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[JoB]

i like that one. i’m jealous.

[rs261]

My wife got

Meat Notgay Palin

much better then my Stake Shed Palin

[WSMom]

Oh good, I was hoping you’d volunteer JoB :)! I have spaghetti sauce ready to go…just tell me when and where. Today would be a good day for me if that works for Mike. Email me with address & phone info.

[WSratsinacage]

I hope I am not causing anyone any pain by contributing. Thank you for your stories, please keep them coming. I appreciate all the history of WS, good and bad.

[JoB]

Jenny..

had the united states followed the conservation efforts of the 70s.. when it became evident that oil producing countries held us by the short hairs.. with leaner more eco friendly vehicles instead of the gas guzzling armored tanks we drive today… there wouldn’t be a gas crisis… and families wouldn’t have to be making the hard choices between gas to get to work and medicine or food for their kids.

the local food bank now sees well dressed white collar working people who can’t feed their families but don’t qualify for public assistance.

Something is wrong with this picture.

instead.. the companies that leased out those experimental electric cars that their owners were clamoring to purchase shredded them into bits of metal… and we now have manufacturers bragging that their cars get 25 miles to the gallon.

You can only put off a crisis so long.. then you run smack dab into it again.

you would have thought America got a wake up call in the 70s with those gas lines… and that we would now have a functioning public transport system that would be the envy of the world… and cars that exceeded the standard 25 mpg by the end of the 70s… but no.

it’s easier and more self satisfying to make fun of Carter… and pursue personal greed… bigger, better, faster, newer, i want it, i need it, i can pay for it later.

it’s later.

[rs261]

it does not affect it much, but it still does affect it. Every Wednesday a report comes out from the Energy Information Agency (eia.doe.gov) reporting on current inflow, stock and consumption of oil and its refined goods. Every Wednesday the price of oil reacts to that information. If we have an unexpected rise in gasoline stocks, the price goes down. Everybody refines their own oil into seperate products, gasoline here is a different price then gasoline in europe partially because of this. I follow future prices every day on over 30 markets (interest rates, equity indexes, currencies, grains, metals) and can tell you supply and demand are some of the major influencing factors on the price of these goods.

In regards to most things in the US, consumption is our issue…until we curb our consumption of foreign and domestic goods, things will not change drastically. But if we did change our habits, things would change. Not you or I, but everyone. Yeah I realize its not going to happen…

[JenV]

how anyone can defend this nitwit is beyond me. She’s an embarrassment to educated women everywhere. and the sad thing is, she’ll probably end up in office, because the American voters are so stupid and easily duped by a sound bite and a nice up-do.

[JoB]

rs261..

lowering demand in the united states no longer affect gas prices much since there is so much demand elsewhere…

that’s the difference between functioning as a microclimate economically and functioning as a macro climate…

[JoB]

Maybe it is a superhero drug fighter name?

[JenV]

your argument that “during abolition you could get a drink” and “if abortion were made illegal you could get one somewhere” is sad, and sadly, shows your age, Cad. Our personal freedoms are the most important thing, and when people stop believing that, there is no hope. When you give up, you give up living. You don’t probably know, being a male, about the struggle women had to find access to abortion in times of need when it was illegal. Women dying in back alleys from coat hanger abortions. But hey, we can always go back to that, right? And while we’re at it, why not just give up all our rights, hell, we’ll be able to procure anything on the black market, right?

The most important thing is freedom, and we’ve been giving it away like candy. It’s time to take it back – and people who choose not to vote, like you- are nothing but willing helpers in our eventual downfall.

[JoB]

i will try to stop by after the library next week…

[JoB]

Cadeceus..

like zenguy i have allowed this to percolate for a few days.. distilling if you like.

at first i intended to give you the point by point long answer.. but in the last few days events have conspired to overburden my time, my abilities and my heart… and what is important to me has been sorely tested.

I find that what is important to me is to wake each morning knowing i did my best the day before to make my life and the lives of those around me better and that today i will do what i can with whatever task comes in front of me…

doing what you can… when you can… for anyone you can… speaking up about what is important to you… to anyone who will listen… that’s what’s important to me.

i will never be able to solve the world’s problems. I won’t be able to solve my own problems.

i can share what clarity i find … offer what wisdom life’s lessons have taught me when asked… and lend a helping hand whenever possible.

and yes.. you will find that reflected in my politics.

such a small goal .. and yet so hard to achieve some days.

[JenV]

that was really fun. I am looking forward to next week! it was great to meet all of you.

[JoB]

now now guys, don’t nit pick.

it’s a given that she doesn’t speak government. heck, doesn’t speak literate either.

but wouldn’t you just love to have a beer with her?

John said he didn’t want a strong VP … looks like he is getting his wish.

after all, if you thought the only thing the job entailed was checking in each morning to inquire after the state of your health, wouldn’t you rather have Palin than Lieberman?

At least she doesn’t know enough to correct him when he’s wrong.

[JoB]

Ah shucks!

What i need now are a few volunteers to show up with me on friday night for about a half hour…

i intend to be as non-confrontational as that interview was.

[JoB]

Mike…

i am overbooked, but email me anyway with an address and phone number and if nothing else i will coordinate getting some meals to you.

do you have freezer space?

[JoB]

let me know…

[Zenguy]

Chop Meth Palin…is that a drug dealers name?

[credmond]

Do a Wiki search on spider and then follow the various links to the different kinds and their very cool differences. Spiders and the hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants) are – to me – the top insects in the food chain – predators. Read up on them and then watch them outside (or inside) and remember that they’re way more willing to get away from you than you are to get them off or outside. Not understanding their behavior is part of what has allowed them to become the monster insects they seem to be. I’ve got this huge, (large 4 gallon trash can size) wasp’s nest which I recently had vacated by a local who collects them for their venom (used by companies who create allergy tests). In talking with the wasp collector, I learned so much about them which was useful and fascinating – and I already was knowledgeable. They’re only bad guys if they scare you and not getting bit or stung is really easy once you understand a bit about their habits.

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They eat the other bugs – these are the good guy bugs! I know butterflies and damsel flies are beautiful, but spiders are useful and can be beautiful in their own way. It takes 30 minutes for an orb-weaver to completely redo a complicated, 12-inch diameter aerial-hung web. Wasps and bees regularly fly miles from their nest (remember their scale, that would be hundreds of miles to us) and get back on time each end-of-foraging/pollinating-day. They’re really more fascinating than frightening, ‘least to me. And, of course, ants till the soil.

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Full disclosure – I am in no way affected by stings or bites of these bugs (do avoid brown recluse and black widow) in other than a pain way – I don’t get a reaction. I’ve also only been stung a few times (except for the time I stepped on a ground hornet’s nest and that single incident resulted in two-weeks’ worth of cortisone shots) so I don’t have a very deep “bad” history with these creatures. Spiders are ugly, but they’re so fascinating to watch and hunt in some incredibly clever ways.

[acemotel]

exactly, fulltilt. I’m always bewildered that people vote against their own best interest. Under Bush, the incomes of the middle class have actually decreased while the top 1 per cent of income earners have enjoyed the greatest prosperity known to man in the history of this country. Even more so the top 1/10 of 1 per cent. How can working people be opposed to unions?

OTOH, the richest man in the US is a liberal.

[WSB]

Overall (I should probably call an extension expert about this, might make a good storylet) there just seem to be more bugs etc. We still haven’t exorcised the ants. And we’ve seen the fruitflies. And bigger flies (got nontoxic – to humans – flypaper hangers for those). And moths. Or, maybe it’s just our little old house and the fact we deliberately have plants growing around and onto it like a jungle reclaiming its turf … TR

[inactive]

It’s a terrific group. Thanks everybody for the advice and help.

I have knitting homework :)

[inactive]

I’m weighing in as totally pro-spider, except for the poisonous ones that will hurt somebody or when I walk through a web and get it on my arms or face; that IS kind of gross.

But, watch them weave a web sometime – I think it is so fascinating that all of that complex architecture is hardwired in that teeny tiny creature. Cool, to me. And, some spiders have very intricately patterned markings on them as well, not to mention their importance to our ecosystem.

HunterG – I like your cat’s style. My kitty hasn’t discovered spiders yet, but she’s a dedicated mouser in the winter. Off-season, she has been working 24/7 on the fruitfly infestation in my house. What is with the FRUIT FLY’s this year????? No matter how much I clean produce, they manage to stowaway somewhere. How do they get in? Fruit flies are my insect gripe….they have no particularly importance within the ecosystem. Do they? Ugh.

[FullTilt]

I have realized something over the past few weeks after reading about polls on the election and hearing quotes from middle America. This country is chocked full of a lot of stupid people. A lot. A freakin huge amount. We are buffered here on the coast, as people on the east coast are. The rest of the country, seems to be about 50% morons.

People vote how they think they are going to be. They think they are going to be rich at any moment, so they vote with the wealthy 1%. There is about as much chance of most of them joining the upper crust as there is of me looking Brad Pitt.

Look at when Al Gore ran a populist campaign, he could not get the vote of uneducated white men, even though he was talking directly to them. The estate tax, which is aimed at the Uber Wealthy failed because people really thought that any moment they were going to be stinking rich. This people are ignorant. Many people vote as if they are just pre rich. They may be shopping at Sam’s Club now and eating at Apple Bee’s, but any moment their ship is going to come in. This is what we are all told. That any one in this country can pull themselves up by there boot straps and become a gagillionaire. That is BS. Chances are you are going to die in the social economic class you where born into.

We envy the wealthy, and look up to them. We don’t want to penalize them. Hell, we want to be just like them some day. Why the hell would we pass a tax that is going to hurt ourselves when we become rich. Doesn’t matter if you are in hock up to your eye lids now, you must think of the future.

[WSB]

He does!

http://clayeals.com

I’m still getting over having seen him make a cameo at the Dr. Demento performance we attended downtown earlier this summer. Since he wrote what’s considered to be the definitive biography about Steve Goodman, he was there to help introduce a funny Goodman video. Team WSB went to Dr. D not expecting to write about it here, since it wasn’t in WS, but because Clay suddenly appeared, we did:

https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=9459