RobBob

What slays me is how RFK, Jr. the environmentalist is against windmills in his home area. NIMBY!

nasty beach blanket!

j_b, what part of that did I misunderstand? All I can figure is that some cub reporter looking for sensationalism put spin on the release. It happens all the time in our mainstream press with medical findings. New England journal publishes findings, New York Times spins and overplays the story.

Through ice sampling etc. we have gathered temperature and other data about millions of years of climate conditions on earth. Regardless of any of our opinions about the status of global warming, I defy any of you with half a scientific brain to draw any climatic conclusions about THIS YEAR'S weather. That would be dumb.

Okay, here's the guy for prez: Monte Rock III aka Disco Tex (and the Sex-o-Lettes) Add a little flamboyance to the office.

I guess the world has changed since I was a kid. I never started fights but I sure found myself in a number of them as a kid...usually defending the littler guys, 'cause I was strong for my age. But back then you would get into wrestling matches or fistfights without worrying that someone was going to retaliate with a gun or knife. And a whole lot of male aggression was worked off on the football field. (of course, I have a lifetime of lower back pain as side-bene of that).

Keep the faith old man, and enjoy the break until you get a good one.

DFA, you arschloch, I sentence you to triplets in your future!

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hey I thought you had a cushy job, DFA!

You still don't get it DFA, he's not talking about Hells-Angels-stompin,' gun-slinging violence. Would you ban football or wrestling for boys?

Humans are animals, DFA. ChrisT, I guess what I understood trask to say was that boys are rough and physical compared to girls. On a yardstick compared to other boys his age, my son also appears less aggressive than a lot of his peers. But he'll use his strength to settle things with his sis in a heartbeat if we let him... On the sports thing I'm going to let my son determine how competitive he wants to be, rather than push him. I was competitive as hell on my own and loved it...10 years before me, my older brother was not competitive but was pushed hard in athletics by my dad...and resented it.

I'd vote for Paula Zahn.

Boy this thread took a turn for the worse. I would agree with trask's opening statement. W/ boy-girl twins, I have seen it with my own eyes.

That would NOT be Hillary

I still say that GWB looks like Mel Brooks, with that kind of cross-eyed, head-twisted look.

Rumsfeld...a Nazi of our time.

What about those puffs of smoke coming out of Rainier?

We can, and have talked about the oil industry and whether we are attempting to protect/overtake/control oil with military force in the Middle East. Not sure I would call this a "subsidy." If so, we lost much more ground in the 1970s than we will ever gain back in terms of oil price, by letting the ME nations "nationalize" their oilfields (which amounted to the largest re-distribution of wealth in human history). Before that, US and European oil companies transferred 50 years of wealth and technology to the ME in return for oil supply. Everything's relative, and I would argue that the ME had a good deal from the West before we let it, led by Qaddaffi, take over control of the oil. But that's another story. hakioawa, I will go along with your environmental economics approach, and agree that we should consider all the externalities. But bucks-wise, yield-wise, politics-wise, I think the grain-fuel products are like the emperer's new clothes. Eventually, when the projects are scrutinized, the public will realize that it was taken again. I only bring it up here in order for people to investigate it on their own.

whatcha got time for?

What that report is saying is that coalition forces are shown in a positive light, and Israel in a negative light. This is a European media phenomenon, not a US one. And the interesting thing is that one of the co-authors practices law in Israel. How unbiased is his conclusion?

I’ve noticed some of you suggesting that bio-diesel is a good idea for those that consume diesel fuel. Well, when it comes to soy-diesel or corn-ethanol, what you are buying is more a government grain-farmer welfare program than it is an environmental improvement. Turning soybeans and corn, the two largest feedstuffs consumed for food and animal feed in the US, into a competitively-priced fuel doesn’t work until you get the Federal government involved…and you know what that means. Fact is, the soybean farmers in this country have used every trick in the book in order to prop prices up for their commodity, and this is one more play out of their playbook. A decade ago, the US Soybean Association was so worried about China exporting low-cost soybeans to the US that it sent agents to China to help them build their poultry and pork production into an efficient industry, and to get China’s meat consumption up. It worked (agents still live and work there today), and China consumes its own soybeans and eats a lot more meat thanks to US soybean farmers. Now the threat to the US grain farmer is Brazil, which is beginning to export high-quality soybean meal as well as soybeans by the shipload to the US. Thanks to US farmers and your politicians, we will end up with new refineries that route 64-car unit trains of soybeans and corn out of the Midwest, refineries that may for appearances only have been located in other grain-producing states. In other words, facilities set up to run on raw material that is not produced locally, but is instead sourced in some cases from across the country. Meanwhile, our nation will be importing soybeans, soybean meal, and corn in order to meet its growing food. The fallout of all this? Cost to taxpayers, higher food prices, as well as possibly some local public health problems in the vicinity of these refineries. All to benefit our nation’s grain farmers. The only bio-fuel projects worth funding are those that use materials we need to get rid of: human and animal shit. I’m boycotting grain-fuels because they are really pork-fuels.

"Waiting for me are they? Waiting for me? Well God Damn 'em, let 'em wait!!" --Nathaniel Green, when told on his deathbed that the Angels were waiting for him

Great TR and excellent pictures. Nice 4runner too.