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Jim White "Handcuffed To A Fence In Mississippi" I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi. My girlfriend blows a boozy good-bye kiss. I see flying squirrels and nightmares of stigmata. Then awakening to find my Trans-Am gone. Still, I'm feeling pretty good about the future. Yeah, everything is peaches but the cream. I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi, where things is always better than they seem. Things is always better than they seem. I see the guitar that my cousin played in prison, floating with the tv in the swimming pool. I'm calling for the owner of the motel, then noticing the bloodstain on the door. I'm reaching for the shoes under the bushes, just in time to hear the sirens sing. I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi, where things is always better than they seem. Things is always better than they seem. You know freedom's just a stupid superstition, 'cause life's a highway that you travel blind. It's true that having fun's a terminal addiction. What good is happiness, when it's just a state of mind? For in the prison of perpetual emotion, we're all shackled to the millstone of our dreams. Me, I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi, where things is always better than they seem. Things are always better than they seem.

Duude!

I dunno about avalanches, but a coworker's friend just took a snowmobile off a 60+ foot cliff near Cle Elum to his death, so we'll already too late for the snowmobile thinning of the herd pool.

How did the dead baby cross the road? It was stapled to the chicken.

My favorite was the calendar rating system for diners, and the description of the all you can eat at Swamp Guinea's.

I must be damn near perfect... Your weight is: 155 pounds Your sex is: Male Your Body Fat percentage is: 12 Your Lean Body Mass is: 136 pounds Your 'Ideal' weight is: 157 pounds Your activity factor is: 0.83 Your recommend blocks per day are: 17 (127 grams of protein)

don't worry - the Republicans can perform vehicular manslaughter and deny responsibility just like the Dems, except at least Janklow had to serve a trivial amount of jail time.

Sunday was good, a bit windy in the AM, but generally fine. Fought the early-season legs all day and had a grand time out. Everyone was twitchy to get in the snow, for sure.

Gettin' prepped to scrape snow off the rocks at Baker...

All you should ever buy your woman is oven mitts and an apron.

A blonde walks into a bar and orders up 15 shots of whiskey. The bartender serves her, and soon enough, she passes out. After she passes out, the bartender puts her in the back room and charges the rest of the bar patrons $10 each to have their way with her. A few days later, she returns to the bar. Bartender asks, "15 shots of whiskey again?" "No," she replies, "vodka this time. Whiskey makes my twat sore."

Remember, you'll want your special headgear so the Martians don't mess with your brainwaves.

***shudder*** Anyway, on to Intelligent Design, the New Cerationism. Discovery Institute ID defined How to sneak ID into your curriculum

I've taken falls onto a blue with no problem (as have several friends of mine). Like Tex said, correct placement will be your primary concern.

still holding out for that piano player in a whorehouse gig...

Took the folks to the Flight Museum. Bought a book. Crushing consumerism, I know.

Ninjas with tacos!

And a happy T-day back at you - entertaining the folks, who are currently spoiling the cat even more than he already is...

tiny plaid ninjas

Another divine grilled cheese on Ebay

I dunno, Mr.E. I've been to that place, and, shit, if I can't zig-zag clip between bolts on two adjoining routes, I just don't feel comfy on lead. Bleh. Tell him to find his own damn playground to muck up. If my pansy-ass lead head can handle the mild runouts there, then most anyone should be able to sack up.

Homemade chicken pot pie.

Smiffy - beautiful weather and few folks. Talked a buddy up a couple of his projects, beat one of mine into TR submission for a later lead.

Sigh.... OK, time to jump into the fray. Family agriculture in America today is typified by increasingly larger acreages farmed by increasingly older people as there is no replacement generation behind them. My parents are in their 70's, my uncle 67. Of the six cousins in my family who grew up on farms, only one is still involved in agriculture. So which of you wants to buy my folks' farm and take over the family business? I don't have the sack for it. Who is going to replace these people, and by proxy, the production capability of the U.S. that we have taken for granted? How long before we are importing grain foods? Let's look at my home county Kimball County, Nebraska - From personal knowledge, the 'corporate' farms listed on the sheet are incorporated family farms - large, monocrop entities. My uncle, somewhere in the upper portion of the list, farms somewhere around 20 square miles of land. My folks, who have what you like to think of as a sterotypical 'family' farm (of only four square miles), and who do not monocrop, are on the list - in the 450's, receiving significantly less than the average annual subsidy of $5,800. The problem with subsidies, as I see it, allows for inefficient, resource-intensive farming - wheat subsidies are among the highest in the program. Whereas small, efficient, producers are not benefitted in the same way. Subsidies can work, as a buffer against price fluctuations, crop disasters, etc. They should not be price supports. Somehow, the market must mature to replace them - I don't have an answer for how. My folks get the same $ per bushel or pound of beef that they got in the 70's. Yet the price of a loaf of bread has tripled. Here's where subsidies aren't needed - real corporations - Cities? The subsidies, like many government programs, have grown from get-you-back-on-your-feet supports to entitlements/welfare. A very real illustration of the slippery slope of such programs, and why Americans tend to be suspicious of such proposals as nationalized healthcare - it may start out well-meaning, but will soon grow to an unwieldy thing that no longer benefits the intended recipients. Regarding taxation. Since property taxes typically go to fund schools, how is taxing my parents farm (and their neighbors), who are at retirement age, with grown children, in any way fair? Even in a rural county such at this one, more people live in town and pay a proportionately miniscule property taxes with repect to the benefit they gain from the property taxes of the industry around them. Why should my parents pay for your kids? taxation without representation? Damn. Time for more scotch.

the tests came back negative