More fun with the fuhrer
In light of recent postings, i remeber seeing this about a year ago... it's more ... Panama centric
pa' la pinga....
In light of recent postings, i remeber seeing this about a year ago... it's more ... Panama centric
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In light of good times on Saturday, I've decided that each monday I'm gonna post a trailer to a movie from back in the day, just for good time's sake.
Poti, Yanx, this one's for you!
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Panama Canal Project Opens a Tropical Window
Serge Bloch
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By NATALIE ANGIER
Published: July 6, 2009
THE CULEBRA CUT, Panama — You can’t leave Aldo Rincón alone for a moment.
As a small knot of scientists and visitors dressed in hard hats and orange safety vests milled around on the banks of the Panama Canal, chatting about the $5 billion expansion program now under way to widen the storied canal and so accommodate the ever-fatter freighters that ply the planet’s seas, Mr. Rincón, 30, quietly pulled a few digging tools from his backpack. He squatted down near an unremarkable-looking patch of pebbles and broken rock and began methodically scraping away in the dirt.
The helmeted throng wandered off briefly to inspect a sloping chop of sedimentary and volcanic layer cake that the construction project had exposed nearby. On returning to Mr. Rincón and his rasping trowel, scientists and guests alike gasped with amazement. In a mere 15 minutes of work, Mr. Rincón, a paleontology intern with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, had unearthed a big, beautiful fossilized femur bulging up pertly from a sedimentary substrate. The bone was about seven inches long and so flawlessly preserved it looked fit for a soup pot.
Mr. Rincón, tall, slender, monkishly focused and wearing sideburns, fashionable black plastic-framed glasses and a braided leather bracelet, guessed that the femur belonged to an extinct species of llama that lived in the area some 20 million years ago. He should know: he has found llama bones before, as well as the mineralized mementos of prehistoric crocodiles, peccaries, anacondas, giant tortoises.
One of his discoveries, of a partial skull from a leaf-eating horse, was described in the May issue of the Journal of Paleontology, in an article by Bruce MacFadden of the Florida Museum of Natural History.
“Aldo has an amazing ability to find fossils,” said Camilo Montes, his supervisor at the Panamá Geology Project. “Whenever he digs, he finds another fossil.”
These days, Mr. Rincón and scores of other scientists are digging as fast as they can in the shadows of the really big dig that is the Panama canal expansion program, the most ambitious overhaul to the complex array of locks, channels, dams and bridges since the canal was built a century ago.
The Panamanian government initiated the project for purely economic reasons. In its current configuration, the 51-mile shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans can grant passage only to boats carrying up to 65,000 tons of cargo. But many international shipping companies increasingly prefer to use mega-freighters that can haul up to 300,000 tons.
As a result, the Panama Canal has been losing business to other transoceanic routes; and with canal tolls amounting to close to $100,000 per ship per one-way crossing, and potentially more for the giant freighters, the government decided it had no choice but to widen and straighten the canal to make room for the S.U.V.’s of the seas.
For scientists, the massive engineering project promises spectacular spinoffs. The tropics are thought to be nature’s romper room, the habitat where the majority of the world’s life forms got their start and thus of great interest to evolutionary scholars. Yet the very conditions conducive to biological diversity and innovation end up obscuring life’s biography. The sun, the water, the greedily growing plants: nothing remains exposed for long, and fossil evidence is pushed ever deeper beneath successive pages of growth and decay.
Tropical verdure also masks tropical geology, the underlying story of how the landscape came to be. This blurring is a particular shame in the case of the Panamanian isthmus, given its pivotal role as a bridge between two continents. Geologists have longed to understand how and when the isthmus arose, but the tropics aren’t Arizona and there is no Grand Canyon to serve as an open book.
The five-year Panama canal expansion project, begun last year, offers scientists a kind of drive-by canyon experience, a brief yanking back of the chlorophyll cloak. Using dynamite, bulldozers, backhoes, excavators and many, many shovels, workers will be rearranging hundreds of millions of cubic meters of dirt and rock. “There’s nothing else like it, to get this much exposure in the tropics,” Dr. Montes said. “We cannot lose this scientific opportunity.”
Carlos Jaramillo, also of the Smithsonian, said, “We know we’re just guests here, but at least they’re digging us a $5 billion hole.”
At the canal there are neither slow boats nor rain checks. The moment workers blast open a new cut, researchers must move in immediately and gather what data they can. Not only is the jungle always ready to reclaim naked land, but the canal authorities are similarly devoted to quick forest restoration, and they will add topsoil where needed to spur a fresh round of stabilizing vegetation. They want no repeat of the many tragedies that accompanied the building of the original canal, when thousands died in landslides because the terrain had been too quickly stripped bare.
“We’re in a race against time,” Dr. Jaramillo said.
Speed dating for scientists has already borne fruit. Through analyzing more than 2,000 fossils, the stratigraphic record revealed by each new rock cut, paleomagnetic data, isotope ratios, carbon signatures and more, researchers are getting a sense of what an ancient tropical rain forest looked like.
Some 15 million years ago, when Panama served as the southernmost outpost of the North American continent and the land bridge had yet to form, the forest was nevertheless a crossover dream. Its fauna, according to Dr. MacFadden of the Florida museum, was similar to the animals then living in Florida and Texas, which means leaping llamas and leaf-eating horses that looked like large tapirs, and mid-size tapirs that looked like tapirs, and forest rhinoceroses, and an especially fierce carnivore that was half-bear and half-dog. Yet the flora looked South American, the apparent result of seeds traversing the ocean on currents of water or wind and finding friendly soil in the Panamanian swelter.
Starting around 10 million years ago, the isthmus of Panama began to form, and researchers are finding that the tiny country is one of the most geologically complex places on earth, part Caribbean, part North American, part a tiny piece from an island in the middle of the Pacific, part a tiny piece from an island arc. “Four tectonic plates are involved, and all of them are colliding in Panama,” Dr. Jaramillo said. “You won’t find that sort of tectonic plate configuration anywhere else in the world.”
Moreover, while most of the world’s tectonic plates are rigid, now slamming together, now breaking apart, the plates of Panama are rubbery.
“They seem to be bending, and we don’t know why,” Dr. Jaramillo said.
Maybe they’re warming up for the day when, high over their head, the revamped locks are opened and the wide loads start coming through.
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disfruten su vida que se va rápido!
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Obama later on learned a bit of discretion, probably after getting bitched at (or just picturing his wife bitching). The French and Italian presidents didn't give a fuck.
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When people break into your house and this happens:
Thieves flee after breaking into Dolph Lundgren's Spanish home
Dolph Lundgren can be seen to the left wearing some very Soviet-looking red and yellow trousers. He is also pretty much the only Russian in history that you can just refer to as "The Russian" and people know exactly who you're talking about.
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Had to be done!
Bumper sticker material. Good night, guys...
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Pastor del Compas
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lemmiwinks has 1,004 facebook fans...
we need a username. lemmiwinks is taken. can't make up my mind!
this is what i got so far that are available:
lemmiwinkspeludo
bestbandever
elgallinazo
lemmiwinkspanama or lemmiwinks507 (boring)
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This one spreads the gospel about fags being The Devil. She best not ever see the Rat crossing the street as she's driving.
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Number of posts as of July 1st 2008 = 240
Number of posts as of July 1st 2009 = 149
We are down 38% from our output in comparison to last year, if this was a company we'd be in deep shit...blame this on:
- people getting married
- dont have time to post at the office
- da rat disappearing for 2-3 months
- others (or other??)
This must be rectified at once!
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BYOB if you like, I'll have some abuelo waiting for you fools, 8:00 onwards!
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If we dont know you, then you dont post in this blog, plain and siMple...hence greenwers is someone we know...hAviNg said that, dude, i hope you have a good explaNation for that nickname...cause it's gaY.
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New Mars Volta... These crackas put out an album a year, apparently? Assholes.
Since We've Been Wrong
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Ze Sharc
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I know some of y'all despise U2 (manny...), but, shit... This looks AWESOME.
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Galán se lleva a la mujer,
chequera ($$$) mata a Galán...
pero Galán con chequera...
NO LO MATA NADIE!
-Eduardo Gonzalez Sr.
and a small video to go with it
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Hellcat = Tim Armstrong's Label
Hi Eddie,
A naked came to me in a fever dream after I caught food poisoning and told me to write and say thank you for sending me your CD.
Unfortunately we aren’t signing any bands at the moment.
I’m really enjoying the Peludo CD.
Thank you for thinking of Hellcat Records.
Chris
Christopher LaSalle
Hellcat Records- Los Angeles www.hell-cat.com
213-413-7353 (x206)
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Hey Crackers it's the Yanks Birthday and today
we are going to have some Tacos and Karaoke at
the Busch household for the bests' of Friends.
Lluegen de las 7 en adelante.
It's our dawgs birthday. Don't go overboard
with the extra invites to random as people.
Remember, I's gots to work tmrw.
PEACE!!!!
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Estos junky makeshift instruments suenan delcarajo, I know at least Poti will trip this.
Have a good day fuckers.
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This is the BEST trailer for anything related to Star Wars ever:
[its the HD VERSION so it takes a bit but its worth it]
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http://www.mininova.org/tor/2551158
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Watch this shit!
Miegda, He's lost it.
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I wonder con que lo hicieron.
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Not that I have any desire whatthefucksoever to see any of you 4 naked or nothing, but...
or
Derrepente con unas pingas postiza con pixelacion pa que no tengan que sacar nada y la gente aun asi vea??? jajajajajaaa
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SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.
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Little Toddler Preaching at Church - Watch more Funny Videos
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More stop motion funkiness. Este si ta very crazy...
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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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As it stands, I've got 2 available beds at my house. Blue and Yankee have confirmed they'll room together. So basically, this leaves one room with 2 beds for either a married couple (mi vieja no deja que hay pareja en cuarto junto a menos que esten casados) or 2 rejos or 2 rejas...
I wanna get this shit booked and confirmed from y'all sooner rather than later. I leave on the 23rd of April. I will personally give you instructions on how to get there if you wanna be hooked up. 2 free beds that are walking distance from the wedding venue, people, don't let it go to waste. Free!
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Something about stop motion fights....
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Ze Sharc
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me avisan como termina, it was too painful for me
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South Park is ALWAYS right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It's called a hang drum, its similar to a steel drum but it's played with the hands. They're almost impossible to get, they only make them in Bern and you have to go there personally to get one custome made... I wants one! Meña, take a train there and hook it up, I'll pay for your trip haha.
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Redneck Video Dating Disaster - Watch more Funny Videos
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The Best Birthday Present Ever - Watch more Funny Videos
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Beer Man
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Saran Wrap Doorway Prank - Watch more Funny Videos
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This Is Not A Prank - Watch more Funny Videos
hahahahahaha Wash your hands
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The Rapping Flight Attendant - Watch more Funny Videos
I bet this shit will happen on Gallinazo Air too...jajaja
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I have nothing to post but wanted to say WHAT'S UP!!!!
Oh, Capt'n Gallinzo returns to Panama on Wednesday.
Viene la cachimba.
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This is too true to be funny...
The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases..
A..
A billion seconds ago it was 1959..
B
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
D
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E.
A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes,at the rate our government
is spending it.
While this thought is still fresh in our brain...
let's take a look at New Orleans ....
It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator,
Mary Landrieu (D)is presently asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS
to rebuild New Orleans ... Interesting number...what does it mean?
A
Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans
(every man, woman, and child)
you each get $516,528..
B
Or... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
C..
Or... if you are a family of four...
your family gets $2,066,012.
Imagine, now $700 billion bailing out banks in the US . That's enough to fund complete medical care for every man, woman and child currently alive in the US for 11 years!!
50 billion to bail out the auto industry???
Washington , D.C.
&
Ottawa ON .
< HELLO!!! >
Are all your calculators broken??
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax , Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property y Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax upon Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
Income Tax
Everything Tax or even NSW Taxes
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY???
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt...
We had the largest middle class in the world...
and Mum stayed home to raise the kids.
What happened ???
Can you spell 'politicians!' ???
And I still have to press '1'for English.
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A HUSBAND IS AT HOME WATCHING A
FOOTBALL GAME WHEN HIS WIFE INTERRUPTS,
HONEY,
COULD YOU FIX THE LIGHT IN THE HALLWAY?
IT'S BEEN FLICKERING FOR WEEKS NOW.
HE LOOKS AT HER AND SAYS ANGRILY,
FIX THE LIGHTS NOW?
DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE GE WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD?
I DON'T THINK SO.
FINE,
THEN THE WIFE ASKS,
WELL THEN, COULD YOU FIX THE FRIDGE DOOR?
IT WON'T CLOSE RIGHT
TO WHICH HE REPLIED, FIX THE FRIDGE DOOR?
DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE WESTINGHOUSE
WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD?
I DON'T THINK SO
FINE, SHE SAYS
THEN YOU COULD AT LEAST FIX THE STEPS
TO THE FRONT DOOR?
THEY ARE ABOUT TO BREAK
I'M NOT A CARPENTER AND I DON'T WANT TO FIX STEPS HE SAYS, DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE ACE HARDWARE WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD?
I DON'T THINK SO
I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU.
I'M GOING TO THE BAR!!!!
SO HE GOES TO THE BAR AND DRINKS FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS........................
HE STARTS TO FEEL GUILTY ABOUT HOW
HE TREATED HIS WIFE, AND DECIDES
TO GO HOME
AS HE WALKS INTO THE HOUSE HE NOTICES THAT THE STEPS ARE ALREADY FIXED.
AS HE ENTERS THE HOUSE , HE SEES THE
HALL LIGHT IS WORKING
AS HE GOES TO GET A BEER, HE NOTICES
THE FRIDGE DOOR IS FIXED.
HONEY, HE ASKS, HOW'D ALL THIS GET FIXED?
SHE SAID, WELL, WHEN YOU LEFT I SAT OUTSIDE AND CRIED.
JUST THEN A NICE YOUNG MAN ASKED ME WHAT WAS WRONG, AND I TOLD HIM.
HE OFFERED TO DO ALL THE REPAIRS, AND ALL I HAD TO DO WAS EITHER
GO TO BED WITH HIM OR BAKE A CAKE.
HE SAID,
SO WHAT KIND OF CAKE DID YOU BAKE?
SHE REPLIED,
HELLOOOOO..
DO YOU SEE BETTY CROCKER WRITTEN
ON MY FOREHEAD?
I DON'T THINK SO!
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Has anyone noticed that every since the Rat and Manny got married the posts on the blog have slowed...hhhmmmm interesting isn't it...
Thoughts anyone????
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I'll be in Panama on March 18th... be there or be square!
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the show is called "Flying Heavy Metal with Bruce Dickinson" ... it's awesome!
disfruten de los carnavales and shiet ....
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