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Watch Your Butts
PS: re: #15: Are you planning on stealing anyone's identity here, Pete? And before you reply in tedious, predictable fashion to the 'green' argument, consider that your original statement was: "Going "green" JUST means spending more green." to which I replied: "The fact is, I do not pay MUCH MORE for the products I described, with the exception of 7th Generation. It is possible to make some necessary changes that reduce pounds of pollution without a lot of inconvenience to the put-upon lazy American consciousness." On top of that, I've added some CHEAPER ways to clean your home without polluting the enviro. So please don't come back pinching your sorry little pennies. Anyone worth 65k with no kids should be able to fork over a few cents or even dollars more for something safer and more ethical--that is, if you choose not to be a lazy armchair conspiracy-buff.— January 23, 2010 12:04 a.m.
Watch Your Butts
Let's get this straight, Pete. You looked up ONE product of dubious origins, and that makes me a tard? What-EVER! Is this somehow related to your practice of forming an opinion ONCE? There are plenty of affordable products out there. For the idiot who has to have 700 ounces of product at once, go to Costco and buy their dish soap in the giant bottle for $7.99. It'll last till the kids are over puberty and out of the house! If you don't want to spend any money at all, here's what you do. Takes minutes, and stuff you have around the house to make your own effective cleaners. I've used newspaper and vinegar for years in place of Windex, which, like all Johnson & Johnson products (a "family" company--oh, so we are milking the 'family values,' along with the innocence of the general public as to the complete disregard this company has for organic life on this planet?), is murderous pollution: http://www.divinecaroline.com/22156/23878-cheap--… However, I like the scent of Mrs. Meyers products--more expensive? Yeah, but they last forever, and actually help you to feel like cleaning, so you can smell the essential oils of basil, geranium, verbena. That makes them worth it. Besides, they work better than cheap industrial crap. Apology by midnight? Ha, Pete. You've got to do better than that, but it's safe to say you will not refute my logic on this one. If you have a social conscience, you'll weigh the consequences, and then you'll either spend a few more pennies, or make your own products. Unless you are a typical conspiracy theorist, and think any and every conclusion about the environment (like the prez's birth, or 9/11, or UFOs, etc. etc.) is a big governmental plot to rob your wallet.— January 22, 2010 11:57 p.m.
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re: #11 and 22: Ok, forgive me, but I couldn’t resist this one--clearly, Grant is much better at this: 1. What's your favorite ice cream flavor, or what suggestion for a new one do you have? My regular readers might think I prefer vanila. On the contrary basking robins, has this great cookie doh flavor (but I digest). 2. If you had it all to do over again, what would you do differently? Obviously I wouldnt have signed up for facebook or twitter. 3. Other than driving in California, what's the most dangerous thing you've ever done on purpose? Well, first off, driving in california wouldnt be dangerous if asian's and African-Americans weren't playing their music at lights so loud and making it suck for the rest of us. The most dangerous thing I’ve ever done would probably be the time I through rocks at cyclists. 4. What's the best birthday or Xmas gift you've ever been given? Thats easy. Heh heh, my PT Cruser I bought myself for my Un-birthday. It is a total chick magnet, but I digress. 5. What's your biggest pet peeve? Black people who talk loud in movie theaters and blast there ghetto blasters at stoplites. (I know alot of black people who are, sick of this too). 6. What's the #1 thing that's wrong with the U.S.? The liberal idiots at the ACLU (although I am a Democrat, and have a liberal lawyer friend). 7. What's the #1 thing that's wrong with California? The liberal idiots at the ACLU (although I am a Democrat, and have a liberal lawyer friend). 8. When were the "good ole days" and what was so good about them? As Im always telling my liberal, lawyer friend the good ole days were when cops, were allowed to shoot criminals in the back and not, get harased about it. 9. What's the best thing you can cook, & what's your secret? My secret is that I cant cook. 10. What's your favorite film of all time? Besides Caddyshack, I’d have to say Freakanomics, the movie.— January 22, 2010 4:37 p.m.
Furry Children
I see diego has decided to continue to spam in installments, despite a lack of interest. What's it worth to force your writing on others, diego? You are just going to get called out for your disrespectful practice of spamming the board rather than following the rules and starting a blog like everyone else. Isn't there some little cyberpunk zine with your pseudonym on it, where you can legitimately submit your work?— January 22, 2010 4:02 p.m.
Watch Your Butts
re: #12: Pete, in the Real World (TM), you may play an Independent, but in reality, you are not original. Think about it--on the subject of politics, you are full of sound bytes and fury signifying--hackneyed rehashed quotations and lazy aphoristic conclusions. Therefore, I have to say Xian, very well put ;) And why here's an example right here: "Going "green" just means spending more green." Didja cop that one off Rush? Oh wait--it's ALL over the place. And not a drop of science or substance behind it. But there sure is a lot of uniquely American attitude of entitlement behind it--nothing new at all, and an attitude much conned and coaxed by all parties and ideologies. The fact is, I do not pay much more for the products I described, with the exception of 7th Generation. It is possible to make some necessary changes that reduce pounds of pollution without a lot of inconvenience to the put-upon lazy American consciousness.— January 22, 2010 8:16 a.m.
a mediation on a Goddess and pic of the growth
Probably best that I missed this *gem* earlier.— January 22, 2010 5:45 a.m.
I found Bigfoot above the San Diego River headwaters
re:#16: "Don't we sound silly?" But that's the idea, isn't it? Kicking a man when he's down? Never. We are only playing around here, though I'll let you in on a little secret--I've only been blogging in the wilds of the Internet about a year, but can tell you, these here blogger types are a bit snarky now and then. You'd better bring the 50 SPF, rainproof bibles, and plenty of shiny trinkets to amuse the savages while you save their souls. Netbooks might help, too, if your mission can afford them. "Honestly, I think you have the gift of glib and I like the feisty way you handle yourself, very much like I was at a younger age...just don't do it to hurt people!" Aww, your assumptions about my age, conduct, and feist level are adorable--matched only in cuteness by your attempt to seat yourself, yogic-style, on an important cloud within the moral ether. Now, we've had a few exchanges-- are we saved yet? ;)— January 22, 2010 4:51 a.m.
Where a University of San Diego degree leads
Pete gushed: "Adam-I liked your writing style and your sense of humor. You'll be fine." Awww. It's so cute, because you sound just like refried to you--I guess you are taking Adam under your buffalo wing. What should be a doozy? I've been posting like mad--what did I forget to respond to?!— January 22, 2010 2:54 a.m.
Conservative Values
re: #4: What year was that centerfold again? He's got a pooch, and his guns are soggy. ;(— January 22, 2010 2:51 a.m.
The Bridges of Madison County
Tellin' ya, Cuddle. Your thread is gone, so we can't access what was said, but I'll repeat that one should really watch this one again, for the cinematography and the way these seasoned principles do with their gift of perfect chemistry. Duncan mentions the pastoral elements--wonderful how the sleepy, gentle landscapes, and those famous bridges form an allegorical character, much in the novel's painterly way of a Thomas Hardy or a Gustave Flaubert. The film takes its time, and Streep's character's postwar American farm kitchen is given its closeups, too; the worn china and plain, dull glasses articulate the tragedy of this woman, which lies in her sacrifice of the courage to make the big changes in life that bring intellectual growth and emotional satisfaction. Streep really delivers on the embarrassment her character feels at her choice of leaving a remote village in Italy, not for the big city, but for this comparatively quiet hamlet in the American heartland.— January 22, 2010 2:03 a.m.