Boris Johnson on Blair as Europe president Oct 6, 2009
" But there isn't a constitution is there????? Geoff Turner on October 05, 2009 at 08:10 AM I watched what severely restricted sections of the Treaty were permitted to be debated by MPs in the house of commons before the treaty was rammed through just as so much bad legislation is rammed through. A pitifully small group of MPs bothered to turn up, making it clear they thought it a pointless waste of their time, and most just appeared in time to vote as ordered by the whips, despite this being an... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Click to read:Unemployment Figures Cloud Recovery Hopes Oct 4, 2009
I guess, I'm up the creek without a paddle. by Bayou123 October 4, 2009 4:08 AM EDT. (CBS News)
Death of ecosystem ravages creek Sep 20, 2009
On Thursday, investigators found dead fish for the first time about a mile and a half up the creek above the treatment plant discharge. "Our hypothesis was that it's coming out of the Blacksville No. 2 mine, but the finding of dead fish upstream from the Blacksville discharge indicates the sole cause cannot be Blacksville," said West Virginia DEP spokeswoman Kathy Cosco. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Flowood diners still waiting for a drink Sep 20, 2009
Applebee's and Up the Creek operations director Eddie Cook said he's expecting benefits from being able to serve alcohol but he's not sure how big ... The businesses are Cerami's Italian Trattoria & Caffe, Applebee's, Ruby Tuesday, Up the Creek Fish Camp & Grill, Cheddar's Casual Cafe, El Sombrero, Mississippi Legends Grill, Salsa's Mexican Restaurant, Mugshots Grill & Bar, El Potrillo, Chimneyville and Ichiban. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Shad drawing fish into open Sep 10, 2009
Bass fishermen are finding fish on the causeway riprap, backwaters up the creek and on pad points. The fishing is as good as it's been in the Bay all year. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Update: Judge delays decision on sending Pingle to prison Aug 28, 2009
CONCERENED wrote on Aug 27, 2009 11:24 AM:" THIS GUY NEEDS SENT UP THE CREEK!! SIMPLY PUT!!! ". stargoddess wrote on Aug 27, 2009 11:25 AM:" Wow. Is it the LAW to have the lawyer there? Or is the judge worried that if the lawyer ISN'T there, that somewhere down the road it could be said that Pingle's rights were violated..or something like that? ". (Longview Daily News, WA)
9 Flowood eateries apply for liquor licenses Aug 25, 2009
Granted the permits that give them a resort status were Cerami's Italian Trattoria , Applebee's, Ruby Tuesday, Up the Creek Fish Camp , Cheddar's Casual Cafe, El Sombrero, Mississippi Legends Grill, Salsa's Mexican Restaurant and Mugshots Grill span class='aa ... Applebee's and Up the Creek operations director Eddie Cook said he's expecting benefits from being able to serve alcohol - but he's not sure how big ... Up the Creek Fish Camp bartender Kris Leach of Flowood serves beer right now until... (The Clarion-Ledger)
The long view from the Mogollon Rim. Aug 19, 2009
Up the Creek Bed and Breakfast in Strawberry has an excellent weekday special. Normal rates are $125-$170 per night, but on Mondays through Thursdays, you can stay in a room for $100. (AZCentral -- Travel)
FACT CHECK: No 'death panel' in health care bill Aug 16, 2009
Therefore, if you don't go to the doctor enough in a year to spend $2000,, you are basically up the creek. If we were offered ASI cafe. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Building a better cardboard boat (3) Aug 12, 2009
Another craft, Up the Creek also joined the two-man challenge. In that heat, racers took off from the dock, flipped around a buoy about 500 yards away and then returned to touch the starting point. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
No airport, no action: residents up the creek Aug 10, 2009
Peter Cork is one of many Badgerys Creek residents restricted by redundant zoning laws. Photo: Edwina Pickles. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
On trail to Swan Peak, son steps into the lead Aug 7, 2009
Sander was as patient as a son could be as I fought the heat and continuous thirst every stifling step of the way on Saturday, until we got to our campsite about 10 miles up the creek, and again on Sunday as we carefully moved up and up through beargrass-bedecked slopes and onto the scree- and boulder-strewn heights. I stopped frequently to catch my breath and lean on my hiking poles. (Missoulian, MT)
Tax holiday big success Aug 4, 2009
"It was wonderful. Could we have another one next weekend, please?" said Derenda Hancock, manager of Up the Creek Grill in Flowood. The eatery in the Dogwood Festival Market saw a 35 percent increase in business, she said. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Click to read:Pot Tax Has $1.4B Potential in California Aug 3, 2009
4B Potential in California - CBS Evening News - CBS News. LOS ANGELES, August 2, 2009. (CBS News)
Fish Creek open for reds Aug 1, 2009
Web search powered by YAHOO. The salmon have been returning to the Kenai River in big numbers this week. (Anchorage Daily News)
Canton Seeks To Revive Hydropower Along Farmington River Jul 28, 2009
Sounds like a good way to send 8 or 10 mill up the creek. And look at all the fun they will have for the next 17 years. (FOX61, CT)
Cascading Creek Jul 25, 2009
To find it, work your way up the creek a short way from the picnic spot near the junction of the Horton Creek and Highline trails. Details: 928-474-7900, (click on "Recreational Activities," then "Hiking and Trailriding"). (AZCentral -- Travel)
Current system is bad for our health Jul 23, 2009
we'd really be up the creek. Only the "privieged" would be taught to read and be protected from crime, fire, and the North Koreans. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Water decision leaves metro Atlanta high and dry Jul 19, 2009
Yesterday s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson, denying metro Atlanta access to water stored at Lake Lanier, leaves the metro region up the creek. Let me be more specific: Up a bone-dry creek. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Stanford Grad Gives $33M For Stem Cell Research Jul 15, 2009
One union prez: Transit managers "Up the creek without a paddle". Jim Mitchell's son held in beating death of ex-girlfriend. (Yahoo News -- Philanthropy and Volunteerism)
Council OKs budget despite large shortfall Jul 11, 2009
We're really up the creek on the shortfall, said Mayor Jack Lynch. City Administrator Tim Shearer had good news for the council, however, as he informed those present at the meeting that, as a result of Caltrans' relinquishment of the property for the Highway 4 Bypass, it must also pay the city a 434,000 relinquishment fee. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
Our view: Chester Creek Jul 2, 2009
Freeing up the creek required building a handsome wooden bridge for the Coastal Trail, which crosses the outfall ... Opening up the creek should be great for the creek's now-sparse runs of salmon. (Anchorage Daily News)
Up on 'The Rock' Jun 27, 2009
After waiting half an hour, I saw one come up the creek and zip into a small cave under a boulder, where dippers have nested for several years. This bird stayed in the nest for the next half hour, indicating that she was incubating a clutch of eggs. (Juneau Empire)
Deer Creek hosts box social, dance in the country Jun 26, 2009
Her mom, Elois Lockett Miller, was raised just a mile away, up the creek. The hall was the dream of the Deer Creek Homemakers Club when it was constructed in 1965. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Russia's dacha gardens feed body and soul Jun 26, 2009
She points to a solid dam of sticks and mud backing up the creek, and a moundlike wooden lodge. "Our local beavers live in holes in the ground, but the Canadian ones build things. Like me," she smiles. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Dana's View: Always changing, always the same Jun 23, 2009
As we kids were chasing a batch of herring up the creek, we came to a spot where we wanted to cross. This creek was the main ditch for the bog and looked to be about the limit of our jumping abilities; i.e., we didn t know if we could jump across without falling in. (Upper Cape Codder, MA)
Hilton Head by water: A... Jun 21, 2009
At Up the Creek Pub, a rickety seafood shack with killer views of the water, we stopped in for a bite (food=fried) and lingered on the deck for (my brother, Jeremy, might argue in spite of) the nightly strum-fest. or (843) 681-3625. (CNN -- Law)
Greenough Park: Bear heritage - Preservationist to restore crumbling bruin cage in Missoula Jun 18, 2009
Whoever built the Greenough cage just one of the mysteries that Maechling would like to solve probably used lime mined from a pit near the saddle of Mount Jumbo and cooked in a kiln up the creek a ways. Lime kilns were common in western Montana in the late 1800s and early 1900s, until improved rail transportation made mass-produced Portland cement a more viable (read inexpensive ) binding material. (Missoulian, MT)
Kalona orders culvert improvements on H Avenue Jun 18, 2009
Ron Slechta added that the debris is damming up the creek and creating a breeding area for mosquitoes. City Administrator Doug Morgan noted that the city owns the creek and is responsible for clearing it up. (Kalona News, IA)
Fishermen up the creek without a Flagler Pier Jun 17, 2009
Flagler County News - newsjournalonline. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2009. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Take the plunge on a swimming-hole hike. Jun 17, 2009
Park here and walk up the creek. Details: 928-474-7900. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Chrysler Bankruptcy Exposes Dirty Politics Jun 16, 2009
All the other investors are up the creek. Sorry. (CBS News -- Opinion)
More of this story Jun 3, 2009
Bob and Frankie split up, with one going up the creek and the other down the creek, and Frankie soon found the log on the bank of the creek about 100 yards from where they were told to start looking. Bob said that it was astounding that the timberman and businessman remembered not only cutting the tree and what tract that it was on, but right where it was. (Hamburg Ashley County Ledger, AR)
Accidental activist May 30, 2009
Rosenberg, a former logger, feared the timber sale would silt up the creek that supplied his drinking water. He hired an attorney to appeal it. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
* [MUSIC] Rocking and rolling down the river May 29, 2009
Is one up the creek without a paddle to have all these ambitions. Not if the plan is to attend River Bash in Pinglin. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Residents seek flood-control 'stimulus' money May 25, 2009
Turning the creek into a cement culvert, as some upstream are suggesting, could reduce the flooding risk it would be devastate to the creek's ecology, including the steelhead salmon that migrate up the creek, he said. "It's the only natural creek remaining in the Bay Area with a steelhead run. ... I'm in the coalition to solve the flood problem, but I represent the part [of the community that wants to make sure we're not destroying the habitat," he said. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Lakeside tavern holds grand opening today May 24, 2009
Heather Field, owner of Up the Creek tavern, formerly The Sportsman tavern, is holding a grand opening party today. Field is inviting members of the community to bring a food to share at a pot luck, including a shrimp boil, starting at 3 p.m., with karaoke at 8 p.m. Tags. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Beer tax on tap for health care? May 21, 2009
outspoken1 wrote on May 20, 2009 4:41 PM:" isabelle-With more and more health and scientific research and studies coming out, everything is bad for you. Well, one month everything is bad for you and the next, it's ok to have. You my dear would be up the creek and without much of anything, so try a different argument. ". isabelle wrote on May 20, 2009 3:12 PM:" Fabulous! Tax away! No one NEEDS beer. If they were raising income taxes that would be different, you can't avoid paying those; no one... (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Steve Bowman: Didn't yelp myself May 13, 2009
He just kept moving up the creek bottom, eventually shutting up all together. As he quieted down, the satellite picked up the pace. (ESPN -- Outdoors)
Who's No. 1? May 12, 2009
I don't worry much about Collins, except about him surviving 16 games; he turns 37 this year and the team is up the creek without a paddle if he's not playing well. 1. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NFL)
Do they have anything left? May 10, 2009
Now - that injuries have caught up with us, the 2nd unit are thrown up the creek without a paddle. I love the hunger they display - but that obviously cannot be coached or else the 1st unit would display that same characteristic thats rarely displayed when they play on the road - Mike Vick said it best when he said sometimes you have to overcome coaching. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Old church, new digs: Ninemile preservation work honored with award May 5, 2009
Once a warehouse for a 1930s-era mining camp way up the creek, the church and the people who saved it will be honored Friday as recipients of a 2009 Missoula Historic Preservation Award. It's really been an amazing project, said Sue Stanley, a valley resident of 40 years. (Missoulian, MT)
Washington Examiner: May 1, 2009
You are quite a ways up the creek, I'll enjoy your retraction/apology. goppuptent. (Harper's Magazine)
Runaway fire truck ends up in Angels Creek Apr 29, 2009
Sam Berri Towing was able to pull the truck up the creek bank, successfully completing the extraction at 10:48 a.m., according to Brown. The Environmental Protection Agency surveyed the scene and reported that there was no contamination of the stream resulting from the incident. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
It's hard to tell if antifreeze accident was harmful Apr 18, 2009
I think he is probably "up the creek" and will have to get a new engine. What do you think. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Up the creek at 12th hole Apr 11, 2009
Durham, Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Region. BY JACK DALY : The Herald-Sun Apr 11, 2009. (Herald Sun)
Toxic to aquatic Apr 8, 2009
"As we've gone on, we've let nature have a free hand and go where it wants." Best of all, only the interest from the 80 million portion of the settlement with Arco designated to clean up the creek has been used for the job, Mullen said. The principle will be put back in the state NRDP fund and can be used to further clean up Butte, the creek or other polluted areas in the watershed. (Montana Standard, MT)
Crews Clean Up Along Creek Apr 8, 2009
-- A week after Channel 4 investigators exposed a trash-filled St. Nicholas creek, crews began working to clean up the creek. Trash near Miller's Creek. (News4Jax.com, FL)
Join public rally for Silver Bow Creek Apr 6, 2009
Remember, we have spent 63 million thus far on cleaning up the creek and its floodplain. Let's protect that investment. (Montana Standard, MT)
Letters to the editor Apr 1, 2009
The fact is, when the only remaining elevator breaks down, students and housekeeping staff will be left up the creek without a paddle. What will happen when the semester ends, move-out day begins if there are no working elevators. (The New Hampshire, NH)
Nasty weather possible in coming days Mar 21, 2009
"That flow fills up the creek and causes a big potential for flooding east on Divide Avenue," Heintz said. "If that happens, we'll be barricading the road off." He asks motorists not to risk crossing the flowing creek. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Tree debris made town a 'death trap' Mar 21, 2009
"My house is right up the creek and the fire just roared around it. They [the DSE] just poison the fuel and leave it dry," she said. "We kept telling them to burn but they did nothing. [The Whittlesea-Yea Road] became a death trap during the fire. A mother and her two kids were lost there. You ask the DSE about that and they pass the buck to VicRoads.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Jokes About Being a Bad Bowler: 'It's Like the Special Olympics'... Mar 20, 2009
Political Punch: President Obama Jokes About Being a Bad Bowler: 'It's Like the Special Olympics. Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper. (The Drudge Report)
Ready to make history with Leno... Mar 19, 2009
don't need 10 minues to say up the creek without a paddle. this man should get back into the white house and concentrate on his economic policies instead of promoting his celebrity on some inane late night chat show. (The Drudge Report)
Automated hunting license sales and fee awaits approval (Today) Mar 15, 2009
"We need this legislation to pass the cost of the system on to the customer, otherwise the game fund would be $2 million up the creek," said Game Commission spokesman Jerry Feaser. "If this doesn't pass, we'd have to seriously consider dropping the point-of-sale program.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
A tour of mining’s past Mar 12, 2009
He walked up the creek and traced the plume of pollution from this big mass of mine waste. At the time, Bonner had sold the mine to a new owner. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Racers trapped on Iditarod Trail Mar 7, 2009
Trail builders were being forced to find ways to bridge broken ice to get up the creek. The Dalzell runs through such a tight gorge that there are only narrow banks to the stream, and usually only on one side or the other. (Juneau Empire)
Storm traps wilderness racers on Iditarod Trail Mar 6, 2009
Trail builders were being forced to find ways to bridge broken ice to get up the creek. The Dalzell runs through such a tight gorge that there are only narrow banks to the stream, and usually only on one side or the other This forces trail makers to zigzag back and forth across the creek, an easy proposition when there is good ice but a difficult chore this year. (Anchorage Daily News)
Spill underlines sewer plant's problems Mar 5, 2009
Armed with an EPD grant and led by the Northeast Georgia Regional Development Center, an advisory group of city, county and other officials met last Thursday in Watkinsville to plan ways to clean up the creek. They'll meet and confer a couple more times during the summer and should complete the plan by September, said Lee Carmon, the RDC planner heading up the effort. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Driver faces DUI charge Mar 1, 2009
"The people she hit are up the creek," said Idaho State Police Trooper Chris Bake, the first responder at the accident scene Friday. "They have medical bills and the vehicle was likely totaled. The person at fault doesn't have insurance. Good luck trying to sue her. I doubt there's anything there." The accident occurred at 2:45 p.m. when Wetchie, who was driving north in a white Oldsmobile, attempted to make a right turn into the Tyhee Country Store parking lot and was struck by a southbound... (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Pakistani courts bar opposition leader, sparking crisis Feb 26, 2009
We're up the creek without a paddle. The army, now led by General Ashfaq Kayani, who is currently on an official visit to the United States, has shown little appetite for stepping into government again so soon, though there is feverish speculation that they may intervene behind the scenes, as they did in the 1990s. (Globe and Mail)
1993? You cannot be serious ... Feb 25, 2009
just grab a paddle and help Josh row up the creek. By ray. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Fired Up is full of good cheer Feb 19, 2009
From the fast-paced, deadpan delivery of DAgosto and Olsen suggesting Gilmore Girls by way of bawdy yet droll 1980s comedies like Bachelor Party and Up the Creek to a gaggle of hilarious second bananas, Fired Up never dwells so long on a single joke or plot point as to become tiresome. Standouts among the aforementioned second bananas include Adhir Kalyan as a type-A gay cheerleader and David Walton as Dr. Rick, Carlys oily boyfriend. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Workshop theme: Schools must trim costs Feb 16, 2009
Dave Bowman, BCS Director of Business and Technology, gave his financial report and told board members and guests alike, "If we don't do anything about our cash balance, then in three years we will be "up the creek without a paddle. "The state is only making a one year budget instead of a two year budget, this has never happened in 38 years. It's pretty scary if the State won't commit to a two year budget.". (Hartford City News-Times, IN)
Up, down commodity prices leave farmers uneasy Feb 9, 2009
"You're up the creek without a paddle, really.". Showing: lect. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
