I was out riding my bike yesterday, and passed “Gault Rd.” I’m thinking they really missed out on that name. It actually looked like a wingnut haven, one of those remote subdivisions hidden among farm fields, so maybe they just spelled it wrong.
9.
Violet
The weather is great.
No it’s not. It’s over 100 degrees and we’re under “red ozone alert” today. That’s the top level for ozone warnings and means ‘Don’t Go Outside. At All.”
Every time I open the door to my car I wonder if the dashboard has melted. It’s that hot.
I left Texas because of the heat, moved to MD. FAIL! :-) Just as hot and even more humid. Now living in Taos, NM: today is the first day this season over 80 degrees here (officially 83 now, but 72 at my location), humidity a rather high 30 percent.
All doors and windows open. Temperature at my desk, 64 degrees. Old adobes NEVER get hot inside.
In Phoenix there is the 100-100 rule. Every summer, about 100 days of around 100 degree weather, along about the period from Memorial Day to Columbus Day.
We started the hellish period a little late this year, after a couple of weeks of eerie cool weather, and today is just a classic Phoenix summer day. If you don’t park in the shade, you should have some oven mitts in your car to drive with.
Soon the flaming 100-teens will be here and people will cry that their hair caught on fire when they went outside.
16.
ronin122
Screw you, weather great my ass. Here in Chicago we had massive thunderstorms all day, 2inches of rain in a half hour, 60 mph winds and down branches and trees all over. All this in the midst of a massive humid heat wave.
17.
dorkboy
More east-coast bias!
It’s 105 here in Arizona. C’mon monsoons!
18.
Eric U.
we finally had two days in a row without rain. It was supposed to rain yesterday, but no joy.
19.
MikeJ
A beautiful summer day in Seattle. The sky is a lovely grey at a balmy 65°.
20.
demimondian
It’s utterly awful here in Seattle today — high 70’s and blue sky.
21.
Shinobi
It just went from sunny and gorgeous to pouring down rain, back to reasonably sunny in like 4 hours. Chicago is freaking weird.
Also, I am thinking of getting a second dog, much to my first dog’s dismay, I blame John as well.
22.
gex
Weather here in MN is hot and muggy and (to me) great, thanks to the swimming pool.
We reached a point where I felt it was important to look my sons in the eyes and maintain my dignity, self-respect, and my basic sense of right and wrong. I therefore asked my husband to leave two weeks ago.
[…]
I believe enduring love is primarily a commitment and an act of will, and for a marriage to be successful, that commitment must be reciprocal. I believe Mark has earned a chance to resurrect our marriage.
Which leads me to think of the imaginary response from Dan Savage:
Listen, JS, your husband left, in the most public way possible, to visit his lover in Argentina, for a week. He didn’t spend an entire week in Argentina breaking up with her. Dump the motherfucker already.
Down here it’s either a hundred degrees or storming hard enough that I get to go out in the steam afterward and pick up palm fronds. But yeah–soccer. Might see if they’re replaying the game on ESPN later tonight.
Awww..he’s beautiful. Congrats on your new addition and good for you for getting an adult cat. He looks very content in his new home. Does he answer to Mr. Huffinpuff?
31.
MikeJ
TPM has the statement from Jenny Sanford, Gov. Sanford’s Wife:
Sort of shoots down Red State’s contention that she knew where he was the entire time.
32.
shelley matheis
As I was going out the door today, my mother said, ‘It looks like it’s gonna rain,.” I said, ‘Hon, it’s looked like it’s gonna rain, and rained, for the past month and a half.”
Mushrooms sprouting all over the front lawn. Red with white spots. They look like they belong in a Norwegian children’s book.
The basiji are running around the streets of Iran literally, literally burying hatchets into the chests of young men and woman. The bodies are being stacked up and carted away like cordwood. This is coming directly from sources on the ground and relayed in live calls to CNN.
I think that’s a little more fucking important than the stalled health care bill and Sanford’s Argentinian mistress.
35.
gnomedad
Scrapbook for Firefox is great for grabbing pages (e.g., from RedState) before they go down the memory hole.
36.
Darcy
ESPN will broadcast US VS Spain at 11 pm(eastern). But it’s according to Time Warner, so take that info with a grain of salt.
37.
Third Eye Open
Here in America’s Swamp, we have been having wonderful weather, upper 90’s with a heat-index of 105-110
The only good thing is that the hotter it gets, the less the coeds wear. Thank god(s) for young women in college.
38.
Redshirt
Can we get some clarification on Seattle weather? I’m reading two conflicting reports above. Is one a spoof? We ask, you decide….
39.
South of I-10
I am trying to avoid outside! 101 today, heat index is 108. Hasn’t rained in a month. This sucks.
40.
MikeJ
Can we get some clarification on Seattle weather? I’m reading two conflicting reports above. Is one a spoof? We ask, you decide….
and to keep with the general openitude and let’s get back to more newsitude, the Trib’s breaking news is that: “Blogger arrested in threats on federal judges
June 24, 2009 4:30 PM | No Comments
Hal Turner, an occasional talk show host on internet radio and blogger, was arrested today by the FBI in his New Jersey home on charges he threatened to murder three federal appeals court judges in Chicago following their recent ruling upholding handgun bans.”
Man, it must *suck* to be on the wrong side of the lake.
46.
The Moar You Know
I thought about the kitten, but decided on the adult cat instead.
@James K. Polk, Esq.: Bless you. They need rescuin’ more, as a lot less people are willing to take older cats.
My last two “babies” were 12 years old when I got ’em. Sucks to lose them after only a few years, but it’s worth the hassle.
47.
The Moar You Know
74 degrees and sunny. San Diego rules.
@jurassicpork: I read your rather distressing blog entry, and while I find the situation utterly horrifying, what is there to do? March in the Marines? That didn’t work out so well in Iraq. Or Afghanistan. Or Vietnam. You get the idea. Imposing democracy doesn’t work.
I sympathize with the urge to do something, anything, but the brutal reality of the situation is that we, as Americans, can’t do a fucking thing. It’s an Iranian problem and the Iranians are going to have to solve it, or die trying. And a lot of them will die, either for a new, more democratic Iran, or for nothing.
My god, it’s nasty out there. Hot, muggy, just, blech. I am bunkered down in my basement (since my AC is still busted) where it’s twenty degrees cooler. Fuck going outside!
@James K. Polk, Esq.: Squee! Sir Claude is goooooorgeous! Bless you for taking in an adult cat, and a black one to boot. More pics!
Besides Crooks and Liars, isn’t anyone else keeping track of this horror show going on in Tehran right now? It’s exponentially worse than Saturday’s massacre.
This brings to mind an article on MSNBC’s outrageously stupid non-coverage of Iran when the protests were at their peak (At MSNBC, weekends aren’t newsworthy).
Over the weekend, with its cable rivals devoting generous airtime to demonstrations convulsing Tehran and online viewers transfixed by amateur video of a young woman apparently felled by a sniper’s bullet, MSNBC stuck to its usual diet of taped documentaries, including one titled “Sex Slaves in America.”… Phil Griffin, who last summer was tapped to be president of MSNBC, has in the past indicated a desire to at least tweak the taped format.”I want our prime-time personalities to drive more of our documentaries,” Griffin told reporters in January. … [MSNBC spokesman Jeremy] Gaines pointed out, however, that MSNBC beat CNN among viewers aged 25 to 54, the most-favored demographic in the news business.
With newspapers dying and a general discontent at the decline in intelligent news coverage, MSNBC’s empty boast of its dependence on inane documentaries and its standard desire to reach desired demographics is just breathtakingly stoopid.
By the way, Southern California weather is, of course, great. State law demands it.
Aw, a black beauty. He could have posed for my big “Tournee du Chat Noir” poster.
He’s got Esq written all over him. Will he be an indoor boy?
Weather report for E. TN: Above normal temps. Like mid to upper 90s for a few days now. That’s usually what we get in August and I really hope that it doesn’t mean even higher heat as the summer progresses. There is a lovely breeze/wind today. I am grateful for my car’s superblasting cold AC.
55.
Texas Dem
Yikes! Now we have the Gov’s e-mails to his mistress, who the newspaper is calling “Maria.” Cue the music: “Take a letter, Maria …… address it to my wife…..”
Unrelated question: Is it too much to imagine that some higher-ups in the GOP knew about this affair and decided to detonate the bomb now (someone gave the newspaper those e-mails and told that reporter when the Gov would be returning from his trip to Argentina) in order to swamp whatever press Obama might get from his health care town hall meeting tonight? Part of me still wants to look for some dastardly Rovian master plan, all evidence to the contrary.
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Echoes without Bunnies or Men
It is currently 4:47 and 103 degrees outside in the Tucson basin, I suggest if you want to read outside to apply sunscreen and wear a hat. And I live in a 70 year old adobe, if it’s hot enough any house will get hot inside.
57.
Anne Laurie
James K. Polk, Esq., congratulations! Sir Claude is a gorgeous fella… as Guv Sanford might say, “Who could resist a tail like that?”
Looks like your new feline overlord might have some Maine Coon genes… does he have little pointy tufts of fur on the tips of his ears?
58.
Skepticat
James K. Polk, Esq., Sir Claude is a really beautiful cat! And yes, he seems to have settled right in. Is that the “okay, feed me now” look? Congratulations on a great decision.
Still raining here in Massachusetts. Very soggy and chilly.
Can we get some clarification on Seattle weather? I’m reading two conflicting reports above. Is one a spoof?
That’s Seattle microclimates for you. I used to live about 20 miles east of Puget Sound, and wanted to measure how high above sea level it was with a cheap little air-pressure-based altimeter I got at REI. On several occasions, I’d set it at 0 at Golden Gardens Park, and then drive home to see what it read when I arrived. I never got the same air-pressure/altitude reading twice, what with all the different weather discrepancies just in a distance of 20 miles.
EDIT: Not sure “microclimates” is the right word, but you know what I mean…
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James K Polk, Esq.
Thanks for all the well wishes; I feel very fortunate, for Sir Claude is perhaps the nicest cat I have ever had the privilege of befriending.
@Anne Laurie:
He is a bit tufty, especially his toes. No polydactylity, though. I checked.
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Anne Laurie
@James K Polk, Esq.: The professional Maine Coon snobs told me that the “tells” for “true” Maine Coons are squirrel tails, long tufts between the toes, and those ear-tufts. There are a ton of Maine-Coon-like cats in every New England shelter, but very few of them are anywhere near as big as the purebreds at cat shows. Our own Demon Kishkan, who came to live with us (not of her own choice) when the couple she’d chosen (who were not the people who paid to have her spayed) moved out of the country, is actually quite petite at six pounds, but she looks just like the brown-tabby-and-white examplar of Maine-Coon-catness.
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Xanthippas
Man, you’re crazy. It’s 100 degrees down here in Texas. The only contest would be to see whether my laptop exploded or I melted first.
Redshirt
Great?! We’ve had forty days of drizzle here in New England. Lamest Summer so far (weather wise) in my long memory.
r€nato
I won’t even bother telling you how nice the weather is where I am. Hell you don’t even want to know where I am now.
Once again, that final score: USA 2, Spain 0!
James K. Polk, Esq.
Inspired by Comrade Cole’s actions, I stopped by the shelter on Sunday to rescue an adult cat.
Sir Claude S. Huffinpuff, Esq. is chilling at my house right now.
Thanks for the inspiration John… I thought about the kitten, but decided on the adult cat instead.
Xanthippas
Yes! Hijack the thread with soccer talk!
BTW, watching that game online was not the way to go. I think I heard it in Spanish, English (American and Brit) and Arabic before it was over.
demkat620
I am going to go walk 2 miles and work on getting the rest of the weight off I want to lose.
It is about 80 and sunny here for the first time in weeks!
Love. It.
Crashman06
@Redshirt: Yes to this. Worst. June. Ever.
Eric U.
I was out riding my bike yesterday, and passed “Gault Rd.” I’m thinking they really missed out on that name. It actually looked like a wingnut haven, one of those remote subdivisions hidden among farm fields, so maybe they just spelled it wrong.
Violet
No it’s not. It’s over 100 degrees and we’re under “red ozone alert” today. That’s the top level for ozone warnings and means ‘Don’t Go Outside. At All.”
Every time I open the door to my car I wonder if the dashboard has melted. It’s that hot.
blahblahblah
Cat Vs. Helicopter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD8ndsZWYTE
So much to learn, so little time…
tripletee (formerly tBone)
@demkat620:
Not on the Appalachian Trail, I hope.
slag
@James K. Polk, Esq.: Pictures pls.
srv
That little blue spot on the blood red map the US?
That’s me. We do appreciate y’alls suffering.
John Hamilton Farr
I left Texas because of the heat, moved to MD. FAIL! :-) Just as hot and even more humid. Now living in Taos, NM: today is the first day this season over 80 degrees here (officially 83 now, but 72 at my location), humidity a rather high 30 percent.
All doors and windows open. Temperature at my desk, 64 degrees. Old adobes NEVER get hot inside.
PeopleAreNoDamnGood
In Phoenix there is the 100-100 rule. Every summer, about 100 days of around 100 degree weather, along about the period from Memorial Day to Columbus Day.
We started the hellish period a little late this year, after a couple of weeks of eerie cool weather, and today is just a classic Phoenix summer day. If you don’t park in the shade, you should have some oven mitts in your car to drive with.
Soon the flaming 100-teens will be here and people will cry that their hair caught on fire when they went outside.
ronin122
Screw you, weather great my ass. Here in Chicago we had massive thunderstorms all day, 2inches of rain in a half hour, 60 mph winds and down branches and trees all over. All this in the midst of a massive humid heat wave.
dorkboy
More east-coast bias!
It’s 105 here in Arizona. C’mon monsoons!
Eric U.
we finally had two days in a row without rain. It was supposed to rain yesterday, but no joy.
MikeJ
A beautiful summer day in Seattle. The sky is a lovely grey at a balmy 65°.
demimondian
It’s utterly awful here in Seattle today — high 70’s and blue sky.
Shinobi
It just went from sunny and gorgeous to pouring down rain, back to reasonably sunny in like 4 hours. Chicago is freaking weird.
Also, I am thinking of getting a second dog, much to my first dog’s dismay, I blame John as well.
gex
Weather here in MN is hot and muggy and (to me) great, thanks to the swimming pool.
James K. Polk, Esq.
@slag:
Sir Claude
Already owns the place…
John Hamilton Farr
Don’t ask me about the winter, BTW. Snow, MUD, sunshine, very cold. Sometimes very, very cold. Snow can start in October, go through May.
Hell, I built a fire just the other night.
demkat620
@tripletee (formerly tBone): Well if I do, it cetainly won’t be naked. ;^)
r€nato
how many BJ’ers are there in AZ, anyway? we seem to have several here.
JGabriel
TPM has the statement from Jenny Sanford, Gov. Sanford’s Wife:
We reached a point where I felt it was important to look my sons in the eyes and maintain my dignity, self-respect, and my basic sense of right and wrong. I therefore asked my husband to leave two weeks ago.
[…]
I believe enduring love is primarily a commitment and an act of will, and for a marriage to be successful, that commitment must be reciprocal. I believe Mark has earned a chance to resurrect our marriage.
Which leads me to think of the imaginary response from Dan Savage:
.
PeopleAreNoDamnGood
@r€nato:
Well, if you count handles, at least six of them are me :)
Incertus
Down here it’s either a hundred degrees or storming hard enough that I get to go out in the steam afterward and pick up palm fronds. But yeah–soccer. Might see if they’re replaying the game on ESPN later tonight.
Violet
@James K. Polk, Esq.:
Awww..he’s beautiful. Congrats on your new addition and good for you for getting an adult cat. He looks very content in his new home. Does he answer to Mr. Huffinpuff?
MikeJ
Sort of shoots down Red State’s contention that she knew where he was the entire time.
shelley matheis
As I was going out the door today, my mother said, ‘It looks like it’s gonna rain,.” I said, ‘Hon, it’s looked like it’s gonna rain, and rained, for the past month and a half.”
Mushrooms sprouting all over the front lawn. Red with white spots. They look like they belong in a Norwegian children’s book.
James K. Polk, Esq.
@Violet:
For some strange reason, he only answers to “Sir Huffinpuff”…
Give them an inch…
jurassicpork
Besides Crooks and Liars, isn’t anyone else keeping track of this horror show going on in Tehran right now? It’s exponentially worse than Saturday’s massacre.
The basiji are running around the streets of Iran literally, literally burying hatchets into the chests of young men and woman. The bodies are being stacked up and carted away like cordwood. This is coming directly from sources on the ground and relayed in live calls to CNN.
I think that’s a little more fucking important than the stalled health care bill and Sanford’s Argentinian mistress.
gnomedad
Scrapbook for Firefox is great for grabbing pages (e.g., from RedState) before they go down the memory hole.
Darcy
ESPN will broadcast US VS Spain at 11 pm(eastern). But it’s according to Time Warner, so take that info with a grain of salt.
Third Eye Open
Here in America’s Swamp, we have been having wonderful weather, upper 90’s with a heat-index of 105-110
The only good thing is that the hotter it gets, the less the coeds wear. Thank god(s) for young women in college.
Redshirt
Can we get some clarification on Seattle weather? I’m reading two conflicting reports above. Is one a spoof? We ask, you decide….
South of I-10
I am trying to avoid outside! 101 today, heat index is 108. Hasn’t rained in a month. This sucks.
MikeJ
http://www.komonews.com/traffic/cameras/seattle/4301217.html
scav
and to keep with the general openitude and let’s get back to more newsitude, the Trib’s breaking news is that: “Blogger arrested in threats on federal judges
June 24, 2009 4:30 PM | No Comments
Hal Turner, an occasional talk show host on internet radio and blogger, was arrested today by the FBI in his New Jersey home on charges he threatened to murder three federal appeals court judges in Chicago following their recent ruling upholding handgun bans.”
The Grand Panjandrum
@MikeJ:
@demimondian:
Yes? And …
demimondian
@The Grand Panjandrum: There is a lot of Seattle, you know.
robertdsc
An ad that says “Support SarahPAC”? You betcha! Also.
She’s so purty.
demimondian
@demimondian: And, for evidence: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=98052&wuSelect=WEATHER
Man, it must *suck* to be on the wrong side of the lake.
The Moar You Know
@James K. Polk, Esq.: Bless you. They need rescuin’ more, as a lot less people are willing to take older cats.
My last two “babies” were 12 years old when I got ’em. Sucks to lose them after only a few years, but it’s worth the hassle.
The Moar You Know
74 degrees and sunny. San Diego rules.
@jurassicpork: I read your rather distressing blog entry, and while I find the situation utterly horrifying, what is there to do? March in the Marines? That didn’t work out so well in Iraq. Or Afghanistan. Or Vietnam. You get the idea. Imposing democracy doesn’t work.
I sympathize with the urge to do something, anything, but the brutal reality of the situation is that we, as Americans, can’t do a fucking thing. It’s an Iranian problem and the Iranians are going to have to solve it, or die trying. And a lot of them will die, either for a new, more democratic Iran, or for nothing.
asiangrrlMN
My god, it’s nasty out there. Hot, muggy, just, blech. I am bunkered down in my basement (since my AC is still busted) where it’s twenty degrees cooler. Fuck going outside!
@James K. Polk, Esq.: Squee! Sir Claude is goooooorgeous! Bless you for taking in an adult cat, and a black one to boot. More pics!
Brachiator
@jurassicpork:
This brings to mind an article on MSNBC’s outrageously stupid non-coverage of Iran when the protests were at their peak (At MSNBC, weekends aren’t newsworthy).
With newspapers dying and a general discontent at the decline in intelligent news coverage, MSNBC’s empty boast of its dependence on inane documentaries and its standard desire to reach desired demographics is just breathtakingly stoopid.
By the way, Southern California weather is, of course, great. State law demands it.
Josh Hueco
It’s a 100&fucking6 degrees in Waco right now. The weather is not so good.
Josh Hueco
PS – When you’re breaking heat records set during the Dust Bowl…um, it’s kinda hot.
Nicole
No kidding- I got to this post as I was walking through Central Park, reading bj on my iPhone. Tim F is psychic!
Rainy and muggy today, but not horribly so. It’s been a wet June in NYC and as a result the parks are very lush.
And now I’ve stopped to respond while still in the Park. I need a life.
gwangung
No, that just IS Seattle weather.
passerby
@James K. Polk, Esq.:
Aw, a black beauty. He could have posed for my big “Tournee du Chat Noir” poster.
He’s got Esq written all over him. Will he be an indoor boy?
Weather report for E. TN: Above normal temps. Like mid to upper 90s for a few days now. That’s usually what we get in August and I really hope that it doesn’t mean even higher heat as the summer progresses. There is a lovely breeze/wind today. I am grateful for my car’s superblasting cold AC.
Texas Dem
Yikes! Now we have the Gov’s e-mails to his mistress, who the newspaper is calling “Maria.” Cue the music: “Take a letter, Maria …… address it to my wife…..”
Unrelated question: Is it too much to imagine that some higher-ups in the GOP knew about this affair and decided to detonate the bomb now (someone gave the newspaper those e-mails and told that reporter when the Gov would be returning from his trip to Argentina) in order to swamp whatever press Obama might get from his health care town hall meeting tonight? Part of me still wants to look for some dastardly Rovian master plan, all evidence to the contrary.
Echoes without Bunnies or Men
It is currently 4:47 and 103 degrees outside in the Tucson basin, I suggest if you want to read outside to apply sunscreen and wear a hat. And I live in a 70 year old adobe, if it’s hot enough any house will get hot inside.
Anne Laurie
James K. Polk, Esq., congratulations! Sir Claude is a gorgeous fella… as Guv Sanford might say, “Who could resist a tail like that?”
Looks like your new feline overlord might have some Maine Coon genes… does he have little pointy tufts of fur on the tips of his ears?
Skepticat
James K. Polk, Esq., Sir Claude is a really beautiful cat! And yes, he seems to have settled right in. Is that the “okay, feed me now” look? Congratulations on a great decision.
Still raining here in Massachusetts. Very soggy and chilly.
thalarctos
That’s Seattle microclimates for you. I used to live about 20 miles east of Puget Sound, and wanted to measure how high above sea level it was with a cheap little air-pressure-based altimeter I got at REI. On several occasions, I’d set it at 0 at Golden Gardens Park, and then drive home to see what it read when I arrived. I never got the same air-pressure/altitude reading twice, what with all the different weather discrepancies just in a distance of 20 miles.
EDIT: Not sure “microclimates” is the right word, but you know what I mean…
James K Polk, Esq.
Thanks for all the well wishes; I feel very fortunate, for Sir Claude is perhaps the nicest cat I have ever had the privilege of befriending.
@Anne Laurie:
He is a bit tufty, especially his toes. No polydactylity, though. I checked.
Anne Laurie
@James K Polk, Esq.: The professional Maine Coon snobs told me that the “tells” for “true” Maine Coons are squirrel tails, long tufts between the toes, and those ear-tufts. There are a ton of Maine-Coon-like cats in every New England shelter, but very few of them are anywhere near as big as the purebreds at cat shows. Our own Demon Kishkan, who came to live with us (not of her own choice) when the couple she’d chosen (who were not the people who paid to have her spayed) moved out of the country, is actually quite petite at six pounds, but she looks just like the brown-tabby-and-white examplar of Maine-Coon-catness.