Hey WT. They don’t just LOOK nutty…..

Kwatz!

Punk’d

Oh, good. Now can everyone just shut up about this?

much to the chagrin of the U.S. Geological Survey, which had to explain that seismic activity to the folks in Cuba

Given the size of the tremor and the location, they had an even harder time explaining to the International Atomic Energy Commission that it was not an underground atomic test.

WT, LOL. I heard today that Raul Castro gave a short speech. Maybe he had a heads up and was just trying to get ahead of that wave.

Watertiger, ya know, they did have to get something done before the August break.

Bachmann, spidey senses a-tingle at the first signs of fact-based reality, leapt out from behind a hedge…

I.Love.WT!
But I thought it was a woodpile.

I love it when Bachmann gets involved – you know it going to be a whole lot of laughs.

That’s not really a chipmunk–it’s a prairie dog! And . . . There. Are. No. Prairie. Dogs. in. Hawaii. Conspiracy!

Damn, I was just going to say it was a prairie dog.

And hardly anyone is talking about the cop and the professor. Birthers rule!

She is theMother of Crazy Planet.

Except L. O’Donnell on Countdown, who absolutely schooled the cop and his department. They can’t win.
They can’t see through their own chaff cloud anymore.
/beauty

O’Donnell’s pretty good, might like him better than KO, who has started to wear on me.

I found the fact that Mike had to spend a fair bit of his time jogging alongside these cowards highly entertaining.

What kind of wine is best with prairie dog?

Hey. I’m having a war against rodents, including chipmunks. They’re my fault, since I put bird feeders near the house this spring for the first time. The chipmunks rob the seeds that drop to the ground, carry them to my back porch, where they proceed to hull them, making a mess of hulls. My back porch is my summer living room.

Not sure what the mice story is, but working hypothesis is that it’s the rain. They’ve trashed my riding lawnmower (will find out the full details and the bill tomorrow) by building a nest in it, and they’re inside the house for the first summer in 30 years.

OT
Sorry but what does this mean?

AP: Senate Finance Committee To Drop Public Option

I am too pissed off to understand the article on Huffpo.

Now will all those ‘crazy Eileens’ please go to their GOP Congressmen’s *and women’s* town hall meetings and ask them how they could vote for a resolution commemorating Hawai’i as the BIRTHPLACE of Barack X Muhammed Obama? Please ask your congresscritter WHY, in the face of all the evidence (wave your OWN birth certificate aloft, just like crazy Eileen did at Mike Castle, please!) he or she voted to acknowledge Hawai’i as Kenyatta Obama’s birthplace, thus undoing all the hard work your friends have put in, collecting “evidence” from the internet and Africa. Also.

Better yet, ask Mike Stark to come to the town hall meeting and videotape your ‘critter defending their vote!

Do what I did: have a fatal TV breakdown. It’s actually more relaxed around here without the damned thing.

Annie Greensprings.

Joy of Cooking probably has an A to that Q.

They released the 911 tape. I wouldn’t mind that lady as a neighbor. The call was fine, just what you would expect out of a concerned citizen. She didn’t say Black guys and even said there were suitcases and maybe even lived there.

Last year at this time, my neighbors stopped thieves, that had broken into numerous houses in the area, as they came up my driveway and scared them off.

too hot to stay outdoors?

In a word: No.

Neil Abercrombie knew Obama’s mom fairly well when they were teenagers. This must be especially gratifying for him.

Doesn’t this dynamic of the wingnuttiest of the wingnuts starting to scare the other wingnuts remind ya of the Prez campaign, when they started bitching at WAR HERO John McInsane, and McPOW started having this look like, “Oh shit. What have we started?”

Love it. Additionally, I would argue Obama’s approach, which often drives us crazy, allows him (and us) to take maximum advantage when the curtain gets raised on what really is behind the Repub party. Maintain the high road!

Some prairie dogs prefer red, but many prefer white. Ask the prairie dog.

Saw that and immediately emailed Baucus (my senator) to let him know that if it is true it is the worst kind of betrayal of his constituents and that I would do everything in my power to see that he is not re-elected again. My big fear is that this is his swan song and that he plans to cash out after this term. Bastard.

OMG. Bill Kristol is guest on TDS.

Looks like we have someone more or less on our side who knows how to play this game. Good on Abercrombie.

Right, should have asked what kind of wine should I serve prairie dogs? I’m leaning towards something (cheap) out of a box.

So, it is only the committee that is saying no. The rest of the bastards can still stay yes?

Not too hot, too wet. The inside of my garage is like an oven with the doors closed, but it’s dry, like the inside of my house. Just about the only dry areas around.

Popcorn time!

My husband gave one of ours a wild ride. He drove 45 minutes from the house, got to the gravel pit, and then opened the hood of his pickup. Out popped a chipmunk. Doubt it will last long, as there is no water and plenty of snakes.

A neighbor got a bunch of chipmunk from someone whose wife wouldn’t let him kill them. The neighbor liked them and fed them, but apparently a red-tailed hawk liked them even better and they are all gone.

Heh. Stewart is trashing Kristol. Much fun.

Oh. My. God.

William Kristol is on The Daily Show.

Absolutely. I think that there are other committees working on different bills.

NPR had a couple of retired chiefs on the other night, both of whom said the event was over when the ID was produced. Everything after that had no relationship to why the police were there. Should have left then, no matter what.

I heard the bit on the neighbor, who has been horrified over the assumptions people made about her call.

Hey, I have an idea. Let’s all now recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Those absolutely MAD eyes – he looks as if he is going to become an ax murderer at any moment.

What are you drinking, eCAHN?

I have some Sam Adams chilled in the fridge… seems appropos with l’Affaire Gates.

My take was that it was the usual trying set the terms of debate as much as possible. Of course the AP is happy to play along. Saw some other version of this story where they seemed to have softened the language. We’re talking Kent Conrad and friends here.

I think we should just use it as further fuel to step up our efforts this week and next to keep the pressure on.

Perhaps it is one of those special years when a species has a ton of kiddie winks and soon afterwards there is a collapse of the population. Then it takes awhile to build back up. Or they are taking over the world. Gawd knows that it is ripe for invasion while we all twiddle our thumbs and hope for the best. Cept, of course, for you and me.

I don’t have much of a problem with the squirrels on the bird feeders because there aren’t any trees close by. And the raptors are raptorish.
But the chipmunks think they are too little and too cute to be scarfed up.

E Plegnista sacred words for chiefs ONLY!

Do tell! No TV so blow-by-blow is fine!

My problem here is with the bushytailed tree rats which keep crawling under the hood of my truck and chewing through the wiring and hoses. Cost me $85 last time.

I only have basic cable, which doesn’t include MSNBC. I watch the Countdown segments that look interesting at the website. I could probably give up most TV except for the Fox animated series on Sunday. I own most of my favorite Britcoms on DVD but I would miss Last of the Summer Wine, of which only a few of it’s 30 seasons are available on DVD.

Gin ‘n Tonic, s’il vous plait.

Kristol lies (we are not surprised) that govt health care costs are going up more than private.

Don’t miss it a bit. Not buying the box for my rabbit ears was the best decision so far this year.

Except that Suzanne and the left coasters don’t get to see the show for 2 more hours.

You need to put more food out for them so they are soooooo hungry. Or get a couple of dogs.

I wouldn’t mind if the hawks that swoop through my backyard grabbed a squirrel occasionally but they have a penchant for songbirds, the bastards.

Same. Tired. Old. Sh*t.

Matt. Cut taxes on the rich, no to public option, no to single payer, health care costs are going up fast because of government programs, public option will lead to rationing.

Iowa Public TV stopped running “Last of the Summer Wine” right before my TV committed suicide. In hindsight, I think that was an omen.

They’d probably prefer the box.

Some have objected because of spoiler claims, cause TDS apprears at different times in different time zones. But will related that Stewart restated Kristol’s claim that govt military medical care is really really good, but, according to Kristol, ordinary citizens don’t deserve such good care, and besides govt medical care is no good.

What they need to be afraid of is me. I am really fond of fried squirrel and squirrel soup.

Here ya go.

Bill Kristol lies? Oh my god, what is my world coming to???

My mother complained of a chipmunk under the refrigerator. My brothers got out the vacuum cleaner and got it out. Of course, it was not long for the world after that, so it had a water burial in the loo.

The next day, my mother received a postcard with a picture of a chipmunk. It said, “Heaven is very nice.”

AbFab?

The GOP are still living like it’s 1994. It isn’t. There was no
series of tubes Internet back in those days. Whenever they embrace the mainstream fringe of their party like these birthers, it’s going to be rebutted immediately on the blogs. The MSM let them get away with this garbage throughout the 90’s, but they can’t help their Republican brothers as much as they did back then.

And I adored our moment of Zen…

My current concern it for my beehive, which is valiantly trying to prepare for the winter, in-between drenching rains. I have barn swallows in the shed on the garage, and my beekeeper tells me to keep an eye out for whether the barn swallows are swooping the beehive. So far not, but the barnswallows do dive bomb humans, within a couple of inches if they think you are interefering.

Merci/.

AbFab rules. Really funny, acerbic satire.

LOL. They are cute, but still rodents.

They Do, Oh They Do!

Oh SHITE!!! NSFW PEOPLE! NSFW!!! (my bad)

GOOD! Though!!! *G*

Very disappointing that Billy lies. My First Grade teacher Sister Mary Stevens would have washed his mouth out with soap or sent him to see the Father.

One of those infomercials that’s better with the sound off? I’d be more likely to watch if the exercise equipment occasionally malfunctioned and catapulted one of the beautiful people out the window…

In other news, the sun rose in the east this morning and the earth is round.

…according to Kristol, ordinary citizens don’t deserve such good care…

Oh, yeah?

Pffffft. Barn swallows.

You haven’t been dive-bombed until you’ve had a nesting boat-tailed grackle after you. Last time I got dive-bombed the jerky bird grabbed my Tilley and tried to fly off with it.

Harry Reid is scheduled to speak at the New West Summit. We should take up a collection to send a couple of people.

The New West Summit is set for Wednesday, August 12, through Friday, August 14, at the Colorado History Museum in downtown Denver.

Round? Round? Whaddaya mean round?

That’s cuz you’ve got true hawks, who prefer things that fly. I had a female Cooper’s Hawk and her fledglings for the season 2 years in a row. Once they had decimated the doves, those that survived split the area, they started going after the squirrels in the oaks. Not very successful but was fun to watch mom try to teach the kids. For some reason they didn’t get my cardinals.

Typical swallow behavior. I’ve never actually been hit by one but it does induce a little Hitchcockian paranoia.

Sister Mary Stevens is never around when you need her.

Colbert is giving a great facsimile of a Sarah Plain [sic] speech.

Luv it. And now I know why you’re “evil”

Hey, I used to LOVE this song!

here it is, for the purists. I just went with the chipmunk theme.

Shrikes are also a lot of fun. I have the scars on my scalp to prove it.

I was hooked first time I watched it.

I admit to being a neophyte for bird dive bombers, but I still get goose bumps.

What do you teach, EDP? Statistics here, and I know Dr.D. does (cultural??) anthropology.

Cardinals are quick. I’m glad the hawks have never gotten any of mine that I’m aware of, that would be TOO sad. The doves had gotten to the point where they would only feed in early or morning or dusk. They’ve been hanging out all day recently so there must not be as many predators around.

There is probably a solid constituency in the GOP that doesn’t believe that the world is round or that the earth revolves around the sun.

Naw, man. Absolutely Fabulous. Edwina and Patsy. Looney tunes and the lush. Too fuckin’ funny.

Yah, like my parrot. He doesn’t drink wine but he loves a good box.

Anthropology/archaeology.

Blue Jays can be pretty nasty too. One attacked our last cat when he was a kitten and he had an abiding hatred for birds the rest of his life.

Headed by Michele “It’s turtles all the way down” Bachmann.

hahahaha

The only thing I have to worry about here is the eagles stealing my fish.

Much less something quasi-subtle like evolution.

Yep. Native North America, gender, race and ethnicity, and more theory than is good for a person.

Michele is in a class all by herself. Flat-earther would be rather advanced for her.

We’ve got a couple of red-tails in the neighborhood and whenever they show up they get mobbed by the songbirds. It’s pretty amusing to watch.

I haven’t seen that one yet. It’s not on my local PBS but I see that I can rent it locally. I’ll check it out. Thanks for the tip.

Has someone already linked to this WaPo story? If so, my apologies.

Desperate for medical care, the uninsured flock by the hundreds to a remote corner of Virginia for the chance to see a doctor

G’nite pups.

Science is HARD!

Have you read Dee Brown’s The American West? If so, what’s your take on it?

“Your ignorance appalls me.”
–Dr. Science

I teach 9th graders by day and middle schoolers by evening. Soon-to-be 4th graders on Sunday mornings.

So are rocks, like Bachmann carries around in lieu of active neurons.

Made in the 80s. Careful. It’s addicting.

On edit: If you have to rent it you ain’t gonna thank me. *g*

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I mostly get Coopers. Actually had a Peregrine falcon for awhile a couple years back. Goddamn, he was fast.

And she manages it without a helmet. She is some lady!

S’okay, I’ve had worse addictions, I’m sure.

I love to see any kind of raptors. Totally thrilling. Even though I don’t want to watch them kill, it is still cool.

Have not. Read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee decades ago. That was pretty much a pop culture treatment of the issues. I do have the distinction of being one of the few people in America to have actually read most of Ward Churchill’s professional publications and thus actually being qualified to comment on them.

Peregrines are way too cool. Too cool for school.

Yeah, they are. Got a couple red tails around work and the mockers give them hell.

The place I rent from has dollar Britcom rentals on Mondays. Get to keep ‘em for three days.

Nice Larue! nice..

How did we get from the birthers to birds and bees and chipmunks,etc?

True. I think her brain fossilized immediately prior to birth.

Okay… feel free to comment away. I’ve done my share of terms on our Faculty Senate and Appeals Board, and I had my opinions on what I read in the papers and The Chronicle.

I was outside work one afternoon, just happened to look up just as a red tail took a dove about 15 feet above me. It snowed feathers, had ‘em in my hair, all over.

Well, a buck a copy won’t kill ya.

We agreed that birthers is unsustainable.

That would explain a lot. I was hypothesizing a formalin dip, but outright petrification probably explains more.

It is kind of funny, but we do not really have a lot of hawks right around Missoula. I am not sure why. Lots of osprey and eagles. It occurred to me the the other day while watching the first red-tail I had seen in years raise a ruckus while I fished that when you see more eagles than hawks, you are in a different kind of place.

Red tail hawk teen-agers are driving me nuts. Apparently they screech uncontrollably when they are hungry but not adept enuf to hunt for themselves. Kinda like teenagers whining about being drivin’ to the mall. Anyhow, they’re sreeching they’re little lungs out and if I had a gun …

JOC was the schizz! Saw them many a time long ago . . *G*

Bachmann has fossilized scat for brains? Can’t say I’m surprised.

Easy. There are only so many ways to blast birthers. We can talk critters all night.

Brilliant show, truly hysterical and really edgy, too. Jennifer Saunders had guts playing a rather disreputable character, and she also wrote all the episodes.

Intellectual equals.

Actually bald eagles have made an amazing comeback in Illinois. I think there are some in most parts of the state now. I’ve never seen any in town, though. Usually find them around the rivers.

Cooper hawks are another matter. On any given day I can walk outside and easily spot two or three circling overhead.

We were talking about small brained people one night and somebody said of whoever that if you took their brain out, put it on the edge of a razor blade it would be like a BB rolling down a 4 lane freeway.

I kinda like the “birther ” mythology that a 9 month pregnant Ann Dunham, applied for a passport months in advance, flew half way across the world (Hawaii to Kenya), so that she could have her baby in some hut so that Obama Jr. could undergo the traditional Luo “birthing ceremony”. Then, accidently being given a copy of the Constitution, she realized the big mistake she had made that would bar her mixed-race son from ever becoming President of the United States.

So she hopped on the next Kenyan Airways turbo-prop to India and Japan and Honolulu, snuck the baby through immigration and customs in a calabash (”Yes, officer, it IS an interesting musical instrument that when played emulates the sound of baby crying”), and bribed some corrupt doctors at Honolulu General to create a fake “certificate of live birth” (”Look, we’ll do that but a “Birth Certificate” will really cost you…you say this kid is gonna be President? Ha-Ha, Lady, it’s your money.”) and then publish his birth in two local newspapers that week.

Now that’s devotion ;-) Who would have thought that her son, born of a Kenyan father, at a time when blacks in the South couldn’t even vote in many areas, would ever become POUSA. But Dunham dreamed…

…that she could subvert the United States of America with her half-breed, miscenogentional, socialist love-child of a Muslim and an atheist.

A very sloppy and mediocre scholar, though I never saw any evidence of academic misconduct. His forte was as a gadfly and provocateur (a definite genre in Native American Studies) more given to polemics than serious scholarship. Have occasionally used some of his stuff to stir up discussion.

Of course all of this was true when he was awarded tenure, so it should not have surprised anyone. He was basically railroaded for saying something in print that pissed of wingnuts.

Good analogy.

We missed you Saturday… hopefully you can make the next one in October!! It will be BBQ themed! From what I have heard you like to cook!!

Send those teenagers to NYC. They got a thing for red tail hawks there.

I was driving through Saguache Pass one summer and saw what I realized as I passed it as an enormous Golden Eagle. Really enormous. I went back to look at it. It had a just-killed rabbit and a couple of vultures were eyeballing it too.

It was my ultimate nature experience. Very impressive. It flew off leaving only a couple of tufts of rabbit fur. The vultures followed it, but I doubt there was much of that rabbit for them.

Recently I found a dried ball of whatever eagles throw up after eating. It was full of small bones. Even that was cool.

They are also more intelligent.

bbq? does that mean it’s in texas?

I’ve been seriously thinking about sending to Honolulu for another copy of my birth certificate, so I can show it to birthers and ask them if I was born in Mombasa too.

Past my bedtime.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

Bald eagles are mainly fish eaters and scavengers. I had one perch on a log jam 20 feet away from me one day while fishing, waiting for me to catch a fish so he could steal it.

And more adaptable.

Calling it a night. Splendid evening to all.

I’d happily buy them bus tickets, but they don’t seem to get it.

Kapiolani Maternity Hospital. My brother and sister were born there, I was born at Queen’s.

west, flat. new rethug party doctrine.

A few years ago I was driving down a dirt road here and came on a pair of them perched on fence posts. Got within 15 feet before they took off. Absolutely breath taking and huge.

Night.

I’m not qualified to judge his scholarship, but my read of the proceedings was that he was railroaded. UNM did much the same to Richard Berthold, a classics prof who said on 9/11, “Anyone who can blow up the Pentagon gets my vote.”

bright lights, big city. Like all teenagers, they won’t listen to you. But you gotta listen to them, I guess. Too bad they can’t come in your house and eat mice.

i’m heading off too. g’nite all. play nice.

Night, rf.

Nighters.

I’ve seen two golden juveniles in the Organs. Even the juveniles are huge.

‘night RF, GW and SD.

That’s the birther philosophy in a nutshell.

I saw two really young goldens in the Jemez a few years back. I would probably die and go to heaven if I saw two adults a few feet away. . .

Think I will join the exodus as well. Take care all.

There is a nesting pair of bald eagles out where I fish most of the time. As a result I have had several fairly close encounters with juvenile balds (they are every bit as uncoordinated as human adolescents).

you gotta be kidding!! It just like Texans to think “They” are the only ones who know how to BBQ!

*G*

If I’m workin, I’m ramblin!

No work, no rambles . .

‘nite all. PW, thanks for the entertainment.

‘night Dr.D.

And, if I AM ramblin, I’ll stay overnight, and bring my smoker.

We’ll have LOTS of fun talking politics, quaffin stuff, and huddlin round fire.

And music, I’ll bring my dobro. SOMEone else best have a guitar and there should be a dawghouse, a mando, a fiddle, and a 5string, too . . . .

Yeah, we could have some fun if I ramble . . . . I don’t LIKE to ramble half heartedly.

Ask Suz . . *G*

Well lets just hope you can be rambling this way come the
October meetup…

I’m hopin. I would LOVE an excuse and the ability to drive thru San Mateo on my to RC. Been ten years or more since I’ve been thru the old homestead . . . left it in ‘88 for Sacto.

Man I still miss that fog . . *G*

My sweetie will add vocals if we ply her with good libations and I just may break oput the Bass… been way too long but if I knew you were coming I could get the fingers back into shape…

Dang! We’re halfway there! *G*

You got a dawghouse, or an electric?

It really is stunning that anyone can see Sarah Palin as anything less than a buffoon.

-G

You have to want it. Despite the present Gooper lineup, you still really have to want it.

But she can still wear a pair of jeans like a pro, so there’s that.

I’ve got an ukulele, which is probably more apropos than Grendel-the-bass-trombone.

electric I bought in 1980 Kramer and an Alembic I picked up… I still have my amps and speakers… Might even get the youngest to play the drums…

Larue, you’re gonna like Late Late tonight

Hey egregious how ya doing tonight??

King of the jambalaya – thanks for your hospitality

He will.

Was my pleasure and we are looking forward to the next one!!

lol Rude Pundit says he

finds it funny that some people need more proof that Barack Obama was born in the United States than they needed for Iraq’s WMDs.

2nd that! And thank Julie as well, nahant. That woman can sing!

Uke’s are WAY compatible for many genre’s of music.

YER IN THE BAND LUCY!!!!!

*G*

Know any Dan Hicks songs? *G*

We add stix we can do LOUD versions of Marshall Tucker, Allman Bros, Dead, and more! *G*

EG! How you KNOW these things . . . *winky* *winky* *G*

Thanks for that single malt… it sure goes down easily…
And yes Julie CAN sing, like I said earlier we just need to ply her with good libations and she may decide to give us more than one song… It would also help if we had some accompaniment for her… Looking forward to the October Meetup!!

OOOoo . . . ooooooo . . . Lurkin Mod got my number . . . I DIDN’T DO IT! ;-)

(it was the banjo player)

Sounds like lots of fun to me!! We shall see..

If I can get there, I guess I’ll have to get some Pete Seeger worked up.

NahantStock ‘09?

*G*

We need video of this please!

BargainCountertenor you totally have to come. Please.

Not a Pete Seeger tune (even kids songs) I’ve not liked . . *G*

If ya wanna go all GALT Folk Scare Of The 60’s, I’ll dig up a bunch of Phil Ochs, Dylan, Weavers, and more and bring the sheets . . . *G* I’m talkin EARLY 60’s . . . *G*

I think she just might develop a taste for the single. Small sips.

I was at Woodstock almost 40 years ago!! And I do have the DVD just so I can relive that moment in Time!!

Nahant, what style of music does your Julie favor to sing, if I might ask?

We shall see!! But we do have to try when the time comes!! She seemed she was open to trying it again (:>))

I think we should have a slumber party at my house but not in the summertime.

I’d love to, but it’s a long run to SF from southern New Mexico. It depends a lot on what’s going on in Bakersfield around that time.

Bravo nahant! My parents would not let me go…

We should get Pete Grant to come down from Auburn.

Heh, I think I’m the only DFH left that WASN’T there! lol

Man, you got it all, hoss . . . . mud, rain, music (stuff).

Incredible. Love the movie, to this day . . . I was 16.

So was Neil Schon, with Santana. From . . . . SAN MATEO! We went to same school, I crossed paths with him.

And Michael Shreeves, the drummer, was only 17 when he showed the likes of Ginger Baker, Keith Moon, Jon Bonham, and many, many more, how to handle some stix on Soul Sacrifice.

*G*

From Classical… Mass in D minor( the Lord Nelson Mass) to jazz standards to Eagles to to she has a wide taste in her music!!

If you guys allow ringers, my bro-in-law is a great picker and singer. Plays all songs by those bands, and a lot more. Likes acoustic.

My youngest lives in Folsom so…

SacStock!!!

*G* *waves*

Best to you and Ron . . .

I’ll cook, que, clean, and fetch and step before, during and after.

My labor is yours, madame. *bows*

Woodstock was my welcome Home to the USA after being in Germany for two years!!

Mary, you are SO wise!! Not to mention your hubby knows him better n I do! *G*

Maybe, include a reso workshop and promote it locally (I can do this) to compensate Pete’s Time?

I’d pay $20 for a workshop from Pete!!! *G*

My older brother went — he introduced me to all the music. I was a junior in high school. Senior year, I never looked back! Germany, Army? Or education?

I’m in awe!

OMG — please look at Jimmy Fallon on NBC. He is hilarious!

Me? I’m a jam phreak . . . more the better!

I defer to Nahant, as it’s their place, though . . .

Is yer bro in law near Sacto, by any chance?

Army… but I still got educated over there… had to learn to speak enough German to get by on…

If he will be playing…. what do you think??

Larue,
Maybe we could have a sacto meetup here and time it around one of Pete’s concerts. He sometimes plays with two Irish dudes. Great stuff.

And there are other large contingents of the Republican party that are still debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Languages are the portal of learning, really! I sucked at Spanish all through high school and college (hey man, how did an advisor ever rec me taking Spanish when art history literature is totally in French and German?) It takes living there to learn the language. If not even perfect.

7th Floor West now on! NBC!

Hey Chris!
What’s that?

What is that?

I owe you a cokie cola, Newt.

Sorry! Jimmy Fallon’s soap opera. It is really funny.

NBC, MrCE tells me.

Root beer, girl. And I’ll be collecting it at your Rancho Cambodia meetup.

When I got out I took German in college for a bit… but the professor insisted that what he was teaching was the way to speak it there… Was he ever wrong. My German friends would have laughed me out of the GuestHause!

For a while there I was afraid the Birthers had taken away Hawaii’s Statehood .

he’s in Napa, midway between Sac and SF. He’s a Garcia freak most of all, but has your taste. Can play bluegrass guitar too. And most important- he’s progressive.

His son kicks azz on electric.

Trying to squeeze in a visit to support Pete at a gig (I LOVE his Irish contacts and gigs work), who usually performs up the hill in Grass Valley, Nevada City, while doing a FDL Meetup, is a bit much doncha think, for a two day affair?

On the OTHER hand, to get him from Roseville to YOUR place, for a workshop, and a Meetup, for ONE day, is MUCH less travel for Meetup Pups . . . . whatcha think?

There are tunes, and a guest DJ… Upstairs!
Late Late Night FDL: Finn and Horan

Heh, heh, me too! My living in Paris shook every textbook phrase out to laughter.

How come dems like Grijalva, Waxman, Sestak, Murtha, Waters et. al abstained ? I don’t understand.

Sorry, I was replying to Emerson at #203 . . . HIS Bro In Law.

Any folks YOU know that can pick near Sacto?

YOU have a bro in law, too? And a son in Folsom?

What do THEY play instrument wise and music wise?

OOOOOOOOHHHHH!

HOUSE CONCERT? Pete And His Folks? Your Place?

Interesting! Increased costs to Meetup Pups, though . . . .

Still . . . . ????

Ohhhhh . . . so you KNOW the local nomenclature, do yas?

I’m not sure it’s too kewl a nickname, though, as there IS a sig population of Viet, Cambodian, Thai, Hmong, Mien, and more refugee’s from those countries in The Central Valley and has been since the 80’s . . .

I’ve not used that term, myself . . . seems, so . . . redneck, ya know?

SEND THEM BOTH!!! lol

Please send some of that rain to South Texas. Thank you very much.