Good morning everyone.

Re: Scalia. Some cliche like stopped clocks being right twice/day comes to mind, and that’s obviously too high a standard for him

What’s with all these airplane crashes? Quite a rash of late, though still much safer than auto travel.

I be only one, but good morning! Scalia says, “They like me. They really like me!!!”

wingnut birther

Some would say that is redundantly duplicative.

The ruling angered many in the financial sector, who fear it’ll lead to a patchwork of state laws that’ll make it harder for banks and other financial firms to take a national approach to the marketplace

Waahhhhh.

Good morning barbara. Whassup?

I’ve gotta share. “The girls” are arriving today. That’s my beekeeper’s term for the residents of the hive that’s he’s bringing today. It’s gonna be like having 30,000 pets.

Oh, wow. Congratulations x 30,000. David used to be a beekeeper, first with University of MN and then on his own. Heard lots of bee stories, but never got to see it first hand.

The beekeeper is going to maintain the hive for me, but I’ll look over his shoulder and read some books, so perhaps at some time in the future I’ll be able to do it myself.

Some friends did it first, which is what gave me the idea. Their queen didn’t make it thru the winter (all that honey making is about making it thru the winter), so yesterday when the beekeeper brought the base over (couple of heavy cement blocks and a piece of slate, to which the hives is strapped, so bears can knock it over, but they can’t get into it) I asked how one gets a new queen. Turns out there are people who specialize in it, and it to do with the larva being placed vertically (a queen) or horizontally, all the others. Fascinating stuff, so much to learn.

King David is hoping there is news from MN soon so everything from the past week will be forgotten.

Sweet! You must live out and away from heavy population. I should know this, but have forgotten. David had to keep his hives elsewhere to conform to our town’s statutes. I think Minneapolis (not our city, but close) now allows hives on city property. Will you name your bees? *g*

This news has gotten so stale that it rarely makes the paper any more, never mind the front page. Every week, we are reminded that the MN SC usually hands down its decisions on Thursdays. (sigh) Very tight-lipped process. All rumors highly speculative.

Oh, wizard! Yer gettin’ yerself some buzzers…assume it’s in the country so you don’t have to worry about town/city regs. Is there a beekeeepers association nearby you can join?

That reminds me to check to see if the little town nearby managed to get a resolution passed so they could have chickens in the city limits. If i didn’t live back and forth between two locations, that would be a real temptation. Bees sorta take care of themselves mostly but you don’t drive away and leave the birds for weeks at a time.

Yes, I have a lot of property and it’s still fairly rural (trending toward exurban, until the housing crash). The beekeeper is right in the town of New Paltz, NY (mid-Hudson), and doesn’t have a lot of property, but he keeps several hives right at his place. He’s been to my place twice, and likes the fact that I have several large weeping willows, which bloom early. As winter is so stressful, they need food early when the spring comes. Right now my linden tree is in bloom. Turns out honeybees can’t collect pollen from forsythia (lot’s around) because the flower is too deep.

Heh. Names. Hadn’t thought that far yet. Have to learned to distinguish one variety of honeybee from another before I can name them. First thought: One, Two, Three, …, Thirty-thousand, Thirty-thousand one, …

Colbert made the point last night that the only thing that Sanford did wrong was to make his announcement one day too soon.

LOL

Wouldn’t it be up to the people of MN to start raising cain. I don’t think that people from other areas can do this.

Most of your Qs I answered in 12. The beekeeper will maintain it. He lives about 5 miles by road from me, on the other side of the Wallkill River, so it’s probably only 2 miles as the bee flies), but he maintains hives as far away as CT. He sez humans would survive only 4 days if all the honeybees disappeared. A real enthusiast. I’ll look over his shoulder because he loves to teach.

Colbert’s review of recent news as presented by the MSM was spot on.

Heh. Names. Hadn’t thought that far yet. Have to learned to distinguish one variety of honeybee from another before I can name them. First thought: One, Two, Three, …, Thirty-thousand, Thirty-thousand one, …

Heh. And how are you gonna know when a new one is “born” and needs a name? *g*

What’s the level of suspense like up there? Pending the outcome, is any activity expected in the streets of Minneapolis/St. Paul?

Republicans have come to understand that they do not lose close elections. Should Franken be declared winner, it will be a defining moment for their party. They’re incompetent even as cheaters.

Slow on my previous responses; sorry. My grandfather and uncle were beekeepers by profession. Unfortunately, I was still too young/callow to be much interested in the process. I do remember the wonderful fragrance in the honeyhouse when they were processing….sorta like sunshine ought to smell.

There’s a beekeeper in western NC who moves his hives to Lake Fontana when the sourwoods are blooming so it is the *real* thing. This guy doesn’t market it but I think there are some regulations on the flower content labeling for those who do. Anyway, after tasting his, everything I’ve bought in the past as “sourwood” was no such thing. He had trouble with his hives this year……just when I was hoping to buy multiple quarts to divide and use as gifts.

Right now the queens lay 1500 eggs/day, so naming would consume a large part of my day. Gonna have to get a concierge minister to do all the baptisms.

Beekeeper sez right now there’s no honey in the hives, though there normally is at this time of year. Cause is soooo much rain. Bees can’t collect pollen in the rain, but the queen keeps laying eggs and they have to be fed, so they consume what’s in the hive already during the rain and hope (heh) that there will be enough time later to stock up for the winter.

Cain has been raised. They. Don’t. Care. Personally, I think the MN Supremes have gone on vacation and Twitter their weekly greetings.

Oh boy!!! Oh boy, oh boy!!!! I just got an e-mail from Senator Mel Martinez!

Most bees look alike to me. Does that make me a beeaphobe? *g*

I don’t have any sourwood trees, but it’s on my list on my tree acquisition project.

One of the interesting things I’ve read so far is that if you eat local honey, it reduces allergies. I don’t have any, so it’s not relevant to me, but an interesting factoid nonetheless.

It’s gonna be like having 30,000 pets.

drive-away question:

Where does one buy 30,000 teeny tiny little feeding dishes?

Mornin’, BT, pups

Lotsa chores to do before I could play on the intertoobz.

Pro-life, my ass. You got that right. Control!!! I have to be in control of the women!!! Kill the sinners. We gotta kill the sinners.

Assholes.

My sense is that suspense has given way to numbness that comes from twisting slowly in the wind for SEVEN FREAKING MONTHS!!! Sorry. Overrode numbness for a sec.

You’re right about the precedent of a Dem winning a squeaker. Hadn’t thought about that.

Beekeeper looked at my wild bees and tried to explain the diff between Russian and Italian bees (one is more striped on the back) but it didn’t stick with only one lesson. I’ll have to study up.

Like all prejudice, yours about bees stem from lack of knowledge. *g*

G’morning, darlin’. A little cranky today? *g*

Nice thing about bees is that they’re self-feeding. Low maintaince for such a large number of friends.

My wild bees were back in their tree when I got home yesterday. I should start keeping track of their coming and going on a calendar. Duh.

you could have ‘em punch little time-cards….

Forced birthers/death penalty advocates always make me cranky. Ran into a death penalty advocate at Cindy Sheehan’s event on the 17th. What a piece of work she was.

Dog help us when that Vanity Fair article hits big time…….it’ll be palin whining 24/7.

Off on errands before traffic generated by the touroids gets any worse than it already is. Y’all have a good one.

You’re very funny this morning!

I’m a Wobbly. Time cards are verboten.

Marcy will have us all timelining everything before we know it.

Do you know where their hive is?

Our favourite saying during the winter months:

If’n it’s turist season why cain’t we shoot ‘em?

Only if you bring your guns to church.

Nope. Part of their tree is dead and there’s a hole about 4 inches in diameter they use. I have no idea if there’s honey in there or not. Not about to stick my hand in there to find out.

Quick, wash out your computer.

Wow, that does sound interesting. Adventurous of you!

Good Q. In mid-Hudson, it’s leaf-peepers tourism, first half of October, a little before deer bow & arrow hunting season.

That’s most likely their hive. What kind of tree is it? I’ll ask the beekeeper when he comes today.

My son leaves FL in his rearview mirror today on his way to ND. It has been about 105 in Navarre for the past week.

Have they made a decision about their child’s entry into school system?

Waiting to visit with school officials and see the school along with my grandson.

Coffee’s gone. Off to outdoor stuff. BBL.

Be well.

Mornin’ all!

Whoop, what a thread.

Here, git some REAL news via a clip our sonny sent us this morn. Gah! Fauxnoids in Cleveland has out-did itself. Caution, the video is real. Everything in it, not so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5C2gihnEkE

Bee well.

Fixed it for ya. Mwahahaha. Have a good day.

Hey bee-friendlies. Our assortment ranging from honey bees on through graded sizes of bumble bees LUVS them some common milkweed. Can’t help wondering what the honey tastes like. The flowers smell wonderful.

Oak

Also butterfly weed, a milkweed family member. Lovely blossoms, strangely wonderful scent.

Priceless!

Does he have all the Rethugs from our legislature in that moving van? If not, why not? I hear ND needs levee workers. *g*

Saw that the other day. You know there was some serious ass chewin’ over that one.

Have a great day, pupsters!

Ah yes. We dumped a nice buncha sand on our OH clay and planted those too. Gorgeous stuff, and so far it seems to think it’s on a nice beach. I’ve even been able to transplant some small ones – something not advised because they supposedly get cranky if you mess with the tap roots. Posh tish. It’s like dealing with trolls. Deft touch does the trick, sometimes.

The oil patch in ND is booming. They had a hard time finding housing. They had wanted to rent since he only has two years till he can retire but had to buy instead.

at faux? ya think? i haven’t a clue what they regard as proper news. they’re not exactly on my regular cruisin’ route.

Sadly, I gotta go leave yas, gang. My honey’s tromping around measuring stuff and acting project-oriented. Dangerous times here. Must stand guard over my treasures. He has a tendency to cut back on clutter with a back-hoe mentality, and I’m a pack-rat. One must protect one’s sanity during times of change. We’re losing the battle….

P. E. A. C. E.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Is today the day in MN?

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

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I’m sorry, let me try that again.

Pat Boone is a great Amerikkkkhahahahaha!

No, wait, one more time, I can do this.

Pat Boone is a great Americanahahahahahaaaaa!

OK, I quit.

This is doable: R. Crumb, Global Warming & the California Free Lunch
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From the McClatchy article on the Scalia opinion:

Spitzer and Cuomo were concerned that white borrowers appeared routinely to be given lower interest rates than blacks and Hispanics. Their hunch was later proved correct, as poor underwriting standards and the explosion of adjustable-rate subprime mortgages — those given to borrowers with the weakest credit, most often minorities — combined to create record foreclosures.

Losses in mortgage finance morphed into a global credit crisis, bringing down venerable investment banks including Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and insurer American International Group. The rest is history.

First, most subprimes and alt-As went to whites. McClatchy is repeating the Republican talking point that somehow minorities are at the root of the financial crisis. And “venerable” is about the least appropriate word I can think of to describe those companies. What a crock.