tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post1637393600541902491..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Obama’s Record: Killing without trial, spying without warrantDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76640871595549063152012-09-08T14:49:24.186-04:002012-09-08T14:49:24.186-04:00Baby Doll came in the room and distracted me. I d...Baby Doll came in the room and distracted me. I don't know where I came up with "epidermal."Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55424646982552830322012-09-08T14:48:24.142-04:002012-09-08T14:48:24.142-04:00"Endometrial" Edema"Endometrial" EdemaRufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13185875595840447292012-09-08T14:19:58.308-04:002012-09-08T14:19:58.308-04:00I'm thinking of the phenomenum of Epidermal Ed...I'm thinking of the phenomenum of Epidermal Edema, which the pill can cause.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3320224401996069742012-09-08T14:08:01.778-04:002012-09-08T14:08:01.778-04:00I Think it is the IUD that does that.I Think it is the IUD that does that.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30080732891791254382012-09-08T14:06:29.216-04:002012-09-08T14:06:29.216-04:00In his post-Dem Convention humongous ad buy Romney...In his post-Dem Convention humongous ad buy Romney passed over <b>Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.</b><br /><br />If he's given up on Wisconsin . . . . . . well, that is truly momentous. That means Barack take the election with Ohio, and one more, or Fla and his dick.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51426521020740858792012-09-08T13:59:18.087-04:002012-09-08T13:59:18.087-04:00With the global price of oil almost doubling, sinc...With the global price of oil almost doubling, since 2008, there is an added drag to demand for other products. Which, along with high levels of household debt, have made it difficult for the consumer to be the engine of recovery.<br /><br />That the author wishes to concentrate upon the housing market and debt, well, that does not eliminate the effects of energy prices on the recovery, just ignores them.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83255266988162619432012-09-08T13:59:01.006-04:002012-09-08T13:59:01.006-04:00Evidently, "Billy Bob" liked the Dem Con...Evidently, "Billy Bob" liked the Dem Convention more than I thought he might. :)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43716758524658848132012-09-08T13:55:18.657-04:002012-09-08T13:55:18.657-04:00Most forms of birth control are, technically, abor...Most forms of birth control are, technically, abortions. The "pill," if I'm not mistaken, causes the fertilized egg to disconnect from the lining of the uterus.<br /><br />It turns out that a fair share of other Republicans are running into buzzsaws at their town hall meetings over this.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42305080810797144552012-09-08T13:54:43.582-04:002012-09-08T13:54:43.582-04:00The definition of who is "fully" a citiz...The definition of who is "fully" a citizen worthy of legal protection continues to expand, ash.<br /><br />At one point women were not "fully" citizens, they counted but were on an unequal legal footing as compared to men. Some would say they still are.<br />Blacks were counted as 3/5 citizens.<br /><br />As to a fetus, Mr Romney supports full legal protections at conception. Said so to Mike Huckabee on TV.<br />Mr Obama, well, his position is a tad more nuanced.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58671479064477272962012-09-08T13:45:52.157-04:002012-09-08T13:45:52.157-04:00It just made it worse, Ash. And, it's making ...It just made it worse, Ash. And, it's making the attempts at recovery more difficult.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35620026915646173802012-09-08T13:02:09.062-04:002012-09-08T13:02:09.062-04:00So much for peak oil causing the current mess.So much for peak oil causing the current mess.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43816071386414888652012-09-08T13:00:06.870-04:002012-09-08T13:00:06.870-04:00When premises lead to bad conclusions one should e...When premises lead to bad conclusions one should examine the premises.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50504504008517117872012-09-08T10:13:42.672-04:002012-09-08T10:13:42.672-04:00The political convulsion over Missouri Republican ...<i><b>The political convulsion over Missouri Republican Todd Akin's bizarre talk of "legitimate rape" highlights an issue that the GOP had buried in its campaign.</b><br /><br />A Commentary by Froma Harrop<br /><br />While the U.S. senatorial candidate's grasp of reproductive science is shockingly lacking -- he said real rape victims rarely get pregnant -- his position that abortions be banned with no exception for rape happens to be in the new Republican Party platform. It is a stance that most Americans, including most registered Republicans, disagree with and probably didn't know was an official party position. Now they do.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Republican leaders can't avoid the truth that Akin's call to do away with the rape exception is a principled "pro-life" position. If you believe that the cell cluster created when a sperm fertilizes an egg is a full a human being, then it shouldn't matter whether it was made through marital love or a violent crime. So holding that rape victims shouldn't be forced to have the child of their tormenters is a cop-out. When Missouri Right to Life says it supports Akin's "defense of the life of an innocent unborn child conceived by rape," it is being consistent.</i>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18398095355953097382012-09-08T10:09:03.713-04:002012-09-08T10:09:03.713-04:00Election 2012: Missouri Senate
Missouri Senate: Mc...<i>Election 2012: Missouri Senate<br />Missouri Senate: McCaskill (D) 48%, Akin (R) 38%<br /><br />What a difference one TV interview can make. Embattled Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill has now jumped to a 10-point lead over her Republican challenger, Congressman Todd Akin, in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race. Most Missouri Republicans want Akin to quit the race while most Missouri Democrats want him to stay.<br /><br />The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Show Me State finds McCaskill earning 48% support to Akin’s 38%. Nine percent (9%) like some other candidate in the race, and five percent (5%) are undecided. </i><br /><br />desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86083444289721601642012-09-08T10:05:15.642-04:002012-09-08T10:05:15.642-04:00Rasmussen further reports that the bounce has not ...Rasmussen further reports that the bounce has not effected the <br /><br /><i>Electoral College<br />Obama: 247 - Romney: 196 - Toss-up: 95</i>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63706685309807064732012-09-08T10:03:49.884-04:002012-09-08T10:03:49.884-04:00Rasmussen reports ...
The president is enjoying a...Rasmussen reports ...<br /><br /><i>The president is enjoying a convention bounce that has been evident in the last two nights of tracking data. He led by two just before the Republican convention, so he has already erased the modest bounce Romney received from his party’s celebration in Tampa. Perhaps more significantly, Democratic interest in the campaign has soared. For the first time, those in the president’s party are following the campaign as closely as GOP voters. Interest in a campaign is typically considered a good indicator of turnout.</i>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2813410096463221412012-09-08T09:30:47.003-04:002012-09-08T09:30:47.003-04:00The seeds of which will, forever, have to be purch...The seeds of which will, forever, have to be purchased from a large agricultural biotechnology corporation, like Monsanto. This will put switchgrass on the lobbyists map.<br /><br />Moving US forward, towards sustainable homegrown energy, once again.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44404586984809203672012-09-07T22:34:18.216-04:002012-09-07T22:34:18.216-04:00Agricultural Research Service (ARS) geneticist Sar...<i>Agricultural Research Service (ARS) geneticist Sarah Hake, working with University of California-Berkeley plant geneticist George Chuck, found that taking a gene from corn called corngrass and inserting it into switchgrass keeps the grass always in a juvenile form that doesn’t flower, doesn’t produce seeds, and doesn’t have a dormant growth phase. And that means the sugars in the plant starch are more readily available for conversion into cellulosic ethanol.<br /> <br />The scientists observed that the leaves in the transgenic switchgrass are not nearly as stiff as leaves in switchgrass cultivars that haven’t been modified. In addition, they determined that leaf lignin is slightly different in the transgenic switchgrass than leaf lignin in other plants. This could lead to new findings on how to break down the sturdy lignin and release sugars for fermentation, a development that will be essential to the commercial production of cellulosic ethanol.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://domesticfuel.com/2012/09/07/forever-young-switchgrass-for-cellulosic-ethanol/" rel="nofollow">Forever Young (soft and juicy) Switchgrass</a>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29541985006022610362012-09-07T21:22:48.536-04:002012-09-07T21:22:48.536-04:00The first of these problems was resolved quite qui...<i>The first of these problems was resolved quite quickly, thanks both to lots of emergency lending by the Federal Reserve and, yes, the much maligned bank bailouts. By late 2009, measures of financial stress were more or less back to normal. <br /><br />This return to financial normalcy did not, however, produce a robust recovery. Fast recoveries are almost always led by a housing boom — and given the excess home construction that took place during the bubble, that just wasn’t going to happen. Meanwhile, households were trying (or being forced by creditors) to pay down debt, which meant depressed demand. So the economy’s free fall ended, but recovery remained sluggish. <br /><br />Now, you may have noticed that in telling this story about a disappointing recovery I didn’t mention any of the things that Republicans talked about last week in Tampa, Fla. — the effects of high taxes and regulation, the lack of confidence supposedly created by Mr. Obama’s failure to lavish enough praise on “job creators” (what I call the “Ma, he’s looking at me funny!” theory of our economic problems). Why the omission? Because there’s not a shred of evidence for the G.O.P. theory of what ails our economy, while there’s a lot of hard evidence for the view that a lack of demand, largely because of excessive household debt, is the real problem. <br /><br />And here’s the good news: The forces that have been holding the economy back seem likely to fade away in the years ahead. Housing starts have been at extremely low levels for years, so the overhang of excess construction from the bubble years is long past — and it looks as if a housing recovery has already begun. Household debt is still high by historical . . . . . </i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/opinion/krugman-cleaning-up-the-economy.html?_r=1" rel="nofollow">Cleaning up the Mess</a>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25223551835179582582012-09-07T19:39:42.293-04:002012-09-07T19:39:42.293-04:00Malcolm had been well healed for a very long time ...<i>Malcolm had been well healed for a very long time now. So long, that he hardly could remember Mexico any longer. Only something about a tanned brown beauty on a beach, knocking over a bottle of Tequila from the hotel balcony and nearly knocking out the proprietor, something about losing one shoe, and a ride on a Ferris Wheel, and the sounds of explosions from some Mexican fiesta. It was long ago, and far away, so long ago and far away it might have been in Argentina, on a cattle ranch, and he had never been on a cattle ranch, nor in Argentina. When he had come out of the Well and Healed Holistic Human Health Institute, at the end of three years, his wife had met him and had said, "Malcolm, you can be well healed with me, or go back to the Well and Healed. Which is it going to be?" And Malcolm had said, "I want to be with you." Now they were at the Yellowstone Lodge, built early last century, old, big timbers, small, but extremely well appointed rooms, and his wife was in bed early, asleep. They had been there three days, are were going hiking tomorrow. Malcolm was excited. He thought of the fishermen, real fishermen, he had seen earlier on the Gallatin River,<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallatin_River<br /><br /> teen age boys, who knew what they were doing, older men, some with beards, all with long sleeve shirts, the men often with ski poles for balance. He and his wife had stopped, and he had fished too, it was an old expertise of his. He had caught five and thrown them all back, releasing them carefully, under the current, undamaged. An older fisherman said 'I see you know what you are doing' and Malcolm had smiled and said 'I have seen you know what you are doing as well', and they were friends. Driving through the park were areas burned, over a decade ago, already bursting with new pines and firs. Malcolm felt enthused, like he could do anything now. He was looking forward to the hike. His wife was asleep. He was watching Obama on the big screen. He and his wife both hated Obama, and all he stood for, he and his whole organization. He turned the big screen off. His wife was asleep. He silently slipped out the room door, closing it softly, and took the elevator to the Lodge Lounge. I am well and healed, I can do anything now, an unconscious thought flowed through his mind.....</i><br /><br />from<br /><br /><i><b>Over The Caldera</b></i><br /><br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_CalderaBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10862051876403845602012-09-07T19:07:30.157-04:002012-09-07T19:07:30.157-04:00:) Okay, I had that coming.:) Okay, I had that coming.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17496466318926318772012-09-07T15:50:38.055-04:002012-09-07T15:50:38.055-04:00you are the man, Rufus. THE GURU.you are the man, Rufus. THE GURU.MOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307879234693014691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9143734945113255842012-09-07T13:54:48.369-04:002012-09-07T13:54:48.369-04:00Hell, the really substantive thing, Medicaid, she ...Hell, the really substantive thing, Medicaid, she agrees with me.<br /><br />If you'll remember, I was saying that two weeks before Clinton, Noonan, or hardly anyone else was.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24009699229100137892012-09-07T13:52:22.229-04:002012-09-07T13:52:22.229-04:00The Republicans put Todd Akin's separated-at-b...The Republicans put Todd Akin's separated-at-birth twin on the ticket, and Peggy's surprised the Dems are talking about Women's Rights? Really? Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80183878234041668252012-09-07T13:48:47.717-04:002012-09-07T13:48:47.717-04:00Did MY ox get gored? I wasn't aware of it. W...Did MY ox get gored? I wasn't aware of it. When did it happen?<br /><br />I just don't think much of Peggy Noonan.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.com