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Usually, when the shad start to spawn the hybrids won't be far away. That is usually when the water temps get above 68 F. My best time catching hybrids is after the water gets above 70 F. Cooler temps can hold them, and they can be caught. But, they go into high gear (feeding & breeding) after the water reaches 70 degrees.

They are like most other fish. Their response to a fly, or lure can change with their mood, weather, time of day, time of year, etc. That said, I'll use a pearl sparkleminnow on them 80% of the time...about a sz 6, or 4. But, there are times when they want a topwater fly. Then I use a 4x long, sz 4 hook. I'll use a foam cylindar for the head(front half of the hook shank), estaz for the back half of the hook shank), and a short tail of bucktail...in all white.

He ran on "Hope & Change". I just "Hope" he doesn't try to "Change" this country into a socialist utopia! I better start working a lot more overtime. I'm going to to have a lot of welfare recipients that need part of MY paycheck!

As stated in the description line, I need some mallard drake breast feathers. If anyone hunts, and has any extra... or, if you have more than you need...I have some credits for fly tying tools, materials, and flies that I would be willing to swap someone. Now, I asked for the breast feathers, as the flank feathers are larger than I would like. They are colored the same, but I need the smaller feathers. ...Anyone? Cheers

You just hit the nail on the head, Al!! The technologies are not ready!! BUT, the GW advocates want to tax THIS COUNTRY, right now (through the Kyto Treaty, that we won't sign) for any failure to make a nearly instantaneous switch to those said technologies that are NOT YET READY!! Kinda like a Kangaroo Court! Worse, is the attitude of the "Do as we prescribe...or else, types." The "Chicken Little" attitude is the one where people who believe in GW want to do something...anything...before we know what it is, EXACTLY, that's going on. The Media wanted to put forth that the Artic was melting from GW, but there are scientists that found the undersea volcanic activity was causing the melting. Their words, not mine! (Yes, they went to investigate, as no GW model could account for the excessive melting in that region.) Look, here's a neat little scenario...wasn't it the Eco Libs, in the 60's, and 70's, that wanted nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels. They got what they asked for. Then came 3-Mile Island, and they were the very same ones decrying nuclear power as too dangerous! ???????? They were also the ones who wanted an end to flourocarbon propellants for hair spray(etc), ...to protect the ozone... and got it. The alternative used was...you guessed it...Co2 as the replacement. Wellll...along comes the same crowd NOW saying that we need to do away with that as well. And, there are more examples..however, the point being, they get what they want, and then they don't want what they get!!! I suspect that if they get their windmills, as they have suggested, they are going to be the very same people who decry them as dangerous!! I'm NOT making this up, as there are already those who have been saying that the strobing sunlight reflected off the blades, in the evening, makes them sick. And, there are people who think they are hazardous to birds. There are those who complain about the noise, and reduced property value.... So, how can we win?!?! Give them what they want, you lose, don't give them what they want...WE"RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

"Chicken Little" thought he had to warn everyone of impending doom, too....

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Bait, huh? Sorry, looked more like a typical cookie-cutter rant on the Democrat Underground blogs, or the Huffington Post. My bad!

ACORN stealing Ohio election

Sorry guys but the republicans are not at fault. There are sources that abound relating how G. Bush had pushed for tighter regulation of Fan & Fred, at the prompting of Alan Greenspan...way back in '01. I have posted YouTube video of a C-Span covered investigative commitee, of Fan & Fred. The Dems that chaired that commitee were raging about the repubicans being on a witch hunt. They insisted that NOTHING was wrong with these two mortgage companies. They lavished praise on Frank Raines for his fantasic work there. Funny, they were handing out indictments for people like Ken Lay of Enron, and gloating how he would "get his" in prison from a fellow inmate named "Spike". Funny, but I think that if F & F were thhe responsiblity of the Republicans, there would be hearings out the wazoo. And, since Frank Raines was appointed by Bill Clinton, there is ZERO outrage at how he lined his pockets to the tune of 100 million dollars. Where is the ourage? Where are the hearings, and investigations? Where are the allegations of the GREED of Frank Raines. After all, he's just a greedy CEO who got rich while the poor are booted out of their homes. At least...that's how it would be portrayed if the Republicans were behind this. But, it's a Democrat debacle, and so, there will be as little said about F & F as is possible. In fact, we are doing it now! All the blame is being heaped upon the private finacial institutions such as AIG. They took a fall because they bought packages of loans from F & F. Other insitutions did as well. That's where ALL of this started. It's where IT SHOULD END!!! At the feet of the Democrats in Congress!! Bush attempted Fan & Fred reform dozens of times. Dems would NOT listen! Barney Frank 'Fesses Up on Financial Crisis September 23, 2008 10:35 AM ET | Sam Dealey Over the past few weeks I've been skeptical of claims by Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, that he's been a consistent and leading voice for reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored home-lending giants whose fall is the immediate cause of the current financial turmoil. The Massachusetts Democrat and I went at it here and here and here. Now, finally, Frank acknowledges that he dismissed ample warnings about Fannie and Freddie shenanigans five years ago. The Real Culprits In This Meltdown By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 Big Government: Barack Obama and Democrats blame the historic financial turmoil on the market. But if it's dysfunctional, Democrats during the Clinton years are a prime reason for it Obama in a statement yesterday blamed the shocking new round of subprime-related bankruptcies on the free-market system, and specifically the "trickle-down" economics of the Bush administration, which he tried to gig opponent John McCain for wanting to extend. But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street's most revered institutions. Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties. The untold story in this whole national crisis is that President Clinton put on steroids the Community Reinvestment Act*, a well-intended Carter-era law designed to encourage minority homeownership. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but "predatory." Yes, the market was fueled by greed and overleveraging in the secondary market for subprimes, vis-a-vis mortgaged-backed securities traded on Wall Street. But the seed was planted in the '90s by Clinton and his social engineers. They were the political catalyst behind this slow-motion financial train wreck. And it was the Clinton administration that mismanaged the quasi-governmental agencies that over the decades have come to manage the real estate market in America. As soon as Clinton crony Franklin Delano Raines took the helm in 1999 at Fannie Mae, for example, he used it as his personal piggy bank, looting it for a total of almost $100 million in compensation by the time he left in early 2005 under an ethical cloud. Other Clinton cronies, including Janet Reno aide Jamie Gorelick, padded their pockets to the tune of another $75 million. Raines was accused of overstating earnings and shifting losses so he and other senior executives could earn big bonuses. In the end, Fannie had to pay a record $400 million civil fine for SEC and other violations, while also agreeing as part of a settlement to make changes in its accounting procedures and ways of managing risk. But it was too little, too late. Raines had reportedly steered Fannie Mae business to subprime giant Countrywide Financial, which was saved from bankruptcy by Bank of America. At the same time, the Clinton administration was pushing Fannie and her brother Freddie Mac to buy more mortgages from low-income households. The Clinton-era corruption, combined with unprecedented catering to affordable-housing lobbyists, resulted in today's nationalization of both Fannie and Freddie, a move that is expected to cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. And the worst is far from over. By the time it is, we'll all be paying for Clinton's social experiment, one that Obama hopes to trump with a whole new round of meddling in the housing and jobs markets. In fact, the social experiment Obama has planned could dwarf both the Great Society and New Deal in size and scope. There's a political root cause to this mess that we ignore at our peril. If we blame the wrong culprits, we'll learn the wrong lessons. And taxpayers will be on the hook for even larger bailouts down the road. But the government-can-do-no-wrong crowd just doesn't get it. They won't acknowledge the law of unintended consequences from well-meaning, if misguided, acts. Obama and Democrats on the Hill think even more regulation and more interference in the market will solve the problem their policies helped cause. For now, unarmed by the historic record, conventional wisdom is buying into their blame-business-first rhetoric and bigger-government solutions. While government arguably has a role in helping low-income folks buy a home, Clinton went overboard by strong-arming lenders with tougher and tougher regulations, which only led to lenders taking on hundreds of billions in subprime bilge. Market failure? Hardly. Once again, this crisis has government's fingerprints all over it. *In the original version of this editorial, the Community Reinvestment Act was mistakenly listed as the "Community Redevelopment Act".

I think that's the Illinois strain. We have them here, that size, every year. I eat piazza with hot sauce, a lot. So, they don't live very long if they try lunchin on me!!

ELECTION Day this year may bring the kind of chaos you expect from a category-five hurricane - with radical groups sending the nation into a protracted legal battle even worse than the mess back in 2000. To prevent it, we must act now. Developments in several states create the possibility that the 2008 vote could result in "Election Month," rather than Election Day. Court rulings on various absentee-voting procedures - along with early voting and other new forms of balloting - open the door to widespread abuses that could undermine the election. The possibility of voter fraud or voting irregularities on a massive scale could provide a multistate repeat of Florida 2000. A perfect example is Ohio. Last Monday the Ohio Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, interpreted Ohio law to allow for people to register to vote and cast an absentee ballot on the same day. (As the three dissenters noted, this directly contradicts Ohio's Constitution, which requires that a person register to vote 30 days in advance of actually casting that vote. But the Ohio Supreme Court is the last word on Ohio state law.) So now the Obama campaign is using buses to take tens of thousands of people to go register and cast same-day votes. Some media reports say that the Obama camp hopes to get hundreds of thousands of votes this way. Ohio decided the election in 2004, and may do it again this year. President Bush won the state by 118,000 votes - just over 10 votes per precinct. Flip just 60,000 votes, and we'd be in the middle of President John Kerry's re-election contest. Enter ACORN, a group notorious for its extremist approach to pushing "social change." Criminal investigations of ACORN personnel for felony voter fraud are under way or completed in about a dozen states, with multiple indictments and even convictions. Sen. Barack Obama's record of working with ACORN dates back to before he ever ran for office, and continues today. His campaign has channeled more than $800,000 into ACORN's political-action arm for election activities. This relationship alone deserves far more scrutiny than it has gotten so far. With ACORN and similar groups flooding swing states like Ohio with teams of operatives, there is a possibility for voter fraud on a scale never before seen in this country. (ACORN alone has perhaps 100,000 members in 50 US cities.) As a nation, we must act now, before Election Day, to prevent voter fraud. If we don't, we could again enter December still fighting about who the next president will be. Imagine Florida-style litigation going on in multiple states, with countless disputes about who is a legal resident and where their ballot was cast, and you'll see what we could be facing. The key is to closely scrutinize all of these activities beforehand - so that we do not find ourselves in a chaotic situation after the polls close. The right to vote is a fundamental right. It is violated when a qualified voter is denied his or her vote - and also when a legal vote is canceled out by an illegal vote. Voter fraud is a crime against democracy itself, because voting is the only means by which the people choose those who govern them - and hold them accountable. The voting process therefore deserves the most stringent protections to make sure that every legal vote is counted, and that only legal votes are counted. Authorities must act quickly to safeguard the integrity of the voting process before Nov 4. Ken Blackwell is a former Ohio secretary of state and a fellow at the American Civil Rights Union. Ken Klukowski is a policy consultant and legal analyst from Indiana.

Nope..not a ridiculous comparison. A PERFECT comparison! It's exactlly true. If you look at Fanny Mae & Freddie Mac, you will see that comparison. Many Senators like, Maxine Waters, Gregory Meeks, Lacy Clay & Barney Frank, that were essentially saying that low income people DESERVED to have home loans. Ummm...why??? If they can't afford it, they can't afford it. Rent is the correct assessment. If you think about it. FannyM & FreddyM, were TOTALLY uneccessary. If these people were to think that renting is beneath owning a home...what are they doing now that their homes are repossessed??!?!? Let's say it together now..."DUUUUHHH"!!

People can be blinded by greed, lust, political PARTISANSHIP, hatred...any number of things. But, faith is rather low on the list of things to be blinded by...in my book, anyway.

Just a few quotes by the Founders... There are MANY more, but I think you get the idea. Disrespect some one in government for the use of he word God, or thier particular use of it...and you disrespect the people who founded this country and wrote our Constitution...no less. And this one seems stragely prophetic... Yup...those be some fightin words, there. Hope this dirty religious talk ain't sceeerin nobody!