zed

Aah, ya had to spoil my hat trick…! 8-P

nahant!
ct!

Suz! INXS!

Boy, your crew deserves tons of credit.

Now that your here digg it for the lake and for our hostess!

seemed like a good one after a day like today

dugg and thanks nahant

Sometimes lurking can be rewarding:>)

Wow Suz. Haven’t heard this one in a while. I saw these guys live just before Hutchence committed suicide. I was sad at that, because it was SUCH a good show in what was Pine Knob over in Pontiac, MI. They were the headlines of that day long musicfest. At least 7 bands, all of them known from the 80s or onwards in 1997. Even got to see Echo and the Bunnymen. :D

Packing for a trip with my parents, off to a cousin’s wedding. The one that’s become Groomzilla. *snickers* Should be interesting, especially since his fiance is so laid back.

EPU’d. Cool off here when the Austin temps top 100.

hey alias

i’e always liked this song.. never got to seem them tho

gromzilla? onmystars, well, ya can’t choose family (laughing)

Fuck yeah!

gonzo!!!

Is the tech crisis fully resolved? For the past 20 or 30 minutes I have been experiencing ssssllllooooowwwww ttttooooooooooooooobbbbbzzzzzz, had to clear cache and restart, that took several minutes and I missed the opening of Late Late Nite and unfortunately was unable to fight off the z-worders. Is it me or is it my puter or is it the site? hard to say.

I done Dugg nahant’s Digg, however.

Is there a way to send a few bucks for the tech crew and mods? Love you guys. I know that donations for the convention end in .08. How about an .09 for our backstagers?

must be you cause its chugging along smoothly backstage and loading fine on my end

anyone else having any trouble?

Well, i didn’t have to be around when they went through wedding planning hell. I just heard about it though. *grin* He’s generally one of the smarter of the cousins and a professional photographer with an amazing eye for a shot. I think that’s part of why he’s became groomzilla. His fiance works in medical, so she’s of a different type of mindset entirely. The Groomzilla’s always been one of my favorite younger cousins, and i remember him fondly as the tiny guy for soooo long. Until he shot up and now has a solid foot of height on little me.

Family, especially big boisterous ones like mine? Garunteed(sp?)to be nutty but egads we have a lot of fun. Considering i’m not frowned upon for being the girlgeek by either side? Um yeah. Crazy, but not stupid. :D

Cheers to the techs (who’ve certainly had quite a time of it lately).

[¡Clink!]

What a novel idea…

Paris plans help-yourself green car hire

The Socialist mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, announced yesterday that from the end of next year, 4,000 electric cars will be placed around Paris and its outskirts for drivers in the scheme to help themselves for short journeys. It is the first electric car project of its kind in a capital city.

“This could revolutionise transport,” Delanoë told French radio. He has doubled the projected cars from 2,000 to 4,000 and expanded the target area beyond Paris’s ring road. […]
“There will be a computerised system which allows you as soon as you collect the car to announce where you’ll drop it off, so there will be a parking space available,” Delanoë said.

It would operate similar to the Vélib’ bike scheme. Users would either take out an annual subscription or be able to approach a hire-point on the spur of the moment or perhaps pay by using their public transport pass, equivalent to London’s Oyster card. Electric car-recharging points would be scattered across the city.

One target group is young couples with children who occasionally need a car to shop or travel but cannot afford to run their own. The mayor described it as “a system of individual journeys that are completely clean”.

No problemo here in deadwood city

zed watches over you from beginning to end

blezzings

Blessedly, no.

And I mean that is a Muslim way.

America lost a national treasure when he died. At least he had the coolest funeral ever.

How do they afford to do that? The initial costs at any rate have to be pretty damn steep.

Hey Suz is this a new feature of the Lake?

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Way ahead of Michelle…

in the shape of a double-thumbed fist

nahant, can you retry that last one…. perhaps break it into two comments (and remember, fair use is considered to be less than 250 words)

Hanging head sorry.. but I felt it would lose complete context..:>(

fading fast…but be back soon.
Good night, all. Best of all possible tomorrows to you all.

Aloha, Ron!

maybe by not sending troops to die in Iraq

g’nite, RonD - sleep well

Hey all. Friggin’ hot!
nite ronD

I’m still trying to find out what happened on FISA today.

Anybody have a good link or a concise synopsis?

I’m planning to watch KO rerun at 11 p.m. FDL time. Will that help?

Friends! Wotta day! I’ll miss the 4th Amendment!

Read Marcy. Settle in.

Read EW’s last 3.

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From Democrats.com:

FRIDAY: House Vote on Warrantless Wiretapping
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Steny Hoyer’s warrantless wiretapping bill is obscene because it gives complete immunity to the telcos that have spied on us illegally since 2001, as well as the Bush Administration officials who illegally asked them to break the law. And it lets them continue spying on us by creating Big Brother with a figleaf of meaningless “protections.”
On May 14, Democrats defeated a similar immunity bill 213-197. There is absolutely no reason for any Democrat to change his or her vote now except corrupt greed for telco campaign cash.
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That probably helps quite a lot, it’s still a considerable investment for a city. Guess things work a lot differently in France, don’t see that working too well here.

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Now the battle moves to the Senate for another vote early next week. So please call both of your Senators and tell them to vote NO on the Iraq $165 billion. If you don’t have time to call, sign our petition:
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You will love and hate the Turley segment. Must-see.

It was nice while it lasted.

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Once upon a time, I participated in such an experiment, and it was great. These were Hondas of a boxy design. All I needed was a proximity card.

It was wierd to walk up to a car, wave a card, have it unlock the doors, and there be no key. You don’t turn an electric car on!

You simply release the parking brake, and push on this pedal. There is no noise initially and then a bit of gear whine.

But, when you stop, there is no noise.

This makes for an entirely different sensation in stop-and-go traffic. Normally, I get anxious when I’m stopped and idling. But not in this car.

Also, this thing would come off a stop light very fast; nobody beat me across the intersection.

That first one is a no-go, nahant.

G’nite pups, big day tomorrow…

Call Obama’s office.

Call Hillary’s office.

Pop corn for breakfast.

See Scotty throw Bush under the bus. (Moved to 9:30 per CSPAN)

Tear hair over FISA.

Laundry. Dishes. Vacuuming. Dusting. Save the world.

Sweet dreams…

Civil liberties are quaint, pre-9/11 things. Not to worry though, because in a post-9/11 world, you can indulge in all of your “Kill all the brown people,” genocide fantasies. Because killing Muslims for Petroljesus is the most important thing an American can do!

Aloha, Hmmm… long time no see! ;-)

I’m reeling with the feeling, Han.

So now that the House has voted, we must defeat as many of the 268 pro-occupation Representatives as we can - both in primaries against pro-war Bush Democrats this summer and in general election races against Republicans in November.

As far as I’m concerned, I don’t even care if the Democrats have a majority in either house. I just want good people there who will stand up for what’s right.

Someone needs Ford special tool, Part # 00001?
Otherwise known as BFH.

With our cavetastic congressional leadership, I hope I’m not the only one who’s thinking Speaker Kucinich and Senate Majority Leader Feingold are sounding downright sweet right about now.

Damm missed that one Newton… Thanks for pointing it out… try this one

http://www.democrats.com/impea.....ors-wanted

Could you go into that in a little more detail?

Cool experience…! Dare I ask what became of it…?

sorry pups - was on the phone - waving g’nite to the leaving sleepy pups i missed

Old style mechanics. All the BFH does is annoy the car and make its parts fall off even faster.

yeah - huh?

BFH = Big Frickin’ Hammer

hahahahahaha

WTF BFH?

Ford… Fix Or Repair Daily…! ;-)

OK slow. Got it. I think we need bigger hammers tomorrow..

A real good feature as a manufacturer wanting to sell replacement parts.

Found On Road Dead.

my daddy bought em but always said that one or find on road dead

BFH, Big Fucking Hammer. I probably have over ten different types.

What do ya mean it is the all purpose adjustment tool… comes in different sizes depending on the job at hand /S
Used it many times learned that one from the old time techs… that and a pocket screw driver and you can fix just about anything!

why do ya have so many bfh’s busted? are they specialized tools?

sixteen pounders!!

For Old Retired Dudes.

I’ll finish this up:
Fucked-Over Road Debris.

Or they could be like the Toyota dealers I keep taking my truck to. Charge $300 to say it’s fixed now. Damn thing still refuses to start every once in a while, and I’ve replaced nearly everything in that part of the system - or so they tell me.

I only hve 2 hammers. Small, and Bush sized.

Being a Chevy man, I was told at times; First On Race Day…

Ya ever seen the warning label on an expensive screwdriver? It says to never use it for a prybar or a chisel.
Know why?
When you use it for a prybar, the next time you want to use it for a chisel, it’s bent.

Bush sized

A jeweler’s hammer, then?

why can i only remember ford disses and no chevy or dodge? were there none?

hahahahaha just woke up token with that laugh

Heya CT! Yass, well, strictly speaking, we’ve never seen each other, that we know of. But I’ve missed typing with you! Hope the volcanic deities have been treating you & yours well this many a day.

That’s why I buy craftsman… I take it back and then chisel…!

A little too heavy for my size.

OT, but: fix it again, tony

It seems like only yesterday that US military spokes propaganda flacks were telling us all that the Taliban were unable to launch a spring offensive.

In light of the recent massive Taliban attack on the jail in Kandahar, I’d say they are full of shit.

Not to mention there are reports of talks between the Taliban and the current leader of the Northern Alliance.

Link to Asia Times analysis.

Heckuva job.

-G

Ha! I’ll need my Big Eye for that!

hammer down

Cracks Heads,Eats Valves,Races Only Little Electric Trains.
Chevrolet.
Ford, Fucked over Rebuilt Dodge, Ad Nauseum. Ive heard em all.

Chevrolet: Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time

Kona continues to get pounded by the Vog, altho, Hilo did get it for a brief spell the other day…! ;-)

Busted, I love you the most!

Dodge: Drips Oil Drops Grease Everywhere, or Damn Old Dirty Gas Eater.

Political revenge, eaten warm, is on *my* table.

That might help explain the surge I’ve been seeing in Kona real estate listings and price reductions. Dang. Must be especially hard on the retirees.

haha.. now i remember the gas eater one

I’m hoping this is the beginning of the end for Pelosi/Hoyer/Rockefeller/Harmon, craven grovelling lying weasels that they are. And that the new Congress will fix this shit.

Some Realtors are touting the virtues of the Hamakua Coast… Escape the Vog…! ;-)

Toyota,

HaHahahA,
In Yer Garage, Bichez!.

Not that it ain’t gorgeous there. For the price diff ya could learn to live without the beaches, eh?

A girl can dream, no?

Toyotas been berry berry good to me.

I’m going out to the beer fridge in the garage. Anyone interested?

Though of course, that’s only good ’til Mauna Kea wakes up the next time…

any rootbeer out there wangdang?

I’ll alert the media.

The Big Three are about to find out what they should have figured out thirty year ago.
It was boggling my mind that they kept coming out with the Retro Hot Rods and Jigantic SUV’s. Dude? Get a clue?

Why yes. Yes she can. Let’s all dream together…