Wednesday Open Thread
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July 22nd, 2009 at 09:27am with
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Since I’ve had a couple of near accidents with idiots using their cell phones while driving, here is a piece I found interesting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/opinion/22dowd.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
Since Obama and his thugs are hell bent on imposing authoritarian power. Here is a piece I found interesting.
Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a joint resolution declaring Alaska’s sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution – and now 36 other states have introduced similar resolutions as part of a growing resistance to the federal government.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104524
cluster says: July 22nd, 2009 at 9:36 am
wow that’s interesting they discovered the 10th.
course AFTER they took the money…
@cluster: Good for them, you betcha. Interestingly, the Alaska legislature has also called a special session on Aug 10 to consider overriding Palin’s veto of federal stimulus funds for energy-related projects.
An override would require a three-fourths majority in both the House and Senate.
“I’m pretty convinced we’ve got the votes in the Senate. The House leadership is trying to figure out if they’ve got the votes to override the stimulus veto, but I think they do,” [Senate President Gary] Stevens said.
And then there’s Palin’s latest ethics problem.
Did anyone see pictures of Hillary Clinton in her orange suit?
The only thing to complete the ensemble is have “TRUSTEE” painted on her back.
@tiredoflibbs: you sound like my wife, lol! Except in my case it’s my affinity for holey jeans (and other articles of attire long past their prime), not orange jump suits.
@orlando: I guess the most interesting part of the whole story is the fact that many of the ethics issues in which Palin finds herself entangled were made possible by the ethics reforms she herself championed. Talk about unintended consequences.
I just don’t recall many of the left driven ethics charges against Palin sticking, with the exception of troopergate.
But that really only counts if you support husbands beating their wives. Do you support wife abuse orlando?
On a completely different note… something is eating my tomatoes. I don’t know with absolute certainty, but I’m reasonably sure it’s mostly if not exclusively rats. I’ve tried various forms of rat poison, but to little effect so far. Anyone have any suggestions? Please exclude cats — my dog Sally reacts to them like Mark reacts to liberals, lol!
I guess the most interesting part of the whole story is the fact that many of the ethics issues in which Palin finds herself entangled were made possible by the ethics reforms she herself championed. Talk about unintended consequences.
Yeah, it really is an interesting dynamic. This latest ethics problem compounds it, too: She could be committing an ethics violation with the manner in which she raised money to defend herself against ethics complaints made possible by her own ethics reforms. It’s like she’s on a “one step forward, two steps backward” plan.
orlando,
So wife abuse is ok in your book? Good to know. And again, if only those left driven ethics charges had any merit. But it does demonstrate an irrational fear of Palin on behalf of the left.
Afraid of a woman. Rico and orlando, why are you afraid of women?
@orlando: It kinda makes you wonder whether Palin’s middle name is Charlotte, lol!
Is that too opaque?
An “independent investigator”—aka Liberal agitator—has decided, through the use of “common sense”, that Palin should not have used her picture on an ad soliciting donations because she is famous and therefore would attrract more attention, than say, orlando’s picture.
Bushwa. It sucked in orlando, and probably a handful of equally mindless ardent Palin-haters, but it is transparently silly and baseless.
rico, I once had a young Standard Poodle who decided that green tomatoes looked exactly like her tennis balls, and tested every one of a very nice crop, just to see if her theory was correct.
I would be inclined to suspect some other critter than a rat, just because I have not heard of rats eating tomatoes, but raccoons are a good possibility.
Two ideas, neither cheap and both a pain.
1. Fence the tomatoes. You can buy step-in fiberglass fence posts at Home Depot, I think, and some wire mesh fencing. But if you are dealing with raccoons (or, as they are evidently called in some parts of Canada, raycuns..) they will tear down a flimsy fence and/or go under it. A smaller fencing approach is wire cones over the plants.
2. Get a Hav-A-Hart trap, a live trap, and bait it and see what you get. Most hardware stores and feed stores carry them, in different sizes.
Try putting flour on the ground around the plants so you have footprints to examine, to get an idea of size and so on.
They also make a motion-acitvated sprinkler that will turn on and spray an intruder.
And finally, see if Ted Nugent is available for critter control.
cluster: Rico and orlando, why are you afraid of women?
Gossly inappropriate joke time… Did you hear Lorena Bobbitt died in a car accident yesterday? Some dick cut her off.
Okay seriously… what does your question have to do with anything we’re talking about here?
Did you hear Lorena Bobbitt died in a car accident yesterday? Some dick cut her off.
Har! *rimshot*
Abstinence-only education continues to be a failure:
How much longer are we going to have to support this failure on the darkly ironic grounds that it is more “moral” than its more successful alternatives?
@amazona: I’ve tried most of the others, but that flour idea was good! I’m gonna try that. Thanks!
The garden is fenced at least sufficiently to disallow something as small and terrestrial as a chihuahua (that’s a known, lol!) or skunks. And it doesn’t make sense to go with a smaller mesh because some of the affected fruit are several feet off the ground, strongly suggesting that at least some of the critters responsible are able to climb (again ruling out skunks — and chihuahuas, lol!). The gnaw marks look more like rats than they do raccoons or oppossums (those can’t be completely ruled out at present, but given the shape of the gnaw marks combined with the fact that the fence hasn’t been at all trashed argues against both). But so far the sticky traps I put down (sorry, but I don’t Hav-A-Hart — I want the perpetrators dead) have not produced results. The motion activated sprinkler system is interesting, but out of the question until next year at the earliest (too many honey-do’s too little time, I’m afraid). So the flour idea seems to be just what the Dr. ordered. Again, thanks!
amazona says:July 22nd, 2009 at 1:09 pm
“…that Palin should not have used her picture on an ad soliciting donations because she is famous and therefore would attrract more attention, than say, orlando’s picture.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ok that’s kinda funny!
It’s like she’s on a “one step forward, two steps backward” plan.
Yeah, go ahead–compare her with da Earbama…
That was my first thought, too, though my dog is a bichon and she goes after the tomatoes when they’re red and thus she can’t plead ignorance.
Goldman Sachs warrant repayment nets U.S. taxpayers a 23% return on it’s bailout investment.
Republicans should be thrilled.
GS paid them off because they knew they’d be worth a whole lot more in nine years.
How are your investments doing?
rico, the problem is still what to do once you identify the culprits. I only suggested the live trap in case you were dealing with a raycun. (Sorry, but my husband and I were so fascinated by overt misuse of terms we tended to adopt them, and I love the mispronounciation of raccoon, so around here they are now raycuns.) Besides, a big trap lets you use big bait, and it sounds like the best bait you could use would be tomatoes. ;-)
You said you had tried poison so it sounds like you have even gotten some of the poisons for the larger Norway rats and poison-resistant kinds. And poison is so dangerous to other animals. Electric fence? Pet stores like PetsMart have pretty reasonable electric fences for pets that might work, just a wire or two around the plants where a nose would touch on the way in. I bought a pad to put on my kitchen counter to keep a cat off, one that gives a little electric shock when stepped on, but that poses two problems—one, that the rats might not be heavy enough to generate the current, and two, that your tomatoes will end up costing about $437 each.
I have been compared to Bill Murray in Caddyshack in my pursuit of ground squirrels and prairie dogs, so I feel your pain. I actually bought a Rodenator, which pumps oxygen and propane into holes and then ignites them. It is time-consuming but kinda fun, and depending on the depth of the hole and how many branches there are—that is to say, how much gas is concentrated in one place—the explosion can be quite…interesting. So I can identify with a compelling desire to just kill them all and let God sort them out.
Try gum. I was told that when rodents eat gum, it gums up their insides and kills them, but it’s not toxic. I tried this, and because I had so many hundreds and hundreds of holes I decided it would be oh so smart to just get gum balls and roll them down the holes. The next day, each hole had its collection of gum balls neatly stacked outside, with the sugar coating nibbled off, waiting for room service to pick them up and drop off some more. I switched to Juicy Fruit, but my infestation was so big I never noticed a difference.