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8902 - Tuesday
Jul. 3rd, 2007 09:49 pmBHK called me Scooter Libby ! (Keith Olbermann delivers arguably his most pointed and most powerful Special Comment yet on the ramifications of Bush’s commutation of Libby’s sentence. 
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Download (9616) | Play (15158) ) WTF, mate? I'm not a rat... nor do I have cronies that can get me off the hook; maybe she thought that Scooter is too beautiful to go to jail? Perhaps they should have sentenced him to death by lethal injection; Bush seems to have no problem with that being too "excessive."
Half day at work today - Good thing, because there's so much to take care of before the fireworks tonight. BHK will be making some of her classic "mexican-bake-lasagna-thingie" of which I am a huge fan. Yes I am.
Got a kindly warning driving into work - 51 in a 40, a big traffic stop grabbing everyone who goes around a major turn. Police in Maryland are more polite to BHK than they are in Florida.
Also seen on the way in was a sickly-looking fox that got a "go home kitty!" and then "Kitty doesn't look so good" before we realised what the animal actually was. I hope it wasn't sick... odd to see a fox out in the city sidewalks.
Alerted yesterday by Jon at the DC Traveler that the mighty Titan Arum has begun blooming at the US Botanic Garden. He was, no doubt, tipped off by the oh-so-lovely smell of rotting corpse wafting through his window, which the flower uses to attract meat-loving (at least, meat-stench-loving) bugs to pollinate it. The giant, odorous plant seems to be falling into habit, blooming every two years since 2003 -- before that it hadn't bloomed in 12 years, and the species is usually known to bloom unpredictably.
Fireworks were quite lovely tonight; I didn't expect a show of that magnitude from a small town... pretty close to the Miami show in volume... twin barges full of mortars just went to town at about 9:30pm. [attach flickr pictures here]
Download (20263) | Play (28541) Download (9616) | Play (15158) ) WTF, mate? I'm not a rat... nor do I have cronies that can get me off the hook; maybe she thought that Scooter is too beautiful to go to jail? Perhaps they should have sentenced him to death by lethal injection; Bush seems to have no problem with that being too "excessive."Half day at work today - Good thing, because there's so much to take care of before the fireworks tonight. BHK will be making some of her classic "mexican-bake-lasagna-thingie" of which I am a huge fan. Yes I am.
Got a kindly warning driving into work - 51 in a 40, a big traffic stop grabbing everyone who goes around a major turn. Police in Maryland are more polite to BHK than they are in Florida.
Also seen on the way in was a sickly-looking fox that got a "go home kitty!" and then "Kitty doesn't look so good" before we realised what the animal actually was. I hope it wasn't sick... odd to see a fox out in the city sidewalks.
Alerted yesterday by Jon at the DC Traveler that the mighty Titan Arum has begun blooming at the US Botanic Garden. He was, no doubt, tipped off by the oh-so-lovely smell of rotting corpse wafting through his window, which the flower uses to attract meat-loving (at least, meat-stench-loving) bugs to pollinate it. The giant, odorous plant seems to be falling into habit, blooming every two years since 2003 -- before that it hadn't bloomed in 12 years, and the species is usually known to bloom unpredictably.
Not only does the "Corpse Plant" feature the mouth-watering fragrance of dead rats, but it grows to fairly enormous heights, with some wild-growing plants (they're native to Indonesia) reaching 12 feet tall, though most average a still impressive five feet. If you're interested in seeing the purpley-crimson color that reveals itself as the petals open up, you must act quickly. The Titan Arum slowly began budding in June, but reached full bloom and began emitting its zombie-licious fragrance the day before yesterday, so you've only got perhaps today and maybe tomorrow to catch this unusual sight. At least for a couple of years.
Fireworks were quite lovely tonight; I didn't expect a show of that magnitude from a small town... pretty close to the Miami show in volume... twin barges full of mortars just went to town at about 9:30pm. [attach flickr pictures here]
