Jim in Anchorage

I could afford her for about 3 minutes. Which actully is all I would need.

I wonder what they call real pickerel?

This is nonsense. We will not experience a first encounter till we develop warp drive. All hail the Vulcans

What the hell are "pickerel" in Canada anyways? Here they are a small version of pike. Walleyes maybe? I have A dim memory of some Canadian calling a perch a "pickerel".

Not in the mind of my great uncle Henry in his cabin in the black hills of South Dakota. My mom told me he ALWAYS had venison stew on, depression or no

2012 Democratic convention preview? All hail and sing praise to the great helmsman, for he has saved us!!!

Poor baby. 22 years old and $1,000,000 in the bank. Yeah I would blow my brains out out too. I mean, who can live like this?

The whole procedure. Remove the tailgate from the truck[heavy] install the ramps, drive the 4 wheeler onto the truck box, reinstall tailgate. Drive to trail, reverse procedure. Ride[and it is a blast] till the inevitable flat tire/broken axle which always occurs in knee deep mud. Do Field repair to limp back to truck. Go though the loading/unloading procedure again. It is a lot of work. Do I slow down because its bumpy? no. Alaska demands aggressive driving[as I used to remind a riding buddy of mine who was always getting stuck]"Evil Knvil didn't jump over 10 school bus's because he had good tires. He had MOMENTUM". Any body can putter around a nice groomed trail. But when it comes to crossing rivers and climbing 45 degree rocky slopes you got to let it hang out. The fact that I crushed two vertebrae on my 4 wheeler flipping it over I am also sure is a factor. I lost the invincibility of youth. Damn lucky I am not in a wheel chair, and I know it.

Good choice. Being a sanctimonious, critical personality is a hobby you can continue well into you're bitter old age.

No one would call Canada winning a gold in hockey a miracle. Its about as notable as you catching a "pickerel" though the ice, sitting in a hut drunk on Labatts.

Airplane radio navigation aids[VORs] are still identified by morse code. You tune in the frequency of the station you wish to fly to listen to the Morse code to be certain its the right one[many stations share frequency's].

I understand the money I paid in is long gone, used to pay someone else's benefits.The trick is if we go to a IRA type system for future "contribution's" who will pay my accrued, long bought and paid for benefits? The general fund?

Why take chances?

And out of season Venison hanging in the barn.

That may have some appeal if I was 18 years old, but I have been paying into the currant system for many years. Are they going to give me every Penny back[adjusted with interest] and say go invest it? I don't think so. Due to the fact that anyone who ever received a W-2 is vested in SS/Medicare, It would take generations to fix it[and I agree it needs fixing]. But simply yelling"privatize it" is no good. Give me a cold hard plan to tell me what is going to happen to MY money that the government has possessed for years.

I don't care what their "official platform" is. When the actual living and breathing candidate I can vote for [in this case Miller ,US Senate AK] says "privatize SS and Medicare" yes I am concerned. What about the Thousands and Thousands of dollars I have been forced to pay into the system for my now 35 year working career?

Of course Conner can tell stupid. He endorses their views whole heartedly and provides 8 links to their lobotomy inspired article's. Its not stupid he has real trouble with.

At the time it was just considered a"OK" depression.

I don't think this is good time to be talking about declaring unemployment benefits unconstitional.

I dunno about 90 degrees, but he was clearly face masked.go to 4:48 God I hate Dallas.

Because 15 years ago we where not worrying over next year's draft picks at game two. We just won games, today. Not next year. I know we never closed the deal at the SB , but it beat the crap out of this "well, in 2 years , with any luck, we will develop to 8-8, and maybe score a wildcard." BS.

As far as policy I have no personal objections. The point is are you running a electable candidate. We can redo Goldwater over and over, and have LBJ for the rest of our live's.

Regards the article I linked, the writer is a columnist I have been reading for 15+ years and believe me he is no liberal. His concern[which I share] is by producing candidates to far to the right,the GOP is giving the down for the 10 count Democrats a break they never expected.

Bills up 13-6 to start the half. Thomas fumbles and James Washington of Dallas runs it in to tie the game. Huge momentum shift. I have always wondered how that game would have gone without that drop.

My brother can shoot at me all day and I will be the safest guy in the room. He caught a raccoon in a box trap in his garden this summer and had to shoot 8x with a .22 rifle before he hit it. This is a animal confined in a cage at a range measured in inchs, not feet. Unbeliveable.