Jim

Nice. Saturday at Icicle - been a while since I've been on cracks, man I need help. Busy day out there - saw one winger and one grounder at Clamshell, luckly only from 10ft up. Did catch a 4 ft gopher snake. And beer and a Brat afterwards. Yes, gardening for me too on Sunday.

It's technical. You wouldn't understand.

If you're not outraged you're not paying attention. Dammit!

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You do know I am a scientist. Right? I'm resigning from SCB and NAS.

Not a bad place. Close to Adirondacks and to Gunks!!! Study hard but find time to explore.

your asking the question is revealing of your undemocratic ideology. I didn't know milk was one of the pillars of democracy until now.

Family in town over the weekend and the first time I go to a game in 7 years and they get pounded by the Yanks. Amazing that just tweaking over .500 and there is talk of playoffs. That is a nice stadium though.

from the wayback machine on page 2 - 68$/week for a family of 12 - you think none of these items or the american equivalent are beyond being obtained by the vast majority of americans, poor or not? If you pulled your head out of your ass and actually read any of the literature around food security in American urban and rurban areas, you'd know that fresh, healthy alternatives to shit fast food and convenience store foods are not easily obtainable in communities that are suffering disproportionately from obesity and other diet related illnesses. Rural areas, no. Always been that way. Grow your own like yo pappy did, fuckerz! The Rich have the same problem in rural areas, BTW...unless they can afford to take the chopper to the Big City Whole Foods... In the city, tho? Bullshit. Good, whole foods available cheap and close by in ANY urban neighborhood in the US. Having lived in a few big cities - D.C., NYC, and in some out-of-the-way rural areas, I'd have to agree on the better availability of food items in cities, even in most poor neighborhoods - I know - I lived there! Yea - there's always some small proportion of cities where mahem rules and there is a lack of stores in the immediate neighborhoods. But I've always been able to find decent food by foot, bike, or bus in the city. Not so in the rural areas but then again always had big gardens and swaps with neighbors. Yea - we need some help in food policy. But even with the best I guarantee we would be the porkers of the world. Start charging more for health insurance, seats for airplanes, etc. I like the mix of market and government solutions.

Speaking of drilling - here's a new road that is a pet project of the Alaska Govenor in the Petroleum Reserve. http://foothillsroad.alaska.gov/study_area.shtml

The usual reason for screwed up policies. Getting and staying elected to Congress.

Mixed on this one. The corn subsidy certainly makes high frutose corn syrup and cows pretty cheap - thus a good source of cheap, crummy calories. On the other hand, what? Someone is forcing you to stuff this stuff down your pie hole and watch Housewives of NJ on the couch? Don't think so. Even if QFC looked like PCC (without Birkenstocks) we would still have folks waddling around and waving their arms too much.

As usual, quickly getting to the heart of the issue!!

I think I'll step out of the Chuck E. Cheese pop-up theater of the abusrd now. Thank you for your illustrative comments.

..or more recetly: Now if either of you can quote me citing Occamn's Razor I'm ready. If you cut and paste anything I wrote then you don't undersand the nuances of the concept.

Do I really need to explain this? OK then. You stated this ...which more than insuates that there is some complex problem to be solved that skeptical reivew will unveil. No - a much more simple explanation will do. The overall tone of the above, as the Chomsky quote you provided - uses vagery to try and cast doubt on what appears to be a simple act - OBL got shot in the head - the guy is dead - without laying out any reasonable evidence than the usual hand waving. Logic doesn work that way dude. Seriously. Also - I did not mention Ocman's Razor, which, if you are familar with the concept, is often misapplied to logic sequencing. I suggest you study up.

While I often disagreed with some noted commentators on this site, I have to say, there is a creeping lack of wit and wisdom to some of these tirades lately. At least some of the arch-conservatives are bright. And Ian could always be counted on for a stick-in-the-eye. It's feeling like high school.

Actually no, logic says the simplest explanation is the likely closest to the truth unless other evidence is laid out - or if you rather - the law of parismony, or an extrapolation upon Aristotle - if you want to get esoteric about it. Freshman logic class - really.

This could be applied to - oh nevermind.

I feel like I'm in the Chuckie Cheese of pop-up non sequiturs

The point being exactly what? That there is an underlying truth - we made up the al Qaeda connection? Or the more likely supposition that not every government statement on the subject will agree with another. I'm sure I could do similar justice to quotes from Chomsky given a couple hours of research. Look - I generally like, or at least understand, most of his well-reasearched critiques. This is sophmoric, however.

proof-positive he is as much of a kook as you and buckaroo! While I appreciate Chomsky's often biting and well researched books, this off-hand commentary is hard to take seriously. Really, there isn't always a conspiracy.

The argument is that he was already dead. They have been keeping him alive since 2001 because he was their Emanuel Goldstien. I guess Obama thought he needed a bump since for the first time in his presidency his disapproval rating passed his approval. He did get about a 10 point bump, but it will be temporary because unemployment is still at 20%. Holy shit! And I thought J_B was a kook! Holy shite, Holy shite. Glad the internet is now providing the unvarnished truth. Hell in a hand basket.

Thank you.

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