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Post Date: 2010-01-08 11:27:56 by christine
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it's cloudy with no sun to warm us up. the high predicted today is 35. currently it's 26 degrees (feels like 17). could be hours before the pipes unfreeze. i'm going nuts already.

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#89. To: Fred Mertz (#88)

A Fred and Ethyl ping!

In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report.

Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject.

Dakmar  posted on  2010-01-08   20:03:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#90. To: christine (#56)

the pipes just unthawed and we got water running!!!!! shower time !!!

What did the trick?

"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-01-08   20:09:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#91. To: IRTorqued (#86)

I grew up in Iowa there the code was 48 inches minimum and the meter was inside. but hey there were times I'd have to dig 8 feet down in the snow to oil the windmill.

You know what's screwed up?

All that shit is done now by Govt union workers.

You ever stare those fucks straight in the eye?

It's funny, they get all cross-eyed and crazy.

In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report.

Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject.

Dakmar  posted on  2010-01-08   20:19:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#92. To: Dakmar (#88)

You should've been been here this summer when I was getting my PhD in toilets. My wife was really miffed about the line of potties I had set up in front of my shop for testing.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   20:19:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#93. To: Esso (#92) (Edited)

Lend me $22 billion dollars and I think I can set up a publishing company that deals exclusively with spigonometry.

In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report.

Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject.

Dakmar  posted on  2010-01-08   20:23:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#94. To: Dakmar (#93) (Edited)

$22 billion? That's so 90s. I just got a $2 trillion grant to study the effects of dryer lint & elevated humidity on stuff kept in garages.

Wanna take a wild-ass guess as to what my preliminary findings are four dollars into the study?

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   20:30:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#95. To: Esso (#94)

the effects of dryer lint & elevated humidity on stuff kept in garages.

That's so 90's :)

In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report.

Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject.

Dakmar  posted on  2010-01-08   20:34:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#96. To: Dakmar (#91)

some years back (30 or so) my dad was doing something with a house he owned, any way he had installed a precast cement stair for the front porch. as the V.A. was involved they sent an inspector to check stuff, the guy measured the height of the top stair from the ground and said because it was 1/2 inch higher than code it required a railing. so my dad kicks some dirt into the corner where the measurement was taken and said measure it again, that completed the inspection with no railing ever being installed.

The best gun to have, is the gun you have, when you need a gun.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-08   20:43:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#97. To: IRTorqued (#96)

A perfect example of understanding the purpose of having laws versus rules.

None of us need rulers, but could all use a...

I'll shut up now :)

In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report.

Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject.

Dakmar  posted on  2010-01-08   20:49:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#98. To: FormerLurker (#90)

we turned on the hot water spigots as you recommended. turned up the heat in the house. opened the cabinets. then Bill went out with the hairdryer and heated both hose bibs. then suddenly water started coming out of all the faucets.

christine  posted on  2010-01-08   21:21:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#99. To: Dakmar (#97)

None of us need rulers, but could all use a... (inch or two?)

They have pills for that now.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2010-01-08   21:27:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#100. To: christine (#0)

it's cloudy with no sun to warm us up.

LOL try living in Sacramento, land of the perpetual fog.

"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-08   21:28:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#101. To: christine (#98)

then suddenly water started coming out of all the faucets

Glad we were able to help. :)

In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report.

Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject.

Dakmar  posted on  2010-01-08   21:31:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#102. To: christine (#98)

then suddenly water started coming out of all the faucets.

Cool. I was hoping SOMETHING would work for you, and it looks like the combination of things actually did something useful... :)

"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-01-08   21:37:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#103. To: Dakmar (#101)

;)

christine  posted on  2010-01-08   21:42:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#104. To: FormerLurker (#102)

i got in the shower and said out loud, ah, glorious water. ;)

christine  posted on  2010-01-08   21:45:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#105. To: Jethro Tull (#99) (Edited)

None of us need rulers, but could all use a... (inch or two?)

Sorry, no but the answer we were looking for was versed lawyer

I'm being told by the judges vermin lawyer would have worked as well, I'll have to get back to you on this.

In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report.

Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject.

Dakmar  posted on  2010-01-08   21:47:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#106. To: christine (#104)

i got in the shower and said out loud, ah, glorious water. ;)

Hey, there are families reading this site, tone it down eh?

In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report.

Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject.

Dakmar  posted on  2010-01-08   21:48:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#107. To: Dakmar (#105)

Sorry, no but the answer we were looking for was versed lawyer

I'll take Peered reviewed studies for $200, Alex.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2010-01-08   21:54:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#108. To: Dakmar (#106)

Put a sock in it already, dopey. You got about 50 guys who've been waitin' around all day for the pics. You tryin' to start a riot or sumpthin'?

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   21:56:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#109. To: All (#107)

Jethro Tull  posted on  2010-01-08   21:57:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#110. To: christine (#104)

i got in the shower and said out loud, ah, glorious water. ;)

it's a wonder humanity survived all those hundreds of thousands of years without hot showers.

if i happened to live long enough, i guess that's what i'd miss most about our glorious modern world... that's what i think about when i'm in the shower if there's nothing else to think about.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   22:09:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#111. To: All (#110) (Edited)

it would be a good thing to offer up a little prayer to the god of hot showers once in a while: "thank you, god, and please preserve us and our cleanliness. keep us clean the easy, pleasurable way."

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   22:31:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#112. To: groundresonance (#111)

it would be a good thing to offer up a little prayer to the god of hot showers once in a while

I express my gratitude for hot showers to God most mornings -- even in the summer.

A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're not talking real money

DeaconBenjamin  posted on  2010-01-08   22:37:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#113. To: groundresonance (#111) (Edited)

Ha! Finally someone who understands plumbing.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   22:38:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#114. To: DeaconBenjamin (#112)

I express my gratitude for hot showers to God most mornings -- even in the summer.

gratitude is next to godliness, which is next to cleanliness.

what a wonderful world.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   22:46:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#115. To: Esso (#113) (Edited)

Ha! Finally someone who understands plumbing.

plumbing is next to cleanliness, which is next to godliness, which is ne

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   22:54:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#116. To: christine (#0)

Keep a space heater by the pipes to prevent them from freezing up or else you won't be able to flush your toilet either. Also, keep a space heater in your bathroom and have it running at around 60 degrees just enough to keep it warm in there so that the pipes in the bathroom don't freeze up.

What is handy is having a stock of clean milk cartons filled with water and kept in the house near fireplace for bathing purposes and drinking. Label them so you know what carton is for. I'd keep about 30 around. You never know about freezing temps like these.

Also when its icy outside from below zero temps and you have ice on your power lines, most likely that will cause power outages. It's best to have lots of candles and batteries for flashlights when power goes out.

purplerose  posted on  2010-01-08   23:00:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#117. To: Esso (#113) (Edited)

something's puzzling me, has puzzled me for a long time...

all those people in SE asia, who didnt have hot showers and shit in the ocean, and wore dazzling white shirts.

we have to assume they didnt have a god of hot showers, or a god of flush toilets, or a god of whirlpool washers and dryers, but they seemed to be clean, anyhow.

is that why we killed millions of them?

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   23:04:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#118. To: groundresonance (#117)

They always used to say that they were godless commies, so the white shirt thing is quite the paradox.

I'm pretty sure though that we had to kill them because they were going to invade Texas. Yes, that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it. My country, right or wrong and all that.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   23:19:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#119. To: Esso (#118) (Edited)

They always used to say that they were godless commies, so the white shirt thing is quite the paradox.

the logic being: if they were godless, and cleanliness is next to godliness, then white shirts would be impossible.

makes sense to me.

maybe there's something else at work here... the threat to texas makes as much sense as

none of it makes sense, unless you're a looter.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   23:24:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#120. To: groundresonance (#119)

Trying to figure this out is making me dizzy. I like it.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   23:27:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#121. To: christine (#0)

As a recommendation: pipe in Washington DC political squabbles. The hot-aire can help defrost just about anything.

“Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves.”

buckeroo  posted on  2010-01-08   23:32:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#122. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#78)

The last few years I think the plumbers were taking time to get to people here also. One year even a few businesses and schools had pipes break. When they have that many at once it can take a while even when there are a bunch of plumbers. This year has been a pretty mild winter here.

Well hopefully after time we have learned enough to avoid it!! I know there are no guarantees though.

MiracleRose7  posted on  2010-01-08   23:42:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#123. To: Esso (#120)

Trying to figure this out is making me dizzy. I like it.

my working hypothesis for figuring it out is this:

the people who were paying attention knew, by the sixties, that america was pretty much fucked, mostly because america wasnt finding enough oil, and and would become dependent on foreign oil.

american oil production peaked in 1970, in the middle of the vietnamese war, confirming looters' suspicions that america was doomed.

the only thing left to do was loot.

meanwhile, the israel lobby assassinates kennedy, sending a message to US politicians that "you'd best get with the program."

the program being: preserve israel at any cost.

the program was eventually refined by the AEI, which figured that the only thing left to do was grab the remaining oil at gunpoint... supposedly.

the problem being: it's likely that the "war on terror" is nothing more than cover for looting america as it expires.

the basic premise being: most of the big dogs have written israel off, and all they care about is looting enough to buy refuge wherever.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   23:49:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#124. To: groundresonance (#123)

You mean to say My Milf Palin ain't gonna save us from them-there eeeevil Muzzies & Chinks that is destroying this country and hates my freeeedums?????

OH MY GAWD, SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!!!! Pass the cyanide Kool-aid, I cain't takes no more.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   23:56:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#125. To: Esso (#120) (Edited)

the dismal performance of the israelis seems to confirm the theory.

the routine atrocities israel performs dont seem to be consistent with efforts to preserve israel, and so we have to assume that the deterioration in israel is a symptom of israeli leadership being looters themselves.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   0:03:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#126. To: Esso (#124)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a3DZsO36cA

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   0:15:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#127. To: groundresonance (#117)

in the Philippines every house I lived in had an elevated water tank of around 400 gallons and an inline water heater that plumbed between the shower water pipe an the shower head. as for cleaning the clothes we had Mr. Clean, Tide among other bars of soap used to do the wash by hand in a big pan. I would use a bar of Mr. Clean to wash out cuts the stuff was great for avoiding infection.

The best gun to have, is the gun you have, when you need a gun.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-09   0:53:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#128. To: IRTorqued (#127) (Edited)

apparently we've succeded in turning filipinos into consumers.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   1:04:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#129. To: IRTorqued (#127) (Edited)

we'd move off the carrier into the BOQ at subic, drink all night, wake up at 11, eat hot dogs around the pool until it was time to go into town.

there was a curfew but this middle-aged lady flagged me down after curfew, and i spent the rest of the night with her, despite the fact that i was broke.

in the morning, as i was going through the gate, i was fishing in my pockets for my ID and discovered the filipino equivalent of a $5 bill.

lord knows what that was about.

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