Chief Grey Bear

Yeah Mitch, come and get me!

Holy cow I missed this one! Awesome fish!! How many did you end up with??

Hey Dave, don't put a lot of stock in Ness -- he is a classic Nancy Boy.

You have a BPS in your town but no local shop?? That is very interesting. I didn't mean for that to be a politcal post, but I can certainly understand how it could taken that way. Just as you were offering suggestions, I was doing the same. I had no intent on ruffling your feathers.

Just me, but those two sentences just don't seem to go together. LOL. I am sure your local dealer and school district thanks you for speading the wealth. I totally understand what you are saying. But when the money stops flowing, we get what we have now.

I was thinking the same thing. I don't ever recall seeing any bee trees or even a hornets nest in them. * Just looked it up. Seems those in the bee keeping community says it is ok.

I sure would like to try it though.

As a liberal, I share the wealth all the time. Where is my dollar?

I had plans to float yesterday. But when I got up and the therm said 23*, I stepped outside to break the water for the chickens and give them some feed, it was a little breezy. I promptly headed back in and planted myself on the couch for some fishing on TV! That lasted about an hour and I was out cutting down a Hickory to start drying and CD was hunting squirrels.

Just like you have to pay a tax to join the MSA and the NRA. And Uncle Sam has nothing to do with it. So the Government started charging a tax to pay for cell phone service for the poor before there were even cell phones? That is genius!

Are you a cop? I'll take that bet. But you owe me a $1 until you find evidence otherwise.

That and TV dinners are only $1. You could eat for a week on $20 but have a months worth of calories and fat.

Exactly .000162 of a second in research once again shows you two have no clue. Try a little research instead of being FOX Noise talking heads. http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/the-obama-phone/ Q: Has the Obama administration started a program to use "taxpayer money" to give free cell phones to welfare recipients? A: No. Low-income households have been eligible for discounted telephone service for more than a decade. But the program is funded by telecom companies, not by taxes, and the president has nothing to do with it. FULL QUESTION Is this e-mail true? I had a former employee call me earlier today inquiring about a job, and at the end of the conversation he gave me his phone number. I asked the former employee if this was a new cell phone number and he told me yes this was his "Obama phone." ⬐ Click to expand/collapse the full text ⬏ I asked him what an "Obama phone" was and he went on to say that welfare recipients are now eligible to receive (1) a FREE new phone and (2) approx 70 minutes of FREE minutes every month. I was a little skeptical so I Googled it and low and behold he was telling the truth. TAX PAYER MONEY IS BEING REDISTRIBUTED TO WELFARE RECIPIENTS FOR FREE CELL PHONES.. This program was started earlier this year. Enough is enough, the ship is sinking and it’s sinking fast. The very foundations that this country was built on are being shaken. The age-old concepts of God, family, and hard work have flown out the window and are being replaced with "Hope and Change" and "Change we can believe in." You can click on the link below to read more about the "Obama phone"…just have a barf bag ready. https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/home.aspx Google: Safelink Wireless FULL ANSWER Welfare recipients, and others, can receive a free cell phone, but the program is not funded by the government or taxpayer money, as the e-mail alleges. And it’s hardly new. How It Works SafeLink Wireless, the program mentioned in the e-mail, does indeed offer a cell phone, about one hour’s worth of calling time per month, and other wireless services like voice mail to eligible low-income households. Applicants have to apply and prove that they are either receiving certain types of government benefits, such as Medicaid, or have household incomes at or below 135 percent of the poverty line. Using 2009 poverty guidelines, that’s $14,620 for an individual and a little under $30,000 for a family of four, with slightly higher amounts for Alaska and Hawaii. SafeLink is run by a subsidiary of América Móvil, the world’s fourth largest wireless company in terms of subscribers, but it is not paid for directly by the company. Nor is it paid for with "tax payer money," as the e-mail claims. Rather, it is funded through the Universal Service Fund, which is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company, an independent, not-for-profit corporation set up by the Federal Communications Commission. The USF is sustained by contributions from telecommunications companies such as "long distance companies, local telephone companies, wireless telephone companies, paging companies, and payphone providers." The companies often charge customers to fund their contributions in the form of a universal service fee you might see on your monthly phone bill. The fund is then parceled out to companies, such as América Móvil, that create programs, such as SafeLink, to provide telecommunications service to rural areas and low-income households. History The SafeLink program has actually been offering cell phones to low-income households in some states since 2008, not beginning "earlier this year," as the e-mail claims. But the program is rooted in a deeper history. When phone lines were first laid out in the late 19th century, they were not always inter-operable. That is to say the phone service created by one company to serve one town may not have been compatible with the phone service of another company serving a different town nearby. The telecom companies themselves saw the folly in this arrangement, and so in 1913, AT&T committed itself to resolving interconnection problems as part of the "Kingsbury Commitment." That common goal of universal service became a goal of universal access to service when Congress passed The Telecommunications Act of 1934. The act created the FCC and also included in its preamble a promise "to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges.” There was a fear, expressed by telecom companies themselves, that market forces alone might encourage companies to pass on providing service to hard-to-reach places. This would both hurt the people who wouldn’t have service as well as existing customers who wouldn’t be able to reach them. So the new FCC was tasked with promoting this principle of "universal service." This informal practice was codified when the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) was created as part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act to "ensure all Americans, including low-income consumers and those who live in rural, insular, high cost areas, shall have affordable service and [to] help to connect eligible schools, libraries, and rural health care providers to the global telecommunications network." The USAC includes four programs to serve rural areas, high cost areas, rural health care providers, and schools and libraries. Since 1997, USAC has provided discounted land line service to low-income individuals. (A more limited program to offer assistance to low-income individuals was created a decade earlier; the telecommunications act expanded and formalized it.) According to Eric Iversen, USAC director of external relations, the Universal Service Fund more recently began funding programs that provide wireless service, such as the pre-paid cellular SafeLink program mentioned in the chain e-mail. The president has no direct impact on the program, and one could hardly call these devices "Obama Phones," as the e-mail author does. This specific program, SafeLink, started under President George Bush, with grants from an independent company created under President Bill Clinton, which was a legacy of an act passed under President Franklin Roosevelt, which was influenced by an agreement reached between telecommunications companies and the administration of President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson Phones, anyone? – Justin Bank

And that is one of the vital keys to continuing a robust economy. But some like to sit on their money in case something happens. Which sounds good but doesn't work very well.

Yep. And all of those trucks running around are all empty. I see hiring signs all over. Lots of welding jobs all over OK. Lots of oil drilling and pipelines going in too.

No problem there. Mouthy kid? Shoot him. Problem solved.

After she picks herself up off of the floor?

This sounds great! Until some pissed off 6th grader smacks one of those 90 pound teachers in the mouth and then takes her gun.

Of course we are. I have great respect for Andy. That is one reason I enjoy going back and forth with him. He keeps me on my toes! And if I am wrong about something, I don't mind admitting it. Just like I did last night. Now, I never did count my number of reports. I may have him there! Do my Friday Fishin Foto's count?

It is a great little scrappy fighter in the sunfish family. They are found in lakes and creeks all over the midwest. Some just call them gills. I am not sure if it is because it is cool or they are just too lazy to pronounce the first syllable. Ha! Just messing.

Thanks for asking me this question Andy. It made me go back a take a look. I spent a lot of time reading some older reports. Really took me back for a while. At any rate, I did find three or four in the four pages I read, that didn't have pics. I would have swore that I posted pics with every report. My bad. I won't link them here, but if you want a little good reading, check out Other Ozark Waters.

Thanks guy's! I was just thinking about that a couple of weeks ago. I have been posting from my phone and don't have access to all of those pics at this time. I enjoyed posting them and I'll get back to doing that again.

Don't answer that. I think I remember one. It was an early spring walk in trip. I'll look for it and see.

I do! Doesn't help!

I like that!