The Isolated Blurt Thread: I Learned The Truth at XVII

[Noor]

How are you Noor. How you feeling, how was your day?

Parts of me are good. Having housing issues, somehow, need to move somewhere. Need some magic soon.

Getting closer to his death anniversary, which is the same time as this big con I go to.

Trying to meet some legal deadlines. It's a bit overwhelming. Finally got an appointment with a dr in the field I need buts its not for 9 months! I am on the waitlist though.

How are you, Smooth?

 

[Saint Peter]

Luckiest nephew ever.

 

[yossi]

I don't want to go to work today. I want to be lazy and keep fiddling with the bike.

 

[smoothg103rd]

Parts of me are good. Having housing issues, somehow, need to move somewhere. Need some magic soon.

Getting closer to his death anniversary, which is the same time as this big con I go to.

Trying to meet some legal deadlines. It's a bit overwhelming. Finally got an appointment with a dr in the field I need buts its not for 9 months! I am on the waitlist though.

How are you, Smooth?

Sorry to hear that Noor. Hope you find your magic. I'm ok though. Can't complain.

 

[Saint Peter]

http://storage.filemobile.com/storage/16019461/15

 

[Saint Peter]

Ringo and Green Day on stage at the hbo rock and roll hall of fame show.


Strange combo.

Rocked the house.

 

[lovetoread]

Its freaking 2015, but by all means keep on being sexist.

 

[trysail]

You have the largest oceans on the planet on either side of you, the Caribbean within easy reach, and countless rivers. Why do you need to import fish from China?

A horde of immigrants invaded in order to suck at The Big Government tit. The Mistake On The Potomac became an urban hellhole and paved everything in sight. It wrecked the whole area.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121588652
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Sixty years ago, Maryland and NoVa were largely rural, agricultural and possessed some of the most gorgeous countryside on the face of the earth. Today, it's all been paved over with horribly ugly developments. The regional culture has been all but effaced by the influx of people with no understanding of what they've destroyed. Many of them are horribly impolite and possess no manners. What was once a paradise is now a mess. My ancestors lived in what was an Eden and would be disgusted by what has occurred.

The Chesapeake Bay has been destroyed by the pollution from all the development.
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Byproducts Of Washington, D.C. Smother Chesapeake Bay
by Elizabeth Shogren

When Anne Croft fertilizes her tiny lawn in Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Hill neighborhood, she has no idea that she's contributing to the pollution that still vexes the Chesapeake Bay after 25 years of cleanup.

The federal and state governments have spent several billion dollars to meet a pledge to restore the bay's health, but the nation's largest estuary is still one of the country's most polluted waterways. Pollution so starves the Chesapeake Bay of oxygen that each summer, a stretch of it dozens of miles long is unsuitable for fish or most other creatures. And crab and oyster populations are at tiny fractions of historic levels.

President Obama is launching a new cleanup strategy and warns that if states do not reduce pollution, the federal government will take over the job.

Byproducts Of Modern Living Affect Waterways
But experts say a big part of the problem is that each of the almost 17 million people living in the Chesapeake's huge watershed contributes to the bay's bleak condition. Exhaust from their cars, detergent from their dishwashers, fertilizers from their yards, and waste from their septic and sewage systems are some of the many sources of the nitrogen and phosphorus that plague the bay.

These nutrients stimulate too much algae to grow. Bacteria that eat the algae suck so much oxygen out of parts of the bay that fish and creatures have to swim away to survive. The algae and sediments in the runoff also make the water murky, killing underwater grasses that provide safe nurseries for the bay's famous crabs and many fish.

Many people, like Croft, are unaware that their ordinary activities have this harmful effect.

On a crisp fall day, Croft is trying to make sense of the directions on a bag of fertilizer.

"That's not very clear," she says as she fills a fertilizer applicator. "So I'm going to have to sort of just wing it. I'll just put a bunch in there, and I'll go back and forth over it a couple of times, and I'll just call it a day."

Croft knows the bay is polluted. She used to teach fourth-grade history in Maryland, and spent about two weeks each year focusing on the Chesapeake. Still, she didn't think she could be part of the problem.

"I guess I don't think about where the water runoff goes in the city," she says.

Raw Sewage And Fertilizer-Spiked Stormwater
Dottie Yunger thinks a lot about it — a lot.

On a rainy autumn day, Yunger is in Croft's neighborhood watching water run into a sewer.

"The stormwater that's collected from last night and through today is running down the street and into this storm drain," she says. "And if anybody has used any pesticide or fertilizer on their lawn, that gets picked up with the rainwater."

Yunger is the "river keeper" for the Anacostia River, which flows through the east side of Washington, D.C. She's the chief advocate for one of the shortest and dirtiest tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay.

Two kinds of pollution are the prime culprits for robbing the bay of oxygen — nitrogen and phosphorus. Ten percent of the nitrogen and even more of the phosphorus in the Chesapeake come from fertilizers that wash off lawns and golf courses.

And fertilizer isn't the only problem.

In the District of Columbia and lots of other cities across the bay watershed, stormwater flows through the same pipes as the sewage. When it rains hard, sewage treatment plants can't handle all the volume. So they divert the stormwater and the sewage into the rivers.

"So every time it rains really hard in the district and you flush your toilet, you're flushing your toilet directly into the Anacostia," Yunger says.

It is cold and raining heavily when Yunger takes me out on the Anacostia in a small boat. As we approach the ballpark where the Washington Nationals play, Yunger remembers a conversation she once had there.

"It was after a particularly large rainstorm. And I remember something really smelled, and I turned to my husband and said, 'What stinks?' And he said, 'Your river stinks.' And he was right."

It can take as little as a quarter of an inch of rain for the local utility to release raw sewage and stormwater into the Anacostia, according to the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority. The district's sewer system sends about 2 billion gallons of the untreated stuff into bay tributaries each year. All together, about a fifth of the nitrogen and phosphorus in the bay come from wastewater treatment plants throughout the bay's huge watershed, which includes parts of six states and Washington, D.C.

'When It Rains, I Panic'
The Anacostia is an urban river, surrounded by asphalt, cobblestone, cement and other hard surfaces. In undeveloped areas, the earth soaks up the rain and filters the pollution. But in urban areas, there's nothing to absorb the rain or pollution.

As we motor past the Washington Navy Yard, Yunger points out a big drainage pipe funneling runoff into the river.

As we ride under bridges packed with cars, trucks and buses, Yunger explains that a lot of the water pollution comes from vehicles. They leak gasoline and oil onto roads, and the rain washes it into waterways. They also pump exhaust into the air, and when it rains, the rainwater brings the pollution into the water.

About a quarter of the nitrogen pollution in the bay comes from the air — much of it from exhaust from factories, power plants and vehicles.

Yunger says most people think rain has a cleansing effect on the environment, but she knows differently.

"I used to love a rainy day. Now when it rains, I panic. Because I know that here in the Anacostia, if it rains very hard, that water is going to end up untreated into the river. The Anacostia is going to flow into the Potomac, and the Potomac is going to flow into the Chesapeake Bay, and we're going to be adding more pollution into the Chesapeake Bay," Yunger says.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121588652

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Original Chesapeake Bay Foundation bumper sticker ( c. 1966 ):
SAVE THE BAY

More appropriate Chesapeake Bay Foundation bumper sticker ( 2014 ):
PAVE THE BAY

Suggested future Chesapeake Bay Foundation bumper sticker:
Where are you from? Go back



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[lovetoread]

That was a lot of racist shit.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

Anybody else dislike pizza that has too many different toppings, and too much of each one? My wife brought home such a pizza yesterday and I'm still trying to eat it, as leftovers. It's ridiculously piled on with an uncountable number of toppings, and incredibly thick with them. It's just too much.

Sometimes you just gotta eat it with a fork and knife.

 

[lovetoread]

Jamie’s hand still lay on mine. It tightened a little, and I glanced at him, but his eyes were still fixed somewhere past the dooryard; past the mountains, and the distant clouds. His grip tightened further, and I felt the edges of my ring press into my flesh.
“When the day shall come, that we do part,” he said softly, and turned to look at me, “if my last words are not ‘I love you’-ye’ll ken it was because I didna have time.”

.....

 

[MonaLittle]

http://storage.filemobile.com/storage/16019461/15

LOL

He does own a Hawks jersey.

 

[Saint Peter]

LOL

He does own a Hawks jersey.

The Hawks are strong.
The Emery is weak.

 

[Aquagal]

.....

 

[neci]

The roads were awful yesterday. I'm not driving for a week.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I eat, maybe, a pound of bacon per year. I like it in things (i.e. a BLT), but I hate to cook it because it stinks up the Manse, and eating a piece of bacon all by itself is kinda gross because of the grease.

But yesterday i bought a pound of the special fresh cut bacon from the butcher shop in the super market. I figured maybe I just didn't like the mass-produced stuff that comes in that awful packaging that you can't open with getting your fingers all nasty.

But no... the good stuff is just as bad as the bad stuff.

What's worse... the good stuff isn't stuffed full of preservatives and nitrates so it probably won't last until tomato season.

 

[pointless]

bacon "stinks" up your house? what is wrong with you?

 

[JohnnySavage]

Don't judge me because of my sensitive nose.

 

[Saint Peter]

No shit.


A.Fuente Hemmingway Short Stories on order.

Check.

 

[pointless]

bacon makes your house stink like delicious bacon, you terrorist!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

"A horde of immigrants invaded."

http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdwao0B9Hj1qj171uo1_1280.jpg

YEAH, NO SHIT.

 

[Spins]

It leaves an odor.

 

[Pookie]

Bacon smell haters make lousy lovers.

It's true!

 

[JohnnySavage]

I'm ok with that, as long as I get mine.

 

[Eyereadtoo]

If some crazy as a loon, Sideshow Bob looking, white woman in Washington state can claim to be black then I can claim to have a 32" waistline and there ain't a damned thing any of y'all can do about it!