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I did a complete flip flop on this as well.......I don't want to root for Brady but......

Funny the poster being held in the picture of that article......impeach Trump and deport Melania.............sorry suckers want to deport her but let scum in the other door......pretty hypocritical all the way around! They didn't want to deport Obummer when he put a 6 month stop on Iraq like snap said!!! http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/01/29/flashback-obama-2011-suspended-iraq-refugee-program-six-months-terrorism-fears/

Funny thing is their behavior, Pelosi and such are exactly what got Trump voted in to fight the behavior that they are so publicly and wet diaper displaying!!!

Why standardized fill in the bubble testing is a failure!!! I may not agree with his methodology but he did get the rag down!!!

And while I don't care much for Trumps delivery......I love his attempts to fix what I feel are killing this country!! http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/01/30/trump_schumer_shedding_fake_tears_over_refugee_executive_order.html

He needs to be fired too.......... http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/01/29/chuck-schumer-emotional-trump-travel-ban-new.wcbs

Damage....if I really knew you think I would tell??? Antler info is harder to come by than hunting info............as Rand Ulmer said in one of his hunting articles....glass where the game is!!!!

Sweet find.......always fun to find one, always disappointing to know it no longer is roaming the hills!!! That is a keeper for sure!!!

My family and I were out coyote calling, wife and four boys.......wife and the youngest would stay in the rig and play games while the rest of us tried to call coyotes. We were driving along a two tracker road and my wife spots a "coyote" in the middle of a meadow area, my oldest son bails out jumps the fence and sneaks up behind a tree to try and get a shot off. He chambers a round into his rifle, steps out......click........... My wife who had the binoculars hollers at him.....don't shoot it has a collar!!!! Luckily, my son had run over the top of the bullet and it hadn't truly chambered otherwise we would have been in the middle of the what do I do now scenario. Sad thing is, it really did look like a coyote and it would not run off......it was not afraid of our encounter!!!

Early in the morning Middle of the afternoon Late in the evening!!! Usually before I get there and somebody has already been there!!!

Anybody notice any trickle down yet from the wage increase??? Couple of things that I have been told by workers at different places! Restaurants charging for "extra" ranch dressing type items!!! Motels additional charge for WiFi..... Smaller portions served at restaurants..... Longer lines at checkout because of RIF....... I am not a smart person but do the smart people making up these crazy plans not get it???

yep......I was wondering what the impact was going to be if we ever got enough snow to make it happen.....Christmas break there was about 30 cows there in the meadow between Alpine and Luna Lake and I told my wife I bet they see those wolves often in the Alpine area.

Almost as good as The Young and the Restless!!!

If they want to continue selling at the same level, they will have to drop their prices to keep the price at what the market will bare. OtherwIse, that 20% mark up will create an opportunity for u.s. suppliers to actually be cheaper than mexico, there by shifting sales to the right side of the border, which would create jobs and increase income and corporate tax revenues. Also, an increase in output always equals a drop in individual piece prices. I California avocado farmer will sell 10000 crates cheaper per crate than 100, and still hold a higher margin for doing it. And if he doesnt, somebody else will drop their price to get that 10000 crate order. an increase in demand always encourages competition in the market. Trade barriers have worked for other countries there's no reason to think they won't also work for us. And one thing to keep in mind.....there ain't no such thing as a free meal........I really like his aggressive approach so far, putting pressure on no more catch and release.......good steps in the right direction..

According to 3TV news out of Phoenix there are only 56 miles of unsecured border along the AZ/Mexico line. The rest of the border has either high fence or "traffic'" blocking barriers of some sort!! Can anybody verify that as factual???

My son sent this one to me, made me laugh!!! http://www.allenbwest.com/allen/coyote-principle-brilliantly-illustrates-difference-red-blue-states THE COYOTE PRINCIPLE California The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor's dog, then bites the Governor. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie "Bambi" and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural. He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the state 200 testing it for diseases and 500 for relocating it. He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State 200 testing it for diseases.The Governor goes to hospital and spends 3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged. The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a 100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals.The Governor spends 50,000 in state funds implementing a "coyote awareness program" for residents of the area. The State Legislature spends 2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease through out the world.The Governor′s security agent is fired for not stopping the attack.The state spends150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training re: the nature of coyotes. PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files a 5millionsuitagainstthestate. Texas The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor's dog, then bites the Governor. The Governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The governor has spent $.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge. The buzzards eat the dead cotote! And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Texas is not.

Minimum Wage Increases Over the Years October 1938 (FDR): $0.25/hr ($4.15/hr in 2014 dollars) October 1939 (FDR): $0.30/hr ($5.05/hr) October 1945 (Truman): $0.40/hr ($5.20/hr) January 1950 (Truman): $0.75/hr ($7.29/hr) March 1956 (Eisenhower): $1/hr ($8.61/hr) September 1961 (Kennedy): $1.16/hr ($8.97/hr) September 1963 (Kennedy): $1.25/hr ($9.56/hr) February 1967 (Johnson): $1.40/hr ($9.80/hr) February 1968 (Johnson): $1.60/hr ($10.75/hr) May 1974 (Nixon): $2/hr ($9.49/hr) January 1975 (Ford): $2.10/hr ($9.13/hr) January 1976 (Ford): $2.30/hr ($9.47/hr) January 1978 (Carter): $2.65 ($9.51/hr) January 1979 (Carter): $2.90/hr ($9.34/hr) January 1980 (Carter): $3.10/hr ($8.80/hr) January 1981 (Carter): $3.35/hr ($8.62/hr) April 1990 (Bush): $3.80/hr ($6.82/hr) April 1991 (Bush): $4.25/hr ($7.30/hr) October 1996 (Clinton): $4.75/hr ($7.08/hr) September 1997 (Clinton): $5.15/hr ($7.51/hr) July 2007 (GW Bush): $5.85/hr ($6.61/hr) July 2008 (GW Bush): $6.55/hr ($7.12/hr) July 2009 (Obama): $7.25/hr ($7.80/hr)

Bill......I remember when a sheet of 3/4 oak veneer plywood went from 30 bucks to 60 bucks almost over night.....all driven by the spotted owl......which in my mind was government meddling.......so many things as you say have their effect on prices and costs rising!!!

Sounds like you worked yourself into a higher tax bracket. Instead of giving up the income, you need to get involved with a good financial planner if that's the case. Between things like sep IRA's & solo-401k's there's little reason to give the gov so much money that it's not worth earning. I dumped a small fortune into those things this year. The upside is that it dropped me down 2 tax brackets and while I certainly won't get a refund I probably won't have to write a check. The down side is I can't touch my money until I'm 59. But if I wrote that check to Uncle Sam instead I'd never see it again. Not smart enough to know the ins and outs of it all but getting rid of 4 boys definitely had something to do with my finances ! At a very sketchy point in life! I am collecting retirement as of last year, went back to work for the school district under a contractor ESI program, will hire back next year to get my insurance coverages. Wife will do the same thing this coming year except she will be completely retired and get to stay home after 30 years of teaching. We have rolled my retirement over into an investment account.....low risk set up. Now I get to worry about what Bill was talking about with the wage increase....at some point my intake is going to be relatively fixed....... Is there any wisdom at all in using one of our pots of money to get completely out of debt....car, house, etc. to minimize what I need a month to survive??? I know.....getting advice for spending money from a bunch of hunters.....go figure!!!

Last summer I didn't do much work for anybody but my wife.....the pay is better than most paying jobs, and I don't have to report it to IRS. I finally discovered that everything I was earning during the summer months in reality was just going to Uncle Sam.

Up until 2008 my plan to teach school during the winter months and build cabinets during the summer had worked out pretty dang good. Best of both worlds!!! Then I had to go work out at the pig farm to keep me busy during the summer!!! I absolutely loved building cabinets very gratifying. Up until about two years ago I hired out for trim charging $10.00 an hour, last two years I upped it to $15.00. I don't enjoy it as much as I used to, eyes getting bad and hands not so steady and dam......I have gotten slow!!!

I have absolutely NO problem with any business owner raising their prices as much as they feel like. Their business, not mine. Free market, supply/demand, etc... If they claim it is due to min wage increase, well I suppose that is their business too (I can't necessarily claim to understand their business model, costs, etc...). It's not like I am forced to go to their business, and if the prices get too high I will stop. Regarding the minimum wage debate in general, I suppose that I'm against it for many of the same reasons folks have sited on this thread. (Though I do remember as a kid making $3.10 per hour at the local grocery store in Kearny, I was SUPER happy when the minimum was raised to $3.35! ) Times have definitely changed! S. When I was 10 my dad and his business partner would pay me .25 cents an hour, but I had to be working, not hunting birds with my BB gun.......When I got older and asked for a raise my dads partner, who was the one writing the checks told me he would double my wages......2 X 0 = 0.................that was always my answer when I asked for a raise working for my dad......no matter what the pay......and working on a pig farm there were jobs you couldn't hire people to do........

And you got more last night right??? Best of luck to you.......we have had enough cold....now time for spring and mowing the lawn again!!!

Dang snow.......time to go to work.....good luck!!

Those eye guards definitely get in the way don't they??? Looks like too much fun in Mexico!!!