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Nice. I hope to meet you someday that way, but with perfect weather ;) |
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Mighty poor police work for such a high profile case. Justice was denied for poor Caylee. |
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Actually, there were a couple of Chinese vegetarian restaurants in Berkeley. I took a date to one ~20 years ago, and she ordered a very realistic faux canard. Imagine my shock when she couldn't eat her vegetarian duck dish. She asked me to taste it, because it was so realistic. It had "skin" with pi... |
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You'll never get me to tell the difference. I hate eggs, tofu, raw oysters, and mushrooms because of their slimy texture. |
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Post subject: Re: Birds
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Eric, your bird(s) in pix 1-4 on the previous page look(s) like Pacific Golden Plover(s), and 5-7 look(s) like Black Turnstone(s). |
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You folks miss the point. It's not all Americans. It's dumb (=poor) Americans whose numbers are rising, and 43% of whom lack health insurance. |
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This is one of his 3 blog sites, and it shows no activity since June 5. The last news report has an August 9 date saying he had a stomach bug, and his Sat 8/3 launch was postponed. Sounds like a dreamer. |
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Erik, My employer didn't establish its 401(k) equivalent plan until the early 1980s, when I was already in my late 30s. I originally financed my home with a 20 year mortgage, refinanced it on a 15 year loan, and paid that off in 9 years. It could be a textbook example of how to finance a home while ... |
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My 401(k) equivalent had no matching funds from my employer, but I put in my maximum contribution for ~23 years, because I had a supervisor who explained the tax benefits to me. It's my mad money, to pay for that lark to Antartica, and it doesn't worry me when/if it loses money, since I don't need i... |
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It amazes me how "everyone else" is willing to cut off his nose to spite his face. He's anti-government, anti-union, anti-universal health care, is hostile to Social Security recipients as "welfare" recipients, and has only himself to blame for not saving enough for his retirement needs. |
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I agree with everything you all said, except what Erik said about not knowing anyone who has a pension. l'm one of the dinosaurs - the last of the pensioners. |
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Lanai and Molokai have minimal natural value. They have no endemic land bird species, for instance. The disparity between rich and poor is striking here. There was an article this week in the local newspaper about a Belvedere couple who bought a $4.2 million property just to tear down a home that wa... |
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Allowing for the fact that there are monsters in our midst, the really sickening thing is that Joe Paterno and the Penn State President didn't stop Sandusky 15 years ago when they had the evidence in their hands. |
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Post subject: Re: eclipse
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:19 am |
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I'll be 79 in 2024, so I can't count on being independently mobile, or even alive then. So 2017 is my best shot, and I plan to make the most of it. |
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Post subject: Re: eclipse
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:24 pm |
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I'm considering OR because a bunch of us modern Chacoans have one of us who lives there. Boise is my back-up for the obvious reason - its better weather. |
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Post subject: Re: eclipse
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:33 pm |
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My bad. It's obviously a scope, with TV Sol Searcher & white light filter. TV85 sounds like a good guess. |
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Post subject: Re: eclipse
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 11:43 pm |
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I'm surprised none of you (with the possible exception of Erik) traveled to get within the zone of annularity. I'll definitely be within the totality boundaries 8/21/17. I'm planning on coastal Oregon, with Boise ID as a backup if the OR weather gets iffy. I thrive on outreach. I gave weekly present... |
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My photo of the Venus transit from the Bay Area. Since I also saw the 2004 transit, this one was my twice in a lifetime occurrence.
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Post subject: Re: eclipse
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:04 pm |
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I did outreach for the eclipse in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM. We had ~400 visitors for the eclipse, with 4 official park solar scopes. I got the Visitor Center parking lot, with ~150 people. Fortunately, we also had another half dozen solar scopes brought by amateurs, and half a doze... |
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Damn, you'd think Geraldo worked for Faux News, with that kind of rhetoric. Oh, wait, he does work for Faux News. Surprise, surprise. |
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When I heard the news, I came here to post about it. I'd imagined Breitbart to be in his 60s or 70s. |
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FDA regulates lye as a food additive. You need to be bashing USDA for allowing softened beef scraps in hamburger. |
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Nothing is sacred. Nabisco Oreos also contain (or at least, used to contain) lard. |
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Raising the gasoline and diesel taxes so fuel costs $8-$10/gallon would put this country's vehicular preferences in line with the rest of the world. |
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I think I can get 50 mpg in the Summer. 48 mpg is my best tank so far with the new car. I wish Tammy could drive a manual. Then I'd be pushing for 55-60 mpg. |
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Making a farming/ranching living in west Texas is incredibly marginal. That 160 acres would be hard-pressed to support 1 head (no, that's not a misprint. See here for the stocking rate of 75 to 200 acres per 1000 lb. animal unit ) of cattle, and the only crop you can grow without a reliable water su... |
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