fitz!

neuro!

Digg!!!

nahant?

guess it is just you and me neuro

so, come here often? that’s a nice outfit you have one.

Hey Neuro I Dugg your

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Evening Suz.. ready for the POD Party??

for.. have on…. dayam fingers are feeling the lack of sleep tonight

Thanks, neuro, for the fitz! Nice to be reminded. And Thanks, Suzanne, for being here tonight when you probably should be resting up for the pod party.

Hey, shouldn’t you be sweating over a hot stove?

Just got home from Todays party we went to…

I’m the second bad man…! ;-)

the buyer had her final walk through today at 1am.

i went out to dinner with a friend last night (we had a blast) and then cleaned house last night until the wee hours for the walk through today at 1pm. unfortunately, my phone rang at 10am, 11am, 1145am and noon. my alarm was set for 1230.

sigh. i rolled outta bed, made the bed, and scooted out the back door. was gonna try for a nap today but that just didn’t work out.

Btw, how many times do you cook the chili…? ;-)

Nah the Chili is slow cooking on the Stove as we speak… day two of cooking is almost over! Will let it cool over night and get up before 9 and get it warming up and start the peach/blueberry pie so when we get to Suz’s it will still be warm:>)

McCain’s smear campaign’s just getting lazy. Some shitty background music that sounds like one of those crappy beats from a cheap keyboard, along with half-assed splicing of Obama’s Berlin speech. I’ve known four year olds who could do better.

FORK.. 1pm

it just felt like 1am

Two full days and then warmed up to a slow bubble on the third… just as I always have..

this is where we went to dinner – be sure to click on the link – we saw this song (but tad was wearing a different outfit)

Is there any liquid left to ‘warm up’…? ;-)

Oh yeah … you cook it slow and coveted so you don’t lose all the liquid.. but if it seems too thick you just add another St Pauli… can’t drink them but I sure do use them for cooking!!

Bummer….. cost for entry ticket to DisneyLand went up to $69.00 for adults…

Stopped the fire ants from invading my home …… Andro ant really works…

Phoenix foreclosure rate for this year is double of last years rate…..

ann richards

I’m John McPus and I approve these baldfaced lies and character assassinations.

-G

sigh.. wrong thread..

I don’t think so, CT.

I hope you saw my final comment, No. 183,which was EPU’d below, in response to your comments.

Heck, I luv’s St Pauli… She’s a nice buxom lady…! ;-)

Suzanne when are you going to be up in Oregon?

My plan is to fly into Portland on 8/10 and be at my parents house until 8/17…. then head back to Portland to have week with Elmore ……. fly home on 8/23…..

sure would like to try your chili, nahant

the *mild* version, if you make one

don’t suppose you would share the recipe? It’s a long way from eastern KS to northern California…

Does anyone have the HBO package on cable TV? Jane’s big movie was on tonight.

Now this is some seriously retro music! What makes it even more fun, the guy who plays lap steel in that band, used to play bass for this band.

i’m figuring on arriving on the late afternoon of 8/15. gonna be down for a couple of days recooperating but give me a call on the 16th and lets see how i’m feeling after the drive.

wow, what a genre change.

have a great time at the party tomorrow pups.

thanks selise

Are you driving up I-5 or 101….. if you are going up 101…. then you go right through Florence ….. Treat you to lunch….

i never even thought of that… that would be perfect.. i’ll let ya know what my timetable is when i leave eureka the morning of the 15th.

So when is the Obama camp going to point out that John McCain has a history of racist statements?

I mean what else can you call a man who refers to Asians as “gooks”?

-G

I saw it, and I reiterate that I have no compunction against women serving in higher office, I just wish they were more in the mold of Donna Edwards as opposed to Jane Harman or Nancy Pelosi…! Should I be moderated for that view…?

sorry, forgot the driving up the 101 part. i’m gonna try to stop by and say hi to laura doty on my way outta the bay area

nahant, before I slide off to dreamland:

I opened your ‘crashed computer’ email at about 5:30 AYHEM, my time, yesterday (Saturday) and busted a gut.

You is one seriously funny soul, and somebody trusts somebody completely.

Great pic.

Thanks!!!

;~D

Ct she was my Fav until the Doc said no more:>(… So now only for cooking…
Neuro there is no set recipe for my chili I use pretty much the same ingredients but nothing is ever measured…
Good chili powder and lots of it..
Good peppers variety up to you but must have some jalapenos, serranos, Habanero, green bell and Red if you like the color… five or six kinds of beans, lots of cummin, lots of fresh blended tomatoes, good beer, onions, lots of garlic … ground beef, lamb and pork and brown sugar thats about it… Then as things start comming together you just keep adding till it starts to tast good … let it cook for a while then if not up to par you add some more of what you think will bring it the the flavor you want.. mild to hot it is all up to you and what you add and how much is the way you go with it.. of course you are always tasting:>)

Try it you will like it just be sure to use some of everything mentioned and you won’t go wrong, just don’t add too much of any one thing at a time!!

before you slide off to dreamland, dw, g’nite

DWB I got that from a friend and loved it so I sent it to every one I know who loves animals… and as far as I can tell all the Pups love animals:>).. As I get the good ones I will send them to friends:>)

my dad taught me to use a dollop of real maple syrup when making chili.. just a wee bit to give it a deep almost smoky undertaste

BRB

What, the kitchen sink isn’t added to add to it…? ;-)

Three different meats, eh? I do like a variety of beans…

Suz and pod pups: have a marvelous pahtay. Chili, pie and good friends – doesn’t get much better than that.

Willing to share your views re: good chili powder?

thanks nahant, I will try some version of that, it has some ingredients I do not normally use

in my house the meat would be limited to beef, there are those who do not eat pork or lamb

I wonder about the peppers, I like flavor and spice in my food but my mouth just cannot handle food as hot as some folks like, for example when I go to my favorite Indian restaurant I always order my food mild, because often medium is too hot for me, but then there are times that mild is too mild and I wish it had a little more spice. so your advice about doing lots of tasting is good. I know about jalapenos, and I avoid them. How hot are serranos and Habaneros? green and red bell of course are no problem.

what beans do you use besides red or kidney and black? those are what I have been using, what else goes good with your chili?

beer and brown sugar are two ingredients I do not normally use, i will have to try them

thanks for the information, again wish I could be there tomorrow

thanks sunny. nope, it sure don’t. i’m gonna miss my bay area pups for sure – i’ve gotten close with many of them. fork, i’m getting all teary thinking that tomorrow will be the last time i see them … crap, i hope i don’t start crying tomorrow – that is not create a good party atmosphere :)

As somebody remarked when I assisted an elderly lady in moving awhile back… True friends step up in a move…! ;-)

Suzanne, perhaps you can go back for a bay area reunion sometime

i will be coming back – token and bailey are being pet sat by token’s sister’s people. when i find permanent lodging, i’ll be back down to get them. no point in them moving twice.

that is certainly true. I have mentioned here the time I got my wisdom teeth pulled on the same day I had to move…friends were essential

Friends are essential…! The Lake is great source of ‘em, altho, I’ve yet to meet one in person…! Petro is my greatest hope…! ;-)

next time i go to paradise (last was 31 years ago fyi), i’ll be sure to look you up ct

I wish you could also Neuro it would be fun to meet you in da flesh!! As for beans add some pinto and also you might find that any of the darker colored beans work well.. but do buy quality like S&W or maybe (I know I know) Bush Beans.. Oh I forgot I also use a large can of B&M Boston baked beans… and be sure to use lots of cumin brings out the best of the flavors…. You can also use just good cuts of beef and just cube it and be sure to brown the meat throughly with the onions, peppers and garlic… browning brings out the best in the meat flavors…

I have an open invite to any and all Lake denizens… ‘course you rate a tad higher, M’dear…! The better half would enjoy your penetrating insight…! ;-)

Neuro, Habaneros are wicked hot!

Just popping in and out, I have been enjoying my vacation a little too much. WOOT!
Suzanne, I hope y’all have a great time tomorrow, I was thinking about ya today.

Thud, Gnite!

laughing… hope that thud was into a pillow busted… g’nite

so true

you may regret saying that ct (wicked evil grin) i have nagged away 2 husbands yanno

I would enjoy meeting you in person, CT–preferably where you live, not where I live–if I could find a way to get there

one of four or five states I have not been to—have been to Alaska

i’m gonna go to alaska and et is taking me fishing. i’m hoping to have enough saved for the trip next year.

Heh, 17+ years of wedded, umm, bliss, ya can’t hurt the cause…! ;-)

thanks nahant, I have saved both of your comments in a Word file, for future experimentation–probably when the weather gets a little cooler this fall!

Funny thing is that I missed meeting ET because of a traffic jam in Palmer Alaska….. it was the AK state fair ….. and there was road construction…. dang…

Whittier AK is a great and VERY interesting place ….. ET lived there for quite a while…… if you google …”the weirdest town in Alaska” … you get Whittier…

I loved my trip there–paid for by my employer at the time! Flew into Fairbanks, took the Alaska Railroad down to Anchorage (alongside or through Denali National Park, saw the mountain going by for hours!) then on down to Seward. Did not do any fishing, though. That would be another trip, and I would certainly hope to look up ET!

i looked at whittier in google earth. alaska has so much eye candy everywhere ya look. i wanna do the northeast too – haven’t been north of virginia since i was 2 and wanna see nycity, dc, maine.

have driven all over the west and south – we used to do car trip vacations back to kentucky and kansas every couple years to see kin.

Chocolate Torte saga, continued:

Got the torte, the dry ice and the expanded polystyrene all done according to strict spec.

Went to airport.

Was told that I had got to have some certification that the packaging was done by someone possessing some sort of certificate in such packaging! Or done under their (certified packer) supervision and they sign off on it with some sort of official indicia. I have a document making these absurd requirements here, now.

They had not told me anything like that when I made earlier enquiries.

It gets better:

I was distinctly advised that I could ship by priority overnight and that the torte would reach Suz’s party on Sunday around noonish.

When I arrived to ship, then I was told that they cannot get anything to Suzanne’s until noonish Monday! Nor love nor money nor irate cursing would alter that now.

On top of it all, the tariff would be about $138.00. Sheesh! A guy would think that for that sum they would give some service!

Soooo, I have a very professional looking (at least to me) parcel here with a lovely torte within. I am adding to the carbon dioxiode in my digs with the offgassing from the parcel. On an earlier thread someone mentioned having attended a Passover Seder. So I now recall that pious Jews go out and bring destitute people in from the street to share in the feast. In that spirit, I am taking the torte down to the Dorothy Day Center hereabouts Sunday (today). I know the folk there will be delighted.

I tried, really I tried. At least I got the chocolate shipped to me pronto. Little successes, anyway.

I’ll be thinking of you there slaving away for your chilli; the chilli sounds to die for.

I am utterly knackered, physically and emotionally. Been a long two days and lots of schlepping about.

BTW, the owner of my tower-block of flats apparently has discovered that he can rake in cash by allowing various firms to put houses containing microwave base stations on the top of the building. We have two now, and a third is to be put up there Monday. This really pisses me off: this exposure to EMR and all this RF energy is dangerous. Germany has already banned some of this, as has England. And they want us out of our homes Monday because they are using some sort of radioactivity to “see” through the concrete slab floors to position their conduits. And they advise we leave all day Wednesday because the noise and vibrations from the coring is extreme. I have got to disturb my elderly beloved cats for this shit.

As the Czechs say:

The money will still be here when we are here no longer.

Feh! Fooey!!

The Alaska Railroad is owned by the state, but has some very nice luxury view cars that I had the privilege of riding in, courtesy of the conference management…I have heard that one or perhaps more of the cruise companies have a package deal where you can go one way along the coast, then the return trip is by train, or maybe vice versa–I would look into that if I ever went back, as have not done the cruise thing.

but it seems I should first be thinking about getting to Hawaii!

oh cleanth!!!

i’m so sorry but you have come up with the perfect solution.

don’t remember if I have asked you this before, Suz–did you ever stop and see the world’s largest ball of twine, or the world’s largest hand-dug well, or any of the other wonders of Kansas?

Ok it looks like it is safe to go to bed….. it looks like the fire ant invasion was stopped….. they started coming in 3 days ago but when they are marching from the front door right through the living room…. dinning room to the kitchen when I woke up this morning ….. I knew drastic measures were required……. Andro Ant works wonders……

Gephardts make some good chili powder and believe it or not so does McCormick,
I also like to buy ground chilies from Chef Paul Prudhomme @ his website.. here is a link to all the chilies he offers from mild to hot: http://shop.chefpaul.com/index…..ProdID=173
His site is a great source of spices and other spices from New Orleans

I’m new here (though lurked for years). Even worse, my first entry is shameless self-promotion. Here’s a cheap video of a cheap performance I did in which I channel George Bush. Not workplace friendly. Hope you enjoy. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl2BdiGsSA

i refuse to be subject to the tsa illegal searches so i haven’t flown since before 9/11. hmmm, i wonder if i can take the train up there… that would be a lovely way to see alaska. i also want to take the cross canadian train journey – saw a pbs show about that great train ride and i added it to my list.

i don’t recall stopping. i remember us kids begging dad to stop at every place we saw but he was a drive until we get there kinda guy, stopping only for food, gas, and sleep.

g’nite katymine – we will talk on the 15th :)

Don’t wait for cooler weather as chili is just fine for the hot weather also when you eat good hot and spicy food you don’t notice the heat outside temps:>)

Elmore and I took the train from Anchorage to Whittier….. That was a wonderful trip….. then the 50 some glacier boat trip across Prince William Sound ….. then the ferry to Valdez & Cordova…… Cordova is interesting…. there are no roads in or out …… you either fly or come by ferry……

welcome to the lake, stache. the pups really are friendly. if you have any questions, just ask.

thanks for that, Stache. and welcome.

Don’t ya just love our Gov’s concern for our health and well being? You’re efforts are noted…!

do ya have to douse yourself in brain bleach after getting outta that getup… i know the thought of george stripping makes me grab for the brain bleach (laughing)

I’ve taken that journey and it is well worth it, Suz!

well, I’m opening Stache’s link and going in! If I am not back within fifteen minutes, send help! I’m sitting here next to my power strip with its personal supply of brain bleach. Here goes…

The train runs from Eugene OR to (I think) Bellingham WA….. My parents used to take the ferry from Port Angeles to Alaska….. do some googling on the Alaska Ferry system and see where they dock…….

Elmore and I took the ferry to Victoria BC and that was wonderful……

Nice to see new faces here, no matter whatever incarnation they take…! *g*

Aloha, Stache!

I’m in solidarity on that one, Suz: I refuse to fly now. Too many insults and too many outrages involved.

Nite everyone….. Suzanne have lots of fun tomorrow and do not stress you… moving is always hard….

cleanth I am disappointed but can surely see and understand you DID EVERY thing you could and your solution to the sharing of all your work and labor of love with those who will appreciate is a great way As Suz says “make lemonade out of lemons”:>)

Thanks!!! Wish I could send you some of the chili!

Elmore and I took the ferry to Victoria BC and that was wonderful……

I used to live up in Bellingham and we considered the BC ferries to be poor person’s cruises. Sometimes we went to Victoria and stayed the weekend at the Princess Hotel. We did a lot of backpacking up that coast, too. Wonderful, beautiful places.

In my day BC ferries still had white tablecloths and proper china (or at least ceramic) cups and saucers whilst the Washington State Ferries had formica and styrofoam cups.

I suppose you remember all of this.

Suz – I don’t care how good (or flaming hot) nahant’s chili is – can’t top the food, company, or “entertainment” from last night.
My Gahd, that was fun.

Are you sure that was the Chimperor? It sure looked a lot like Nixon to me…but maybe I’m just showing my age.

Thanks for sharing.

*applies brain bleach liberally*

gonna take a lotta pennies to do all the trips i wanna take (laughing) is why i am always watching those travel shows on pbs – i know that i will not get to go to all the places i wanna go to :)

Dang, Stache, ya didn’t take it all off…! ;-)

we did have fun, didn’t we. you didn’t even blink when tad started unzipping his underroos while doing that second number :)

I was hoping you wouldn’t mention that… LOL!
Fee Waybill boots and all!

Thanks, Nahant. Your kind words are a balm to me. I hope to see you in the flesh one day.

Turning in soon. Tired pup, here (me). The kitties are already sacked out on our bed.

for “Princess Hotel” read Empress Hotel. Tired man here.

whoops… never mind

g’nite cleanth and thanks for trying so hard to send that. the folks at the shelter are in for a treat!

nahant, it just occurred to me that you did not mention tomatoes in your chili. do you use stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, fresh tomatoes, or anything of the tomato kind? I would not have thought of chili without some form of tomatoes…

And goodnight Suz. I wanted so much to make you the beneficiary of one of my impulsive endeavours. Thanks for providing an occasion. Some other time.

Will you still be keeping in touch regularly online with FDL? Will you be keeping the email addy you have given me?

Excellent question…! Let’s pin-point it…! ;-)

cleanth, i’ll be here just about every night, like i am now. i am moving my residence but my home is late nites at fdl :) i’ll still be hosting late late nites on my usual nights. will only be away from the lake while traveling.

Nite cleanth and thanks again for trying so valiantly to share your Tour with us… sleep well:>)

i remember talking to nahant about his garden – he said he uses tomatoes but not the fresh ones from his garden – they are too good to go into the chili and barely make it inside the house sometimes before he has eaten them.

he mentioned canned tomatoes but not the style.

I normally use a couple of cans of diced tomatoes, but would consider using any recommended alternatives…

I am sure I did ,,, but yes you can use both fresh, I like to put them in the blender with some of the onions, garlic and peppers… kinda melds the flavors together and yes canned tomato sauce (I use Hunts) works just fine to make sure there is plenty of liquid in there for all the cooking time it needs..

LOL this has become somewhat of a food/travel thread…bet you had no idea it would go those directions, Suz…

i never know where my threads are going to go… i think that is part of the charm of late late nites

Good memory Suz… I do use fresh store bought tomatoes but buy the good ones:>) not the hot house gassed ones… that is one reason to make the chili when the tomatoes are in season,,, maybe get them from the farmers market… as in anything you cook always use the best ingredients you can:>)

oh, you are right, nahant, you did mention fresh blended tomatoes, somehow I overlooked that

we currently have one tomato plant that is thriving in our high heat/high humidity atmosphere, don’t know the variety, are there particular varieties you recommend?

I don’t grow many tomatoes because I have never much liked to eat fresh tomatoes, prefer them in some cooked form…maybe I just haven’t tasted the right kinds

Sure is Suz… that and the very good people who hang here with us:>)

was a highly trained professional observer for 24 years who relied on memory … is a hardwired switch to sometimes hard to turn off

of course, my memory aint what it used to be either

exactly – a winning combo in my book. some nites are are wonking out some technical interpretation of law, others are about garlic, and yet others about music and art. i love my late late nites here at the lake.

Hawaii grows a nice fat juicy beefsteak variety, but, Hawaii does bring out the best in produce anyways…! ;-)

ok, when this post went up, my typo ratio was telling me that it was time to stop typing. when i start repeating words, that is a certified red flag signal for me to get my ass offline and into bed.

g’nite all and see ya tomorrow night with reports of the pack the pod party. thanks for hanging with me tonight.

Oh you don’t know what you are missing! I like to grow several varities such as romas red and the yellow, Sun Gold, sweet 100’s, early girls, mostly the small to medium ones… I just don’t like the big big ones such as the beefsteaks… to much and not as much flavor… my opinion…
I am having trouble understanding why some think that it is too hot or too humid or both, I have been very successful in that kind of weather back east when I lived there.

nite suz
mañana

Nite suz I am heading there my self… I still have cooking to finish in the am if I am to keep the pups happy at the pod party….
Nite pups and sleep well when you get there… one more check of the chili and off I go…

Such our the deprived of the clime and fertility of the soil are so doomed to live…! :-)

Aloha, Suz!

Aloha, nahant!

Good evening folks. Read yout comment after reading the Ian and Kirk posts. just love getting data that is critical to our planet and to it’s economoc system we all depend on. They do great research abd cause interesting comments.
I’ll be on the road by 10 AM to the Pod Packing Partry. Gave the Volvo wagon a good blowout with my conpressor air (was a rolling trash can), a washing and oil change and lube around.
Got some drinks for the road (apple juice with cloves, lemonade protien drinks and cucumbers to stay cool). The furnirture dolly is loaded and car gassed up. This is a big carbon footprint splurge 260 miles but will meet some folks I admire so worth it. (1/4 of my yearly driving)
Also bringing along the script writer and the screenplay a satire on the Bushco administration. I will skip breakfast and bring an appetite for hot chili. Hopefully will clear sinuses!

BB!
Glad you’re going to make it up. Helluva trek.

This is troubling…

Karadzic told The Hague-based court that the US peace negotiator in Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke, had promised he would avoid trial if he withdrew from public life.

However, Holbrooke insists that no deal with Karadzic existed.

“I’m not sure there was a written document confirming so, but I do have Holbrooke admission of verbal guarantees given to Karadzic from the highest level of the US,” the source added.

I’m so envious…! ;-)

Is Holbrooke stupid/vapid/ignoramus enough to make that promise?

And is a war criminal/damned killer/soulless MF’er entitled to that, even if promised?

Me thinks it’s unenforceable, and if the planet has any sense of scale, they will slap him back in his cell and tell him to ponder his life and STFU.

You live in Hawaii.
HAWAII!
Are you kidding?

But yeah, it will be pretty killer.

But so isolated from the Lake denizens… Ya’ll can drive to see one another, I have to paddle fast and furiously…! ;-)

Can’t argue with that.
However, there will be chili tomorrow. And with it, the inevitable…
That 2,388 miles is looking mighty good right now.

Heh, I’ll swap scenarios with ya! ;-)

For the moment, these pale and nearly day-glow physiques will have to settle for this edge of the Pacific.

Heh, I hear ya! I shall bid ya a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!

nite tuttle
about to slink my way out of here, too

Suggested nickname for John McCain Casper the unfriendly ghost.

Is lying to a genocidal nut to get him to stop a bad thing? Sure its bad for American diplomacy if you are caught lying but Diplomats lie all the time this sounds like a good lie.
Besides after Bush its not like we have any Diplomatic Cred left anyway.

From the newsbox:

Congress wants to know how much Internet providers know about you
Saturday August 2, 2008 11:45 pm
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Author: Joseph Menn
Published: http://latimesblogs.latimes.co…..wants.html

The leaders of a powerful congressional committee today wrote to the largest U.S. Internet service providers, asking whether they have snooped on their customers’ Web habits and what they have done with the information.

Irony, thy name is congress worrying about our online privacy..

Wayne Madsen Reports on US Government attacking its own citizens with Anthrax in the aftermath of its 9/11 attacks:

http://portland.indymedia.org/…..ml?discuss

Nexus: Anthrax, Zack, Gilead, Rumsfeld

On the 9/11 anthrax attacks, the mainstream media went from 24×7 anthrax hysteria to complete amnesia that the attacks ever occurred. The amnesia began as soon as all the evidence for the source of the attacks began to point in the wrong direction. It is, of course, absolutely verboten to mention the name of Philip Zack ever in discussing this glaringly obvious false flag op.

I missed this one: Philip Zack of 911 anthrax fame was employed by Rumsfeld’s biotech firm Gilead:

Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)’s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.

The forms don’t reveal the exact number of shares Rumsfeld owns, but in the past six months fears of a pandemic and the ensuing scramble for Tamiflu have sent Gilead’s stock from $35 to $47. That’s made the Pentagon chief, already one of the wealthiest members of the Bush cabinet, at least $1 million richer.

Rumsfeld isn’t the only political heavyweight benefiting from demand for Tamiflu, which is manufactured and marketed by Swiss pharma giant Roche. (Gilead receives a royalty from Roche equaling about 10% of sales.) Former Secretary of State George Shultz, who is on Gilead’s board, has sold more than $7 million worth of Gilead since the beginning of 2005.

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2…..ision.html

http://www.democraticundergrou…..l&add ress=104×4817801

News Story identifying Dr. Philip Zack as the man caught entering the Anthrax storage area at Fort Detrick without authorization.

http://www.whatreallyhappened……spect.html

Conspiracy Flashback to the Ford Administration – and look who is running the ANTHRAX coverup…

http://www.frankolsonproject.o…..Artichoke. html

The conspiracy originated at the top, in the White House, initiated by Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney. It had just been learned that the CIA allegedly drugged its employee Frank Olson with LSD before his supposed suicide.

hello all,

just a driveby…

has everybody made a contribution to “The Money Bomb”? it goes off on Friday. No matter how small, please make a contribution over at Glenn’s place. Help to make it a Big Bang, or is that Boom! or KaBam! anyway, help make Steny Hoyer and Grandma Pelosi more nervous ….

and now i’m off to work. have fun!

Spell SAIC backwards…

CIA’s

SAIC was commissioned by G. W. Bush in 2002 to construct a replica of a mobile WMD laboratory of the sort used by Saddam. This mock up, supposedly destined to be used to train teams searching for WMDs in Iraq, was designed by Stephen Hatfill, the WMD expert now being harangued into isolation and thus silence by Bush’s FBI. Last spring, the Bush administration handed SAIC some of the biggest defense contract plums to be had -a billion-dollar chunk of the NexGen business and an unbelievably porky 10-year contract worth over $600 million.”

http://www.mail-archive.com/ct…..07176.html

http://www.warprofiteers.com/article.php?id=7892

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…..orporation

In January 1999, new SAIC consultant Steven Hatfill and his collaborator, SAIC vice president Joseph Soukup, commissioned William C Patrick (a retired leading figure in the old US bioweapons program) to report on the possibilities of terrorist anthrax mailings in the United States. (There had been a spate of hoax anthrax mailings in the previous two years.) Barbara Hatch Rosenberg said that the report was commissioned “under a CIA contract to SAIC”. However, SAIC said Hatfill and Soukup commissioned it internally — there was no outside client.

Patrick produced his 28-page report in February 1999. Some subsequently saw it as a “blueprint” for the 2001 anthrax attacks. The report suggested the maximum amount of anthrax powder — 2.5 grams — that could be put in an envelope without producing a suspicious bulge. This was just a little more than the actual amounts — 2 grams each — in the letters sent to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. But the report also suggested that a terrorist might produce a spore concentration of 50 billion spores per gram. This was only one-twentieth the actual concentration — 1 trillion spores per gram — in the letters sent to the Senators

Good morning, pups. It’s MoDo, Friedman and Olivia Judson today. MoDo has produced an unspeakable piece of crap titled “Mr. Darcy Comes Courting,” in which she snarls that Barack Obama is a modern incarnation of the clever, haughty, reserved and fastidious Mr. Darcy, cherished hero of chick-lit. Mr. Friedman says “The Iceman Cometh,” and writes about climatologists in a research center in the Arctic Circle, building a picture of the Greenland climate from the ice age through the present warming period. Olivia Judson, from London, gives us “Feel the Eyes Upon You,” and asks a question: If you sensed someone was watching you, would you do it?

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The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got French toast with a hint of cinnamon. There is Vermont maple syrup, but I’ve also got some fresh berries. I think I may opt for a dusting of confectioner’s sugar and a handful of berries… Have a great day.

mMmmm my favorite breakfast in Savannah

Thought you’d enjoy Attaturk’s take on MoDo:

“That’s a LOT of Scotch”

What amazes me is that the NYT actually has put up a box where you can comment on this particular little turd in the punchbowl. I can’t wait to see what people have to say…

Good morning. What lumps of coal will today bring?

the Sunday Talking Heads?

g’morning eCAHN

Well, we’ve got an official heat advisory from the Natl. Weather Service. Again. So probably if we took one of those lumps of coal and left it on the driveway it would burst into flames, or whatever coal does when it burns…

dallas is supposed to be 106 F today.

Elliott upstairs
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