The Watering Hole: January 7 – Boris Godunov

Posted on January 7, 2011 by WaltTheMan

On January 7, 1598 Boris Godunov. became the the first non-Rurikid tsar of Russia:

His evil twin is perhaps more famous.

This is our Open Thread. Please feel free to add your thoughts on this, or any other topic that comes to mind.

Boris Badenov and his compatriots kept a flying squirrel and his moose companion pretty busy:

64 thoughts on “The Watering Hole: January 7 – Boris Godunov”

2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 12:29 am said:

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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 12:35 am said:

“Gee Mr. Peabody democracy has come to Iraq “- “that’s just biggest load of dog shit I’ve ever heard in my life. And I’m a dog.”

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vinylspear on January 7, 2011 at 4:11 am said:

Every time I hear “Ride of the Valkyries” by Wagner, I start singing “Kill de wabbit, kill de wabbit”

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vinylspear on January 7, 2011 at 4:20 am said:

I miss the cartoons of Saturday morning.

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lass o delight on January 7, 2011 at 4:29 am said:

Vinyl, I have similar images of “de wabbit” massaging hair tonic when I hear “Barber of Seville” .

Thanks for the smiles this am with those fun memories – preparing for a little snow here later this afternoon; If I don’t make it back for Music Night, could someone offer up some
Hot Chocolate tunes? Sending out huskies optional ~

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lass o delight on January 7, 2011 at 4:37 am said:

Me too, vinyl … I really enjoyed Pink Panther, the Jetsons, and Josie and the Pussycats. It was a special treat to watch Scooby Doo, as it meant we were visiting my grandparents’ in Philly (we had lousy TV reception on the farm and only got CBS and PBS at their houses!). I was also a huge Sid and Marty Kroft/Hanna Barbara fan … Don’t get me started on PuffnStuff !

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vinylspear on January 7, 2011 at 6:10 am said:

Good one Ebb.
That’s how cartoons should be.
I think The Daily Show fills that role nowadays.

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zxbe on January 7, 2011 at 6:33 am said:

Okay, someone mentioned PuffnStuff. 🙂

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lass o delight on January 7, 2011 at 7:02 am said:

Zxbe! I actually had an imaginary friend named Jimmy for years! And I have an autographed Witchie-Poo studio still in my office 🙂

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RUCerious on January 7, 2011 at 7:05 am said:

Moose and Squirrel like this.

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frugalchariot on January 7, 2011 at 7:50 am said:

Someone let Pee5 out of his cage this morning, obviously in time to cash in on a meth sale. Far out.

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TerrytheTurtle on January 7, 2011 at 8:00 am said:

Hanna Barbera had some good stuff and also turned out some crud too. The golden years of Wacky Races and Scooby Doo were followed by some rubbish which I don’t have the energy to go research 😦

What I want to know is whatever happened to Ren and Stimpy?

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zxbe on January 7, 2011 at 8:37 am said:

Yeah, I really liked those Sid & Marty Krofft and Hanna/Barbera shows as kid too. 🙂

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- Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 8:59 am said:
  
  Woo! Our high today is supposed to be 37 degrees, which is pretty damn nice, but it’s 37 degrees NOW. So that means we might just get into the low 40s, and a bunch more snow will melt off. Yay!
  
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  - nwmuse on January 7, 2011 at 9:41 am said:
    
    A couple of things to throw out there..
    Here is a Google map with markings and links to news reports for all the ‘mass animal deaths’ over the last week around the globe:
    http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201817256339889828327.0004991bca25af104a22b
    
    I watched a couple of videos this morning with Hannity (blecchhh….) interviewing Michele Bachmann and Anthony Weiner over Social Security and the debt ceiling vote that is coming up. Painful to watch.. How in the heck do you answer questions that are leading (misleading), filled with distortions and misinformation? If I had been Weiner, I would have answered the questions with some ridiculous answers totally unrelated to the question, and when Hannity asked him “huh??”, I’d tell him “If you want an honest, factual answer, ask me an honest, factual question”.. I just can’t bear to hear Hannity OR Bachmann talk (almost too painful to watch). They are both idiots and compulsive liars. I give Weiner credit for going on his show, because I have always thought of Republicans as a bunch of chickens refusing to be interviewed on MSNBC, that they were only comfortable being on FOX talking to those who agreed with and shared their talking points, but they tried to make him look like a fool instead of debating honestly. (Honestly is the key word here..)
    
    I’ve decided that the real reason that Bachmann is planning on running for President is to make Sarah Palin look SANE or SMART when Sarah jumps into the ring. That woman (Bachmann) is just flipping nuts… She is like an angelfood cake that is all air that has WAY too much frosting on it.. There’s nothing there, covered in sugar..
    
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    - Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 9:59 am said:
      
      So the mass animal deaths occur in the mid-latitudes. That’s something to consider.
      
      Poison form the Gulf?
      Unusually cold temps?
      Other pollution?
      Combination?
      
      I’m not buying the “blackbirds got scared by the fireworks” conclusion I heard a day or so ago. Are they trying to say that town in Arkansas never had loud fireworks before? Or they never had blackbirds in the trees before? Please.
      
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      - Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 10:07 am said:
        
        Loony Steve King just bugged out on Thom Hartmann.
        
        Supposedly he’s needed for a vote.
        
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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 9:37 am said:

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That was our early morning weather: fog

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- Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 9:40 am said:
  
  Ugh, fog is the debbil.
  
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frugalchariot on January 7, 2011 at 9:43 am said:

Fog’s ok. But boy, do I hate wind! So unnecessary, don’t know why the gods allow it. Or maybe it just a consequence of them screwing around. Or something.

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- Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 9:53 am said:
  
  Living where I live in northern Idaho, wind is a fact of life. By now, it’s weird to me when there isn’t a breeze of some sort.
  
  Frugal, I bet you get some wicked winds off those mountains!
  
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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 9:49 am said:

That’s a very interesting map of the ‘die offs. We need a perspective: on any given day, around the world, are the die-offs more or less? Do they correspond with weather or other activities.

The current die-offs are bringing much needed attention to ‘what is happening in the environment causing this? or is it a natural part of the ‘life cycle’ that we’ve not been paying close attention.

Thanks for posting that, muse.

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frugalchariot on January 7, 2011 at 9:51 am said:

There’s more to the bird deaths than meets the eye, most likely. Yesterday I watched something someplace where some sort of ‘scientist’ explained how at night, birds can fly into high wires and poles, towers, etc., break their bones and fall to the ground. So simple. Oh, and it happens hundreds of times each year.

Uh huh.

Think military, think black ops, think weapons tests; more likely than not, something’s going down.

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houseofroberts on January 7, 2011 at 9:58 am said:

Thom Hartmann with Steve King right after the break!

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Gary Herstein on January 7, 2011 at 9:58 am said:

Something I’ve been suspecting on this topic — Mass die-offs are evidently not that unusual, they just caught the media (Mainstream and New) attention this time around:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40961721/ns/us_news-environment/

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houseofroberts on January 7, 2011 at 10:09 am said:

Or maybe not! He’s casting a meaningless vote for political theater

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- Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 10:11 am said:
  
  Say it ain’t so, House!
  
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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 10:19 am said:

“…meaningless vote for political theater.”

At least 歌舞伎 (kabuki), although lengthy, is entertaining. The repugnant ones – repiggies- goopers are downright insulting to ones intelligence. Unfortunately this ‘play’ will last two f’g years.

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houseofroberts on January 7, 2011 at 10:19 am said:

Every vote in the House for the next two years!

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houseofroberts on January 7, 2011 at 10:20 am said:

I’d rather hear Howard Dean anyway!

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- Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 10:24 am said:
  
  Oh damn! My feed cut out for a few minutes.
  
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houseofroberts on January 7, 2011 at 10:29 am said:

KPOJ started doing that. I listen on the player on ThomHartmann.com, now. It’s the lower of the two players, the top one does the RT show, The Big Picture. You also get different news during the breaks.

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- Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 10:33 am said:
  
  For some reason, the player on ThmoHartmann doesn’t work for me. At least it didn’t last time I tried it.
  
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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 10:44 am said:

Zooey, did your PIN ever arrive?

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- Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 10:51 am said:
  
  I’m hoping it will arrive today, ebb.
  
  This is ridiculous…
  
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  - Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 11:26 am said:
    
    Ew. Weevils are gross.
    
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houseofroberts on January 7, 2011 at 11:28 am said:

You’re not watching Torchwood, are you?

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- Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 11:33 am said:
  
  Oh yes, I am!
  
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houseofroberts on January 7, 2011 at 11:35 am said:

Episode one?

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- Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 11:45 am said:
  
  Episode 1 was last night, I’m on 2 now.
  
  “He came and went.” 😆
  
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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 11:42 am said:

Apologies if this has been discussed here but OMFFSM:

Bill O’Reilly thinks the tides are proof of God’s existence: ‘You can’t explain that’

O’REILLY: I’ll tell you why [religion’s] not a scam, in my opinion: tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that.

SILVERMAN: Tide goes in, tide goes out?

O’REILLY: See, the water, the tide comes in and it goes out, Mr. Silverman. It always comes in, and always goes out. You can’t explain that.

Seriously? I mean, we knew that Bill O’Reilly was fond of pushing around his right-wing prejudices as conventional wisdom, and he’s displayed ignorant buffoonery on many an occasion. But this is epic ignorance, the kind you really don’t expect from a major TV news anchor. Hell, I bet even Glenn Beck knows that the tides are created by lunar cycles.

So, yes, Bill, we can explain that. Quite scientifically and quite precisely, in fact.

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- Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 11:47 am said:
  
  ebb, keith had that on his “Worst Person in the World” segment last night. It’s frickin’ hilarious!!
  
  I love the look on the guy’s face. 😀
  
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RUCerious on January 7, 2011 at 11:52 am said:

Ummmmm. Bullo?
Gravity.
Moon.

Jeezutz he’s stoopid.

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- Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 12:10 pm said:
  
  I love that “You can’t explain that” is on tape forever and ever. 😀
  
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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 11:58 am said:

RUC, O’R will be rallying to have that law (of gravity) overturned by the SCOTUS =;>

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houseofroberts on January 7, 2011 at 11:59 am said:

Has O’Reilly ever looked more stupid?

Ep 2 is good. I’ve been watching them four at a time in the morning, once every two weeks, on BBC America. This week, they started having one a day at 2pm Central, followed by the X-Files, and Doctor Who. So today is ep 5, of the first season. I’ve only seen the first two seasons. I think they are trying to sell the DVD for the later seasons.

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frugalchariot on January 7, 2011 at 12:02 pm said:

Zooey. Winds: yep, we get those fierce downslope Chinooks here. I’ve already “donated” two nice tents and a roof full of shingles to them. Still trying to figure out what use they have and haven’t come up with anything. Breezes are nice, true, but gale force wind? USELESS! Damn gods and their screw ups.

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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 12:07 pm said:

They scour the sky, frugal! Sweep away the cobwebs.

Whisk away seeds – when bees are not pollinating we need the wind ~^~

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RUCerious on January 7, 2011 at 12:12 pm said:

You can’t explain that… If you’re dumber than a second grader.
Amber could explain it to him, she’s got an excellent grasp of gravity, and how the lunar pull causes tides. Praise the FSM!

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Gary Herstein on January 7, 2011 at 12:16 pm said:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512

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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 12:36 pm said:

ah, The Onion ~ (attempting to catch my breath with that one – thanks Gary !)

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frugalchariot on January 7, 2011 at 12:55 pm said:

Ebb: True enough, the winds ‘scour the sky.’ But why did they scour my roof and my tents too? I would think that a truly gifted god would be able to do the math on that stuff. Of course, ‘gifted god’ may also be an oxy…. hmmm.

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- Zooey on January 7, 2011 at 1:09 pm said:
  
  It’s not the wind’s fault if you put your house in its way. 😉
  
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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 1:05 pm said:

Have tissue within reach.

http://www.themudflats.net/2011/01/06/mom-1925-2011/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheMudflats+(The+Mudflats) AKMuckraker on the death of her mother.

Nobody at any of the houses where I Trick-or-Treated knew what the hell I was, but I did. It was the best Halloween ever – the Gurgi of my imagination wandering the streets among the run-of-the-mill vampires and goblins.

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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 1:08 pm said:

frugal, apparently those ‘gods’ didn’t want you to have a tent or a roof ~ wasn’t in ‘the plan’ ~^~

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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 1:14 pm said:

I’m odd- you already knew that but the wind is my friend! Always wish it could ‘talk’? tell where it has been; what words, from the other side of the world, would it impart?
Imparting those secrets/wishes/words of wisdom whispered into by inhabitants of this earth.

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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 1:20 pm said:

What’s going on – now there’s an

Envelope Ignites At DC Postal Facility

Police are saying a package has ignited at a Washington, D.C. postal facility, a day after two fiery packages were opened in Maryland.
D.C. Officer Hugh Carew does not know if the package is similar to the two that ignited at Maryland state government buildings Thursday.
Carew said the package ignited about 2:45 p.m. Friday.
The building has been evacuated and no injuries have been reported.

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frugalchariot on January 7, 2011 at 1:20 pm said:

Zooey: I rent the place. 🙂

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frugalchariot on January 7, 2011 at 1:24 pm said:

Ebb, I think if a gale force wind could talk, it could tell tales about blowing shingles off of roofs and of ripping tents to shreds. But not much else. Now, a breeze, that’s a different story. Breezes stop to look around, dontcha know. Wind is nothing other than a breeze with a really crappy attitude. Like the difference between a Progressive and a Republican, sort of.

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frugalchariot on January 7, 2011 at 1:31 pm said:

Speaking of ‘scour the sky’:

Photo by Denny Green, Tempe Arizona.

http://frugalchariot.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/sandhill-cranes/

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2ebbandflow on January 7, 2011 at 1:48 pm said:

ahh, things with wings make my heart sing – marvelous photo of the cranes in flight!

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vinylspear on January 7, 2011 at 2:21 pm said:

When I lived in Northern Arizona the wind would howl through the pines.
I loved it.
My room mate hated it.
He went back to the city to listen to buses and car alarms going off.

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WaltTheMan on January 7, 2011 at 3:09 pm said:

I used to live along the Hudson River (A bit upriver from WAS) and the wind was the least of my worries. It was the thunderstorms and the sound of cracking ice on the river (in February) that got me. We had a transmission line about 100 yards from our house that got hit often and the lightning clap would seem to come simultaneously with the flash.

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zxbe on January 7, 2011 at 3:34 pm said:

Oh my we’ve really got the trolls frantic over there tonight. 🙂

Obama Created More Jobs In One Year Than Bush Created In Eight

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