Whenever someone at our office bitches about being overworked, our stock response is “Beats digging ditches.” While the express intention of the statement is usually not-so-supportive, we think it’s a healthy reminder that at the end of the day, we are all basically professional emailers and should be thankful for such.
The wildland firefighters who work for Grayback Forestry in Southern Oregon have no such motivational adages because their job is actually digging ditches. Around active forest fires. On the sides of mountains.
You can’t even bitch at these guys for having cushy government pensions to fall back on when they get older, because they’re all private-sector contractors. Which means if they aren’t out fighting forest fires or doing preventative forestry on unburned woods (basically extreme landscaping), they are losing money. They are literally the hardest working men in tree business.
We spent a few days following a crew of Grayback forest-firefighters walk up the sides of what most people would consider a cliff to chop down underbrush in preparation for a controlled burn. This is what they like to call “project work,” aka the light stuff in between fires, and yet it was still some of the hardest most least-rewarding work we have ever tried to do in our lives. Unless you consider 12-hour-plus shifts of backbreaking labor, virtually zero outside recognition, and occasional accusations of being shills for the timber industry rewards. Which we do not.
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Coming Soon: VBS TV - Oregon Fire Lines - Teaser
Attack on Israel's Northern Border
Reports of attack on IDF troops near the South Lebanon border. IDF responding with tank, artillery, attack helicopter and...
More at DoubleTapper
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News..........
Day 25 – August 3rd 1940
Secret Mission to Cambodia, er Rhode Island
Lights, camera, peace process!
Layoffs to gut East St. Louis police force
Congressman at Town Hall: ‘The Federal Government Can Do Most Anything in This Country’
SB1070 protesters desecrate US flag
Euro police knocking on your door. Surgery halted by the 48-hour week. So much for Tory promises on the EU
England has worse crime rate than the US
Two found guilty of JFK Airport bomb plot
Stag party caught by RAF 'with their tackle out' during fishing trip
Astronauts prepare for complex spacewalk to fix cooling system
Barack Obama offers to stay away from mid-term campaign trail
Jellyfish invasion closes beaches across Spain
Charles Taylor's warcrimes trial: factfile
Mexican 'climate migrants' predicted to flood US
and finally......
The 7 most interesting ways the world may come to an end
The Five Hottest Sandra Bullock Movie Roles
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Insiders dumping stocks with both hands!............from Rico
Gee, a big NO CONFIDENCE vote on what lies ahead from insiders? Gee, what a surprise! I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you!!
Banks have long-ago "quit" lending and are hoarding cash, States and Municipalities are defaulting and/or bankrupt, and now insider equity sales have jumped. Guess that means financial TV and the Minstry of Truth are right...we've all been saved! Happy days are here again!
- Guess if I REALLY believed what they are saying, I'd be loading up on municipal bonds and Treasurys and more equities in the broad market instead of looking at offshore retirement tax-havens like the insiders are doing!
Those "bailouts" and the other efforts to "save" us have SURE worked well!!!!!!
- Just like putting out fire with gasoline [unless that is just what is intended; read: burning down the house]??
Mike Zaman writes........
'Top Executives, including CEO’s, Directors, and primary officers at Citi, Chase, Morgan Stanley, Costco, JB Hunt, Kaiser Aluminum, Carmax, Blockbuster Video, Winn-Dixie, Mattel, and of course Goldman Sachs are dumping their holdings.
For the week that ended on July 22, insider sales at 78 large companies was $447 billion - stock valued at nearly ONE-HALF OF ONE TRILLION DOLLARS was dumped onto the market in a single week!
Just as disturbing: The average stock liquidation per company official was $5.7 million.
Even as Wall Street asserts that you should be scooping up stocks with both hands, they are dumping theirs!
If I held shares in any of these companies, I’d be dumping them, too!'
Booman Tribune Blood Libels Pamela Geller, Author of The Post-American Presidency
Blood libel accusations are a central manifestation of historical anti-Semitism. BooMan's deliberately vague remarks about how he "could accuse" people like Pamela Geller of "committing acts of bestiality, ritual Satanism, and drinking the blood of gentile babies" are drawn right out the ancient books of eliminationist Jew-hatred. Just to imply such abominations among conservatives is pretty sick. To make them in the context of attacking a prominent Jewish conservative woman and self-proclaimed anti-jihad blogger leaves little room for evasion. And the comments at the post simply seal the deal.
Please read the entire entry, with screencaps and additional links: "Booman Tribune Blood Libels Pamela Geller."
Cross-posted from American Power.
Monday, 2 August 2010
New Clear Piggy Ciggy
Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
The totally Gay Free Persia Preacher Command's ever watchful watching watchers spied global hegemonic chicanery ala Great Satan from a kilometer away!
It's true - Cigarettes made with pig blood and new clear droppings!
Busted for sneaking in 20 billion ciggy puffs -'taminated with porcine hemoglobin and irradiated with especial nuke flavoring - Iran has scored a major coup against Great Satan and 6th Generational Warfare
Dang.
Pic "NewClear Menthols Piggy Ciggy" all smoked up with GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD
New Presidential Symbol...........
The skunk has replaced the Eagle as the new symbol of the American Presidency.
It is half black, half white, and everything it does stinks!
H/T Nebraska Bob
New Episode...........
Last nights Top Gear: The new Ferrari, Jeff Goldblum and classic British sports cars.
Watch it here
News.........
Day 24 – August 2nd 1940
Religion of war
Farm land prices leap 120%
Space station cooling system suddenly shuts down
After 378 years, NH family farm goes up for sale
It’s About Sharia Newt Gingrich resets our national-security debate.
US stalls on Sept. 11 trial for 5 at Gitmo
Rockets 'from Egypt' hit Eilat and Jordan
US has plan to attack Iran if needed
Undersea river discovered flowing on sea bed
Cuba to relax state control of the economy
Pakistan Army 'encouraging Cameron protests'
Islamists Gain Upper Hand in Russian Republic
and finally........
Squadron Leader John Crampton
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NUCLEAR MISSILE SILO
The ultimate James Bond Bad Guy Crib . . .
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Eating Our Seed Corn: A Weekend at the Reb
IC'S father pointed out and rightly so "he didn't get his seed back". Around
these parts we have another saying that is similar. "He's eating his seed corn".
America. You ate yer seed corn. You are killing your own future. No one is doing
anything to you that you haven't allowed them to do. Is that clear enough for
you? Are you so daft that we need to stamp it into your forehead? Virgil's Sunday Musing
Around the Reb we have some pretty good discussions about what's wrong with our beloved America, and what, maybe, we need to do to tend to it. One of the things I look forward to every weekend are Virgil's Sunday Musings. The haunt in the man's voice comes from the American soil; from combat missions overseas; from raising a family; from reading, observing, and listening. Won't find anything like it anywhere else, I can tell you. There's red blood in his veins, and Irish blood. It's good to be American!
This weekend, our friend MKFreeberg posted a heartfelt piece about being Christian -- about Ann Rice's conversion away from Christianity: CINO. Wordsmith Col. B. Bunny pens a post called GOP's Distaste for Political Warfare. Our Logger Blogger Friend, Fuchs, describes the nightmare of Communism: The Lost City. And our friend Walking Horse wants to know, What Makes Him Tick? Obama, that is.
On that subject, don't miss Neo-Neocon's Still Not Getting it.
Yours truly, in all Humility, took a whack at making the whiners mad in New Post at Bayonet and Postscript.
And of course . . . . Rule 5 Shenanigans!
Thanks to our friend Theo for allowing us to be here. We love it!
Sunday, 1 August 2010
GENERAL PATTON SENDS
Sean Linnane channels our greatest general . . .
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