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Xmas drives me nuts. I ask for nothing every year. To me its not about gifts, its about family and friends. Im not very religious and it strikes me quite odd how this day has turned into one great big I want I want I want. After all are we not suppose to be celebrating the birth of jesus christ? Why is it about buying loads of presents for each other? Im confused. Anyone know about when xmas turned into a way to stimulate the economy before the books close for the year? I think the true meaning of xmas has been lost over the years now days and even later in my younger years it is all about presents. Kids getting stuff they asked for and it still is in original package 2 years later. The best xmas's of my life was when my grandparents were alive and it was a big feast, lots of laughs, big smiles, well a celebration with more gifts of love and less gifts material things. In this house we are pushing more for these things as the kids get older and farther away from spending a months savings to generate a bought smile. All I want is some hugs, smiles, laughter, a good meal with friends and family to share it with. Hope everyone has a great xmas and a happy and safe new year.

I cant help but think its from poor shots. I have taken alot of deer with my 30.06 and I can say I never had to track one more than, well I have never had to track one. They all dropped within eyesight. The last doe I took and most all the others there was blood everywhere from the get go too. This baffles me, unless one is under caliber and taking poor shots there is only one thing to blame and its certainly not the rifle.

I let a couple of them this week know they have over a weeks vacation left this year and gave the choice to take it before the year runs out or just get payed for the remaining vacation time. I was a bit surprised with the response. They didnt want the vacation pay and wanted to take the time off but not get paid for it either. I couldnt figure out why in the world they didnt want the time or the money around the holidays. Answer if they get payed for it they would be over the top to get aid. Then I had another one who turned in there review and was due for a raise, they declined the raise, so I offered it as a bonus instead, declined again. Same reason. Why better yourself if the government is going to do it for you. Unreal the way things are now days.

It just tells me 56 million people like a free ride is all. You know why Romney lost this election? Pretty simple as soon as he said in his campaign "I will put americans back to work" 51% of the population said FOCK that!

Culver beat me too it but I just want to add the wing nut started the thread and then the other one followed pursuit with post #2. But honestly the biggest wing nut is the guy you call your president.

Hes from KENYA not Chicago.

I thought the same thing on one peice I own until this year when I had 2 stands stolen and a trail camera. I would be even more pissed if my bow and backpack was in one of those treestands. But hey its your stuff do as you please but dont think it cant happen to you either.

Let me ask you guys this that leave there stuff in the woods overnight. What are you going to do if something unfortunate happens and you are not able to make it back out the next morning like intended? Crazy things happen in a split second. NO way NO how would I leave my bow behind.

Berretta Whitewing over under gold plated trigger with engravings.

Tonight I sat down in the recliner while wifey was watching her tv show Greys Anatomy, suddenly I fell out of that darn chair laughing like crazy, she just looking at me with that "you lost your mind" look. I replied you just wouldnt get it. But anyhow what I was laughing at was these hunters one in blaze orange the other I dont recall came running into the hospital yelling they shot bigfoot, then ran over it and hes in the back of the truck still alive. The Docs all run out to the truck and here is this dude in a gillies suit. LMAO how ironic.

take your flyrod, New Z doesnt have the nickname brown island and rainbow island for nothing.

I heard the best way to lure a sasquatch in is with Jacki Links beef jerky, anyone know if this actually works. I see they do it all the time on the tv shows!

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How did I get suckerd into another one of these political threads anyways?

Im betting the same. I put alot of work into that one too. Took them to the warehouse, showed them the steps in reconditioning used equipment, took them around to different customers, had references for quality and response times, let them demo a machine, went the whole nine on that one and it was all for a good profit margin as well. They were convinced at first when I brought the recomended equipment list to them that I was off base but proved they had no need for the high end stuff that they have zero demand for but also threw that package together and priced it out. What they do? Yes sir bought the exact package I proved would be more than adequate from a company that (for lack of better words) raped the tax payers wallet with a smile.

Darn it all, I been wasting my time mountain lion hunting in NY and all along I could have been going after the holy grail of hunting. BIG FOOT! Man this sucks.

Grow if you love the prison deal you will like this one too. A big part of my work is to cut cost and provide equipment and service to companies, towns, cities, school districts etc. Here is a choker for you. I will round up numbers to a couple examples to a particular city school district. I bid on a contract to place equipment and service them, I was told after placing the bid that my numbers where to low. I couldnt believe it I have never gotten a phone call saying I need to raise the pricing. Needless to say I showed where I could save them around 100,000 on a 1 year contract with renewal options to maintain the same rate and just replacing 1 piece of equipment and the saving got substantially larger for every peice they replaced, showing I have the abilities to maintain them as well and supply all needed assets to keep them running. Guess what they went with the highest bid, got suckered into buying more equipment than they needed and some of it has never been turned on yet 2 years later and they still have to pay a pretty hefty contract regardless for 5 years. I took all this to the highest level I could reach and got nowheres, but a basic response of if we dont spend the money by years end we wont get that money replaced in next years budget. So now that district is undregoing budget cuts and so is that department with job losses including the one who called and said my prices where to low. But they looked at today and not the future and I hope they learned a lesson, but its sad cause they could have avoided this frivilous spending and a waste of tax dollars. Im am only one small example too. I cannot imagine the grand total of waste. Its truly sad.

Heck Im late to this ball game lol. I tell you what, all I know is my kids have more days off from school than they attend. Its rediculous, teacher conference days, unused snowdays, holidays I never heard of, winter break, spring break, summer break, days off for things that make no sense to me like parent teacher conferences are now during the day alot too. So kids get it off or half day and a parent has to leave work early or not go. The amount of time my kids sit behind a desk in comparisson to the amount of days they are practicing sports or playing games is rediculous. Even on the holidays when they have time off they have practice or a game. Heck they have practice on sunday, and yep you cant beat it in there heads that the chance of a 110 lb 11 grader isnt got a chance in hell to be a pro football player either. It is so frustrating because its a catch 22, the chances of an acedemic scholarship of any decent amount of funding is alot harder to get than that sports scholarship as well. I been to so many darn school board meetings on them asking to raise taxes to fund a new football field to a team that hasnt won but a handful of games in 10 years, new baseball fields, new track fields, new indoor pool, new sports equipment, new maintenance equipment to manage all the new crap they want to raise the school taxes to buy this stuff for. And in the mean time they tell you they want to close one elementary down and merge it with another because the roof leaks and they dont have the funds to maintain the building. Next thing you know they other 2 close and they merge them with the middle school because they cant fund those either. But hey we got 3 new baseball fields, new track field, new football field, new bleachers at all of them, new concessions stands, new equipment to maintain it all. I yet to see once this year either one of the kids come home with more than 10 minutes of homework after getting home at 8 after practice. Yep I said 8. Cant keep the kids up all night after practice doing homework and learning but sure isnt a problem keeping them out till 8 running around a basketball court. I would love to find out the true meaning as why this is, maybe because they dont want to lose funding for and shove it in the easiest spot being sports where there is less mindset involved, or is it for luring in people to move here because the place looks fantastic if you take a tour of it and see all the new crap they put our money into. I have no problem with kids wanting some athletics and sports in there childhood schooling but darn when it is the center of the education, the majority of how there tme is spent, its way overboard. I should keep a record of amount of time they are active with practice and games vs. seat time in a classroom because it doesnt add up in favor of education. On top of all that Im paying for another to get through college who did get a decent academic scholarship and has a 50/50 chance of finding a job after applying herself more than alot of kids do for her education and future. You cant win it seems. Back in my days BOCES and learning a trade was a fantastic thing. You could come out from that and get a decent job placement, you tell the kids that now and they tell you BOCES is for dumb people. WHAT? I guess Im dumb because learning a trade got me some decent jobs which turned into starting a business in that trade that feeds my family, puts these kids through college and puts clothes on there backs. So I guess learning a trade is not a good thing anymore according to what they are being taught and why wouldnt they how many trades are left inside this country like there was in our day? IN conclusion to this rant lol, most all the time and money is spent on sports, less on education, learning a trade is a bad thing but yet you need to spend most your time playing sports to hope to get a scholarship so you can go to college to get a higher education in order to have a 50/50 shot of getting a job or being a bum. Yep our education system is doing a bang up job!

One note on using the hose adaptor it can be misleading, if you are pumping pressure water into it. If its has in impellar to pump water just replace it. Seen many times where they dry rot and fall apart from extended periods of time just sitting around.

Are these your pictures? That is some WILD stuff and just shows how raw things are in the wild. How long was the photographer stuck in that tree while those wolves had dinner?

that is a good example of a picture that could confuse alot of people. With not knowing some difference between such animals I can see how the claims could run in the direction of the "I want to believe, therefore I seen" mountain lion fans. The first thing that tipped the first photo off is the lack of any significant tail and the ears, tuffs seen or not. Those are not mountain lion ears nor is there a mountain lion tail on that thing.

Apple store in the mall replaced a screen for us on one about 5 months ago, also one on a ipod. My "i" anything device days are over in this family, they are too fragile and expensive to get repaired.

cement mixer full of sand, throw in some traps and let her rip!

Here we go again LMAO

MAPLE SYRUP LOL