fingers crossed here too!
I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Mar 23, 2010 9:30:23 am PDT #18067 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
tommyrot - Mar 23, 2010 9:31:45 am PDT #18068 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It must be awesome to be a Tea Party person - none of those pesky "facts" to get in the way.
What David Frum Found at the Tea Party Rally
Making energy policy is hard. It's even harder when a loud fraction of the electorate doesn't seem to be conversant with basic facts.
FrumForum is a conservative blog run by David Frum, an author, commentator, and former speechwriter for George W. Bush who is interested in holding intelligent debates about the great issues of our day. Accordingly, he has a low regard for the Tea Party brigades.
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The Tea Partiers were asked how much oil lies beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in terms equivalent to annual domestic oil consumption. The average response was 70 years. One person estimated 1,000 years worth.
The right answer - if you accept the highest number in a U.S. Geological Survey estimate - is about 2 years and 3 months, based on the present consumption rate. That works out to around 16 billion barrels.
If it were 70 years, as the Tea Partiers' average response indicated, the refuge would contain nearly 500 billion barrels of oil - equivalent to 40 percent of all the petroleum that the world has consumed since Edwin Drake struck oil in Pennsylvania back in 1859.
Saudi Arabia's supergiant Ghawar field, the world's largest, would be a tiddler by comparison, with a mere 140 billion barrels of initial reserves.
If the Tea Partiers were right, we could join OPEC. Hell, we could run the joint.
Of course, they're not right. Frum's primary conclusion is not so much that the Tea Partiers got their facts so crazily wrong, but that their misinformation comes from inhabiting an echo chamber where the gruel spoon-fed by the daily circus acts on talk radio and out on the blogs is taken as gospel.
Drill, baby, drill!
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2010 9:31:56 am PDT #18069 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Damn, nice pics. Thanks, tommy.
Good luck, Jesse.
None of my brilliant ideas are working for the pain abatement. I'm wondering about going out of pocket on the heavier duty pain meds, but I just filled my last script last week.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2010 9:37:50 am PDT #18070 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dag, ita. This procedure is still worthwhile in the long term? That just sounds terrible.
Amy - Mar 23, 2010 9:42:28 am PDT #18071 of 30001
Because books.
It really does, ita.
All fingers crossed, Jesse.
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2010 9:43:07 am PDT #18072 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This procedure is still worthwhile in the long term?
I didn't think so, until it wore off. I'd been pretty sure I wasn't going to do it again, because I did remember how miserable this bit was, but it wore off a couple months ago, and lo! Constant pain in neck and shoulder. Just that for a couple weeks it's going to be worse and trigger migraines even more.
And I get the right side done next week.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2010 9:45:59 am PDT #18073 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Damn, nice pics. Thanks, tommy.
You should consider setting up a site just for the iliac crest.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2010 9:53:22 am PDT #18074 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In continued good news, the meeting I was supposed to have next was moved to tomorrow, supplanting another meeting! Man, sleeping in was an awesome call.
Steph L. - Mar 23, 2010 9:58:09 am PDT #18075 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
as of Friday I will only have a balance on one credit card!
Take a screenshot of the $0.00 balance on the one you pay off. It's very satisfying.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2010 10:00:40 am PDT #18076 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have to say today's veggie chili is especially good.
Though I don't have any rice or corn bread to have with it, I just took a piece of bread and buttered it and tossed it into the bottom of the bowl. Topped it with plain Strauss yogurt and a dollop of fresh salsa. Lots of corn and green chilis in this.