ExiledInIllinois

Been nice here. Only 75°. Had a hot spell. Dry spell. Rather bearable. I haven't mowed my lawn in a month with the dry spell.

Well sloooow down. And here we have it. The day when this is actually something to be proud of. Just busting your chops... But really? My son prints (which is okay)... But starts from bottom up. WTF is that! Drives me wild every time I see it in action! He's 21. /smh I use a hybrid font. Print/cursive. Drafting in school... So developed my own font.

Snag baby snag! LoL...

Dear God: Did you make disease and the diamond blue? Did you make mankind after we made you? And the Devil too! Just asking... For a friend. EIL

+1. Just like the old days. Create a "dead zone." MAGA!

Nice! I like high water! Damn if it's too low (global warming, we take too much water). Damn if it's too high (what does that mean? We go too slow @ the lock? Don't take enough water /smh). You can't win with this fickle crowd. I say ***** "Pure Michigan" my azz. Put on your big boy pants and deal with it.

And he is @Cripple Creek 's age... He wasn't gonna enjoy it anymore.? Viva la socialized medicine! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ LoL... I gotta bullseye on my back because of that beaut post! ?????

Go in for a bladder procedure and come out a new man! $24K Earned the not so easy way Holy Moly! I guess less conspicuous at the beach sans one of your little toes! So... Who's the lucky fella? @Gugny @BringBackFergy @Cripple Creek or maybe it's @\GoBillsInDallas/ with the new found spending cash?

Disgusting caste system too. Maybe fix that first. The other crap may fall a little more into line.

You may like this. "Bridge & Tunnel Summit" New Jersey meets New York.

Lake Michigan is a "food desert." There are billions of invasive quagga mussels on bottom of Lake. Guess where they came from? The Atlantic via the St.Lawrence. Noboby is demanding they close the St.Lawrence off from the ocean... Closing Toronto off from waterborne transportation. That OP article never addressed how the Asian carp will spawn in the Great Lakes. They spawn in rivers. At temps above 70°F... Need ample big current with about 60 miles of river and adequate calm back water. Nothing like that is found around the Great Lakes. From way back in 2011: https://madison.com/sports/recreation/outdoors/durkin-can-t-waste-time-carping-about-invasive-species/article_b08eb166-b3f4-11e0-be4a-001cc4c03286.html Trust the Polish dude... We are going on 20 years now... 10 since the freak out in 2009 "...Among those dismissing the Asian carp threat is Professor Konrad Dabrowski, an aquaculturalist at Ohio State University’s School of Environment and Natural Resources. He thinks Asian carp can live, but not reproduce, in the Great Lakes and its tributaries. He says these waters don’t provide the necessary water flow and temperatures for these species to successfully spawn. Dabrowski notes that Europe has brought in and supplemented Asian carp more than 40 years and some never spawned. He doubts these carp could maintain or increase their numbers in the Great Lakes and therefore won’t overwhelm the lakes’ sport-fish populations. (Many sport fish aren’t natives, either, but they taste good and they’re fun to catch, so we’re on their side.)..." AND, 8 years later... This is holding true, no wishing needed. It's 2019, 8 years after this 2011 article. Where are the carp... Still where they have always been. Down South were they were released from. "...And don’t you wish we could dismiss their solution as a “politically motivated stunt”? Wouldn’t it be great if we could also assure the public that the canal’s electrical fish barrier — recent news notwithstanding — truly is “a solution that has worked to date.”..."

Go on a hike. Letchworth & Alabama Swamps come to mind in the Leroy, Rochester area. Get lost in the woods on purpose... Then miraculously save the day. Chicks dig the rugged outdoorsy types with a built in compass in their noggin. Throw some pine needles into the breeze for Native American theatrics... Put your ear to the ground too. Contrary to what @EmotionallyUnstable says... She will melt like butter at your primal & cognitive ability to survive in the wild... Even if it just lunch @ the Glen Iris Inn and a $70 wine and cheese tab. You can thank me later. Name your first kid together after me. Maybe make me the Godfather. Just don't fall off the boardwalk into the swamp. LoL...

Because picky N.American diets. People hate change. The first Europeans on the west coast refused to eat salmon because it looked yucky. Go figure. We are eating carp into extinction... Well the rest of the world is. The rest of the world is a polluted cesspool too. Yet, we are protecting our ecosystems here... So the Asian carp are taking off... Except we refuse to eat them because of the stigma they are rough. Yet, some are coming around and figuring out what the rest of the world knows: Just your friendly non-Russian gov't agent:

Yes. The Asian carp are swimming like the Dickens. They are going to invade the Lakes like the Dickens. This is what we have been told the last 20 years. But... If the government gives 1/2 billion to the right people, hopefully more $$$$$$$$, the CarpApocalypse will surely be stopped. The EnviroEvangelists will make sure of this and Baby Jesus won't let the impending doom that has been predicted the last 20 years crash the Great Lakes and the people who enjoy them their way of life! Only YOU and your tax dollars can help!

Clapping to the beat. /thread

Fair enough. I am pushing the limits 18 miles away. Safety is #1. We live in an individualistic society. Impossible to stop the idiots from doing idiotic things.

Don't really know. You sound like an idiot. It's gravity controlled you moron. No pumps are needed. And here you have it folks... The smartest man in the world is a total idiot. Time to go back to when bumpers were on the outside of the car, not under plastic. Remember when you could actually touch another vehicle and push them without a scratch?

It is if you know someone killed by a drunk... Which is more than a texter. It takes my 210 pound frame 8.5 US beers to get to 0.13. A 6 pack +2.5 in one hour? Do I even have a funnel? But, that's not evenly.

@Sig1Hunter with link: https://www.intox.com/drink-wheel/ @ 9 US beers evenly over 1 hour takes me (210 male) to: 0.145!!! 9 beers!!! I would be asleep!

Thanx! Key words to take away from your post.

No. Only can idiot would assume that. Don't assume. You're a bit more smarter than that.

Ooops typo. mph. I am on Galaxy 6. "G" is a hair away from "H" on onscreen QWERTY. Only an idiot would not recognize that as a typo.

You never seen my wife in 2 beer low gear. Ha! You'd be begging for an inexperienced driver texting!

Dream perfection. Dream grace. Hate to say... You're kinda too far to be commuting that distance. I find that to be absolute idiocy. A 60 mile commute and expecting to be door to door every time, in a State with a maximum speed of 65 mpg, is unreasonable. Even if you live/work in a straight line right off the exits. It's unreasonable to expect it every time you go to work. Really... That's the definition of idiocy. Being unreasonable. 2-1 the other way. @LeviF91 and @Sig1Hunter disagree. The guy at .13 is ready to fall asleep! Alcohol is a depressant.

Don't let it wreck your day. Sounds like it wrecks your day? "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference."