I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
walk!
Suck. On. This.
Dad's on espresso?
A
If you're in Austin, you could go say Hi! to Twisty!
Ah, but can you walk past black-eyed susans???
Who cares where you dirty hippies live?
Screw you.
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EschaCon NW will be in the 3rd most walkable neighborhood in the 10th most walkable city.
http://eschaconnw.blogspot.com/
2...sportation.html
That is soooo provincial. 
NYTimes, proving that multipart series can make news sense and be timely, has a series on the consumer debt trap, "and the lenders who made it possible."
I dont think it is in 12 parts.
Meth binge Atrios!
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Hmm, I live in the 12th most walkable hood in philly, but the boundaries are drawn pretty large!
10th most walkable nabe in the 2nd most walkable city.
http://www.walkscore.com/ranking...nkings/
Portland
they say my neighborhood is walkable.
sadly, it is, but there's no place I'd want to walk to
How on Earth is this NOT perceived as a threat to our very way of life?????????? - Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
IIRC, some of this crap can be laid at Big Dog's doorstep for precedents set when handling Bosnia.
bo | 07.19.08 - 4:08 pm
Yes, but...
He did use a lot of contractors on bases on Bosnia and then the military. But IIRC, they weren't there as a merc force. Though I'm not sure where Dynacorps 'police' force comes in here, I don't know whether they were considered milititary or civilian. And the Big Dog would have never considered them having their own air force.
I love this neighborhood.
Send Nancy Pelosi an email:
http://www.speaker.gov/contact/c...t/ comment_email
Click contact.
Tell her, how proud we are of her!
Los Angeles is #9?????!!!!!
How can that be?
tigre, just saw Bob Barr upstairs
he's telling some interviewer how we doan understand climate change yet so can't rush into solutions
asshat
And "riverfront", allegedly the "3rd" most walkable neighborhood in Philly is BUNK
Hell, I'd have given Portland higher marks than that. West side of the Willamette, at least.
I live in the 4th most walkable neighborhood in the 5th most walkable city in the country.
Yea, but it's like the eight most suckiest country.
I live in the 39th most walkable city, in the 46th most walkable neighborhood.
IOW -- suxx0rz. Viva le Vino!
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#3 Boston - Walk Score 79
Sure, you COULD walk in Boston, but where do you expect to end up?
Mine is 74/100 Very Walkable. Which is true. I can walk to grocery stores, restaurants, libraries, metro stops, parks.
And the Big Dog would have never considered them having their own air force.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins | 07.19.08 - 4:13 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
Too bad that's the sort of faint praise we're reduced to....
Well, if we ALL Walked Hard, we'd ALL be Dewey Cox.
But truth be told, the heat is making the trip from my couch to the fridge completely unwalkable.
http://www.walkscore.com/ranking...nkings/ Portland
ErinPDX | 07.19.08 - 4:12 pm
It looks like a radar map.
I need to get the public transit map, and coordinate what's within fareless square that I want to see, what's walkable, etc.
gotta go do something now that the carrots and celery are in the lentil soup and souping.
been nice to visit again with al of you.
I applied for three more jobs this week.
thought about joining the grassroots politics campaign and now have to get out the push mower.
tigre, just saw Bob Barr upstairs
bob barr sticks his fingers in his ears and goes "lalalalalalaaaa"...
Yea, but it's like the eight most suckiest country.
Moe Szyslak | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 4:14 pm
I can't think of 7 countries suckier than us.
he's telling some interviewer how we doan understand climate change yet so can't rush into solutions
Jeebus, they've been saying that since the Reagan Administration- we need more research!
This is like asking a tobacco executive if smoking causes cancer.
he's telling some interviewer how we doan understand climate change yet so can't rush into solutions
heh.
That's so typical. There's nothing left to understand.
The greenhouse effect is simple, easily demonstrated, and the truth.
Is there a Segway-able map? Because the Segway, you may have heard, will soon transform life as we know it...
bob barr sticks his fingers in his ears and goes "lalalalalalaaaa"...
watertiger | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 4:17 pm | #
exactly
let's think about it some more until we'll no longer need my rocket to teh sun
it'll be hotter here
And, my office is in Dupont, the most walkable nabe in DC
That's so typical. There's nothing left to understand.
The greenhouse effect is simple, easily demonstrated, and the truth.
facts R confusing!!
/ bob barr
Because the military has to have its expensive, gold-plated weapons, so they can't afford enough of them. So they have to hire "contractors".
I find it hard to believe BW's personnel costs are cheaper. Then of course, you have the fat profits.
ronin
Anyone been chatting earlier about the "Comfort Capsules" for the REMFs to get luxury jet service at paratrooper prices?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story....on/
5896116.html
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/
w...ces_use_of.html
And the Big Dog would have never considered them having their own air force.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins | 07.19.08 - 4:13 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
Too bad that's the sort of faint praise we're reduced to....
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 4:14 pm |
Yep.
I'm sure there's stuff out there on Bosnia and Halliburton, et al, and how much was Clinton, the Congress, SecDefs, I'm just not inclined today to go look for it.
I think it also helped that Bosnia and Kosovo were more international efforts than Iraq, and Halliburton and their ilk may have felt more constrained.
Well, considering the wingnuts are still debating evolution, I don't expect action soon.
my neighborhood is a 74 but again, not too much I'd wanna walk to.
not in this heat
Because the Segway, you may have heard, will soon transform life as we know it...
saw a family of 4 on segways over on Trinity and 6th yesterday.
Can't walk to anything in my area except the packy.
Well, considering the wingnuts are still debating evolution, I don't expect action soon.
pretty soon they'll be welcome to continue debating these issues...
from their outpost in their 40 year trip to the wilderness
saw a family of 4 on segways over on Trinity and 6th yesterday.
the locals laff at the silly tourists who take segway tours
he's telling some interviewer how we doan understand climate change yet so can't rush into solutions
We don't understand gravity yet, either, and yet we put railings on balconies, and give skydivers parachutes.
I can't think of 7 countries suckier than us.
R. McGeddon
Bangladesh
Burma
Iraq
Peoples Rep. of Congo
El Salvador
China
Zimbabwe
Gets tougher after that, tho...
I was spending a few days in Palo Alto and woke up with a huge headache. After walking around for 3 hours trying to find a store that would sell me some aspirin, I gave up.
from their outpost in their 40 year trip to the wilderness
which will be waterfront property after the polar ice caps melt.
Buckeye,
As I said, set precedent. I'm working in half-assed mode here, but I believe there were some armed personnel contracted for. I remember having a very viceral, "this is fucking wrong" reaction to something. Wasn't keen on the outsourcing of "non-military" support duties that started in the 70's even. As is evidenced in Iraq, civilian contract workers are a liability that can be attacked, not a source of additional troops in a crisis. Porkchop Halliburton has exacerbated the problem by bringing in low paid contractors who suck off money in blackmarket activities, as PH/KBR sucks off the profit from the gov't contracts.
I contest that #1 rating for SF. A bunch of pedestrians get run down there every year, by people running red lights. Dangerous as hell to walk around there.
I can walk teh walk...
I saw a neat little demonstration of the greenhouse effect on the tube the other day.
A woman had 2 PET soda bottles. She filled one with CO2 from a tank and screwed the top on it. She had a digital thermometer probe rigged into the cap. The other soda bottle was similarly rigged and had air in it.
She set both bottles in the sun and waited. After 10 minutes the CO2 bottle was several degrees hotter than the one with air in it.
Voila.
We don't understand gravity yet, either, and yet we put railings on balconies, and give skydivers parachutes.
of course we understand gravity.
doan be silleee
anyway, Ripley and Maddie will finish their unified field theory any day now.
Here they are working on it:
http://img.photobucket.com/album...is/
IMG_3868.jpg
I can walk teh walk...
Unlike many, who only talk the talk.
Somalia sucks, too.
which will be waterfront property after the polar ice caps melt.
watertiger | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 4:22 pm | #
including the chimpy "ranchette"
You can has Curly!
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/200...4/
brecher_smith
Retired General Antonio Taguba, the officer who led the Army's investigation into Abu Ghraib, recently wrote in the preface to the new report, Broken laws, Broken Lives:
"There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."
I contest that #1 rating for SF. A bunch of pedestrians get run down there every year, by people running red lights. Dangerous as hell to walk around there.
Moe Szyslak | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 4:23 pm |
Same with NYC, but the vehicles doing the running down are mainly messenger bikes on the sidewalks.
Ninth in the first.
And not yet rundown!
My nabe is an 82--I can walk to a meditation center, that is, if I wanted to.
of course we understand gravity.
No we don't.
Same with NYC, but the vehicles doing the running down are mainly messenger bikes on the sidewalks.
it's why i carry a stick with me.
for the spokes.
Gravity is "just a theory." We should teach alternative views in the schools.
Some company in DC rents Segways to tour groups, complete w helmets.
DC is a v walkable city. Hot and muggy, though. Why you'd rather see it on a Segway in a helmet is beyond me.
we're still spotting over here. Scary.
for the spokes.
I love you.
No we don't.
What we don't understand is how the different weak and strong forces are related.
I wouldn't say we don't understand how the various forces work in isolation.
I can't think of 7 countries suckier than us.
R. McGeddon
Bangladesh
Burma
Iraq
Peoples Rep. of Congo
El Salvador
China
Zimbabwe
Gets tougher after that, tho...
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 4:21 p
Sudan, Ethiopia. Nigeria.
Somalia sucks, too.
Moe Szyslak
Truth.
Hey Moe - have you had a chance to see some of that info I sent you?
'Cuz there are more things out just this week - including Feingold saying he'd consider a St. Lawrence shutdown absent of more action by shippers:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/in....aspx?
id=774133
Zap, I'm sorry. I hope all will be well. I'm sure you're in constant contact with Zapette's ob/gyn.
Gravity is "just a theory." We should teach alternative views in the schools.
explain to me again how sheep's bladders can be used to predict earthquakes?
Gravity is "just a theory." We should teach alternative views in the schools.
Moe Szyslak
when they start floating off the planet, some one call me so I can photograph it
hey, maybe that's how the rapture happens!!
gravity fails!!!
we're still spotting over here. Scary.
Zap rowsdower
**Thinks good thoughts for the Zap Clan**
yes we are, sallyh. Tougher on the weekends.
Yea, Roadmaster, I've read through it. Now I gotta see what Canuks are doing, and figure out how that affects us, if at all.
Buckeye,
As I said, set precedent. I'm working in half-assed mode here, but I believe there were some armed personnel contracted for. I remember having a very viceral, "this is fucking wrong" reaction to something. Wasn't keen on the outsourcing of "non-military" support duties that started in the 70's even. As is evidenced in Iraq, civilian contract workers are a liability that can be attacked, not a source of additional troops in a crisis....
bo | 07.19.08 - 4:22 pm
I don't remember that, which doesn't mean that it wasn't there. I remember DynaCorp and their fucking 'police' force, that's what got me really annoyed (never mind the poor Bosnians who had to put up with them).
we're still spotting over here. Scary.
Lighting incense for you. Call the doc.
hey, maybe that's how the rapture happens!!
gravity fails!!!
fourlegsgood, netrooted
Well, if a extraterrestrial body of much greater mass were to pass close enough to earth, there would be some problems with gravitational forces.
Nice to see my nabe has a 94% rating. I chose it because I can walk wherever I need to. And now adapted my job so I can BART to it as well.
everything is within walking distance if you have the time. - steven wright
holy crap
speaking at this NOLA panel just said congress screwed NOLA again.
they're being asked to pick up costs in the equivalent of $25 K a year for 2 years for every resident of St. Bernard's Parish.
that's fucked up
Big deal. I'm floating in my pool, watching The Prisoner on my portable DVD player, drinking Korbel Chardonnay champagne.
Somebody'd better bring me some lunch soon, too.
Yea, Roadmaster, I've read through it. Now I gotta see what Canuks are doing, and figure out how that affects us, if at all.
Moe Szyslak
I saw a blurb that the folks on PEI were applying for $$ to develop options for short-sea shipping.
plantsman - what's this about Cedar? We have two trees that are getting too big...causing shade on the vegies. We were just discussing the need to cut the bottom branches. What do I save...the greenery?
Big deal. I'm floating in my pool, watching The Prisoner on my portable DVD player, drinking Korbel Chardonnay champagne.
Somebody'd better bring me some lunch soon, too.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian | 07.19.08 - 4:31 pm
Well, if a extraterrestrial body of much greater mass were to pass close enough to earth, there would be some problems with gravitational forces.
When WORLDS COLLIDE!!!!
Yea, Roadmaster, I've read through it. Now I gotta see what Canuks are doing, and figure out how that affects us, if at all.
Moe Szyslak
I saw a blurb that the folks on PEI were applying for $$ to develop options for short-sea shipping.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 4:32 pm
What's short-sea shipping?
NOT ONLY IS RAY METZNER NOT DED, NEITHER IS BILL S.!
DANCING THE HAPPINESS DANCE HERE!!!!
I am so damned pleased I really could plotz!
Numfar!
Well, Roadmaster, I don't see why a shipper still wouldn't want to get as close as possible to the Great Lakes-- Montreal over PEI or Halifax--- and lower the land side of the transport costs.
alright...I'm on the iPod so I can't keep this up. Later.
Well, if a extraterrestrial body of much greater mass were to pass close enough to earth, there would be some problems with gravitational forces.
When WORLDS COLLIDE!!!!
fourlegsgood, netrooted | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 4:33 p
There's a Doughy Pantload and K-Lo joke in there somewhere.
OT, but I have to share: I just saw Shelley Berman at Home Depot while I was buying a water heater. I love Los Angeles.
Zap
Burning incense. Pulled The Star from tarot. Need to restore balance. Call the doc.
That wasn't GWPDA. Namestealer.
What's short-sea shipping?
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
Using rivers, lakes, and coastlines like railroads or interstates - moving containerized goods by vessel or barge rather than by rail or truck. Slower, but much more fuel efficient.
My walkscore is 46. I do have 2 churches and 2 taverns within a half mile. Such is Milwaukee.
What's short-sea shipping?
Something on a big post-Panamex ship gets offloaded in Halifax, and instead of trucking it to Boston, you put it on a smaller ship that can navigate Boston Harbor.
NOT ONLY IS RAY METZNER NOT DED, NEITHER IS BILL S.!
DANCING THE HAPPINESS DANCE HERE!!!!
I am so damned pleased I really could plotz!
Numfar!
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian | 07.19.08 - 4:34 pm |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y...h?
v=ycFqzNxiTwY
cnn is bending over backwards to be "fair" to McRigorMortis. About 30 secs of Obama with the troops, and at least a minute of McDeath on conan, a free airing of McMsBeerMoney's new Obama hit peice ad, and a "cute" story on who should play McPolident in a tv movie. Ugh.
this NOLA panel is infuriating
developers were getting the city to demolish perfectly good houses so they could steal the property for new development
I do have 2 churches and 2 taverns within a half mile
I can beat that: my tavern is my church.
When WORLDS COLLIDE!!!!
Um, I think Easterbrook was warning us about that recently. So I know I can forget about it.
Actually, it was an asteroid. So they get raptured to an asteroid? Works for me.
Iz too GWPDA. Bill S. is one of my very best GWPDA pals who has been fighting non-Hodgkins Lymphoma for at least 8 years, and has had a successful cell transplant, at last and IS NOT DED. Ray Metzger, supplies the incredible GWPDA photo archive - and he had disappeared entirely three, four years ago and re-surfaced today and HE'S NOT DED EITHER. WOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!
Los Angeles is #9?????!!!!!
How can that be?
R. McGeddon
Actually, it's hoppable, car roof to car roof, on the 405 at rush hour.
I can't think of 7 countries suckier than us.
R. McGeddon
Bangladesh
Burma
Iraq
Peoples Rep. of Congo
El Salvador
China
Zimbabwe
Gets tougher after that, tho...
Oh, there's still a bunch of them. Somalia as someone mentioned, Burkina Faso is an absolute hellhole of poverty, Russia is no picnic, virtually all of the `stans are horrors, one way or another. North Korea. There's so little food there that the North Korean army has to continually lower its minimum height requirements for enlistment. Central African Republic is another miserable place (along with a fistful of other sub-Saharan nations).
But, in terms of the industrialized first world, we could be doing a lot better....
gravity fails!!!
fourlegsgood, netrooted
Unlikely.
Gravitational force will be with you, always.
s h e e t s
Buckeye,
How iz ur leg doin' today?
I'm glad your friends are OK, GWPDA.
Incidentally, Chicago is Number 4 on the walkable cities.
Just sayin'.
to be "fair" to McRigorMortis.
A. Morphous, jerked around | 07.19.08 - 4:37 pm | #
top 10'er. mcbomb still holding on to first.
Wonder what jeffers would say about Houston being #26 on the list.
Moe - if you can get through to someone high up at Environment Canada and find out what their positions are regarding Great Lakes access and short-sea shipping, please let me know. Also check with the ON and QC provinicial governments on their legislation.
For once, the US (due to actions of states bordering the Great Lakes) is a bit ahead of Canada. I want to know how soon there will be unified legislation.
cnn is bending over backwards to be "fair" to McRigorMortis. About 30 secs of Obama with the troops, and at least a minute of McDeath on conan, a free airing of McMsBeerMoney's new Obama hit peice ad, and a "cute" story on who should play McPolident in a tv movie. Ugh.
A. Morphous, jerked around | 07.19.08 - 4:37 pm
And yet today, someone in the LAT claims Obama is getting more press than McMummy.
Unequal coverage doesn't serve Obama or McCain
The Illinois senator's historic candidacy, battle with Hillary Clinton and public appeal help explain -- but don't excuse -- the gap in network airtime between him and GOP rival John McCain.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
poli...187,print.story
Wonder what jeffers would say about Houston being #26 on the list.
It's ahead of Austin, which is insane
OT, but I have to share: I just saw Shelley Berman at Home Depot while I was buying a water heater. I love Los Angeles.
Toonscribe
Well, then, how about a martini?
.
Big deal. I'm floating in my pool, watching The Prisoner on my portable DVD player, drinking Korbel Chardonnay champagne.
Somebody'd better bring me some lunch soon, too.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian | 07.19.08 - 4:31 pm | #
Korbel is sparkling wine, not champagne.
Talk about elitist! Sure, you can walk and leave the car parked, but that sounds pretty tight to me. Stop being such a tight ass and fire up the Ford Super Duty. Roar on down to the corner to get that bagel, peanut butter NOT cream cheese, and why not take a spin around the block on the way home. Sure it may save you ten twenty bucks, but think of the Oil Men, its costing almost twice as much to fill the Gulf Stream. You want to be the one to tell the girls its going to be First Class on a commercial airliner when they go to St. Barts this year? I didn't think so. Stop pounding the pavement and pound that gas pedal!
Henk, You may have a good point but it doesn't make sense at all. So, you don't care if our earth becomes inhabitable and you will still be pedaling your SUV to your families grave, because they all died from your SUV's exhaust. LOL.
Think about it. Earth is not made up God. It has a start and an end to its life span just like you and I do. Who is to say that we human will be here million years from now.
I probably live in one of the more walkable areas of the Denver-metro area, but my ranking cracked me up. The nearest movie theatre listed is "ACT 1 & 2" which is a very shady-looking porno theatre. Within walking distance, yes, but probably not recommended for most.
This list is essentially meaningless to me. The Twin Cities should score at least as high as Philadelphia; so where the hell is it? Seriously, I don't mean "where the hell is it on the list," but "where the hell is it, period."
I realize that we're a little out of the way up here; but to completely forget that we even exist is absolutely ridiculous. The obvious answer is that the people who compiled this thing were too lazy-assed to look at the two cities as a unit, and thus decided that either one was too small to count.
Which is just plain dumb. Minneapolis or Saint Paul taking a back seat to Kansas City or Milwaukee is one thing ... but Columbus?! Fresno?! C'mon!!
I live in the 4th most walkable neighborhood in the 5th most walkable city in the country.
But didn't you move from the neighborhood tied for first?
Ha! I live in the 3rd most walkable neighborhood in the 4th most walkable city in the country.
If Detroit is number 23 on the list, I feel sorry for those that live in 24 thru 40. But Detroit has the People Mover!
Yeah, well I live in the 9th nbhd of the 3rd city. So. Suck. On. Something...
But my part of the nbhd is more like as walkable as the 3rd... so it's, alright.
Walking's the new bungee jumping.
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