Off today to ride the Granite Trial at the PITS property. Last trial of the year, and maybe the most interesting depending on if Wednesday's snow has melted or not. Heh. I may do a little 'atoning' myself.
Gut yuntiff! See yas.
Update:
A good day - last trial of the year, personal best score and number of 'cleans'. Good way to end the season. My request for a soft landing (see comments) was granted. Heh. Puh-lenty of snow! Tired, stoned, more later. G'nite.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Conservative pastor on Romney: Don't vote for a Mormon
CNN
Let the shitstorm begin...
I'm glad this noted religious bigot finally showed some true Christian spirit and said this in public.
He's wrong, though. A cult is a religion without political power. The Saints have their own state fer chrissake!
A pastor of a mega church in Dallas said Friday that Republicans shouldn't vote for White House hopeful Mitt Romney because he's a Mormon and described the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a "cult."
Let the shitstorm begin...
I'm glad this noted religious bigot finally showed some true Christian spirit and said this in public.
He's wrong, though. A cult is a religion without political power. The Saints have their own state fer chrissake!
"Entitlements"
Nah, not for poor folk, or old folk, or unemployed folk, or sick folk. That's what caused the deficit, right? Bootstraps and all. It's the big banks that are "entitled" to make a profit because, well ... they're "entitled".
Ethnic cleansing ...
Digby calls it right. In a state where a black woman didn't have the right to vote 50 years ago, white Alabama shows its true (confederate) colors once again:
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There are people calling this a form of ethnic cleansing and I can't figure out a reason why it isn't. Sure, not every Hispanic in the state is undocumented, but you could certainly forgive them for feeling that measures this punitive mean they aren't welcome. If the state is willing to deny someone water because they don't have proper ID, they really, really don't want you around.
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Saturday Emmylou Blogging
I think the name of the song is "Calling My Children Home". From last weekend's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco.
Thanks to chuck18899.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Flatlanders Flip for Foot of Fluff!
Weather's always fun. More fun than whatever the Repug Outrage of the Day is. I'm so used to this shit I find it amazing that people even give it a second thought. When the TV folks in Sackatomatoes say "we're" gonna get a lotta snow, my reply is always, "Yeah dipstick, and we're gonna shovel it, right?"
There's a very slight distinction between Donner Summit and Donner Pass. Donner Summit is where I-80 switches from climbing to descending and has a highway rest stop that's been closed for rebuilding for two years now, and also a geographical area maybe three miles by a mile where there are small communities, ski areas, maybe still a post office. You can't see one from the other. Donner Pass is the two-lane pass over the Sierra on old Highway 40 that enters and exits the geographical area. Highway 40 is maybe a mile as the crow flies and two ridgelines from I-80 and is more or less a scenic bypass. The weather is exactly the same. Unless you're trying to be precise there's not much difference. Boreal is right off the Interstate and easy to get to.
EssEffChron
This is October 6? Shot taken at 4 p.m. Thursday at Boreal near Donner Summit. Photo by Tom Stienstra
Believe it, Sparky. Heh.
Tomorrow I'm going about 15 miles over the summit to ride my last trial of the year at the PITS property. That's near Cisco Grove (a "populated place") at 5600 feet of elevation. The club honchos think yesterday's snow will be gone. It's all northern exposure and I don't think it will be. We'll see how that works out.
There's a very slight distinction between Donner Summit and Donner Pass. Donner Summit is where I-80 switches from climbing to descending and has a highway rest stop that's been closed for rebuilding for two years now, and also a geographical area maybe three miles by a mile where there are small communities, ski areas, maybe still a post office. You can't see one from the other. Donner Pass is the two-lane pass over the Sierra on old Highway 40 that enters and exits the geographical area. Highway 40 is maybe a mile as the crow flies and two ridgelines from I-80 and is more or less a scenic bypass. The weather is exactly the same. Unless you're trying to be precise there's not much difference. Boreal is right off the Interstate and easy to get to.
EssEffChron
This is October 6? Shot taken at 4 p.m. Thursday at Boreal near Donner Summit. Photo by Tom StienstraThose familiar with the Sierra know this is probably a short-term anomaly. All this snow could even melt off next week when the temperature is expected to climb into the high 60s and perhaps low 70s. But if cold nights keep it around, not just at Donner Pass, but the entire Sierra Crest and Shasta, it portends great things for the winter, mountain resorts and state’s water supply. This snow was very heavy, the wet Sierra cement. If it freezes, it would make a great base level, and allow future powder to pile up on top of that base without melting off. That would allow ski areas to open early across the mountain country.
It’s been a crazy year. I talked to a truck driver from New York and he said he drove through Tahoe-Donner in June and ran into a blizzard. Now here it is only four months later and he runs into another one? Shortest summer imaginable, eh? Well, maybe. Maybe not. Many years, we haven’t had significant coverage of ski runs until December.
One side story: The problems on I-80 were immediate. On Wednesday, the California Highway Patrol closed I-80 eastbound in the morning because cars were wiping out all over the place. After reopening it in the afternoon, several accidents required that they close it again. On Thursday, Caltrans posted chain controls on their website and road hotline, (800) 427-7623, but city drivers in 2-wheel-drives were still pushing it at 70 mph, and no one had to chain up. I clicked my rig into 4-wheel-drive and tried to enjoy the scenery and avoid the speeders.
Still can’t believe this is the first week of October.
Believe it, Sparky. Heh.
Tomorrow I'm going about 15 miles over the summit to ride my last trial of the year at the PITS property. That's near Cisco Grove (a "populated place") at 5600 feet of elevation. The club honchos think yesterday's snow will be gone. It's all northern exposure and I don't think it will be. We'll see how that works out.
Wah-wah-wah ...
Those poor, oppressed, white guys:
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I cannot imagine the pain and suffering Lindsey Graham has experienced at the hands of poor black people. Maybe one day he will dramatize it for us, in sequins, so that we may understand.
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The stupid, it burns...
The Escapist
Duh. Insane and evil. I hope the 'rebel' geeks 'n nerds at Mr. Jobs' funeral stuff the WBC assholes in a shredder or however they get rid of trolls.
Next we'll be hearing that God was having trouble with His iPhone and called Steve Jobs home for a little IT work? I'd believe that.
A big tip o' the Brain to Badtux for this.
The Westboro Baptist Church leader damns Steve Jobs to Hell using her iPhone.
"Westboro will picket his funeral. He had a huge platform; gave God no glory & taught sin," wrote Margie Phelps, daughter of church leader Fred Phelps, on Twitter last night.
The absolutely ridiculous part is that Phelps wrote and sent this Tweet with her freaking iPhone. After several people pointed out the irony of using the product created by the same man she was damning, Phelps responded, "Rebels mad cuz I used iPhone to tell you Steve Jobs is in hell. God created iPhone for that purpose! :)"
I interpret Phelps' smiley-face there as a clear sign of insanity.
Duh. Insane and evil. I hope the 'rebel' geeks 'n nerds at Mr. Jobs' funeral stuff the WBC assholes in a shredder or however they get rid of trolls.
Next we'll be hearing that God was having trouble with His iPhone and called Steve Jobs home for a little IT work? I'd believe that.
A big tip o' the Brain to Badtux for this.
Shooting themselves ...
In the foot. Because they didn't learn from Georgia's stupidity emulating Arizona's stupidity, Alabama did the double plus stupid thing by emulating them. Now they're crying:
Gotta love them conservative "intellectuals".
How long before all these assholes start begging the federal government for "disaster relief"?
And just a note before I jump into the shower: I have no sympathy for the farmers or the people who continually vote for these idiots. This is the government they wanted. The immigration issue ("the wetbacks are taking our jobs") is what the voters of these states wanted to hear and they went for it. Now they got it. Good luck with that. Bed. Made. Lie. Better not look to me for a bailout. If it weren't for these gullible assholes who believe everything they're told by their polticians/preachers/conservative blowhards, we wouldn't have half the problems we do now.
It's not like they weren't warned. There was already the example of Arizona, whose wrecked economy lies in ruins in the wake of SB1070 and the wave of anti-immigrant sentiment that came with its passage.
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And guess what? They are now paying the price. Not only are the schools suddenly emptying of Latino children, more tellingly, the state's tomato farmers are in crisis because there's no one available to harvest the fruit. And the authors of the legislation are just telling them, "tough luck":
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Gotta love them conservative "intellectuals".
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This is where the rubber hits the road when it comes to conservative ideology, just as it does when Randian fantasy meets reality -- which is to say, it quickly comes apart. The right-wing nativists want to pretend that undocumented immigrants are taking away jobs that Americans want to be doing, but the reality is they are largely filling unskilled-labor positions that involve back-breaking work -- the kind of work Americans simply are incapable of performing nowadays, regardless of pay.
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How long before all these assholes start begging the federal government for "disaster relief"?
And just a note before I jump into the shower: I have no sympathy for the farmers or the people who continually vote for these idiots. This is the government they wanted. The immigration issue ("the wetbacks are taking our jobs") is what the voters of these states wanted to hear and they went for it. Now they got it. Good luck with that. Bed. Made. Lie. Better not look to me for a bailout. If it weren't for these gullible assholes who believe everything they're told by their polticians/preachers/conservative blowhards, we wouldn't have half the problems we do now.
Shredded ...
Like an unarmed man at a knife fight. Riffing off Gord's post last night, Herman Cain, for some unknown reason (what he took from O'Donnell last night couldn't be worth hawking a book), went on with Larry last night and Larry cut him up, down, and all around.
Really?
How fucking ridiculous is this? Stolen from our pal Pam Spaulding on the Facebook:
How about decriminalizing me kicking some local politician ass? I don't know, but I'm willing to bet this city council is made up of, mostly, old white men. Seriously, somebody should take all of them out back and throw 'em a beating so they can appreciate an abused woman's perspective (and if there are any women on the council, they should be beat twice as hard). Then let them go back in and vote.
Last day of Grand Jury. Gotta be in early ...
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But perhaps the most shocking idea to save money is being debated right now by the City Council of Topeka, Kansas. The city could repeal an ordinance banning domestic violence because some say the cost of prosecuting those cases is just too high:
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How about decriminalizing me kicking some local politician ass? I don't know, but I'm willing to bet this city council is made up of, mostly, old white men. Seriously, somebody should take all of them out back and throw 'em a beating so they can appreciate an abused woman's perspective (and if there are any women on the council, they should be beat twice as hard). Then let them go back in and vote.
Last day of Grand Jury. Gotta be in early ...
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Colbert: GOP Voters Pick Candidates Like They're In A Bar At 4 A.M.
Yep, nobody's ugly at closin' time...
TPMLiveWire with video.
Here's my take on Pizza Guy: Cain's scared shitless. He is not now and never was and doesn't want to be a serious candidate. He never, ever, not for a moment thought that there were damn fools enough to get him into the top tier. He thought he'd be like Paul or Santorum, just make a lotta noise and that'd be it.
That's why he's taking 30 days off from campaigning right in the middle of the Repug turkey slap to sell his book. He's trying desperately not to win the primary.
Don't worry, Hermie, there are a helluva lot more voters who won't vote for you because of your cockamamie ideas.
He's not going to be President for two reasons:
First, the majority of morons he's pandering to will never, ever, vote for a gentleman of his, er, complexion, and second, he won't take the cut in pay and put his business interests in a blind trust and hope they're still there in four years.
Time ta go for it or drop out, Herman me lad. You'll make the right choice.
TPMLiveWire with video.
Stephen Colbert thought the 2012 Republican presidential contest was all but a two-horse race between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. But a funny thing happened on the way to the nomination: Herman Cain.
Here's my take on Pizza Guy: Cain's scared shitless. He is not now and never was and doesn't want to be a serious candidate. He never, ever, not for a moment thought that there were damn fools enough to get him into the top tier. He thought he'd be like Paul or Santorum, just make a lotta noise and that'd be it.
That's why he's taking 30 days off from campaigning right in the middle of the Repug turkey slap to sell his book. He's trying desperately not to win the primary.
Don't worry, Hermie, there are a helluva lot more voters who won't vote for you because of your cockamamie ideas.
He's not going to be President for two reasons:
First, the majority of morons he's pandering to will never, ever, vote for a gentleman of his, er, complexion, and second, he won't take the cut in pay and put his business interests in a blind trust and hope they're still there in four years.
Time ta go for it or drop out, Herman me lad. You'll make the right choice.
Quote of the Day II
From El Rude-o on media coverage of Occupy after ignoring it:
Much, much more.
Sweet Jesus, the amount of media overcompensation was like a small-dicked executive buying an Escalade.
Much, much more.
Radio check, over...
Usually, a radio check in the service was pretty dull. Every RTO does them on a regular basis to see if his radio works and if anybody can hear him and he can hear them. Goes like this:
"Any station this net, radio check, over." Zzzzzzz...
This morning a less dull one popped into my head and I can't get rid of it. It's like something from 45 years ago bubbled up through the ooze and is doing fast laps in my noggin. I feel the need to spread it around and maybe it'll go away, you lucky people. Silly, but here goes:
Unidentified Marine radio operator: "Ah'm tall as a tree an' black as a crow an' Ah talks mah shit on da ray-dee-o. How copy, over?"
The reply, "Fee fi fo fum, hears ya loud wid a little hum!"
Maybe it'll sink back down inta the ooze now...
"Any station this net, radio check, over." Zzzzzzz...
This morning a less dull one popped into my head and I can't get rid of it. It's like something from 45 years ago bubbled up through the ooze and is doing fast laps in my noggin. I feel the need to spread it around and maybe it'll go away, you lucky people. Silly, but here goes:
Unidentified Marine radio operator: "Ah'm tall as a tree an' black as a crow an' Ah talks mah shit on da ray-dee-o. How copy, over?"
The reply, "Fee fi fo fum, hears ya loud wid a little hum!"
Maybe it'll sink back down inta the ooze now...
Bodickus out at ESPN
Raw Story
Don't let the door hitcha in the ass, Dick.
Note to Bodickus: Lemme 'splain the 1st Amendment since you obviously don't understand it. Along with a whole lot else. The 1st Amendment only protects your freedom of speech from the government, and sometimes not even from them if you're threatening or inciting a riot. Say any goddam fool thing you want, like you did, the government won't censure it in any meaningful way, but what happens next is up to the person you said it to. It's your right to say it, but that doesn't mean it will be well received and it's also your right to get your nose punched.
Asshole.
That said, I agree with you 100% that we are your enemy.
On Thursday morning, ESPN said it had made the decision to bench Williams for good.
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On his website, Williams claimed the decision had been his idea.
“After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision,” the singer wrote. “By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment.”
“Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It’s been a great run.”
Don't let the door hitcha in the ass, Dick.
Note to Bodickus: Lemme 'splain the 1st Amendment since you obviously don't understand it. Along with a whole lot else. The 1st Amendment only protects your freedom of speech from the government, and sometimes not even from them if you're threatening or inciting a riot. Say any goddam fool thing you want, like you did, the government won't censure it in any meaningful way, but what happens next is up to the person you said it to. It's your right to say it, but that doesn't mean it will be well received and it's also your right to get your nose punched.
Asshole.
That said, I agree with you 100% that we are your enemy.
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