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I recall reading recently on one of the Springfield news sources that Arkansas DOT personnel were meeting with MoDOT to learn how to better remove snow and ice from their roads. They admitted there was a lack of knowledge on their part and after reading some, not all, of the above comments it sounds like a lack of funding and equipment too. At least they were forthcoming about it ! Also saw videos on the National News media of the huge traffic nightmares on AR I-55 and AR I-40 thanks to this recent storm. Great picture, thanks for posting....

Very true, just ask the City of Santa Monica, CA about that where MTBE leaked into the ground and polluted their wells. One teaspoonful pollutes the contents of the proverbial "Olympic sized" swimming pool. Both additives are bad news.

Not true. It was claimed to be all about about lowering imports of foreign oil. Ethanol has its' own pollutants and was "sold" to U.S. Legislatures at both State and Federal level by the powerful Ethanol/Corn Lobby as a "renewable" fuel source to supposedly lessen dependence on foreign oil imports. So far, Federally mandated 10% Ethanol gasoline content has made thousands of corn belt farmers fabulously wealthy, raised food prices beyond belief, including meats, and has cost the U.S. citizenry untold billions of dollars in mechanical repair bills. At least, in 2012, Congress finally put an end to the ethanol subsidy.

Different specific gravity between Ethanol and Gasoline causes Ethanol to separate from gasoline in a fuel container that is not in constant motion with the Ethanol falling to the bottom of the container. Ethanol's natural affinity for water causes water to accumulate in the Ethanol causing interior rusting problems of Internal Combustion engines. Equal amounts of gasoline vs. Ethanol yields approx. 30% lesser fuel economy for the Ethanol in spite of Ethanol's octane boosting properties. We need to discover the reason 87 Octane or 89 Octane Ethanol-free gasoline is not available in Missouri and change that. Sounds to me like someone's palm is getting greased...as usual !

And a big "AMEN" to that. Almost as soon as the boat dock moratorium was lifted, there was another 20 slip monstrosity placed almost directly across the White from the mouth of Big and Little Indian creeks ( Baxter area) on a shallow, very gradually sloping pea gravel bank !! ( Have fun moving that one ! ) While I don't know about that being a "good fishing area" , there are scads of newer docks around the Lake placed directly on/over good fishing areas with large numbers of unused, empty slips owned by the "dock-slip speculators" who attempt to double their money buying up these new slips and then re-selling at ridiculous profits to unsuspecting newcomers. If the COE truly wants to accomplish something positive for a change, they should put an immediate and permanent stop to this practice or there will be no natural shoreline left. This issue is far more important than the contrived 50' vegetative boundary nonsense but since money is changing hands, it's obvious why it's not being addressed !

I wasn't there and I didn't see them but any Canid close to 80 lbs. is either pure Wolf or one of those Coy-Wolf hybrids that have been verified expanding their range in the Northeastern U.S. and Southeastern Canada. There was an excellent program about the Coy-Wolf on PBS-TV Wed. night, 1-22-14, at 7 P.M. CST on their "Nature" series. Most of those programs are re-broadcast or can be viewed on the PBS website and if you can find it I would suggest anyone interested watch it or record it. Good, solid info. presented in an interesting, non-boring format with lot's of videos of the animals. Apparently they are a lot less "shy" of humans than pure Coyotes and that is worrisome to many. Sorry about the loss of your family pets, Coyotes are really bad about that.

Being one of the biggest, soft-hearted dog persons around, I have to admit that picture of the dead animal in the article was pretty tough for me to look at as Wolves are supposedly what our domestiic dogs came from.

Kind of surprised no one has posted this in the Conservation Issues area or commented on it yet with all the attention given to Cougar sightings (the four legged ones) :-) ! http://www.news-leader.com/article/20140116/LIFE06/301160026/DNA-confirms-animal-killed-state-grey-wolf MDC has been explaining to everyone the Cougars sighted in MO are just young males passing thru but here we have a seemingly healthy female Grey Wolf in the prime of breeding age ! Could it be that all that howling we hear at this time of year (mating season) isn't coming from just our local coyotes ??? Hmmm..... The animal pictured in the article looks a lot different, up close, than the typical Coyote and I applaud the hunter for recognizing it and turning the carcass over to MDC for testing.

According to what CBS National News broadcast just reported they were headed towards Hwy 65. That would follow landing protocol as it would have meant landing "into the wind" so I don't know where the passenger the media quoted saw a "cliff" but there is a considerable drop-off at the SE end of the COO runway. Either way they avoided a disaster. Southwest is abandoning the Branson location/airport in June 2014.

According to one of the passengers on the Southwest Airlines flight that mistakenly landed at the College of the Ozark's airstrip, "We have all deplaned from @SouthwestAir 4013, and the mood is somber now that we realized we were 40 feet from the edge of a cliff,” Schieffer tweeted " !!!! http://www.news-leader.com/article/20140113/NEWS01/301130056/NTSB-investigating-Southwest-airport-mix-up-near-Branson?nclick_check=1 Can you imagine the loss of life (124 reported passengers + aircrew) if that pilot had not recognized his error and slammed the engines and reversing gear plus brakes to full-on during that landing ? And that's not even mentioning the environmental disaster resulting from a 737 crashing into Taneycomo.

Good point Wayne. To my knowledge ongoing collection of taxes has not shut down so the money is there and this fear-mongering garbage being spread by the Administration and the biased media about defaulting on the obscene debt payment is just that.....garbage....as usual !

Read where only COE operated campgrounds will close. Those operated by this private organization that currently operate several COE campgrounds on TR will remain open....BUT...since the COE just ruled against the legality of it's contracts with these private groups that is not a sure thing. At the Baxter launch ramp, for instance, the iron gates leading to the campground are past the road leading to the launch ramp, so if the COE puts up barricades to the launch ramp road that WE own, simply move the stupid things and launch and enjoy your day of fishing on OUR Lake. It's OURS,.not THEIRS !!!

Under our current system, there is no way for a challenger to defeat an incumbent without first prostituting themselves to special interest groups to raise campaign funds. That is precisely why we need the 28th Amendment installing retroactive Congressional term limits and also retroactively abolishing the obscene Congressional Pension. Get the "Lifers" out of Congress ! When you have term limits, imposed by Congress, on the Presidency vs. Congressmen who can be re-elected until death, the so-called "balance" between the Legislative and Executive branches the Founding Fathers intended no longer exists !

Hey now, don't go insulting Mules. Many of them are a hell of a lot smarter than a lot of people

Yep, the McGard Company makes motor-specific locking prop nuts. www.mcgard.com Just don't misplace the key after installation and record the key code somewhere for safekeeping just in case.

The despicable, brutal murders committed by the two runaways from LUC are the worst but not the only area crimes perpetrated over the years by runaways from LUC Boy's Ranch. At least the previous crimes were crimes against property. There are several threads started by former "residents" and employees of LUC on a website http://www.topix.com/forum/city/branson-mo . Anyone seeking the "other side" of the story on this operation might want to read a few postings there. After reading several of the narratives it became clear why kids would runaway from this "Boy's Ranch" if you can believe everything that was posted.

The Tri-Lakes Realtor's Association is pushing for more and more docks to be installed. Lake of the Ozarks, here we come ! Ughh ! http://www.hometowndailynews.com/16383/realtors_voice_concerns_over_revised_table_rock_master_plan.html

Oneshot, I sure hope for your sake that your gallbladder removal can be done using the "scope" method rather than the old way. Not a whole lot to it with the "scope" with only about five little puncture wounds. Best of luck. Used to be with Lyme disease, one of the early telltale signs was a circular red rash around the tick bite that looked like a typical bull's eye. Had the darn stuff in the early nineties and the Doc took one look at the rash, pulled out a medical book and showed me a picture of the bull's eye that had appeared on my leg and said "I'm saving you the cost of the blood work" and put me on oral antibiotics. From what I read back then, Lyme disease, left untreated, can result in some pretty serious, long-term heart problems. It's nothing to play around with.

Exactly ! Plus the well known affinity that Ethanol has for accumulating water right out of the air. Those lucky enough to be using their rigs frequently keep the gas and Ethanol pretty well mixed, but boats left sitting will, at some point, suffer separation with the heavier specific-gravity Ethanol falling to the bottom of your fuel tank and you all know where your fuel pick-up is located ! From what I've been hearing from neighboring States, there is no-Ethanol, 87 octane fuel available for a slight price premium but, for some reason, not in MO. Seems to me if it can be sold in other States just to our West, why do we have to pony-up for 91 octance or higher to avoid the blasted Ethanol ?

Walgreen's carries a product back in their first aid section by the band-aids called "Chiggarrid" that comes in a very small, dark brown glass container. You usually have to search for it pretty hard. It's a liquid plastic containing camphor that you dab on each bite and wait a couple of minutes until it dries and it relieves the itch for about 24 hours and keeps infection from setting in if you have vigorously scratched the bite. If you cannont find the Chiggarrid, one of the liquid bandages found in the same department like "New Skin", that is also a liquid plastic coating, is almost as effective. Fels Naptha was a great poison ivy preventer but never used it for dratted chiggers. We find it sometimes at Wally World.

Thanks for your reply. I appreciate that. Have a great day.

Hardy-har-har ! Got a rise out of all of you didn't I ? By the way, I wasn't the one who commented "lead 'em like a duck", just LMAO at that phrase. Yep, I know fully well a dock isn't considered your "castle". And did I advocate in one single word to SHOOT the thieves on sight ?.... not unless you flunked reading comprehension. There has to be some ending to this problem and the Water Patrol can't do it and neither can any other branch of LEO. It's up to dock/boat owners to take necessary steps to protect their property somehow, someway. Knowing the historical inadequacies of the Stone County Prosecutor's office I wouldn't waste my time in taking any surveillance photos or videos to him. Heck, most of us around the Lampe area are ticked-off that one of the two killers that simply walked away from the LUC Boy's Ranch last Winter and brutally beat and stabbed to death the two elderly residents of Trace Hollow was granted a change of venue to Newton County. In other words, people are fed up with crime and lenient treatment of criminals and some aren't going rationalize it away with an "Oh Well" attitude anymore and are not going to simply sit back and put up with it. And Champ, unlike most of your informative, common sense posts that are appreciated by all, your claim that my post added fuel to the fire of the anti-gun nuts was way out of line as I did not advocate shooting anyone, just laughing at a phrase and questioning suggestions that the drudgery of hauling every last piece of equipment out of their boats at night was the ONLY way to stop this thievery. You guys with experience know darn good and well that people with boats on trailers in their own yards or in front of their motel rooms are frequently targeted as was Mr. Babler's expensive trailer hubs at the boat launch parking lot in broad daylight on more than one occasion.

"Lead "em like a duck" ! Yeah buddy ! ROTFLMAO ! Since when has it become unlawful or un-American to protect your property with force ?

As evidenced by a few of the foregoing posts, the libs lost a round.....now let the name calling commence like it always does as they attempt to demonize anyone with a differing opinion. They are so predictable and unable to compromise or recognize and value another's opinion it's hilarious. Their way or the highway !

Here is a link to what MO Lt. Governor Kinder sent yesterday to the Secretary of the Interior. http://twileshare.com/aqpm