Gee, poor old George Allen seems to have lost the huge lead he once had on James Webb – it’s down to just three points, 48% – 45%. I don’t understand – he seems like such a nice guy. I think it’s all the fault of that nasty old news media, misquoting Allen and all. Hopefully Ned Lamont can pick up a few points, too.
I see that the NHTSA is requiring that car manufacturers tell you if you’ve got one of those Event Data Recorders (aka, Black Box) installed in your car (hint, if you buy a new car, you probably do) by 2011. You not only have to pay for these things, but they’re next to impossible to turn off, and you don’t even own the data that they collect if you’re in a crash (and of course, who’s to say how accurate the goddman things are). Well, just shut up and deal with it.
Oh, and president dummy says that anybody who thinks we ought to pull out of Iraq “shows a lack of understanding of world politics.” Must be true, ‘cuz Joe Lieberman told him so.
Have a good one.
May There Always Be A Dance In Your Step :banana:
And A Twinkle In Your Eye :idea::santacool:
In Unity There Is Strength
Ni Neart Go Cur Le … Book of Kells:fist:
MoonLightMan Lit The Way:idea:
Yea Druid is #!:banana::banana::banana:Yea!:banana::banana::banana:
Hip Hip Hooray!:banana: Hip Hip Horay!:banana:Hip Hip Horay!:banana:
You are … :banana::wink:
gohttp://morningseditionists.com/msblog/wp-images/smilies/java.gif:joe:od morning
Are you in the East Susan?
I have no idea how that link got there.. it was just supposed to be “good morning: :omg:
yes, just north of NYC
Number Three is “Profound”
I have been going to Court lately to support the Tree Sitters and to support the Save the Ancient Trees … Although I always look “witchy” I can “dress” the part.
i always used to like getting up early…..Its a great time of the day. Well …er….uh I guess this is not so bad either.:razz:
Going today Druid? Ancient Trees…..??? Redwoods?
Susan Joy 😉 And the Mystery continues :rofl2: Was an early person now late :tongue:
re 10 :nod:
Well, It is getting awlfully early! I really must go now. I am late once again.:yawn:
Go save those Redwoods! I will discuss this issue with you later. Ta Ms. Joy
G’Night MoonLightMan, you who have SAID nothing … but I have been arrested and even banned from Beverly Hills In L.A. (teehee) but now a different strategy.
:omg::fist::omg: Good Morrow to you all.
I had to iron these pants for work. Now put on Riley… :yawn:
Susan Joy :banana: :joe: (I have expresso from earlier today) and tea:joe:
I am sorry Witch, he is “confusing” me — which is “strangely” funny, since I only have sarcastic wit. :omg: :doh:
Susan Joy, Do you have your “pants” on?
And Where’s Fred?
No, I’m wearing shorts and a t shirt right now… I was wondering where Fred was, actually
Druid, was digging through the closet and found copies of the old newsletter I produced from when I belonged to a pagan church in the 90’s… wasn’t sure I still had some around
😎 If ever I get a computer radio thing going I was always planning to have you speak also … but I am trying to finish what I am doing now … 😮 BUT YEA about Your :pent: (news) Papers. Did you ever belong to the different Organizations ❓
Here goes, Bush going on the offensive again before election time:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 — President Bush seized today on Democratic calls for withdrawal from Iraq to make an election-year case that his political rivals did not properly understand the threats to the nation and would create a more dangerous world.
It was the most direct attack Mr. Bush has made yet against the Democrats from a White House lectern this election year, and it effectively marked the beginning of a more outright political season for the president and his aides as they work to help Republicans maintain control of Congress this fall.
more…
http://tinyurl.co.uk/lm6i
no, I didn’t really…
Susan Joy :nod: :omg: (even re talk from 👿 twit bush) :fu::growl::fist::jason:
:banana: ARREST! IMPEACH! VIGILANCE!
I so want to beat Tucker bloody. What a jerk.
Comment by Melina — August 21, 2006 @ 6:29 pm
Wait until the new season of Dancing With The Stars starts. You’ll have to stand in line.
:rofl2:
And what’s up with Bush referring to Islamic forces as fascists? Does he even know what a fascist is?
Pot, line one for you. It’s Kettle.
The Repigs are sniffing around Tampa and St Pete this week looking at potential convention sites for 2008. I don’t think we have enough hotel rooms to get it, but keep your calendars open around Labor Day 2008 just in case. I hate to hold up a sign all by myself. 🙂
Kevin M Pot, line one for you. It’s Kettle.
:cool::rofl2::cool::rofl2::cool::rofl2:
:?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?:
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::yuck::yuck::yuck::rant1::rant1::rant1:
Good morning/afternoon/evening/tomorrow/whatever
good morning Fred! 😛
I don’t think Georgie boy looks in a mirror very often or he would know what a fascist looked like.:eek::yuck::fustrate::paranoid:
:banana::banana::banana: Its Susan :banana::banana::banana:
Ironing things is a drag.. I make a point to use permanently wrinkled cloths.
“A Qabalistic Interpretation of Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham
(I’m supposed to draw Dr. Seuss drawings for my brother’s upcoming baby’s bedroom, and just googled words from “Green Egss and Ham”, and this is what I got”
http://www.excludedmiddle.com/occulted_dr._seuss.htm
yeah, the Republicans always tell you the opposite – they’re fascists so they call other people fascists…they hate America so they say liberals do… etc. I’m sure there are many more examples
Humm… when green eggs and ham are not at all green eggs and ham :eek::eek: .
yeah, something’s not kosher about the ham part…I’d probably guess and say green eggs aren’t on the shopping list either…
Nude People In Town Center Could Prompt Ban
“August 21, 2006
“BRATTLEBORO, Vt. –Complaints about young people who spend time in downtown naked have prompted the Select Board to explore an anti-nudity ordinance.
“Groups of young people have been congregating in a downtown parking lot and enjoying the warm summer weather without clothing, and that bothers some local residents.
“”A parking lot is not a strip club. It’s a parking lot,” resident Theresa Toney told the Select Board last week. She said she has seen repeated instances of naked people hanging out downtown.
–snip–
“News that the Select Board had asked Town Attorney Robert Fisher to research a possible local ordinance drew a protest of sorts Friday, as five young men gathered downtown and stripped their clothes off in protest.”
http://tinyurl.com/rohwf
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Kevin may want to move..:yawn::yawn::yawn::joe::joe::joe:
Kosher Ham ???… Hummmm ..Would this have anything to do with ethic cleansing. :?::?:
Wow, it’s happening…there IS a revolution going on in this country…free yourself from clothing! The only catch is there are only about two warm months in Vermont, and then I’m sure they’ll all get dressed
Iran is supposed to tell the corporatist west to go F* its self any moment now..( 8:00 eastern).. Hopefully it doesnt back that up by launching something other than an initiate or two.:eek::eek::eek:
Morning Evening :yinyang:
yeah, fred.
:fu: from Iran is one thing. :fu: BOOM! is completely different!
From the WSJ
6:30 a.m.: A Hezbollah cabinet minister said the government may attempt to break the Israeli naval and air blockade of Lebanon by calling on ships and aircraft to travel to Lebanese ports without prior Israeli approval. The government has condemned the blockade, saying it violates the U.N. cease-fire resolution, and the foreign minister called on the international community to force Israel to end the blockade.
4:15 a.m.: Israeli troops shot and killed three militants from the Islamic Jihad group near the Israel-Gaza border fence. The Israeli army said soldiers opened fire after spotting what they considered suspicious figures walking near the fence, carrying large bags. No weapons were found near the bodies, but Palestinian security officials said the three had been sent to carry out an attack.
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Hummm Israel borrows a little bit of how to deal with the people you think might.. maybe ..possibly.. well they looked like.. well they talked about a bomb we think..Just like the British do..
During Vietnam we were losing a lot of B52’s to surface to air missiles.. the thought surfaced that if they carried the conventional bombs in the front bomb bay and a 5 megaton nuclear device in the rear bomb bay the North Vietnamese would be less likely to shoot at them. I wonder if Hezbollah heard about that.. :eek::eek::eek:
:banana::banana::banana: Its King Kong :banana::banana::banana:
Whats happening in the far east this morning.. or is it the far west .. I’m confused.. :fustrate::fustrate::paranoid:
C-span has had their WJ show from the NO area these last two mornings.. It looks really grim..
I still think Louisiana and Mississippi should send their national guard troops to DC and evict Bushco..
There are an awful lot of really ticked off Americans along the gulf coast :mad::mad::omg::eek::yuck::rant1:
I’ll be back to blog with you guys in a few hours… :tongue:
:banana::banana: By by Susan have a good day :banana::banana:
We are all betting that the GM will arrive for work in a black Chevy suburban with two escort vehicles this morning.. He had a three hour meeting with the employee committee yesterday afternoon.:eek::eek::eek::yuck::yuck::gate::omg::jason::jason::jason::fist::fustrate::paranoid:
Hi Fred :banana: and King Kong :banana: and Kevin M :banana: and bye for now Susan Joy
Fred :rofl2: rather witty :All lol: :rofl2:
My bananas are still dancing intermittently :growl::growl::growl::growl::growl::joe::joe::joe:
. The next morning searchers found a discarded film box at the point where he had taken a picture.:omg:
Are we here still? It is the 22nd :banana::growl::fist::jason: :banana:
NickiRose re 52 😮
Its going to be the 23rd pretty soon in the Middle East.. These Muslims are so unreliable..:rant1:
Hey, if anybody’s in the market for wristwatch 2-way radios, today’s Woot is for you.
PJSauter re 56 😎
NickiRose, re 52 where’s “…the rest of the story” :omg:
Fred, re 55 :nod: and :lol::rofl2:
From someone on DU concerning the nudity in VT.
:omg:I just found out that there aren’t any laws against nudity in Seattle
after some friends of mine did a 26 mile bike ride naked. apparently they got a letter from the Mayor telling them they are always welcome
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I thought some of you would like to know..
:omg:
I would hate to have been the guy that had to clean all those bicycle seats.
I think.
This is the east, I guess, It’s morning here first. 😯
Summer school is winding down and everyone’s anxious about the new school year. :barf:
Hey everyone. :joe: Does it seem like time has been taken away from the day? There’s never enough time anymore.
On the TV show Treasure Hunters, I normally do not watch yet I sometimes saw a wee bit and not really interested (really:!:) but was always sadden how The Geniuses always Just Missed….. they got to the almost end and I was watching and Hoping they wouldn’t miss the target again, and almost didn’t watch since with everything “around” constanly losing (except for Ned Lamont) I just could hardly endure … BUT The Geniuses won ❗ :banana::banana::banana: Tis Bodes Good Tidings :!::?::!:
Kristapea tea:joe:tidings :nod: re 61
:banana: To hear that from another :banana::tongue::wink:
Well, off to get ready for Court, supporting ( by sitting on their side and (although can’t help looking witchy)) dressed the part to show a certain look to support the Tree Sitters in front of a biasd Environment. :yawn:
re 58 anf 59 :rofl2::lol::rofl2:
Go Druid GO!:fist:
We had the most amazing lightning show last night! I have never seen so many strikes in the span of a couple of hours. If I would have had my camera with me I would have dozens of photos of lightning! Amazing!
Wow, how electrifying 😎 😉
:yawn::Cheers All :gate:Happy Journeys
Stay awake Me :spank:
KP- that must have been a great experience. Lightening can be quite a show and be inspiring. :crack: :snapple: :pop:
I think you have to be wearing bodypaint, from what I’ve seen.
Huffington post did the best job, I think, with a video from yesterday’s news conference with Bush, in which he denied there were WMD or a connection to 9/11.
http://tinyurl.com/hyru8
Greetings and good morrow to ye, my bloggkin.
Did I miss anything important last night? I spent the evening helping a friend with her massage homework. (Yeah, it was a TOUGH night for me. Or not.)
Druid, how did you end up testifying in this? Or did I miss it while I was computer- and blog-less?
Uranium has been lost in New Jersey, one of 103 reported incidents of nuclear trafficking in 2005 collected by the Geneva-based body, according to a report issued yesterday by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The IAEA’s Illicit Trafficking Database Program (ITDB) reports on trafficking and other unauthorized activities involving nuclear and radioactive materials worldwide. The 103 incidents detected so far this year by ITDB represented a decline from 2004, but were still greater than all other previous years since the agency began collecting information in 1993.
In one March or April 2005 incident, highly enriched uranium (HEU) that could be used to make a nuclear weapon, was lost in the US State of New Jersey. The total amount gone missing was 3.3 grams, a small quantity. The IAEA remarked about the incident, “From the terrorism threat standpoint, these cases are of little concern but they show security vulnerabilities at facilities handling HEU.”
http://tinyurl.com/gdlan
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Glad to see homeland security is on the job..:barf::eek::eek::eek::yuck::gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
I’m Free!
Been at jury duty since yesterday. I wasn’t chosen (do you think describing myself as a “recovering lawyer” had anything to do with it?)
check the car trunks when you rent a vehicle: the defendant claims that his large quantity of meth “happened” to be in the rental car trunk because he didn’t check the trunk when he rented the car. :smack: :rofl2:
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Pres. Clinton had an op-ed in today’s NYT today:
How We Ended Welfare, Together
I wonder why protesters don’t go were the main stream media is going to be at like this like this JoHn MaRk KaRr hearing in L,A..With sign’s Cover Katrina Now do your JOB .Impeach Bush Now est.:omg::fu::rant1:
there’s an article in the NYT bidness section today about the nuke business.
It describes some of the many subsidies for nuke plants and how financially, shareholders typically just don’t get a quick enough return on their investment. About the only mention of environmental concerns is this:
It’s all about the profits, man, all about the profits.
If there STILL is no repository for nuke waste, what the heck is the answer to the waste problem? Does anyone know what other countries do with their nuke waste? Lastly, can you imagine if the government made the concessions for clean alternative fuels like they do for nuke and fossil fuels, how much further advanced we’d be?
{sorry, had a lot of time for reading and caught up on a bunch of stuff.}
or a sign:
In case you haven’t been following this story, Apple did a “self-assessment” (though they supposedly did hire Verite to monitor things) of labor practices in their iPod
sweatshopsfactories and cleared their consciences. But things are far from rosy, and workers are denied the right to organize. And, while Apple is proud that these workers are “paid according to minimum standards,” at least on of these factories admits having broken Chinese labor laws (seems like that’d be tough to do).According to the original story by the Daily Mail,
Lieberman and Lamont is statistical dead heat, Lieberman is now up by only 2 pts.:nod:
http://americanresearchgroup.com/ctsenate/
I posted this on the ms blog about a week ago, I think. It’s on the apple news web site. Have we changed since the beginning of the industrial revolution?
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or a sign:
TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES, WE’RE DYING OUT HERE
Comment by Farmerkat — August 22, 2006 @ 12:29 pm
Thats the best sign I blanked out on that one:!::fire: :bow::bow::bow:
OLYMPIA, Washington – A fierce group of raccoons has killed 10 cats, attacked a small dog and bitten at least one pet owner who had to get rabies shots, residents of Olympia say.
Some have taken to carrying pepper spray to ward off the masked marauders and the woman who was bitten now carries an iron pipe when she goes outside at night.
“It’s a new breed,” said Tamara Keeton, who with Kari Hall started a raccoon watch after an emotional neighborhood meeting drew 40 people. “They’re urban raccoons, and they’re not afraid.”
http://tinyurl.com/j6zpf
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News you can use ..some of you at least..:eek:
Ok its a slow news day for a change..:shock::fustrate::paranoid:
evil raccoons killed all my guinea hens. :jason:
LJ: :fire: :fist:
The cartoon here speaks for itself.
I get this mental picture of raccoons wearing gang paraphenalia and spray painting the garbage cans they raid. Or in camo carrying jungle warfare equipment.
I know, I know, the problem isn’t funny, but come on! Urban Guerilla Raccoons???
:rofl2: (I crack myself up.)
Where the hell is the National Guard!?:jason:
An Iranian news agency is reporting that the nation’s “Supreme Leader” has lashed out at US President George W. Bush, threatening to “smash the arrogant powers,” if “huge powers” become involved in the current nuclear standoff.
Fars News Agency, closely affiliated with the Iranian Judiciary, has quoted Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has called on Muslim leaders to join together to “paralyze” the United States. An excerpt from the English translation report follows:
more at the link
http://tinyurl.com/ltujg
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Now if some one would cut all the fibre optic cables to the NY stock exchange all the corporatists would have to be committed :eek::eek::eek::fustrate::paranoid::eek::eek:
If this Brown guy is any relation to Michael Brown all the cats and kitties is Washington State are in trouble.
Maybe it’s Mad Cow disease leaping to raccoons:paranoid::tinfoil:
that “cartoon” is right-on, gypsy.
ALL raccoons are killing machines…what the heck is that guy talking about? I crawled in my little guinea mobile home once as an evil raccoon was ripping all the heads off the babies. I beat the living daylights out of him with a stick. (it took a LOT to bring him down, too) Not too smart of me, I know, but boy was I pissed. :jason:
:omg:I think “Mad Cow disease ” :tinfoil:actually spread from Republicans to the cows :eek::eek:
I know someone that had a Raccoon come down his fireplace chimney and really trashed his house while they were on vacation.. The coon got away some how.. (pretty smart):eek::paranoid:
now that’s scary, Fred.
we have rabid racoon scares around here from time to time. I won’t go near one
Yeah, I’d seen Apple’s statement, but hadn’t read the original Daily Mail article (or the other ones). I guess Apple would say that they’re better than the other sweatshops. It’s pretty hard to get away from the stuff. The DM article mentions another factory, where Asustek makes motherboards, and I’ve purchased many a mobo from Asus. Somehow, I doubt it’d be easy to find a factory that makes these things with better working conditions, and god knows I look for the cheapest prices on things, and I can pretend all I want that I don’t know how things are made, but I do. It isn’t just human labor, either, but poor (at best) environmental practices.
Still, it sounds like a good opportunity for Joshua Frank to write an article about how Al Gore should be shot and killed for using an Apple laptop (although I think the right-wing and USA Today already have that covered).
and to think that apple only uses one part of that
prisonworker campus. The grist article is good, pj, thanks. That is the issue, though, isn’t it?Lieberman’s racially inflammatory strategy may backfire when people remember his history of pandering to Louis Farrakhan.
Ever since Joe Lieberman lost the Connecticut Democratic primary, he has been telling voters that he stands for “a new politics of unity and purpose.” Yet he and his supporters have simultaneously pursued an old politics of division and distraction by drawing attention to the two controversial personalities who stood behind challenger Ned Lamont on primary night.
The Lieberman campaign is trying to frighten white voters in Connecticut — and Democrats in Washington — by reminding them over and over again that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson support Lamont. This week, the senator’s aides told the New York Times that playing the two African-American preachers off against Lamont will enhance Lieberman’s appeal on an independent ballot line. “Primary night was the first time that many Connecticut voters saw Lamont on TV, and he’s surrounding himself with two of the more divisive and problematic figures in the Democratic Party,” said Dan Gerstein, the Lieberman campaign’s communications director.
It’s true that Jackson and Sharpton, who bustled onto the podium the evening of the primary to grab their share of the Lamont spotlight, tend to be polarizing figures. But what if Lamont had praised an even more polarizing black leader? What would Lieberman say if his rival had reached out to someone really outrageous, like Louis Farrakhan?
If he were honest, he’d exclaim “Great idea!” — because that’s exactly what he said six years ago.
Lieberman can hope to get away with his racially inflammatory strategy only if everyone else forgets not only his habit of sucking up to Jackson and Sharpton but his history of stroking the most bigoted black leader in the world. Evidently he and Gerstein (who was also his spokesman during the 2000 presidential campaign) expect that nobody will mention the embarrassing episode when Lieberman’s ambition (and opportunism) led him to praise Farrakhan. Given the laziness and amnesia that afflict the national press corps, they may be right.
more…
http://salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/08/18/lieberman/
WACKY NEW CRIME FIGHTER . . . WEDGIE MAN
It must be true. I read it in an article on a website that publishes articles. :doh:
Yeah, and it’s why I feel so conflicted so much of the time. While I think it’s a good thing to hold these people’s feet to the fire, I often wonder whether it’s necessary to try to slam the people who are at least a little closer (often, a lot closer) to my ideals than those who are outright horrible. And I wonder sometimes if it doesn’t occur to people that in order to get anything accomplished politically, you have to actually get elected. Fighting the good fight and getting 4% of the vote is laudable, but it doesn’t get legislation enacted. Of course, being a corporate schill doesn’t get the kind of legislation enacted that I consider important, either. So that’s why I’m always on the lookout for that unibomber cabin with hi-speed Internet access.
Well other than our employees not living at the plant that manufacturing plant description pretty well describes whats left of US high tech manufacturing operations too.
Most of the electronic assembly is done by computer controlled machines.
Almost all the circuit designs use surface mount parts about the half the size of your little finger nail which are kept on reels or in tubes and fed to the machines in a turret .
Little robotic arms pick the parts off the supply and use vacuum and compressed air to place the parts in the proper position over the PC board where they are dropped into a solder paste previously applied in the proper locations.
Infrared light is used to then heat the solder paste and fasten the parts to the boards.
Additional stages in the machines use optical inspection and in circuit testing to be sure the parts were installed correctly.
The machines are environmentally enclosed using building air for supply and running the exhaust gases back through filter banks to remove any manufacturing process materials..( they may not do this elsewhere in the world.) The manufacturing areas them selves are in a clean room environment. ( the class depends on what they are building).
The shift operators have to keep the machines supplied with parts, setup the machines if they change the products they are building and watch to be sure things don’t go amiss and mess up 10,000 PC boards.. Rework 😮 and board quality control:yuck: is all done by a technician. About one board in 100 is pulled
off the line and completely tested.
Mechanical assembly is also done by machines if its a high volume item and by people if it is a low volume item or requires more than just screwing pieces together.
Depending on what they are doing the production employees are paid between 8 and 20 dollars an hour with benefits.
We only do pre production manufacturing here any more to generate and verify the ISO 9000 procedures then the manufacturing is done in Malaysia, China, Japan, Taiwan, India, Bulgaria or where ever.
We quite often get back things that are built that have a repeatable manufacturing problem to see whats wrong. and do rework and retest..
Most of what we do in the US is make proprietary ASIC integrated circuits and do new product design, prototype builds and pre manufacturing process verification.
If sales forecasting determines that a new product or an existing product will yield a build of less than 10 million units a year they will typically not build the item or take it out of production.:eek:
Twenty years ago DEC thought a big month was 3000 units.:eek:
Having done factory work (foundry work, actually), I can tell you that it really sucks. I was allowed to be represented by a labor union though. And I was allowed to go home at night. And I made a halfway decent buck, all things considered.
I must say, I find it very difficult to piss and moan while sitting in my air conditioned home at one of my computers with hi-speed Internet. It won’t keep me from doing it, of course, but it makes it hard.
High tech workers are seldom unionized.. The people working on the production floor are supposed to form a team and cover for each other. The typical worker probably spends 6 hours a day standing up. In the 1970’s I worked with GE at their locomotive plant in Pennsylvania. The work rules were so severe you almost had to get a union employ to go to the rest room for you but when you are working with a 1.5 to 3 megawatt power source that weighs 200 tons you don’t want someone else doing the electricians or the crane operators work either.:eek::eek::eek::paranoid:
Hi-tech workers today are seldom unionized because they’ve been fed the same line of crap that everyone else has – namely, you’re better off if you aren’t in union, and those pesky old union rules will only be a burden to the the worker (really, the corporatists are only thinking of what’s best for the worker, and for society as a whole). Hopefully WashTech and organizations like it will change all that.
The problems we are seeing is that what we are doing is not unique any more and there is a huge excess of tech workers , in both manufacturing and in engineering positions.
We have a plant in Singapore that does basically what we do along with the manufacturing. We quite often have a Chinese person speaking fluent English wondering around watching us work and telling us how they do it over there.:paranoid:
The number of new product releases in the US has declined in the last 6 years from around 10 per year to just two this year.
We have four buildings here. One used to be dedicated to product manufacturing but its now a 150,00 sq foot warehouse.
So far as we wind down the production of one ASIC product we get a new one to build but all the production equipment is now built in Asia.
We are only using about 70% of our floor capacity to do what we are doing and the GM we got two years ago is a … :eek::eek::eek: well.. lets just say a Bush republican..:barf:
The company just bought out the other major player in town and they are closing him down so there will be another 800 or so engineering and manufactuiring people wondering around looking for something to do over the next three months. :paranoid::paranoid::paranoid:
I spent a few months working for a multi-national plumbing supply company that was reorganizing and there was a lot of unrest at all levels. We in the admin office had a very tight schedule. We had two quarter hour breaks a day, plus a half hour lunch. We all went together on those breaks and lunches, accompanied by our supervisor. I didn’t last too long there for numerous reasons, the lack of privacy being one of them. Since I had at one time been a member of the OPEIU, I thought I recognized this as a tactic to keep anyone from trying to organize. So after I left I asked one of the people still there (who was my friend on the Outside but we never told anyone that) to make sure to mention that I had once been a union member and was still favorably inclined towards unions. The supervisor said, “You see, ladies, that’s why I feel obliged to keep an eye on you. It’s for your own good. Unions are bad news and what kind of an idiot tries to unionize office workers anyway?”
My friend quit a few months later and the last we heard (this was going on 20 years ago) the company reorganized and the job function of the department I worked in was sent to Texas, with no offer to relocate anyone from the company’s Denver office.
Union busting is evil.
The outsourcing of jobs and the moving of manufacturing to Asia has grossly effected small business around here too. There used to be a slew of machine shops , PC board manufacturers, contract manufacturing and other companies with 100 or less employees who supported the big companies by supplying prototype parts and picking up the slack for limited production runs and tight schedules. We now do all that work via FEDEX in Asia.. :eek::eek:Now selling real estate to the retirees from California seems to be the only growth industry for a while at least..:eek::eek:
Kevin may want to move..
Comment by fred — August 22, 2006 @ 7:55 am
I dunno. Having grown up in the north, I know there’s a big difference between getting naked in August and getting naked in January. Get Bernie Sanders at the head of the line and we’ll talk. 🙂
Awww Kevin no guts no glory..but also no frost byte but what the H*
We had the most amazing lightning show last night! I have never seen so many strikes in the span of a couple of hours. If I would have had my camera with me I would have dozens of photos of lightning! Amazing!
Comment by Kristapea — August 22, 2006 @ 9:52 am
We had a pretty good one today around 1:30. Knocked the server off line for over an hour. Of course, two hours later the rain has mostly dried up, and it’s 92 degrees and funky again. Yuck.
speaking of naked:
at the gay pride parade in SF, why is it the old fat dudes were the only ones I saw in the buff? :barf:
and then there’s the “naughty nads” and i must say the hairless “cats” are a BIT much. :tongue:
Awww Kevin no guts no glory..but also no frost byte but what the H*
Comment by fred — August 22, 2006 @ 3:43 pm
I’m guessing frostbite on the johnson is not a lot of fun. Not that I care to find out.. I’m feeling a little protective of the personal equipment since I saw Snakes On A Plane. :omg:
RE 109. What’s goin’ on with the blog today? Strange:shock:
:billcat:
The whole day is strange. I blame the raccoons
:doh::doh::doh:.
Goddamn, this is our President?
Dunno why he’s paranoid around women. Chicks dig fart jokes.
{I’m waiting for Raging Granny to come forth. :paranoid: }
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re #113
:rofl2:
Oh, no. :no: She always comes first. 😉
President Bluto. Aren’t we proud of our fine, dignified President?
Isn’t this the guy who promised to restore dignity to the Oval Office? I assume his farts are all dignified, or at least dignity scented… :smack:
:rofl2:
===> as it should be! :santacool:
Oh, no. :no: She always comes first. 😉
I would ask how you know this but I don’t wanna know.
:spank:
BUT
well, I didn’t think She always comes first. referred to the expelling of air. :hubba:
OTOH, is THAT dignity scented?
Okay, I’ve had enough coffee today. Bad gypsy. Bad BAD gypsy.
Raccoons
Raccoons eat a varied diet of plants and animals. Plant foods include grains, acorns, wild berries and fruits. Animal and insect foods include frogs, clams, mice, rabbits, white grubs and beetles, to name just a few. Raccoons also feed on the eggs of birds such as ducks and chickens.
In an urban setting, damage caused by raccoons can be annoying. For example, raccoons occasionally damage newly laid lawns by pushing back sod in search of earthworms, white grubs, and other soil dwelling insects. Raccoons are especially fond of sweet corn, often breaking off stalks as they climb up to reach the ears. Most often they partially eat each ear, leaving wasted corn behind. Raccoons also pay nighttime visits to berry patches, and vegetable gardens. The most serious problem occurs when raccoons establish dens in chimneys or forage in garbage cans for food.
There are several methods of control for raccoons. Exclusion with barriers can be effective. Gardens can be protected by an electric fence but the cost and safety factors with children may make this approach impractical. A heavy wire mesh cap effectively excludes raccoons from chimneys. However, do not install the cap while raccoons are occupying the chimney, as there may be young in it. Wait until the nest is abandoned before thoroughly cleaning out nest material and installing the flue cap. Other methods to discourage or frighten raccoons include the use of
* noise makers
* lights
* radios
* blood meal
* ammonia
* moth balls.
Most work for only a short period of time. Raccoons grow accustomed to their presence, and the odor of the repellent diminishes over time.
In the case of an especially troublesome raccoon, the use of a live or cage trap and subsequent re-location of the animal may be the only solution. Raccoons are a protected species; check with a local Department of Natural Resources conservation officer regarding procedures for trapping and removal of fur-bearing animals.
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:omg:
Supposedly, that’s always the dog.
I just think animals with masks over their eyes are sneaky…
:rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2:
thanks for the laughs today, gypsy. :bow:
Oswald 5-0
http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060822/NEWS/608220327
I don’t know if they’ll ever solve that case…
Here’s my recipe for today. I’m hiking in the evening so I figure that’s why this kind of recipe is on my mind. Of course, having to be refrigerated is a bad thing for a “trail” recipe.
Bars, Trail (D, TNT)
Source: Unknown
Serves: 9-12
3 cups dry oatmeal
2-1/2 cups powdered nonfat milk
1 cup sugar
1/2 package citrus-flavored gelatin (small box)
3 tablespoons water
3 tablespoons honey
In a large mixing bowl, combine the oatmeal, sugar, and milk.
In a saucepan, combine the honey and water and bring to boil. Dissolve the gelatin in the water once boiling.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and add the water.
Allow the mixture to sit for a bit. Pack the mixture into a square 8″x8″ dish and allow to stand until solid.
Cut mixture into pieces sized as you desire. Store in the refrigerator.
Sure they will. John Karr will confess and everyone will be satisfied.
:jerk:
I went there to find stuff on the killer raccoons, and found the JFK Assassination article. It is one conspiracy theory that refuses to die.
I only look at the scientific stuff here. The Oliver Stone sort of conspiracy stuff is no longer compelling to me. I know: Thom Hartmann’s loyal sidekick–who works for Castro’s secret service–organized it. Shooter teams of disgruntled racketeers and federal agents.
conspicarcy theories aside, it does remain an open case. So there are things to look at. It’s almost like his death, after all these decades, is still fresh in people’s minds, though
I thought that the single bullet theory closed the case officially.
just checked out the latest senator approval ratings
http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2006/100USSenatorApproval060817Net.HtM
I wish my NY senators were ranked lower
I’d go along with this except it would give Hartman more places to speak and that’s never a good thing.
What happens if Israel loses militarily?
http://www.counterpunch.org/atzmon08222006.html
Dirty War for Control of the Media in Oaxaca
Responding to Government Attack on Occupied Channel 9, Social Movement Seizes Control of Ten Commercial Radio Stations
http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article2020.html
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There is a lot going on in Mexico..
Stepping out……
gravyboy? “My Sharona” by the Knack… interesting…
Keep scrolling…N.Carolina connection.
ah, ok
listens to….AND Marky Mark? :omg:
have a damn training session at work from 8 pm to 9 pm :mad::growl:
A post on DU
http://tinyurl.com/jfdem
Randi Rhodes was put on the no-fly list !!!
Apparently she had to drive to Hemp Fest..
:?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?:
NYC to Seattle? That’s quite a hike.
Why yes, I AM obsessed with reading things that criticize Ann Coulter. Why do you ask?
I finally saw “Homecoming” (THANKS!!!! PJ. It got lost under a stack of other dvds I hadn’t watched yet but when Ol’ Zeb came over and helped hook up my new used VCR/DVD combo I dug it out and we watched it.) Why can’t that ending happen in real life? Not necessarily the part where the zombie vets kill the newly radicalized neo-con. But the part where he proves his worth by ridding the world of his insane girlfriend…
My brothers daughter who lives in Orange county in Calif took me down to Blacks Beach north of San Diego..That’s a nudist beach…The only conclusion I could come to was that that must have been the day all the wales had beached themselves.. I was sort of expecting a bunch of cute teenagers..
Nooooo…
:eek::eek::eek::yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck::paranoid::paranoid:
Hey, Cnick, I liked your outro on the podcast. It sounded pretty sincere.:nod: Oh, and the sound clips were good, too
I want to go to a nude beach.
I sometimes go to Collins Beach, one of Oregon’s two nude (clothing optional, according to their rules) beaches. I’m not what anyone in their right mind would call svelte. But next to the big hairy guys I saw I was a skinny little thing. I think it’s that we have so much skin we just can’t always keep it contained… 🙄
Randi’s show just came on; she hasn’t gotten into the no-fly list issue yet. I’m waiting with bated breath….
Okay, there she goes with the ire. YAY Randi!
Travis, you don’t live that far from here. But you’d better hurry up because my parking permit expires in November.
Washington Nudist Resort Guide
While Washington has no official nude beaches, it does have some nice nudist resort and family nudist parks.
http://gocalifornia.about.com/od/wanudist/
however
Oregon Nude Beach & Nudist Resort Guide\
Oregon has only two designated nude beach locations, but you can also experience the clothing optional lifestyle at one of the Oregon nudist resorts or hot springs in this guide.
http://gocalifornia.about.com/od/ornudist/
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Everything you never wanted to know :eek::eek::eek:
Needless to say Colorado has no nudist beaches ..The Pueblo reservoir and Grand Lake are both a bit on the chilly side to have a beach..
Um, have you peeps seen The Same River Twice?
Hey, Fred, I’ll bet you can find an unofficial nude stream somewhere in Boulder County! It’s too late to send you to the clothing-optional Pagan festival down near Bailey this year. (It made the Rocky, though, for reasons that aren’t really worth the newsprint…)
The link on that page about Collins beach was broken but here is one that works,
http://www.orcoba.org/wst_page5.html
Its is administered by the State dept of Fish and Wildlife :rofl2::rofl2:
I’m pretty sure the beach in Sandy Hook, New Jersey (not far from NYC) has a nude bathing section. That’s the only local one I can think of that does. From what my friend Judy told me there are just a lot of very strange people there
GYPSY re #130
WHAT WATER the recipe only mentions 3T which has been boiled with the honey and to which the gelatin has been added. I don’t see 3 oz liquid moistening 3 cups dry oatmeal, 2-1/2 cups powdered nonfat milk, and 1 cup sugar.
Well, now, Travis, I’ve seen a lot of same rivers twice but I don’t think that’s what you meant….
Would you like me to add quotations and underline it, and call it a movie?
haven’t seen it trav.
recommend?
To the east of Bailey there is a state wilderness area called Lost Creek.. There are lots of hiking trails and one summer while going for a hike there I came upon a bunch of Nudists having a camp out in the wilderness area.. In this instance there were lots of nude teenage girls.. very strange teenage girls …very strange indeed..:eek::eek::eek:
I got that recipe from a friend and haven’t tried it myself. I’ll see if I can make it this weekend and I’ll send in corrections. Right now I’m waiting for the mouse in my kitchen to eat the poison I hid for it and die before I’ll cook in there. The live trap failed completely. I hate rodents!!!!!
In Boulder the favorite partially clad viewing area during the first warm days of spring time is the south lawn by Hallet Hall (one of many girls dorms) on the CU Boulder campus.. :hubba::hubba::hubba:
The way you find it easily is to head for the foot ball stadium and look for three mail boxes chained to a light pole and protected by two drums full of sand….Its the lawn across the street… lots of distracted drivers :eek::eek::paranoid:
Fred, that was probably my crowd you ran into. But they aren’t teen agers. Some of them look it, though.
I didn’t mean to be a jerk up there, Gypsy. Sorry if it went down like that:doh:
Yeah, it’s not a bad film, Kat. But you could probably find better things to spend time on.
maybe im just on drugs right now:nod:
‘Sallright, Travis. I didn’t take it that way. I realized it was a movie but I’m being a smartass today and just can’t stop.
Remember when we were trying to figure out a way to keep Marc on the air with AAR and one suggestion was to cut Randi to 3 hours? Well, we won PART of that. Randi is apparently being cut to 3 hours. But…sigh…I’m hearing sad Seder news. WTF are these folks thinking they’re doing?
I’m outta here, sheeple. I’m going hiking and hopefully blackberry picking on the way home. No visits to Collins Beach tonight (although I am going to be on Sauvie Island.) I’ll have all my clothes on all the time. (Despite unfortunate :hot:flashes…)
Catch ya tomorrow, blogkin!
From the WSJ
4 p.m.: An oil slick caused by Israeli bombing has begun sinking to the floor of the Mediterranean, blanketing marine life with sludge, according to a Greenpeace video that shows dead fish along the sea bottom. “You have the bottom of the sea filled with fuel — between the rocks and little valleys. It’s just dotted and covered with black tar,” said Mohammed El Sarji, head of the Lebanese Union of Professional Divers. The U.N. has said the spill could take as long as a year to clean up and cost $64 million.
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:mad::mad::mad::mad::growl::growl::growl::gate::omg::jason::jason::jason::fist:
SFC Bushwell, an intelligence analyst, answered an unsolisted email by questioning the official story of 9/11 and suggesting a new independent commission look at the issue. The next day he was locked out of his office and charges are being considered against him…..sounds more like the novel, 1984.:omg:
http://tinyurl.com/fmlpx
I thought Hugo Chavez was going to have a 911 investigation ??:eek::eek::mrgreen:
Oregon’s Farmworker Union starts radio station – 08/22/2006
By Jacob Fenston
Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United, or
P-CUN, will use the volunteer-run station to organize its
members in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Ramón Ramírez is
President of P-CUN:
RR always knew radio most effective.MP3 (0:24)
“We always knew that the most effective means to
communicate your message to the community was through
the radio. Especially the Latino community. So we have
always used the radio as a means of providing information,
in mobilizing people. When we had community meetings or
forums, or mobilizations, we always used the radio to do
that.
Ramírez says with its own station, the Union won’t have
to buy time on commercial radio. Programming will be
produced by community members, and broadcast in Spanish
and several indigenous languages.
K-P-C-N went on the air at five P-M on Sunday.
For Workers’ Independent News, I’m Jacob Fenston.
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If you don’t have to pay anyone I guess it might work..:mrgreen:
Hi, I’m lurking. Oops. 😳
I either killed the blog or my Refresh isn’t working. :holla:
Hey everyone, Hey Gypsy! good to see you back on the blog!
:fist:the blog will survive us all :fist:
VIVA LA BLOGI declare the moon to be in
klutz:billcat::billcat:Hey Phoener!:banana:
:knit:
Now I killed the blog.
I’m trying to find some local blogs but I am having a hard time. I am the blog person for our Red Handed team for Moveon. I am having a difficult time finding local blogs. I had one saved in my faves on my laptop which is dead now but I can’t quite remember the name and googling didn’t get it.
Hey, sblue:love:I met a famous person last night, I guess .
I’m here at the Blue Moon. People are talking to me, and the news crew is here. Crazy:40
I am using someine esle’s computer. Actually it’s the bar tenders:doh:
i guess ill get back to business:alc:
Hey Trav- wish you were here but I’ll bet you wish you were there:nod:
What’s going on at the Moon?
Are people getting naked there yet and beating up raccoons and rats?
:tinfoil:
I just drove all day and ate a crappy right wing dinner at Applebee’s.:barf:
Ok maybe I’ll :knit:
Appleby’s has small portions
And what they serve you just tastes bad so a 700 calorie meal becomes 500.
Maybe Weight Watchers owns Appleby’s. Most likely it’s people with bad taste.
Yeah I’m over at their site…
It’s always good to check out the
http://www.buyblue.org/directory/alpha
http://www.buyblue.org/directory/40
Had to make myself feel a little better about Apple.
Hey you guys…finally back from a harrowing trip to Hartford to bring Will to a Dr for an echo cardiogram….very long trip though I only made wrong turns a couple of itmes and figured it out pretty quickly…
But the car thought that something was wrong with one of the tires so we had to stop and check and look for a mechanic in all of these quaint towns with ice cream parlors but no real gas stations!
anyway…just so glad to be home
I wanted to alert you all that Colbert has Krugman on…Seanie, if youre out there, this ones for you!
Melina, and I thought I was tired 😮 :tongue:, but glad you are home :banana: … but just I am exhausted then ALL are “starving” … sound familar :wink:… hope now you have YOU time 😉
SBlueHeron, who must have flown home :banana: … And I thought I was an Apple/Mac whore before … (I Demand Eco stuff (I am such a Bitch) but seeing the now pretty newer Blue site …is :cool:)
BUT I am Ambidextrous … thus not only the “Blue” but the Red is mine and must be taken back I am white (ish) = THE FLAG:!: Also I :love: Elephants, therefore, rethugs new emblems = :jerk::crap::barf:
:yawn:I am running :tongue: in all directions but always checking and lurking :hubba:
Hey Druid the Night Lady :peace: I wane as you wax :yawn:
So, I got my mom to put a Jack Carter sign in her yard as she lives on a busy street. I told her she had to do one thing to help out this election. :nod:
I leave the blog in the hands of the night crew :gate:
:gate: was home but now East…
long drive today and sleepy…:nod:
Kristapea and SBlueHeron :knit::yawn: :gate: Travel well in ALL venues
Kristapea re the sign and Jack and your MOM :banana: 😉
SBlueHeron The Streets are Safe, SBlueHeron is patroling. Sleep Well so you are ready for your next patrol:wink:
Back in the safety of the nest. I just watched most of an inconvenient truth- half drunk, I might add. Anyway, compelling stuff, I guess. I mean, it makes sense…. I wish I could have stayed until the end. I had to catch the bus.
It’s amazing to see fruit growing on trees. Blows your mind:doh:
maybe that’s just me
sblueheron , re 183 Are people getting naked there yet and beating up raccoons and rats? :eek::omg::eek::cool:
Travis 😎 re getting to play in all the reindeer games :alc: 😉
Uh…I have to go eat something, Druid, so I’ll catch you in 45 mins, See you then.:paranoid:
Travis soon they will give ya a ride 😉 or get a bitch’n bike , which is “tres” 😎 or they have BIKE loaners stores, like hear :banana: super 😎
:nod:No worries since I am running around here :eek::wink:
Hmm. :yawn: A bike, huh?
no one home, again. i think you’re just hiding until I leave:paranoid:
It’s the “IN” thing :cool::wink:
In thing?Hmmm?
Oh, bikes. I gotchya:wink:
I’m am always late, perhaps I should get off blog … but I MUST stay awake for that court case re tree sitters AND Crime amongst the Giants — rethug tree falling toxic slime
I’m asleep :yawn: you’re asleep :yawn: = :yawn:
Did I just read a request for a sleepy-time delusion?
Well, I’m sleepy, and there wasn’t a request for the sleepy-time delusion. So, I guess that covers it.
that sure was a nice way of saying that your outta here. I’ll try and catch that drift better next time
I am so not out of here. I have to stay awake so I can attend court. Just saying I am tired already, and am :yawn::cool:
BUT realize you are already past your “sleepytime”. :yawn:
Yeah. I’ll throw it down with you tomorrow, Druid. Right now, I’m having a tough time staying awake Oh, plus, I have to get up early and paint the deck.:peace:
http://tinyurl.co.uk/c8kg :nixon: I’m really out now
http://tinyurl.co.uk/c8kg I really have to sleep now
I’m in the fuckin’ spam filter again!:mad:
PJ!:holla: :omg:
Stuck in the spam filter.:mad:
There is a some guy from the Cato Institute on C-span talking about welfare reform.. He talks as if jobs grew on trees. :barf::barf:
I must find those plastic RPG’s search… search.. search… search…
I wonder how many conservative and libertarian liars or perhaps better put dunderheads/fools/idiots/stupid fools/F*ing assholes there are out there .. Would it be possible to round them up and put all of them in one of those camps they are building in the southwest or would you have to reserve the entire state of TexASS ???:barf::barf::barf::barf:
He is making me physically ill I must go to the rest room and :barf::barf:
NickiRose, You were awake about this time, thus I am sending this. I read your previous posts and will read again since I am with very little sleep … add another part of dealings regarding issues that :growl: makes me growl and it makes me contemplate where we stand. ADL hates people like me, and I never knew that until yesterday. (I guess I was in denial, and didn’t even know it.) And yet is that poetry or reality? Ambiguous yes, but …I think you will see.
FRED :omg: Is that Haliburton (sp — and I don’t give a :crap:) Camps to gather we protesters up? :paranoid:
Yeah Kellogg Brown and Root actually.. They were to be for detaining Illegal immigrants until they could be returned to Mexico but I’m sure they will have other uses.:yawn::yawn::joe::joe::joe:
The Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation must be where they gather together all the intellectual fools in the SBR.. No one with eyes in their head or a brain would ever come up with these STUPID ideas