Mitch wrote:Can't wait for the tax on water.
Then come to Arizona.
Hobo Jungle
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Then come to Arizona.
----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
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Don't let your mouth dry out, Tramp. Come on down to rants and raves and tell us how spending ourselves, children, and grandchildren into hell is a good thing for all of us.
Pete, I haven't smoked since March 31, (after 44 years), the night before the new tax went in on cigarettes. It was the tax that finally did it. Goddamned if I'm going to provide money for people who make more than twice as much as I do in a year, to buy healthcare for their kids. The chips program allows qualification for up to $80 grand a year.
How many years back was it that the Government bilked the tobacco companies out of a $450 billion settlement to fund research for smoking related illnesses and to buy health care for uninsured children? What did they do with that money? Well, around here, they improved the state parks, gave money to the arts in the form of grants to save the old Vandergrift Casino movie theater, remodel it, and make it into a live theater, (that nobody attends), cities and towns put in new sidewalks, and all other forms of non-smoking/healthcare money grubbin' projects, none of which had anything to do with smoking or tobacco. Now they need more money and they're gonna shake us down again for it.
In Pittsburgh, (and the rest of Allegheny county) they passed a 10% tax on poured drinks in all bars and restaurants, supposedly to make up a $34 million dollar shortfall in the city budget.
People simply went outside of the county to do their drinkin', but even at that, after just 4 months of the tax, they'd already raked in $25 million. Opponents argued that the tax was too high, as it was generating more than projected, and the bars and restaurants were screaming that business was way down. Still, they had to go to court and sue the county to get the tax reduced to 7%, and now the city wants to use the excess income to bolster the Port Authority Transit Co., a union company that has been subsidized every year by the state to the tune of hundreds of millions, and still cannot balance a budget. People are leaving the city in droves.
Rule 3: The degradation or decline of a city or town is in direct relationship to the number of years the Liberals have been running it.
Pete, I haven't smoked since March 31, (after 44 years), the night before the new tax went in on cigarettes. It was the tax that finally did it. Goddamned if I'm going to provide money for people who make more than twice as much as I do in a year, to buy healthcare for their kids. The chips program allows qualification for up to $80 grand a year.
How many years back was it that the Government bilked the tobacco companies out of a $450 billion settlement to fund research for smoking related illnesses and to buy health care for uninsured children? What did they do with that money? Well, around here, they improved the state parks, gave money to the arts in the form of grants to save the old Vandergrift Casino movie theater, remodel it, and make it into a live theater, (that nobody attends), cities and towns put in new sidewalks, and all other forms of non-smoking/healthcare money grubbin' projects, none of which had anything to do with smoking or tobacco. Now they need more money and they're gonna shake us down again for it.
In Pittsburgh, (and the rest of Allegheny county) they passed a 10% tax on poured drinks in all bars and restaurants, supposedly to make up a $34 million dollar shortfall in the city budget.
People simply went outside of the county to do their drinkin', but even at that, after just 4 months of the tax, they'd already raked in $25 million. Opponents argued that the tax was too high, as it was generating more than projected, and the bars and restaurants were screaming that business was way down. Still, they had to go to court and sue the county to get the tax reduced to 7%, and now the city wants to use the excess income to bolster the Port Authority Transit Co., a union company that has been subsidized every year by the state to the tune of hundreds of millions, and still cannot balance a budget. People are leaving the city in droves.
Rule 3: The degradation or decline of a city or town is in direct relationship to the number of years the Liberals have been running it.
If you agree with the Progressives, it's freedom of speech. If you disagree, it's hate speech. There are no alternatives.
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Wayne,
Our water bill is double the one you show but no tax [yet].
Our water bill is double the one you show but no tax [yet].
roger
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If God didn't want women to be looked at, He would have made 'em ugly. RAH
I support thread drift.
If God didn't want women to be looked at, He would have made 'em ugly. RAH
Re: Hobo Jungle
Pete, I haven't smoked since March 31, (after 44 years), the night before the new tax went in on cigarettes.
Well then, that tax went to good effect.
In the grand scheme of things, I'd still wager you were in the VERY low percentage.
And Mitch, I said I didn't know what's right or what's best. But man, you guys are sounding like catastrophists. I just don't get why the total silence from republicans over the last eight years when there was a major ton of bullsh*t going on. And all of a sudden now, total outrage. What's up with that? And I'm not talking about you or Jon in particular, it's on my tractor forum too, guys foaming at the mouth like the sky is falling. There was a post there threatening me with being shot if I ever get caught in his neighborhood. What the hell is THAT? Bunch of weird white-guy paranoia.
The total irony is that these same guys spend the rest of their time quoting the Bible and talking about living their lives by the Word of God.
I just can't see everything in this utter black-or-white.
Tell you what, I brought you guys some dinner tonight, thanks to NSTKDH.
(New Stuff The Kids Dragged Home)
First, hor's d'oeuvres...
and then a mulligan, thanks to this dude...
BTW, no need to invite ME to the Rants-&-Raves forum. I'm choosing to have my fingernails and toenails pulled-off by the roots with a pair of pliers, and between the two, I'm sticking with the choice that will be less painful.
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Whatever, Pete. Let the turtle go, and eat the groundhog. Later.
If you agree with the Progressives, it's freedom of speech. If you disagree, it's hate speech. There are no alternatives.
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What are we havin' this weekend Dirt Man.......................Grilled Groundhog and Turtle soup Bro. Hmmmmmmmm...................... 
If you want to find history, follow the train man..................
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Hev,
Dirt,
Mitch,
Dirt,
Mitch,
roger
I support thread drift.
If God didn't want women to be looked at, He would have made 'em ugly. RAH
I support thread drift.
If God didn't want women to be looked at, He would have made 'em ugly. RAH
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Arnaud's Turtle Soup au Sherry
* 1/4 cup salt
* 3/4 cup fresh or frozen turtle meat
* 3/4 cup ground veal shank meat
* 6 cups veal stock
* 2 cloves garlic, chopped
* 2 bay leaves
* 1 pinch whole dried thyme
* 3 tablespoons tomato pureé
* 1/2 cup celery, chopped
* 1 cup green onions, chopped
* 1/2 cup white onions, chopped
* 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
* 2 lemons, halved
* 3 tablespoons sherry
* 2 eggs, hard-boiled and chopped
* 2 tablespoons roux
* Salt and white pepper to taste
Combine eight quarts of water and half the salt in each of two large pots and bring to a boil over high heat. Place the turtle meat in one, the veal in the other, and simmer both for 45 minutes. Remove both pots from heat, drain the meat, and chop both meats coarsely in a food processor. Keep warm until needed.
Place the veal stock, garlic, bay leaves, and thyme in a large pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Add the tomato pureé, vegetables, parsley and lemons, and bring back to a boil. Reduce the heat, and simmer for 10 minutes.
Add the two kinds of meat and the sherry. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the eggs, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Thicken by adding small amounts of the roux.
Add a final splash of sherry to each individual bowl when serving, if desired.
Serves six.
* 1/4 cup salt
* 3/4 cup fresh or frozen turtle meat
* 3/4 cup ground veal shank meat
* 6 cups veal stock
* 2 cloves garlic, chopped
* 2 bay leaves
* 1 pinch whole dried thyme
* 3 tablespoons tomato pureé
* 1/2 cup celery, chopped
* 1 cup green onions, chopped
* 1/2 cup white onions, chopped
* 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
* 2 lemons, halved
* 3 tablespoons sherry
* 2 eggs, hard-boiled and chopped
* 2 tablespoons roux
* Salt and white pepper to taste
Combine eight quarts of water and half the salt in each of two large pots and bring to a boil over high heat. Place the turtle meat in one, the veal in the other, and simmer both for 45 minutes. Remove both pots from heat, drain the meat, and chop both meats coarsely in a food processor. Keep warm until needed.
Place the veal stock, garlic, bay leaves, and thyme in a large pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Add the tomato pureé, vegetables, parsley and lemons, and bring back to a boil. Reduce the heat, and simmer for 10 minutes.
Add the two kinds of meat and the sherry. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the eggs, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Thicken by adding small amounts of the roux.
Add a final splash of sherry to each individual bowl when serving, if desired.
Serves six.
Peace is not the absence of conflict. Peace is the presence of justice.
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Another Penobscot Falcon for the few hobos who might still be willing to read. This one is twisted but true. http://waldo.villagesoup.com/opinion/st ... yID=159325
That a life will be spent gaining inches,
When this distance is read in miles.
When this distance is read in miles.
Re: Hobo Jungle
Tramp,
I know what you are saying.
I know what you are saying.
roger
I support thread drift.
If God didn't want women to be looked at, He would have made 'em ugly. RAH
I support thread drift.
If God didn't want women to be looked at, He would have made 'em ugly. RAH
Re: Hobo Jungle
Dirt Man ..........is the soup and grilled hog ready yet. Co'mon man your slippin'............................
If you want to find history, follow the train man..................
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Hey, bro. That baby g-hog was only about 6 inches long. Hog-on-a-stick would have been all HE was worth.
And there's a sportsman's club maybe two miles away with a big pond, where I take the kids to scout bullfrogs. I took that wood turtle over there, (knowing he was a swimmer- he had webbed feet) and let him loose. He took to the water like a pig to slop.
Been working, man, non-stop over the last bunch of days. The multiple piles of multi-flora rose have all been 'wagon-ed' up to the house behind the Farmall and sent to the depths of Hell in huge conflagrations, those sonuvabitchin-b*stard bushes. My land is now clean again, but I'm going at it smarter and wiser.
Spraying is going to be the answer. I have a backpack sprayer, and I've been walking the fields back and forth, back and forth, spot-spraying the bad stuff with Crossbow, a kick-ass herbicide. Stuff I sprayed one day was wilting the next. Timothy and clover now dominate the upper field, and it looks great. The stuff is up to my waist in spots, because we've had so much rain. All that waving grass, as you walk through, gets me giddy. It's like wading through wind-swept water. I kinda enjoy it, despite the 60-odd pounds on my back.
Trouble is in the spots where the rose was rampant, as the grasses never 'took'. Those jaws the excavator used to pull them all up couldn't get the small stuff, so a place I call 'the ampitheater' (the land is steep, rounded and cupped like an old Roman theater) I just mowed yesterday with the brush-hog to get everything else cut low, and I'll have to re-walk those spots as it all starts to come back. I'll see how it goes. Next purchase might be a boom-sprayer.
Anyway, I have half the total walked, so I have a ways to go, and nothing is stopping it's growth to wait on me.
It's an exercise plan, if nothing else.
Add the mowing and trimming of the lawn, and it's been GD time-consuming. Who's got the minutes to make soup?? I could use a full-time grounds-keeper here. And I need to open the pool, and I haven't even dug the garden yet, two kids in soccer, on and on. Overwhelming, sometimes.
Thank God for beer. Even if it is more expensive. (Hell, what ain't?)
Where I was mowing yesterday, it's steep, and I dropped the downhill rear wheel into an unseen groundhog hole, then it came up over his excavated dirt, then dropped into another one on the left immediately beyond. I thought the Farmall was going over. I jumped up out of the seat, ready to bail, while cutting the wheel to the left, but she was OK.
I don't need that kind of excitement!
An inspector came last Thursday, while I was at work, but gave me the "A-OK" on how everything looked! I guess you can fool some of the people some of the time!
And there's a sportsman's club maybe two miles away with a big pond, where I take the kids to scout bullfrogs. I took that wood turtle over there, (knowing he was a swimmer- he had webbed feet) and let him loose. He took to the water like a pig to slop.
Been working, man, non-stop over the last bunch of days. The multiple piles of multi-flora rose have all been 'wagon-ed' up to the house behind the Farmall and sent to the depths of Hell in huge conflagrations, those sonuvabitchin-b*stard bushes. My land is now clean again, but I'm going at it smarter and wiser.
Spraying is going to be the answer. I have a backpack sprayer, and I've been walking the fields back and forth, back and forth, spot-spraying the bad stuff with Crossbow, a kick-ass herbicide. Stuff I sprayed one day was wilting the next. Timothy and clover now dominate the upper field, and it looks great. The stuff is up to my waist in spots, because we've had so much rain. All that waving grass, as you walk through, gets me giddy. It's like wading through wind-swept water. I kinda enjoy it, despite the 60-odd pounds on my back.
Trouble is in the spots where the rose was rampant, as the grasses never 'took'. Those jaws the excavator used to pull them all up couldn't get the small stuff, so a place I call 'the ampitheater' (the land is steep, rounded and cupped like an old Roman theater) I just mowed yesterday with the brush-hog to get everything else cut low, and I'll have to re-walk those spots as it all starts to come back. I'll see how it goes. Next purchase might be a boom-sprayer.
Anyway, I have half the total walked, so I have a ways to go, and nothing is stopping it's growth to wait on me.
It's an exercise plan, if nothing else.
Add the mowing and trimming of the lawn, and it's been GD time-consuming. Who's got the minutes to make soup?? I could use a full-time grounds-keeper here. And I need to open the pool, and I haven't even dug the garden yet, two kids in soccer, on and on. Overwhelming, sometimes.
Thank God for beer. Even if it is more expensive. (Hell, what ain't?)
Where I was mowing yesterday, it's steep, and I dropped the downhill rear wheel into an unseen groundhog hole, then it came up over his excavated dirt, then dropped into another one on the left immediately beyond. I thought the Farmall was going over. I jumped up out of the seat, ready to bail, while cutting the wheel to the left, but she was OK.
I don't need that kind of excitement!
An inspector came last Thursday, while I was at work, but gave me the "A-OK" on how everything looked! I guess you can fool some of the people some of the time!
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Happy Memorial Day, friends.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
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I remember learning that poem when I was in elementary school.Of course I have forgotten now.
Thanks for posting it.It is one of the reasons we have memorial/decoration day.
Thanks for posting it.It is one of the reasons we have memorial/decoration day.
roger
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If God didn't want women to be looked at, He would have made 'em ugly. RAH
I support thread drift.
If God didn't want women to be looked at, He would have made 'em ugly. RAH
Re: Hobo Jungle
DaIiZzzEeII!!! I'll sign up for it if you do!!!!!! 
http://www.wabi.tv/news/6028/howlers-needed
Also the first of the years fireflies are out this evening down here!
http://www.wabi.tv/news/6028/howlers-needed
Also the first of the years fireflies are out this evening down here!
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