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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #180 on: January 13, 2007, 03:28:24 PM »
And one to reset the screen!

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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #181 on: January 13, 2007, 03:37:24 PM »
I'm off to watch some DVR things before FIREWALL begins.

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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #182 on: January 13, 2007, 03:41:30 PM »
They are meeting in their committees for now, so I have some free time. I think I will go outside.
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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #183 on: January 13, 2007, 03:42:32 PM »
FACT AND FICTION:

AP Jan. 12: Comet McNaught is seen in the sky west of Great Falls, Montana.



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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #184 on: January 13, 2007, 03:56:18 PM »
Back from Vinnie's.  We did elmore's little fixes (well, five out of six - one of them we couldn't do) - I have to listen to make sure I'm perfectly happy, and then we're done.  Most of it was just raising some synth lines, which were easy to do.
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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #185 on: January 13, 2007, 03:56:48 PM »
Now I must shower and then be on my way to the Cissy Wechter signing - apparently I'm introducing her.
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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #186 on: January 13, 2007, 04:27:47 PM »
Hmmm....wonder if I can get Cilla's blood to boil?

NY TIMES

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Official Attacks Top Law Firms Over Detainees By NEIL A. LEWIS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 — The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism said in an interview this week that he was dismayed that lawyers at many of the nation’s top firms were representing prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and that the firms’ corporate clients should consider ending their business ties.

The comments by Charles D. Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, produced an instant torrent of anger from lawyers, legal ethics specialists and bar association officials, who said Friday that his comments were repellent and displayed an ignorance of the duties of lawyers to represent people in legal trouble.

“This is prejudicial to the administration of justice,” said Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University and an authority on legal ethics. “It’s possible that lawyers willing to undertake what has been long viewed as an admirable chore will decline to do so for fear of antagonizing important clients.

“We have a senior government official suggesting that representing these people somehow compromises American interests, and he even names the firms, giving a target to corporate America.”

Mr. Stimson made his remarks in an interview on Thursday with Federal News Radio, a local Washington-based station that is aimed at an audience of government employees.

The same point appeared Friday on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, where Robert L. Pollock, a member of the newspaper’s editorial board, cited the list of law firms and quoted an unnamed “senior U.S. official” as saying, “Corporate C.E.O.’s seeing this should ask firms to choose between lucrative retainers and representing terrorists.”
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PS: Other fairminded Americans are free to join in Cilla's anticipated outrage



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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #187 on: January 13, 2007, 04:47:08 PM »
Frequent vistors, these large birds (larger than the common white cousin) are Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos.  They are difficult to photograph as the light and the background need to be perfect!  DP Colin took this pic a few minutes ago.
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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #188 on: January 13, 2007, 04:52:45 PM »
That's neat, Tomovoz. Thanks.

I just saw a Cooper's hawk in a tree, but the light is all wrong.
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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #189 on: January 13, 2007, 05:12:22 PM »
Quote from: Tomovoz on January 13, 2007, 04:47:08 PM
Frequent vistors, these large birds (larger than the common white cousin) are Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos.  They are difficult to photograph as the light and the background need to be perfect!  DP Colin took this pic a few minutes ago.

All dresed up for the prom?

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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #190 on: January 13, 2007, 05:21:27 PM »
Happy Birthday TPUNK!
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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #191 on: January 13, 2007, 05:26:17 PM »
Quote from: S. Woody White on January 13, 2007, 10:14:27 AM
I'm having trouble thinking of anything by Coleman that I haven't liked, too.

I do know that der B and I want to introduce the grandlads to Barnum (the musical) asap.  (We'd introduce them to Barnum (the Michael) and he'd probably charm them, but he lives on the wrong coast.)  We've got the DVD, we've got the CD.


You have a DVD of Michael Barnum?  Oh, I'm not sure the grandlads should see that, although I will take it off you hands!
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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #192 on: January 13, 2007, 05:36:29 PM »
Quote from: DERBRUCER on January 13, 2007, 02:41:59 PM
Mani/Pedi - wasn't she in the Bond films?

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Not those in the cannon.  She had a part in the Casino Royale spoof, however.
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« Reply #193 on: January 13, 2007, 05:40:42 PM »
Quote from: TCB on January 13, 2007, 05:26:17 PM
You have a DVD of Michael Barnum?  Oh, I'm not sure the grandlads should see that, although I will take it off you hands!
OOPS!!!  Sorry, Michael, didn't think and the news just slipped out!!!
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« Reply #194 on: January 13, 2007, 05:41:22 PM »
DH Richard and I just ate pizza and watched his Christmas DVD, Awake My Soul, which DR Edisaurus brought to my attention.  It's about Sacred Harp (shape-note singing) and Richard recognized one of the guys as someone who has been at some of the singing events he's attended.  And he sang along with some of the selections!
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« Reply #195 on: January 13, 2007, 05:42:58 PM »
I spent part of my day re-organizing our DVD collection.

Right now, seventeen shelves are filled, with two more available.

The clock is ticking on how long it will take us to fill them.

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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #196 on: January 13, 2007, 05:48:29 PM »
Quote from: TPunk on January 13, 2007, 11:48:18 AM
Die Hard spoiler...


Bruce Willis comes out on top.



Well, thank goodness!  If Bruce Willis is going to come out, I am glad to know that is on top!
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« Reply #197 on: January 13, 2007, 05:56:57 PM »
Now I'm looking forward to an unusual phenomenon - a 2-day weekend.  Usually, my weekends alternate 1-day, 3-day, 1-day, etc.  The Monday holiday gives me 2 days off when I'd ordinarily just have 1.

What I really like is when a Monday holiday falls on my regular Monday off - then they have to give me another day off during the week.  But I'll take this for now...
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« Reply #198 on: January 13, 2007, 06:18:58 PM »
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« Reply #199 on: January 13, 2007, 06:20:33 PM »
DR TCB - Are you still snowbound?
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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #200 on: January 13, 2007, 06:29:23 PM »
Tomovoz-Interesting looking birds. Thank you :D
Have you posted Black Cockatoos before?
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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #201 on: January 13, 2007, 06:40:38 PM »
Quote from: Ginny on January 13, 2007, 06:20:33 PM
DR TCB - Are you still snowbound?


Oh, I can get to the store during the daylight hours, but at night it is still pretty much an ice rink.
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« Reply #202 on: January 13, 2007, 06:43:12 PM »
Quote from: TCB on January 13, 2007, 06:40:38 PM
Oh, I can get to the store during the daylight hours, but at night it is still pretty much an ice rink.

UGH!  I'd rather have several inches of snow than ice any time!  And it looks like our area might get some sleet or freezing rain on Monday - glad I don't have to go to work.
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« Reply #203 on: January 13, 2007, 06:48:18 PM »
After my first 5-day work week since early December and a big deadline yesterday for my dreaded volunteer project, I'm pretty wiped tonight....won't last much longer here...
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« Reply #204 on: January 13, 2007, 06:54:33 PM »
'night.
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« Reply #205 on: January 13, 2007, 07:11:36 PM »
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« Reply #206 on: January 13, 2007, 07:16:03 PM »
Quote from: DERBRUCER on January 13, 2007, 02:56:43 PM
The vittals you et, were good, I'll bet
Was the company the same?

This was a real nice lamb bake!
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Re:THE BEST IS YET TO COME
« Reply #207 on: January 13, 2007, 07:38:35 PM »
Back from the signing, which was lots of fun.  I shall now watch a motion picture on DVD whilst eating a calorie-conscious meal.
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« Reply #208 on: January 13, 2007, 07:42:06 PM »
Been mildly obsessed with the two youtube.com clips showing Yvonne de Carlo singing "I'm Still Here," one on the David Frost Show and one at the Hollywood Bowl.  Neither is 100% perfect, with her going up on the lyric on the Frost Show at one point and repeating a section but still very exciting, and the Hollywood Bowl clip being interrupted for a quick second or two where I guess someone momentarily changed the channel while recording, maybe.   (You can find it on youtube.com by searching for yvonne de carlo, of course.)
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« Reply #209 on: January 13, 2007, 07:43:19 PM »
NIGHT CALORIE - my new anthology series about (oh, wait, I think that's an old pun)
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