How-DEE! I'm back from my vacation, thankfully, blessedly back from my vacation.
The first part was spent with a friend who is addicted to reality shows. I don't watch much commercial TV, and I got crash exposure to a panoply of this genre--cruelty and voyeurism, carefully planned and target-marketed faux-reality.
I didn't like the effect it on my mind, even after such a short exposure. It seemed to me that a whole nation consuming this material would easily come to view all of us as being part of a vast and elaborate reality TV show, a national dissociative disorder, a country of schizophrenics incapable of normal human relations--everyone being pigeon-holed into categories and stereotypes to watch and to judge, but never to know.
Then again, the second part of the vacation was spent with my brother's family, an enervating obsessive-compulsive passive-aggressive psycho-drama. I love them, but…whew! I'm so glad to be back to my work-eat-relax-sleep normality.
I got a good laugh from the cab driver when I said, "I have a boring life, and I've worked hard to achieve it!"
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07.05.08 - 4:47 pm | #
What this country needs is an anti-Soderbergamy LaW.
From Greenwald:
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Nancy Soderberg was deputy national security advisor and an ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration. Today, she has an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times defending the FISA bill and telecom amnesty. The entire Op-Ed is just a regurgitation of the same trite, vague talking points which the political elite are using to justify this bill, accompanied by the standard invocations of "National Security" which our Foreign Policy elite condescendingly toss around to justify whatever policy they're claiming is necessary to protect us. But it's the language that she uses -- and the brazeness of the lying (and that's what it is) to justify this bill -- that's notable here.
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Wonder how much of Obama's ear this woman has?
bo |
07.05.08 - 4:53 pm | #
Tomorrow is Miserable Failure's birthday... what to get the man who fucks up everything he touches?
George Johnston |
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07.05.08 - 4:54 pm | #
Again thanks all.
from below
My neighbor has informed me that I haven't learned how to be retired yet. But it's only been a year. I'll be become expert with time.
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07.05.08 - 4:54 pm | #
Happy Birthday QL!
Light as many candles as u like and make a wish!
I think some folks were looking for something like this: Snow, Glass, Apples.
Hey Uncle Smokes! Thanks for the CD. What a perfect interpretation and document of that glorious weekend. I recognized my moaning before it was recognizable!
As much as necessary, and then some, to secure the support of the "right people."
Ah, politics...yippee...are we having fun yet?
Uncle Smokes |
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07.05.08 - 4:56 pm | #
Soderberg repeats the lie that George Bush's illegal wiretapping started after Septemeber 11th.
George Johnston |
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07.05.08 - 4:57 pm | #
What should the national pastime be for celebrating George W. Bush's birthday?
bill |
07.05.08 - 4:57 pm | #
50% increase in martini casualties. pizza reinforcements on the way.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 4:57 pm | #
Tomorrow is Miserable Failure's birthday... what to get the man who fucks up everything he touches? -
George Johnston
I got to send him a card for free, thanks to the RNC's insistance on sending solicitations to my deceased Mom.
Don't think he's gonna like the personal message.
bo |
07.05.08 - 4:58 pm | #
The FISA Court is a rubberstamp court that gives the government a grace period for filing requests. What in the world was Bush and Cheney doing that wouldn't even hold up to that flimsy barrier to wiretapping?
George Johnston |
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07.05.08 - 4:58 pm | #
50% increase in martini casualties. pizza reinforcements on the way.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
Ha! Though I can't help you kill martinis, I *will* be going out to pick up pizzas in just a minute. In order to get the 5yo to agree, I had to make a deal with the devil and agree to watch "Flicka!"
ina, forest princess |
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07.05.08 - 4:59 pm | #
My mother was in academic life in those days and had fairly precise fertility plans.
Echidne
My mom had three kids in july and one in October. I wonder how the winter had to do with it.
qlª |
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07.05.08 - 4:59 pm | #
Hey Uncle Smokes! Thanks for the CD. What a perfect interpretation and document of that glorious weekend. I recognized my moaning before it was recognizable!
...
ina, forest princess
Whew. I was worried you'd find the manipulation of your voice disturbing, but that kind of stuff is a lot of fun to do.
Uncle Smokes |
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07.05.08 - 4:59 pm | #
Tomorrow is Miserable Failure's birthday... what to get the man who fucks up everything he touches?
What in the world was Bush and Cheney doing that wouldn't even hold up to that flimsy barrier to wiretapping?
George Johnston | Homepage | 07.05.08 - 4:58 pm | #
sometimes they are assholes just on principle.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 5:00 pm | #
Though I can't help you kill martinis,
you are either with me, or with the pimentoes.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 5:01 pm | #
What in the world was Bush and Cheney doing that wouldn't even hold up to that flimsy barrier to wiretapping?
George Johnston
Even the FISA court has standards.
Rmj, Back from Beyond |
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07.05.08 - 5:01 pm | #
What To Get Der Furhrer on Der Furhrer's Birthday? Didn't "Hogan's Heroes" address this important question?
War On War Off |
07.05.08 - 5:01 pm | #
Assrocket sees a violent crime wave -- in the UK.
P O'Neill |
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07.05.08 - 5:01 pm | #
What in the world was Bush and Cheney doing that wouldn't even hold up to that flimsy barrier to wiretapping?
George Johnston
Data mining has been the pat answer. Cheating at anything and everything is far more likely.
bill |
07.05.08 - 5:01 pm | #
Don't think he's gonna like the personal message.
bo
I keep thinking we need to find the perfect christian innocent to write to him imploring him to do the right thing for the lord and step down.
ina, forest princess |
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07.05.08 - 5:01 pm | #
My mom had three kids in july and one in October. I wonder how the winter had to do with it.
Not sure. I was born over the Christmas break, though, and that, too, was on purpose. Only the youngest was off the schedule but then she was an unintended blessing.
Echidne |
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07.05.08 - 5:01 pm | #
BREAKING: SOME HOMOSEXUAL WAS INJURED AT THE OLYMPIC TRIALS.
why is the snorg girl chewing on her finger? is she hungry?
jdw |
07.05.08 - 5:02 pm | #
Aw, Plum_p, that iz beauty-ful! What a swell thought!
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
07.05.08 - 5:02 pm | #
What should the national pastime be for celebrating George W. Bush's birthday?
Peeing on his effigy from a great height....
montag |
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07.05.08 - 5:02 pm | #
why is the snorg girl chewing on her finger? is she hungry?
jdw
Lets hope she didn't just have it in her nose.
bill |
07.05.08 - 5:03 pm | #
you are either with me, or with the pimentoes.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
Well, aren't you fighting them there so I don't have to fight them here?
ina, forest princess |
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07.05.08 - 5:03 pm | #
Chimpy
THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you. Let me make sure I get -- this is the old three-part question and I'm about to be 62 years old, so -- (laughter.) By the way, I will be celebrating my birthday on Japanese soil; that's interesting.
Q Congratulations.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, come to the party. It's not going to be much of a party; it's only 62.
P O'Neill |
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07.05.08 - 5:03 pm | #
BONNE FÊTE GOMEZ!
mwah
your 50th year will be so happy!
plum p,better democrats please |
07.05.08 - 5:03 pm | #
Peeing on his effigy from a great height....
montag | Homepage | 07.05.08 - 5:02 pm | #
And this is a fitting place [monticello] to celebrate our nation's independence. Thomas Jefferson once said he'd rather celebrate the Fourth of July than his own birthday. For me, it's pretty simple -- the Fourth of July weekend is my birthday weekend. (Applause.)
P O'Neill |
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07.05.08 - 5:04 pm | #
By the way, I will be celebrating my birthday on Japanese soil; that's interesting.
I'm sorry, but didn't he just insult the Japanese?
Rmj, Back from Beyond |
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07.05.08 - 5:04 pm | #
"He'd probably like a nice tie."
i'll get him a can of simonize.
jdw |
07.05.08 - 5:04 pm | #
What should the national pastime be for celebrating George W. Bush's birthday?
bill
Everybody in the country should donate $25 to the Democrat of their choice.
flory |
07.05.08 - 5:04 pm | #
I found it very depressing to read this morning that W has raised a boatload worth of money for rethugs. Typically, he'll fly in for some made up event at daycare center or school, give a five minute speech, then attend a fund raiser. Because of the staged event, he gets to charge the traveling to us. Son-of-a-bitch.
qlª |
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07.05.08 - 5:04 pm | #
Whew. I was worried you'd find the manipulation of your voice disturbing, but that kind of stuff is a lot of fun to do.
Uncle Smokes |
And I remember when you recorded it -- it seems you already knew how you could make it work & you were right. By chance, did you record any of my set?
ina, forest princess |
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07.05.08 - 5:05 pm | #
give a five minute speech, then attend a closed door fund raiser.
no one wants to be seen with him, but they like his money.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 5:05 pm | #
Western Canadians are people of considered habit.
GWPDA
they only fuck in july? i did not know that!
plum p,better democrats please |
07.05.08 - 5:05 pm | #
Chimp's always gotta outdo the old man. My guess is an alien's going to emerge from his belly in Japan.
War On War Off |
07.05.08 - 5:06 pm | #
What in the world was Bush and Cheney doing that wouldn't even hold up to that flimsy barrier to wiretapping?
Spying on their political friends and enemies, just like Nixon did.
They also saw it as a mission to destroy FISA (which Cheney, in particular, sees as an unconstitutional infringement on the President's powers), and the best way to do that is exactly what they've been doing....
montag |
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07.05.08 - 5:06 pm | #
Maybe the Japanese will serve him as naked sushi, to celebrate the day?
Echidne |
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07.05.08 - 5:06 pm | #
He'd probably like a nice tie.
Gomez
In addition to our love of all things Vicki, we share a natal day. Many happy returns.
qlª |
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07.05.08 - 5:06 pm | #
they only fuck in july? i did not know that!
Holidays! Mostly at Banff, or Victoria. Somtimes abroad.
you are either with me, or with the pimentoes.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Now this is an instance where I can seriously support bipartisanship.....
flory |
07.05.08 - 5:07 pm | #
The FISA Court is a rubberstamp court that gives the government a grace period for filing requests. What in the world was Bush and Cheney doing that wouldn't even hold up to that flimsy barrier to wiretapping?
The very idea that anyone has even the most cursory supervisory role over them drives these fascist fucks absolutely bonkers.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.05.08 - 5:07 pm | #
effigy?
Well, I don't think we can get the whole nation together where he'll be on July 6th.
the DC democratic establishment is deeply invested in this FISA bill. They are not "knuckling under", but are actively collaborating
rootless-e |
07.05.08 - 5:12 pm | #
Here is a cyber giftbag for you: Fifty chocolate bars, fifty glow-in-the-dark condoms, fifty dfh bumper stickers.
Echidne |
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07.05.08 - 5:12 pm | #
DWD: i'm quite impressed that The Wings got Hossa, if only for a one year contract. You lot my get a second Stanley Cup in a row...
plum p,better democrats please |
07.05.08 - 5:12 pm | #
happy birfdays for those that have them!!!
jdw |
07.05.08 - 5:12 pm | #
Thank all for the nice birfday wishes.
Gomez | 07.05.08 - 5:11 pm | #
hows it feel to be half a century old? more than just idle curiosity, i'm getting there this orbital pass as well.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 5:12 pm | #
I keep thinking we need to find the perfect christian innocent to write to him imploring him to do the right thing for the lord and step down. - ina
I've fantasized about writing Scripture-and-Hell-Fire tinged LTE's to the Central Valley papers imploring Fundies to consider the grevious danger they posing for their Immortal Souls by indulging in such secular acts as politicin' and votin'. The Devil's Playground, I tell ya, and no Rightous Christian should even hold a Gummint Job, much less run for office.
bo |
07.05.08 - 5:13 pm | #
and Gomez, what happened? I thought Jagr was going back to the Penguins?
plum p,better democrats please |
07.05.08 - 5:13 pm | #
hows it feel to be half a century old? more than just idle curiosity, i'm getting there this orbital pass as well.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
and Gomez, what happened? I thought Jagr was going back to the Penguins?
plum p,better democrats please
We signed Satan instead.
Gomez |
07.05.08 - 5:14 pm | #
plum - hell, we haven't left Portland yet! We'll be in South Dakota by Weds, which is about halfway. Home before the 16th. NTodd's Pa reports Vinnie and Lola greeted him--everybody else was in hiding.
Smokes - yup, I've got that contact info. We're pretty flex on schedule, so just let us know what works for you.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.05.08 - 5:14 pm | #
wow, something to look forward to! i haven't felt that way in years.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 5:14 pm | #
Off to put up.
Pico-de-Gallo Ingredients 6 Tomatoes 1 ½ Onion 2 Fresh Jalapeños 3 Canned Jalapeños (La Costena) 3oz Juice from the Canned Jalapeños 3 Fresh Lemons or 3oz Lemon Juice Concentrate Salt to Taste Directions 1. Chop Tomatoes in to ¼ inch pieces 2. Finely Chop Onions 3. Chop both types of Jalapeños 4. Combine chopped ingredients with the juices of the Lemon and the Jalapeños and mix together adding salt to suit your taste
We lost Naslund. Not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing yet.
And Morrison, too, I think. Linden retired, so it's a whole new team this year.
Ali, spiritual advisor |
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07.05.08 - 5:14 pm | #
I'm off to visit my fundie parents.
They'll prolly give me a bible or something.
Gomez |
07.05.08 - 5:15 pm | #
We signed Satan instead.
Gomez
who? i thought Avery was going to Dallas!
plum p,better democrats please |
07.05.08 - 5:15 pm | #
gomez, i wonder - will i be able to play the violin after i hit 50?
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 5:15 pm | #
What should the national pastime be for celebrating George W. Bush's birthday?
bill
A baseball game with all pinch-hitters attempting to bunt, but getting nothing but foul balls...the crowd yells to the pitcher, "Bean...bean...bean!" Alas the pitcher is deaf and blind, and the ump lets everyone walk anyway...safe!
Uncle Smokes |
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07.05.08 - 5:16 pm | #
gomez, i wonder - will i be able to play the violin after i hit 50?
dirk gently, sociopathetic
I see no reason why not (hanging curve)
Gomez |
07.05.08 - 5:16 pm | #
I see no reason why not (hanging curve)
Gomez
*awaits punchline*
I love it here!
Ali, spiritual advisor |
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07.05.08 - 5:16 pm | #
who? i thought Avery was going to Dallas!
plum p,better democrats please
What should the national pastime be for celebrating George W. Bush's birthday?
bill
The media seems to think it is supposed to be Calvinball...
George Johnston |
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07.05.08 - 5:17 pm | #
Nothing hurts, everything works.
Gomez
Hah.
Just wait.
There's a reason insurance rates skyrocket when u turn 50.....
flory |
07.05.08 - 5:17 pm | #
And Morrison, too, I think. Linden retired, so it's a whole new team this year.
Ali
and your Vancouver offered some crazy money to Sundin. We want Sundin in Montréal. But 2 years for 20 millions for a 36 years old? that's really crazy money.
plum p,better democrats please |
07.05.08 - 5:17 pm | #
But 2 years for 20 millions for a 36 years old? that's really crazy money.
plum p,better democrats please
Team management are all blissed out on yoga or something. Bubble tea, maybe.
Ali, spiritual advisor |
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07.05.08 - 5:18 pm | #
I keep thinking we need to find the perfect christian innocent to write to him imploring him to do the right thing for the lord and step down.
Jesus himself could appear to Bush and implore him to change his ways, and Junior would just give him that stupid lopsided smile and tell him that he was "gonna stay with mah prinzpulls."
The only way Dubya thinks of God is as his enabler....
montag |
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07.05.08 - 5:19 pm | #
GWPDA, What, no cilantro? It needs cilantro.
dmark, blackcat firecracker |
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07.05.08 - 5:19 pm | #
we have a roll of toilet paper with Bush's face on every sheet.
We didn't set out to tear up our carpeting on the stairs today. But golly, that's what we're doing!
Zap Rowsdower |
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07.05.08 - 5:20 pm | #
pittsburgh also has the warhol museum
moi |
07.05.08 - 5:20 pm | #
we have a roll of toilet paper with Bush's face on every sheet.
Ew...
No way would that creature's face get anywhere near mah private parts..
things could start falling off.....
flory |
07.05.08 - 5:20 pm | #
did the BUSH TP kill the thread?
peterboy |
07.05.08 - 5:20 pm | #
Zap, I did that yesterday! Must be a bug going around.
Ali, spiritual advisor |
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07.05.08 - 5:20 pm | #
Now I'm sanding them. Much less satisfying than tearing out the carpet.
Ali, spiritual advisor |
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07.05.08 - 5:21 pm | #
Where did everybody go? All ordering Bush TP online?
Ali, spiritual advisor |
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07.05.08 - 5:22 pm | #
Gomez,
Satan is a fine forward. I hope it works out for you.
PlumP, I am surprised by the Hossa thing. Truly surprised. But I guess word does get around. As you know my son's friend was on the squad, but did not play, in the playoffs. For the last game in Pittsburgh, Mike Illitch - the owner of the Wings - chartered a plane and flew the parents and relatives of all of the players to the game in Pittsburgh and arranged for them to be in attendance.
When Brad Stuart's wife had a baby in the middle of the playoffs the team sent him home to be with his wife and new child for a couple of days - he said that was one of the reasons he wanted to stay.
I guess word does get around.
DWD - S☮S |
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07.05.08 - 5:22 pm | #
we have a roll of toilet paper with Bush's face on every sheet.
peterboy
Why did I just think of Grandpa Simpson telling the man borrowing his ointment to "clean off the applicator this time!"
Uncle Smokes |
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07.05.08 - 5:22 pm | #
Its good to see that the NYT has discovered Pittsburgh.
We've only been the first big city southwest of them for like 250 years.
Gomez |
07.05.08 - 5:23 pm | #
I guess word does get around.
DWD
indeed.
time to go cook some loot from my farmers' market trip
au revoir all
plum p,better democrats please |
07.05.08 - 5:24 pm | #
wsj today covers the $95M given to congress and parties by housing industry to get the bailout bill written lucratively.
rootless-e |
07.05.08 - 5:25 pm | #
Goddam hairy tragi! I swear I'm mutating into a venus flytrap.
bo |
07.05.08 - 5:25 pm | #
Hey Gomez, happy birthday to yooooooooou.
mer |
07.05.08 - 5:26 pm | #
Took you long enough, Dirk.
Ali, spiritual advisor |
the pimentoes had me pinned down in a foxhole. interestingly enough, there was an atheist in there.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 5:26 pm | #
Okay, party is starting. Let's hope I can get out of bed tomorrow.
you can drive 10 minutes outside of pittsburgh and be in the country. and not pseudocountry.
moi |
07.05.08 - 5:26 pm | #
The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (also called Greater Pittsburgh), as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of seven counties in western Pennsylvania, anchored by the city of Pittsburgh. As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 2,431,087 (though a July 1, 2007 estimate placed the population at 2,355,712).
Gomez |
07.05.08 - 5:27 pm | #
and Quilt Lady, what can I say? You remain my favorite and I look forward to your presence every day.
wsj today covers the $95M given to congress and parties by housing industry to get the bailout bill written lucratively.
rootless-e
WSJ like any other wingnut outlet is horrified that the main beneficiaries of the bailout bill will be regular folks and not the banks.
flory |
07.05.08 - 5:28 pm | #
trust me that is a good thing about pburgh. i love it. though the roads are upsetting.
moi |
07.05.08 - 5:29 pm | #
you can drive 10 minutes outside of pittsburgh and be in the country. and not pseudocountry.
moi
More like 45 minutes.
Gomez |
07.05.08 - 5:29 pm | #
Three major league teams.
Two million in the metropolitan area.
Yeah that's big.
Pretty big. But not enough major sports championships to qualify.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.05.08 - 5:29 pm | #
Now I'm sanding them. Much less satisfying than tearing out the carpet.
I'll bet.
The stairs and risers look to be in pretty good shape. We may opt for a runner, but we haven't decided yet.
Zap Rowsdower |
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07.05.08 - 5:29 pm | #
The Burlington Metropolitan Statistical Area (also called Greater Burlington), as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of half a county in northwestern Vermont, anchored by the city of Burlington. As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 75,666, 12,548 cows, a distressing number of cormorants, and one dromedary camel.
Gromit |
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07.05.08 - 5:30 pm | #
Pittsburgh is the 22nd largest market.
Gomez |
07.05.08 - 5:30 pm | #
More like 45 minutes.
Gomez | 07.05.08 - 5:29 pm | #
you drive too slow. comes with age, i guess.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 5:30 pm | #
i have an expt site in natrona heights. that is prob 20 minutes. not much there.
moi |
07.05.08 - 5:30 pm | #
Pretty big. But not enough major sports championships to qualify.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba
Not like Cleveland.
Gomez |
07.05.08 - 5:30 pm | #
Not like Cleveland.
Gomez | 07.05.08 - 5:30 pm | #
i spent a week there one night.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 5:31 pm | #
As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 75,666, 12,548 cows, a distressing number of cormorants, and one dromedary camel.
Gromit
Didn't I see a pitcher of some alpacas?
flory |
07.05.08 - 5:31 pm | #
From where I am, takes a good hour minimum to get away from Houston's SMSA.
Least densely populated SMSA in the country. The sprawl is mind-boggling. But the trees are nice. Amazingly green place, considering how much of it is paved over or covered imperviously.
Rmj, Back from Beyond |
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07.05.08 - 5:31 pm | #
Re: Thunder Road. The kid playing Mitchum's younger brother is in fact Mitchum's son.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed. |
07.05.08 - 5:32 pm | #
Pretty big. But not enough major sports championships to qualify.
I believe that the Twin Cities is the 13th biggest sports market (and all four major sports). But we've only got two championships to brag about.
Yes, but they are in Huntington, just outside of the Major Metropolitan Area. The camel just arrived, having moved from Charlotte to Richmond.
Gromit |
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07.05.08 - 5:34 pm | #
Off to my parents. bbl.
Gomez |
07.05.08 - 5:34 pm | #
HELLO CLEVELAND!
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.05.08 - 5:34 pm | #
I hear that in Minneapolis, you can get from Paisley Park to the free clinic to the Vikings party boat in under 20 minutes!
Jay C. |
07.05.08 - 5:35 pm | #
WSJ like any other wingnut outlet is horrified that the main beneficiaries of the bailout bill will be regular folks and not the banks.
flory | 07.05.08 - 5:28 pm | #
I don't think that is what the mortgage bankers association has in mind.
The village of Rothbury, MI has a population of 500 people. This weekend they are having the Rothbury Music Festival. They are expecting as many as 50,000 people to attend. (They were nice enough to give each village resident's family 10 passes - worth 250 bucks each - as compensation for screwing up the weekend.)
The village of Rothbury, MI has a population of 500 people. This weekend they are having the Rothbury Music Festival. They are expecting as many as 50,000 people to attend. (They were nice enough to give each village resident's family 10 passes - worth 250 bucks each - as compensation for screwing up the weekend.)
Ten minutes east of St. Paul is a wild herd of bacon.
Reminds me of a friend in Austin who looked out her back door to see the neighbors stringing up a hog and cutting its throat.
Back when you didn't have to leave Austin to go to the country. It was still there.
Ah, those were the days.
Rmj, Back from Beyond |
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07.05.08 - 5:42 pm | #
Doohickey Meir has the most scintillating repartee!
Gromit |
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07.05.08 - 5:42 pm | #
pa has a lot of moss too
moi |
07.05.08 - 5:43 pm | #
Reminds me of a friend in Austin who looked out her back door to see the neighbors stringing up a hog and cutting its throat.
I'm a pretty tolerant guy, but that would have even me yelling 'get offa my lawn'.
Gromit |
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07.05.08 - 5:43 pm | #
Doohickey Meir has the most scintillating repartee!
It's the insight and other great qualities of the commenters like Zod that make it the most popular blog today!
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.05.08 - 5:43 pm | #
With all their pearl clutching shouldn't it be called The Waaaaahhhhhh Street Journal?
George Johnston |
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07.05.08 - 5:43 pm | #
With all their pearl clutching shouldn't it be called The Waaaaahhhhhh Street Journal?
Oh, that's just the editorial page making all that noise....
montag |
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07.05.08 - 5:44 pm | #
I'm a pretty tolerant guy, but that would have even me yelling 'get offa my lawn'.
Gromit
It was their lawn. I'm guessing they even had a smokehouse out back and an iron pot heating up on a fire.
She said little kids were dancing all around and it was like something out of "Lord of the Flies." I think that whole neighborhood is gone now.
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07.05.08 - 5:45 pm | #
On the other hand, I know of houses not 1/4 mile from where I sit which still rely on well water.
And some barns and horses within 10 minutes of here. Not exactly the country, but the bones of it still poke through.
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07.05.08 - 5:47 pm | #
I'm just catching up on this thread, but people behind the tastee freeze string up pigs and chant dohickery-smoked?
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07.05.08 - 5:49 pm | #
"I'm surprised at how finely calibrated every single word was measured.
We are so fucked.
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07.05.08 - 5:49 pm | #
BTW, we saw "The Fall" last week and we give it big recco
It seems the only joy out of life that our fat aggie transvestite friend can obtain comes from scolding other people.
What a fucking loser.
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07.05.08 - 5:51 pm | #
watertiger I see McBombBomb has hired all of Cuckoo's crew to help him with his public appearances.
So now instead of old and tired he'll come off as stupid and smirky.
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07.05.08 - 5:52 pm | #
From wt's link:
"They include the moment he playfully called a young man a “jerk” at a town-hall-style meeting in New Hampshire last year after he asked Mr. McCain if his age made him a candidate for Alzheimer’s disease in the White House (Mr. McCain typically uses jerk as a term of affection)
No need to think. The press will do it for us.
Gromit |
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07.05.08 - 5:52 pm | #
Why is GM constantly running ads for Cadillac Escalades? How many people want those things these days? No wonder their stock value is in the shitter.
MP |
07.05.08 - 5:54 pm | #
"Jerk," "cunt"- with McCain, it's just an honor to be recognized.
Jay C. |
07.05.08 - 5:55 pm | #
Why is GM constantly running ads for Cadillac Escalades? How many people want those things these days?
"Please, people, take these off our hands! We'll PAY you!"
Why is GM constantly running ads for Cadillac Escalades? How many people want those things these days? No wonder their stock value is in the shitter.
Ah, well, if you have tens of thousands of them sitting on the lots, those are the ones you promote....
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07.05.08 - 5:56 pm | #
McCain hates bloggers, BTW. He's said so.
He also hates the fact that there's not one good Victrola repairman in all of DC.
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07.05.08 - 5:56 pm | #
"Long-term unemployment rises.»
The WSJ reports, “In another sign of the harsh toll being exacted by the economic downturn, the number of Americans unemployed for six months or more has risen sharply over the past year and is likely to increase even more.” According to new Labor Department data, the number of people unemployed for at least 26 weeks has risen to 1.6 million — up 37% in the past year." http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07...ployment-rises/
pigboy |
07.05.08 - 5:57 pm | #
Why is GM constantly running ads for Cadillac Escalades? How many people want those things these days? No wonder their stock value is in the shitter.
The All New 25 mpg Corvair will not be ready until 2014.
Gromit |
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07.05.08 - 5:57 pm | #
He also hates the fact that there's not one good Victrola repairman in all of DC.
Now back to the thread.
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07.05.08 - 5:58 pm | #
3:10 to Yuma or Destination Tokyo tonight? I don't want to waste all my time watching tv but I have never seen either and for the first time in three years I've called in sick cos of ear infection.
"And this electricity stuff looks dangerous to me."
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07.05.08 - 6:04 pm | #
Why is GM constantly running ads for Cadillac Escalades? How many people want those things these days? No wonder their stock value is in the shitter.
MP
In 2004-2005, we bought a $17,000 Scion and a $22,000 (net cost to us) solar array. Just think, for the same money we could have bought a $39,000 Chevy Tahoe,which today would be worth about 28 bucks.
Oh, and we just got this month's electric bill: negative $14.19.
A virtuous person in this situation would refrain from snickering at bling-encrusted SUVs. That's what a virtuous person would do.
Upsidasium |
07.05.08 - 6:04 pm | #
"I don't trust this newfangled indoor plumbing."
watertiger |
Wait a second! There's a "New" Mexico?
trifecta |
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07.05.08 - 6:05 pm | #
I watched Elizabeth: The Golden Years w/ Blanchett. It was v good.
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07.05.08 - 6:05 pm | #
"And this electricity stuff looks dangerous to me."
montag | Homepage | 07.05.08 - 6:04 pm | #
make sure to leave everything plugged in, or it will leak out ontp the floor.
that's what causes the spark when you grab a doorknob.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 6:05 pm | #
"And this electricity stuff looks dangerous to me."
3:10 To Yuma? Is that the movie where Russell Crowe gets off of the train, goes to a hotel and throws a telephone at the clerk?
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07.05.08 - 6:05 pm | #
Oh, and we just got this month's electric bill: negative $14.19
Virtue is it's own reward.
footloose |
07.05.08 - 6:06 pm | #
I loved "I'm Not There".
If you're on NetFlix get State Of Play.
Good Brit show.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
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07.05.08 - 6:06 pm | #
Oh, and Cate Blanchett has that unbilled cameo in "Hot Fuzz." Which was yesterday's naptime programming.
Jay C. |
07.05.08 - 6:06 pm | #
Wait a second! There's a "New" Mexico?
new mexico, old mexico - it don't matter. you still gotta call your embassy.
--atlanta olympics box office
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07.05.08 - 6:06 pm | #
Oh, and we just got this month's electric bill: negative $14.19
C-span has independent reporter with troops in forgotten Afghanistan, walking around talking about the job. Like c-span does in Iraq sometimes.
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07.05.08 - 6:07 pm | #
It’s all about where you put the horizon/Said the Great John Ford to the young man rising
You got to frame it just right and have some luck of course
And it helps to have a tall man sitting on the horse
Tell them just enough to still leave them some mystery/A grasp of the ironic nature of history
A man turns his back on the comforts of home
The Monument Valley to ride off alone
And when the dust all settles and the story is told/History is made by the side of the road
By the men and women that can persevere/And rage through the storm, no matter how severe
And whether it’s a horse or a car or a train
There’s gonna be some fine times and there’s gonna be some pain
In the end it’s a silhouette framed by the sun
And just The Monument Valley when the evening comes
It’s a strong wind blowing on the open range/It’s gonna be beautiful and it’s gonna be strange
It’s where to plant the camera and when to say action/When to print the legend and when to leave the facts in
And when to turn your back on the comforts of home
And wander round The Monument Valley alone
/drive by truckers "the monument valley"
SteveLG |
07.05.08 - 6:07 pm | #
"And put some money in that up-and-coming Baltimore Opera Hat Company!"
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07.05.08 - 6:08 pm | #
new mexico, old mexico - it don't matter. you still gotta call your embassy.
--atlanta olympics box office
The rest of the country just doesn't understand why New Mexico is the only state that has "USA" on its license plates. Not that it does that much good....
montag |
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07.05.08 - 6:09 pm | #
the new yuma was shitty...as it didntmake any sense afgter thefirst half.
well done if you dont need the story to hold together.
peterboy |
07.05.08 - 6:09 pm | #
i knew i shudda taken that left at albequerque
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 6:10 pm | #
Luxurious 600 count sheets await those fortunate enough to visit upstairs.
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07.05.08 - 6:11 pm | #
negative electric bill?
we are going solar but the utility wont give us back any money, even at year end if we are ahead.
they need to change that to encourage more residential solar.
why do I have to be a solar utility or wind farm to get paid to produce?
peterboy |
07.05.08 - 6:11 pm | #
negative electric bill?
we are going solar but the utility wont give us back any money, even at year end if we are ahead.
they need to change that to encourage more residential solar.
why do I have to be a solar utility or wind farm to get paid to produce?
peterboy
It's the same for us over the course of a year - the best we can do is zero out the bill, which is paid annually. But the power company (Pacific Gas and Electric) credits the over-production during the year, so that keeps the overall bill down.
Upsidasium |
07.05.08 - 6:15 pm | #
Also, when we over-produce, we sell the power back to the power company at retail rates. And since we over-produce during peak demand hours (noon to 6 p.m. or 1 to 7 p.m., depending on time of year), we get credit for the peak kilowatt-hour rate, which (last I checked) is four times as much as summer off-peak.
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