Talk to your daughter...Before the beauty industry does!!

October One Liners 2

Headline: Dateline, Atlanta, Reuters - Lipsticks contain lead, consumer group says Thu Oct 11, 6:59 PM ET
One Liner: A kiss to die for!!
~ ~ ~ Thank you George Bush!

Headline: Dateline, New York, Reuters - IRS says rich getting richer: report Fri Oct 12, 2:48 AM ET
One Liner: And the poor get poorer - daa dit daa daa...
~ ~ ~ Thank you George Bush!

October is "One Liners" month - WTF

How about one liners inspired by internet headlines? Rarely read newspapers anymore so that's kind of a no brainer.





Headline: Dateline: Bagdad (10/09/07): Violence in Iraq kills 56


One Liner: Yes! Damn good thing are so much better in Iraq!


~ ~ ~Thank you George Bush!





Headline: Dateline: Bagdad (10/09/07): Guards fire on car in Iraq, kill 2 women


One Liner: Oh, not Blackwater; slow news day!


~ ~ ~Thnak you George Bush!





Headline: Sirnak, Turkey: (10/09/07): US warns Turkey to stay out of Iraq//


One Liner: You had your turn, butt out!


~ ~ ~Thank You George Bush!





Isn't there any news that's not Iraqified?


Headline: Dateline: Cambridge, US (10/05/07): Hamsters on Viagra take center stage at Ig Nobel awards


One Liner: Slow News Day for sure; where were the Yankees when you needed them?


~ ~ ~Thank you George Bush!

(stolen from http://www.petwebsite.com/hamsters/hamster_pet.htm )

Harvest Time

Attended the Fall Harvest Festival at the Historic Village in Allaire State Park last month. Many events featured workers in period dress. The week before was a Jazz and Wine Festival. It's a great place to visit almost any time of the year.

Took a few photos of course.

Cider Press:

Horse Team Rides:

Steam Powered Locomotive:

Wine Selection from New Jersey Vintners:

Summer's Over - Sigh...

I have a love-hate relationship with seasons. I would miss any one of them I'm sure. But damn they end too soon. There were so many things I wanted to do this summer that didn't get done. It's not as if I usually get things done but maybe I getting old and staring to worry that the number of "next years" are shrinking. Sigh...

We lost a few fish early this summer to a predator. At least that's the best guess. They were some of our most fecund females so we didn't have the schools of tiny goldfish this year.

Our first suspect, a stranger!

But certain facts have shed doubt on this suspect. She isn't in the clear yet but I have another, as yet, unseen suspect. A raccoon would be a more likely nighttime hunter and more likely frightened by the bamboo shishi-odoshi, "deer-scarer", that we installed. Nighttime disturbance of rocks and moss stopped after it was installed.

Beyond the Whales

The whales "lost" in the Sacramento River inspired this editorial piece on Sacbee.com yesterday. (I know it's a pain to register! I know it's a pain! OK? Just register. You can curse me while doing so - thanks, thanks, tanks, tanks, tnks, tks... [ok? - I'll be your best friend?])
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/185809.html

Photo: Reuters - Wed May 16, 11:39 PM ET

Looming crises like this one are far too common now. The fate of Horseshoe crabs and dependent migrating shore birds is another.

From the Cape May County Herald last week.
http://www.capemaycountyherald.com/article/articles/3629/1/River-Dredging-May-Doom-Horseshoe-Crabs

Easter Problems - What?

A little known, much less understood, side-effect of Easter...

THE VICTIMS:

THE SAD TALE IN THEIR OWN WORDS...

AH, BUT THERE IS MORE...

not a red letter day - not a day to remember - rather, an embarrassment

An Open Letter to Al Gore
Al, you are a hypocrite

I believed in you, I voted for you, and I made excuses for you. I cringed but forgave you your “I invented the internet” gaff. It might have been a slip of the tongue. You were never glib.But, this goes to the heart of the matter. If you can’t walk the walk then shut up. Don’t try to bullshit me about your purchase of “carbon offsets”. I wasn’t born yesterday, I didn’t just get off the boat…you sir are no shining example of what you preach. You are not even a dull example of what you preach. You are a disgrace to the environmental movement. If you have any dignity, any belief in what you espouse, then crawl back into your hidey-hole and don’t come out until you have looked within and found that which you ask of others.

Hot Damn - I love to end the Day on a Positive Note!

The people and the wolves of Wyoming have a victory. Not every Western state governor will be allowed to reverse the wolf recovery program. For a change a sound science decision didn't end up side-tracked by politicians...

Instead... By BEN NEARY, Associated Press Writer : Feds reject Wyoming's wolf kill plan

Well we have Da Woid O’ De Dey; now the Oxymoron of the day!

“Partial Zero”?

The expression caught me by surprise - in the closing lines of a radio commercial - what the fuck did she just say? I couldn’t have heard that right, partial zero?
But that’s what I heard. Enter the PZEV, a Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle.

As one who likes clarity in communication and abhors obfuscation, so the environmentalist in me finds such “obfus-speak” insulting. And I didn’t jump to any conclusions. I was careful not to prejudge. The pragmatist in me could understand the logic of compromise to move forward on a important issue. But Partial Zero, was that a joke? Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle; at first I was moved to agree with the idea if not the term.

Quoting from Wikipedia:

This vehicle category was created as part of a bargain with the California
Air Resources Board (CARB), so that the automobile manufacturers could avoid producing mandated zero emission
vehicles (ZEVs), which would have required the production of electric vehicles, under the theory that a large number of low pollution vehicles would produce the equivalent pollution reduction of a lesser number of zero-emissions vehicles.

However, a little research convinced me that the compromise category was pretty much a sell out. I followed a link to A listing of PZEV compliant cars. At the top of the list is 3 liter 6 cylinder BMW! Or how about the Mercedes-Benz E-Class vehicles?
I can only conclude that someone in a powerful position in California took the boxing equivalent of a dive.
The official California DRIVECLEAN web site’s provided “vehicle web site link” was a dead end so I just searched for Mercedes-Benz.com and followed links to the E-Class Overview. Somehow a Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle seems to be the last thing they are selling.

Partial Zero my ass!