HULK SMASH!!!
Thanks Avedon.
Good day for a bike ride!
Coed dorm rooms
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20080...YulMXCqERMDW7oF
If they had these when I was in college, then I probably would have lived on campus 
Some of us can be paid journalists and blogs at the same time.
How long DOES McCain want to keep troops in Iraq?
And what about permanent military bases?
'morning, Avedon, and thanks!
I still am confused about what I want.
Cheeto
Not choosing is also a choice, you know.
But in the case of the BDs I suspect it's one of three things: 1. they were complicit in that they knew the maladministration/telecom alliance was up to No Good and didn't blow the whistle; 2. they are voting against their party to reduce the effectiveness of an election challenge, or 3. their pockets are being lined by Certain Interests.
V for Virginia
A good day to put the rototiller on the back of the Wheel Horse.
Then, I can till my gardens with ease!
V - ever tell you about the Cheeto roasting experiment? Gotta be the baked kind. Toss one on a hotdog skewer, and toast in the fire.
You'll be amazed at what happens, and I seriously doubt you'll ever (if you had) eat them again.
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/
2008...rtoon_1366.html
cartoon
Some of us can be paid journalists and blogs at the same time.
Moe Szyslak, cold
and a very good one. If you didn't see Bill Moyers last night, now there''s a good example. at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journa...8/
profile4.html
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2008...05/
cartoon.html
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/
2008...cartoon_03.html
2 more
barndog, those cheetos don't even look like real food. reminds me of a frozen dinner I got once that proclaimed to be 'authentic food', made me wonder what they knew about the frozen food dept that I ought to know.
I'll tell you this - but have a bag around when you plan a campfire:
They burn like fucking TIRES! And, you cannot blow them out either.
Some of us can be paid journalists and blogs at the same time.
Moe Szyslak, cold
David Schuster for example, filling in for Ed Schultz this week. What a differnce the absence of GE produces.
You're obviously not very serious.
You're obviously not very serious
I am about that Cheetos experiment.
The rest of the time... not so much.
Ruth -- that's gonna leave a mark!
You'll be amazed at what happens, and I seriously doubt you'll ever (if you had) eat them again.
Barndog, not fishing dammit
The colors, man, the colors!
The colors, man, the colors!
I'm dead serious - they burn like tires.
It's the "Natural Cheetos" in the "Nutrition Department" at Freddy's (Kroger) that crack me up!
I'll confess again: I'm a sucker for those "natural" Cheetos. I don't know what could possibly be less natural, but those damned things are delicious, for people like me with corn+cheese issues
Ruth -- that's gonna leave a mark!
V for Virginia
we do our part. us un-experts. heh.
hope you've got things straightened out.
wapo....more like wowpoo
hope you've got things straightened out.
Ruth
I'm "pending" until May 9th. Gonna go visit BFF and her mom next week, see if a little extra love, reassurance and support will help pull me out of this funk.
I'm mood disordered, for damn sure.
I'll confess again: I'm a sucker for those "natural" Cheetos. I don't know what could possibly be less natural, but those damned things are delicious, for people like me with corn+cheese issues
V for Virginia | 05.03.08 - 6:58 am | #
Just because they sell them in whole foods next to the Kettle chips doesn't mean they are good for you. They are delicous though, which means you consume half the bag, and the other half two hours later.
That isn't real cheese, V. I bet it's less than 5% real cheese, and I never eat the things.
So, the neighbor moved freshly transplanted house plants (that looked like they had been pining for light all winter) out onto the front deck yesterday.
Good thing there wasn't a lot of direct sun -- would have cooked those babies right up!
They are delicous though, which means you consume half the bag, and the other half two hours later.
Cheeto
Get outta my house!
V4VA, been thru some of those myself, all I know to do is remember you've got enuff on the ball to keep going and you'll be okay in a short while. glad you have a support system tho. we all need some of that.
Since they were near the organic stuff, I wanted to try them, but I stopped myself.
I was getting into a terrible funk, too; but just yesterday my body seemed to realize that Spring is actually here -- and it seemed to begin to lift.
Here's a story about that psycho DA in Kansas:
Looks like his balls are going on the hot griddle soon.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/
sto...EMPLATE=DEFAULT
Since they were near the organic stuff, I wanted to try them, but I stopped myself.
plantsman, | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 7:02 am | #
If you want the best of the best, as far as texture and tastes, WigWags take the cake. Unfortunatly only produced in England. But on the upside, 100% dairy free!
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Suddenly, political ads for local races have blossomed on cable. Certain candidates WILL NOT DECLARE their Party Affiliation anywhere in the ads, I've noticed. They must be Republicans.
Here's a story of an investment banker running a scam, while targeting "christians".
Lucky for them, eh?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/
sto...EMPLATE=DEFAULT
How long DOES McCain want to keep troops in Iraq?
As near as I can tell, he wants them there until there are no more casualties, after which they can stay there indefinitely because there are no more casualties.
In other words, until the 12th of never.
Here's a story about that psycho DA in Kansas:
Looks like his balls are going on the hot griddle soon.
Mike Nifong strikes again.
Carbs are such a minefield for me, I'll pass and stick with the whole-grain snacks I know I can occasionally have. Dairy I eat without problems, when I care to.
Barndog's link:
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- An investigator said he kept edited records from abortion clinics in a Rubbermaid container in his dining room for several weeks. Others, according to testimony, stored them briefly in cars and homes and copied them at a downtown Kinko's.
Tay good gawd.
That's kind of, you know, illegal.
mornin' all 18 of you dfh's...
thks for that article BD, amazing, the anti-abortionists seem just to have decided laws arent their thing,, they make it up as they go along.
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2008...l-
election.html
sry bad link
During W's "reign" the Republican contempt for courts and the rule of law has become quite open.
David Schuster for example, filling in for Ed Schultz this week. What a differnce the absence of GE produces.
Cheeto | 05.03.08 - 6:53 am
what do you mean? if i may so ask...
amazing, the anti-abortionists seem just to have decided laws arent their thing,, they make it up as they go along
As do most republicans, Ruth.
DFH - McCain is not interested in the war, he just wants to keep the right wing. on Moyers last night they cracked me up, saying he'd be giving his speeches in tongues if he were still running against Hucksterbee.
The "Detroit News" - being the heavily republican leaning paper - surely put those stories in on Saturday... because nobody reads the paper on Saturday.
The Sweet Bay seems to be silently gathering strength to explode into growth. Only buds on branch tips yet -- but there sure are a mess of 'em!
I love dairy, but hate the consequence. Pisses me off that dairy is once again found to be so healthy, and I can't enjoy my ice cream.
I still will try some unpasteruized milk when my neighbor that owns many cows decides to pass me some in the local speakeasy.
BD, sadly, the old guard gopervs have totally let the wingers take over - and at one time they were under the rule of law, now they're shredding it.
DFH - McCain is not interested in the war, he just wants to keep the right wing.
Ruth
I think you're right, but that shouldn't stop us from ridiculing his addlepated "logic"
I'm not sure if natural ease with dairy is worth the diabetes and everything else going on inside, but one takes one's pleasures where one may.
at one time they were under the rule of law, now they're shredding it...
wiping their asses with it, using it for firestarter....
and at one time they were under the rule of law, now they're shredding it.
Ruth
Yep. From People With Whom I Disagree to Unmitigated Evil in one generation.
plantsman, I have roses everywhere here, the small bloom climbing kind. lovely.
Even if McStain does win in November {{{{shudder}}}} it will be nothing like what happened under the Dick/KKKarl reign where I was afraid to buy certain books with a credit card.
Ooh, that sounds nice, Ruth; we haven't had heat nor sun enough for roses to bloom yet, but I depending on the fact that they will.
I think you're right, but that shouldn't stop us from ridiculing his addlepated "logic"
DFH in Dubrovnik
True. even getting hits from the press now. I saw some clips of his getting all confused about who the enemy is yesterday.
I keep hoping that some decent republicans (I know, I know) will figure out how badly this administration has fucked, not only them, but the entire nation as well.
With any luck, maybe they'll seek retribution.
Good morning, bloggers!
Today's blogwhore: No Need To Remind Us, Mr. President
I'm looking forward to seeing how Pumpkinhead and Tweety excuse his admission that we're in Iraq for oil.
Oh, wait -- no I'm not.
There's a great video clip over at The Countdown page at MSNBC.com called "The War for......Oil?" of McCain stepping right into it.
With any luck, maybe they'll seek retribution.
Quite a few are. It's patently obvious that McSame is, you know, the same.
Funny to see him flip-flop now that Bush's poll numbers are the worst evah. I keep waiting for the press to call him on it, but of course that's a fantasy I won't see in my lifetime.
Any "decent" Republicans would have quit The Party by now -- they're irredeemable , I'm afraid.
V4VA, subhuman even - it's like being taken over by aliens.
SB, that's another one for the Bushisms list. good catch.
SB, check out HuffPo main page for your wish come true.
Hey does anyone know, is Bill Maher done for the season or was he just not on last night for some reason?
SB We aren't "through" any of these things. Rather, we’re still knee deep in the middle of them. And you think we need to be reminded of your list of failures?
No SHIT.
Have you seen the e-mail making the rounds about how all this has happened since Ds "took control" of Congress in 2006?
On the plus side, they're not blaming Clinton's dick for a change.
remember in the end. nobody wins unless everybody wins...
the boss
y'all have a great saturday. gotta run.
peace
"DNC To McCain: "Stop Whining"
That one?
Good. Make him look like a grumpy old man. "Hey, you news media kids! Offa my lawn!"
BD, yep, it's news can now be reported starting at Friday at 5 -time.
Hey does anyone know, is Bill Maher done for the season or was he just not on last night for some reason?
Usually in May, he goes off for a couple months, but I didn't watch last night.
HBO - being what it is, you can watch anything over again in a few hours type thing.
Yes, that one. It's got a few choice quotes in the body of the article.
Have you seen the e-mail making the rounds about how all this has happened since Ds "took control" of Congress in 2006?
I haven't seen the e-mail but that was in my local fishwrap as an op-ed by Steve Gill, a wingnut radio host here in Nashville who is also a newspaper columnist AND the "political analyst" for our ABC affiliate.
Liberals need not apply for these jobs, don'tcha know.
Anyway, he claimed that high gas prices were all Dems' fault because they took over Congress in 2006. Somehow just by living and breathing the Dems manage to have an amazing effect on the economy. I didn't know we were so powerful.
Anyway, he claimed that high gas prices were all Dems' fault because they took over Congress in 2006. Somehow just by living and breathing the Dems manage to have an amazing effect on the economy. I didn't know we were so powerful
Wow, superhuman even!. I am impressed.
High gas prices are a direct consequence of the fall of the dollar and the economic growth of India and China.
If anyone cares, I wrote about it here:
Steve Gill Is A Dope
The Dems' fault theme has been ranted on the floor of the House for a few weeks now. last week a few Dems started rebutting with how the GoPervs have destroyed anything they can to keep from saving the economy, or for that matter the country.
High gas prices are a direct consequence of the fall of the dollar and the economic growth of India and China
Some. Most of our issues with gas prices center around Bush's need to fill the SPR (strategic petroleum reserve) at near record levels, and prices.
Over 30 years this has been happening. Why, that dates to ... REAGAN!
And, a sidenote - the US is the 46th most expensive in the world for gas.
Today's WaPo has an article on how Dumbya is gonna keep causing trouble until he's dragged from the White House, unlike a well-behaved lame duck.
High gas prices are a direct consequence of the fall of the dollar and the economic growth of India and China.
plantsman
In part. But, a good case can be made that investment money that was in real estate is being dumped in commodity markets-- both food and oil. I posted some stuff the other day on how that raises prices.
Always amazing, since Avedon put up my post, we have 19 visitors, and cabdrollery already has almost 300 hits. the amount of skulking always is fun to see.
I met an interesting woman yesterday. She lives in Switzerland and is a banker (not a supermodel or mechanical engineer). While she is a Hillary supporter, she believes very strongly that if Barack is elected it will elevate our reputation around the world.
The "Strategic Petroleum Reserve" does not produce the competitive pressure for oil emergent India and China do, iinm.
Aware of that, Moe, speculators must play somewhere.
I posted some stuff the other day on how that raises prices.
Moe Szyslak, cold
link? Yesterday on WashJournal there was WaPo's ag reporter, and got a kick out of one of his callers getting offensive about how all of a sudden it's all about food, everyone's writing the same thing. giggles.
can you say "fact"?
It's interesting, tho, that simple investment raises prices. I don't exactly understand it, to be honest.
I doubt it's "simple investment"; it's bidding up futures to make a killing, innit?
I doubt it's "simple investment"; it's bidding up futures to make a killing, innit?
plantsman
Yea, that's it. But I still don't understand it.
Ruth, I'm looking for my link, but the computer's crapping out...
Asparagus any bigger?
Asparagus any bigger?
plantsman,
No Flirting!
Ah, I haven't checked. I'll be working out in the garden all day today, tho. I'll report back.
Today, for the first time in over a week, I'll have a salad of mixed greens. Dang, I do so enjoy salads!
It's saturday. No work today other than lawn maintenance. Life is good.
LOL - this guy in one of the fishing forums asks:
How do I avoid snags?
Stop fishing with a hook and sinkers.
Comcast has come up with some lame-o local only
phone option at $24.95/mo to try to compete with Vonage. Pretty pathetic since Vonage has unlimited US/Canada long distance for 4 cents more a month.
trifecta, giving the son of trifecta asparagus for breakfast? that will go well with lawn maintenance.
Here it is:
Investment newsletters are now featuring headlines like "How You Can Profit from the Global Food Crisis." The recommended investments include agribusiness stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that speculate in agricultural commodities. These investments will no doubt do very well in the global food crisis; but before you put your money down, you may want to explore whether you will be helping to alleviate the problem or contributing to it. Do you really want to "invest" in starvation? In an April 23 article in the German news source Spiegel Online called "Deadly Greed: The Role of Speculators in the Global Food Crisis," Balzli and Horning note, "Many investors . . . are simply oblivious to the fact that by investing in the global casino, they could be gambling away the daily food supply of the world's poorest people."1...
more...
Asparagus is linked to huge-headedness.
In an April 21 Wall Street Journal article titled "Load Up the Pantry," Brett Arends observed that the food riots now seen in the developing world could soon be affecting Americans as well. Rocketing food prices are not a passing phase but are actually accelerating. He recommends hoarding food – not because he is actually expecting a shortage but as an investment, because "food prices are already rising here much faster than the returns you are likely to get from keeping your money in a bank or money-market fund." Arends goes on:
The main reason for rising prices, of course, is the surge in demand from China and India. Hundreds of millions of people are joining the middle class each year, and that means they want to eat more and better food. A secondary reason has been the growing demand for ethanol as a fuel additive. That's soaking up some of the corn supply.2
That's the rationale published in the Journal of Wall Street, the financial community that brought you the housing bubble, the derivatives bubble, and now the commodities bubble, producing the subprime crisis, the credit crisis, and the oil crisis. The main reason for the food crisis, says this author, is that the Chinese and Indian middle classes are eating better. Really? Rice has been the staple food of half the world for centuries, and it is hardly rich man's fare. Moreover, according to an April 2008 analysis from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, food consumption of grains has gone up by only one percent since 2006.3 That hardly explains the fact that the price of rice has spiked by 75 percent in just two months. The price of Thai 100 per cent B grade white rice, considered the world's benchmark, has tripled since early 2007; and it jumped 10 percent in just one week. The fact that corn is being diverted to fuel, while no doubt a contributing factor, is also insufficient to explain these sudden jumps in price. World population growth rates have dropped dramatically since the 1980s, and grain availability has continued to outpace population.4 Biofuels have drained off some of this grain, but biofuels did not suddenly happen, and neither did the rise of the Asian middle class. If those were the chief factors, the rise in food prices would have been gradual and predictable to match.
Another explanation for the sudden jump in grain prices is not mentioned by this Wall Street Journal writer but is suggested by other analysts. William Pfaff wrote in the April 16 International Herald Tribune:
[M]ore fundamental is the effect of speculation in food as a commodity – like oil and precious metals. It has become a haven for financial investors fleeing from paper assets tainted by subprime mortgages and other toxic credit products. The influx of buyers drives prices and makes food unaffordable for the world's poor. "Fund money flowing into agriculture has boosted prices," Standard Chartered Bank food commodities analyst Abah Ofon told the media. "It's fashionable. This is the year of agricultural commodities."5
The "hot money" that has fled the collapsed real estate bubble is now moving into the commodities bubble, and that includes food. "Hot money" is an influx of speculative capital in search of high rates of return, quickly moving from one market to another. It moves, however, not because the products are better (the traditional justification for price-setting according to "free market forces") but because the speculative "spread" is better. Money is invested not in making real goods and services but simply in making more money. Food prices are being driven by speculators, and today that includes ordinary investors like you and me, who can now gamble in agricultural futures through ETFs that have opened up a lucrative market formerly available only to big investment players.
More at link.
At Costco yesterday nearly every person had their "limit 2" giant bags of rice loaded up, hoarding away. I almost felt left out.
the corporate media GOP propaganda machine creates anti-facts so the truth is unknowable.
The boys had pancakes for breakfast. Then were hosed down.
thanks, Moe - it's amazing also to see the ads for Making big bucks on Foreclosures, with tours of empty houses. I expect next to see some home furnishings store advertising that Left Suddenly by Force Look.
The boys had pancakes for breakfast. Then were hosed down
Quick and effective.
I've simply stopped buying rice, replaced my starch with local potatoes.
ah, good start on the mulching process there, trifecta.
I've gotta really limit how many "white" carbs I eat, so it's not really an issue, but the uniformity of the behavior caught my eye.
Never cared much for rice. anyone for grits?
Here's something you folks might help me handle: A woman we know has discovered the internets, specifically e-mail. She's finding all these fascinating things that you're supposed to send to 11 people/everyone you know and something magical will happen! No, really!
She was very discouraged and frustrated when her husband bought her her computer, couldn't figure out how to do anything, and I'm so glad she's loosening up and having some fun with it; I would hate to discourage her.
BUT. I HATE THE FUCKING SPAM.
How can I approach this with her without hurting her feelings or turning her off the technology?
This whole food crisis makes me want to resign from the human race.
Good morning, all
How can I approach this with her without hurting her feelings or turning her off the technology?
Tell her the internets are full of lots of good stuff, and some bad stuff.
Explain that it's easier to block the stupid/bad stuff, and will save her computer.
ql is going to hate the word I came up with in scrabble.
Thank heavens it's hard to hoard milk and eggs.
I remember stockpiling sugar when it all of a sudden became the Food Scarcity of the Day, and at the time I did a bunch of baking for the kids.
V, you may not be able to until the newness wears off. I had a "friend" who loved sending those unfunny "jokes" lists, which drove me nuts just from having to delete them.
the corporate media GOP propaganda machine creates anti-facts so the truth is unknowable.
ohh there are known-knowns, such as the fact that these 'distorters' actually DO know what is going on, they just don't care
Think about it: we here in North America can easily, effortlessly, switch to some other food. But we have runs on rice at Costco.
Meanwhile, people in Asia, who have no option, starve. In part because the price of rice is going up because of all the Costco hoarders.
ow can I approach this with her without hurting her feelings or turning her off the technology?
V for Virgini
u could recommend to her that she has to print it first and then mail it. the fare should be high enuf she stops it.
This whole food crisis makes me want to resign from the human race.
qlª
The Pacific salmon fishing ban completely freaks me out. Like, the consequences are here.
Jebus, Trifecta & V4V are both kicking my ass at scrabble. Maybe I'll just stay in bed today.
Oil prices are a direct result of speculation by friends of George W Bush --the excessive profits are the proof.
Why doesn't Bush talk to his friends
how unpatriotic of them to make money on the war in Iraq
Explain that it's easier to block the stupid/bad stuff, and will save her computer.
Barndog, not fishing dammit
I don't care what she reads, I just don't want her to forward this crap to me.
How can I approach this with her without hurting her feelings or turning her off the technology?
V for Virginia
Tell her you did the same thing, and want to spare her from getting rude comments from her Other Friends.
"Please do forward any email to me -- I get so much as it is!"
(don't) Sheesh!
Turn the tables: send her a bunch of comments posted here.
I don't care what she reads, I just don't want her to forward this crap to me.
Do what I do: simply hit delete. When they ask, say "I get over 100 emails daily, and I don't usually read them all."
morning.
Just finished reading how an old friend embezzled over 2 mil and is headed for the slammer. Knowing him he worked himself to the bone over 17 years and wanted his fare share. The perspective groomed by capitalism.
truly sad today
Jebus, Trifecta & V4V are both kicking my ass at scrabble. Maybe I'll just stay in bed today.
qlª
Oh, boo-fucking-hoo
Turn the tables: send her a bunch of comments posted here
Wait until a sex thread or something like that.
Meanwhile, people in Asia, who have no option, starve. In part because the price of rice is going up because of all the Costco hoarders.
Moe Szysla
And children in Haiti are eating mud biscuits. Someone told me last night, well, we've tried to help there, it's just hopeless. Move along.
And, all this time I thought V was the biggest looser.
This whole food crisis makes me want to resign from the human race.
And the alternative ....?
Planet of the Apes, bitches!
truly sad today
el
The boyfriend of one of my best HS friends became a high officer in our military, and directed contracts to one of his friends. Is seen occasionally coming and going from a tribunal. sad indeed.
People like Moe are taking direct action to eat local foods now, the crisis did not happen overnight, and the solution will not, either.
getting light in Yahk:
http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/bchighwa...ex.aspx?
cam=129
Yes Ruth, and everyone does it. But occasionally in every organization someone must take the fall, while the others hunker down and wait for it to be over.
GWPDA made that Yahk cam!
Ruth, BD, both good suggestions.
Nice, Buckeye. saw recently a site that kept watch over peregrine falcons now hatching out fledglings on a building somewhere. Sounds like a great watch.
And, all this time I thought V was the biggest looser.
Barndog, not fishing dammit
Blind pig ==> acorn.
Turn the tables: send her a bunch of comments posted here
Wait until a sex thread or something like that.
Barndog, not fishing dammit
Fish puns!
el, I suspect that he just was helping out some one who needed a hand up, it never seems wrong at the time I'll bet.
I was reading a story about the Grand Haven (Michigan) Steelheaders rearing 175,000 fingerling chinook salmon in pens out in Grand Haven harbor.
Obviously, they are picking up the slack from our nearly-worthless DNR.
Wingnut Christian Tax Protestor Going To Jail
"When Beale was arrested in November at a strip mall in Orlando, Fla., he was carrying a fake passport and driver’s license issued from “The Kingdom of Heaven,” something he had copied off the Internet."
Regarding the spammy friend, how about not directly mentioning her, but tell her you've got a nutty friend who keeps filling your inbox with crap, don't you hate that stuff too? She probably simply doesn't know the social norms for online life, much less that she's violating them. Help acculturate her and ideally once she knows the norms, she'll follow them.
Japanese will have the last laugh over rice crisis, as many families have their own paddies in lots next to their homes.
I don't think a paddy would fly here in MA though, a south of the mason-dixon line thing climatically, right?
Oh, and this Beale is absolutely NO RELATION.
Just thought I'd make that clear.
Yes, ql, I know it's my turn. I'm just *thinking*, for ya know, three days.
WASHINGTON — John McCain's campaign is in good shape for the fall campaign despite a very anti-Republican political environment, his top political adviser said Friday.
Senior McCain adviser Charles Black outlined some of McCain's strengths, including his experience on foreign policy matters, for reporters at a lunch sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor. The veteran political consultant also said he believes McCain will be running against Democrat Barack Obama in November, but would not be totally shocked if Hillary Rodham Clinton ultimately gets the Democratic nomination.
"The difference is that John McCain has a proven track record," Black said. "He has done things."
Black said McCain can prevail even though "he's been dealt some bad cards in terms of the political environment," including an unpopular war, struggling economy, and an incumbent GOP president with low approval ratings.
Black noted that McCain has disagreed with President Bush on several issues, and voters will be able to tell he is "no protégé" of the current president. He said Bush won't be a factor: "If we lose, it will be because of something else."
you mean huggy-bear and 100 years of war won't be big issues? take your head out of the sand and back away slowly
Arkansas is a major rice-producing State.
Robert Beale is one of the financiers behind WorldNet Daily, BTW ...
She probably simply doesn't know the social norms for online life, much less that she's violating them.
That's it, exactly. I'll figure out a gentle way to approach it, probably along the lines Ruth & BD suggested. In person, not via e-mail.
Hey moe, I didn't say a word. I'm not the naggy type.
Those rice paddies do especially well if you have a leaky septic tank. and MA will just love it, it's really organic.
Molly!
Southern, are you related to the Grey Garden Beales?
GWPDA made that Yahk cam!
plantsman, | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 7:58 am
Yes, I'm 'addicted' to a traffic cam, damn her!
But it's fun to see how light it gets in the morning up north. I'll have to see if there are traffic cams in Scandinavia to become addicted to.
I gotta go. Lots to do today. See ya'all later.
>Arkansas is a major rice-producing State.
I had no idea
Gotta do breakfast. Before I run off, tho, if you missed Bill Moyers, it was great. and at one pt mentioned if Hucksterbee were still in the race, McCain would be making speeches speaking in tongues. L8r
I suppose I should go see if the neighbor is up, and get this rototiller put on the tractor.
I haven't seen any life yet, but I haven't went out to his garage either.
Casual acquaintances knew Josef Fritzl as a jovial fellow who liked to drink beer and enjoyed a bawdy joke.
But former neighbors say the man accused of imprisoning his daughter and fathering her seven children ran his household like a dictator. Piece by piece, a picture is emerging of a shrewd liar and an obsessive tyrant.
"At home, he was clearly the lord of the manor. Even at his campground, he was very strict and his rules had to be followed," said Anton Graf, who rented Fritzl land along Austria's Mondsee Lake.
Imagine that!
I have to get moving, too. Always a fun experience to do art shows with Mr. V and dear friend, who are respectively the most and least organized art-show exhibitors on Earth.
Have a great day, you wonderful people! And while I'm thinking about wonderfulness: You really help me. You do.
*MWAH!*
Your bill is in the mail, V.
The Democratic presidential candidates want to set a date for withdrawal from Iraq, which McCain argues would lead to chaos and genocide in the Middle East.
"After we win the war in Iraq, and we are succeeding — and it's long and hard and tough, with enormous sacrifices — then I'm talking about a security arrangement that may or may not be the same kind of thing we had with Korea after the Korean war was over," he said.
He described how, at the time, the U.S. entered into a security agreement with South Korea, and the U.S. troop presence there served as a buffer and as a deterrent from further North Korean aggression.
good, maybe we need to revisit why the fuck we are in north korea? or most other places, for that matter.
this is for teh dem candidate:
make sure you say that iraq is not north korea, iraqis want us out now and there is violence everywhere; so what makes mcsame think that the iraqis will want us to stay there forever? mcsame represents the imperialistic views of the past; and we cannot afford to police the world
Arkansas is a major rice-producing State.
In downtown Memphis, if you go up in a tall building in the spring the Mississippi looks five miles wide. It's actually about a mile wide at Memphis, but in the spring when the rice fields in Arkansas are flooded it almost looks like the river goes to the horizon.
Just in case you wondered, this is what it looks like when you get a link on the front-page of Eschaton.
Stop fishing with a hook and sinkers.
Barndog
Or, stop fishing with a line, period.
/scuba diver elitist
Just had tornadoes in Earl, Ark. (near Memphis) yesterday.
If you scuba dive in Michigan rivers, you're wasting your time, bro.
when are the water-hoarding wars gonna start?
hoarding and supply/price speculation: welcome to the 21st century!
Whiskey Fire has a couple damn good posts up.
when are the water-hoarding wars gonna start?
In many parts of the 3rd world, they are well underway.
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a...h?
v=akVL7QY0S8A
snark enjoy /snark
WASHINGTON—While a new proposal by President George W. Bush to provide an additional $770 million in foreign food aid won plaudits from relief agencies, it has sown confusion in Congress, where members criticized the package as a plan with too many strings attached.
Bush's request would give $395 million to the government's Food for Peace program, which delivers foreign food aid, $225 million for disaster assistance and $150 million for development assistance.
Agricultural development is a long-standing goal but one that has not been emphasized enough lately, relief groups say.
"It's a step in the right direction," said Lisa Kuennen-Asfaw of Catholic Relief Services. But she and others are "concerned about the timing" of the aid package.
So are some in Congress. They argue that the president's plan, attached to a fiscal 2009 Iraq-Afghanistan war supplemental spending plan, would come too late to relieve the immediate global food emergency, which has led to food riots in some developing nations.
dog bless america!
we put food aid for starving people in 3rd world countries into our warmongering bill that won't be spent until 2009
Morning, kids.
Thus far, we have 8 hatched chicks, though some of those don't look like they're going to make it. Two more eggs have clearly go pecking birds inside, and we're only about ten hours into the process, so more will undoubtedly come.
Guess I'd better get that brooder built.
He described how, at the time, the U.S. entered into a security agreement with South Korea, and the U.S. troop presence there served as a buffer and as a deterrent from further North Korean aggression.
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at what point of course did the south koreans have tens of thousands of armed militia members at war with the occupying force?
If they had these when I was in college, then I probably would have lived on campus
DFH in Dubrovnik | 05.03.08 - 6:45 am | #
Rented an apartment for the last three years at UofC and one of my roomates ended up as my wife. We just recently celebrated our 28th anniversary.
so hill has this guy 'ace' smith, who i am reading is 'feared' and does the opposition research for her...the article i am reading shows a shady republican-type asshole who digs up dirt on anyone, a rovian figure
nice to see that we as americans have progressed to the point where mudslinging is still our politics
My wife asked me, incredulously, if I really would commute 50 miles for a new job.
50 miles, maybe 100, it doesn't matter to me.
Rented an apartment for the last three years ... and one of my roomates ended up as my wife. We just recently celebrated our 28th anniversary.
19 years later...
Don't count your chicks till they're hatched, Molly.
I have no idea why, I just felt compelled to say it. Probably the only time I'll ever get to use it in context
truly sad that dems can skewer each other with mud like rev. wright which 'comes down to what motivates you'; meanwhile hardly ever dissing the republicants with the same baseball bat...it shows that our corporate overlords have bought both sides of the political aisle
Wife read an article about a local animal shelter that was shutting down due to lack of funds. All of the animals were to be euthanized. She asked if we could consider adding to our two cats.
50 cats, maybe 100, it doesn't matter to me.
virgotex,
The teen is being surprisingly calm about the ones that don't seem to be moving.
Flying to Boston on Monday. Going to be evaluating a company that we just bought. What they do not know is that we will be shutting them down and moving it to Chicago.
How many will lose their jobs? 50, maybe 100, it doesn't matter to me.
(I hate my job!)
>Arkansas is a major rice-producing State.
I had no idea
Big rice producing state. Riceland's storage facility in Jonesboro was at one time and still may be the largest in the world.
19 years later...
tofubo | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 8:43 am | #
Cohabitating is good.
Good morning.
Is every Tuesday going to be called Super Tuesday from now on?
Cohabitating is good.
Thers and I were students together in a pretty tight-knit grad department. But we didn't actually live together until we were, ya know, together. Still, there were several years of that before we actually tied the knot.
Is every Tuesday going to be called Super Tuesday from now on?
Today is Tuesday, you know what that means!
We're gonna have a special guest!
Everybody asks why I am a Cub fan. They say it has been over 50 years since they were in a World Series.
50 years, maybe 100, it doesn't matter to me.
(Chokes back sob, runs from room)
I like Tuesdays but I wouldn't call them super.
If we didn't have them, things would get all screwed up.
we put food aid for starving people in 3rd world countries into our warmongering bill that won't be spent until 2009
Aaand of course supporting biofuels, but that's a whole other story...
Ha, when there are only 34 visitors, I can really dominate the thread!
Okay, the pace of comments tells me haloscan is being weird, and the winsome song of the circular saw tells me that my dad is here to finish the coop, so I'm off to build a brooder. 'Ta luego, you fine people!
so hill has this guy 'ace' smith, who i am reading is 'feared' and does the opposition research for her...the article i am reading shows a shady republican-type asshole who digs up dirt on anyone, a rovian figure
nice to see that we as americans have progressed to the point where mudslinging is still our politics
mogwai | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 8:43 am | #
the medium is the message
we put food aid for starving people in 3rd world countries into our warmongering bill that won't be spent until 2009
If we don't feed them until 2009, maybe thay'll grace us with their deaths. It would save us the trouble of killing them.
50 million, maybe 100, it doesn't matter to me.
How many will lose their jobs? 50, maybe 100, it doesn't matter to me.
(I hate my job!)
My company was bought last year by a big global concern. A risk audit was just completed by the new bunch. The audit indentified that the manufacturing building where I work is responsible for product that accounts for $800 million in sales. That has been deemed too risky by the new company, ergo I imagine a lot of my product line will be relocated in the next five years.
All of this is the result of being owned by venture cap assholes for 12 years that reduced manufacturing personnel by 40% in that time while increasing production over that time.
heh.
Been in manufacturing my entire career. Success is measured by whether you are still standing. 30 years of downsizing is about all one can take.
If we don't feed them until 2009, maybe thay'll grace us with their deaths. It would save us the trouble of killing them.
50 million, maybe 100, it doesn't matter to me.
Shared Humanity war criminal
Uhhh.
You may feel more at home with one of the "Christian" blogs like Free Republic.
36 visitors now, you fool.
I will now totally rule zee thread.
I will now totally rule zee thread.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash | 05.03.08 - 9:11 am | #
I think you scared three away.
Heh heh heh.
Anyone having connectivity issues this fine mornin'?
"David Betray Us makes us wet"-Washington Post
Not me, in Chicago, using Comcast.
Anyone having connectivity issues this fine mornin'?
Only between my neurons.
Coffee doesn't seem to be helping.
Gonna finish my coffee and then get to work. It is a beautiful day in Chicago. Will be back later tonight.
I've always been fascinated by the power of groups in societies. I've also been sometimes overwhelmed by a sense of personal helplessness. It is not that I am not active, I am. In the context of the longshoreman strike on Thursday, what should or could Progressives do to bring these pricks to their knees?
I was a paid journalist back in my yute. Had a journalism degree and a FCC license.
After a few years of low pay and living out of suitcases, I got a REAL job in insurance.
I still miss it sometimes.
HULK - print journalist?
Been in manufacturing my entire career. Success is measured by whether you are still standing. 30 years of downsizing is about all one can take.
I've been at it about 30 years also, SH.
During the period I mentioned that we've been owned by VC assholes, in addition to the bloodletting, the assholes have reduced capex to the point where we've obsoleted ourselves.
I had a discussion with an engineer the other day. He was lamenting the fact that we need more production machines as we are over capacity. We have 6 now (two are 20 years old). The machines cost about $1 million apiece, which is chump change. The business daddies won't spend the money to increase capacity.
$6 million worth of capital equipment supporting $800 million in sales and we can't get $2 million to increase capacity.
See anything wrong with the above?
Good grief.
I still miss it sometimes.
HULK | 05.03.08 - 9:20 am | #
Their and our loss likely. Good journalists are getting harder to find. Do we need to infiltrate every profession and work to overthrow it from the inside?
youtube seems to have disappeared from some DNS servers
Never cared much for grits.
I'm convinced grits a the South's revenge on us damnyankees for winnin' th' wo-ah.
Especially when they're watery.
I'll have the hash browns, ma'am.
I was a paid journalist back in my yute. Had a journalism degree and a FCC license.
After a few years of low pay and living out of suitcases, I got a REAL job in insurance.
I still miss it sometimes.
HULK
And, there, in a nutshell, is the problem with our "so-called journalists." They remember too and if not living out of suitcase for low pay means lying. . . .
youtube seems to have disappeared from some DNS servers
C'est vrai.
[sputters with rage]
"This whole food crisis makes me want to resign from the human race."
"And the alternative ....?
Planet of the Apes, bitches!"
DAMN DIRTY APES!!
On local news:
"How to talk to your kids about
the pictures of Miley Cyrus."
.
You blew it up, damn you!
See anything wrong with the above?
Good grief.
billy b | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 9:24 am | #
Being run by financial whizzes who've never had line responsiblity.
I know it's Derby day and all but wtf does this woman have on her head?
"How to talk to your kids about
the pictures of Miley Cyrus."
Culture Of Truth
What they really should talk about is the adult exploitation of childhood sexuality by the media and "Fathers."
just ran across some American tourists from the Southern USA - they weren't that old, about 55 or so but they were totally shocked because of one couple of natives' public display of affection in the street.
the PDA wasn't that bad but it was too much for them
"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent & Depraved"
One of Gonzo's best efforts, IMHO.
Never cared much for grits.
They can be used as a fairly effective (but temporary) adhesive.
Billy b, they might not be able to get the financing now for these machines so it may be too late.
On the other hand, Germany is doing very well indeed exporting these types of machines to the Chinese.
I know it's Derby day and all but wtf does this woman have on her head?
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 9:31 am
A dead animal? With flowers?
"How to talk to your kids about
the pictures of Miley Cyrus."
Culture Of Truth
Am I missing something?
I thought I looked at the pictures and concluded there was more Miley at the beach than in the covers of Vogue.
Everybody over to TBogg's house! Partay!
Germany is doing very well indeed exporting these types of machines to the Chinese.
And the Chinese use the machines to make shit which we buy with the money we make flipping burgers and doing nails.
And we're supposed to accept this as the natural order of things...
On local news:
"How to talk to your kids about
the pictures of Miley Cyrus."
.
Culture Of Truth | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 9:30 am |
Who cares? They should be running: How to talk to you child about why the President should be impeached. Also: How to talk to your child about why you and everyone you know has to sell everything in order to buy food.
Everybody over to TBogg's house! Partay!
Cute doggies!
I know it's Derby day and all but wtf does this woman have on her head?
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 9:31 am
I've always thought hats were the oddest thing. (Unless we are talking about the practical ones worn in winter to keep from freezing). Seems to be universally used and highly ornamental. Maybe an expression or projection of self to others?
(Puts on hat shaped like penis, heads out to shop.)
succotash, yup.
meanwhile, the Germans are advancing in their technology, the Chinese are looking to put a man on the moon, and the Americans can't get a man into space without the help of the Russians.
If I were you, I'd complain to someone about this. 
Being run by financial whizzes who've never had line responsiblity.
heh.
The cap folks were salesmen. They do not understand mfg, and don't see the importance of it. Their 'yardstick' for productivity was measured in sales per square foot just like a retail facility as opposed to return on investment.
Their idea of a business is a store. You go buy your goods from an OEM supplier (preferrably in Asia), mark them up and sell them.
One can do that with shirts and the like. We produce medical products that are difficult to make and require a huge amount of technical support. Not shirts.
Harvard fucking MBA's. Idiots.
"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent & Depraved"
Which is why I hope to visit one day.
I thought I looked at the pictures and concluded there was more Miley at the beach than in the covers of Vogue.
No children are very confused by this and it is as the anchors said "a very important story."
"How to talk to your kids about
the pictures of Miley Cyrus."
Culture Of Truth
I suppose what offends people about the pictures is what her pose implies about what she has been doing recently. Even I think that's kind of gross, grosser in fact that an artistic but outright nude photo of her might have been. But of course any child worldly enough to grasp that subtext doesn't really need much of an explanation, so it's pretty much a self-negating issue. Duh.
Harvard fucking MBA's.
I really resent you talking about our President that way.
Pat Tillman's mother speaking out.
Why does she hate America?
"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent & Depraved"
Which is why I hope to visit one day.
Culture Of Truth | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 9:40 am |
You going for the mint juleps?
AP raising the bar for Obama. He "needs" to win Indiana:
"Early voting in Indiana could offer some encouragement to presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who needs a victory in its upcoming primary after a tough few weeks on the campaign trail.
Obama victories in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries on May 6 could help him regain momentum in his nomination fight against Hillary Rodham Clinton. Obama has been on the defensive because of comments by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and his own comments about people in small towns growing bitter."
And victories in both states won't "help him regain momentum", it will pretty much show Hillary the door.
Mornin' all,
A representative sample of my former DFW colleagues were in the house to see James McMurtry last night, and we set to reminiscin'. Goddamn, I do miss the record bidness sometimes...
I thought I looked at the pictures and concluded there was more Miley at the beach than in the covers of Vogue.
No children are very confused by this and it is as the anchors said "a very important story."
Culture Of Truth | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 9:41 am |
Could the anchors be eaten by sharks? Shouldn't we be encourging them to go to the beach and cover sharks and riptides?
Pat Tillman's mother speaking out.
Just another elitist who's out of touch with the real America.
Billy b, they might not be able to get the financing now for these machines so it may be too late.
The financing isn't the problem as the new company is one of the largest in the world.
The problem is pea-brained management that do not have a clue as to how to run a business. The new management will figure this out in a short time and begin replacing the idiots in place now.
"How to talk to your kids about
the pictures of jom mccainus."
http://
punchup.files.wordpress.c...john_mccain.jpg
Could the anchors be eaten by sharks? Shouldn't we be encourging them to go to the beach and cover sharks and riptides?
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins | 05.03.08 - 9:43 am | #
"Anchors" already can't swim.
Could the anchors be eaten by sharks?
Grizzly bears might be a more humane solution.
listen to a dawn chorus of birds, chirping away
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The new management will figure this out in a short time and begin replacing the idiots in place now.
Oddly, that's what I said about my little corner of Amex. I was wrong.
Yeah that anchors-sharks thing kinda threw me initially too.
Everybody over to TBogg's house! Partay!
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian | 05.03.08 - 9:35 am |
So the beagles are Fenway, Wrigley and Beckham?
Hulkomania!
Edward Norton has decadent eyelashes.
Harvard fucking MBA's. Idiots.
billy b | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 9:39 am | #
gotta be able to make a good elevator pitch on business model and also flip the business
these goals do not mesh with "invest and work on it for 20 years"
buckner! Went to an all-Massachusetts show last night here in VA. Winterpills (Phillip Price's band) opened for, then backed up the radiantly pregnant Kris Delmhorst. It was a terrific show... by the way, they're playing The Tin Angel in Philly tonight, and The Living Room in NYC tomorrow.
It gets harder and harder all the time to drag my elderly butt back out to see a show, but I always wind up getting completely energized. I rarely regret having gone to a show, often regret staying home instead.
Pat Tillman's mother speaking out.
Just another elitist who's out of touch with the real America.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash | 05.03.08 - 9:43 am | #
I was with my brother and sister-in-law 5 years ago when she died of cancer. I cannot think of anything that causes one to focus more and bring a person in touch with themselves and others than the death of a loved one.
We should honor these people and their loss by listening and learning from their newly gained insights.
She'll likely be swiftboated.
Sufferin' - that C+ Augustus belongs to that club speaks volumes.
One of the cap folks that is still around is a Harvard MBA. Also went to Wharton.
This genius has come up with three 'boffo' product lines in 12 years. None have panned out. The latest is a huge line that cost about $400 million to bring to market. It doesn't work well and is not selling.
I believe his days are numbered, but it sure took a long time...
gotta be able to make a good elevator pitch on business model and also flip the business
If you only knew. The stories would boggle your mind.
I believe his days are numbered, but it sure took a long time...
The sooner Chimpster is cuttin' brush down on his new ranch in Paraguay, the better for all of us.
I just hope one of the local bushmasters comes along and bites him on the ass.
If you only knew. The stories would boggle your mind.
billy b | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 9:50 am | #
it started to make more sense to me when i realized that the goal is personal enrichment of the mba dude and success in his/her environment and that it has nothing to do with stupid shit like making products and selling them at a profit.
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