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Aw man, I hope there aren’t outages. Where else would I get my daily dose of mustelid?

Don’t worry; I probably won’t get that far. I’ve got a lot of things to disentangle.

Not that I do much web work any more, but I’ve made two huge fuckups lately: I’ve lost two domains. The first, I swear I didn’t get the renewal notice, but it’s mine and I can live without it. The other domain belongs to a client, though, and that’s a giant clusterfuck.

Of course, speculators picked up both domains immediately. I hope they enjoy them, because I sure as shit ain’t buying them back.

Nice place, Yurrupp – visited there (on extended basis a couple of times) in times past, and enjoyed it, mostly – fallen on hard times, tho, indeed –

We’re not (yet) that far down the ol’ slippery slope, over here in the (Relatively) New World – though it’s not for much lack of trying, just of recent decades…

[sigh]
Enquiring minds do, actually, want to know, and sometimes they can’t shut themselves down.
I observe that J.S.Bridges’s comment appears to have been posted after yours, Stoaty. HOWEVER, yours shows up at the top of the “The Best Stuff is in the Comments” list (a major resource for me in keeping track, eh?), implying that JSB posted before you. Does this mean that you as blogger have the power to reorder comments? Please believe that this is not asked in any sense in a carping spirit, and I believe unreservedly that you would never use that power for ill. I just like to understand how things work, and can sometimes be, well, obsessive in pursuing such understanding.

[years of working in the area of school law have convinced me that I have undiagnosed, moderate, cases of a wide variety of DSM entries. . .ODD, OCD, WKD. Whatever.]

Oh, yeah. I gather that the idiom you are familiar with is “go to hell in a handbasket.” Which is how I learned it. But I gather that “go to hell in a handcart” is also a common formulation, and I suspect (with absolutely no evidence in support of my thesis) that “handbasket” is US and “handcart” is UK. So, what does Uncle Badger say. . .or, for that matter, what do any of your UK minions say?

Just for fun… Google turns up the following

Helena Handbasket Co., a woman in Indiana who sells her hand-made handbaskets.

Helena Handbasket – Up and coming Pin Up/Cheesecake model from the Lone Star State!

Helena Handbasket – The Thrilling Detective

Helena Handbasket, Fargo-Moorhead’s newest rock band.

So if we do go there that way… There could be some reasonable company.

Geez, no Helena Handcarts? Do Britons not name their children Helena?

I vote for basket but then I’m prejudiced….. (And my Veterinarians daughter is named Helena)

No, no, no, I need my Weasel Site. I’ve put up with farriers who don’t show; I do my own shoes now. I’ve had to inoculate my wolf/dog hybrid with vaccines because vets are tedious (BTW he’s a sweet boy, scary, true, but completely dependent on his people pack.)

To top it all off, we moved a whole bunch of cattle off the Kern plateau down to their winter quarters near Onyx recently, and people were pissed off.

Hell in a Handbasket is for sure.

Hmmm well you want to see it from the Bottom of the World.
USA is looking like a bigger depression than the Great depression. The UK is looking like a Multicultural Cess Pit, whilst Europe – well I’m not sure what Europe looks like.

Libya was looking good before NATO bombed it to steal all the money.
Russia however is looking rather Exotic, whilst China is looking like the place to be.

And there you have it. North America shall resemble how South America was, Europe will look like the Middle East, and Russia and China are the New Hemisphere of Influence.

Oh – and Cascade.

Stop being a little Whiny Bitch and write that bloody paper!!!

That poor weasel looks like it feels doomed.

I do have that power, can’t hark. I can change comments, move the timestamps, make people say things they didn’t say, change ownership. I know why they allow it (because basically they can’t help it; it’s all entries in a database), but it totally creeps me out. It feels utterly wrong.

Which is why I stopped trying to edit Oceania’s posts for language and took to biffing them altogether when he loses control of his mouth. It seems cleaner.

But I have no idea why the comments in the sidebar were in a different order than the ones in the comment thread. Some kind of WP hiccup.

It’s hell in a handcart in dear old Blighty, Can’t Hark. A phrase being used with depressing frequency.

I keep reading financial articles which, frankly, are beyond the wit of a mere badger . After which all I want to do is dig yet another hole.

Oceania – I *wish* I believed that NATO bombed Libya to make a profit on it. It would show some sense, if not morals.

But I can’t really honest give them that much credit.

Wakey-wakey! 6:00 p.m.

If the average southern European put as much effort into being productive as they do protesting about austerity measures, Europe would be the economic power house fuckwits like the BBC allege it to be.

But they don’t, and it isn’t. And this is going to be ugly.

So Uncle Al is also a fan of the mighty Stoat Weasel. I knew he was a man of good taste, and a connoisseur (ain’t spellcheck grand?) of fine satire.

JWM

Oldcat:

I know so. I was in Libya in 2002-2003 working. Not only have the US derailed an number of strategic investments from Russian businesses, but they have carved up foreign funds, bonds and investment companies holding cash, stock and bonds.

It’s call theft.

I believe that the first use of Funds Stolen from the Libyan People was in a transfer to pay the wages of your Department of Transport Employees?
The next use was to fund Al Qada terrorists in Libya so that they could kill their own people.

The USA has become a petty criminal.