Isolated Blurt Thread

[trysail]

http://www.nshof.org/images/stories/HSHOF/NewYorkYC-burgee.jpg


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[Handley_Page]

http://www.nshof.org/images/stories/HSHOF/NewYorkYC-burgee.jpg


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And this means ?
please

 

[oggbashan]

Grr! BT internet services were out for hours. I reset my modem, used troubleshooting software, reset computer - and the problem was BT's.

They have had major problems today across the UK.

 

[Handley_Page]

Grr! BT internet services were out for hours. I reset my modem, used troubleshooting software, reset computer - and the problem was BT's.

They have had major problems today across the UK.

We have blokes digging up the road a little distance away. They were hammering away at unspeakably early hours this morning. Quite why they didn't put these pipes in last year when the dug up the whole road is, as usual, unclear.
But they ain't very deep . . .

 

[trysail]

And this means ?
please

New York Yacht Club burgee.

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[trysail]

The price of a barrel of petroleum is now below what it was in 1947 (adjusted for inflation).



https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?g=3lQ9




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[Handley_Page]

Sadly, the price at the pump does not reflect the price of oil.
Well, not round here, anyway.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Another snow storm, another reminder that I am moving to Florida in 16 months...

 

[oggbashan]

My older Volvo appears to have been fixed. The last problem was caused by a pair of solenoids that control the two fuel pumps. It is about two-thirds the size of a cigarette pack but getting at it?

Get your head down in the passenger footwell. Completely remove the ashtray and drop the fuze box drawer. Reach above the fuze box (a small torch would be useful) and grasp the solenoid pack. Ease it out gently and carefully replace with a new one. Lift up the fuze box drawer and refit. Finally, replace the ashtray.

I had also been having problems with a faulty brake light. The fault was indicated on the dashboard display. Today, after shopping, I decided to go to our local motor spares shop. They replace faulty bulbs as part of the cost of the new bulb.

I had suspected that the problem was not a faulty bulb but defective wiring. As I drove towards their shop...

...the brake light worked, for the first time in weeks, and continued to work.

 

[trysail]

Jesus H. Keeeeeeeeriiiiiiiiiiist.


Another fucking cat lady.



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[loquere]

Jesus H. Keeeeeeeeriiiiiiiiiiist.


Another fucking cat lady.



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I am not a fan of cats. I like dogs though.

 

[trysail]

..." 'Millionaire'— this was perhaps the first time that Johnson had ever been identified as such in print, at least in a national publication; he had perhaps never been identified in a national publication as a wealthy man, let alone a very wealthy man; for Life to do so, it must know something about his personal fortune that he had previously been able to keep hidden.

And, in fact, it did.

The magazine's investigative team had been working since the end of October [1963], and, during that time, say its leader, Associate Editor William Lambert, 'I began to pick up all these hints' about Lyndon Johnson, not merely about Johnson and his relationship with the newly rich Bobby Baker, but about Lyndon Johnson 'and the acquisition of his fortune.' Following up on hints, the team had found, in the words of Russell Sackett, one of its members and also an associate editor, that 'The deeper you got, the more serious they were; he was far richer than anyone had expected,' that he was, in fact, very rich indeed.

'I was very indignant,' Lambert said, and during the week of November 11 [1963], he had gone to the office of George P. Hunt, Life's managing editor, and said of Lyndon Johnson, 'This guy looks like a bandit to me.' Although 'bandit' is, of course, a synonym for 'robber' or 'thief,' Lambert didn't feel he was misusing the word. 'I felt that he had used public office to enhance his private wealth.' 'We're going to have to spend some money [to investigate]. I need some people, and a lot of time.' Johnson's entire financial picture should be looked into, he said. 'It was almost a net worth job, and you know that takes an enormous amount of time. I told Hunt, 'He's got a fortune, and he's been on the [public] payroll ever since he got out of college. And I don't know how he got it, but it's there.' By the time he went to see Hunt, Lambert was to recall, 'We knew he was a millionaire many times over."...​

-Robert A. Caro
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power
New York, N.Y. 2012.​

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This is another excerpt from the fourth volume of Robert A. Caro's monumental biography of the 36th President of the U.S.

I have read each volume as they have emerged. With each and every volume, I have been more and more sickened and disgusted by Caro's revelations of Johnson's profound dishonesty.

The inescapable fact is that Lyndon Baines Johnson was a crook, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a swindler and a blackmailer.

He cheated in every single election he ever entered— beginning as a student at obscure Southwest Texas State Teachers College— and he never stopped.




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[MagicaPractica]

Valentine's Day can suck it this year... but I hope you all have a nice one.

 

[oggbashan]

Valentine's Day can suck it this year... but I hope you all have a nice one.

It can be the worst and most frustrating day to express how you love someone because everything is overpriced, the restaurants are crowded and the food/service is poor because of the rush the staff are in.

If you love someone, don't wait until the 14th.

Show and tell them now, and often.

 

[Handley_Page]

It can be the worst and most frustrating day to express how you love someone because everything is overpriced, the restaurants are crowded and the food/service is poor because of the rush the staff are in.

If you love someone, don't wait until the 14th.

Show and tell them now, and often.

But if you DO go out, leave your mobile phone at home.

 

[oggbashan]

But if you DO go out, leave your mobile phone at home.

Mine is always switched OFF, unless I need Auto Recovery services...

 

[Handley_Page]

Mine is always switched OFF, unless I need Auto Recovery services...

good point!

 

[oggbashan]

I've just taken my son-in-law and a friend into town to go to our local theatre after the pub.

On the way in, we followed an elderly woman driving at 25 mph down and unrestricted 2-way road. Every time a car came the other way she slowed down to 15 mph. The normal speed on that road is 45-50 mph.

On the way back, on a major road, I was behind a panel truck doing 30 mph. In front of that was a small Fiat with a precarious roof load. The normal speed on that stretch of road is 60 mph.

Each time we had a long queue of vehicles behind.

 

[MagicaPractica]

It can be the worst and most frustrating day to express how you love someone because everything is overpriced, the restaurants are crowded and the food/service is poor because of the rush the staff are in.

If you love someone, don't wait until the 14th.

Show and tell them now, and often.

I'll probably just take him out Friday.

 

[NotWise]

In my position, Valentine's Day is a wasted event. I try to demonstrate every day how I value our relationship, and so does she. It doesn't always work out (the nature of relationships) but it makes the one-day event rather unnecessary.

 

[oggbashan]

In my position, Valentine's Day is a wasted event. I try to demonstrate every day how I value our relationship, and so does she. It doesn't always work out (the nature of relationships) but it makes the one-day event rather unnecessary.

I think Valentine's Day is worth acknowledging, if only with a special attempt to tell your partner that you love them.

But the commercialisation of it is another ploy to make people feel guilty and spend money.

A bunch of flowers just to say "I love you" on a random day of the year? OK.

Paying ten times the price for Valentine's Day? You've wasted your money.

 

[trysail]

It's going to be a tad nippy toward midnight on Saturday (2/14) night.


http://graphical.weather.gov/images/conus/ApparentT7_conus.png



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[TheeGoatPig]

Could we get to spring already, please?

 

[Handley_Page]

here here

 

[loquere]

here here

Parliament