just for … yanno
Did you know “bjorn” and “medved/medvjed” both mean bear [or "honey-eater"]?
Other Interesting linguistic stuff – with maps!
weeeeee
Offshore Northern California.
Magnitude: 7.2 (Mwp) [or 6.9 - depending on reports]
Depth: 10 km
Sunday, March 09, 2014 21:18:13
Lookit the length and straightness of that undersea mountain range !!?!? It would stretch from CA thru NV and UT and CO and maybe past that. Straight as a string. Fascinating.
I am sorry for being so inattentive here lately…been planning amassing designing and procuring to re-model 4 major insane plumbing projects for about a year and a half that came to a head this weekend with all the caveats of a crazy beach house an hour away from the nearest Home Depot with the added bonus of our plumber friend getting his right working hand bitten to shit by a nasty infested cat ( not mine OR his ) which brought him to the nearest hospital about an hour away in a nasty rainy windy storm with a massive infection…
There will be photos… eventually…sigh…………
3 out of 4 about 50% done….
optimistic, again.
How’s this for an intriguing sentiment? Maybe…. just maybe…. maybe……
“I’m worried about scientifically illiterate adults,” … “They run the world and wield resources. They’re in charge, and they outnumber the kids … The issue in modern time is, do adults have the wisdom and insight brought to you by scientific perspective to actually lead this world into the future? … If the adults in charge don’t have it, you are throwing seeds to foul ground.”
That’s from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of the “new” Sagan Cosmos redux. The executive producer is Seth MacFarlane. Yeah, I know. Seth MacFarlane?!?
So what’s the over/under on how many minutes in comes the first mention of Global Worms. [Cosmic Worms?]
oh, that’s better… pessimistic again.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey premieres Sunday (March 9) on FOX, and Monday (March 10) on the National Geographic Channel.
Okay, this is probably amusing, but they forgot *snick*, *meheh*, *bwahahahaha*, and *heheeee*, not to mention that laughter is a noise, not a word; so it should be (according to my personal style book1, which is mine2) enclosed by asterisks! Action, on the other hand, is enclosed by brackets (i.e. *pththththth* [thumbs in ears, fingers waving])
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1. Aka “schtick”
2. Cultural ref
(Note: the normal footnote asterisks were replace by footnote numbers, here, because of the other asterisks. My style book1 is as flexible as the content is repetitive and predictable.)
Yeah, that’s tonight at oh-dark-thirty.
(What? Okay, zeeero–dark-thirty.)
(What? No, I am not gonna post Christie’s speech, and screw McCain.)
see also: History
Obobo sez:
“I know President Putin seems to have a different set of lawyers making a different set of interpretations, but I don’t think that’s fooling anybody.”
What does the FoxFace say?
According to multiple media reports including The Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au) as well as Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the the Russian Navy reportedly sank one of its own, junked vessels to create an obstacle… in the straits that connect the Black Sea with a body of water known as Donuzlav Lake… to blockade the Ukrainian Navy ships deployed in Novoozerne…
codependence
The budget includes a $302 billion “four-year surface transportation reauthorization proposal” designed to support transit infrastructure projects and create jobs. …paid for with transition revenue from pro-growth business tax reform.
“transition revenue” “pro-growth business tax reform”
The federal government awarded around $3.5 billion in grants to the California High Speed Rail Project, and within this these grants is $2.5 billion in federal stimulus money that requires a dollar for dollar match by the state of California. That match must be spent/made by 2017, or the Golden State loses the money, which represents just about 5% of the total estimated cost of the project.
…more than double the $33 billion projected in 2008…
…recent legal action has prevented the state of California from selling $8.6 billion in voter approved bonds [because this foray into the high-tech of the 1840's no longer meets the requirements stated in the ballot proposition]
A pal took the train from Oakland to Fresno last week to meet a friend. 4 hours. $33. [$8.25/hr] She reported it as being quite pleasant. Not creepy or sticky at all. Very empty. Kinda rough. ‘Course they’re the same tracks her Grandpa rode in the late ’30s. Slower train, though, cuz he mentioned they got from Stockton to Oakland at 60 mph [wow!] in an hour. BTNIN.
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Cultural ref
Not the cultural ref
Femen fun over t’ Holger’s place (caution: boobies, “F**k Putin!*, rending Russian flag)
The Russian Navy Ochakov Kara-class cruiser was sunk last night to block the Ukrainian Navy ships deployed in Novoozerne …. [story]
Keep your laws out of our bedrooms, eh?
For failing to broadcast sufficient levels of Canadian-made pornography — and failing to close-caption said pornography properly [Ouí, ouí, ouííí!] — a trio of Toronto-based erotica channels has earned a reprimand from the Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission. [story]
Prob’ly due to AGW polar-vortex shrinkage.
Two questions:
Will they eventually enforce production and viewership sexual-choice distribution?
Why not tax folks for not buying the service?
Okay, folks, the political inanity of this is obvious; and I could spend all morning coming up with puns and jokes (e.g. eau face); but I think I’ll just leave it for your homework assignment.
Your turn.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize … A record 278 candidates, including 47 organizations, received nominations …. [story]
Buuut they’ve indicted nominated a ham sandwich before
(What? Yeah, just another excuse to do a PhotoShop.)
Note to Russian authorities:
I in no way meant to imply that Vlad would actually sit with his knees together like that, so there’s no need for any unpleasantness.
Added the Super Bowl ring per mech’s comment (11) *meheh*
What is a “Three Percenter”?
During the American Revolution, the active forces in the field against the King’s tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists. They were in turn actively supported by perhaps 10% of the population. In addition to these revolutionaries were perhaps another 20% who favored their cause but did little or nothing to support it. Another one-third of the population sided with the King (by the end of the war there were actually more Americans fighting FOR the King than there were in the field against him) and the final third took no side, blew with the wind and took what came.Three Percenters today do not claim that we represent 3% of the American people, although we might. That theory has not yet been tested. We DO claim that we represent at least 3% of American gun owners, which is still a healthy number somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 million people. History, for good or ill, is made by determined minorities. We are one such minority. So too are the current enemies of the Founders’ Republic. What remains, then, is the test of will and skill to determine who shall shape the future of our nation.
The Three Percent today are gun owners who will not disarm, will not compromise and will no longer back up at the passage of the next gun control act. Three Percenters say quite explicitly that we will not obey any futher circumscription of our traditional liberties and will defend ourselves if attacked. We intend to maintain our God-given natural rights to liberty and property, and that means most especially the right to keep and bear arms. Thus, we are committed to the restoration of the Founders’ Republic, and are willing to fight, die and, if forced by any would-be oppressor, to kill in the defense of ourselves and the Constitution that we all took an oath to uphold against enemies foreign and domestic.
We are the people that the collectivists who now control the government should leave alone if they wish to continue unfettered oxygen consumption. We are the Three Percent. Attempt to further oppress us at your peril. To put it bluntly, leave us the hell alone. Or, if you feel froggy, go ahead AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.
The following letter was sent via email to members of the Connecticut State Police, Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection…
Obama discusses his budget plan Tuesday morning from Powell Elementary School in Washington, D.C…
U.S. President Barack Obama answers a question about the situation in Ukraine, following remarks on the budget at Powell Elementary School in Washington March 4, 2014.
some lite reading
Here’s how this guy’s sees it.
The core idea of Dugin’s Eurasianism is that “liberalism” (by which is meant the entire Western consensus) represents an assault on the traditional hierarchical organization of the world
…this liberal threat is not new, but is the ideology of the maritime cosmopolitan power “Atlantis,” which has conspired to subvert more conservative land-based societies since ancient times. [*nutz* being a poor reason to dismiss a threat...]
…If Russia is to win this fight against the subversive oceanic bearers of such “racist” (because foreign-imposed) ideas as human rights, however, it must unite around itself all the continental powers, including Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet republics, Turkey, Iran, and Korea, into a grand Eurasian Union strong enough to defeat the West.
[what's the over/under on Godless-Commie-Fascists -vs- Islamofascist Caliphate?]
…a new “Fourth Political Theory” combining all the strongest points of Communism, Nazism, Ecologism, and Traditionalism, thereby allowing it to appeal to the adherents of all of these diverse anti-liberal creeds.
…What Russia needs, says Dugin, is a “genuine, true, radically revolutionary and consistent, fascist fascism.” On the other hand, “Liberalism, is an absolute evil. . . . Only a global crusade [puin' the *Iron* back in the Iron Curtain...] against the U.S., the West, globalization, and their political-ideological expression, liberalism, is capable of becoming an adequate response. . . . The American empire should be destroyed.”
…This is the ideology behind the Putin regime’s “Eurasian Union” project.
Whatcha think?…..
when you’ve lost…
previously…
[JOhn KErry] ”You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext,” … “…in order to assert your interests,”
Tell that to the Eurasian Union, JOhnny.
But it’s also true that, as long as some leaders play by what Mr. Kerry dismisses as 19th-century rules, the United States can’t pretend that the only game is in another arena altogether. Military strength, trustworthiness as an ally, staying power in difficult corners of the world such as Afghanistan — these still matter, much as we might wish they did not. While the United States has been retrenching, the tide of democracy in the world, which once seemed inexorable, has been receding. In the long run, that’s harmful to U.S. national security, too.
As Mr. Putin ponders whether to advance further — into eastern Ukraine, say — he will measure the seriousness of U.S. and allied actions, not their statements. China, pondering its next steps in the East China Sea, will do the same. Sadly, that’s the nature of the century we’re living in.
Yep. WaPo Editorial Board. 3/2/14.
