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Northern Lights, also, too!

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Here we are in the park, goosing statues in the dark, If Sherman's horse can take it why can't you? - Billy the Poet

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And the parent comment is a perfect example of why I like to hang out on our Wonkette ... now where in the hell is my d20?

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<blockquote>"How do you get from stopping the government to getting something we want? Step-by-step, please."</blockquote>

1. Shut down government. 2. Default on US national debt. 3. ??? 4. Profit!!!

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Of course, it hasn't been the Veterans Administration since 1989, when it became the Department of Veterans Affairs...

EDIT: Fixed the date

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Don't knock it til you've tried it. We have a great view of a dark north sky from our hot tub, and I'm very fond of star and moon gazing whilst enjoying a soak.

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I'm in SW Ontario, which means that I get to see Northern Lights every few years, when they stretch far south. And dammit, TWICE in the past few weeks I missed what were apparently spectacular shows by being fast asleep. (I need a Northern Lights Google news alert, I think) But I can think of 3 occasions in the past 15 years when we've seen coronal(?) northern lights, which were amazing.

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So... China is trying to be just like <a href="http:\/\/www.bigthings.ca\/bigsk.html" target="_blank">Saskatchewan?</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gxI2iezXkA">http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Does Dowd not have an editor, or did she turn in the rough draft of her column so close to the deadline for the paper going to print that there was no time for re-writes?

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Wouldn't that be redundant? We already have Louie Gohmert there.

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No flames, but the pine branches being trampled under the feet of the horse do symbolize Georgia. (Lotta Union war dead in NY; feelings were not mellow in 1903.)

The model for the figure of Peace was African American, BTW. <a href="http:\/\/www.sgnhs.org\/Augustus SGaudens CD-HTML\/Monuments\/CivilWar\/Sherman.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sgnhs.org/Augustus SGaudens CD-HTM...</a>

ETA: The Sherman monument in Washington DC does have the Battle of Atlanta in bas-relief on the pedestal.

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HappyNiceTime news: <a href="http:\/\/front.moveon.org\/24-moveon-polls-show-gop-could-lose-house-in-wake-of-shutdown\/" target="_blank">GOP could lose House in wake of shutdown</a>.

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"self-evident folly, so transparently devoid of any method whatsoever."

Memo to Ross: "self-evident" ≠ "so simple, even a teabagger could figure it out."

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All man can do is say '<strike>Ooh</strike>' <u> OW! Shit, that really fucking hurts!!!</u> in response.

fify

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Cowboy boots on Jeebus! That says all you need to know about Texas.

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