The supreme irony of flood waters taking out water lines and making usable water unavailable is not lost on me. Fortunately, as a proud knuckledragging member of Crackerado’s prepper contingency, I think I have a 4-pack of San Pellegrino left over from one of the “demean the darkies” TEA Party meetings we held at my house recently.
So I’m good.
Scotch is better straight, anyway.
feh. Water is for bathing.
Like Sherm said, whisk(e)y is for drinking.
Don’t forget what fish do in that stuff.
Michelle Obama launches ‘Drink up’ effort to get Americans to drink more water
Well, she’s a fishwife; what could you expect?
Wow, it’s a good thing that we have the Obamas to tell us what to do when we get thirsty… I can’t imagine how I survived as long as I did without their wisdom.
Hey, M’Shell? When you get back from QoNos, could you tell me what I am supposed to do when I finish pooping?
If you see pairs of animals all heading in the same direction, you might want to follow them in a canoe.
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Plus the 50 gallons of H2O in your water heater, if you have the old fashioned kind.
How high’s the water, mama?
I’m waiting for M’chelle’s next big nag To Make Us Better
How, when and how often to brush our teeth.
for teh childrens!
Side note: One week later (and a $4K bill) we are having a new a/c system put in, as I write this.
Still 90 outside.
Water is not “free”
We won’t mind if you drop some of that in Texas. We’re having another drought.
was 103.7F (39.8C) in the shade outside my sliding glass door (north side of home, under the awning) this afternoon when I got home about 2:30
Beer is around 95% or so water.
While I’m told the water here in the south ‘burbs is safe to drink, I say why take the chance…
Remember, things could always be worse.
At least that’s what I keep telling myself.
Fair warning, I’m getting to the point where I kinda don’t even trust me…,
michelle O! fun
link
Netflix has a documentary available for streaming (or disc rental too, I suppose), titled, “How Beer Saved the World.” In it, they tell how breweries were the only source of potable water (in the form of beer, of course) in the Dark Ages, so people who didn’t drink beer got sick and died off, while people who drank beer conquered the world by sticking around.
Ah, the good old days…
Wasn’t that why the Pilgrims picked such a crappy landing place as Plymouth Rock – they had run out of beer and people were grumbling about mutiny?
Lots of gentler and warmer landing spots than the Massachusetts coastline
Also available in a handy infographic.
look water
Bonus Embarrassment Open Thread
Isn’t alcohol a diuretic?
Getcha a Berkey , boy! That way you’ll have plenty of clean water with which to make ice cubes.
when it rains it pours
Inside the Benghazi Anniversary Attack: Local Reports Show Gravity of Herat Consulate Assault
Isn’t alcohol a diuretic?
ethanol, water
hard rain is gonna fall
What are You Trying to Say, TIME Magazine?
Are you implying it’s us beer drinkers who made all that water? That it’s karma for Coors? Is that what you’re saying?
Remember, if you get flooded: it’s illegal for you to gather any of that water for your own use, because you’re depriving the entitled downstream users of some water.
Stay safe, but don’t drink the water.
“Isn’t alcohol a diuretic?”
It is, and relying exclusively on beer for hydration can lead to long-term effects (e.g., the incidence of fatal kidney and bladder stones was appallingly high in those days). However, if it’s a choice between dying at 60 from a bladder stone or dying at 15 from cholera…
I have read, but have seen no scientific confirmation, that there are no known pathogens that can live in beer. In addition to the alcohol, hops have antiseptic properties.
Colorado Flood: 230 people unaccounted for as death toll rises and rains resume
Past several days, weather radar has been out over SLC because of the rains. We even got some minor flooding in the southern end of the valley.
The picture over Denver is pretty clear, though.
this says maintenance
“rain drops keep falling on my head”
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What county does Jeff live in?
As the adage goes, you don’t buy beer, you rent it…
“What county does Jeff live in?”
cracker county, crackerado
That’s no help, nr.
too many weirdos to show that stuff
Alright. I know what town he lives in, I was just too lazy to look up the county.
Ok, I found it. It’s the one I was thinking of.
this says maintenance
The local news gave the impression that it was taken out by the rain. Little drama queens.
One of the stations said that theirs is the only one that’s up.
In Steyn’s latest, count the number of “mine is bigger than yours” analogies.
Steyn’s latest
utah be dry town
Not again with the html.
WordPress hates you, di.
Me too, for that matter.
“dry” no h2o way
I don’t know about Austin but my yard is un-yard-like and parched going into fall.
> yard is un-yard-like and parched going into fall<
i don't need your effin' toilets. they suck. so does epa.
you waterless peeps are taking from us waterfull ‘rich’ a classic “take from the ‘rich'”
you got water stuff deal with it.
we could pipeline all of southwest US needs but the proggtardian clowns won’t let us.
Thought/draught crime!
bh is in the house!!
Been wondering about you dude.
The profound crisis of human identity brought on by living within a
lie, a crisis which in turn makes such a life possible, certainly
possesses a moral dimension as well; it appears, among other things,
as a deep moral crisis in society. A person who has been seduced by
the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an
amalgam of the accoutrements of mass civilization, and who has no
roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything
higher than his or her own personal survival, is a demoralized
person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in
fact a projection of it into society.
Living within the truth, as humanity’s revolt against an enforced
position, is, on the contrary, an attempt to regain control over one’s
own sense of responsibility. In other words, it is clearly a moral act,
not only because one must pay so dearly for it, but principally
because it is not self-serving: the risk may bring rewards in the form
of a general amelioration in the situation, or it may not. In this
regard, as I stated previously, it is an all-or-nothing gamble, and it is
difficult to imagine a reasonable person embarking on such a course
merely because he or she reckons that sacrifice today will bring
rewards tomorrow, be it only in the form of general gratitude. (By
the way, the representatives of power invariably come to terms with
those who live within the truth by persistently ascribing utilitarian
motivations to them – a lust for power or fame or wealth – and thus
they try, at least, to implicate them in their own world, the world of
general demoralization.)
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Thanks, man.
I’m just putting in some silly hours. Not much more to it really. I’m good. Just busy and tired most evenings.
The top three reason Steyn’s latest is a hoot:
3) “This is diplomacy for post-moderns: The more you tell the world that you have to bomb Syria to preserve your credibility, the less credible any bombing raid on Syria is going to be — especially when your leaders are reduced to negotiating the precise degree of military ineffectiveness necessary to maintain that credibility.”
The top three reason Steyn’s latest is a hoot:
2) “Putin and Assad are running rings around the dull-witted Kerry, whose Botoxicated
visage embodies all too well the expensively embalmed state of the superpower.”
And the number one reason Steyn’s latest is a hoot:
1) ” America is in danger of being the first great power to be laughed off the world stage. When the president’s an irrelevant narcissist and his secretary of state’s a vainglorious buffoon, Marco Rubio shouldn’t be telling the world don’t worry, the other party’s a joke, too.”
Only good?
Dare we say even better?
http://tinyurl.com/onwisconsin-12Welcome back.
Blast.
Welcome back.
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