I love NY. The whole state.

Very cool.

Boy, we sure messed up that pristine island.
/

That is way cool Charles.

re: #3 unrealizedviewpoint

Boy, we sure messed up that pristine island.
/

That's OK. I hear it didn't cost much.

Finally. Video of the first homeless squeegee guy.

Much of upstate NY actually still looks similar to those visualizations.

That's not the New York I knew...

I must admit as a native it was much more peaceful before Al Sharpton and his bullhorn showed up.

Here's an even more interesting analysis - and interactive maps. What most people think of Manhattan didn't even exist 400 years ago. The shoreline was hundreds or thousands of feet from where it is now. We've expanded the shore in ways large and small.

Most recently, that includes the Battery Park City along the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan. It was built upon the ground excavated in the course of the construction of the World Trade Center.

Manhattan is the most refabricated piece of real estate in America...a complete overhaul

..and so it will be again someday.

re: #12 lawhawk

Here's an even more interesting analysis - and interactive maps. What most people think of Manhattan didn't even exist 400 years ago. The shoreline was hundreds or thousands of feet from where it is now. We've expanded the shore in ways large and small.

Most recently, that includes the Battery Park City along the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan. It was built upon the ground excavated in the course of the construction of the World Trade Center.

Manhattan is in a constant state of erection, as it were...

re: #14 Killgore Trout

..and so it will be again someday.

Link?

/

re: #12 lawhawk

That map was really cool- thanks for sharing it.

re: #14 Killgore Trout

..and so it will be again someday.

the commie socialists will turn it back into a beaver pond...GREEN!

re: #3 unrealizedviewpoint

Boy, we sure messed up that pristine island.
/

Reminded me of the "clear cut" and "Spotted Owl" wars of the 80s over on the left coast.

Someone made a poster of this shot from space showing the small brown patches on the Olympic Peninsula that were the clear cut areas and then made reference to the far right of the picture - across Puget Sound and how it was done "right" on the Seattle side - Clearcut and Paved!

Image: olympic.gif

First upding at comment N°...?

re: #20 ryannon 4 and 12

I dated this fine young 'not too bright but right' thing, too long ago, who said "hmmm" when I asked her what the English must have thought of the Chesapeake Bay when they first crossed the bay bridge as we were going over it.

Shaddup and let me f*** ya.
/yeah, it's mean.

I wonder how many people really think it was "better" before we arrived.

Jerusalem was a jewish capital when Washington, d.c., London, & Paris were swamps.

re: #11 buzzsawmonkey

The Squeegeetonic Indians were native to Manhattan.

As were the Shamwowhawks.

There seem to be a number of "conservatives" enraged at me because I wouldn't allow bashing of Ted Kennedy on the day of his death, and I would like to take this opportunity to release a statement on this matter:

Bite me.

One thing I think is so kewl is that the expansion started almost immediately. Humans had the ability to extend the shoreline way back when.

Hey Lizards!

re: #27 ggt

The Dutch were masters of this, and likely brought it to New Amsterdam.

re: #23 The Curmudgeon

I wonder how many people really think it was "better" before we arrived.

I wonder how many people really think it was "better" after we arrived.

re: #26 Charles

I never upding the lizardly master - but that was too funny!

Another interesting fact about Manhattan. Some of the oldest parts of the island of Manhattan will be part of the newest - the excavations making up the 3d Water Tunnel, the 7 line extension and 2d Avenue Subway lines will all expose some of the oldest rocks under Manhattan - and will form the basis of the most modern infrastructure in the City.

re: #28 Sharmuta

The Dutch were masters of this, and likely brought it to New Amsterdam.

Dutch. Masters. hmmm, you might be on to something.

re: #26 Charles

There seem to be a number of "conservatives" enraged at me because I wouldn't allow bashing of Ted Kennedy on the day of his death, and I would like to take this opportunity to release a statement on this matter:

Bite me.

Me too...

re: #28 Sharmuta

The Dutch were masters of this, and likely brought it to New Amsterdam.

it's an incredible story really, and I can't find any links...the island has been totally remade...watersheds removed, lowlands filled, high spots taken down, shoreline radically changed...all that

re: #23 The Curmudgeon

I wonder how many people really think it was "better" before we arrived.

That is how they expect us to leave it.

re: #12 lawhawk

Here's an even more interesting analysis - and interactive maps. What most people think of Manhattan didn't even exist 400 years ago. The shoreline was hundreds or thousands of feet from where it is now. We've expanded the shore in ways large and small.

Most recently, that includes the Battery Park City along the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan. It was built upon the ground excavated in the course of the construction of the World Trade Center.

PROBLEM with land fill is if you have a earthquake is that it almost turns into a liquid as is what happened in the parts of San Fran that were made out of land fill. the biggist Earthquake in America was the one that hit new madrid fault. so when it happens again Chicagostan might have some problems because much of the lake front is also built on landfill.

re: #31 lawhawk

Another interesting fact about Manhattan. Some of the oldest parts of the island of Manhattan will be part of the newest - the excavations making up the 3d Water Tunnel, the 7 line extension and 2d Avenue Subway lines will all expose some of the oldest rocks under Manhattan - and will form the basis of the most modern infrastructure in the City.

The city under the city.

I saw some show a while back in which archaeologists were digging in Manhattan. Anything in America seems so relatively (to things in Egypt) new to me, I couldn't imagine why they were digging. What they found in the old landfills that make-up much of what is under Manhattan was fascinating.

What would Hudson think if he came forward in time? Would he go back in time and give it back to the natives? Or, would he marvel at man's mastery?

re: #26 Charles

I don't speak ill of the dead so if I can't say something positive it is best to say nothing.

re: #39 buzzsawmonkey

You mean Washington isn't a swamp?

Excellent observation.

re: #39 buzzsawmonkey

the state dept sill is a swamp.

re: #26 Charles

There seem to be a number of "conservatives" enraged at me because I wouldn't allow bashing of Ted Kennedy on the day of his death, and I would like to take this opportunity to release a statement on this matter:

Bite me.

Dislike the man. No Problem
Hate his policies. No Problem
Disrespect the man in death. BIG Problem

He had his beliefs on what he thought was right for this country. I did not agree with them. This does not make me glad he died.

RIP. Teddy.

re: #42 buzzsawmonkey

Good sleepies to all.

Don't let the bugs bite.

re: #26 Charles

There seem to be a number of "conservatives" enraged at me because I wouldn't allow bashing of Ted Kennedy on the day of his death, and I would like to take this opportunity to release a statement on this matter:

Bite me.

People can be assholes no matter which way they swing politically.

re: #40 MandyManners

What would Hudson think if he came forward in time? Would he go back in time and give it back to the natives? Or, would he marvel at man's mastery?

Are you talking dirty again?

You would never believe you were in NYC:

[Link: www.forgotten-ny.com...]

re: #39 buzzsawmonkey

You mean Washington isn't a swamp?

The then and now picture of DC would look the same, stagnant water, pond scum, swamp gas...

re: #42 buzzsawmonkey

Good sleepies to all.

Nighty-night! Don't let the bed bugs bite!

re: #47 MandyManners

People can be assholes no matter which way they swing politically.

You mean dicks don't you?

*ducks*

re: #48 JamesTKirk

Are you talking dirty again?

*face-palm*

re: #40 MandyManners

What would Hudson think if he came forward in time? Would he go back in time and give it back to the natives? Or, would he marvel at man's mastery?

I have to believe those brave explorers would marvel at our mastery.

re: #52 jcm

You mean dicks don't you?

*ducks*

*face-palm*

See, we had change before Obama.

re: #55 MandyManners

*face-palm*

ROFLMAO!

re: #54 Bobblehead

I have to believe those brave explorers would marvel at our mastery.

Put them down in Times Square during Dinkins' tenure.

re: #56 DEZes

See, we had change before Obama.

Heresy!

re: #54 Bobblehead

I have to believe those brave explorers would marvel at our mastery.

I think they would be frightened and confused- like Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.

re: #39 buzzsawmonkey

You mean Washington isn't a swamp?

Actually... it's now a swimming pool of corruption... they graduated from swamp under the current Administration.

re: #50 jcm

The then and now picture of DC would look the same, stagnant water, pond scum, swamp gas...

Two-legged vermin.

re: #46 Bobblehead

Don't let the bugs bite.

ACK!

Wait, where are the dinosaurs?

;)

I thought I saw Bernie Madoff skulking there collecting beads and wampum from the Indians...
/

re: #53 MandyManners

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

I know how angry and cheated I feel when terrible things are said about conservative leaders I look up to pass on. I certainly don't want to provide for anyone that same feeling regardless their ideology. Let's not forget:

“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” ---Eugene Ionesco

re: #59 Bobblehead

Heresy!

I hate it when that happens.

re: #54 Bobblehead

I have to believe those brave explorers would marvel at our mastery.

Put him at the top of the WTC before 9-11. Or, at Macy's any day.

re: #56 DEZes

Hey DEZes, do you have a FB account. If you do shoot me an email and I will send you my details to add as a friend. My nic is blue.

re: #56 DEZes

See, we had change before Obama.

Obama bowel movement.

Hope Floats.

re: #65 LGoPs

I thought I saw Bernie Madoff skulking there collecting beads and wampum from the Indians...
/

A totem scheme?

re: #36 yochanan

The San Francisco landfill started during the Gold Rush, when ships were abandoned as soon as they docked at the harbor, and left to rot. Every time they dig around the area east of Montgomery Street, they unearth old timbers and refuse from the mid-19th century.

Of course, since I work in a highrise office right in the middle of the landfill zone, I'm not exactly looking forward to the next Big One...

re: #72 MandyManners

A totem scheme?

Okay. That's from across the continent. But, still.

re: #64 wiffersnapper

Wait, where are the dinosaurs?

;)

In the park, Jurassic park that is, take your furs off, stay awhile, you all come back now. ya hear.

That's pretty freakin' cool.

re: #58 MandyManners

Put them down in Times Square during Dinkins' tenure.

Ah...The good old days of my wasted youth:

re: #71 SasquatchOnSteroids

Obama bowel movement.

Hope Floats.

Then why do I have this sinking feeling?
///

re: #54 Bobblehead

I have to believe those brave explorers would marvel at our mastery.

When they see that we've walked on the moon they would marvel. When they see images beamed back from Mars and that we've satellites to orbit Jupiter and other planets, and the images from Hubble, I think they would wet themselves.

re: #70 Erik The Red

Hey DEZes, do you have a FB account. If you do shoot me an email and I will send you my details to add as a friend. My nic is blue.

Same for you SasquatchOnSteroids and Cal23 if you are still around.

re: #78 DEZes

Then why do I have this sinking feeling?
///

Because it's all being flushed away.

Even at the time of the Revolution, New York city didn't extend much beyond Wall Street. Haarlem (as it was still spelled) was a village up north aways. And the Bowery was just that -- a farm (that's what the Dutch word means).

During the Revolution Washington fought a running battle through the woods, farms, and swamps of Manhattan Island. Hard to believe that nowadays.

for me, not saying derogatory things about the deceased is proprietary on the forum...this is a public forum and courtesy should prevail, let alone the owner has to ask people to be civil...that alone is reason enough to cool it...there is no problem here that I see

re: #66 JamesTKirk

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

I left a note for you.

re: #65 LGoPs

I thought I saw Bernie Madoff skulking there collecting beads and wampum from the Indians...
/

Not far wrong...

The name Manhattan ("hilly island" or possibly "place of intoxication") is from the Algonquian languages of the earliest known inhabitants of the area. Legend has it that the island was purchased from the natives for $24 in beads and other such trinkets. Explorers however, paid the wrong tribe, who were glad to accept money for an island that wasn't even theirs.

re: #70 Erik The Red

Hey DEZes, do you have a FB account. If you do shoot me an email and I will send you my details to add as a friend. My nic is blue.

FB?
Fat Bastard?

I wonder if someone's going to do a similar animation for pre-Cabrillo Los Angeles. That might have even more amazing contrasts.

re: #80 Erik The Red

I don't do the FB thingie, but can I e-mail ya ?

re: #64 wiffersnapper

Wait, where are the dinosaurs?

;)

Ben Franklin's ancestors are tending them in the Olde World.

re: #81 SasquatchOnSteroids

Because it's all being flushed away.

Just my luck, my lifeboat is a turd.

Just got home from Oldest Boy's football practice. The sound of clashing shoulder pads -- sounds like Fall is finally on it's way.

He's playing nose tackle this year.

re: #85 jcm

Or as I often put it, "New York originated with a scam."

re: #91 Lucius Septimius

Just got home from Oldest Boy's football practice. The sound of clashing shoulder pads -- sounds like Fall is finally on it's way.

He's playing nose tackle this year.

The Fall of the Mighty!

re: #91 Lucius Septimius

Just got home from Oldest Boy's football practice. The sound of clashing shoulder pads -- sounds like Fall is finally on it's way.

He's playing nose tackle this year.

Nose tackle?
what the bugger is that?

re: #86 DEZes

FB?
Fat Bastard?

ROTFLMAO. FaceBook.

re: #91 Lucius Septimius

Just got home from Oldest Boy's football practice. The sound of clashing shoulder pads -- sounds like Fall is finally on it's way.

He's playing nose tackle this year.

YES!
high school football rules dood...
I went through all of it...enjoy!

re: #84 MandyManners

I left a note for you.

Thank you. :)

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

199, 200, 206, 207

re: #85 jcm

who were glad to accept money for an island that wasn't even theirs.

Thus was born the Democrat party.

re: #88 SasquatchOnSteroids

I don't do the FB thingie, but can I e-mail ya ?

That would be great.

re: #60 Sharmuta

I think they would be frightened and confused- like Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.

Perhaps until they got their bearings. Obviously they had imagination and vision or they wouldn't have gone exploring. I think it would be much harder for a 21st century man or woman to be plunked down in 17th century Europe.

re: #94 DEZes

Nose tackle?
what the bugger is that?

Center of the defensive line.

A while back he figured out that if you play offense, people hit you. If you play defense, you get to hit them.

re: #95 Erik The Red

ROTFLMAO. FaceBook.

I have no facebook account, but my nic is blue, grab mt email addy.

re: #77 ted

Ah...The good old days of my wasted youth:

Youtube Video

There is an article in a recent issue of Vanity Fair about the longings for those days.

re: #91 Lucius Septimius

Just got home from Oldest Boy's football practice. The sound of clashing shoulder pads -- sounds like Fall is finally on it's way.

He's playing nose tackle this year.

Must be a big'n.

A few years after I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our small Texas town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on.

As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special niche. My parents were complementary instructors: Mom taught me good from evil, and Dad taught me to obey. But the stranger...he was our storyteller. He would keep us spellbound for hours on end with adventures, mysteries and comedies.
If I wanted to know anything about politics, history or science, he always knew the answers about the past, understood the present and even seemed able to predict the future! He took my family to the first major league ball game. He made me laugh, and he made me cry. The stranger never stopped talking, but Dad didn't seem to mind.

Sometimes, Mom would get up quietly while the rest of us were shushing each other to listen to what he had to say, and she would go to the kitchen for peace and quiet. (I wonder now if she ever prayed for the stranger to leave.)

Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions, but the stranger never felt obligated to honor them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our home... Not from us, our friends or any visitors. Our longtime visitor, however, got away with four-letter words that burned my ears and made my dad squirm and my mother blush. My Dad didn't permit the liberal use of alcohol. But the stranger encouraged us to try it on a regular basis. He made cigarettes look cool, cigars manly and pipes distinguished.
He talked freely (much too freely!) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing.

I now know that my early concepts about relationships were influenced strongly by the stranger. Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom rebuked... And NEVER asked to leave.

More than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family. He has blended right in and is not nearly as fascinating as he was at first. Still, if you could walk into my parents' den today, you would still find him sitting over in his corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures.

His name?... .. .

We just call him 'TV.'

_{(Note: This should be required reading for every household!)
He has a wife now...We call her 'Computer.'
Their first child is "Cell Phone".
Second child "I Pod "}

re: #100 Bobblehead

Perhaps until they got their bearings. Obviously they had imagination and vision or they wouldn't have gone exploring. I think it would be much harder for a 21st century man or woman to be plunked down in 17th century Europe.

Hell we have people 'round here get lost in woods with a GPS just a few miles from a freeway...

God invented football...He must have...
then television...there is a larger plan

re: #103 MandyManners

There is an article in a recent issue of Vanity Fair about the longings for those days.

Thx Mandy...I'll check it out.

re: #104 SasquatchOnSteroids

Must be a big'n.

No, not at all. But he's scrappy and knows how to block and how to open holes.

re: #107 albusteve

God invented football...He must have...
then television...there is a larger plan

And beer -- don't forget beer ...

re: #99 Erik The Red

Cool, I'll get to it after comp finishes its work.

re: #110 Lucius Septimius

And beer -- don't forget beer ...

Don't forget the chips and dips.

re: #112 Erik The Red

Don't forget the chips and dips.

And on the sixth day ... the remote.

That moose in Times Square looked a little horny...

Simple Analogy

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.

That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.

The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

It could not be any simpler than that.

re: #97 JamesTKirk

Thank you. :)

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

199, 200, 206, 207

I'll read it when I can. My mom just dropped off The Kid from church and I gotta' tend to him.

BBIAB

re: #26 Charles

There seem to be a number of "conservatives" enraged at me because I wouldn't allow bashing of Ted Kennedy on the day of his death, and I would like to take this opportunity to release a statement on this matter:

Bite me.

I can wait. To bash Kennedy, I mean, not to bite you. Dang, that didn't come out right.

I just realized that with my nic blue, it matches something else I have.

Hey everyone, how are you all doing tonight??

God has his shit together...eh?
thanks Big Guy

What, no hot dog vendors?

Cool video. I get it. Bulldoze the city and turn it all into a national park.

We can relocate the folks to Sioux City Iowa.

re: #114 garycooper

That moose in Times Square looked a little horny...

He took in one of the shows, I gather.

re: #118 DEZes

I just realized that with my nic blue, it matches something else I have.

Um...

re: #121 Mich-again

What, no hot dog vendors?

Pemmican.

re: #122 The Shadow Do

It didn't look bulldozed to me.

re: #118 DEZes

I just realized that with my nic blue, it matches something else I have.

Been busy?

re: #124 Sharmuta

Um...

Best not to ask; you really don't want to know.

re: #128 Lucius Septimius

That's what I'm thinking.

re: #128 Lucius Septimius

Best not to ask; you really don't want to know.

Exactly. ;)

re: #122 The Shadow Do

Cool video. I get it. Bulldoze the city and turn it all into a national park.

We can relocate the folks to Sioux City Iowa.

is there a BB King's in Sioux City?

hi everyone I am a friend of CapeCoddah.

Folks, I have a newbie with me. A friend came to visit last week, and saw me posting on here. She liked it, and caught an open reg a few days ago. She has never blogged before, so is truly a newbie. Turtle and I have been friends since 4th grade. Please welcome her, she asked me to introduce her. She is my oldest and dearest friend in the world!

re: #132 BostonTurtle

hi everyone I am a friend of CapeCoddah.

Very nice meeting you..Welcome

re: #132 BostonTurtle

hi everyone I am a friend of CapeCoddah.

Greeting Turtle. Welcome aboard.

re: #132 BostonTurtle

hi everyone I am a friend of CapeCoddah.

Welcome

re: #130 DEZes

Exactly. ;)

I think they have creams for that.

"see Wall St. Drug!"

re: #132 BostonTurtle

hi everyone I am a friend of CapeCoddah.

Welcome!

Clean up your shells, then it's your turn behind the bar to set up a round.

Let me guess, you're from Boston? ;-)

re: #138 albusteve

"see Wall St. Drug!"

Free Ice Water!!!

We are having an LGF lesson by IM, on the side!

re: #137 Lucius Septimius

I think they have creams for that.

Now you tell me. ;)

re: #118 DEZes

I just realized that with my nic blue, it matches something else I have.

I am scared to even ask what. :)

thanks for introducing me CapeCoddah...

re: #133 CapeCoddah

I like Turtles

re: #132 BostonTurtle

Hey Boston Turtle! where you from?

re: #143 Erik The Red

I am scared to even ask what. :)

My van.

re: #26 Charles

There seem to be a number of "conservatives" enraged at me because I wouldn't allow bashing of Ted Kennedy on the day of his death, and I would like to take this opportunity to release a statement on this matter:

Bite me.

I heartily endorse your message, Mr. Johnson.

/"Brilliant!"

re: #146 Danny

Hey Boston Turtle! where you from?

Probably Texas...LOL

re: #144 BostonTurtle

thanks for introducing me CapeCoddah...

Anytime, BT

re: #146 Danny

Hey Boston Turtle! where you from?

Albuquerque?

re: #132 BostonTurtle

hi everyone I am a friend of CapeCoddah.

Welcome.
Visiting Boston tomorrow--another business trip.

re: #149 HoosierHoops

Probably Texas...LOL

Damned, your good, HH

re: #12 lawhawk

Here's an even more interesting analysis - and interactive maps. What most people think of Manhattan didn't even exist 400 years ago. The shoreline was hundreds or thousands of feet from where it is now. We've expanded the shore in ways large and small.

Most recently, that includes the Battery Park City along the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan. It was built upon the ground excavated in the course of the construction of the World Trade Center.

There is a great old bar (established 1817) called the EAR Inn (the neon of the B in the word BAR burnt out decades ago and let it looking like an E) that has a a sign that marks where the shoreline was in 1820. The old docks were literally right outside from it.
It's in way west Soho, we'd go there after work and have a pint or 3.
Now the rivers edge is over a block away.
It's pretty fascinating to think of the changes taken place.

[Link: earinn.com...]

I am from Boston actually 5 miles north of Boston. I used to live near CapeCoddah.

re: #132 BostonTurtle

hi everyone I am a friend of CapeCoddah.

Welcome to LGF!

re: #140 Lucius Septimius

Free Ice Water!!!

'free souvenir $20 bills!'

re: #133 CapeCoddah

Folks, I have a newbie with me. A friend came to visit last week, and saw me posting on here. She liked it, and caught an open reg a few days ago. She has never blogged before, so is truly a newbie. Turtle and I have been friends since 4th grade. Please welcome her, she asked me to introduce her. She is my oldest and dearest friend in the world!

Welcome Turtle. Don't be shy. We don't bite. subsup

re: #155 BostonTurtle

You're not near Winchester are you?

re: #82 Lucius Septimius

Even at the time of the Revolution, New York city didn't extend much beyond Wall Street. Haarlem (as it was still spelled) was a village up north aways. And the Bowery was just that -- a farm (that's what the Dutch word means).

During the Revolution Washington fought a running battle through the woods, farms, and swamps of Manhattan Island. Hard to believe that nowadays.

I reading the biography of Vanderbilt, I was amazed at the necessity for boats. We don't think of it today, but the only thing that really kept NY from growing was transportation. Vanderbilt addressed that.

Same with the Mississippi. Lots of formerly grand towns are nothing now. I am humbled when I realize how much people depended on the water for travel. I think of it as a barrier--needing to be bridged.

re: #155 BostonTurtle

I am from Boston actually 5 miles north of Boston. I used to live near CapeCoddah.

Nice to have you here. I'm from Los Angeles...

re: #151 jcm

Albuquerque?

what?...make a wrong turn?

re: #158 Erik The Red

Welcome Turtle. Don't be shy. We don't bite. subsup

What if we are dealing with a snapping turtle?

re: #131 albusteve

is there a BB King's in Sioux City?

Steve, Steve, Steve...there ain't shit in Sioux City sad to say.

But there could be!

I am from Malden just south of Winchester, Melrose , and Saugus

re: #165 BostonTurtle

Cool! My wife's uncle lives in Winchester. Very nice up that way.

re: #165 BostonTurtle

I am from Malden just south of Winchester, Melrose , and Saugus

Welcome to the nut house.

re: #164 The Shadow Do

Steve, Steve, Steve...there ain't shit in Sioux City sad to say.

But there could be!

There's the stench...

Don't worry I am not a snapping kind. More of a gentle kind!

re: #163 DEZes

You have mail. :)

re: #162 albusteve

what?...make a wrong turn?

re: #132 BostonTurtle

hi everyone I am a friend of CapeCoddah.

Welcome BostonTurtle. btw, why did you chose your nic?

btw (mean by the way)

/ means you are being sarcastic.

And the + sign gives karma to the one you want to give it to. hint hint. :)

re: #164 The Shadow Do

Steve, Steve, Steve...there ain't shit in Sioux City sad to say.

But there could be!

LIVE! from the HEARTLAND!
calling my broker as we speak

Video: Beck interviews Limbaugh on the threat to free speech

Exit question: Is Beck serious here when he talks about the White House using some sort of disaster as a pretext to impose emergency rule? We’re only seven months into The One’s term and already he’s right at the brink of Reichstag Fire scenarios?

Palin, Beck Limbaugh, Ron Paul and Alex Jones have unified into a juggernaut of stupidity.

re: #170 Erik The Red

You have mail. :)

Probably another bill..
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re: #169 BostonTurtle

Don't worry I am not a snapping kind. More of a gentle kind!

Turtle,
You need an avatar. All the cool lizards have one.

re: #132 BostonTurtle

Welcome, BostonTurtle!

re: #172 midwestgak

Welcome BostonTurtle. btw, why did you chose your nic?

btw (mean by the way)

/ means you are being sarcastic.

And the + sign gives karma to the one you want to give it to. hint hint. :)

That is just plain shameless sucking up!!

re: #132 BostonTurtle

hi everyone I am a friend of CapeCoddah.

That's so much lovelier than some entrances we see.
You will know what I mean later on.

Welcome !

re: #26 Charles

Bite me.

Careful Charles, I know a few conservatives who would...

re: #172 midwestgak

Welcome BostonTurtle. btw, why did you chose your nic?

btw (mean by the way)

/ means you are being sarcastic.

And the + sign gives karma to the one you want to give it to. hint hint. :)

You are shameless...LOL
:)

I love the animal turtles because they are naturally shy and have a protective shell.

The Mannahatta Project

Explore

Click on explore to view different information on Manhattan from 1609.

re: #172 midwestgak

And the + sign gives karma to the one you want to give it to. hint hint. :)

beggar
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re: #169 BostonTurtle

Don't worry I am not a snapping kind. More of a gentle kind!

The Turtle Stack always need more turtles!

re: #174 Killgore Trout

"They're building an army!"

re: #176 Bobblehead

Turtle,
You need an avatar. All the cool lizards have one.

LOL,, my avatar is a pic Turtle sent me... I just changed the wording a bit

re: #160 ggt

The single biggest change was the Brooklyn Bridge... linking the outer boroughs... and it brought about the urbanization of the City.

re: #182 BostonTurtle

Hey BT, do they allow fising in the Mystic Lakes?

re: #167 DEZes

Welcome to the nut house.

Speak for yourself!
;)

re: #178 CapeCoddah

That is just plain shameless sucking up!!

Karma hoing, tis shameless.

re: #171 jcm

Albuqoirkee...what a friggin wabbit...get out!

re: #149 HoosierHoops

Probably Texas...LOL

LOL {Hoosier} LOL

re: #186 Killgore Trout

"They'll seize power overnight!"

re: #168 Sharmuta

There's the stench...

That ain't shit your smellin', it's the slaughterhouses!

I did business there once upon a time. I witnessed a worker whose job it was to slam pigs heads on spikes on a conveyor. Interesting career!

re: #182 BostonTurtle

I love the animal turtles because they are naturally shy and have a protective shell.

I like the video game.:) Man I wish I could find that game with today's graphics.

I just found out Bob Dylan is going to do a voiceover program for my GPS unit.

"Why, yes, I believe it can be easily done -
Just turn right down on Highway 61..."

re: #182 BostonTurtle

I love the animal turtles because they are naturally shy and have a protective shell.

Welcome.

re: #190 Floral Giraffe

Speak for yourself!
;)

Is my drool showing again?

yes i need a avatar...! How do I get one?

I wish Magellan could see Google Earth.

re: #200 BostonTurtle

yes i need a avatar...! How do I get one?

Someone else will be much better at that explanation than me...

re: #188 lawhawk

The single biggest change was the Brooklyn Bridge... linking the outer boroughs... and it brought about the urbanization of the City.

I've walked across'd it a coupla times...tres kool

Neat video-- maybe NG should make a TV special

re: #169 BostonTurtle

Don't worry I am not a snapping kind. More of a gentle kind!

Don't be shy..You got introduced to blogging by a highly respected Blogger..
One night I was watching Blog wars 2 on the Sun Dance movie channel..
My very first post was at firedoglake.. I lost my blogging cherry to Jane...
My path over here was like a ping pong game...I knew where I wanted to go..Just didn't know how to get there...Don't let anybody give you no shit..Be true to yourself

re: #200 BostonTurtle

yes i need a avatar...! How do I get one?

20 bucks, and I sell em cheaper than anyone else.
Just kidding.

re: #199 DEZes

Oops, I thought the foam was from your beer. My bad ;)

re: #197 Cato the Elder

I just found out Bob Dylan is going to do a voiceover program for my GPS unit.

"Why, yes, I believe it can be easily done -
Just turn right down on Highway 61..."

If you make a wrong turn you will hear "it's all over now, baby blue.."

re: #3 unrealizedviewpoint

Yup, "WE" messed it up. IF "WE" hadn't - it would have been the North American analogue of NORTH KOREA - Pray Tell - what would YOU rather?
That is all.

-S-

re: #207 Floral Giraffe

Oops, I thought the foam was from your beer. My bad ;)

I may be rabid.

I have no idea Danny, if they allowed fishing or not.

re: #200 BostonTurtle

Go to front page, click on "My Account" and log in. You can add an icon there.

re: #174 Killgore Trout

Unbelievable. They really want me to think FEMA camps are coming.

re: #165 BostonTurtle
We have a lizard "sattTV" who grew up in that area. I am in TX now but originally from near Suffolk Downs. Welcome.

re: #208 The Shadow Do

If you make a wrong turn you will hear "it's all over now, baby blue.."

And when you get to your destination, it'll be "spend your time sleeping in on Desolation Row"!

LOL

re: #64 wiffersnapper

Wait, where are the dinosaurs?

;)

Across the river, in NJ.

re: #179 SasquatchOnSteroids

That's so much lovelier than some entrances we see.
You will know what I mean later on.

Welcome !

Yeah, I seem to recall your entrance was pretty abominable...Yeti have trouble recalling the details now...
:)

re: #186 Killgore Trout

"They're building an army!"

They're going to come and git yeh!

re: #178 CapeCoddah

That is just plain shameless sucking up!!

Just giving the turtle newbie a little extra skin. hee

Very cool Towercam sunset. Very long shadows, smoke from fires, shadows on a dome. It will change quickly.

re: #204 orfannkyl

Neat video-- maybe NG should make a TV special

What is up with "Life after People" and such like? Something kind of sick about fantasizing the demise of the human race, especilly when it is presented as such a pretty thing - witness video above.

re: #218 LGoPs

Yeah, I seem to recall your entrance was pretty abominable...Yeti have trouble recalling the details now...
:)

You had to go put your big foot in your mouth again didn't you.

re: #212 Danny

Go to front page, click on "My Account" and log in. You can add an icon there.

You can also get to your account by clicking the football by your name on your last post. Login to your account and you can browse for an icon (avatar)

re: #220 midwestgak

Just giving the turtle newbie a little extra skin. hee

lol

Good evening.
Feds: Stimulus money sent to 4,000 cons

One day after the Herald reported some surprised Bay State inmates - including murderers and rapists - were cashing in $250 stimulus checks, federal officials revealed the same behind-bars bonus was mailed to nearly 4,000 cons nationwide.

A federal watchdog is now probing how the cons were cut the checks. The same cash also may have been sent to fugitive felons, people kicked out of the country and even individuals now deceased.

Just project this same performance onto your health care.

re: #224 CommonCents

You can also get to your account by clicking the football by your name on your last post. Login to your account and you can browse for an icon (avatar)

Even better!

re: #222 The Shadow Do

Quite an affront to the Creator to have such a pissy view of human beings if you ask me.

Not that we are all perfect.

re: #221 Ojoe

Very cool Towercam sunset. Very long shadows, smoke from fires, shadows on a dome. It will change quickly.

Very eerie.

A lawyer boarded an airplane in New Orleans with a box of frozen crabs and asked a blonde stewardess to take care of them for him. She took the box and promised to put it in the crew's refrigerator. He advised her that he was holding her personally responsible for them staying frozen, mentioning in a very haughty manner that he was a lawyer, and proceeded to rant at her about what would happen if she let them thaw out. Needless to say, she was annoyed by his behaviour.

Shortly before landing in New York , she used the intercom to announce
to the entire cabin, "Would the gentleman who gave me the crabs in New Orleans , please raise your hand?"

Not one hand went up ... so she took them home and ate them.

Two lessons here:
1. Lawyers aren't as smart as they think they are.
2. Blondes aren't as dumb as most folks think.

re: #223 DEZes

You had to go put your big foot in your mouth again didn't you.

you folks yipped for a long time about wanting a "Sasquatch" was it for those horrid puns??

re: #222 The Shadow Do

What is up with "Life after People" and such like? Something kind of sick about fantasizing the demise of the human race, especilly when it is presented as such a pretty thing - witness video above.

defiance of the Green Revolt...you will be eating trapped sparrows until you starve to death

re: #215 Cato the Elder

And when you get to your destination, it'll be "spend your time sleeping in on Desolation Row"!

LOL

Just don't ask for diredtions...
That would be just like a woman!

re: #226 3 wood

3W, you seem to be on top of the economics. What do you make of the latest durable goods report with the big jump? Is that due to the bloated auto sales from the clunkers program so it's actually a fictional reading or is it legit?

Later lizards

Rush is calling the Obama administration totalitarians on beck's tv show.

Un-fucking-believable.

re: #230 Erik The Red

A lawyer boarded an airplane in New Orleans with a box of frozen crabs and asked a blonde stewardess to take care of them for him. She took the box and promised to put it in the crew's refrigerator. He advised her that he was holding her personally responsible for them staying frozen, mentioning in a very haughty manner that he was a lawyer, and proceeded to rant at her about what would happen if she let them thaw out. Needless to say, she was annoyed by his behaviour.

Shortly before landing in New York , she used the intercom to announce
to the entire cabin, "Would the gentleman who gave me the crabs in New Orleans , please raise your hand?"

Not one hand went up ... so she took them home and ate them.

Two lessons here:
1. Lawyers aren't as smart as they think they are.
2. Blondes aren't as dumb as most folks think.

Roflmao!!

re: #218 LGoPs

Yeah, I seem to recall your entrance was pretty abominable...Yeti have trouble recalling the details now...
:)

Crap, damn that alkayhawl.
Sorry about that.

re: #221 Ojoe

Very nice.

I came over that route with my bro Jerome one evening just before sunset and then headed into the lights of LA to the Kodak for a Bryan Ferry concert. With the inimitable Martina Sorbara, who builds her own guitars, singing her 9/11 song "Cherry Road" to open. November 2002.

I wish Galileo could see Hubble.

re: #229 Bobblehead

Very.

re: #217 Unakite

Across the river, in NJ.

Sorry, no dinos here. They've all evolved into refineries (at least in North Jersey).

If our current administration keeps its current attitude towards terrorists, osama's pals will do their best to make new york look barren once again.

re: #210 DEZes

Nah, you're not rabid.
{DEZes}

Japanese, Koreans gain most from cash for clunkers

Japanese and South Korean automakers registered the biggest market share gains in the U.S. government's "cash for clunkers" program that ended this week with bankruptcy related inventory shortages hurting General Motors Co GM.UL and Chrysler.

Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) Honda Motor Co Ltd (7267.T), Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T), Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) capitalized on the program's goal of pushing consumers away from gas guzzling sport utilities and pickups, to more efficient cars and trucks, preliminary sales figures showed on Wednesday.

Overseas manufacturers dominate in car sales, while U.S. companies have been stronger in the light truck segment. Cars outsold trucks 2-1 under the "clunker" initiative.

I'm sure they are very appreciative of the gifts from the current US taxpayers,our children, and our grandchildren.

re: #241 Ojoe

Very.

It needs a soundtrack from an old horror movie.

re: #222 The Shadow Do

What is up with "Life after People" and such like? Something kind of sick about fantasizing the demise of the human race, especilly when it is presented as such a pretty thing - witness video above.

That's not what this video is about. It's really about what Manhattan was like "before people." You might want to listen to Dr. Eric W. Sanderson who is responsible for this project here:

[Link: themannahattaproject.org...]

It's about the original ecology, science, and even history.

re: #233 The Shadow Do

Just don't ask for diredtions...
That would be just like a woman!

And when you hit the "home" button, he'll croon songs from "Bringin' It All Back Home" while the computer calculates your route...

re: #244 Floral Giraffe

Nah, you're not rabid.
{DEZes}

Then I had better cancel my vet. appointment.

re: #240 Tarkus289

I wish Galileo could see Hubble.

The Deep Field.
Would lose it.

re: #239 Cato the Elder
Geez Cato, first St Francis and now Brian Ferry! Are you interesting or what? lol I thought you were all S.P. all the time.

re: #249 DEZes

Then I had better cancel my vet. appointment.

That appt has nothing to do with being rabid.

re: #240 Tarkus289

One of Galileo's telescopes. It is maybe 40 inches long.

re: #234 CommonCents

3W, you seem to be on top of the economics. What do you make of the latest durable goods report with the big jump? Is that due to the bloated auto sales from the clunkers program so it's actually a fictional reading or is it legit?

Combination effect of the clunkers program plus durables goods inventories were run way low. Businesses cleaned out their storage and lived on that for a while,now are starting to re-order some of it back.

Do not interpret this as the economy "turning around" yet.

You need to see a growth of GDP and increasing employment for that to be the case.

re: #213 Sharmuta

Unbelievable. They really want me to think FEMA camps are coming.

They also laid the groundwork for an inside job terrorist attack to frame the right wing lunatics and seize power permanently.
Beck and Limbaugh know that something is bound to happen and they're already deflecting blame and inventing conspiracies to cover for it.

re: #247 Gus 802

That's not what this video is about. It's really about what Manhattan was like "before people." You might want to listen to Dr. Eric W. Sanderson who is responsible for this project here:

[Link: themannahattaproject.org...]

It's about the original ecology, science, and even history.

Pointless exercise

ok i got the idea...now will do the atavar.

re: #254 3 wood

Combination effect of the clunkers program plus durables goods inventories were run way low. Businesses cleaned out their storage and lived on that for a while,now are starting to re-order some of it back.

Do not interpret this as the economy "turning around" yet.

You need to see a growth of GDP and increasing employment for that to be the case.

As I expected. That would explain the huge 0.04% jump on the DOW with that impressive release today.
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re: #258 BostonTurtle

ok i got the idea...now will do the atavar.

cool, IM me if you need help

re: #231 CapeCoddah

you folks yipped for a long time about wanting a "Sasquatch" was it for those horrid puns??

these puns are abominable, like the snow man.

re: #252 SasquatchOnSteroids

That appt has nothing to do with being rabid.

Zing! That hurt...