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But who needs gold?
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 12:03:09 PM EST
No one, apparently.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 12:36:59 PM EST
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ooooooooooooo, SHINY.

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher
by Wife of Bath (kareninaustin at g mail dot com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 01:00:04 PM EST
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me precioussss....
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 01:04:35 PM EST
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A man in the corner approached me for a match
I knew right away he was not ordinary
He said "Are you looking for something easy to catch?
I said "I got no money." He said "That ain't necessary."

I was thinking about turquoise I was thinking about gold ...

It's okay if you just think about it isn't it?

by sgr2 on Thu Feb 9th, 2012 at 06:20:51 AM EST
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As long as you don't get tangled up in blue.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Thu Feb 9th, 2012 at 01:56:08 PM EST
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My life has always been positioned somewhere between being Tangled Up in Blue and A Simple Twist of Fate. ;-)
by sgr2 on Thu Feb 9th, 2012 at 02:01:19 PM EST
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one of the nuclear power stations in Switzerland had to be switched off today.  they say there was no leak of radiation

http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20120208&id=14772913

by stevesim on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 01:18:45 PM EST
@jmackin2
Love idea of EFSF buying ECB's Greek bonds, in order that Greece can buy them back w/money borrowed from the EFSF. Charles Ponzi wd be proud
(See this morning's Salon)

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 01:38:08 PM EST
I'm now luxuriating in the relative balm of Sandanski, where temperatures managed to get above zero today. I could really tell the difference from sofia where it's -15. Halfway down we stopped for a few minutes and I thought it was nice and warm, I was surprised when I saw the temp was  still only -4.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 01:59:56 PM EST
Thought of you today when I ordered my replacement keyboard, which will have the US rather than UK layout, thank goodness. I'm suffering typing dyslexia as it is.

Hope your trip continues to go well. I'm doing my Pagan dance of luck for you, but rather clumsily as my back has been out. Go back to England with lots of money stitched into your hems (or perhaps that's a tad old fashioned.)

Ciao

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

by Wife of Bath (kareninaustin at g mail dot com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 02:11:36 PM EST
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Then maybe it is a good thing you didn't get a German keyboard. :-)
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 02:26:50 PM EST
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oh the worse are the French keyboards.  having to do a shift to get numbers is just crazy.
by stevesim on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 02:49:05 PM EST
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Not to mention the period and the comma. But I find that relatively easy to get used to. It's the "a" and the "z" and the "w" and the "m" that make it a real pain.
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 02:52:38 PM EST
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the q and the a reversed?  why?  and indeed the shift for  , and . is totally time consuming.

it is just crazy.

by stevesim on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 02:58:22 PM EST
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I am crossing my fingers for as we say here "drücke die Daumen" for you and hope it finally works out well for you.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 02:26:16 PM EST
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I was checking out Sandanski on the web.  It looks nice and not very expensive.
by stevesim on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 02:29:54 PM EST
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It's the same as any place, it has good bits and rubbish bits, things that annoy and those which delight.

We should talk ...some other time ;-)

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 02:33:59 PM EST
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Aren't there some hot springs in the vicinity?

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 03:41:01 PM EST
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this is the type of application I was going to work on for a grant from the EU on improving security of people.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/worldviews/2012/02/01/downloading-empowerment-application-gives-citizens -control-over-crime/

someone beat me to it, so I can talk about it now.

there would have been some issues with it, such as laws in some countries forbidding pictures of people to be taken but I had some ways around that.

by stevesim on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 02:52:29 PM EST
Fascinating stuff.

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher
by Wife of Bath (kareninaustin at g mail dot com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 04:52:25 PM EST
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Oh fun fun fun. tonights UK news will be all Football.  firwstly a Jury finds  a premier league manager innocent of  tax fraud (he'd   avoided tax to the ammount of £100,000 by paying the  cash into an account in Monaco in the name of his dog) A jury  had found him innocent, and the court case had cost £8 million.

and then the only people who's clown car driving  ability is more impressive than than the republican party, the english FA manage to lose both the team captain and the Manager a matter of a few months before  the European championship.

The chances of anything else getting onto the news broadcasts tonight are rather slim

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 03:20:07 PM EST
Two items already in the Salon, which will be up in half an hour.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 03:26:25 PM EST
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New Hampshire Republicans Propose Bill To Eliminate Workers' Lunch Breaks | ThinkProgress

New Hampshire's GOP legislature has come up with all manner of absurd bills recently, including a proposal making public school curriculum optional, another to prevent police from protecting domestic abuse victims, and even a measure mandating that new laws be based on the Magna Carta. Some of the Granite State's GOP lawmakers have even proposed doing away with the law that requires employers to give their workers time off for lunch, under the rationale that all employers will simply grant lunch breaks out of the goodness of their hearts:

"This is an unneeded law," [Republican state Representative Kyle Jones] said. "If I was to deny one of my employees a break, I would be in a very bad position with the company's human resources representative. If you consider that this is a very easy law to follow in that everyone already does it, then why do we need it? Our constituents have already proven that they have enough common sense to do this on their own."

The bill's sponsor, state representative J.R. Hoell, argued that companies failing to provide lunch breaks would be shamed over social media, thus rendering the law unnecessary.



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 03:49:20 PM EST
Sure, the same way that CEO's are shamed by making 400 times as much as their employees.

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher
by Wife of Bath (kareninaustin at g mail dot com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 04:54:28 PM EST
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The idea of basing law on the Magna Carta will never go anywhere because it conflicts with the rule against using foreign laws.
by asdf on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 09:39:14 PM EST
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just don't mention Jesus was from the Middle East

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Feb 9th, 2012 at 01:10:48 AM EST
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From America's finest news source.
According to a study published Monday in Psychological Bulletin, more than 83 percent of suicides take place when an individual is faced with the task of putting a fitted sheet onto a mattress
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Thu Feb 9th, 2012 at 06:22:53 AM EST
You're so vain.
You probably think this song is about you, don't you?

I was going through my ipod playlist, trying to decide on what songs to include were I to do a diary, when I ran across a song I've always liked, and a most amusing email I received last year from Abby, a screenwriter friend in New York. I'll just let the email speak for itself:

"A Canadian friend of mine is doing a retrospective of a Tuli Kupferberg film I was in.
So, he called to invite me and during the course of the conversation he told me that i was in a song by Lou Reed called...Take a walk on the wild side
It is about the Warhol people and Maxs Kansas City, a restaurant where I was a Bouncer. 
Evidently, Nawana and I are the colored girls who go do do do
Who knew?"

Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the USA
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She says, Hey babe
Take a walk on the wild side
Hey honey
Take a walk on the wild side

Candy came from out on the Island
In the backroom she was everybody's darlin'
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She says, Hey babe
Take a walk on the wild side
I Said, Hey baby
Take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls go
Doo do doo do doo do do doo..

Little Joe never once gave it away
Everybody had to pay and pay
A hustle here and a hustle there
New York City's the place where they say,
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said, Hey Joe
Take a walk on the wild side

Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets
Lookin' for soul food and a place to eat
Went to the Apollo
You should've seen em go go go
They said, Hey shuga Take a walk on the wild side
I Said, Hey babe
Take a walk on the wild side
All right, huh

Jackie is just speeding away
Thought she was James Dean for a day
Then I guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that bash
Said, Hey babe,
Take a walk on the wild side
I said, Hey honey,
Take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls say,
Doo do doo do doo do do doo
 

by sgr2 on Thu Feb 9th, 2012 at 07:08:16 AM EST

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