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Unread 06-13-2010, 07:52 AM   #1
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Yesterday I went fishing for Bluegills for the first time in a very long time. To give you an idea of how often I fish the last time I bought a daily license it was $3 yesterday I spent $7.

I met my friends with my rod, reel (I didn't have any of the assorted tackle) so I contributed three fine cigars and a 12 pack of beer. I was shocked when Jack told me that you couldn't have beer in the boat It seems the morons who want to race up and down a lake in speed boats and run over people on Jet Skis have ruined it for everyone.

We were on a series of small lakes with no houses. There was only one other boat on the lake but to be able to enjoy the lake and an ice cold beer on a hot day God forbid.

For those who can't be responsible to themselves and the people around them the Goverment will do it for us.
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Unread 06-13-2010, 09:34 AM   #2
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Richard,

I have noticed over the last few years that we now get to choose which laws to obey. I'm not sure of the rules yet, we may only get to ignore one? I have been contemplating which law I want to ignore and I have been leaning toward the good old Income Tax.

So, have a cold one and enjoy the day. Just tell them its not fair and for them to enforce it is discriminate against fishermen.
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Robin,

I have to agree with you regarding the income tax esp with the way they waste OUR hard earned dollars. I refer to the IRS as the in-house Taliban. I sent the a check Friday for my quarterly contribtion for there graft and corruption
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I went to buy some ant poison a couple of years ago for my place in Maine... the same stuff I had bought a couple of times in previous years... you know, the kind with arsenic in it? Well, it is called by the same and even bottled by the same company but it seems somebody was stupid enough to get himself poisoned or his kid got into it because of his stupid parent's ignorance.... anyway, now the "active ingredient" is borax... It isn't nearly as effective as the arsenic was but the saving grace is that we'll have a lot more stupid people around who didn't kill themselves... That's good, huh?

Whatever happened to the "Survival of the Fittest".... and most intelligent??
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"but the saving grace is that we'll have a lot more stupid people around who didn't kill themselves... That's good, huh?

Whatever happened to the "Survival of the Fittest".... and most intelligent??"

Dean, My sentiments exactly!
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Unread 06-13-2010, 12:57 PM   #7
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We have drifted into a current that will eventually take us to an "Aunty" state:

People who get drunk and drive boats sometimes hurt themselves and others. Aunty says "Let's pass a law so that you can't have beer at all in the boat."

Some people hurt themselves and others with guns. Aunty says "Let's pass a law against all people owning guns."

Some people won't fasten their seatbelts and they hurt themselves unnecessarily. Aunty says "Let's pass a law mandating seat belt use."

Some people hurt themselves and others with tobacco. Aunty says "Let's outlaw tobacco."

Now I say if you want to smoke cigars I think that is great. Just go outside so I am not exposed to the carcinogenic second hand smoke.

120 years ago cocaine, morphine, heroin, opium, and marijuana were all legal. But some people abused them so Aunty said "Let's pass a law making them illegal."

The list just goes on and on; First Aunty says we shouldn't, and then she says we can't.

Let me state for the record I don't use any recreational drugs beyond caffeine. I relgiously fasten my seatbelt, I don't drink and drive anything because I don't drink. I don't have any problem at all sending a first time DUI offender to jail for a year or a 2nd time offender to jail for 20 years. I just think we are trading the freedom to make decisions as an adult for a nebulous increase in public safety.

Left unchecked Aunty will take the experience we call "living" out of life.


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I know ever so well what you’re talking about.
I make the old-fashioned lye soap every now and then.
I used to be able to buy my lye crystals at just about
any grocery or hardware store. Wow!! good luck finding it
anywhere outside of on-line.
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