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
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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 woul