I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
I am going to take a nap soon.
I am in Budapest and intend to go to the FRENCH FAIR!! this evening on the banks of the Danube.
I'm going to run that lying, two faced, Bush enabling, witch..Nancy Pelosi..out of office.
A new day.
A new thread.
The French learned that they had to make those nasty aristocrats behave themselves. That guillotine was very effective and maybe that to this day has helped the people to have some rights and a decent life. When do we have a Bastille Day. We had better have something.
I'm going to run that lying, two faced, Bush enabling, witch..Nancy Pelosi..out of office.
Cindy Sheehan
Don't worry Nancy. It's not a serious threat. Check with the DLC they will help and reassure you.
Looking over the very green Perigord countryside of France where it is 12:20 PM, and Iraq is just a bad, stupid war happening to other people.
In the beginning was fear.
In response to fear, god was born to help us with this fear.
And then we began pleading with god for "his" help.
And then other gods were born..
Morning peeps.
Morning, ql.
Keith noted that the White House has now invoked
"executive privilege" in declining to release information about the death of Pat Tillman.
Morning all.
the Fenton MI Bastille Day 15 K
...then a looooooong nap
That remarkable thread-killing power!
Damien for President
plantsman!
Steve!
With all these visitors this has to be the slowest morning yet.
Indeed, ql; it's the triumph of the lurkers!
Steve, did you like the new Harry Potter. The NYTimes thought it was terrific.
Harry Potter has an interesting premise, take characters and apply to them properties of physics. Then contrast these traits, metaphysically.
It should come unglued...
This thing is getting like George Lucas on steroids. Kill it already.
Mr. Murder
The fundies hate it. That's good enough for me.
The next episode will have Obi wan Jesus take on Arnold Schwartzenlucas in a battle to see who can let Bruce Willis blow them up first...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , the final installment, comes out July 21. That ends it.
I am going to spend it learning how to tie a scarf in ten different ways.
gwb:drf
This Bastille Day I'm taking the car in to get the oil changed. Viva la Difference!
Did drive through the Bastille last year. Big, big square now.
Harry Potter lets the Voldemort or whatever thing develop from the pustule and he spourts a fully grown Tony Blair as the combination of good intention and evil action...
I gotta get this prophecy/rant off of my chest.
Bush lied us into a horridly planned and executed war.
Mired in this fetid morass the people demanded an end.
When we did pull out we did it with all the finesse of a panicked 'john' with the cops pounding on the door.
We left a vacum that every whacko with a gun rushed into fill, killing and maiming tens of thousands.
By the time the dust settles and the screaming stops, and it's too late, the first post-bush administration will realize it was badly handled.
While the rest of the world hates us even more, the Mong, Montanyard and Vietnamese will shake their heads and mumble 'told ya so'.
Bu$hco started a war they never had the guts to finish...so they used ours.
Hello moonbats 
In 2000 and 2004, the GOP insisted Bushco was just what the country needed. That being the case, why should anyone listen to them now?
Morning all.
Hello, Moonbootica; how are you?
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix comes to my town's cinema next week.
and my mum has had the final book on pre-order for months heh
Moon and moe, two whose posts and insight keep us aware of many topics.
Plantsman! Good to see ya.
Hello, Moonbootica; how are you?
plantsman, kabiu'tera | 07.14.07 - 7:05 am | #
I am ok, will have the house to myself (plus the cats) later, as my parents are off to my Uncle Bill's retirement party, they live the other side of London and so they are staying the night.
also am looking forward to my graduation ceremony on Monday (it at 5pm)
Best of all possible worlds to Sarah Deere and whoever else that needs the light that never dims completely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5...h?
v=5upiUrUw0Jk
Good to see you, too; Moe! How R ya?
I was tempted to respond to that farty guy, but why bother?
I felt a great need to change the thread, you see. I mean, I just couldn't bring myself to say something cheery and frivolous on the one that was there. Just hugs for Sarah.
So it seemed like my duty as an Atriot to throw in something that would inspire the more usual sort of venting and goofing that is traditional in these threads. Oh, and links, of course, because I need to steal your links for my blog.
Comment: Living under the threat of terrorism
Comment by Jonathan Power.
HaloScan has not changed a great deal, I see.
Sarah deserved her own thread and we needed one above it so trolls would stay out...
I'm doing okay, p-man, except Haloscan has taken to emailing me, which is sorta creepy.
The White Stripes were in town yesterday, doing that side show thing they do right around the corner from the bar I hang out in. I missed the whole thing.
My prediction on how Harry Potter ends:
Voldemort suffers a fate worse than death: he's turned into a muggle.
As the four July 21 bomb plotters started their 40-year minimum sentences this week, a group of police special branch officers - the foot soldiers of the security services - based at Prison Service headquarters were quietly working to ensure that the failed bombers do not inspire a new generation of violent jihadists.
The kingpin or "emir" of the July 21 attacks, Mukhtar Said Ibrahim, had emerged from Feltham young offender institution in September 1998 at the age of 20 having rejected crime in favour of radical Islam, as had Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, before him.
A year ago prison officers voiced concerns that there was no official strategy in place to tackle al-Qaida operatives radicalising and recruiting alienated ethnic minority prisoners as well as young Muslims inside Britain's jails.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
terror...2126207,00.html
I'm going to the Bastille Days Festival in Milwaukee. Bier, Vin, entertainment, food, what could possibly go wrong?
Sarko isn't pardoning any prisoners this Bastile Day apparently
Thanks Avedon. We did indeed need a new thread. For the life of me, I couldn't think what to post below. Now let us imagine we are Iraqi and are facing that kind of loss on a daily basis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended the application of a key Cold War arms control treaties.
In a statement, the Kremlin said the choice was due to "extraordinary circumstances" affecting security.
Russia has been angered by US plans to base parts of a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
The Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE) limits the number of heavy weapons deployed between the Atlantic Ocean and the Urals mountains.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europ...ope/
6898690.stm
How about STORMING our Bastille? DC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of Gordon Brown's new ministers has said the UK and the United States would no longer be "joined at the hip" on foreign policy.
Lord Mark Malloch Brown told the Daily Telegraph it was time for a more "impartial" foreign policy and to build relationships with European leaders.
Some analysts may consider the Foreign Office minister's remarks evidence of Labour distancing itself from the US.
Earlier, Downing Street denied another minister had criticised the US.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...ics/
6898587.stm
(I have been especially careful not to get my cursor anywhere near the box requesting HaloScan email me, on general principles.)
Atrios gets about 100,000 hits/day
Kos gets about 500,000 hits/day
The Harry Potter site gets about 20,000,000 hits/day
(I'm pretty sure that's the number I heard on NPR the other day)
Just to keep it all in perspective.
Moe, can't you just unclick the box that says email me?
I've never clicked the box. I've only gotten four emails from Haloscan, so it just seems random. I'll just put Haloscan on my blocked mail list, and that'll be the end of it, I hope.
We're having a hot spell -- the first bad day brought "death" to 2 "power strips" that enable my computer and peripherals, knocking me out of all communication.
Harry Potter = DFH
Howz the garden?
I am in Budapest and intend to go to the FRENCH FAIR!! this evening on the banks of the Danube.
immanentize
Tres bien!
Atrios gets about 100,000 hits/day
I wonder how many individuals that represents?
I wish that Cheney drops dead at midnight June 20th when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows goes on sale.
gwb:drf
Well, it's been rainy and foggy, up until yesterday when the sun finally broke out. All my salad greens are still going great, way past their time, and the strawberries are still coming on strong. But it's time for summer stuff, and they're just sitting there, waiting for the sun. So, mixed bag. I've gotta work outside most of the day today, clean up the rain mess.
One interesting sidelight to the heat has been my first prolonged experience of hypoglycemia -- no appetite, you see, and must force myself to eat.
Voldemort suffers a fate worse than death: he's turned into a muggle.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Given his fear of death and the many things he's done to avoid it, I see him becoming a ghost at Slytherin.
Kinda weird that Jack and Meg White can tour together like that, what with being exes and all. I can't live in the same country as my ex. I couldn't imagine being with her day in and day out, much less working together.
And yet, I can understand how being a certain kind of "ex" could take a lot of pressure off the relationship.
I have a stress fracture in my left hip. The doctor said that we'll see if it heals itself. This means 6 - 8 weeks in a wheel chair until I cn use a cane.
gwb:drf
Ouch, Arabella; try to make sure you eat wisely and get all your vitamins and such to promote healing!
Arabella, That sounds awful. My sympathies are extended.
Voldemort promises to be good and joins the staff at Horwarts. Then he becomes the Joe Lieberman of Hogwarts.
Harry Potter and Dumbledore's army send numerous owls to the Ministry of Magic.
The Minstry of Magic invokes executive privilege.
gwb:drf
Think Juvederm injections will become all the rage?
longtime lurker, first-time commenter. it's weird that i seem to know more about some commenters' daily lives than i do about those of my close friends. my heart is breaking for sarah deere and her granddaughter. i can't begin to imagine.
Think Juvederm injections will become all the rage?
No, I earned my wrinkles and I'm going to keep them.
For Sarah Deere, the long time of the passing must be nearly impossible to endure. My thoughts are with her.
Thanks guys. It's not the worst thing that could happen to a person. I must claw my way off the pity pot.
My beloved sister died on March 25.
Shitty year, and I blame it on Bush.
gwb:drf
Could you believe Bush's presser? It was like Yogi Berra all over again.
Yogi Berra has a calculated genius behind his statements. W, not so much.
very true, Moe.
There is nothing worse that seeing a beloved child suffer. Loosing a child cuts a mother/grandmother's heart out.
Sara Deere, after the mourning has past the pain fades but it never goes away. Time heals all, but he's a slow worker.
My mom has lost a husband and three chidren. She has endured.
Love you, Sarah.
*
Yogi Berra has a calculated genius behind his statements. W, not so much.
And Rumsfeld?
There are known unknowns.."
my heart goes out to Sarah D
(Now is the summer of my discontent.)
Who are the insurgents in Afghanistan?
BTW, has Condi been doing anything?
If Ruth comes around, and for anyone else, here is the Australian Broadcast Corp. taking down the "Global Warming Swindle" guy. It's embarassing, really.
BTW, has Condi been doing anything?
Has she ever done anything?
It took Narjis Ahmed five months to make the decision to come home with her family to Tal Afar.
A 45-year-old from this old and pretty Iraqi town, she fled the fighting between al-Qaida and US forces in 2005.
Her family would travel back from the village where they had taken refuge, not far from the town, to collect their salaries and check on their houses. To listen to what people said about security. "I was worried about the men, if we came back," she explained yesterday. But she returned. And others are doing the same, from both the Turkamen Sunni and the Shia communities that fought each other here.
Some were neighbours from across the sectarian divide, such as Mustafa Mohammed, 65, a Sunni, and Mohammed Jamil Ghahrib, a 57-year-old Shia radiographer. While Mr Mohammed took his family to the village of Kharbja, Mr Ghahrib took his own to another named Tormi. On Friday they were sitting together, neighbours once again.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/
S...2126243,00.html
Condi is taking pilates class and buying shoes.
gwb:drf
How about chopping off the head of George Bush, sticking it on the end of a baseball bat, and placing it next to Little Georgie Will as he sits enraptured staring at his favorite pastime.
Beckies and Posh took LA by storm yesterday!
I would like to take Bush and Cheney to the Bastille.
I would like to take Bush and Cheney to the Bastille.
And leave them there.
Beyond Irony - Tony Blair - Peace Envoy
I would like to see Cheney eat 10 pounds of pate and then go on a long trip by jet.
gwb:drf
nothing new here but nice catchy title "Republican rulers out of control"
“Out of control, elitist power mongers” would be the best phrase to describe the political mindset of the Bush Republican machine. The current Bush Administration and their Senate allies are completely unwilling to bend to majority rule on the Iraq War or the other major issues of today. In the Republican elitist world, the people are to be ruled over instead of represented by Republican officeholders and judges.
Oh, poor Sarah. I lost my sister ten years ago, and I am convinced that her death hastened my mother's.
Condi has taken up golf. Just as well. Let her devote her time and energy to that. Everything else she has fucked up.
Arabella, what is a stress fracture?
Oceans of love and comfort to Sarah D and her family.
From Wiki:
A stress fracture is one type of incomplete fractures in bones. It could be described as a very small sliver or crack in the bone; this is why it is sometimes dubbed "hairline fracture". It typically occurs in weight-bearing bones, such as the tibia/fibula (bones of the lower leg) and metatarsals (bones of the foot). It is a common sports injury.
talk later
http://www.eorthopod.com/eorthop...c3021d0/area/
15
Hope the link works. My fracture is on the inside of my left thigh. Holy hell, it is painful. Still, it could have been worse.
Be of good cheer, goddamit.
teh US...bringing instability to the world under GOP rule:
russia suspends participation in key arms pact
putin meets with chimpy on vaca:
"Russian threats have materialised and I don't exclude that more steps could follow," said Yevgeny Volk, the head of the Washington-based Heritage Foundation think-tank.
"If there is no agreement with the United States on the missile shield ... Russia could potentially go ahead with its threats to retarget (at Europe) and redeploy missiles -- something we have already seen in the 1970s."
I will spend it removing zionists from our gov't. Only Israel benefits from these endless Middle East wars. Iraq is the beginning. As we commit war-crimes in Baghdad, the US gov't commits treason at home by opening mail, eliminating habeas corpus, using the judiciary to steal private lands, banning books like "America Deceived" from Amazon and Wikipedia, conducting warrantless wiretaps and engaging in illegal wars on behalf of AIPAC's 'money-men'. Soon, another US false-flag operation will occur (sinking of an Aircraft Carrier by Mossad) and the US will invade Iran.. Then we'll invade Syria, then Saudi Arabia, then Lebanon (again) then ....
Final link (before Stark County District Library bends to gov't demands and censors the title):
America Deceived (book)
my heartfelt condolences to Sarah Deere and family
I love it when they say stress fractures are exercize related. They are blogging related too, I guess.
My one or the orthopedists in my ortho practice specializes in sports injuries. A lot of huge musselly men on crutches, and a bunch of boomers sitting in chairs.
be of good cheer
see you later.
be of good cheer, dammit
I love it when they say stress fractures are exercize related.
i remember having one on my lower leg - so much pain, might as well have been broken, but the healing was pretty quick (then again, i was young when it happened)
That's a big problem with steroids: the muscles grow fast than the bones.
I'm of relatively good cheer, I guess. But I want to do a Saturday Songcrush and I can't find the song on YouTube.
Poop.
Plantsman: Did you know J.C. Raulston?
"I love it when they say stress fractures are exercize related."
broke my femur that way running.
i'm much healthier now as a slug.
schwarzeneggar: GOP can lead on the environment
hahahaha - i thought some light-hearted humor was in order
morning, all. These late sleep-ins are nice, I'm usually up so early.
My sister had started running, her doctor told her Big Mistake. Knee replacement required. Luckily, I stuck with walking.
Sarah Deere, loving thoughts to you and yours. I emailed you a piece that I thought would be nice for you just to take your mind off things a few days ago, but go to the homepage for a beautiful picture, one down from the top, and a top post about a Nobel Peace Prize Winner's violent wish.
I will spend it removing zionists from our gov't.
Probably you should think about pointing your efforts at republicans. Do you really think only Israel gains from wars in the Middle East? Whatta about GE and its subsidiaries and other corporations that are stealing us blind with this fake war?
plantsman, you would be so pleased to see my liriope blooming, the first time ever. All they needed was daily floods!
Whatta about GE and its subsidiaries
speaking of GE - profits up 12% on jet engines and heavy equipment...i wonder who bought/needed that stuff?
WaPo guest op-ed by Hitchens, really damning religion. interesting. I have a soupcon of religion left, sort of like superstition, I always pray for good things for everyone. http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...7071301461.html
Ruth-- I posted a link to the ABC (Australian) takedown of the Global Warming Swindle people, up above.
speaking of GE - profits up 12% on jet engines and heavy equipment...i wonder who bought/needed that stuff?
uhhhh-Anybody who has the money?
WaPo guest op-ed by Hitchens
to me this shows who are those on the right:
religious nutballs and warmongering nutballs
...i really like the 'cat fight' on the right between the xtian fundies and the warmongering atheists...pass the popcorn
profits up 12% on jet engines and heavy equipment...i wonder who bought/needed that stuff?
uhhhh-Anybody who has the money?
i was thinking more the military-industrial complex, but cia-proxy companies would also not be surprising
i was thinking more the military-industrial complex, but cia-proxy companies would also not be surprising
Those are the ones who have the most money--our taxes and China's loans.
Dose Boeing's new plastic plane have GE engines?
"Does Boeing's new plastic plane have GE engines?"
that would be a yes.
nice, Moe, I have assigned global warming debunk from el jefe, who is watching the islands disappear on Lake Texoma while insisting it's a swindle. heh.
The thjing upi needo rom ermber bou t GWB is tat he idnt invent sick fasicm he just poromoted it -- eat the wound at its oruce.
mogwai, your irresponsible private consumption of corn is setting back the biofuels dev't. BTW, Willie (Nelson) biofuels was put in involuntary bankruptcy a few days ago.
HICA!
Saturday Morning Cat Wrasslin' to start the day off right.
.
...i got footage of the 2 young foxes playing and romping, they have been frequenting the back yard - i had to use my video camera since they were too far for my cheapo digital still
NYT: Rove Strategy Paper Found in Nixon Archive.
Nothing explosive therein. Just thought it was semi-interesting.
Nice pic of Bubba (a/k/a William Jeffeson Clinton) in the NYT.
(Am afraid to read the actual article.)
Wha happened?
Did I drive everyone off?
your irresponsible private consumption of corn is setting back the biofuels dev't.
road-side stand, the year 2020:
Corn, $50/dozen
res ipsa loquitur: Did I drive everyone off?
I'm petting cats, waiting for coffee to finish.
.
Just have nothing to say. Too much work I'm ignoring, 'spose.
Morning, all
Good morning.
morning folks
MorningMorningMorning!
.
I might motivate myself to go see Harry Potter.
I'm feeling way lazy though.
Rove's reaction to the found memo:
"When you send something to a White House person,” he said, ‘’it tends to be collected and remain.”
Except when the criminals are in charge who promptly destroy all evidence if found. Apparently the didn't get to the National Archives yet. I believe the Texas papers were scrubbed in during the time Shrub was in office or hidden in Poppy's library.
we're kinda spotty, res. I was making some potato salad, it's so cool here in N.TX I can cook in the kitchen without heating up the place! the world is coming to an end forsure.
intel joins one-laptop-per-child foundation
after food comes good learning for 3rd world kids - so that's good to see
RNC e=mail systems broke down in 1973.
Arise, children of the fatherland! The hour of glory is at hand!
mogwai, for some reason your roadside stand price for corn reminded me of a news report this week, a very substantial stand of marijuana found growing in Dallas near the DEA office.
Well, I've posted all the cats I have. What else had you to learn?
.
intel joins one-laptop-per-child foundation
The third world I know about has more need of food, housing, shoes, and medical care. I can't help wondering if this is just another corporate taxpayer funded scam.
After watching the coldly logical and accurate impeachment show on Bill Moyers 's last night I fully expected to arise this morning and see the WaPo and the New York Times calling for the Articles of Impeachment to be drawn and the committee to investigate be seated.
Guess not, eh?
They must have had other things to think about?
Ruth, I'm surprised all of Texas hasn't drowned by now.
I think I need to go get some benadryl. I am having an allergic reaction to something. Itchy all over.
HoneyBear,
I would see that with you, but I haven't seen any of the first ones (nor have I read any of the books), so I would be lost.
It's my birthday. Heads will roll.
a very substantial stand of marijuana found growing in Dallas near the DEA office.
Ruth
LOL, that sounds like an Onion article:
"large Marijuana stand found growing next to DEA office"
morning all Happy Bastile Day
Some attaturk-like humor for a Saturday morning:
http://www.monkeydyne.com/rmcs/d...phtml?
rowid=117
Lax gun laws in Red States flooding the streets of major American Blue cities with weapons.
res ipsa I'm not sure you would like it if you're not familiar with that world.
Is there anything else you'd like to see?
OK. Here's another one:
http://www.monkeydyne.com/rmcs/d...html?
rowid=1353
All of N.Tx. is molding, our fire dep't is being farmed out to S. TX this week to pull people outa the water.
itchy all over; try some aloe vera. lotion, that is. Don't swallow.
It's my birthday. Heads will roll.
anothergreenbus
Happy Birthday,
Hope you are not a Jihadist . . . .
HoneyBear,
Not really. The Don Cheadle thing looks semi-interesting.
I really need to read at least one of those books. I feel culturally illerate. I tried to read the first one and got about halfway through it.
spinoza, cute. And I have a Thai keychain from their Lunch and Condoms chain, that says Slip it on Before you slip it In. Rors swears he's sneaking in to steal it one day.
Environmental hush money
Congratulations. You’re “carbon-neutral.” But you’re still killing the planet.
It is such a wonderful thing to hear about extremely rich people with lifestyles that cannot truthfully be associated with anything less than extreme over-consumption, who are now jumping on the carbon-neutral bandwagon.
It doesn’t matter whether you have one bachelor apartment and ride your bike everywhere, or own several mansions scattered around the globe with a private jet to take you to each at your whim; as long as you reach that environmental zenith of carbon-neutral, you’re an environmentalist hero!
[...]
Here is the bottom line: it doesn’t matter how much good public relations the extremely rich get to try to trick the public into thinking they’re the environmental “good guys” who can lecture the rest of us working class Joes and Josephines about the environment from a position of moral supremacy.
The fact is, they consume so much that if every person on earth consumed what they did, we would need tens or hundreds of earths to sustain us.
So, what they are actually asking of you and me and the rest of the world is that we confirm their right to consume 20, or 50, or 100 times their share of the earth’s resources, as well as their right to lecture the average working-class Northwestern resident about our consumption of perhaps two to 10 times our share of the earth’s resources because they can afford their environmental yuppie tax (carbon offsets) much more easily than we can, and are therefore more likely than we are to reach that all-important carbon-neutral status.
All of N.Tx. is molding,
I bet. Are all your trees coming out of the ground, too? I don't see how many of them can be standing after all of that rain.
HoneyBear,
I am whoring, but I thought you might enjoy this Summer of '77 post.
...broke my femur that way running...
What, into a truck? Dang, boy!
I'll stop eventually.
http://www.monkeydyne.com/rmcs/d...phtml?
rowid=965
Off to the farmers market. Later, all.
The trees that are falling over are generally beside streams and big ditches. Lake Texoma has been over flood level all week. Yesterday 3+ inches fell in parts of its floodplain, that will be drooling down into it for a few days too. We're so wet, I'm at the top of a hill and there's standing water in my front yard for hours after the littlest sprinkel.
Off to the farmers market. Later, all.
Bring a farmer back so we can all share.
Today Show with Hecate's Great Glass of Wine post victims.
Welp, I'm gonna go prep for a day of bus-riding.
♥
Birthday breakfast, go vote, and then to a ballgame! Woohoo!
"has Condi been doing anything?"
Golfing, which is good. It's a hard game to master, and this will keep her out of trouble for years.
More chances for Thor to practice his condi in one lightening strikes.
Chateau Malescot St-Exupéry--The wine of choice for drop-in armed burglers. Good to have on hand for unexpected "guests."
Ranges from $43 to over $300 per bottle, based on vintage.
The hostess gift of good taste and security!
A long email to the offspring in Paris. She'll head to the Eiffel tower for festivites, let's see, about 1:00 our time.
vive la france!
Even though I didn't realize it was Bastille day, I started watching "Orphans of the Storm" this morning
The Pennsylvania moonbat who tried to connect with Al Qaeda on the internet, in a plot to blow up US oil pipelines, has been convicted:
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania man was convicted on Friday of plotting to blow up U.S. oil pipelines and energy installations and of attempting to enlist al Qaeda militants on the Internet to help carry out his plan.
A federal jury of six women and six men took a little more than an hour to convict Michael Curtis Reynolds, 49, on those charges and of possessing a hand grenade. He faces a maximum 57 1/2 years in prison.
The government accused Reynolds, from Wilkes-Barre, of scheming to attack the Alaska and Transcontinental pipelines and other energy installations to prompt a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
Maybe I'll write my Congressman demanding a double impeachment.
that the foiled robber left the glass, unbroken, is such a nice touch.
Speaking of wine, did anyone else see how the Two-Buck Chuck Chardonnay won top honors in the wine competition, beating out other vintages costing as much as $55/bottle?
Too bad I'm not a white wine drinker.
NYT: Rove Strategy Paper Found in Nixon Archive.
Nothing explosive therein. Just thought it was semi-interesting.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 07.14.07 - 8:43
Back then his brand of smearing was
An industry more cottage-y,
It's no surprise, therefore, that Karl
Does not seem such a prodigy.
And yet he's been spectacular
In growing as a tumor
Upon our body politic;
He's just been a late bloomer.
Okay, if the refrigerator is turned down to the lowest level, how did an entire dozen eggs just freeze solid in there? Fuck. They're useless now.
Bastille Day good time to get some Brie, too.
I am whoring, but I thought you might enjoy this Summer of '77 post.
I left a little comment there of my highlight of that night/day.
I bet. Are all your trees coming out of the ground, too? I don't see how many of them can be standing after all of that rain.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 07.14.07 - 9:05 am | #
No kidding. Down here in Central TX the oaks have been falling over in record numbers.
Don't think you mean moonbat as in, moonbat from eschaton?
those charges and of possessing a hand grenade
Must be a heck of a single hand grenade if he's going to be blowing up multiple oil pipelines.
funny, res, the back of my refrigerator freezes things too. 'course, it's so old it's avocado colored. Thaw out the eggs in warm water and scrambel? I'm guessing.
Morning, all.
HoneyBear,
Do you remember what day of the week it was? I don't. It was all like a big adventure to me. The whole summer. What did Fifth around Saks look like at that point?
Too bad I'm not a white wine drinker.
Jennifer | 07.14.07 - 9:16 am | #
I have heard of the legendary two-buck-Chuck from my mother in California for some time now. I don't know that we can get it here (TX) I understand that the red is excellent.
Here come de rain. See that one blue ddot right there? No, a little to the right. That's my house.
I should get a new 'fridge, anyway. The 'fridge was the only appliance in this apartment that was old when I moved in nine years ago. My bro is always telling me that I would save a lot of dough on electricity if I got a new one. Maybe I will go get one today.
"...broke my femur that way running...
What, into a truck? Dang, boy!"
back in the day i was pretty intense. the docs thought i broke it speed training on a banked indoor track.
the realhellkitty, we're sending more your way today. I admit I love the cool temps. For some reason, I made a guess that I would be able to do without AC much of the summer. So far, no AC atall.
Res, clean out the clutter in your fridge. It's the lack of free air flow that causes the strange freezing.
I've had this happen a few times, and a thorough cleaning and tossing of extraneous item, has always corrected this.
Surrender Toast for breakfast, while watching Le Tour.
Thaw out the eggs in warm water and scrambel? I'm guessing.
Ruth | Homepage | 07.14.07 - 9:19 am | #
no. throw out the eggs and go get tacos.
sounds like the fridge needs a refrigerant refill and a good vacuuming
underneath and on the back to clear the coils.
keeping air flow in the back of the fridge is important, too. My fridge has 2 feet of space behind and on top, free air flow. Unless the clutter walks back their by itself of course, as often it does.
Why is it raining so much down there?
Is it an El Niño or La Niña thing?
Elmer, a friend of mine moved to Corpus Christi last month, so she could take walks by the ocean. :-}
res ipsa I believe it was a Wednesday.
That part of 5th Ave. looked pretty much the same as it does now.
Brentano's is gone though.
MOMA is totally different.
Tell me what a chickenhawk looks like. This is what a chickenhawk looks like.
Morning, Bats! Planted late-summer stuff like marigolds, weeded, and watered. Goddess, the ground is dry.
and then there's the adjustment inside the fridge when humidity changes outside. Mine says normal, max and min. I just keep it on normal, who knows what max and min mean.
US and UK 'no longer inseparable'
One of Gordon Brown's new ministers has said the UK and the United States would no longer be "joined at the hip" on foreign policy.
Lord Mark Malloch Brown told the Daily Telegraph it was time for a more "impartial" foreign policy and to
build relationships with European leaders.
Some analysts may consider the Foreign Office minister's remarks evidence of Labour distancing itself from the US.
Earlier, Downing Street denied another minister had criticised the US
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...ics/
6898587.stm
Ah, Ruth, thank you so much! its cloudy here and I'm sure that the low water crossing on the one road to my office will be over the banks by the time I need to get over there. On the other hand, I won't have to water the morning glories today.
I've had this happen a few times, and a thorough cleaning and tossing of extraneous item, has always corrected this.
Now this is funny because the last time this happened someone here told me to fill the fridge with stuff, that stuff was freezing b/c there wasn't enough stuff in there.
The info about clutter outside the fridge is interesting. I have about 4" on top, but nothing on the back or sides.
The eggs are ruined. I don't even think you can scrambled them after they freeze. Merde.
I also remember that my bosses apartment was this fabulous duplex on West St.
He is/was gay and shared with 3 other guys.
Me and a coworker stayed there.
She is a Rastafarian and was so shocked to see all these naked guys walking around in the village.
11.6% of new Army recruits have criminal records.
Brentanos! I remember that.
"The eggs are ruined. I don't even think you can scrambled them after they freeze. Merde."
make an egg shake!
Maybe I will go get one today.
They make some new ones that are tres energy efficient. There's some kind of symbol that you're supposed to look for and I forget exactly what it is.
The usual high pressure dome that settles into the Dallas area during summer has split up and gone on either side of us. So moisture from the Gulf is being funnelled up through TX. into OK and KS too.
last year at this time we had 11 days in a row above 100F.
later bats...have a nice one!
Is it an El Niño or La Niña thing?
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 07.14.07 - 9:24 am | #
El Nino I believe. We had this a few years ago then went into a 3 year drought. This is the wettest Jan-July in Austin on record.
The eggs are ruined. I don't even think you can scrambled them after they freeze. Merde.
Save them, and use them as 'fuck you' eggs for the next republican who gives a speech in your town.
who knows what max and min mean.
Maximum and minimum?
Hecate,
This is for you:
How Marigolds Came Yellow
Jealous girls these sometimes were,
While they liv'd or lasted here :
Turn'd to flowers, still they be
Yellow, mark'd for jealousy.
--Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
If anyone did not get the chance to watch the Bill Moyer's Impeachment Show last night, here it is:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journa...ndex-
flash.html
If you have not see this, you WILL be amazed.
The energy symbol to look for is the energy star.
There's some kind of symbol that you're supposed to look for and I forget exactly what it is.
Energy Star.
They're all of $300. I think I will just go do it today. This thing is about 25 years old. My bro (electrician) always tells me it is irresponsible to run it.
Therealhellkitty, the tow truck co's here are having their best year ever. People keep driving into that water, thinking they'll just coast out the other side.
hecate, a revelation! However, it is what max and min signify in relation to temp and humidity and what I should do about it that is the who knows.
(temp=temperature, natch)
Bastille Day? I'm planning to be emancipated!
Does it ever stop being foggy in Halifax?
you can only freeze egg whites, not the whole egg. The real problem would be thawing them in warm water...major bacterial issues there.
I'm gonna off me some heads.
Maximum and minimum?
but what?
Maximum flavor?
minimum gauss?
11.6% of new Army recruits have criminal records.
trifecta
Is that trending up or down?
Maximum and minimum?
but what?
Maximum flavor?
minimum gauss?
At maximum electrons slow down and you can keep Walt Disney's head in your refrigerator.
thks, DWD, that's very helpful. I meant to watch it but fell asleep. I will have to wait until I'm in the office for video, tho.
11.6% of new Army recruits have criminal records.
trifecta
They're merely trying to match the percentage of their civilian masters with criminal records.
you can only freeze egg whites, not the whole egg. The real problem would be thawing them in warm water...major bacterial issues there.
therealhellkitty
Not after freezing.
go look inside the fridge, Doug. There's a dial so you can adjust the temp of your fridge. Mine says max and min. I never would have known that precious fact had the topic not come up.
In eternal gratitude
Re: energy efficient fridges: the ones that have the "Energy Star" rating are the efficient ones. Pretty much all of the high-end Jenn-Air and Kitchenaid fridges are Energy Star rated, though there are quite a few in the lower price range in the Frigidaire and GE lines. I'm getting ready to replace mine, and found a Frigidaire model for $1600...which is about double what you can get an Energy Star model, but I selected a counter-depth model in stainless, both of which add to the price.
Turn'd to flowers, still they be
Yellow, mark'd for jealousy.
Thought jealousy was the green-eyed monster...
The max and min on a refrigerator refer to condensation on the outside when it is very humid. If your fridge is wet on the outside, sliding the control to max will turn on a heater that rids the condensation on the outside, Uses lots more energy. The min position is for the winter months when it is naturally less humid in the house. I leave mine at normal all the time and live with the wet on the outside the few days it happens.
The Pseudoest of Pseudo Events [Jonah Goldberg]
I'm sorry. I know I don't follow soccer closely. I know I'm not up on the "scene" that much. But the arrival of the Beckham's is the most transparently hyped, fraudulent, pseudo-event in recent memory. I don't pretend to have read enough about it to offer examples, but the whole thing is an example.
It's almost as bad as the hype surrounding your so-called "book." Pantload.
There's some kind of symbol that you're supposed to look for and I forget exactly what it is.
look for the blue E - Energy Star.
It's trending way up lipreader.
When I was in in the late 80's it was like 3%.
you can only freeze egg whites, not the whole egg. The real problem would be thawing them in warm water...major bacterial issues there.
therealhellkitty
Not after freezing.
lipreader, who ♥ Al Gore
Many bacteria are more freeze-thaw stable than your food is...
Therealhellkitty, the tow truck co's here are having their best year ever. People keep driving into that water, thinking they'll just coast out the other side.
Ruth | Homepage | 07.14.07 - 9:30 am | #
oh yeah...around here they wash into the creeks and float away. I saw the vehicle that those two guys from Marble Falls were driving when they washed away.
It was so thoroughly mangled I can't imagine that they will find any trace of the kids. A friend of mine recently lost both of his parents. They were washed out in a creek on their own property. They were found 1500 yards down the Blanco River. Let's just say that there wasn't a viewing at their services. People have no idea what they are challenging when they try to cross swift water.
Thought jealousy was the green-eyed monster...
ENVY is green.
Jealousy is "intolerance of rivalry or unfaithfulness." (Webster)
Envy is "painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage." (Webster again)
res - you can do some online sleuthing for the model you want...I've found AJ Madison to have one of the best selections, also Sears has a lot of different models you can compare. You might also check the epinions website to see how others rate the models you're interested in.
I have lots of stuff up on the blog including baby blogging and shiny pictures. Kinda revamping my crappy blog.
(/blogwhore)
Hecate, a sparrowhawk went after one of our really huge chickens once, it was the funniest thing you've ever seen. The chicken was running around squawking, and the sparrowhawk could't get her lifted off the ground. We were rolling on the ground.
Ralphie - Myrmidon | 07.14.07 - 9:35 am | #
I'm saving this.
I'll spend the day hanging drywall and wondering why C-spans idea of balance is an hour of a bush enabling hack from the weekly standard or the national journal followed by 45 mins of a journalist from the washington post?
11.6% of new Army recruits have criminal records.
trifecta
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Actually, thats one of the few positive things to come out of this. There was a time that the Army was considered a legitimate alternative to jail for youthful multiple offenders. I really wouldn't balk at seeing that system reinstated. Makes more sense than the current three strikes that could put a kid away for life for shoplifting.
11.6% of new Army recruits have criminal records.
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some of us were remarking how a PROFESSIONAL ARMY has changed murkin politics. Historically, there was the sense that boys would do service to their country, and that was expected in some families and dodged in others (like Cheney-ghoul family, for instance)
However, there was a shared sense of contribution. Now it's like there is a special breed that gets hired to go fight and die, the not-us breed.
The military is largely an opportunity for underprivileged classes, or those who have fucked up, like ex or even current cons.
Maximum flavor?
minimum gauss?
At maximum electrons slow down and you can keep Walt Disney's head in your refrigerator.
spinoza
Maximum Headroom...
res,
How many Myrmidons do we know named Ralphie? that's pretty good.
'Appy Bastille Day!
Amazing thing - yesterday at work a coworker came up to me and said she needed hours - could she work this weekend for me?
So i have my first weekend off in a month or more. How am i spending Bastille Day? With lots of naps, actually. But i thought i'd drag awake long enough to see what was new on the outrage front.
What's the topic de jour?
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The problem Addison is that there are stories that gang bangers are being sent by their gangs into the military for weapons training.
Some of them do straighten up and leave the gangs, but we are dealing with a foreign culture in 130 degree heat, and 11% of our new recruits are convicted criminals. It's going to bite us in the butt with war crimes. One of these folks will do something really stupid.
Jennifer,
Look at epinions now, Thanks.
I'll spend the day hanging drywall and wondering why C-spans idea of balance is an hour of a bush enabling hack from the weekly standard or the national journal followed by 45 mins of a journalist from the washington post?
klyde
I thought Michael Moore's strongest and most irrefutable point in the follow-up interview with Leslie Blitzer was that he was just trying to "bring some balance" to the conversation about health care. Anyone who has ever watched American corporate TV knows damn good and well that the only position on health care ever presented there is "private health care, for all its problems = good; national health care = bad."
Morning, rational people.
The cats let me sleep in this morning.
How many Myrmidons do we know named Ralphie? that's pretty good.
Maybe "Ralphie" is modern English for "Achilles," or something.
This is a pretty decent article from the WaPo if anyone is interested. The reporter still does not "get it" but they are getting closer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...ml?
hpid=topnews
Cynicus, pls visit my homepage and look at the pic one post down (as well as reading the incredibly intelligent posts). Wunnerful aurora borealis, all.
Maybe "Ralphie" is modern English for "Achilles," or something.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 07.14.07 - 9:42 am | #
I was actually thinking of Greeks with Red Ryder BB guns.
I bought my fridge cause I thought it was cute.
And fits my space perfectly.
Cynicus
Just scroll up:
1) la france
2) chickenhawks
3) fridge physics
4) cons
Take your pick
res, get one with an ice maker. It is really nice.
In the first six months of the year, 125 troops from 10 Midwestern states died in Iraq, the bloodiest stretch of the war so far. Over the past year, 239 from those states have died, compared with 129 from July 2003 to June 2004.
Dick--
We need more urban soldiers. The ones from small towns are giving us trouble when they get themselves killed.
I was actually thinking of Greeks with Red Ryder BB guns.
You're close, My heritage is Swiss-French.
Hi, Diane! now funding education is too much welfare for the cretin in chief. At the homepage. (aurora borealis now 2 posts down)
Honeybear, I could give it a big hug, although the inside view is chilling.
yuk yuk
I was unexpectantly in Portsmouth on Tuesday morning on family business and I got to watch a parade of tall ships leaving the inner harbour. I think they must have gone up to Halifax to hide out from pirates in the fog. They fired cannons as they passed the Customs House. Nobody else seemed to be there along the shore to watch. Pretty cool surprise.
There was a time that the Army was considered a legitimate alternative to jail for youthful multiple offenders.
David Hackworth, 15 years old.
I don't have my copy of About Face anymore, and I don't remember if he was given the choice by a judge, his father, or decided himself, but there was youthful outlawry involved somehow. Maybe something about a liquor store...?
I wonder if those guys will deliver to Manhattan, HBK. I bet they will.
What's the topic de jour?
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Cynicus
Same one every jour...Bush and Cheney are Nazi fuck nozzled pieces of worm infested dogshit, who in any other profession, lifetime or universe would have already been drawn and quartered at worst or given their walking papers and a boot to their asses out the door at best.
OT, but did anyone see the pic of Cheney *sleeping* on the job in the Times this morning?
I miss Hackworth. I did a little correspondence with him before he died. My co-writing of Silent Screams actually went on to receive multiple citations for bravery in Korea. (Three Silver Stars, Two Distinguished Service Crosses, a Bronze Star, and was nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor) I asked Hack if, after a certain number of medals they just gave you the Congressional one. He told me his story - IIRC he has 9 SStars 3 Bronze and at least two Distinguished Service Crosses but he did want to buy a book
res ipsa they delivered to Brooklyn.
Does your building have an elevator though?
The delivery people didn't want to bring it upstairs because mine doesn't.
This is a small fridge too.
Who's going to EschaFair in Albuquerque? I may have to rearrange my schedule to get there.
If Steve Jobs Can Do It, So Can I!!!!
G'morning.
Hell, res, I just bought a fridge at Sears on June 1st...super energy efficient, but I don't need the bells and whistles, like the ice maker or the water dispenser.
Just keep my food cold, bitches! And I'm happy.
I was unexpectantly in Portsmouth on Tuesday morning on family business and I got to watch a parade of tall ships
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I saw the tall ships in Newport, RI maybe 2 weeks ago. Everyone turned out, large lawns of clubs were full of folks, and HOMELAND SECURITY was there, buzzing the crowd flying a high tech helicopter low over the event.
Irritatingly, Coast Guard was chasing us sailboat spectators well away from the fleet, as though we were potential BOAT BOMBERS.
Hasn't been quite so security conscious in past years. In Salem some of our Marbleheader captains were happily firing cannon across tall ships' bows and a good time was had by all.
Does your building have an elevator though?
Yep.
Hell, res, I just bought a fridge at Sears
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Sears is good. There is that line-up of obsolete fridge around the corner from the rest of the fleet, selling at huge savings. My god, who would want a obsolete fridge?
My god, who would want a obsolete fridge?
Heck, if they haven't been used, they can't be that bad. Maybe uses a little more energy, perhaps?
Irritatingly, Coast Guard was chasing us sailboat spectators well away from the fleet, as though we were potential BOAT BOMBERS.
Somehow I'm reminded of a scene from some movie (A Fish called Wanda??) whe the bad guy is slowly, slowly run over by a steamroller.
Thanks.
Who's going to EschaFair in Albuquerque?
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where is info posted?
Envy is "painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another girl with a desire to possess the same boy." Elmer's Abridged...
If I need one color for both [sorts through Crayola box] lessee...Yellow-Green, or Green-Yellow?
Pooty-poot ups the ante.
http://tinyurl.com/34sbft
I'm sure our ace Secy of State will take care of this though. No big deal.
I was actually thinking of Greeks with Red Ryder BB guns.
Bearded mucsle guys in bronze breastplates shouting "This! Is! Christmas!"
Ok ruth, visit to your homepage accomplished.
And as for outrage de jour, i mean the latest specific, not the general case. i haven't forgotten that.
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Maybe uses a little
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Worse than that, Vicki, they are not the latest model. Upgrading your kitchen, you would want the very latest, not last year's model.
I can't get motivated.
See, I've been invited to a meet-up downtown, to meet a very cool West TN blogger. But it's at 3:00 (who starts drinking at 3:00?), and the whole bus thang here is especially daunting on the weekend, what with reduced service.
.
sheets
ut I don't need the bells and whistles, like the ice maker or the water dispenser.
Most of the break-downs w/fridges tend to happen b/c of the ice maker or water dispenser. I don't need either of those, either.
I just realized that this thing is from the mid- to late-'80s.
The new one will probbly pay for for itself in lower con ed bills in about 18 months.
Pooty-poot ups the ante.
We are at such a disadvantage trying to have strategic negotiations with a world class thinker on their side and a arrested developed 14 year old shoulder punching half-wit on our side. But can you imagine the chaos and danger to the entire world that would develop if Putin was also a dimwit like Bush?
There is a Sears here in Jersey City. Maybe I'll go over there. It's reachable via the PATH.
But it's at 3:00 (who starts drinking at 3:00?),
Well, here in small-town KY, we just got liquor-by-the-drink (and still no package stores), and said drink has to be in a restaurant with majority revenue from food sales. So, the largest 'bars' are Appleby's and O'Charley's.
As Appleby's runs their half-price happy hour from 3 PM to 7 PM, why not start the drinking at 3?
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Wow.
I've been away from the comments since early last evening. Didn't know about the downturn for Sarah Deere's granddaughter.
Sarah, love. My heart is with you and your family as you go through this terrible time.
Comfort and love to you all.
I'll be at Bastille Days in Milwaukee storming the beer tent. Best festival of the summer!
http://www.easttown.com/info/Bas...le%20Days/
bdrun
Peace to Sarah Deere...
Went last night to the Fete de Marquette on the site of someday-to-be new Central park in Madison. Saw Vieux Farka Toure and Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk. Ate shrimp etouffe. Hung out with god friends. You couldn't have abetter time
Perhaps more appropriately, it's also the anniversary of the Sedition Act. You guys must remember - or maybe you need a refresher course.
The Sedition Act says anyone "opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States" could be imprisoned for up to two years. It was also illegal to "write, print, utter, or publish" anything critical of the president or Congress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ali...d_Sedition_Acts
I had french toast and wine for breakfast
Humping a nubile French girl over a bidet while guzzling Dom Perignon, gobbling pate, and discussing Satre, discussing Satre, discussing Satre...
Just dropping by for a moment to say that if Philly is still Philly (as when I used to live there), then THE place to celebrate Bastille Day is:
THE WHITE DOG CAFE on Sansom Street near UofPa campus.
Their owner/manager, Judy Wicks, is and has been a fighting activist and progressive since the late sixties/early seventies, when she was assistant mgr of the (still) late lamented La Terasse. Throughout the awful Reagan years she hosted numerous lectures and round table discussions on the covert Central American wars. The restaurant has always hosted civil rights forums, especially celebrating Martin Luther King Day. It's also the most popular bar for international students and professors. Was always a great place to hang out and practice at least half a dozen languages.
If Judy is still hosting the way she always used to, then the entire block will be open with a big Bastille Day block party. Gosh, it makes me homesick just thinking about it....
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