HULK SMASH
Morning peeps.
Thread freshness!
Recounts in Zimbabwe thus far have confirmed gains by the opposition.
What is Thers doing up now?
Good morning peeps!
I've got terrace garden photos if you're interested.
Nice garten shots! Peonies always amaze me, particularly the scented ones.
Bleeding Hearts (Dicentra spectabilis) are an old-garden favorite around these parts - I love them, pink and white both!
Verdammt tags!
I love the bleeding hearts too. I wish they'd last longer, but it's nice to have those first blossoms.
Here, strangely, the bleeding hearts can be coaxed into blooming over a long season and making root mass for the next years growth -- but they tend to get lost among everything else, truth be told.
The new URL frightens and infuriates me.
Good morning. It's beautiful in London!
The new URL frightens and infuriates me.
Why? I didn't even notice until it was pointed out.
Barndog must be off fishing. Good Luck to him.
Why? I didn't even notice until it was pointed out.
It's so... corporate?
Also, I have a hard time spelling eschaton. And I think I think-out-loud URLs as I type them, and eshatonblog isn't as sonorous. And I've been typing atrios.blogspot.com for over four years now, and I fear change.
Short answer? I'm neurotic.
Those "incontrovertible evidence" photos of the N. Korean/Syrian nuclear reactor looked an awfully lot like the bogus pre-Iraq-Invasion evidence, but perhaps I'm not trusting enough.
More details in the Sean Bell case.
People in the crowd outside shouted “murderers” as cops and police union officials left the courthouse. Over 1,000 police ringed the area, significantly outnumbering the crowd that had come to hear the verdict and support Sean Bell’s family. Police helicopters hovered overhead.
In finding the three detectives—Michael Oliver, Marc Cooper, and Gescard Isnora—not guilty, Judge Cooperman claimed that the testimony of several key prosecution witnesses “just didn’t make sense.” Cooperman added in his verdict that among the factors he had taken into account was that some of the prosecution witnesses, including the two who were shot and seriously wounded on the same morning Bell was killed, had criminal records. This was something that was obviously unknown by the cops who unleashed a barrage of gunfire that ended Bell’s life.
One of the cops—Oliver—fired 31 times, reloading his pistol in order to keep pouring bullets into the unarmed men.
The cops had been sent to the Club Kalua in Jamaica Queens, where Bell and his friends were celebrating a bachelor’s party on the eve of his wedding. They were there undercover, in plainclothes, investigating allegations of prostitution and drug sales at the location.
Failing to make any arrests in connection with their assigned mission, they got into a confrontation with Mr. Bell and his friends, allegedly because they suspected they had a gun. No gun was ever found. Why the cops—who were supposedly undercover and therefore not supposed to reveal their identities—chose to initiate such a confrontation has yet to be clarified.
Bell’s friends—one of whom, Joseph Guzman, barely survived 19 bullet wounds—testified that they never heard the cops shout “Police!” and had no idea that the man approaching their car waving his gun—Isnora—was a police detective. Their understandable reaction was to try to drive away and save their own lives. The cops responded with the fatal fusillade, claiming afterwards that they thought they saw the car’s passenger—Guzman—reach for a gun.
perhaps I'm not trusting enough.
Yes. What is called for with this administration is more trusting.
And I've been typing atrios.blogspot.com for over four years now, and I fear change.
Bookmarking it out of the question?
That "balcony tomato" looks over-bred enough to produce under almost any circumstances!
Too early for hip-hop.
At 6:36AM I can't get jiggy with nothin'.
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Agreed, spork.
Bookmarking it out of the question?
I don't generally do bookmarks. As I said: neurotic.
Good morning. It's beautiful in London!
Just wait 'til Boris the Spider is done with it.
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Today, simels will review Harold and Kumar go to Guantanamo Bay ! (or whatever the title is.)
The balcony variety already has a few cherry-sized tomatoes on it. The other one is a grafted plant, touted at the store as disease-resistant.
Next month I'll pick up a few more.
A duck has lain eggs in my tomato pot for the second year in a row, so no balcony tomatoes for me. 
Tomatoes are the #1 grown-in-the-garden favorite in the US; maybe Europe, too.
Has Austria adopted the Euro?
If so, too bad.
'Cuz I like the word "Pfennig".
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Potted ducks, perhaps?
Morning, kids.
spork, did you read this interview with Boris? Hilarious!
In Deutschland, even though "ein halbes kilo" is perfectly fine, people often asked for "ein pfund" (a pound) of this or that at the market.
Potted ducks, perhaps?
Scariest thing I've ever seen: Hormel Potted Meat™.
Contains: Partially defatted beef fatty tissue.
Oh my.
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If it's down to "potted meat", I'll veg......
Has Austria adopted the Euro?
If so, too bad.
'Cuz I like the word "Pfennig".
Way back, like 5 years ago.
But Germany had pfennigs. Austria had Groschen.
Scariest thing I've ever seen: Hormel Potted Meat™.
The Onion has a review of Cheeseburger-in-a-can.
It looks surprisingly like a White Castle.
Two sunny side up eggs and spam sandwich on white bread with the yolk dripping all over the place. A secret pleasure indulged in every decade or so. Probably fewer people know about that indulgence than my sex life.
I don't really wish bad times on anyone, but after getting a "poor people have only themselves to blame" email from a relative, I'm beginning to think that, along with the human suffering, a prolonged depression might have some positive effects on the American psyche.
Hawai'i has its own flavors of Spam, you know.
Who the hell are Phife and Tip?
I'm in a nameless Days In in Farmers Town, Illinois with the school's science team. The geniuses who run the state competition begin it, in Urbana, at 7 AM. This makes it a little tough for those of us 120 miles away in Chicago, which come to think of it might be precisely the point.
I drove down a school buslet (holds 14) through the worst weather I've had to experience in many years. 40 MPH gusts, rain so thick you might ss well have been driving with your eyes closed. Thank the graces for our getting here alive. We stayed overnight at this out in the middle of nowhere place. Well, they do have WiFi; can't complain about that.
If the kids don't start appearing in five or ten minutes, it's time to go bang on doors.
They don't pay me enough.
spork, did you read this interview with Boris? Hilarious!
Heavens to Betsy!
At least with Red Ken you know what you're getting.
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A prolonged depression? What, the last 8 years is chopped liver?
I drove down a school buslet (holds 14)
Them things are illegal in lots of states.
The college paper had a great piechart yesterday detailing where corn goes.
50% goes to feed meat.
The college paper had a great piechart yesterday detailing where corn goes.
50% goes to feed meat.
Irony in action.
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I don't really wish bad times on anyone, but after getting a "poor people have only themselves to blame" email from a relative,...
Haves and havenots in NYC
8 million people sharing the city’s 23 square miles.
According to an analysis of tax data released earlier this month, the city’s top 1 percent—some 82,000 people—account for fully 37 percent of the city’s total income. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, while the average annual salary in New York City stands at $40,899, the top fifth of Manhattan residents pull in an average of $351,333.
Manhattan is an island shared by hedge fund manager John Paulson, who recorded $3.3 billion last year, with the bottom 20 percent—over 300,000 people—somehow surviving on an average household income of $8,855 a year.
It is a city where former Citigroup chairman Sanford Weill can spend more than $42 million for an apartment on Central Park West, while a record 9,300 families sleep in the city’s homeless shelters each night.
Boasting the most expensive restaurants in the country, it is also a city where 1.3 million residents—including over 400,000 children—periodically go hungry for lack of sufficient money to buy food.
Plantsman, the last eight years only the little people have been taking it on the chin.
The Depression begins when a few Wall Streeters get pink slips. Only when five percent of those earning over 10 M a year lose their jobs do we have an honest to God Depression.
But Bush is such a terrific Decider(TM), and has such a crackerjack record on this and all other matters, I do believe we'll make it, right into the Big D.
Not in this one, Moe. And besides, I'm married. And even more besides, my wife's Italian and Irish.
You do not want to mess with my wife.
The geniuses who run the state competition begin it, in Urbana, at 7 AM.
Ouch.
Moe, I kind of understand what you're saying. It's somewhat irksome to read articles about people "suffering" when, in effect, they found they can't fill their SUV tanks and still have money left over for a new plasma tv.
And yet there are people out there who really are poor, and really are suffering, in the US.
The Republican ethos has been hard-hearted anti-humanity for a while now.
People who think they themselves, alone, and without any more advantages then their fellow citizens, are responsible for their good circumstance, need to be disabused of the notion.
Aha, one hardy student appears. I gots to be about the day. More later, I hope.
May your weather be better than what we got. Probably good for the plants, however...
David Derbes-- there was a terrible accident up here a while back in one of those things-- five dead teenagers. I'd urge you to check the make and model for safety. The issue is whether the center of gravity is in front of or behind the rear axle. With lots of gear in the back, it can really be dangerous.
Who the hell are Phife and Tip?
Phife Dawg and Q-Tip of the ensemble presenting the music. Collectively, they and their band mates are A Tribe Called Quest.
I don't really wish bad times on anyone, but after getting a "poor people have only themselves to blame" email from a relative, I'm beginning to think that, along with the human suffering, a prolonged depression might have some positive effects on the American psyche.
Moe Szyslak, cold | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 6:56 am | #
So if your relevatives lose their jobs, can you blame them for their own situation?
(are they Christian?)
Hey, Woody's left a couple of comments over at my place, so I guess he's alive and well!
the average annual salary in New York City stands at $40,899
So much for the people who justify their $100k salary as a "necessity" in NYC.
G'morning!
Weird. I got a fundraising e-mail from John McCain. They must REALLY be hard up for cash if they're asking me!
He is indeed, Marcellina, I've been in contact with WGG, too.
Why does god hate Christians?
Stage scaffolding fell and knocked approximately 70 people through the floor and into the basement at a crowded Christian rock concert in an Abbotsford church on Friday night.
Thirty-two people were injured and treated at Central Heights Church on McCallum Road by ambulance, police and fire personnel from several Fraser Valley communities. Twenty-two of them had to be taken by ambulance to hospital, said Const. Casey Vinet of the Abbotsford Police. Three were seriously injured, although Vinet did not know their ages or conditions.
Morning, kids.
Weird. I got a fundraising e-mail from John McCain. They must REALLY be hard up for cash if they're asking me!
Did he ask for five bees for a quarter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w...h?
v=wW5Eqycf4d4
Woody's a terrific guy--very smart and charming as well.
I recall a while back when his ticker gave him a scare, and some medication smoothed things out.
I was stunned when he visited my pathetic blog!
So how mean would it be to go to work and leave the children with the guy who stayed up until 5:30 am?
If you HAVE to work, it would be fine -- otherwise, pretty snarky.
So how mean would it be to go to work and leave the children with the guy who stayed up until 5:30 am?
When do Saturday morning cartoons start these days?
Gas went up to $1.338 per litre yesterday, which is almost exactly $5 US per gallon.
Dana Milbank looks at Douggie's role in the glorious Iraq adventure.
Jay Garner, once the American administrator in Iraq, deduced that Feith is "incredibly dangerous" and, "He's a smart guy whose electrons aren't connected."
He (Feith) argued that former secretary of state Colin Powell and his deputy, Richard Armitage, were the ones who failed to challenge the logic of going to war -- not him. He suggested that Powell, Armitage, Franks, former Iraq viceroy Jerry Bremer and even Feith's old boss, Donald Rumsfeld, should be blamed for the postwar chaos in Iraq -- not him. He blamed then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice for the way she operated ("fundamental differences were essentially papered over rather than resolved"). He accused the CIA of "improper" and unprofessional behavior. And he implicitly blamed President Bush for not cracking down on insubordinate behavior at the State Department.
Yet at the same time, Feith told the CSIS crowd that he disapproved of the "snide and shallow self-justification typical in memoirs of former officials," or what Feith cleverly called the " 'I-was-surrounded-by-idiots' school of memoir writing."
The ruse about Presidential candidates "doing something about gas prices" is a dangerous fantasy
promulgated by the media. Petroleum will never be "cheap" again, and society must adapt.
So how mean would it be to go to work and leave the children with the guy who stayed up until 5:30 am?
FWIW, I'm a big believer in going out of your way to be nice to s.o. when possible. Sometimes we forget to do that and kind of take them for granted.
Hmmm, got an email from Nancy Pelosi. They're running what's essentially a raffle to attend the Convention.
Weird.
A raffle to attend the Convention? Who dreamed this up, Matt Groening (Life in Hell) ?
Oh, I'm nice, ql. But I get a bit short-tempered when I'm expected to live on the kids' schedule so he can stay up all night.
And I do have papers to grade.
plantsman-- academics always work. Location is a complicated issue...
Mechanically separated chicken. Tasty!
plantsman,
Yep. You donate $35 to the DCCC and you're entered.
Me, I'd rather donate to individual candidates.
Cheney like Judith Miller is determined to be "proved right".
Even after all of this time and President Bush's own abandonment of the WMD theme, Vice President Richard Cheney is still convinced that there are hidden WMDs in the Middle East that bear Saddam Hussein's product mark. A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there.
Cheney believes that Syria has them -- and has been watching closely intelligence streams from a secret "black SIGINT base" that the US has placed in the mountains near the intersection of the Syrian, Turkish, and Iraqi borders.
The ruse about Presidential candidates "doing something about gas prices" is a dangerous fantasy
promulgated by the media.
We just need to elect a greasy president, and we can mine his hair and skin for a renewable source of precious bodily fluids.
If I had $35, the DNCC would not be getting it.
Moot point, anyway.
Gas went up to $1.338 per litre yesterday, which is almost exactly $5 US per gallon.
Here it's €1.27 which, if I'm calculating right, is about $1.98 (U.S.) per liter.
When do Saturday morning cartoons start these days?
They're always on. There are whole channels dedicated to them.
We just need to elect a greasy president, and we can mine his hair and skin for a renewable source of precious bodily fluids.
Too bad Romney's out.
Random searches curbed
OTTAWA–Police can't go into a high school or most public spaces with drug-sniffing dogs and conduct searches without justification, Canada's top court ruled yesterday.
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that "completely random" drug searches breach privacy provisions under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The court ruled in a 6-3 decision that a random search at Sarnia's St. Patrick's High School and a Calgary bus terminal in 2002 were unlawful because neither was based on "reasonable suspicion."
"Teenagers may have little expectation of privacy from the searching eyes and fingers of their parents, but they expect the contents of their backpacks not to be open to the random and speculative scrutiny of the police. This expectation is a reasonable one that society should support," the decision said.
"This is a good day for civil liberties," said Frank Addario, president of the Criminal Lawyers' Association. "The judgment is a reasonable compromise between law enforcement aspirations to search indiscriminately, and the right to privacy." The judgment does not affect airports, where specific laws apply.
Gas went up to $1.338 per litre yesterday, which is almost exactly $5 US per gallon.
Moe Szyslak
Yeah, but how much of that is taxes going back into the general welfare and how much goes into Dick's pocket?
MSNBC.com has a piece on the "20 saltiest foods", I can't even imagine.
Yeah, but how much of that is taxes going back into the general welfare and how much goes into Dick's pocket?
qlª
Provincially, pretty much every penny goes back into the road fund. Federal gas taxes also go to roads, but an increasing portion goes to transit programs. Dick's cut is taken care of at the refinery level...
Yesterday, 75 degrees, storms, tornadoes, power outages,
Today 39 degrees, windy
Some commenter yesterday mentioned "Canadian Oil Sands", but Moe wasn't here to kill him or her.
(tap, tap, tap) Is this thing on?
Greetings all. My machine was fried two weeks ago.
I've been going through withdrawal--amazing how much a machine holds sway in one's life.
Now I'm back with more CPU, more memory, and faster drives.
"Ah...I feel wefweshed!"
-- Lili Von Shtupp
Some commenter yesterday mentioned "Canadian Oil Sands", but Moe wasn't here to kill him or her.
plantsman
Don't get me started.
Nice Canadians are going to cause the end of the world, all on their own...
Be glad, Ralphie; wet, heavy snow fell to the west and north of you.
Greetings all. My machine was fried two weeks ago.
I thought mine was a goner yesterday, severe storms and such. Ran a disc check this morning and everything seems to be okay.
"Ah...I feel wefweshed!"
It's twue!
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Uncle Smokes, Did you buy a new machine?
(((Uncle Smokes!)))
morning uncle smokes. glad to have you back.
My machine is just 2 1/2 years old. The damn cat has de-attached almost all the letters which makes typing difficult. I tried to buy a skin for it, but they don't seem to make them for the G4. I may indulge in a new machine.
Here in Colorado we have oil shale. We're even dumber than the Canucks squeezing oil out of sand.
We're squeezing oil out of rocks.
And I do have papers to grade.
Sigh. So do I. Grades due tomorrow.
ql,
You can probably just replace the keyboard.
I think I got my Bush rebate direct deposited into my checking account yesterday. It was $313. Strange amount.
Wyoming has shale-oil, too. The American Petroleum Institute wants us to squeeze every drop before we try anything else.
Molly, they have already planned a sequel called "My Mommy's New Huge Funbags".
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Molly, they have already planned a sequel called "My Mommy's New Huge Funbags".
"My Mommy's Tighter Vagina" was a sales disappointment, however.
The FDA was hearing testimony about LASIK surgery gone bad yesterday - but apparently, about 95% of Lasik procedures are reasonably successful.
Uncle Smokes, Did you buy a new machine?
Ralphie
Put together one of those barebones kits--not hard, but it makes me feel so competent when the power finally comes on, and the thing hums with activity.
It's alive...it's alive!
(((Uncle Smokes!)))
Molly Ivors
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Speechless.
In 20 years we'll have "My Beautiful Mommy: How Years Of Therapy Helped Me Heal The Wounds She Inflicted."
Speechless.
Big tits and botox!
Artificial people are the future.
Ye gods.
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