Engorgeous George

I thought God created firm, high-slung asses and pouty breasts for the purpose of giving old men something to talk about.

I enjoyed To Hell and Back as a kid. Of course I enjoyed Daktqari with Clarence the Cross-eyed Lion. I mention it because his co-star in To Hell and Back starred in Daktari.

Was forced tom memorized them by my Grandmother when I was four. She also insisted I know how to tie my shoes, to say "yes Si"r and "no Maam" and" please" and "thank you". I could not list them now from memory, at least not in order and maybe not all.

Did they not even consider the Wuhan Wet Market?

As i recall it is an impressive fireworks show.

Maybe an effective vaccine against brucellosis can be developed. I believe that would reduce some conflicts. Not all, but some. As for me I like a world with bison, bears, big cats, and wolfs. When the wilds are gone, which they practicly are I will fell diminished. Last week, while rafting I saw eagle, a black bear, elk, deer, and big horn sheep. It has been some time since I saw an otter or a mink or a big cat. I see domesticated bison often. They make me sad. Wild bison and running antelope are, to me, the West, followed by grizzlys and big cats. Elk and mule deer are nice too. Moose are their own thing. They are ther mountains, along with big cats and black bears. Grizzlys gone here in Colorado. I believe I may give to this group you have mentioned.

When the seas warm sufficiently the dormant Krakens will emerge, not unlike the 17 year cicadas, but more terrifying than Godzilla and Kutulu combined. We would be better off being roasted in the depths of the sloar.

And I have my vague impressions from the failing memory of an old man, so I take your information as more authoritative.

Seems to me I have heard this news maybe three or four times over the years. you may be right that at least one of those times the white calf was born on a ranch. That seems correct with my memory. Still, I am all for a new age of prosperity, and if that new age favors the Lakota I am good with that.

I appreciate your point of view and generally share it. In the matter of changing behavior so ingrained in the American psyche I see no other way. Also, i am not advocating doing so. I just argue that IF one were to try to do so that would be the route.

Happens every decade it seems.

My commute, when I did commute was 11.8 miles by road or 13 by bike path. I would drive on Mondays to take all I thought I would need for the week for clothes and what not. i would bike Tuesday through Thursday. On Friday I would drive and collect up my stuff to take home and to the dry cleaners. My City is not particularly bike path friendly but my particular commute happened to be along a fairly direct path. I had to cross a roadway every mile but that was not terribly inconvenient. Riding on those roadways would have been a death sentence. In the mornings it was downhill about 80 feet per mile. That was an easy ride. In the afternoons, sometimes I bitched about the ride as it was uphill the whole way but it was probably good for me. BTW my commuting car was a Hyundai. My weekend driver was a full sized, gas guzzeling truck. It broke my heart to get ride of that truck. I had it 23 years and loved it but it just got crappy mileage. My new truck is a midsize which gets far better mileage and still fulfills my needs 99.9% of the time. If it could autodrive from where I put my kayak or raft in to where I take out it would be a dream.

I thought that was what lackeys were for.

Because I believe tax destyroys, it suppresses, it changes behavior. And NO I would not want it spent on war I would want it spent on debt reduction and pure research as to fusion.

R.I.P. Oddball.

Time to mandate a tax on vehicle weight. Vehicles weighing under 800 pounds have no tax for weight. Above that a yearly weight tax of $1 per pound ought to get things started. The transportcation industry would radically change. New superlight and thus fuel efficient cars would be developed and the SUV craze would retract. Public transportation would grow. Scooters , DSegways and the like would flourish. Then new emmissions standards on small engines running scooters and small cars. Next, residential airconditioning could only be run by onsite solar. Swamp cooleers could run on electricity from the grid (water would become a more valuable commodity than it already is. Until fusion is developed fission needs to be enhanced. The Navy has been running fission for what, 70 years. Time to not let one three mile island kill an industry which is demonstratably safe. Instead of reactors meant to run an entire region of the country go with small reactors fit for ships or subs. Platform them off of our coasts and in the great lakes. Have them hooked to the grid through underwater cable. Design them such that if there is an accident they sink and flood. We don't need10 large nuke plants, we need 50 smaller ones.

I understand yachts are not particularly feul efficient either.

I thought witches chesticles were cold, ice cold.

Will the heat wave kill the drug zombies in our eastern cities?

I wish both ends of the political spectrum would stop trying to indoctrinate kids at school and would concentrate on educating them instead.

I wonder what other subjects this could be said about by others.

Can you tip them, sort of an urban equivilent to cow tipping?

Grandma always told me to avoid them painted up city women and to find a good Irish catholic girl. Grandpa told me when I am out sowing my wild oats to just make damn sure none of them took root. I ignored Grandma but paid attention to Grandpa. Grandpa would have understood my interest in this young lady.

Having occasionally sharted I kind of view this from the people in glass houses should not throw stones perspective. Who knows but the challenge will not get worse as I age.