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I'm not having a battle royale with rats. I went to war with them last summer and after a 3 days of Shock and Awe using bioweaponry, shovels, and peanut butter they were gone. Getting rid of my rotting worm bin might have helped some. In any case, I've merely uncovered the last holdout: the Anne Frank of rats, if you will. It will either make it to Switzerland (hopefully the parking nazi's house across the street), or pay zee price for not doing so.

GOP cool: a) Rebrand failing status quo as iconoclastic b) Guard it with strawmen Suck is the new cool.

When you can build a house out of leaves and a Trader Joes' coffee can seal, come talk to me.

Cool is a way of moving through the universe, but to describe it as such would be uncool.

There's a level of cool, above it all, that only I occupy. The rest of you could strive for this, but by doing that, you would already have failed.

Moved the wood pile and found a rat's nest underneath. It was totally dry in there. The critter had used throw away aluminized mylar seal from a can of Trader Joe's coffee as a roof. The little guy's intelligence made it bit harder to set traps out... ...but not too hard.

and pissed because u can make twinkies in ur bread machine and they can't I don't need no steenkin' bread machine.

Russ Douthat on Reforming Health Care Reform

Some rural folks are intimidated by and or envious of their generally wealthier, healthier urban counterparts, and those emotions, once filtered through pride, typically come out as anger.

They say job creation needs to be a green, but sometimes its a greenish brown.

My GF and I both grew up in rural communities. We both got educations and got the fuck out. While you're hanging out dreaming about the good ole days when the fish were plentiful, she's getting her Masters while working to make an even better life. But we go out the Eastern WA all the time. We enjoy cycling those nice, new, expensive country highways that no one uses, which so often run along one of the numerous federal water projects, through all that subsidized cropland. Not all of rural life in WA is ignorant, brutish and limiting, but too much of it is for my taste. Nope. We're not complaining. Not at all.

With the coming supernova, what does it matter?

So they exposed the break in the sewer pipe. The Alpha Digger says, pointing down "See that? Jammed tight with roots." The Omega Digger, toothless and grinning, thrusts a spade into the roots, creating a nice brown fountain that begins to fill the hole they must continue digging in, looks up, grins, and says "See? She's full!" Long silence. "What the hell did you do that for?"

I'm giving some plumbers a little employment right now!

Betelgeuse: SET TO EXPLODE IN 2012!!!!!

Actually, we do understand that. City folk pay the bills. Rural communities, on average, are subsidized 7:1 - fed money they burn:tax money they contribute. With Urban folk, its the 1:7. WA's ratios are about the same on the state level. Without Seattle, Eastern WA would dry up and blow away. This is good news for unemployed fishermen out there, though. These numbers should come as no surprise to rural communities. Higher average incomes and higher populations densities...the math's not too difficult here. But hey, if you want to play Jeremiah Johnson on our dime, fine. After all, we're not the one's whining about 'taking our country back' n shit - like the spoiled fucking entitlement cases that you are.

Do you even know the definition of star system????

That would have been a lot better. Puget lowland is basically Alaskan panhandle environment, lots of fish - perfect. Eastern WA has lots of rodents the occasional downer elk - perfect.

GE serves large energy and transportation markets. If the new guy knows anything about them, that would be a point in his favor.

I think I saw Josh in one of those flight suits.

Selkirk's right. There were probably few grizzlies ever in the N.C. Too hard to get from tiny valley to tiny valley, tough food supply. The great plains was perfect for them, though, apparently.

Some of us make up words on occasion. Few of us make up their own definitions for existing words, however.

Wow. Didn't even know we had caribou this far south. Kewwwwwwwwl.

What does that even mean?

Virgins? Meh. Would you throw WHISKEY into the fire?