Supposed to be pretty warm here today, with maybe a little rain. Not too much, I hope, ‘cuz we really don’t need to be melting all this snow all at once. My main plan for today is to sit and watch my beer ferment. And maybe get empty out a few bottles, to make room for it when it’s done. It’s not like I have any Big East basketball worth watching. Just a week until everybody’s favorite holiday. Have a good Saturday.
It’s 4:00 AM my time {PDST}. :cat: :pirate: :pup: I even have coffee but TEA YEA :joe: :banana: :dancers:
ALPHA :growl: A.I.V.
Internet Radio May Be Doomed; Congress Appears Unlikely to Help
Comment by andy aka Aquaman — March 9,
😮 😯 :paranoid: :fustrate: 😡 :doh: 🙄 :omg: :rant1: 😮
A.I.V.
Cong. David Obey explains why we can’t just cut off funding for the war: We don’t have the votes.Loses his temper too.
http://blog.thehill.com/2007/03/09/video-captures-confrontation-with-rep-obey
That’s what I’m trying to tell you lady; there ain’t no ‘f’ in ‘broccolli’ :sammy:
The scandal over treatment of outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center has focused attention on the Army’s decision to privatize the facilities support workforce at the hospital, a move commanders say left the building maintenance staff undermanned.
Some Democratic lawmakers have questioned the decision to hire IAP Worldwide Services, a contractor with connections to the Bush administration and to KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary.
http://tinyurl.com/39dcmt
IN OVERTURNING the District of Columbia’s long-standing ban on handguns yesterday, a federal appeals court turned its back on nearly 70 years of Supreme Court precedent to give a new and dangerous meaning to the Second Amendment. If allowed to stand, this radical ruling will inevitably mean more people killed and wounded as keeping guns out of the city becomes harder. Moreover, if the legal principles used in the decision are applied nationally, every gun control law on the books would be imperiled
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030901794.html?referrer=email
From the Rocky Mountain News:
There. Take that.
More guns in DC? There’s a great idea.
Do you think Bush, Cheney, Condi, or any of the “surge” flag wavers and chickenhawks would even be a little bit moved by these?
Imagine NYC awash in guns. :omg:
Good Morning :joe:
Oh, the little airlock on my fermenter is bubbling away. It’s so cute.
You makin’ beer or somethin’ PJ?
re:#10
No 👿
Yep, makin’ beer. Cooked it up yesterday, and now I’ve got five gallons or so in the primary fermenter.
What kind of beer? :40:
For those of you with teens in the house, just keep on your toes (and sleep with your bedroom door locked).
EEK 😮 re 6 awwwww … :bow: Marc
So do I just wait for next day or how does one get HBO if one CHOSES NOT TO GET CABLE 🙄 or do i just stay angry at AGAIN Not Seeing Marc :nod: 🙄 (LBH aka it’s a Joke 😉 )
Sue P and … others,
I HAVE AND DO SHOOT GUNS {Mostly In Past}. BUT PLEASE MAKE THE LAWS HARDER!
One CANNOT take back a bullet! …. {Not a joke :no: }
a.i.v.
Hey, Druid, how are you doing today?
I believe that the polls have shown that a large majority of Americans support gun control. If these laws are overturned, the disaster it will cause is obvious and the backlash, I think, is predictable.
Here’s the letter written to Fox Noise, cancelling the debate. Sounds like poetry to me!
March 9, 2007
Marty Ryan
Executive Producer
Fox News Political Programs
xxx-xxx-xxxx (fax)
400 N Capitol Street NW, Suite 550
Washington DC 20001
DELIVERED VIA FAX AND EMAIL
Dear Marty,
A month ago, the Nevada Democratic Party entered into a good faith agreement with FOX News to co-sponsor a presidential debate in August. This was done because the Nevada Democratic Party is reaching out to new voters and we strongly believe that a Democrat will not win Nevada unless we find new ways to talk to new people.
To say the least, this was not a popular decision. But it is one that the Democratic Party stood by. However, comments made last night by FOX News President Roger Ailes in reference to one of our presidential candidates went too far. We cannot, as good Democrats, put our party in a position to defend such comments.
In light of his comments, we have concluded that it is not possible to hold a Presidential debate that will focus on our candidates and are therefore canceling our August debate. We take no pleasure in this, but it is the only course of action.
Sincerely,
Tom Collins
Chairman, Nevada State Democratic Party
Harry Reid
U.S. Senator (D-NV)
It should be a dark ale.
Sue P. 8) -ish … 😉 thank you
Mister Misty aka One Eye Jack
is the most recent ex-stray :billcat: {although feeding him outside for years} … HE IS THE ONLY ONE TO WALK “AROUND” COMPUTER KEYBOARD. :yippee:
a.i.v.
Sue P, :pirate: :cat: :pup: :pirate: TEA :joe: :growl: :fist: :pirate:
re 20 :yippee: :pirate: :yippee: :pirate: :yippee: :pirate: :dancers:
:yippee: PJ :pirate: HomeBrew Beer :40: 8)
a.i.v. Slow Cheetah Red :hot: Chili Peppers :pirate: :dancers:
Nice of Roger Ailes to give them an easy out. Kudos to John Edwards for standing up (and now they’re slamming him, of course).
6000 8) PJ
i never looked before, but now i am fascinated.
:yippee: a.i.v.
Oh, I didn’t notice that, either. Frankly, I don’t much care about the number of posts. I’m more interested in the substance. And I know that a very, very small fraction of my posts have been substantive. Hell, only a a tiny number of my daily “starters” have much of anything in them.
It’s everybody else’s comments that make this place worth, not mine. If I ever find the time, between homebrewing and school, and lazy, idle, procrastination, I’d like to turn this into more of a community site, with everybody having the ability to have their own blog and whatnot, and maybe just a front page with news and contributions from multiple people. But, I just don’t seem to be able to find the time. And there’s probably not that much interest.
It’s interesting to note that, while the number of daily posts has gone down, we still get about the same number of visitors here lurking. So, you’re posting for a much wider audience than you realize (how’s that for pressure).
:yippee: they are having a farmers market in the parking lot i am parked in!!!!!
:pup: burrito!
😯 😯 😯
❓ whatever :sheep: le
🙁 environmentalists hate me
:banana: fred!!!!!
The biggest secret to making your own beer is to be sure it quits fermenting before you bottle it .
We had some one in college who made some beer and had not taken that into account .. He unfortunately lived on the third floor of a dorm with steam heating pipes going vertically to the rooms above and below.The beer started exploding in his fridge and ran down the hot pipes .. His daddy was none to happy with the bill and everyone else was none to happy with the smell. :yuck: :crap: 😮 :reaper: :reaper:
Fed thinks burrito —> causes air pollution ??.. Sean must be in AridZona for there to be a farmers market this time of year 😮
california and i had someone come to my truck and tell me that i should shut my truck off because my exhaust is contributing to global warming i told the guy that it is also contributing to it not being over 100 degrees in my truck and me not dying
re:#17 The scariest part is that most of the friends of the suspects showed up at jail in support of their friends. There’ve been hints that many more than those arrested knew about the body. Did anyone ever see “Rivers Edge”? :tinfoil:
Did the person in California then go back and get in their 25 year old chevy and drive away leaving a trail of blue smoke and gasoline fumes behind them ??
😮 That girls mom must have been “well known” in the neighborhood 😮 😮
FRED & SEANMS :pirate: :yippee: :pirate:
Ahhhh come on Someone had to ‘dig’ that O’ de la Smell de Beer 8) ?
A.I.V.
re 17 one can go in sooooooo many different directions :rofl2: :yuck: eck :rofl2: :smack: 🙄 :knit:
A.I.V.
Feds tried to cut aid
Federal officials secretly schemed to limit payouts for sick and dying nuclear weapons workers, including thousands from the Rocky Flats plant outside Denver, newly released documents show.
The officials responsible for helping those workers went behind their boss’s back, called on White House officials for help and tried to hide their efforts, according to internal e-mails and memos obtained by a congressional committee and posted on its Web site.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5408519,00.html
=======================
Rocky Flats “lost” about 6 tons of Plutonium since it was opened in the early 1960’s if this :crap: keeps up how long before some of it is found .. 😮 😮 😮
Actually, after it’s done fermenting, you add a little priming sugar to reactivate the yeast so that it carbonates in the bottles. Not enough, and you get flat beer. Too much, and you get hand grenades.
That recarbonization part sounds like something Alfed Nobel was the first to get good at . 😮
Hey, PJ, save me a bottle. I just threw out the last bottle of my last batch. Apparently the cap wasn’t airtight because the brew came out totally flat. :smack:
Yesterday I cleaned my living room, cleaned the kitchen and washed the floor, rearranged (but didn’t clean) my crafts/sewing/computer room, and shampooed half the carpet in the living room. I think that’s not bad for mental health improvement. Today I’ll be hiking to the library and then the grocery store for something to poison the MOUSE that I saw scurry across my kitchen floor last night. (Due to the age of the houses and our proximity to a man-made railroad canyon the whole neighborhood has a rodent problem…) Tonight I’m going to try sewing a new jacket. Tomorrow I’m hopefully going to Powells to sell some books, then cruise Saturday Market (in Portland it’s Saturday on Sunday for some reason) and then come home and finish cleaning. So if there’s time in between I’ll check in.
I wonder how much it’s gonna cost to add HBO to my cable package? Sigh! I love Marc dearly but I really hate having to add HBO.
Sheeez… :spank: Gypsy putting house cleaning ahead of blogging .. do you feel alright ?? 🙄 🙄 😮
I almost forgot to add that I have homemade enchilada sauce in the slow cooker. I really ought to invite all the bloggerini to dinner some night…
Yeah, Fred, I’m fine. And you notice I’m still blogging. LOL!
I was getting tired of not being able to walk through my living room without stepping over a pile of either books or papers. And my fabric stash is getting out of hand, too.
http://www.idrewthis.org/d/20060619.html
From today’s Media Matters mailing, concerning Rush Limbaugh’s speculations on John Edwards’ sexuality and/or fashion preference:
http://tinyurl.com/2cm4ks
Strong words, coming from someone of Rush’s advanced cup size. :boobs: :nana:
It’s not like I have any Big East basketball worth watching.
Then enjoy some MAC basketball. Akron vs. Miami (OH) for all the marbles at 7 PM EST on ESPN2. (Goebbels, I know, but WTF, it’s the alma mater, dammit.)
The Zips have an outside chance of making the big show even if they lose, since they now have 26 wins after last night’s stunning victory over hated rival Kent State. But if they win tonight, we won’t have to guess. Akron and Miami split the season series, so it should be a good one.
:banana: :banana: :banana:
Gee, you’d think someone who needs Viagra wouldn’t cast aspersions on anybody else’s manliness.
Nah, if UB is out, there’s no point in me watching MAC basketball, either.
here is a little blurb on Maron, in case no one has posted it….and also this is the site with the long list of the streams of AAR shows down the left side of the page
Ha, I didn’t see this before. Poor Billo.
That picture of Maron with the cigar makes him look like Alan King. If you’re a mad optimist, we might get a radio show and the HBO series in the same year, and apparently, we won’t have to sit through that bimbo dipshit Cox on the same show. All we need is a double impeachment and a quick troop drawdown to make ’08 a year to cherish.
And buying HBO is not so terrible, as Bill Maher is funny from time to time.
Does Maron on HBO mean Earl too? [you see, these people are never satisfied].
That Harry Reid letter backing out on Fox is the lamest thing I’ve ever seen. So we’re to believe that Roger Ailes’ “joke” about Obama was the last straw? Every piece of deceit and dishonesty that proceeded that event was forgiven? Thank god Edwards had a little guts and did the right thing. If he’s not careful, that boy might wind up winning, since most Dems are fed up with these gutless bastards. :sammy:
Ha, I didn’t see this before. Poor Billo.
Comment by pjsauter — March 10, 2007 @ 6:26 pm
I bet the three people who tried to access his website that day were really pissed off.
:rofl2:
Did anyone see this photo series of a marine wedding of a very badly injured Iraq soldier…? Its pretty horrible and upsetting to see what happened to him…suicide car bomber in ’04…
After those sad, sad, pictures of the marine and his wedding, perhaps some gorgeous pictures of Pale Male and Lola will sweeten the day.
http://www.palemale.com/
Marc could/should be in a good position right now. Great loyalty and support from a little rag tag band does not hurt. A radio/cable tandem is a great strategy. I am not sure Earl works on video :sammy: except for some of us.
Maybe I missed something but is there any word from Painting Girl? I hope she has weathered her issues. I know Marc is in her area now so I hope she is able to enjoy.
Beware of the Ides of Marc.
Um. :paranoid: I don’t know what to say, except get the hell away from my Hyundai, pal.
:yuck: rush limbaugh
Evening all!
Yeah, PJ, he’s probably got better taste than your Hyundai or my Nissan. But I still wouldn’t take my car to him. I wonder what he uses for lube?
Kristapea, re 62 Eck :rofl2: :no: :rofl2: :smack:
:rofl2: a.i.v.
So, can this asshole be indicted now, or what?
Yeah, PJ, he’s probably got better taste than your Hyundai or my Nissan. But I still wouldn’t take my car to him. I wonder what he uses for lube?
What else? 5w30
Weh didn’t think there was anything wrong in what he did. These guys were convinced of their own righteousness.
Scooter and Karl, in jail, would make quite an attractive pair.
I was thinking maybe gear oil. Or maybe a shot of bearing grease.
Everyone has their little fetishes :jerk: :pope: :penguin:
Another Jim Earl sighting on Jackie Guerra’s show. He got one word in!
That’s all Jim needs is one word, was it “ignominious?”
No luck.
:fist:
The main attraction – distraction
got ya number than nnumber than numb
Empty ya pockets son; they got you thinkin that
What ya need is what they sellin
Make you think that buyin is rebellin
From the theaters to malls on every shore
Tha thin line between entertainment and war
The frontline is everywhere, there be no shelter here
Speilberg the nightmare works so push it far
Amistad was a whip, the truth was feathered and tarred
Memory erased, burned and scarred
Trade in ya history for a VCR
Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
Fourth Reich culture – Americana
Chained to the dream they got ya searchin for
Tha thin line between entertainment and war
There be no shelter here
Tha frontline is everywhere
Hospitals not profit full
Yet market bulls got pockets full
To advertise some hip disguise
View tha world from American eyes
Tha poor adore keep fiendin for more
Tha thin line between entertainment and war
They fix the need, develop the taste
Buy their products or get laid to waste
Coca-Cola is back in the veins of Saigon
And Rambo too, he got a dope pair of Nikes on
And Godzilla pure muthafuckin filler
To keep ya eyes off the real killer
Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
Fourth Reich culture – Americana
Chained to the dream they got ya searchin for
Tha thin line between entertainment and war
American eyes, American eyes….
View the world from American eyes
Bury the past, rob us blind
And leave nothin behind
Just stare
Relive the nightmare.
My time is 12:00 Midnight … Mwah Ha Ha :reaper: …..I fell asleep getting warm and reading in bed :smack: NOW awake all night.. Tea :joe: :pirate:
— I again fell asleep :smack: AGAIN 🙄
a.i.v. Can’t Stop … Red :hot: Chili Peppers
If I FINISHED Writing Susan, she might be keeping me AWAKE :nana: :slap: :pirate: :dancers: ……… I BLEW IT ❗ … sniff
ROXIE ❗ But ya know, YOU COULD BE … B E T T E R … than me AND JUST APPEAR. :pent: :dancers: :pent: :nana:
a.i.v. “Songs of ….” No I better not write this down ….It might sound too weird for most :rofl2: Red :hot: C.P.
“… It’s A Repeat … of a Story Told … And It’s Getting Old” 🙄
Just Cuz I and many were not here for many hours. :smack:
a.i.v. I Guess We Roll Up The Sidewalks Early , These Days 🙁
Boston Lead Singer Dead at 55
Brad Delp was found dead at his New Hampshire home. Police have ruled out foul play. Boston had a number of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Friday, March 9, 2007 🙁 Don’t Look Back …sniff…
Most people I knew back then had that Boston poster.
Wow, my iMac just sprang forward but not my PC and for now the blog. I must not be in Indiana or Arizona anymore.
Mine is suppose to jump forward ❓ ….. That’s why it now says 2:00AM I guess 🙄
a.i.v.
Most of my clocks say Regular time … and a few “knows what to do” …whatever 🙄
a.i.v. Time is ,,,