Wild Card/Monday — 3/16/09

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  hmoffsuite on March 16 at 10:25 a.m.

  AP NewsAlert
  

  SEATTLE (AP) — Publisher: Tuesday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be the
  final print edition.

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  hmoffsuite on March 16 at 10:27 a.m.

  A little more on the Seattle PI item ….

  Seattle Post-Intelligencer to go Web only
  
  By PHUONG LE
  Associated Press Writer

  SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle will be a one-newspaper town after Tuesday, when the
  146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer prints its last edition.

  The P-I will continue to live on the Internet with a much smaller staff.

  Parent company Hearst Corp. says it has failed to find a buyer for the
  newspaper, which it put up for sale in January after nine years of financial
  losses.

  The end of the print edition leaves The Seattle Times as the only major daily
  in the city.

  The announcement comes about two weeks after Denver’s Rocky Mountain News
  published its final edition.

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  Liz on March 16 at 10:38 a.m.

  I’m really not too surprised about the CIA torture thing…

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  Rosalind on March 16 at 11:48 a.m.

  from the story on AIG:

  “A.I.G. executives say that they are contractually obligated to pay the bonuses to their executives, including those who are part of the A.I.G. division where the company’s crisis originated.”

  Of course the executives wrote that into their own contract. How convenient.

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  cantyoureadthesigns on March 16 at 12:42 p.m.

  ” American intelligence experts are analyzing a new terror video from the American International Group (AIG) in which the leader of the shadowy organization demands billions of dollars from the United States.

  In the four-minute tape, which surfaced over the weekend and caused deep concern among U.S. officials, a man believed to be the chairman of AIG says that if his organization is not paid its ransom, “chaos and destruction will rain down on the American economy.”

  “If we are not paid billions more in bonuses and corporate golf retreats, America will be made to suffer,” the man threatens.
  …”

  http://www.borowitzreport.com/

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  Sam on March 16 at 1:28 p.m.

  Hi everyone, people at work have suggested I ask you fine folks if there is alder or birch trees in Coeur d’Alene/N. Idaho.

  Since I’ve moved to western Washington I feel like I’ve had severe allergies right around this time through summer. My eyes get really dry and I have a hard time wearing my contacts (and this last year I didn’t get new glasses so I’m wearing an old prescription, yay!) and then this year I sound perpetually like I have a cold.

  I have an appointment with an allergist Wednesday but would like to provide some contrasting info of my hometown/state compared to here.

  I assume or don’t believe there is much alder or birch up in Cd’A. Is this correct? I know we have some cedar. What about junipers?

  The odd thing is I don’t feel like the tree pollen in N.Idaho ever bothered me like this. It’s almost as if I’ve grown IN to allergies. Bleh.

  Thanks for the help.

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  Arch_Druid on March 16 at 1:28 p.m.

  I was watching the latest Cafferty files and I suddenly think that Jack doesn’t get anything. About a few weeks back, the Obama administration was injecting a dose of reality into our economic situation and was accused of many things, including by former Veep Cheney who claimed that Obama is trying to use our economic situation to advance bigger gvt. Then when Obama tries to inject hope into any economic message, he’s accused of sounding exactly like Senator McCain.

  I think this about the entire matter, you can’t have it both ways, the news media. When the news media does a lot of 180* turns on any issue out there, you just have to wonder what gets trusted and who should have to fold.

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  hhuseland on March 16 at 1:35 p.m.

  There are both alder and birch here, Sam. alder isn’t found in large quantities except in damp heltered areas, as they are water lovers. Lots of birch, though.

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  hhuseland on March 16 at 1:35 p.m.

  sheltered.

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  Cindy_H on March 16 at 3:04 p.m.

  Hey! Where’s the photo of the day?

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  JeanieSpokane on March 16 at 3:18 p.m.

  I’m using Horsey’s picture as the Photo of the Day. :)

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  Sam on March 16 at 3:47 p.m.

  So it sounds like there’s perhaps not as many of those types of trees in N. Idaho compared to damp western Washington, but there are some? Thanks Herb, for the help!

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  hhuseland on March 16 at 5:55 p.m.

  Your problem is probably alder. while there are some here, they are like weeds on the coast.

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  hhuseland on March 16 at 5:59 p.m.

  Re: the Austrian rapist/sadist/etc., I did the math. In 24 years, 3000 rapes would be 4.16 per day without a day off. I wouldn’t dream of accusing the European press of being sensationalistic, but hey!

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  keithincda on March 16 at 6:47 p.m.

  change we need? Hardly….

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090316/pl_usnw/the_american_legion_strongly_opposed_to_president_s_plan_to_charge_wounded_heroes_for_treatment

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  Bent on March 16 at 7:06 p.m.

  I spent my stormy Sunday brewing about 10 gallons of specialty beer… I was challenged by some on this blog to come up with a huckleberry brew for the next blogfest.

  Up until now, I have never tried to flavor a beer with fruit, so I did some research and decided I would break into the fruit beer world with a berry-infused wheat beer and an apple-infused lager.

  It all started out OK, but as I was brewing along I spaced out and dumped my apples into the wheat beer, which would have been OK but I had three pounds, or $15 worth, of Marrion berries I wasn’t about to mix with a lager. So I dumped them into the wheat beer too.

  So now, in about a month, I will have an apple/marrion berry wheat beer (with a higher than average alcohol content). But It might not be all that bad because I used a special yeast that adds a natural bananna aroma and flavor to the beer.

  Who knows maybe it will be a great mistake… time will tell. If not I will still have five gallons of my munich lager…

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  hmoffsuite on March 16 at 7:23 p.m.

  Jimmy Carter started with an approval rating about 74 and ended at about 31. Obama will follow the same path. Just watch.

  http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/popularity.php

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  lew2nl on March 16 at 7:56 p.m.

  Someone else suggested the name for Cindy’s business cards. I don’t want to get credit for some else’s original
  “Read Hval about It.” Cindy, can you show us a picture of your finished business card? Lots of success to you.

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  Cindy_H on March 16 at 8:39 p.m.

  Now, I remember! It was Token!
  Right?
  I’d love to show you the finished product, but right now all I have are the proofs on pdf and I don’t know how to convert them to a Word doc, so DFO can post them.
  I’ll send him a pic when I pick them up later this week.
  Again, thanks for all your help.

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  JohnA on March 16 at 8:56 p.m.

  Bent: “but I had three pounds, or $15 worth, of Marrion berries”

  Wasn’t he once the mayor of Washington D. C. ?

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  Bigguy on March 16 at 8:58 p.m.

  Sam:

  For me, it’s the mold spores. Damp and warming weather here on the “wet” side send the mold plants into a reproductive frenzy sending spores everywhere. The recent wind hasn’t helped either. I have the same problem. Doctor calls it allergic rhinitis.

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  Sam on March 16 at 9:42 p.m.

  Bigguy, thanks! A lot of people have mentioned mold and mildew, but I just have no experience with it.

  We’ll see what the allergist says.

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  florined on March 16 at 9:52 p.m.

  Herb, I think you might want to get a better calculator. 24 years x 365 days per year should be 8760 days. So, wouldn’t that mean an average of about every 3rd day?

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  cantyoureadthesigns on March 16 at 10:04 p.m.

  Florined, do not confuse Herb with the facts, he was making a big point about the socialist sensationalist press in Europe.

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  Bent on March 16 at 10:46 p.m.

  Yeah JohnA, I was thinking about naming this one Marrion Berry’s “Apple of my Eye”

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  JIMMYMAC on March 16 at 10:50 p.m.

  My wife and I booked a vaca and I’m hoping to get a little info from my beloved Huckleberries, particularly MikeK/ThomG and anyone else well acquainted. We are heading to NYC next month for a week and this is my first trip to the Big Apple. I’ll definitely be doing the musts as I get in 100% tourist mode everywhere I go. We’ll hit up Broadway, Statue of Liberty, Ground Zero, Wall Street/NYSE, Central Park, Dave Letterman if selected, etc etc etc. What I’m really looking for is info on things less known by the regular tourist folks to check out. Any suggestions? Places to eat? We’ll be staying at the hotel that daily films Fox Business Channel’s “Happy Hour” in their bar so I wil definitely take a stab at getting on TV. Me and the Mrs. are also taking the bullet train to D.C. one day to hit up the Capitol, White House, National Mall and Smithsonian (I’ll try as I am told I need two full days at Smithsonian). Thanks in advance.

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  Bent on March 16 at 10:57 p.m.

  You know what sucks. I just got back from the vet and it looks like someone may have poisoned one of my pups. He just started losing muscle control all of a sudden tonight and could barely stand on his own.

  Doc said it wasn’t anti-freeze, but certainly looked like a poisoning case. His liver numbers were three times the normal reading. She is pumping his stomach as I type this.

  I think it could be my neighbor. He is a little mental and he has launched an all out assault on neighborhood cats. We have a cat horder who lives down the street and leaves a trash can lid full of cat food on her porch. It attracts dozens of cats, and skunks in the summer.

  So my son told me tonight that the crazy neighbor guy is under the impression all of the cats are ours… I think he may have tossed something over my fence to kill the cats and poisoned my dog instead.

  We have looked all over the house and yards but can’t find anything the dog got into…

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  JBelle on March 16 at 11:13 p.m.

  ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, Bent. i am so sorry. Guy gets cheesed enough to poison your dog? Hope your kids never pi$$ him off. :( Let us know how you are doing in the morning.

  :(

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  Bent on March 16 at 11:16 p.m.

  Hey Jimmy, I don’t know a lot about the Big Apple. The last time I was there, I was about 6 years old.

  BUT, if you are going to DC for the first time, definitely take more than one day. heck, it takes nearly all day just to take in the National Mall, with all the smithsonian buildings, the washington monument, the white house, the new capital vistor’s center, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court (umm, try to resist the urge to go knocking on those big long doors. it’s just a little easier that way); the botanical gardens; lincoln memorial, the wall, the WWII memorial, korean war memorial.

  Then off the mall, there is the pentagon 9/11 memorial; changing of the guard at Arlington cemetary; JFK’s eternal flame at Arlington, the jefferson memorial, the newly remodeled Ford Theater, the old Post Office downtown, Union station; the aerospace museum..

  Dinner at Old Ebbit’s Bar & Grill for crab cakes and oysters on the half shell, and night cap in the lobby bar at the Willard Hotel, where the term “Lobbyist” was coined

  If you are going to be in DC at the end of April, there is strong chance I’ll be back there too. Let me know if you need a tour guide.

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  Bent on March 16 at 11:19 p.m.

  Thanks Jbelle, I’ll let you know. BTW, my kids could probably take to old coot…and right now they want to..

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  JBelle on March 16 at 11:29 p.m.

  jimmymac,

  Hot Pastami at Katz on Houston, pronounced HOW-stun.

  Ellis Island Ferry. it’s free!

  Sylvia’s or Dinosaur Buffalo in Harlem for home cookin’.

  Mexican restaurant across from Lincoln Center for pomegranate margaritas. I’ll get Perambulator to confirm the exact name.

  Arthur Avenue is the Bronx for some outrageous Italian food. Go for the bragiole. Good bragiole is really hard to get in the US.

  Right now, South Pacific at Lincoln Center is the show of shows on Broadway. Although it’s not on Broadway. However, one of my favorite shows in 20 years of haunting the Great White Way is ‘Jersey Boys’ and it’s definitely playing on Broadway. If you can’t get in to South Pacific, do not miss ‘Jersey Boys’. If you aren’t absolutely smitten, I personally will refund the price of both your tickets.

  Walk West Broadway and Green St in Soho for real New York neighborhod and flavor. Stop at Pearl River Mart for wonderful whiffs and glimpses of China. Keep going to Canal Street and into China Town for dumplings.

  Take your wife to Century 21 in the financial district to shop; she’ll become a nymphomanic for sure! Of course, Ground Zero is across the street and I know you’ll want to stop and pay your respects. I also love Trinity Church in the financial district and if you can book it now, tour the federal reserve bank. They store gold bouillion!

  If you have any specific questions about absolutely anything, please pipe up. The Perambulator happens to live 3 blocks from Yankee Stadium, has a picture window full of it in his bedroom, and calls the city his second home town.

  You can’t miss with the red bus tour that you catch on 42nd and Broadway. It’s cheap and a super way to get a good look at what interests you in the city. Jump start your vaca for sure. AAA discount on admission, too.

  What am I leaving out? Hey, I bet The Perambulator would meet you and your lovely wife and take you to the oldest Irish pub in New York. And God, what a month to be there!

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  JIMMYMAC on March 17 at 12:58 a.m.

  Thanks Bent and JBelle.
  Bent, we are doing the one day thing in D.C. for the sole purpose of HAVING to go back for an extended weekend. Are the White House, Capitol, War Memorials, Arlington Cemetary, Washington and Lincoln Memorials all doable in one day? I arrive at 9:30 and take off and catch the train back at 8.
  JBelle,
  Kat’z has been on The Top of the list! As has Peter Luger’s in Brooklyn. I’m loving the recommendations, keep em coming. My wife has always wanted to see Phantom, so I scored some 3rd row tix for her on Thursday night as a suprise. Possibly Century 21 during the day :) ?
  Quick question, how easy/hard is it to get around from neighborhood to neighborhood. SOHO, Grenwich Village, Bronx, Brooklyn, etc? I’ve heard it is comparable to San Fran without the hills……thanks again and like i said, keep ‘em coming!

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  Bent on March 17 at 6:11 a.m.

  Sure, Jimmy, if I only had a day, I would hit the national mall. You are coming into Union Station, which always makes me gasp when I realize that it was bulit in the 1700s.

  The capital building is just a couple of blocks away. Hit the new vistitor’s center at the capital for sure. The Library of Congress is right there too, and that tour is impressive.

  In front of the capital is the Mall. I think it is a mile and half long, and there must be close to a dozen Smithsonian buildings down either side of it. And most of the memorials are clear at the other end of the mall. So you’ll have to pick and choose what you want to see on the way to the memorials, and then catch what you missed on the way back.

  Try to get the white house tour booked in advance. If you do it in the afternoon, Old ebitt’s grill is only a block or two away from the whitehouse. But if you wind up on the capital end of the mall near supper time, go to dinner at the Monacle where you are very likely to be dinning with Senators especially around happy hour (then its only a couple of blocks back to union station).

  Also check Crapo, Risch and Minnick’s website for events they may be attending at the time. Often times they will have a coffee session to meet with Idahoans.

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  MamaJD on March 17 at 6:57 a.m.

  Jimmy - I have quite a few travel guides I could lend you on NYC. I always like to do something a little oddball on trips. I really enjoyed the Seinfeld tour with the original Kramer.

  I think McSorley’s Pub is an absolute must — there’s sawdust on the floor, it’s one of the oldest establishments in the city, they ask you, “light or dark?” and bring you two pints of either light or dark.

  Shoot me an email through DFO if you would like to borrow my books.

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  MamaJD on March 17 at 6:59 a.m.

  JBelle — The mexican restaurant on the West side across from Lincoln Center is Rosa Mexicana. The best guac this side of Pipi’s in Puerto Vallarta, IMHO. Worthy of walking in just to see the blue fountain of cliff diver sculptures. And the pomegranate margs, of course.

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  JBelle on March 17 at 7:40 a.m.

  JM,

  For me, getting around New York is like going from Sherman Avenue to Spirit Lake and then back home again. It’s second nature. The buses, subways and trains weave together to get you where you want to go inside of 20 minutes. However, New York is like the Marble Creek drainage for me. It’s just a part of me. You may want to ask that same question to someone who goes to New York on a semi-irregular basis. As far as theatre tickets and C-21 in the same day: shop in the morning, lunch at Katz’, then stroll through Soho and leave for midtown no later than 3 pm, even if you are going by subway. That will give you plenty of time for dinner and to be at the theater by no later than 6:45. Do not, under any circumstance, be late.

  By the way, what dates will you be in?

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  MamaJD on March 17 at 7:55 a.m.

  JimmyMac - I also love going to Spark’s Steakhouse. Spark’s is famous for it’s place in mob history and they have some pretty good steak. It is like walking into a scene of Good Fellas when you go to Sparks. It can be found on E 46th Street.

  PS - Numbered streets go east - west while numbered avenues run north-south.

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  Cabbage Boy on March 17 at 8:17 a.m.

  “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is concerned about the fate of the nation’s newspapers”

  Well if the newspapers weren’t worried about their future, they should start worrying now. Just wait till we have the “state news”

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  Cindy_H on March 17 at 9:55 a.m.

  Waaaaahhhh! I want to go to New York, too!
  I’m leaving for Seattle TH morning. I guess that will have to count for a trip to a big city.
  Sigh.

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  hhuseland on March 17 at 9:56 a.m.

  Oops. Florine is right. I used a calculator, too. Now we know why I retired from the mortgage business.

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  JBelle on March 17 at 10:07 a.m.

  Cindy, when you are ready to go, give me the signal and i’ll sneak out of here for the HBO Girlfriends Do The Big Apple Tour.

  yo!

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  Cindy_H on March 17 at 10:57 a.m.

  Omigosh. The city would never be the same! I’m starting my HBO Girlfiends Big Apple Tour savings fund, right now.

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  JBelle on March 17 at 11:11 a.m.

  roger that! designate what? 3 articles as the HBO GBAT fund designees and we are out of here! and as they say….what goes on in The Apple, stays in The Apple…

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  keithincda on March 17 at 11:33 a.m.

  Jbelle>>”Take your wife to Century 21 in the financial district to shop; she’ll become a nymphomanic for sure!”

  It’s true Jimmy, happened to my wife when/after I took her there!

  Sounds like you will be able to catch Grand Central since your taking a train to D.C. it’s a beautiful place. Walk North up and down Park Avenue from Grand Central a few blocks maybe you can catch Mrs. Madoff walking her yappers!

  Hit the Papaya King for a great hot dog and a papaya drink to wash it down…I think it’s corner of 3rd and Lexington area.

  Gotta have a bagel from a street vendor near Times Square and take walk on Central Park south or 5th Avenue…lots’ of upscale shops nearby and Trump Tower is nearby..

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  Cindy_H on March 17 at 11:41 a.m.

  Now quit that! I want to go right now!
  Maybe DFO will set up a Hucksters scholarship fund for the HBO GBAT.
  We could live blog it. Well. Certain portions of it, anyway :-)

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