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When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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Battle won, war still ongoing.

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Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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  3. 3.

    beltane

    Gorgeous, especially since I saw David Neiwert’s name and was expecting a horrible picture of some new teabagger atrocity.

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    calling all toasters

    Very artistic. One can hardly tell that this is a surveillance shot of Bristol Palin’s bedroom.

  7. 7.

    Linda Featheringill

    I contacted the Republican Senators to encourage them to vote for the National Defense Authorization Act with the repeal of USC 654 attached.

    If one or more of them isn’t sure about what to do, maybe my efforts will help tip them over to where I want them to go.

    Can’t hurt.

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    fucen tarmal

    i can see seaworld from my house.

    is this seriously like on of those niagra falls things where you have to go to the american side to see the canadian horse shoe? or to see the american side you have to go to canada eh?

    i guess what i am asking is, did you enjoy your time in russia? comrade? that’s what i thought.

  15. 15.

    David Neiwert

    Nice shot! I especially like how you captured the ripples of water on its back but still got the background.

    Was this in Prince William Sound? They have a fairly large and vibrant population of resident killer whales there.

  17. 17.

    Tim F.

    @David Neiwert: Thanks! The pic is from Resurrection Bay on a whale watching cruise out of Seward. This guy was leading a pod of residents who played around the boat for a while before they headed for (relatively) open water.

    There is another pic that you might like on my Flickr page here.

  20. 20.

    Eric U.

    @General Stuck: I was out moving some junk around and a giant moth came to investigate. I almost smacked it out of the park but then I realized it was a hummingbird. I guiltily thought of your wonderful pictures.

  23. 23.

    roshan

    The Graphing Calculator Story
    (video, 54 minutes)

    ABSTRACT: It’s midnight. I’ve been working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. I’m not being paid. In fact, my project was canceled six months ago, so I’m evading security, sneaking into Apple Computer’s main offices in the heart of Silicon Valley, doing clandestine volunteer work for an eight-billion-dollar corporation.
    __
    I was frustrated by all the wasted effort, so I decided to uncancel my small part of the project. I had been paid to do a job, and I wanted to finish it. My electronic badge still opened Apple’s doors, so I just kept showing up.

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    sfinny

    Last weekend I was on my patio reading and saw movement in my peripheral vision. Usually this is doves or sparrows flying around near my terrace. But this time a hummingbird came up right in front of me, less than a foot from my face and stayed there for about thirty seconds.

    At first I was mesmerized, fascinated, adoring…then I quickly looked around to make sure my cat wasn’t around (who is fantastically able to nab birds on or near the patio, to their extreme detriment). Fortunately he was inside sleeping or doing whatever cats do.

  25. 25.

    roshan

    @efgoldman: Dammit, Goldman. Here, this is for you.
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    Blockquote Tutorial
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    Place two underscores at the beginning of each empty line between paragraphs and it shall never spill out of the box.
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    Place two underscores directly above your blockquote and it shall not go bold.
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    Begin your blockquote directly below a line of text or reply link and it too, shall not go bold.

    courtesy Licensed to kill time

  26. 26.

    trollhattan

    Schweet photo!

    M-kay, Orca takes mama grizzly in any best of three falls cage match. Jess sayin’

    Gawd, caribou Barbie has ruined Alaska for me, maybe forever.

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    Yutsano

    @efgoldman: Thank you for posting the name. I hadn’t heard of Mr Parks (in the band world if you’re a director you usually won’t have a doctorate, although he more than likely earned one along the way) but as a long time band geek I certainly know the reputation of the UMass band. Outside of the HBCUs they were regarded as one of the most energetic ones out there.

    College marching band, especially at a school like UMass, goes way beyond normal, though. Band camp from 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., for 6 – 10 days in August, then a full semester where rehearsal runs at a minimum of 90 minutes per day M-F, you devote 8 hours of Saturday on an easy week, and several of your weekends are given up to non-stop travel, rehearsal, and performance where if you’re lucky, you might get to nap 10 minutes on the bus and there will be enough food for all 350 of you. Then you sleep on a high school gym floor.

    Yep. It ain’t easy. It ain’t glamorous. It oftentimes isn’t even fun. But it is worth it. Band kids are simply some of the most special students at any university anywhere simply because they are so different and they revel in that difference. It’s not for everyone. But if it’s for you, you know it. And on a personal level, thanks to band I’ve been to DC, LA (twice), San Diego (twice), El Paso, San Antonio, and numerous trips to Seattle all without paying. That wasn’t the big reward though, that was just a per. The reward was tangible acknowledgment that we were part of something that really was bigger than ourselves, that the whole could be greater than the sum of its parts. There may have been 200 individuals, but we were one BAND.

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    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Concussionists are a completely different breed altogether. They definitely fall under the category of their own sub-culture in the band world.

    I’m good, home trying to retrieve the kitteh and seeing the new bebeh my friends just had. I’ll try to get pictures if I can.

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    jurassicpork

    It’s not very often, if ever, that we get a clear glimpse into the reptilian brain of a K Street lobbyist. All that changed when a K Street Tea Party lobbyist published his tellall in the pages of Playboy. This confessional and my anaylsis reveals not a mere paid whore of K Street but a nightmarish mind helping to control a world in which he actually believes the lies he disseminates in his various acts of political terrorism. Seriously, this is a must read.

  33. 33.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: There is the small possibility I may not take the cat. I’m worried he won’t adjust well to such a big environment change. As i is he’s only coming into the house to eat and slep. may just decide to not disturb the order of things.

  36. 36.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Yep. Which my SIL (who is moving in there next month) would bitch about because he is very dominant kitteh and tends to take it out on her cat. The other solution is to bring him to the ranch and let him go through his second life as a barn cat. He wouldn’t be alone and it might actually suit him better.

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    chicago dyke

    that’s like, the shot of a lifetime, dood. or rather, it would be if i’d been lucky enough to catch something that much made of Awesome. killer whales make me askeert. thinking carnivores that run in packs that could eat me like a filet of salmon? /shudders/ this is why i’m known as “pool girl” among my swimming friends. and don’t splash my hair.

    Yutsano: one Band one Sound! heh. i was always sorry i didn’t get to play in one at an HBC. i was never that good.

  38. 38.

    Yutsano

    @chicago dyke:

    killer whales make me askeert. thinking carnivores that run in packs that could eat me like a filet of salmon?

    There actually is no record of an orca actually ever eating a human. Killing is a different story, but most of those reports detail the human being played with similar to the fashion orcas play with seal bodies. But never eaten.

    one Band one Sound! heh. i was always sorry i didn’t get to play in one at an HBC

    I wish honestly I had tested my skills enough to try that. The two big issues being A) there is no HBCU in Washington State (that I’m aware of) and B) even the I couldn’t afford to go there. It wouldn’t have bugged me to be the only half-Jewish kid on campus, once you’re in the band clique you’re pretty much set.

  40. 40.

    Jager

    Is that a whale in the photo or could it be an Islamo-facist-terrorist submarine cruising just off the coast of our homeland?

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    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: My mom actually suggested taking one of the other barn cat’s kittens (she was already pregnant when my mom took her in, she’s fixed now) instead of my orange furball. I may test just how firm that offer is tomorrow although I honestly don’t have time to devote to box training and bonding with a kitten right now. Maybe I should just leave it all alone and turn my beautiful orange boy loose on the ranch.

    I’m gonna sleep on it. Night y’all.

  42. 42.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Jager: Why must it always be either/or? Why can’t it be both an orca whale AND a terrorist jihadi Islofascist warship coming to destroy Amurkia?

    @Yutsano: Maybe best to get settled in first and then assess the situation. Night, hon.

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