ES!

Eureka!

Digg it!

Good evening

Thank you, neuro.

Hiya Pups!

Good evening to you ES and to everyone else

es!

Splash!

I like the death cab vid a lot, but the Angus (never forget to type the “g” in Angus!) and Julia song is one I would like to have in a permanent playlist.

newt! Chris! katy! Suz! OFG!

Whoa.. geyser! Hi OFG, how’s the kiddo doing these days?

Evening Eureka

How’s the wing?

neuro! Hey, man!

He’s in grea shape. Thanks for asking.

Lousy but I think I’ll try to keep it. /s

Hi ES Hi Neuro and the rest of the late late Nighters..

ya mean ya not having “HOT WINGS”

Sorry! I’m distracted by the new show, Late Nite with Jimmy Fallon.

Good plan.

And their roles in “Almost Famous.”

What a day… I missed the Leahy hearing on commissions. Spent a couple of hours swatting numbskulls over healthcare ideas this afternoon. Which was worthwhile since I think I turned a couple of folks full of GOP talking points around.

Wing and a prayer is more like it. /s

Wow, making very good use of your down-time. Got details?

I loved that movie.

hi nahant, sunny

what’s on my mind?

I actually got a pleasant surprise today when i called about my future car payments. I’m good until april at the moment AND i was able to move the payment to a later date. That way it no longer will conflict with my rent checks. So i actually should be able to afford my annual trip to Chicago and the Anime Central Convention that helps keep me somewhat sane. ^_^ Paid vacation while being a geek all weekend is so much FUN. XD

And played catch-up on what was going on in DC — hours after work…

It will get better ES.. as they time is on your side…

*snoopy happy dance*

Yes, as do we.

Local blog posted an invitation from Senator Blanche Lincoln to submit ideas/solutions to the healthcare situation. Sparked a feisty debate of sorts.. Once a couple of us straightened out the self defeatists.

Excellent… you deserve it alias.

Good for you. Yesterday I invested some time talking to a woman about privatizing profits – socializing risks.

She smiled, nodded and said her son had been saying the same thing — we were turning into a socialist country. Smiled back, went home and beat my head on the floor..

as they SAY time is on your side..

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Some people will never learn they are just sheeple!

Yes… time is the key. Figured out today I can’t use my favorite tupperware pitcher for ice tea.. the lid wont come of with one hand… And it warmed up a lot today… going to be interesting mowing the yard with one hand in a few weeks!

But my kind neighbors brought me some homemade tiramisu, so it’s all good.

We need FDL Ambassador freedom fighting hard hats, don’t we?

time

Any kids in the hood that you can pay to mow??

Amazing it only has 18k views.

Hey neuro!

tis one of them embedding disabled :(

Of course Time Waits for Nobody

Courteous but selectively deaf.

Nope. If I walk around my house on a perfectly clear night… I see one electric light… nothing else as far as the eye can see in any direction.

I hate that. I don’t even want tell you how many times I tried to post one of those. *s*

heh. I was thinking of posting the same link, Suz. showing my age, I guess.

Nice but I bet it is a nicer view in the warmer weather..

Don’t we all Neuro??

totally tics me off when i find a good one and it’s got that grrrrrr

Oh it is.. need to put some of the warm pics up on flickr.

Just noticed all the pics you loaded onto fdl’s flickr page. What a massive solar system!

I think the last Stones album I could name a song from is Some Girls (1978)…

For me… Tattoo You

some girls for me too – here is some of their album art to help refresh memories

Shattered

going off to bed…. it has been fun lurking but can play the youtubes……. only have cellular wireless and not enough to play them…… Nite everyone

Little typo on the date of Tattoo You… probably should say 1980.

Nahant, any chance you’re familiar with Hull?

G nite katymine.

nite katymine

g’nite katy

i wasn’t looking at the dates – just which albums were which albums

Ya mean Nantasket Beach?

Oh I forgot I saw Sonny and Cher at the Surf Nantasket in 1965.. I was 5 feet from them, they were in their Hippy Getup…

Chavez seizes US food company

Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has seized one food company and threatened to nationalise another as he demands that the industry produce cheaper rice.

Chavez seized a local unit of Cargill, an American food corporation and also threatened to nationalise Polar, the country’s largest private company, on Wednesday, less than three weeks after he won a referendum allowing him to run for re-election indefinitely.

Chavez is popular among many low income citizens for pressing companies to produce cheap goods as well as launching government initiatives to provide subsidised food to slum areas.

yikes! Grew up hearing about Nantasket Beach, but never been there.. Sounds ghastly.

Actually, seeking a very old cemetery in Hull itself – my atlas suggests it’s NW of Nantasket Beach on a point.

does cargill own chiquita banana?

Good question… at least in part, I think

The company focuses on “hard-asset” industries such as aircraft, energy, food, shipping and steel. Investments typically range from $20 million to $25 million. Restructuring usually begins by replacing directors and managers, and stabilizing cash flow, as the firm did in a successful rescue of Chiquita Brands.

Great news, Alias.

Tried Google earth yet?
Do you have relatives there in the cemetery? My fathers side are all in Nahant which IS north east of there about 25 to 30 miles in a straight line.. of course there is a lot of water to cross…

wanna try that link again?

can’t hit your link, dude

Yeah, been a long time coming. Now i need to repair a few things and then i can relax. FINALLY.

Citizen Suzanne:

Chiquita is owned by United Brands which morphed out of American Fruit and Sugar (remeber them??!!). The entire industry is one large integrated monster that stretches from Hiwaii through North and South America and I think has a lotta juice (so ta speak) in the Phillipines.

Whoops.. just a blurb in the middle of this article.

Country’s largest privately held company. Behemoth according to wiki.

I did find a cemetery between Nantasket and Spring streets at that link I gave ya!

i wonder if chiquita paying off rebels had anything to do with columbia’s decisional to nationalize a cargill unit

Designed to meet current Class 8 linehaul requirements for payload capacity, performance, and durability

Dual mode hybrid drivetrain allows extended operation in battery-only zero-emission mode, eliminates idling

Propelled by an electric motor under 48 mph, transitioning to diesel power at highway speeds

http://www.theautochannel.com/…..03948.html

Wallmart and Honda are using them I’ve been to three sites no rceord on their MPG I think because the tech is so new.
Still 48 MPG all electric you got to know that this would have NEVER happened under Bush!
8 years of high gas prices under Bush but Obama gets the cred why the ideas NEVER took off under Bush I wonder if Bush set up regulatory barriers?
I need back story!

I don’t know but I wouldn’tbe surprised at all if it were true.

Wouldn’t say cargill owns chiquirta.. since cargill is private and chiquita is not.. but they definitely work in the same circles.

Woooo, never played with Google earth before. Thank you, thank you!

Clearly a cemetery there – excellent sign. Seeking a very old grave. Hoping for a stone.

time for me to head out – g’nite pups

Restructuring usually begins by replacing directors and managers, and stabilizing cash flow, as the firm did in a successful rescue of Chiquita Brands.

http://www.bizjournals.com/twi…..tory2.html

When and why did they go under LHP should be told!

Nite Suz

Wow.. that’s for the big trucks. Of course they spend most of their time over 48 mph.. but it’s great to hear electric can now run the big trucks at all.

nite suz. me too

Nite Suz

Good luck Sunny the cemeteries are very old back there… The one in Nahant (where my parents are) is from the 1600’s… It is real nice with a view of the towns Sandy Beach!

Nite newtonusr

Looks like American business is up for nationalization…directos and stockholders alike…not like Venzuela not good for the taxpayer/people. Just a big con act. Good evening like mellow music. I am editing 300 document attachments in the Sewer DEIR…lot of scanning for content to match them with 25 pages of comments. With a old not as clear and energetic as needed…could be law suits so have to get it all on the record to mke the project environmental.

Nite Suz it was nice to meet baby girl last evening.

I think that article was 2004.

nite newt

VHeadline Venezuela News: Calabozo rice processor “Mary” — owned by the Alimentos Polar foods distribution group — was only producing regulated-price rice at 10% of its capacity … the remaining 90% was “flavored” rice which is not subject to price control

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=77909

Can’t they just sell unflavored rice?

Oh my… I didn’t notice on my drive by. And there I was talking about bootleggers, whiskey, and women.

No telling what baby girl thinks of us now. /s

True but Cargill should get the blame as well as the puppet banana company.
I have been guilty then of not enough research!

She IS growing up and I am sure she has heard worse already /s

Night suz and newt. ’twas great to meet baby girl.

nite Suz!

cold vs old..that too

and Newt

I think we’re cool with her — so long as we don’t call her baby girl *g*. charley (something) is her handle.

Night all

In late 2002 and early 2003, the Venezuelan bourgeoisie, backed by the US imperialists, tried to totally interrupt the flow of food to the people out of a political motive of overthrowing the democratic state that was growing increasingly proletarian in content. Back then, the capitalists gave this cold-blooded choice to the workers “Either you help us overthrow Chavez or you starve to death.” The workers stuck with Chavez and Chavez busted through the walls of the manufactured famine by organizing state-owned food distribution enterprises.

This political motive of overthrowing Venezuelan democracy is still present in today’s less extreme efforts of the bourgeoisie to manufacture famine and malnutrition.

Today, however, the Venezuelan rich is driven or, rather, possessed by an additional economic motive to manufacture famine and malnutrition — the motive is to recoup by price gouging the workers and the rest of the masses some of the billions of dollars of capital out of which the Venezuelan bourgeoisie has been recently defrauded by the criminal element that controls the financial sector of the US bourgeoisie. The Venezuelan bourgeois doesn’t have a lot of time to recoup his enormous losses at a result of a series of US perpetrated frauds because the Venezuelan bourgeois must keep up with the payments on notes, mortgages, bonds he issued, and other debt instruments that are often held by US imperialists, waiting to dispossess … promptly … the local bourgeois in a tight spot.
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http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=77907

One explanation of the increased cost of food in Venezuela and possibly here SOON. The banks not lending to anyone sounds like the phony food shortage in Venezuela manufactured!

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Nite Newtonusr

ES, you need to call someone you trust and ask for him or her to put the word out. You need a trustworthy kid/adult in between jobs to do some work for you. Groceries, lawn mowing, etc.

Nite Bigbrother

Nite bigbrother

Get out your best bifocals and tell us all about what you are up to sometime soon, bb.

I’m fading fast myself..

At least we know the big trucks can run on electric motors… that’s huge.

Good night fabulous firedogs.

TCU.. i checked earlier..Chiquita stock in the last year… high 25.00 Today it’s around 4.30 to 4.70.

You know they will do some nasty work in times like that.

g’ nite

UBS: 47,000 American clients avoided taxes
Swiss bank being sued by IRS says it won’t divulge any more names

I sure hope they prosecute the UBS bank for helping so many rich Americans avoid taxes!

The one I’m seeking was purportedly the first burial at hull (preacher’s son). Love the old cems and some town clerks are enormously helpful.

Nite ES

Night es. Thanks for the hospitality.

They are my brother has been trying to trace my fathers family.. He has gotten as far back to 1510 or something in England on our fathers mothers side but gradnpa seems to have sprung up from nowhere.. He has gone to many of the hall of records in the Boston and some in Maine. He said it was hard to read some of the writting in the record books. When I was living/working back there one of my accounts was the hall of records in Salem Ma and they were converting many of the old books to microfiche film. I was working for Xerox and repaired the old copiers back then…

a lotta juice (so ta speak) in the Phillipines.

Might explain Michelle Malkin she used to write in Seattle’s Newspapers, but Seattle’s Beacon Hill is Filipino and the Asian grocery stores all sell good Mexican food and the bankers all get my name right the first time.
Michelle did not learn her immigrant hate there.
I wonder if Michelle is a GOP Plant an attempt to win the Asian vote for the GOP? Asians are well off the GOP probably thinks they should vote GOP.

Sorry my 116 was supposed to be a reply to Norske @74

Nite ES

http://www.google.com/finance?q=Chiquita+

ES hit the 10 year chart on google Chiquita was at $30 a share in 2005 no stock splits to explain the price drop.

Citizen ThingsComeUndone:

Malkin married a well connected right wing American of the Jewish persuasion who has been big for a number of years in the JDL and other off the wall pan Israel groups. Of course remember, Malkin started out rabidly anti-Japanese like many younger Philipinos of her generation.

That does not explain her feelings toward Mexican immigrants. In fact with a Jewish husband she should be more sympathetic after all how many Spanish converted from Jewish because of Spain taking all there property? right before Mexico was conquered?
Oh right the GOPers are not much into history:)
Michelle’s wiki does not say what her degree was in or grades how did she get hired with her obvious fact free reporting unless she was a plant made to sway the masses of Asian voters?
A yellow Bobo as it were actig like she’s on Meth.

Is Ann Coulter a closet Liberal?

The Boondocks explains the crazy without drugs which I admit is my favorite reason for her actions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZbz2NcfLrY

Citizen ThingsComeUndone:

I think I understand your confusion CitizenTCU, I used ta think that Jewish Americans were on the side of the angels when it comes ta human rights…and that mighta been true through the mid-70’s (it certainly was when I was growin up in the 50’s and 60’s) but I find that much has changed in the last 30 years and I would count the American Jewish community as among the most adroitly racist in the country now.

Has anyone seen Spiderpaws? His /Her input on this video would be good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

This video is long winded but up her alley no mention of Odin being tied to a tree though.

Agreed well only the ones who don’t want a fair deal with the Palestinians. Any numbers on that?

I wonder what tech the class 8 hybrid diesel trucks are using?

Here are some numbers on Jewish opinion on national affairs. They don’t get into race per se, but they show that the Jewish population is not neocon by any means: http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.3642951/

Citizen TCU:

Actually, if you take a look back to the mid-70’s when the tensions began to grow between the Jewish folks and Blacks in the urban centers and especially in the “white pioneer” areas of neighborhoods that were usin’ HUD and CDBG money to gentrify old areas, I think you’ll find a lot of general distrust and turning away by the Jewish folks from the people of color in the “hood”.

Citizen wigwam:

The non-neocons have silenced the old “liberals” and anyway the isolation of Israel has exposed some long standin’ uncomfortable attitudes about race that have been percolatin’ for a long time. This is a real problem and to be Jewish in America is not easy today…still doesn’t explain away underlying racism though.

Pales the Ass God, from which we get Palestine Pales land and the Palatine hill in Rome? How far did culture spread in ancient times?
Is this all Indo European Aryan/Iranian myth or are we talking Linear b, Etruscan and Basque?
How many Nazi’s know that Iran is just a variant spelling of Aryan:)

P.S. “The NEOcons have silenced…”

Maxwell street Chicago home of the Chicago style hotdog now a nice neighborhood thanks to Mayor Daley (the fink got rid of the food stands!). It was all African American when I ate there it used to be Benny Goodman’s neighborhood

Attaturk is upstairs!
Eight plus minutes of truth

Nobody sane is a Neocon by any means. I would never judge everyone by their crazies still Norske has a point I grew up in the Burbs of Chicago granted no problem with Jews but everyone who moved there in the 70’s was feeling African Americans and hated the dark folk of all kinds.
Except us my Mom wanted away from my Dad’s family.

Sorry my 134 says

but everyone who moved there in the 70’s was feeling African Americans and hated the dark folk of all kinds.

it should read

but everyone who moved there in the 70’s was fleeing African Americans and hated the dark folk of all kinds.