BTW, h/t to Meta for encouraging all of us, in the previous post, to spread the ‘Spoils of war’ graphic. Happy to do so and to tag it to the person whom ultimately must be held accountable. No doubt, Putin was enabled by many actions and non-actions of GWB, but without any doubt, GWB’s immoral and illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq sits at the top of the heap.
I know right!!! That visual from the confines of my laptop will probably give me nightmares……. Those cats are so nonchalant….. like whatever…… all in a days work.
Bob, one of my nephews is on a Hot Shot team based out of CA. He calls it basically a “maniac’s job” “We go in while everyone else runs out.” Just a BTW but that looks like what they call a “controlled burn” to me & they made it into drama.
TY, Dudette! Problem is now you can go from hero to zero……. ever correct pick is now worth the equivalent of 4 correct picks from the first round. Will be 8x more valuable next round, 16x round after that, and if you have the winner it would be like get all 32 first round games correct!
Awesome! I’m doing okay all things considered. I’m in the middle of the pack with 10 of the 16. The fact that that qualifies me to be in the middle says how many upsets there were.
The first two rounds are always good for bragging rights…..having 10/16 teams left puts you in a great spot as long as the leaders don’t have the exact final 4 & Champion as you do. I got lucky on some of my upsets…one possession games could have gone the other way.The only teams I picked to go far besides chalk were Tennessee, Baylor, & Carolina. Tennesse beat #1 seed Virginia by 35 earlier this year and they have big/lanky players that always perform well matchup wise. Baylor has really athletic players and I liked they way they played during the Big 12 Tournament. UNC losing is gonna hurt me b/c I had them going to Elite 8 beating Nova. I didn’t have Stanford, Dayton, Uconn, Iowa St. advancing…. my fingers are crossed for this weekend!!
Maybe if, and maybe I… Sorry Liz, can’t undo what’s been done. I reckon if she wants to work with a news organization dedicated to Truth, she may just have to leave the good ol’ US of A, again. Please.
Humpff! Only Bobfr, and a couple of others here (for example, Susanne) truly understand me. FYI, I am quiet, when not disturbed, or when I’m not making trouble noise.
Hi Hopef. 🙂 As soon as I posted that I realized that whichever direction it comes from it IS jealousy. Ladies here ‘jealous’ of the ladies there who planted a kiss, and very real jealousy on the part of the prominent RWNJs who would never be in receipt of such warm greetings!
“Night vision technology has been around for a while, but it’s only really used by professionals (or professional creeps) due to its prohibitive size. But what if night vision was something you could fit into a pair of contact lenses? You could keep a pair in your bag to slip in if you were going to be walking home alone in the dark, or even use them to take a night-time jaunt through a forest without spooking all the animals.
All this and more could be possible in the future thanks to a new development by researchers in the US using graphene lenses to sense “the full infrared spectrum” plus visible and ultraviolet light. “We can make the entire design super-thin,” said Zhaohui Zhong, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan. “It can be stacked on a contact lens or integrated with a cell phone……..”
It depends on the attenuation of sources of light, i.e., the ability of the embedded software/firmware to detect intensity of sources of light you would encounter (like an oncoming car) and not have it ‘blind you’ temporarily. BTW, that’s all achievable, at some point.
I see, no pun intended!! For me it’s light coming from all directions, artificial light, walking is okay. But oncoming, side views and rear view, glare on the roadway, and of course especially in the rain: it seems to come from everywhere, on the bonnet, on the boot, bounces off parked cars, all adds up to feeling very disoriented and out-of-time with the motion of traffic. So, someone else drives, or I stay home! Safer for everyone that way!! 😉
They were taking their cues from the US Media. But people can do misguided things and realize their mistakes and make amends. Let’s see how he is received when he visits there later this week.
That picture originated from an American RW website. So yes, I’m blaming the US media. In 2009, the NY Post ran a front page cartoon depicting PBO’s stimulus as a chimpanzee being shot by cops Given the US’ racial history with Black Americans they have even LESS of an excuse than Belgium to be engaging in that kind of behavior towards their own duly elected President.
Yes, they were wrong to run that picture in Belgium, but I will take their apology at face value until I have reason to believe differently.
The Belgium paper were just as wrong as the right wing website. Should have known better. Unless they were trying to show their racists side like the right wing.
It’s probably the case that most Belgians are not racists. However, based on my travels in Europe, in the 1980s and 1990s, I still remember Brussels as having pockets of the most overt and crude racists.
Rant alert: I have no ****ing words for how much I ****ing hate WordPress right now, trying to do photos for tomorrow’s R&S but since they ****ed up the photo editor today it is not ****ing possible.
Okay, rant over.
PS Tomorrow’s R&S will probably appear in August 😕
Chips you are entitled to rant. WordPress might be owned by a GOPer who’s messing around right at the time of PBO’s trip to create headaches for you and the other BT’s who want to post pics of our President. The timing of the glitches is a bit odd…
There, there now Chips-a-doodle! Take some deep breaths.
Focus on this bowl of crunchy cheesy goodness! Pour yourself some wine and stroke the puppy a little.
Don’t be that way, DannyO’Cheesy. You know I’m your best aunty so you shouldn’t be trying to show me up.
Plus, plus…. /defiantly/ I’m older and you ought to show me respect! In my culture, you do not ask the adults to show you there birth cert. /gaining confidence/ And I am disappointed in you, young man! I’d like to think your mom has thought you better manners than that!
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Phew!
This is really very, very sad, Bob! My deep condolences to all the families who lost loved ones! I pray for a happy outcome for all the missing people. Life is indeed so fragile and so unpredictable.
Hi TOD! Lurking just to catch up. My favorite by Aretha – Call Me. Makes me feel sentimental. Boy I love this place, balm to my soul. Blessings to the blog crew. You guys are outstanding.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
BTW, h/t to Meta for encouraging all of us, in the previous post, to spread the ‘Spoils of war’ graphic. Happy to do so and to tag it to the person whom ultimately must be held accountable. No doubt, Putin was enabled by many actions and non-actions of GWB, but without any doubt, GWB’s immoral and illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq sits at the top of the heap.
GE TOD. Congrats Bobfr!….. Check this crazy video out!
What I totally don’t get, LP, is why those firefighters didn’t get the hell out of there.
I know right!!! That visual from the confines of my laptop will probably give me nightmares……. Those cats are so nonchalant….. like whatever…… all in a days work.
“That visual from the confines of my laptop will probably give me nightmares”
DITTO!!!
Glad I read this before I clicked! No nightmares for me, tnx.
Bob, one of my nephews is on a Hot Shot team based out of CA. He calls it basically a “maniac’s job” “We go in while everyone else runs out.” Just a BTW but that looks like what they call a “controlled burn” to me & they made it into drama.
Tons of respect for your nephew and his colleagues, aquagranny, for sure.
It was a controlled burn, but
the dust storm was unexpected.
Lp r u still winning your pool?
Yeah….. so far so good. I have 12 of the Sweet Sixteen. Overall 96.6% out of all ESPN brackets. How bout you? Fair better this weekend?
Nice!
TY, Dudette! Problem is now you can go from hero to zero……. ever correct pick is now worth the equivalent of 4 correct picks from the first round. Will be 8x more valuable next round, 16x round after that, and if you have the winner it would be like get all 32 first round games correct!
Awesome! I’m doing okay all things considered. I’m in the middle of the pack with 10 of the 16. The fact that that qualifies me to be in the middle says how many upsets there were.
The first two rounds are always good for bragging rights…..having 10/16 teams left puts you in a great spot as long as the leaders don’t have the exact final 4 & Champion as you do. I got lucky on some of my upsets…one possession games could have gone the other way.The only teams I picked to go far besides chalk were Tennessee, Baylor, & Carolina. Tennesse beat #1 seed Virginia by 35 earlier this year and they have big/lanky players that always perform well matchup wise. Baylor has really athletic players and I liked they way they played during the Big 12 Tournament. UNC losing is gonna hurt me b/c I had them going to Elite 8 beating Nova. I didn’t have Stanford, Dayton, Uconn, Iowa St. advancing…. my fingers are crossed for this weekend!!
Hi
Beaten by the master, his friend AND his musical director! Congrats, Bobfr!
😀 😀 😀 😀
Thank you ‘oh quiet one’
You are always welcome, bro. I’m thinking I’m sure to have missed some of your offerings for today, but I’ll try to backtrack before signing off.
Thanks friend!! If nothing else, be sure to read this ….
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/03/liz-wahl-quit-russia-today-putins-pawn-104888.html#.UzDq98eD0lY
… that I had posted earlier today.
Will do, thanks.
Maybe if, and maybe I… Sorry Liz, can’t undo what’s been done. I reckon if she wants to work with a news organization dedicated to Truth, she may just have to leave the good ol’ US of A, again. Please.
I had to double-check that the “oh quiet one” was actually referring to you, VC… Maybe Bob has a fever…
Humpff! Only Bobfr, and a couple of others here (for example, Susanne) truly understand me. FYI, I am quiet, when not disturbed, or when I’m not making
troublenoise.Hmmm…
Hee hee…
😉
LOL! 😀 😀 😀
Wish I did that lovely face paint for real on PBO’s face
get thee to naughty mat 😀
LOL. They loooooove him!
Can ya blame ’em? 😉
; ;
That’s your best comment ever on TOD.
Ha, take that vc. Better than your #silenttreatment.
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Actually, yes, you do
Oh dear, that PBO picture is going to cause problems – dignity of the office and all that!
Bet some of you ladies thought I was referring to problems of jealousy? 😉
No, you were referring about O’Reilly, not jealousy! Hehaha.. 🙂
Hi Hopef. 🙂 As soon as I posted that I realized that whichever direction it comes from it IS jealousy. Ladies here ‘jealous’ of the ladies there who planted a kiss, and very real jealousy on the part of the prominent RWNJs who would never be in receipt of such warm greetings!
Yes, and O’Reilly of course is just jealous…
Yep!
Well it’s definitely causing some problems for me. 🙂
{{{Dudette}}} 🙂 🙂 🙂
{{{ vc }}} 😀 😀 😀 Ik ben een Nederlander!
Drie kusjes op de wangen xxx
Hmmmm. WordPress is having big problems tonight. Must be Pres Obama’s fault! 😉
Google Translate is my friend. 🙂
😥 I thought I was. 😥
Predict a fair number of the GOPers (specially the uglier ones) will be photoshopping their ugly selves behind those smooches!
😆
“Night vision technology has been around for a while, but it’s only really used by professionals (or professional creeps) due to its prohibitive size. But what if night vision was something you could fit into a pair of contact lenses? You could keep a pair in your bag to slip in if you were going to be walking home alone in the dark, or even use them to take a night-time jaunt through a forest without spooking all the animals.
All this and more could be possible in the future thanks to a new development by researchers in the US using graphene lenses to sense “the full infrared spectrum” plus visible and ultraviolet light. “We can make the entire design super-thin,” said Zhaohui Zhong, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan. “It can be stacked on a contact lens or integrated with a cell phone……..”
Way, way cool!!!!!!!!!!!
Does this mean I might be able to drive after dark again, someday?
It depends on the attenuation of sources of light, i.e., the ability of the embedded software/firmware to detect intensity of sources of light you would encounter (like an oncoming car) and not have it ‘blind you’ temporarily. BTW, that’s all achievable, at some point.
I see, no pun intended!! For me it’s light coming from all directions, artificial light, walking is okay. But oncoming, side views and rear view, glare on the roadway, and of course especially in the rain: it seems to come from everywhere, on the bonnet, on the boot, bounces off parked cars, all adds up to feeling very disoriented and out-of-time with the motion of traffic. So, someone else drives, or I stay home! Safer for everyone that way!! 😉
The US media must be seething when they look at those countries’ unabashed adoration of our President.
And it looks like Mr. Yardarm will have to rush-order some Naughty Mat shipments to Europe….Meanwhile, the Dutch will have to apologize to A & E.
Belgian newspaper apologize for picture of United States President and First Lady looking like monkeys. Still piss me off.
They were taking their cues from the US Media. But people can do misguided things and realize their mistakes and make amends. Let’s see how he is received when he visits there later this week.
Are you blaming the U.S. media for that picture? That was not misguided, that was pure racism and as a black American I will never forget or forgive.
Whenever I think of that picture, am I mad? Hell yes.
That picture originated from an American RW website. So yes, I’m blaming the US media. In 2009, the NY Post ran a front page cartoon depicting PBO’s stimulus as a chimpanzee being shot by cops Given the US’ racial history with Black Americans they have even LESS of an excuse than Belgium to be engaging in that kind of behavior towards their own duly elected President.
Yes, they were wrong to run that picture in Belgium, but I will take their apology at face value until I have reason to believe differently.
The Belgium paper were just as wrong as the right wing website. Should have known better. Unless they were trying to show their racists side like the right wing.
As I said I don’t think anything of their apology.
Link?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/belgian-newspaper-apologizes-satire-obama-ape
Thanks Hopefruit.
It’s probably the case that most Belgians are not racists. However, based on my travels in Europe, in the 1980s and 1990s, I still remember Brussels as having pockets of the most overt and crude racists.
Rant alert: I have no ****ing words for how much I ****ing hate WordPress right now, trying to do photos for tomorrow’s R&S but since they ****ed up the photo editor today it is not ****ing possible.
Okay, rant over.
PS Tomorrow’s R&S will probably appear in August 😕
Chips you are entitled to rant. WordPress might be owned by a GOPer who’s messing around right at the time of PBO’s trip to create headaches for you and the other BT’s who want to post pics of our President. The timing of the glitches is a bit odd…
It’ll be ok, dear Chips
Love that Bob! Stiff upper lip and all. Cheerio, eh what?
🙂
Heh bt, FIX YOUR DAMNED BLOG.
I am severely close to throwing in the towel, head aching from banging it against wall.
There, there now Chips-a-doodle! Take some deep breaths.
Focus on this bowl of crunchy cheesy goodness! Pour yourself some wine and stroke the puppy a little.
http://www.splendidtable.org/sites/splendidtable.org/files/styles/lede_image/public/CheesePuffs_edit.jpg?itok=ULY7EndE
Wait… that sounded obscene, didn’t it! 🙂
Which puppy? Chips has a puppy? You’re not calling Master Danny-O a puppy, are you Dudette?
By age, he’s still a puppy (at least I think — he’s not yet a year old, is he?);
by size, however, he’s Godzilla! 🙂
Not quite a year I don’t think. Didn’t we get him around October-ish?
woz boarn in awgist
You sure? Wouldn’t mind seeing your bc, if it’s not too much trouble.
il sho u mi bert sirt wen u sho me urs
Don’t be that way, DannyO’Cheesy. You know I’m your best aunty so you shouldn’t be trying to show me up.
Plus, plus…. /defiantly/ I’m older and you ought to show me respect! In my culture, you do not ask the adults to show you there birth cert. /gaining confidence/ And I am disappointed in you, young man! I’d like to think your mom has thought you better manners than that!
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Phew!
dudit u calin mee fatt?1
Not at all! I was simply referring to your immense power and your colossal… er, magnitude! 🙂
OMG, yum x 97 gazillion!!!!!! 🙂
Turns out they’re home-made and gluten free.
http://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/crunchy-cheese-puffs
[It never occurred to me that one might make their own cheesy puffs at home. I’m fascinated!]
Gotta run.
Ooooooh flippin’ heck, that is hysterical!!!
That is funny. Just glad the dog doesn’t have heels on.
Heh, heh!
Bob, congrats on First!
last one
Doggie there probably heard how much $$ some humans pay for mudbaths. 🙂
Have anyone heard anything else about the mud slide in Washington St.? Have they found any more people alive or dead?
Just ran across this in my Twitter timeline
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023215066_mudslidemondayxml.html
This is really very, very sad, Bob! My deep condolences to all the families who lost loved ones! I pray for a happy outcome for all the missing people. Life is indeed so fragile and so unpredictable.
http://www.king5.com/ Front page news, anniebella
http://www.king5.com/news/breaker1/video/State-geologist-This-is-one-of-the-biggest-landslides-Ive-seen-252051771.html 5:00pm news reported 8 (eight) dead.
Thank you MP, I just watch the 11pm local news and I heard about the mud slide.
This was a really fast post. I’ve hardly blinked twice and we’re close to 100 comments!
cuz u al tak 2 mutch
Hey, we have a lot to say….sometimes. I bet you love to hear us, even when our comments make you roll your eyes!
getcher spelling right, danny boy. it’s taak, not tak.
I blame your mom.
I cannot find coverage of NSS on cspan….is it not being covered…or am I just not finding it…
Chat on!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/03/24/chat-on-10/
Hi TOD! Lurking just to catch up. My favorite by Aretha – Call Me. Makes me feel sentimental. Boy I love this place, balm to my soul. Blessings to the blog crew. You guys are outstanding.