I’m sure you’re all expecting me to mention how SU beat the despised Georgetown “what the f*ck’s a” Hoyas yesterday at the Verizon Center in DC, with a crowd that included big dog Bill Clinton, Syracuse’s not so favorite son Terry McAuliffe, and the Geico caveman (but where was Joe Biden?). But I know nobody else is interested, so I won’t bother. If I did, I might mention that, although Bill is a GT alum, I’m sure he was rooting for SU because, well, Georgetown, as we all know, sucks, and Bill doesn’t need any reminders of Monica Lewinsky. Terry, well, we have our differences, but, when it comes down to it, we’re all Orange (except on St. Patrick’s Day, when we’re all Green, unless we’re playing Notre Dame, in which case, f*ck it, we’re Orange). I’m assuming the caveman was rooting for GT, though, because he looks like one of their typical Neanderthal “fans” (except much more articulate – and clean).
At any rate, beyond the misguided youth who attend the school (presumably because they couldn’t get in anywhere else), Georgetown doesn’t really have fans, and, as such, the Verizon Center tends to be overtaken by orange clad SU folks (DC is the #3 SU alumni base – behind the motherland and New York City). After being absolutely embarrassed last season by what looked more like an SU home crowd, the evil folks at GT decided to keep tickets off the open market, requiring some ridiculous combination of donations to the school and tickets to four other (crappy) GT games in order to score tickets.
Of course, SU folks found a way, and were still well-represented. But I don’t wanna talk about the game, and how SU closed out February with a 4 game winning streak (quite the opposite of January, which they closed out with w 4 game losing streak, which saw them go from 18-0 to 18-4). Things weren’t looking good, but who gives a crap how you’re doing in January? Or February, for that matter. It’s March that counts. So we’ll see.
But, anyhow, I won’t bore you with SU basketball. Neither will I mention that, although our Friday snowfall was a paltry 6 inches (officially; more like 10-12″ here), it was enough to slide this winter in at #10 on the all-time list at 157″ (a long way to go – about three feet – to get to #1, though). But there’s been too much talk of weather and snow and winter, so I won’t bring that up.
Likewise, I’m sure everybody’s tired of hearing about my aches and pains. So I won’t tell you how I did something to my left arm, and now it’s all but unusable. Damn, it hurts. But you won’t catch me complaining about it. Not today anyway.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t leave much else. Oh, there’s Wisconsin and Libya and all that, I suppose. But, really who has time? Besides, it hurts to try and type with this damn arm of mine.
Tired of being nagged, I finally upgraded WP to the latest version. Which, of course, broke the smilies. As soon as I remember what I need to do to fix them, I’ll fix them. Some day, I’ll write that down somewhere….
OK, that’s better (I think).
:fist: Which Side Are You On? :fist:
:fire: :fist:
:yippee: Bradley Whitford was on FIRE yesterday in Madison! :yippee:
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cinco!
At least I contributed.
While the existence of the toxic wastes (from hydrofracking) has been reported, thousands of internal documents obtained by The New York Times from the Environmental Protection Agency, state regulators and drillers show that the dangers to the environment and health are greater than previously understood.
The documents reveal that the wastewater, which is sometimes hauled to sewage plants not designed to treat it and then discharged into rivers that supply drinking water, contains radioactivity at levels higher than previously known, and far higher than the level that federal regulators say is safe for these treatment plants to handle.
Other documents and interviews show that many E.P.A. scientists are alarmed, warning that the drilling waste is a threat to drinking water in Pennsylvania. Their concern is based partly on a 2009 study, never made public, written by an E.P.A. consultant who concluded that some sewage treatment plants were incapable of removing certain drilling waste contaminants and were probably violating the law.
The Times also found never-reported studies by the E.P.A. and a confidential study by the drilling industry that all concluded that radioactivity in drilling waste cannot be fully diluted in rivers and other waterways.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/us/27gas.html
h/t to toniD
Vern — I :love: :love: :love: :love: your avatar!