tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post6567780126984518785..comments2024-03-28T03:47:46.544-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: New York RulesDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-379679323213684642007-09-15T20:26:00.000-04:002007-09-15T20:26:00.000-04:00"We are on our way, one foot in front of the other..."We are on our way, one foot in front of the other."<BR/><BR/>Well, look. There's no rush.<BR/><BR/>120K at the start of 08. Pre-surge.<BR/><BR/>It'll take us to 2012 to get down to 80,000.<BR/><BR/>"When combined with his Jan02 State of the Union text, there is ample reason to believe, in 2003, that Iraq was part of a larger grand campaign."<BR/><BR/>And Iraq *was* part of a larger grand campaign. As in: Iraq was the larger grand campaign.<BR/><BR/>Years from now, when we come upon the image of GWB, what shorthand thought will we have? <BR/><BR/>"Iraq." And only "Iraq." Followed immediately by "Should have stuck with baseball."trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56555380388608450742007-09-15T20:04:00.000-04:002007-09-15T20:04:00.000-04:00Hmm, Speaking of Trees, and BiomassKeep in mind th...Hmm, <A HREF="http://biopact.com/2007/09/report-biomass-fastest-growing.html" REL="nofollow">Speaking of Trees, and Biomass</A><BR/><BR/>Keep in mind this is a Euro article. They get kinda lost in the weeds, sometimes; but, I just happened to run onto it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47275736859450867112007-09-15T19:51:00.000-04:002007-09-15T19:51:00.000-04:00Oh, my takeaway, regardless of the headline, on th...Oh, my takeaway, regardless of the headline, on that Northwest Passage article was that <B>One Key Bottleneck</B> is now "ice-free," and that the passage could be passable at some date in the future. Then again - Maybe not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36732342348793075342007-09-15T19:49:00.000-04:002007-09-15T19:49:00.000-04:00We keep putting out small forest fires. That's ho...We keep putting out small forest fires. That's how the tree population becomes cleansed.<BR/><BR/>That's okay, though; the trick is to get busy and start using the infected trees as biomass. You can make ethanol out of them with a by-product of Char which is the best fertilizer in the world for forested areas, or we can use them for power generation. We can generate ENORMOUS amounts of fuel from forest waste. ENORMOUS AMOUNTS!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27508555744394886322007-09-15T19:23:00.000-04:002007-09-15T19:23:00.000-04:00Same thing in the Sierras.GD Human-caused GW.Same thing in the Sierras.<BR/>GD Human-caused GW.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35035681036109346752007-09-15T19:18:00.000-04:002007-09-15T19:18:00.000-04:00We lost huge numbers of trees to bark beetle, stag...We lost huge numbers of trees to bark beetle, staggering amounts in some areas around Payson. Hundreds of trees within the town, a real hassle to remove.<BR/><BR/><I>The beetles attack trees by boring through the bark and laying eggs. When the eggs hatch,the larvae feed on the soft inner bark. Also, the beetles introduce a “blue-stain” fungus that spreads and clogs the water and nutrient conducting tissues and hastens tree death. Once the insects mature, they leave the infested tree and travel to a new host. Usually, they travel only a short distance, but they are capable of moving up to ½ mile or more. • Tens of millions of ponderosa pine and piñon trees have been killed. Overall, this equates to a loss of less than 2-3 percent of forests, although tree losses may be as high at 90 percent on some localized sites. This is the largest bark beetle epidemic ever recorded in Arizona. Many more trees are expected to die, especially if the drought persists. • Currently, most tree mortality is centered in “stress-zones” such as drier south-facing slopes, transition areas between ponderosa pine and piñon-juniper areas, recent construction sites, and areas heavily infected with dwarf mistletoe. However, as the drought progresses, those “stress zones” are expanding into adjacent areas. • Infested trees will start to turn reddish-brown within a month of attack. </I>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17099188713841598512007-09-15T19:04:00.000-04:002007-09-15T19:04:00.000-04:00Rat, I was reading the other day about an outbreak...Rat, I was reading the other day about an outbreak of pine bark beetle in British Columbia that sounded awful. Taken out an area the size of Sweden, when it could probably have been stopped or slowed some years ago if they had been allowed to take out some trees. Some of the commenters were saying the cause was a little warmer weather in the winters, which, whatever the cause of the warmer weather, makes some sense. Now they are getting desperate as to how to stop it, and are thinking about preventitively burning forests to stop it. I think they meant both the dead timber and some green too. Sounded bad.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8350770720482095852007-09-15T18:59:00.000-04:002007-09-15T18:59:00.000-04:00Yeah, but you can be sure,she'll just keep rollin ...Yeah, but you can be sure,<BR/>she'll just keep rollin along.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40661813106457080032007-09-15T18:34:00.000-04:002007-09-15T18:34:00.000-04:00For the Greenies, bob.Of who you, they count in th...For the Greenies, bob.<BR/><BR/>Of who you, they count in their number, sometimes.<BR/><BR/>The Northwest Passage is Ice Free.<BR/><BR/>Celebrate! Celebrate!<BR/>The Ice Age is still fallin' back.<BR/><BR/>The trends continue, the climate warms, as it has for the last 10,000 years, more or less. <BR/>With a few bumps along the way.<BR/><BR/>Old Gaia is a bit tempermental, you know.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28843410642875355612007-09-15T18:25:00.000-04:002007-09-15T18:25:00.000-04:00Regardless of bubba, or because of him, does not m...Regardless of bubba, or because of him, does not matter, to me.<BR/><BR/><I>SECTION 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES <BR/><BR/> <B> (a)That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons. </I></B><BR/><BR/>When combined with his Jan02 State of the Union text, there is ample reason to believe, in 2003, that Iraq was part of a larger grand campaign. <BR/>By mid 2004 it was obvious that any further forward advance by the US miltary against State sponsors of terrorism had halted, and was not to be. <BR/><BR/>The "Right" refused to believe, the "Left" did not care.<BR/><BR/>The Middle, look positive short term results from a bad situation. Show a little style, some confidence, assume that when you start in Jan07 will show some positive results by Nov07, prePlan on it. <BR/>Get the Story straight.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12355903773029821092007-09-15T18:22:00.000-04:002007-09-15T18:22:00.000-04:00Will wonders never cease? I've found something to ...Will wonders never cease? I've found something to praise in DIRTY HARRY REID!!<BR/><BR/>SENATOR SEEKS RULING ON FISH PASSAGE AT PRIVATE DAMS IN HELLS CANYON<BR/><BR/>AP--Eric Barker, Tribune Reporter<BR/><BR/>Letter to Regulatory Commission Asks for Requirement to be Written into New Multi-decade License for Idaho Power<BR/><BR/>The top man in the U.S. Senate is asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to require fish passage at three private dams in Hells Canyon.<BR/><BR/>Senate Majority Leader 'Dirty' Harry Reid, D-Belagio, sent a letter to commission chairman Joseph Keliher late last month requesting fish passage be a required feature of Idaho Power Company's new multi-decade license to operate Brownlee, Oxbow, and Hells Canyon Dams on the Snake River in Hells Canyon.<BR/><BR/>When they were constructed, the dams blocked salmon and steelhead from reaching their spawning grounds in southern Idaho, eastern Oregon and a small portion of northern Nevada.<BR/><BR/>"I ask that as your proceed with this relicensing effort that you seize upon this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make it possible for these great and endangered species to return to their historical spawning grounds in Nevada," Reid wrote in the letter.<BR/><BR/>The fish once spawned in the Owyhee and Bruneau rivers and Salmon Falls Creek in Nevada as well as the Snake River in Idaho<BR/> and some of its tributaries such as Rock Creek near Twin Falls. Shoshone Falls, near the town of Twin Falls, provided a natural barrier the fish could not pass.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Good for Harry!<BR/><BR/><BR/>I never knew til now that they had migrated all the way into Nevada. Amazing! <BR/><BR/>I just can't figure out yet what the Belagio et/al is getting out of this.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3672798648827239492007-09-15T17:45:00.000-04:002007-09-15T17:45:00.000-04:00One thing I learned in my personal Jihad is that t...One thing I learned in my personal Jihad is that the enemy can indicate surrender to the facts one day, and return another and swear not to have taken part in any such thing.<BR/>Kind of a domestic version of Taquia, I guess.<BR/>Prefer Tequila.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77543989330571924362007-09-15T17:43:00.000-04:002007-09-15T17:43:00.000-04:00I thot that legal pursuit of Terror was proved ill...I thot that legal pursuit of Terror was proved illegitimate by Bubba, and is now considered VERY pre-9-11.<BR/>But then I think a lot of things, signifying nothing.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71954616918966968192007-09-15T17:40:00.000-04:002007-09-15T17:40:00.000-04:00General Mattis has been called a “warrior-monk” be...<I><STRONG>General Mattis has been called a “warrior-monk” because he is a life-long bachelor and owns a very large personal library. He is said to combine the attributes of a brilliant scholar with those of a back alley, dead-of-night street-fighter.</STRONG></I><BR/>---<BR/>Fine.<BR/>But how can he know what REAL warfare and Black Ops are like if he's a life-long bachelor?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81768000218390800782007-09-15T17:37:00.000-04:002007-09-15T17:37:00.000-04:00But in the end, is forced to admit that Mr Bush is...But in the end, is forced to admit that Mr Bush is the Decider, and that he has decided.<BR/><BR/>His Staff in the miltary, they are indecisive, looking for legally binding evidence, whilest they are shocked that the Judge has already Ruled.<BR/><BR/>Slam Dunk, too!desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2736839316860029052007-09-15T17:25:00.000-04:002007-09-15T17:25:00.000-04:00Sending Trish anywhere to get the goods would be l...Sending Trish anywhere to get the goods would be like sending Joe Wilson to find the trail of the Yellowcake Crumbs.<BR/><BR/>Joe's spouse got him the Gig.<BR/>Maybe Trish will work out something like that.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89565201129093403872007-09-15T17:21:00.000-04:002007-09-15T17:21:00.000-04:00See no evil in Tehran or South Central.Spread the ...See no evil in Tehran or South Central.<BR/>Spread the good news!<BR/>PBUH!<BR/>Viva La Raza!Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-23579044381933188782007-09-15T17:16:00.000-04:002007-09-15T17:16:00.000-04:00'49 Ford 3/4 ton truck"'49 Ford 3/4 ton truck"Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40566098205014348062007-09-15T17:15:00.000-04:002007-09-15T17:15:00.000-04:00My neighbor, who became the local Jersey Milkman w...My neighbor, who became the local Jersey Milkman when he retired, use to always say:<BR/><BR/>"<I>Just too much crime in the city</I>"<BR/><BR/>Then he'd climb back into his '49 3/4 ton truck, and drive 1/4 mile down the road to the next house, his.<BR/><BR/>All in describing his preference for country life.<BR/>But he was just a dumb farmer, not like sophisticated folk that can make crime and mayhem invisible.<BR/>In their minds.<BR/>(as long as it's SOMEONE ELSE!)Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46326027537830260992007-09-15T16:57:00.000-04:002007-09-15T16:57:00.000-04:00Seriously, I think it takes 60 years like I've got...Seriously, I think it takes 60 years like I've got, and stories handed down, to get really fed up with the immigration. When you've seen something beautiful get destroyed, and I've seen a lot of it--Cal., Idaho, Hawaii, Vegas--I remember all that stuff and it was always better in the past. Always. Seattle too--hell everywhere, almost. It's really sad, is what it is.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50133789869968255482007-09-15T16:54:00.000-04:002007-09-15T16:54:00.000-04:00In the first half of the last century California w...In the first half of the last century California was a kind of a paradise really. It's a shit hole now. Listening to KGO last night the topic was why have things gotten like this--caller after caller described the third world horror show it is transforming itself into. Yup we need open borders we sure do. Jesus. Save. Us.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-287722210724654012007-09-15T16:52:00.000-04:002007-09-15T16:52:00.000-04:00"Silently" would have been more accurate, of cours..."Silently" would have been more accurate, of course.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68905080024578603332007-09-15T16:51:00.000-04:002007-09-15T16:51:00.000-04:00Quietly, regarding immigration, to this point.Quietly, regarding immigration, to this point.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55994325316430665802007-09-15T16:48:00.001-04:002007-09-15T16:48:00.001-04:00Oh, but I do support the President, bob. I do.Oh, but I do support the President, bob. I do.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81738979512068380012007-09-15T16:48:00.000-04:002007-09-15T16:48:00.000-04:00She's been a little reticent to express her opinio...She's been a little reticent to express her opinion for oh, the last year or two, AlBob:<BR/><BR/>Probly not quite ready to march in public in support of the Outlaw.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.com