Oooh, that Tank is sweet! Plus, they have R.L. Ermey as a spokesman. I'm still hoping that my brother-in-law Jim can come through with a factory reject. Do they give out freebies if you do a factory tour of John Deere? Seriously, we are just starting to look and will probably contract the mowing for the rest of this season.
You'll all be happy to know that I did keep my pants on in the bar today. My girlfriend got a bunch of my friends together to watch World Cup action at a bar next to my place. As far as Sundays go, it was a good time.
Ed...These are great pics. That night you gave me a nice bottle of vodka and I think I left it on that damn trolley.
Happy Birthday Desmond! Wish we could have been there to celebrate with you...that must be the reason I didn't mail your presents! I'm watching GODFATHER #3...it's good, Michael Corleone just said "crime and politics are the same" he's a diabetic in this one...oh, it's back on.
OK, he's really trying to turn "the family" legit...Vincent is really screwing things up for him...maybe if they had a CORLEONE Blog they could have settled things.
Update - I thought the spider had blown away in the wind, but there was a new web on the car (in the same exact place) this morning. Didn't see the spider though.
Dad's cousin Gerry Straub is making a new film, a collaborative effort with Muslim's from Turkey...he passed on some thoughts from the new film... "the necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the location of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is the essence of power...the Bush administration, using the most reliable source source of prestige-fear and terror-seized the public imagination and found a way to overcome his own inadequacies and his image as an ineffectual leader who did not even have the popular vote in an election that had to be decided in a courtroom."
There are studies that show drinking a couple alcoholic drinks a week will help prevent various upper respiratory infections and also help prevent heart disease. I believe your doctor was thinking of immunotherapy whereby you slowly build up a tolerance to the allergen. You must be allergic to hops. I congratulate you sir on your diligence!
Based on Dr. Kennedy's information...I am SUPER DUPER healthy and able to ward off high cholestrol; upper respiratory infections, heart disease and alcohol induced allergies! WooHoo...go me! :-)
a 1996 JD 445 with 60" deck has an average trade-in value of $3642 and an average retail value of $4350. A private party sale would usually have a lower price than a dealership sale, so I think the guys price is a little high, even with the rebuilt engine.
Geez Tom, thanks a lot for promoting a company that doesn't pay my salary, allowing me to provide food and shelter for my family.
Given your frequent political and social rants on this website I thought perhaps you at least cared about your fellow citizens. But did you choose to endorse a product built by the largest manufacturing employer in the State of Iowa? No. You promoted a product built by the same company that provides lawn mowers for Wal-Mart. So you are willingly participating in the wholesale, excuse me, retail destruction of the worlds standard of living. Hypocrite.
Farmer Joe, don't worry, I am sure the cost cutting lessons learned by being a supplier for Wal-Mart have found there way into all the products they build.
Seriously, Cub Cadet is crap. Gunny is a liar. Don't believe me check out consumer reports.
By the way, the John Deere dealer in Dubugue sells more JD Lawn tractors than anyone in the world. I know that they are sitting on some new 2005 model tractors that are heavily discounted. If you are interested I can get you the info on dealer price/rebates etc...
Jim, I would be interested in the tractors in DBQ. My brother Mike has a trailer and lives there. I can't believe Ol' Gunny is steering me wrong. However, if the Cadet had twin 50 cal. machine guns mounted on the hood, I'd have to buy it.
Deers combine design is, essentially, 50 year old technology. A friend of mine sells italian corn heads and the Deere combines don't have enough power to drive them. There is a fix, but Deere doesn't offer it. The Krago guy will. Plus the italian heads are more stylish. Plus-when Deere sponered a Nascar team it ran like shit, was regularly lapped by everyone including Caterpillar.
Consider the source. Mr. O'Reilly fails to specify how the poor have been helped. The deficit is not being "sharply cut," the rate of growth of the deficit has slowed. We are still bequeathing our children a crippling debt, mostly owned by foreign countries, while the administration spends like a drunken sailor, yet still cuts veteran's benefits, college tuition assistance, and all kinds of small-ticket social programs. O'Reilly calls anyone with political opinions left of John Birch a socialist, so I wouldn't take offense if I were Krugman; he's in good company. (Actually, I don't know anything about Krugman, but if Bill doesn't like him, that's in his favor.)
I agree that the reason the country is not in a deep recession is because Americans are continuing to spend. The problem is that what they are spending is borrowed money. I'm pretty sure they're not spending increased wages received from the great new jobs created by the huge capital investments made by the rich because there are no increased wages, great new jobs or huge capital investments. These are general statements. The working people are keeping the economy semi-afloat by digging ever deeper into available credit. Every now and then you hear of a new plant being built somewhere and you say that's a good thing, knock on wood, new jobs. Everyday you hear of plants closing 200 jobs gone, 600 jobs gone, 120 jobs gone-etc., sledgehammer blows to the local town, every time, because the tax cuts are, largely, not re-invested in American infrastructure. The structure is top-heavy, unbalanced, and will eventually, tragically (for the "prosperous" American working family) topple. Bush sucks and so does O'Reilly.
On the Today show this morning they were talking about the real estaste deals you can get right now because the number of foreclosures is rising. It's true that people are buying more than they need or should buy. I hope you're right about the deficit because I think it's the kind of thing that doesn't really affect everyday citizens until it reaches critical mass, the economy tanks and suddenly we're Venezuela, carting around worthless currency in wheelbarrows. By the way, we could be well on our way to the dictatorship stage of that progression you were quoting from last week. I can't believe I didn't know this but -- Bush has signed over 750 bills with an addendum that he puts on them saying that if national security demands it, he will ignore the bill. Totally unconstitutional. Apparently what we should have feared was fear itself.
I have never seen these italian corn heads, so i will concede they are more stylish. what i fail to understand is why you would want something that requires more power to do the same job. seems inefficient and higher fuel expense. I guess some farmers will do anything to have the latest in country style.
The Deere nascar team did suck. The driver didn't even have the decency to crash spectacularly. At least that would have led to some air time as they repeatedly show the deere logo on the hood crumpling into the wall. Instead he just kept finishing the race around 25th. that is why deere now sticks to corn heads and leaves the racing to the italians.
Tom, the JD lawn tractors sold in home depot and Lowe's are made in Deere factories in greeneville TN and horicon WI (I never claimed they were made in Iowa, I apologize for your misunderstanding). And yes they are sold through large retailers. I thought you considered wal-mart the great satan. Are home depot and lowes part of a larger axis of evil. Is it all big box stores. Is there some minimum square footage beyond which you pass into the dark side?
farmer joe, I did some investigating and you can get a JD gator with gun boots mounted on it. Unfortunately they don't mount on the hood.
Before Bush came into office we had a balanced budget and there was actually talk of eliminating the national debt by the year 2010. Where is Ross Perot when you need him.
I read the Bible every morning and I'm not a lunatic radical. It's pretty interesting - lots of violence and vengeance. Dubya is sort of an Old Testament guy. "We are the chosen people so we can invade any country we want."
Laura Bush has gained a lot of weight, fast. Did you see her heinie as she boarded the plane for Europe? She better watch her ass, George has people who can take her down! Run her ass over with a John Deere riding mower!
I agree we cannot bail on the Iraqi people now. We are in and should do all we can to leave the place relatively stable. We also have to realize that relatively stable is probably not something that we would recognize as a western democracy, the place is going to be crazy for quite a while
However, we did not invade under the banner of freedom. This became the message after it was apparent there were no WMDs and no connection to 9/11. It is revisionist history on the part of Bush, who misled us into this war that we must now see to the end.
I am not condemning the poeple of Iraq to another murderous regime, you cannot lump all anti-war and anti-Bush, etc together. I had no vote, my idiot Congressman and Senator voted to go in, NOT ME!
I also agree that I can't see any honorable way to leave Iraq right now. For one thing, we need to clean up our own mess and fix what we broke. But I will believe to my dying day that there is no way the United States should have unilaterally invaded a sovereign nation that had not transgressed militarily against us. And the conduct of the war since the invasion has shamed us. Violating the Geneva Convention, not letting the Red Cross near the "detainees", making up the word "detainees" to describe prisoners of war, hog-tying the military chain of command to allow civilian spooks to call the shots and torture prisoners, "renditions" of suspected terrorists to countries that will torture them (and more than once getting the wrong guy)...Bush and Co. have made us into the bad guys and as far as I can see, are creating new terrorists every day. What would you do if your brother, father or son was rounded up, tossed into Abu Graib and held incommunicado for months or years and then you saw pictures of what was going on there? Kill some of those foreign invaders, maybe? Maybe Iraq should hold a popular referendum to see if they want to split into three separate states. Of course, that would make things messier and more complicated for "our" (oil) interests. Not gonna happen. Oh, yeah, Afghanistan. Remember them? What are we doing to help them?
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Was the guy in the green shirt giving you a birthday spanking?
Oooh, that Tank is sweet! Plus, they have R.L. Ermey as a spokesman. I'm still hoping that my brother-in-law Jim can come through with a factory reject. Do they give out freebies if you do a factory tour of John Deere? Seriously, we are just starting to look and will probably contract the mowing for the rest of this season.
Happy Birthday, Desmond! :-) :-<> :-)
How old are you? Doesn't matter...how ever old YOU are...I am too young to have a nephew YOUR age! ~ha! :-)
Hope your Birthday was fun! I have no doubt that it was. :-)
well, look at that mug!
what did you do to celebrate?
p
You'll all be happy to know that I did keep my pants on in the bar today. My girlfriend got a bunch of my friends together to watch World Cup action at a bar next to my place. As far as Sundays go, it was a good time.
Ed...These are great pics. That night you gave me a nice bottle of vodka and I think I left it on that damn trolley.
Happy Birthday Desmond! Wish we could have been there to celebrate with you...that must be the reason I didn't mail your presents!
I'm watching GODFATHER #3...it's good, Michael Corleone just said "crime and politics are the same" he's a diabetic in this one...oh, it's back on.
OK, he's really trying to turn "the family" legit...Vincent is really screwing things up for him...maybe if they had a CORLEONE Blog they could have settled things.
Update - I thought the spider had blown away in the wind, but there was a new web on the car (in the same exact place) this morning. Didn't see the spider though.
If I see him again I will name him "Two Socks".
Is that a, "halo," over Desmond's head? If so...how come it's tipped on its' side? Is it falling over? Yikes! :-<>
Ed, I guess that's Two Socks" web address!
Yes Nance, that is a halo over my son's head, thanks for noticing!
(altho a bit tipsy)
:<> laughter :-)
It's like one of those, "aura," things I've heard about in photography! Usually, it's a ghost. Good ole Desmond...has a halo! ;-) Ahhhh. :-) So cute!
It is a halo of sorts, yes. However, I was not tipsy. I think the pollen count was very high that night and my allergies where acting up.
It is electronic manifestation of the dead cat ghost that has been plaguing Desmond low these many years.
It just wants to be petted and some Meow Mix.
Looks like a tiara. Frank-did you buy a house?
Does anyone have a cell# for Emily?
That's BS Desmond! Did allergies make you take off your pants too?
Look at me, I'm the allergy fairy and I'm going to show you my pixie stick.
Tis the Irish in me...the pants are heavy...want to wander round and toast me birthday...the circle over me head is brilliant!
Dad's cousin Gerry Straub is making a new film, a collaborative effort with Muslim's from Turkey...he passed on some thoughts from the new film...
"the necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the location of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is the essence of power...the Bush administration, using the most reliable source source of prestige-fear and terror-seized the public imagination and found a way to overcome his own inadequacies and his image as an ineffectual leader who did not even have the popular vote in an election that had to be decided in a courtroom."
He is THE MAN!
My doctor told me when I allergies start to act up, I should drink 12 beers and have a shot between each one. Hence the pants dropping.
Joe K, back me up on this.
There are studies that show drinking a couple alcoholic drinks a week will help prevent various upper respiratory infections and also help prevent heart disease. I believe your doctor was thinking of immunotherapy whereby you slowly build up a tolerance to the allergen. You must be allergic to hops. I congratulate you sir on your diligence!
Based on Dr. Kennedy's information...I am SUPER DUPER healthy and able to ward off high cholestrol; upper respiratory infections, heart disease and alcohol induced allergies! WooHoo...go me! :-)
Desmond...I'm so proud you're wearing Red, White and Blue!
Farmer Joe,
a 1996 JD 445 with 60" deck has an average trade-in value of $3642 and an average retail value of $4350. A private party sale would usually have a lower price than a dealership sale, so I think the guys price is a little high, even with the rebuilt engine.
Geez Tom, thanks a lot for promoting a company that doesn't pay my salary, allowing me to provide food and shelter for my family.
Given your frequent political and social rants on this website I thought perhaps you at least cared about your fellow citizens. But did you choose to endorse a product built by the largest manufacturing employer in the State of Iowa? No. You promoted a product built by the same company that provides lawn mowers for Wal-Mart. So you are willingly participating in the wholesale, excuse me, retail destruction of the worlds standard of living. Hypocrite.
Farmer Joe, don't worry, I am sure the cost cutting lessons learned by being a supplier for Wal-Mart have found there way into all the products they build.
Seriously, Cub Cadet is crap. Gunny is a liar. Don't believe me check out consumer reports.
By the way, the John Deere dealer in Dubugue sells more JD Lawn tractors than anyone in the world. I know that they are sitting on some new 2005 model tractors that are heavily discounted. If you are interested I can get you the info on dealer price/rebates etc...
Be sure to get one of those zero-tolerance mowers!
Jim, I would be interested in the tractors in DBQ. My brother Mike has a trailer and lives there. I can't believe Ol' Gunny is steering me wrong. However, if the Cadet had twin 50 cal. machine guns mounted on the hood, I'd have to buy it.
Even my kids could tell you, Those non-John Deere will fall apart. NOTHING RUNS LIKE A DEERE.
Do they have any tractors that run on Ethanol if no - why not?
P.S. Happy Birthday, Desi.
Erin
Deers combine design is, essentially, 50 year old technology. A friend of mine sells italian corn heads and the Deere combines don't have enough power to drive them. There is a fix, but Deere doesn't offer it. The Krago guy will. Plus the italian heads are more stylish.
Plus-when Deere sponered a Nascar team it ran like shit, was regularly lapped by everyone including Caterpillar.
I think John Deere is the worst form of gevernment
Tom-quit reading that bathroom book. If you don't I'll start posting Latin legal phrases. res ipsa loquitor
Loquitor - isn't that the guy Captain Picard turned into when he became a Borg?
Why is the spider's name "Two Socks?" Not that it's a bad name, just curious.
The "Two Socks" name was a joke. It is what Kevin Costner named his wolf in "Dances With Wolves".
Consider the source. Mr. O'Reilly fails to specify how the poor have been helped. The deficit is not being "sharply cut," the rate of growth of the deficit has slowed. We are still bequeathing our children a crippling debt, mostly owned by foreign countries, while the administration spends like a drunken sailor, yet still cuts veteran's benefits, college tuition assistance, and all kinds of small-ticket social programs. O'Reilly calls anyone with political opinions left of John Birch a socialist, so I wouldn't take offense if I were Krugman; he's in good company. (Actually, I don't know anything about Krugman, but if Bill doesn't like him, that's in his favor.)
I agree that the reason the country is not in a deep recession is because Americans are continuing to spend. The problem is that what they are spending is borrowed money. I'm pretty sure they're not spending increased wages received from the great new jobs created by the huge capital investments made by the rich because there are no increased wages, great new jobs or huge capital investments. These are general statements. The working people are keeping the economy semi-afloat by digging ever deeper into available credit. Every now and then you hear of a new plant being built somewhere and you say that's a good thing, knock on wood, new jobs. Everyday you hear of plants closing 200 jobs gone, 600 jobs gone, 120 jobs gone-etc., sledgehammer blows to the local town, every time, because the tax cuts are, largely, not re-invested in American infrastructure.
The structure is top-heavy, unbalanced, and will eventually, tragically (for the "prosperous" American working family) topple.
Bush sucks and so does O'Reilly.
Joe3~
Is your a/c working yet? The weekend forecast is...100 degrees! :-<>
Eh hem...honey, we need to talk about our Sears card. :-)
Joe 3,
Didn't you just get new AC?
Was it a Deere? ha ha
On the Today show this morning they were talking about the real estaste deals you can get right now because the number of foreclosures is rising. It's true that people are buying more than they need or should buy. I hope you're right about the deficit because I think it's the kind of thing that doesn't really affect everyday citizens until it reaches critical mass, the economy tanks and suddenly we're Venezuela, carting around worthless currency in wheelbarrows.
By the way, we could be well on our way to the dictatorship stage of that progression you were quoting from last week. I can't believe I didn't know this but -- Bush has signed over 750 bills with an addendum that he puts on them saying that if national security demands it, he will ignore the bill. Totally unconstitutional. Apparently what we should have feared was fear itself.
Anyway, as long as your news consumption is fair and balanced...
i'm sure chavez is building some nukes...
Bush's goal is to have it cut in half before he leaves office. He's on track to exceed this.
are you serious? you believe this???
I have never seen these italian corn heads, so i will concede they are more stylish. what i fail to understand is why you would want something that requires more power to do the same job. seems inefficient and higher fuel expense. I guess some farmers will do anything to have the latest in country style.
The Deere nascar team did suck. The driver didn't even have the decency to crash spectacularly. At least that would have led to some air time as they repeatedly show the deere logo on the hood crumpling into the wall. Instead he just kept finishing the race around 25th. that is why deere now sticks to corn heads and leaves the racing to the italians.
Tom, the JD lawn tractors sold in home depot and Lowe's are made in Deere factories in greeneville TN and horicon WI (I never claimed they were made in Iowa, I apologize for your misunderstanding). And yes they are sold through large retailers. I thought you considered wal-mart the great satan. Are home depot and lowes part of a larger axis of evil. Is it all big box stores. Is there some minimum square footage beyond which you pass into the dark side?
farmer joe, I did some investigating and you can get a JD gator with gun boots mounted on it. Unfortunately they don't mount on the hood.
Before Bush came into office we had a balanced budget and there was actually talk of eliminating the national debt by the year 2010. Where is Ross Perot when you need him.
Wow, everyone is quite sharp so early in the morning.
I read the Bible every morning and I'm not a lunatic radical. It's pretty interesting - lots of violence and vengeance. Dubya is sort of an Old Testament guy. "We are the chosen people so we can invade any country we want."
No one from Iraq attacked us before we invaded them. It was followers of Osama bin Laden, who is apparently very low-priority now.
Laura Bush has gained a lot of weight, fast. Did you see her heinie as she boarded the plane for Europe? She better watch her ass, George has people who can take her down! Run her ass over with a John Deere riding mower!
Does anyone else think the phrase "Italian corn heads" is really funny or am I delirious from an overdose of Advil?
I didn't think Laura looked too bad. She just needs a longer jacket.
I don't think any Straub woman should talk about other people's asses in a negative manner.
Monica
Happy B-day, Des. You don't look a day over 29.
Oh, wait, I was looking at the wrong end.
I agree we cannot bail on the Iraqi people now. We are in and should do all we can to leave the place relatively stable. We also have to realize that relatively stable is probably not something that we would recognize as a western democracy, the place is going to be crazy for quite a while
However, we did not invade under the banner of freedom. This became the message after it was apparent there were no WMDs and no connection to 9/11. It is revisionist history on the part of Bush, who misled us into this war that we must now see to the end.
I am not condemning the poeple of Iraq to another murderous regime, you cannot lump all anti-war and anti-Bush, etc together. I had no vote, my idiot Congressman and Senator voted to go in, NOT ME!
and what about Afganistan? shouldn't we finish up there? that place is slipping back into a free-fire zone.
I also agree that I can't see any honorable way to leave Iraq right now. For one thing, we need to clean up our own mess and fix what we broke. But I will believe to my dying day that there is no way the United States should have unilaterally invaded a sovereign nation that had not transgressed militarily against us. And the conduct of the war since the invasion has shamed us. Violating the Geneva Convention, not letting the Red Cross near the "detainees", making up the word "detainees" to describe prisoners of war, hog-tying the military chain of command to allow civilian spooks to call the shots and torture prisoners, "renditions" of suspected terrorists to countries that will torture them (and more than once getting the wrong guy)...Bush and Co. have made us into the bad guys and as far as I can see, are creating new terrorists every day. What would you do if your brother, father or son was rounded up, tossed into Abu Graib and held incommunicado for months or years and then you saw pictures of what was going on there? Kill some of those foreign invaders, maybe?
Maybe Iraq should hold a popular referendum to see if they want to split into three separate states. Of course, that would make things messier and more complicated for "our" (oil) interests. Not gonna happen.
Oh, yeah, Afghanistan. Remember them? What are we doing to help them?
Mary, I don't really like Laura Bush either.
Monica
Monica but you always look so hot when you wear your suit and do up your hair like Laura.
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