tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post2638829686650841560..comments2024-03-29T06:35:11.321-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Not immediately clear when First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia would leave the Vineyard.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14392182762459258322011-08-27T13:18:58.256-04:002011-08-27T13:18:58.256-04:00I just don't want to lose power.I just don't want to lose power.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-91638306987232282772011-08-27T12:48:42.222-04:002011-08-27T12:48:42.222-04:00Makes me not want to go out.Makes me not want to go out.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22997377022603024872011-08-27T12:47:10.336-04:002011-08-27T12:47:10.336-04:00of rain and 50 to 70 mph winds in philaof rain and 50 to 70 mph winds in philaMeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8746846199778029212011-08-27T12:46:48.358-04:002011-08-27T12:46:48.358-04:005 to 10 inches.5 to 10 inches.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88920883491771954612011-08-27T11:54:13.481-04:002011-08-27T11:54:13.481-04:00Qadafi In Zimbabwe?
What a paradise that place ha...<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030782/Libya-Gaddafi-seen-Zimbabwe-Mugabes-private-jet-rebels-march-Sirte.html" rel="nofollow">Qadafi In Zimbabwe?</a><br /><br />What a paradise that place has become. Used to export food all around Africa, now there is starvation there, in Zimbabwe.<br /><br />There was an early type of hominid there long ago, very advanced with a very large cranium.<br /><br />Didn't make it, got wiped out by the more brutish. According to Loren Eisely (sp?).<br /><br /><br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4093536917898987442011-08-27T11:43:55.979-04:002011-08-27T11:43:55.979-04:00The DNR sounds a lot like the Idaho Fish and Games...The DNR sounds a lot like the Idaho Fish and Games.<br /><br />We have a big mussels prevention program here now. Your boat has to be checked at a check station before entering the Snake complex if you are new to the area for instance.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48881361581351471892011-08-27T11:39:07.778-04:002011-08-27T11:39:07.778-04:00Appaloosas have white sclera visible around the ir...Appaloosas have <i>white sclera visible around the iris when the eye is in a normal position</i>, this my daughter pointed out to me, one of the few, maybe only, breeds that have this feature.<br /><br />Risky rulesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31031046370693452882011-08-27T11:39:03.882-04:002011-08-27T11:39:03.882-04:00.
Obama has a change of format in his weekly radi....<br /><br />Obama has a change of format in his weekly radio broadcast. He is switching from a NPR format to an "Oldies but Goodies" blast from the past.<br /><br />9/11?<br /><br />Heck it worked for Bush and Company. (Well, until it didn't.)<br /><br /><br /><i>The president made his appeal during his weekly radio and Internet address, two weeks before the 10th anniversary of the day al-Qaida terrorists turned commercial jetliners into deadly weapons in New York, Pennsylvania and northern Virginia. <br /><br />Obama plans to observe the anniversary on Sept. 11 with stops at ground zero in lower Manhattan, where the World Trade Center towers fell; at Shanksville, Pa., where one of the commandeered planes crashed; and at the Pentagon, which was also hit by a hijacked jetliner...<br /> <br />But he cast his plea for good will today against the backdrop of the economic challenges facing the country today. Coming in the aftermath of bitter partisan fights over government spending and tough criticism of his administration by Republican presidential candidates, his remarks were an overt call for greater cooperation...</i><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20110827/NEWS15/110827009/Obama-Recall-spirit-unity-from-9-11?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE" rel="nofollow">Remember 9/11 and Tax the Rich</a><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41541429379297322132011-08-27T11:36:24.973-04:002011-08-27T11:36:24.973-04:00To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in...<i>To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,<br />Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,<br />To the last syllable of recorded time;<br />And all our yesterdays have lighted fools that voted Big O<br />A path to nowhereland</i><br /><br />Haven't had much weather related news here except for the record spring rains. The harvest is very late, it is almost the Moon of the First Wolf Kill, the Moon of the Corn Cutting, the Moon of the First Wintering Coat on the Ponies (the Nimiipuu were not metallurgists but they became world class <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appaloosa" rel="nofollow">Horse Breeders</a>) the garbanzos are mostly green, the hard spring and winter red wheat is late, and if Miss T the weather goddess turns the shower back on lots of money is going to lost from dockage.<br /><br />Bob rulesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34836473503842405252011-08-27T11:26:36.454-04:002011-08-27T11:26:36.454-04:00.
Salmon disappear from Lake Huron, towns suffer....<br /><br /><br /><b>Salmon disappear from Lake Huron, towns suffer</b><br /><br /><i>Harbor Beach — Jack Noble looks over the rows of ramshackle, empty docks that house a handful of boats at Offshore Marina and can't help thinking of busier times on Lake Huron. <br /><br />"This place used to have a waiting list to get a slip," said Noble, 75. "Now there's five boats. At one time, there were 19 or 20 charter boats in this town. Now there is one. This town is dead. We don't even have a grocery store. … And it's not the economy. It's the fishery." <br /><br />Just a decade ago, that fishery was ruled by king salmon. From Lexington in the south to the Straits of Mackinac, charter captains charged eager anglers hundreds of dollars to catch hard-fighting, great-tasting kings until coolers were brimming with fish. <br /><br />Today, southern Lake Huron is virtually devoid of king salmon, thanks to food web changes wrought by invasive species like zebra and quagga mussels... <br /><br /><br />"I do not expect to see the kind of fishery that I knew here 10 years ago in my lifetime because of the DNR and their damn foot-dragging," he said. "I would very much like to see my grandchildren have the same opportunity in Lake Huron. But they won't bite the bullet and do what they have to do."</i> <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://detnews.com/article/20110827/METRO/108270353/Salmon-disappear-from-Lake-Huron--towns-suffer#ixzz1WF8FIghG" rel="nofollow">Manipulating Fish Stocks is Hard</a><br /><br /><br />The DNR has no friends.<br /><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10657567088172141402011-08-27T11:24:01.724-04:002011-08-27T11:24:01.724-04:00His prior message, "It coulda been worse&quo...His prior message, "It coulda been worse" wasn't so hot, either. :)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25228387538313225632011-08-27T11:15:25.743-04:002011-08-27T11:15:25.743-04:00.
Obama offers 2012 election supporters change th....<br /><br /><b>Obama offers 2012 election supporters change they can believe in — next term</b><br /><br /><i>Three years after storming the White House with the “fierce urgency of now,” President Obama has a new message for his reelection campaign: Be patient, democracy is big and tough and messy.<br /><br />“When I said, ‘Change we can believe in,’ I didn’t say, ‘Change we can believe in tomorrow,’ ” Obama told a crowd of 2,400 during a birthday celebration in Chicago this month...</i><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM/POLITICS/OBAMA-OFFERS-2012-ELECTION-SUPPORTERS-CHANGE-THEY-CAN-BELIEVE-IN--NEXT-TERM/2011/08/25/GIQAJZ9AHJ_STORY.HTML?HPID=Z3." rel="nofollow">I've Got Big Plans For 2013. Trust Me.</a><br /><br /><br />Methinks, the Big O needs to work on his message. This one just ain't that inspiring.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49496545216152796892011-08-27T11:07:47.534-04:002011-08-27T11:07:47.534-04:00Even if you survived the sentence, I suspect you&#...Even if you survived the sentence, I suspect you'd be on some sort of "list," Q. Prolly shouldn't do it. :)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57109421047079179742011-08-27T11:01:54.552-04:002011-08-27T11:01:54.552-04:00.
Do you really want me to tell you the first thi....<br /><br />Do you really want me to tell you the first thing I would do with that digging stick Bobbo?<br /><br />(Although I recognize it would be prudent of me to first check on the penalties for assaulting the 'mentally challenged' in Ideeeho.)<br /><br />.<br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25761126792102606222011-08-27T10:55:14.543-04:002011-08-27T10:55:14.543-04:00Grand View, Grand View, my kind of town. (hummed s...Grand View, Grand View, my kind of town. (hummed softly inside to the tune of some old song)<br /><br />Bob rulesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8073653272100301882011-08-27T10:53:48.050-04:002011-08-27T10:53:48.050-04:00.
The more I hear from The Bernanke, the less con....<br /><br />The more I hear from The Bernanke, the less confident I am in his judgement.<br /><br />The housing problem remains one of the key drags on the economy. There are a number of ways to fix it, none of them good.<br /><br />The NYT suggests the banks should restructure loans to reflect current property values. Also, they should allow property owners who have had no problem paying their current mortgages to refinace at todays lower rates. While I can agree with the latter, the first suggestion will never happen in the absence of government mandate.<br /><br />The banks refuse to recognize the real value of the property on their books because to do so would result in short term pain which would hurt reported profits and more importantly bonuses. In addition, they have no incentive to do it. They are making bundles of money anyway because of the FED's low interest rate.<br /><br />There is also the moral hazard side of letting homeowners, those who were trying to get rich in the asset bubble, off the hook (although there are ways to assure the venal do not unduly profit from their speculation).<br /><br />In my opinion, as a spectator, I think Big Ben should start letting interest rates rise. First, it would allow homeowners to pay off mortgages with cheaper dollars and second it would provide incentive for the big banks to solve the toxic asset problem they have on their books.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37898899799928469082011-08-27T10:50:44.592-04:002011-08-27T10:50:44.592-04:00A digging stick, usually a three-foot metal probe ...<i>A digging stick, usually a three-foot metal probe with a handle, is used to pry the root<br />from the ground.</i><br /><br />This is of course wrong, Quirk, the Nimiipuu weren't metallurgists. They get these from Ace Hardware, nowadays.<br /><br />What you will be using will be the authentic old style single probe digging stick made from the branch of a hard wood tree.<br /><br />Bob rulesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56551736485365379952011-08-27T10:45:46.515-04:002011-08-27T10:45:46.515-04:00You are pushing the envelope now Quirk.
As a warn...You are pushing the envelope now Quirk.<br /><br />As a warning and reminder I'll give you this about the camus with mention of the Nimiipuu digging stick.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lewisandclarkexhibit.org/4_0_0/4_1_0_supportingdocs/4_1_3_2/read_L6_nez_perce_article2.pdf" rel="nofollow">Read and Consider Carefully Quirk</a><br /><br />Bob rulesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56445347482192634162011-08-27T10:45:00.747-04:002011-08-27T10:45:00.747-04:00I know a lot of mortgage brokers. I used to work ...I know a lot of mortgage brokers. I used to work with them. My understanding is that a Huge number of those "Adjustable Rate" Mortgages were sold to people that had No Idea what they were getting into. <br /><br />Fraud was Rampant.<br /><br />The Big Banksters don't talk much about that. They, also, don't mention that a new wave of "Option ARMS" are hitting right now.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82956607276626854122011-08-27T10:28:22.190-04:002011-08-27T10:28:22.190-04:00Katrina would have been overhyped had a cold front...Katrina would have been overhyped had a cold front changed its course.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72774273194684346972011-08-27T10:23:23.594-04:002011-08-27T10:23:23.594-04:00.
EDITORIAL
Mr. Benanke's Warning
The real ....<br /><br /><b>EDITORIAL<br /><br />Mr. Benanke's Warning</b><br /><br /><i>The real value in Mr. Bernanke’s speech is that he explained what really ails the economy — and made the case for a better fiscal response to address those ills. <b>“Good, proactive housing policies” would speed recovery, he said, as would “putting people back to work.”</b><br /> <br />If Mr. Bernanke advocated specific policies to achieve those aims, he would be violating the etiquette that requires Fed chairmen to leave fiscal details to Congress. <br /><br />So allow us. <b>The best, proactive way to revive the housing market is to help bankrupt and delinquent borrowers rework their mortgages through principal reductions. It is also important to ease refinancing rules so underwater borrowers who are current in their payments can trade in their high-rate mortgages for lower-rate loans.</b> The Obama administration is considering new refinancing rules, but mortgage investors are sure to resist...</i><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/opinion/mr-bernankes-warning.html?_r=1" rel="nofollow">How to Solve the Housing Problem?</a><br /><br />If the Obama administration comes out with a proposal to fix the housing problem, we can expect that it will be based more on politics than upon economics.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17227666669014011262011-08-27T10:20:19.331-04:002011-08-27T10:20:19.331-04:00.
When it comes to the weather it is hard to blam....<br /><br />When it comes to the weather it is hard to blame someone for being overly cautious.<br /><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86644468298050526572011-08-27T10:12:11.883-04:002011-08-27T10:12:11.883-04:00It's downgraded to a Cat 1. This whole thing ...It's downgraded to a Cat 1. This whole thing has been overhyped, especially by Sean Hannity.Teresitanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60396277868660225092011-08-27T10:09:25.037-04:002011-08-27T10:09:25.037-04:00I don't know, T. If a Hurricane came ashore a...I don't know, T. If a Hurricane came ashore at just the right place there are many areas of NY that would have Massive Losses of Life. Some of those would be Emergency Responders trying to go in and save the morons that stayed in dangerous areas.<br /><br />It just sounds like "Common Sense" to me to tell the idjits to get outta the way.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22987114607473579012011-08-27T10:04:18.671-04:002011-08-27T10:04:18.671-04:00Delusions of granduer.
Delusions of Grand View<i>Delusions of granduer.</i><br /><br />Delusions of <a href="http://www.untraveledroad.com/USA/Idaho/Owyhee/GrandView.htm" rel="nofollow">Grand View</a>Teresitanoreply@blogger.com