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25431. arkymalarky - 7/17/2009 5:03:25 PM Our neighbor got an "animal-proof" one, obviously not expensive (soft plastic with a "locking" top) and the bear just squeezes it until the lid pops off. He's done that twice and hasn't hurt the can at all. Bro did say something funny--that the ones where you have to line up the arrows to open them really confuse bears. I said yeah, they need to make them like medicine bottles. 25432. arkymalarky - 7/17/2009 5:13:47 PM Our neighbor got an "animal-proof" one, obviously not expensive (soft plastic with a "locking" top) and the bear just squeezes it until the lid pops off. He's done that twice and hasn't hurt the can at all. Bro did say something funny--that the ones where you have to line up the arrows to open them really confuse bears. I said yeah, they need to make them like medicine bottles. 25433. robertjayb - 7/18/2009 1:24:14 AM MSNBC has a bulletin up saying Walter Chronkite is dead at 92.... 25434. robertjayb - 7/18/2009 1:41:20 AM Uncle Walter remembered...(HouChron)
Walter Cronkite's voice provided the backdrop for many of America's best, brightest, saddest and most trying moments, and the bonds of trust he forged across three decades with millions of CBS News viewers remain the unattainable gold standard of his profession.
Cronkite, who died Friday at 92, worked for CBS News from 1950 through 1981 and was anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News for 19 years. He had been ill for some time.
25435. judithathome - 7/18/2009 6:08:49 AM Just watched parts of the Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories and had never seen much of that all of a piece before...gotta say some of the "evidence" was compelling. 25436. arkymalarky - 7/18/2009 7:19:38 AM I had a student who was into that theory. Never heard all the details.
I read and Wabbit posted a week or so ago that Walter Cronkite's death was imminent. I just loved him from my earliest tv, before I knew about news. I saw today that Nelson Mandela is 91. Time is flashing by. 25437. robertjayb - 7/19/2009 3:03:39 AM Celebrating Cronkite while ignoring what he did...
The Vietcong did not win by a knockout [in the Tet Offensive], but neither did we. The referees of history may make it a draw. . . . We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds. . . .
"For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. . . . To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past" -- Walter Cronkite, CBS Evening News, February 27, 1968.
"I think there are a lot of critics who think that [in the run-up to the Iraq War] . . . . if we did not stand up and say this is bogus, and you're a liar, and why are you doing this, that we didn't do our job. I respectfully disagree. It's not our role" -- David Gregory, MSNBC, May 28, 2008.
(Glen Greenwald in Salon)
25438. arkymalarky - 7/19/2009 5:33:14 AM Greenwald gets it exactly. Cronkite's role in getting Watergate covered by CBS was overlooked, as well, imo. They did a 25th anniversary special that I still show to students which reveals so much more behind the scenes wrt all involved than anyone realized.
David Gregory is really an example of all that is wrong with the MSM. I sometimes liked him when he was giving poor Scott McClelland hell, but he has zero value in anything related to journalistic skill that I can see. 25439. judithathome - 7/19/2009 3:40:43 PM Yeah, he's the furtherest thing from "investigative journalism" there is... 25440. judithathome - 7/19/2009 3:41:25 PM ...or even responsible journalism.
Toadyism rules these days. 25441. Ms. No - 7/19/2009 7:02:51 PM The Good Lord must love the stupid people; he made so damn many of them.
I cannot, cannot, can not go back to Politics Daily. It just makes me too mad. I can't read those comments and have any hope at all for our country --- and right now there's some idiocy showing with the co-editor and her crusade to misunderstand and have a fit all over Justice Ginsberg's Roe v. Wade comments.
Seriously. I'm so mad lately I could spit. I'm tired of greed and stupidity and selfishness and hysteria.
I just want out.
Canada's better than this, right? 25442. robertjayb - 7/19/2009 10:52:33 PM Maybe New Zealand?
For Alistair: Roaming in New Zealand...(LATimes)
Interesting travelogue and more about VW vans than you probably want to know...
25443. dandillon - 7/21/2009 3:49:14 AM Greetings, all. Just dropping in. Hope everyone's doing wonderfully well! 25444. arkymalarky - 7/21/2009 5:22:08 AM Hey Dan! Same to you. Update us on the fam when you get a chance. Great to see you here! 25445. arkymalarky - 7/21/2009 5:24:03 AM I'm in a hotel in Amarillo with Bob and Mazie. Was depressed to leave the CO cabin, more than usual, but now looking forward to home. And it's going to be cool in AR this week! Usually when we step out of the car at home we feel like we need gills to breathe, but it should be really nice tomorrow evening, though it's supposed to rain. And Wed will rival the cabin at 85F! 25446. alistairConnor - 7/21/2009 7:55:07 AM Hey Dan!
I'm at my girlfriend's flat in Lyon. I've got a couple of weeks All Alone, she's with her family in Morocco, and my kids are with their mother. I had my annual week-long orgy of mountain biking, eating and drinking, and in spite of all the blood, sweat and tears, I came back 3 kilos HEAVIER.
I'm supposed to be selling my house, but having psychological difficulties with that... 25447. judithathome - 7/22/2009 3:52:02 PM Arky, in 8 days we'll be on your front porch having a treat I found for us yesterday...you and I are going to feel like genuine Southern Belles, for sure!
Well, sans the corsets and petticoats! 25448. arkymalarky - 7/23/2009 4:50:12 AM Oh how cool!! I can't wait!
We came home from CO to cool weather for the first time I recall and today has been crazy catching up at work and Walmart. But we never broke a sweat and I can breathe. Wish it'd stay like this! 25449. alistairconnor - 7/23/2009 7:55:38 PM Why can't you people live in places with reasonable climates?
It's absolutely lovely here at my place. All the doors open, pleasantly warm (too hot down in Lyon). No flies (no ponies or horses in residence these days, that helps) No mosquito problems, yet...
I just finished the visit with my first real estate agent. He really likes the place. Which is nice, but it doesn't make it any easier to sell.
The plan is to buy a somewhat similar (but smaller) place, closer to town, so we can both reasonably commute. And my rebellious elder daughter will have a room there, which she can use or not. I will not be held hostage. 25450. arkymalarky - 7/24/2009 1:09:35 AM The CO cabin weather is like that but winters are brutal according to the neighbors. Got a migraine now, but I won't blame it on AR weather today, tho the return to damp air is an adjustment. We always leave windows and doors open in CO and never here. Tho a couple of years ago a bat got into the cabin thru the screen. Scared the crap out of me. Bob lost his sense of smell, got it back after over a week in CO, and has already lost it again.
Good luck on selling the house. Have you already got another house selected or are you just describing what you want?
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