I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
!!!
Can you hear me now?
.
Is this better?
.
Caption under Palin image at FOXNEWS...
Departing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin lays groundwork to take on larger, national role after leaving state government.
Two different worlds, we live in two...
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okay.
Hmmm....
So, the English still have a class system: who knew?
Do ya think this Crescent roll will be big enough, Sarah?
How old is Trig and how old is the daughter's child? Name?
You can also buy private insurance in France, if you really want to. But most people prefer the public health care system, which is better.
Palin on a roll?
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Bristle's child is named Tripp, like the Engineer on "Enterprise."
i left you a big ole comment downstairs but of course it was dtd, plants.
Departing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin lays groundwork to take on larger, national role after leaving state government.
Michael Steele's relief pitcher?
Thanks for getting me back onto to healthcare, since I was lost in the 'espionage of Sarah' theories.
Karin, you're wrong about that.
Most people prefer private health care because it's cheap and good.
Public health care costs about 8% of your revenue and only reimburses you 60% of health care costs for most things.
The public health system in Francen eds to be fixed because it is going bankrupt.
Michael Steele's relief pitcher?
melior | 07.05.09 - 8:03 am |
I ask that yesterday. Do you think it is possible?
Trig is 14 months old.
I shall depart at once to read it, chidy.
Tripp - (age)?
Trig - 14 months.
ms f, i'd write some adventure pr0n for you but i have to confess: sarah totally turns me off. like, in every way. she's exactly the type of woman i don't like and even thinking about her, even being with men, grosses me out. it's hard to describe how unattractive i find her. it's the Stupid. it burns atrios, but it just turns me off.
chicago dyke, Tabarna
Same as it ever was?
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full: unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
(Thus ends the reading of the Word)
Oh, OK. Sis is a big-headed jerk, even so.
You can even go to private doctors. (That's what "Harley Street" means.)
Why can't the British talk straight? Why can't they say "private doctors" rather than "Harley Street"?
Another person has started "following me" on Twitter -- I'm getting all squicked out over it.
(Not much of a believer anymore but I do love Ecclesiastes . . . .
golly, sunday mornin churchifying from DWD! i lay the sin of vanity at the altar of my god, the FSM, and beg his forgiveness and charity, Ramen. 
Sarah will be the new Harold Stassen, or Gary Bauer.
Why can't the British talk straight? Why can't they say "private doctors" rather than "Harley Street"?
Lime Rickey
Well...it's the same way that we say "Wall Street" instead of "thieving scumbags."
Morning! The hotel's wifi crapped out last night & I got booted off mid conversation. I hate when that happens.
When I read the Psalms called "Lamentations" I decided to retitle them
"Whining To Gawd."
Well, we've still got the Jackson funeral to get through this week. Or the memorial anyway, god only knows when they'll bury him.
Joe Biden slap shot at Sarah Palin: Says quittin' gov isn't any victim
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2009...palin-
says.html
New York Daily News - Michael Saul - 2 hours ago
Vice President Biden rejected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's complaint that she was the victim of political blood sport yesterday - a day after she stunned the nation with her abrupt resignation.
Sarah Palin Resigns: Is She Fleeing Scandal?
alternet
At a news conference on the lawn of her Wasilla home yesterday morning, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced that she'll give up her post in the next few weeks. A day later, Palin’s abrupt and confounding move has left political analysts and the media scrambling for an explanation.
plants, transfer admissions are a special hell for admission officers. you see the most heartbreaking stories. getting it right the first time in college is a lot harder than many people think. i used to love "transfer season" at UChicago. it's a slower time of year, as we'd already picked the bulk of our class and could be more selective about filling the remaining spots. the saddest transfer i did was a native Hyde Park kid, son of to profs, smarter than hell and with a fabulous track record proving it. he was a Return, as we used to call it. "please let me come home, no one understands me out here and i miss our community." we let him in.
Well, we've still got the Jackson funeral to get through this week. Or the memorial anyway, god only knows when they'll bury him.
Karin Hussein
I'm betting the settling of his estate will be a freak show that carries a few news cycles, too.
Sis wanted to escape Arizona for the NE.
I was a left-Coaster from the first chance I had.
plantsman...if you don't want someone to follow you on Twitter, just block that person.
so the new chief of MI6's wife put her entire family life on Facebook, and then linked to a convicted Holocaust denier, Davir Irving.
Former Washington, D.C., Mayor Barry arrested and charged with stalking woman
http://www.google.com/
hostednews...bb2SSwD9988GHG4
Did she have some crack on her?
"Lamentations" I decided to retitle them
"Whining To Gawd."
plantsman,
the Sumerian Lamentations are beautiful, moving even. they didn't have any expectations of their gods helping them. these texts are more about being sorry for having sinned and lost divine favor, and the bitterness of life that comes from a great fall. i used to love translating them. the "babylonian job" is very lovely. not like the one in the bible at all.
It's just so odd, I haven't tweeted in months about anything. I can sound like a moron here anytime I want.
OK, assume the position of fealty
With your hand on your wallet and on your knees, repeat:
We pledge allegiance
to Goldman Sachs
And all of their Fiduciaries
Who fleece the Republic, for their own gain
One government, bought and paid for
With no accountability for all.
(OK, class, let's get started: Please get out your spelling books and turn to page 69)
Former Washington, D.C., Mayor Barry arrested and charged with stalking woman
bitch set him up
Good memory, TKK.
Oh, the estate will take years to settle. It'll be like Jarndyce v. Jarndyce.
bitch set him up
The Kenosha Kid
But it was so EASY - "the Bitch"
Former Washington, D.C., Mayor Barry arrested and charged with stalking woman
White wimmin, I suspect.
GOing to the bagel place: orders?
(Be back in a bit I suppose)
DWD
Whole wheat, toasted, with garden vegetable, please.
Whole-grain Everything, please.
Oh, it's crow Time!
Gluten free, toasted with an image of Sarah Palin burned in.
Sesame bagel for me, thanks.
Salt bagel. Schmear.
well, i have to go get ready for brunch with friends. i can't wait to see this guy. old family friend, went to skool with mom and dad, i was friends with his kids as a kid. one is a dwarf, but anyway. his second time around, this guy married into Serious Money; he's a Trophy Husband (always been a really good looking man who aged well and she's 15 years older than he is). since he got married to this woman, who is nice and sweet if a little light upstairs, he's been slowly turning into a rethug. this is a guy who spent 25 years in the trenches of detroit public schools as a teacher. his liberal creds are well established. but it's been painful to see what being around all her wealthy republican friends has done to him. every time we get together, i upbraid him, and i don't let any of his newfound wingerism go by unchecked. i think i'm the only person in his life who does this, now.
anyway, blabbity blabbity me says have a great morning, esp Ruth. see y'all later.
[sigh] I wish #2 would become someone wealthy's trophy husband.
Oh, great. A bomb blew up outside a Roman Catholic Church on Mindanao, Philippines, killing at least 5 and injuring 26. Islamists are being blamed:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...fic/
8134820.stm
Mousavi Details Alleged Election Fraud in Iran
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2009...tion-
fraud.html
Garlic & cheese *(if available), please.
"please let me come home, no one understands me out here and i miss our community." we let him in.
chicago dyke, Tabarna | Homepage | 07.05.09 - 8:12 am | #
At my teeny tiny school up near cleveland, we always had 10-20 tranfers out. And the next year about 1/2 would come back 'home'.
I did my share of transferring.
DWD, darn it, I just made oatmeal. But thanks!
(moved to the laptop. much easier to type than on the ipod.)
Looks like everybody's in the mood for a bagel.
Looks like everybody's in the mood for a bagel.
What the hell, right?
I'll take a psilocybin and bran bagel, please. I'm multitasking.
CSPAN nutcase:
Ronald Reagan ended the cold war and..........(blah, blah, blah)
grrrrr.
Good article about health care in France and the Netherlands:
In the Netherlands, people buy health insurance from competing private carriers; in France, people get basic insurance from nonprofit sickness funds that effectively operate as extensions of the state, then have the option to purchase supplemental insurance on their own. (It’s as if everybody is enrolled in Medicare.) But in both countries virtually all people have insurance that covers virtually all legitimate medical services. In both countries, the government is heavily involved in regulating prices and setting national budgets. And, in both countries, people pay for health insurance through a combination of private payments and what are, by American standards, substantial taxes.
You could be forgiven for assuming, as Sen. Kyl and his allies suggest, that so much government control leads to Soviet-style rationing, with people waiting in long lines and clawing their way through mind-numbing bureaucracies every time they have a sore throat. But, in general, both the Dutch and French appear to have easy access to basic medical care - easier access, in fact, than is the American norm.
In both the Netherlands and France, most people have long-standing relationships with their primary care doctors. And when they need to see these doctors, they do so without delay or hassle. In a 2008 survey of adults with chronic disease conducted by the Commonwealth Fund - a foundation which financed my own research abroad - 60 percent of Dutch patients and 42 percent of French patients could get same-day appointments. The figure in the US was just 26 percent.
The contrast with after-hours care is even more striking. If you live in either Amsterdam or Paris, and get sick after your family physician has gone home, a phone call will typically get you an immediate medical consultation - or even, if necessary, a house call. And if you need the sort of attention available only at a formal medical facility, you can get that, too - without the long waits typical in US emergency rooms.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglob...althcare_right/
Sounds dystopian as hell to me...
Yeah, I guess I could have Light Philly on mine, if I had Light Philly.
I'll take a psilocybin and bran bagel, please
Shit, change my order to what he's having.
Matt Lewis
Politics Daily
Clearly delusional.
I think we should try and hammer out a
drug-research cost sharing arrangement with these SOCIALIST HELLS, so that USians aren't paying such high drug costs.
Perhaps people would be less scared of long waiting times for government associated health insurance if they didn't have to wait 2 hours because if you need a passport with your kid, you need to apply in person with them.
Or perhaps people would be less scared if they didn't have similar experiences waiting in social security offices, DMVs (although DMV waits, outside of NYC, are largely a thing of the past), etc.
(spooky voice) "Yes Sarah, The Great Sky Fairy wants you to make a fool of yourself, over and over, for all Eternity!"
the wombat: back from the brink
http://www.independent.co.uk/env...nk-
1732200.html
What happened to Gromit?
I hope he went to get cheesecake for later.
(Strawberries and Cream in honor of Wimbledon.)
DMVs are all State agencies.
if you think people in the USA are paying high drug costs to pay for r&d and are subsidizing other countries, you're crazy!
Too bad some of our "reporter" can't travel to Europe and publish the truth about their health care systems. Or won't their capitalist pig bosses allow them to?
Anybody else seeing a picture of a familiar face -- looks kinda like Tina Fey but with too much make-up -- asking us to donate to SarahPAC?
Is this a parody or is she actually trying to shake down whomever google-ads deems appropriate for money?
SarahPAC did a big Google Ad-Buy.
I'll bet Palin wants to do a reality show with me. I think I'll call her on Monday morning.
Neufchatel is tasty, and lower fat than cream cheese.
And I've never had a long wait in a social security or Medicaid office. You make an appointment in advance for a certain time, and they see you at that time.
Ronald Reagan ended the cold war and..........
the US military budget is higher now then it was during the Cold War, so why is that such a good thing?
One of the world's most endangered mammals, the northern hairy-nosed wombat, has stepped back from the brink of extinction, with its numbers undergoing the biggest jump for more than two decades
DAS: entirely true. But they already wait for docs today. And they call 911, and the cops or firefighters show up right away.
But there's been a relentless drumbeat of opprobrium attached to government--'hacks', 'close enough for government work', ''government is the problem, not the solution', etc.--which, added to the tangible results of the Bush years, call into question even the possibility of goerrnment competently, effectively run.
DMVs are all State agencies. - plantsman, mad google skillz
In some cases the actual place where you get your license, etc., is even locally ran.
But when people think of how much they dislike "gummint", they aren't thinking which government.
Indeed, the GOP has long played a bait and switch here: they foment anger about dealing with local/state government, channel it to build up opposition to federal programs and in favor of devolving power to the very state and local governments people actually distrust. What did P.T. Barnum say about the American people?
DAS, no I think that ad is real. Palin thinks there are people stupid enough to give her money for whatever vague plans she has. Sadly, she's right. A few morons will give her money.
I like neufchatel, but I can't eat enough carbs quickly enough to use up a whole package before it goes bad.
the US military budget is higher now then it was during the Cold War, so why is that such a good thing?
Moe Szyslak |
They are deeply invested in everyone believing that Reagan is one of the best president's evah, and FDR was a jizzbag.
How are you?
Sarah Palin: "It always feels good to do what is right."
How the fuck would you know?
And they call 911, and the cops or firefighters show up right away. - ProfWombat
Only if you are already deathly ill or injured or something. Try being rear ended on a port authority bridge -- you can't get out of your car due to traffic rushing by, so you call 911. You can expect to wait over an hour before the police come.
In the meantime, you could take a turn for the worse if you don't initially know the extent of your injuries.
Australian cabinet ministers babysit almost extinct animal colonies on their vacations:
Despite the rise in numbers, the shy, nocturnal mammals are still more endangered than the Sumatran tiger and the giant panda. Last year, the senior civil servant in charge of the Australian economy, Treasury Secretary Ken Henry, triggered a political row when he took five weeks' leave to help babysit the Epping colony.
How was Head Smashed In/Buffalo Jump?
Nice one, Meanie-Meanie. 
Good on them, keeping the northerrn hairy-nosed wombats going.
Australians, mostly, remain interlopers amongst the aboriginals, both marsupial and human...
How are you?
Great! Having a wonderful time with my wonderful wife, wandering around western Canada. We've had excellent weather-- I so love the dry western heat-- and have had great luck with just about everything.
I'm presently in a little place called Cranbrook (just up the road from Yahk!), and we're heading up to Banff and Yoho today, where we have friends. Lots of hiking in store, hopefully.
only 138 left in one colony, and who knows how many in a second colony - I had no idea wombats were threatened with extinction
Moe has driven by the ghost town with only one building, an inn, in Michel BC
Sounds wonderful Moe, and much deserved.
You are intense in work and play, it seems.
afternoon moonbats 
There's the common wombat, which lives in southeastern Australia, which isn't endangered. The northern hairy-nosed wombat, the subject of the article, is indeed scarce...
Hello, Moon; how are you?
bastards - A pay freeze should be imposed on Britain's six million public-sector workers, the head of the government's spending watchdog says today. He also accuses party leaders of failing to be honest with the public about the need for cuts, even in health and education.
In a blistering attack, Steve Bundred, chief executive of the Audit Commission, says he has not heard any politician admit that "severe pay restraint" is one of a number of measures necessary to rebalance public finances, which could also include job cuts. "Nothing should be off limits," he warns.
"At a time when inflation is likely to be between 2% and 3%, a pain-free way of cutting public spending would be to freeze public-sector pay, or at least impose severe pay restraint," he added. "This is especially true if real wages in the private sector are still falling."
In an article for the Observer, Bundred writes that health and education spending - which the major parties are reluctant to attack - should be included in any cuts. In comments likely to anger nurses, teachers and others, he suggests that public-sector workers have done well enough previously to be able "to tolerate some modest real reductions in earnings".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/societ...-public-
workers
one of the biggest draws for dull government borg work is the pension, we get paid pittance compared to what could be earned in the private sector
they forgo the perks of private employment and the reward is a good pension
if they take that away, what is so attractive about public work?
its insane
Hello, Moon; how are you?
plantsman, mad google skillz | Homepage | 07.05.09 - 8:47 am | #
I am alright, excited about going on holiday next weekend, only working 4 days this week as well, so thats a bonus
lots to do tho beforehand!
It's already happened in most of the US States.
and why is it we have to pay for the banksters follies?
why don't we tax the fucking rich who got us into this fucking mess in the first place
but oh noez we can't frighten the uber wealthy, cuz they'll throw a hissy fit
I think I'll shower while waiting for my bagel to arrive.
You've said you've been needing a holiday, so hang in there just a bit more!
but oh noez we can't frighten the uber wealthy, cuz they'll throw a hissy fit
Just look at Madoff's wife, for example.
have you read the article about how many City (i.e. London) banks will help their employees in avoiding 50% taxation rate on their bonuses this year?
You've said you've been needing a holiday, so hang in there just a bit more!
plantsman, mad google skillz | Homepage | 07.05.09 - 8:51 am | #
indeed, my mum feels the same way
I like neufchatel, but I can't eat enough carbs quickly enough to use up a whole package before it goes bad.
plantsman, mad google skillz
Does cheeze freeze? Actually, I've never tried it...
Does cheeze freeze? Actually, I've never tried it...
Yes, but I don't know about cream cheese though.
Gamal Mubarak ; The Prince of Upper Egypt
Hard cheese freezes pretty well; I'd worry the water might separate out of high-moisture cheeses.
ROME (AP) — Protesters clashed with police at a demonstration Saturday against the planned expansion of an airport and U.S. military base in the northern city of Vicenza.
Demonstrators wearing helmets and carrying plastic shields threw stones and other objects at officers guarding a bridge on the route of the protest. Police fired tear gas canisters and clubbed some demonstrators, but no injuries were immediately reported.
Several thousand protesters, many from other Italian cities, converged on Vicenza to march against the expansion of the Dal Molin airport. They beat drums and carried rainbow peace flags, caricatures of President Barack Obama and banners that read "No Dal Molin."
The plan would allow the transfer of four U.S. battalions from Germany, raising the number of active duty personnel in Vicenza to 5,000 from about 2,900 already stationed at the Ederle base on the other side of town.
The move is part of the U.S. Army's plans to transform itself into a lighter, more mobile force. Under the plans, elements of the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade, a rapid reaction unit now spread between Italy and Germany, would be united.
http://www.google.com/
hostednews...pMfsFQD997PCN80
Everything freezes, except helium...
Sorry; can't help myself sometimes...
but oh noez we can't frighten the uber wealthy, cuz they'll throw a hissy fit
Moonbootica, Avout
Oh, they'll do worse than that, Mooboo. We're looking right now at an example of what they can do...
6rn5ng !
Oops. That's morning when my num lock is on.
How're things? Just stopping in before getting on the road to the red neck state of Oklahoma.
Smokes, if you're still here we were talking about you last night! It was all good, bro! I said what fun we had at DL Friday night and others said they'd loved meeting you in the past.
What the heck, unless the package says "do not freeze" I could just freeze part of it.
Neighbor's dog is sitting outside howling piteously, 'cause his family went on a bike ride. It's pathetic/cute.
Plantsman, thanks for the Maureen Dowd article. She can be good, that's for sure!
Everything freezes, except helium...
Yes, but can you spread it on a Ritz?
Without sounding like John Byner?
Shishani on Salafi-Jihadism in the Levant
Just stopping in before getting on the road to the red neck state of Oklahoma.
Oh, wow. That sounds like, um fun.
(What's the occasion?)
When she has someone to snark at, she can. When she tries nice or vapid, look out.
A thing called “politics” carries on
"Abandonment Trauma" can be hell on a dog.
When you agree with Dowd, she's a guilty pleasure...
Prof Wombat has violated the "no physical chemistry in morning threads rule"
But contrast her with yesterday's Collins, which was also great fun.
Let my dog out into our fenced back yard. Neighbor dog stopped howling. FIlm at 11.
Are you going there to try to knock some sense into Coburn and Inhofe?
Good answer, Gromit.
Gromit. Family. I'm staying with my 37 YO niece and her winger family. It will be an exercise in restraint. We're there for 3 days then off to Dallas for a little shopping and Six Flags. It's just my two teenage daughters and I going. We'll have fun, I think!
Prof Wombat has violated the "no physical chemistry in morning threads rule"
Gromit
The Cleveland classical music radio station used to have a "no sopranos before 9 am" rule.
For Sousa marches, not so much.
In re the cheese issue ... my wife suggested that if the cheese gets a little off (but not too much), you can always put it into an omelet.
When you agree with Dowd, she's a guilty pleasure...
ProfWombat
True, but when she picks on repubs, it's for relatively substantial stuff. When she picks on dems, it's just stupid.
Back.
Here come teh bagels. . . .
Good morning,
Perfectly lovely day here. Son is home for a visit.
Perhaps it will simply be a quiet summer day, a bike ride, watch a ball game, grill.
Don't have to worry about landmines on the way to fetching water, in other words.
interesting obit - Alexis Argüello
World champion boxer at three different weights who found new purpose in politics
IL, stay away from parking lots with Ruth in them in Texas.
(adds eggs, cheese, scallions to list)
Will do plantsman!
Palin does pose a target-rich environment. But what makes her a 'guilty pleasure' is that she confuses the personal with the political, pace those who see these as identical...
Federer looks like he is posing for GQ.
Roddick looks like he is bursting with energy.
It's rained at home most every day I've been away. The garden should be fine, if weedy, in my absence.
Exactly, Dr Marsupial. And brings with it a focus on the trivial. Which might be OK if she were writing for Seventeen.
You getting kiwis yet?
tea party freaks got maybe 2000 to go to DC yesterday. but there is plenty of coverage of the nutcases rallying against 'government'. the same assholes that crawl from under their rocks every time a dem is prez. thanks msm, for the 'fair and balanced' coverage of a buncha fucking loons
It's rained at home most every day I've been away. The garden should be fine, if weedy, in my absence.
Let it go, Moe. You can't do anything about it anyway. Relax.
Unsolicited advice/
Would Ms F watch tennis if they were dressed like football players?
(You know, with the state of the news being what it is of late: Goldman Sachs, Obama telling MoveOn to STFU, unemployment climbing nationwide ever closer to Michigan's - it's a damn good thing I don't drink.:+ )
You getting kiwis yet?
plantsman
Goddam people from New Zealand should just stay home where they belong.
The move is part of the U.S. Army's plans to transform itself into a lighter, more mobile force. Under the plans, elements of the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade, a rapid reaction unit now spread between Italy and Germany, would be united.
Gee, will that cost less?
No, it'll cost more.
Would Ms F watch tennis if they were dressed like football players?
Gromit
Like ballet, certain aspects of the uniform as, ahem, revealing.
Gromit
Brat! Yes, I love the sport, skill, and discipline it requires.
A law that has in effect banned people with HIV from visiting America for two decades is to be overturned after a Briton with the virus accused the US of hypocrisy and discrimination during a major health conference.
Paul Thorn should have spoken at the Pacific health summit in Seattle last month, but was refused entry to the country after admitting his HIV status on his visa-waiver application.
He sent a powerful statement to be read out in his place. The message accused the US of having an HIV policy rooted in fear and said it had no right to call itself a world leader in the fight against the disease.
In the days after the conference Thorn's case was taken up by politicians including US congressman Jim McDermott. He wrote a letter to the Obama administration citing what had happened to Thorn and another case where people were turned back at the Canadian border. "Now is the time to repair our nation's standing as the leader in the treatment of the Aids epidemic," wrote McDermott.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/...rica-paul-
thorn
Kiwis, at least the Arctic variety, come late in the season. September, iirc.
Kiwis, at least the Arctic variety, come late in the season. September, iirc.
Moe Szyslak
So the ones grown in NZ and Oz are of the Antarctic variety?
But they have that cool variegated foliage!
Actually, I would much rather watch ballerinas.
I did see the Joffrey (males) dancing to Prince and enjoyed but that was unusual for me.
Integral Lit-- Have a safe trip. Road trips are great for communicating with yer kids.
Moon: that's an interesting topic if you're into science and philosophy. There are people, Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose and Einstein perhaps most prominently, who imagine a single great law, unifying and explaining everything, oft called reductionists. Then there are those like Feynman, and Freeman Dyson, and the philosopher Nancy Cartwright, who don't exclude the possibility of a myriad of 'laws' which cannot be unified, perhaps, on which the attempt should not be made, lest information be lost, or assumed to be present that isn't.
And, as the post you cite points out, if this is controversial in physics, the notion of 'unifying' economics is simply crazy...
I luv the Ballet
But they have that cool variegated foliage!
plantsman, mad google skillz
How does one tell the sex of a plant?
(Look under teh leaves.)
Also, I have a daughter named for a tennis player and have stated that if I should ever be tempted to change teams it would be for Martina.
No, they're the same species as the ones grown in California; all varieties are in the same genus.
ProfWombat,
Doan be silli, God made the worlds in six days and then rested . . . .
Just had a great road trip with the elder Wombette to UVM that was sheer bliss. Only problem was that I wasn't going to college...
The Arctic kiwi are about the size of a grape, with no fur on the skin. I didn't get them pruned before I left, so that's another thing on my list...
A bomb blast outside a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines has killed five people and injured at least 26 others, officials say.
The military immediately blamed the attack in the town of Cotabato, Mindanao, on a militant group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
The group has been fighting to establish a separate Islamic state.
One of its leaders denied any involvement in the attack, saying there was no religious conflict in the south.
The bomb went off outside the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception as people were leaving Mass, the army said.
Police told AFP news agency that two of the dead were soldiers guarding the cathedral.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...fic/
8134820.stm
I've go two females and one luck male. They haven't been as fruit heavy as I would like, but it's only been three years.
Good morning, peeps. I just read that Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin and frankly it made me mad. It made me mad at everyone.
No one seems to have any concept of what they are doing on these campaigns, what their job really IS. There's this cavalier attitude toward the country that astonishes.
Anyway, here's my blog post about it.
No wonder we have one of the lowest voter turnouts in the western world. The politicos don't take this shit seriously, why should the voters?
I've go two females and one luck male. They haven't been as fruit heavy as I would like, but it's only been three years.
No flirting!!!
DWD: yeah, I guess...
Brady: Is it possible that there is something holy to the celebrated agnostic?
Drummond: Yes! The individual human mind! In a childs ability to master the multiplication table, there is more sanctity than in all your shouted holies and hosannas...
(from 'Inherit the Wind')
And the two sexes of "market" kiwi plants look a bit different, but I've forgotten exactly how.
Jesus, his serve!
Days of torrential rains in southern and central China have forced more than 300,000 people to flee their homes, the state-run Xinhua news agency says.
Floods, landslides and houses toppled by the rain killed at least 16 people in Hunan, Fujian and Guangxi provinces. A number of people are still missing.
In Guangxi, the army and residents were struggling to shore up a breached dyke at the base of a water reservoir.
At least 15 people died in neighbouring Vietnam, officials say.
There are fears the death toll in the two countries will rise further.
Both are prone to major flooding during the annual summer rainy season.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...fic/
8134896.stm
soBe-- That photo of Pouting Palin is hysterical, in a scary sort of way.
Congress prepares to face health care challenge
San Francisco Chronicle - Victoria Colliver - 4 hours ago
With an August deadline looming, Congress is expected to return from the July Fourth holiday this week to tackle the complex issue of health care reform with a renewed sense of urgency.
why is it a challenge and why is reform necessary? right. because the system is shit.
What is Jesus' serve like?
"The Cleveland classical music radio station used to have a "no sopranos before 9 am" rule."
wclv.
a little nostalgia for the old folks
SoBe-- excellent post, with one small quibble: there are no Inuit in Juneau. The natives there are Tlingit.
What is Jesus' serve like?
Powerful and moving (@ 200mph, I'd say)
Come to think of it, it has a lot of spin too.
The classical station in NY advertised the crap out of "Krakus & Atalanta" tinned Polish hams, I remember.
there are no Inuit in Juneau. The natives there are Tlingit.
Inuit all along.
not dead
Iran has executed 20 people for drug trafficking, official media says.
The group - all convicted of buying, selling and possessing drugs - were hanged in a prison in Karaj, west of Tehran.
Over 700kg (1,540lb) of drugs including heroin, cocaine and opium had been seized from the group, all arrested in the last five years, the reports said.
Human rights groups say Iran executes more people than every country in the world apart from China.
It executed at least 346 people in 2008, Amnesty International said.
The Supreme Court had rejected appeals for clemency from the group executed on Saturday, who were aged between 35 and 48, Iranian news agencies said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ast/
8134654.stm
Sure wish you could take some time off, Blodge.
Thanks Gromit. I'm hoping they leave their surly personas behind. At this time, it's not looking good, but once we're on the road, I am hopeful!
Unk: that's good; offers possibilities the alternative doesn't...
The classical station in NY advertised the crap out of "Krakus & Atalanta" tinned Polish hams,
That's 'cause they were Commies.
Always good to hear, Uncle Blodge.
I would like to see some good volleys guys.
Before public radio came to Vermont, the only classical music was a pop station that did classical on Sunday nights. But they did not change their ads, so that you'd get Mozart followed by commercials for Big Red gum and Red Elmore for the Redi-Bilt Construction Company.
And "Zabar's."
tee hee my cat Heidi was getting her fix on catnip and managed to pull a bunch of her toys over here, which made her jump
she is now attacking the blanket
lol
Sampras and Borg sitting there and I'm biting my lip not to offend Gromit's sensibilities.
I always thought I probably wouldn't buy a Commie Canned Ham without encouragement.
Sampras and Borg sitting there and I'm biting my lip not to offend Gromit's sensibilities.
Adore away, my dear
Are you having "tennis smut head" fantasies, ms f?
Roddick's play is impressive this morning.
WCLV (
jdw) had much advertising from Newman Adler Sporting Goods.
The Newman was related to Paul Newman - his uncle, iirc.
Oh, his serve.
Are you having "tennis smut head" fantasies, ms f?
plantsman, mad google skillz |
Sometimes it creeps me out how well people who've never met me know me.
You know plantsman, I would think you would be lusting too.
Sampras and Borg sitting there and I'm biting my lip not to offend Gromit's sensibilities.
ms fahrenheit | 07.05.09 - 9:23 am | #
also Steffi Graf and Rod Laver
Another one who passed not long ago.
Started this spring, at 59+yo, to play tennis. Felt funny, learning how to swing, return etc. My natural backhand, I was told, close to guaranteed me an injury unless I corrected it. So I watch these people play with a little awe...
Yeah, I used to have to not watch men's sports around straight people.
plantsman, mad google skillz,
My wife traveled to Spain where, apparently, they have a national fetish for ham.
(She does not like cured meat, I do. Only thing I envied of her trip, I guess)
But I would buy a good ham from Spain - canned - just to see. . . .
plantsman: too bad, that...
Lindsay.
I watched a Sean Connery "Bond" movie yesterday and was amused at how they shaved and plucked him to be just so hairy and not a bit more.
The Vikings made it to Greenland before the Inuit did. There were some other natives around, a Dorset culture. The Inuit displaced both.
Started this spring, at 59+yo, to play tennis.
You are far braver than I. Good on ya!
I was useless tennis at school
when I went to serve I'd end up dropping the ball and hitting thin air
but then again I wuz pretty useless anyways at sports
Good luck to you Prof Wombat and may you build the pecs of Roddick, the arms of Rafa, the ass of Borg, and the legs of Federer.
Uhm, and great skill too.
Burger's Smokehouse in MO has Jamon Serrano and other Spanish hams online and their prices include shipping.
"smokehouse.com"
Anyone want to read a review of the new Camaro?
(And yes, car companies make a VARIETY of cars for a VARIETY of people. GM also has some nice, environmentally correct, vehicles. This one is for your driving pleasure only. (but 25 MPG ain't terrible - I only get about thirty in the four banger Honda)
http://www.detnews.com/article/2...s-dream-
machine
Loved the Bond movies as a kid; not so much as an adult.
I remember being a clumsy 15 yo and going to see one with my buddy. I was at the very nadir of my self-confidence at that point. Walked out telling my friend, 'You know, if that's what it takes to get a girl, I might as well just cut it off and throw it in the bucket for all the good it'll do me.'
I'm just not very competitive
ms f: I'd take a new set of knees first...
Dr. No was much lower budget than later 007 films; a lot of it was really cheesy, I noticed yesterday.
I was dreadful at sports, too, Moonbootica.
(Except for an idiot-savant ability to serve a volleyball. Pure dumb luck.)
Amazingly, I have survived.
Supplies of vital medicines, including those used in the fight against cancer, are running short because UK pharmacies and drug wholesalers are selling them abroad to maximise profits.
The situation is becoming so critical that last night major pharmaceutical companies and leading charities called for the government to introduce new regulations to ensure supplies will be guaranteed in the future.
The shortage has been caused by the falling value of sterling which has meant that UK pharmacies and drug wholesalers can earn greater returns by selling medicines to the continent. An agreement between the pharmaceutical companies and the government earlier this year to cut the price of drugs sold to the NHS by 3.9 per cent has also made medicines intended for distribution in the UK more attractive to foreign buyers. As a result, exports of expensive branded prescription drugs from the UK are soaring, resulting in shortages in the supply chain. Last night leading cancer charities expressed alarm at the situation. "Cancer Research UK urges the Department of Health to ensure that no patient experiences any delay in getting prescription drugs," said Hilary Jackson, the organisation's policy manager. "We are concerned to hear of cases where patients have been delayed access to prescribed medication or have to find an alternative supplier. This causes extra distress at an already difficult time."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/busine...tical-
companies
I was dreadful at sports, too, Moonbootica.
(Except for an idiot-savant ability to serve a volleyball. Pure dumb luck.)
That was the same way with me. I could play volleyball pretty well, but my serve was a killer. I could usually rack up about 6 or 7 points before someone would figure out how to return the ball.
Dr. No was much lower budget than later 007 films; a lot of it was really cheesy, I noticed yesterday.
plantsman, mad google skillz
But very close to the Ian Fleming book. (As is from Russia With Love)
That poor woman at Obama's health-care Town Hall with recurrent cancer and no way to pay for treatment.
The painful side effects of Obama's healthcare reform
LA Times ^ | July 5, 2009 | Charlotte Allen
Here's a way for America to cut its spiraling healthcare costs: ice floes.
This idea isn't mine. It's President Obama's. Or rather, it's where we're likely to end up if the president prevails on Congress to pass the adventurous healthcare reform proposal currently being discussed, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will cost about $1 trillion over the next 10 years. That's on top of Medicare's annual $327-billion budget, whose massive deficits, if they continue at the same rate, are predicted to bankrupt the Medicare system by the end of the next decade.
In looking for a way to fund healthcare, Obama has set his eye on the oldest and sickest. You see, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, about 30% of Medicare spending -- nearly $100 billion annually -- goes to care for patients during their last year of life. What if there were no "last year of life," the president seems to be asking. The Eskimos used to set their elderly and sickly adrift on the ice or otherwise abandon them during times of scarcity, and that, metaphorically speaking, is what Obama would like us all to start doing.
I don't recall Obama suggesting that we set our elderly adrift on ice floes.
I think your poor excuse for a brain has frozen up.
I have a soft spot for Goldfinger and Goldeneye
Tomorrow Never Dies is another guilty pleasure
and I enjoyed the most recent Bond films with Daniel Craig
Good morning!
I see MoDo put her teen-girl snark to good use this morning, giving us an amusing take on the Palin Debacle.
In other news: I wish this weekend was longer.
Where is CoT?
I even like the Brosnan films; I think Judi Dench rocks as M.
The thing I recall about Goldfinger is seeing a laser burning up toward Connery's package and getting sympathetic scrotal retraction.
The Ian Fleming books (as were Robert Ludlum's early ones) travelogues with a plot.
And I, for one, would have loved to visit the Jamaica of "Doctor No."
If there is one overriding complaint (of mine) about this world it is that there is just too much excess.
Too much music
Too many books
Too many tourists
Too many . . . .
When there is so much, so much is lost. (Contradictory but essentially true.)
My favorite of the books was 'Moonraker', with the long introductory episode about card-cheating, and the ending twist, in which a small-scale villain inevitably is shown to be a large-scale villain. Bond doesn't even get the girl in the end.
The movie had so little to do with the book that it gave rise to a novelization having, again, nothing to do with the book...
Last night, CoT seemed torn between Wimbledon and bobbling. The guy deserves a Sunday off, afaiac
It sure is nice to be home after two weeks, although the nurses do seem to treat an American patient as a celebrity
Supreme Court leaned right on many issues this term
Los Angeles Times - David G. Savage - 12 hours ago
goddamn activist judges! nothing like the bullshit lie about 'impartial judges'.
plantsman
*snort*
Hi, DFH! Nice to see you back! Recovered?
This is an excellent match so far.
this is worrying - On 29 June 2009, the Jordanian journalist Murad Batal al-Shishani published an article in al-Hayat titled “Salafi–Jihadism: A New Face in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria’s Palestinian Camps.” The article talks about the new generation of “neo-Zarqawis” and the increasing radicalization of Palestinian refugees. This radicalisation, he argues, stems from the failure to resolve the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the deterioration of the PLO and its control over the refugee camps, the political ramifications of the Fatah-Hamas conflict, and rising poverty and unemployment. Al-Shishani states that attacks such as the 2008 incident in Jordan where Thaer al-Wahidi, a refugee from the al-Baq’ah refugee camp, assaulted a Lebanese classical music troupe, are emblematic of this phenomenon.
Al-Shishani argues that the Salafi-jihadi ideology in the refugee camps has come in three phases. The first was the establishment of the ideology in the mid-1980s. The establishment of ‘Usbat al-Ansar in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon was typical of this phase. According to al-Shishani, this period witnessed the beginning of nationalist groups using Islamic slogans and the establishment of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.
http://www.jihadica.com/shishani...-in-the-levant/
I'm shocked, shocked to hear that a supreme court led by Bush appointees would lean rightward...
I suppose I had best go upstairs for a bit - company might be leaving
Al-Shishani writes that the second phase was when the Salafi-jihadis started playing a larger role in sheltering and training non-Palestinian Salafi-jihadis. Al-Shishani cited the 2003 bombing of the McDonalds in Lebanon by the Yemeni Muammar al-Awami as an example of this development.
According to al-Shishani, the third phase is when the Salafi-jihadi ideology becomes the primary ideology for Palestinian youth in the camps. This phase is occurring now, as individuals and small groups are increasingly taking up the ideology. Al-Shishani states that the members of this new generation “are described as ‘neo-Zarqawis,’” and are the legacy of the Levantine Salafi-jihadi current that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi started in his Afghan training camp in 2000. They believe the route to Israel is through Iraq. Al-Shishani maintains that this trend is regional, centering on Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon, and it rejects the Salafi-jihadism of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (more on the al-Maqdisi dispute here and here).
http://www.jihadica.com/shishani...-in-the-levant/
company might be leaving
I'm shocked, shocked to hear that a supreme court led by Bush appointees would lean rightward...
ProfWombat
Thanks for reminding me of the sterling job the Democrats did in preventing right wing assholes from life-time appointments . . . .
Supplies of vital medicines, including those used in the fight against cancer, are running short because UK pharmacies and drug wholesalers are selling them abroad to maximise profits.
capitalist pig 101
It sure is nice to be home after two weeks, although the nurses do seem to treat an American patient as a celebrity
DFH in Dubrovnik
welcome back! We wuz worried.
In describing the Salafi-jihadi situation in Jordan, al-Shishani states that the refugee camp in Irbid has become a transit point for foreign fighters headed to Iraq and this is important because commentators normally associate Salafi-jihadism in Jordan with the cities of Zarqa, Salt, and Maan in addition to Palestinians not living in camps and East Jordanians. According to al-Shishani, Irbid is where the leader of al-Wahidi’s cell, Shakir ‘Umar al-Khatib, recruited al-Wahidi and called on Palestinians to join “the fighters in Iraq and Lebanon.”
For Lebanon, al-Shishani agrees with Omayma Abdel-Latif, a research associate at the Carnegie Endowment’s Middle East Center, that Lebanon is “fertile ground” for radical Salafi organizations. The lack of official Lebanese control over the camps, due to a previous agreement between Palestinian factions and the Lebanese government, compounds this threat.
Unfortunately, due to the lack of information, al-Shishani does not provide many details of the situation in Syria except to say that there have been clashes between militants in the Yarmuk refugee camp and the Syrian government.
http://www.jihadica.com/shishani...-in-the-levant/
Wow.
The study of Salafi-jihadism in the Levant often takes a backseat to that of Iraq and AfPak, and to that of Hamas and Hezbollah, but, as al-Shishani indicates, the ideology does have a persistent and dangerous following in the region. If the modicum of stability that Iraq currently enjoys holds after the US withdrawal, the next logical endpoint for the neo-Zarqawis would be the Palestinian Territories, where they could act as spoilers to any possible peace initiatives.
http://www.jihadica.com/shishani...-in-the-levant/
Thanks PM, it's good to be back. Feeling better, although no fun waiting for test results.
Catching up on all the weird news the last two weeks has been fun though, esp. the ongoing GOP implosion...
the nurses do seem to treat an American patient as a celebrity
How many sponge baths by hot slavic nurses can a guy stand?
SHEETS !
Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims that Palin is "under federal investigation."
Huh.
I wonder if they'll take legal action if we point out that Sarah is absurd little twit?
the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Whoa...
Or you can come here, buy private insurance, and STILL have long wait times.
The UK's National Health Service is very different from anything being considered here.
From Wikipedia -
A feature of the NHS, distinguishing it from other public healthcare systems in Continental Europe, is that not only does it pay directly for health expenses, it also employs a large number of staff that provide them. In particular, nearly all hospital doctors and nurses in England are employed by the NHS and work in NHS-run hospitals.
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