Happy New Year everybody. I hope you survived unscathed. I actually managed to watch the ball drop at midnight, but I had to go lay down for an hour or two first. Then it was watch the countdown (just not the same w/o Dick Clark) and straight to bed. Funny thing is, despite having gotten up at about 3:30 yesterday morning and being terribly tired, I couldn’t sleep. The one time I sort of drifted off at about 4:45 this morning, the dog woke me up to go out. So I’m pretty beat today, and feeling kinda crappy (mostly due to eating pizza and wings for the first time in longer than I can remember – I just can’t tolerate that stuff anymore, which sucks ‘cuz I sure do love those wings). And today, it’s snowing. How unusual.
Otherwise, it appears that the Senate overwhelmingly passed what appears to be a “fiscal cliff” deal that is slightly less than shitty in the short term and potentially very, very shitty in the long term. Like, in about two months as they go through this whole debt limit nonsense again. And Obama has pretty much pissed any leverage he might have had away. The Republicans can always count on Obama caving in. Well, maybe Boehner won’t bring it up for a vote in the House.
Oh well, enjoy the day off today (of you’re off – if not, bummer). Looks like I’ll be plowing the driveway.
:gate: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! :cake: {insert confetti}
Here’s my New Year’s List:
Group Names for Birds: A Partial List
A bevy of quail
A bouquet of pheasants [when flushed]
A brood of hens
A building of rooks
A cast of hawks [or falcons]
A charm of finches
A colony of penguins
A company of parrots
A congregation of plovers
A cover of coots
A covey of partridges [or grouse or ptarmigans]
A deceit of lapwings
A descent of woodpeckers
A dissimulation of birds
A dole of doves
An exaltation of larks
A fall of woodcocks
A flight of swallows [or doves, goshawks, or cormorants]
A gaggle of geese [wild or domesticated]
A host of sparrows
A kettle of hawks [riding a thermal]
A murmuration of starlings
A murder of crows
A muster of storks
A nye of pheasants [on the ground]
An ostentation of peacocks
A paddling of ducks [on the water]
A parliament of owls
A party of jays
A peep of chickens
A pitying of turtledoves
A raft of ducks
A rafter of turkeys
A siege of herons
A skein of geese [in flight]
A sord of mallards
A spring of teal
A tidings of magpies
A trip of dotterel
An unkindness of ravens
A watch of nightingales
A wedge of swans [or geese, flying in a “V”]
A wisp of snipe
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an irony of mockingbirds
a manifestation of meadowlarks
an oasis of orioles
a wad of wrens
a farthing of finches
a sideboard of barn-swallows………..anything?
No……………..?………… :cat:
Okay then,
Happy New Year Everybody! :yippee:
A regurgitation of Republicans!
A tumescence of Teapartiers
A condescension of conservatives
Hope everyone has a happy, healthy 2013!
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The Tax Agreement kept the marriage penalty relief, pj. I’m happy about the PTC, too.
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Not sure if I posted this before. Apolgies if it’s a repeat, but it’s a good repeat.
Wind Power Generation Beating Natural Gas in U.S. in 2012
The problem is what happens with raising the debt ceiling. Republicans will look to cut all kinds of social programs and “entitlements” and Obama has zero leverage. He claims that he won’t negotiate on it, but if the Republicans stand up to him, what’s he going to do (other than what he always does)?
When fracking came to suburban Texas
Residents of Gardendale, a suburb near the hub of the west Texas oil industry, face having up to 300 wells in their backyards
Sounds like you might get your wish, pj. It looks like the right wing repug teabag garbage is about to prevail over
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Can you say Speaker Cantor?
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:barf: Baggers