The Goat Pen

I was amused at my Sentor, Dick Durbin, expressing theatrical outrage at that conference. The US Senate probably spends more than $800K on call girls on a typical weekend.

dig, baby, dig!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 0-14-27-17

sardis wrote:dig, baby, dig!

dig -yes

import it outta here -hell yes

China's environmental protection ministry published a report in November 2010 showing that a third of 113 cities failed to meet national air standards. According to the World Bank 16 of the world's 20 cities with the worst air are in China. Many places smell like high-sulfur coal and leaded gasoline. Only a third of the 340 cities that are monitored meet China's own dubious pollution standards.

China's smog-filled cities are ringed with heavy industry, metal smelters, and coal-fired power plants, all critical to keeping the fast-growing economy going even as they spew tons of carbon, metals, gases, and soot in the air. The air pollution and smog in Beijing and Shanghai are sometimes so bad that the airports are shut down because of poor visibility. The air quality of Beijing is 16 times worse than New York City. Sometimes you can't even see a building a few blocks away and a blue sky is a rare sight. In Shangai sometimes you can't see the street from a 5th floor window. Fresh air tours to the countryside are very popular.

Dr. Strangelove wrote:Well, there's certainly people who will oppose any source of energy other than wind and solar. Happily they haven't had much influence in Ohio to this point. But I remain a believer in regulation when companies get sloppy and screw up

We're putting in a 4 KW solar electric system on our house, and solar hot water.

We are replacing our old oil burner with a much smaller propane unit.

"In an unprecedented slap at NASA’s endorsement of global warming science, nearly 50 former astronauts and scientists--including the ex-boss of the Johnson Space Center--claim the agency is on the wrong side of science and must change course or ruin the reputation of the world’s top space agency."




http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/ ... ent/469366

I don't know why the link won't work. If you're interested, paste the link in your browser if not, KMA.

Here ya go, gramps...

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/ ... ent/469366

NASA had the very same climate change temperament all through the dubya years. Wonder why that gang waited so long to postmark their letter?

danka

I'm just glad that NASA has returned its focus towards something resembling science. When Obama became President, he gave NASA three missions. According to Obama's NASA Chief...

"... and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering — science, math and engineering."

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/20 ... ervatives/

So if NASA is now back in the business of science and space exploration, instead of being preoccupied with affirming the self-esteem of the Muslim world, then I am in favor of it.

I think Charles Manson should be paroled. He'd have a worse time out of prison being 77 years old with no job, no prosepects, no money coming in and wondering where his next meal was coming from. Probably doesn't even know anyone who'd give him their couch to sleep on.

OH Charley's!

It's me Karen wrote:I think Charles Manson should be paroled. He'd have a worse time out of prison being 77 years old with no job, no prosepects, no money coming in and wondering where his next meal was coming from. Probably doesn't even know anyone who'd give him their couch to sleep on.

I don't know, how does Wiz do it?

The real cause of the economic divide?

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/04/1 ... disintegra

sardis wrote:The real cause of the economic divide?

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/04/1 ... disintegra

forget honesty, that is totally gone! every single person you know that welched on their mortgage (even if they could make the payments) simply because they were upside-down, they are ALL dishonest people, all of them.

why should men get married if they are already living with girlfriends and getting laid? I mean, maybe she's on the pill, they don't even need to buy condoms.

why should men get married if they have a good job, if they are still young and attractive, and (as a result) they can afford to live alone but sexually live a polygamist lifestyle fucking multiple girlfriends (who do not know about each other?)

why should women marry men if all the single men they know are either unemployed, uneducated, or in-and-out of jail?

why should women get married if they know they risk losing their government paid section-8 apartment that they have for their two children (one daddy in jail, the other, who knows where?)

why should women get married if they know they risk losing their government welfare check for themselves and their kids?

The book American Dream tells the incredibly sad but true story of three generations of women who live in the inner-city on welfare and public housing who have not only never been married, but they have not even been to a wedding! this is more and more what fishtown is

think about that sardis.

it used to be, that faith in Christianity would (morally) set straight much of America's "salt-of-the-earth." assume you have an IQ of 84 and you just barely escaped high school with all Cs and Ds in remedial classes. if you had a legitimiate fear of your soul perishing for all eternity in Perdition should you have sex outside of marriage, then (if you didn't know what love was, and so many people don't) your LUST for your girlfriend would be the moral imperative to drive you to the Holy Altar and say "I do." And she would probably go along with that since women actually WANTED to get married and your union job at the factory down the street gave you just barely enough earning power to make a mortgage payment on that 2-bedroom, 1-bath, ranch (a ranch so small and offered so little profit that NO contractor would build today), that was built in 1951. those days are gone forever sardis

i guess you could say I am one of the Belmont types. before I give permission to any boy to marry my daughter, you can be damn sure that not only will I be doing a criminal background check on junior, i'm going to check his credit history! that is the shit people have to do today, there is so much more at stake, so much more to lose. the only thing the people of fishtown have to lose from marriage is their government subsidy, which is one of the many reasons they don't marry

May not be junior. May be Jamal or Jacquez.

puterbac wrote:

Dr. Strangelove wrote:I missed that Derbyshire finally crossed the line at NR. If you haven't read the article that got him fired, here it is, in all its proud racist glory

http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_non ... z1rJPlABLB

Puter- Without giving too much of myself away, I work in the energy business now. The mild winter combined with tons of new exploration in PA and OH = record low natural gas prices.

So my guess is you work for industry on the mineral rights contract side of thing or for a firm who reps landowners for the same thing?

Yep, I do work on the land/title side of things

I finished submitting my resume to the Secret Service just 6 hours ago and now I need to be in Columbia by 7am. WTF?

Happy Easter to all.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... 48&index=3

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/323005

Sometimes I wonder if Puter is posting from prison.