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Party in Slow Motion: A Summer Sun Open Thread

Last (ok, also first) call for Moose Meet Scotts Valley, July 7th and 14th. We are done with the California Experience, going back to the lake lifestyle, this time on Douglas Lake in Knoxville, TN. You will find us here in various shades of dishabille.

Any Moose in the Bay Area (Adept? Fog? …?) are welcome for Saturday night bonfires and bower conversations. Any other day or night up to the 17th Moose are always welcome. Email, 408 656-8732 or just show the heck up.

Same goes for Tennessee on the other end, anytime. Pontoons and BBQ in the southern summer sun!

What does the summer hold for all you other Moose out there in the world?

Consider this a sun-soaked open thread.


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  3. fogiv

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06…

    …especially the slideshow. the photos are a stunning and a powerful reminder on how often, and easily, we can go astray.

    i’ve visited the remnants of the tule lake, hart mtn, and minidoka “relocation centers”, and i would encourage any and all to do same given an opportunity. for me, the experience was profound. i left each with a wounded heart.

    this article also reminded me of the time when my grandfather took me to see the WWII isolation/detention block for german POWs at Beale AFB. I was just a kid, but I vividly remember the writing and drawings on the walls — they didn’t look ‘old’; it was as if they could have been made only days before. I asked my grandfather if germans had made the markings. He said, “men made those, and they happened to be german”. i got the impression that this cold and forbidding structure, with it’s lamenting, humorous, and occasionally titillating graffiti, was the result of regular men (both those detained, and their captors) who were caught up in something much larger than themselves. i think my grandfather felt it important to separate and recognize the humanity of these people from the generalized historical context.

    i miss my grandfather very much.

  4. Shaun Appleby

    There seems to be no limits to self-parody among Republicans these days (h/t Huffington Post via Charles Pierce):


    [Montana State Representative Krayton] Kerns said the moving of 60 bison from Yellowstone National Park to the Fort Peck Native American Reservation this winter is part of “a four step process to crush the republic and bring our populace into perfect dependence on big government – just as Karl Marx dreamed.” He said the first part involved Walt Disney’s creation of the popular fictional deer “Bambi,” which he said allowed people to raise the stature of animals and caused the teaching of the environment in schools, which he said stopped worship of God

    Charles P Pierce This Week in the Laboratories of Democracy Espquire 5 Jul 12

    Is is just stupidity, cognitive dissonance or something that will eventually show up in DSM IV?

  5. HappyinVT

    A lovely little house built in 1906 with the cutest little backyard (10 rows to mow ~ I counted).

    I keep waiting for the bank to come back and say it’s all been a colossal joke and there’s no way I qualify but we’re two weeks from closing and so far so good.  If anyone’s ever in Swanton, VT come look me up.

    And I’m not sure I want to see any of you in any state of dishabille.  ðŸ™‚  Keep yer clothes ON.

  6. HappyinVT

    President Obama stopped shaking hands for a moment today so that he could embrace a sobbing woman whose uninsured sister recently died of colon cancer.

    snip

    As the president was working the rope line, he consoled a crying woman who was telling him a story. Pool reached the woman, Stephanie Miller, by phone and got these details.

       Ms. Miller said her sister, Kelly Hines, died from colon cancer four years ago because she could not afford proper health insurance. She had no employer-provided coverage

       “Even after she was diagnosed with cancer, she was told her income was too high for Medicaid,” Ms. Miller said.

       “I thanked him for the getting the Affordable Health Act passed,” she said. http://thinkprogress.org/healt…  

    Of course, the leadership on the Right would shake their heads in sorry, proclaim it’s too bad, and then change the subject.

  7. fogiv

    feh, it’s already afoot no doubt. sad:

    A restaurant owner in Akron, Ohio who served breakfast to President Barack Obama on Friday morning died hours later of a heart attack, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.

    Josephine “Ann” Harris, 70, complained of “fatigue and a tingling feeling” shortly after Obama left her family diner, Ann’s Place. She was taken by ambulance to Akron General Medical Center, and by 11:18 a.m., she was pronounced dead from an apparent heart attack.

    Harris met — and hugged — Obama just after 8:00 a.m., when he stopped in unannounced for breakfast. Harris’ sister, Frankie Adkins, told the Beacon Journal that meeting Obama was likely a “highlight” for her sister since she was a big fan.

    “She loved Obama,” said Adkins.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

  8. Adept2u

    I just came off 5 fantastic days on me parent’s motor yacht, yup the biggest problem I saw the last week of so was their commodores dinghy broke. boo to the hoo, hey it was important to them.  We motored to Catalina and even went on the back side of it to a place called Kat Harbor just across and isthmus from where Natalie Wood died.  So right now the world is still bobbing and I haven’t read any news.  I stared into the milky way until I got star drunk every night outside of the normal drunk as they had a red white and blue cocktail theme at the club.

    Ever been to Catalina?  It belonged to the Wrigley family and is essentially california scrub hills transplanted 30 odd miles off shore.  Anyway seems like the earth remained on its axis these last few days.

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