bersaguy

Thanks!!!

I have updated my avatar as I thought it might be more appropriate to have something more closely related to the topic of the site!!!!

We can only hope that the people of Tennessee have been closely watching the actions of both of these twats and don't elect either one of them to Dog Catcher in 2018. They proved that the people make the decisions in Alabama and didn't put McConnells puppet in office so the people in Tennesse do have the final say and lets hope we stand strong like Alabama did...........JMHO

Actually the picture in my Avatar was taken from the pictures in the second link you have posted here. Open the link and click on Michigan and about 3/4 down on the right side the picture is next to a snake and below some corn on the cob.

Did you just now notice that? It has been that way for a couple months or longer. Yes that is a crayfish and that partcular species is red and alive and are native to the state of Michigan and a few are in Wisconsin area lakes. I make fishing baits and Soft plastic crawfish is one I make. I use to have live ones in my aquariums here in the house back years ago. They are very interesting to watch how they act. I have tried to put other pictures up in place of it but the site keeps saying the pictures are to big and I don't know how to shrink them down so they will fit.......

I just went and read the link article and I thought it was a joke where they ask for donations. I'm kind of glad they have anounced a clear date for this and it gives the authorities plenty of time to prepare for it!!! Sounds more like ponzi scheme when they asked for donations. Might mean they are not funded by Soros after all..........JMHO

I'm guessing that if they don't get their way they will half to go back to their safe spaces and watch Barney re-runs and get their diapers changed...........JMHO

I have seen things like his pulling his ads begin like a drip in a sink. It starts out small and if not anything done about it pretty soon it's not a drip but a stream and it continues to get bigger if unattended................JMHO

I guess they are probably thinking your going to ask for a refund of your season ticket is why they won't reply...........JMHO

Back about 10 years ago a friend sent me this. He has long since past but I enjoyed reading it ever so often and it helps me to keep faith in people. It's kind of a long read and I bet you find it as rewarding as I did. I was at the corner grocery store buying some early potatoes. I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean, hungrily apprising a basket of freshly picked green peas. I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas. I am a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes. Pondering the peas, I couldn't help overhearing the conversation between Mr. Miller (the store owner) and the ragged boy next to me. 'Hello Barry, how are you today?' 'H'lo, Mr. Miller. Fine, thank ya. Jus' admirin' them peas. They sure look good.' 'They are good, Barry. How's your Ma?' 'Fine.. Gittin' stronger alla' time.' 'Good. Anything I can help you with?' 'No, Sir. Jus' admirin' them peas.' 'Would you like to take some home?' asked Mr. Miller. 'No, Sir. Got nuthin' to pay for 'em with.' 'Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?' 'All I got's my prize marble here.' 'Is that right? Let me see it' said Miller. 'Here 'tis.. She's a dandy.' 'I can see that. Hmmmmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort of go for red. Do you have a red one like this at home?' the store owner asked. 'Not zackley but almost.' 'Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you and next trip this way let me look at that red marble'. Mr. Miller told the boy. 'Sure will. Thanks Mr. Miller.' Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me. With a smile she said, 'There are two other boys like him in our community, all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just loves to bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes, or whatever.. When they come back with their red marbles, and they always do, he decides he doesn't like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one, when they come on their next trip to the store.' I left the store smiling to myself, impressed with this man. A short time later I moved to Colorado , but I never forgot the story of this man, the boys, and their bartering for marbles. Several years went by, each more rapid than the previous one. Just recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho community and while I was there learned that Mr. Miller had died. They were having his visitation that evening and knowing my friends wanted to go, I agreed to accompany them. Upon arrival at the mortuary we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased and to offer whatever words of comfort we could. Ahead of us in line were three young men. One was in an army uniform and the other two wore nice haircuts, dark suits and white shirts...all very professional looking. They approached Mrs. Miller, standing composed and smiling by her husband's casket. Each of the young men hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly with her and moved on to the casket. Her misty light blue eyes followed them as, one by one, each young man stopped briefly and placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in the casket. Each left the mortuary awkwardly, wiping his eyes. Our turn came to meet Mrs. Miller. I told her who I was and reminded her of the story from those many years ago and what she had told me about her husband's bartering for marbles. With her eyes glistening, she took my hand and led me to the casket. 'Those three young men who just left were the boys I told you about. They just told me how they appreciated the things Jim 'traded' them. Now, at last, when Jim could not change his mind about color or size.....they came to pay their debt..' 'We've never had a great deal of the wealth of this world,' she confided, 'but right now, Jim would consider himself the richest man in Idaho .' With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her deceased husband. Resting underneath were three exquisitely shined red Marbles. The Moral : We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath.

From what I heard he only had purchased the 22 Caliber they found in his vehicle. His cousin bought to 40, the 9mm and the AR 15 and gave them to him for safe keeping!!!

"What is going to happen when today's demonstrators cannot be controlled by tear gas, batons, hoses, and rubber bullets'? In all honesty I have been waiting for gun fire to ring out at any one of these taking place today. These people are not protesting a war!! In fact I would be willing to bet that 80+% don't really know why they are protesting. They are just joining a crowd of protestors and are for the most part just followers. They will also be the first ones killed when the hot lead starts because they don't know when to duck and run!!! As far as Kent State, up until last night I had only heard about it in letters from home. Last night was the first time I saw it first hand. We all knew that things were pretty bad back home from the letters each one of us got and we would read them out loud to anyone nearby that may not get mail. We never had any idea how bad till we began arriving home!! My mother cold not put in words how bad it was but she told me if there was any way possible to fly commercial and don't wear my uniform. I was having none of that. I flew with my men and wore my uniform with pride. First chance I had I changed in my Dress Whites. I thought there was no way the American people could have been 1/1000th as bad as where I had just left. I was almost wrong for the 1st 8 hours at home.

Fighting City Hall has always been an up hill battle with very few wins for the good guys. Hope you win but not holding my breath..........MHO

I watched episode 8 last evening and thats all I have to say on the subject!..................

Back when I was a kid our house had a chunk rock circle driveway and I would gather Black Walnuts all up and down the road in neighbors yards and bring them home and scatter them all in the driveway. In about 2 or three weeks of driving in it I would go out and get all the nuts I could find and when my mother told me to I would split them in half with a hammer and then take them in the house. My mother would sit with a nut pick and dig the walnuts out of the hulls. I was always glad to do this cause it meant Fall was in the air. Hunting season was coming and the Holidays were also coming and my mother use to begin baking all kinds of homemade cookies and many of them had Black Walnuts in them. The house always smelled so good for about a month and a half. I can close my eyes and still remember how great the house smelled 60 years ago. About 4 years ago a buddy of mine bring me about a 1/2 bushel of Black walnuts for my squirrels and I thanked him but in the back of my mind I thought the city squirrels may not eat them. But I spead them out in my driveway and parking area in front of my house. The next day it was funny cause I watched 3 little gray squirrels collecting these wall nuts still with green hulls and they were taking them out in the back yard and my neighbors back yard and burying them as fast as they could. Late in the winter after they had been buried the squirrels would dig up a couple and finish hulling them and man can they open one of the suckers up...........LOL! Not a problem at all for them. Oh yea, I had 3 walnut trees about 10 inches tall try and begin growing in my back yard and Ronnie my neighbor said he had about 5 trying to grow in his yard. We both pulled them up and kept our eyes peeled and only had 2 more try to grow and we got those also.

Of course it's good looking!!!! It's a Bersa..................

I have one very similar to the one shown in the link. In fact I have 5 of them in places throughout my house. I found them on sale at of all places Tractor Supply. I bouht one and brought it home and that night about 10 oclock I went out side to see about how bright it was. I was so impressed I went back the next day and purchased 4 more. I went out in my back yard that night and did some testing and I could see rabbits in neighbors back yard about 70 yards away as clear as if they were in my back yard. The lights have three different light settings and you can adjust it as a wide able view all the way down to a keen almost laser type light beam. I would recommend every one should have a light like these..............JMHO

I have been posting to this and reading all the posts and over the last two hours I have watched all the news networks that carried what Trump had to say in Alabama Friday night. I did vote for Trump and would vote for him again over Hillary Clinton. Now with that said. I have the utmost respect for this great country and I fought for it and all it stands for in our Constitution and our Flag is a symbol of that Constitution. The National Anthem is applied and a part of this Country's Legacy and has been around a lot longer than I have and will be long after I am gone. Now with that all said, after listening to what President Turmp said on Friday Night as much as I honor the office he holds I cannot accept his choice of words he used when calling all of the football players a name that is so very negative not only to the players but towards their Mothers as well. I find myself in a catch 22 here as I was siding with the office without knowing the full story. I know that he has never been in politics and he is very raw at times but that is still not an excuse for calling anyone out of their name. I never walked away if anyone called me out of my name if reference to my Mother and to this day I still won't. I can now clearly see both sides to this and even though I have never thought to wrong cannot make a right in this instance I do believe the players maybe more right than the President. I don't believe that they all were protesting for same reason and Colin Kaepernick is but I do believe they did have a good reason for their actions. I won't be burning my football jerseys in protest because I don't own any. I just hope and pray that our country can come together in Unity again and be the great country I grew up in and fought for....................JMHO

Well, I have quit buying cartons and gone to buy only a couple packs at a time which is slightly more costly which is also making it more of a deterent for me to smoke as many. I am also using a plan a buddy of mine used when he got ready to quit to see if it works for me. I get up at the same time each day and have my coffee and breakfast biscuit and I would have a smoke right after the biscuit. About a week ago I began doing the 1/2 hour program which means each day I have to wait 1/2 hour later each day before lighting up. Since I am up at 7AM on the first day I lit up right after my biscuit. The next day I waiting 1/2 hour after my biscuit which put me lighting up at 7:30 AM and then it was 8AM and so on and so forth and today it was 11AM when I lit up and I almost fell off and lit up early but held out. It is not normal for me to have as many cigarettes in a pack as I am having each night! I just hope I can stand firm and eventually reach the point that I run out of hours in a day to light one up and can be strong enough to push through it.................

I think Jerry Jones has already made his feelings know to his Cowboys so I don't think any of them will be taking a knee or not being on the side line for the Anthem unless they would like to be job hunting pretty quick and I would think they might have learned from Kaepernicks experience but then one never knows!!!.............JMHO

I think there were a few other players that stood outside the tunnels with their hand on their heart but he was the only one that is a decorated Veteran to do it..................JMHO

This all began with Colin Kapperneck of the 49's taking a knee after a police officer shot Michael Brown in St Louis and was found officer was not guilty of murder. At the time Kapperneck was under a 2+ milion dollar contract and the 49's cut him loose at the end of the season and he is yet to be picked up by any other team. No one wants to hire a trouble maker regardles of their talents. Now whole teams have taken up his fight which I find totally out of line and will not ever watch another NFL game. I will also be sending them an email with my feelings. I will also be sending any emails I can find to the network sponsors that support the NFL. Kapperneck was adopted by a white couple and raised him, put him through college and gave him the opportunity of a lifetime and this is how he repays them!!!! There is a rule in the NFL that any yeam not on the sidelines for the Anthem will be fined. The NFL has waived those fines for this past weekend. That just shows everyone how weak the NFL really is. I hope next week that 15% in lost ratings from last year is 50% next weekend............JMHO

Thats a nice way to start the season for sure..................

I have no issue with a person buying drugs on street corners except it's those drugs that cause crimes like the Holly Bobo murder and home invasions of innocent people and having people harmed for street druggy to get that 10 minutes of happiness. Whole lives are destroyed forever for that 10 minutes of happiness. That guy that testified in the Zack Adams case admitted that a half tablet of Heroine shot up lasted about 10 minutes and the high was gone. Thats just crazy to me but such is life these days. If my home ever get a home invasion I will do my level best to end their drug addiction permanently................JMHO

The report I read the usher tried to stop him but was struck in the head by the guy with the pistol and then went and got his gun from his car and confronted the guy. There will probably be 10 different stories before it is all known.................