Nice; extremely subtle color.

Yes, I have reflectors on my errand bike. They're good when it starts to get dark and people are coming home from work tired in their cars.

re: #2 Charles

Yes, I have reflectors on my errand bike. They're good when it starts to get dark and people are coming home from work tired in their cars.

She's a beauty, all right.

Bike photo!
Long time no see.
Good to see you dressed in black and white.

Where's that red bridge that arcs the bay?

re: #2 Charles

Is that a front disc brake below that reflector. Oh my.

Any relation to Mike Botif?

re: #5 MandyManners

Where's that red bridge that arcs the bay?

Sammy Hagar always looked the same age.

(Well, not anymore)

re: #8 Bloodnok

Sammy Hagar always looked the same age.

(Well, not anymore)

Gravity catches up with us all.

Speaking of tired people coming home from work, I'm now beginning to enjoy my first free weekend in the last three weeks of 14 hour workdays. Drinks are in me.
I'll try to observe the Iron Fist rule.

re: #9 MandyManners

Gravity catches up with us all.

The Red Rocker hung in there longer than many.

The bicycle is one of the greatest inventions of all time.

/the bottle opener is another...then AA...

re: #10 jaunte

Speaking of tired people coming home from work, I'm now beginning to enjoy my first free weekend in the last three weeks of 14 hour workdays. Drinks are in me.
I'll try to observe the Iron Fist rule.

Better than on you I guess.

re: #13 Truck Monkey

I started to say 'on me', but here I can only send the thought of a drink. So in it is.

re: #12 IslandLibertarian

The bicycle is one of the greatest inventions of all time.

/the bottle opener is another...then AA...

Yoo Hoo.

Do NOT Forget Yoo Hoo.

re: #12 IslandLibertarian

The bicycle is one of the greatest inventions of all time.

/the bottle opener is another...then AA...

That's a rather tidy course of events.

bottle opener leads to AA and you've come full cycle

I still think getting rid of the spare tire might not be a bad thing in my case:

Chubby people live longest: Japan study
Jun 19 06:14 AM US/Eastern

Health experts have long warned of the risk of obesity, but a new Japanese study warns that being very skinny is even more dangerous, and that slightly chubby people live longer.

People who are a little overweight at age 40 live six to seven years longer than very thin people, whose average life expectancy was shorter by some five years than that of obese people, the study found.

"We found skinny people run the highest risk," said Shinichi Kuriyama, an associate professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Medicine who worked on the long-term study of middle-aged and elderly people.

"We had expected thin people would show the shortest life expectancy but didn't expect the difference to be this large," he told AFP by telephone.

Bike Motif

Is that like an AutoMotif, only smaller?

The wheel of agony. Where it stops, only the Lizard Master knows.

re: #17 FurryOldGuyJeans

Freakin' A!

re: #2 Charles

Yes, I have reflectors on my errand bike. They're good when it starts to get dark and people are coming home from work tired in their cars.

When my only form of transport was my bike, I carefully removed every reflector and stopped using my red flasher on the back. I found that the drunks followed the flashing in on me.

re: #11 Bloodnok

The Red Rocker hung in there longer than many.

I wonder how Jane Fonda and Cher are holding up. What's George Hamilton up to lately?

re: #9 MandyManners

Gravity catches up with us all.

Things go droop in the night.

What... no playing card in your spokes for noise?

re: #23 DEZes

Things go droop in the night.

Not when I'm around, they don't.
/

re: #22 MandyManners

I think he's healing from knee surgery.

New Mexico breaks ground on commercial spaceport
Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:26pm EDT

PHOENIX (Reuters) - New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson broke ground on Friday on construction of Spaceport America, the world's first facility built specifically for space-bound commercial customers and fee-paying passengers.

The $198 million project, which is being funded by the New Mexico state government, is located on a remote high-desert range near the town of Truth or Consequences.

British tycoon Richard Branson's space tours firm, Virgin Galactic, will use the facility to propel tourists into suborbital space at a cost of $200,000 a ride.

"After all of the hard work to get this project off the ground, it is gratifying to see Spaceport America finally become a reality," Richardson said.

"This groundbreaking ceremony is an important step toward our goal of being at the forefront of a vibrant new, commercial space industry."

Steve Howe...Clap?

re: #22 MandyManners

I wonder how Jane Fonda and Cher are holding up. What's George Hamilton up to lately?

I think that someone made George Hamilton into a wallet.

re: #24 BigPapa

What... no playing card in your spokes for noise?

Here's a rookie card from some nobody... Nolan Ryan. Use that one.

OT
Live
John Bolton says Ayatollah Khamenei's warning to freedom protestors, using Friday prayers to say "Islamic state doesn't lie" & threatening a crackdown is moving to a confrontation as people decide whether to gather tomorrow, and whether the Revolutionary Guards decide to use force on the protestors.

On Greta Van Susteren (Fox)

Bolton says this regime is fundamentally illegitimate and we should have helped bring it down a long time ago.

Bolton doesn't think Pres. Obama will do anything (to help Iranians bring down their illegitimate theocracy)

re: #29 Truck Monkey

I think that someone made George Hamilton into a wallet.

Nice.

re: #25 Dianna

Not when I'm around, they don't.
/

You have an anti grav. unit?
///

re: #12 IslandLibertarian

The bicycle is one of the greatest inventions of all time.

/the bottle opener is another...then AA...

And the Les Paul.

Montrose's is nice, Probably a '58.

(Sob)

re: #22 MandyManners

I wonder how Jane Fonda and Cher are holding up. What's George Hamilton up to lately?

Chers face is starting to look more like Rocky Dennis' every day.

/maybe not so obscure Mask reference

re: #1 jaunte

Nice; extremely subtle color.

Don't commonly see extreme and subtle together in the same sentence. :P
/

By 1884, British buyers could chose from over 350 different tricycles, each with its own unique combination of wheel configuration and steering, transmission and braking systems, as well as other special features. The Humber “Cripper” (810233) was one of the most popular models. Other examples in the collection are the “Cheylesmore” (810231), a ladies’ model made by Singer (810228) and the “New Special Devon” (810230).

re: #21 Dianna

When my only form of transport was my bike, I carefully removed every reflector and stopped using my red flasher on the back. I found that the drunks followed the flashing in on me.

I've always feel safer on my bike trying not to seen by cars and ride like they don't know I'm there. I don't want bad drivers to see me. In my mind if they don't see me they won't do something stupid like hit me while trying not to. That said when I'm in the car I always give bikes lots of room.

BTW Copenhagen Denmark best bike riding ever. The cars stop and wait for you to ride past.

The infighting amongst the Dems is a wondrous thing:

Peterson: Democrats Back to Square One on Climate Bill
By Jennifer Bendery
Roll Call Staff
June 19, 2009, 2:54 p.m.

House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) on Friday said climate change bill negotiators are heading back to the drawing board after discussions between Democrats “blew up last night.”

re: #34 tommygum

And the Les Paul.

Montrose's is nice, Probably a '58.

(Sob)

heh...Leo Fender?

re: #28 albusteve

Ah, Yes... and Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe (could have been a law firm in another life)...

re: #37 HelloDare

I like the 'Coventry Rotary' tricycle.

re: #35 Truck Monkey

Chers face is starting to look more like Rocky Dennis' every day.

/maybe not so obscure Mask reference

Oh, snap!

re: #30 mich-again

Here's a rookie card from some nobody... Nolan Ryan. Use that one.

My mother brought my old baseball card collection to me last time she visited. I ruined them all when I was a kid by drawing sunglasses on them and putting cigarettes in their mouths. I have a Nolan Ryan rookie card in said collection.

re: #41 lawhawk

Ah, Yes... and Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe (could have been a law firm in another life)...

they were one lineup I favored...alas they hit the wall like to many talented young bands

re: #44 Truck Monkey

Keep it; someday the drawings will be part of the value.

re: #31 alegrias

Bolton doesn't think Pres. Obama will do anything (to help Iranians bring down their illegitimate theocracy)

Had Bush canceled the elections and installed himself as dictator he would be doing something.
/

re: #40 albusteve

heh...Leo Fender?

Didn't he invent that thing you put between your boat and the dock?

re: #41 lawhawk

Ah, Yes... and Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe (could have been a law firm in another life)...

My favorite Law Firm:
Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe

Obama’s Insurance Proposal May Grab Power From States (Update1)
By Erik Holm

June 19 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s plan to create a U.S. insurance office after the $182.5 billion bailout of American International Group Inc. may take powers from the states that have overseen the industry for more than 135 years.

Obama called for the creation of a federal Office of National Insurance within the Treasury Department to monitor the industry, represent U.S. interests in international insurance agreements, and look for gaps in state oversight. The proposal was announced this week as part of Obama’s planned overhaul of the U.S. financial regulatory system.

The administration endorsed broader federal oversight of firms posing a threat to the financial system, and said more regulation may be needed for parts of companies outside the reach of state supervision. AIG’s Financial Products unit, which brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy after it sold credit protection to firms including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., wasn’t under the states’ umbrella.

How did the bike's front fork get scraped up? Hit something while taking pictures with the i-Phone maybe?
/

re: #46 jaunte

Keep it; someday the drawings will be part of the value.

Serious?

re: #31 alegrias

Obama. Friends with scumbag firebrands Ayers and Khalidi but afraid to say an untoward word about Iran.

re: #52 Truck Monkey

If you have children, or plan to, definitely.

Another first at the White House. Tony Hawk shredded the hallways on a skateboard.

Yes...(stay away from the brown stuff)

re: #23 DEZes

Things go droop in the night.

I'm reminded of that "Oops! I Pooped my Pants" skit on SNL.

BBC enlisting new satellites to broadcast in Iran
Jun 19 01:06 PM US/Eastern
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER
Associated Press Writer

LONDON (AP) - The BBC is using two extra satellites to broadcast its Farsi-language service after days of jamming it blamed on Iran.

The British state-run news organization said the move was meant to help it reach its Iranian audience as the crisis over their country's disputed election deepens. It is also a challenge to Iran's religious government, which has accused foreign broadcasters of stirring unrest, singling out the BBC in particular.

"This is an important time for Iran," BBC World Service Director Peter Horrocks said in a statement. "We hope that by adding more ways to access BBC Persian television, Farsi-speaking audiences can get the high quality news, analysis and debate they clearly desire."

re: #54 jaunte

If you have children, or plan to, definitely.

3. All the cards are from early 60's through about 1973. There are quite a few in there that would have been worth quite a bit had I not altered them.

re: #48 tommygum

Didn't he invent that thing you put between your boat and the dock?

googling...

re: #55 lawhawk

Another first at the White House. Tony Hawk shredded the hallways on a skateboard.

sigh

re: #59 Truck Monkey

Just keep them; they'll gain value anyway.

re: #31 alegrias

Bolton doesn't think Pres. Obama will do anything (to help Iranians bring down their illegitimate theocracy)

Neither does anyone else.

re: #62 jaunte

Just keep them; they'll gain value anyway.

Like my house and 401K?

//

re: #26 jaunte

I think he's healing from knee surgery.

He had a knee-lift?

Hercules Poirot once observed that no matter how young a woman pretends to be through dress or facial artifice, her age is betrayed by her knees. I reckon the same is true of men.

re: #64 Truck Monkey

Sure; in the meantime they're good for story value!

re: #65 MandyManners

There's the answer to why Poirot was crawling around on the floor.

re: #55 lawhawk

Another first at the White House. Tony Hawk shredded the hallways on a skateboard.

Did he land a jump in the Lincoln Bedroom?

'Only 6% of Israelis see US gov't as pro-Israel'
Jun. 19, 2009
Gil Hoffman , THE JERUSALEM POST

Only 6 percent of Jewish Israelis consider the views of American President Barack Obama's administration pro-Israel, according to a new Jerusalem Post-sponsored Smith Research poll.

The poll, which has a margin of error of 4.5%, was conducted among a representative sample of 500 Israeli Jewish adults this week, following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech in which he expressed his support for a demilitarized Palestinian state.

Another 50% of those sampled consider the policies of Obama's administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli, and 36% said the policies were neutral. The remaining 8% did not express an opinion.

The numbers were a stark contrast to the last poll published May 17, on the eve of the meeting between Netanyahu and Obama at the White House. In that poll, 31% labeled the Obama administration pro-Israel, 14% considered it pro-Palestinian and 40% said it was neutral. The other 15% declined to give an opinion.

Israelis' views of Obama's predecessor in the White House, George W. Bush, are nearly the opposite. According to last month's poll, 88% of Israelis considered his administration pro-Israel, 7% said Bush was neutral and just 2% labeled him pro-Palestinian.

re: #65 MandyManners

Surgery with the Stars:
[Link: www.boston.com...]

re: #69 FurryOldGuyJeans

'Only 6% of Israelis see US gov't as pro-Israel'
Jun. 19, 2009
Gil Hoffman , THE JERUSALEM POST

Wow. Threadworthy, IMO.

re: #42 jaunte

I like the 'Coventry Rotary' tricycle.

The English discover the Baron’s bicycle.

The Draisienne was copied by builders and mechanics around the world. Some of the finest examples were made in England by a coach builder named Denis Johnson. He called his patented vehicle (810202) a “pedestrian curricle” or “velocipede,” but the public preferred “hobbyhorse,” after the children’s toy or, worse still,

re: #55 lawhawk

Can't really verbalize my reaction to that.

re: #61 Bloodnok

sigh

Yep. That sums it up nicely.

re: #71 Bloodnok

Wow. Threadworthy, IMO.

Notice the inversion between Bush and Obama. Just freakin' amazing.

re: #58 FurryOldGuyJeans

BBC enlisting new satellites to broadcast in Iran
Jun 19 01:06 PM US/Eastern
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER
Associated Press Writer

Good on the BBC. They've got problems, but the Beeb has really stepped up on Iran. The truth they broadcast in will make a real difference. If it succeeds, this revolution will be televised.

re: #24 BigPapa

What... no playing card in your spokes for noise?

/or handlebar end tassels?

re: #55 lawhawk

Another first at the White House. Tony Hawk shredded the hallways on a skateboard.

Remember how we used to get pissed off because various quiet, peaceful, respectful Democratic party benefactors were paying the Clintons to spend the night in the White House?

I'm already looking back fondly on those days.

re: #69 FurryOldGuyJeans

That's huge shift.

a

re: #69 FurryOldGuyJeans

If only American Jews felt the same way.

re: #78 Last Mohican

Remember how we used to get pissed off because various quiet, peaceful, respectful Democratic party benefactors were paying the Clintons to spend the night in the White House?

I'm already looking back fondly on those days.

Scary, isn't it?

re: #69 FurryOldGuyJeans
The Israelis are perceptive.

re: #76 Dark_Falcon

Good on the BBC. They've got problems, but the Beeb has really stepped up on Iran. The truth they broadcast in will make a real difference. If it succeeds, this revolution will be televised.

I have a lot of complaints about the Beeb's slant on politics, but their attempt to bring the Iranian situation to the world is commendable.

re: #55 lawhawk

Dude... like, duuude! Shredding Ollies in da Oval Office!

the single greatest device to express the soul of men...

Image: Fender_strat.jpg

re: #80 jaunte

a

b

re: #87 Truck Monkey

See?

re: #88 jaunte

See?

Hear!

re: #30 mich-again

Here's a rookie card from some nobody... Nolan Ryan. Use that one.

I was thinking Pete Rose' rookie year.

re: #89 FurryOldGuyJeans

Hear!

Pull my finger!

/smell

re: #91 Truck Monkey

Pull my finger!

/smell

_feel

re: #86 albusteve

the single greatest device to express the soul of men...

[Link: upload.wikimedia.org...]

albusteve ... Slow Blues in C ...

re: #35 Truck Monkey

Chers face is starting to look more like Rocky Dennis' every day.

/maybe not so obscure Mask reference

Cher has had a heckuva' run.

re: #93 JacksonTn

albusteve ... Slow Blues in C ...
Alvin Lee totally had that "guitar player face" goin' on.

And Bill Maher just made a nasty joke that called Bristol Palin a slut. PDS is still in full bloom on the left.

/spits

IOWAHAWK:

Widow of Murdered Fly Seeks White House Apology, Shit

WASHINGTON -- The widow of the housefly murdered by Barack Obama during a recent CNBC television interview announced this morning that she would be filing a wrongful death suit against the President in federal district court. The plaintiff brief -- citing pain, suffering and loss of income -- seeks a formal apology and compensatory damages, including an unspecified quantity of shit.

"Bob was a wonderful husband and provider," said the widow, Mrs. Vivian Vvzzvzwwzzz, wiping tears from her compound eyes. "Even though he was always busy at the Rose Garden turd pile, he always flew home in time to tuck in our maggots."

The 17-day old widow said the grieving process since the murder has taken its toll.

"Although it's been nearly 48 hours, I still get an empty feeling in my thorax everytime I think about it," she said. "I feel like I've aged an entire week. Mating season is over, and here I am, stuck trying to raise 532 larvae on my own."

Vvzzvzwwzzz described the "abdomen-wrenching horror" she experienced while watching the President casually assassinate her husband during the live broadcast.

"It was just before supper time and I was predigesting the evening shit for the kids," she recalled. "When I looked up at the TV I saw Bob there, and of course I was pretty excited. He started waving at me, and then, all of a sudden, SLAP! My whole world, my life, layed smashed across the back of Obama's left hand. And with 360 degree peripheral vision and hundreds of eye facets, it was impossible to look away."

Ever since the incident, Mrs. Vvzzvzwwzzz said she had been trying to piece her life back together.

"I just get paralyzed wondering how I'm going to raise my larvae for the next six days, alone, without any kind of support," she said. "Most days I just end up on the clung to the ceiling, numb and crying, eating a rancid bowl of Ben & Jerry's."

re: #93 JacksonTn

albusteve ... Slow Blues in C ...

classic

Double spit.

re: #67 jaunte

There's the answer to why Poirot was crawling around on the floor.

*swoon*

Sotomayor quits women's club after GOP criticism
Jun 19 07:48 PM US/Eastern
By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor resigned Friday from an elite all-women's club after Republicans questioned her participation in it. Sotomayor said she resigned from the Belizean Grove to prevent the issue from becoming a distraction in her confirmation hearings.

In a letter to Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the federal appeals court judge said she is convinced that the club does not practice "invidious discrimination" and that her membership in it did not violate judicial ethics.

But she said she didn't want questions about it to "distract anyone from my qualifications and record."

Federal judges are bound by a code that says they shouldn't join any organization that discriminates by race, sex, religion or nationality.

The Belizean Grove bills itself as women's answer to the 130-year-old all-male Bohemian Club in California. The club owns a 2,500-acre camping area in northern California called the Grove. Chief Justice Earl Warren belonged to the Bohemian Club beginning in the 1940s, before he joined the court and long before the federal judiciary adopted a code of conduct.

re: #27 FurryOldGuyJeans

New Mexico breaks ground on commercial spaceport
Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:26pm EDT

oh richardson, you pudgy scandalous man you.

Clapton at his very best...
sweating, shredding and singing his guts out

re: #70 jaunte

Surgery with the Stars:
[Link: www.boston.com...]

You should've posted a warning about that extremely white object in his mouth. AH WUZ BLINDED.

Dry Bones
Øbama's 3AM Phone Call

We used to have Fascistic Headwinds bike threads!

Evening Honcos, are we drinking yet?

Iowahawk: not a shitbird.

re: #104 MandyManners

I think he must have a contrast adjustment dial somewhere.

re: #106 jcm

We used to have Fascistic Headwinds bike threads!

Evening Honcos, are we drinking yet?

Tumbler of bourbon for me.

re: #96 Dark_Falcon

And Bill Maher just made a nasty joke that called Bristol Palin a slut. PDS is still in full bloom on the left.

/spits

He is desperate for attention. his gig is up. he is angry, not funny. His silly movie went nowhere but cost a lot. It is pretty sad when you try to catch Letterman's left overs. I mean Letterman is Leno's left overs.

re: #96 Dark_Falcon

And Bill Maher just made a nasty joke that called Bristol Palin a slut. PDS is still in full bloom on the left.

/spits

For real? What a low-life, cock-sucking motherfucker.

re: #57 MandyManners

I'm reminded of that "Oops! I Pooped my Pants" skit on SNL.

I think I must have missed that one.

re: #30 mich-again

Here's a rookie card from some nobody... Nolan Ryan. Use that one.

I have it in front of me right now.
A 1968 NY Mets baseball card. Defaced by me sometime in '69 or '70 I suppose. He actually pitched 3 inning in '66 but was sent down to Winter Haven for the '67 season.

re: #104 MandyManners

You should've posted a warning about that extremely white object in his mouth. AH WUZ BLINDED.

George Hamilton had all his skin replaced last year.

Loose moose: Who pays for wildlife damages?
Jun. 19, 2009 12:20 PM
Associated Press

PROVO, Utah - Two Utah students feel goosed by a moose on the loose.

Their cars were parked on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo when a young bull moose showed up June 4. State wildlife officials shot it with a tranquilizer gun, but before it fell, it busted through a barricade and collapsed on the cars.

re: #101 FurryOldGuyJeans

The Belizean Grove bills itself as women's answer to the 130-year-old all-male Bohemian Club in California. The club owns a 2,500-acre camping area in northern California called the Grove. Chief Justice Earl Warren belonged to the Bohemian Club beginning in the 1940s, before he joined the court and long before the federal judiciary adopted a code of conduct

.

PAGING ALEX JONES!

PAGING DAVID ICKE!

PAGING JEFF RENSE!

PAGING ALL THE CONSPIRACY-THEORISTS.

re: #111 MandyManners

For real? What a low-life, cock-sucking motherfucker.

Don't sugarcoat it. Let it out. How do you really feel?

re: #106 jcm

We used to have Fascistic Headwinds bike threads!

Evening Honcos, are we drinking yet?

yup.

re: #111 MandyManners

For real? What a low-life, cock-sucking motherfucker.

Somehow, even that seems lacking as a descripter of the Super Scoundrel.

re: #35 Truck Monkey

Chers face is starting to look more like Rocky Dennis' every day.

/maybe not so obscure Mask reference

That dimple in Chers chin. Her navel.

re: #117 Truck Monkey

Don't sugarcoat it. Let it out. How do you really feel?

RUN EVERYONE!

re: #111 MandyManners

For real? What a low-life, cock-sucking motherfucker.

Now, now. Let's not insult motherfuckers.

WSJ has an analysis of the Affordable Health Choices Act that's being drafted:

The president is barnstorming the nation, urging swift approval of legislation that is taking shape in Congress. This legislation -- the Affordable Health Choices Act that's being drafted by Sen. Edward Kennedy's staff and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee -- will push Americans into stingy insurance plans with tight, HMO-style controls. It specifically exempts members of Congress (along with federal employees; the exemptions are in section 3116).

Members of Congress "enjoy the widest selection of health plans in the country," according to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. They "can choose from among consumer-driven and high deductible plans that offer catastrophic risk protection with higher deductibles, health saving/reimbursable accounts and lower premiums, or fee-for-service (FFS) plans, and their preferred provider organizations (PPO), or health maintenance organizations (HMO)." These choices would be nice for all of us, but they're not in the offing. Instead, if you don't enroll in a "qualified" health plan and submit proof of enrollment to the federal government, you'll be tracked down and fined (sections 3101 and 6055).

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

re: #118 Unakite

yup.

Good, I hate drinking alone.re: #109 Bloodnok

Tumbler of bourbon for me.

Arrogant Bastard, my current favorite FNDT libation.

re: #106 jcm

We used to have Fascistic Headwinds bike threads!

Evening Honcos, are we drinking yet?

Instead of salad, tonight I served bowls of cherry tomatoes I picked from my garden today.

Each bite was a taste of every dawn's dew, and every day's sun.

re: #113 Truck Monkey

I have it in front of me right now.
A 1968 NY Mets baseball card. Defaced by me sometime in '69 or '70 I suppose. He actually pitched 3 inning in '66 but was sent down to Winter Haven for the '67 season.

None of my baseball cards from my youth made it all the way through to now. They all ended up in the spokes I guess.

re: #108 jaunte

I think he must have a contrast adjustment dial somewhere.

It's out of whack.

re: #123 David Simon

It specifically exempts members of Congress (along with federal employees; the exemptions are in section 3116).

There is no cure for arrogant asshole.

re: #114 HelloDare

George Hamilton had all his skin replaced last year.

See my number 29

re: #125 MandyManners

Instead of salad, tonight I served bowls of cherry tomatoes I picked from my garden today.

Each bite was a taste of every dawn's dew, and every day's sun.

And every bug's droppings.

/kidding!

re: #112 DEZes

I think I must have missed that one.

It was a blast!

re: #114 HelloDare

George Hamilton had all his skin replaced last year.

With fine, Corinthian leather?

re: #131 MandyManners

It was a blast!

Was it the Bellushi years?

re: #117 Truck Monkey

Don't sugarcoat it. Let it out. How do you really feel?

I reckon I'll have to leave that to the imagination.

re: #116 MandyManners

The Belizean Grove bills itself as women's answer to the 130-year-old all-male Bohemian Club in California.

Bohemian Grove has been a target of the left for many decades.

& I shudder to think of the ventings of femino-resentment which probably go on at "Beliezan Grove"

Not to mention the toplessness which oughtn't be.

Anyway, here is this evening's plainish Towercam sunset.

Nude hiking buffs ready to shed as solstice nears
Jun. 19, 2009 09:18 AM
Associated Press

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Every year on the first day of summer, a few outdoor enthusiasts nationwide expose virtually all of themselves to insects, scrapes and thorns for the pleasure of bonding with nature au naturel.

They call it Naked Hiking Day.

"There's no way to explain it until you experience it," said Andrew Williams, 28, a machinist from Warren, Pa., who first hiked naked six or seven years ago. "It's not about being lewd and crude and all that. It's just enjoyment."

re: #122 livefreeor die

Now, now. Let's not insult motherfuckers.

You asshole. I just spat out some really nice Basil.

re: #111 MandyManners

For real? What a low-life, cock-sucking motherfucker.

His actual line was from a sendup of the "Young Cons" rap. The nasty joke is:

"Obama took our money
and the banks he's bailin.
He's giving it away like Bristol Palin.

What a shithead. Bristol makes a mistake and gets pregnant, but owns up to it and keeps her son. And the left, even though she's only ever been with Levi Johnson, still thinks its funny to call her a slut. Fuck you with a railroad spike, Bill Maher.

re: #106 jcm

Evening Honcos, are we drinking yet?

IN about an hour I'm on a catamaran booze cruise in Kailua Bay. Watch for Zionist Honco Cabal sign here. Scroll down page...

re: #50 FurryOldGuyJeans

Obama’s Insurance Proposal May Grab Power From States (Update1)
By Erik Holm

Russ Finegold...

I believe the goal here is to create whatever legislation we have in a way that could be developed into something like a single-payer system.

Opps, he let the cat out of the bag.

re: #123 David Simon

WSJ has an analysis of the Affordable Health Choices Act that's being drafted:

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

What a surprise-Ted Kennedy writing laws that don't apply to him.

re: #132 MandyManners

With fine, Corinthian leather?

This is his night cream.

In honor of bicycles and fathers I’ll be somewhat reflective today. Many decades ago my father bought me my first bike, it was called an English Racer. He taught me how to ride it and I was so happy. Now, at 65, I don’t dare ride a bike because I’m very much in touch with my own ability to hurt myself.

Pop and I didn’t get along real well during the past fifty years. We were both too contentious and confrontational. However, in 2007 he became disabled with dementia. He came to live with me until he could be placed in an assisted living center and then a full-service nursing home. He passed away at 93 years old on New Years Day 2009.

Those two years were difficult, but such a great opportunity to establish a new relationship with my father that I hadn’t known since he took the time to teach me how to ride a bike. He taught me that and how to swim, play Pinochle, and be a tough but decent city girl.

So for those who can still have the thrill of enjoying their bicycles, I tip my hat to you. And for those of us who remember so fondly those fathers, who got us our first bike and taught us to ride it, don’t ever forget those Pops.

re: #126 mich-again

None of my baseball cards from my youth made it all the way through to now. They all ended up in the spokes I guess.

Here is the Reggie Jackson rookie card. This one is not so bad. I just pulled the cards out of my closet and am looking them over. Quite a treasure trove.

Buddy Guy

re: #130 Bloodnok

And every bug's droppings.

/kidding!

When I eat a tomato in the garden, I spit on it and wipe it off with my shirt. When I serve it at my table, I do a bit more.

(I would rather have bug shit than bug repellant.)

re: #137 MandyManners

You asshole. I just spat out some really nice Basil.

No *WHACK* ?

re: #133 DEZes

Was it the Bellushi years?

No. The Victoria Jackson years, IIRC.

re: #138 Dark_Falcon

Nah, with a chainsaw.

Sideways.

re: #146 MandyManners

When I eat a tomato in the garden, I spit on it and wipe it off with my shirt. When I serve it at my table, I do a bit more.

(I would rather have bug shit than bug repellant.)

I loves fresh tomatoes. Like apples, they is.

re: #137 MandyManners

You asshole. I just spat out some really nice Basil.

Sorry about the basil. And I'm a chick, so I'm an assholita!

re: #128 jaunte

There is no cure for arrogant asshole.

We can only hope that Baucus hangs tough. The Kennedy crew is drafting the bill, and the Sibelius crew will write the regulations if/when it passes and is signed.

shudder

re: #145 albusteve

Buddy Guy

[Video]

albusteve ... I would have loved to have been at that concert ... they were all great ...

re: #149 irongrampa

Nah, with a chainsaw.

Sideways.

Works for me.

re: #135 Ojoe

Bohemian Grove has been a target of the left for many decades.

& I shudder to think of the ventings of femino-resentment which probably go on at "Beliezan Grove"

Not to mention the toplessness which oughtn't be.

Anyway, here is this evening's plainish Towercam sunset.

It's not of the "Left" anymore. Conspiracy theory crosses all boundaries.

re: #143 grandma

I forgot Sunday was Father's Day and your post reminded me.

re: #156 Flyers1974

I forgot Sunday was Father's Day and your post reminded me.

I will just have to remember.

re: #125 MandyManners

Instead of salad, tonight I served bowls of cherry tomatoes I picked from my garden today.

Each bite was a taste of every dawn's dew, and every day's sun.

You have tomatoes already? Mine are still green. Of course, they might start to get ripe if it would QUIT RAINING!

re: #155 MandyManners

The Center is sane at least.

re: #137 MandyManners

You asshole. I just spat out some really nice Basil.

Doesn't Basil play bass for Spinal Tap?

Just saw The Proposal. Nice movie.

re: #136 FurryOldGuyJeans

Several years back I was sitting at a table at the cafeteria at work with a group of engineers and a young attractive female co-op student brought up a story about how her and her College girlfriends from Cornell got tickets from a cop for nude mountain climbing. Now thats how you break the ice with the guys in the office.

re: #153 JacksonTn

albusteve ... I would have loved to have been at that concert ... they were all great ...

yes...here's more...check out his new CD

re: #144 Truck Monkey

Here is the Reggie Jackson rookie card. This one is not so bad. I just pulled the cards out of my closet and am looking them over. Quite a treasure trove.

You ever watch Antiques Roadshow? One episode this lady brought in a old cello 1950s pack unopened of trading cards, with a fairly valuable one visible. The appraiser gives her a pretty high value on the card and pack, saying unopened packs are rare, everyone who got one ripped it open to see what was in it.

He asks if this is the only one, she answers no a couple of shoe boxes full.

re: #162 mich-again

Several years back I was sitting at a table at the cafeteria at work with a group of engineers and a young attractive female co-op student brought up a story about how her and her College girlfriends from Cornell got tickets from a cop for nude mountain climbing. Now thats how you break the ice with the guys in the office.

How proud their parents must have been.

Not much news out of Iran tonight. Sun's been up for a while. I was expecting fireworks today. Things seem quiet. Too quiet.

re: #138 Dark_Falcon

His actual line was from a sendup of the "Young Cons" rap. The nasty joke is:

"Obama took our money
and the banks he's bailin.
He's giving it away like Bristol Palin.

What a shithead. Bristol makes a mistake and gets pregnant, but owns up to it and keeps her son. And the left, even though she's only ever been with Levi Johnson, still thinks its funny to call her a slut. Fuck you with a railroad spike, Bill Maher.

Vile bastard.

re: #162 mich-again

Several years back I was sitting at a table at the cafeteria at work with a group of engineers and a young attractive female co-op student brought up a story about how her and her College girlfriends from Cornell got tickets from a cop for nude mountain climbing. Now thats how you break the ice with the guys in the office.

"No, really. I'll just stay down here and hold the rope."

Wow.

British WWI vet is now world's oldest man
Jun. 19, 2009 11:06 AM
Associated Press

LONDON - Guinness World Records says 113-year-old British World War I veteran Henry Allingham is now the world's oldest man.

The previous holder of the title, Tomoji Tanabe, died in his sleep in southern Japan earlier Friday. He was 113.

Skin Deep...a monster

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

re: #152 David Simon

I still can't tell whether it's ignorance or intentional sabotage, but people at that level in our society should know more about the effects of disincentives on human activity. Maybe they don't care that fewer students will decide to become doctors in a government-run health care program; politicians' health care will be the last to dwindle in quality.

re: #142 HelloDare

This is his night cream.

Who's gonna' buff it?

I like the monochromatic tone.

re: #169 Bloodnok

"No, really. I'll just stay down here and hold the rope."

Why not? You still get a nice view.

re: #143 grandma

What a joy and inspiration!

While surfing earlier i noticed (at Hot Air) that DADT may be on the way out. Bad move, imho.

re: #173 MandyManners

Who's gonna' buff it?

He's got a sheepskin pillowcase. He self buffs in his sleep.

re: #160 Truck Monkey

Doesn't Basil play bass for Spinal Tap?

re: #159 Ojoe

The Center is sane at least.

But alas, I've heard rumors that the center cannot hold.

Thanks again for the beautiful views, Ojoe.

From Andrew Sullivan (who I won't link to anymore because he's such an asshole)...

[T]he green light has now been given to the basij to kick ass and take names. "The way of the law is open," [Khamenei] says. "If people continue to take the other way, I will come back and speak more directly." Qanun, qanun, qanun. Law, law, law. His emphasis on the need for law and order. By the end, uncharacteristically, the leader, gets hot. Interjections from the crowd interrupt him and he tells them to stop and listen. He talks about the U.S. and the West and how the U.S. wanted to launch a spurious velvet revolution in Georgia. He says that these "aqmaqha" -- idiots -- think that they can do the same in Iran.

And then he ends by weeping. He tells Iranians that he loves us more than we can know. Ten years ago, Khamenei wept publicly when students were protesting in the streets. That's when regime loyalists began to crack down. "Our vote is written in blood, and we gave it to the leader," the mosque crowd yells back.

Things do not look good. It is worse than it ever was.

re: #178 HelloDare

He's got a sheepskin pillowcase. He self buffs in his sleep.

Brain bleach! I need brain bleach NOW!

Gotta' go tuck The Kid into bed. It's the first time he's not done what is required for me to put clean sheets on his bed so, I'm conflicted to the max.

Oh, no. I'm not.

re: #163 albusteve

yes...here's more...check out his new CD

[Video]

albusteve ... I have that ... I downloaded it from itunes a couple of months ago when you posted a youtube of him ... it is great ...

Killgore, here's a nice takedown of Andrew Sullivan (first link): [Link: www.google.com...]

re: #181 Killgore Trout

From Andrew Sullivan (who I won't link to anymore because he's such an asshole)...

I know I risk Godwin's Law, but Khamenei's performance reminds me of footage I've seen of Adolf Hitler speaking. With the Basiji as the SA and the Pasadran as the SS.

re: #184 JacksonTn

albusteve ... I have that ... I downloaded it from itunes a couple of months ago when you posted a youtube of him ... it is great ...

thanks...I have a special thing for Buddy Guy

re: #172 jaunte

I still can't tell whether it's ignorance or intentional sabotage, but people at that level in our society should know more about the effects of disincentives on human activity. Maybe they don't care that fewer students will decide to become doctors in a government-run health care program; politicians' health care will be the last to dwindle in quality.

That's part of it. Buried in the bill is a provision that limits the tax deductibility of drug companies advertising costs (despite the promise that there would be no revenue raising provisions in a health care bill; another lie). If they hit drug companies hard enough, it could cause a dearth of new medicines (see Europe).

re: #188 albusteve

thanks...I have a special thing for Buddy Guy

*raises eyebrow*

Random thought for the LNDT:

"Soul Travel is for the bold and courageous in spirit. But remember, since one doesn't in fact travel anywhere, it's impossible to get lost."

I don't think this is what Shakespeare had in mind:

Indiana lawyer found asleep in trash can
Jun. 19, 2009 09:11 AM
Associated Press

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. - An Indiana lawyer who was found asleep headfirst in a neighbor's trash can after a night of drinking has apologized and says he's embarrassed.

No charges have been filed against Larry Wilder, who is the Jeffersonville City Council's attorney.

Wilder said he had dinner and drinks with friends in nearby Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday night. He said he was driven home in a client's limousine but remembers little that happened after that.

re: #192 FurryOldGuyJeans

I don't think this is what Shakespeare had in mind:

Indiana lawyer found asleep in trash can
Jun. 19, 2009 09:11 AM
Associated Press

I grew up in that city, when I read that today I was LMAO.

re: #190 Noam Sayin'

*raises eyebrow*

smack!

re: #97 HelloDare

Floral Giraffe - please check your dingage on this post. Could be an error?

re: #192 FurryOldGuyJeans

I don't think this is what Shakespeare had in mind:

Indiana lawyer found asleep in trash can
Jun. 19, 2009 09:11 AM
Associated Press

I had a coworker that spent the night in a row of bushes (not quite a hedge) four houses down from the party we both attended. He almost made it to his car, apparently. Woke up (as he told it) quite disoriented and cleared out before any notice was taken.

re: #192 FurryOldGuyJeans

I don't think this is what Shakespeare had in mind:

Indiana lawyer found asleep in trash can
Jun. 19, 2009 09:11 AM
Associated Press

I've heard of trashy lawyers, but that is ridiculous!

re: #181 Killgore Trout

And then he ends by weeping. He tells Iranians that he loves us more than we can know. Ten years ago, Khamenei wept publicly when students were protesting in the streets. That's when regime loyalists began to crack down. "Our vote is written in blood, and we gave it to the leader," the mosque crowd yells back.

Iranian strategy in all things is based on deception. But a Mullah crying crocodile tears on stage? Bwahaha.
He reminds me of the cowardly lion bawling after his bullying got him slapped by a girl.

re: #192 FurryOldGuyJeans

I have woken up lying on the lawn before, but never in a trash can.

The Case for Bombing Iran
Norman Podhoretz

... But listen to what Bernard Lewis, the greatest authority of our time on the Islamic world, has to say in this context on the subject of deterrence:

MAD, mutual assured destruction, [was effective] right through the cold war. Both sides had nuclear weapons. Neither side used them, because both sides knew the other would retaliate in kind. This will not work with a religious fanatic [like Ahmadinejad]. For him, mutual assured destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement. We know already that [Iran’s leaders] do not give a damn about killing their own people in great numbers. We have seen it again and again. In the final scenario, and this applies all the more strongly if they kill large numbers of their own people, they are doing them a favor. They are giving them a quick free pass to heaven and all its delights.

Nor are they inhibited by a love of country:

We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.

These were the words of the Ayatollah Khomeini, who ruled Iran from 1979 to 1989, and there is no reason to suppose that his disciple Ahmadinejad feels any differently.

Still less would deterrence work where Israel was concerned. For as the Ayatollah Rafsanjani (who is supposedly a “pragmatic conservative”) has declared:

If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession. . . application of an atomic bomb would not leave anything in Israel, but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world.

In other words, Israel would be destroyed in a nuclear exchange, but Iran would survive.

In spite of all this, we keep hearing that all would be well if only we agreed—in the currently fashionable lingo—to “engage” with Iran, and that even if the worst came to the worst we could—to revert to the same lingo—“live” with a nuclear Iran. It is when such things are being said that, alongside the resemblance between now and World War III, a parallel also becomes evident between now and the eve of World War II.

Meanwhile, Obama is worse than silent.

re: #199 mich-again

I have woken up lying on the lawn before, but never in a trash can.

From the sound of it, he was tossed in.

re: #173 MandyManners

Who's gonna' buff it?

Cher.

re: #202 Truck Monkey

Cher.

No, pony, he'll only like that.

/

Not Obama's bike...the tire is perfectly inflated.