Displaying 31 To 60 Of 94 Comments 10 minutes of debate the House Reconciliation bill, then the final vote. And then we’re done. For now. » Posted By nottoolate On March 25, 2010 @ 5:26 pm Here’s the link to Rachel’s segment. Scared the pants off me to find out even more than I already knew. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ Daily Kos has had several good diaries with excellent comments on this topic today. HOW do we get this stuff covered in the mainstream media? Surely they’ll want to peddle more fear and loathing. And that goddamned Palin with today’s tweet: don’t retreat, RELOAD, and a map of the US with 20 Democratic HQs across the country marked as rifle targets. We can’t stand for this. We can’t. How can that crazy bunch of rifle-carrying militia-men be allowed to convene in Fort Hood, VA, chosen because it’s the closest place to Washington where they’ll be allowed to carry their guns. On April 19…anniversary of Waco and the Oklahoma City bombing. All it takes for evil to prosper is for good folk to remain silent. I’m not an organizer, but I can help others who are. What, specifically, can I do to help? » Posted By nottoolate On March 23, 2010 @ 8:59 pm Rude, Crude, and Dangerous To Know Indeed, Dildenusa. Theoildrum continues to reflect some good thinking about what the flow might be based on the very limited video evidence released by BP. I do believe BP knows much more than they are telling about what the flow rate actually is. There are some real solid technical reasons they need that information. I am unable to feel the love when I hear that a multi-agency federal bunch is on the case. http://www.energyboom.com/policy/federal-flow-rate-technical-team-established-determine-extent-bp-oil-spill And I kind of lost track of that hotsy-totsy panel of the best brains of our time (2 of whom have nuclear expertise) who are supposed to address possible solutions. The homophobe Jonathan Katz has been dropped from this taskforce after outrage over his climate change denial and his anti-gay rants. The taskforce includes Richard L. Garwin (82), a military-technology and arms-control consultant to the U.S. government. He helped design the first hydrogen bomb in 1951, according to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. I think this group is supposed to be working under top secret conditions, but if anybody has an update I’d be interested to hear it. And then there’s Kevin Costner and his $23mil each miracle centrifuges. http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/49458 You can’t make this shit up. » Posted By nottoolate On May 20, 2010 @ 8:44 pm I just watched this, Javaz. It helped me cry for the first time over this, right along with Mike Williams. If BP isn’t careful with that goddamn 4″ straw they’re using to suck up the oil and gas, there’s going to be another explosion. Why the hell is BP allowed to proceed with this? It’s like asking a murderer to handle mitigation for his deed. Literally. » Posted By nottoolate On May 16, 2010 @ 8:40 pm C’Lady, don’t dismiss duct tape out of hand. For all we know it will be used in the crap shoot (junk shot) along with shredded golf balls and tires. Personally, I’m afraid this attempt carries as much danger as the original drilling. They have to figure out the right materials to use, and heave waves of it in at certain time intervals. They also need to monitor it to make sure they’re not making things worse. “Worse” would include blowing out the blowout preventer itself, in which case there is a wide-open flow path for 8000 psi oil to the sea bed. Commenters on theoildrum.com think this is unlikely, but but possible. BP et al. (unfortunately, the et al. includes Obama) treated the possibility of disaster on this and other deepwater wells as extremely unlikely. The did not have and still do not have contingency plans, and there isn’t even a possibility of a contingency plan for a blowout of the blowout preventer. The ONLY way to finally kill the well is through the mis-called “relief” wells. (They’re not for relief, they’re for killing.) Those will take many weeks to complete, and of course all efforts will be shut down by seriously bad weather (those darned hurricanes!). Meanwhile, all this nonsense about domes and top hats and junk shots is smoke and mirrors to make the public feel that something, anything, is being done. » Posted By nottoolate On May 15, 2010 @ 5:45 pm Planet Music Night: Summertime (well close enough) Man it’s a hot one, like seven inches from the midday sun… httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXp413NynFk » Posted By nottoolate On May 14, 2010 @ 5:46 pm I swoon every time. » Posted By nottoolate On May 7, 2010 @ 6:43 pm Whatsie, this is astounding! Are you syndicated? This art deserves nationwide circulation, right now, IMEO (in my exalted opinion). I think I’m still in an elemental, primitive denial stage regarding this tragedy. I grew up on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, FL, and spent many childhood days in a rowboat in the cypress swamps, or on the beach. I could lie on the dock and watch manatees and dolphins and pelicans (prodigious shitters!), or hail a passing shrimp boat for a just-caught supply. Catch crabs. Watch egrets and herons and storks and clouds of bats. My soul aches for the lives being lost and ruined by unchecked greed. » Posted By nottoolate On May 4, 2010 @ 10:43 am Friday Music Thread – Fight The Power! Santana’s “Migra” » Posted By nottoolate On April 30, 2010 @ 4:16 pm Friday Music Thread – Best Music on Earth We Are the World Paved Paradise and… » Posted By nottoolate On April 23, 2010 @ 4:55 pm The Centenary of the Death of Mark Twain Hal Holbrook as the reincarnation of Mark Twain, on religion and war. Have you seen the photos of the young Sam Clemens? Yowza, he was one gorgeous man.
» Posted By nottoolate On April 23, 2010 @ 1:30 pm Friday Music Thread – Tax Free OCMS: We’re All in This Thing Together
And if that’s too slow for you, try this OCMS, Tear It Down. Even if you have to Google the lyrics as I did, it’s a barnburner. BTW, the happy old lady with the black purse looks like me.
» Posted By nottoolate On April 16, 2010 @ 7:39 pm No Compassion – the American Terrorist still lives To say that I have a problem with “The Secret” and books of that ilk would be like saying that I have issues with being stabbed in the ear with a shiv. Therefore I adore the following review written by Ari Brouillette. About 10,000 people have read this review on amazon.com, and all but a couple hundred found it “helpful.” Please allow me to share with you how “The Secret” changed my life and in a very real and substantive way allowed me to overcome a severe crisis in my personal life. It is well known that the premise of “The Secret” is the science of attracting the things in life that you desire and need and in removing from your life those things that you don’t want. Before finding this book, I knew nothing of these principles, the process of positive visualization, and had actually engaged in reckless behaviors to the point of endangering my own life and wellbeing. » Posted By nottoolate On April 16, 2010 @ 5:09 pm From Wikipedia on J. Robert Oppenheimer: In reference to the Trinity test in New Mexico, where his Los Alamos team first tested the bomb, Oppenheimer famously recalled the Bhagavad Gita: “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one.” and “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” » Posted By nottoolate On April 14, 2010 @ 12:56 pm Dildenusa, thank you for this. It’s perfect. If a course on the literature of 20th century war were a requirement for military school freshpersons, I wonder how many would drop out? » Posted By nottoolate On April 14, 2010 @ 12:30 pm At Huffington Post, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog DKos is also going through some sturm und drang about posting standards. I’m beginning to use that site the same way I do Huffie: scan for late-breaking news, collect more information from multiple other sources. Kos comment threads often degenerate into dogfights, IMO, though Meteor Blades means well. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/4/7/225332/3575 » Posted By nottoolate On April 12, 2010 @ 12:59 pm Let’s All Give Thanks for Bob McDonnell Old hippie speaks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM0Z75KEd_o Good Monday, Bito. My thoughts are with you. » Posted By nottoolate On April 12, 2010 @ 11:42 am Friday Music Thread – Music That Travels Dame Kiri Te Kanawa singing a Maori song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV88zD55_zc&feature=related Also a WWII songs fan. Here’s Dame Vera Lynn with the White Cliffs of Dover.
» Posted By nottoolate On April 9, 2010 @ 3:24 pm Love this! Thanks. » Posted By nottoolate On April 9, 2010 @ 3:12 pm Vox Populi AfterChat – 4-2-2010 I am relieved to know it was ferocious. Je suis fatigue! » Posted By nottoolate On April 2, 2010 @ 9:12 pm Re After Chat after that VP, reminds me of a haiku by Zen Master Basho: The temple bell stops » Posted By nottoolate On April 2, 2010 @ 9:07 pm Planet Music Night Dedicated to Fools I looked, I clicked on VP, I see your comments. How would I post one? » Posted By nottoolate On April 2, 2010 @ 8:16 pm Teabonics: A Perfect Day for Fools KQuark, anybody who has a quark and a mu and an angstrom in his name AND can write as well and think as well as you do outranks me. Stand tall! » Posted By nottoolate On April 1, 2010 @ 8:20 pm Oh Lard, hep me. » Posted By nottoolate On April 1, 2010 @ 3:51 pm Aaaargh. The pain! The pain! I was an English literature major, then an English teacher, then an editor and a proofreader. This shit with the misspelled words on Teaboner signs was amusing the first few times, then not so much, and now it is like molten shards of glass in my eyes. Yesterday I made the mistake of reading one of those horrid personal diaries on Kos that made me suspect the writer’s bona fides, so I checked her previous posts and found reference to Shakespeare’s “racist novel the merchant of venice.” Jesus wept. » Posted By nottoolate On April 1, 2010 @ 3:31 pm How about Boehner saying to Pelosi, “Thanks, but what with one thing and another, I really don’t feel like talking about whack jobs just now.” » Posted By nottoolate On April 1, 2010 @ 1:36 pm NO JOKE! RNC “census” mailer typo directs recipients to phone-sex line. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0410/RNC_Census_mailer_offers_phone_sex_number.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/01/rnc-mailer-typo-directs-r_n_521921.html » Posted By nottoolate On April 1, 2010 @ 12:57 pm We’ll never know, because they just keep flipping the switch saying “Maybe it’ll work this time, maybe it’ll work this time, maybe it’ll work this time…” » Posted By nottoolate On April 1, 2010 @ 12:24 pm History of the World, Part 1– Passover Edition Perhaps Matthews is an “oyster”: one who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions. » Posted By nottoolate On March 31, 2010 @ 9:01 am Knowledge is Power, Ignorance is ____ Good news and bad news about the LHC. » Posted By nottoolate On March 30, 2010 @ 2:51 pmComments Posted By nottoolate
In designing for the top kill and/or junk shot it is really vital to the decision making. In fact, the approach they are now taking of trying the top kill before the junk shot could be a clue that the flow rate is not as great as they originally thought (we have no idea what their original estimate was) as they have to be able to pump the mud against that flow.
I can’t believe a couple of reputable blogs reported this with dewey-eyed optimism. I guess you’d call it wishing on a star.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzw6GiqZyD0
At age 36, I found myself in a medium security prison serving 3-5 years for destruction of government property and public intoxication. This was stiff punishment for drunkenly defecating in a mailbox but as the judge pointed out, this was my third conviction for the exact same crime. I obviously had an alcohol problem and a deep and intense disrespect for the postal system, but even more importantly I was ignoring the very fabric of our metaphysical reality and inviting destructive influences into my life.
My fourth day in prison was the first day that I was allowed in general population and while in the recreation yard I was approached by a prisoner named Marcus who calmly informed me that as a new prisoner I had been purchased by him for three packs of Winston cigarettes and 8 ounces of Pruno (prison wine). Marcus elaborated further that I could expect to be raped by him on a daily basis and that I had pretty eyes.
Needless to say, I was deeply shocked that my life had sunk to this level. Although I’ve never been homophobic I was discovering that I was very rape phobic and dismayed by my overall personal street value of roughly $15. I returned to my cell and sat very quietly, searching myself for answers on how I could improve my life and distance myself from harmful outside influences. At that point, in what I consider to be a miraculous moment, my cell mate Jim Norton informed me that he knew about the Marcus situation and that he had something that could solve my problems. He handed me a copy of “The Secret”. Normally I wouldn’t have turned to a self help book to resolve such a severe and immediate threat but I literally didn’t have any other available alternatives. I immediately opened the book and began to read.
The first few chapters deal with the essence of something called the “Law of Attraction” in which a primal universal force is available to us and can be harnessed for the betterment of our lives. The theoretical nature of the first few chapters wasn’t exactly putting me at peace. In fact, I had never meditated and had great difficulty with closing out the chaotic noises of the prison and visualizing the positive changes that I so dearly needed. It was when I reached Chapter 6 “The Secret to Relationships” that I realized how this book could help me distance myself from Marcus and his negative intentions. Starting with chapter six there was a cavity carved into the book and in that cavity was a prison shiv. This particular shiv was a toothbrush with a handle that had been repeatedly melted and ground into a razor sharp point.
The next day in the exercise yard I carried “The Secret” with me and when Marcus approached me I opened the book and stabbed him in the neck. The next eight weeks in solitary confinement provided ample time to practice positive visualization and the 16 hours per day of absolute darkness made visualization about the only thing that I actually could do. I’m not sure that everybody’s life will be changed in such a dramatic way by this book but I’m very thankful to have found it and will continue to recommend it heartily.
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.
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