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April 1, 2011 at 3:51 pm
EEofDC
LOL… I’ve seen that rat before! He really gets around.
April 1, 2011 at 11:43 pm
Bif
[Ed. note. Have move this story to its own page. To be continued at a later date]
April 2, 2011 at 2:18 am
Dr. Doom
you made the right decision to leave those filled ashtrays alone. after all, it’s not your kassbar, kimosabe.
April 2, 2011 at 5:46 am
dave
nice little story, i guess that it’s some embelishment on an incident in your life.
April 2, 2011 at 6:02 am
dave
don’t get the big rat.
April 2, 2011 at 11:30 am
Bif
With regard to JR’s rat picture…
“On Boylston Street in Boston, there’s been a daily protest with the visual of a large inflatable rat outside the Max Brenner construction site to protest the use of non-union construction workers.
Every morning the rat is there and by evening, he’s gone home. Hope the rat is being paid union wages.”
http://annwebster.tumblr.com/post/3896599378/max-brenner-the-chocolate-focused-restaurant-is
April 2, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Nudge
Bif, I’d love to ask what chain of events in your creative processes led to that EU600 bar tab, but I’m almost afraid to know.
April 2, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Bif
Nudge. The bar tab was actually the product of a three-day team effort that I paid in full on the final night. The night which I have in part described above. Liquor was expensive, tobacco was cheap, and the wine and beer somewhere in between. I covered for the Tunisian and several others who were in need, due to extenuating circumstances. As things got back to normal over the next three days I avoided the salon, tea again became my evening beverage, and those others who remained on the premises (as opposed to those who scattered on the open road) dug deep or did without. Thanks for asking.
[Ed. note. Have move this story to its own page. To be continued at a later date]
April 3, 2011 at 11:53 am
dave
biff at a 1000 words/day. just long enough for me to eat my midday meal of liverwurst and kimchee.
April 3, 2011 at 12:17 pm
theroachman
Thats quite a heart healthy meal dave. My day is filled with eggs and bacon
April 3, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Dr. Doom
dave, never eat someone else’s liver if you can help it. that’s my motto, anyway.
April 3, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Bif
[Ed. note. Have move this story to its own page. To be continued at a later date]
April 4, 2011 at 1:18 am
Dr. Doom
I can see this is going to be a novel. Good for you, Bif!
April 4, 2011 at 5:27 am
dave
bacon and eggs are yummy.
April 4, 2011 at 5:30 am
dave
i think that that was only about 800 words today. i feel cheated.
April 4, 2011 at 5:33 am
dave
never quite understood aversion to organ meats.
April 4, 2011 at 6:06 am
dave
for doom
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704050204576218600999993800.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read
April 4, 2011 at 11:13 am
Dr. Doom
dave, in one of nature’s great cruelities, New York streets will resemble those of old Hong Kong, whilst Hong Kong will resemble the streets of old New York.
trading places.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/115776/Street-scene-Hong-Kong
April 4, 2011 at 11:42 am
theroachman
As long as Dan Akudroid does no more movies Im ok with New York turning into hong kong.
April 4, 2011 at 11:42 am
theroachman
I feel dirty but not in a dave kind of way
I commented on Clusterfuck
April 4, 2011 at 5:20 pm
uncle remus
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-8993422112864357113&hl=en&fs=true
April 4, 2011 at 5:22 pm
uncle remus
Well crap. Trying to embed from a cell phone. Anyway, Dan Ackroyd.
April 4, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Dr. Doom
i like your new airplane, UR. roach, that’s sinking low.
April 5, 2011 at 3:30 pm
theroachman
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/RainWaterSampling
April 5, 2011 at 7:34 pm
EEofDC
MORE, MORE, MORE!! Great story, Bif. Any photos to accompany your narrative?
(Don’t forget that I was the first to recognize you were a sensitive guy back in the old days!)
“never quite understood aversion to organ meats.”
Superstition… and Hannibal Lechter…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverwurst
One of my favorite dishes that my gram cooked for me as a kid was veal sweetbreads. My maw cooked calves liver and onions–another fave–with bacon on the side for me. And I was the only one in the family who ate the gizzards and hearts from chickens and turkeys. Must be some recessive Aztec or Mongolian genes in there yet to be discovered.
You should try liverwurst on toasted pumpernickel bread, slathered with mustard. Yum.
April 5, 2011 at 7:37 pm
EEofDC
“I feel dirty but not in a dave kind of way… I commented on Clusterfuck…”
Not to worry, Roach. We all need to delve into our wastrel past now and again to see how far we’ve come. ; ^ ) By the way, is JHK still boffing that Kris Can babe?
April 5, 2011 at 8:00 pm
uncle remus
“is JHK still boffing that Kris Can babe?”
I am thinking it was more mutual spank-a-thon, being as it is a world made by hand.
April 5, 2011 at 8:01 pm
uncle remus
“i like your new airplane, UR.”
It matches my solar flying car.
April 5, 2011 at 8:06 pm
uncle remus
“In every language, the first word after “Mama!” that every kid learns to say is “Mine!” A system that doesn’t allow ownership, that doesn’t allow you to say “Mine!” when you grow up, has — to put it mildly — a fatal design flaw.
From the time Mr. Developing Nation was forced to read The Little Red Book in exchange for a blob of rice, till the time he figured out that waiting in line for a loaf of pumpernickel was boring as fuck, took about three generations….
Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven’t altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don’t get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution.”
– Frank Zappa
April 5, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Bif
I still say mama sometimes.
April 5, 2011 at 11:09 pm
theroachman
EEofDC
I don’t know if he still has his little spanking friend. I really did not follow a thing of his while partially off the computer grid.
Going forward I still will follow what he has to post each Monday and shake my head each week because of axiomatic facts he leaves off. Leading his blog followers to argue and bicker endlessly like regurgitate brain enhanced teabaggers.
April 6, 2011 at 1:39 am
Dr. Doom
Bif, we love you, you literary punk. We need Bunn and JR to step it up, like you did.
Hey, liar liar, house on fire, you said you were going to muddy Africa. Libya does not count as muddy. I smell CIA. We know your tricks, well, some of them.
April 7, 2011 at 12:11 am
theroachman
Wind energy takes another hit. At least the big turbines. I think small drum style might still be ok
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2743&from=rss_home
April 7, 2011 at 7:12 am
dave
You should try liverwurst on toasted pumpernickel bread, slathered with mustard. Yum.
sounds good. i’d probably add some fried onions.
April 7, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Bunn Bunn
Bif, our local master of the personally-imbued fantastically-rendered escapist confessional, soon to be a genre unto itself.
Run don’t walk to your nearest personal computing device. It’s the feel-good quasi-autobiographical neo-pulp serial of the summer! Screw living in a world made by hand. I want to live in a world designed by Bif (where all monkeys seem to have at least some good in them, where the proverbial fish out of water qua protagonist without fail benefits from inordinate amounts of luck and attracts only the most desirable and exotic of foreign women, etc., etc.)
Doom, I am stepping up, but on the taking care of business side of things. I continue to support all of you from afar… at least in spirit. (I will write again more regularly beginning at some unknowable unknown future time.)
roachman, welcome back from Planet Luddite. Yeah, good point, this place IS less paranoid than most.
April 7, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Dr. Doom
Bunn,
Glad you could take some time away from the carrot patch to check in.
dave and i are going to be rich, growing hothouse rubber trees in Connecticut and upstate New York. we’ll hire greenbeans for the farm management, and Nudge can do product testing of the latex (for the bike tires). oh well, she can QC test our new line of prophylactics, also.
April 8, 2011 at 11:12 am
Nudge
Doom, you’re right, there’ll be a fantastic market for that stuff once globalism-as-we-know-it goes TU. Just as long as the stuff can be made in different colors – for bike tires of course, I mean.
April 8, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Dr. Doom
“The proposed storage facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, was recently rejected by President Obama, partly on the grounds that it could only guarantee that radioactive material wouldn’t leak after 10,000 years of storage, while the minimum safety requirement established by the US Environmental Protection Agency is 1 million years. President Obama has set up a commission to examine these issues—revealing the stark reality that no one has yet found a safe
way to store radioactive waste for the very long time period required.
Even if the Yucca Mountain facility is approved, as currently proposed
it would not have the capacity to handle the country’s existing
radioactive waste, let alone what a new generation of power plants will
produce.”
Does anyone else besides me see the Strangeloveian aspects to this “only 10,000″ versus the required 1,000,000 years dilemma? Why are humans even having this conversation?
Can Nuclear Power Be Part of the Solution?
By:Robert Costanza
http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/users/rcostanza
April 8, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Dr. Doom
Robert must be George’s younger, dumber brother.
April 8, 2011 at 4:30 pm
uncle remus
2012
April 8, 2011 at 4:34 pm
uncle remus
He say you need to put more money in the meter Mr. President.
April 8, 2011 at 4:36 pm
uncle remus
Congressional drama queens over sofa change.
April 8, 2011 at 4:37 pm
uncle remus
Seriously Scotty, now really is a good time…
April 8, 2011 at 4:42 pm
uncle remus
uh huh
“[...]Ventura has published dozens of previously classified US government papers that seem to suggest Washington may have secretly provoked the Vietnam War, lied to the American people about the actual threat of terrorism and experimented on its own soldiers.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2011/04/20114792623300320.html
April 9, 2011 at 7:30 am
Nudge
“.. may have secretly provoked the Vietnam War, lied to the American people about the actual threat of terrorism and experimented on its own soldiers ..”
Surely they jest.
April 9, 2011 at 9:55 am
uncle remus
“Today, we’re going to show you how we recovered the gold from old motherboards using do-it-yourself methods. Please note: The chemicals used in this demonstration are extremely dangerous, especially in the concentrations used. Therefore, we strongly discourage you from attempting to reproduce this experiment at home.”
http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/550-gold-motherboard-chemistry.html
April 9, 2011 at 10:45 am
uncle remus
Wait – what?
April 9, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Dr. Doom
Just the strong acids were worth moron than the gold BB. Dee….second law, second law.
and what about the REE in that liquor?
April 9, 2011 at 1:05 pm
uncle remus
Doom, it is just an experiment and they do mention the dangers, the paltry value of the BB and the scale required to actually make reclamation of this sort even remotely profitable.
On the other hand, we have meth labs, so danger is likely not a significant dissuading factor given sufficient reward or dearth of wit. Thanks in part to Ben “Inkjet” Bernanke, gold is climbing in US$, so who knows what the assholes down in 4B are cooking.
April 9, 2011 at 1:27 pm
uncle remus
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/04/stiglitz-of-1-by-1-and-for-1.html
April 9, 2011 at 2:24 pm
dave
well, in the end there’s no comparison. disney has been more effective than hilter could ever have dreamed of, even in his wildest dreams. of course, disney had a half trillion or so barrels of oil to help him out along the way. this is an advantage that hitler, to his credit, knew that he needed and desperately wanted. unfortunately, for him anyway, wishing on his own stars, and the russian winter, kept him from his dreams. so fucking piece of shit walt disney was able to capitalize.
April 9, 2011 at 4:08 pm
uncle remus
“This is classic Tainter (the excellent anthropoligist/historian). He posited that complex societies only collapse when the costs of basic inputs increase at the same time the returns on investments in complex institutions/etc. turn negative. So, with oil going up again, we are seeing basic input costs rise. It’s also clear that our twin overheads Government and Global Finance are well past the point they delivered positive returns for additional complexity. Worse, they are colluding, via cronyism, to prevent any meaningful changes.
Good luck. ”
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/04/journal-oil-100-crunch-time-ahead-again.html
April 9, 2011 at 4:40 pm
dave
yeah, i’m no economist, but with bernanke printing money 24/7, $100 today isn’t the same $100 as in 2008. oil needs to hit $180 this time, i think. then it’s time to sellsellsell. but what to buy? other than farmland and goats, i’ll be fucked if i know.
April 9, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Dr. Doom
dave, we need to get the infrastructure going for our hothouse rubber tree plantation. you’ll be thanking me later. economize, localize, produce (ELP).
April 10, 2011 at 5:40 am
Nudge
Doom, flavors, colors, textures – for the bicycle tires of course. Not kidding. There’s good money to be made there.
April 10, 2011 at 7:31 am
dave
dave, we need to get the infrastructure going for our hothouse rubber tree plantation. you’ll be thanking me later.
i see my future as being in goats, pigs and sheep.
April 10, 2011 at 8:59 am
theroachman
Canada Doller is up to 1.04 to 1.00 USD as of Friday
April 10, 2011 at 9:09 am
dave
congress or wrestling, you decide. cause you’re free and shit like that.
April 10, 2011 at 9:18 am
uncle remus
“Canada Doller is up to 1.04 to 1.00 USD as of Friday”
That’s just loonie.
April 10, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Dr. Doom
April 10, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Dr. Doom
If you’re staying, I’m leaving….
April 10, 2011 at 7:15 pm
uncle remus
Is that the shark congress jumped?
April 10, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Dr. Doom
This is the long version, but has young girls in bikinis, so don’t complain.
April 10, 2011 at 9:59 pm
uncle remus
Sigh
April 11, 2011 at 7:26 pm
GB
“…but what to buy? other than farmland and goats, i’ll be fucked if i know.”
Money is on its way to becoming useless. Even now, after possessing a certain modest amount necessary for survival, its probably more of an impediment to real living than anything. Got the garden started yet?
April 11, 2011 at 8:18 pm
EEofDC
Hey, Remus, thanks for the link to jesse’s cafe… this was there along with Stiglitz. I’ve decided that living in the past is most pleasant…
April 12, 2011 at 12:33 am
theroachman
GB where you reading smartmoney this week?
http://www.smartmoney.com/personal-finance/retirement/downsizing-boomers-looking-to-sell-their-stuff-1301517395843/
This ones funny I think since tomorow is trash day I will go a diving for some excess tolet paper
HOUSEHOLD GOODS: $68 billion
These purchases encompass everything from small kitchen appliances and dinnerware to cleaning materials and, yes, bathroom accessories.
Difficulty to Dump: Forget resale. The EPA reports a 23 percent jump since 2000 in household goods being simply junked.
April 12, 2011 at 12:37 am
theroachman
My smartmoney link did not take. WP must not like it
But there was a post on the site and also in sundays WSJ about use goods resale prices plumeting.
Yes money and non essensial goods are becoming valueless.
April 12, 2011 at 1:24 am
Dr. Doom
Trivia question for JR:
Subject: Music
Q: What group had a hit song with the line: “I took six bennies, and my semi-truck won’t start”?
April 12, 2011 at 5:24 am
dave
Got the garden started yet?
no, i’ve been trying to sell this place that i have here. not sure what i’ll do after that. but all really think about anymore is farmland and goats.
http://www.albertirealty.com/Alberti_Realty_Associates,_LLC_listings/20613E43-B3B1-DDD9-E091F5096244F4E5.shtml
April 12, 2011 at 5:25 am
dave
http://www.albertirealty.com/Alberti_Realty_Associates,_LLC_listings/20613E43-B3B1-DDD9-E091F5096244F4E5.shtml
April 12, 2011 at 7:29 am
dave
fasinating and informative.
April 12, 2011 at 11:05 am
Dr. Doom
dave, your house sounds like the deal of the century. i guess the commute distance and the snows in winter would drive the price?
anyhoo, if you’re serious about goats, the good news is they practically raise themselves and do pretty good in arid environments (but not too arid), say west Texas, New Mexico, etc. they do well in Hawaii, on the big island’s west side. land is cheap in these places, also. just be sure the well water is good and you’re not too close to a nuke plant. no nukes in Hawaii, and thanks to the Japanese, there will probably never be any here.
April 12, 2011 at 12:42 pm
theroachman
Yeah no nukes but isnt the west side you speak of doom where there are the rusting and useless man made falure windmill trees?
April 12, 2011 at 12:43 pm
theroachman
Theres the link above from smart money. Really good read.
April 12, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Dr. Doom
what link? South Point has the rusting windmills. dave would want to buy land up north Kona way.
April 12, 2011 at 7:23 pm
theroachman
the post right under the clapton video
April 13, 2011 at 7:19 am
dave
dave, your house sounds like the deal of the century.
yeah, you would think so, but times are tough. i started out listing at $350k last summer. thought i had it sold a couple of times at $290k and $270K, but those deals fell apart for various reasons. mostly, people can’t get money. right now, it’s listed at $220k. i’m looking for cash offers.
April 13, 2011 at 8:02 pm
uncle remus
EE, you’re welcome.
April 14, 2011 at 2:02 am
Dr. Doom
dave, here’s a start at looking for goat ranch territory. we can be neighbors. BBQ goat sandwiches and Kona brewery beer or home brew. fresh Kona coffee in the AM. snow stays on mountain tops where it belongs.
http://www.city-data.com/city/North-Kona-Hawaii.html
April 14, 2011 at 10:07 am
EEofDC
“but all really think about anymore is farmland and goats.”
I may have posted this back in the day on CFN, however, I’ll mention it again. I had some cousins that ran a sheep farm for almost 20 years n Galloo Island in Lake Ontario back in the day… I never got out to visit but my mother made it to sheep shearing a couple of times and loved it. The year before they left, Jeanne got really sick in wintertime and they couldn’t get to her for a week and eventually had to helicopter her out. That was enough for her!
http://gallooisland.net/GallooIsland.net/5.html
April 14, 2011 at 12:09 pm
EEofDC
Oh, and Bunn, in honor of your godliness… Peeps V…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/peeps-show-v/2011/04/11/AF3NYHSD_gallery.html?hpid=z2#photo=7
April 14, 2011 at 5:48 pm
dave
dave, here’s a start at looking for goat ranch territory. we can be neighbors. BBQ goat sandwiches and Kona brewery beer or home brew. fresh Kona coffee in the AM. snow stays on mountain tops where it belongs.
yeah, sounds interesting. but, right now i’m trying to buy a small, 30 acre, farm on the eastern shore of maryland. if that dosen’t work out….
April 14, 2011 at 5:51 pm
dave
@ee,
canada is wayway too fucking cold for me. i like doom’s idea. but HI is wayway to far away for me.
April 14, 2011 at 8:11 pm
EEofDC
dave, I was in no way suggesting that you take up goat (or sheep) farming anywhere in the northern US… just wanted you to know that it can be done.
The Eastern Shore sounds much more hospitable. And your man, Dick C, has a 2nd home out there somewhere.
You should definitely raise Kashmir Goats.
April 15, 2011 at 6:18 am
GB
Dude, I am assuming you have visited some goat farms already. You don’t mind that goaty smell? What do you do, make cheese and yogurt and stuff to sell to make a living? I like goat cheese. Maybe you can hire some young female goat herders to help you. Let me know when you are set up so I can visit.
April 15, 2011 at 12:19 pm
GB
What happened to becoming a chicken thief? That would seem to be a promising field to me.
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Chicken-initiative-advances-1338013.php
April 15, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Dr. Doom
On the Island of Kauai, chickens roam freely along the roadsides and in vacant lots and fields. It seems some got away from their coops and decided to go native. Their only known predators are cats, mongooses (brought in from India to control rats–not, but that’s another story), maybe some dogs and of course, humans. It appears the chickens are winning the war of nature survival, for now.
April 16, 2011 at 5:28 am
dave
nothing to stop a guy from being both a chicken and a goat farmer that i can think of.
April 16, 2011 at 5:29 am
dave
…chicken thief….
April 16, 2011 at 6:55 am
Nudge
Dave wrote: “.. but HI is wayway to far away for me .. ”
Too far away from what? In the immortal words of Buckaroo Bonzai, no matter where you go, there you are. Just go to Hawaii and suddenly it won’t be so far away :)
Besides, HI is rich in certain kinds of career opportunities, or so I hear.
April 16, 2011 at 9:23 am
dave
Just go to Hawaii and suddenly it won’t be so far away :)
i guess. but i really don’t like to travel. usually, unless i have a real good reason to go there, if someplace is more than 20 minutes by car, or 60 minutes by bike, from my house, then i just don’t go there. so, from that standpoint, hi is to far, and so are a lot of other places. i guess.
April 16, 2011 at 9:26 am
dave
Besides, HI is rich in certain kinds of career opportunities, or so I hear.
careers just suck, at least in the sense of having some sort of planned career, or something like that. i’d say.
April 16, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Dr. Doom
dave, apparently at the moment on Kauai, the chickens are free for the taking. i asked one of the locals there about them, and he said the attitude was, if you need a chicken you can have one, or more. they thrive there because of the abundant insects, which are present year round, since we have such mild winters. still get moron bugs in the summer, though.
April 16, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Dr. Doom
i like to say Hawaii is centrally located in the middle of freaking nowhere, surrounded by thousands of miles of lifeless (nearly) ocean water. as much can be said about Planet Earth that way. these concepts scare many monkeys.
April 16, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Uncle Remus
Misery loves company.
April 16, 2011 at 5:44 pm
dave
dave, apparently at the moment on Kauai, the chickens are free for the taking.
well, that’s no fun. theft, like hunger, makes everything taste better.
April 16, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Dr. Doom
Misery loves company.
It’s hot here today, also. I know, bitch, bitch. Should been a fish.
April 17, 2011 at 8:02 am
dave
dick riders
April 18, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Uncle Remus
jeebus dave.
April 18, 2011 at 6:40 pm
dave
jeebus dave
what? oh yeah, i suppose eric clapton and steve(ie) winwood have something better to say. this ain’t 1969 ya know.
April 18, 2011 at 6:41 pm
dave
goddamn
April 18, 2011 at 6:59 pm
dave
cocksmoker
April 19, 2011 at 7:20 am
GB
Uh oh. Andrews Sisters. I think I just had a little accident.
April 19, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Dr. Doom
In the Things Really Can Get Worse Dept, I present Alvin & the Chipmonks:
April 19, 2011 at 1:13 pm
dave
Uh oh. Andrews Sisters. I think I just had a little accident.
yeah, i also often shit my pants, just a little, when i see the andrew sisters.
April 19, 2011 at 1:16 pm
dave
April 19, 2011 at 1:40 pm
uncle remus
Where’s the one with Ozzie?
April 19, 2011 at 2:08 pm
uncle remus
“this ain’t 1969 ya know”
Could be a rhyme tho. Embroiled in unpopular war(s) started with a lie, real inflation (not Central Commitee fabrications) likely close to that of 1969. Less unemployment in ’69-70 recession – it would get worse.
In 69, Nixon was in the White House, Dems held the Senate barely, but controlled the House.
US oil production peaks and we are less than 2 years from the fiat dollar we know and love today. We were doing things in the ME that led to the ’73 embargo and we’ll feel like pain soon enough.
No one gets drafted today.
Bob Dylan is still with us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHrK6L91BgA
April 19, 2011 at 2:16 pm
uncle remus
From the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Department:
“State labor officials asked their inspector general Monday to investigate why a Central Florida agency wants to spend public money to furnish the unemployed with capes.
Dubbed the “Cape-A-Bility Challenge,” a $73,000 public-relations campaign by Workforce Central Florida features a cartoon character named “Dr. Evil Unemployment” and includes handing out about 6,000 red superhero capes to jobless Central Floridians.
The campaign, revealed Saturday in a report in the Orlando Sentinel, was met with derision by many unemployed who questioned spending more than $14,200 on capes and $2,300 on foam cutouts of “Dr. Evil Unemployment.” They said the campaign’s tone risked minimizing the severity of the region’s labor problems.”
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-jobless-cape-probe-20110418,0,1218799.story
April 19, 2011 at 2:47 pm
theroachman
If the capes are edible and maybe inbeded with seeds then Im all for it
so stupid
April 19, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Uncle Remus
It’s pitch dark in here, shoulda grabbed a fish on the way in.
‘CNN said that “the Hawaiian islands may get a new and unwelcome addition in coming months — a giant new island of debris floating in from Japan.” It relied in part on work done by the University of Hawaii’s International Pacific Research Center[...]‘
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fda-refuses-test-fish-radioactivity-government-pretends-radioactive-fish-safe
April 19, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Uncle Remus
Oh, and in 1969, it was still illegal to own gold bullion in any significant quantity.
April 20, 2011 at 4:42 am
Dr. Doom
“State labor officials asked their inspector general Monday to investigate why a Central Florida agency wants to spend public money to furnish the unemployed with capes.”
Fucking neanderthals still live in Florida, shallow uncaring assholes who don’t know or care for human dignity. What a state. Jeb Bush country.
April 20, 2011 at 4:52 am
Dr. Doom
“CNN said that “the Hawaiian islands may get a new and unwelcome addition in coming months — a giant new island of debris floating in from Japan.”
I’m secretly hoping for a free Japanese house to float in. Saw some floating around out there on CNN earlier. May have to check the radiation levels.
April 20, 2011 at 7:26 am
dave
i want a cape.
April 20, 2011 at 8:35 am
Uncle Remus
“i want a cape.”
Isn’t there a “Super Dave” already?
April 20, 2011 at 8:36 am
dave
i always know it’s spring when the girls start to show off thier belly buttons.
http://i.imgur.com/TL6zA.jpg
April 20, 2011 at 9:29 am
GB
I bet I had less income than you last year, dave. Bonus: no need to file.
April 20, 2011 at 9:43 am
GB
Good thing I didn’t have any children. Poor devils would be doing without a lot of stuff. I missed the whole minivan, disposable diapers, shopping for kid’s school clothes thing.
April 20, 2011 at 10:56 am
Dr. Doom
come to think of it, i guess those capes could also double as blankets, probably all you need to keep warm at night in the Florida parks. besides, they would make it easier for local law enforcement to spot the unemployed/homeless. that’s a win-win, i’d say.
April 20, 2011 at 11:30 am
GB
I know, just give every homeless/unemployed person a cell phone and a laptop. Then at least they can text each other and do their income taxes online. You know, income from picking up deposit bottles and cans.
April 20, 2011 at 12:37 pm
GB
Actually, I lived on food stamps, (the paper kind), odd jobs, collecting aluminum cans, the occasional free meal, and some fishing/foraging during a period in the early eighties. I only had to steal food once, when I was starving. Overall, it was not a real good way to live.
April 21, 2011 at 6:41 am
dave
Overall, it was not a real good way to live.
well, at least you missed the whole 9to5, buying braces, going to birthday parties, watching your wife watch ooophra, meeting a mortgage, making car payments, listening to a stupid boss, etc. routine. overall, that’s not a real good way to live either. why it’s so popular is kind of beyond me. social pressure, ie, a sure way to steady pussy, is about the only answer i can come up with.
anyhoo, if the west had a tradition of itinerant priesthood, of some sort, you would have made out just fine, i think. but all we got, by and large, are these fucking christian priests and preachers, of sorts; who are way to fat and stupid to be able to emulate jesus, i think. but even jesus would be fucked in the center of industrialism, the usa, i think.
April 21, 2011 at 8:40 am
GB
Bumming around is OK when you are young. You could get away with a lot more stuff back then. I wouldn’t want to do it today unless I was part of a tight group, or tribe. The fishing was better back then, too.
I met and even worked alongside a number of native americans (Crow, Blackfoot, Flathead, etc.) during that time. I was treated very well by them. They had tribe, but were members of former great nations, now imore or less demoralized peoples living on public assistance on reservations, with many individuals still trying to emulate the american way of life. Some saw through it and were living in 2 worlds, waiting. One indian I met hitchhiking would return periodically to a Mormon mission in Provo to get religion, get fattened up a bit and then head out on the road again. I guess they mistook him for a member of a lost tribe of Israel, or something.
April 21, 2011 at 9:00 am
theroachman
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201104200146.html
Radiation is not the first worry its the looting…
Those disiplened Japaness are starting to lose that image
April 21, 2011 at 11:40 am
uncle remus
He said rejected energy.
http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/2011/usenergyuse.jpg
April 21, 2011 at 12:49 pm
dave
He said rejected energy.
yeah, not sure what they mean by rejected energy but the maximum efficiency of any heat engine(at least one operating on earth) is around 40%, if i remember right. so an overall energy use efficiancy of about 42% seems pretty good to me.
April 21, 2011 at 12:52 pm
dave
One indian I met hitchhiking would return periodically to a Mormon mission in Provo to get religion, get fattened up a bit and then head out on the road again.
yeah, reminds me of people who go to jail just to get off the streets and rest up for awhile.
April 21, 2011 at 4:46 pm
uncle remus
I met an Indian once who got elected chief, paid out per capita checks (casino dividends to tribal members), put cronies in tribal office and in admin positions at the casino, then looted the tribe, milked the casino.
April 21, 2011 at 6:22 pm
GB
Like I was sayin’, many individuals are still trying to emulate the american way of life.
April 22, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Dr. Doom
Who said rejected energy? It’s not rejected, it’s consumed. It’s just not consumed doing any work we civilized humans would consider “useful”. That would depend entirely upon your point of view.
Say, for example, you were a bluebird with cold feet and wanted to warm them (the skinny little bird’s feet get cold, but it’s the price they pay for flight). The bird grabs the power line wire and the frictional heat from the electrons moving down the conductor warms the bird. It therefore did useful work for the bird, but the humans down the line would consider that energy as lost or wasted or (if you’re a moron) rejected.
April 22, 2011 at 1:42 pm
uncle remus
Semantics, Doomy. I thought it was an, how you say, interesting way of putting it, like it is a subjective matter of taste or fashion or for the most part, even voluntary.
April 22, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Dr. Doom
Uncle, I love Jim Kunstler’s comment about how some folks think that if they make a lot of measurements of something, they can control it. Not.
Can’t escape the Second Law, no matter how hard they try. When I see the little monkeys get all excited about that “waste energy” term in that figure, I know they’re desperate and hoping/wishing for an exit. There is no exit, only death, the ultimate exit. The fact is we’ve allowed ourselves to extend the population into overshoot by literally feeding off our solar past, stored as FF (Catton’s detritovours). Now the most important, enabling one of the big three (petroleum, coal and natural gas) is going away soon, and so are those people it supports. What will remain, if we dont go entirely extinct, will be that portion that can be sustained by the Earth’s current solar energy budget, and that’s probably less than a billion globally. That’s being optimistic, also.
April 22, 2011 at 11:23 pm
Bif
The march from 7 billion down to 1 billion is going to do A LOT of dammage. Gotta figure that on the way down we’ll convert nearly everything we can to fuel that can’t be eaten. (But maybe arid and semi-arid landscapes will be spared in places. Lack of water will hold us at bay there, at least seasonally.)
Our battle for survival will probably chew the surface of the great globe down to its nubs, and in doing so leave a scorched and beaten landscape in many areas. In a fully unwound state I could see far less than a billion scrawny waifs living like timid little bands of meerkats, clawing at the ground for grubs and scurrying to their caves at the slightest snap of a twig. Or maybe they’ll stand their ground and throw rocks. There’s probably going to be a lot of rock throwing at some point.
Maybe the waifs will assume some role in a new fire ecology or something that makes use of our pyro tendencies. Or maybe a pestilence will massively cull the waifs just before they completely undo millions of years of nature’s evolutionary works. Who can say.
Maybe someday great herds of half naked waifs will migrate across the landscape, following the seasons, snacking on grasshoppers and squabbling as they go. Throwing rocks, starting fires and/or running away whenever they encounter other waif herds.
Other than that I’m pretty optimistic.
April 23, 2011 at 1:33 am
Dr. Doom
sounds about right to me, Bif.
April 23, 2011 at 9:06 am
theroachman
A bird flu our a rat flu could take out a couple billion in a few months no problem.
Most the human race still thinks everything is fine. A young freind of mine who has actually seen the damage the human race has done suddenly after taking a few geology classes thinks the data does not support the idea the human race is fucked. Go figure.
Dont believe your truth telling eyes the data shows that snow coverage is greater then ever. Just because its now only an inch thick vs the many feet of the past is not important.
April 23, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Bif
Yeah most look forward to the day when its their turn to do the backstroke through the cornucopia. Anythng less would be too unfair to even contemplate. The data and trends don’t take into acount our ingenuity. Having gone under cover at a few fund raisers, the thing I’ll say though is cornucopians do throw the best parties and the women are generally better looking. Nature plays mean tricks is what I always think.
April 23, 2011 at 4:30 pm
GB
It will/would be interesting to see what traits are selected by Nature for our population of half-naked waifs.
April 23, 2011 at 6:41 pm
dave
yeah, big titted phat assed waifs are the best.
April 23, 2011 at 6:47 pm
dave
waifs
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhiHb913Lf4TpU4q5m
April 23, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Dr. Doom
even as a young lad, i was looking forward to a world filled with half-naked waifs, as long as the girls all looked and dressed like yvette:
http://erkelzaar.tsudao.com/stars/mimieux/yvette.htm
April 24, 2011 at 1:53 am
Bif
Dave those weren’t waifs. Pack of hyenas maybe.
April 24, 2011 at 2:05 am
Bif
“It will/would be interesting to see what traits are selected by Nature for our population of half-naked waifs.” ~GB
In the woods and fields behind my house a number of the deer who were thick and hardy last fall now show up in my yard as haggard waifs. I don’t think they’d have survived another month of winter.
The long term prospects for a human population as permanent waifs can’t be good. Entering the winter season as a waif would mean you’d unlikely see spring. Nature doesn’t reward failure. However if being undernourished and underweight is only a seasonal (e.g. late winter/early spring) or otherwise cyclical condition followed by sufficient periods of full restoration (so that reproduction can be successful enough to replace losses) then I would say resilience, hardiness, resourcefulness, adaptability, mobility would be among the important characteristics.
Going about the world half naked would require moderate to warm temps obviously and probably a certain amount of pigmentation. So probably only possible as a lifestyle in tropics when/where it’s not too buggy and ample opportunities to retreat from direct sun. In the temperate regions a population of half naked waifs could probably only be seen during warm spring days, because although by summer they would still be naked, they should mostly no longer be waifs.
April 24, 2011 at 9:01 am
GB
Another important characteristic might be hardheadedness, or an innate resistance to believing the lies, the bullshit, and the fairy tales, the belief in which can get you killed sooner than need be.
April 27, 2011 at 9:33 pm
theroachman
Just a reminder to my self Im at the library but relevent to this place there is a need to watch out for this guy I viewed on Big
Think Blog he seems all over the net and nothing but a nuke industry shill fooming from his mouth.
Edward Peschko thinks that Nuke power will save us still laughing at some of the stuff he wrote.
April 27, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Dr. Doom
relax roach, there simply isn’t enough uranium to save us. meanwhile, it’s gonna be Fuku’s all over the place.
cheers,
doom
April 28, 2011 at 9:01 am
theroachman
I am relaxed i get get a kick out of blind industry shill such as him. Its perverse
April 28, 2011 at 4:51 pm
uncle remus
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkdra0N3N11qcqktno1_500.gif
April 29, 2011 at 6:10 am
GB
Which of these signs of the end times are the most terrifying and disturbing?
1)wars and rumors of wars
2)earthquakes, floods, and pestilence
3)the Mets win 6 in a row
April 29, 2011 at 9:05 am
uncle remus
4) JR gonzo posting again.
April 29, 2011 at 11:01 am
Dr. Doom
although my sentimental favorite is 2), i’m going with 1) and a little dr. no foreknowledge about sitting-duck nuke plants and harbors full of nuke powered ships.
perhaps no JR gonzo posting means the same thing?
April 29, 2011 at 4:41 pm
dave
the Mets win 6 in a row
haha, wait until august. the world will return to normal.
April 29, 2011 at 11:54 pm
Dr. Doom
yeah, don’t get your hopes up with those Mets. sure fire ways to be unhappy: compare yourself with others; expect the Mets to win the World Series, then bet money on them; marry Linsay Lohan.
http://technorati.com/entertainment/article/lindsay-lohans-obits-being-prepped-however/
April 30, 2011 at 5:19 am
GB
Nothing wroing with that Lindsay Lohan. The parts are in the right places. All she needs is a few weeks of therapy, weeding my garden on her hands and knees. Lindsay, if you’re reading this, this offer is your best chance for a decent life.
April 30, 2011 at 9:21 am
theroachman
There is a billboard here in Denver which positively states the end is May 21 so yes the end is near
April 30, 2011 at 10:23 am
uncle remus
“All she needs is a few weeks of therapy, weeding my garden on her hands and knees.”
[...]
She was buns-up kneelin’
I was wheelin’ and dealin’
She surrendered to the feelin’
She started in to squealin’
[...]
All she really needed
Was some discipline…
[...]
Frank “Forty Dollar Bill” Zappa – “Dinah-Moe Humm”
April 30, 2011 at 11:31 am
uncle remus
http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:southparkstudios.com:382784HUMANCENTiPAD Tags: SOUTHPARKmore…
April 30, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Dr. Doom
i think i’ll take a short trip someplace on May 21. maybe pack an iPad.
May 1, 2011 at 7:33 am
dave
best commercial
May 1, 2011 at 9:53 am
dave
monkeys love to blow shit up. or as mark twain might say: turn off the sound track and watch what they do.
May 1, 2011 at 10:03 am
uncle remus
boom like a like a boom.
May 1, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Dr. Doom
without a doubt, we are the mighty monkeys.
fuku, fuku, fook, fook, fook…
May 1, 2011 at 3:40 pm
uncle remus
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ig-6f0g55c&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0