Thursday Open Thread

by afew Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 11:48:32 AM EST

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Thursday Open Thread | 32 comments (32 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 0)

Get in here quick.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 11:49:13 AM EST

Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 1)

nice try

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 11:57:45 AM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Here's an article about installing new outhouses on a Native American reservation...referring to Colman's comments yesterday about how great things were or weren't in the 1970s...

http://www.gazette.com/sections/article/gallery/?pic=1&id=139793&db=colgazette

by asdf on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 12:12:00 PM EST

Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 1)

Ahhh, the 3rd world of the Pine Ridge Rez.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 06:45:26 PM EST
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Is YOUR Love Big Enough? (none / 0)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 12:12:20 PM EST

Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

As I mentioned, my car had its annual service last week and,effectively, the last rites were performed. It needed more work doing to it than it was worth.

So we went up to the car shop today and I will be trading in my "heap of shit" (c Bill Hicks) for a newer model 8 years younger and diesel powered.

I usually drive with the miles per gallon visible. On my petrol 1L6 I averaged 30 - 35. On this, a 1L9 I was getting 48 - 60. Most satisfactory.

Sold

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 12:13:47 PM EST

Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

Two ETers on the same DKOS community spotlight. Is this a record...?:-)

Index of Frank's Diaries

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 12:16:47 PM EST

Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

For those who can't quite make it out, congrats to Frank and Luis de Sousa

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 12:41:48 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 0)

Sorry I missed you in Ireland!

Index of Frank's Diaries

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 12:48:19 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 1)

Don't worry, there will be return visits. Visiting you would be an excellent part of any future itinerary.

This was just a quick long discussed weekend to ~~size up Dublin pubs~~ see Colman and family.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 12:58:08 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 0)

I wouldn't have been the best guide, and I don't think the Guinness Storehouse would have been your thing!

Index of Frank's Diaries

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 03:32:11 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 0)

Actually, I would like to visit it, just to say I have. But as for finding good pubs go, as you might imagine, I have my own sources of information

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 03:49:27 PM EST
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Not a record no. (none / 0)

I had 3 diaries on the reclist at the same time (when there were only 8 slots) in 2005. I have the picture but am too busy to dig it up :)

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Jun 8th, 2012 at 09:13:12 AM EST
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Queenie (4.00 / 3)

Apropos something from last week, here's a drawing from a friend of mine done in 1981, to accompany a review of the Queen's Speech.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 12:57:55 PM EST

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looks more like Charles and Princess Anne for some reason. Family likeness I guess

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 12:59:36 PM EST
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Re: Queenie (none / 0)

Artist: Norman Quebedeau, who served time as a Disney animator.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 01:41:30 PM EST
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Re: Queenie (4.00 / 2)

My favourite Jubilee Cartoon

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=cartoons&issue=1315

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

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 02:26:40 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Finished roasting coffee using up the snabs and snibblets of leftovers in bags one of which was Bali Kintamani Wet-Hull Arabica described as:

Very "Indonesia" cup profile, very fruity, with low acidity, chocolate roast notes, caramel, melon, some herbal accents.

I suppose that conveys something, to somebody.

But not me.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 01:48:40 PM EST

Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 4)

Chocolate roast notes are basic to Gamelan music.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 01:55:01 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 1)

there's always Folger's crystals.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 02:10:06 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 1)

Came this: >|<, close to rating that "Mega-Troll."

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 02:13:03 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

I would never mega-troll. I am a totally subtle troll.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 02:34:34 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 0)

You're still a troll-troll-de-roll.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 02:55:51 PM EST
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Do any of our Greek compatriots have any insight on what the impact of this will be?

Greece's pre-electoral climate has become more explosive after a high-profile neo-Nazi MP assaulted two female politicians from leftwing parties on live TV. The brawl, a first in the nearly 40 years since democracy was returned to its birthplace, broke out during a morning talkshow when Ilias Kasidiaris, the spokesman of the far-right Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) took umbrage at deputy Rena Dourou declaring that his party "will take the country back 500 years".
After leaping from his seat and throwing a glass of water at Dourou, a deputy with the radical Syriza party, Kasidiaris then turned on Liana Kanelli, an MP with the KKE communist party, who, waving a piece of paper, stood up to condemn the action.
As the cameras rolled, the cropped-haired Kasidiaris, a weightlifting enthusiast, who had served in the Greek military's special forces, is shown lashing out at Kanelli slapping her around the face three times as she threw up her arms in self-defence. Shouting :"No, no, no," the talkshow's presenter, Giorgos Papadakis, then tried to intervene but within moments other guests present said the MP had fled the studio.

Video of the incident is up on youtube.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 02:26:59 PM EST

Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

talos:

After this the Nazi representatives have been "withdrawn" from TV debates. Don't know if this costs them or is exactly what their base wants of them. There is now a warrant for the Nazi's arrest, who was elected May 6th, and is currently on trial for robbery and grievous bodily harm....

Von überall könnte das Volk, Urbrut alles Undemokratischen, Zelle des Terrors, über die gewählten Hüter von Wachstum und Wohlstand® kommen. - flatter

by generic on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 02:33:20 PM EST
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Of course someone had posted up on it already.... one of my socialist friends on facebook had something up about Kasidiaris having holed up in the Golden Dawn HQ waiting for the police to come in and arrest him. I have to imagine that any situation in which the police have to force their way into the building is going to add to the drama.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 02:46:31 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 5)

I don't think you're supposed to do that sort of thing until AFTER your party gets control...

by asdf on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 03:35:29 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 0)

I wish the lady had decked the SOB. Plus I'd like to see more of this in the upcoming US election, but I want to see bodyslams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wp4O7v5320

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 04:01:28 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

That's what the Republican convention is for.

But in some states the strategy has caused major problems. In Louisiana, tensions between the Paul and Romney camps spilled over into a public dispute last weekend that saw duelling state conventions in the city of Shreveport being held in the same room. Police were eventually called amid physical scuffles.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 04:06:02 PM EST
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Welcome to June. (none / 0)

Beautiful day. Giants/Padres game on the tube with Texas rolling into AT&T Park tomorrow. Feel sorry for the Padres ... in last place in the NL West and plenty of empty seats. I've gotten spoiled with AT&T always having a sellout.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wp4O7v5320

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 04:08:49 PM EST

Re: Welcome to June. (none / 0)

The purpose of the Padres is so the Cubs have someone to beat.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 04:20:58 PM EST
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Re: Welcome to June. (none / 0)

The ghost of Ron Santo is smiling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wp4O7v5320

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Jun 7th, 2012 at 08:45:20 PM EST
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