Today really ought to be a national holiday. I find it hard to believe there will be any noticeable productivity in the workplace today, so why not just give us a well-deserved day off, and try it again on Tuesday?
It was a pretty good weekend for Central New York. SU beat Villanova. Former SU great Art Monk was voted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame. And the Giants – whose head coach, Tom Coughlin, is from Waterloo NY – about 50 miles west of here – and was Syracuse’s halfback during the Floyd Little/Larry Csonka years – won the Super Bowl. The Giants’ WR/special teams guy David Tyree – who caught a pass for a touchdown, and made a spectacular catch to keep the final touchdown drive alive – played for SU. And their Asst. Strength and Conditioning coach – Markus Paul – is another SU guy.
All in all, not a bad weekend.
and Jim Brown of SU was hanging out in Arizona with the first President Clinton.
You’ll want to order this collectors item from amazon to show all your Patriot friends http://www.amazon.com/19-0-Historic-Championship-Englands-Unbeatable/dp/1600781500
look further down for tags like “liar”, “cheat” and “wishful thinking” :rofl2:
As long as we’re revelling in the glory of cheaters not prospering
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a round of applause for USF alum Kawika Mitchell for his sack of Tom Brady. I’m guessing Brady enjoys it more when he gets sacked by Gisele. :hubba:
So how did everyone do on guessing Tom Petty’s set? I was 3 for 4: “Free Fallin’,” “Running Down a Dream” and my upset pick of “American Girl.” Missed “I Won’t Back Down,” though. I had “Refugee” instead. Oh well, I still had a better night than Belichick.
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🙄 :rofl2: It is good there is the Window of the 3 “posters” since I wanted to give artnorton as “alpha”… but the wee lil Window Said NO …it was:
:pirate: :yippee: Vernon is ALPHA 8) :banana: :pirate: :yippee:
Artnorton is BETA :pirate: :yippee: …(Danu Beta :pup: 😉 )
:pirate: :yippee: Kevin M is GAMMA (RAY)>>>>>>>>>>A!I!V!
…and don’t any of you have precious Gremlin Pals “That Must Be Obey’d” :rofl2: :dancers: :pup: & :cat: & :nuts: (Rats)
Druid- I get a kick out of listening to Green760 and all the “Weinerschnitzel” commercials. That franchise left Colorado years ago. Just hard to imagine all the bay-area progressives eating all those dogs. :yuck:
I’ll consider “Alpha ” as a make-up for sometime in the past :paranoid:
Good morning ❗ :joe: :joe:
Congratulations to all the Giants’ fans. Long day ahead, gotta get to work. Blog later.
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 :yuck: :crap: :paranoid: :paranoid: 😯 😯
❓ ❓ ❓ Whatever :sheep: le
Sunshine Jim, I Signed SJ ( 😉 ) Guest Book Yesterday — but doesn’t show sniff
As PJ said… today will be filled with endless reviews of yesterdays game .. They say farmers are people who can be said to be often times found to be out standing in their field.. perhaps ..techies are people who can often times be found to be outstanding in the hall…most of the time with a cup of cold coffee in hand..a lot of the time BSing with one another.. :yawn: :yawn:
Who gets to vote tomorrow, I do!
I get to vote, although I have no clue who I’m going to vote for.
I get to vote. :yawn: 🙄 .. :growl: A!I!V!
I saw one of Obama’s commercials the other day. It did not seem like a political commercial at all. It was very slick and hip, like this video.
Mrs A will cacause for Hillary- I’ll watch.
I am leaning toward Obama. I still haven’t got my Edwards tshirt 😡 . I wonder if the postman stole it. :tinfoil:
Oh, so did the groundhog see his shadow?
Hmmm I wonder whom I shall vote for? :rofl2:
Hillary for P & Obama for VP … eck now steph —anyone else besides Fat Headie :smack: :blech: A!I!V!
Yea Kristapea, 6 more weeks :cold: , except in AZ :rofl2: teeheeA!I!V!
No shadows here on Groundhog Day. And the way they had poor Punxsutawney Phil loaded up with drugs, I don’t think he saw much of anything, either.
Yep, seems like Obama is who all the cool kids are voting for.
I can’t stand Lional (and no Richie pls) 🙄 nor Streppie :growl:
so whatever :yawn: :pirate: A!I!V! :fustrate:
This has been nothing but a massive Media Blitz — and most fell into the rethug trap … now we will have a rethug -lite, for Prez, like Arnorld for Gov wuz … that is why even rethugs-lite are creeping out, and DEMS are just rolling over playing DEAD.. Now, onto my whatever, I quess :pirate: . Time, Tea Time, & Sleep. What a concept. But thus is the Future the masses will conjure. … :fist: A!I!V! :fist:
KP, maybe your Edwards shirt was suspended.
There are no Wienerschnitzels in San Francisco but a bunch in the East Bay and a lot of other hot dog joints as well. There is a small group sprinkled around Berkeley called Top Dog that are great and very Berkeley.
I might get a hot dog cart and call it “The Hot Dogs of Freedom”.
Too late to amend #1 to read SU All-American Lacrosse great Jim
Brown.Work got rained out today. Too muddy to get to jobsite. Change of plans. Now I gotta rethink the day like I gotta re think my
candidate. Candy date.He was a damn good basketball player, too.
I remember watching Eli Manning suffer a bitter loss against LSU the year the Tigers went on to share the national title with a cheater program. He seemed like a total baby. Yesterday he was fairly likable and surprised me.
That one scramble pass at the end to Tyree will probably go up there with The Catch (undefeated Super Bowl QB Montana to Clark) and the Immaculate Reception which also involved a helmet and Terry Bradshaw and rookie KB* Franco Harris.
*KerryBacker
The idiot in the White House attacked America again today. He calls it a budget. I call it an organized attack on the American people and a badly disguised attempt at looting the U.S. treasury one last time before he disappears into immunity. The only way he and other members of his administration can legally be held accountable for their crimes is to indict them before they leave office. Write your Congressman today!
U.S. Park Police Rebuked
And what did you expect? The rethugs have slashed their budget and outsourced much of their responsibilities since January 20, 1981. That’s the day the right-wing attacks on America became overt.
Wienerschnitzels!
I used to eat at the one in Santa Cruz when I lived there. Also liked the deli in Zanotto’s.
NC Blue, Now Ya Done It! Now I am starving … Tummy :growl: I use to eat at Der “W” when I ate
RED(meat 😮 ) :fist: A!I!V! :fist: But I did work out today :fist: :banana:
Hummm ….. KKZN seems to have taken Heartman off the venue.. probably to many listeners committing suicide. :reaper: :reaper:
All those SU athletes either quit or hurry on to other teams – as PJ knows, I think the SU outfits are ghastly. Congratulations to those who were rooting for the Giants. I bet all those players are sore as hell today.
Well, I voted via absentee – don’t have to show ANY ID and it’s optically scanned. That’s one way to get around the Rethug bastids in this state. Mr. farmerkat and I canceled each other out, I’m afraid. This was the teenager’s first vote!
Hope you all have a happy day!
PS The Mergansers paid us a visit early this morn. Snagged a few fishes!
Oh, and my brother’s first job was at “ Der Weinerschnitzel†and I use to hate the way he smelled when he got home. Maybe that’s why I became a vegetarian.
My Greek grandfather, when he was 12, came over here via Ellis Island and he had a hot dog place (no bean chili) in upstate NY that paid for more than a few relatives to forge their way over to the good old u.s. of a.
To be fair, those uniforms were new last year, and I think they were designed so that nobody could stand watching the team play (and seeing how absolutely terrible they are; the only thing uglier than their uniforms is their play).
But, hope springs eternal. We’ll see how they do next year.
Orange you glad?
HA! After seeing that photo of Vern’s, I’m not sure there is any hope there, PJ. Too funny!
(me thinks those fellas have eaten one too many schnitzels!)
That’s what happens when you hire an Athletic Director from USC.
They mist have picked out their uniforms before the county picked out theirs. :reaper: :reaper:
The Case for Impeachment
Good article at Harper’s
I am leaning toward Obama. I still haven’t got my Edwards tshirt . I wonder if the postman stole it.
Comment by Kristapea — February 4, 2008 @ 8:46 am
I was thinking over the weekend…
since I started out supporting Kucinich, and now he’s out…
then I switched to Edwards, and now he’s out too…
maybe I should throw my support to Hillary. Then Obama would get the nomination when Hillary goes out!
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As for your T-shirt, Krista, maybe the Edwards campaign sent the rest of them to Africa along with all the New England Patriots 2008 Super Bowl Champions shirts. 😆
Yeah, he knew he was dropping out and said, “eh, Krista doesn’t need this.”
Kp, was that you I saw during the Tom Petty 1/2 time show yesterday?
Was I shakin’ my :boobs:
:hubba:
Damn that HDTV is good.
Interesting
Leader on a new journey
Editor – I have attempted throughout my life to give a voice to the voiceless, hope to the hopeless, encouragement to the discouraged, and options to the cynical and complacent. From Northern Ireland to Sarajevo to Latin America, I have sung and marched, engaged in civil disobedience, visited war zones, and broken bread with those who had little bread to break.
Through all those years, I chose not to engage in party politics. Though I was asked many times to endorse candidates at every level, I was never comfortable doing so. At this time, however, changing that posture feels like the responsible thing to do. If anyone can navigate the contaminated waters of Washington, lift up the poor, and appeal to the rich to share their wealth, it is Sen. Barack Obama. If anyone can bring light to the darkened corners of this nation and restore our positive influence in world affairs, it is Barack Obama. If anyone can begin the process of healing and bring unity to a country that has been divided for too long, it is Barack Obama. It is time to begin a new journey.
JOAN BAEZ
Menlo Park
from yesterday’s SF Chronicle
I remember we/our “MOTTO” purposely we wanted to be put out of work.. Cheers to the People Like Him and other folk like him.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
A Poem – Leaves Speaking in the Breeze by Paul Watson
Category: Writing and Poetry
Leaves Speaking in the Breeze
By Captain Paul Watson
Can you hear the leaves speaking in the breeze?
Whispers and murmurs so subtle and soft
Talk is of evil stalking the forest
Silent screams shiver within crying trees
Defenders hang protest banners aloft
Selfless players in the wooded chorus
With nothing to gain from protecting life
Condemned by agents and soldiers of greed
Risking their lives for great voiceless giants
The forest echoes with machines and strife
Logs trucked to sawmills and pulp mills to feed
Sparking an alliance of defiance
The great redwoods rendered into charcoal
Nature’s cathedrals leveled to clearcuts,
Roaring chainsaws spitting eco-destruction
Tearing apart the forest heart and soul
Hard bodies hauled away on funeral trucks
Dying for humanity’s construction
Once the great trees were sacred entities
Providing life through food, shelter and air
Worshipped by ancient cultures of the wise
Ideas tossed for modern amenities
By a species that refuses to share
Severing all of nature’s sacred ties
Is there no one who will fight for the trees?
Where are the eco-warriors of the dark woods?
Calls for champions echo from the forest
Compassionate green Knights on bended knees
Verdant clad tree defending Robin Hoods
Voices rising high in righteous chorus
The mighty Oaks mercilessly struck down
Congealing sap growing cold as they die
Vicious axes felling white knotty pine
Ancient redwoods no longer can be found
So few humans to hear the forests cry
Man’s thoughtless arbocide crossing the line
Trees die for paper for funding appeals
Thick papers published on saving the trees
Signing petitions. send contributions!
Attending meetings, compromising deals
Lawyers reaping in hefty legal fees
Promises made devoid of solutions
A valiant few sit in the high branches
Ridiculed by the rich corporate greens
They alone stand up, fight for the forests
No legal support, taking their chances
Unsupported by paid greens with the means
Who visit the trees as eco-tourists
Warriors hamstrung by pseudo-morality
Pacific violence through silence
Bearing witness as giants groan and fall,
Limiting effective ability
The Earth calls out for violent defiance
While very few do anything at all
No inheritance for the green and meek
Never ending crash of dying sages
The awful carnage never stops nor rests
Destroyers are strong, defenders are weak
Life extinguished for fair union wages
Civilization always knows what’s best
Monkey wrenchers, tree sitters, and spikers
Betrayed by the corporate green machines
Assaulted, arrested, tried, fined and jailed
Police breaking up logging road strikers
Black smoke rising high from burning machines
Violence the last refuge when all has failed
Madagascar the trees are falling
In Brazil the rain forest is dying
Tasmanian trees shredded to wood chips
The spotted owl from the trees is calling
Over clear cuts, dark vultures are flying
Into the flesh of the trees the saw rips
The silent rustling screams reach deaf ears
Killers never hear, smell or see evil
Conscience is cheap sawdust in the strong gale
Not feeling the giant’s intimate fears
Our lust for gold remains medieval
Destruction remains humanity’s tale
Ravaged redwoods lie rotten on the slopes
Once proud Douglas Fir dragged through the red dirt
The cedar bleeds through vicious wounds so deep
Great giants bound to trucks with chains and ropes
Whose drivers cannot see or feel the hurt
Amidst the slaughter few humans still weep
Two thousand years standing in noble state
Survivor of lightening, fire and flood,
Witness to nature’s living history
Never imagining such tragic fate
Shamefully expiring in the mud
Obliterating another mystery
When the last wild forest tree is no more
Replaced by tree farms in ordered even rows
Ready for harvest, money in the bank
Trees of all kinds for sale in the tree store
A license needed before a tree grows
Valued only for paper, board and plank
The taming of the wild achieved at last
No more diversity, no more danger
Ordered, catalogued, monitored and clean,
Old growth a romantic myth from the past
No more need for warden or for ranger
Logs all the same, tall, one species and lean
It is a future that we must reject
The dominant paradigm rejected
Declaring war on the killers of trees
Discovering strategies to elect
Rejecting the criminals elected
To hear the voices of leaves in the breeze
Raising our fists in righteous defiance
Taking back the forests from human greed
Restoring balance and diversity
Rejecting all corporate reliance
Freeing genetics, releasing the seed
Grasping the strong sword of adversity
Monkey wrenching the forest destroyers
Breaking the links of the roaring chainsaws
Smashing the machines, logging trucks and mills
Contemptuous of corporate lawyers
Their purchased corporate designer laws
Justifying all of their evil kills
If trees do dream, they dream of salvation
Seeking an alliance with those who care
With those who hear the voices in the leaves
Dreaming of freedom and liberation
And the return of the owl, elk, and bear
And to the web of life they once did weave
Evil was birthed with the rape of a tree
Upon a dead tree hope and truth was nailed
Beneath a tree the Iroquois made peace
Our future depends on trees being free
We die with the trees if our fight has failed
We must stand with the trees and with the beast
Embracing the trees is embracing life,
Bare feet and toes in the rich forest mud,
Feeling the Earth, listening to the leaves
Green knights of the dark wood engaging strife
Giving all, our courage, tears, strength and blood
As we hear the leaves speaking in the breeze
Bad Poem, in my opinion, yet I call most of mine the same way, only Classic hits a chord, however, Captain Watson has seen it all…..and I can’t describe the horrors he has seen and stopped in HIS Way…. /|\
I love Joan B. she was of the 60’s and early 70’s … in the 80s we held “The Peace Pagoda” in L.A. This is I guess time of Rethug-lite, Obama. The masses and Rethug Masses already deemded Obama, Emperor/God. Which means I vill be back ahhh perhaps. We will see about and if I care about religion. I did ultimately say no matter what I am a Yellow Dog Dem… but then again no one cared when we told of this very day in the 80s — even about the Polar Bears (shoot) that was in the 60s … … 🙁
But Kum Baaa Yaaa (unk spelling) A!I!V!
Does One Forget what I said of me from the beginning:
“one of the “progressive utopian(s) with no sense of humor”
(…lest one forgot) 8)
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A WIN WORK’N’ (aka “brew’n’) :banana:
http://green.yahoo.com/news/ap/20080205/ap_on_re_us/navy_sonar_2.html
Judge: Bush can’t exempt Navy in sonar
By ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press Writer | Posted Mon Feb 4, 2008 5:27pm PST
LOS ANGELES – President Bush cannot exempt the Navy from environmental laws banning sonar training that opponents argue harms whales, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Navy officials did not immediately respond to the ruling by U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper. Mark Matsunaga, spokesman for the Navy’s Pacific Fleet, headquartered in Hawaii, said officials needed time to review it before commenting.
The president signed a waiver Jan. 15 exempting the Navy and its anti-submarine warfare exercises from a preliminary injunction creating a 12 nautical-mile no-sonar zone off Southern California. The Navy’s attorneys argued in court last week that he was within his legal rights.
The Navy is not “exempted from compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act and this Court’s injunction,” Cooper wrote in her 36-page decision.
Environmentalists have fought the use of sonar in court, saying it harms whales and other marine mammals. …(continues…)
I have a feel’n’, i’m OMEGAA!I!V! :reaper: :dancers: