Open Thread
By bluegal Wednesday Feb 25, 2009 8:30pmComedian Louis C.K. on Conan. If the video service pulls this from service overnight you can also watch it here. Open Thread below...
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You're SITTING in a CHAIR in the SKY!!!
heh he he
Yeah, I loved that!
Nice. A little perspective never hurts.
for teen drinking party at her parents home:
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/natio...
I heard that Palin had to pay back 7k of 21 k she charged the state.
The 7k was for her kids doing state biz.
When did her kids get elected to state office?
There was another charge for her using her home for state biz.
Talk about abusing the system.
and some sex ed for those kids instead of jetting the little pawns around. The taxpayers of Alaska would have been better served.
Here's the trailer to A Class Apart, a great documentary on the Hernandez v. Texas trial that I watched tonight.
This ruling was the catalyst for Mexican-Americans to fight for civil rights. When I go past my local movie theater, which was segregated for families like mine back in the 40's, I have to thank Gus Garcia, Carlos Cadena, John Herrera and many others that I can sit where the hell I want.
He is one funny dude. That was great, bluegal!
F*cking great! I remember those days...
was so cool. But the ones with the buttons ON THE HANDSET were WAY cool.
Yeah, and there wre only 6 digits.
I remember lay-away plans in stores and no credit cards. It was all so very long ago ...
when we got our first Microwave oven....it was like the marvel of modern technology...I remember my dad putting a cup of water in it and all of us huddled around cheering when it started boiling after a minute and a half. LOL!
Damnit if you all only knew. blue gal I'm sure you've got a clue, but Johan Amato. We all need something. Feel that rage. Its really something simple. Journalism describes it best. Just something. Something that ain't occurring. It will soon though. Damn them all or not. It will occur. You're welcome.
Here's a clue. Print the news! What journalism are you talking about?
We are too, but we all need some fun these days.
And who is Johan Amato? He must be new around here :)
That is funhy. Grampa has had too much to drink. no direspext meant on that. but johan make sme laugh. blue gal. johan they are all on the same team. to tell you the truth, I bleieve this place is the best, especailly with nicole, blue, david, and especailly recently susie. You no what I mean. Johan is the catalsyst and I hope he's driving a cadillac be/cause he deseres it. drinky drinky drinky drinky. driny..
and so sweet, Orangutan. Cheers to you!
Drinks for everybody!
and that soudns good to me.
is always upset. stupid is as stupid says or whatever.
http://mobile.thehill.com/leading-the-news/bo...
I guess he slept through 2001 to 2006, when government was growing quickly, taxes were being cut recklessly and we went deeper in debt than any time in our history
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I am just barely old enough to remember flying on piston engined aircraft. Like being pulled through the sky by a fleet of Harley Davidsons. Interestingly, if you compare a Harley Davidson engine to a Pratt & Whitney radial aircraft engine, they are basically the same design.
Now I have a laptop with Garmin Mobile PC and can surf the internet and watch myself zoom across the map at 560MPH at the same time. What will be next?
From time to time I MARVEL at the automobile. I mean....good God...we criss cross the country in a week. We go 600 MILES in a day, seeing the scenery and passing what used to be CULTURES of peoples.
Even the bicycle makes me think we've evolved into the age of miracles. Two little wheels....a chain and some tubing..and you can virtually move faster than ever possible on foot and with a fraction of the energy....a fraction!
We are a spoiled rotten age. I think my childhood was the best, and I am proud to be "a baby boomer". We really had the best of times.
When I was a kid I appreciated the things my parents got me, especially the roof over my head. Today's kids (and some adults) are spoiled rotten. Damn I miss the 80's and 90's.
The good news. Obama wants to improve health care. The bad: He might gut Medicare for rural communities. Now I know how Tom Tomorrow feels. What doesn't the U.K. want its people to know about Iraq? More corruption on Wall Street. Gun nuts ruin Mardi Gras, while a Kurdish legislator ruins the Turkish attempt at cultural genocide. Looks like they're hiding torture from Holder. I know we got more pressing priorities, but the House gives Paul Newman his due. When are we officially out of Iraq? Family planning is a good way to prevent abortion. SCOTUS hearts Church and State representation and monopolies, but enforces a gun control law. There's some justice in this world as the Sierra Leone thugs get a conviction. [Or is it just because they're black?]
Geres the update. Nicole belle was my favorite journalist. but i tell you rcentely susie has really benn pushing the lmites. Blue gal as hot as she is seems to be living in the past, with her reminscence of hero odd and old clips ans co forth.
I mean who doesn't lve john clessee but come one .. at least compete.
david understand the history which I respect. David Newhart for those who dont' kow. I've seen his posts.
thanks god sfor the site moneitors b/c otherwise this pace bmight get out ove croctnor. contrl. wow rarawoeh;askfjsadf;j.
Danitmit.
Ltos ove soflive..
just lay down ... here's a blankie ... let me tell you a bedtime story ...
you are drunk as a monkey.
I'm as stoned as a disobedient child in the bible.
It ain't going to stop.
Lewis Black on the Economic Crisis
Calgary Lady... you deserve a lot of love. but I'm sure you get that. especailly from ron. You deserve it. Here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b33vOZKcS0
don't gtell me I ain't no good or I never done nothin for you.
That is such a beautiful, haunting song. I am truly honoured :)
Buy.
Hope tomorrow is a better day for you.
CitiGroup announced that they were dumping $500 million into one of their Hedge Funds.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/23308202
To bad homeowners, your just not "too big to fail" material.
OOOOh, but wait! Carlyle Capitol (Amsterdam) is nearly collapsed.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206011...
Hold onto your 'nads sports fans, the BIG hammer is coming down and it looks like a free fall for Hedge Funds!
http://hf-implode.com/imploded.html
Scroll down if you dare.
I feel lucky to be on a fixed income. I wonder when the flying investors show is going to begin.
there is a diving exhibition included.
they can use.
they will be loking for the longest dive, like a few stories up in a high rise.
a scoring system. Like accuracy in hitting a certain square on the sidewalk.
Some of that info is dated from last year.
This info is more current:
http://implode-explode.com/forum/viewforum.ph...
wow..........thanks for the info. check this out....
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-0...
Small world.
I went to visit the Humboldt Wildlife Refuge today and noticed a plaque on my way out. It commemorated the Manager of the park who died on board flight 93 on September 11. They dedicated the visitor's center to him.
http://woodsnbeaches.blogspot.com/2009/02/hum...
Cool stuff.
Thanks fast. Been doing it for a month. Should get better with time.
Looks like I'll be coming back out west (from FL) for awhile to work up in western WA and OR. Got to warm myself back up to the weather, so to speak...Good stuff.
I might go to the coast in southern Washington for the summer to watch a friend's house get built. We should have a beer or something.
Was out in CA last month, but work schedule and weather just didn't accommodate.
I'll let you know if and when I make it.
Thanks. I needed that. Very funny.
Imagine one dial phone for 7 peaople, attahced to the kitchen wall, and downstairs no less. And we thought it was modern living.
Anyone remember getting up to change the channel on your B&W TV? My dad was the last person on earth to go colour.
Clagarylady: I'd forgotten about lay-away plans, but I used to use them often. Sometimes even pay by installments to the store, direct.
My family wants a new computer because this one takes about 10 secs to start up and more than one second to load a page...I'm always saying " 10 years ago we'd go make a coffee while a page was loading.... get some perspective !! "
Nice catch blugal
That was great..certainly puts things in perspective.
The Dumb Money creed rested on four pillars: perpetually low interest rates, perpetually rising asset prices (especially for housing), borrowers of all types remaining perpetually current, and perpetually strong markets for debt. The high priests of this cult were the nation's central bankers. In the Era of Cheap Money (the fall of 2001 through June 2004), Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan convinced us that we could have low interest rates despite inflationary pressures and global growth. His successor, Ben Bernanke, in 2002 began trying to convince us that we might have as much to fear from deflation as from inflation.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/186296
when we wanted to call a friend or neighbor, all we would dial was 4 numbers, no prefix.
When direct long distance started, we could make a call to Seattle by dialing 111.206.555.5555. It was great! No operator needed.
Interestingly, conservative talker Mark Levin used this poignant Louis CK routine to begin his show a few weeks ago. He played it in its entirety and and used it to segue into what seemed like an hour long segment on how "the left dwell in misery and take what liberty has given them for granted". Levin was very complimentary towards Louis CK, but it was definitely a novel way to extrapolate from comedy bit. Judge for yourself, interesting listening.
http://punditfight.blogspot.com/2009/02/pundi...
Polar regions found to be warming fast, raising sea levels - http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTR...
The Arctic and Antarctic regions are warming faster than previously thought, raising world sea levels and making drastic global climate change more likely than ever, international scientists said on Wednesday.
New evidence of the trend was uncovered by wide-ranging research in the two areas over the past two years in a United Nations-backed program dubbed the International Polar Year (IPY), they said. "Snow and ice are declining in both polar regions, affecting human livelihoods as well as local plant and animal life in the Arctic as well as global atmospheric circulation and sea-level," according to a summary of a report by the researchers.
HUGE: Earthjustice Wins Case Seeking Stronger Particulate Pollution Standards - http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/...
A federal appeals court today ruled that Bush-era clean air standards were deficient, sending them back to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for corrective action. The Bush administration had rejected recommendations by its science advisors for stronger airborne particulate standards, and the Court today ruled that this action was arbitrary. The standards at issue limit levels of soot, smoke, and other airborne particles linked to tens of thousands of premature deaths each year.
"This is a huge victory for anyone who breathes," said Earthjustice attorney Paul Cort. "Particulate matter is one of the most deadly forms of pollution out there today. The Bush EPA refused to follow the advice of leading health advocates as well as its own scientists who argued that a stronger standard was needed to protect public health. Today's ruling corrects that injustice."
'Bold Action and Big Ideas': In address to Congress on economy's crash, Obama says "the time to take charge of our future is here"
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/us/politics...
Taking Toys from the Rich: "This time, CEOs won't be able to use taxpayer money to pad their paychecks or buy fancy drapes or disappear on a private jet." – Barack Obama in most liberal presidential address to congress in over 60 years
- http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/sotn.o...
Why 'free market' healthcare for profit is insane: CEO of North Carolina company sought in tainted syringe case - http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/st...
For months, prosecutors say, technicians at a North Carolina plant prepared life-sustaining syringes and shipped them before ensuring that they were sterile. Investigators say they think a rush to maximize profits led Dushyant Patel's AM2PAT Inc. to produce heparin and saline syringes that killed five people and sickened hundreds of others. Some cases resulted in spinal meningitis and permanent brain damage.
Officials are now on an international search for the chief executive after he was indicted last week on 10 charges including fraud, false statements and selling adulterated medical devices.
Bushevik run FDA ignored debris in syringes - http://www.newsobserver.com/news/health_scien...
The FDA received reports about AM2PAT as early as 2005, but not until December 2007 did the agency issue recall notices to pull the drugs off the market. AM2PAT, which is now the subject of a criminal investigation, sold tainted syringes of heparin and saline that have been linked to five deaths. At least 100 more people were sickened, often after receiving the medicines during chemotherapy, kidney dialysis and other intravenous procedures.
Conditions at the plant, detailed in court documents and photographs, depict a facility in flagrant violation of proper manufacturing processes.
This is why you don't run the world like its a corporation....
Evil Empire: Exxon's influence and information wars continue today, building on lessons they learned from Valdez disaster
- http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/644
There are many reasons for the ascendance of Exxon in the American political sphere: money, corruption, the doctrine of corporate personhood.
Satellite Crashes After Its Launch; NASA, Others Consider Next Steps - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
Um...here's an idea, launch another one...
'We Are Not Quitters' - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan...
The big asset in our depleted national bank right now is Obama himself. And to this listener, at least, he delivered a big tranche of what the bankers and boardroom titans have failed to provide over the past year, which is leadership. That won’t be enough to offset all the bad news that’s still ahead, but it was a start.
It was a strong, ambitious speech, important not just for what Obama said but for what he still has in reserve in terms of leadership and rhetorical power. After eight years of botched words and shrugs and smirks, we have a president who can harness the English language and use it speak to a frightened country.
He had his priorities sharply focused Tuesday night: energy, health care, education, fiscal discipline — the same themes he kept pushing on the campaign trail, but now it is for real.
Robert Parry: The GOP's Anti-Obama Propaganda - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/022509.html
More significantly, today’s Republican leaders – finding themselves with little new to offer – appear to have turned to the well-worn pages of this earlier GOP playbook to choose the same game plan that set the nation on a dangerous and destructive course 16 years ago, a course that only now, finally, may be playing out.
Krugman: With banks, are we seeing the deck chairs on the Titanic rearranged? - http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/m...
David Sirota: Nationalization -- It's Not Scary, It's All Around You - http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/200902092...
'It says a lot about the modern Republican party that the majority of the caucus was sitting on its hands when President Obama talked about expanding health insurance for children, raising taxes on those making more than $250,000 a year and cutting taxes for working class Americans.'
- http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/...
CREW Files Ethics Complaint against Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) for misleading fundraising solicitation - http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/37426
Max Blumenthal: Bobby Jindal's Secret Past; Did you know about the exorcism? The name that came from The Brady Bunch? Those and other surprising facts about one of America's fastest rising young politicians.
- http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-storie...
Paul Krugman: Basically, the political philosophy of the GOP right now seems to consist of snickering at stuff that they think sounds funny. The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.
- http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/w...
Corruption Touched CIA's Covert Operations - http://www.propublica.org/article/corruption-...
Paramilitary agents for the CIA's super-secret Special Activities Division, or SAD, perform raids, ambushes, abductions and other difficult chores overseas, including infiltrating countries to "light up" targets from the ground for air-to-ground missile strikes.
This week the government acknowledged for the first time that some of SAD's sensitive air operations were swept up in a fraud conspiracy that reached the highest levels of the CIA and cost the government $40 million.
That information was contained in a series of court filings released in advance of the long-awaited sentencing of Kyle Dustin "Dusty" Foggo, the disgraced former No. 3 official at the CIA.
Why solving the climate crisis will increase GDP, Higher productivity and lower health costs outweigh additional spending . - http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/2/24/16...
Bush EPA's Standards for Pollutants Found to be "Contrary to Law" - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/bush-...
Why Copenhagen determines humanity's destiny: We're Beginning to See Hints That Ocean Circulation is Changing: International Polar Year Director - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/were-...
Bobby Jindal's Made Up Maglev Train to Disney Land, and Other Ungreen Response Speech Blunders - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/bobby...
Political Irony: http://politicalirony.com/2009/02/26/get-your...
http://politicalirony.com/2009/02/26/vote-how...
Your work is much appreciated.
I remember, as a kid, going to May Company with my mom to buy my dad a brand new TI "business" calculator (one of the high-end models that had sine and cosine functions, among others). They were kept in a glass case, like high-end jewelry. Price, if I remember correctly, was $279!!
just said that "we can't do anything" about our military expenses right now. STFU asswipe! Like Hell we can't!
And there was this young man at a table with his lap top, his iphone, his ipod and several other gadgets that he had plugged himself into. If he didn't look so rediculously funny I would have felt sorry for him... I'm still trying to figure out how ppl text msg so fast. :) We do need some perspective, and to slow down.
I too am amazed by the speed with which (mostly) young people can text. (Granted, I never learned to type). But the only thing I remember doing that fast and frequently as a young man was masturbating...
upwards of 11 million people unemployed, as just heard on CNN.
well i can remember 4 party phone lines where four familys had to share one phone line, and if some body wanted to listen in other then the party you wanted to talk to you had no privacy , it was kind of the fisa of today,and it was a time before tv when thier was only radio and the programs you listened to were only as exciteing as your imagination was, today tv feeds you so much crap with programs that dumb down a persond brain cells that its pathetic, now you have some piece of horse crap programs of people on some island showing off thier ass for prizes, its cheaper then putting on a good show , and the comercials only further the dumbing down and few of them are worth watching, its kind of like watching politicians blowing smoke up your ass on cnn, and people eat it up, munch a bunch of freetoes!
F'ing hilarious Tyree! Thanks.
your welcome fastfeat !
As a kid I had to take a dump in the outhouse in the yard and it was some poor schmo's job to cart it way.
how do you think the republicans got thier start , thier motto was [ your crap is our bread and butter]
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well now that obamas going to count the real cost of the wars in iraq and afganistan , maby he will see that the waste in lives and money there is not worth the cost to america and the money would be better spent on bringing people home from the bush cheny wars of choice and getting people working instead of killing, oh no!wait , ben ladens still lurking in some mythical cave and democracys just a few more deaths away from being accomplished for the iraq and afganistan citizens , never mind!!!!!!!
teacher/wife, and two of their kids:
http://www.miamiherald.com/486/story/922168.html
This happened about half a mile from my old house. Very sad.
Seems to be happening quite a lot in the U.S. lately.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Senate_to_annou...
And it's true. A lot of today's generation is VERY spoiled.
I like Louis CK. But Dane Cook is a hack (That's right I said it!)
I will do backflips across D.C. if this happens. That place is the source of so much evil. It should be turned into a foundation working for global peace.
http://www.examiner.com/x-3032-Denver-Progres...
We only got 2 or 3 channels on the TV and had to get up and turn the channel knob to change the channel and then you had to adjust the fine tune knob to get the channel to come in clear. After that you had to turn your rabbit ears around tilt them up and down slide them back and forth on the top of the TV set and then adjust the fine tune knob some more until you got the picture clear enough to watch.
To hell with this, let's just go outside and play.
Rose Garden as watermelon patch:
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage...
From the small town of my youth. I apologize...
My cell phone was hip in 2004 but now it is too shameful to pull out in public.
LCD screen is cracked (from throwing at the truck windshield--it's cracked too), but the sucker keeps ticking.
I believe that while technological advancements have improved many aspects of our lives, they have also led to the demise of simple courtesies of years gone by. Sitting on the porch and chatting with passers by has been replaced with sitting on the couch and chatting via IM. Long leisurely walks have been replaced with long winded emails full of promises to visit that never seem to be fulfilled. Maybe… we need to get back to the basics....
Red, white & blue "flag" bodysuit, white bellbottoms,Gold chain with small spoon attached, thick, patent leather belt and shoes w/ giant clear heels that had fake goldfish in them.
Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Now I have 'Stayin' Alive' playing in my brain all day ...
Thanks ...
Hahaha--sorry-!!
Hope this helps erase it...Are you reelin' in the years, stowin' away the time
Are you gatherin' up the tears, have you had enough of mine
Nothing like a little Steely Dan to rectify matters :)
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