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Hairyanna does it again.

I can’t even go there to read it! Please!!

I saw the Princess Arianna star rising crap beginning months ago and shook my head. I just don’t think she’s qualified to talk as a representative on a number of the issues she does, including banking. I no longer even give her the chance. Turn the page, hit the mute, go get a soft drink. Who voted the Queen to be in, anyhow? Was it you Keven? I doubt it. Wasn’t me.

As for her expectations, well, I don’t agree with a number of things the President is doing, some things having to do with justice, and security matters, and his political movement on healthcare. But he’s a far better breath of fresh air than the clown who just left with his circus or the pair we could have had there. And, he isn’t king, contrary to how the right portrays him and the left expects him to be. Being the head of the “big tent” means there is a lot of different factions out there, and to get all of them to pull together is difficult. Always has been for the Democrats, always will be.

Decisions, fast and firm? Well, I always use the example of the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek. (look it up, it’s the proper name, but you all know it) Certain wild ass colonel took his command arrogantly into battle and discovered things weren’t as they seemed.

I’m supporting the president even when I disagree with him, but will tell him so and why, in the hopes that he will consider the concerns of others in his decisions. With Bush this would have been impossible, with Obama I still have hope.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 3, 2009 @ 6:37 am

Proud to be a Scientist

I dropped in over there a couple of times today and saw nothing and no one worth commenting about. Not to mention those trashy new ads they’ve gotten.

As for climate change, it’s not our planet, it’s all creatures planet. We overall will adapt far better than many creatures who won’t survive. But then again, I grew up when people were touting the oceans as the great grocery stores for the future, and look how quickly man emptied the shelves. I have great difficulties with the stupidity of the deniers.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 4:08 pm

@BDM You could consider doing characters from “Ice Age” for the Nativity Scene. Now where would that squirrel fit in?

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 3:52 pm

@BDM If you could get a pregnant woman maniken and dress it in period and then place it on the critter, it would be even better.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 3:46 pm

All I ask is for wisdom from all, KQuark. That’s why I took exception to the statement on the Manhattan project. We were at the stage someone would have done it. And Hiroshima was probably necessary. Nagasaki probably wasn’t.

We can’t stop discovering things, we are by nature a curious creature. But we should push for human emotional development to try to keep up with the changes. As I said below, the teabaggers are a symptom of fear, and unless we overcome that fear, we are at risk.

I will, though, debate on whether we should always chose to do something just because we can. I grew up in the race for space, but now I believe that deep space exploration can wait a couple of years, it’s not like space is going away. And if the International Space Station is such a good thing for research, then we ought to tell industries who will benefit the most to ante up some of the costs.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 3:44 pm

@SeeknDestroy Everyone should put a couple of dinosaurs in their Nativity Scenes this year.

In fact, get some of those inflatable ones (remember the Sinclair Dinos?) and put them in the local Babtist living Nativity Scene for realism.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 3:31 pm

My mother grew up in Oklahoma in the 1920s and, in environments where there weren’t a lot of trees, dried cowpies were used for heating and cooking.

As they say, no shi..

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 3:26 pm

Do you really want to go towards the population discussion? I got really beatdown at HP for talking about optimum population sizes, especially when the right wing got into their “we got to breed more of us” mode in order to counter more of “them”. Ever increasing populations put a drain on many resources and, with the continued advances in technology, have less and less of a place in the world, but there are some who think we should just breed to extinction.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 3:24 pm

Nor would I want it but progress is feared by many. Remember it wasn’t the brutality of the Shaw of Iran that led to his downfall as much as it was the modernization push coming up against the mullahs and the clinging to the past.

We can’t drag the right into a better new world, we have to work them to it.

I’ve been lucky to work with some near state of the art stuff along the way, but I also appreciate classic craftmanship. But I’m also dead set against the luddites.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 3:17 pm

Besides the touristy things, I did come up for a few restaurants, plus I got an invitation to the Magic Castle. If you’ve never been, it’s fantastic, good food and great magic, close up.

Always liked watching people at Venice Beach, the girls, the musclemen, the homeless, the tourists. Life at its fullest.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 3:03 pm

Sorry for the negative side but we could have also destroyed the world far sooner. IMO, man has not progressed past the point of non projectile based hand weapons. As soon as we were able to step away from our adversary, killing became much less personal. The further away, the less personal it becomes. Consider that the military does major psychological research into all sniper candidates in order to find people who are close to being sociopathic because of the personal nature that the scope brings back to the marksman. When you’re grappling with someone who has a knife in his hand, it’s very personal and real, you smell their sweat, you see their fear, you know it’s a human life. But once you step back to even spear distance, it changes.

Now look how little we’ve really changed since the 1950s, when you examine the rise of the Teabaggers. And sadly, they actually may be more civilized than people in certain other groups throughout the world.

Do I think we were ready then for the atomic age? No. Were we lucky to have made it through the Cold War? Absolutely. And then you have the terrorists…

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 2:53 pm

How tittilating! Sorry, I’ve lived there before, too, including a brief employment stint again last year in Long Beach and it’s just not for me. I remember the Costa Mesa weather report every morning, “overcast and burning off around noon, highs around 75” I remember when there were still orange groves in Orange County, just like we used to have them in Phoenix.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 2:46 pm

I think I saw a flight of Nemicolopterus crypticus carrying it off towards the forest. Pesky little creatures.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 2:40 pm

Oh yes they were, Mary rode a stegasaurus to Bethlehem. Slow, dependable, good ride.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 2:33 pm

That’s 6,500 years, you progressive. Haven’t you read the journals of investigation? You know HP wouldn’t allow any remarks about dinosaurs being in the fields and around the manger? Let alone any jokes about aliens. (only kidding on the first part!)

Question adLib, this weekend before the time change, the postings were sh,owing what then was the correct time for me. Is it that you’re in the Pacific Zone? Because since I’m in Arizona, I did have Pacific Zone time for the summer.

{I’m blaming the keyboard for all spelling mistakes today, sorry)

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 2:31 pm

For this one I’m caught on the fulcrum. Contrary to popular arguement, Hiroshima is not a good example. Nagasaki is. The reality in some areas of science is that development is often being done in unknown parallel by multiple parties. For example, the telephone and the airplane both had inventors neck and neck. There are a lot of ugly things that are developed because a) someone just had a curiosity, or b) someone wanted something to use against someone else. It is why we should always insist on morality in those who make the decisions to use these things.

And it isn’t even the WMDs of each era you have to worry about. I have qualms about the use of Predator drones and the accidental “colateral damage” that seems to always occur.

Engineers don’t want to do the worst things. Many don’t. And many do fine application work on many things. It is often where those with the power and money direct it, as is in the case of say, a Werner Von Braun, who, although labeled a scientist, was more engineer and project manager than scientist, IMO. And he both created devastation and helped mankind reach into outer space.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 2:15 pm

It’s not just scientists, KQuark. I remember back in the Reagan administration researchers in the social sciences who were seeking federal funding being asked what the outcome of the research was going to be before it was done, and if your predetermined conclusions didn’t fit their agenda, no funding. Example: The effects of birth control on younger women, desired conclusion for funding, abstinence is best. Or, What is the effect of lower crop prices on farm families, – no funding, the farmers are getting too much sympathy already.

As an engineer, I have seen the opposite dynamic. Many of the engineers I have known have been staunch conservatives. But then again, I worked for companies like Boeing and was on military programs a lot. But even there many weren’t risk takers and stepping outside the box wasn’t a comfortable thing for them.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 1:55 pm

Next HuffNo Friday

@BDM When I could afford them I collected expensive Christmas decorations, so toppling Christmas trees is not a good image.

I remember in my college dorm the Resident assistant had a golden and it ran the halls. Heaven forbid anything got in the road of that swishing tail!

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 4:38 pm

Being in a racing state, I’m more aware of the plight of greyhounds than many. Thankfully we haven’t heard as many horror stories as we used to about slaughterings, but I’m afraid it probably still goes on.

The only problem with a greyhound would be that it would compete with my couch potato wife for the sofa.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 4:34 pm

My pembroke Cooper is a big guy and he’s a tri-color. The cardigan (Chelsea) is a black and white. She’s only 2/3 his weight but she rules the roost, even though he can give as well as he gets. A couple of years ago I had the pem up in Seattle and had to leave it with a friend for a weekend. She’s a cat person. Big cats. Multiple 25+ pounders. Cooper decided his best bet was to be quiet and keep his back in the corner.

Both of them are rescues but I have the papers on the pembroke. They replaced a Corgi mix we had for a dozen years who ws also a rescue. She was the dog of my life.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 4:29 pm

@BDM Taking the dogs for a run? Well, that’s what you get for those leggy creatures you have. My corgis can run too but in general appreciate a nice walk, even if they are a bit rowdy at times. I have a Pem and a Cardi. The issue with corgis is that they can keep on going far longer than a person would think those short legs would want to.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 4:03 pm

Don’t! Stop! Don’t! Stop! Don’t Stop!!!

Sorry, I just had to do that.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 12:49 pm

I did change the DevastationManor avatar to a “nuclear skull and crossbones” last night and Sarah now has a different picture of her. Somehow the first one I used just wasn’t appreciated, I almost felt like it was an “ugly plastic baby” Chuckle Chuckle

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 12:33 pm

I tried a new sock today and had it pulled immediately,

BachmannTurnHerOverDrive – with a picture of Michele.

I guess they’re not into political humor over there any more.

But Sarah is still “alive” as is DevastationManor. I’m taking a hiatus but just wanted something in my “back pocket” there.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 12:26 pm

America’s Toughest Sheriff

Imagine what it’s like seeing something he said on a daily basis and knowing it affects your life. When my Representative, John SHaddagg, had his town meeting out here, he had Sheriff Joe bring the mobile command center and everything. Obviously there might have been secret Libs hiding in this upscale conservative community. Oh, yeah, there was, me.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 7:34 pm

I once thought that, but it was before I became aware of all those little details which were not exactly easily available before the modern web. His treatment of his first wife alone would have told me everything I needed to know.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 7:27 pm

Yea, I voted for McCain once because at the time I thought the democratic candidate (was it Karen English?) was too liberal even for me.

I feel so ashamed now.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 3:12 pm

Of course, the governor before Napolitano said he was thinking about it again. Geez, what a crook. Just what we need a convicted felon for a governor. Remember all the highway money that magically appeared after he left office? The freeway tax hadn’t bought us anything until he was gone.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 3:07 pm

I missed that, but I read (sometimes) the Republic. And they leave out so much it’s pitiful. Talk about biased media.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 2:19 pm

You didn’t like “the man with no neck”? He wasn’t even a good sportscaster, let alone representative.

» Posted By Corgi Lover On November 2, 2009 @ 2:17 pm