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Emma · **Joined:** Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:25 am **Posts:** 2917

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A Legal Lohengrin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:56 pm **Posts:** 9708

editorkorir wrote:

Litlebritdifrnt2 wrote:

JPMorgan Chase loses 2 BILLION dollars.

"Bloomberg News reported in April that a single JPMorgan trader in London, known in the bond market as "the London whale," was making such large trades that he was moving prices in the $10 trillion market

I don't know if the banking culture is similar to poker or other forms of gambling, but a term in poker for a bad player is a "fish." A "whale" is a bad player throwing around money at high stakes. If the terms are similar, it means they considered that guy a huge sucker and were themselves making big money on his bad playing.

I can think of one major difference between bankers and degenerate gamblers. Degenerate gamblers are more responsible. I can't think of a single gambler with the chutzpah to demand a bailout from the government.

TexasFilly · **Joined:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:52 pm **Posts:** 10759

I cannot copy the picture, but ya gotta go look at the still from Obama preparing to slow jam the news on Jimmy Fallon's show: http://media.talkingpointsmemo.com/slid ... ?ref=fpblg

MRich · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 10:22 am

TexasFilly wrote:

I cannot copy the picture, but ya gotta go look at the still from Obama preparing to slow jam the news on Jimmy Fallon's show: http://media.talkingpointsmemo.com/slid ... ?ref=fpblg

The second picture in that series is flat-out adorable ("April 4, 2012: President Obama greets the Zion Baptist Church Children's Choir before the Easter Prayer Breakfast, in the Blue Room.")

kate520 · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 12:23 pm

I've decided that, all politics aside, I have a serious crush on this Prez. :xo

in all the pics I've seen of him (and his lovely bride) with children, you can see the love light in his eyes. Seriously,this is a man who cares. How can the haters not see that?

A Legal Lohengrin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:56 pm **Posts:** 9708

kate520 wrote:

I've decided that, all politics aside, I have a serious crush on this Prez. :xo

in all the pics I've seen of him (and his lovely bride) with children, you can see the love light in his eyes. Seriously,this is a man who cares. How can the haters not see that?

Once they see his skin they stop looking.

jtmunkus · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 12:33 pm

kate520 wrote:

...in all the pics I've seen of him (and his lovely bride) with children, you can see the love light in his eyes. Seriously,this is a man who cares. How can the haters not see that?

The first time I noticed that, was when I saw this:

kate520 · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 12:51 pm

Snurf. Never seen that one, JT. THAT is what love looks like.

Thanks.

esseff44 · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 1:04 pm

Estiveo wrote:

I also, too, use Morton's Kosher salt, 3lb box, for all things (I keep Leslie's iodized table salt in the shaker for others)

I took some from the bottom of the Alton Brown flippy-top glass and chrome thing that I work from, and some from the box that is +/- 4 months old. I put both samples in a glass ramekin and added some room temp water, stirred gently, waited for the cloudiness to clear and...O. M. G! clear salty water!!!! No sea monkeys.

However...It's Kosher Salt, not Kosher Sea Salt. Is there such a critter as Kosher Sea Salt? That might make a dif, I mean, if we want to go all empirical here. And I do, ackshully. ;;)

I'm almost out of Kosher Salt, and I do have to go shopping, Saturday, for Mothers Day lunch; I will take one for the team and look for Kosher Sea Salt. I will also buy a selection of the coarse sea salts offered at my local Nob Hill market, not like I won't use 'em. Oh, and a bottle of distilled water.

Then, with my vast collection of glass ramekins, which I'll run through a no-soap, high-temp wash in the dishwasher (Like I can afford an autoclave) we shall experiment and see if anything blooms. KITCHEN SCIENCE!!!!!

This'll be fun! :mrgreen:

Kitchen science is fascinating. I doubt if there is such a thing as a salt inspector and pretty much have to take their word about what's in the box. I look forward to your report.

I was wrong about the kosher sea salt. After I started looking into it, I realized it was just the regular kosher. I found my jar of gourmet sea salt in the back of the cabinet unopened. I had been using that 3lb. box of Morton's for pretty much everything, but I put it in glass jars with screw caps lids to save space and keep out moisture. I threw the box away a long time ago.

I still want to call the company and ask them if anyone else has ever seen such a thing but they must have done away with their landlines or 800 numbers. I still have my jar of brine here with the remains. Nothing hatched though. Considering that Artemia are a part of the evaporation pond process, I don't see how they can all be filtered out plus you have the birds all around feeding and being vectors. The salt ponds down your way are a part of the migratory flyway with sanctuaries all around the ponds. After reading about all that goes into the process, I will never look at salt the same way again.

Whatever4 · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 3:09 pm

21 Members of Congress that resemble muppets.

http://www.clotureclub.com/2012/05/top- ... g-muppets/

My favorite:

Emma · **Joined:** Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:25 am **Posts:** 2917

My all-time favorite:

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 7:11 pm

Could this be the awesome answer to esseff44's Mystery of the Salt? If it is, esseff44 has more to look forward to.

The Daily Mail (always good for photographs) May 11, 2012 Unidentified floating object: Mysterious blob filmed in the deep - and no-one can work out what it could be

Oceaneering is a deep-sea engineering company for the drilling industry that began with divers and has now progressed to robots. One set of postings says that this video was taken off the coast of the United Kingdom. It was posted with remarkably little information except for that provided in the video itself. The leading guess is that this is a species of Deepstaria Enigmatica jellyfish. The guess that it is a whale placenta is losing ground. There are holdouts for the position that this is an extraterrestrial alien checking out human drilling activities.

esseff44 · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 7:35 pm

Some biologists who study these creatures have confirmed it as one of the Deepstaria enigmatica. It's really interesting to watch. The strange looking white things with the protrusion hanging out are gonads. It's related to the Medusa jellyfish.

http://deepseanews.com/2012/05/solving- ... jellyfish/

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 7:38 pm

From Van Aryan Thread (Arizona redundancy)

Suranis wrote:

:shock:

*checks the Mayan prophecies again"

Not to worry: Washington Post May 10, 2012 "Mayan prophecy: The world won’t end, as a newfound calendar goes on and on and on"

Quote:

In a striking find, archaeologists in Guatemala report the discovery of a small building whose walls display not only a stunningly preserved mural of a brightly adorned Mayan king, but also calendars that destroy any notion that the Mayans predicted the end of the world in 2012.

These deep-time calendars can be used to count thousands of years into the past and future, countering pop-culture and New Age ideas that Mayan calendars ended on Dec. 21, 2012, (or Dec. 23, depending on who’s counting), thereby predicting the end of the world.

The newly found calendars, which track the motion of the moon, Venus and Mars, provide an unprecedented glimpse into how these storied sky-gazers — who dominated Central America for nearly 1,000 years — kept such accurate track of months, seasons and years.

“What they’re trying to do is understand the large cycles of cosmic time,” said William Saturno, the Boston University archaeologist who led the expedition. “This is the space they’re doing it in. It’s like looking into da Vinci’s workshop.”

Litlebritdifrnt2 · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 7:39 pm

Emma wrote:

:lol:

My all-time favorite:

I can NEVER look at Michael Steel these days without seeing that muppet version of him. NEVER.

Suranis · **Joined:** Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:04 am **Posts:** 5342

Wow.

I actually thought it was some kind of Nylon sheet until halfway through, It certainly does not seen to be moving very much under its own power.

It did make me think however. If and when mankind makes contact with alien life. and its a bieng like that, how on earth would we communicate with it?

esseff44 · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 7:48 pm

The article says that it would not withstand much in the way of propulsion because it is so thin and fragile. Here are some more pictures as it normally appears. It can turn itself inside out and look very different.

https://www.facebook.com/jellywatch

majorbabs · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 8:14 pm

Yahoo ran a story titled "Would you spend $35,000 for a gold-plated coffin?" It had one of the best comments I've seen in a long time: Robert writes "When I die, I want to be catapulted into a forest and left to fertilize the land. My family and friends can place bets how far I'll go...winner gets my house. Second gets my car...etc!"

I decided long ago that I didn't want to be buried, instead I would rather my body go to some place where it can be of use. I love this this guy's idea. Not only would my body helps nourish the earth, but also provide some fun and games for my friends and family -- I love, love games.

For those interested in the story, you can read it here: Gold Plated Coffins

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 8:16 pm

esseff44 wrote:

The article says that it would not withstand much in the way of propulsion because it is so thin and fragile. Here are some more pictures as it normally appears. It can turn itself inside out and look very different.

https://www.facebook.com/jellywatch

The moon jellyfish in the picture taken at Olympia are among the many creatures that figure in a beautiful novel by Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide. This could very well be Skookumchuck Bay, at the South end of Puget Sound near Olympia, where the central character of the novel finds his vocation and his avocation.

Sugar Magnolia · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 8:17 pm

majorbabs wrote:

Yahoo ran a story titled "Would you spend $35,000 for a gold-plated coffin?" It had one of the best comments I've seen in a long time: Robert writes "When I die, I want to be catapulted into a forest and left to fertilize the land. My family and friends can place bets how far I'll go...winner gets my house. Second gets my car...etc!"

I decided long ago that I didn't want to be buried, instead I would rather my body go to some place where it can be of use. I love this this guy's idea. Not only would my body helps nourish the earth, but also provide some fun and games for my friends and family -- I love, love games.

For those interested in the story, you can read it here: Gold Plated Coffins

My husband and I waffle between the body farm and University hospital. After they take everything they can use first, of course.

jtmunkus · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 8:24 pm

Sugar Magnolia wrote:

My husband and I waffle between the body farm and University hospital. After they take everything they can use first, of course.

My cousin, who broke his neck bodysurfing at age 41 and chose to have his life support removed, as his last act gave his body to the Stem Cell Research Foundation.

He was way too young.

Litlebritdifrnt2 · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 9:23 pm

I would most likely want to be buried in my garden with my dogs, chances are the damn government will not allow that, so whatever eco friendly burial they can figure for me will do. If nothing else I want to feed the worms. I like the idea that I can nourish plants with my remains.

MRich · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 9:59 pm

majorbabs wrote:

Yahoo ran a story titled "Would you spend $35,000 for a gold-plated coffin?" It had one of the best comments I've seen in a long time: Robert writes "When I die, I want to be catapulted into a forest and left to fertilize the land. My family and friends can place bets how far I'll go...winner gets my house. Second gets my car...etc!"

I decided long ago that I didn't want to be buried, instead I would rather my body go to some place where it can be of use. I love this this guy's idea. Not only would my body helps nourish the earth, but also provide some fun and games for my friends and family -- I love, love games.

Another possibility is to donate it to the "Body Farm": http://web.utk.edu/~fac/donation.html

ZekeB · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 10:02 pm

majorbabs wrote:

I decided long ago that I didn't want to be buried, instead I would rather my body go to some place where it can be of use. I love this this guy's idea. Not only would my body helps nourish the earth, but also provide some fun and games for my friends and family -- I love, love games.

But.. but.. but.. Babs.. what's going to happen on Judgment Day? I was told in grade school that your body will come back together and be whole again. Even if cremated, the nun pointed out that the ashes will gather and rebuild my body. What if my fertilizer becomes parts of other's bodies? Oh the humanity!! :((

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 10:03 pm

I'm not going.

Falsehoods unchallenged only fester and grow.

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