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What can I say? People are dumb? The whole thrust of the NO campaign was that they'd be coming for you middle class people next! Well, that 2/3 super majority business pretty much guarantees against that, eh? Ah well, just another brick in the house of the coming double dip recession.

I think the odds for a double dip recession have just increased and unemployment numbers won't improve in any meaningful way. Let's revisit my statement in a year, I'd prefer to be wrong.

Are the rusty chains on the right from Rooster Rock in the Menage? Ya Rooster or Hen or any one of those pinnacles. The classic Anglin budget anchor sans hangers. Jim's budget hangers pictured to the left. Two orange one blue. I'm pretty sure you mean the other left...

I'm thanking you for that Choad, it's almost like he's here in the room with me.

[video:youtube] seems relevant...

that was Mikey Schaefer aka wallstain Ahh, thanks. Fuzzy thinking gets worse over time.

Yeah, right... Weren't you once labeled Erik's Boss? I miss that guy.

Oh please please peoples, your considered and informative on-topic responses have no place in Spray, take 'em back to the original thread where they belong!

No Kevin, it was a joke, since everyone knows its only been freed a handful of times. Good job PP

I'm with Joseph on this one, drill press would be nice too, and patience is required. I did this in a lapidary shop at TESC a long time ago. You might do okay with the roto hammer, but I bet the hole will crater from the backside when the bit goes through, and the hole won't be as tidy.

Well, Dino might look better in a dress, but I don't consider that essential criteria in senatorial selection.

Hah, I'd forgotten about that one, but it is the season, isn't it? I don't recall the particulars, but I made some sort of wild speculative run based on the assumption that was you in drag front and center, when in fact you're the fat bearded hippy on the left.

I don't recall...

Oh you're such a rebel! Rowr! Rowr indeed!

So, if you have your skull crushed by a baseball bat wielding racist thug who mistakes you for a darkie or get shot in the chest by a cop who thinks you're reaching for a gun when you're getting out your cellphone, it's all the same and your own damn fault, right?

Damn but this is tragic and upsetting, he was such a good guy.

That's a pretty cool structure.

Cosgrove's postings on ST have in aggregate reduced my estimation of the man.

Oh, I might have a problem with that j_b, but as a person, not necessarily as a system. Here's an example: The local Habitat for Humanity Restore, selling recycled building materials (a concept I fully support) fired a bunch of the employees from the existing business they bought to get established in Olympia because they weren't sufficiently "Christian". Those folks went out and started a competing business who did well for awhile, and expanded their purview to include deconstruction services, but when they hit hard times and fell behind on the rent, the damned Habitat Restore negotiated a secret deal with the landlord, and once the rent was paid up in full, Olympia Salvage was evicted (and ultimately doomed) and Habitat Restore took over their space, capitalizing on the business those folks had built on the space. Now, as a remodel contractor, I have a dilemma. I want building materials to be recycled and reused, but the only show in town are a bunch of Christian double dealing fuckwits that I wouldn't piss on their faces if their throats were on fire. I've decided that the reuse of resources is more important, so I donate materials, take every opportunity to tell them that their god would be offended by the way they treat other people, and tell the story to everyone I know. I've made my peace with their right to run their business as they see fit, and wouldn't trade away my rights to run my business to reflect my values for the sake of messing with theirs.

I'm always delighted and surprised in equal measure when contemporary "liberals" lose their bearings and stray into the ideological terrain that's always belonged to classical liberals. I suspect that the folks at the Nation will soon realize they've lost all of their bearings and signposts and flee back to the familiar territory of illiberal statism when it suits them. Nice "liberalism" you got there that upholds the denial of First Amendment rights for most people during the majority of their waking hours (while at work). Add to that the "right" of property owners to censor speech while on their property and you've effectively restricted speech to people's cars and homes. Funny kind of freedom... What kind of free-speech protections would you like to see the government enforce in workplaces and on other people's property? When will you be making your living room available as a no-holds barred free-speech venue, and when can we expect to see the flyers for the Westboro Baptist Church rally you'll be hosting there? Personally, as an employer in the construction industry, I appreciate the fact that my employees are "at will" employees and I can fire them for any reason at all. If they flip shit to my frequent lesbian couple clients, they're out of there, ditto if they want to make racist jokes. I had a guy in a job interview declare that he was a born again Christian. He really twitched when I told him that I was an equal opportunity employer and I wouldn't hold that against him. (I should have not hired him for several other reasons, but that's a long painful story). Anyway, as a sole proprietor, I very much appreciate that I can make my company reflect my values, rather than be forced to employee racist sexist drunken meth-head assholes because their habits and personalities qualify them as disabled or protected. Free speech yes, but not necessarily on my payroll.

When I'd heard of her being missing, I figured at 93 and out picking mushrooms, either she knew her way around the block and would survive, or would go out doing what she loved. Oh, and bravo to "Alpinist" who posted up in the comment section of the linked news article to get across the point about charging for rescues.

Wow, what a great vacation.

That bmx stuff was pretty cool, but Macaskill is an utterly amazing rider. I really liked his earlier vid with the Band of Horses soundtrack. Thanks for both those links.

Privatizing and turning public campgrounds over to private concessionaires is a really ugly trend. I'm not fond of what its done for camping in Icicle Creek.