I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Happy Solstice!
Hot glögg!
43% that would keep Gitmo isn't us, it's those subjects who keep applying pain, at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/
and Io! Saturnalia!
The days getting longer always makes me smile. Thanks Echidne.
SNOWWWWWWWWW!!!
To make glögg: Get a cheap red wine. Heat it up with cloves, cinnamon sticks, peelings of ginger. Check taste and add either sugar or honey if needed. I also add a little bit of oranges.
Serve in mugs with almonds and raisins.
Spumoni, is it really ice cream?
I'm happy.
so there.
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BLAGO AND THE BEAVER
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I'm sorry, I'll read that again:
Is Auntie GWPDA collecting for sheets for the Zapsters?
I would have waited a couple more hours till all the trolls below had drowned.
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To make glögg: Get a cheap red wine. Heat it up with cloves, cinnamon sticks, peelings of ginger. Check taste and add either sugar or honey if needed. I also add a little bit of oranges.
We add cranberry too
Is Auntie GWPDA collecting for sheets for the Zapsters?
She keeps giving me stuff, so I'm not sure. Auntie's an outlet store!
Snausages!
SUPERTRAINS!
We add cranberry too
I might try that this year.
Top story over at Josh's is the hedge fund bailout.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com...ives/
249017.php
ever more privatization of profit, socialization of risk, or in this case loss.
Maybe when we are all indentured servants we can stop bailing out greedy rich people.
Elderberries
Dingleberries?
GWPDA is re-organising her linen closet and discovered a huge number of unused, beautiful, old heavy cotton percale sheets which she is trying to get other people to take. These sheets don't grow on trees, people! Nobody's made sheets like these since the mills closed!
You know, the idiots at The Corner are all pretty much Ebenezer Scrooge before the visitations.
They really are vile creatures.
I don't understand the lyrics in songs. Something sounds like: I wanna tosk eeny popper.
I wanna tosk eeny popper.
Echidne
Easy for YOU to say
This song just came on the radio. Not as good as Neil's, but still fun.
He's got me tall! Tree and tall! And that ain't all. I wanna tosk eeny popper!
Either I get rid of some of these sheets or I have to (a) buy a new bed and (b) put somebody in it. Besides Arthur.
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BLAGO AND THE BEAVER
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Culture of TrÜth
Just bought my daughter this for Christmas. It's not the shiniest toy, but she'll appreciate the "not drowning" the next three years or so:
http://cksblog.com/wp-content/up...8/07/
flower.jpg
I wanna a tall drink of water
I wanna talk to your skinny father
I wanna task eerie others
GWPDA -- what size are they? (I saw the dimensions earlier but don't know what size bed that is.)
ANDY! Pay attention, here!
http://cksblog.com/wp-content/up...8/07/ flower.jpg
TinyPorcelainMouse
???
He's gotta be tall
Free and tall
And that ain't all
I want a tall, skinny papa
?
What size are the sheets? What color(s)?
GWPDA -- what size are they? (I saw the dimensions earlier but don't know what size bed that is.)
These are the old, oversized double bed size - 81" x 108". They'll work fine with a current sized queen bed, but of course, when they were made, there wasn't any such thing as a queen bed.
Iyam, V! Can't a brother multitask?
I wanna tosk eeny popper!
That's not English, Finish, or any other language I reconise.
What did you say?
Andy lookit those gorgeous sheets GWPDA is offering to share!
Thanks, G.
(I've decided that it's a pain not so much to type GWPDA, but to pronounce it in my virtual voice. So henceforth I'm calling GWPDA G. Hey, it worked for Yaphet Kotto on "Homicide".)
That doesn't explain why another Atriot was asking you about where to send the ten bucks...
Speaking of which, did Ina get a strange book-shaped package from Chicago yet?
Stand on me! When the devil tried to take me and my purse it did shake me, stand on me!
I want a Tuscany poppa?
(Or, maybe, a Tuscan amyl nitrate?)
Lawd, I be dense....
White. Pure white, heavy, heavy cotton percale, with a scallopped embroidery on the top hem. These sheets were what you bought for high quality in 1950 - Cannon Combspun, Wamsutta Supercale, one or two Pequot Mills, and some Cannon Lavenlawn.
???
Culture of TrÜth
Really good life-vest. We're on the lake every weekend during the Summer. It's a Gaia. Comfortable, reliable and allows free arm movement for swimming. No crotch strap that rubs. Designed initially for kayakers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j...h?
v=jAwuq1lktIc
Have some of Echidne's Glogg with this.
GWPDA has mail, and enjoy the brothers.
I wanna tosk eeny popper!
That's not English, Finish, or any other language I reconise.
What did you say?
Doug | 12.20.08 - 3:32 pm | #
What song?
I have finally been able to answer the riddle of garbled lyrics in many songs by using the google. Turns out I made up some pretty off-base lyrics over the years ...
GWPDA is re-organising her linen closet and discovered a huge number of unused, beautiful, old heavy cotton percale sheets which she is trying to get other people to take. These sheets don't grow on trees, people! Nobody's made sheets like these since the mills closed!
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian | 12.20.08 - 3:25 pm | #
sounds like good quality material.
my ex (about 900 years ago) worked at a bank and one of the millionaire penny-pinching customers (literally he would argue about a penny difference in his acct.) brought everyone an xmas gift from his fabric business.
dusty boxes of towel sets with towels disintegrating in the boxes.
50 year old linens falling apart! 
That doesn't explain why another Atriot was asking you about where to send the ten bucks...
Postage: $9.60 fixed rate USPS box contains, I now know, 4 sheets.
Hee! It IS "I Want A Tall Skinny Papa"
White. Pure white, heavy, heavy cotton percale, with a scallopped embroidery on the top hem. These sheets were what you bought for high quality in 1950 - Cannon Combspun, Wamsutta Supercale, one or two Pequot Mills, and some Cannon Lavenlawn.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian | 12.20.08 - 3:35 pm | #
It's very hard to find any percale at all, let alone nice percale. B,B&B only carries sateen, which I really don't like.
GWDPA - can I get 2 of your sheets? Please email me at imstuckinlodi - at- gmail.com
And just because I can't help myself.
Have a hot toddy and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s...h?
v=s_W7p35SzuI
It's very hard to find any percale at all, let alone nice percale. B,B&B only carries sateen, which I really don't like.
Of course not. You don't imagine I've been ironing sateen, do you?
For those of you of a certain age, this percale is very similar to the heavy cotton shirts our fathers wore to work in the '50s and 60s - the ones that were sent out to be laundered and pressed and starched.
Hee! It IS "I Want A Tall Skinny Papa"
Echidne
HA! I called it!
GWDPA - can I get 2 of your sheets? Please email me at imstuckinlodi - at- gmail.com
Stuck - email me at c d 0 7 8 at f a r a d i c dot n e t - gotta keep people in order here.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe....
now that i think about it my ex came home shocked that the bank manager (decorating the tree) referred to red round xmas tree ornaments as 'bloody balls.'
it is a bit shocking i guess.
If there was a spare fitted (or flat) Queen sized sheet, I would gladly pay. They sound lovely.
still snowing here
wacky
Good Listenin':
http://www.kgsr.com/
If there was a spare fitted (or flat) Queen sized sheet, I would gladly pay. They sound lovely.
Ali - compare a current queen sized sheet to the 81x108 measure and decide if it will pass. I think it will.
still snowing here
wacky
It's been snowing for over twelve hours now. I doubt I can be bothered to ski to the grocery store today.
12 hours of snow is a fricking lot of snow if it's coming down heavily or even medium heavily
snowing here
wacky
ErinPDX, snow week
You need to push that jet stream northward. We are getting Alaska's weather, you are getting ours.
Auntie, I sent you an email.
Speaking of which, did Ina get a strange book-shaped package from Chicago yet?
David Derbes, worried | 12.20.08 - 3:34 pm
yes, she did! thank you very much!
Still snowing here, too. Prolly end up w/ half a foot, or so. Bad backs and shoveling don't jive.
You know school was canceled Friday and there still isn't ANYTHING here. WTF?
It's been snowing for over twelve hours now. I doubt I can be bothered to ski to the grocery store today.
Echidne
i wanna go ski to town.
12 hours of snow is a fricking lot of snow if it's coming down heavily or even medium heavily
It's not a blinding storm but not just a few flakes, either. The trees are bending down under the snow burden and you can't see any garden steps in any of the backyard gardens which have them.
i wanna go ski to town.
I often do that before they finish with the ploughing. It's much easier than trying to walk in the snow drifts and fun, too.
OT (not that there's really a T) ...
Anna Quindlen had a couple of sad statistics in her recent piece in Newsweek.
By 2010 Americans will be a trillion dollars in the hole on credit-card debt alone.
For the first time, this month the number of people on food stamps will exceed the 30 million mark.
An all white DLSR. Odd looking, but perfect for this hot part of the world. For the same reason I have white or very light colored autos here.
They don't heat up as much as dark ones.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_...g=2547-1_3-0-
20
still snowing here
proving that algore is fat, Soros is a socialist and Obama is a criminal Kenyan[/wingnut]
I often do that before they finish with the ploughing. It's much easier than trying to walk in the snow drifts and fun, too.
Echidne |
i love skiing to town and pretending i live in a world where people expect to slow down when it snows. i guess i have to get some skis for the girls so they can come with me...
Auntie, I emailed too.
Ina, the book is from G and me, for the Inettes. We hope they like it. It's a comic book of sorts, more of a graphic (but entirely G rated) novel.
It's not a blinding storm but not just a few flakes, either. The trees are bending down under the snow burden and you can't see any garden steps in any of the backyard gardens which have them.
Echidne | Homepage | 12.20.08 - 3:46 pm | #
snapped branches might be in the works then.
i'll bet it's just gorgeous if the sun is sparkling on it.
For the first time, this month the number of people on food stamps will exceed the 30 million mark.
Please don't tell the right...they'll want another welfare "reform" bill passed.
Dunno why I called you Auntie - we're
about the same age .
i'll bet it's just gorgeous if the sun is sparkling on it.
tomorrow might be that day!
can't those 30,000,000 people on food stamps start an international pesticide import/export business or something?
sheesh.
Ina, the book is from G and me, for the Inettes. We hope they like it. It's a comic book of sorts, more of a graphic (but entirely G rated) novel.
David Derbes, worried | 12.20.08 - 3:49 pm | #
you are both so sweet to us, i really appreciate it. and the girls will, too, since all they're getting from me is art supplies...
speaking of graphic novels, the girls were inspired to draw some comics yesterday...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I...h?
v=IiGj7eI6NBM
OMG I'm melting.
can't those 30,000,000 people on food stamps start an international pesticide import/export business or something?
Umm, no manufacturing allowed in the new United States of Amnesia... they need to reorganize as a bank holding company and their problem is solved!
tomorrow might be that day!
Echidne | Homepage | 12.20.08 - 3:51 pm | #
we have slight melting today of our snow with an absolutely blinding sun shining down.
it's gorgeous.
last night a guy told me his in-laws gave him a 7 day caribbean all-inclusive pkg for xmas.
lucky ducky.
Wow, much ado about sheets. When it's my beddy bye time I could sleep soundly on a boulder.
.
too sad...
CALLER: Thank you very much. Dittos, Rush. I just wanted to compliment you on being one of the sole positive individuals in the media right now. It is so bad, I'm a conservative talk radio junkie, and some of your competitors are out there --
RUSH: I have no competitors. I have colleagues.
CALLER: Colleagues, yes, sir, yes, sir. Number three in the lineup basically has become so much of a, for lack of a better term, drama queen that I can't even listen to him any more without being depressed, but I am a 24/7 subscriber to your website and --
RUSH: Yes, sir.
CALLER: -- I will take your download and replay -- I have a 45 commute to work back and forth every day, and I'll listen to it at work, and then I'll end up relistening to that same episode on the commute back and forth to work, just to kind of feel a little bit more positive and try to drown out all the negativity.
modern technology as tinfoil hat
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H 
I C A!
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Umm, no manufacturing allowed in the new United States of Amnesia...
'Cept meth. See Wasilla.
people on food stamps will exceed the 30 million mark.
Please don't tell the right...they'll want another welfare "reform" bill passed.
This time you should have some verbal ammo to use on them. Just mention the 4 trillion dollar welfare plan for the rich. Tell them the small amount spent on food stamps is chump change. (it is)
That the poor also should have trillions spent for them.
In the midst of a stream of financial scandals and regulatory failures, Barack Obama announced the nomination of two key regulators yesterday:
Mary Schapiro as the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Gary Gensler to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Two foxes guarding the hen house!
speaking of graphic novels
That's some parenting I can believe in. Awesome, Ina.
CALLER: Colleagues, yes, sir, yes, sir. Number three in the lineup basically has become so much of a, for lack of a better term, drama queen that I can't even listen to him any more without being depressed,
Hannity?
CALLER: -- I will take your download and replay -- I have a 45 commute to work back and forth every day, and I'll listen to it at work, and then I'll end up relistening to that same episode on the commute back and forth to work, just to kind of feel a little bit more positive and try to drown out all the negativity.
maybe he can listen to it later in the tub and really drown out the 'negativity'
'Cept meth. See Wasilla.
Got a point there. Hey, if the CIA can run drugs and torture people, it must be legal though, right?
By 2010 Americans will be a trillion dollars in the hole on credit-card debt alone.
For the first time, this month the number of people on food stamps will exceed the 30 million mark.
Brooklyn Girl, PC
It's what George Bush REALLY meant when he talked about the 'Ownership Society'. The banks and credit card companies own everyone.
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OMG I'm melting.
mmmm
"When my heart finds Christmas, I hope it finds you too."
Wow, wasn't prepared for that. Butter. pure butter.
That's some parenting I can believe in. Awesome, Ina.
TinyPorcelainMouse |
thank you, kindly. it is great that we all love making art in this house.
I want a cheap percolator.
I'll end up relistening to that same episode on the commute back and forth to work
I wonder if that's the guy I saw run a red light at Valencia & Kolb yesterday that got Tee-boned by a cement truck?
Too busy listening to BS to pay attention to his driving.
The Clinton Rules are BACK!!!
A deafening swoon is about
Number three in the lineup basically has become so much of a, for lack of a better term, drama queen
Drama queen certain fits the Savage Weiner....
ISn't John Lott the guy who pretty much invented sock-puppetry, but he did it in print, with "Mary Rousch"?
Recount: How Lott misleads
By David Brauer | Published Fri, Dec 19 2008 6:00 pm
Conservative stat maven John R. Lott got a lot of traction early in the recount when he pronounced Al Franken's early gains evidence of fraud. It turned out they were three simple tabulating errors that Norm Coleman's camp doesn't dispute.
Lott is back and bigger than ever. In this blog post, he presents evidence of state Canvassing Board "mischief" that doesn't tell the whole truth or in some cases, any truth.
Yeah Ali, I'd love to send your weather back. After 6" or more today it might be freezing tomorrow.
Too bad we can't have Rush Bimbo himself declared a mind-altering substance....
Ooops
Here the link on John Lott meddling in (and apparently embarrassing himself) in the Franken-Coleman race
http://www.minnpost.com/
braublog...w_lott_misleads
franken may very well win.
how marvelous.
go al!
So - who lives closest to the WA/BC line so they can transport these sheets to Ali? Mail to BC iz gonna be expensive as all hell.
Bush's secret mission was to completely wreck the economy - he wanted to force elimination of the hated economic safeguards that have been put in place since the Great Depression. He is very close to being able to declare "Mission Accomplished" on this one, but he won't quite make it before he's kicked out, and the rest of us can get to work fixing the royal mess he has created.
Well, wife is home safe. And I'm gonna go shovel. Later.
subtheme of the afternoon:
beatiful old sheets from arizona going out to various points.
just sweet.....
i intend to think of virtually nothing political over the next two weeks.
that's my personal therapy program.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=D...feature=channel
for Ms. Fahrenheit. Even better with the sound off.
happy shoveling andy:
lift with your legs!!!!
Now that we're down a ways on the thread, can we stop talking about sheets?
I want a cheap percolator.
A. Morphous | 12.20.08 - 3:57 pm | #
Try here.
I bought two, both made in NY, a couple of years ago.
Now that we're down a ways on the thread, can we stop talking about sheets?
doug r | 12.20.08 - 4:08 pm | #
how many threads?
Oh my Echidne.
You know me too well. What a beautiful present for the holidays. I know you must pay attention, but I have never really been able to get the scene in Hope Floats out of my head where he is dancing with Sandra Bullock and he has his back to the camera with that crisp white shirt and broad shoulders. Wow.
Thank you and happy holidays.
Now that we're down a ways on the thread, can we stop talking about sheets?
Only if we can substitute pillowslips.....
oops. we are past the mark of the hour.
past the top of the hour mark.
it's 'skedaddle' time.
no paddleboats, no rowboats, no kayaks, no thistletown express.
just simply skedaddling.
see yaz laterz
keep the snowflakes coming
later...
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GWPDA, if you still have big sheets left at the end of The Big Sheet Giveaway, I'll take some....but only if nobody else wants them.
A. Morphous (and I just got the name ... duh!):
The Farberware pots at eBay run the range in terms of age. The NY made ones, which are older, hold up a lot better than the foreign made ones do.
fucking shit just read this on C&l
"You silly tinfoil hat-wearing people will of course try to make me think there's a connection between this and this - or possibly even this:
LAKE TWP.: A single-prop, private airplane crashed next to a vacant house on Charolais Street Northwest Friday evening, exploding into flames and killing the pilot.
Michael Connell, 45, of Bath Township, was alone in the plane, according to State Highway Patrol Lt. Eric Sheppard.
Connell was a prominent Republican political consultant. He founded New Media Communications in Richfield, which developed campaign Web sites for Republican presidential candidate John McCain and President George W. Bush.
I mean, who would ever believe that nice Karl Rove would have threatened this man? Or that his attorney recently asked for protection for his client? Just another one of those coinkydinks that happen when people fly small planes!"
Cleaning out some old files, I ran into these. I thought they were wonderful a decade ago. Maybe you can enjoy them now.
One is very nice and one is just funny.
The nice one:
http://home.comcast.net/~veritas...1/
CHRISTMAS.htm
The humorous one:
http://home.comcast.net/~veritas...0001/
TWELVE.htm
ErinPDX, you may have as many as you like. You people just have no idea how many of these I haz.
Maybe you can transport the sheets through one of these tunnels:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/Articl...1946128895_126/
About 420 threads to go before Martha Stewart sheets.
Petula Clark on my tv.
A single-prop, private airplane crashed next to a vacant house on Charolais Street Northwest Friday evening, exploding into flames and killing the pilot.
Hmm. Early reports were that Connell's plane had run out of fuel. If the plane exploded in flames, that doesn't seem to be the obvious case.
The banks and credit card companies own everyone.
What these assholes don't realize is that "ownership" can be changed by unpleasent means for the "owners".
I have a confession. Since losing all of this weight (80 lbs and counting) I can actually feel my bones. This is a very strange thing for me.
But being thinner will not have any dire consequences that I know of. . . .
GWPDA,
You are being magnanimous as usual. It is a nice thing. One of your chief defining characteristics is your generosity.
I feel special because I know you.
(As for me I am hopelessly addicted to my flannel sheets. I keep a spare set in case I run out in the summer)
Thanks again: you are a wonderfully generous person and that is the nicest thing I can possibly say.
I see small-s sally's alread advised you to don the tinfoils hats.
[adjusts his own]
You can always wear the sheets and pretend to be a ghost or a Southern Republican.
Mostly empty fuel tanks would blow up real good.
*ponders the deeper meaning of sheets, friendship and quality manufacturing*
Hmmmm. I'm getting a sermon idea for transfiguration sunday involving starch and bluing.
I love this place
Gonna nap a bit. Please try the postings I made at 4:17. I guarantee that they will take you from,"Aww, isn't that nice" to "OMG! That is funny as hell."
Peace.
Tinfoil hats resemble parabolic dish antennas-I think they make the problem worse by focusing the "waves"
BG haz mail.
Now get something worked in about three-sheets-to-the-wind and the Holy Ghost.
Mostly empty fuel tanks would blow up real good.
Yes, they can. But, there's not enough fuel vapor in them to keep a fire going. They go "bang" and that's pretty much it.
Who wants to go grocery shopping for me?
Lookee here, the Globe & Mail spells it out:
If the wage number reflects mere hourly earnings, the unionized workforce is close to being in the same wage ballpark as the non-union workers at the best-paid plants - about $28 an hour. The UAW's new contract also includes a clause that stipulates that new workers will get $14 an hour as the contract is phased in.
So let's be clear: New workers in union shops are slated to be paid about the same, perhaps a bit less, than new workers at non-union plants. And existing union workers are being paid about the same as the best paid non-union workers.
Surprised? Surely you have read that auto workers for Detroit-based car companies earn $70 an hour, correct? You might have read it in the New York Times or any number of other publications - even here in the Globe and Mail.
But what that number actually reflects is the wage cost of unionized workers. Felix Simon explains what is going here in a posting on portfolio.com. The average GM assembly-line worker makes about $28 per hour in wages, and I can assure you that GM is not paying $42 an hour in health insurance and pension plan contributions. Rather, the $70 per hour figure (or $73 an hour, or whatever) is a ridiculous number obtained by adding up GM's total labor, health, and pension costs, and then dividing by the total number of hours worked. In other words, it includes all the healthcare and retirement costs of retired workers.
The actual numbers: GM's hourly labor costs are calculated by dividing the financial obligations paid to more than 700,000 workers, retired workers and surviving spouses divided by the actual hours worked by about 180,000 GM workers on the job today. That's where the $70 an hour numbers comes from; that's how a wage of $28 an hour becomes a labour cost of $70 an hour.
Oh, Ha ha ha! That observation you were about to make is funny! and yet clever and insightfull at the same time!
Is it safe to come back? Some douchebag name-stealer was posting gross stuff under my name earlier.
The poop troll?
He's been here before.
More off than on, thank god
Vicki: Yup, that be the one. What a jerkface.
Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing.
http://news.theage.com.au/world/...81218-
71ay.html
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Tinfoil hats resemble parabolic dish antennas-I think they make the problem worse by focusing the "waves"
Prevalent Q-rays are unable to penetrate common Reynolds wrap. Wearing it improves my thinking 110%
.
Proof ^
'enkew, DWD, for the kindness.
And thanks all concerned for relieving me of the obligation of these sheets. It's very satisfying to know they'll have a happy useful life.
I -think- I'm getting close to the end of the weird household re-distribution of my life.... If I only had a cabin, all this stuff would have gone there, but, alas, I haz no cabin. I am a bad Phoenician.
One of the watchwords of the `60s was "question authority."
All the more reason to do so, eh?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/healt...lth/
7791278.stm
Oh, Horseshit!
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Hedge Fund Bail Out
The Fed has set up something called the TALF, the Term Asset-backed Securities Loan Facility, which will offer "low-cost three-year funding to any US company investing in securitized consumer loans" including hedge funds.
Says the Financial Times (reg.req.), "Since the credit crisis erupted, hedge funds have complained that they cannot get the leverage they need to arbitrage away excessive spreads and meet high hurdle rates of return." --Josh Marshall
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Yessiree, the fuckin' compulsive gamblers need more chips because it helps Middle America.
The Tree of Liberty looks seriously overdue for a heavy watering.
Ruth | Homepage | 12.20.08 - 3:16 pm | #
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Excellent essay, Ruth. Thx.
Mostly empty fuel tanks would blow up real good.
V for Virginia, meeting, shhh | Homepage | 12.20.08 - 4:34 pm | #
Friend who worked ER told me about a kid who showed up after attempting to see if there was any gas left in the tank of the motorcycle - it was dark, so he lit a match.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c...h?
v=cC9o4oYMIqI
Thanks GWPDA and....... all.
"Since the credit crisis erupted, hedge funds have complained that they cannot get the leverage they need to arbitrage away excessive spreads and meet high hurdle rates of return."
Hmm. Hedge funds were set up specifically for high rollers who could afford additional risk, and could use the losses, if they occurred, to offset other high income for tax purposes.
We be scammed.
Says the Financial Times (reg.req.), "Since the credit crisis erupted, hedge funds have complained that they cannot get the leverage they need to arbitrage away excessive spreads and meet high hurdle rates of return." --Josh Marshall
even at this point, I can't believe it.
in english that means
since the credit crisis erupted, hedge funds have complained that nobody will lend them huge amounts of money on speculative bets they need to bail them out of their failing bets while still giving them the huge profit rate their investors want.
I have a major, major job interview Monday and a bad head cold. Very discouraging.
Something horrible has happened.
I've accepted minus 10 C as an acceptable temperature to be heading out in.
Obama is a big believer and supporter of clean coal technology.
The Tree of Liberty looks seriously overdue for a heavy watering.
Not to mention some judicious pruning....
As a non-American, I find the argument that "unions are killing the US car industry" utterly absurd.
Please allow me to speak in inflammatory generalizations for a moment:
Nobody outside the US buys US cars, because they are seen as ugly, old-fashioned, primitive and inefficient.
Also, unlike Japanese manufacturers (and Koreans, Germans, Italians, Australians and everyone else in the global-village) US manufacturers generally don't market right-hand drive models or adjust models to suit the target market's road and environmental conditions - bigger radiators and longer-range fuel tanks for Australia, firmer suspension for Germany, etc.
None of this has anything to do with the unions.
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I've accepted minus 10 C as an acceptable temperature to be heading out in.
Time to remove the word fake from your nym.
I can't understand how anyone can cover gains and losses. I can understand minimizing losses, but that minimizes gains as well.
I guess that's why I own my car and rent my apartment...
Obama is a big believer and supporter of clean coal technology.
wise
True. But all the scientific advisors he just appointed think it's a crock of shit.
NO Moe! Don't do it...............
I have a major, major job interview Monday and a bad head cold. Very discouraging.
Noes! U must soak ur head, get everything moving. Very hot shower, then, lots of Mentholatum, and lots of hot tea, soup and sleeping. Lots of orangeade - orange juice and water and sugar - lots of sleeping. You can beat it down if you concentrate now.
I must admit amusement at seeing McCain, Lieberman, and Lindsey trying to jump out in front of Obama's Iraq parade and claim they are leading it.
Such radical rhetoric from a Disney film! Who'd have ever thought!
Lyrics of "Sons of Liberty"
(from the film, 'Johnny Tremain')
I'm offf.
Holy Crap!
The War on Christmas is raging in Greece!
I loved Johnny Tremain.
Obama is a big believer and supporter of clean coal technology.
wise
True. But all the scientific advisors he just appointed think it's a crock of shit.
Moe Szyslak, fake Canadian
Politics: speak well of an industry which employs so many people and is so important to so many more (coal).
Then use scientists in places of power to pursue alternatives.
Holy Crap!
The War on Christmas is raging in Greece!
res ipsa loquitur
I'm guessing they don't say "Merry Christmas," either, but use some foreign tongue and even a foreign alphabet to write it in!
Clean coal is bogus, obviously.
I actually trust that Obama will allow himself to be persuaded by his scientific and environmental advisers that it is, in fact, a stupid way to go.
Obama is a big believer and supporter of clean coal technology.
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He has to. You can't tell half of Appalachia they are obsolete.
GWPDA, it is available via Netflix.
As a Bostonian of some years residence, it is heartening that practically all of the sites used in the Boston-filmed segments of the movie are still extant.
Something horrible has happened.
I've accepted minus 10 C as an acceptable temperature to be heading out in.
Moe Szyslak, fake Canadian
It's way warmer on the west coast, at least minus 8.
I'm guessing they don't say "Merry Christmas," either, but use some foreign tongue and even a foreign alphabet to write it in!
Well, "War on Christmas" is "Ο πόλεμος στα Χριστούγεννα", so I'm thinkin' you must be right.
He has to. You can't tell half of Appalachia they are obsolete.
Doug Watts
Xactly. Doesn't mean you have to tell 'em they are the salvation of modern America, either.
Politics, as I said.
Oil from rendered hedge fund managers is limited in supply, but burns fairly cleanly.
You know school was canceled Friday and there still isn't ANYTHING here. WTF?
ms fahrenheit/stop the wars
When I was a kid "snow days" seemed to be comletely theoretical. We'd hear about schools closing but it never happened to us.
even at this point, I can't believe it.
I can. I've kind of lost faith in anything right or just happening at this point.
How much for a barrel of hedge fund managers? And how much natural gas do you have to burn to extract the oil?
We have another major storm on the way.
Translation: I'm out of food and need to go to the grocery store before the shit starts flying.
(Um, it's 65F here, bright blue skies, the oranges are ripe, and I'm shopping for tennis shoes. I'm very sorry. Very, very sorry.)
When I was a kid "snow days" seemed to be comletely theoretical. We'd hear about schools closing but it never happened to us.
Lumpenprolitariot
This is our first winter in Wisconsin after 12 years in Texas. I keep telling my kids to just "let go" of the concept of snow days, and they will be far less disappointed poppets on school mornings
When I was a kid "snow days" seemed to be comletely theoretical. We'd hear about schools closing but it never happened to us.
Lumpenprolitariot | Homepage | 12.20.08 - 5:03 pm | #
Very, very real. My 16YO slept until 12:30.
(Um, it's 65F here, bright blue skies, the oranges are ripe, and I'm shopping for tennis shoes. I'm very sorry. Very, very sorry.)
/crosses arms, glares
res: Do you speak Greek?!
Translation: I'm out of food and need to go to the grocery store before the shit starts flying.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 12.20.08 - 5:04 pm | #
Don't forget the tp.
Oil from rendered hedge fund managers is limited in supply, but burns fairly cleanly.
I would think it would leave a rather smudgy residue, though....
We had sort of "Half snow days," i.e., you'd haul your ass to school and then they'd send you home at 11 AM. And the bus couldn't go and so we walked. It was sort of fun, then.
(Um, it's 65F here, bright blue skies, the oranges are ripe, and I'm shopping for tennis shoes. I'm very sorry. Very, very sorry.)
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian
That's why EVERYONE wants to buy a house there.
res: Do you speak Greek?!
No, but I'm a big fan of dolmades and spanikopita. Does that count?
Dearest Auntie G:
Are any of these oranges ready for picking and distributing to your many loving adopted nephews and nieces?
I loved Graham Nash in the Hollies...
However, the liquidity the Fed is providing to banks is not flowing through to financial markets, because banks are balance-sheet constrained and risk-averse. So it is channelling funds directly to investors.
Shouldn't even proposing something like this lead to long jail terms?
(Um, it's 65F here, bright blue skies, the oranges are ripe, and I'm shopping for tennis shoes. I'm very sorry. Very, very sorry.)
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian | 12.20.08 - 5:04 pm
No, no you're not!
I can. I've kind of lost faith in anything right or just happening at this point.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 12.20.08 - 5:04 pm | #
It's scumballs all the way down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a...h?
v=admsz1q9soM
Picture the fortress.
Shouldn't even proposing something like this lead to long jail terms?
Hey, they got away with aggressive wars, torture and overseas black prisons, ignoring subpoenas and lying to Congress, along with setting up the most massive illegal domestic spy system in history... financial collusion with the taxpayers' money is almost an afterthought....
We had sort of "Half snow days," i.e., you'd haul your ass to school and then they'd send you home at 11 AM. And the bus couldn't go and so we walked. It was sort of fun, then.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 12.20.08 - 5:07 pm |
They did that quite a bit here in Ohio, back in the early 80's. make sure we had a 1/2 a day, and therefore didn't 'waste' any snow days.
Ah, well, since it's sunny and sixty-three degrees here, I suppose I should depart for the laundromat. Maybe I can polish my tin-foil hat later....
Are any of these oranges ready for picking and distributing to your many loving adopted nephews and nieces?
Pretty soon. I'd say about 1/5 of the crop is ripe, and the rest is lockstepping behind it. This is all about two months ahead of time, so it's hard to be sure entirely, but I think that roughly the end of January will see them as sweet and ripe as they're going to be.
Did I mention that my kumquat tree, that suffered from transplant shock for a full 8 weeks, is now entirely bonny again? It's starting to put out new baby kumquats and its leaves are open to the sun!
Time to bag the oranges and sell'em.
"Pretty soon. I'd say about 1/5 of the crop is ripe, and the rest is lockstepping behind it. This is all about two months ahead of time, so it's hard to be sure entirely, but I think that roughly the end of January will see them as sweet and ripe as they're going to be."
Do reserve a box for me, if you'd be so kind. Even the imported oranges are a trifle peaked by February or thereabouts.
Although, right now, the local Supermarket has Clementines that are quite good. I get a box of them every other week or so.
Excellent snacking fruit!
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian | 12.20.08 - 5:17 pm | #
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I think kumquats are one of those made up fruits.
Like budda hands.
not so fresh topic above
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