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The current GOP's motto: Fucking the many for the benefit of the few. Sounds like something a bunch of guys would say.

I just did, but we had a post storm. In addition to the above, consider that agriculture that depends most on pollinators, such as orchards, enjoy the lower end of these profit margins. ok excellent, the source of the problem. When you say "farming is a low margin business", it is certainly accurate as a generalization ; i myself am not big on generalizations, so that is what i took exception to. if one lives one's life according to an understanding based on generalizations, one lives a life of mediocrity, imo, since generalizations are usually short on wisdom and high on conformity. Hey, and thanks for the life coaching, sense. I've always had a problem with conformity. no sweat dude, but you can just call me Guru (capitalize the G, please!). As far as the conformity problem: your unique physique certainly keeps you outside the lines of conformity to a certain degree, but the behavioral aspects could be teased away from the common stock just a bit. How to do this? It's a difficult dilemma, since any behaviours stimulated by a reaction to some unwanted thing have that unwanted thing contained within them. I would prescribe meditation next to bald-faced wasp nests. This spring would be when to start, and it's the best time since they are a bit friendlier then. Sense, you've strayed from the eight fold path of wasp knowledge. Bald faced hornets are very benign. You can garden very close to their nests without worry. I know this: I had a basketball sized nest only 10 feet from my raised beds several years ago. You will not find bald faced hornets in the high country. I have already enlightened you on the habits of forest yellow jackets, which become aggressive in late summer and fall, not spring, sense. Until you know the physical world, you cannot know the spiritual one. ahh little one (such rich irony!). i didn't wish you to know, but since you have forced the issue, i must tell you that, at your stage of development, you must start your meditation practice with the friendlier of the wasps. you are not ready to calm the fires of the forest yellow jacket, nor are you ready for the high country. this will come with time; you cannot force the issue. I want in on the multiple quote box thing too.

Wow, this sounds pretty good. I've seen a crossfit garage thing between Ballard and Freemont. Anyone been to that one?

Hank is not into marketing. I think that is part of the reason he started 2.13.61

Luke, I'm your father.

I found some cool shit in the dirt below. I kept an old unopened pull-tab budweiser can. Can't take the white trash out of this girl.

Now that is scary! The fact that we have our little "immigration problem" going on right now makes that a bigger threat. Not having enough pickers is currently a bigger crisis looming for us than not enough bees. If we run out of both, we're screwed. And you are going to see cherry prices going through the roof.

This isn't necessarily true and varies by facility. The facility I train at http://www.crossfiteastside.com/ does not require any 'tests'. They only require that you start in the 'elements' classes which are for beginners before you jump into the regular classes. No need to spend extra money. It's more than you will pay at a box gym but those of us on this board who do crossfit all swear by it. One of the many attractions/benefits is not dealing with the cardio treadmill/stairmaster routine. I'd rather eat ground up glass than go back to that. The crossfit routines are varied, fun and hard but you never know what you are going to get that day until you show up. It completely eliminates the boredom factor. Do the folks at Crossfit limit the number of people they are working with at a time? The gym I have been going to has gotten so crowded that going between 4-6 is pointless. And of course, it is the most convenient time to go for me as well as for everyone else in the world. Also, do the Crossfit folks work around injuries well? Or do you need to be able to be worked no matter what? Thanks!

We don't attract bees, we rent them. And there are enough apiaries out there that they often ship their bees long distances to bring them to different orchards. As the numbers get smaller, there will be less of this going on. Even last year, when the person shipping our bees rolled his 18 wheeler and lost the hives, we could quickly find a backup for them. And we rent a lot of hives. I'm not saying the issue is not serious; I'm just saying it is not as dire as the popular media wants us to think it is. It's actually been going on for a while, and yet, people still breed more bees and there are enough to go around.

Oh wait, I get it. He was actually the wind. Yeah, that's brilliant.

My family is in commercial agriculture and we've heard a lot on this topic. There will be other options, as well as not every single hive will die out.

I watched the whole thing and I don't get it.

So last year the road to my place in Index was lost (still gone). This year, the windy road to GG (which is close to my place in Ballard) washed away a little bit. I love Mother Nature!

Don't panic. The biggest effect this will have is on honey--that's what those bees give us that our native 22 species of bees don't. We'll still have lots of pollinators, they just aren't as effective b/c they don't carry as much pollen. But as the European honey bees die out (remember that they are imports and our plants lived just fine before them) other species will fill thier niche. The sky is not falling.

Long live punk

yep

Did I mention how much I love this man?

The Rollins Band is so not punk, but I love him. Get in the Van was good, but his other books are far better. His Spoken Word tour is the best. I make it every year. I love Hank.

Baby Bolus.

You don't have six or seven friends.

only if you bring a friend.

it'll make you putty in my hands.

Yeah, well, fuck them anyhow.

There never was any difference.