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People who want to 'do' meth (however it is that they 'do' it) should be left free to partake. It's a self-correcting problem.

This has effected the micro-economy already. I was going to sign up for health care at Lowes to bridge the time between when I go on Medicare and my wife becomes eligible. Plans cancelled. If Obamacare stands, no company can afford to supply health insurance as a benefit. Lowes is operating under a one-year exemption now. No insurance, no reason to stay. Guess now I'll wait and see if the new Congress has the balls to overturn Obamacare and I'm betting, politicians being what they are, they won't. Workers will become a cash cow for the IRS to milk so the poooor people can have what we've worked for. So, it looks likely that I won't be working at Lowes another 4 years - more likely I'll be re-retired in 6-9 months. Who is John Galt?

It only SEEMS like 40 years. SEEMS like 40 for Corker too.

Ate pawpaws back in West Virginy - they grew wild where I grew up. Reminded me of bananners.

It's called a Faraday cage, as I believe someone else mentioned. Line the walls and ceilings with grounded metal mesh and no cell phones, no Rush Limbaugh, no Dancing with the Stars - no over-the-air signals pass in or out.

Alexander and Corker voted for Obama's stimulus. That was enough to convince me that they either were ignorant of the Constitution or didn't give a damn about it.

Watch out for jellyfish!

UT offers free info online on canning, as do other universities. You need a pressure canner for most fruits and veggies, or a water-bath canner for tomatoes, pickles, relishes (high acid foods). You can find both at old-fashioned hardware stores including ACE and TrueValue, and at farmers co-ops. I've been canning for over 30 years - my mother taught me. I've canned tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, green beans, corn, squash, beets, pickles, sauerkraut and pickled onions. Frozen corn (removed from the cob) is great frozen for a couple of months, then the flavor falls off. Canned corn remains good for a couple years. In my experience, canning is superior to freezing for almost all fruits and veggies. We still freeze strawberries, blackberries and mushrooms (and all meats).

Illegal to use, yes - definitely. The FCC says so. Illegal to buy or possess, probably not. BUT, the FCC will track down and prosecute anyone for manufacturing them, selling them, or USING them. That's the tactics they follow for modified CB's and CB amplifiers.

Lowe's. They have (had?) several varieties with indian names - Apache, Navaho, etc. The labeling recommends planting more than one variety for the best pollenization. The way this plant has taken off, I figure if I plant one more variety, I'll have blackberries coming out my ears. Yes, they're really blackberries. Huge ones that taste the same as wild ones, to my taste. Wikepedia says they were developed at the University of Arkansas.

I have several thousand credits for sale and I take credit cards. Let me know how many you want and what you want to pay for them. I got them the same place the gubmint got theirs . . .

I planted thornless blackberries in my yard last year. Right now I'm getting berries nearly the size of my thumb and no scratches!

Gotcha - thanks!

No they're not all hydrostatic -- I've used a belt-drive Bolens. The drive and deck belts should have tensioners, otherwise it's hard to get any life out of a belt and even harder to install one. The belt stretches the first time you spin it.

"Borrowed" that one too!

How about posting a picture of a tape-wrapped round so we can see what you're doing?

I passed this one on!

This is a recipe my wife uses with pulled pork: Two 15 oz cans tomato juice 1 cup dill pickle juice 1 cup honey (she substitutes 8 pkgs of Sweet 'n' Low) 1 cup Worcestershire sauce 1 T Texas Pete hot sauce It's not sweet. Recipe makes about 1 quart.

Find a pool of deep, clear water . . . .

No argument about that!

I'm inclined to recommend the jungle boots.

The biggest criminal this country has ever seen. And he'll never be prosecuted, for the obvious reason.

Everybody have the recipe for "Thirteen Screaming Lemons"?

No thanks, thought a lot about it over the years, don't want to be a Libertarian. From what I see, the end game of the Libertarian Party is anarchy. I prefer to live in a society, however imperfect.

The government's helping to run GM into the ground, just like they screw up every other business venture they get into. The CEO said that GM is running the company, not the government, but that Obama told the previous CEO to resign. That makes my head hurt.