SuZ!

Suz, did you see the pics I left downstairs?

boing reverse one and a half somersaults with three and a half twists, in the free position, no splash (’natch)

Hey Suz!

Gold winner in China!

i musta missed em ct – i was doing the wood for in the fire right before my post posted.

Good evening Yacht Owners here at the AIG regatta. It has been a stressful evening planning for my next cruise through the South Pacific Islands. It was so hard on me giving up the Caribbean Islands itinerary. Do wish I could take all of you unemployed blokes on the cruise of a lifetime as we race through a following sea breaking record after record to win our next trophy. Be looking for you all out on the briny.
Tomorrow will be dedicated to hiring a crew of Nubian slaves as it is beneath our dignity to do that polish, scraping and painting maintenance which will be assigned as part of the ships discipline. The last crew chidingly referred to me as Captain Blye. That will not be tolerated.
All of us yachting friends here at the Lake want to thank American taxpayers for their generosity in bailing us bankers out. I know it was a tough call considering the poverty that America faces now so we are off to chase the American dream of opulence and excess. See you suckers later.
Bon Voyage!

how’s everyone doing tonight?

Do you want me to repost ‘em…? ;-)

Just now coming down from the debates.
What a couple of years!

Over 2000 people showed up for 400 new positions for a newly opened grocery store….. they turned away over 1000 people at 10am……

Ian put up one of the alltime funniest videos of Obama roasting McInsane at the Alfred Smith dinner tonight.
Obama was very funny as he whipped McSames but throughout the speech. Mc Same was painfully laughing as well. It was a very fine dressing out. I have to say Mr. Obama comes of more and more presidential avery day. That was an academy award performance.

Suz!

there are lots of great caption contests going with those pix, CT!!!

Mine is “I could have sworn Vicki was standing right here!”

i’ll go downstairs and find em ct

Were you one of the lucky or unlucky ones?

That was a great video. And I notice Obama was sitting next to His Eminence! Doesn’t impress fundies though I guess. They’re christian.

ha! iirc americablog have a caption contest today with that picture

Let me guess? AIG workers? /s

YOu know it’s going to end up in everyone’s 2008 wrap up edition of whatever publication.

Ferrets are on my mind tonight.

Yikes kataymine – is the new grocery store one of the chain stores and are you in a busy populated region? Awfully sad news in any event. :~(

sigh. 2009 2008. sigh.

Thankfully I am nicely employed ….. just watching the local news…..
And it looks that the local news is putting some facts on the table….. all about Joe the so called plumber……

Sheriff Joe has pissed one local TeeVee station over an in depth report on the death of an inmate at the jail…… funny how the report and the video just don’t match…. the sheriff’s office is pulling a McCain on the media……

I liked the “OMG I touched a black man!” ;-)

Not to bring things up from the previous thread, but what kind of a hunt was it those AIG douchebags went on, exactly?

hi Suzanne!

topics from downstairs are always welcome at late late nite – being off topic is the topic dood!

CT… I am using my email spell check before I put up comments mostly to clean up spelling errors so I can come up to the FDL standard.

Suzanne…after year in the canyon of Bear Creek and the tight quarters…the open space at the mouth of an Oregon River with all the wild life and open sky has to be very healing. Time to join Audobon and the rest of the nature societies to help protect them. Being on the Pacific flyway is a special experience. There is a lot of wonderful creatures in the waters as well. Sort of your “On Golden Pond” as you grow older and senile. G)

and teddy – you got kin in that region of gb?

Other customers who viewed Ferrets have also enjoyed

Dramatic McCain

Partridge Family in a Pear Tree.

Sure, just blame me…! ;-)

thanks bb – i’ve ot a copy of the Audubon book and one on the birds of the pacific northwest my downstairs neighbor, the park ranger, lent me. i’m on a salt water bay, where the creek enters it. at this end, the bay is fairly shallow and i get lots of waders. am learning how to identify them.

…and then shoot them? right?

CT you are as good as anyone!!

yanno bb, the spelling police are not permitted down here in the comments – up top, they are very welcome but below the comments line is off limits.

i am fluent in typo

or do you shoot them, then identify them?

Good.
driftglass: The Mysterious “Joe The Plumber”

Indeed, Senator McCain. We need to check out these associations, fully.

I mean the waders, not the typos.

I’m having fun Being John McCain, talking to myself.

Have a nice evening….. heading off to bed…… have a good one….

nope, i introduce them to my inner bitch (laughing)

Hey dosido…I read that speech as the dhot across the bow “I am not about to take any bullshit so if you dish it out it will land right back at you”.
I also see him working for his agenda to pick up some heavy hitters tonight. At the same time he was very gracious which plays big with the elite that have the purse strings.

g’nite katymine

‘nite katymine. peace.

oh crap, i thought i was replying to a spelling police comment and not a bird comment

no no, not a hunter. i admire them from afar.

A regular Father, Son, and Holy Shit.

spew!

Your fluent in typo-ese because of translating your own, eh…? (ducking…)

nite katymine

Aloha, Katy!

Dummy bomb falls from military jet in Nevada

“At Nellis Air Force Base, military officials had some explaining to do Wednesday afternoon,” explained KVCU TV’s News 3 in Nevada. “… A dummy bomb fell from one of their jets and hit a truck below.”

“‘Shortly after 11:30am Wednesday morning, Nellis security forces and Las Vegas Metro Police responded to a report of an object falling from the sky,’ says Brig. General Russell Handy, 57th Wing Commander.”

“However, they still don’t know why the bomb dummy device, or BDU, fell off of a plane and landed on a pick-up truck that was traveling down Las Vegas Boulevard and Beasley Avenue. “

“The BDU-33 is a 25 pound device regularly used to simulate the ballistics of real air-to-ground weapons. This training device does not carry explosives, but it does carry a small smoke charge used to mark its impact point.”

This video is from KVBC News 3, broadcast October 16, 2008.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._1016.html

yeap – that’s the truth ct – i miss edit

Yeah, he really pulled it off…that easy manner and chuckle. “so tonight I’m going to talk about the economy…”

nite Katy(:>)) sleep well!!

judas forking priest – that give me a whole lotta confidence in the air force – not! was the guy in the pickup truck ok?

Thanks newtonusr – I do so hope all three of these bizarre cretons vainly do regular googles of themselves and glimpse your linky. Reminder to myself: must learn photoshop. Have a fabulous candid photo of my local nemeses Dirty Harry I’m oh so eager to share. ;~)

well Suzanne, what with the successful surge and everything going so great in Iraq nad Afghanistan and winning the occupation and all the military success…CT doesn’t get much attention of late so I am spiffing up my spelling to a military standard that allows only two typos per letter. Just hoppin it makes CT feel a little more ORDERLY and spiffy.

By the way did you get the telescope job CT?

There have been lots of the mid size planes that flying over here for about 2 months. I have thought about it a few times and wondered why. Fox news even had a plane flying when nothing was happening, no bad accident, no tanker spill, no fire, no tornado, etc. that I know of. A House member was having a fundraiser.

It put a hole in the hood of the truck and bounced away…! No injuries incurred… Some load master has some explaining to do, tho…! ;-)

Suz, any shell fish or other edibles in your waters?

Ya don’t wanna eat them mud sucking bastards any way, that is exactly what they taste like, what you smell at low tide, with green beans on the side.
YUK!

Next week I’ve got a whole battery of tests lined up, to include blood and urine tests… Then, I’ll be hired!

crab, clams, and i think there may still be oysters.

bet the driver needed new undies

Birds, stork like creature with long legs and beaks and spring like necks for frog gigging and minnow grabbing and other bird treats that live along the shore line. Otherwise known as shorebirds.

What’s really weird is that it happened in March of this year in Kansas.
Wonder if it was from one of those unmaned planes?

Jet mistakenly drops dummy bomb in Okla.

Military Mistakenly Drops Dummy Bomb on Tulsa, Okla., Building; No One Injured

Staff
AP News

Mar 14, 2008 13:50 EST

An Air National Guard jet mistakenly dropped a 22-pound non-explosive, practice bomb on an apartment complex, damaging the foundation but no one was injured, police said Friday.

The military pilot thought he had dropped the BDU-33 bomb, equipped with a dummy warhead, over a field in Kansas during a routine training mission out of Tulsa on Thursday.

A couple returned home to the Canyon Creek apartment complex and found the ordnance partly buried in the foundation and the power knocked out, Tulsa Police Officer Jason Willingham said.

The fighter aircraft was en route to Smokey Hill Gunnery Range in Salina, Kan., on a routine mission, according to a statement released Friday by the Oklahoma Air National Guard’s 138th Fighter Wing.

Shortly after takeoff, the training bomb inadvertently released from the aircraft, the guard statement said.

A safety investigation board has been convened and the investigation is ongoing, the statement said.

The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are investigating.

Willingham said the Air National Guard removed the ordnance from the scene.

A manager at the apartment complex, who declined to give his name, said it was back to business as usual at the complex Friday morning.

“God must love the people at Canyon Creek,” he said.

Source: AP News

http://www.rawstory.com/news/m…..42008.html

Dam CT I have had a whole more tests than that in the last week Will they hire me also?? I wanna look through Da big Telescope… please please please!!

Easy money…! 8-)

Sorry, I wrote Kansas when it was Okla, the plane was on it’s way to Kansas.

We made our second trip to the new California Academy of Sciences today — a special trip to spend some time visiting the penguins. They are a lot of fun; there was a juvenile who was very attracted to Patrick’s, then my, glasses as we waved them. S/he would dive under the water and chase my hand holding the glasses, then a bunch of other penguins came to see what was up.

A docent told us that the penguins are very social; when the Academy’s temporary facility closed to the public to get ready for the move into their wonderful new home, the staff had to be asked to make special visits to the penguins during the day, as they had become sad and lonely without human interaction.

Flightless, but interspecially social, birds. Whodathunkit?

didja take pictures?

ummm…. bouillabaisse.

John is going back to his Catholic roots. Switched to the protestants a while back. Good to cover all bets ya know. Now getting on better with the “Islamic presidential candidate” its all covered and no more terrorist attacks. G)

Heh, first, one doesn’t ‘look’ through the telescope, one observes the computer screens…! ;-)

8 years of Bush in the Whitehouse and now even the bombs are dummies.

Heckuva job.

-G

No, I will take pictures next time (probably Tuesday — I have a feeling we’ll be visiting lots).

Deal closed…big big night.

707!

Sounds more like the predictable results of the Air Force’s RIFing they did a year or two ago. Guess they felt coming up with their own unique cammies and having top brass prance around in new dress uniforms was a more important use in resources than making sure they have enough personnel to do the job.

Unfortunately, we reserve all the ’smart’ ones for the Iraqis and Afghans… 8-(

before i left, there was a big article in the paper on about the new roof there – was forking kewl – and i think i saw a show on it too.

i loved the old one tho – the planatarium, the aquarium, the whole 9 yards. back in the early 70’s, i lived at 8th and cabrillo and used to walk over to there and the deyoung all the time.

I was surfing, looking for gratuitous amusement, and found this absolutely hilarious post:
http://wonkette.com/403574/wha…..ore-403574

Hopefully President Obama will convene a regional summit and stop the madness.

Hope……

-G

Speaking of Shrub and the Iraqis… Bush Caves Even Further On SOFA…

Suzanne…
Have you considered making money from pictures of that spectacular place you live at?
Consignment of a few enlargements somewhere as a start…color and black&white..

Ya know I do know that one CT I do my reading in Scientific American and they haven’t Looking through for a while now, but still I wanna see. Well ya know gee if it is all streamed down to their screens ya just going to figure out how to get Us techies hooked up up so we can look over the Astronomers shoulders once in a while… Besides ya do owe me one(:>) Newt can help IIRC!

Guess y’all have seen the news about palin wanting $15M for copies of her e-mails?

What’s that old saw about “I know what *you* are; now we’re just haggling about price”?

Heh, they warned us specifically that all computers are screened for ‘proprietary material’ and grounds for immediate termination… However, I’m sure some of the astronomers have mash ups available…! ;-)

oh, i’m not anywhere near a professional photographer. i just have a good digital canon camera.

Wow now we have someone to watch out for Extraterrestrial life, space vehicles, spy satellites and errant Nebulas not to mention the Van Allen belt, the earth magnetic field, space and atmospheric pollution and such mythical stuff that Bushco pooh poohs.
And I find it is interesting that they were not put off by your political and military blogging seein as Hawaii is headquarter to a lot of Pacific Fleet, USMC Kaneohe Bay Air Wing nad First Marine Brigade, Army Navy and Air Force bases.
Congratulations you deserve it and I kniw you will be seeing stars.

Go to facebook, and change your middle name to HUSSEIN.

I did! pass it on!

Can’t Wait CT I am counting on ya now! I just to see further than my naked eyes alone can!!

Green energy at this base.

The Nellis Solar Power Plant is the largest solar photovoltaic system in North America,[1] and is located within Nellis Air Force Base in Clark County, Nevada, on the northeast side of Las Vegas. The Nellis solar energy system will generate in excess of 25 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually and supply more than 25 percent of the power used at the base.[2] The system was inaugurated in a ceremony on December 17, 2007, with Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons activating full operation of the 14 Megawatt array.[3][4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N…..ower_Plant

LOL!

Dam and I am only getting an 11kw system(:>( I want a bigger one now!1

A love of, and an eye for the ever changing beauty of nature…and a camera..that is all the ‘professional’ attributes that you need..

If you don’t believe me, just check out photos of nature for sale on the internet…I think that you will find that you can do just as well, or better than, some who are making money from a hobby…

It is home for PacCom which oversees all military forces in the Pacific basin, including Korea and Japan… I know they have their own observatory atop Haleakala on Maui and several joint efforts on Mauna Kea…!

i want my telescope – that means i gotta order the pod and unpack it – gotta find my binocs in the pod too. i’m still thinking sometime in november.

its so forking kewl looking at stuff ya can’t see without it – the first thing i saw with mine was the 4 moons of jupiter twinkling like a diamond ring.

SOFA is surely the “important work” preznit intends to cast in stone before he leaves office.

i’ve never even thought of it until you mentioned it. i took photos of crime scenes – not nature.

Hi Suz and everyone.
I’m really enjoying the last few days of fall, going for lots of walks with the dog.
Looks like it’s getting cold early where I live, and the Farmer’s Almanac says it’s going to be a cold winter.
Time to make Russian tea.

Bush is SOFA KING.
SOFA KING STUPID!

how do ya do that and what makes it russian?

Digg is up, pups!

Nice one, Busted! ;-)

thanks newton

hehehehe i do enjoy your way with words busted

Speaking of ferrets, we has one right here for yu.

http://teh-kitteh-antidote-ane…..n-yer.html

vg! how ya been?

Dam I am slipping.. but I thought Neuro was on it and I got swide twaked(:>)

But I did DIGG IT!

LOL

Hope he efffs it up good. So many piggies at that trough.

Well now that F*up the Digg I will slipping off to bed!! Nite Pups Sleep Well when ya get there(:>))

Slinking slowly from the keyboard…………….

You’re working on servers, right?
forgiven

g’nite nahant *waving to sweetie*

ok, nite nahant

How you be Waccamaw?

Thanks for the interesting Sarah news. I’m an avid follower.

Hey Suz! Okay! Loving my freshman seminar, where we talk about all kinds of stuff. These young-uns are so refreshing. We get into deep discussions about whether insects feel pain or not. And, we have a philosopher in the class, how just yesterday was speculating that insects do stuff because they are bored and looking for adventure.

Aloha, nahant!

how kewl vg

The flip side of the coin…without US pesense in Iraq what do you expect to happen with Syria, Russsia, Isreal, Iran and the other players as they fill the power vacuum? The unintended consequences of an independent Shia Iraq?

Quite a few bases in the Southwest have solar arrays of one sort or another, typically on roofs. For installations that are kinda out on their own away from cities anyway, it’s a good way to generate power independently.

now for the david letterman show where mccain says i screwed up. and does not explain nor apologize.

not. good. enough.

Jane was right!

Remember what Jane said about Letterman and how he would rant incessantly about McCain when McCain blew him off by lying about having to miss Letterman’s show so he could return to Washington to work on the financial crisis?

Here the best part of the show tonight, when Letterman confront McCain about pallin around with Gordon Liddy. McCain didn;t see it coming. Wait till you see the look on his face. VIDEO 18 secs.

I did my bit entertaining roaches in my last school apartment… *shiver*

Hard to believe anyone would want to get in the middle of that mess now.

Fermented potato peels..vodka

Maliki is Iran’s pawn… All the Sunni nations are fearful… Jordan, S.A., UAE, Kuwait, and Yemen, for starters… We’ve bollixed it up royally and we still have the Afghans to contend with on the other side of Iran…!

busted said the very nicest thing to Christy , The Redddhead and peanuts the other day. Really nice for all who lose a pet or family member. Just terrific. So right Suzzanne.

wow

in tea?

Sunny, LOL. And a few days ago we had quite an interesting discussion about this photo, which I showed to the class. An evolving adventure in my downstairs bathroom, involving ants and a cockroach.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albu…..G_0840.jpg

May be a slang for Vodka… Rssian tea that keeps you warm. The good ol boys used the slang for booze when they go hunting or fishing.

i flashed back to that forking ant movie ‘them’. forker still scares me with that noise (shrudder)

Sure, Miz Palin, of course we don’t bomb the Afghans, we only build schools and such…

A NATO airstrike on Thursday on a village near the embattled provincial capital of Lashkar Gah killed 25 to 30 civilians, Afghan officials in the area said. While NATO confirmed that an airstrike had taken place in the area, where Taliban fighters have been battling NATO forces, it said that the reports were being investigated and that the command was “unable to confirm any civilian casualties.”

Reliable information on the airstrike — whether it caused the deaths, as local officials and residents reported, and whether the number of civilian deaths was accurate — was elusive. But any substantial civilian death toll would further inflame an Afghan government and public already uneasy over a recent rise in civilian casualties from coalition airstrikes.

more than half the country is now pink – no go zones due to high risk of death

the forgotten war with forgotten victims

Yep Obama will have some very interesting meet ups with those folks. With a name like Hussien he will have a talking point not that it will carry him far can’t hurt.
58 bases and 5 mega bases city like infrastructure. In the wrong hands the weapon is turned against us. Can they be dismantled…probably.

By the way the crooks on wall street we are bailing did more damage than the Iraq War and all the terrorist damage combined. Many trillions.

Russian Tea Recipe Ingredients
2 c Tang 1 ts Cinnamon
1/2 c Instant tea 1/2 ts Cloves
1 c Sugar 1 pk Lemonade mix

I remember this from the 60s. Tang was very in, and this uses it. It has a beautiful deep amber/orange color and smells and tastes like pure love.;)

ooooh, that sounds wonderful for a cold winter nite

thanks margot – i remember tang and being pissed my mom was buying real oj instead of tang.

Oh my…tough job that was..Ever have nightmares of scenes?
Well, that was nature, too. The atrocities of human nature!
As a fellow Libra..I say..go for the balance…
Balance the awful human nature photography with the natural world’s photography…and make some money while enjoying what you are doing.

right now, i’m just going to enjoy it and enjoy putzing around with the camera, learning what it does. i’m gonna have to read the forking basic and advanced guides to it.

i have the feeling that your suggestion is one that i’m gonna be chewing on this winter as i learn.

McCain Loses Hastily Convened Fourth Presidential Debate With Lifesize Cardboard Obama

http://dagblog.com/humor-satir…..oard-obama

we know a lot of your conversations while looking right at dave? wtf?

OMG!!!

Sunny, not to worry. These are the “outside” roaches. The “water bugs” as they were called in CA. Don’t know what they are called in the South. But, these are not the small infestatious kind. Boric acid laced with a pheromone was involved! ;)

david is asking actual follow questions and trying to get mccain to answer the forking question about palin’s qualifications.

Dave: “Palin qualified? Another Sept. 11th – is she the one you trust to lead?”

McCheese: “Absolutely.”

Nate Silver calls out Matt Drudge…

Slow news day, Matt? If this is a two-point race right now, I’ll eat Drudge’s fedora.

SteveAudio has a post up that includes a robocall on behalf of the McCain campaign (which I couldn’t figure out how to link), and a shockwave video that I couldn’t figure out how to open, but apparently includes something about G. Gordon Liddy ~~But McCains’ terrorist ties are OK, as he appears on G. Gordon Liddy’s show:~~

But here’s the whole enchilada, which includes the pithy sentiment from SteveAudio “fuck John McCain”.

http://steveaudio.blogspot.com…..-flag.html

Well, I shall bid ya’ll a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!! ;-)

aloha ct

In the low country I’ve been introduced to water bugs. Big suckers. “why honey, that’s not a roach, it’s just an ole waterbug” I always assumed it was a civilized euphemism for a truly horrendous roach problem *g*

whatta ass mccain is – such a mean nasty person

He’s a lying, craven, desperate, morally-ungrounded, creep. He thinks he is selling that shit to a new audience.

Major FAIL.

don’t hold back newton (laughing)

that parting crack about those sayin palin isn’t qualified were those who were not picked showed just how petty and vindictive mccain is. mean and nasty down to his inner ugly.

ok pups, that’s it for me. g’nite all and thanks for hanging out with me tonight.

The more I see McCheese, the more I want to see him not just defeated, but flattened, at the ballot box. And through him, his party’s pursuit of this brand of politics.

nite suz

His selection of Palin speaks volumes about his attitude toward women. You gals want a woman? I’ll give you a woman!

(he, on the other hand, either considers himself immortal or doesn’t give a shit what happens after he’s gone)

Citizen Suzanne and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Well, I’m back in the box again tanight so throw another log on the fire and keep the tunes comin’…after watchin’ Obama’s performance at the Al Smith shindig, I am amazed that his favorables are not at 85% givin’ due defference for the 15% unregenerate racist douchebags. Ain’t it great ta support a candidate who is smart, has a sense a humor, is sensitive to others and knows when ta hold ‘em and when ta go for the jugular!!

There is no way that more’n 50% of the undecideds will break for McCrazy so if this election is not a complete rout, I want some folks in jail for vote tamperin’!

Norske-
Obama tonight seemed untethered from the disciplined path he has been on. He could freely lash McCheese under the pretense that it’s all in good humor – something I have wanted to see since April.
It was fun to watch.

nite pups

The American Revolution ultimately produced George W Bush.

The Cuban Revolution produced Medical Doctors.

Can this be the karma?

The state-owned Cuban oil company says the country may have more than 20bn barrels of oil in its offshore fields – more than double the previous estimate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7675234.stm

If correct, Cuba’s oil reserves would be almost the same as those of the US – 21bn barrels, according to the Oil & Gas Journal – and nearly twice the size of Mexico’s – 11.7bn barrels.

Let’s Get Fiscal

By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: October 16, 2008

Would you like that fixed BB?

Yes please…thank you.

It links directly to the Krugman article now.

Krugman advises Obama to start government infrastructure spending to energise the economy and get jobs going,

Attaturk is upstairs!
Awkward!

As Banks Are Rescued, Will the World’s Hungry Be Overlooked?a href=”http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,584512,00.html”>

I had the great pleasure of seeing Rory Gallagher perform back in the 1970’s. He was a great talent who was woefully under-appreciated. And, wow, what incredible bass playing from Jack Bruce!