Do we have a West Coast caucus here this evening?

[pscot]

I note that it's 10:15 here on the shores of Puget Sound. I'm in Freeland Washington. Where are you posting from?

[asdjrocky]

1. Ca n/t

[xxqqqzme]

2. From Huntington Beach, CA

[ourbluenation]

59. Go Marina Vikings!

Woot Woot!

[0007]

3. Bum fuck Texas!

[uppityperson]

4. woohoo for Freeland. Make me a ferry, please.

Olympic peninsula

[pscot]

7. If you'll buy me the yarn

ba-da-boom

[EFerrari]

5. San Francisco

Baghdad by the Bay.

[K8-EEE]

54. I love love love SF!!

BAGHDAD?? How come?

[EFerrari]

56. Herb Caen used to have a whole bunch of names for us.

That was one of them. :)

[Captain Angry]

6. A flyover state in the Mountain time zone.

They don't even tell us what time TV shows are on. It's always Eastern, Central and Pacific.

I just looked up where Freeland is. That must make for some fantastic views. I got to visit Seattle/Redmond/Mukilteo a few years ago. I was up at Microsoft for training.

Between the free chocolate milk and the awesome scenery, I threatened them that I was going to move into one of their conference rooms.

:-)

[LeFleur1]

9. Home of the Western Washington State Fair

Puyallup

[Captain Angry]

13. A cool city name...

For somebody with an excellent handle. Is LaFleur for the hockey great?

[pscot]

22. I can remember when a drive to Puyallup

was a pleasant country outing. I still buy fruit trees from a nursery out there.

[pscot]

11. Shhh

WE're keeping it under wraps.

[Captain Angry]

16. That didn't work so well for us.

The Californians found out that they could sell their shanty for a million, and buy 1/3 of the state out here. :-)

But don't be surprised if you see some weird guy who votes pretty intelligently in your backyard in a tent at some point. And if you have chocolate milk in the fridge, I'm not leaving.

[pscot]

26. As long as you aren't cooking up meth

or breaking into summer homes we'll try to accomodate you. I'm afraid the Californians have already found us. My property taxes have doubled in the last 3 years.

[Captain Angry]

27. No meth.

But I do make some pretty good stuffed shells, and my specialty: Pineapple Cranberry Chicken.

Nothing like a 4 ingredient recipe. :-)

[Nostradammit]

8. Cascadia, in the southern end of the Willamette Valley

where it's raining, oddly enough.

[depakid]

10. 5:20 pm Thursday here in New South Wales!

Getting dinner ready, and very pleased to finally be able to watch and listen to actual news, analysis and insightful commentary on TV and radio again!

B-)

[pscot]

17. We worry about you lot

Seems like the place is all drought and man-eating sharks. I've grown very fond of Australian Cabernet. Tell me things aren't as bleak as we'e heard.

[depakid]

43. Nope- things aren't all that dire

The water problems are mostly inland in the Murray/Darling basin, and my GF and I live on the coast (Newcastle, about 140 kilometers north of Sydney) at the moment, though we have to go back and forth to Oregon until the paperwork is done (pain in the ass- but worth it).

The drought has eased somewhat in NSW, with forecasts for a wetter than normal summer.

Sharks, on the other hand... there are plenty of them. A surfer just north of here got his ass bitten a couple of days ago (literally).

http://news.smh.com.au/shark-slices-surfers-buttock/20071218-1hqw.html

[Adsos Letter]

12. 10:23 here...Cordelia, California...and it's rainin'...

[KT2000]

14. 10:24 - Sequim, WA n/t

[pscot]

21. Sequim Bay

A lovely stretch of water. Sequim city, a complete selection of fast food options.

[KT2000]

32. Fast food for

a fast paced city! The new roundabout in front of Costco may send me over the edge - too fast paced.

[Kucinich4America]

38. Roundabouts suck

They're starting to infest Olympia & Lacey like a bad case of scabies.

[uppityperson]

31. I'm near "we're all here because we're not all there"

Hiya neighbors!

[SeattleGirl]

15. Seattle (duh!)

:hi:

[Adsos Letter]

23. Howdy, SeattleGirl...

:hi:

[WheelWalker]

18. Oakland Oregon

[KingFlorez]

19. 10:30 Thousand Oaks

[Ishoutandscream2]

20. Rockwall, Texas. Home of Rep. Ralph Hall (yuck)

I'm off work for two weeks, and I'm just hanging around. The family and the dogs are asleep.

[Hekate]

24. Central Coast California checking in.

:hi:

Hekate

[goodgd_yall]

37. Howdy

My REAL home is in Monterey. Staying in the Central Valley to take care of my mom since April. But SOME DAY I will return.

[pscot]

40. I lived in San Francisco for a couple of years (think Summer of Love)

And some friends were renting a house up one of the canyons in Big Sur. It was so beautiful down there, it just broke your heart. I still miss it sometimes.

[Hekate]

52. Should've specified Goleta, Santa Barbara's plain sister. Love the Central Coast...

And we finally got some rain Tuesday. I joined some friends at a restaurant after the SB City Council meeting and the place was flooded out.

The CC meeting was good though: they resolved that the Iraq War should end immediately if not sooner, joining 69 other cities in that. :-)

Hekate

[goodgd_yall]

58. Good for them!

Yeah, the Central Coast does take in a large area. Threw in a "Howdy" just in case you were anywhere near Monterey Bay.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. SoCal...just south of LAX...

The little town of Manhattan Beach...

:hi:

[EFerrari]

29. I used to drive into Manhattan Beach when I took the wrong turn

out of the airport to get back to Santa Monica.

After a while, I thought maybe we should just move there.

lol

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

36. You should have!

How cool to have you as neighbor!

:hi:

[sandnsea]

28. stormy oregon coast

hope everybody is staying dry!

[pscot]

33. Been raining here too

But the moon is peeking through the overcast right now. Merry Xmas, all.

[sandnsea]

41. Well that's good news

It's quieted down here too, it was really windy earlier. We didn't get any of the flooding a while back, but I've been thinking of those poor people. Otherwise we've had such a mild winter I can't complain.

[pscot]

45. We were lucky here, too

But I saw on the news earlier that the ocean has picked a few houses off the beach down around Tokeland, and relief agencies need mattresses for people who got flooded out down by Chehalis. I feel sorry for them, but it was all too predictable. State forestry authorized clear-cuts on unstable hillsides, then it rained. Who could have imagined that 500 acres worth of mud and debris would come roaring down onto the floodplain? Oh, wait. State geologists warned them? You don't say.

[gateley]

30. North Carolina but my HEART is in Seattle! I've vowed to be back there by the time

our new Dem President takes office, or die tryin'.

:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

34. The Fascist State of Irvine CA.

[goodgd_yall]

35. 11:18 Somewhere near Sacramento

I'm not long for DU though...signing off in a few.

[ConsAreLiars]

39. Count me in -- 2:15AM or so East Coast Time is

when I am most likely to post here. Love Seattle, even in these gray days. Water is Life.

[kma3346]

42. Greetings from San Jose

At 11:30 and still finding lots of interesting reading on DU.

[pscot]

46. Like rust

we never sleep.

[Pastiche423]

44. Southern coast of Oregon

[trashcanistanista]

47. Colfax CA (That's Placer County)

Pouring here, red as a beet area (except my house) but guess what, I'm calling in sick tomorrow and going skiing!

[pnorman]

48. Downtown Seattle WA (98121). And it's 12:18 AM right now.

Wazzup?

pnorman

[trashcanistanista]

49. I'm watching the Sopranos and reading DU.

:hi:

[pnorman]

50. I was into my second listen of Scahill's Blackwater".

But I set it aside for a few minutes to check DU. (I've been TV-free for about a decade).

pnorman

[trashcanistanista]

51. I read Blackwater a few months ago and at the time

it was the scariest book I have ever read! Now, though, I've been fully scared by "American Theocracy" written by a former rethug and I can't recommend enough "Shock Doctrine" which I am in the process of reading now if you are into horror.

[pnorman]

57. EARLIER yesterday, I had finished listening to THAT book too!

Listening to a book rather than reading it, makes doing it twice pretty well mandatory for such books. But that's pretty well "painless" with Audible.com , since almost all their narrators are top quality.

"Now what are the odds?" --- I have that Kevin Phillips "American Theocracy" book in that same MP3 device! But going through that one for the second time, was close to "painful! It was well written and well narrated, but more than the other two books, it induced feelings of deep despondency. I get that way now and then, but interaction with some (not all!) of my fellow DUers helps raise my spirits!

pnorman
On edit: by "THAT book", I meant of course Naomi Klein's book. And I too recommend it very highly. Also, if mentioning commercial products isn't forbidden on DU, here's my current MP3 device: http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Sansa-Express-Player-Black/dp/B000OV74CC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1198153255&sr=8-2
It holds 2GB on-board, and also has a slot for a Micro-SD memory card. AFIAK, 2GB is as large a card it will support, but that's large enough --- I already have a second 2GB card close by.

[K8-EEE]

53. No. Hollywood, CA!

Hey hey hey from my little corner of El Lay!

[fed-up]

55. Chico, CA where the wind is gusting at 40MPH and it has been pouring rain most

of the evening. WIndows are rattling and the house is cold.

I went to bed at 7:30pm and woke up a few hours ago.

It is going to be a long day today, especially since I plan to stand on the side of the road somewhere in the hopes of selling some almonds to make money to pay my now late car insurance and soon to be shut off water and PG&E...

Please make the rain go away by this afternoon...