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  1. 1.

    demkat620

    Humidity is too high here not to use the A/C. Maybe you need a pool John. I am sure the animals would appreciate it.

  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    No matter how hot it is there, you’re still probably not sweating like Hines Ward is!
    ba dun duh
    Here all week.

  3. 3.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

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    Did President Obama really say “Progressive professional left-wing firebagger fucking retards – I welcome your hatred”?
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  4. 4.

    bob_is_boring

    Cole:

    “Looking like it will be another day of unbearable heat here, but I am still trying to hold off on shutting the windows and starting the AC.”

    I don’t understand.

    I don’t think “unbearable heat” means what you think it means.

    I also don’t remember the last day it wasn’t triple-digits hot in delightful Austin. I also don’t think my AC actually turns off; it’s been so long I don’t remember.

    Must be nice, mountain man.

  5. 5.

    Svensker

    Nothing on Hines Ward?

    And on a different note, I have been pleased to find that Toronto’s humidity level is about half NJs. So far, any way. Knock wood and fingers crossed. Yippee!

  8. 8.

    abo gato

    Quit yer whining Cole. I’m with Bob above, it’s freaking hot in south Texas. My AC is never not on and the bill shows it. Too many triple digit days in a row along with what looks to be a never ending drought.

    Please, just one small tropical storm in the Gulf….no hurricane, just a low pressure system would be huge for us.

  9. 9.

    Corner Stone

    @abo gato:

    Please, just one small tropical storm in the Gulf….no hurricane, just a low pressure system would be huge for us.

    Not with El Nino in effect. At least that’s what I’ve always been told. The high pressure system pushes off the Gulf Coast and “protects” most of coastal TX. Of course the trade off is soul crushing heat, and this year record level droughts. But hey, what’re ya gonna do?

  10. 10.

    cckids

    We’re feeling a little persecuted here in S.NV, as our humidity is ALL THE WAY UP to 22%. Get the fainting couch. Air temp around 102. I’m from eastern NE originally, so I’m used to closer to humidity levels around, oh, 85% or so. But I’ve been here long enough that this feels quite muggy. My teens biked out to Lake Mead last night with friends, camped on the beach & are boating today. Ah, youth.

  11. 11.

    stuckinred

    Derek Lowe got popped for DUI and he ended up walking. It was in the ATL and not Decatur but who knows.

  14. 14.

    Pococurante

    Mining around the Grand Canyon. Can’t be worse than piping oil through national parks when the total number of pipeline inspectors is 110 who check lines no more often than every five years.

    Some things should remain a mystery.

  15. 15.

    abo gato

    CornerStone, yep, that’s why we need a tropical storm that can push its way over the El Nino effect and give some relief. When that high pressure is so strong, it seems nothing else can do it.

  17. 17.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    Unbearable heat? Really? I just looked at the map and it looks like WV has the same weather as South PA: low 80s and sunny. It’s beautiful here, just finished a bike ride. We haven’t had the A/C on all summer, and if we had, today wouldn’t be one of the days.

    I don’t get it.

  18. 18.

    PurpleGirl

    NYC is supposed to get to 89 today, with 41% humidity. So far I’m comfortable with most of the windows and the terrace door open. (I’m glad I bought the optional door screen when the windows and terrace doors were replaced.)

    All the windows are on one wall in the living room so I don’t get a breeze in there, but in the bedroom I have windows on two walls and the cross ventilation really captures any breeze.

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    Cole, you gotta close up the windows as soon as the cool of the morning is gone and it feels hot outside. Otherwise your A/C has to fight the heat & humidity you let in.

    She said, speaking as someone whose air conditioning died on the first of multiple 97 degree days a few weeks ago.

  20. 20.

    stuckinred

    WaterGirl

    I was going to say that but John has zero interest in any advice I give.

  21. 21.

    murbella

    Here are the details of the “generosity” of the American offer to stay in Iraq, that will be voted tomorrow.

    The information spread by Iraqi politicians, not confirmed by the Iraqi government so far that the debates US-Iraqi is being confidentially to keep large numbers of U.S. forces in Iraq, according to the third paragraph of the security agreement, which states that the duration of land use begins at the date of receipt of the response to 31 / December (December) in 2016, and can extend the period of use after the approval of the parties to it.
    A note prepared for this purpose with the number 0048 to the year 2011 to the generosity the next U.S. on Iraqi soil would be as follows:
    Basra: This is the temporary site of the consulate area of ​​40.82 hectares near Basra airport.
    At the site of the Basra area of ​​Aviation (14.78) hectares in the Basra airport.
    Kirkuk: The branch office of the embassy area of ​​33.88 hectares near the airport in Kirkuk.
    Mosul: The branch of the embassy area of ​​41.69 hectares near the Mosul airport.
    Under the agreement, to be in Baghdad, a facility for police training area of ​​24.91 hectares, near the Police College and the Ministry of the Interior, in addition to the site of Baghdad’s Air area of ​​247.07 hectares in the Baghdad airport, as well as an area of ​​61.7 hectares located within the region, government, green, and be set up to support the embassy.
    In the province of Kurdistan, the support facility in Irbil consulate there an area of ​​108.53 hectares near the airport in Erbil, Arbil, in addition to the site of the airline within an area of ​​99.9 hectares of the airport. The hectare is equal to ten thousand square meters, and that the vast areas to be filled by Americans will be protected and insured under the Convention, and to undertake the Iraqi Foreign Ministry implementation of the paragraphs of their content and enable the U.S. embassy to obtain and install them in circles real estate to ensure no claim of any other Iraqi or Iraqi citizen Avaidah that land to him.

    Sounds like a land grab to me. I doubt the Sadrist Trend is going sit still for this.
    I think this is a very bad idea. Muqtada al-Sadr has vowed to raise the (60,000 man in 2008) Mahdi Army to oppose further occupation. And the regional Arab Spring is already breathing down Maliki’s, Karzai’s, and Zardari’s America puppet necks. There are american flags on fire in Islamabad, Kabul, and Baghdad every week now.
    10k American troops against an Arab Spring powered resurgent Mahdi Army?
    Place your bets, gentlemen.

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    Stuckinred

    Who knows if Cole will pay any attention to my comment, but a girl’s gotta try…

    Edit: I miss the reply button, but at least we have Edit.

  23. 23.

    Corner Stone

    @stuckinred:

    I was going to say that but John has zero interest in any advice I give.

    He’s kind of a stubborn git that way.

  25. 25.

    Lojasmo

    80 and humid in minnesota’s first CD. My AC has been on for a month. Fuck the environment.

  27. 27.

    Constance

    Good gawd, the humidity is supposed to climb to 31 percent today with a high of 75. Honestly, I don’t think it’s usually that high. It’s bearable.

  29. 29.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Watergirl

    In some ways I miss the reply button. On the other hand, my cut-and-paste workaround has precluded my usually lame casual replies.

  30. 30.

    murbella

    @CS trying VERYVERY hard to stay. That is the proposal to be voted tomorrow.
    Allawi (the Iraqi List) has allied with Muqtada (the Sadrist Trend). Those are two political blocs that will be voting FUCK NO!
    Maliki’s bloc (the State of Law) has said the americans must hold to the SOFA if any large political blocs vote against the occupiers staying on.
    Obama says he is holding to the SOFA, but has offered 10k troops IFF we get asked to stay.
    we will see tomorrow.

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    Dennis SGMM

    I actually appreciate your replies, so that maybe be good for you, but bad for the rest of us. One positive, though, is that people seem to engage a lot less with the trolls.

    My theory on the reply button is that John likes the effect that “no reply” is having on the blog, helping to keep the weeds down (people who are here to disrupt). I imagine we’ll get the reply button back when Cole feels like enough weeds have moved on to greener pastures.

  32. 32.

    Cat Lady

    Outside Boston it’s a perfect sunny day, and another one on tap for tomorrow. We’ve fucking earned it. My shoulder still aches from the shoveling this winter, and the relentless gray cool spring, but after two years of paying some organic landscape company many hundreds of dollars to give me a nice lawn without killing all living things, the crab grass, moss, thatch and dirt patches are disrupting my equanimity. Small claims court may be in order to get my money back. I have pictures from 3 years ago that show the lawn I had was much better when I did everything myself, so WTF? I blame Obama.

  33. 33.

    Corner Stone

    @Dennis SGMM:

    On the other hand, my cut-and-paste workaround has precluded my usually lame casual replies.

    And that’s why I think the “disappearance” of the Reply is another of DougJ’s mindfucks with this site.
    Because it became a lot of freakin’ work to incessantly and insipidly flame somebody across multiple threads. And that was like a bummer for me.

  34. 34.

    WaterGirl

    Okay, tried to edit my previous comment to add a reply to cornerstone. FYWP.

    So much for my “at least we have edit” consolation prize.

    Cornerstone: I am too lazy to track down the workaround.

  35. 35.

    Sharl

    The show this week on This American Life is on fracking in Pennsylvania, put together by TAL producer and PA resident Sarah Koenig. The big news to me is just how in-the-tank Penn State U. is for the gas/mining industry folks, despite the increasingly obviously environmental impacts. The regular folks are just getting steamrolled…

  36. 36.

    Corner Stone

    @WaterGirl:

    My theory on the reply button is that John likes the effect that “no reply” is having on the blog, helping to keep the weeds down (people who are here to disrupt). I imagine we’ll get the reply button back when Cole feels like enough weeds have moved on to greener pastures.

    Cole is the biggest troller on this blog. It’s so obvious that it’s beyond dispute at this point.

  37. 37.

    Corner Stone

    @WaterGirl: You probably don’t need it. You’re much too sanguine to make full use of the free market solution. It’s best to move scarce resources into areas of high demand.

  38. 38.

    Third Eye Open

    Pfft!, It’s 90 here, feels like 99, and nearly 60% humidity. I also happen to live in a housing complex with no AC, go figure.

    I want to pimp the BS which is going on in the ACF (maybe) negotiations. Can any of you folks from the Atlanta region give us a hint of what the hell Deal is talking about now that the next step includes SCOTUS? I don’t think Rick Scott even knows where the hell the Apalachicola River is.

  39. 39.

    Jennifer

    John – if it’s hotter outside than inside, shut the windows now; it will keep the house cooler for longer.

    I find that even on days where the temps get into the high 90s, I can go without A/C for a good portion of the day – by keeping the windows closed to keep the heat out. A/C goes on in afternoon – whenever it reaches 78 inside, I turn it on – and it stays on until I go to bed, when I turn it off. Then it will stay relatively cool inside (below 78) until noon or maybe 1:00 the following day, if I do things like shut doors to rooms on the side of the house where the sun is at that time.

    100 years ago everyone knew this stuff. We have to re-learn it since we’ve been spoiled with a/c.

  40. 40.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Corner Stone

    Between no reply button and the pie filter this site has become much more low key for me.

    On another note, here in the lovely foothills of the San Gabriel mountains the temps is heading for the nineties and the relative humidity is sixty percent.

  41. 41.

    murbella

    @CS

    Cole is the biggest troller on this blog.

    untrue. hes just a dumbass that believes in libertarian unicorn farts.
    His trolling is a simple side-effect of being consistantly rolled by libertarians like a gay guy cruising Paddy Boots for rough trade.

  44. 44.

    dexter

    Down here a little north of Baton Rouge we have not had air conditioning for six years. It was not that awful until Gustav blew down our 120 white oak tree that gave us afternoon shade. We are happy that the eye was to the west of us so the wind blew the trees away from the house. If the eye had been on the other side all the trees would have fallen on the house. Plus, Louisiana had the hottest June on record this year so we are going to give in and replace the ac. Last month’s electric bill was a little over sixty dollars, but the heat is finally getting to us.

  45. 45.

    Linnaeus

    @Yutsano:

    Oh, it might hit 73 here. Nothing big.

    Pleasant, but I think it’s actually been a bit too cool here in recent weeks, though last week was nice and warm.

  47. 47.

    Yutsano

    I think it’s actually been a bit too cool here in recent weeks

    This is me choosing to NOT complain about that. Although it has been hell on the blackberry picking potential.

    (typing over a kitten. Apologies for any errors.)

  49. 49.

    FlipYrWhig

    John, don’t capitulate to the heat by turning on that corporatist AC! Demand cooler weather!

  50. 50.

    wrb

    Too fucking hot all week. A problem with living where you never need air conditioning is that when you do you boil, since you don’t have it.

    It has been over 80° I just lie around, wiped out, unable to do anything.

  51. 51.

    TX Expat

    @dexter

    Good Lord man! I live in Baton Rouge and am amazed that you are only now saying that the heat is getting to you.

    For those of you not in SE LA, it’s been hot here, y’all.

    My AC is always on, but I turn it up to 80 during the day so my electric bills have been running about $90 which isn’t too bad considering.

  53. 53.

    Corner Stone

    @FlipYrWhig:

    John, don’t capitulate to the heat by turning on that corporatist AC! Demand cooler weather!

    It’s funny you’d pick this. Because Cole does have remedies to the heat. He has just chosen not to implement them.
    IOW, he’s getting the outcome he desires.

  55. 55.

    different church-lady

    who’s dumber: a troll or the people who recognize a troll and respond anyway compulsively read (and bitch about) that troll?

    FTFY-Fest, Day 2!

  56. 56.

    cbear

    Corner Stone:

    Alright dude, what the hell happened to you the other night with the “fate no man should suffer”???
    Give it up.

  57. 57.

    ABL

    What are you, a madman? No wonder you’re suffering. Open the windows at night to let the cool air in. Close them during the day to keep the heat and humidity out. Oh, and get some of those cyclone fans to move the air around.

    No charge. :)

    (edited for homonym fail)

  58. 58.

    different church-lady

    Does anyone here have a tankless water heater? Do you like it, and was it expensive?

  59. 59.

    Ed Marshall

    Hey, my state senator made some “joke” about disowning his daughter if she ever brought home a Muslim. I can see it, but (unfortunately) I’m friends with his his friends and I’m not sure if anyone in the world can see that or just friends of friends. Can someone tell me if this is visible to the world?

    http://www.facebook.com/senatorsyverson/posts/2239098622736

  60. 60.

    Corner Stone

    @cbear: I can’t remember. I’ve tried my best. I woke up and there were implements, lubricants and barn yard animals. But that’s not unusual for a man at my level of degrading debauchery.

  62. 62.

    debbie

    @ TX Expat:

    I turn off the a/c and let the fan run while I’m at work. It’s still relatively decent when I get home. I leave the basement door open (where it’s 50 degrees when the air conditioning is running), and I think it spreads through the upper two floors.

  63. 63.

    Common Sense

    yes it’s visible Ed:

    “Father Daughter Talk …My daughter just walked into the room and said, “Dad, cancel my allowance, rent my room out, throw all my clothes out, take my TV, iPhone, IPod, and my laptop. “Please take all of my jewelry. Then sell my car, take my house key. And then write me out of your will.”
    Well, she didn’t put it quite like that……… she actually said..”Dad this is my new boyfriend, Mohammed from Iran.”

  64. 64.

    cbear

    @ Corner Stone:

    Is that why you’re walking kinda funny? It’s no fun when you’re the one in the barrel, huh?

  67. 67.

    Corner Stone

    @cbear: I left you a half dozen ways to go with that, and that’s what you’re going to hang on me?

  68. 68.

    RalfW

    Does preheating the house intensify the cooling experience or something?

    My question too.

  69. 69.

    murbella

    @CS

    Cole isn’t very bright, but he does know page clicks.

    nah. you shouldread the gooshy sappy mails Cole sent me about me about what a great guy EDK is at the beginning.
    you wrong, dude.
    Cole got rolled.

  70. 70.

    cbear

    @ Corner Stone:

    Sorry bro, I think it’s my military upbringing that makes my mind work this way.

  71. 71.

    Corner Stone

    @murbella: Why do you think ABL is here? It certainly isn’t her writing skills.
    Have you noticed a dramatic decrease in troll posts (ala mac v pc) by mistermix ?
    And the theories that Cole got rolled and he’s not very bright but craves page clicks are not exclusive.

  72. 72.

    Corner Stone

    @cbear:

    Sorry bro, I think it’s my military upbringing that makes my mind work this way.

    No problem. Let’s set it up again.
    “A Priest, a Libertarian and Matoko walk into a bar together…”

  74. 74.

    cbear

    “A Priest, a Libertarian and Matoko walk into a bar together…”

    And the bartender says “What, is this some kind of joke?”

  76. 76.

    Corner Stone

    @cbear: “Look, if I was joking I would’ve said, ‘What do you do with an elephant with three balls?’
    ‘What?’
    ‘Walk him and pitch to the rhino'”

    Greatest set up joke in modern film history.

  77. 77.

    Renie

    I have to smile when reading the electric bills posted here due to a/c. My electric bill is around $145 a month all the time and we don’t use a/c all day cuz no one is home during the day. I live in the much hated Long Island area of Nassau County New York. (Don’t know why its hated so much but I’m sure someone here will tell me.) :-)

  78. 78.

    Steeplejack

    @Cole:

    [. . .] I am still trying to hold off on shutting the windows and starting the AC.

    Night shift checking in (early again). The week is over. Weekend! Yee-haw! But I digress.

    I have been doing a lot of research on this issue, because of my ancient, anemic air conditioner, and I have found that for me, here in NoVa, the transition boundary is around 90° and is heavily dependent on the humidity. Right now the temperature outside is 89°, according to Weather.com, but the humidity is only about 40%, and it is quite bearable. Windows open, no air conditioner on. But I am dressed, uh, casually. Extremely casual. Let’s leave it at that. Yesterday the temp was about the same, but we had some hard rain and the humidity was way up, and it was almost unbearable. Windows closed, A.C. on. (It doesn’t do a great job on cooling, but it does blow out the humidity.)

    Once the temp starts pushing 95°, I don’t care what the humidity is. It’s awful. And the A.C. is on, even if only for the placebo effect.

  80. 80.

    Steeplejack

    Damn, is anyone else watching this Germany-Japan World Cup game? They are hammering each other in the second period of overtime.

    For some reason I am pulling for Japan. They spunky.

  82. 82.

    Yutsano

    For some reason I am pulling for Japan.

    The Japanese have had enough ass kickings lately. I’d like to see them get a solid win under their belt.

  83. 83.

    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    Well, they did it. Got an excellent goal and then held on all the way through the extra time. Kudos to them.

  84. 84.

    Pongo

    Not sure why the British press scandal involving the Murdoch empire isn’t playing as big here as it is pretty much everywhere else, but it is pretty interesting and has implications for NewsCorp in the US. Some big fish are are already on the hook and now Rupert’s top dog in the UK, Rebekah Brooks, is warning employees of even more horrible allegations to come. Rupert’s son may be brought up on charges for paying hush money and the Prime Minister, David Cameron, is under attack for bringing a former Murdoch editor, Andy Coulson, into the inner sanctum as his press adviser AFTER he had already been arrested once on charges related to illegal phone hacking (he’s just been arrested for the second time yesterday and is out on bail). Now there’s this little gem from the Guardian:

    Coulson went on to be cleared by the security vetting team at Downing Street after three in-depth interviews about his professional and personal life. He was given “strap one” status, which allowed him the highest access to top secret material.

    Cameron, Andrew Sullivan’s man-crush, brought a known Murdoch spy into the Prime Minister’s office and gave him top security clearance. Is it just me, or does this seem like a really, really bad idea? Murdoch is certainly powerful enough to sweep a lot under the rug, but this might get too ugly even for his cleaning machine.

  85. 85.

    murbella

    @CS
    “A Priest, a Libertarian and Matoko walk into a bar together…”
    shouldn’t that be a Mullah?

  86. 86.

    murbella

    oh and CS
    looks like we have to wait two more weeks

    He said President Talabani: “The committee will submit its report within ten days,” noting that “the meeting discussed the political differences and the U.S. withdrawal,” it was agreed that “the political forces of its members and decide its position on the survival or the evacuation of U.S. forces to give its final position after two weeks of now. “

  89. 89.

    Corner Stone

    @murbella:

    if Amerikkka is so great, why do we have Justin Bieber while the Germans have Bill Kaulitz?

    If I may channel the eternal wisdom of Uncle Clarence Thomas for a moment:
    “Dear depraved Matoko, it is because the USA gets the floppy hair no talent hacks it deserves, not the floppy hair no talent hacks it wants. Now bring me a Coke.”

  90. 90.

    murbella

    @CS

    Now bring me a Coke.

    you are supposed to say, “Now go make me a sammich.”
    try to keep up.

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