Greybeards Gripes

“Oh Hell,,, Vote for McCain”

Let us see here:

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
2. Find page 123.
3. Find the first five sentences.
4. Post the next three sentences.

Perhaps his response patterns were conditioned to react violently to the stimulation of certain odors, and being a predator, he killed in response to them.  Perhaps it is reaching too far to say that the Custer Wolf hated.  Perhaps it was even less complex than that.

The book “The Custer Wolf” by Roger Caras, copywrite: 1966 (out of print)

~~>GB

The following came in today as a forwarded email: Note that nearly all of the statements, include verification!!

Part 1:

In just one year.  Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have
seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a
gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity
value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2
trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Remember it’s Congress that makes law not the President.
He has to work with what’s handed to him.

Quote of the Day…….”My friends, we live in the greatest nation in
the history of the world.  I hope you’ll join with me as we try to
change it.” — Barack Obama

Part 2:

Taxes…Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics
enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
<http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html>

Taxes under Clinton 1999                &n bsp; Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $8,400          Single maki ng 30K - tax $4,500

Single making 50K - tax $14,000        Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250        Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800        Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000      Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750    Married making 125K - tax $31,250

Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates

It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think
Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever.
If Obama or H illary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush
tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories
above can’t wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with
Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don’t even
know what happened.

PART 3:

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?  Read
this:

Boy, am I confused.  I have been hammered with the
propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is
bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.

I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and
over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick
of reading them.  I have included the URL’s for verification of all the
following facts.

1.      $11 Bill ion to $22 billion is spent on welfare
to illegal aliens each year by state governments.

Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2.      $2.2 Bill ion dollars a year is spent on food
assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches
for illegal aliens.

Verify at:
http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3.      $2.5 Bill ion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid
for illegal aliens.
                          Verify at:
http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4.    $12 Bill ion dollars a year is spent on primary
and secondary school education for children here illegally and they
cannot speak a word of English!
                          Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5.      $17 Bill ion dollars a year is spent for
education for the  American-born children of illegal aliens, known as
anchor babies.
                          Verify at
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6.  $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate
illegal aliens.
                          Verify at:
http://transcripts. cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7.  30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are
illegal aliens.
                          Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8.  $90 Bill ion Dollars a year is spent on illegal
aliens for Welfare &a mp; social services by the American taxpayers.

Verify at:
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9.  $200 Bill ion Dollars a year in suppressed American
wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10.  The illegal aliens in the United States have a
crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.
In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional
crime problem in the US
                      &nb sp;    Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11.  During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION
illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500
illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.  Millions of pounds of drugs,
cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the
Southern border.

                          Verify at: Homeland
Security Report:
http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12.  The National Policy Institute, “estimated that the
total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or
an average
cost of  between $41 and $46 billion annually over a
five year period.”
                          Verify at:
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13.  In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in
remittances back to their countries of origin.
                          Verify at:
http://www.rense.co m/general75/niht.htm
<http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm>

14.  “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One
Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United
States.”
                          Verify at:
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A
YEAR.

Are we THAT stupid?

The 17 footer (Smoker Craft Alaskan) went into the river today.  We launched and trolled out to the mouth of the river,  where we had to turn around,  because the anchored fishing boats,  had the path to the Bay completely blocked.  (Who gives them the right to do that?)

We then trolled back to the launch,   where the Walleye restrictions are still in effect until April 26th.  On that run my partner had a couple of good hit’s but had trouble keeping them hooked.  We’re guesssing they were Pike.  The Alaskan ran well and we ran her all the way up to our dock and tied her in.  I’m thinking the battery croaked over the winter,  because I had to use the trolling battery to get it started.  The main battery just doesn’t seem to want to charge up.  Oh well,  you know what they say,  “a boat is just a hole in the water, that you throw money into”.  (The bigger the boat,  the more money) 

I still think mother nature is going to play at least one more dirty trick on us,  but we’ve had and incredible week, weather wise.  We’re starting to see a bunch of boats clustering around the mouth of the river and the edges of the breakwall in about 10 ft of water.   Leading me to believe,  that the Walleye are biting!  Time to put the dock it!

I spent the afternoon today, (very nice weather by the way) stitching up the seams of the Bimini Top on the Alaskan.  A particularly strong gust, pretty much shredded the seams toward the end of last summer.  Now that I’m relearning that old leather stitch I used to use to make knife sheaths,   I think a couple of hours tomorrow, will get the old Bimini back into operation.  (And I’m guessing the 10lb Fireline I’m using for thread,  won’t break)