Open Thread
4 01 2010
The book thread yesterday was awesome. If you can’t find a good book to read in those comments, then give up now.
This morning, however, your open thread is as pure as the driven snow…
Enjoy!
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January 4th, 2010 at 3:21 AM
Here’s a funny “No Smoking”sign to read.
http://i.imgur.com/XJthe.jpg
January 4th, 2010 at 3:32 AM
gorgeous picture…have a great week everybody
January 4th, 2010 at 3:47 AM
Love this photo—-and the 2010 calendar is super. Hope you do one for 2011!
January 4th, 2010 at 4:08 AM
Hello everyone – I want to wish everyone a Happy 2010, and let you know I am keeping up with reading this blog that I just love – Thanks AKM for all your work! And thanks to all of you who take the time to write such thoughtful comments. I’m eager to make my way through that incredible book list!
Now a request -
I am thoroughly enmeshed in a family eldercare situation – we’re holding a type of intervention today for a visiting relative who lives 2000 miles away who can’t see his parent is in crisis. Wish us luck, prayers, communication skills, patience and anything else that will help us through.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:42 AM
Looks like Kansas! Three below this morning with a dusting of new snow. It’s supposed get worse before it gets better. Doesn’t bother me though…I’ve always been a cold weather person. I love to get all bundled up and take the dogs for a walk when the snow’s coming down and everything gets that quiet muffled sound.
January 4th, 2010 at 5:00 AM
Kansas……what I would give for -3. It was -35 in far northern MN this morning.
January 4th, 2010 at 5:12 AM
I see a cold, naked, lonely scarah-crow in the picture.
January 4th, 2010 at 5:18 AM
Warm this morning 15 degrees. It’s snizzling here. Sun out and snow flakes falling. Quite beautiful. Of course, wind chill being what it is, I’m not going out until later.
Hope the meeting tomorrow goes well. Here in the Hilltowns of Western MA some of our hunters are our best conservationists.
January 4th, 2010 at 5:31 AM
Thought I had finished, but saw a link about a dog saving a child’s life from a cougar. Had to link. Sometimes as humans we can learn a great deal from “the Nation within the Nation.”
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100103/bc_dog_saves_boy_100103/20100103?hub=BritishColumbia
January 4th, 2010 at 5:48 AM
@4 (((((((((((((((((( in exile)))))))))))
Wishing you all the best today in your “intervention”.
January 4th, 2010 at 5:49 AM
Is that a snow covered Shaqtus? Tall enough.
January 4th, 2010 at 5:51 AM
Palin bailed on the Republicans in Arkansas.
http://tolbertreport.com/2010/01/03/sarah-palin-coming-to-central-arkansas-february-16/
She’s nothing, if not consistent.
Check out the comments in that thread, there is a whole other world out there.
January 4th, 2010 at 5:52 AM
Bah, looks like the scene out my window here in western NY…all nice and pretty when I get to stay inside, snuggle up by the fire and read a good book but I have a dr appt this AM.
In exile @ 4, good luck today. I know those types of conversations aren’t pleasant. I hope it goes well.
January 4th, 2010 at 6:09 AM
(((in exile))) Good luck today. Patience.
January 4th, 2010 at 6:22 AM
Off later today to an Orange Bowl rally at Miami’s Bayfront area – Mr. Terps is a Hawkeye – and we going to have to bundle up in long sleeves and sweatshirts ’cause today’s projected high is only 62 degrees. Brrrrrrrr! Chilly!
We’re taking the Tri-Rail train down from Hollywood then using Miami Metro public transportation and sooooooo looking forward to not having to drive or attempt to find a parking place! Fun!
January 4th, 2010 at 7:03 AM
Je-e-ebus…….. this guy needs to shutup already. The very first store got it’s start here , and I don’t go there. “Whole paycheck” is what we call it. There are better choices here for anything they have.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/waylon-lewis/john-mackey-whole-foods-c_b_409842.html
January 4th, 2010 at 7:03 AM
a blog post that resonated with me this morning…
http://simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com/2010/01/truth-will-out.html
It references a LA Times article, “Time for a fresh look at a fateful year — 1989″
“The year 1989 changed the world. It moved us from a world of division and nuclear blackmail to one of new opportunity and unprecedented prosperity. It set the stage for our contemporary era: globalization, the triumph of free markets, the spread of democracy. It ushered in the great global economic boom that lifted billions out of poverty around the world and established America as the one and only superpower.
Yet it was a dangerous triumph, chiefly because we claimed it for our own and scarcely bothered to fully understand how this great change came to pass. We told ourselves stick-figure parables of defiance and good-versus-evil triumph, summed up in Ronald Reagan’s clarion call: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
From the vantage point of 20 years, we should be wiser. The reality is that “our” victory in the Cold War was not what we thought it was, nor did it happen the way we think it did. Most painfully, the myths we spun about it have hurt the world and ourselves.
What are these myths that we embrace as truths? ”
What, indeed? This is a set of conversation points guaranteed to make your winger uncle go apoplectic, so have fun!
January 4th, 2010 at 7:50 AM
Happy new year mudpups!
I’m back in Chicago after a much needed vacation to Australia =) I can happily report that Christmas and New year was FANTASTIC in Sydney =)
So having just caught up on today’s news and blogs (thus far), I wanted to share this little gem from The Dish:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/the-obsessive-secrecy-of-sarah-palin.html
Sarah Palin – still dishonest and still secretive =) Nice to see some things just don’t change! Enjoy!
January 4th, 2010 at 8:32 AM
welcome back aussie gal. glad you had a fabulous time back home. we missed you but we knew you we having a grand time.
January 4th, 2010 at 8:48 AM
Good Morning..Beautiful picture AKM.
January 4th, 2010 at 9:39 AM
(((4 exile))))) good luck and I hope as a family you can offer help to both in this time of need. I was distant from my Mom when she needed help and was grateful for assistance I got from other family at the time. The following years were tough and I even had to stop working for a while. It sounds like you are dealing with an only child so they will need family support to make necessary changes.
Haven’t read the 1989 aritcle yet but I do remember this was the time that “outsourcing” started. I was in the computer business and the rush to India and other Asian countries was full swing. “off shore” had become the mantra of the MBA crowd. Why pay American wages when the function (routine programming, accounting, customer service, etc) could be done by low wage folks “off shore”. Oh, I forgot electronic assembly. Used to be lots of that in the USA but it was all sent abroad with most of our other manufacturing assembly jobs.
January 4th, 2010 at 10:11 AM
Alaska Dispatch has a new story up about Sarah’s emails. It seems some anonymous source has provided them with some of the emails, with more to come tonight. There is also a pdf link on the site to the copies of the emails.
The first one in the pdf link is very revealing in my opinion. Sarah is telling everyone that her state account is viewable by everyone and their mother so they should use this new account she created (the yahoo one) for anything “private”.
http://alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/politics/3484-palin-personal-emails
January 4th, 2010 at 10:11 AM
Since this is the open thread here is an “alternative” kind of shooting.
http://www.imagesforconservation.org/
Yes, this is a big photo competition in Texas. Seems like this would also work for AK as an alternative kind of hunt. One in which wild life ends up in digital pictures instead of a dinner plate or draped over the hood of a pickup.
City slicker photographers pay big bucks to test their skills at shooting wildlife.
Just a thought to any ambitious AK folks who might want to sponsor a photo hunt.
January 4th, 2010 at 11:49 AM
fan from ca @ 23. thanks for the link. just lovely.
January 4th, 2010 at 12:52 PM
A fan from CA @23 -
Now THAT’S the kind of hunting I could get into! Beautiful photos!
January 4th, 2010 at 1:33 PM
# 12 learningcurve Says:
January 4th, 2010 at 5:51 AM
Palin bailed on the Republicans in Arkansas.
http://tolbertreport.com/2010/01/03/sarah-palin-coming-to-central-arkansas-february-16/
She’s nothing, if not consistent.
Check out the comments in that thread, there is a whole other world out there.
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Thanks for the link. So ‘ WHO’s ‘ fault is it THIS time that its was reported … She’s coming… She’s NOT coming…. sounds like a broken record.
BTW : You may leave a comment there in the comments section, I did.
I was… and You are probably already recognized in their system if you comment here or on any other Blogger site. The comments are moderated… so you have to be polite with your message.
January 4th, 2010 at 3:06 PM
Palin broke into someones else e-mail account and she was not punished for it ,yet she complains about someone who got into her account.IMO neither were right but Palin makes it worse because she complains about something she herself did and got a way Scot free.
January 4th, 2010 at 3:17 PM
OK, this is the longest the Crazy Woman has been out of the news right?
Maybe the shine has finally worn off, and she’s decided against doing something stupid?
January 4th, 2010 at 3:30 PM
Dear mudpuppies, our central Pa. “Brian” is soon going to Paris for a naughty weekend. Stay tuned as Patricia and I introduce our brian to the bright lights of Paris. How do you keep the moose down on the farm after he has been to Paree!!!! oh la la.
January 4th, 2010 at 3:34 PM
By the way, any advice you could pass along for Brian’s big trip to Paris would be appreciated: tours, cafe’s, crazy things for a single moose to do in this amazing city? Also, how do you teach french very quickly to a moose?
January 4th, 2010 at 5:41 PM
I have read (and enjoyed) Mudflats for ages and haven’t ever written in, but I found something today that is prompting me to comment. Got a call today from a friend who just had to tell me about a Zig Ziglar seminar to be held on Feb 8 in Houston. Among the featured guests will be none other than … wait for it… yep… Ms. Ex-GOV herself, Sarah Palin! Among her topics will be “How to have Grace under fire” and “How to become a person of influence” (that one still has me laughing). Colin Powell and Rudy Guiliani are also on the list, with a few others.
Tickets are apparently dirt cheap, too, so I wonder how much she’ll demand for the appearance. They won’t be getting my money, that’s for sure!
January 4th, 2010 at 6:15 PM
Wow! Rachel just did a segment on Bristol’s LLC. I bet $P is chomping at the bit about this. Van Flein actually responded to her and made a non-statement. What gives with this story???? Anyone?
January 4th, 2010 at 6:33 PM
Keith just rippe Darth Chaney anew one…WTG…He is such a evil peice of work, also , too his whacky daughter…
January 4th, 2010 at 11:38 PM
A Brenda moose and babies playing in a sprinkler. Had to share…friend just sent and it was cute.
http://www.wimp.com/babymoose