Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 22, 2011 06:56 AM (a5ljo)

Black coffee s how I start my day and today is no different. Mmmmmmm, bitter....

DTE Begins Rotating Blackouts In Ferndale

As I said yesterday blackouts begin. But what is strange is they are starting in the most economically depressed area in the country. It hit 104.6°F here yesterday.

Didn't take long for Holder to go after Faux.

Sen. Jim DeMint on Cut, Cap and Balance

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat, has scheduled a “motion to table” vote on Friday for the Cut, Cap, Balance Act. If 51 senators vote for the motion, the bill will be scrapped — something Reid clearly wants. DeMint warns strongly against choosing that course.

18 Barry is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure.
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I don't know.  I kinda liked Copacabana and Mandy.

Posted by: nickless at July 22, 2011 07:36 AM (MMC8r)

Moist air gets cooler when it goes through my air conditioner though.

...“smart” tax rates that are “targeted”...

More class warfare.  Go to hell democrats, and any republicans too with that same mentality.

......the extra humidity does make it that much more stifling.

This is why I like the fall time of year, it feels so much better outside.  (and it's football season)

Posted by: Y-not at July 22, 2011 07:48 AM (5H6zj)

CHEATING?...on golf, wife, Tiger, girlfriend, poker?...

Posted by: CoolCzech at July 22, 2011 07:51 AM (kUaEF)

OY!...but look how it's working for me!

True story. LBJ is at an airfield to board a helicopter.  A young military aide rushes up to him and says, "Mr. President, your chopper is over here."  LBJ looks at the young aide and says, "Son, they are all my choppers.

True story. BHO is on vacation and visits a seafood store.  The press pool travelling with him begins to ask him questions. BHO looks them in the eye and says, "C'mon guys, we're buying shrimp here." 

Posted by: CoolCzech at July 22, 2011 07:51 AM (kUaEF)

I'm sure all of you have had experiences working with brainless whiny skeezers like Mika, who only has her current employment because her ignorant polack old man has enough pull.  Having to listen to her could cause anybody to go postal.

Btw, Vic is a great American for making me aware of Kate Upton although my soon to be dessicated johnson may have a differing opinion.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2011 08:06 AM (0K+Kw)

The Democrats will find some way to prop it up with taxpayer's money...it's too good of a propaganda vehicle to let it disappear.

Had an interesting church vestry meeting last night.  Our attendance and contributions have been falling recently so we have been working on a  growth plan.  But nobody wants to talk about how our liberal priest is running people off with her sermons about welcoming illegal aliens and her Obama bumper stickers and our lesbian choir director bring her girlfriend to church.  She was very careful her first few years to stay neutral, but in the last 18 months or so the mask has dropped and people are pissed.  I really, really like her as a person and she is a good leader and a good preacher when she isn't being political.

Why do liberals ruin everything?  Why can't they just STFU and be liberal in their own homes....they have to shove it in everyone's face and politicize everything.  This church brought me and my husband to Christ and I do not want to leave it.  Grrrrrrrr.

Hot hot hot. And the low temp is only going to be 79.

See, when I decided to do the yard work myself this summer, I had this idea of getting it done before it was 85°. Esp. when the humidity is 77%.

Liked this line from Ed Driscoll in the sidebar:

 I listened to several hours worth of songs celebrating working hard, living on a farm, patriotism, and essentially being a grown-up.

My local fishwrap sent me invites for a long time despite the fact that I sent them a cancellation notice that said if I wanted a Democrat PR rag I would contribute to the Democrat Party.

On a similar note, AND LISTEN UP, GOP:  If I wanted my Congressmen to work together with Obama, I would have voted for Democrats.

Too hot to walk five blocks for milk at this hour. Black coffee is the first disappointment of my day.

Necessity is the mother of invention.  Substitutes such as whipped cream and ice cream are satisfactory in desperate times.

I also have those coffee packets from a hotel (which at any other time I would not touch with a ten-foot pole) which I keep in my jewelry box for same desperate times.

Posted by: rockmom at July 22, 2011 08:18 AM (lSyyU)

This is an Episcopal church, isn't it?  I hear this type of complaint from all over the country.  That kind of crap is why I left five years ago.

#76 I keep a stash of the Coffee-Mate singles you can buy in the grocery store.  I buy them on sale.  Very very handy.  I can't drink black coffee either.

My house is like a dungeon today, I have every drape closed trying to keep it cool.  Unfortunately I cannot cover the giant window over my front door so I get a lot of afternoon sun.  I may have to get my son up there today to nail a blanket over it or something.  I just paid a $450 electric bill for June and I don;t even want to think about what this next one is going to look like.  >  

Posted by: nevergiveup at July 22, 2011 08:19 AM (i6RpT)

Wife & I are finding it real hard to find a good church.

Why do liberals ruin everything?  Why can't they just STFU and be liberal in their own homes....they have to shove it in everyone's face and politicize everything.  This church brought me and my husband to Christ and I do not want to leave it.  Grrrrrrrr.

Posted by: rockmom at July 22, 2011 08:18 AM (lSyyU)

Liberalism is their true dogma.. 

They can't help themselves. 

Rockmom:  God doesn't live inside a church building.  God lives everywhere.

I left organized religion when I turned 18.  Not religion, just organized religion.  Too much bullshit when you bring people in to interperet what God's telling you.

This may or may not work for you.  But what I'm saying is, there are other ways to hear God and obey Him than to listen to your goofy preacher.

This is an Episcopal church, isn't it? I hear this type of complaint from all over the country. That kind of crap is why I left five years ago.

Posted by: not the droid you seek at July 22, 2011 08:24 AM (xc/va)

Yep.  Pretty sad that you guessed it immediately.  My husband is liberal so he is fine with all this stuff, but I'm not.  I grew up Jewish in a small town, and my Temple had a huge split when a very liberal rabbi arrived from New York and started preaching against Nixon and the Vietnam War.  I never wanted to relive all that, but here I am. 

I guess I just have to turn the other cheek as Christ said. 

If a League of peace-seeking peoples is set at nought, we must convert it into a League of armed peoples, too faithful to molest others, too strong to be molested themselves.

I prefer the Veridian Dynamics approach:  We only pay taxes to countries more powerful than us and there's only four of those left. 

Posted by: rockmom at July 22, 2011 08:30 AM (lSyyU)

I second Hrothgar's post.  You might try the RC option.  It is not much different liturgically.

Moist air gets cooler when it goes through my air conditioner though.

It gets drier, too. Condensing the water out of it helps it feel cooler.

An air conditioner conditions the air, not just cools it.

Continuing the "T-Shirts with Bands that Don't Exist" Theme:

F.N. Hammer

We Don't Exist

Hi Fi Hipster Doofi

The Magma Enigma

and Pearl Jam cover band Population Yoghurt (Hat Tip to Empire of Jeff)

My husband was RC before we joined the Episcopal Church.  Neither of us agrees with their stance on ordination of women.  Before all the SHTF over the gay bishop, the Episcopal Church was great for us.  We used to go to a big church whose rector was scrupulously neutral - all the liberals thought he was liberal but all the conservatives thought he was conservative.  Even through all the stuff with the bishop, he did not take sides but led the parish through many forums and discussions of it so everyone had a chance to vent.  His preaching was strictly Biblical and I learned a ton from him.  That is my ideal, and I know it can be done.

Eventually I will probably end up leading an effort to get rid of our rector if she keeps up with the liberal crap.  My feeling is the church is US, it isn't the priest.  We were here first and we should not have to leave because of her!

I second Hrothgar's post.  You might try the RC option.  It is not much different liturgically.

Posted by: Sean Bannion

I'd note that idiot leftist Catholic priests do exist. Sadder still, the few sisters that remain seem to be leftist as well. The Conference of Bishops is race baiting and playing class warfare as heavily as the Dems. On the main, you can usually find a decent parish.

I guess I just have to turn the other cheek as Christ said. 

He also said to go ahead and let the blind lead the blind. They'll both wind up in a ditch eventually.

And good mornin' y'all. I'm in and out, got the second interview today. It looks to be a done deal, thank goodness. I spoke with my drummer friend/new supervisor yesterday, he was a hoot on the phone. I think he likes the idea of working with his musical buds.

Y'all keep your fingers crossed for me, just in case.

Y'all keep your fingers crossed for me, just in case.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 22, 2011 08:42 AM (d0Tfm)

Fingers, legs, toes....good luck!

My feeling is the church is US, it isn't the priest.  We were here first and we should not have to leave because of her!

Theologically speaking, you are absolutely correct.

About your point on the ordination of women, I was where you were also.  When I started looking pretty deeply at the Catholic theology of it, I understood it and it then made more sense to me than the view of any other denomination.  The RC Church isn't a cafeteria, you either take it all, or nothing.  That's why it's called "faith." 

But....as Hrothgar pointed out, too many RCs these days feel otherwise.

General Electric reported a 21.6 percent rise in profit, topping estimates, boosted by strong demand outside the United States for its heavy equipment including jet engines and electric turbines.

The strongest growth came in the company's railroad locomotive unit, which posted a 74 percent surge in revenue following an extended downturn.

The energy unit stood out as a weak spot, with a 19 percent drop in profit, reflecting slower demand for wind turbines and the cost of integrating recently acquired companies.

See comrades, some companies are doing just dandy in this economy. And it's all because of "green" energy

On the main, you can usually find a decent parish.

Yup, you can.  I know I am lucky in that I have one.

My wife and I plan to move to California in a few years and I fear that I am not going to find there, what I have here in Virginia. 

I remember the horrors of the "folk mass" from the 70s and I think that's all I am going to find out there.

Thirty percent of America's jobless, 4.4 million people, have been out of work for more than a year, according to Labor Department data. "It really is going to take a concentrated effort of employers to give people a chance who haven't worked in a while," said the department's chief economist, Betsey Stevenson. "I don't want us to say this is the new normal and move on."

Yes, those employers better getting going and start hiring people. It's up to them you know.

Posted by: Papist Bograt at July 22, 2011 08:41 AM (6rX0K)

If you can find one that has the Tridentine Mass you should be okay.

Same thing happened in the Presbyterian Church. People get up and leave, vote with their feet. And guess what, it doesn't matter to the libs when they take over. They will run it into the ground convinced they are preaching the true, enlightened gospel.

Thirty percent of America's jobless, 4.4 million people, have been out of work for more than a year, according to Labor Department data. "It really is going to take a concentrated effort of employers to give people a chance who haven't worked in a while," said the department's chief economist, Betsey Stevenson. "I don't want us to say this is the new normal and move on."

 Yes, those employers better getting going and start hiring people. It's up to them you know.

Posted by: TheQuietMan

Nice narrative. The new spin is that it's the fault of businesses, who are sitting on 'mountains of cash'. Except for GE of course. They're on the side of the angels ACLU.

91Essentially, Boehner wants the IM on the block if the tax code isn't overhauled as part of the debt-ceiling/budget/spending deal.  Trouble is, having the IM get automatically yanked could potentially render any action by SCOTUS moot. This could lead to permanent Obamacare.

Actually, I'd rather have a legislative repeal of the IM. Legislatures making (and repealing) law is always to be preferred, and O'care collapses if the IM is lost. Also, a victory in SCOTUS even WITH the IM is not a given.

Wait for it to collapse and maybe it will get better. 

That's why we're waiting a few years, Vic. 

I am waiting for the total implosion.  Then I follow the age-old mantra - buy low, sell high.

Houses in the Sacramento market that were 1.2M just 5 years ago and now going for 700K.  I figure 2 more years of Obama and I'll be able to snap one up for about 400K.

But in the end, that's where my wife's family is, and I told her Dad when I married her that I would bring her home someday.  I wish she was from someplace sane...but she's not.  I'll end up there whether I want to or not.

If I want to stay married that is.

Posted by: Vic at July 22, 2011 07:19 AM (M9Ie6)

Trimming, by being pro-active, requires cutting a lot more trees, because you just don't know which will be a problem.  So you have to take the time to hack and clean up all the tress that MIGHT be an issue.  I'm glad that's how the math works out, because I, too, have objections to cutting the trees.  Not that the trees should not be responsibly pruned - that I agree with.  But a person can have a beautiful specimen-quality tree and the power company dudes just carelessly hack it to bits.  That's what really pissed people off. 

In the end, power needs to go under ground.  That's the final solution to that problem.

Yup, cafeteria Catholicism.  It's the same with Protestants too, though a little more obvious with Catholicism since it's a more structured dogma.

My pastor sometimes gets political in the pulpit and it bothers me, even though 99% of the time I agree with what he's saying.  He's supposed to be the pastor to the entire flock and I know there are those who are on the other side of the issues.  They shouldn't feel uncomfortable either.

That being said, I have no patience for liberation theology.  It's neither liberating nor theologically sound. 

Same thing happened in the Presbyterian Church. People get up and leave, vote with their feet. And guess what, it doesn't matter to the libs when they take over. They will run it into the ground convinced they are preaching the true, enlightened gospel.

Posted by: glowing blue meat at July 22, 2011 08:53 AM (K/USr

Not to worry your church buildings make wonderful nightclubs.http://www.clubzone.com/c/4272/about/the-church-denver

#114  I've been out of work for 13 months.  Oh, I have a bullshit consulting job on my resume, but I haven't had any real work since my last real consulting gig got cancelled in June last year.  It sucks.  A lot.  Many days I feel like giving up and think I will never work again.  I've applied for over a hundred actual jobs, done all the netrwoking, been to industry conferences, keep my LinkedIn page spruced up, met with four different recruiters...nothing.  Have had six interviews since May but no offers yet.  Before that I only had one interview since last June, and that was with the Fed and they strung me out for 3 months before turning me down. 

Sorry if I sound whiny, but some people really don't understand what is going on with a lot of middle-aged white collar people like me.  I've been unemployed before, a couple of times for a year, but I have never felt as pessimistic about my opportunities as I do now.  And I didn't have a huge mortgage and giant credit card balances and college tuition before.

Posted by: Y-not at July 22, 2011 08:58 AM (5H6zj)

Great tip.  I never thought of that.  Ah, you've given my hope!

Posted by: Tami at July 22, 2011 08:59 AM (X6akg)

No Tami, he's warning me off the Bozo State.

No Tami, he's warning me off the Bozo State.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 22, 2011 09:00 AM (sbV1u)

Sorry...Damn formatting....well that and I gotta stop reading bottom up. 

We need a better way to denote the comment we're commenting on besides italicizing it.   I'm going with colors.

Posted by: Krazy Kat at July 22, 2011 09:02 AM (A23u6)

Yeah.  If you're working in IE, click on "compatibility mode" in the "tools" menu and see if that helps.

Since we aren't going to be blessed with a DOOM post, as it is Friday, Friday!, let me provide a taste of the madness to come:

North Korea and Iran increase collaboration on nuclear missile, report claims

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 22, 2011 09:03 AM (yrGif)

I saw that last night.  However, aren't our carriers hardened against such an attack?  Aren't most if not all military electronics made to withstand (rather, negate) an EMP blast?

No Tami, he's warning me off the Bozo State.

Posted by: Sean Bannion

I appreciate the situation you're in, but at some point, her family has to take stock and answer the question, 'is this really a place to which anyone should settle?' If so, why? If the only answer is 'family' that simply isn't enough. My family all left NYC, in stages. No one thought about moving back; we eventuially moved my grandparents down. There's simply no reason to move back in and stay.

Posted by: Vic at July 22, 2011 09:02 AM (M9Ie6)

I suspect it depends on how heavy the urbanization is.  My neighborhood is quite mature, but when they put in the new fiber lines across the street they went under ground.  It looked fairly easy - they had a fancy machine that plowed them under the earth in one spot and steered it to a different spot where it came up down the road. 

Posted by: CoolCzech

True. Supposedly Joe Biden is the greatest Catholic who ever drew breath here.

Yeah. If you're working in IE, click on "compatibility mode" in the "tools" menu and see if that helps.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 22, 2011 09:03 AM (sbV1u)

Nice! That works for me.

Unfortunately, the Rc Church IS full of Cafeteria Catholics that practice birth control and abortion routinely, vote for liberal assholes like - may he roast in hell - Ted Kennedy , and ultraliberal clergy every bit as liberal as any Episcopal priest. That is called "reality."

Yes, it's reality.

Sadly for them they also don't realize that they are not Catholics.  That includes the clergy.  Giving yourself the label doesn't make you a Catholic.  Living the Magisterium does. 

But, I don't want to go all theological here.  I'm waiting for my DOOM post.

True. Supposedly Joe Biden is the greatest Catholic who ever drew breath here.

Posted by: Papist Bograt at July 22, 2011 09:07 AM (6rX0K)

Noooo way....I am!

Posted by: Y-not at July 22, 2011 09:06 AM (5H6zj)

Thank you Y. Yes I think your right so I reset my preferences and am good to go.

Posted by: irongrampa

Make Obama look good apparantly. Remember that this is what passes for rational economic analysis in the 'reality based' community.

I saw that last night. However, aren't our carriers hardened against such an attack? Aren't most if not all military electronics made to withstand (rather, negate) an EMP blast?

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 22, 2011 09:05 AM (9hSKh)

I read an article last year indicating that much of the EMP hardening wasn't really as effective as hoped for, and the testing had been wussified to make everything pass.  (Sorry - don't have the reference link any more.)

I'm pessimistic about the security of our fleets and field armies abroad. 

But then, so long as the strategic arsenal remains in place, I'm not terribly worried about US territory.  We just need to make it clear that EMP will be treated as a nuclear attack, and met in kind. 

Posted by: Vic at July 22, 2011 09:07 AM (M9Ie6)

I like the Carolinas.  If I could find a job there I liked, I'd be there.  But again...it's a family thing.  Family is on the Left Coast.

I also didn't mind Kansas when I lived there.  Great people.  But since I am a native Bostonian, I need to be a little closer to the shore than Kansas.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at July 22, 2011 09:09 AM (LH6ir)

She's too old for you.

Posted by: Nancy Papalosi at July 22, 2011 09:08 AM (X6akg)

Just once ONCE, I ask, I wish a Bishop would have the balls to publicly excommunicate people in the mode of Pelosi, Kennedy, Biden, et. al.

If you don't enforce the rules, then don't be surprised when people don't follow them.

Posted by: Vic at July 22, 2011 09:02 AM (M9Ie6

True enough.  I worked on the installation of a 345 Kv underground line in Bridgeport, CT.  One of the biggest problems was working around some of the old (and by old, I mean decaying) UG infrastucture.

Hell, there were sewer and water mains that would break if you looked at 'em the wrong way.  Additionally, many of these were unmapped or located wrong.  It took us 2 years to run 7 miles of line.  It was a huge pain in the ass.

"In the end, power needs to go under ground.  That's the final solution to that problem."

Posted by: Reactionary at July 22, 2011 08:57 AM (xUM1Q)

Who is going to pay for it?

Underground power lines are great, until you discover how much they cost to install and how much more than overhead lines they cost to maintain.

There is no conspiracy to keep us in the dark. It's called a business decision.

I saw that last night. However, aren't our carriers hardened against such an attack? Aren't most if not all military electronics made to withstand (rather, negate) an EMP blast?

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 22, 2011 09:05 AM (9hSKh)

They were but now they are about the important task of Muslim outreach

She paid 300K for it and they are now going in her neighborhood for $50/sq ft. If you want the Sacramento area may be worthwhile to look into.

My in-laws do real estate on the side - they own a couple apartment buildings and so on.  They've taken a bath.  They bought one condo for investment to rent it out.  They paid $189K.  It's now worth $45K.  This is in the Sacramento proper.  They still own some property in the Bay Area that hasn't taken quite the bath that their Sac properties have.

I'm relying on them to time the market for me.  They're telling me to wait until late 2012 and then jump on something.  Based on the trend lines I've been charting for about a year now, I think they are right.

If you have family in California, I'd just try to find a city with direct flights there and/or target a state that's a drivable distance away.  That might give you Utah and Arizona for SoCal and maybe Idaho for NoCal. 

I was actually looking at doing that.  Idaho and Utah are on my radar.  So is Reno, NV because it's drivable.  But Reno took a real estate bath too.

Of course, I'd have to put up with Harry Reid as a Senator.  So that's one strike against NV.

I don't think churches are lib or conserv purely by denomination. Some denominations are more lib than others but you can find vast extremes inside denominations. I had to leave the Episcopalians because they were soooooo far gone. I toyed with the presbyterians and the methodists and they too were too liberal. I finally went catholic mostly because of my husband and children and the research I had done.

It's interesting that I get at least 10 people a year in my rcia class who are leaving the other churches (most of the others leave for marriage reasons) because of the liberalism.

Liberalism and christianity don't mix regardless of how hard they try---it always eventually shows itself a lie.

So,  on days when I am afflicted with some of these liberal priests,  I remember that the Church withstood the Borgia's and the Avignon captivity,  and I just figure it is my duty to pay attention to the mass and ignore the goofy stuff.

Amen.

Everytime I think about this issue (or why that girl in the next pew is wearing a frickin' mini skirt 'fer cryin' out loud...) I remember, it's about the man on the Cross, not the man at the altar.

Or in your case, the man strolling casually near the altar...

My sister's parish had a FLAMENCO MASS.

I did not attend. 

I cannot top that.

And, that's a clear liturgical abuse.  Did your sure the priest is Catholic?  To paraphrase, Mr. Leland talking to Kramer on Seinfeld ...

"It's almost like you have no seminary training at all."

Good morning!

Bill "my face looks like an ass" Maher: Coward.

Posted by: CoolCzech at July 22, 2011 09:25 AM (kUaEF)

Haven't you been paying attention?  According the new idiot in charge that's been their holy responsibility for some time now. 

Personally I think it's time to just shove that rat's nest back in a corner somewhere and put them on asteroid lookout duty.  Leave the real work to the professionals.

#182 My whole family are conservative Jews.  So that's at least 8 more for you.

When I got married, we decided it was the most mixed marriage of all time.  Me: tall, Southern, conservative, well-to-do family, State U. grad, Jewish.  Him: short, New England, liberal, blue-collar family, private college, Catholic.  Married almost 27 years now, never had a serious fight.

Posted by: Miss Marple

That's an impressive one. My father refers to one parish in Central FL as 'Our lady of the Copacabana', for the interior decor. It actually has overhead screens that display hymn lyrics.

I don't mind priests that advance from the pulpit to deliver a homily, if they have something to say. If it's merely an affectation, it's obvious. Several I know make a point of advancing during youth masses and masses for First Communion, and it think that in those instances, it's an effective means of speaking.

Posted by: rockmom at July 22, 2011 09:29 AM (lSyyU)

You're just not trying.

Posted by: CoolCzech at July 22, 2011 09:31 AM (kUaEF)

Direct sun??

I'm an RC convert also and my biggest problem with the Catholic church now is the illegal alien issue. My wife squeezes my hand every time it is brought up at Mass to keep me from jumping up and "expressing my opinion."

Yep. That's why the only envelopes I put money in are the ones for "parish building repair funds". I absolutely refuse to support the illegals. Remember that any money you give to your parish ---20% is sent to the diocese which is big on the social justice (illegal alien support) front. When asked for money for the sister parish, the bishop's lenten appeal, the capital campaign, or anything, I say that I will be happy to give to those and not just to the building repair fund if and when they distinguish between helping criminals and non criminals. Sorry.

Posted by: Truman North

It's the other way around. The juice and cookies didn't get there by a miracle ya know.

I'm an RC convert also and my biggest problem with the Catholic church now is the illegal alien issue. My wife squeezes my hand every time it is brought up at Mass to keep me from jumping up and "expressing my opinion."

Your wife and mine must be sharing notes.

I am all for taking care of immediate human needs via our shelter.  I donate that stuff - diapers, toothpaste, soap, etc.  Just the basic necessities to get people through the week. 

I part ways with my brethren when they fail to acknowledge the word "illegal" in the phrase "illegal alien." 

Thankfully, our clergy doesn't go there.  They understand the whole "render unto Caesar thing."  Some of our parish...not so much.

Then again, Northern Virginia is like the Berkeley of the East.

Married almost 27 years now, never had a serious fight.

If you'd killed him on your wedding night, you'd have been out seven years now.

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 22, 2011 09:33 AM (Fo83G)

That's my position too.  I think it's the right approach.

Does she not get WHY enrollment has fallen thru the floor?

Has anyone told her?

Posted by: CoolCzech at July 22, 2011 09:31 AM (kUaEF)

Is that the heat index because I'm in CT and it's 91 where I am.

If you'd killed him on your wedding night, you'd have been out seven years now.

Posted by: Truman North at July 22, 2011 09:35 AM (K2wpv)

:-)

"In the end, power needs to go under ground.  That's the final solution to that problem."

When we were buying a house, I paid attention and noticed the lack of power lines in this neighborhood.

Unfortunately, I didn't pay close enough attention. Most of the neighborhood has lines underground. Right behind our house, they are above ground.

Six days after we moved in, they were on the ground for about 30 hours.

meets the city's zoning rules requiring gun-related businesses to be at least 300 feet away from schools, libraries, playgrounds and other locations

He can't even get a sublet from a sex-offender?

The local weather meatball was standing out in the yard next to his studio with his sleeves rolled up so people knew it was hot outside.

God I hate local news.

Posted by: rockmom at July 22, 2011 09:29 AM (lSyyU)

You're just not trying.

Posted by: Nancy Papalosi

I think that they're just too confused to fight.

Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2011 09:40 AM (s7mIC)

What would have made that dream completely at odds with reality is if the Nats were winning.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 22, 2011 09:28 AM (ZDUD4)

Ha!  Good for her!  More folks need to do that.

Contemplating the problems the poor Church of England and the Catholic Church have suffered reinforces (in my mind) the importance of a non-heirarchical church structure.  Maximum independence should be the rule, so that the cancer in one can't so easily be crammed down onto others.  Of course, as a protestant I'm biased toward that view, but I think it holds up to logic.  Decentralize, and leave it to the believers of each meeting to police up their own bunch.  The bad churches will fall down, and those who care about learning God's truth will find others to worship with.  Let the theological battles be fought out in each group.

Q: What's the best time to see the dentist?

A:  Tooth-Hurty (2:30)

My seven year old told me that joke

Posted by: dagny at July 22, 2011 09:40 AM (GnPWT)

What?  Maybe some evangelicals do, but by no means is that universal.  My church would never condone that.

Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2011 09:40 AM (s7mIC)

This is definately a dream of sexual repression. Did you ever fall on the "mound"?

Kind of off topic, but why is there a picture of Hillary Clinton at the top of last night's Overnight Open Thread?

Is that supposed to be her official visit to Bali picture?

Y'all are making me smile talking about churches and actual religion. We've been all about Methodist churches and their summer classes the last two weeks. Maybe they actually do something on Sundays, too. I should look into that...

Okay, kidding. Sort of. This one in Shreveport has an amazing art and music program.

The sidebar article on Alaska's tax burden is interesting. However, they neglected to include the relatively high cost of living (shipping of most foodstuffs and manufactured goods, extreme temperatures, vampire attacks).

Posted by: Galen at July 22, 2011 09:43 AM (U0hD

Cheer up, my friend.  Go find that Richard Miniter column Ace blogged on earlier this week, where he gives all these great reasons why the Democratic Party is on its last legs.  Like all socialist regimes, we are running out of other people's money, and when we finally do, liberalism will collapse.  Miniter even said Obama is not the new FDR, he is the new Gorbachev, presiding over the end of a failed socialist dream.  George Will picked up on this in his column yesterday.   

Is that supposed to be her official visit to Bali picture?

No, that was an artist's rendering of her retirement years in Boca Raton.

What?  Maybe some evangelicals do, but by no means is that universal.  My church would never condone that.

Most of the illegal churches are iglesias evangelicas. They are leaving the catholic churches in droves to join the iglesias penecostial. In fact, here in libtard Northern Va, the public schools are jam packed with multiple services of evangelical protestant illegal services every weekend. The one on my street has evangelical services starting friday night and there is a steady stream through sunday.

The city gets $79 per day for that yet during the week they would expel your ass if you prayed.

It's a SANCTUARY baby.

Every week, a priest buries a European and baptises two Hispanics.

That's your rationale for pro-crimmigrant churches right there.

I've worked at 116 -- 95 + humidity do not equal 116.

Yeh, but you sure can feel the difference btn not humid and humid. We had weeks of over 100 and 18% humidity. Then it got humid and was still getting up to 105. I just kept walking out of the house or a store and getting about 3 steps before I started slowing down and wondering where the oxygen was.

It's 114 where my husband is and it did get humid there a couple weeks ago. I can't even imagine what a heat index of 126 feels like.

Posted by: dagny at July 22, 2011 09:50 AM (GnPWT)

Were are you in NoVA, dagny?  I'm here too.

It sounds like you're in Arlington.  Can't toss a dead cat there without hitting an Iglesia Evangelical.

Posted by: dagny at July 22, 2011 09:54 AM (GnPWT)

I'm in Alexandria too.  Stay out of the West End. 

Posted by: Jean at July 22, 2011 09:55 AM (WkuV6)

Arlington??  Conservative?

Yikes.  Our standards are slipping.

imagine what a heat index of 126 feels like.

Hot

Posted by: K~Bob at July 22, 2011 09:54 AM (NW3RO)

The churches don't want to piss off libtards because they know they will leave and take their money with them. They don't worry too much about pissing off conservatives because they won't leave--they might change churches but they are hard to drive away because they look at the big picture.

I told one of our priests that if he was going to give a death penalty homily again I would expect an abortion homily in the intervening weeks. Afraid to do that?

The 2012 campaign ADs write themselves.

Democrats - do you want a balanced budget or not? Claire McCatkill(D) - what say you?

Or in your case, the man strolling casually near the altar...

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 22, 2011 09:24 AM (sbV1u)

You should be grateful for small favors. At least the priest isn't wearing a mini skirt.

Posted by: Jean at July 22, 2011 09:55 AM (WkuV6)

Move up to Frederick Co. MD.  It's an oasis, and worth the drive.  Although all of the MoCo people move up here to escape the mess they made, so I'm sure it will be the same as all the other shithole counties around here eventually.

Posted by: Jean at July 22, 2011 09:58 AM (WkuV6)

Point taken.

Ever notice how more upscale areas have the luxury of "compassion"?

It's because they have enough money to insulate themselves from the effects of their "compassion."

I'm in Alexandria too.  Stay out of the West End. 

I'm in the west end. My house is right on the Rio Grande.

Democrats want to jack up your revenues. (That's "taxes" for the stupids who like bands like green day)

Hot

Posted by: garrett

Oh. Thanks. I'll be sure to interrupt my husband next time he tries to tell me about the temp and heat index.

"Yeh, it's hot. I get it."

Posted by: dagny at July 22, 2011 10:01 AM (GnPWT)

Hola, amigo!

Blessed Sacrament or St. Mary's?

Breaking news in Oslo Norway

Explosion near government buildings, people killed and injured.

OK, we're taking bets here.  Gas leak?  Or another successful attempt at Muslim integration?

I know what my money is on.

Posted by: fluffy at July 22, 2011 09:37 AM (4Kl5M)

High yesterday was 66 and pouring down rain.  Had snow in the mountains until last week.  Y'all might be in the warming, but some of us are experiencing the new  Maunder minimum.  Little ice age.  Gonna install a greenhouse, because if this is North Idaho's new reality, nothing is gonna grow here to maturity anymore.  

Lit a fire in the woodstove last night.  Except for the threat of not ever being able to bring a crop to fruition, it's probably better than three weeks of suffering heat and rolling blackouts in the urban jungle. 

My electricity bill was $42.

"Yeh, it's hot. I get it."

I lived in Tucson and did some roofing while I was in college there.  I have no sympathy for those complaining of Heat or Heat indexes.

300

Blessed Sacrament.

My electricity bill was $42.

Posted by: Derak at July 22, 2011 10:03 AM (Qie7+)

I hate you.

Any lefter, they would put up crucifixes with Mao instead of Christ.

Come to think of it, I have noticed that a lot of people carry a Little Red Book in chruch.

OK, we're taking bets here.  Gas leak?  Or another successful attempt at Muslim integration?

I know what my money is on.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 22, 2011 10:03 AM (sbV1u)

BREAKING NEWS:  Teabaggers invade Norway

Posted by: MFM at July 22, 2011 10:05 AM (/Mla1)

Thread winner!

I lived in Tucson and did some roofing while I was in college there.  I have no sympathy for those complaining of Heat or Heat indexes.

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2011 10:05 AM (afF+h)

Paleeeese...I lived in Singapore for 4 years.  It's like this 24/7 365.

Posted by: Derak at July 22, 2011 10:03 AM (Qie7+)

You'll never make it.  You NEED to move into a city if you want to survive the DOOM!

297 Breaking news in Oslo Norway

Explosion near government buildings, people killed and injured.

Is it racist of me to consider that this might be the action of the ROP?

The fiscal hammer is coming, people that used to bitch about Bush are now complaining about property taxes.

Funny how they never seem to see a connection between their politics and their pocketbook.

I work in a VERY Dem office in Arlington.  It's hilarious to listen to the water cooler talk. 

Posted by: Lucy'sRabbit (NJProgressive)

And Dildo rolls out the sock

Lucy'sRabbit (NJProgressive) at July 22, 2011 10:09 AM (LH6ir)

You know, if I didn't know that was your sock, I'd swear you were actually a libtard.

Well played, sir!

I hate you.

Posted by: Tami at July 22, 2011 10:05 AM (X6akg)

Yeah, I put that in there because my eyes popped out of my head at the $435 bill that was mentioned above.  For us, that is a winter heat bill during a sustained sub zero month.  I can't imagine having to pay that in the summer too.  It probably breaks the family budget all across the country. My sympathies on that one.

Is it racist of me to consider that this might be the action of the ROP?

Yes. Especially if when it turns out to be true.

What would you do if the child of an "illegal alien" (what an awful, racist term!) fell down in front of you? Would you run him over? Kick him as he lay on the ground?

I'm not Jim Moran.

Paleeeese...I lived in Singapore for 4 years.  It's like this 24/7 365.

Posted by: Tami at July 22, 2011 10:07 AM (X6akg)

Tami, we have friends who lived there as well.  Their daughter, who we used to carpool with, told us about having to call the cobra exterminator one morning.  She was in her parent's room and caught sight of one in the mirror.

Brrrrrr.

Same girl was HORRIFIED that alligators live around here.

Posted by: Murray Head at July 22, 2011 10:11 AM (OWjjx)

Go ahead and talk about your bars, and your massage parlors.

I get my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine.

Yeah, I put that in there because my eyes popped out of my head at the $435 bill that was mentioned above.  For us, that is a winter heat bill during a sustained sub zero month.  I can't imagine having to pay that in the summer too.  It probably breaks the family budget all across the country. My sympathies on that one.

Posted by: Derak at July 22, 2011 10:11 AM (Qie7+)

Then I won't tell you mine or your whole head would explode.

Posted by: Jean at July 22, 2011 10:09 AM (WkuV6)

I know them all. Mine is publically conservative and privately very conservative.  Which were you thinking of? Fasano? Scalia?

Somehow, somewhere, someway... this must All Be Bush's Fault!

Of course.  How silly of me to think otherwise!

The churches don't want to piss off libtards because they know they will leave and take their money with them. They don't worry too much about pissing off conservatives because they won't leave--they might change churches but they are hard to drive away because they look at the big picture.

I told one of our priests that if he was going to give a death penalty homily again I would expect an abortion homily in the intervening weeks. Afraid to do that?

No, that was an artist's rendering of her retirement years in Boca Raton.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 22, 2011 09:49 AM (sbV1u)

Well played, sir. Well played indeed.

Tami, we have friends who lived there as well.  Their daughter, who we used to carpool with, told us about having to call the cobra exterminator one morning.  She was in her parent's room and caught sight of one in the mirror.

Brrrrrr.

Same girl was HORRIFIED that alligators live around here.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 22, 2011 10:12 AM (UOM4

Oh yeah...those are fun.  Especially the spitting ones.

Posted by: dagny at July 22, 2011 10:15 AM (GnPWT)

I was in your parish last week taking a child protection class so I could do Workcamp next week.

When I walked by the office all I could find was material in Spanish.  You sure you're not going to an iglesia evangelical?

I keed!  I keed!  I'm a kidder!

For the SSN thing, no, you shouldn't be asked that until providing documentation at you are a citizen after getting a job offer.  Remember, your SSN is not to be used as an identification number by any private organization.  Everyone does, but they're not supposed to do that.

 Further, should your credit history be a condition for employment?

I'm torn on this.  My initial response is no because there are far too many instances of credit reports being wrong and there are many reasons that a person may have bad credit that have nothing to do with whether or not they're a good employee.  On the other hand, an employer has to have some way to look at reliability and every other method has pretty much been eliminated.  On the third hand, I want to know what happens to all those credit reports.  The employers using these are opening themselves up for a huge amount of liability for identity theft when someone in the shred room realizes just what's in his/her grimy little hands and what can be done with it.

Posted by: Spitting Aligator at July 22, 2011 10:18 AM (kUaEF)

LOL!  No...I meant the cobras.

You'll never make it.  You NEED to move into a city if you want to survive the DOOM!

Posted by: Some asshat from yesterday at July 22, 2011 10:08 AM (afF+h)

But, but, but, Michele just told me they were a food desert.  Only available sustenance is a hot pocket from down at the mini mart.  You can horde those, can't you? 30 year shelf life. 

Yep. better dump the retreat. I'm gonna starve here.

 Further, should your credit history be a condition for employment?

Let's say you're a mother of two with a $500,000 mortgage and you're taking a job as the manager of a CVS.  For, like $11 an hour.

They want to be damn sure you pay your bills, before you start paying your bills with their money instead of your own.

I'm walking on Sunshine.........and don't it feel good!

Yeah, well- when I make my mind up, you're going to be mine.

From Roll Call:

Sen Nelson (D-NE) votes w/ his party to "table" Cut Cap Balance.

So did Joe Manchin.  It's over.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 22, 2011 10:17 AM (sbV1u)

Where are you normally? Not St Mary's where they think they are the church of the Bel Haven?

Blessed sacrament is still predominately english speaking and doesn't have a particularly large spanish community. Drop by Corpus Christi sometime and you'll see why---it's the next one down on rt 7. I like to go to confession there because the "ingles" line is short.

Where are you normally? Not St Mary's where they think they are the church of the Bel Haven?

I'm at St. Mary's.

Because it's located in deep blue and very pricey Old Town, it attracts a "better sort."

/sarc off.

327 There was a story linked by Drudge a while back about Every.Single.Rape in Norway....tea baggers Mid-Eastern men.

Shocka
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 22, 2011 10:09 AM

Yup.  Yet we're supposed to believe that OUR muzzies are so much better and nicer and real-honest-to-goodness Americans.  It's B.S.

...those are fun. Especially the spitting ones.

They don't stay married for 27 years, though.

So did Joe Manchin.  It's over.

Posted by: Truman North at July 22, 2011 10:22 AM (K2wpv)

Wasn't that the cocksucker that was supposed to be so conservative that he may as well be a Repub?  Maybe if you consider Scotty Centerfold a Repub....

And for two, I used to bang his little sister in the 90s.

Got the video?

Until then, it's all hearsay.  ;-)

Did you jmorons go and look at the video of Louis CK on Conan from the ONT last night? 

Yeh, that cracked me up. I may play it for the kids every time they start going on about having the worst day ever because something not perfect happened.

Posted by: dagny

Once again, the Church is blundering into politics, badly. As with the death penalty, they are engaging in every ugly political trick, using loaded code words and terms, supporting spurious law suits, demonizing victims and anyone who dares to oppose them, and painting false hope for yet another 'comprehensive' law. They never explain what will happen if the illegals decide not to take the 'path to citizenship'. They refuse to use the word amnesty, and they claim that any opponent is 'anti-immigration'.

And they refuse to speak against the immigration laws of other nations, particulally those of Mexico.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 22, 2011 10:28 AM (pLTLS)

You mean he writes worse than Moochelle?  

Jean--That's who I've got. He's like my own dad. I'd follow him into hell and carry the gas. I'm on his speed dial.

St Anthonys has most of the spanish masses -- when you further west on 7 you get Latin mass

Really?  What parishes?  Like, do I have to drive to Leesburg for a TLM?

There are a couple ways to look at the church/illegal thing. Really if you believe in your evangelical message it's your duty to convert the masses whereever they are.

If you want to help people, you go to where they are-- or should be-- and you work there.

You don't reward them for breaking and entering.

The boy loves that show. Although the ones with the huge nests of yellow jackets wig him out to the point of nightmares. Still, he can't get enough.

Yeh, I'm afraid to watch any of them!

I just know the show because I've seen them around a bunch. They are...noticeable...

Let's say you're a mother of two with a $500,000 mortgage and you're taking a job as the manager of a CVS.  For, like $11 an hour.

They want to be damn sure you pay your bills, before you start paying your bills with their money instead of your own.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

So that's what the Hindenberg looked like in its tropical rig.

Or,

The reset button has gone wackier than Colossus.

Really?  What parishes?  Like, do I have to drive to Leesburg for a TLM?

No, you can get one at st joe's on franconia road.

49 and foggy here this AM. Stay cool easterners

Being ruse to her did not work, she wouldn't leave.

Posted by: Vic at July 22, 2011 07:57 AM (M9Ie6)

"Ruse?"  You decived them as to your true nature?  Did you disguise yourself?  When I do that, and I usually disguise myself as a pirate, people never sit down in my cube.

(They point and stare, but they never sit down...)

Posted by: Warthog at July 22, 2011 10:33 AM (WDySP)

You are being cited for a violation of Code 3.1415/9, needlessly calling out simple and common typographical errors.  You are hereby fined one internetz.   

Yeh, I'm afraid to watch any of them!

I just know the show because I've seen them around a bunch. They are...noticeable...

The idea that people think a catholic church is more hoity-toity than another cracks me up

Oh, I was just kidding.  However, I'm kidding because that's frequently the image people have of St. Mary's when I run into other area Catholics.  You know how transient this area is, so I hear it a lot.  Especially after an election year during the staff churn.

TBH, a very large chunk of the parish is active military stationed in the area or ex-military.  It's pretty conservative. 

As far as diocesan MVP goes, I think Fr. DeCelles was pretty awesome before he went to St. Raymond's.  He gets my vote for best priest in the diocese, and I am very happy with the 3 full-time priests we have here.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 22, 2011 10:35 AM (UOM4

Sweet fancy Moses!

Posted by: CoolCzech at July 22, 2011 10:38 AM (kUaEF)

You missed the comment about that upthread.

Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at July 22, 2011 10:35 AM (OonVm)

Employees have a right to weigh risk when they're hiring someone, especially if it's for a job where the person has access to lots of money or things of value.  If you don't want a credit report run, apply somewhere else. 

Does the employer really need a credit report?  I'd say that's for them to decide.  Who do you want to decide that, the gov?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 22, 2011 10:35

Posting a link and labelling it "upmoo-moo shots of the Sec of State" would be an interesting IQ test.

I think Fr. DeCelles was pretty awesome before he went to St. Raymond's. 

Know him well. You do know that's he's well despised even among the priests? I always liked him but supposedly he's very difficult. Usually the stuff people complain about with him are things I don't have a problem with.

Go to Drudge and scroll down the middle....Hillary....no words.

That's a shame.

Man, I'm just not going to get much done today, am I?

Gotta go to the gas station without ethonal to get gas for the lawn mower. Link to the list of those in my name.

Traitor Ben D NE might just as well go all out Marxist with the rest of the rats, he is done, finished, can't even go in a pizza joint in NE.

The Repugs should be in front of every camera every microphone blasting the marxists for refusing to allow a vote on CCB, no debate, nothing after all the caterwalling over compromise and crap. 2 to 1 the American people want this type of bill.

the Marxists cover for the Lyin King by sheilding him from a veto and the Rpugs had better make the citizens aware unlike when they didn't force the Lyin King to defend his Lybian adventure in front of We The People.

The Senate who has been AWOL on the budget for over 800 days won't allow a vote. The Repugs need to pass nothing now unless its a 6 week extension with like cuts otherwise take the ball and go home. Throw it to the Marxists and block everything they propose.

 scroll down the middle....Hillary....no words.

When did Hillary hire Kim Jong Il to be her personal stylist?

Posted by: Truman North at July 22, 2011 10:46 AM (K2wpv)

A Nigerian Prince just offered me 6 million dollars if I give him my bank account info.

Know him well. You do know that's he's well despised even among the priests?

I think that's an occupational hazard of anyone who is competent.  He is VERY competent. Ever see what happens in a bucket of crabs when one tries to climb out?  The others reach up to pull him down. 

I loved when one of his homilies made it into NR a few years ago.  It was about politicians who weren't quite "living the Word."  Pelosi in the crosshairs.

Employees have a right to weigh risk when they're hiring someone, especially if it's for a job where the person has access to lots of money or things of value.  If you don't want a credit report run, apply somewhere else. 

Does the employer really need a credit report?  I'd say that's for them to decide.  Who do you want to decide that, the gov?

Posted by: yinzer at July 22, 2011 10:41 AM (/Mla1)

Yes, but should they provide the SSN and let you run a credit report just to be considered for an interview?

Should a credit report be a screening device just for applicants?

And WTF with the snide "wanting the gov to decide" remark? That was never, ever part of the question or my point.

I agree the politics of the EC is "unorthodox," but I really don't see anything in their liturgy that is not: nothing is in contradiction to the Nicene Creed, the traditional standard of Christian orthodoxy.

If you don't see it now, you will shortly, or in social ministry.  My Mom was Episcopalian.  And while I am a revert now, I thought about going there.  I didn't because the EC isn't what it was in her day. 

Yes, but should they provide the SSN and let you run a credit report just to be considered for an interview?

Should a credit report be a screening device just for applicants?

And WTF with the snide "wanting the gov to decide" remark? That was never, ever part of the question or my point.

Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at July 22, 2011 10:49 AM (OonVm)

I was getting the impression that you thought they shouldn't be allowed to run credit reports.  That's why I mentioned the gov.  Wasn't trying to be snide.

I don't have a problem with employers factoring a credit report into their hiring decision.  Whether they do it before the interview or after, I don't really see the difference.  Wouldn't you rather not waste your time with the interview process, etc., if your credit was going to prevent you from getting the job anyway?

Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at July 22, 2011 10:52 AM (OonVm)

Maybe, if I wanted to hire you enough.  If I didn't, oh well, you're the one looking for a job.

Posted by: Jean at July 22, 2011 10:53 AM (WkuV6)

Thanks to both of you.  I barely remember TLM as a kid.  But I remember feeling in the presence of God hearing it.

Vatican II came around and being from metro Boston in the late 60s-early 70s, my parish just HAD to go whole hog.  Folk mass, guitars, drums, dance.  Complete liturgical BS.  It is exactly the point where I lost the sense of awe walking into the Church. 

I hung in there through the teens but fell away.  Even going to a Catholic college in an attempt to reawaken that feeling didn't help.  I finally came home, and I am very happy to to see Benedict's re-emphasis on TLM these days.

Posted by: CoolCzech at July 22, 2011 11:13 AM (kUaEF)

I think you misunderstand the Church's theology on Marian devotion.  I spent a lot of time going over the theology of all this before landing home again.  I obviously don't see it the way you do, because I came back.

If you're interested, hit me up at the link, I'll send you my reading list.  Maybe you'll come around to see it as I do.  Maybe not, but I certainly hope you find what you're looking for.

Sweet Baby Jesus!

Is that really HER?

She really HAS given up on a WH run, hasn't she?

Coolczech- as Sean and I were discussing, she's apparently decided to adopt the "Ben Franklin chic" look.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 22, 2011 11:05 AM (ZDUD4)

Not me; I hate that white trash rapist as much as King Putt.

Coolczech- as Sean and I were discussing, she's apparently decided to adopt the "Ben Franklin chic" look.

Yes, I hear Poor Hilary's Almanac is due out next year.

Yes, I hear Poor Hilary's Almanac is due out next year.

Ba-ZINGGGGGGG!!!!

Yes, I hear Poor Hilary's Almanac is due out next year.

Ba-ZINGGGGGGG!!!!

Posted by: Chariots of Toast

Some of her almanac is showing right now. Lord that is not pretty.