susan, i dunno, there is just something about the mushy green that reminds me of a sick baby calf! if you get my reasoning!!?? *LOL*
ewwwwwwwwww

LOL to your dislike of green– Ken is the same way– and he hates tomatoes– I have to hide his veggis– like in sauces- etc–

Patty–

Food City @.50 cents a piece–

Ok, so I dont like the green things, but i did notice yesterday in the store, they were .80 cents a piece. How does that compare where you guys are on the west coast where they grow?
I thought it looked awfully high priced!

Adam–

you know how I get so involved in Venezuela and I have LDG to help me get the facts right!

And very funny- your post to me @3:09– Too bad they don’t have a emoticon which sticks the tongue out at you!! :grr:

But your mud fort answer was a cute answer!

@Adam Housley

Looking forward to it! Thanks for the comments, too.

And for today’s entry in the Deniable Intermediaries category:

B. Richardson, New Mexico Governor and common “volunteer” intermediary in international hostage situations, has his latest pronouncement on the Colombia FARC hostages… well at least the three American and one French national of note. Apparently the other ~696 aren’t worthy of his assistance…

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352748,00.html

Amazon Kindle….

it’s like an electronic book… easy on the eyes…

you can download books … blogs etc…
you can read anywhere… my husband LOVES HIS TO DEATH….

go look ….

Avi–
to the , better you than me- ecology would be something you want to share with us? Maybe posts some questions to see if we get them right– LDG, Max, and I are hijacking threads by posting trivia questions– I think it would be fun if you posted some of your exam questions — let’s make your exam misery fun here–
Forget the math– Yuck!

To the Take pictures! I haven’t seen any lately
xxxxx

Max thx u 2 sus

sus,

Tomarrow i got 2 math tests back to back…. then a test on friday on ecology ( envt sceince ) which covers alot of topics…. and i think i might have another test in the middle of the week but not sure….

then the following week is another bunch of tests….. Until July 15……

ooo a good note ….. we have a week long trip across israel that most all Juniors do in which you go from the North of Israel to Jersualem ….. Going to be a neat trip …… but right after and right before it Alll tests!!!!!!!! soo and

Terri–

what the heck is a kindle?

surfdog?

Where have you been?

I thought of you today when I had two sets of reading glasses on my head! True story!

Avi–

what are your exams in?

Adam–

Did you get called to cover the fire in Sierra Madre?

xxx

Susan: haha, i like that one.

I posted a new question.

Avi: good luck with all the exams.

Avi–

I am sorry– but you sounded busy while on vacation!

My new link on my picture is for LDG and Max-

Max-

no clue where the sign was taken– it was funny!

Terri– Now I know where to find the sign close by- LOL

VACATION IS OVER !!!!!!!!!!! :( EXAMS MADNESS begins

Susan… we have signs like that outside of Vegas, too…
out by Indian Springs….

Susan: where was that photo taken?

Adam.. I see Greta ordererd a Kindle…

YOU SHOULD GET ONE TOO…

My husband LOVES HIS!

You can put your blog on it, too.

I do prefer to have our own avocados from here in California. We eat a lot of them and I
really don’t want them coming in from foreign lands. We have enough water and I pray that
we always will. Some things are just a scare tactic and we must go on faith that He will
provide the water and the avocados. God bless all the farmers too.

Max–

click on my name–
will check later to see what question you have come up with!

xxxx

Terri: walking most of the time. We also have busses and a subway system, so we use them for longer journies. And cabs when we need to be somewhere fast.

Comment by Max Kon
April 26th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Jen & Terri: We don’t even own a car, it’d be far to expensive.

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*big huge wide eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

I could not imagine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How do you all do it? Cab?
Shuttle?

Wow.. I’m in shock…. I could not live w/o a car.

Jen & Terri: We don’t even own a car, it’d be far to expensive.

Susan: John McCain was the one publicizing the cuting of the gas tax from Memorial Day to Labor day. He’s trying to get congress to pass it, but gas tax is only about 18cent per gallon in the US, so it’s not a big saving.

Hi all-

Be looking in the mail for those rebate checks– coming earlier– who do I thank? China? Is this where we borrowed the money from? LOL

Safeway has it if you buy $50.00 or more of food, you get 15cents deducted from the gas if you pump gas from one of their stations. Good for one visit! whoopie doo!

Isn’t there a rumor going on about cutting the gas taxes from Memorial Day to Labor?

Terri– do your stores run specials? Frys has the milk running on sale right now- I always look at the ads- We drink a lot of milk here- Eggs, I hardly ever buy- only if I bake- which is not too often- Maybe it is a good thing Ken is a diabetic–

I will watch CNN tonight. I want to see you again. LOL

Jen– Adam sure does get confused with time, doesn’t he?

Max… how do you all afford gas????????????????????????

Honestly… that is awful.

Terri
That’s great; I will watch again.

Adam-
You lose track of time? Your two hours has turned into over 24.
Hope you’re OK.
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Max– Holy Cow!! No wonder you walk

Pattypult–
Susan– interesting as usual; news from A-Z!

Terri: at least you don’t have approximately 210% gas tax there.
70% of the price here is taxes. So you multiply the price of gas there by 3.10 to get the price here.
Your trip to beaver would cost around $400 if you were paying UK gas prices.

We’ll be on CNN again tonight, they are re~airing the Healthcare ~ Critical Condition program.
8pm Eastern.

Hello everyone.

Scary about the food prices…
a couple weeks ago I went to a local store, a gallon of milk was $4.99 and a dozen eggs were $2.99! I don’t know how big families are doing it….

My husband is convinced that it’s b/c of the ethanol deal…
causing grain to go up, yada yada.

Gas, OMG … it’s killin us everytime we run up to Beaver… it used to cost us about 75 a trip..
now it’s 130 ~ Mike runs up every week to work on the cabin.

Avi-

you can be arrested but you don’t have to have the Miranda warnings– these come into play as for arrest and interrogation–

“However, an individual can be arrested without being read a Miranda warning. The purpose of a Miranda warning is only to protect a suspect from making incriminating statements during questioning. All police need to legally arrest a person is probable cause - a reasonable belief that an individual has committed a crime. Police are required to read the Miranda warning only before interrogating a suspect.”

But I think since the Miranda warnings are a procedural safeguard, law enforcement reads the warnings even in a simple arrest to cover their butts!

Yes- Ernesto was killed in a bar brawl– He would have lived longer behind bars!

Shall be a good interview

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/24/60minutes/main4040294.shtml

SUs,

yah i know the history of him i learned it in AP american govt …. the ironic thing of his story is that the he was killed and the guy who killed him didnt say a word due to his maranda rights and walked free no one was ever charged with Miranadas murder…

But Susan the question is once your arrested meaning having the handcuffs put on you that means our arrested and have the right to the Miranda rights. Or can you be handcuffed and not arrested? Because if your just going to be interrogated you go willingly??

So if they are handcuffed by Border Patrol they are taken to a prison cell therefore into US soil soo yah they are arrested ……

Or do they just send the back to Mexico through a back door after they are caught ??

I think on Fox i saw a story a long time ago that showed illegals in a AZ or TX jail who were caught.. not sure though

Adam–

we went from avocados to aces– Well, they both begin with an -A-

Hope you made it back safely!

@LDG

re: R. Cunningham (and his RIO, W.P. Driscoll) — they were the only Navy “aces” in the VietNam War,

Oh yes– Ace=5 kills— whoever his final kill was for that day, (Duke) it made him an Ace–

May 10th is KC Fresno’s anniversary–

Carrie– I know you won’t see this– but happy day to you tomorrow– Carrie is getting married tomorrow!

LDG–

I jotted notes while I was watching– you think I would have remembered all that? Yes– Driscoll and Cunningham both ejected as the plane was on fire!

The title to this was Dog Fight– which I found to be interesting as Top Gun (the school teaches this) as at one time, Dog Fighting was to become obselete and it was realized dog fighting was needed– so yes, I had a great time learning today!

@Susan-AZ

Wow, you did have a good time at all that! Yay for the History Channel!

re: R. Cunningham (and his RIO, W.P. Driscoll) — they were the only Navy “aces” in the VietNam War, yes. And yes, Cunningham pled guilty to various corruption charges as a congressman in 2005.

LDG—

I decided to take a nap after I got back earlier and I turned on the History channel– Well so much for snoozing- I only caught the second hour– what did I learn? (Dog Fights)

First there are two guys I would love to acknowledge Bud Anderson– triple Ace in WW11 who flew a P-51- Mustang– I came in at the end of this but I was able to get a bit of air combat– What a guy! And now I know when I hear P-51, where to place this plane- and which war- In his 80’s he was still in active pilot!

Second person I am acknowledging is Major General Blesse Fredericks aka Boots– Korean War Ace Fighter- who flew the F 86 Sabre. Here I learned about the MiG 15– He had a major air combat with the MiG 15 and ran out of fuel but managed to get to the ocean and he ejected–

Wrote the- No Guts, No Glory– truly amazing man!!!!

But then Duke Cunningham and his May 10th, 1972 story was shown– (Isn’t he a felon or didn’t he plead guilty to some federal charges?) well the bit about the MiG-17 and the Phantom planes and the air combat was very interesting– the last MiG-17 Cunningham shot down was said to have been Colonel Toon’s– but this is just conjecture– I guess because the pilot was so skilled- doing the vertical flying as opposed to the horizontal as the MiG-17’s were use to–

Quite a dogfight!! His plane got hit by a SAM — He had to eject too–

I also learned a bit about g turns–

My point here– I won’t be so in the dark when I hear these names anymore and I can even place the war! LOL

oh and the Miranda warnings are named after an Ernesto Miranda– a case which took place here in Arizona circa 1960’s– story goes he kidnapped and raped an 18 year old mentally retarded woman and he was not advised of his rights as to self-incrimination and having a lawyer present when he was brought in for questioning.

His attorney tried to get the confession thrown out of court–this case hit the Supreme Court and Ernesto won–His statements were not held admissable, hence the intro to the Miranda warnings– (you have the right to remain silent and the right to have a lawyer– however these are said) but point to these warnings are if you are to be in custody and interrogated–

oops– meant to say– ..not read the Miranda warnings, they have found a loop hole …..

Note that one need not be Mirandized to be arrested. There is a difference between being arrested and being questioned. Also, basic questions, such as name, address, and Social Security number do not need to be covered by a Miranda warning. The police also need not Mirandize someone who is not a suspect in a crime.

Avi–

Miranda warnings are for arrest and interrogation– so if they are being detained and not being interrogated, there is not need for the Miranda warnings– Many people think if you are being arrested and not read the Miranda warnings, they have no found a loop hole– Miranda warnings are just procedural– this is not a statute-

Avi..dont know the answer to your question, but i did find this…

Immigration agents are not required to obtain warrants to detain suspects. The agents also have broad authority to question people about their immigration status and to search them and their homes. There are no Miranda rights that agents must read when making arrests. Detained immigrants have the right to a lawyer, but only one they can pay for.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/weekinreview/14preston.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Kathy in TX……….also, let’s hope that the bottom doesn’t fall out of the prices for those crops the farmers have spent their hard earned dollars on planting………..as you said, in hopes of “great times”. If the commodities speculators, who are the main driving force behind these outrages prices, pull their money out of the crop futures markets and go somewhere else, let’s say coal futures for example, it will leave a lot of US farmers high and dry………Unable to sell their crops for profit, thus leaving them vunerable to not being able to pay off their bank loans that many have accumulated in buying their seeds and equipment.
This would be a total disaster for the US economy, as not only more farms will fail, but also more banks and lending institutions would follow suit. This summer and fall crop market could be very volatile indeed.

Adam or to anyone,

When the Border Patrol catches illegals crossing the border( Mexico) and they arrest them are they read their Maranda rights and put in jail till they are deported or do they go stright back to Mexico without being read their Maranda rights eventhough they have been ” arrested” or what?

Socal surfer,

Hope you look like a lobster, may your beer be luke warm, your peanuts stale, and your subscription to playboy be replaced by jihadist weekly and may Al Gore be your next door neighbor and Michael Moore be your long lost and now homeless brother. Oh and my wife hopes you burned your butt.

To everyone: I’m going home to warm up with my beautiful, hot and sexy wife. She feels sorry for me.

Have a cold weekend. :grr:

Being married to a farmer I asked a month ago where he thought we were headed on food costs. His prediction is SKY HIGH. He knows far more than most pundants when it comes to farming. As he said the cost we have is tripled to just produce a crop that cost is the base cost. He planted a lot of corn, I hate to say it but we need corn comodity to go sky high. It would hit us at a great time.

Remember I am the one that told this group many moons ago those oversea farmers are completely subsized, and have far fewer restrictions. Our American farmers are farming with one hand tied behind their back and trying to make it. It is time America comes to understand how we feel, and truly maybe this situation will get a true FARM bill not a Welfare bill on the agenda of the congress and senate.

K2 remember Denmark is a socialist country, they don’t care who they have they all make the same no matter who is running the country.

Please visit my blog for a great big announcement, hint blogspot and brazoscowgirl will get you there.

Abbas says pessimistic about peace prospects

Published: 04.25.08, 22:42 / Israel News

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he failed to achieve any progress in Middle East peace talks with President George W. Bush and he is returning home with little to show for his visit.

The Palestinian leader is pessimistic about the prospects of achieving any deal with Israel this year, despite a big US push that began five months ago at a summit in Annapolis, Maryland. Abbas says the biggest obstacle is Israel’s continued expansion of settlements. (AP)

and confidence and poor motivation

GREAT SELF CONFIDENCE …. NOTTT

22:47 Abbas says failed to achieve progress in peace talks during meeting with Bush (AP)

Retread:

SoCal Surfer just came home from surfing,goofing off and trying to tan on the beach in Malibu. Now im home, turned the fan on opened a nice cool beer. Oh by the way its 90f and sunny with not a cloud in the sky!

Hm. better get to digging a snow-fort to protect myself… either that, or alert the Maritime Self-Defense Force to get an SM-3 capable Aegis Destroyer on the Pacific side…

((departs))

DEATH TO ALL THE SUNBELTERS….EVEN THE ONE IN JAPAN!!!

Pattypult???!!! *LOL*

Retread…….Gotcha……the ear muffs and boots will be wrapped in aluminum foil. Look for a glittering ball to appear out of the snow clouds from the SE at about 1930Z……..in the mean time reverse the polarity on one of the ECM’s of your Pickem up trucks. It should scatter any unwanted gamma rays into southern Manitoba.
Until then, good luck and have a great weekend

@Patty

EGAD! You have designed a Pattypult?!?

(love the picture!)

@Susan-AZ, Max, Patty, and any/all who want to play along with Susan’s little research/trivia game

New exercise posted on the POD-8 thread, for your enjoyment. I picked one more on the trivia side this time, but hopefully a fun one.

@Retread

hehhehheh…

“I have been known to start one or two minor international incidences”

oh, the story value of those alone must be epic…

here ya go retread…need some help with the design?..click on my name!

Comment by Retread
April 25th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
DID ANYBODY HEAR ME?
ITS FREAKING SNOWING HERE AND I EXPECT SOME SYMPATHY
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Just stepped in for a cool drink…..as I am perspiring today; and as I reach to turn the ceiling fan on above my head, I say to you Retread, I AM SO SORRY
that you are not here to enjoy it with me.

LDG

not worried about Japanese, I have been known to start one or two minor international incidences, both of which required then President Reagan to apologize to the Soviets…opps!

Besides as a former Jarhead, well trained in ALL forms of combat and weaponry I won’t miss…but am having some problems, I forgot that there are not many trees in the Northern Plains, so am cannibalizing parts from our Pickem up trucks!

PS

am low on aluminum foil too

man, wordpress is being such a beach today.

grr, my comment was deleted.

whoa, i think retread catapulted my post to japan! i ended up on a page with about 15 different errors! *L*

WordPress is being tempermental to say the least.

K2…*L* at the danish and your self pity!!
Nice to see you btw.

@Retread

“am building a giant freaking catapult now and going to send the first one your way buddy.”

remember, aim about 60 miles NORTH of Toukyou (Tokyo)… if you hit the big city instead, they are going to be *all kinds* of confused.

LDG–

cool– will check back in there later and have some fun–

thank you!

xxx

word press just posted my post without letting me finish–

I am still having problems here–

Retread– that was funny!!!! your comment to LDG-

Duck LDG!!!

@Susan-AZ

“Did you put up a question on the POD?”

ah, it is my turn to post one. Very well… briefly off to the POD thread to hijack it for our selfish purposes! ((grin))

I almost forgot–

hello to surfdog when he comes back in!

xxx

I am having problems

LDG

am building a giant freaking catapult now and going to send the first one your way buddy.

Nobody told me that it would snow in LATE April when i moved here back before global freezing

wow– two posts went through!

break is over– back to rug cleaning–

xxxx

Retread —

I’d send a little sympathy, but am feeling sorry for myself - so none left over for you. Sorry..

after a week in the sun and 80 - 90 degree temps, we are on our second day of rain which is supposed to turn into snow showers!

Does Cindy have big breasts?

Retread–

finally I was able to come back on– I am sending you a heater– and all of Ken’s jackets- he can’t use them here- how about that? In return, melt the snow and send back so I can water the yard!

Patty– will do– (mowing the grass)

LDG– You are alive and well!! Did you put up a question on the POD? So when I get done doing the rugs here, I can have some fun?

Patty– want to join in on the question? LDG asks hard questions!!!

Off topic –

From a Danish friend of mine:

“We in Denmark cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election.

On one side, you have a b**** who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, and a lawyer who is married to a b**** who is a lawyer.

On the other side, you have a true war hero married to a woman with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship.

Is there a contest here?”

thank you retread,,,,anything i can do for a friend!