ExiledInIllinois

Hey wait a sec! How come I can faintly hear @BringBackFergy in background instructing the camera crew: "DON'T feed them yet! They gotta look hungry and mad... People want to see angry, hungry polar bears!" ??? I am on to you Mead!

#MeToo #IHaveNoFriends +4 LMAO JUST take a deep breath Gug. Count to three and your blessing that @Ice bowl 67 @Cripple Creek @BringBackFergy @mead107 and the rest are all dear and wonderful "friends"... Even if they are just lying to you so they can borrow your stolen smoker and ask stupid (which really isn't stupid, we all need to ask questions, some from Wisconsin & Illinois more) questions on Internet. Whew... This was a very complicated post! Crap! I just let him off the hook (after of course he bit at hook) last week. @Cripple Creek WAS "that guy." LoL...

When they rotenoned the 2 mile reach of river below where I work in 2011 because of Asian carp... Rotenone is a piscicide, the fishkill wiped out 100,000 pounds of fish which was about 12,000 individual pieces of fish from 30+ different species. They used full size dumpsters to haul it away. This was a reach of river that 40 years prior in 1971 that didn't support any aquatic life outside of "sludge worms" on the river bottom. Basically in 1971, it was a "dead zone." It lacked sufficient oxygen to sustain aquatic life. Fast-forward to 2011. They found koi during that fishkill. They also found 3 alligators in the Chicago Area Waterways (CAWs) during the 2010 summer. LoL... The Clean Water Act has done wonderful things since the early 1970s...Even if those wonderful things is to promote the spread of invasive species. How are they going to get people to stop flushing ***** down their toilet now? They have completed the studies on the CAWs. They know the vectors for a lot of this stuff. The data is in. How are they going to stop live well transfer, bait bucket transfer, hulls of boats... Heck the Chicago River runs smack dab right through Chinatown... What about "cultural release" as part of tradition? Heck ice, cooler water, fish parts, etc... Go right down the drain and run off into the river. For a decade now they have been studying the vectors of transmission. What's next? Environmental Big Brother??? OUR (US/N.America) world is getting cleaner by the minute while the 3rd World is getting worse. Now we are worrying about fish being flushed down the toilet? You gotta be kidding? 2011 is almost a decade ago. My 2¢. LMAO!

Because BFLo is a "labor" town. Most company HQs were from other cities. The city did well during the World Wars and other war times. MORE terrible during times of peace. During WWII labor had ti be brought in and was strictly controlled by Fed Labor Czar. Companies couldn't hire or fire without approval. BFLo has a culture of being very strong laborwise. It is simply NOT, or has NOT been cultivated in a management, middle manger type culture. I mentioned that most companies in BFLo governed their operations from far off corporate HQ's or even by the Feds DC. Of course, when companies retract, downsize, where do they downsize back to? Their corporate base which was often away in some far off other city. BFLo has a labor town culture. BFLo was a brewery town too. Then the corporates, national brands crushed it. BFLo then missed the micro-rebirth. Always at wrong place at wrong time.

My wife's library checks out Roku, hotspots, and tablets (iPads I believe).

There's a "Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper?" Oh... Whatever @BringBackFergy says in this thread... DON'T LISTEN!

An only child alone and wild, a cabinet maker's son His hands were meant for different work And his heart was known to none He left his home and went his lone and solitary way And he gave to me a gift I know I never can repay A quiet man of music denied a simpler fate He tried to be a soldier once, but his music wouldn't wait He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand His gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old But his blood runs through my instrument and his song is in my soul My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band My brother's lives were different for they heard another call One went to Chicago and the other to St Paul And I'm in Colorado when I'm not in some hotel Living out this life I've chose and come to know so well I thank you for the music and your stories of the road I thank you for the freedom when it came my time to go I thank you for the kindness and the times when you got tough And papa, I don't think I said I love you near enough The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old But his blood runs through my instrument and his song is in my soul My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band I am a living legacy to the leader of the band

The Arizona Memorial I believe was hit by a tug, etc... Some time ago. Is that the repairs? If so, still fixing! LoL... I still remember a few of my parents. My father would pick The Deer Hunter and First Blood (Rambo)... LoL... Real dousy movies that my mother surely loved! LMAO!

Most here, big ones are put on, underwritten by buisness. The one in Crown Point, Indiana IMO is a good. Usually put on by the Chevy Dealer held at county fairgrounds. Chicago puts on a Wednesday and Saturday night extended display every week from Memorial Day to Labor Day... Over Navy Pier @ 21:30CDT. Nice!!! I feel the same way too! LoL...

You My Man are a champion!!!! My wife heads a medium-sized to large town public library. She will be thankful there are people like you!!!! It's small peanuts on your tax bill and the services 10 fold dollar for dollar that is returned to taxpayer IFF they utilize the available services!!! Yet, it depends on what direction the library is moving and how modern their approach is!!!

No. But let's not make it worse. And anyway, Thanksgiving is a New England holiday. Lincoln did utilize it politically to stick it up the South's azz. LoL If it can't be used for commercial gain, it most certainly can be used for political gain! That's the true American spirit! ?

St.Joe's hospital needed to take mortar fire! ??

Uh... Thanksgiving shouldn't be associated with consumerism and gratuitous shopping for needless *****. AND most certainly NOT tied into Christmas. That's of course NOT the point of Christmas either! Sure you're not more "American" than me? ?Gee, let's think of the shoppers!

LoL... What is it on the 3rd? Not every town has them on 4th. If none at all, they need to get commercial sponsors! Anyway... Do you remember the Ron Jaworski Stadium fireworks fiasco in the early 1980s... That forever traumatized my wife. Looking for the story. I think one person died.

10 minutes! What the heck, the local car dealer Dude in Crown Point, Indiana puts on a 1/2 hour+ show with finale. Wow... What a bunch of cheapskates. @mead107 makes longer "glorious explosions" in a GBiD "Would Ya" thread!

And on Columbus Day to boot! I am watching our Focker neighbors to the Great White North!

Was that shot in Sudbury in August, the poor girl has got to be freezing! Somebody get her a: STAT!

Yeah! LoL... They (Tories) are the one's that ran to British Canada during American Revolution and then same stunt* (declare independence) we did 91 years later... And so close to the 4th of July! What the heck gives. Appropriators! /smh *Ok, declaring independence is NOT a "stunt"... Used for lack of better word, but in 1776 I guess it could have been looked at as a "crazy stunt." Especially by the loyalists that fled to the Province of Quebec (later to be Upper Canada). [Glad you started it JSP. I had to speak my mind ?] Oh... Happy Canada Day! ?

I don't consider comics having to pass same test. Comics are meant to be expanded on.

Yeah... When you think about it, consumer fireworks are pretty obnoxious. What ever happened to: Has become:

You gotta wreck everything. Killjoy! I'd report you to the proper authorities, but I am NOT that kinda guy. Snitches get stitches. And a cell mate named: Renee. No Sir, am I going down that road! *EDIT: On TBD, a cell mate named: @Gugny Noooo way am I bringing the Mods into this!!!?

My wife's was the one at Ron Jaworski Stadium in Lackawanna. Early 1980s. The whole display went up, killed the pyrotechnics guy. The stadium first started clapping thinking it was the "finale" then went into full blown panic & stampede! My wife still has nightmares almost 40 years later around the 4th of July! Oh wait... You said "best" fireworks display. I guess I view her experience differently since I was NOT there. She probably sees it as PTSD. I think she still feels guilty that she began to clap first! /smh... Doesn't help when I play the guilt & call her a nasty lady, very nasty lady. She knows I am joking right. I am such an azz...

That's when one shouts across the parking lot: "HEY PAL! The sign says: Handicap Parking. NOT: "Mentally Handicapped Parking!"

But for every Jalen that makes the big time, there are 1,000s more that aren't so lucky in life:

Ut oh... @BringBackFergy won't be happy. Looks like @mead107 is doing consulting work for @Cripple Creek I wonder what Mead charges?