I vividly remember Jack Lalanne on the Tonight Show and Mike Douglas. He was crazy good in shape and there are a lot worse people to take on as a role model.
We loved the fruit and shared it with the nurses and they loved it.
You guys are just too kind. Lisa and I want to send your our everlasting thanks.
I am going to cry now.
I haven't cried since last night when the Giants lost again.
145 comments:
When the Redskins are required to change their name I think the "Giants" should be next in line.
I want the Washington franchise nickname changed to 'Palefaces'. Of course, that would just be one more thing the white man stole from the natives....
Remember, if you follow Lalanne religiously, as though in a cult, you will be able to pull a train with your teeth and a rope when you're 90.
Please--no more talk of cults.
And no, Troop. Thank you for running this island of misfit toys.
A Sermon To Toss
Don't get too high, or too low.
Or do,
Do get too high, do get too low.
Either way life's a gift,
So give it, give it back.
Or don't,
Don't give it back if you don't want to.
Either way will do.
Cause what do they know,
What do I know, what do you,
Except it's a gift
And sweet,
So sweet sweet sweet --
The only true.
I am just lucky I already own the red velour sweatsuit.
He ain't no Richard Simmons!! He kept everything simple. I liked his message except for those vegetable juicers he shilled for late in life. But hell, Jack earned a few indulgences.
And Trooper, please acknowledge the Amazon gift certificate or someone might order an audit by the IRS on me!
I remember watching Jack on B/W TV with my mom. This was before I started school. Must have been ca. 1964-65
I noted his passing here and his connection between alcohol and carbs.
This may only make sense to a chemist.
chick, When I was diagnosed w/ diabetes my doc told me to consider alcohol, "liquid sugar" in some ways worse than soda. I didn't drink soda, but bourbon!!
Nick I am sorry but I did not see the gift certificate. Was is mailed.
The mail in Brooklyn is worse than in Calcutta. I just got the book yesterday.
I will keep an eye out.
Nick I am sorry but I did not see the gift certificate. Was is mailed.
The mail in Brooklyn is worse than in Calcutta. I just got the book yesterday.
I will keep an eye out.
Nick,
I don't think he was shilling—I think he sincerely believed in juicing and did it into his last days.
Pneumonia, you guys. And like Jim Henson and a bunch of younger people who got killed by it, it's because he didn't take it seriously.
Troop--
LaLanne's motto as far as food? "If it tastes good, spit it out."
I thought that was Linda Lovelace's motto.
Don't get too high, or too low.
I keep waiting for the Lil Shaver report, and what turns up instead is a poem incorporating the Barber's mantra.
An unexpected what do I know, what do you know kind of gift!
I once mentioned that Jim Henson died of pneumonia and Pogo corrected me. Seems no one dies of pneumonia these days. But I don't remember what it was that did him in.
From the NYT, 1990.
The bacterial infection that killed Jim Henson was an especially aggressive type of pneumonia known as streptococcus pneumonia group A. Dr. David Gelmont, director of the medical intensive care unit at New York Hospital, who treated Mr. Henson, described the infection as ''abrupt and potentially overwhelming.'' He said that death from the bacteria is neither common nor rare, and that the outcome might have been different if Mr. Henson had been hospitallized only eight hours earlier.
Mr. Henson arrived at the emergency room at 4:58 a.m. on Tuesday, suffering from an inability to breathe and from abscesses throughout the lobes of his lungs, Dr. Gelmont said. Mr. Henson was immediately treated with high doses of six antibiotics, which destroyed most of the bacteria in his body. He was also placed on a mechanical breathing ventilator..
But Dr. Gelmont said that, despite the antibiotics, the infection already had overwhelmed Mr. Henson's body, leading to kidney failure, heart failure, inability of his blood to clot and shock. Mr. Henson died 20 hours later as a direct result of uncontrollable bleeding into his lungs.
Jack LaLanne was so strong he carried his own casket to the cemetery after he died. True story.
Anyone over 60, or anyone who has had heart or lung related illnesses should get a pneumonia shot. You only need one every five years.
Help me out here. I don't pay attention as much as I should.
What is the name of Lem's blog?
I thought it was Lem's Learning Levity. But then it was Commenter Home, wasn't it? Now it's Lem's Learning Levity.
Or am I just befuddled about this?
Either way, the Yankees still suck.
Lem Learning, you mean?
It's Lem. He's confuzzled.
Trooper, My bride just emailed you the Amazon verification sent on 10/5. Maybe you just deleted it thinking it spam. The gift card was an attachment to an Amazon email dated 10/5 and is for $180. You have very generous commenters.
You'll need to find the email sent to you because the email leslyn forwarded is just verification the card she bought was sent and received, the card isn't attached.
I always wondered...is confuzzled pronounced more like confused or puzzled?
Thanks Nick I will check it out.
And thanks to all my generous members of the Trooper York commenting community.
I think the name of Lem's blog is now called "Lem's Learning Leprosy" because that is how some of the people on the masthead treat it.
What happened to Pastafarian? Or Paddy O? Or Synova who at least comments these days.
Everybody knows why Palladian and Freeman Hunt are not posting but the rest of them are a mystery.
I wish Palladian would write more. I get why he doesn't and can't blame him, I'd probably do much the same, but I still enjoy reading his stuff.
Don't know where Pasta headed off to but hasn't Paddy returned to the Althouse teat now that she's freewheeling again?
Cody Jarrett said...
I wish Palladian would write more.
Me too. I really like getting into those chemical discussions.
I don't think cajoling people helps though.
There are distinct communities at Althouse and at Lem's. There's some overlap in the Venn diagram sense, and ultimately Lem's derives from Althouse. But there's been no resolution of the reason's why Lem's exists and still exists, and why some shun one blog or the other, etc. When I comment on Althouse (which is infrequent) it's certainly not to reward Meade's atrocious behavior or her countenance or feigned ignorance of that.
It was my understanding that "Lem's Learning Levity" was the name Lem came up with when he first started setting up shop on his own, in the early days of the aftermath.
The "Comment Home" name, of which I was not a fan, seemed to come about when he asked others to join the blogging team.
The new name is Lem (minus the 's) Learning Levity. And I like it, although I don't know if the dropped possessive and/or contraction is deliberate or not. It may be another after math result. Either way, Lem didn't just provide a place for the lost to collect, he created a viable blog.
I had another paragraph, EPR, that I delete before I hit publish. It was very much like what you said, save of course the final sentence.
Lem is stuck now doing a pale imitation of Althouse (I know it sounds like I'm busting on him; I'm not (right now)) and except for a few people who refuse to go over there, it seems like more and more of the casual commenters are drifting back.
It's kind of like why vote for a liberal republican when you can just vote for the democrat.
I don't know what the answer is, or if there even is one.
I'm also not judging anyone who chooses to post at Althouse. I throw that in because I've been accused of it before and because I'm afraid you might have been thinking along those lines in your post. I don't understand it--but I don't understand a lot of things. Like, why is my dog the fastest animal on the planet when there's a squirrel, but unbearably slow if I need her to come inside because I have to go somewhere. Mysteries.
I'm trying to learn, or accept that there are things I just can't understand and can't control so I should just shut up about it. Or something.
I took a jaunt through a little bit of Althouse lately, and the couple of posts I glanced at looked like she'd really put some work into, and she's actually in the comments interacting with her devotees. I suppose this whole thing has rattled whatever part of her is still able to be rattled.
I predict Lem closes his blog by Christmas or the new year.
He's demonstrated he much prefers being a commenter than a blogger (I don't blame him--we don't see my blog anywhere after all) and he's commenting more at Althouse.
By St. Val's day almost everything will be back to 'normal'.
Have I ever mentioned that several of my closer friends call me Eeyore?
Hey most of Cracks close friends call him Tigger.
Why you gotta bring up Crackers?
That jackass even managed to make me thinking Roy Scheider can be a good actor into some sort of racial thing or something.
I think Lem can keep his blog going indefinitely if he just lets other people put up posts. What he needs to do is jettison the dead weight and bring in other contributors. Think out of the box. I think both Ritmo and A Reasonableman would be good choices. Or Phx. On the conservative side he could ask Dust Bunny Queen or ChipS. He can keep it going.
What is interesting is if you went back when this all started and you read all the protestations of how people wanted Lem's place to be a success and how they would still be there in six months. Guess what? They are lying sacks of shit.
I intend to support Lem's blog as long as it is open as I said I would when it first started.
Tigger please!
It was just a joke!
Give me a break I have a bad heart.
I'd still comment there (and I'm fairly good at commenting to stir up other comments. Not world class, but decent)--except a couple of people there sort of made it clear that that kind of thing wasn't wanted.
Plus another issue.
I'm not sure phx would be a good choice. When I glance through the comments and see that he's said something I've noticed lately even the nicer people are starting to say bad things. Phx doesn't have the consistency ChipS is famous for. Plus he's bloody annoying.
So is Ritmo. Even when I'm trying to like him. And not annoying in a a good way, like Icepick either.
Sometimes I really like ARM.
I believe Chip was asked but begged off because of being too busy?
But you're back to the beginning. What's the blog's ID gonna be? Is it Lem, pretending he's Althouse, prancing around in a blonde wig? Or is it just a place for displaced persons to congregate and shoot the shit about whatever comes along?
And that's something Lem's gonna have to decide.
You racist joke making so and so!
BTW, at some point in the past 12 hours someone suggested Trooper Sixty and me were the same person.
For me it's a step up, I'm not sure it works for the other two.
I know that not everybody likes Ritmo or ARM. They are an acquired taste. But I think it is good to have their views fairly represented as wrongheaded as I think they might be. You can always skip their posts like I used to do with Freeman Hunt. But I think they would bring something interesting to the table. Also if Trooper York, Cody Jarrett and Sixty Grit advocated this it would lead to some people's head exploding.
That would be a good thing to see dontcha think?
I don't go into this at Lem's because I don't want to be accused of trying to tell him how to run his blog.
But I think it would be a kick ass post if Chickie put up a thread advocating Ritmo or ARM getting on the masthead. We can all chime in and agree and watch the shit hit the fan.
Am I being too manipulative. I leave it to you sports fans. You make the call.
I am just whiling away the hours in my sick chair waiting to get better so I can go out and sit in the sun and scratch my balls like an old dog.
LOL. There's more layers on you than an onion.
Yes that would be funny.
Someone has to tell him how to run his blog--if he wants to have a blog. Better someone nice who cares than ...well you know.
Of course...is Ritmo available? I think they threw a net over him a couple of weeks ago.
I was originally asked to blog at Lem's, but I hesitated and lost my spot. (I already am part of a group blog, so I needed to figure out what I would blog about at Lem's, and by the time I had figured it out the card had been turned into the ump.)
But an original suggestion for it had been to call the group blog Bloggenstein, which I liked enough that I may steal it if Lem stops blogging at some point.
And I can't fault Lem for doing an Althouse style blog. We were all at Althouse once because she was pretty good at blogging, after all. When we started our refugee camps, it was in response to something missed. But over at Lem's I got to see Althouse and her husband more clearly, and I've got no reason to go back now. That still leaves something missing, and Lem has a good place for scratching that itch.
This joint, OTOH, is the friendly neighborhood bar, with all the pleasures and restrictions that implies.
I think you would be a great choice. You could write about a lot of stuff. Economics. Being a stay at home Dad. White rap songs. You got a lot to give.
I think Lem should run his blog like George Steinbrenner. Dump the guys that are not productive and bring in new stars to freshen up the lineup.
You could be Jason Giambi dude!
There aren't enough lesbians.
Althouse style is one thing, and to be honest I have no problem with it and in fact will point to what she's done today as evidence of how good that can be.
My issue with Lem trying to be Althouse style is that all he does is post a couple of paragraphs and a link, there isn't even a headline with an interesting question.
But that's just my own personal opinion, which I'm entitled do--despite what a couple of people might think.
What would you do, Trooper, with the marginal ones?
Few seem to realize there is a ton of poking going on under deborah's cheerful affirmation, probing questions and perspicuous presentations. All in good fun? Maybe. My jury is still out.
The answer to "Does this work?" beyond the immediate picture is "Yes, it does" which is why Trooper posts hot babes and Althouse posts dogs!
BTW, Icepick, I was at Althouse because of the comment section. 75% of the time I didn't even bother to read whatever she'd written and almost never read what she was linking to.
I just liked reading the differing opinions. It's why I lurked there for a couple of years before I ever started posting, and it's why I posted for a month or so then went back to lurking for another year.
Little Debbie is just being provocative which is good. I like it.
Lem is not going to manage like Billy Martin.
Lem is Bob Lemon. Drunk and just happy to be there.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
MamaM, I find that interesting. Because I really liked Deborah. I almost emailed her an idea I had (kind of like eddie was wondering)...but something kept holding me back. The last few years I've begun to actually listen to that little voice that says "danger" (or tried to listen more anyway).
Then she did a couple of things, then there were a couple of other things, and I wound up not trusting her at all.
And for no particular reason I could tell you about.
What I would do is ask people if they are still interested or where they just there to hold the audience for Althouse and now are back there with no interest in forwarding Lem's blog. If that is the case that is fair enough. Move out and make room for someone else who wants to blog there. If they are just busy that's one thing. But if you don't post for months then why pretend? Just a thought.
Some would call it trouble making or choosing sides or opening wounds or some bullshit like that. I think it is just good housekeeping.
Troop you're old enough to remember the old margarine commercials with Mother Nature, right? Hell, I do, and you're...older than I am.
"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature", said with a thunderclap.
That same actress played a nurse on Emergency. She was sort of like the alternate head nurse to Dixie. There's a blooper reel on youtube, and one of the scenes is Kel Brackett walking away and she says in her commanding voice "MR FULLER! IT'S NOT NICE TO FOOL MOTHER NATURE" which had him staggering against the wall laughing.
Anyway--my point in that was to suggest paying attention to MamaM's jury that's still out.
I would even ask Crack if he wanted to post there. I know crazy right?
I think if he did there would be a lot of comments and juice in the blog and it would help in the overall health of the enterprise. Of course if you hate that kind of thing you can just skip his posts. No harm no foul.
I am never afraid of competition. Not the competition of a competing viewpoint. We will win on the merits of the case. No problem.
I agree with approaching Little Debbie with extreme caution. She has a mean streak. But who the fuck am I to talk. I have a really really big mean streak.
Except for lately, when he seems off the rails, I like Crack, more or less. He's got a lot to offer.
Why not have Inga put up a post now and then? Or Meade?
What could go wrong?
Stupid as it sounds, having Inga post might be the best thing that could happen.
She only wants to belong someplace (yes, there's more to her pathology than that, I realize). She thinks she belongs to the "anti" side now. If she's brought into the fold she'd be a lot nicer.
I mean...never let her near the sharp objects and never drink the tea if she makes it for you, but really....
Now Meade is just toxic.
Of course, I'm not certain she's a real person half the time.
What I mean is, there's a real Inga. But half the time I think Meade posts from an Inga account.
You know what Michael I have to say I wouldn't be afraid of that. They wouldn't do that because they want Lem to fail. Their only interest is in promoting Althouse. They couldn't be honest. It is not in them.
Don't you think it would be great if Inga put up a post and nobody commented? I think that would be legendary. Just sayn'
My issue with Lem trying to be Althouse style is that all he does is post a couple of paragraphs and a link, there isn't even a headline with an interesting question.
My own experience over there is the more time spent on a blog post, the less interest there is in it. Also, the ones that get tons of hits and comments are always contentious. Uniqueness is usually but not always rewarded by attention.
A problem with Lem's blog is that it is mimicking the old Althouse blog. Some of the same commenters are getting into the same arguments they had at TOP. Althouse cleaned up her place, so a few people have gone back there.
Will it last for either of them? Hard to say. Althouse's blog has become boring, filled with boring sycophant comments. Lem's blog is scattered, without theme. Heck, even the font changes topic-to-topic. We encouraged Lem to start his blog. Too bad we can't help him shape it into something unique.
Blogging by committee doesn't work.
This is all rank speculation of course and when you bring in Meade and Inga it gets really rank. But if you believe in the first amendment and the whole reason why the Althouse blowup happened in the first place you have realize that we have to offer a voice even to those we despise.
The fact that they would never do that for us is besides the point. We need to stand up for what we believe. All the time.
No retreat. No surrender.
I was serious about the Inga thing. It would add some spice. The trick would be making sure Inga blogged as Inga, and not someone pretending to be Inga.
And frankly, I'd reach out to Mary and have her put up a topic, or at least comment now and then.
Chickie is right. The posts I spend the most time on like "Laura Bush's Diary" always gets the least hits and comments.
I guess I am just different than you Haz. I like disorganization. Different people talking about different things. That's what stops it from being a snooze fest like Althouse is now. Chip Ahoy may be crazy but he brings something new and interesting to the table. I don't think blogging is Lem's thing. He is just trying to be an honest broker.
He is Bob Lemon man.
BUT......it's Lem's blog and he has free will.
I think having Mary post a thread is brilliant. Of course she is a loon and I know she has a history with a lot of people here like DBQ and rccommal and Icepick but hey it would be pretty fucking interesting.
Lem would never go for it in a million years but it would be spectacular.
I don't know if he has free will. I suspect he can be bought with a six pack of cerveza, a couple of cuchifritos and a winsome Dominican boy. Just sayn'
I can never think of anything to say to a Laura Bush's Diary type of post. They're funny.
Oh that's ok Cody. That's not a problem. It is just an illustration of what Chickie is talking about. Sometimes less thinking works better. That is just the way it is.
Okay, not free. Reasonably priced, though.
"Laura Bush's Diary" posts leave nothing to the imagination. They're so full, there's little left to add!
What happens with them is similar to what transpires when ChipS posts on his blog. His are so full of good points, in which he's so completely covers a topic, there's not much of an entry point, other than the addition of a resounding "Yes" (as opposed to my "Nooooooooo!!!!!!" with Laura Bush's diary).
I'd like to see a topick in which Sir Archy describes getting laid bt some lunatick bar maide.
Not gonna happen, though.
LOL. I've tried to comment on Chip's blog a couple of times and just couldn't come up with anything to say. Like MamaM says--there's no real entry point. He's not only consistent, he's thorough.
Sir Archy would be a great commenter there. Or the blogging cockroach.
That would burn the evil blogger ladies twat.
Reason enough to do it I say. What say you?
I bet chickie could post it as a missive from Sir Archy.
Just three quick comments.
First, lesbians ate more interesting in theory than in reality.
Second, I got the impression that Pastafarian was getting slammed at work.
Third, I would not read a blog where Mary was allowed to post. The worst that Inga has done pales in comparison to the shit Mary has pulled.
Speak for yourself, Icepick! What lesbians ate does not interest me in theory or reality.
Chip Ahoy! Brilliant, obscure, confounding, but I don't speak hieroglyphic.
I try to comment whenever Deborah puts up a music post, if only to encourage her. I almost thought she was decent, but as others have said, something holds me back.
Ritmo needs to find a hobby or something. Or read about the AGW hoax.
Spinelli needs to post over there - maybe a list of what he knows about people, but omitting any names. That would be scary.
Anyway, I was at market, it was overcast, miserable, no customers, then it started raining.
Just when you think it can't get any worse - a fucking barbershop quartet showed up. Fuck that noise - I'm outta here! Don't misunderstand, I appreciate good acapella harmony, but only 3 of these 4 could achieve that. I told people not to applaud, that was only encouraging them, and they were in the exit path for marketers trying to load their vehicles in the rain. In other words, fuck you you out of tune fuck balls.
At this point all I can say to Lem is bless his heart. That's what we say around here.
To Troopski, all I can say is Ticker Please!
Hmm.
My father's uncle married a lady from an old Raleigh family (*not* a lower class family, or even a middle class family) and whenever she said "bless his/her/their heart"...it wasn't a good thing.
You understand, Codes - that phrase is usually followed by something that you would not expect a lady to say.
MamaM, I'm sure Palladian doesn't have interest in lesbians either. But they're usually fascinating to straight males, especially when we're younger. Possibly when older, too, but I was good friends with one for a few years, and that seriously damaged the fantasies, so I'm not a good judge of older male interest in lesbians now.
Oh, I see the typo now. That's what I get typing comments on a phone.
I was serious about the Inga thing. It would add some spice.
Yeah,it's all fun and games until someone loses a weiner. Or gets accused of stalking, or threatened with a nuisance law suit, or told their livelihood and licensing will be questioned under false premises.
Talking about how fun and spicy someone like Inga would be on Lem's is crazier than the person behind the name.
As for your market story, SixtyG, this thread reminds me of the barbershop quartet described. With some more in tune than others!
Yes, Lem's could profit from some spice. Toxic sludge is not a spice.
Weiner, wiener, whiner or winer. Same thing.
If she's brought into the fold she'd be a lot nicer.
Not sure if your history goes back this far, Cody, but she was in the fold here for over a year, presenting herself as cheerful and fun except for the Queen Bee gameplaying that never let up.
There are thirty three posts on "Allie is ok for a fuckin' commie". She brought on her demise herself. No bend, no mutual, and under the friendly charm, little to no respect for anyone, including herself.
Yeah, she was way out of line. This is a better place without her or Tie Tie. Addition by subtraction.
Kind of like what the Gints need to do.
I know, Mama. I should've been more clear about tongue/cheek. My fault.
I never did understand how she rated being here, and I've gone back and read most of the posts under the Allie tag and still don't.
If I'm saying nice things about Inga, Ann, Meade, Crack and a few others (probably even bless his heart, Lem)...it's best to assume I'm being sarcastic.
It's a fantasy, of course, because it isn't ours to decide what gets put up on Lem's blog. Adding a cuckoo's nest element would be a breath of fresh air.
As would an ocassional topic selected by AllenS.
By the way, the Yankees still suck.
And so, apparently, do the Gints.
There are distinct communities at Althouse and at Lem's. There's some overlap in the Venn diagram sense...
El Pollo, I started a response to your 1:31pm comment, and got off track with the rest of the happenings here.
The Venn diagram remark caused me to wonder if this might fit the TY, Lem, Alt overlap? Or maybe it's more Brunnian with nontrivial links that become trivial if any number of components are removed.
I just went out for the first time to the store and a lot of hilarious stuff happened. Posts to follow.
We had a gang incident in CVS when I was picking up my medicine.
Nope, no correlation between good/funny posts and the number of comments. Many times there's nothing to add other than "good post" or "that was funny" or "thanks".
"Johnny's in the basement, mixin' up the medicine...I'm on the pavement, thinkin' about the government."
I was promised there was no dylan here.
That promise was made to Haz, not you.
I meant, what Dylan?
I didn't say you promised me, I said I was promised.
You ever seen a folding lathe, Sixty?
Was looking over the series list for your buddy Underhill and in his season 6 he builds one or uses one or something.
Adding a cuckoo's nest element would be a breath of fresh air.
Because the cuckoo's nest element worked so well here with "J", Titus and the Oop/Inga?
I wouldn't wish that kind of nasty on anyone. What's needed over at Lem's is a fresh roster to go with the new name, with more variety, interest, and difference added. He doesn't need or require crazy or cuckoo to make a difference, create community or survive.
Creativity seems to demand flexible and measured tension.
Why not?
Lem's blog has deteriorated into the same six or eight people commenting on every topic. Let the crazies go after each other once in a while just for some relief from the monochromatic sameness.
I'll amend the above statement to say:
He doesn't need or require out-of-control crazy or cuckoo...
Because I enjoy a measure of crazy. I don't care for abuse.
Lem's blog has deteriorated into the same six or eight people commenting on every topic. Let the crazies go after each other once in a while just for some relief from the monochromatic sameness.
Tough crowd. That's why I hang out here. There's less performance anxiety.
*topic change*
It's time to stock up on rice and dried beans. You need to do this. Things in America are going to get real bad real fast and you need to have food stored up.
The economy is going to crash. Money will become worthless and you won't be able to buy food.
The gold in Fort Knox has been shipped to a secure facility owned by China in South Africa. China demanded it as collateral in the bonds it has bought and on which America will default. The dollar will be worthless.
Obama has been relieving the top officers in the military of their commands. This week alone he relieved the top two military officers in charge of nuke weapons of their duties. Why? Because when asked if they were loyal to the constitution or the president, they answered "constitution".
Janet Napolitano resigned suddenly as head of Homeland Security and has not been replaced, making Obama defacto in charge of DHS. And DHS has what is essentially it's own army, with all that ammo it has been buying.
I know I sound crazy. But I'll be stocked up.
you have a link to that bit about the gold, Mr. Haz? I looked around some and didn't see anything like that. And it's been known for a while that there's not the gold there should be there.
What's needed over at Lem's is a fresh roster to go with the new name, with more variety, interest, and difference added. He doesn't need or require crazy or cuckoo to make a difference, create community or survive.
That means you're going to have to replace Lem, cuz he's never going to do any of that.
He'd be more apt to add Meade to the roster than anything.
Cody, to paraphrase Ann Altmouse "you need yo Google harder".
Try 'gold not in a Fort Knox' as a place to begin.
Check also DailyBell.com
I am falling in and out of sleep so I mistakenly posted this at Lems which is the other blog I have open:
I have to agree with MamaM that Inga or Mary would be over the top but Ritmo or A Reasonable Man would be worthwhile additions to the masthead and should get a chance to post.
I deleted it and I don't think anyone saw it. Lem has reading rights here so he can follow the whole discussion if he wants. But he is watching the game so he won't care.
That's what I searched for Mr. Haz.
None of the links on the first page mentioned the China/S.A. part.
That means you're going to have to replace Lem, cuz he's never going to do any of that.
He'd be more apt to add Meade to the roster than anything.
Not saying that's not a distinct possiblity. But I keep holding on to hope based on the fact that Lem has a fine sense of humor. He also had the wherewithal to change the name back to the one he'd originally chosen before the rest of the gang arrived.
Plus, after pressure and time, he eventually added Evi to the list. And he's into taking trips to Tea Party doings.
Maybe something is slowly cooking. I've got to hang my hope 'n' change hat somewhere!
LOL. Pressure to add Evi.
He'd have strangled me if he could've over that.
And I believe I took some flak even here over pushing him. I won't mention which of my pals it was, I don't feel like picking the scab.
But I was a little shocked by it.
Foot draggers can sometimes use a push to get going, while those who are charging around goring others with direct lies and other falsities could do with some corralling.
Like Steinmetz said, it's knowing where to put the X!
The Chinese don't own enough US treasuries to demand collateral. The Chinese and Japanese combined own less than the FED, and the FED owns less than the Social Security Trust Fund. We're mostly in hoc to ourselves.
And the Chinese as a practical matter can't do jack shot, as they're ten or eleven carrier groups too short to be able to take a seat at the table.
The only currency danger at present is that Obama will slip the leash of the financiers that own him and will risk missing payment on a debt. But the financiers are unlikely to let that happen. Biden is insurance against Obama too, being wholly owned by Wall Street.
Cody means me on the Evi thing. I still think that was a mix of Lem being inexperienced with Blogger and the new Blogger templates.
Don't underestimate Blogger's ability to annoy. It was eating a lot of comments in early summer, and Cody has periodic problems commenting at Evi's joint.
And by the Biden as insurance against Obama comment, I mean that a President Biden would be certain to stabilize things to Wall Street's liking. HE has been the main go between from House Republicans and the White House.
Icepick, since you brought it up--I'd have given Lem a pass on it (and did) the first time. The second time, the third time...but after a couple of months...?
And after he was saying over and over "I did it" when the evidence was clearly that he didn't?
Yes, blogger can be annoying. OTOH, Lem has a few people who're more experienced around helping him and/or offering help. So if he really wanted to do it and couldn't...well you see where I'm going?
It's funny. You like to think you're an ass, but you're really very trusting.
And thanks for weighing in RE the Chinese and collateral. I didn't spend a lot of time searching it, maybe 15 minutes, but my google/bing skills are way better than the average persons. I can literally run the same search terms as my business partner and get results where he's stuck with a mess of garbage. No one knows how that works. Or, no one I know knows how it works.
And as if by magic, Inga and Mary lock horns over at Altspouse.
Mary for the win.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2013/10/veterans-remove-barricades-from.html
In its current state I think the name "Shithouse" suits TOP best.
"I'm on neither side in the current shutdown," says the mediocre lawprof, thereby confusing cruel neutrality with the inability to discern fundamental differences.
She is either trying to stir a hornets' nest out of desperation for comments or this is the result of a sincere thought process.
The latter possibility is an indicator of fast-developing mental incompetence. The second possibility is a verification of moral bankruptcy.
Either way, it's a Shithouse over there.
Remember when she lost her sense of smell last summer? Google sense of smell and Alzheimer's disease. It's an early indicator.
Hmm...
Pretty funny when Mary runs riot, out duels Inga AND wins over most of the commenters at the same time.
Not funny like "ha ha...look that guy just fell down..."
but funny.
Who is Michelle D. Thomson, btw?
I only vaguely remember--she (I assume) was never really that interesting. to me to remember.
She just said Inga disagrees with Althouse most of the time and does it civilly and intelligently.
Mary's been purged...
This comment from another:
I am not surprised at all Ann.
This is about honour and integrity - quantities that are essential requirements for our soldiers. In lawyers and politicians they are anathema.
I'm not surprised either. The two qualities that turned up missing during and after the Great July Fall Out were honor and integrity.
And poof! Mary's comments have all been removed. She was doing a good and coherent dissection of Altspouse's post.
Heaven forbid that a Con Law proof should allow free speech.
MamaM said...
Mary's been purged...
That should please Inga.
A commercial from the past for you, El Pollo.
Applicable for those times when the subconscious speaks, as in this doozy from the Althouse protest post:
They were so inside their own enterprise that they couldn't perceive how it would look to those standing away at some distance.
Imagine that! Along with this declaration:
I'm sick of all of them.
Oops...needs to read:
...as in this doozy from Althouse, in the protest post"
Cody, I've got no reason to not take Lem at his word. I'm not doing business with him. We're not involved in any contract together. I'm not giving him money and he's not giving me money. He's not dumping crap in my yard. His dogs aren't running wild in my neighborhood. He's not dating anyone in my family, I'm not dating anyone in his. We pretty much have no contact in real life. Mostly, we're part of some of the same conversations online. That's it.
Given that, I've got no reason to NOT take him at his word. Not much is at stake, so there's no reason for me to get suspicious. It's as simple as that.
I have found that I am a little happier handling life this way. I save suspicions for situations when something important is at stake. (Or when I'm dealing with family.)
As for the bit with Evi getting listed on Lem's blog roll: at WORST it is a tempest in a tea pot. I suspect that I know what happened there, and if I get the chance I will try to replicate it with an experiment. But really, I don't see why anyone is having problems with that situation. You were all telling a third party what he was supposed to do with HIS blog, and he didn't do it fast enough to suit you. I think Lem's got more of a case for annoyance than anyone else.
"They're Back!"
Comments at the Althouse/Shithouse/Ingahouse, opened without moderation the day Trooper had a change of heart, and are now getting back into full swing as he proceeds with his recovery.
Complete with red meat, old ladies with canes, scales falling off the eyes, portion control and an indirect "shaddap you face" to Mary!
Life replicates Art or maybe its the other way around.
Okay, I can mostly replicate what I believe happened at Lem's with EBL's blog and the blog role. I can't quite do everything, but I'm not using the same template as Lem.
Okay, first a couple of notes on Blogger. Blogger has changed its interface for people creating blogs over the years. I know of two fairly major revisions, and I am sure there have been many other.
The most recent revision happened sometime in the last couple of years, and maybe occurred earlier this year. (I believe it did, but I don't care to look it up.)
The newest version allows for people to create rather sophisticated looking blogs. This is both good and bad. I've got an older blog (The Kitchen Drawer) using one of the older templates, customized over time to have certain features. I have ~126 links in my "blog roll" on that my blog. I have done this so that I can have access to my most used bookmarks on any computer: I only need find my blog, and I have them all. Blogger used to give users access to lots of the HTML coding for their own blog, and this allowed for a fair amount of customization available to those that wanted it.
One of the changes since I started removed much of the direct access to the HTML code. Grrr.
(continued)
IP, it's got nothing to do with 'he didn't move fast enough'. That's insulting and it's bullshit, as I told you the last time we delved into it.
It's that he repeatedly said he had done it, then the next time he'd say he was going to do it, then he said he'd done it, then he'd say he was going to do it and on and on.
I could give a fuck if he did it fast or not. I only got involved because the little twat kept changing his story about it.
If he'd never done it I still wouldn't care.
But beyond that--I specifically said I didn't want to pick the scab--so why the fuck do you insist on it? I know you're an ass and all, but why provoke more bullshit? You know it's a sore subject. And as I recall you also lectured me about that.
So fuck off already with it.
And besides--it's my life. If I want to be suspicious of Lem or anyone else--I will.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
The latest interation of Blogger really kicks ass, in a lot of ways. It really does allow for someone that doesn't know what they're doing to put together a good looking blog. The templates make this possible.
After Althosue closed comments, some of us put up our own blogs. I opened a new joint called The Open Cover. I did it for about a week before closing it down, as Lem was getting all the traffic. (Thank God. Trying to keep up with Althouse, which was my goal at the time, was a chore.)
Lem set up at the same time, using a different template, but it has a lot of the same functionality. This is important.
The new Blogger templates have increased functionality in the Blog Roll section. Now one can not only add a list of links, but those links can show the latest posts from those blogs and some other features. Neat!
It also has some other features. Namely, one can list how many blogs on the blog roll get shown. Five, ten, twenty-five and ALL were the options listed on mine. I chose ALL when I was setting up, because I knew what I was doing and what to look for. The default appears to be some finite number.
IF YOU LEAVE THAT FINITE NUMBER for the default, your blog roll will only show that number of blogs, no matter how many you add. However, it WILL accept new blogs to the blog roll if you add them! It just won't show all of them.
I have tried this with The Closed Cover. (I renamed it when I shut it down.) I can keep adding blogs past the 25 I currently allow, but they will NOT necessarily show up in the blog listing.
It WILL tell me they are being added successfully, however.
And I believe this is what was happening with Lem. He was adding EBL, it was TELLING him it was being successfully added, and in the pop-up window it will even show that. Depending on how he has his blog roll sorted, however, EBL will NOT show up in the blog roll!
This is what I thought was going on, and I just replicated it with my abandoned blog. (I'm not using the same template, so I wasn't able to precisely duplicate everything. Also, Blogger may well have revised their software again in the meantime.)
So, I can believe this is what happened, in which everyone did what they said they did, and things still didn't work out (and I know that at least early on Lem wasn't that sophisticated with regards to the software), OR I can believe that Lem was telling a series of untruths that were easily verified as untruths.
I'm going with the more charitable explanation, as it seems more plausible to me.
I also know that earlier this year, Blogger was having some issues. Comments would be posted and would later disappear. That was a glitch in their software, and it was happening across many blogs.
So again, I'm going with the more charitable explanation, because I actually believe it fits the evidence better.
It's that he repeatedly said he had done it, then the next time he'd say he was going to do it, then he said he'd done it, then he'd say he was going to do it and on and on.
I could give a fuck if he did it fast or not. I only got involved because the little twat kept changing his story about it.
See my next post, in which I was able to largely replicate what Lem said he was doing, with the same results.
But beyond that--I specifically said I didn't want to pick the scab--so why the fuck do you insist on it?
Because I believe I can explain what happened. Further, I can pretty much replicate it, and know what settings would be required to replicate it exactly.
That's why I can picking at it when it comes up.
Giving the crazy LPN, who wrote a threatening email to my bride, a forum in this sanctuary, would be my exit outta here. I don't say that lightly.
Cody, I was asking because I'm a motörhead and I'm curious about the engines in big trucks.
Who made your engine, and will it really last 1million miles?
The Redskins are playing the Cowboys. Cowboys? That is an insult to people into bestiality. That team must change its name.
Post a Comment