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Adam West of course. He was Batman!

There are 4 kinds of wine: White Red Stuff with a cork Stuff with a screw top.

"In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. " and Mother: All right. Now, are you ready to tell me where you heard that word? Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master. But, I chickened out and said the first name that came to mind. Ralphie: Schwartz! My parents said that everything looked authentic in that movie. They didn't make any mistakes with the sets or props.

Here is a post from another board I am on:

SARS is dangerous because most people infected died. This one can be a big problem. Remember, it spreads exponentially. Modern air travel allows it to spread quickly, but medicine is so nuch advanced we may be able to get a handle on it.

Trivia: The narrator, Jean Shepard, thereal Ralphie and writer of the movie., appears in a cameo. He is the guy with the beard and wearing a hat in the department store that tells Ralphie and his brother the line starts over there. He was married to the actress Lois Nettleson for 6 years and is the voice of the father in the Carousel of Progress at Disney World.

You have no idea how grants get funded. This is how I remember it as of approximately 2002. The head of the study section selects people (10-15) (usually friends) to review grants. The people in the study section each got a big box of grants (30-40) now probably distributed on DVD or online. They have a relatively short time (month) to review them and write a synopsis and opinion on the grant, while still doing their regular job. They usually farm out the reviewing and synopsis writing to their grad students, pos-docs, or employees. They send the synopses to the members and they have a week to read them. They all get together in one room. There are a certain # and $ amount they will fund. They quickly discuss the grants and winnow down the number and $ amounts. If there is a rival in the study section, forget about getting funded or have the $ amount drastically cut. The grants are about what you plan to do, but most of it is what you have done during the last grant to justify giving you more. It's also like the government , in fact it is government $. If you don't spend each year's allotment. it doesn't carry over to the next year. When I was in grad school in the 80s, the prof came in and said we had one month to spend 15K or lose it. We stocked up on non-perishable supplies like pipettes and petri plates and bought equipment we didn't use for a year or two. It's like making sausage or law, you don't want to see the process.

It cost millions with all the lost work from the people that ran outside in panic.

The typiucal "Bush did it too!" response.

A wino too?

The important thing to get from the article is the cloning of the dogs, not that they glow. The dogs glow by RFP, red fluorescent protein. They must be pt under UV light to glow. I used to work at a company that utilized the firefly luciferase gene. Luciferase is the protein that acts on luciferin to produce the glow of fireflies. We put the gene into bacteria, yeast (me), tumor cells , and in transgenic mice (controlled by specific gene promoters (switches) so that it is expressed in certain tissues). We injected the mice with luciferin or added it to the growth medium (bacteria and yeast) and looked at it with very sensitive cameras in a light tight box. The advantage was that with previous methods, if you are testing antibiotics (bacteria) or chemo (tumor cells) you had to kill animals at each time point and then homogenize the tissues or dissect and weigh tumors. With the method the company had, you could look at the same animals at all time points and see the progression or regression of the disease. This saves mice and $. Eventually they laid a bunch of us off when private funding was drying up. They later went public and were bought by another company when the investors wanted to cash out. After we were let go they came out with a camera unit that could get a 3-D image of the glowing in the mouse.

We're close to the Napa Valley. Even the box wines are good.

Obama has his ( Ayers).

Wait till the dems lose big in 2010. The uber-libs telling people what a republican should be The republican party hasn't been conservative enough since 1988. Yes, I think Bush was too moderate.

Good riddance to trash (Specter). He should have been kicked out of teh party years ago.

This was also probably for background video for the 2012 campaign.

I don't know how even got elected in the first place. Before he was a politician, he was a lawyer. He defended Ira Einhorn one of the organizers of the first Earth Day. Einhorn murdered his girlfriend and shoved her in a footlocker. She was found 16 months later in his closet. Einhorn said that it was a plot by the CIA to frame him. Specter got him out on 40K bail (only had to put up 4K). Before the trial, Einhorn skipped to Sweden. He was found living in France in 1997 and was extradited to the US in 2002, due mainly to the efforts of John Walsh (America's Most Wanted). As part of the extradition, Pennsylvania had to retry him (he was tried and sentenced to death in abstentia) and had to not go for the death penalty. Instead of being put to death, he lived a comfortable life for almost 25 years, due to Arlen Specter. Specter has been a RINO from day one. I was so pissed at Bush for backing him during his last election. Shows that the majority of people in PA are idiots.

It matters that he can't make a complete sentence without either. Much fun was made of Bush, Obama is worse.

Thanks to Obama were short trillions for this.

Totally missing the point. They have no idea of what science is and so do a lot of the global warmers.

The global warming believers sound very much like the creationists I argue with on another board. They are convinced that Genesis explains evolution, cosmology and chemistry. When asked they won't give you any info on their science background and believe their view without any actual proof.

Did you ask him where they grow those beautiful French-Canadian strippers?

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And 7 out of the 30 comments are threats also.

Last weekend I was in Lodi and Galt, CA (between Stockton and Sacramento). Almost all of agricultural land there is vineyards. There are at least 3 or 4 dozen wineries in the area. The supermarket we bought wine at 9:30 PM Saturday night had one whole shelf with local wines. Seems that having wine sold at Safeway and other supermarkets hasn't hurt them at all. I live next to Livermore, CA and there are 40+ wineries just in that town alone. You can find wine from almost all the wineries in the supermarkets.