I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Huh?
Hee!
Whee!
no
A Triple's not bad.
Coke to the man.
Called sheets.
Always the gentleman, you are.
Imagine if we had actual land use planning instead of letting any developer put up anything they liked and then walking away with the profit?
George!
*blam!*
Morning, plantsman!
Good morning. Also.
Yeah, okay; I think about that later.
Morning, Hecate, JP! 
any become overdeveloped and become overly dense with all the bad elements of density but none of the positive ones.
sounds like the fairfax of my acquaintance.
also, lest anyone be deprived of my pearls from the dead thread:
If Sigourney Weaver took a flame thrower to Sarah, I wouldn't mind.
plantsman, mad google skillz
tsk tsk
i believe she should be humanely euthanized... i am a liberal, after all.
speaking of liberal, the new nancy griffith album 'the loving kind' is unabashedly liberal: the 'loving' is about the anti-miscegenation law lovings, and there are songs against the death penalty, against w, for lbj, in tribute to townes van zandt and i forget what-all else.
i wish i didn't mostly dislike her songwriting and singing. 'cause she gots guts.
Imagine if we had actual land use planning instead of letting any developer put up anything they liked and then walking away with the profit?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 07.05.09 - 10:06 am
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Without sprawl, how would anyone know they were in the D.C. suburbs?
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Consolidating the Electoral Coup in Iran
Fairfax, BTW, is a long way from DC and the drives during rush hours (8:00 am -10:00 am and 3:00 pm until 7:00 pm) are horiffic.
At some point, we need to adopt Permacultural principles and head towards a steady state system; otherwise we are going to cover the globe with one big suburb.
Distinction without a difference. There's already a Fairfax city (which is less urban than Fairfax County), and Arlington has NEVER been a city.
I like Nanci Griffith, and her liberal politics. And her longing to be loved and partnered, and her acceptance that that may not happen.
Imagine if we had actual land use planning instead of letting any developer put up anything they liked and then walking away with the profit?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
First we'd have to imagine planning board members who weren't (a) developers themselves, (b) spouses of developers, (c) bffs of developers or (d) bought off by developers.
It is a nice thought...
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Fairfax, BTW, is a long way from DC and the drives during rush hours (8:00 am -10:00 am and 3:00 pm until 7:00 pm) are horiffic.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
amen. i wouldn't last a month if i had to do it.
The ceeb is interviewing a reporter in Honduras, via a web cam in his hotel room. There's a shitty print on the wall behind him.
How many years left before the Metro makes it to Dulles, btw?
It's a shame that wasn't done long ago.
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And her lyrics and arrangements, mostly.
So, Sarah Palin's attorney is threatening bloggers? Oooo--how scary.
dt'd
Still worried about traveling with MIL and SIL, and I'm hoping that I can get on an commiserate here from time to time while I'm away.
I like Nanci Griffith, and her liberal politics.
you might wanna check out "the loving kind" then, plantsman.
Shades of BART to SFO.
So, Sarah Palin's attorney is threatening bloggers? Oooo--how scary.
Missouri Bird | 07.05.09 - 10:10 am |
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I smell a crass-action suit.
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Moe!
Go make love to your wife! You're on vacation!
[Being here, of course, is good.]
I just may, it would fit on the iPod.
So, Sarah Palin's attorney is threatening bloggers? Oooo--how scary.
Missouri Bird
"don't let nuthin' hold you back but fear, dude."
A thing called “politics” carries on
Fairfax, BTW, is a long way from DC and the drives during rush hours (8:00 am -10:00 am and 3:00 pm until 7:00 pm) are horiffic.
I don't know that I'd say "a long way", but it did take me about 1:40 each way from Reston to Capitol Hill.
In 1993.
So, Sarah Palin's attorney is threatening bloggers? Oooo--how scary.
Missouri Bird
Well, don't you remember how Malkin, Reynolds, Goldberg et al were steamrolled by Kerry's lawyers for blogging about all that Swiftboat crap?
Me neither...
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Grew up in Fairfax in the 1950s and 1960s, when it really did verge on middle-class paradise. Thanks to growth and cars, much of it's now become a nightmare, as have the rest of the area's suburbs, and I stay hunkered down in beautiful pastoral D.C.
Oh, that's right.....wacko SIL, I'd forgotten.
Gromit, I just can't imagine Mrs. Gromit having crotchety relatives. She herself is such a sweetie. {{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}}} to you both.
Leafy is cool.
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How many years left before the Metro makes it to Dulles, btw?
It's a shame that wasn't done long ago.
Not to mention Georgetown.
What the heck does Fairfax mean, anyway?
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Eastern suburbs - a paradigm for the future?
Gromit, I just can't imagine Mrs. Gromit having crotchety relatives. She herself is such a sweetie. {{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}}} to you both.
QL
Thanks! every time we leave her relatives I tell her, "I am so glad I'm married to you", and leave the rest unsaid.
Broder wanks above...
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In Portland, we've found that SOCIALIST NIGHTMARE development springs up everywhere we put rail, light, heavy, streetcar, or otherwise.
Not to mention Georgetown.
theodoric of athens
too bad they ripped out the streetcar tracks.
During the housing boom, countless beautiful places all over the US were totally destroyed by grotesque developments, even in OR which has good land use laws. Seems about half the new condos on the OR coast are empty and bankrupt or on the verge.
Maybe the banks can recoup some of their losses with demolition parties, followed by beach weenie roasts.
where I live is a leafy suburb
but the town centre is in walkable distance
more a series of cul de sacs
actually here's googlemaps of the area - my area I live in
Broder wanks above...
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MasterD, damn yankee
eww.
and i thought it was only bird poo.
To be clear, this is the sil who is compulsive, rude and loud, not the sil with borderline personality disorder.
No way in hell would I travel with the latter.
Steph: Lindsay graham says if you had told the Iranian government to stop it he would have
Biden: he had a touching naïve faith in the innate goodness of the Iranian government
Steph: but will you rush into give more concessions
Biden: no we would do that will deliberation
Steph: should Israel attack Iran?
Biden: maybe
Steph: but the US gets to decide what happens anytime everywhere
Biden: that’s your problem right there
Mrs Gromit is nice?
the bride of Frankengromit I guess...
Steph: north korea launches more missiles than Macys
Biden: they’re very pretty
Steph: but the North Koreans are making us look bad
Biden: yeah but they’re like that garbage barge - they’re just sailing around and no one will let them dock
Steph: are we just waiting for the crazy Dear Leader to die
Biden: he’s cuckoo for coco puffs
Bobbling is back!
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Steph: when do we win in Afghanistan
Biden: hey gives time Bush got 8 craptacutular years
Steph: but if we don’t win in one Friedman Unit shouldn’t we leave
Biden: oh no you all set deadlines for success!
Steph: that’s right - these are Democrat rules now
Good lord, CoT multitasks well.
killed him on that. great volley.
Steph: the military says that if Obama wants more troops the military will say ‘what the fuck’
Biden: oh fuck those fucking fuckers
Steph: oh so now you’re saying the military is afraid from the dictator obama!
Biden: oh jesus fucking christ
Steph: you’re stimulus package sucks
Biden: oh but everyone thought Bush was merely a disastrous president instead of the worst since cavemen traded furs for sex
Steph: but Paul Krugman says you need a new stimulus bill bigger badder and uncut
Biden: for god’s sake half the congress says it too big and now you say it’s too small - how many nobel prizes has Krugman won?
Steph: one
Biden: oh right
Steph: but the states are all failing and need your money
Biden: fuck em
Steph: you’re in charge of the economy, Iraq and the CIA - what does Obama do
Biden: dude looks good !
Steph: you’re huggy and touchy feely
Biden: he’s the Spock to my McCoy
Steph: what is the deal of with Sarah Palin
Biden: it’s clear - she’s fucking crazy
Steph: is she a victim of blood sport vicious media?
Biden: no she’s total loon
up two threads, CoT
This is a link to an interesting talk about what has gone wrong with building, downtown development and public space in the post WWII era.
http://www.ted.com/talks/
james_h...s_suburbia.html
It really does seem that something got thrown away after WWII that all our human history had preserved for us. We are not meant to be either ants in a colony or robots.
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