outings last year. Officials point out that it is the first train converted to run on biofuel and reduces security costs while enabling royals to get to city centre engagements more punctually. Other eye-opening costs included the hire of a helicopter to enable the Queen to get to the Kentucky Derby during her visit to the US last May, which cost £22,849. An official suggested this was the most dignified way for the 82-year-old monarch to travel to the races while she was visiting the eastern states.
There were also a number of trips by the Duke of York using specially chartered flights in his role as trade ambassador, including £212,880 for trips between Singapore, Jakarta and India and £118,440 for a trip taking in Miami and the west coast of the US.
Most spectacular however was the £210,000 it cost Charles and Camilla to charter a yacht for three days while visiting the Caribbean.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/200...8/
monarchy.tax1
reminds me why i remain an anti monarchist
Grew up with the mantra that oil is cheaper than engine rebuilds.
I still find it strange to open the hood of my Honda van, and see the engine nearly encased in plastic and metal. It invites you to do nothing whatever save check fluid levels--carburetor, timing, plugs, chokes, even air cleaner all hidden away or gone with the first run showings of 'Gilligan's Island'. A far more reliable car, but I miss all that anyway; it was a part of making the car my own to pay attention to it.
Very Slow? 547 mph vs. 550 mph? Not so much.
Camaros were often driven by gum chewing women with big hair named Donna.
Gromit
Women name their hair??
(Fun with misplaced modifiers!)
Ford Probe. Seemed like lots of them had custom tags indicating the girl behind the wheel was named Diane. Just an observation.
Camaros were often driven by gum chewing women with big hair named Donna.
Gromit
Altimas are disproportionately driven by people who blog.
"Badgers CAN be choosers!"
*happy sigh*
(Fun with misplaced modifiers!)
Editors are such geeks.
Camaros were often driven by gum chewing women with big hair named Donna.
Hey, I drive a Camaro -- and don't call me Donna!
Moon: that crap is by no means confined to a monarchy. You might have heard that the US owns an airplane called Air Force One, which flies at the whim of our president, who is both chief executive and head of state. I'd strongly guess that semi-ceremonial presidential travel, along the same lines, dwarfs in cost that of the British monarchy.
Morning, all.
Sorry for the blogwhore, but over at Box Office, I ponder an absolutely insane film in which Barbara Stanwyck throws a pair of scissors into Dame Judith Anderson's eyeball. I am not making this up.
http://boxoffice.com/blogs/steve...ania-spec-
8.php
Like it would hurt you to go over there and leave a comment already?
I tried to substitute Vegan soy patties for turkey sausage at breakfast - which was fine until Vegan soy patties started making me nearly puke.
*happy sigh*
watertiger
5,000 people groaned at once. He mimed making notes: "Ah, New Yorkers have heard one too many creationist badger creme broulee jokes..."
Fun with misplaced modifiers!
For the record, I saw that, but was too lazy to fix it.
We also have Boeing 757s for Darth and Condi to waste fuel with.
plantsman - we are quite fond of the turkey sausage... and not that we eat alot of sausage anyway.
We've tried alot of the soy products. For some odd reason, the taste is not something I enjoy whatsoever.
Israel will not negotiate with terrorists! Israel will not recognize the government formed by Hamas! In this spirit kindly ignore the huge payments Israel sent Hamas! "We had no way of guessing their aptitude in game shows, which is the secret basis of all Israeli governments. Hamas are masters of trivia, spelling and retail price estimation."
Washington Post story on Obama e-mail smears.
Features a person of chronic underachievement:
Allen was ideally suited to embark on such a difficult hunt. She boasts two doctorates, one in classics from Cambridge University and the other in government from Harvard University, and won a $500,000 MacArthur "genius" award at the age of 29. Last year she joined the faculty of the institute, the only African American and one of a handful of women at the elite research center
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...ml?
hpid=topnews
I once got hit by a pitch in pee-wee baseball 3x in the same game --- the only time I made it on base all year.
Top that one Dr. Dr. Genius!
*bald guy daydreams*
If I had big hair, I'd name it Donna too.
Doug: walking beam steam engines aren't the most thermodynamically efficient, but they're as gorgeous as a sculpture and last forever. I love looking at them. I'd have loved to have tended a big old prime mover back in the day.
If the fuel cost isn't an issue (the sun, say), their other virtues might be reconsidered. But internal combustion is much more efficient, and doesn't require boilers that explode sometimes, and like that. They're gorgeous anachronisms. Go to a classic car show if you're of a certain age, and look under the hood of a 1950s car with a gleaming V-8, all its components instantly identifiable and begging to be tinkered with, you get the same feeling.
If I had big hair, I'd name it Donna too.
bill
Ironically, when I was a teenager I named my scalp "Curly"
plantsman: that, and the transportation costs from Vega really add up...
That's because the governor of Louisiana is an idiot. He's a former biology major who's about to sign a bill allowing the teaching of creationism in public schools. Need I say more???
Israel will not negotiate with terrorists!
kei&yuri, Peanut Butter Wolves | Homepage | 06.28.08 - 10:13 am | #
For more of K&Y's wisdom on Israel and the Jews, you might want to head over to this sewer, one of their fave hangouts.
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
I recommend a shower afterwards, however.
Doug lives in a region where solar is utterly practical, dang it!
If the fuel cost isn't an issue (the sun, say)
I live in the desert East of Tucson, so lack of sun is not an issue. One of things good about the old walking beam James Watt engine, is that it's not a difficult item to keep running, and can easily be made (except for the large wheel) by back yard makers.
Morning lovely people. Just popping in to say that I probably owned 35 cars in my lifetime and one of my all time favorites was my first one, I think it was a 62 Chrysler Newport. Pushbutton tranny and a domed dashboard that looked like a rocket ship. Had a lot of fun in that car. We called it the spacemobile.
Going to go watch Wall-E with the tot in a little bit.
Another fav was the 1960 Dodge Dart. It had fins, like a caddy.
Going to go watch Wall-E with the tot in a little bit.
trifecta
Have fun! I think we're gonna go tomorrow night.
I have a friend with a 1963 Dodge Dart with that pushbutton trans.
Quite the car that one is.
Databases can be a bitch, if you get something wrong.
Going to go watch Wall-E with the tot in a little bit.
trifecta
That's gotten great reviews.
My first car was a 1959 Rambler American with a tube AM radio and vacuum powered wipers. But I learned to drive with my grandmother's Kharman Ghia convertible.
We're presently playing around with this ArcView mapping program, linking databases to census data. Pretty cool.
Another fav was the 1960 Dodge Dart. It had fins, like a caddy.
Libby, groggy
I learned to drive on a 1965 Dodge Dart. Simple unpretentious little car with great sightlines, no blind spots at all.
Doug: very low speed, high torque, classic for external combustion engines, so wear of metal on metal is much less. The contrast is with internal combustion, which gives you torque at thousands of RPM, giving rise to heat and wear issues, in addition to requiring a trasnmission to gear it down to usable speeds. Far fewer moving parts. Altogether appealing technology; you can just look at the thing and see just what every component does, right out there in front of you.
People living in a north Derbyshire hamlet have been told they cannot have signposts because it is not a "recognised" place.
Holestone Moor near Matlock has been mentioned in census and gravedigging records since 1851.
But Derbyshire County Council said it could not provide signage because the settlement was not recognised by Royal Mail or on Ordnance Survey maps.
Resident Steve Clemerson said the community definitely "did exist".
'Tongue-in-cheek'
Mr Clemerson, who runs a holiday cottage business, said: "Guests are having problems finding us because the road isn't signposted.
"We do exist, we do live here. We don't seem to get an awful lot for our council tax and it didn't seem too much to ask whether they [the council] could signpost the road so people could find us."
Holestone Moor is made up of eight houses plus a few businesses and farms.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/engla...ire/
7476889.stm
We may be going to see Wall-E ourselves today ...
Can any food product concocted by American companies, be any more puke-inducing than Kraft Macaroni & Cheese flavored snack crackers?
Going to go watch Wall-E with the tot in a little bit.
My 10 yr old daughter saw it yesterday and loved it.
STEVE'S MOVIE REVIEWS™
"Wall-e"
A little too long, and a few too many cute little Disney critters. But mostly a masterpiece. There's a little throwaway surprise in the first ten minutes that's one of the most amazing and profoundly moving things I've seen on screen in years.
I'm not kidding about this.
"Wanted"
Like the Matrix trilogy but without the warmth. Really, really stupid, in other words, but if I was a twelve year old boy I guarantee that I would have immediately jerked off upon returning home after seeing it. Angelina -- woo hoo!!!!
We've discussed the Dart here on several occasions. Apparently many of us cut our driving teeth on them. My first car, with which I learned to drive, was a '72 Dart.
Dodge Darts were great. As I recall the mythology was they never die. I don't think I ever owned Rambler. Silliest car I ever owned was a VW Rabbit. Probably a good car in the city but not practical for living in the mountains. Couldn't fit groceries and an passenger in it.
We may be going to see Wall-E ourselves today ...
Sinfonian, daddy
12:50 showing for us and the daughter today. Get to check out the new theater built just down the road from us.
Can any food product concocted by American companies, be any more puke-inducing than Kraft Macaroni & Cheese flavored snack crackers?
Barndog, not awake
Bunter gave me grief the other day for drinking strawberry melon-flavored Mountain Dew infused with ginseng.
So, the answer is yes.
My first was a 1963 Ford Falcon with a 289 V-8 - complete with a 3 on the tree.
I only drove in in the fields. Sold it to some dumbass that paid me $2000 for it.
I got it as a gift from family friends.
Camaros were often driven by gum chewing women with big hair named Donna.
No, no, an no.
Bunter gave me grief the other day for drinking strawberry melon-flavored Mountain Dew infused with ginseng
I have not taken a drink of Mountain Dew since it came in glass bottles, made with real sugar.
The problem of keeping track of thousands of near-identical African penguins may have been solved.
Researchers have developed surveillance technology that can identify individual birds and then monitor them over long periods of time.
The team says the system will boost our understanding of the animals; it could even help ecologists solve the mystery of how long penguins live.
The researchers say it could also track other species, from cheetahs to sharks.
The technology is on display at the Royal Society's Summer Exhibition.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/t...ech/
7475654.stm
Oh, and I just wrote a letter to the editor. We'll see if it gets published ...
Andrew Walden, the founder of an alternative Hawaiian newspaper with the motto "The untold story, the unspoken opinion, the other side," published an article with many of the same false biographical details from the e-mail in the weeks before Obama announced for president -- that he was "Raised in Muslim lands and educated in Muslim schools." He said in an interview that Obama's "alliance with Islam" was "all over the Internet," a source he often considers more trustworthy than the mainstream media.
LIBRUL Internet may be more trustworthy, but stay away from wingnut sites.
I have not taken a drink of Mountain Dew since it came in glass bottles, made with real sugar.
Barndog, not awake
Glass bottles were made with real sugar?
(Okay, now I'm getting obnoxious...)
I was raised in the South and Mountain Dew courses through my veins. That and caffeine. And sweet tea.
Ah cain't hep it.
I have not taken a drink of Mountain Dew since it came in glass bottles, made with real sugar.
Barndog, not awake | 06.28.08 - 10:27 am | #
Whatever you do, do not -- repeat, not -- ever pour Mountain Dew into a clear glass.
I think you know why...
Glass bottles were made with real sugar?
Of course - that's how we recycled.
sweet tea is a sacrament in these parts
But I learned to drive with my grandmother's Kharman Ghia convertible
Oh, my favorite road memories were made in a '63 Kharman Ghia convertible. Sigh.
.
Glass bottles were made with real sugar?
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
Need more coffee. Must get some work done. Thanks for the car memories.
(Okay, now I'm getting obnoxious...)
Gummo
"Now?"
[shields self from fisticuffs]
Clinton's errors were personal and individual, while the corruption of the Bush administration is pervasive and endemic. Bill Clinton continues to repair his image with humanitarian outreach and a charming, ingratiating demeanor, while George W. Bush's image of incompetence and malapropisms is irreparably destroyed and Dick Cheney uses anger and intimidation to achieve his nefarious goals.
heh.
I have a friend with a 1963 Dodge Dart with that pushbutton trans.
My buddy had one of similar vintage. We were returning from having seen a film at a drive-in when he accidentally flipped the park lever up while he was doing 60 mph.
That was fun.
For collecting sun power to make steam, used the most 'raw' method possible.
http://raw-solar.com/
these lying narratives that repukkkes spread are like Frankenstein's monster - they're stitched together falsehoods, unholy, and they're alive!!!
repukkkes are soooooo stupid!
Alistair Darling faces the threat of a new rebellion over the abolition of the 10p starting rate of tax as a Labour-controlled Commons committee warns the chancellor that he has until the autumn to compensate 1.1 million people who lost out.
As Labour backbenchers prepare to table a series of fresh amendments to the finance bill next week, the Treasury select committee says the chancellor's compensation package of last month did not go far enough. Darling moved to defuse a damaging Labour rebellion, which threatened to derail the finance bill, by introducing an emergency £2.7bn mini-budget to compensate 80% of the 5.3m households that lost out from the abolition of the 10p tax rate in Gordon Brown's last budget in 2007. He did this by increasing personal allowances by £600 to £6,035 for this financial year for people paying tax below 40%.
In a report on the changes, the committee says today that the compensation package should apply permanently and should be improved so that no one is worse off. John McFall, Labour chairman of the committee, said: "The 13 May measures, whilst welcome, do not go far enough. There are still 1.1 million losing households, many of whom are on low income incomes and who are being hit hard by rising food and fuel prices and the slowdown in the economy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/...8/
tax.incometax
[shields self from fisticuffs]
Sinfonian, daddy
Don't worry, I'm a lover, not a fighter.
LIBRUL Internet may be more trustworthy, but stay away from wingnut sites.
Lime Rickey
The prizewinning quote in that article was the guy who said "If 20% of the things I published about Obama on my website are true..."
Basically admitting he is full of shite and doesn't care.
Oh, and I just wrote a letter to the editor. We'll see if it gets published ...
Sinfonian, daddy | Homepage | 06.28.08 - 10:27 am | #
Don't mince words, Sinf, tell us how you really think.
steve: I find it passing odd sometimes to have acute memories of being a kid, remembering having a kid's responses. The distance can, however fleetingly, vanish in the wink of an eye. And then, I realize that I'm not in junior high any more, haven't been for a long time. But that doesn't mean I've forgotten.
I'd really, really like it were I exposed to movies in which adult, as well as adolescent, sexuality was joyfully and unapologetically presented. Only place you see that, often as not, is in ED drug commercials. Going to the movies, as you might have noticed yourself, is an ongoing exercise in confrontation with the fact that you're not in, well, the target demographic anymore...
Thanks, Moe.
Oh, and I just wrote a letter to the editor. We'll see if it gets published ...
Sinfonian, daddy | Homepage | 06.28.08 - 10:27 am | #
Don't mince words, Sinf, tell us how you really think.
steve hüssein® simels
Heh, that's funny, I thought he was almost too tactful and polite!
Mrs Toons rode in a co-worker's new Smart car a couple of days ago. She was impressed -- thought it was a funky and fun car reminiscent of the old VW bug.
Don't worry, I'm a lover, not a fighter.
Now, Mrs. Gummo.....
Does anyone else here remember Carmen Ghia, a woman of ailing repute?
And Steve.
In other news, Jrette. just told me I "smell like stink." Guess I should shower.
Does anyone else here remember Carmen Ghia, a woman of ailing repute?
ProfWombat
No, but I certainly remember Karmen Ghia, Roger DeBrie's "secretary" in The Producers.
My friend in high school used to drive me to school in his Karmann Ghia, before I drove. Good times.
BTW, simels, the book came yesterday. Thanks!
And I've been listening obsessively to Rooney, and I blame you. Or thank you. One of those.
Nice job, sinf.
Only place you see that, often as not, is in ED drug commercials. Going to the movies, as you might have noticed yourself, is an ongoing exercise in confrontation with the fact that you're not in, well, the target demographic anymore...
ProfWombat | 06.28.08 - 10:32 am | #
Prof, I haven't been in the target demographic since Jack Lescoulie was still doing commercials.
In 1968/69, after having been a big fan of the old cars in The Avengers tv show, I would sometimes drive a partially restored 1930 Model A Ford Sports Coupe to school that my father had bought from someone for $700. Now that was a fun car. It had a rumble seat.
Thanks, billy
BTW, simels, the book came yesterday. Thanks!
And I've been listening obsessively to Rooney, and I blame you. Or thank you. One of those.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 06.28.08 - 10:36 am | #
Andy Rooney?
Sinf: good rant. My favorite non-Atriotic anti-Bush screed lately was that of Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law:
The man ultimately responsible for the torture had a unique preparation and persona for the presidency: he is a former drunk, was a serial failure in business who had to repeatedly be bailed out by daddy's friends and wanna-be-friends, was unable to speak articulately despite the finest education(s) that money and influence can buy, has a dislike of reading, so that 100-page memos have to be boiled down to one page for him, is heedless of facts and evidence, and appears not even to know the meaning of truth.
http://abajournal.com/news/
law_s...mes_prosecution
"I have a friend with a 1963 Dodge Dart with that pushbutton trans."
i can't remember what year the one i had was, but it was 3 on the tree.
the coolest thing about it was these air vents down near yer ankles...they opened up like a milk chute. you could stuff an lb of pot and a bong in one, and cops that pulled ya over were no the wiser...so i hear.
the other funny thing i remember about that car was the tops of the front fenders rusted out and when you drove down the highway in the rain it would shoot these big plumes of water out the top.
good times..
My life plan always involved someday owning a Plymouth Barracuda. Didn't get my first car until 1988 when I was 35, a 1980 Mazda GLC hatchback my wife bought for me so I could get to work.
My younger brother never even considered going to college. He bought and sold four vehicles before he finished high school, trading up from a dirtbike to a Firebird by pumping gas at the local service station.
Sinfonian, I liked your LTE too. But it may be too polysyllabic for publication.
Jrette. is fascinated with medicated lip balm.
She's gonna become a menthol junkie.
Sinfonian, I liked your LTE too. But it may be too polysyllabic for publication.
Willendorf Venus
Yeah, I was afraid of that.
the coolest thing about it was these air vents down near yer ankles...they opened up like a milk chute. you could stuff an lb of pot and a bong in one, and cops that pulled ya over were no the wiser...so i hear
I've heard the same thing...
Sinfonian, I liked your LTE too. But it may be too polysyllabic for publication.
Willendorf Venus
Depends on his local paper.
I had a couple of LTEs printed here before I stopped buying the paper altogether. It was almost like they would alternate wingnut letter days with DFH letter days.
Starting to see Smart Cars around here. They are certainly cute. I wish they did a little better than 33 city and 41 highway. My Honda is not much worse than that and seems much safer.
steve: I remember Jack Lescoulie. I'm not sure I care to.
The other day, I was reminded that I remember that Captain Midnight's sidekick was Ichabod Mudd, with two D's. There are, perhaps, two other sentient humans not in nursing homes possessed of such arcana...
Speaking of DFH, I am considering a DFH tattoo.
Don't tell anyone.
if I was a twelve year old boy I guarantee that I would have immediately jerked off upon returning home after seeing it. Angelina -- woo hoo!!!!
steve hüssein® simels
But now that you are the age you are, you can simply do so in a remote corner of the theater and people will leave you alone.
gotta get to work. perhaps i shall ponder why the automkers did away with the swiveling air vent windows...those were the shizzle.
later bats....
Gene Lyons penned a nice op-ed about Pumpkinhead's demise:
‘Royal funeral’ says much about society
"Russert was among the worst. Like most, he obsessed over Bill Clinton’s sexual sins, but handled the Bush administration’s Iraq war propaganda like the Baltimore Catechism: Memorize, regurgitate. Linda Hirshman nails it in The Nation: “The political leaders who did the best answering Tim Russert’s questions in the last seven years—Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell—are the authors of the most disastrous American foreign policy since the Vietnam War, and maybe since 1776. The Russert Test was a disaster because it rewarded people willing to lie unabashedly on TV.” And that’s the truth."
I think I'll probably see "Wall-E" sometime this week. Amazing reviews plus the Steve Simels sign of approval.
Quite a few Smart Cars proliferating here in Teh Glans™.
Yesterday, though, farther up Teh Wang™, I saw what appeared to be an enclosed, motorized tricycle. Weirdest thing I'd ever seen on the road. Anyone know what it might be?
But now that you are the age you are, you can simply do so in a remote corner of the theater and people will leave you alone.
Attaturk
Simels is Paul Rubens?
Dammit! I was going for the Pee Wee Herman reference and Gummo beat me to it.
Have a thought-wave coke.
I also recall, when I was home from boot camp, riding in my buddy's 1968 Corvette.
We'd stopped to roll a joint (it was dark), when the local law enforcement rolled up on us. I heard 'please step out of the vehicle'. I recognized the voice, and said "jesus christ, can't you see I'm rolling a joint?'
His new hire partner drew his weapon when I did step out. I walked over to the cop (whom I'd known for years) and said, "hey, tell dickhead there he can put his gun away" (which he had no knowledge of to begin with).
Needless to say, the younger of the 2 didn't stay long on the police dept in town. My Mom had dated the Chief of Police when he was road cop.
Some things just work out, ya know?
Paul Rubes was decidedly NOT left alone.
But now that you are the age you are, you can simply do so in a remote corner of the theater and people will leave you alone.
Attaturk
"Don't stare at the wanking old man, children. It's not polite."
Wanker of the Day: Steve Simels (in a nearby theater)
Oppo Research in the Tradition of Einstein [Byron York]
The Washington Post has published an unintentionally amusing article this morning about one Danielle Allen, a "razor-sharp, 36-year-old political theorist" at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies. Allen, with doctorates from Cambridge and Harvard, won a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation genius grant a few years ago and now conducts studies at the Institute, where, according to the Post, "she works alongside groundbreaking physicists, mathematicians and social scientists. They don't have to teach, and they face no quotas on what they publish. Their only mandate is to work in the tradition of Einstein, wrestling with the most vexing problems in the universe."
And one of the most vexing problems in the universe, which Allen has decided to pursue in the tradition of Einstein, is the origin of a number of e-mails claiming that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Using the advanced research tools at her disposal, the razor-sharp Allen found…a couple of posters on the Free Republic website, plus a former political rival of Obama's who sends out zillions of e-mails to reporters every day.
So what's so amusing about that? It's high time that science was used to crush you fucking wingnuts.
Okay, now Jrette. can't stop with the lip balm. She's already a menthol junkie.
Think Progress says McCain is trying to "have it both ways" with the Gay Community.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06...gbt-california/
I bow to the snark.
"Don't stare at the wanking old man, children. It's not polite."
"But mommy, why is that man's raincoat jumping up and down in his lap?"
Rubens was quirky and amusing, and, as far as I know, didn't hurt anybody. A damned shame what happened to him. The contrast with, say, Woody Allen, or any number of jocks, is painful.
Well, it's "Reubens," FWIW.
The other d00d painted pictures of fat chicks.
steve: I remember Jack Lescoulie. I'm not sure I care to.
I remember Wolfman Jack.
And Byron York, who is decidedly NOT a genius, is paid a lot of fucking money to wank on all things shallowly.
I'll take the brainiac.
Oh, I totally remember Wolfman Jack. "Midnight Special" was his show, right?
Simels is Paul Rubens?
heh.
I had a buddy that used to brag about getting a hand job from his girlfriend while the two were watching 'Barbarella'.
'Using the advanced research tools at her disposal, the razor-sharp Allen found…a couple of posters on the Free Republic website, plus a former political rival of Obama's who sends out zillions of e-mails to reporters every day.'
Jeez. Nothing more hilarious than a smart broad running slander to the ground. Let's dismiss it onut of hand, and moveon to the kerning onObama's birth certificate, or, perhaps, the possibility that Michelle Obama liked 'The Color Purple' a bit too much...
Well, it's "Reubens," FWIW.
The other d00d painted pictures of fat chicks.
Sinfonian, daddy | Homepage | 06.28.08 - 10:48 am | #
like Marie de Medici, Peter Paul Rubens was her favourite painter
You can still get 'Wolfman Jack's Goofy Greats' compilations. And they're mostly pretty good...
"WASHINGTON - President Bush said Saturday that religious charities, partly financed with federal money, have helped reduce homelessness, found jobs for former inmates and helped combat malaria and HIV/AIDS overseas.
Bush used his weekly radio address to trumpet the "remarkable difference these groups have made over the past eight years."[...]
The president said he wants to level the playing field so religious charities and secular charities compete for government money on an equal footing. His White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives survived a legal challenge from a group of atheists and agnostics last year when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that ordinary taxpayers cannot sue to stop conferences that help religious charities apply for federal grants."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20080...WZIb_AANxGs0NUE
We're presently playing around with this ArcView mapping program, linking databases to census data. Pretty cool.
More, if you personally don't want to pony up for arcView when class is over, try quantum GIS. Open source GIS program. If you can handle installing PostGresSQL and the PostGIS extensions, then you can embark on the hours long task of loading TIGER and the rest of the census info. Once all that's done though there's all sorts of mapy goodness to be had with the FEC donor database.
Oh, I totally remember Wolfman Jack. "Midnight Special" was his show, right?
Shit, it hasn't been that long ago, has it?
Wolfman Jack was a radio God!
Shit, it hasn't been that long ago, has it?
Yes, it has.
Shit, it hasn't been that long ago, has it?
billy b
Hmmm ... 30+ years or so, mebbe?
Yes, yes it has.
Well-aged coke to Barndog
Clap for the Wolfman
Wolfman Jack is at further temporal distance from today than the big band era was from us when we were in high school.
Wolfman Jack was a radio God!
"Clap for the Wolfman --
he's gonna rate tour record high"
Well-aged coke to Barndog
/accepts Coke with walking cane
I had a buddy that used to brag about getting a hand job from his girlfriend while the two were watching 'Barbarella'.
billy b | Homepage | 06.28.08 - 10:50 am | #
Ohhhh
Ohhhh
Ohhhh
BarBARrelLA!
/Bongos
tour record = your record
Simels regrets etc.....
Oh man.....
You're gonna dig him til the day you die
Hmmm ... 30+ years or so, mebbe?
Yes, yes it has.
When you put another 15 years under your belt, it won't seem so long, my boy.
I promise.
billy b: on a 'girls' night out' recently at a neighbor's house, my good wife was subjected to 'Barbarella' as an exercise in high comedy. She didn't get it. For instance, she said that the dialogue wasn't very good. The notion that 'Barbarella' had dialogue escaped me when I was exposed to it on first impression...
Wolfman Jack is at further temporal distance from today than the big band era was from us when we were in high school.
I have CD compilations of pre-WWII Big band jazz on my media player that I listen to sometimes. Though people I work with give me strange looks when it's blasting in my lab late at night when they have reason to wander in there.
remind you of anyone? - An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess'), about 1513, by Quinten Massys
When you put another 15 years under your belt, it won't seem so long, my boy
Talk to my spine, brother. I've got that, and a few more years on me.
However, I'm not dead yet.
Doug: my iPod shuffled the other day to Benny Goodman Quartet music from the late thirties, which sounded fresher to me than a lot of more recent material...
The notion that 'Barbarella' had dialogue escaped me when I was exposed to it on first impression...
Exactly. All I remember about the first time I saw the movie was Jane taking off her spacesuit.
The other day, I was reminded that I remember that Captain Midnight's sidekick was Ichabod Mudd, with two D's. There are, perhaps, two other sentient humans not in nursing homes possessed of such arcana...
ProfWombat | 06.28.08 - 10:42 am | #
Icky Mudd. Played by the great Sid Melton, if memory serves.
By John Sudworth
BBC News, Seoul
Condoleezza Rice says all efforts will focus on verification
There are still questions surrounding North Korea's nuclear bomb-making programme, according to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
She said North Korea's nuclear declaration, handed over earlier this week, left some questions unanswered.
Too late, Condi. Dumbya has already scratched their name off the shitlist.
Piyush is too busy performing exorcisms, handling snakes, and injecting people's ball with potassium chloride to worry about a mere oil spill.
I have an idea. How about the death penalty for little GOP Jeebus-loving pro-life
cocksuckers whose mission in life is to pile up more dead bodies than
Dick Cheney? Not only would many lives be saved, but there’d be much
less molesting of the Constitution.
The notion that 'Barbarella' had dialogue escaped me when I was exposed to it on first impression...
"Exposed" being the operative part of that...
i've been watching Glastonbury coverage on the Beeb this weekend heh
been very enjoyable
18 days till Latitude
I have CD compilations of pre-WWII Big band jazz on my media player that I listen to sometimes.
I love that old stuff. Love the breezy bouncy rhythm underlaying it. I am trying to figure out what the term for that is so I can seek out more to listen to. Is it "swing?"
I don't know how I missed this one - Wolcott just informed me that Sally Quinn (not a Catholic) took communion at Timmeh's funeral and blabbed about how it made her closer to Timmeh.
Jesus Christ on a crutch! As a lapsed Catholic who suffered many creepy Catechism classes together with a confession of my sins to a priest (who years later was revealed to have molested one of my friends)for the right to do so - I'm a little pissed off.
What a freaking dumbass.
Good news. At the place I work at a very big contract became gold, with all engineering (in a preliminary sense) approved. Raw parts were being cut on the big CNC machines as I slept last night. The company has optimistic hopes they can finish this in 2.5 years. With changes even if they run at full speed my estimate is around 4 years.
Too late, Condi. Dumbya has already scratched their name off the shitlist
Until he calls "faked ya out".
I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw his worthless ass.
steve: correct; yet another underrated bit player who was always, always better than he had to be...
Doug -- Good for you. Sounds like job security! Yay!
Wolfman Jack is at further temporal distance from today than the big band era was from us when we were in high school.
ProfWombat | 06.28.08 - 10:54 am | #
And yet the best rock radio station in NYC is currently playing 40 year old songs along with the latest stuff.
I somehow don't remember Cousin Brucie playing Glenn Miller records along with Beatles hits in 1965.
I don't know if this is a change for the better, but it's certainly different.
I am trying to figure out what the term for that is so I can seek out more to listen to. Is it "swing?"
There is also fiddle swing - which has much of that same rythym and bounce.
I don't know how I missed this one - Wolcott just informed me that Sally Quinn (not a Catholic) took communion at Timmeh's funeral and blabbed about how it made her closer to Timmeh.
She was taken to task by the keeper of all things Catholic (Donohue).
Glastonbury 2008: a chat with Candi Staton
Sally just wanted to eat Christ.
She was taken to task by the keeper of all things Catholic (Donohue).
Lime Rickey | 06.28.08 - 11:05 am | #
I'm sure Donohue is an asshole but someone should have told Sally that the wafer is not like crudite at a cocktail party.
steve: I've often thought of that, watching my 16 yo, who loves a lot of the sixties stuff as part of the current musical scene. Once saw her, listening to Crosby Stills and Nash, dressed in a flannel shirt and jeans, being disgusted by her very own Republican President, with his very own war, and did a massive double take.
You and me, we identified big band stuff as clearly our parents' stuff rather than our own, the stuff you'd hear at weddings or in old movies...
the wafer is not like crudite at a cocktail party.
Finger food for the Mass-es.
Guess what? They undercounted votes in an election last week in Palm Beach County by 14%! No one could have predicted ...
Prof. Wombat:
I just read your comment about the two cigarettes at the end of Now Voyager.
I've seen that movie a zillion times, and yet I must confess that had never occurred to me before.
Although now that you mention it, a blind man could see it with a cane.
Wow.
I'm sure Donohue is an asshole but someone should have told Sally that the wafer is not like crudite at a cocktail party.
Jill
And she runs a "religious" column or something.
"Obamama dicusses the economy"
Right now on Google News page - link goes to CNN article, which has the name spelled correctly in the headline.
Typo or propaganda - you decide.
I don't know how I missed this one - Wolcott just informed me that Sally Quinn (not a Catholic) took communion at Timmeh's funeral and blabbed about how it made her closer to Timmeh.
Jesus Christ on a crutch! As a lapsed Catholic who suffered many creepy Catechism classes together with a confession of my sins to a priest (who years later was revealed to have molested one of my friends)for the right to do so - I'm a little pissed off.
What a freaking dumbass.
Jill | 06.28.08 - 11:02 am | #
What I like about the Catholic Church are those foot rests the have in every row of pews. Must be nice to relax your weary legs every Sunday mrning. Jeez, If synagogues had those I might still be going to schul or something.
Time to call Bill Clinton!
Let's get on with it -- please!
Doug -- Good for you. Sounds like job security! Yay!
According to big management folks at my departmental off site conference yesterday they are expanding my lab with new toys. Which I'm sure I'll have fun with. Oddly enough, though I have computer driven microscopes and lasers to use, I still resort to ancient Euclidean proofs to validate my NCRs (non-conformance-reports) to the gears when they argue with me.
Junior High math class stuff.
Reminds me of the old Calvin & Hobbes cartoon where Calvin rebels against his parents by listening to 'easy listening' music -- and to make it worse, he listens to it really softly too!
Y'know, it doesn't bother me that Sally Quinn engaged in a Catholic ritual as part of her recognition of someone who was her dear friend.
Don't like Quinn, didn't like Russert. But I'd go to mass if a Catholic friend of mine died, and even take communion, myself, out of respect for him and his family.
Now, you do that publicly, in sight of 'People' reporters and like that, it's another set of issues.
Don't like Quinn, didn't like Russert. But I'd go to mass if a Catholic friend of mine died, and even take communion, myself, out of respect for him and his family.
Now, you do that publicly, in sight of 'People' reporters and like that, it's another set of issues.
ProfWombat
I've been to Catholic funerals, but it would never occur to me to take communion.
take communion, myself, out of respect for him and his family.
If the friend were a "good Catholic," I'd think eating the Messiah snack crackers when you aren't entitled would be showing the opposite of respect.
It amazes me how each successive generation of conservative is more stupid than the previous. It's like they're trying to disprove Darwin by devolving. How long until they become nothing more than aggressive sleestaks?
Franz Ferdinand at Glastonbury 2008.
they are performing at Latitude 08
The RC, along with other Orthodox churches, does not permit a non-RC to take communion - unlike Protestant churches (generally) which permit any baptised Christian to participate.
But I'd go to mass if a Catholic friend of mine died, and even take communion, myself, out of respect for him and his family.
I love you ProfWombat - you're in my top ten of favorite posters here but the Catholic Church is very clear about communion - non-Catholics and Catholics who have not been to confession are asked not to join in Communion. I know that that is not the case in the Episcopal church and many other Protestant churches but it is definately the rule in the Catholic Church.
It amazes me how each successive generation of conservative is more stupid than the previous. It's like they're trying to disprove Darwin by devolving. How long until they become nothing more than aggressive sleestaks?
puppethead | Homepage | 06.28.08 - 11:14 am | #
But this is good news for the Republicans, right?
I've been to Catholic funerals, but it would never occur to me to take communion.
Communion (though I'm sure some find it moving and meaningful) always struck me as a bit creepy.
A zombie/cannibalistic ritual.
Religious rules are written by uptight white men, trying to control the masses.
That is all.
steve: I get confused about Freud. He's out of fashion these days. You watch some of the old movies which embrace Freud unreservedly, and they seem appallingly dated. You read, say, Harold Bloom, who thinks (correctly) that Shakespeare gave rise to Freud, and then spends inordinate time being Freudian about Shakespeare. You think of the foolishness and fecklessness that characterized many Freudian analysts before actual psychopathology. You look at the loonier stuff, the impenetrable jargon, the outright nonsense. You recall Freud saying, 'Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar' while smoking his cigar. Then you're left, at the end of the day, with persistent insights that continue to illuminate the human condition.
aggressive sleestaks
Band name.
Franz Ferdinand at Glastonbury 2008.
moon, Beeb keeps telling us yanks that everybody at G-bury hates the fact Jay Z is playing (especially Noel Gallagher). Is that the actual vibe in the UK?
Catholics who have not been to confession
They are pretty lax on this rule, though. Reconciliation is encouraged once a year. (Have to pay a quarter to the nun if you call it confession)
I went through first communion, but I'll just stick to the wine, k?
Phil Gramm is back!
Steve Moore, WSJ
Is that supposed to be GOOD news?
If I were Catholic, I'd go into the confessional and say, "I shot the sheriff. But I didn't shoot the deputy."
You can't have the juice and cracker until you have jumped through the cat-licking hoops.
I've been to Catholic funerals, but it would never occur to me to take communion.
I was at a Catholic wedding on 9/9/01 that had communion. The priest announced to the non-catholics in attendance that we weren't to partake in the ritual.
He said something like "respect our traditions" or some such. Rather off-putting that.
I don't know how I missed this one - Wolcott just informed me that Sally Quinn (not a Catholic) took communion at Timmeh's funeral and blabbed about how it made her closer to Timmeh.
CHRIST ON A CRACKER!
What a bunch of pathetic mental has beens dominate the media. I mean, that's just the saddest thing ever.
Didn't know that Catholic communion is only for Catholics. Out of respect for them, therefore, I would not take communion, though I would attend mass.
I don't like posting out of ignorance, and deeply appreciate it when folk teach me something. It's one of the reasons why I come here.
moon, Beeb keeps telling us yanks that everybody at G-bury hates the fact Jay Z is playing (especially Noel Gallagher). Is that the actual vibe in the UK?
MikeJ | 06.28.08 - 11:18 am | #
just a load of WATB
Lupe Fiasco, another rapper performed yesterday at Glasto on the Jazz World stage and the audience was enjoying it a lot
and Noel Gallagher is a wanker, i don't like Oasis and I think he is a bit of a twat IMHO
The RC, along with other Orthodox churches, does not permit a non-RC to take communion
Actually GWPDA - it is also anyone (usually children) who have not had the sacrament of penance and a first communion - my nephew and I looked on dumbfounded when a man carrying his toddler daughter insisted on getting her a wafer also as he took communion (the server was a eucharistic minister who didn't want to make waves and handed him one - the priest would have refused her of course).
I was at a Catholic wedding on 9/9/01 that had communion. The priest announced to the non-catholics in attendance that we weren't to partake in the ritual.
He said something like "respect our traditions" or some such. Rather off-putting that.
billy b
Well someone like Sally Quinn cheated and you know what happened next!
Damn, it's muggy out there today.
He said something like "respect our traditions" or some such.
That's actually how I view it. If I'm a guest in a Catholic service I feel duty-bound to honor and respect their ways.
Unless I'm very sure of where and how the wine is made, I won't touch it. Wine made via modern methods makes me very ill.
(I only drink wine made according to some pretty medieval ways. Bricot champagne is one that works for me.)
My life plan always involved someday owning a Plymouth Barracuda.
One of the great radio ads of all time.
"I can't say 'Bacdadura.'"
"Hey, man - repeat after me: BA!"
"BA!"
"RA!"
"RA!"
"CU!"
"CU!"
"DA!"
"DA!"
"Now put it all together!"
"Ba-ba-ra-ra-cu-cu-da-da!"
I take communion whenever I can.
I LUVS TEH GRAPEJUICE!
Yes, Catholic communion is just for Catholics, and yes, I've seen them be pretty militant about that as well.
I've been to several Masses, though, including one where a gay friend of mine was ordained as a deacon. Hilarity ensued.
Phil Gramm is back!
Steve Moore, WSJ
Is that supposed to be GOOD news?
Lime Rickey | 06.28.08 - 11:19 am | #
For the Republicans, its always good news. No matter what. In fact I would urge McSame to nominate Gramm as his V.P pick. Lots of charisma there.
The truth is, from all I have read, that Timmeh would not have approved, so I don't see how she 'honored' him, although she did manage to make it about her.
Let me just add that is confusing. I was raised Lutheran which has the same communion process, but entirely different rules aboout it.
Well someone like Sally Quinn cheated and you know what happened next!
Attaturk
Lightning bolt?
Well someone like Sally Quinn cheated and you know what happened next!
Remember the big stir Bill Clinton caused when he took communion in a Catholic Church?
I got a big kick out of that.
you're right camelot- I haven't been to confession since I lost my virginity - so, I'm cheating too when I take communion. Plus I'm a DFH who supports abortion rights so there's that too..
i met quite a few Indie fans and some of them are so hostile to any form of music which isn't 'guitar' bases or whatever
and so many of these indie bands today have same looking boys with floppy hair playing similar sounding music
there is no variety or just doing something different
Catholic communion is only for Catholics. Out of respect for them, therefore, I would not take communion, though I would attend mass.
Sally Whore must have been thinking of the Episcopalians, who let anyone chow down if they want...
I've been to several Masses, though, including one where a gay friend of mine was ordained as a deacon. Hilarity ensued.
Sinfonian
I was in the wedding party for a Catholic Wedding, on the last rehearsal one of us (not me) took the "Incense" holder and chain and pretended he was Roger Daltrey swinging a microphone.
Non-hilarious hilarity ensued.
Didn't know that Catholic communion is only for Catholics.
The wiki has a pretty good article that covers this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist
Scroll down and read the part about
"Close(d) or Open Communion".
BTW, kids, we've been invited to two - TWO! - gay weddings so far.
We haven't been to a "straight" wedding since we've been married.
I don't usually cry at weddings, but I may get a bit verklempt at these...
Sally Whore must have been thinking of the Episcopalians, who let anyone chow down if they want...
dave™©
"You hungry? C'mon ... we were just about to have some body and blood of Christ. Dig in!"
Lupe Fiasco playing on the Jazz World stage
Now I've got a 1960s radio commercial stuck in my head:
'Tire-screaming, nitro-burning FUNNY CARS! A Hemi under glass! A Plymouth Barracuda with an engine mounted in the BACK SEAT!! He revs the engine up to 15,000 RPM, then pops the clutch, and sends the front wheels FOURTEEN FEET IN THE AIR at A HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR!!! HE CAN'T SEE WHERE HE'S GOING!!! SUNDAY, at NATIONAL SPEEDWAY!!!'
on the last rehearsal one of us (not me) took the "Incense" holder and chain and pretended he was Roger Daltrey swinging a microphone.
You could put somebody's eye out with that thing!
#1 story from my “Oops” file:
POW Insane McCain gets endorsed by his former North Vietnamese jailer and “friend” Tran Trong Duyet. Duyet said if he were an American he would vote for McCain because of the candidates willingness to forgive and look to the future. Duyet went on to claim that McCain made up beatings and solitary confinement to win votes. Hmmm…is Duyet saying McCain’s whole POW ordeal was planned to acquire sympathy votes for a future run in US politics?
my dad attended a wedding while on his walking holiday in France, they had Mass too
you're right camelot- I haven't been to confession since I lost my virginity - so, I'm cheating too when I take communion. Plus I'm a DFH who supports abortion rights so there's that too..
Jill | 06.28.08 - 11:23 am | #
I do not think I have ever met a Catholic that is not a 'cafeteria' catholic. The older ones would frown at me, but denying it would then mean they had lied.
I once frightened my friend at an Presbyterian service by saying when I got the cracker "if there was any onion dip"?
"You hungry? C'mon ... we were just about to have some body and blood of Christ. Dig in!"
"Jew eat?"
Phil Gramm never went away. He just entered a different branch of the government...
SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!! at NATIONAL SPEEDWAY!!!'
Fried your tacos.
I do not think I have ever met a Catholic that is not a 'cafeteria' catholic. The older ones would frown at me, but denying it would then mean they had lied.
camelot-Obama/Maddow '08
If I were a cartoonist, I would draw a cafeteria line and the people getting "Body of Christ" and "Blood of Christ" ... I just had that visual.
#2 story from my “Oops” file:
Do you recall how our idiot in chief a month or so ago was pushing for and pressuring congress to pass a trade agreement with our “friends” in Columbia? The idiot in chief went on and on about how the trade agreement relates to National security and that President Alvaro Uribe is a “good” friend of the United States and a good friend of the idiot in chief. Well it seems that the Columbian Supreme Court has now questioned the legitimacy of Uribes 2006 re-election and the law that amended the constitution so that Aribe could run for a second term, suggesting it resulted from “criminal acts” in a bribery scandal involving some of Uribes closest aides. Hmmm, no wonder why the idiot in chief considers Aribe a close friend, they are both corrupt and evil. Whats that old saying? Birds of a feather flock together.
Tire-screaming, nitro-burning FUNNY CARS!
Don "The Snake" Purdhomme! Shirley "ChaCha" Muldowney! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!!!
Reminds me of the old Calvin & Hobbes cartoon where Calvin rebels against his parents by listening to 'easy listening' music -- and to make it worse, he listens to it really softly too!
Gummo
Every generation chosses the form of popular music they judge to be most irritating to their parents.
Which branch of government -- the Cheney branch?
saying when I got the cracker "if there was any onion dip"?
It's over there to the left by the gall bladder.
There's also a very nice liver pate right next to the dip.
"Jew eat?"
dave™©
eat Jew
"Big Daddy" Don Garlits.
Don't forget Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins.
Gramm's now working in UBS as an investment banker, and has his fat, greedy finger in countless pies. He's on McCain's staff...
Don "The Snake" Purdhomme! Shirley "ChaCha" Muldowney! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!!!
dave™© | Homepage | 06.28.08 - 11:28 am | #
At Amphetamine Speedway -- it's Big Daddy Don Garlitz and his Dodge Hemi under glass!!
He pops the clutch, his rear wheels go thirteen feet into the air, and he's MAIMED!!!!!!
SUNDAY, SUNDAY.......!!!!!!!!
Don Garlits has a museum just off of I-95 near Ocala, Fla. I regularly pass it traveling to and from Tallahassee.
All eyes will be on US rapper Jay-Z and troubled singer Amy Winehouse when they play the most hotly anticipated sets of this year's Glastonbury Festival later.
Winehouse returned to hospital on Friday night to continue treatment for a lung problem after singing two tracks at the Nelson Mandela birthday concert.
The sun broke through the clouds on Saturday, drying out much of the mud created by rain on Thursday and Friday.
The choice of Jay-Z as headliner has caused consternation among some fans.
But singer Lily Allen said he was among "the most amazing performers" around and she did not understand the fuss.
"I saw him at the [Royal] Albert Hall last year and it was amazing," she told BBC News.
"It's like somebody's throwing a party in the middle of the countryside. If you want to go, go. If you don't, don't."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/enter...ent/
7479092.stm
True story: as a kid, my grandfather loved to go to the annual Auto-Rama, where I saw, three years in a row, the Munster Coach, the Batmobile, and Dragula (Grandpa Munster's coffin-based hot rod) - IIRC, George Barris concoctions, all.
I think the "Beatnik Bandit" was there, too. Wish I'd gotten one of those custom air-brushed Big Daddy Ed Roth shirts... or maybe Stanley Mouse...
Meanie: I don't think the annoyance of parents is as necessary as the differentiation from them, as identities get formed...
Interesting tidbit - Dick LaHaie live next door to my aunt and uncle in Lansing, Michigan.
My uncle, the welding and manufacturing genius of the family, built a number of his first rail dragster frames.
He's on McCain's staff...
ProfWombat
Heh ... "on his staff" ... heh.
If I'm going to have to go to church to partake in the body of Christ, I better not get the part that anything comes out.
I want tenderloin dammit!
I do not think I have ever met a Catholic that is not a 'cafeteria' catholic.
The very first pope got doctrine wrong and had to be corrected by the laity. If you can disagree with good ol' Petra, why not with Benny Ratz?
Every generation chosses the form of popular music they judge to be most irritating to their parents.
Meanie-meanie
For me, it's the euroweenie electronica that accompanies my son's favorite "funny" YouTube videos.
He pops the clutch, his rear wheels go thirteen feet into the air, and he's MAIMED!!!!!!
Don't forget - free petting zoo for the kids!
SUNDAY!!!!!!!
"I don't think many people would want Jay-Z to headline," said 24-year-old Claire Burdett from London.
"I'd be quite interested to see a bit of him but there's something else I want to see at the same time."
But another festival goer, Martin Barry, 32, from London, said: "I've got a fair few Jay-Z CDs and I probably would have gone to see him in concert if he wasn't here.
"There's absolutely nothing wrong with the line-up. And Glastonbury's not just about the line-up."
The rapper is expected to use a BBC interview with Oasis star Noel Gallagher, in which he said hip-hop at Glastonbury was "wrong", as part of his intro on stage.
He will be preceded on the main Pyramid Stage by Winehouse, who has a one-hour slot.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/enter...ent/
7479092.stm
A drag racer just died in a fiery wreck last week ...
Glad I'm not the only one with neurons carrying stuff of limited utility...
Gramm's now working in UBS as an investment banker, and has his fat, greedy finger in countless pies. He's on McCain's staff...
ProfWombat | 06.28.08 - 11:30 am | #
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Speaking of UBS...
Is UBS Failure Next?
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/
He pops the clutch, his rear wheels go thirteen feet into the air, and he's MAIMED!!!!!!
Don't forget - free petting zoo for the kids!
TOJO'S DEATH CAR!!!!
i think its good to be exposed to different music genres
A drag racer just died in a fiery wreck last week ...
Sinfonian, daddy
A not-so Funny Car driver wasn't it?
A drag racer just died in a fiery wreck last week ...
Sinfonian, daddy
Car explodes at 300 mph--Fun for the whole family!
A drag racer just died in a fiery wreck last week ...
Ya know, 4.5 second and 330 mph+ quarter mile times are not something that interest me whatsoever.
and anyway Glasto has always had diverse acts throughout its history
the Munster Coach, the Batmobile, and Dragula (Grandpa Munster's coffin-based hot rod) - IIRC, George Barris concoctions, all.
Back in March or April, I saw the Batmobile (from the tv show) driving down the street here in the San Fernando Valley. When I got home, I looked it up on the nets and there are IIRC actually 5 of them. Don't know exactly which one this was, but it was pretty cool looking.
Speaking of UBS...
Is UBS Failure Next?
If a bushie has touched it, it is sure to fail in a katrinaisk manner.
I've got good-quality Xeroxes of an old (unused) "Big Daddy" Ed Roth coloring book around here... when I get time, I'll scan a few of the better ones for all you art lovers...
I think the "Beatnik Bandit" was there, too. Wish I'd gotten one of those custom air-brushed Big Daddy Ed Roth shirts... or maybe Stanley Mouse...
dave™© | Homepage | 06.28.08 - 11:30 am | #
I saw the Batmobile, summer of 1966. At Shea Stadium. The concert was The Chiffons, the Young Rascals, and then Adam West and Burt Ward came out in the car.
I look back on this now, and I'm thinking I must have been on drugs and imagined the whole thing, but I'm sure it was real.
steve: liked the Chiffons, and I think the Rascals are another underrated band, actually...
and anyway Glasto has always had diverse acts throughout its history
I swear next year I'm gonna sell my own brand of "Glastonwellies" in an attempt to pay for travel to go.
Ya know, 4.5 second and 330 mph+ quarter mile times are not something that interest me whatsoever.
From wiki:
"Big Daddy" was compelled to retire due to separated retina, a product of the 4g deceleration produced by a Top Fuel Dragster's braking parachutes.
...there are IIRC actually 5 of them.
I think there was some dispute with Barris over sending those around to the car shows back in the day.
The thing only went about 30mph... they cranked the film to make it look like it was going "fast"...
I went to high school and partied with Pro-Stock driver Kurt Johnson whose father Warren is a legend of the Pro-Stock circuit.
He said: "I think hip-hop's been dominating the charts for the past five years now – it's just been on top – and maybe it's got to the point where you can't ignore that anymore."
Traditionally a rock and folk affair, the crowd that attends the annual mud-fest in Somerset has never really demanded more hip-hop on the bill.
The 2008 addition of Jay-Z as a headliner has just backed that up and even Dizzee admits he struggled with visualising Beyonce's husband topping the bill.
He said: "I just couldn't see it. I couldn't see rap really. And I would've thought someone who maybe sold more records in the UK – that's what I meant when I said Eminem or Kanye West or someone like that.
'Realistic'
"But as far as his status as one of the best to ever do it – maybe the best – yeah of course he should be doing it if they're introducing hip hop to Glastonbury."
Estelle and Bashy are on the line up as well this year but for Dizzee, that's hardly representative.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/h...000/
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I'd love to go see Dizzee Rascal live, i'm such a big fan of his music
The very first pope got doctrine wrong and had to be corrected by the laity. If you can disagree with good ol' Petra, why not with Benny Ratz?
MikeJ |
IMHO, most Catholics put the Pope out of their mind, as he is some distant issue that they have a difficult time explaining to non-catholics. Priests will councesl that you cannot be catholic without believing in reconciliation, or being against birth control, and many conservative Catholics are for the death penalty, which a priest would say meant they were not catholic. You have to believe all of the doctrines. Of course, the church knows that they would have no enrollment and that is really what is important. The numbers, the masses.
The concert was The Chiffons, the Young Rascals, and then Adam West and Burt Ward came out in the car.
That was the year I saw it (I think Adam West was supposed to be at the show the next day, but we missed him).
West and Ward used to do a lot of those appearances - it was a good source of income as, apparently, they were making JACK. SHIT. off the TV show.
West still does comix conventions... I saw him about five years ago at one, and he looked damn good!
"Big Daddy" was compelled to retire due to separated retina, a product of the 4g deceleration produced by a Top Fuel Dragster's braking parachutes.
billy b
I saw something on drag-bike racing once where a driver was pointing to a light on his panel and he said, "When that light comes on, I shift. If I don't shift immediately, the engine explodes under me."
""When that light comes on, I shift. If I don't shift immediately, the engine explodes under me.""
Wish Bush had one of those.
BTW, "Big Daddy" Ed Roth spent most of the latter part of his life painting signs at Knott's Berry Farm, which was probably a cooler gig for him than it sounds...
Thor- That's a little too little of a margin of error, I would think.
Representing hip hop
The Fratellis have also waded in on the argument about the inclusion of hip-hop at the predominantly rock and folk festival.
Jon Fratelli told Newsbeat: “I think it's Michael Eavis's field and he can invite who he wants and no-one can tell him who he should and shouldn't have on.”
Much of the attention is focussed on Jay-Z but hip-hop is being well represented through the weekend.
Lupe Fiasco played the Jazz stage on 27 June, drawing a huge crowd.
During the intro to his track Hip-hop You Saved My Life, he urged fans who 'love hip-hop' to make some noise, and they responded with deafening enthusiasm.
Dizzee Rascal is also on the bill, as is UK rapper Blak Twang.
Other bands sharing stage time with Jay-Z include Massive Attack who play the Other Stage, and veteran Scottish duo The Proclaimers who are playing at Avalon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/h...000/
7479012.stm
so really the whole 'Jay-Z Glasto controversy' is really just a load of hot air
Okay, if we're onto racing, I once sat in a Swede Savage indy car. I always like the good ole days of dirt tracks and sprint cars.
Wish Bush had one of those.
"If I start to tip over, the Segway explodes under me!"
steve: liked the Chiffons, and I think the Rascals are another underrated band, actually...
ProfWombat | 06.28.08 - 11:36 am | #
Indeed.
Rascals are HUGELY underrated. I always figured Felix Cavliere was the American Stevie Winwood. Or maybe that was the other way around.
And the Chiffons are actually my favorite girl group. "One Fine Day" is a fricking masterpiece on every level, and I also have a huge soft spot for their big "psychedelic" hit -- "Nobody Knows What's Going On in My Mind But Me."
Wish Bush had one of those.
"If I start to tip over, the Segway explodes under me!"
I'd settle for some shoes that ignite when he trips.
"This whole Beatle thing is a passing fad. For my money, The Chiffons and the Batmobile at Shea Stadium, not that's a show!"
-- Steve Simels in HS newspaper
Wish Bush had one of those.
He would be too scared to ride it.
"
"If I start to tip over, the Segway explodes under me!""
Hah!
I always figured Felix Cavliere was the American Stevie Winwood.
How'd he end up producing Cream? I always found that weird...
Somehow I feel out of place here. Listening to Jerry Reed.
so really the whole 'Jay-Z Glasto controversy' is really just a load of hot air
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008 | Homepage | 06.28.08 - 11:40 am | #
In a word, yes.
It's all three chords and a cloud of dust.
Meanie: I don't think the annoyance of parents is as necessary as the differentiation from them, as identities get formed...
ProfWombat
Pure coinkydinky!
In all seriousness, the irritation I think serves an an indicator of the degree of differentiation. Maximum diff = max Irritation. Varies among families, of course. I have an 8 yo G'niece that is already giving indications that "max = max" is gonna be her equation of choice. Very unlike her older sis. Ah, well...
Incidently, I located the first two Mushroom Planet books, gave 'em to her for summer reading (she loves to read!!1!), and I'll get my chance when she's done.
Rascals are HUGELY underrated. I always figured Felix Cavliere was the American Stevie Winwood. Or maybe that was the other way around.
Love the Rascals.
Speaking of the Chiffons - remember George Harrison getting sued because he supposedly ripped off "He's So Fine" with "My Sweet Lord"?
BTW, before I go off to a mysterious assignation in Baghdad-by-the-Bay, I'll just mention I know Felix Pappalardi (sp?) produced Cream... it was an "in" joke...
copyright - you're thinking of Felix Pappalardi.
Ya know, 4.5 second and 330 mph+ quarter mile times are not something that interest me whatsoever.
Speeds get any faster, the tracks won't need parking lots. It'll be drive-thru viewing, with continuous races. 12 Tracks, No Waiting!
The Rascals were wonderful. Perfect mix of pop, rock & blue-eyed soul.
Lost all my Rascals in the Great Water Leak of '02-'03. Have yet to replace it.
And meanie-meanie, I'm all agape here. Just recently, for the first time in, oh, 40 years, I was reminiscing about the Mushroom Planet books. I've never met anyone else who knew them.
And don't forget kids - it's Gay Pride Weekend!
You know what they say - everyone's gay on Gay Pride Day!
Speaking of the Chiffons - remember George Harrison getting sued because he supposedly ripped off "He's So Fine" with "My Sweet Lord"?
billy b | Homepage | 06.28.08 - 11:46 am | #
Have you ever heard George's great unreleased album?
Stealing Material From the World
Among the tracks:
"My Sweet He's So Fine"
"My Sweet The Lady is a Tramp:
"My Sweet My Funny Valentine"
"My Sweet Bach's B-minor Mass."
It's a classic!!!!
Bob Dylan faces the ire of ecologists, unions and local residents because of a concert he is due to perform tonight in a park in the Spanish countryside.
Ten thousand fans are expected to descend on the park for the concert, which is being promoted by local authorities in Castilla y León under the title Musicians in Nature - a reference to its backdrop of lush woods and mountains.
But critics claim that the concert-goers could damage the parkland surrounding Mesegosillo de Hoyos del Espino, an estate in the Sierra de Gredos, a mountainous park near Avila to the west of Madrid.
Carlos Bravo, of the ecology association Centaurea, said: "They have taken no measures to preserve the area despite the large infrastructure that they are building."
He described putting on concerts of this type as an "atrocity".
"What [the government] is doing is supporting projects which put in clear danger the natural heritage and culture of this community."
Other organisations protesting against the concert include a local branch of a major union, residents' groups and Ecologists in Action.
Dylan is performing with the Spanish group Amaral as part of the Spanish leg of his European tour.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
enviro...angeredhabitats
What's wrong with this web page?
http://www.consumer.att.com/onli.../onlinebilling/
It's a classic!!!!
steve hüssein® simels
Stealing Material From the World
Among the tracks:
"My Sweet He's So Fine"
"My Sweet The Lady is a Tramp:
"My Sweet My Funny Valentine"
"My Sweet Bach's B-minor Mass."
It's a classic!!!!
You crazy, man - you crazy.
And meanie-meanie, I'm all agape here. Just recently, for the first time in, oh, 40 years, I was reminiscing about the Mushroom Planet books. I've never met anyone else who knew them.
Gummo
[points over Gummo's head at Prof Wombat]
This is probably the largest collection of Mushroomites on the interweb...
People still go to this crap.
http://www.greatlakesdragaway.com/
And, Gummo, if you get a hankering to re-read the Mushroom Planet books, save up yer money, 'cause #3 & #4 are $45 and up, and #5 (which came out long after I read the first 4, and I've never seen) is a couple hundred, minimum...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW YORK NEWS CONFERENCE JUNE 28, 2008
OBAMA AUTHOR ANDY MARTIN RESPONDS TO WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE NAMING MARTIN AS THE SOURCE OF COMMENTS ABOUT OBAMA'S RELIGIOUS ROOTS
MARTIN ACCUSES WASHINGTON POST OF CREATING "MANCHURIAN SURROGATE"
FOR OBAMA'S DISINFORMATION
MARTIN'S CONTROVERSIAL BEST SELLER ON OBAMA WILL BE AVAILABLE NATIONALLY WITHIN DAYS
WAS THE WASHINGTON POST DUPED BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN?
"DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
And, Gummo, if you get a hankering to re-read the Mushroom Planet books, save up yer money, 'cause #3 & #4 are $45 and up, and #5 (which came out long after I read the first 4, and I've never seen) is a couple hundred, minimum...
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person
Maybe I'll just pick up the Freddy the Pig collection instead....
Hey -- do you know the great unreleased Beatles album from their brief Jewish period?
Rabbi Saul
Among the tracks:
"PS I Owe You"
"The Shul on the Hill"
"Your Mother Should Only Know"
"Mocky Raccoon"
"Sexy Seder"
simels --
ow.
ow.
ow.
ow....
Also: the unreleased John Lennon solo album, from his primal scream period:
Fuck Me? Fuck You!!!
"PS I Owe You"
"The Shul on the Hill"
"Your Mother Should Only Know"
"Mocky Raccoon"
"Sexy Seder"
steve hüssein® simels
"She Loves You, Oy, Oy, Oy."
Hey -- do you know the great unreleased Beatles album from their brief Jewish period?
it was a cut above the rest
Lunch beckons.
Back in a bit, after a nice sammich.
bye for now
No, the Washington Post is duped, every day, entirely on its own.
Okay, looks like we're off to the beach or the park or something outdoors. Anyway, catch you patriotz laterz.
Funny you should mention WaPo idiocy, Sinf.
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An ongoing conversation that includes the WaPo editors, me and Avedon at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/
"My Son, Doctor Robert."
simels is on a roll today.
fuck Bobby Jindal. God damn retard doesn't believe in science but believes in Demons. Fucking 5 year old in a 36 year old's body
hi, billy b. simels, w/ let us on a roll.
simels is on a roll today.
billy b
A bialy, I think.
Ever heard 2Live Jews' "You Get a Roll wit' it, Baby" ?
Hi Ruth!!!
SLG - I'm not familiar with the duo...
fuck Bobby Jindal.
He's gonna cut the nuts offa rapists. Maybe make a nut necklace to wear.
I haven't seen it this quiet around here in years...
Everyone's reading cabdrollery.
jindal also is solving high oil prices by drilling off of FL and CA and at ANWR. which is a known and acknowledged sham
And don't forget kids - it's Gay Pride Weekend!
You know what they say - everyone's gay on Gay Pride Day!
dave™©
No I'm not.
/John Cleese
Isn't Jindal some kind of Cajun chef?
Gay Pride Day means another levee gives way in OK.
/Robertson
fuck Bobby Jindal. God damn retard doesn't believe in science but believes in Demons. Fucking 5 year old in a 36 year old's body
jr
Like Brownback and Novakula, a convert.
Converts are the worst fanatics.
the Catholic Church is very clear about communion - non-Catholics and Catholics who have not been to confession are asked not to join in Communion.
Someone neglected to tell Rudy 911 that when the Pope was here in the States.
Or, Rudy being Rudy, he didn't give a shit. Rules are for others.
bugged owls
Ever heard 2Live Jews' "You Get a Roll wit' it, Baby" ?
SteveLG | 06.28.08 - 12:34 pm | #
I loved their big hit, "Oy, It's So Humid!
"And my girlfriend -- Octagenarian Mutant Ninja Myrtle!!!!!"
simels used to be L.L. Cool Jew.
open owls
Well, it's not like the estimated 17,700 barrels of oil spilled is one million gallons of oil.
It's only 973,500.
I wonder if they estimated high, or low? Hmmmmm.
Shorter Jindoval:
"Demonic Oil Spill, in the name of McChrist, I command you to be gone!"
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