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VacationBlogging It – Installation #2

Posted in Vacation 2008, Washington, tagged , , , , on July 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Prosser, WA, and by extension Richland/Tri-Cities prove the rule that the more things change the more things stay the same.  Oddly enough this boom-and-bust desert town is growing but also dying off in the labs (Battelle PNNL).  Richland/Hanford is a so-called Superfund site.  The insidious part of the Manhattan Project which birthed from its loins [...]

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VacationBlogging It – Installation #1

Posted in Vacation 2008, tagged , , on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Hi All.  First Installment, Vacation 2008.
We started out last Thursday night. The idea was that we would do things in a logical order…

“Pink Juice” the cat
Pack up stuff into the car
Drive to the hotel next to the airport, stay overnight, dump off vehicle
Get up early, get on plane
Endure agony with two freaked out hyperactive [...]

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Vacation, vacation, vacation… it’s only a few hours awayyyyy.

Posted in F-U-N - FUN., tagged , , , , , on July 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »

(musically, sorta)
Leaving… on a jet plane… sound of kids scrambling my brain… oh Lord, what a way to gooo-ooo-ooo-ooh…
(end musical score)
Will be leaving the sitter with the house and hauling ass onwards to the fruits of my labors – vacation!  The NorthWest beckons, all desert-ey in Washington, and all rainforest-ey in Oregon.  Oh, yeah.  We [...]

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Weighing Ultra-Low-Intensity Holes

Posted in Science/Technology, tagged , , , , on July 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Well, certain racists in Texas might call ‘em “Black Holes” but that’s just a nasty slur like in an earlier post of mine (scroll down in that post for the Texas county official fighting the good fight).  We don’t do that sort thing over here at The Folly.  We only deal in Ultra-Low-Intensity Holes (the [...]

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Double Standards Do Exist in Race (for POTUS)

Posted in Almost News, tagged , , , , , on July 15, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Ok, kids… Listening again to NPR “Talk of the Nation” where the focus is on the latest cover of the New Yorker and the place where facts are rarely factors in decisions – the land where emotion and hysteria trump all.  The source page for the cover shown below is here.

Now, my first thought was [...]

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Global Warming to Cause More Kidney Stones

Posted in Junk Science, tagged , , , on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Dammit I’ve been saying this for years.
It should be obvious to even the most causual of observers and Globular Worming will cause more kidney stones.  I have now been vindicated by the University of Texas.
I mean, they’ve written a paper on it and everything so it must be true right?  In fact, they rarely put [...]

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McCain = Roosevelt?

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on July 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »

McCain says he is modeled after Teddy Roosevelt.  I’m not writing this to make a point, or be exhaustively thorough, or anything like that.  I’m throwing stuff out there to see if anyone has any thoughts on the issue of McCain if he were to actually be the New Roosevelt.
A few things about Roosevelt:

He was [...]

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Interested in a Green of a Different Kind – Blowing Hot Air

Posted in Energy, Science/Technology, tagged , , , on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As usual, if someone comes up with an idea that they say is groundbreaking you should be cautious.  If they say it is revolutionary, you should be doubly cautious.  If the claim is that it will Change Life Forever, run.
This falls in there somewhere. Problem with lots of green solutions is that they would have [...]

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“Obama’s Chocolate Nuts” – A hot-selling candy

Posted in candy, fishing, tagged , , , , on July 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I wouldn’t have believed it.  Chicago Sun-Times…
The owner said:  “We’re going to send Jesse Jackson his ‘Obama’s Nuts’ so he doesn’t have to be violent about it.”

Because of Jackson’s crude comment, candy seller’s site getting a lot more hits

July 11, 2008
BY ANDREW HERRMANN
Staff reporter / aherrmann@suntimes.com
The owner of “Obama’s Chocolate Nuts” is feeling like “the [...]

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Puncture Chronicles Updated.

Posted in Just Plain Bizarre, Politics, tagged , , , , on July 11, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Last two days were fairly serious.  I’m all out of serious and so you will have a Psychotic Friday posting.
Mrs. Peel was my Muse.  She got the ball rolling and combined with having a relatively clear head from less opiates (just a wee bit and muscle relaxants) I was able to think complete chains of [...]

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Mini-Post – Because That is All Jesse Jackson Deserves

Posted in Mini-Blurb, tagged , , , , , on July 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »

NOTE: This is a mini-post because I don’t want to detract from the one below this “Why Iraq Had to Happen“. I feel that it is a very important post. This mini-post, however, I could not resist.
Man, for a reverend, he sure has “issues” – extortion, adultery, hatred, greed, pride… I [...]

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Why Iraq Had to Happen.

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on July 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I found an excellent, and I mean excellent outlining of the timeline and events in their context and how Iraq was really the only morally allowable thing to do. It is LONG. But it is also the single best compilation of information I’ve yet seen in one place.  I’m impressed enough with this [...]

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The Limeys are Loons… They’re All Quite Mad, I Tell You…

Posted in Just Plain Bizarre, tagged , , , , , on July 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Can’t make this stuff up.  I would say the bushes have certainly been encouraging wild-life.
I thought I had seen it all.  Turns out, I really really don’t want to see it all.   This isn’t discrimination, it’s public indecency.

Plans to clear undergrowth from gay sex spot branded discriminatory
By Richard Alleyne
Last Updated: 8:22AM BST 08/07/2008
A council has [...]

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