What’s up, Doc?

Good eeeeeevening.

Suz! Toons!

g’evening busted and pups

how’s everyone doing tonight? no dive since there is a rain/snow mix falling and it is too forking c-c-cold to dive.

hey newton – the uncensored version of this cartoon even. (the description of the censoring covered in the released in 1955 link.

CBS, still lacking a sense of humor after all these years.

And what’s more, Elmer wasn’t smoking tobacco.

;>)

cartoon network played to both sides, airing both versions.

Oh hey friends!
Suzanne, it was 66 degrees here today!

hey db

*shivering and putting another log on the fire*

That means it is coming this way, great. I’ll BRB, outta forkin’ beer AND smokes!

humming beer run and down to my last cigarette for ya

Oh, I am so sorry. After a horrible week of degrees in the single digits this last week, we are treated to a few days of spring. Windows open, cleaning back porches, listening to music at full blast…we are ready for a new year.

christine – is that a fluke or has spring sprung there?

Hey. I’ve got a top-ten diary up on this business of credit-default swaps and how they should be treated. It’s been a burr in my bonnet for a few months now, so most of you have heard much of it before. This time, I’ve laid out a more specific recommendation as to exactly which CDSs should be backed by the government. http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/4064

Oh, Suzanne, a FLUKE to be sure. Last year, or the one before, we had 30 inches of snow on Easter Sunday.

Love it, thanks Suz, hi everyone:-)

ya got more than a top 10 diary there wigwam – i sure liked seeing it on the front page of ox today.

Hey Margot!

Yes, we’ll have snow this week I read.

hey margot

christine – flukes suck. we had springlike temps most of february – enough to make all kinda stuff start budding and now we are predicted to get snow at sea level.

Fingers crossed, I don’t care if it snows again, as long as we have the “regular” season of flowers and flowering trees.

So everyone, how is everything else tonight? I’m still employed for the moment. And feeling pretty good about work.

employed is always a good thing – am glad your worries are eased tonight

I posted an English pic on FB for a farewell to my cat.

i’m so sorry to hear that elvis has passed (((ce and family)))

Sorry to hear about yer kitty, mine are going bonkers right now, playing with each other.

I guess I missed some weather tonight, I haven’t been out all day.
I went and got into The Beast for a beer run and there was frozen rain pellets all over it.

{{{{ChristineEdmonson}}}}

Sorry for your loss. What’s FB?

Credit default swaps – how come my broker never told me about them when they were huge money makers? Probably because my investor profile spelled “prudent.” If they truly were insurance, then they should have been marketed as such, rather than – especially these past five or six year – as get rich quick niches.

hey cujo – fb is facebook

hey et

wow, both front pagers at ox are here – et and wigwam :)

Hiyah all,

11 to 79 in three days here.
snowplows to sunburns. Yipee

Facebook — I know most of us don’t use it but I have young adult children who help me stay in touch (sort of).

yikes and woohoo

Christine. (((elvis)))

Hey Suzanne. Thanks for the answer (and Christine, thanks). I have to pop out again. Ya’ll be good now.

g’pop cujo

Thank you SN.

So.. are you thinking winter on the Oregon coast
is doable. Or still scratching your head?

i love it here on the coast. the winter has not been as bad as i thought it would be – and when it gets cold enough to snow, at least i get some forking snow to go with it. i just stay home when it is icy outside.

I’ve been typing minutes of a long board meeting. Now working on a post on how poorly prepared to deal with important science questions Alaska media truly is. The reality, though, is that nationwide, most newspapers and TV stations do very poorly at covering science issues.

Excellent.

Edward Teller

Plenty of water and sunshine in AK no drought

Bye. I’m off to Justin Timbelake’s show, kisses.

g’nite christine e

bigbrother – wazzup?

Alas…melting permafrost off gassing Methane.

A story I’m passing on in my science post-in-progress:

At the panel on subsistence at UAA this Wednesday, Larry Merculieff told one of his powerful stories. I’ll try to do him justice in a paraphrase:

A village elder met a state-employed pilot who was involved in flying over the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, counting moose and caribou as part of a predator control program. The pilot spoke of the difficulty in figuring out why numbers of those game” animals were down.

The elder told him, “The water levels are down from climate change.”

The pilot replied, “That’s not what I’m supposed to be looking for. We need to know if there are too many wolves and bears.”

The elder said, “The low water levels have severely reduced the browse brush and plants for the moose and caribou.”

The pilot complained, “We don’t have anyone who looks for that. I’m not trained to notice plant changes or water levels.”

The elder, shook his head. “The beavers have moved their dams to deal with the reduced water levels.”

The pilot impatiently noted, “That’s the responsibility of another group. We don’t concern ourselves at all with beavers.”

The conversation continued, as the chief noted one important change to the ecosystem after another to the rather dense, but well-intentioned pilot.

That too. Palin sees it as another fuel source.

Actually the capacity for stupidity in the world consciusness has me thinking of Frank Zappa’s qoute on what the Universe is made of…
Profundity in it’s simplicity is lost to the eye of the beholder. Your capacity for hard and creative work id boggling as well.
I guess you could sy..why did the chick cross the road…Because it could. Making sense is not always sensible. Hope you are al well that is a much as we can ask for.

egad et – is that kinda common to run into those kinda folks? are the majority of scientific studies up there so narrowly focused?

Does anyone know the status of Dawn Johnsen’s confirmation? I can’t imagine some of the Obama Administration’s legal stuff occurring if she were in charge of the office of legal counsel.

Love that English humor so dry. Wonder if you could do a Monty Python skit with that as the script…might be a wonderful vehicle for educating the Neocons…kill them with humor.
Palin see the methane as a power source…wow…Frank Zappa wou;d have loved her. Very funny stuff that pilot to cheif.

Snow Bunnies? *G*

I’m out. Can’t maintain connection.

Fork!

Hey wigwam. hey guys.
This ought to shine some light on the path Johnsen has ahead.
ugh. I smell multiple holds

Whacky Tabacky?

Tax, legalize . . . rinse often . . .

BC Iz Mah Bud?

I’m out. Can’t maintain consciousness.

Knife!

g’nite sunny – yell for those forkers to move that forking white van off your tubes

g’nite bb

Chief: Lot of Carabou down
Pilot: Sorry I’m tasked with wolves can’t help you.
Chief: All the snow melted and the theiris nothing for the Carabou to eat
Pilot: Sorry Chief we’re paid to count predators not the end of the planet as we know it. Hala fuckin luyah

The vast majority of scientific studies EVERYWHERE are even more narrowly focused. And when corporations, politicians and courts limit our access to ways to connect the dots, we lose the ability to integrate them, whether as citizens, or as scientists.

That’s part of why I love firedoglake. There are scientists and economists who write here, who understand that, and are writing from a more holistic perspective.

Irene gnight and then Pam looked dpwn at her incovered left nipple and smiled. What can I say regarding what is piognant for the MSM?
And so to sleep perchance to dream. I hope the homeless have a warm spot.

Well, the corporations shoot themselves in the foot the same way. “Test Process X”. “Process X is broken, doesn’t run”. “Run the tests anyway”.

Huh?

gotta toe that corporate line yanno

No. I toe the engineering line.

i toe the retired line – magnificently i might add :)

Toe the company line instead of what you know to be true got us Bush and Co.

my mom thought this song was one toe over the line. i let her think that when i was younger

LOL!

She probably didn’t know what a toke is anyway.

I’m semi-retired, but I do some occasional contract work. Keeps the juices flowing.

I was going to go to NE Oregon, around the Wallowas this coming week until I saw the single digit temps. Digital cameras and their batteries hate the cold. :-(

i like the nw oregon coast – the ocean does mitigate the cold – haven’t gone down to single digits since i’ve been here (october so i could very well be wrong)

It’s past 1 AM DST so I guess I’ll go to bed and nurse this cold.

Nite all.

My mother was convinced that it was ‘toe’ and we weren’t in a mood to dissuade her.

I haven’t been to the coast now for several months. Gotta get back.

g’nite starbuck – lotsa eye candy at the coast. i love it :)

worked out well for both at the time newt :) i was not wanting to tell mom it was toke and have to explain toke. she would putz around the house singing one toe over the line and i would try not to snicker.

Yeah, that information would not have been calamitous in my house, but it would have led to other areas of inquiry best left alone.

exactly! did not wanna have that discussion

G’d evening, firepups. How’s the Lake this evening?

Me’n the Mrs. finished watching the old series, The Jewel in the Crown tonight. The last episode, set in 1947 at the time of the partition of Pakistan from India, when the British were ceding control of India, left me thinking about what will happen next year, as American forces leave Iraq. At that time, each of the sectarian parties had leaders that would help guide India and Pakistan through those troubled times (Nehru, Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah), filled with what is now called “ethnic cleansing” and score-settling.

Somehow I think there might be some karmic justice in assigning Dick Cheney to turn out the lights and be the last one to leave.

Bob in HI

hey bob – how’s hi tonight?

yikes – time for me to say g’nite pups. thanks for hanging out with me tonight and don’t forget to spring your clocks forward for the time change.

g’nite all.

nite suz
me too

Good morning, pups. It’s MoDo, Friedman, Kristof and Rich today. MoDo manages to write drivel even when she’s trying to say… MoDo writes about the most burning question facing America today: “Should Michelle Cover Up?” She says let’s face it: The only bracing symbol of American strength right now is the image of Michelle Obama’s sculpted biceps. (I feel it’s only fair to warn you that she shared a cab with David Brooks…) The Moustache of Wisdom, who quotes from “The Onion,” also has a question: “The Inflection is Near?” He asks what if the crisis of 2008 represents something more fundamental than a recession, and 2008 was when we hit the wall — when Mother Nature and the market both said: “No more.” Where were you when the world came to an end, daddy? Mr. Kristof, in “Watching Darfuris Die,” says President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is preparing to kill people en masse, not with machetes but by withholding the aid that keeps them alive. Finally, Frank Rich says “Some Things Don’t Change in Grover’s Corners,” and that he true American faith endures in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” a play that helps us remember who we are — and how lost we got in the boom before our bust.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got waffles with warm maple syrup. It looks like we’re going to have another gorgeous day today — I hope all the rest of you do too. Have a great day.