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Trivialities like this are just the thing to stoke the flagging ennervation, eh? Kind of an LA-post-consumer-riff on the senescent English gentry's take on events across the channel in the mid-30's. "Oh yes darling - that - do pass the tea..."
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great, they'll ban me. unfrigging believable These guys must not have read the NYT story about the monitoritoring of the wires passing through the SWIFT network. Hopefully they'll get a sweet settlement and a swift apology from Scotland Yard. "A number of events are understood to have convinced the counter-terrorist agencies to act. A telephone call about the alleged plot was intercepted, internet communication increased noticeably and two men under surveillance disappeared off the intelligence radar. However, security sources indicated that the key event β thought to be the transfer of funds β had taken place overseas. βIt was very close, and it was too risky to allow the surveillance operation to go on for any longer,β one source said. These are the names of 19 suspects reportedly being held by the police after the foiled plot and whose assets the Treasury has sought to have frozen. Umir Hussain, 24, London E14 Muhammed Usman Saddique, 24, London E17 Waheed Zaman, 22, London E17 Assan Abdullah Khan, 22, London E17 Waseem Kayani, 28, High Wycombe Waheed Arafat Khan, 24, London E17 Cossor Ali, 24, London E17 Tayib Rauf, 21, Birmingham Ibrahim Savant, 26, London E17 Osman Adam Khatib, 20, London E17 Shamin Mohammed Uddin, 36, Stoke Newington Amin Asmin Tariq, 23, London E17 Shazad Khuram Ali, 27, High Wycombe Tanvir Hussain, 24, London E10 Umar Islam, 28, (born Brian Young) High Wycombe Assad Sarwar, 25, High Wycombe Abdullah Ali, 26, London E17 Abdul Muneem Patel, 17, London E5 Nabeel Hussain, 21, Waltham Forest"
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Word. Fixie = preening pretension worthy of the Vespa+long scarf combo. Might make sense for some people, but for the average commuter they're just dumb. Especially in Seattle. Once fixies become passe' I hope the next trendster ride will be the chainless deals from the late 19th century with the huge-ass front wheel.
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Word is the UK authorities successfully stopped a plot to bring down a dozen-plus airliners flying from the UK to the US. "ne government official said the terrorists had hoped to target flights to major airports in New York, Washington and California, all major summer tourist destinations. Chertoff said the plotters were "getting close to the execution phase." "There were very concrete steps under way to execute all elements of the plan," he said. "They were not yet sitting on an airplane," but were very close to traveling, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official told The Associated Press. A U.S. administration official said the terror plot targeted Continental, United, and American Airlines. It was not immediately clear whether other airlines also were involved. British Home Secretary John Reid said the plotters planned loss of life on "an unprecedented scale."
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Bonzo, Smokey_McPot, Chocolate_Trombone...
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We live pretty close to the Roxbury/Dorchester/Mattapan Trifecta of Doom, so the ridership issues are definately a factor. Heading North and crossing the Charles for an interview at one of the outfits over there was like crossing into another dimension. Quiet, peaceful, delightfully free of random public hostility....and relatively bike friendly for these parts.
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True dat. Taking the bus sucks. Interesting cultural experience every now and then though. In my experience, most of these are better enjoyed through listening to a first-hand account rather than in-person.
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Having to ride in a bus sucks, period, IMO. Maybe the least of many evils in some cases, but I'd much rather ride through horrible weather and risk getting doorprized, etc than take the bus. That's especially true out here.
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If you take the car to a transmission specialist they may be able to diagnose the problem more accurately and just replace a component instead of putting an entirely new transmission in the vehicle. If they open it up and discover that it'll cost more than you want to spend to fix whatever's wrong, then you can send it to the junkyard and buy a replacement with a bit less remorse.
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It'd be way more interesting to have some kind of an Avatar Amnesty thread, where people reveal who was behind defunct or banned avatars.
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I heard that regular bike commuters in some cities are noticing more folks riding into work these days? Anyone out there seen any evidence of that? Can't say I've seen any uptick in Boston, but most people here that ride into work seem to do so to avoid the traffic megacluster, or because parking costs run into the thousands per year, or because they hate trying to manage their lives around the public transport schedule. I've never heard anyone mention the price of gas. In any event, it'll be interesting to see how many folks trying to save gas money stick it out once the dark/cold/rainy months arrive.
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Thankfully for the Democrats it doesn't look like there's a candidate on the Republican side that can exploit the situation in this state.
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You really think he'll caucus with the Republicans? When you see the Senate roster, there will be one less person listed there in the "Democrat" column. He won't necessarily always vote with the Republicans, but if he proves that he can jettison the left wing vote and still win, he won't have to pander to that segment of the Democratic base, nor will he necessarily need to abide by any party discipline that the Democrats try to apply to him when it comes time to make votes. I think he'll also realize that his political stock is highest as an independent that both parties will court heavily when it comes time for crucial swing votes, and he'll also probably make all of the Demos who will publically trash him over the course of the next three months prostrate themselves before him when they need his support. Not a member of the Republican caucus, but definitely a less reliable "yea" when the time comes for Harry Reid to count votes. Anyone know the track record for candidates that the Daily Kos and Co endorse in general elections?
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My prediction. Primary: Lieberman wins the general election in November, Democrats lose seat in the Senate. Secondary: This turns out to be a Pyrric Victory for the activist wing of the Democratic party. Win the primary, lose the election. Continue establishing reputation as electoral kryptonite.
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Watch out for cantaloupe.
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Quite the contrast between Seattle and Tacoma. Also interesting that homes in the interior bits of Mercer Island and *Ballard* are comparable on a per square foot basis.
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Looks sincere to me. The physical aspects may be the same, but the context and the consequences couldn't be any more different. Personal satisfaction versus gold medal.
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I've seen quite a bit of celebrating in the Olympics on the part of competitors who nail stuff in comps that they've been working on forever in practice sessions.
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Definitely an interesting take on the video. To my eyes it looked like something that took tons of skill and serious heuvos to pull off. I doubt that there are many people who happen to participate in both climbing and Moto-X, but it'd be interesting to get their take on how the risks in each sport affect them. For me, risks that involve making a truly irreversible commitment - like hitting the lip on a larger jump or drop when skiing, or heading into a rapid at the top end of my ability when kayaking - make me way nervous than the incremental and largely reversible risks constitute the majority of the dangers that I expose myself to when climbing. Maybe these guys are wired differently.
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http://vidsearch.myspace.com/index.cfm?f...E10DFC485082696 Insane.
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Has anyone run into a mountain lion here in the Cascades? I've heard that their numbers have increased pretty dramatically over the past 30 years or so, but I can't recall hearing anyone talk about seeing one or running into one. Given their nature, you'd expect sightings to be rare, but I'm still a bit surprised by how few people run into them. I've run into a couple over the years. My first encounter was in Southern Oregon. I'd been flyfishing well past dusk in the foothills about an hour out of Medford, hiked out through a moonlit trail, and discovered that I had some unwelcome company. I'd guess it was a fairly young cat as it wasn't terribly good at the stealth thing at that point. The next time we ran into one was on the way back from a hiking trip on the Olympic Pinensula. It was right about dusk and we were just starting the drive home when we saw an extremely pissed off looking cat skulking across the road an into the bushes about 100 feet away from a woman parked along side the road. As we drove closer we noticed that the woman was attempting to drag a young deer - fresh roadkill - back to her truck. We rolled down the window and let her know that there was a high probability that there was a full-grown mountain lion within 50 yards, and that she might want to step away from the roadkill. She looked up, blinked a couple of times, then dropped her head and resumed the dragging while informing us that she needed to take the roadkill to "The Chef." Then she asked us if we'd help her get it into the truck. For reasons that are unclear to me know, we each hopped out, grabbed a leg, and yanked the thing into the bed. All the while I was thinking to myself "Why am I doing this. This is kind of a bad idea. This could very well end up being dramatized - complete with the baritone voice over providing the dramatic foreshadowing to our imminent demise - on some sort of animal attack show." The memory is a tad hazy, but now that I think about it, I suspect the reason that we hopped out and grabbed a hoof was because the woman didn't bat an eyelid when we told her about the mountain lion, and kept dragging the carcas across the gravel with the same kind of grim determination that she'd been showing when we pulled up, and we just knew intuitively that we'd feel kind of bad if we drove off and found out that she'd been killed and eaten.
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Nice. Impressive. Post some of those pics when you get a chance.
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This is true. I think it's almost more painful to watch someone struggle to argue on behalf of ideas that you believe in or articulate them poorly than to listen to an eloquent attack on them. I saw a pretty funny skit once where GW and Tony were at a joint press conference, a reporter would ask a question, and GW would struggle to string together a single coherent though, while Tony looked on with a pained and impatient expression on his face. After GW stopped, Tony would take over and transmute GW's thoughts into an an articulate and persuasive defense of whatever it was that GW was arguing on behalf of. Pretty funny - I think it was on SNL a while back.