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Arrrgh! Ye Monday Stub
Author: Raine
Date: 09/19/2011 12:37:40
Today is Talk like a pirate day! 
So to me fellow scurvy bilge rats enjoy this this little booty, or ah''ll make ya walk the plank!
ARRR!
I'll be back with a treasure trove of blog loot!
So to me fellow scurvy bilge rats enjoy this this little booty, or ah''ll make ya walk the plank! ARRR!
I'll be back with a treasure trove of blog loot!
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Comment by 
TriSec on 09/19/2011 12:43:17
Avast, ye scurvy dogs! Let's be drinking our Orange Juice now!
It's also "Giles Corey" day, our longtime patron saint was pressed to death with large rocks on this date in 1692. Yeeouch.
TriSec on 09/19/2011 12:43:17
Avast, ye scurvy dogs! Let's be drinking our Orange Juice now!
It's also "Giles Corey" day, our longtime patron saint was pressed to death with large rocks on this date in 1692. Yeeouch.
Comment by TriSec on 09/19/2011 13:02:14
TriSec on 09/19/2011 13:02:14
Something interesting from the Palm Beach Post this morning....limiting class size has forced the district to hire more teachers.
Imagine that...smaller classes, better education, and more jobs. Who knew Florida was capable of such things?
Imagine that...smaller classes, better education, and more jobs. Who knew Florida was capable of such things?
Comment by 
wickedpam on 09/19/2011 13:06:50
wickedpam on 09/19/2011 13:06:50
Ahoy! 
Comment by TriSec on 09/19/2011 13:09:34
TriSec on 09/19/2011 13:09:34
And now heading into aviation geekery...
The trim tab caused the Reno crash? Really?
The trim tab is not a critical part of the aircraft....many planes fly without one, primarily older or instruction aircraft without an auto-pilot.
What the trim tab does is make minute adjustments in the elevator, primarily at cruise speeds, so the pilot doesn't have to have pressure on the control column to maintain level flight.
What may have happened though, is when the trim tab departed from the aircraft, it caused an unexpected control flutter, which at 50 feet and 500 knots, there was simply not the time or the maneuvering space to figure out what happened and recover in time.
The trim tab caused the Reno crash? Really?
The trim tab is not a critical part of the aircraft....many planes fly without one, primarily older or instruction aircraft without an auto-pilot.
What the trim tab does is make minute adjustments in the elevator, primarily at cruise speeds, so the pilot doesn't have to have pressure on the control column to maintain level flight.
What may have happened though, is when the trim tab departed from the aircraft, it caused an unexpected control flutter, which at 50 feet and 500 knots, there was simply not the time or the maneuvering space to figure out what happened and recover in time.
Comment by 
Scoopster on 09/19/2011 13:10:31
Scoopster on 09/19/2011 13:10:31
Avast ye dawnbreak dogs!
Here's a tune from a New England legend who's got the mouth of a pirate.. (NSFW!!!)
Here's a tune from a New England legend who's got the mouth of a pirate.. (NSFW!!!)
Comment by TriSec on 09/19/2011 13:21:15
TriSec on 09/19/2011 13:21:15
And let me add that I'm likely the only one here that has an actual pirate legend connected to his hometown. May I present Pirate's Glen, Saugus MA...and the story of Thomas Veal?
Comment by 
Raine on 09/19/2011 13:27:55
Raine on 09/19/2011 13:27:55
OMG, I just stumbled across this (YES I am still researching for todays blog... )
From Wonkette
Michele Bachmann Produces World’s Cheapest-Looking Campaign Ad
From Wonkette
Michele Bachmann Produces World’s Cheapest-Looking Campaign Ad
Comment by 
Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 13:29:02
Nice pirate! :jazz hands:
Gile Corey also the name of the guiterist/singer of Lubraphonic. Coinkidink? I think not!
Yarrrrr! And Avast! Who's yer favorite pirate? Mine's Edward Teech! Yar!
Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 13:29:02
Quote by TriSec:
Avast, ye scurvy dogs! Let's be drinking our Orange Juice now!
It's also "Giles Corey" day, our longtime patron saint was pressed to death with large rocks on this date in 1692. Yeeouch.
Nice pirate! :jazz hands:
Gile Corey also the name of the guiterist/singer of Lubraphonic. Coinkidink? I think not!
Yarrrrr! And Avast! Who's yer favorite pirate? Mine's Edward Teech! Yar!
Comment by Scoopster on 09/19/2011 13:31:27
Going a little out of the box on this one, but my favorite "pirate" would be Kevin Mitnick.
Scoopster on 09/19/2011 13:31:27
Quote by Mondobubba:
Yarrrrr! And Avast! Who's yer favorite pirate? Mine's Edward Teech! Yar!
Going a little out of the box on this one, but my favorite "pirate" would be Kevin Mitnick.
Comment by Scoopster on 09/19/2011 13:33:29
Scoopster on 09/19/2011 13:33:29
Comment by Scoopster on 09/19/2011 13:41:23
Scoopster on 09/19/2011 13:41:23
Best bumper sticker EVER:
"I refuse to believe that corporations are people until Texas executes one."
"I refuse to believe that corporations are people until Texas executes one."
Comment by Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 13:43:54
Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 13:43:54
Comment by Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 14:01:09
Scoop, great choice! It is this sort of paradigm shifting thinking that really helps us come up with creative, out of the box solutions. :frothes as he continues with corporate speak:
Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 14:01:09
Quote by Scoopster:Quote by Mondobubba:
Yarrrrr! And Avast! Who's yer favorite pirate? Mine's Edward Teech! Yar!
Going a little out of the box on this one, but my favorite "pirate" would be Kevin Mitnick.
Scoop, great choice! It is this sort of paradigm shifting thinking that really helps us come up with creative, out of the box solutions. :frothes as he continues with corporate speak:
Comment by Scoopster on 09/19/2011 14:02:01
Scoopster on 09/19/2011 14:02:01
Comment by Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 14:05:18
The class size thing is one of the 80 bajillion amendments to the state constitution. Our crazy-assed, dick-headed (literally, his head looks like the glans of a penis) governor hates it. As does the snively lick-spittle GOP super-majority in the state assembly.
Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 14:05:18
Quote by TriSec:
Something interesting from the Palm Beach Post this morning....limiting class size has forced the district to hire more teachers.
Imagine that...smaller classes, better education, and more jobs. Who knew Florida was capable of such things?
The class size thing is one of the 80 bajillion amendments to the state constitution. Our crazy-assed, dick-headed (literally, his head looks like the glans of a penis) governor hates it. As does the snively lick-spittle GOP super-majority in the state assembly.
BobR
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 14:16:26
So far today, I got nuthin' for the blog. I am still trying! 
Raine on 09/19/2011 14:16:26
So far today, I got nuthin' for the blog. I am still trying!
Comment by wickedpam on 09/19/2011 14:18:31
Just leave it Pirate Day, its an important holiday after all
! There will be more drama later after the Pres speakers 
wickedpam on 09/19/2011 14:18:31
Quote by Raine:
Just leave it Pirate Day, its an important holiday after all
! There will be more drama later after the Pres speakers
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 14:20:16
Raine on 09/19/2011 14:20:16
I can't write an entire blog about These things, can I?
International Talk like a Pirate Day
National Butterscotch Pudding Day
Iceman Mummy Discovered 20th Anniversary
and.... drumroll, please....
Adam West's Birthday
International Talk like a Pirate Day
National Butterscotch Pudding Day
Iceman Mummy Discovered 20th Anniversary
and.... drumroll, please....
Adam West's Birthday
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 14:21:12
Yes, I am sure we will all be busy picking up the pieces of espodin heads.
Raine on 09/19/2011 14:21:12
Quote by wickedpam:Quote by Raine:
Just leave it Pirate Day, its an important holiday after all
Comment by TriSec on 09/19/2011 14:22:04
TriSec on 09/19/2011 14:22:04
I'll have to read the Circus Fire account later....it's a "pet disaster" of mine. It's been creeping back into the public eye of late, but for a long time it was virtually unknown.
There's a couple of astonishing books out there about the disaster.
There's a couple of astonishing books out there about the disaster.
Comment by Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 14:29:37
Adam West, frat brother of Poppa Mondo and incorigible poon hound when he was hanging out at the Sigma Chi chapter at Whitman College.
Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 14:29:37
Quote by Raine:
I can't write an entire blog about These things, can I?
International Talk like a Pirate Day
National Butterscotch Pudding Day
Iceman Mummy Discovered 20th Anniversary
and.... drumroll, please....
Adam West's Birthday
Adam West, frat brother of Poppa Mondo and incorigible poon hound when he was hanging out at the Sigma Chi chapter at Whitman College.
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 14:36:09
That was a very good read.
I loved this quote most of all:
Raine on 09/19/2011 14:36:09
That was a very good read.
I loved this quote most of all:
The emotional trauma of public tragedies tend to wash over communities with a stunning force and then slowly dissipate with time, as memories grow dim. The most meaningful residue and the most enduring legacy of a preventable tragedy, therefore, can often be found in the law, a medium by which one generation can transmit its hard-won lessons to future generations.
Henry S. Cohn & David Bollier, The Great Hartford Circus Fire: Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters
Comment by Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 14:36:38
Not just Adam West, but James Lipton and Jeremy Irons' birthday too. It is also the first anniversary of that the Deep Water Horizon leak was capped.
Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 14:36:38
Quote by Raine:
I can't write an entire blog about These things, can I?
International Talk like a Pirate Day
National Butterscotch Pudding Day
Iceman Mummy Discovered 20th Anniversary
and.... drumroll, please....
Adam West's Birthday
Not just Adam West, but James Lipton and Jeremy Irons' birthday too. It is also the first anniversary of that the Deep Water Horizon leak was capped.
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 14:37:54
Raine on 09/19/2011 14:37:54
Mondo -- you dad went to collage with Adam West and Peter Falk?
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 14:38:30
Raine on 09/19/2011 14:38:30
I like butterscotch pudding.
Comment by TriSec on 09/19/2011 14:41:21
TriSec on 09/19/2011 14:41:21
Do I need to mention Giles Corey again? 
Comment by Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 14:44:50
That has to be the coolest schiensch schtory of the day. Gamerchs FTW.
Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 14:44:50
Quote by BobR:
Kudos to online gamers
That has to be the coolest schiensch schtory of the day. Gamerchs FTW.
Comment by Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 14:47:29
How cool is that? Frat brother of Adam West, grad school roommate with Peter Faulk.
Mondobubba on 09/19/2011 14:47:29
Quote by Raine:
Mondo -- you dad went to collage with Adam West and Peter Falk?
How cool is that? Frat brother of Adam West, grad school roommate with Peter Faulk.
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 14:52:21
those that do not learn from history are bound to repeat it.
Sometimes I think we are going back to those times.
Raine on 09/19/2011 14:52:21
Quote by TriSec:
Do I need to mention Giles Corey again?
Sometimes I think we are going back to those times.
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 14:57:57
Raine on 09/19/2011 14:57:57
Potus is speaking!
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:01:30
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:01:30
We shouldn't balance budget on backs of poor and middle class
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:03:31
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:03:31
These changes to medicare are on the PROVIDERS side. I want to make that clear. That is what POTUS is talking about.
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:04:25
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:04:25
Here comes the Buffet rule!
Comment by wickedpam on 09/19/2011 15:05:42
but their backs make great tables while their stooped over washing the floor? <- that is what I imagine Eric Cantor would say
wickedpam on 09/19/2011 15:05:42
Quote by Raine:We shouldn't balance budget on backs of poor and middle class
but their backs make great tables while their stooped over washing the floor? <- that is what I imagine Eric Cantor would say
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:08:26
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:08:26
Talking loopholes in the tax code! nice!
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:09:12
Yup -- I bet he says that in private.
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:09:12
Quote by wickedpam:Quote by Raine:We shouldn't balance budget on backs of poor and middle class
but their backs make great tables while their stooped over washing the floor? <- that is what I imagine Eric Cantor would say
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:09:56
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:09:56
Middle class families shouldn't pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires.
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:10:18
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:10:18
Calling out the Norquest pledge!
Comment by wickedpam on 09/19/2011 15:10:38
wickedpam on 09/19/2011 15:10:38
wow - smack!
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:12:25
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:12:25
and in the meantime, this is what the GOP is pushing:
The House approved a special interest bill today that would make it easier for corporations to ship jobs overseas in retaliation against American workers for exercising their fundamental labor rights.
The bill, dubbed the GOP’s Outsourcers’ Bill of Rights (H.R. 2587), would remove the only meaningful legal remedy available to workers if a company illegally moves operations or eliminates work because workers engage in protected activities like forming a union or collective bargaining.
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:13:51
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:13:51
Quote by wickedpam:
wow - smack!
This is not class warfare; It's math
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:14:50
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:14:50
HE will veto, he said it.
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:15:33
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:15:33
I really can't wait to listen to Randi today. 
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:16:04
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:16:04
Country before party; this is our responsibility.
Comment by wickedpam on 09/19/2011 15:16:31
wickedpam on 09/19/2011 15:16:31
Quote by Raine:Quote by wickedpam:
wow - smack!This is not class warfare; It's math
Comment by wickedpam on 09/19/2011 15:18:04
like
wickedpam on 09/19/2011 15:18:04
Quote by Raine:
Country before party; this is our responsibility.
like
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 15:28:01
Raine on 09/19/2011 15:28:01
Awaiting the Fox Chiron:
President Announces Math Warfare
President Announces Math Warfare
Comment by Raine on 09/19/2011 16:02:43
Raine on 09/19/2011 16:02:43
Sit down before you read this one, then PLEASE pass it around to EVERYONE.
Poor EFfin' baby. ONLY 400 thousand dollars left over.
Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) appeared on MSNBC with Chris Jansing this morning to attack President Obama’s new deficit reduction plan, which includes some tax increases on the wealthy. Taking up the typical GOP talking point, Fleming said raising taxes on wealthy “job creators†is a terrible idea that kills jobs because many of these people are small business owners who pay taxes through personal income rates.
Fleming is himself a businesses owner, so Jansing asked, “If you have to pay more in taxes, you would get rid of some of those employees?†Fleming responded by saying that while his businesses made $6.3 million last year, after you “pay 500 employees, you pay rent, you pay equipment, and food,†his profits “a mere fraction of that†— “by the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.†Watch it:
Poor EFfin' baby. ONLY 400 thousand dollars left over.