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adornosghost wrote:
Never fished the Arkansas, but I've been there.
It's a fine river. But since granddad's cabin was over the Divide, I love the Roaring Fork, Frying Pan, the Crystal, and Avalanche Creek, even though you can hardly fly fish the latter. It is the last best place, however.
Avalanche Creek is a perfect environment for brookies--there is no finer fish than a brook trout.
adornosghost wrote:
Go for it!
The game is getting late.
At peak, you cannot wade. Your body will be found in Pueblo Reservoir or thereabouts.
I hit the peak the last two years almost on the nose, although you can fish the pocket water on the edges.
adornosghost wrote:
Night Comrades--
Fishing in the AM.
If I can get to the Arkansas, it has gone down from peak and should have a stonefly hatch this weekend or early next week. We'll see what we shall see. The fires may not cooperate.
adornosghost wrote:
Undercover Austin Police Officer Rick Reza poses with a lockbox he constructed with other undercover officers.
They need to make him a Texas Ranger for those hijinks.
adornosghost wrote:
YouTube - Duck and Cover - 1950s Nuclear survival video
Oh yes. Paranoia runs deep.
Mary wrote:
The NSA is concerned with merican insurgency --those few who assemble and organize political opposition to state neo-Islamists.
To reverberate your point, I think the nightmare is a dirty bomb. It causes me some distress but I was at the tail end of the crouch under your desk generation, so I distrust some of my paranoia.
Bubblisimo Gerkinov wrote:
A friend of mine used to work for the Canadian distributer of Fat Possum Records and sent me discs by RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and others I can't recall offhand.
If you want to off-load them, let me know.
Mary wrote:
Mississippi Fred is cute, but Mr Burnside mad me blush.
A coworker of mine is a big fan of Junior Kimbrough, who owned a club where Burnside performed. Highly recommended. Don't take the associate, however, until she's juke joint ready, if that point ever comes.
YouTube - Junior Kimbrough ~ Meet Me in the City
sdtfs wrote:
Even if they rescind or allow it to expire, it won't necessarily make it illegal to continue spying on us fighting terrorism.
Well, then, they might want to get off their collective ass-es.
I think the Patriot Act considerably shifted powers to the Executive and reinstated the Imperial Presidency, and legitimately, at least according to Congress.
You can believe what you wish about the effects of the Patriot Act.
But Congress can act. It won't. It can barely avoid defaulting on debt or spit in a cup. So if they act disturbed about what the Executive Branch is doing, my response is show me the Bill. Don't investigate. Don't go on Fox News. Don't nose pick. File a Bill. Vote it through Committee. Send it to the Floor. That is, if you really are concerned. Otherwise, STFU.
They have power to force a confrontation that would have to be resolved by the judiciary. And they won't use that power. In my prediction; I could be pleasantly surprised. But I won't be.
REBear wrote:
I Wonder WhaT Cock N Bull Story KrugmanWill Cook Up For Tomorrow.
It will be about trolls on the intertubes.
Bubblisimo Gerkinov wrote:
Yeah, but I'm getting a little ne
Aaaaahhhhh....
JP wrote:
aleister perdurabo wrote:
The U.S. response on both fronts is that no rights have been violated.
John Oliver: "Mr. President, no one is saying you broke any laws, we're just saying it's a little bit weird you didn't have to."
Good News! You're Not Paranoid - NSA Oversight - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 06/10/13 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
Congress can revoke the Patriot Act anytime it wants. Or at least dare a veto. Which it will not do. If it does, I will shave my beard and dance the prospector dance.
Until the Bill is filed, I'm not too sympathetic to investigations and breast-beating and wails of how could this happen, at least amongst Congress-Critters. Although the population supported the Patriot Act since we thought it would only be used against terroirsists and non-Freedom Fries.
YouTube - Charlie Musselwhite "Mean Old Frisco"
I'm heading to Colorado and the fires tomorrow. Supposed to be 98 and high humidity here in Mooston Friday.
Blackhalo wrote:
No, that's exactly what I was going for.
YouTube - Put The NSA On Trial
Put Con-gress on trial for the Patriot Act.
Agreed? "I'm shocked and horrified that surveillance is going on after we voted for and reauthorized the Act." HCN? WE didn't know what was going on! Why, we're bum-fuzzled surveillance is happening! Bum-fuzzled, I tell you.
Obama should take his licks and then Con-gress should be given the cat of 9 tails. Particularly if they act surprised.
It is interesting that Congress is claiming HCN.
It was clear what the import and effects of the Patriot Act was. Here we are 10 years later exonerating Congress.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
he Spanish started by burning all the records. That's not a useful precedent, so an effort must be made to reconstruct the record.
We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they (the Maya) regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction.
The Maya book burning event of July 12, 1652 - National Ancient Maya | Examiner.com
That is one of the many tragedies of the invasion of the white devils.
EngineerJim wrote:
Yeah, the only thing wrong with Plano,Tx was putting up with the weather and the Texans.
There is the tornados, although living in jr. high and high school in OK, I don't think Plano is particularly under the gun.
I drove through Wichita Falls a few weeks after the '79 storm and that was more than a bit disconcerting. That was either a F4 or F5. Unbelievable.
EngineerJim wrote:
I lived in Plano for a short period and was thinking of buying there. I looked at several houses and remember that you could walk into a brand new house and look around -- no one there housekeeping. You couldn't do that in CA.
The value argument is a non-starter.
I find Texans no more objectionable than Calis, but that's just me. I'm a little miffed that my next door neighbors are moving. We're the oldest hobbits on the block now, which was true even before. We've only been here 23 years. Luckily the guy on the next block predates us by about 8 years.
I'm not that old; it amazes me how often Americans move.
Rob Dawg wrote:
Of course you could probably buy a similar size house on similar size lot for less than $1M in say, Plano, Tx.
At three times the taxes and double the HVAC bill.
For about 30%. And a good argument for either solar or high efficiency.
But then you would have to live in Plano with the hoi-polloi. Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's in a "low-tax" state as we are told.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
I'm talking about the crowd. They are organized in Seattle...
Just tuned in. The youngest minime is probably there.
Damn it, hit the post.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
Wow. US soccer finally has a collective cheer.
Shakes Tiny Fist of Fury Hey!
SOB. I had it scheduled to tape but the Mexico game was delayed, so that was all I got.
EngineerJim wrote:
That's a nice house though, $1.7M is not too bad either.
One of my profs had a house in the Hollywood Hills looking out on the Hollywood sign, mid 2000 square feet but with a pool. They bought in the early 60s when it was not entirely out of the question.
Sold and bought a mansion in Riverside.
Didn't see the Citi post, but this is worth watching. I saw a smaller one forming, a couple times. Does promote humility.
NorkaWest wrote:
A little Herstatt risk could ruin your trading day.
Some analyist argued that Citi might have lost 8 billion on currency positions after the collapse of emerging market/Japanese currencies.
This was a minority view. I think it was on Business Insider, which is suspect. But interesting.
skk wrote:
Nice nice.. definitely I'm reminded of Susan Calvin ( cf Asimov - Robot series )
Tried to give I Robot to my nephew for his summer reading at his mother's. He took some more recent sci-fi instead.
A bit quieter at the homestead now that BIL and nephew cleared out.
Kit and Chips?
justaskin wrote:
would you chip yourself?
I'm trying to think of what onanism in the silicon age would be. Chip off the old wafer?
Mr Slippery wrote:
criminal enterprises now
Now? Did you come out of carbon freezing last week?
NorkaWest wrote:
I thought Onan was cursed because he wouldn't do his duty and knock up his dead brother's widow.
That too.
Bubblisimo Gerkinov wrote:
ABC News - ABC News
Houston Stiletto-Heel Stabbing Suspect Claims Self-Defense
There's a reason why they're called Stilettos. He looked kind of suspicious in his hoodie, so out came the stilletto's.
"The release makes no mention of whether police believe Trujillo was wearing or holding the shoe during the alleged murder. "
1st amendment--Obama's taking my stilletos.
dryfly wrote:
You need to spend more time around Midwestern girls... even teens.. udderly fantastic.
Some of the Okie farmer girls were similar, I think.
Some were Mennonites, however.
I see sporkfed mentioned the Mennonite conundrum. Now that I have a beard, I might be able to pass, but I hate overhalls, particularly buttoned.
dryfly wrote:
I went to Episcopal Church camp in northern Minnesota... My first taste of 'the older woman' and communion was from a bottle. No lie. Never did see why people were down on religion.
A one-cupper, I see.
Tom Stone wrote:
Check out The "Old Vedanta Temple" in SF. It's where I had sunday school and we spent more time on the eightfold path than the Bible or the book of Mormon.
Just ragging you. Your scud was knowledgeable, filled with the Inner Light. Or with something. Of the making of books there is no end and much weariness of flesh.
energyecon wrote:
Did we have a contract roll or did teh natty get teh hoze again... $3.71/mcf front month
It disturbs me that most of my limit orders in the energy area rang the bell over the last 3 weeks, except for Total, which is close.
I haven't kept up with storage.
energyecon wrote:
I think the melty cheese is Energy Corridor, Spring, The Woodlands, and inside 610 Loop... prolly some parts I am not familiar with I missed but things are hot thereabouts.
Out by West 10 and the beltway is hopping too, supposedly. I forget the name of the area.
HomeGnome wrote:
Erry one should have some skin in the game Youre only as good as your last envelope
Texas is often guilty of mis-overestimation.
Tom Stone wrote:
Come again?
Onan was cursed for spilling his intellectual seed upon the ground.
I see you didn't go to Vacation Bible School, although that particular one wasn't part of the standard curriculum, for some reason.
Back at you, come again.
energyecon wrote:
It isn't the case here in H-town, at least out west in the Energy Corridor - neighbor who is a realtor said the buy side is tough these days due to competitive pressures, the sell side is a dream - stuff going in a day with multiple bids... it is a 'furcated market here.
Kingwood is stagnant, but holding ground. On the other hand, the homestead is almost paid off before we head west after Greeley.
"The last scud of day holds back for me;
It flings my likeness after the rest, and true as any, on the shadow’d wilds;
It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the runaway sun;
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
I bequeathe myself to the dirt, to grow from the grass I love;
If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am, or what I mean;
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged;
Missing me one place, search another;
I stop somewhere, waiting for you."
adornosghost wrote:
We know what side Walt would be on.
I am the grass under your feet. (Always liked the close of the poem.)
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
What do you do, Astros groupie? Just Pullin' Yer Leg
Actually, I'm slumming watching the Rangers get pounded by the Indians since the new Astros owner has divorced his team from TV, other than Comcast.
HomeGnome wrote:
Stop being a foreskin Zombie
Intellectual onanism.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
Hahahahah. In fact I'm involved with several construction projects right now. I gather you're a construction worker. Snark
However can you live with yourself, yogi, detracting from GDP and all?
HomeGnome wrote:
so why do you want them employed and starving, rob? Youre only as good as your last envelope
Because as a narcissist, it would grieve yogi and task him, and heap distress upon him.
Other than that, it's just my evil nature wanting to just throw jobs out there without yogi's blessings cast upon the waters.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
You clearly would rather have them employed and starving.
Oh yes; you hit the nail on the head there. That's certainly my position, yep. You certainly aren't assuming anything about me, yogi. No siree, bob.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
You really surmise a lot of shit.
As do you, yogi. I find that you are quite willing to assume a lot about me.
What you shall assume, I shall assume, to quote Whitman.
I gather you are not in construction.