My great memory is Betsy McCaughey fruitlessly searching thru the ACA bill while on the Daily Show, for the death panel language she insisted was there, while Jin Stewart just smirked in disbelief.
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My great memory is Betsy McCaughey fruitlessly searching thru the ACA bill while on the Daily Show, for the death panel language she insisted was there, while Jin Stewart just smirked in disbelief.
DOE funded the research project I worked on in Alaska in 1990-91 - effects of disturbance (Alaska Pipeline) on Arctic tundra. It was getting painfully obvious then that that arctic climate was getting nutty. And yet here we are.
Their ability to accurately determine gang status of people they physically held in custody has been poor at best
8 going on 35.
That's good they got out quick. Hope your area is spared any damage
This is just screwing over anyone who has to live on Earth. These clods at DOE are hacks, interested in a quick buck and with no regard for actual people other than themselves
Exactly
It's the vibe - our daughter had a friend in his whose Russian mom called us, partially as an insult, referred to us as "the Bohemians"
Pretty uncanny. I have been known to wear Crocs as well, maybe not purple, but some odd ones. I look a bit more buff than I actually am (more of a scarecrow) but no one is complaining.
A little scary
The pants definitely - my recollection is pretty much what you got there. I don't remember what shoes I used to wear but my best guess is they were something like these, a comfy brown shoe
I kinda like it this way. Thank you!
There's a large goat with horns sneaking up behind me. This will not end well.
The evening before dread just disappears
Or, because you are traveling and exploring a great big beautiful world, you enjoy trying something different rather than the same thing you can have every day at home. I have great memories going back decades, eating at unknown local places across the country all the way up into Alaska.
Nvm the actual culture of local restaurants and diners all with their own unique atmosphere that chains like Cracker Barrel killed
This is one viable method for trying to eliminate the older sister syndrome. Results vary.
CA closed beaches in March, started reopening them in May; GA began opening businesses in April, bars and restaurants in May. We were running a world on limited, fragmented and often contradictory information and making life and death decisions based on that while unrelated world events continued on
Ipso facto
All the cool people have one.
With a lot of affection and zero malice, this is a very motley group of LPs. Sweetheart is the brilliant one, but the rest each have own weird charm
Drying tomatoes and figs today
Trump's "diet coke" button will be remade into the "new couch" button
As my HS civics teacher said, if it was up to the police, you would get out of bed in the morning, crawl under it and stay there, and then get back in bed at the end of the day
Or flesh.
Let me find it for you tomorrow - it was from a recipe book from Bar Tartine in SF, supposedly from their old world dad or granddad and it uses whole peppers, which I like.. Its pretty simple.
And "Rid" was a genuine mistake. Honest.
Rid, there is still time to repent.... We are a forgiving people who can accept a moment of weakness
We did salsa Verde minus tomatillos, and probably should again as the peppers are piling up and I have no idea what to with them. Pickled some bit there's a limit
You have to shame them from an early age by constantly, from the time they turn 2, making fun of frat boys and how vacuous they are. Or possibly, our daughters were oddballs.
I think we are hoping for "still dead"
Trump cut more funding for pediatric cancer research!! The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, which consists of 16 academic centers and children’s hospitals are reporting that they have lost federal funding. Children with brain cancer!! 😭
Yes, the onus is on Cook to explain why the administration is targeting her. What poo poo.
Sorry I dropped off suddenly - family members got caught up in the Verizon network outage and were panicking
The perfect combo of greatness, weirdness and pap
And John Fogerty, at a traffic light with a plastic cup and cardboard sign
I think of Roy Orbison's Running scared, where he imagines all these guys taking his girl, or the 4 tops Bernadette, Where they consider every guy scheming to steal his girl from him. But you gave a great idea!
A screw cap and verification it is indeed made from grapes. This is quality
#at40 The odd part of close to you - it's completely vague in whether this is jealousy or longing. Is the singer just one of many or us she fighting off wannabes for her guy?
#at40 1970 was even big enough for a skiffle song. Fortunately the early Beatles did not have the same luck. Otherwise we wouldn't have many of these songs
#at40 There is gritty brit Eric Burdon, sounding decades older than his young self; then there is laurel canyon Eric Burdon, who possibly may have tried drugs once or twice, and sounds..... relaxed.
Back door Santa apparently had some fun
About half were actually chewable; the rest were pink potato chips
Job had nothing on this guy
#at40 Candi Staton's spouse shows up
10/10
#at40 There are usually very good reasons.
Dave Marsh was always a big promoter of how Detroit was really the center of it all.
#at40 This past week I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get my daughters various wind up clocks speed adjusted, so I know what this song is about
We're a few years in front of sister Mary elephant
#at40 Fogerty being his usual crosswise self, calling out the immeasurably uncool Buck Owens ( of course Ringo would know how cool he really was)
Lo de ho?
As do I
#at40 The many, many, many permutations of Tommy are stupendous, probably just what Townsend imagined. Ann Margaret wallowing in baked beans being perhaps the most spectacular.
#at40 Cool guy would be selling fried chicken in a couple of decades. It's a long strange trip
#at40 The lyrics of this are a bit too obtuse to have much political grit - they wanna say something profound, but don't quite get there.
#at40 This is the 2 degrees of separation Ben E King chart
It worked for baseball!
#at40 This wasn't really true in 1970, and is not true today either due to backsliding
#at40 I think we call them incels now. Solitary man has a softer touch to it
#at40 Snowbird, a forward thinking song, anticipating 20 somethings getting nostalgic in their later years when they would actually be snowbirds
#at40 While in new Orleans. I saw Irvin Mayfield, who managed to do covers of Randy Newman, Steely Dan, Santana, and John Coltrane in the same show
They don't mention a time scale for this
#at40 As a wise person said, "when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose"
U2 used a similar alliteration in Bad
#at40 Elvis a bit further along in the relationship cycle than Rare Earth.
Rocks?
1970? Looks about right. #at40
#at40 So 3 of the first 7 are covers (of wildly varying quality) of famous songs.
Same age as me. then, of course. I am not 8 now.
"polls can be manipulated, but I have polls that show how people actually love this pile of crap"
"we need to have more roads to fight fires because constructing those roads will result in more fires"
With a low number of shirts involved
I was offered one at a Walgreens a few days ago
Snake oil
A jagermeister shot with a PBR. I have no idea why.
No one ever says, and rightfully so, it is smart to live in New Orleans, for many good reasons It is smart to live in New Orleans
New Orleans, she lives in a shotgun not far from my daughter's house
I walked by her house this week, but, alas, she did not come out.
As a botanist, I can say the Martian got it perfect.
Go away for a week and the figs magically decide to start ripening. #figs
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Tales from the crypt
They couldn't find where they had put their watches in storage.
I made a shoe throw
You can dehydrate and make chips out of them, but does one really want to? - they are so much water it's hard to do much besides pickle
Fur the record, Australia is a continent.
He go to go to midsummer Mardi Gras tonight. The drums were a little too much for him but he enjoyed the people.
It is a messy intro, though the original version of Stay is amazingly short, coming at 1:36 This song was the only way David Lindley's vocal could ever make the top 40
#at40 Rick James adding on to Rita Collidge. It's now a pair. We just need Lobo to finish it off
#at40 You could be half of the mop tops, the bassist for LZ, the Pope, or, sadly, this guy.
#at40 Not the most lyrically adventurous song, but he manages to make it seem like a lot more. We are leaving after we have been waiting.
#at40 If you squint hard enough, you can see that summer nights and reminiscing are actually the same song
The USSR tried a similar trick with general secretary a few years later.
#at40 Bible verses turned to reggae turned to disco. The Melodians original is powerful stuff.
I suppose he thinks that's good for him.
"we all who have done this for a long time with classified documents, we know how to handle them" - as the guy who kept them strewn on the floor and in the bathroom of a club sics his toady FBI guy on a critic
