beautiful.

Good evening, Jim.
How about this – tomorrow will be sunny, and I have Lou Reed on my mp3 player.

Thank you.

Oh, yes. Lou Reed works very well.

Plus, without sounding trite, we are compelled to keep looking for solutions for the mountain of problems on our plates, by the example of those who went before.

Someone said,

“It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.”,

and he was right.

Has the MSM mentioned the Liberty?

The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter planes and motor torpedo boats, on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two Marines, and a civilian), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship. At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nmi (29.3 mi; 47.2 km) northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish.[1]
Both the Israeli and U.S. governments conducted inquiries[2] into the incident, and issued reports, which concluded that the attack was a mistake, due to Israeli confusion about the identity of the USS Liberty. Some U.S. diplomats, veterans and intelligence officials involved in the incident continue to dispute these official findings, saying the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was not a mistake, and it remains the only major maritime incident in U.S. history not investigated by the U.S. Congress.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

Thanks, Jim. I even like the photo with the audio, it’s like the one I used as my avatar.

The sun may be shining now, but that cloud is really part of a storm to come.

I guess that photo does look like “you”.

But will the clouds bring storms or a nourishing rain?

There’s more grief. Look at the sinkhole in Guatemala.

Jim !

What’s missing is truth and integrity, which has been brushed aside for greed. When I look at this community and my friends here, I see a more profound truth blossoming. And this time, we won’t let it get crushed under the boots of tyranny. That’s the pledge we make to each other, by coming together.

Limestone I bet their is water under the hole it eroded the limestone the rain eroded from the top chemicals men make probably did not help.
They need to determine if chemicals helped create the hole. They need to see how stable the rest of the rock is.
They may need to move the whole city.

That is shocking. We do have sinkholes here in Florida, but I haven’t seen anything on that scale develop so quickly. There is a really cool one here in town where you can actually hike down into it, finding a totally different environment.

Petro! Enjoy the blossoms.

It reminds me natural formations that Mayans used to sacrifice people into.

Some of the comments are very funny. Especially the one about going down and looking for Glenn Beck’s parents.

Not missing the twerp who invaded Landrieu’s office, he’s showing up on GMA tomorrow. American justice at work again, enabled by the shill media.

Which Lou? Not that there are any bad choices. I enjoy them all, even Metal Machine Music which incidentally is a good pick if you need to clear a room in a hurry.

edit: that was intended as a reply to newtonusr @2

animal

Of course he will be kept in the full spotlight. That’s such a sad trade-off.

Good night, pups. Time for me to turn in.

It is not simply the losses but that American soldiers and so many others died for nothing in meaningless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq was a war that was based on lies from the beginning. Yet not only did Bush and Cheney go in but Obama has remained there. An orderly withdrawal from Iraq could have been accomplished within 9 months. Obama stretched that out to 18 months during his campaign. Now he says we will be out by the end of 2011. That’s 36 months or twice as long as even his extended plan. I could see a quick strike in Afghanistan after 9/11 to dislodge al Qaeda but we should have been gone within a year and used aid to stabilize the country. My criticism has always been that we have an army in Afghanistan seeking a policy to explain its continued presence there. But we have no policy reason to be there and haven’t had one for years. Instead of leaving we get Obama doubling down on Afghanistan, and wasting American and Afghan lives, so that McChrystal can play junior Caesar just as Petraeus was allowed to do so in Iraq. All of the policy reasons for the surge in Iraq failed. What quiet did occur came from Petraeus buying off the Sunnis, something that could have been done years before. Now we are witnessing McChrystal’s version. He will defend Afghan civilians no matter how many civilians he has to kill in the process. It is all insanity and obscenity, obscenity that the very elites that sent our men and women to fight, bleed, and die in pointless foreign wars go through the motions of “honoring” them on a day like today. How can they honor them when they spent their lives as casually as they would buy a latte at Starbucks?

Petro and Jim!!

Wow, you can snag the 2000 remaster with bonus tracks cheap at Amazon.

I like that one much better!

Aloha, Petro…! Harper issue a statement…?

Ha! I’ll have to read the comments!

Aloha, Jim…!

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How come every time I speak with you about music, it costs me money?

this is a wonderful post jim. thank you. oh crap, i see i just missed him.

hey folks — how goes?

Must not forget this from the same tour, possibly from the same performance. :)

Hi Suzanne!
Good holiday?

g’nite Jim

Hey, Suz. Did it rain on you all weekend?

Loo Hoo ! CT !

Harper will issue a statement just as soon as he’s done eating … sometime in mid-July !

How long after that to replenish the Canadian bacon supply?

Aloha, Suz…! Are ya all buckled up and in your Nomex-Kevlar suit…? ;-)

LOL … ratfood !

been very peaceful here on the bay. except for the noise of the tourists on the road, hard to tell it is a holiday.

It’s REALLY just ham, you know… :)

rained hard this morning and a lotta rain is due in wednesday. yesterday was off and on sprinkles with drizzle in between.

nope, i’m a civilian tonight

Same here — lovely, quiet, some thunderstorms, some brilliant sunshine. Reading, napping, and then bouts of lightning and booming thunder. Great!

It was a peaceful day here too. Lots of Marines must have had the day off because there were no helicopters, no booms, just peaceful quiet!

Is it just round thinly sliced ham? Seems chewier and flavored a bit differently!

This is the result of my Wikipedia query.

Canadian bacon, a US name for two different pork products – back bacon and a smoked ham

It ain’t even Canadian… so much for truth in advertising.

memorial day should be peaceful — a day of contemplation of where we have been as a nation and what a high price was paid to get to here and now.

i yearn for the day when we are not adding names to the list of those who gave all.

i yearn for the day when we are not adding names to the list of those who gave all.

Amen, M’dear…!

We are missing the dead from lack of health insurance. I wonder if any of them could have fixed the hole in the gulf.

There is also this.

Canadian Bacon (mountain), a 6600-foot peak in the US state of Washington

Here it is at Google Maps.

We call it Back Bacon, except for Peameal or one of da others …

Amen Suz !

And with that peaceful thought, I bid you all Goodnight.

Mm mmm! Bacon-y goodness by any name!

Namaste, Petro…!

g’nite Petro

g’nite petro

we have lost so many — who knows what contributions they could have made. and we continue to lose — what 45,000 a year (?) just from not having medical care.

if we were losing 45,000 a year in a war our nation would be in an uproar.

Estimates of dead now, under Obama plan, with national healthcare and drug prices like Canada and Mexico.
That would be a post

The whole thing’s a giant fraud! Eggs Benedict is fraudulent food!!.

Or the hole in Guatemala.

Good night, Petro.

Vision Licenses Organic Liquid Hydrogen Carrier, Adds Fuel to its Line of Hydrogen Solutions, Plans Nationwide Roll-Out
Los Angeles, Calif.–(MARKETWIRE)—Vision Industries Corp. (OTCBB: VIIC), producers of the zero emission electric/hydrogen hybrid Tyrano™ truck, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Asemblon Inc. of Redmond, WA, for an exclusive license to sell Hydrnol for fleet fueling.

Hydrnol is an organic chemical “carrier” for hydrogen transportation and storage. It is a simple, recyclable, rechargeable, organic molecule that carries hydrogen, which is released on demand through an onboard reactor. Hydrnol is liquid over a wide temperature range, and its safety is comparable to that of gasoline and diesel. It can be transported via pipelines and tanker trucks, it is stored at ambient temperature, and it is unpressurized. Hydrnol can provide hydrogen to both fuel cell cars and trucks at commercially viable prices, giving Hydrnol unparalleled worldwide potential.

http://www.visionmotorcorp.com/Hydrnol%20license.htm

Liquid hydrogen hooked up to some molecule that can be stored like gas.

they sure have been hit hard this week — the volcano just outside the city errupting, tropical storm agatha dumping buttloads of rain (and the landslides that caused) and now sinkholes. boggles the imagination loohoo

The first obstacle is getting a meaningful amount of hydrogen on board the truck. Current commercially viable technologies limit that amount to approximately 40 KG of compressed hydrogen, which effectively limits the range to a maximum of 400 miles in drayage applications. Hydrnol solves this problem by allowing Vision’s trucks to carry 110 KG of hydrogen in an easy to handle liquid format, thereby providing up to 1,100 miles in drayage application or a 650 mile range at highway speeds. The hydrogen is released from the Hydrnol by way of an on board reactor. The spent fuel is directed to an onboard spent fuel reservoir, where it can be pumped out, taken to a centralized plant, and reloaded with Hydrogen at a more effective cost.

The second obstacle for building a line haul, coast-to-coast network for zero emission big rig trucking is the current lack of hydrogen refueling infrastructure. According to Larry Burns of General Motors; “A network of 12,000 hydrogen stations in the United States would put 70% of the U.S. population within two miles of a fueling station. If the stations cost $2 million each (estimates for the cost of a station range from $1 million to $4 million) the network would cost about $24 billion.”

http://www.visionmotorcorp.com/Hydrnol%20license.htm

My bold Vision has the trucks Asemblon has the tech to make the HYDRNOL

http://www.asemblon.com/energy/hydrnol

But there’s no such thing as climate change…

Did these kinds of events always take place and we were just too busy raising kids to notice? Or is the world in a whole new place. I know the Gulf is, and it’s really frightening.

18. Can hydrogen compete with gasoline on price?
Hydrogen is not expensive to make. It comes out of the typical steam reformer at slightly elevated temperature and 175 psi (pounds per square inch) pressure. Asemblon’s recycling process can take that stream and couple it directly onto Spent HYDRNOL. This avoids the cost of compressing or liquefying the hydrogen. It also avoids the cost of having to ship the hydrogen in special tankers or store it in expensive storage vessels.

HYDRNOL can be transported in standard tank trucks and petroleum pipelines, unlike its compressed or liquid counterparts. Asemblon expects to be able to deliver a kilogram of hydrogen to a vehicle at a fueling station for $2.28. That price is slightly more than gasoline currently, but much less than diesel fuel. Prices of both gasoline and diesel are expected to increase as the price of crude recovers to $50 per barrel or more — perhaps much more.

As petroleum becomes more and more difficult to find, extract, and refine, petroleum prices are expected to rise above $100/barrel in 10 to 15 years.

http://www.asemblon.com/energy/faq

My bold $2.28 a gallon? These guys need to update their web site more often

*aargh* My TeeVee barely survived Gwen Ifill’s “interview” with Israel’s Ambassador to the US…! *gah*

Luckily, I had some rolled up socks nearby…! ;-)

19. Can today’s vehicles be modified to burn hydrogen?
There are 230 million cars and light trucks in the United States, over 8 million Class 8 Diesel tractors (the front part of an 18-wheeler), and a half a million school buses. Over 80% of these could be modified for hydrogen use.

Diesel engines are classified as compression ignition engines, since the heat and pressure of the compression stroke is what ignites their air/fuel mixture. Asemblon plans to offer products that would provide a 10% addition of hydrogen to boost performance and to reduce emissions. Another product would provide 30% hydrogen to displace more of the diesel fuel to further lower emissions. Without major modifications, a 50% replacement is seen as the current upper limit for diesel use.

Spark ignition vehicles (most car and light trucks on the highway today) are easier to modify, since the timing of the ignition spark relative to the engine rotation can be controlled. Initially, these engines would be boosted with hydrogen, but ultimately hydrogen would replace 100% of their fuel.

http://www.asemblon.com/energy/faq

Obama should go to their plant and give a speech and a big check GM could certainly use the tech.

i don’t know loohoo — and then tonight there was a 6.1 quake in costa rica. seems that central america is getting hit hard this week.

wasn’t it infuriating! gah

evening, firegods

Hasbara on steroids…! 8-(

Aloha, PPD…!

hey ppd

hiya, CT – how are the islands tonight?

I just emailed a friend in Costa Rica to see if all was well. Thanks.

Happy Memorial Day, PPD.

My local scalping price is $3.57/gal of 87 octane…!

Octane. Now there’s a flash from the past!

Thanks, LH – Happy Memorial Day

Suz is up with LLN!

The pairing of these two partners may not be perfect but it’s pretty close. Vision Industries needs a hydrogen solution for propelling long haul trucks 650 miles at highway speeds before refueling and Hydrnol provides this. Asemblon needs a commitment from a major hydrogen vehicle maker in order to manufacture, distribute and recycle its product and Vision Industries provides this.

There are approximately 1,200 diesel truck stops in the U.S., with Pilot Travel Center and Flying J established as the two largest truck stop chains, each utilizing approximately 300 stations to cover the U.S. from coast-to-coast and border-to-border.

http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com/blog2/index.php/hydrogen-fueling-stations/vision-industries-asemblon-to-create-nationwide-h2-trucking-infrastructure/

Vision needs to announce a deal with Pilot Travel Center and Flying J.

Any Israel, Turkey conflict will boost that price quick you should fill your tank now or better yet buy a bike:)