"Jesus: If you think he's too liberal for America, you've nailed it"

Well, now that you've broken the seal, rhc, I must admit that that the "nailed it" thing is an awesome line/visual.

Mike Huckabee doesn't provide security for Chuck Norris ...

These aren't as funny as they used to be.

Unfogged: Do not consume if seal broken.

I think Jesus was perhaps a bit of a flip-flopper on the tax issue as well.

Come on, we know better, it should be (pbuhahf).

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I dreamed about unfoggedcon last night. B and I were sharing a room which turned out to be an alcove off a swimming pool. There was no smell of chlorine, you'll be relieved to hear. It was very calm and clean and pleasantly warm. PK, of course, was also along, and as B & I prepared to make up our bed, he sprang up onto a ledge which ran, ascending, round the wall of the room/swimming pool, and ran along it, over the door on the back wall, and round to the front again, where it ended in a stubby little diving board. In this dream he had short, curly blond hair. When he came to the end of the ledge and saw the pool below, he stopped, but his momentum carried him forwards, and he swung out anyway, and dropped about twenty feet into the pool. I didn't know if he could swim, and as I had taken off more of my clothes than B, I was just about to jump in and rescue him when I woke up. My last thought was to hope the water was not too cold.

This has been a public service announcement.
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ended in a stubby little diving board

Zis iz ze key.

OT plea for help---

I'm looking for a cheap, reliable, easy-to-use site for buying airine tickets. It's been a while since I've bought tickets online---since I've flown, really, but the lameness of the online brokers had driven me back to the student travel agents before then. Any suggestions?

kayak.com works pretty well and will, at your option, search up to three other sites as well.

But really the best counselling on these matters is done in person. Take the bus down to DC and we'll tell you all about it; then you can fly home sometime later.

Thanks for your first suggestion. And I'm going to try to stay in California for a week or so; perhaps we all can overlap?

Well that all depends.

I also use Kayak! I also live in California! We can make this work!

Also check out farecast.com which does predictive buy-now or wait forecasts on ticket prices based on the info you submit.

I'm looking at 24 dec--31 dec right now.

I'm leaving for DC on the 28th.

Christmas Day meetup for movies! I always run into the (Jewish) dean of my high school at the movies on Christmas.

And w00t. I have tickets. I'm going to make it home for Christmas! My mother will be so relieved.

I'll be gone between the 20th and the 3rd, you horrible people you.

18: My siblings and I always go to the movies on Christmas -- during the we've-opened-our-presents-but-are-not-yet-pigging-out lull. With bottles of champagne under our coats.

last last yr i flew to LA on the 23rd, was back on the 1st of January, visited LA, SF, Seattle
my cousin lived there, she died last month due to breast cancer
From LA to SF i rode a japanese company bus, minivan with 9 passengers, they switch cars in the middle, very cheap and 5? hrs drive, forgot, it was like californian demographics in miniature, 2 white students i suppose, one of them was a backpacking german, 2 latin woman, 2 chinese or korean, a beautiful gay guy who was very talkative and me, they were all chatting and when i answered the phone they all got silent that was awkward and those huge cow farms were really really stinking
i flew 5 times during 9 days which was a personal record
i booked all tickets through expedia, don't know whether it is cheap or expensive
last yr i was in the hospital during that time
this yr probably in the lab have to finish up everything

Kayak.com was pretty awesome. The Farecast service wasn't really a big help for this particular trip.

I guess the movie-on-Christmas thing is pretty common--my sister and I do it every year. I'm still trying to decide what will be this year's selection. I'm also considering buying her the first season of The Wire as a gift (I haven't seen it either) so we can sit and watch it for the duration of my trip there. Woot vacation and watching tv-on-dvd.

Those cow farms do really stink, read, it's true. I'm sorry to hear about your cousin.

22: Actually, California to date is weak in the Mongol demographic, though I did meet a California Mongol once. I believe that his family left Russia or China sometime during the 1920-1940 period.

I count.

Ah, Harris Ranch in beautiful Coalinga. Or as my (vegetarian) ex-cow-orker used to call it, "Cowschwitz".

"Cowschwitz"

Holy shit, I'm still laughing at this.

But the Harris Ranch is great. I actually stayed there about a year ago, and have eaten there several times. Beef! More beef!

ogged is ilkhanid, i knew it!
brother! but no more other feelings for you then
cause that would be like sinful
that farm is really cowschwitz
i thought then poor animals, our animals are in heaven they just roam wherever they want and come back home at down, very harmoniously
if i'll see Grand Canyons may be that'll be all my sightseeing in the US and the Great Lakes too i'd like to see once
i've been to DC two times, to Boston, to Niagara Falls
she was so young only 10 yrs older than me, but because she gave birth during her early 20ies her two children now are grownups both are a graduate students, one here, another one in Japan
life is so short, should enjoy it now and it's meaningless if you won't leave a trace of something children books memories anything
sorry for sounding depressing

7: Aww!

-a

read, you should definitely see the Grand Canyon and the Four Corners area in general. The skies, particularly at night, are vast, the majesty is humbling, the palette is silencing. Not just the canyons, but the buttes; they breathe at an endless pace. Do.

i will, in the spring perhaps

Parsimon, they do have that kind of stuff in bulk in Mongolia. Not the Grand Canyon, but the rest of it.

A Baikal / Superior lake comparison would be interesting. Baikal has more water because it's deeper. Lots of unique Baikal fauna (e.g. fresh water seals).

they do have that kind of stuff in bulk in Mongolia

Oh. I am chastened at my ignorance.