Ayupmeducks
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Usually in summer we get Northern Cardinals, young males attacking their reflections in the windows.
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Talking about birds, Tuesday was pretty cold here, 20F below average for this time of year, so I lit a fire, every time I opened the wood stove door I was met with loads of smoke pouring out. So yesterday I went on the roof pulled the weather cap off the stove pipe and good grief, some bird had built a nest, at least three charred eggs. Pulled it out and the nest must have been at least 12" thick down the stovepipe.
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I hate to say this to an intelligent man DG, but you show signs of "media indoctrination" I'm not being rude, but even if I show you cast iron evidence, you'd refute it.
End of debate and back to the topic.
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AS I'm a little off topic, I'll make this the last one.
Someone mentioned Executive Orders, several of us debated them some 20 plus years back, they are in a pretty grey area of law called "Colour of Law"
Many of the guys I debated to researched the authority of EO's and came to the conclusion they ONLY apply to federal government workers, in part because of Art 1 sec1 of the Constitution.
Again, most would say why federal workers, isn't DC in the US...Errrrr DC IS THE US!! Don't ask me to explain that, 25 years of research could end up with me getting typists cramp. Basically each state, note the lower case s, have autonomy over their day to day running. AND the Supreme Court and several other state Supreme Courts have stated on record there are three definitions of United States, note the upper case S and U. The correct way to call this united nation is "united states of America".. Long story and many many hours of research that can very deep and involved. Like many others who have spent hundreds of hours of research, I recommend others to just do their own homework.
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I might also add, nothings changed with the media in over 250 years, still lying dogs.
I'm reading a book called "The Jefferson Lies" about the lies told about Thomas Jefferson, seems the media of his day were just as bad as our media of today. The author debunks all the lies about Jefferson told today and how they came into being.
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VG, do your own research instead of relying on the lame stream media which doesn't report very many true stories. In fact two major "newspapers" this side of the pond have had to post retractions to their ludicrous finger pointing lies in the last couple of months.
I've read so much history on the media, who old Joseph Goebbels's would be so proud of had he been alive today.
Good book on the media by an insider who now has over 40 years as an investigative journalist, written ten years back now, but even more relevant to today..."Stop The Presses" by Joseph Farah, an excellent read and well worth borrowing stealing or even buying. I bought my copy and couldn't put it down until the last page was read.
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DJ, define "assault" weapons... A fist could be defined as an assault weapon. "Assault" weapon is a term the ignorant media invoked, technically there is no such thing, ask any Vet, they laugh at the terminology. Now if you mean AR15's, then all they are are small caliber semi automatic rifles.
I must add the media don't define SKS rifles as "assault" rifles, mysterious that is, so it appears the media charactorizes assault weapons from how they look, not how powerful they are or the calibre used. Incidently, the SKS was the common high power rifle used by the USSR, China and a few other asian countries after WW2 up until the 70's. It's about the same size calibre as a 30 cal rifle used in deer hunting and larger game hunting, semi auto too.
I must inject, the media uses some odd terms like automatic semi rifles...NO SUCH THING EXISTS on earth. And Automatic rifles ceased to be available to the general population in the 1930's. The only rifles that are automatic these days are for the military, police and old refiles still in circulation and owned by federally licensed people. They require registering with the BATF, local police chief and the county Sheriff, they also requires a federal annual license with a hefty fee, plus to own one requires an expensive, extensive background check that can take as long as 5 years to complete. Most legal gun owners just can't be bothered with the "red tape" so just give up even wanting an auto weapon.
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Let me educate you a little, in America, a President has few powers, very few, he is the head of state, much like the Queen in England, everything he does can be vetoed by Congress, Article 1 Sec 1 of the constitution states who can make laws, and that is Congress, a President cannot make law.
Britain's PM has way more power than a US President has. Now if you blamed Congress for not acting sooner, I'd back your statement up 100% Nonna, BUT, they were too busy to act trying to bring phoney charges against the President to Impeach him, and it backfired and now looks like charges could well be laid for sedition against the leaders of the Democrat Party.
Constitutionally, if a President vetoes any bill, it is sent back to Congress, where if they wish, can table another vote and if they get three fourths of the house to say "Yea" they out veto the President and it becomes law.
Now to throw another spanner in the works, the Tenth amendment gives the states and people the say in many things, ie what Congress hasn't been given powers to carry out, the states and the people can do without federal intervention.
Our system of government here in the US is a Constitutional Republic, where people are supposed to govern themselves, out national government has few powers, but our states have many powers granted them under law. Each state, has it's own Constitution, which mirrors the Federal Constitution, AND we have our own state laws, which differ from state to state, ie each state is a separate nation within the nation.
Does that make it clearer why the President is slower to act than other heads of nations, at a guess, I'd say Italy's President has far more legal powers given him than a US President. The reason why a US President has few powers goes back to when America was a British colony under King George. After the revolutionary war, the 13 colonies didn't want a head of state with the same powers of a King, as they said, we would be back in the same boat we were in prior to the war within a few years.
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My old mate Frank Blair worked for J.Jones for years, you will probably remember him, I keep in touch with him on FB, it was him that encouraged me to apply for a job, I'd just finished my apprenticeship at Cotgrave and I was kind of peed off with that pit and wanted out the industry for a while. Frank was an electrical fitter.
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No, the name doesn't ring a bell.
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24 and 36 cartons of beer are known as "suitcases" in the US.
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@ Jill, this is the time of year we see Red Tailed Hawks being dive bombed by crows near Rookeries, Mind, the crows are wasting their time, Hawks are magnificent fliers, and just pull a wing in a tad to move out the way.
Hawks raid crows nests for eggs and chicks, they also like chickens too, hence the American name for them, chicken hawks.
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Paved surfaces were too hot to go bare foot for me, although when I lived at the "Gong" and was on swing shift, when I got out of bed, I'd drive down and get my morning paper, then drive down to the beach and get in a walk, barefoot along the beach.
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When I lived in Oz, I wore Japanese workboots most of the year.
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I most certainly can, all the branded soaps under the PHB logo. When we had a batch of Camay arrive, unmistakable with the colour and scent, one or two of the miners would be singing "You'll feel a little lovelier each day, with fabulous pink Camay"...LOL
Not to mention, we knew what flip flops were before anyone in the country, we'd been wearing them in the baths for ever. Wished I could remember what they cost us, I know it wasn't much.
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It's amazing how quickly a "boy" loses his embarrassment in the pit head baths, you soon learn nobody gives a flying...well you know what I mean, about what you look like naked, you're all the same getting ready for work and ending work.
After a day shift everyone's in a rush to get down to the Stute for a quick pint before closing time, afternoons to get to our local, and after a night shift, to get home to bed.
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Dust masks...Hmmmm, I wore them religiously on coal faces, then on an advanced training course at the training centre we were talking to the Instructor about dust suppression on power loaders, (shearers and trepanners), and brought up the topic of dust masks, he laughed at us and told us a little known fact, the dust that causes the damage to our lungs was fine particles generated, not by the power loaders so much, but by the elf advancing roof supports grinding the roof as they were advanced. Dust masks only trap "large" particle dust, the weave of masks is way too large to stop fine dangerous particles. So what about the cartridge type dust masks, same story to a certain point, the cartridges do work far better for about two to three hours use, but even those let far too many fines through. Still, better than nowt, and my lungs seem to work pretty well after all those years down different types of mines, including most of my working life down coal mines.
Mascara!!! Yep, even after a good scrub down, including washing my face several times before getting out the shower, come summer in the pub mascara would run, everybody knew what a man did for a living come summer..LOL
One of the things in pit showers, you'd be washing your hair/face and someone would be scrubbing your back. Rinse off and turn around to to return the favour, and there was the back of an 8 foot giant!! LOL
A lot of fun times at the end of the shift, some clown would turn your hot water off while you washed your face, or after some overtime and just a few of the lads scrubbing down, and some one woud grab the bath attendants high pressure cold water hose and give you a good hosing down with bitterly cold water.
Bath Attendant ruled the roost in the shower blocks, he had the power to get you banned from the pit head baths!!! Walk into the clean side changing area in your pit rags and by God the floor would quake!!! That was the No1 rule NEVER to break, glass bottles were banned, running in the building wasn't permitted at any time, Bath Attendant saw to that, he was judge, jury and executioner!
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Not all pits had showers in the early 50's Clifton didn't, ironic, as the law required then from the 1913 M&Q Act if they employed more than a certain number of men. I don't think Gedling had them either until the mid to late 50's. The NCB went out to rectify that situation after 1947, but it took many years to equip all collieries with pit head baths.
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Worst book??? HMS Ulysses by Alistair McClean, I read about all his books in my teens and early 20's, but that one got put down after about four or five chapters with me being bored and sea sick...
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I once met the richest man in the world, indirectly, he was my boss and was visiting one of his very expensive investments, I was in pit bottom at the time checking the mineral skipping gear out ready for afternoon ore winding. He was very friendly and polite, his Father bought out De Beers in SA, he's dead now and Jnr has taken over the corporation. You could say his family struck it rich by accident, Grand dad was an out of luck prospector who approached a widow hanging clothes out to dry, he wanted a glass of water, the story goes he kicked a rock near her garden fence and spotted a glint that was pure gold in the rock, the rest is history and there's a huge hole in the ground where that house and farm used to be, richest gold strike in history, and the mine is still producing gold from well over a mile depth. His name was Harry Oppenheimer.
Talking of "fitting in" we live in a very rural area where people are set in their ways, most around here are direct decedents of pioneer settlers from before the American Civil war, their folks cleared the land by hand.
I talked to a fellow ham many years back who was born in this area, just down the road in fact. He asked me a question, have you been burned out yet, meaning our house, which we haven't. Apparently, way back when he was a kid, if "your face didn't fit", they made you very unwelcome, right down to burning your house down.
In fact we have been made to feel welcome and are accepted as "locals" here.
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Back to winter here in southern Missouri too. second hard frost this week, not normal weather for mid April. My Hardy Kiwi vines are all burnt off.
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Might be "powdery mildew" If so you'll need a fungicide.
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I've a sugar maple, I collected a few seedlings from it last year that need transplanting now, plus I found a couple of saplings from last year growing near the well house, they will get transplanted in the next few days.
Name your Acers, Mine are Acer Saccharum.
How's your day?
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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I put a spot light on my sundial, so as I could tell the time at night, but the damned thing stops at the same time until the sun gets up....