Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

good morning you wonderful tm'rs. for those who need visuals, here's a picture from wiki of camp casey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Casey,_Crawford,_Texas

it's a bird! it's a plane! no, it's a flying car! blimey!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2009/jan/14/parajet-skycar

as patsi would say, those zany brits.

Good morning!
Patd- Thanks for the link. Wonder if he thought about not meeting with her the other day when discussing regrets. Bush sure had a knack for doing things his way. I remember when Gold Star Mothers were driven in Cadillacs on Memorial Day.

whatever happened to cindy's running against pelosi?

Patd-Cool, been waiting for those flying cars ever since Jetsons!

another painting from the possum wig fellow......

http://www.paulmcmillan.com/index.html

EdVB........paul mcmillan, the painter guy, has an art center in Enfield, NY on Cayuga Lake.....it's located in an old methodist church building and looks like it would be worth seeing......isn't Enfield somewhere near your neck of the woods?

the art center:

http://www.mcmillanartcenter.com/

Crawford Ranch was minor compared with W's mind-bubble. Based on his comments yesterday, he's done a fine job of "keep(ing) the world away" by living in a world of his own creation.

Did I hear that he's giving a going away speech on Thursday night? One, last attempt to leave us with a good impression and undo 8 years of ick with a few minutes of stammering?

"No matter what papers others provide, I'll burn them in the oven," he told the visitors. "Nobody, no transit country, has the right to use its transit location to take other customers hostage," Putin declared.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_ukraine_russia_gas

monkeying around in tampa bay
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=8243369&version=7&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Blue -- your link makes me wonder where Condoleeza Rice, our "great" Russian expert has been the past eight years.

"Cowboy common sense with Old Don Collier"

coming up on imus..................

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-obama-army14-2009jan14,0,2211031.story

"Retooling Obama's campaign machine for the long haul
The vast network that helped elect Obama will be tapped to lobby lawmakers on behalf of the president, with an eye toward reelection. A service organization as a nonprofit arm is also considered."

Despite my antipathy for him and his administration, I can understand the need for a place to hide. But his was cloaked in a paranoia not seen since Nixon.

Every time, especially at holidays, I saw him dragging all the agents and military people away from their own homes I bridled at the thoughtless obliviousness of the man.

By the way, I read in AF Times that the DoD is shopping for a new fleet of airplanes to replace the current 747s. The ultimate cost will be in the billions. The reason cited was that they were simply too old and it would be too expensive to update them.

I say, no new airplanes for the president until the people in our Air Force have updates for their tankers and B-52s--airplanes that are more than twice as old as the 747s and that have many, many times the flying hours on their tired airframes.

The final Gallup Poll on Bush favorability is out. He has a bit of an uptick to 34%. It is very much a grimacing, "Here's your hat. What's your hurry?" kiss off by the American public.

http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx

Many thanks to all those who share in the joy we feel when we see the pictures of our granddaughter and her little bit of Heaven. Stinky and I will do everything in our power to insure that she is nurtured and given the sense of self worth that makes the difference between being ordinary and being exceptional.

More bad jobs news. Another half million gone

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113767/Jobless-Claims-Will-Likely-Surge-Thursday.aspx

Hillary Clinton is now in the "Sally Field, You Like Me you really like me" Class

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113740/Senate-Hearings-Begin-Hillary-Clintons-Image-Soars.aspx

does anyone else think Luke Russert looks just like Moe Howard?

Craig,

I'm worried about you on innauguration Day. So many of the streets will be closed, I hope you won't take up bike riding. You don't have too many more bones available for breaking.

Mr. Fish,

I think he looks like really cute nepotism.

BTW, did you see my reply to your "Purlie" post.

J.......i must have missed it........do you remember when that was? (I'll be glad when this alzheimer's goes away......)

Sturgeone,

Two threads ago, you probably left before I posted. Here's the link.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-legacy-a-flawed-election.html#comment-189087

ahh.....nice......thanks......

Craig...I'm loving these lookback posts of yours. It's like dishing the next morning about a bad party that lasted eight years.

Sturge...I heard there's a link between early onset and wearing possum wigs.

"I heard there's a link between early onset and wearing possum wigs."

lard, and can you imagine what it does to the possum? now where did i put my hide.... i know it was here just the other day... damn alzheimers

LOL PatD...the possum probably gets severe constipation. :)

thinking of past threads, whatever happened to prof marcia and maggisd?

Another mission not accomplished O B L --still on a wanted poster?

CAIRO, Egypt — Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments as allies of the Jewish state in a new message aimed at harnessing anger in the Mideast over the Gaza offensive.

Bin Laden spoke in an audiotape posted Wednesday on Islamic militant Web sites where al-Qaida usually issues its messages. It was his first tape since May and came nearly three weeks after Israel started its campaign against Gaza's militant Hamas rulers.

The al-Qaida leader also vowed that the terror network would open "new fronts" against the United States and its allies beyond Iraq and Afghanistan. He said President-elect Barack Obama has received a "heavy inheritance" from George W. Bush — two wars and "the collapse of the economy," which he said will render the United States unable to sustain a long fight against the mujahedeen, or holy warriors.

here's the link

http://www.comcast.net/news/world/

nothing personal to our friend in the north, but those sneaky canadians are attempting to extend their boundaries in the northwest passage before the ice melts.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090112.COARCTIC12/TPStory/Comment

profound comment from a native:
http://climateprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/polar-bear-tongue.jpeg

must give proper credit for the polar bear pix and story alert. thanks, rick.

http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/blog/2187

Big Problem that Bush also ignored?

Groups sue EPA, want tougher ship discharge rules

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Environmentalists sued the federal government Monday over new rules that critics say do too little to prevent cargo ships from dumping invasive species into the nation's waterways.

The Environmental Protection Agency is requiring oceangoing vessels to exchange their ballast water, or rinse their ballast tanks if empty, before entering U.S. coastal waters and the Great Lakes. Environmentalists say more extensive treatment of ballast tanks is necessary to keep invasive species from foreign ports from damaging U.S. aquatic ecosystems.

Ballast water, which keeps vessels stable in rough seas, is blamed for carrying zebra mussels and many other invasive species into U.S. waters where they have overwhelmed native species and caused other environmental harm.

solar, please don't forget to always cite your sources or provide links on your copy-and-pastes. thanks

hi y'all.

Here's a ditty about Geithner and his tax and immigration/employment problems.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/13/geithners-tax-error-a-com_n_157644.html

Apparently enough folks working abroad were not aware of their "self employment" status that the IRS had to issue a circular on the issue. And his Nanny or whatever, he did not hire an illegal worker - she was was in the country legally, and legally performing work when she was hired, she was married to an American citizen, AND she got a new green card reissued when she applied for it. Hardly the same as Sanchez.

Sorry----that last one from comcast news----

--CRAIG----- how can I get the date of my first post,,,,,did not mark date that I came aboard?

Tony

"http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-most-fateful-day.html#comment-189427"

My reply

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-most-fateful-day.html#comment-189430

"...cooking a pork tenderloin over red cabbage and apples in my clay pot..."

craig, you left us hanging with the wafting of wonderful smells yesterday. was it as good as it sounded? and did you have buttered hunks of fresh baked, hard crusted bread and a good dry sauvignon with it?

I see Maureen Dowd's Clinton hard-on is approaching priapism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/opinion/14dowd.html?_r=1

My god, what would she have done for the next 8 years had Hillary not had some role in the Obama administration?

and mascarpone with raspberry compote for dessert?

a demitasse of cafecito for a finale?

You guys have made me hungry.

Top 10 food blogs from around the world
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article5238429.ece

Fine post Craig, I'm sure you are right. The indifferent treatment of the God Star Mothers and Families and refusal to meet with them, had to pull at every American's heartstrings regardless of one's political affiliation.

"Hillary Clinton is now in the "Sally Field, You Like Me you really like me" Class"

OMG -- I hadn't heard her say that! What a dumb statement from a usually smart woman!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-unpeaceful-refuge.html#comment-189494
Maureen is a fine one to speak of tack!

Patd- I don't know where Prof. Marcia, but I sure miss her in the morning.

To Hillary, with love
Hillary Clinton's Senate confirmation hearing to become Barack Obama's secretary of state turns into a group hug.

"Not long after that, Kerry was at it again. "Mr. President," Clinton began to address him, as she answered a question. "I'll take that," Kerry answered. "Mr. President-elect ... Mr. Chairman -- it was a Freudian slip," she corrected herself. "We're both subject to those, I want you to know," Kerry said. "Yes, indeed, indeed, on this subject, especially," Clinton agreed, laughing."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/01/14/clinton/

If you want a good report on the load of garbage left for Obama, this should give you a good idea of just how bad it already is and getting worse

http://www.amazon.com/Inheritance-World-Confronts-Challenges-American/dp/0307407926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231950851&sr=1-1

I really should have posted the following sentence form that Salon piece ... it's probably the most important one.

"Foreign policy must be based on a marriage of principles and pragmatism, not rigid ideology, on facts and evidence, not emotion or prejudice.....diplomacy will be the vanguard of our foreign policy."

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-unpeaceful-refuge.html#comment-189486

Solar, Did you see my reply to this post about being up 25 stories? :-)

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-most-fateful-day.html#comment-189435

Even thinking about it gives me a mental image that makes the stomach churn.

Chole

Not too much coffee ---science reports that 6 cups or more( caffeine) is like smoking pot,,,can get a natural high,,,,10-cups or more from caffeine---I don't drink coffee ,,,but going to start,,,now.

Ha Solar. Are you going to go for 6 cups or 10?

Jamie

I did see that ....Im afraid that we will have to get that Macho Man Tony to help us both down----it has been a very long time that I have been higher than 6-10 stories high----but inside of buildings Im a tiger,,,and fearless :-).....when you are that high over looking Lake Michigan ----that is a very cool feeling,,,,than when you see all the little ant people walking the streets below,,,you can get a sense of how big you are in the universe-----atom size----that is what I like.,,,,

"Everyone has their particular field of expertise."

That was a very nice post you made there Jamie. :)

Tony,
Thanks for the 'chin up' message. I feel so honored that you've taken the time to get to know me so well. That kind of sensitivity is hard to come by.

Chlo

I like too jump into things, and get it over with,,,,,10-12 should do it

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Patsi,

She didn't say it. I did about the Gallup Poll numbers she is receiving that are sky high and better than the last ten years. Sort of like when Field got the Oscar after being dissed for years as "gidget"

oldsea, wasn't prof marcia caught up in the chaos of the ca fires? i hope she is ok. also miss her morning contributions.

"10-12 should do it"

OMG. You sure you want to be that hyper? :)

Solar, For the last year I've drank mostly decaf. You only get a few grams of caffeine out of decaf, but I still need them.

I used to drink more like a pot too of the regular too, for a while anyway.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-unpeaceful-refuge.html#comment-189509

Solar, You can look down and tell me all about it. I can't even stand that "looking down" sensation when it is on the screen in a movie theater. We are talking instantaneous vertigo.

The funny thing is that I love flying in an airplane, but if someone tried to get me to parachute, they would be skinned alive by my fingernails scraping to hang on.

Patsi, I wouldn't believe any goofy quote from Hillary unless I was there or read it myself.

"wasn't prof marcia caught up in the chaos of the ca fires?"

Pat, I think she's dropped in since then (a while back). She said she was in the midst of writing a book, plus she was back at her teaching job. Sounded like she was pretty busy, but doing well. It's funny, but I was thinking about her this morning too, and miss her. She certainly left a good impression.

Jamie

If Chloe----never mind OSH is the risk taker,,,,How do you feel on going on a little bunji jump with me,,,,,I won't let you fall

Jamie----that should have been faaaaaaallll---with a tiny very tiny help at the end HA

solar, before you jump into 10-12 cups, take a little trip to miami for some cafe cubano... only need one of these to get the same high. oh yeah, enjoy the weather while you're there.

http://www.miami.com/cuban-coffee-101-article

got called away ... see you all later

Padt

If they are anything like coffe from the one that an Palestinian friend of mine gave me once ( I remember thinking ---wow what a small cup of coffee) no thanks ----it took a whole six pact of Bud to clear it out------on second thought ,,,Ok :-)

Thanks for the weather ----could use a little warmth,,,,cold and snowing again here.

Not me dude! I have taken all kinds of risks in my life but they were for survival and keeping my family together. No way am I jumping off a bridge tied to a rubber band!

speaking of snow in the ne, wonder if the inaugural train a la lincoln will be ok or if there is now a plan b in the works.

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You wouldn't get me willingly near the edge of the bridge much less up on the platform.

I can do things that absolutely terrify me if the circumstances require, but there had better be someone near death that I am saving to get me to do it, or someone is going to PAY!!!!

I'm with you Jamie!

"At the invitation of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Mr. Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden will pay a protocol visit to the Supreme Court of the United States Wednesday afternoon, the office says.

And, how do you think the conversation will go, between Bogus POTUS - Bogus Elect Obama and Chief Justice Roberts?

Good day, Mr. President-Elect.

Why, good day to you, Chief Justice Roberts; um... uh... so! Read any letters from Orly Taitz, lately?

Well, Barry-er may I call you, "Barack?" No, I'm sorry, too informal. You see, Mr. President-Elect Soeto-oh-oh-Obama, I've been hearing the darnedest things about you! Please, have a seat and tell me a little about yourself. Begin at the v-e-r-r-y beginning, if you can -- that's the natural place to start, eh? I mean, wherever that place happens... to be."

http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-biden-to-visit-supreme-court-says.html

My new thrill experience I want to try is "ziplining"...in which you zip around from platform to platform on pulleys hooked to cables that can stretch as much as several hundred feet. I had seen pictures of it before, but the places are usually in mountainous areas -- but now the first one is opening up in Florida, in a beautiful wilderness area. There was a story in our paper today.

Jamie ----thanks for a very pleasant morning---gotta go and not shovel,,,,snow blower this time,,

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-unpeaceful-refuge.html#comment-189535

Ziplining actually looks like fun. There is a great scene in "Medicine Man" where they are riding through the top of the jungle canopy. That I could handle. I just don't want to know how far "DOWN" is located.

Jamie...The one that just opened here gets you up to 55 feet of the ground at it's highest point.

Lardo,

That's fine. I guess my imagination thinks it would survive a five story fall. lol

I'll try zip lining- it looks like a pisser!

Jamie...here's the link to the ziplining story, along with a fun video.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/orl-zipline1409jan14,0,4449518.column

Just a personal observation, but I'm finding the Politico website a much more interesting source of coverage during the transition than it was during the campaign.

Their campaign coverage so often just seemed to follow the same furrows being plowed every day on cable TV news. But just in the past few days they've had some great, original stuff from both inside the transition team and from Capitol Hill -- the addition of longtime WSJ ace David Rogers was a great move for them.

OSH-----Jamie

Ziip lining does look like a pisser------but in the Amazon,,,,or any where else that scientist looked for new herbs for medicine,,,,,they had to climb ---scale ---the trees and install the pulley system that they operate on,,,,so you Osh and Jamie have to climb 55 ft high or even higher so you don't drag near the bottom and scrap your bottomsssss,,,(ooops Patsi Im talking poopers again ) but the very top one I estimate about 2-3 times of the lowest one,,,,,who is coming with me hahaha,,,looks like its just you and me again Tony. snow has not stopped for hrs,,,that' a bad thing,,,,the good thing is my son is around,,,,going to bribe him with a lot of coffee.

The UAW contacted me through the mail. According to what they sent me, the UAW is going to hold three meetings at my plant this Friday. At 7 a.m. , 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. These meetings are going to be held to give us more information and to allow us to ask questions. They sent me a copy of the agreement between the UAW and my company. It is going to be up to us to decide whether or not we wanna be represented by the UAW. Lots to think about.

Sturgeon,

Re: Enfield, NY & Paul McMillan

Sorry, Sturge, I just saw your early morning question about Enfield being in my neck of the woods. It depends how big the woods are.

Cayuga Lake is about three hours from Schoharie, and it's one of those deals where there's no ideal way to get there. In the time it would take me to get to Cayuga Lake, I could get to Yankee Stadium. Therefore, I've never seen Cayuga Lake.

(I'm lying about never seeing the lake, but it was an innocent lie that baseball fans should be excused for, while they're waiting for pitchers and catchers to report.)

"Barack Obama’s alma maters -- from his high school to his graduate school -- are planning to claim a small piece of the president-elect at gatherings throughout the inaugural week.

Only Columbia is not hosting a big party for their presidential grad.

What's the story with Columbia? What was Obama up to in the years between Occidental and Business International Corp? He gets back from Pakistan and disappears.

BMOC Wayne Allyn Root says, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knows him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! ... Nobody recalls him. I'm not exaggerating, I'm not kidding."

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm

Patrick McGoohan has died

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McGoohan

The Prisoner is still available and one of the best old British series.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-unpeaceful-refuge.html#comment-189553

With or without getting shot?

"Only Columbia is not hosting a big party for their presidential graduate, but the University of Chicago, where Obama spent 12 years as a law school lecturer, will take advantage."

http://www.dcexaminer.com/local/011309-Obamas_peers_descend_on_DC_for_inauguration.html

jamie, LL, back in another life when I worked as an instructor at Outward Bound, we took students through ropes courses that always ended witha zipline. If they're long enough and fast enough, they are indeed a blast! For most folks, the only part that's a problem is stepping off that little platform.

Have any idea why SoetorObama refuses to release certified copies of his Application and Admission forms for Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School? Can you guess what he is hiding?

Holy moley Ed, You live in Schoharie, I grew up in Altamont!

Usually I only do champagne once a year and at weddings, but I'm getting a bottle for 1/20

Once he is in office, Obama should change the law and make innauguration a Federal holiday. It's only once every four years and it is truly stupid that more people can't watch while it is happening.

Pogo...I'm very impressed that you were an instructor in that program. Most definitely.
And now that you mention it (and I'm visualizing what it would be like) I can see how stepping off the platform would be the weirdest part.

Gordo, in 2005 Columbia's paper ran an article about Obama - apparently they knew he existed and was a Columbia grad before he began running for POTUS.

http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jan05/cover.php

And they still seem to believe he's an alum.

http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/nov_dec08/within_the_family

Hi all,
just can pop in for a min......what world problems are we beating to death today...:)

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-unpeaceful-refuge.html#comment-189564

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-unpeaceful-refuge.html#comment-189571

This was done to "create" a non-existent past. That's the way "these people" operate. His TRUE past remains hidden.

LL - it sure beat working for a living - if I tolerated poverty better than I do, I'd probably still be there.

The platforms on our courses were small - about big enough to stand on for the student and the instructor, and no more than 2x2 feet, with no real railing or anything like that (other than the tree, of course) to hold onto while you hooked up and tried to get up the courage to jump, attached to pine trees that were swaying from the wind and from the movement of the other course elements attached to the same trees, and defintely were less than secure feeling. To minimize stress on the system, we'd have the students lean as far out as they could before the jumped - the look of absolute terror on some of their faces as they tried to will themselves to lean out over nothing was - well - you can imagine.

Craig -
I put Bush's slide as beginning at Teri Shaivo's bedside. The spectacle, and flying back to Washington to sign that phony baloney bill. Everyone realized that if Randel Terry was going to be picking and choosing how we deal with these issues , we were in deep doo-doo.

For me that was the high water mark for him and his party, it's been down hill ever since then.

One small correction-
" most desolate parts of the country "

It's not very desolate south of Dallas. The jack rabbits there, carry canteens made by Coach .

Pogo...now I'm starting to get the willies about this. I hadn't even thought that there might be a fear factor involved.

When I was a kid, we used to rig up cable lines across creek beds and ride a pulley across. It was a blast. And part of the game was that other kids were free to pelt you with river rocks as you soared by.

Gordo, pardon my french, but you are an idiot.

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Jamie -- Inauguration day is a federal holiday for feds in the Washington, DC area. Not the contractors though, who work for the feds. They have to take personal leave even though they can't get into the federal buildings where they work. Most of the school districts in the DC area are closing 1/20.

Expect high rate of absenteeism from people needing to recover from the late night celebrations on Tuesday.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-unpeaceful-refuge.html#comment-189575

Gordo, What is life like in the Twilight Zone? Nothing is real unless you believe it is real?

Sleeper agent ?

If you want desolation in Texas try Wink :

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_U6Nuy2tIrXg/SC0P-5QwhbI/AAAAAAAADgA/324tQ_jVOrs/P5130974.JPG

LL, we do lots of crazy stuff when we're kids. The ziplines are generally very safe - braided steel cables that will hold umpteen tons, double (at least) fall protection - usually top quality climbing gear at a minimum. I've never heard of a failure on a zipline that caused an injury.

"That's the way "these people" operate."

Gordo,

Who are "these people" and why should we be afraid of "them"?

Robert Kennedy, Jr. and Boone Pickens at the Capitol – Part I
Robert Kennedy, Jr. joined T. Boone Pickens at a Town-Hall meeting in the U.S. Capitol for the staffs of U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives.

Over 100 staffers attended the session which was started by Mr. Kennedy explaining why the Pickens Plan is so crucial to cutting down on carbon-based pollution.

http://www.pickensplan.com/news/2009/01/13/robert-kennedy-jr-and-boone-pickens-at-the-capitol-–-part-i/

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My theory is that he does it to drive Larry Johnson and the nuts who believe anything he says crazier than they already are.

Why does SoetorObama refuses to release certified copies of his Application and Admission forms for Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School?

Your answer -- because he can.

What is he hiding? Nationality? Religion?

jax, have a cup on me. :-)

Emmy-winning actor Patrick McGoohan, best known for starring in cult 1960s TV show The Prisoner, has died at the age of 80.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7829267.stm

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Talk about living in a bubble.

POGO: You just took me back in time. When I was in High School, I belonged to the Outward Bound Club. I do remember climbing cliffs,and Ziplines. My God, I haven't thought about that in ages. Thanks for the memories.

CBob

I noted the McGoohan death above. There was a time when "The Prisoner" was absolute "must see" TV. Talk about great conspiracies.

OSH,

Nice to know we were neighbors. I'm pretty much a Capital District kid. Lived in Troy, Rensselaer, Defreestville, Waterford, Duanesburg, and this is my second stint in Schoharie. I came here when a bank transferred me and stayed after the bank threw me out.

I'm guessing you're a Guilderland High grad?

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-unpeaceful-refuge.html#comment-189590

Whose answer? Not mine. That's your answer.

Nothing. No credible challenge to his birth in Hawaii has been presented. His religion doesn't matter.

Gordo,

Obama doesn't need to be a "sleeper agent". The Republicans did a good enough job of ruining the country without meeting in secret hidaways with pre programmed nefarious spies.

Jamie -
I'm using the scroll button so much, some of the interesting stuff gets missed.

As a fan of "The Prisoner "-- you should be able to answer the question yourself.

Lampe - I live to serve. Happy to do it.

Well, Bush has 6 days left to catch Osama. On Sept. 12th 2001, all I wanted was Osama's head on a pike on the George Washington bridge.

I'm still waiting.

"My new thrill experience I want to try is "ziplining"..."

Lard, you can probably get the experience for free by signing up for a summer stock production of Peter Pan.

CBob, with this administration as checked out as it is now, Osama could be getting TARP funds for all we know.

Jax

Coffee doesn't taste that good unless the employee's chip in for it,,,they get Mc Donald's ,,,and management gets Starbucks, and cookies,,,,laughs :-)

Bob, your wait will soon be over - and you will bid a fond farewell to the Bush presidency with that same empty feeling you probably had after the screwup at Tora Bora.

BTW, thanks to you and Jamie for the electric car stuff yesterday.. I saw a photo from the Car Show of one that will go 50 miles on a charge and was projected to cost over $70,000. Of course it looked a little nicer than a Volt.

An altered COLB image on pro-SoetorObama sites. That's it. Why not release the original 61 document? You know why -- it has damaging info.

Religion is an issue because he is lying about his "hidden" past.

Solar,
Coffee's free here. One of my captains is an espresso nut and convinced the tug crew that they were missing out so I had to buy a machine to get them to quit buggin me to make a starbucks run........

I have to admit it makes great espresso.....

LOL Flatus, I think I'd scare the hell out of the little kids.

Give President Bush a grade

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28659165/

Trader -
I love the idea of " Tug Boat Espresso ".

Sounds like the title of an old Buffet album.

Lou Dobbs was at it again last night.

"Lou Dobbs Must Go"

Cbob,
Laughs.....I thought the same thing when they asked for one..... But they do use it and its keeps the troops happy.....

Torture memo judge:

http://www.slate.com/id/2208517/

Colorado Bob,

the most famous person to ever leave Wink, Tx was Roy Orbison.

Anybody catch this last night :

THE ASCENT OF MONEY, author, economist and historian Niall Ferguson traces the evolution of money and demonstrates that financial history is the essential back-story behind all history.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/

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Great program.

"Lou Dobbs was at it again last night."

ROFL, C-Bob. I saw a little of that before finding a Law & Order re-run. Thought of you and hazelnut coffee.

Gee Pogo,

If I had known you wanted pretty, here's my dream electrice

http://www.teslamotors.com/

"Roy Orbison."

Dooty -- I recently heard some group on radio "covering" an Orbison song. I had to switch channels.

Dr. Dooty -
Yep, and Wink got a lot more desolate as a result.

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Enough twaddle. Steven Chu's confirmations hearing was today - sounds like he's not on ly got a good head, but has it on straight.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/us/politics/13web-chu.html

I don't watch Dobbs. Was he again being delusional about man's impact on the earth?

pogo, mentioning electric cars spurred me to check out the mus am hist exhibit on the ev1. here's an excerpt from online that just leads to more questions (like where are those few they retained):

"About 800 people-including some celebrities-took the plunge and signed on for the three-year leases. Many drivers liked the quick acceleration and smooth, quiet performance of the EV1. By 2003, however, GM had determined that the EV1 was not commercially viable. It decided to withdraw all EV1s from their leases, retain a few, and destroy the others. GM ended the consumer test project in 2004."

http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/object_1303.html

haven't they had electric cars for year? I have not played golf for years but those courses had golf carts for rent. They were electric. :)

year = years sorry

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When I was a boy in Cleveland Heights there was an _old_ lady, always dressed in black, who periodically drove one of these electric cars down Lee Road:

http://www.ctrc.org/projects/trolleys-and-trolleybarn/1916-detroit-electric-touring-car.html

She always sat erect in the vehicle looking something like I imagine Queen Victoria would appear if she had a similar machine.

As I recall, she steered the thing with a tiller rather than a steering wheel.

It was all quite fascinating.

Ed- That I am.-1977. Grew up on Township Rd. (Rt. 146, which goes all the way up to Gallupville) 1/2 mile before the Berne- Knox line. Love Schoharie, drive up there and around to do antique buys. I go back every Labor Day for the Highland Games and once in the spring. By summer I'm working 24-7 so no time to visit. Do you ever go to the Homefront Cafe? It's pretty neat, all WWII memorabilia around. My Dad is there every morning when he is in NY.