sheetwise, there has been some deception in publishing the true thread count of sheets. A class action suit against Bed and Bath, which carries 400 thread count sheets listed as 800.
Knew you'd want this info.
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05.17.08 - 7:23 am | #
from below;
David D, montag, it's knowing that my little fingers must straighten out the creepy things he's foisting off on the unwary that brings me to the coffee early, just to make sure nothing awful happens in the world of sane discourse. Ah, there, that's better.
We need all 800 threads HERE, el.
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 7:25 am | #
So I was a good citizen and went out and stimulated the economy with part of my check yesterday.
Got a new laptop with an integrated webcam for podcasting.
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05.17.08 - 7:25 am | #
Bed, Bath, and Beyond has a store nearby that's the devil to reach on transit. Then they send out these
"20% off any item" coupons that are ONLY good in-store. Too expensive, anyway.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 7:26 am | #
Wow! It's absolutely gorgeous here in PA. About 50F, sunny and shiny after yesterday's downpour.
Snarkworth
Same here in DE.
qlª |
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05.17.08 - 7:26 am | #
Morning, trademark dave! You're up early.
Molly Ivors |
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05.17.08 - 7:26 am | #
Snark, where in PA are you?
Molly Ivors |
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05.17.08 - 7:27 am | #
Got a new laptop with an integrated webcam for podcasting.
Very cool. May it last many years.
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch |
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05.17.08 - 7:27 am | #
wet and gray today, drip but no precip
el |
05.17.08 - 7:27 am | #
May it last many years.
I got a warranty, too.
Molly Ivors |
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05.17.08 - 7:27 am | #
Finally Fast.com ( a PC speed-up service) has a TV ad that begins with a dude on an iMac saying how great they are and then says (in tiny type onscreen) that they only fix PCs.
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05.17.08 - 7:28 am | #
Sheesh, even the new keyholders know the drill: as soon as I post a perfectly good blogwhore, a new thread appears.
I must've been evil in my last life to deserve such karma.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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05.17.08 - 7:29 am | #
Huckabee gave the stardard apology:
"Sorry if you were offended, DID NOT MEAN TO OFFEND"
I love that "did not mean to offend", it's so patently false and everyone knows it.
Attaturk |
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05.17.08 - 7:29 am | #
Just back for one sec:
Damn good letter in the NYT, bears sharing, very short:
To the Editor:
“Appeasement” is letting Al Qaeda hide out in Pakistan.
William Lorton
Los Angeles, May 16, 2008
David Derbes, ochen' pissed. |
05.17.08 - 7:30 am | #
"Sorry if you were offended, DID NOT MEAN TO OFFEND"
GoPerv apology: I'm sorry that made you mad. You should hear what I really, really mean.
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 7:31 am | #
Joe Watkins is an African-American preacher who's also a GOP spokesmodel on MSNBC, and he just loves bearing false witness and turning the knife.
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05.17.08 - 7:31 am | #
Atta,
That "sorry if you were offended" makes the problem *your* touchiness, not *my* actions, It's not an apology at all.
Molly Ivors |
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05.17.08 - 7:31 am | #
Thanks, Ruth. Now I'm really outta here.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed. |
05.17.08 - 7:31 am | #
Huckabee gave the stardard apology:
Fuck Huckabee. Notice his true colors, did ya?
Barndog, not fishing |
05.17.08 - 7:31 am | #
Molly I, congratulations on the new computer. Are the key caps secured tightly on this one?
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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05.17.08 - 7:31 am | #
"That was Barack Obama. He just tripped off a chair. He was getting ready to speak and somebody aimed a gun at him, and he dove for the floor,"
translation: that darky knows you're gunning for him, heh heh, I'm one of the boyz, thumps chest.
el |
05.17.08 - 7:32 am | #
Rachel sat in for Keith last night and had Tweety on explaining his smack-down of that right-tard.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 7:32 am | #
Molly is that podcast going to include chicks?
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 7:32 am | #
That "sorry if you were offended" makes the problem *your* touchiness, not *my* actions, It's not an apology at all.
Quite true. The `pugs have all the variants of "blame the victim" down like scripture.
montag |
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05.17.08 - 7:33 am | #
Sheesh, even the new keyholders know the drill: as soon as I post a perfectly good blogwhore, a new thread appears.
yeppers.
But, hey, you can dupe it. What's whorin' for?
Otherwise. Dog looking at me mournfully.
Unfair to go to keyboard first. But I thought Go4 might not be best for a Sat AM.
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05.17.08 - 7:34 am | #
On the clip that I saw, the crowd didn't seem to laugh. Seemed to go silent.
Not funny.
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05.17.08 - 7:38 am | #
Hey ql! We're heading up to Newfoundland Thursday, back here Saturday night, driving down Sunday morning. We'll be coming through your neck of the woods sometime Monday afternoon, hopefully. I don't know about time yet (gotta get to Norfolk that night), but will you be around?
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05.17.08 - 7:38 am | #
"That was Barack Obama. He just tripped off a chair. He was getting ready to speak and somebody aimed a gun at him, and he dove for the floor,"
Unspoken #1 : Any black man running for highest office has had to consider that there WILL be Koo Koo Klucks out there dreaming of taking a shot, and that one of them might.
Unspoken #2 : Diving for cover when someone points a gun at you is humorously cowardly. Real Men stand there and let the bullets bounce off the 'S' on their chests.
On the clip that I saw, the crowd didn't seem to laugh. Seemed to go silent.
Not funny.
JayAckroyd
Just a few titters.
My money's on Glenn Reynolds.
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05.17.08 - 7:39 am | #
The "if you were offended" is a real clunker. You'd think that *everyone* would know that.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 7:39 am | #
how did you get chalk stained, Gromit?
I stole it from Derbes, who coined the term to describe students.
And I do tend to cover myself with the stuff when I'm able to teach without powerpoint
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05.17.08 - 7:39 am | #
On the clip that I saw, the crowd didn't seem to laugh. Seemed to go silent.
Not funny.
JayAckroyd
Hmmm...a minister and a panderer. Yup, he's going to be McCain's Veep.
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05.17.08 - 7:39 am | #
Actually I would hope that the man/woman we elect president would have the sense to duck when confronted by some wacko waving a gun.
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05.17.08 - 7:41 am | #
Hmmm...a minister and a panderer. Yup, he's going to be McCain's Veep.
Might be better than my nightmare:
McCain selects Dick Cheney. The Big Dick never leaves the Fourth Branch office, continues to run the Shadow Gubmint, the only change is the replacement of figurehead on the Ship Titanic of State........
In Iraq, US policy has actually enhanced the reputation of al qaeda by relentlessly exaggerating the role of al qaeda
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there. whored your whore.
Ackroyd goes on to quote Juan Cole and others who report we use "al qaeda" as a generic for "the enemy", although there are many terrorist groups not aligned to al qaeda.
Murka doesn't need confusion when we choose an enemy.
el |
05.17.08 - 7:43 am | #
You'd think a Baptist Minister would have the sense not to make a joke about assassinating a black man -- but apparently not.
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05.17.08 - 7:43 am | #
HBK, duck and get behind those shields there for the purpose. And wackos waving guns go after press secretaries and other easier objects
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 7:44 am | #
Actually I would hope that the man/woman we elect president would have the sense to duck when confronted by some wacko waving a gun.
There was a report yesterday that NRA conventioneers were upset that they couldn't bring their weapons with them to hear the pres candidates.
A form of american exceptionalism, I guess
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch |
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05.17.08 - 7:44 am | #
ql-- well, we need to get lunch or something. As time approaches, we'll finalize plans, k? You'll be the first Atriot I've met in person.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 7:44 am | #
Actually I would hope that the man/woman we elect president would have the sense to duck when confronted by some wacko waving a gun.
Largely because of Bush's empty swaggering, there are a few too many people in this country who think it's the job of the President to walk up to the wacko, snatch his gun away from him and twist it into a knot, then sneer condescendingly at the malefactor.
That's the way it worked on the teevee, anyway....
montag |
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05.17.08 - 7:45 am | #
moe, turn
sorry in advance
qlª |
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05.17.08 - 7:45 am | #
I've got a garden pic...
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 7:45 am | #
There was a report yesterday that NRA conventioneers were upset that they couldn't bring their weapons with them to hear the pres candidates.
McCain has a "looks-like-Cindy" female white shill who is quite the warrior - as aggressive as Marsha Blackburn but not nearly as stupid -- who was grinding on Shuster yesterday.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 7:46 am | #
Garden pic! must see!?!
Oh, and I see trees...
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 7:46 am | #
McCain selects Dick Cheney. The Big Dick never leaves the Fourth Branch office, continues to run the Shadow Gubmint, the only change is the replacement of figurehead on the Ship Titanic of State........
Same thing occurred to me recently. Tried to get it out of my head as quickly as possible....
montag |
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05.17.08 - 7:46 am | #
You'll be the first Atriot I've met in person.
Moe Szyslak
You know about the ritual tatoos and piercings, right?
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch |
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05.17.08 - 7:47 am | #
Actually I would hope that the man/woman we elect president would have the sense to duck when confronted by some wacko waving a gun.
Largely because of Bush's empty swaggering, there are a few too many people in this country who think it's the job of the President to walk up to the wacko, snatch his gun away from him and twist it into a knot, then sneer condescendingly at the malefactor.
That's the way it worked on the teevee, anyway....
Never forget that our Leaders display their bravado from inside areas cleared days in advance, and inside Secret Service phalanxes with submachineguns - or maybe one should say, brag of the safety of the marketplace from inside their cordon of 100+ soldiers and 3 attack helicopters.........
btw. on CSpan Interior Dept shill trying to take credit for finally, at last, designating polar bear as threatened without trying to actually save their habitat or anything else.
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 7:48 am | #
What the hell? Fucking Haloscan. Let me try again...
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 7:48 am | #
It will be nice Tuesday when the primary gets here, and the negative ads stop for a while.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 7:51 am | #
Moe, Very ambitious, yet lovely. Good on you. P.S. Where's the snow?
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch |
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05.17.08 - 7:51 am | #
btw. on CSpan Interior Dept shill trying to take credit for finally, at last, designating polar bear as threatened without trying to actually save their habitat or anything else.
You mean, now that it's too late for said status to interfere with drilling ANWR? Oh sure.
Best part is, that oil (if drilled) will go on the international oil market, and the maxprofit logic of the FreeMarket will dictate selling it to Russia right next door (cheap shipping costs).
Remember when the Right was defined by doing anything to avoid benefiting the Rooskies?
Are those tomato trees?
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 7:51 am | #
Good morning, all. Please come to my yard sale!
Missouri Bird |
05.17.08 - 7:52 am | #
Daisy, TX, sinkhole now has alligator.
That's unusual... the trend in Texas has to destroy habitat, rather than creating it.
montag |
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05.17.08 - 7:52 am | #
And here is what the garden looked like last apring. The grapes and kiwis are considerably bigger this year, and we've removed about half the grass in the front yard, replaced by blueberries and cranberries. The rest of it is coming out this year.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 7:52 am | #
Barack sent me an email asking for phone work in the 2 Tuesday primaries. Anyone else?
el |
05.17.08 - 7:52 am | #
Missouri Bird, Drinking your coffee right now. Yum.
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch |
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05.17.08 - 7:53 am | #
Oops. The cool kids would have said, "I drink your coffee"
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch |
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05.17.08 - 7:53 am | #
Daisy, TX, sinkhole now has alligator.
Some evil part of me wants to connect this headline somehow with the Jenna Bush wedding..........
OK, time for my breakfast. I'll be back later, bats.
Have a great Saturday morning.
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05.17.08 - 7:54 am | #
Moe,
Someone last night posted a link to some expansion slurry that will break apart large rocks. Maybe it was Doug? That's all I remember.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
05.17.08 - 7:54 am | #
Cynicus, 'xactly, ANWR oil is not for the continental U.S. I even enjoyed watching TX Rep Hensarling confronted with that facts saying, oh I really meant it would increase Merkin Wealth. What a farce.
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 7:54 am | #
How nice. I've recently developed a terribly strong allergy to coffee, which I used to love. Drink a cup for me.
Missouri Bird |
05.17.08 - 7:54 am | #
A pair of goldfinches in the garden 6:49am Chicago.
Um, isn't this Twitter?
Pope Ratzo |
05.17.08 - 7:54 am | #
Are those tomato trees?
Ruth
Heh. That's garlic over on the right there, and even farther to the right is the asparagus. Up top is the lettuce and elitist arugula. You can't see it, but there's also peas and beans up, and beets and onions coming. The top four sections are seeded, just waiting for something to happen.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 7:54 am | #
How's the asparagus coming?
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 7:56 am | #
ANWR oil is not for the continental U.S.
'Snot? Where's it going then?
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch |
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05.17.08 - 7:56 am | #
Moe, I have had a helping of elitist purple beans and baby turnip greens - along with mucho salad. So happy that my sister and b-i-l visiting, I can pick them really terrific arugula, red romaine, curly lettuce and kale, etc.
yes, alligators enjoying new habitat, looking for curtain material clad zombies.
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 7:57 am | #
I could eat two sprigs of asparagus now, but I'm waiting for Mrs. Moe to come home (tomorrow!) to have the first of it. It'll be the first of June, after we're back from our trip, before it's really going. Same with the strawberries, which are alive and kicking.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 7:58 am | #
Alaskan oil goes to Japan, mostly.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 7:59 am | #
Gromit, world shipping patterns mean ANWR oil is sent to Russia.
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 7:59 am | #
The garden looks fabulous! Are all those path stones from your property?
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 7:59 am | #
Russia exports oil.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 7:59 am | #
Japan, Russia, all drilling trees.
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 8:00 am | #
Oil from ANWR has to be refined. As I understand it, Russia has the refineries. But I have heard other stories, too. Definitely not U.S. bound.
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 8:01 am | #
The garden looks fabulous! Are all those path stones from your property?
plantsman
Thanks. And yes, I pull up those stones out of the ground. You see the big pile of dirt on the tarp? Mostly wrongs. I use the pick and shovel and pull it out, put the dirt back, mixed with compost (I've got a big pile dumped in the driveway), and then use the stones for the paths. See the gigantic pile of stones on the upper left? I have to build a wall or something.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 8:02 am | #
Sure! Show us your twits, baybee!
A service called "LoudTwitter" has invaded LiveJournal. My friends's journals are all slowly being taken over by a robot that posts digests of their daily twits.
It's annoying as hell.
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05.17.08 - 8:02 am | #
Point is, they will sell drilling ANWR as good for Murika, and it will turn out - no one could have anticipated! - as notso good for America, but plenty good for Exxon et al.
Although, if any of you are on twitter, I'll add you! I had to sign up for unlimited txt msgng to get my rebate, so I want to make sure to get my money's worth.
underwhelm |
05.17.08 - 8:04 am | #
leibniz-- *now* you tell me.
Heh. But thanks.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 8:04 am | #
I'm not sure it matters much where the ANWR oil would go--there's so little of it that it'll be gone in a few years.
What the oil companies want so desperately from it are the drilling subsidies and tax breaks for sinking so much money into it.
If there weren't government perks associated with it, they'd, at best, break even on the oil. It's a hellacious place to be extracting oil, so there's no good reason to do it unless there's some legal corruption involved.
montag |
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05.17.08 - 8:04 am | #
In order to cut costs, I'm considering ditching my landline for VoIP phone service, but I'd rather have an actual physical infrastructure behind me.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 8:05 am | #
Morning.
How goes the battle?
Sir Foxbat, Weekender |
05.17.08 - 8:05 am | #
A friend who worked for a co. that drilled on the continental shelf off Alaska tells me there are findings of immense reserves there. Not so, ANWR.
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 8:06 am | #
What the fuck?
On my work computer I have this annoying problem. From time to time the copy and paste functions don't work, and I have to restart the computer. The tech guys can't figure it out.
And now, it's happening on my home computer.
One's a Mac, the other a PC. It's the damnedest thing, annoying as hell.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 8:06 am | #
What the oil companies want so desperately from it are the drilling subsidies and tax breaks for sinking so much money into it.
Gawd bless our government, helping those pore folks as cain't make no profits or nuthing.
I think NTodd too.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
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05.17.08 - 8:07 am | #
Moe, I had that happen on IE, but installed Foxfire and it works fine. my techie tells me it's a problem that occasionally IE has, but doesn't find any solutions.
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 8:08 am | #
Moe: is it in every program? My school PC developed a no-cut, no-undo problem, but just in Word, and just the keyboard shortcuts.
The more complex these things are, the more nondeterministic they become. They don't need IT, they need psychiatrists.
underwhelm |
05.17.08 - 8:08 am | #
On my Mac, occasionally things will hang up Safari and it will mindlessly process and nothing can be acesssed. "Force Quit", when I can do it, will end the problem.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 8:09 am | #
The more complex these things are, the more nondeterministic they become. They don't need IT, they need psychiatrists.
And that's why i can't handle modern tech. i didn't realize they needed psychiatrists.
Yes, it's in every program. On my Mac, Safari and word and my mail program. Here on my PC I haven't checked everything yet, but it's not working in IE. The tech guys say on my Mac it's probably something with my clipboard, but they have to send it to someone smart.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 8:10 am | #
From Yahoo News
BAGHDAD - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a top Democratic critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, met with the Iraqi prime minister Saturday during a surprise visit to Baghdad.
Okay, it's only IE here. Let me try restarting it...
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 8:11 am | #
BAGHDAD - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a top Democratic critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, met with the Iraqi prime minister Saturday during a surprise visit to Baghdad.
Critic??? [snort]
How about a snort for "surprise"? Who gets surprised, when security is arranged weeks in advance?
BTW, is there some point to her visit, or is she just being an appeaser by negotiating with furrin' brown people?
It's so weird, it's warmer right now at 5:XX am, than it was even getting in the afternoon a few days ago.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 8:13 am | #
The tech guys say on my Mac it's probably something with my clipboard, but they have to send it to someone smart.
Oh, you probably need your clipboard fluid replaced! The reservoir for that is behind the retractable cupholder. ;?
underwhelm |
05.17.08 - 8:13 am | #
Huh. Now it works.
But still, very odd that the same problem would hit two machines. I don't transfer anything back and forth...
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 8:13 am | #
Americans must make surprise visits because otherwise the non-existent insurgency will kill them.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 8:14 am | #
But still, very odd that the same problem would hit two machines.
But still, very odd that the same problem would hit two machines. I don't transfer anything back and forth...
It's a deep, dark secret that neither Steve Jobs nor Bill Gates want anyone to know, but... computers make mistakes.
montag |
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05.17.08 - 8:15 am | #
BTW, is there some point to her visit, or is she just being an appeaser by negotiating with furrin' brown people?
Cynicus
Good deals on rugs and tapastries in the Bazaar?
Probably to reassure our stooges things won't change much if Obama is elected in the fall.
Gimlet |
05.17.08 - 8:16 am | #
OTOH, when Scrabulous can't be opened in Safari, it almost always can be in Firefox, and vice versa.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 8:16 am | #
computers make mistakes
But the Computer is your friend!
Sir Foxbat, Weekender |
05.17.08 - 8:16 am | #
Americans must make surprise visits because otherwise the non-existent insurgency will kill them.
The insurgency the Village fears is the non-incumbents in any upcoming election. That insurgency exists.
What odd things the wogs get up to is as irrelevant inside the Beltway as, well, whatever odd things the non-Campaign-Contributing US citizens get up to outside the Beltway.
Do these visits to Baghdad serve any function? I would rather have Pelosi in her office doing the people's work.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
05.17.08 - 8:18 am | #
Probably to reassure our stooges things won't change much if Obama is elected in the fall.
Please God, let that mean that she's there to lie to them.
trolls are very concerned about Thers' gramma
Ruth |
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05.17.08 - 8:18 am | #
Yet another fucked up thing about this administration is their refusal to let more than a handful of Iraqis immigrate. Seeing how the Dems control Congress, they should change that, stat.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 8:19 am | #
Pickles looked inordinately relaxed during the Israeli portion of W's trip this week.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 8:19 am | #
Kevin James is a perfect troll, he proved it on Hardball.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 8:20 am | #
Do these visits to Baghdad serve any function? I would rather have Pelosi in her office doing the people's work.
leibniz leibkins
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The GOPerheads wear each visit like another badge and they keep a chest count. She doesn't want to get caught short.
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05.17.08 - 8:20 am | #
Jay I don't think 4LG is here yet.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
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05.17.08 - 8:28 am | #
Jay, FWIW, I'd guess that 4legs wants a linkee...
Nancy Willing |
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05.17.08 - 8:28 am | #
We have to ask permission to link?
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 8:29 am | #
Pickles looked inordinately relaxed during the Israeli portion of W's trip this week.
inordinately=over-
relaxed=medicated
Pickles: "Doctor, I have to fly to Israel, and I'm scared of flying."
White House Physician : "Here's some Valium. Now, this is just for the flight, so I won't give you more than 10. And don't take these with the Xanax, ok?"
Over at WhiskeyFire, I can't figure out if the commenter is the one above the post or under the line, which is just adding to the hillarity of it all.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 8:30 am | #
Boy, that Kathleen Parker OpEd at the WaPo is really ookie.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 8:32 am | #
Please God, let that mean that she's there to lie to them.
Cynicus
Some background posted off and on in the early morning threads.
Part 1 of 2 The Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi of California, has promised to have a war funding bill on Bush’s desk before the end of this month. The House bill is to authorize $162.5 billion in war spending—nearly $100 billion to cover war costs for the current fiscal year, which goes through the end of September, plus tens of billions more to pay for the fighting into the summer of 2009, more than five months after the next president takes office.
By holding three separate votes—one on the war spending, a second on the veterans’ and unemployment benefits and a third on a troop withdrawal timetable—the Democratic leadership aims to provide political cover for all wings of the party. Those aiming to run as antiwar candidates can vote against the war funding, while voting for the timetable and the new benefits, while fiscal conservatives can vote for the war funding, but against the benefits.
The Pelosi leadership is confident that, should the timetable measure pass the House, it will be stripped from the legislation by the Senate Democratic leadership. And, if as expected, Bush vetoes a measure that includes the GI Bill and unemployment benefits, Congress will ultimately pass an unadorned war funding bill and the Democrats will use the veto as a campaign issue in November.
In May of last year, in response to White House vetoes, the Democratic leadership ended a similar legislative process by abandoning all of its proposals for troop withdrawal timetables, “benchmarks” and other restrictions on the administration’s conduct of the war. The Democrats supplied ample votes in both houses of Congress to ensure passage of an unencumbered $100 billion to pay for continuing the death and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The end of the elaborate legislative process being organized this year will inevitably be the same. Under conditions in which every opinion poll has shown both popular opposition to the Iraq war and hostility to the Bush White House at record highs, the Democrats are unwilling and unable to mount a genuine opposition to the war.
The first of these funding measures provided $162.5 billion to pay for the US wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan into the summer of 2009—several months after Bush leaves office and the next president takes control of the White House. When it was put to a vote, 132 Republicans sat on their hands, answering “present.” As a result, it went down to defeat by a narrow margin, with 141 voting in favor and 149 against.
Among those supporting the war-funding measure were 85 Democrats, who, together with the House Republicans, had been expected to assure its easy passage.
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Part 2 of 2
The vote had been elaborately and cynically choreographed by the House Democratic leadership with the aim of allowing the party’s members to register an empty protest against the war, while assuring that the money was approved to keep the war going.
This allowed Democrats seeking to placate the overwhelming antiwar sentiment in the American public to vote against paying for the war and for the toothless withdrawal plan, while “supporting the troops” with the GI bill measure. Moreover, they believed they could so without any fear of actually cutting off war funding, counting on a solid bloc of Republicans joined by a sufficient number of Democrats to assure passage of the funding measure.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, California) was among those voting against the war funding, even after she had worked out the political mechanisms that she had counted on to get the money approved.
Gimlet |
05.17.08 - 8:34 am | #
BTW, Dumbya; nice job getting yer Saudi Overlords not to increase oil production.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 8:35 am | #
Boy, that Kathleen Parker OpEd at the WaPo is really ookie.
They're creepy and they're kooky,
They're spiritless and ookie.
Their news is all Kabuki
The WaPo Family!
I'm getting ready to go to a native grasses identification class!
no really!
virgotex |
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05.17.08 - 8:35 am | #
Moe did you see the latest issue of Nature? More climate change stuff.
Halfdan |
05.17.08 - 8:35 am | #
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants --
(Giants? Which ones?)
Yeah. It'll be coupla hours prolly. Assuming Dad doesn't show up.
But she said something yesterday that got the gears astirrin'. Same time, I've pushed her kitteh blog (which is hilariou. Dog person speaking here) at Swampland, and she's seemed diffident. So don't want to create undesired attention.
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05.17.08 - 8:36 am | #
They're creepy and they're kooky,
They're spiritless and ookie.
Their news is all Kabuki
The WaPo Family!
sedges have edges
grasses are ROUND
JayAckroyd |
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05.17.08 - 8:37 am | #
Moe did you see the latest issue of Nature? More climate change stuff.
Halfdan |
Sigh.
No, I haven't. You know, I don't know shit, sciencewise, but I have a bad feeling. I just turned 45, and I think I think I'm gonna see some wild shit come down in my lifetime. I didn't use to think that, even a few months ago.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 8:37 am | #
Jay, that's my impression as well. Best to get permission first before front paging.
qlª |
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05.17.08 - 8:38 am | #
Carex are often stubby.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 8:38 am | #
Wheat is a grass, no?
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 8:38 am | #
Jay the New York Football Giants.
(I'm keeping that tagline there until the next Superbowl, btw) (Just to annoy the Boston crowd) (Yeah, petty)
I don't know if 4LG would mind linkage.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
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05.17.08 - 8:39 am | #
Penisetums, well you can guess, have long and shaft-like "flowerheads."
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 8:39 am | #
All major grain crops are grasses.
plantsman, less blue |
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05.17.08 - 8:40 am | #
Thank you, Gimlet, for reminding me of that fundamental truth: the three branches of the Goopers are the GOP, the DLC, and Joe Lieberman.
So much for my work in the garden before it rains plans.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
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05.17.08 - 8:41 am | #
there's nothing good on the Internets today.
mimi |
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05.17.08 - 8:41 am | #
but you do need new
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tomdurk |
05.17.08 - 8:41 am | #
there's nothing good on the Internets today.
mimi
I suggest that you go en seine.
trifecta |
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05.17.08 - 8:42 am | #
Hopefully, Ill have dramatic grass photos up later this afternoon at the homepage.
HAve a good morning all.
virgotex |
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05.17.08 - 8:42 am | #
by the time Obama gets elected, I will be cured of my internet addiction because of the stupidity and racism I find
mimi |
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05.17.08 - 8:42 am | #
Best to get permission first before front paging.
Yep. 4LG, Email is jay@ackroyd.org
(yes, I don't bother with the AT circumvention thing. I can't get more spam. My addresses have been publicly on the Internic since the late 90s.)
JayAckroyd |
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05.17.08 - 8:44 am | #
Molly Ivors grabbed something off of 4legs blog once and front-paged it and asked permission later. 4legs said anytime but give me a linkee.
I kid you not.
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