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Do tell? I s'pose I mist this most recent affrontation by the taxists to infringe on my rytes to ware felt upon my feet. I shall rally the militia and defeet this tyrannous attempt of monarchial cobbling! Or I mite just get some new bewts.

Because old flies, like old women, are rarely hot.

Just saw this response. Good to see you back on here, Rat. Haven't seen Kelly in a while. Elway still kinda rubs me the wrong way -- I'll leave it at that. I'm a big fan of Marino as an actor (Ace Ventura, Slimfast). Blackledge -- well, not the best color guy out there but... What about them Chiefs today???

Wow -- that looks like fun. Great that you can get your ladies in on it. My daughter has a big soft heart for animals, and went through a lot of years grumbling about me hunting. She even dabbled in being vegan for a while. She'd never hunt with me growing up, but she will fish with the ol' man if there's nothing else going on. Funniest thing -- she heads off to college and falls in with a couple guys, comes home and tells me she's been going turkey hunting! I bagged a couple pheasant a few weeks ago, and she was even willing to give it a try. Good to have may baby girl back on track!

Oh chit -- Tucker's here. Now there's a redd-plundering, Taney-shuffling, roe-eating, milt-drinking, carbon-emitting, kitten-killing, biscuit-and-gravy-eating, Cheney-loving, SOB you if I ever saw one.

Look -- Brian's a good guy that I've known casually for several years. You've made assertions that he's done some stuff, claim it's all over his blog and Youtube, but you can't show anything but some knucklehead eating roe to support your accusation. That's lame at best, but it's far superior to your argument that he's fishing in spots, at a time of the year, and catching fish with colors that all prove he's fishing redds. C'mon, man!

That's obvious if you've ever seen one of his fly-tying videos.

KA -- tossing out accusations without backing them up is bad form, brother. Brian's one of the good guys.

What Gavin and Brian said. I'd also toss good ol' Clouser and Thunder Creek in the mix. Both are a breeze to tie. I can do a couple Thunder Creeks in the time it takes to watch one of Brian Wise's videos (sorry bout dat BW)

Yep -- I see what you're saying. I hope it doesn't take a major disaster to get this thing moved up the list. But unfortunately, that's the way it works a lot of the time. I had to chuckle when I saw they squeezed a modification to daylight savings time rules in the legislation. Thank gawd we got that issue fixed

OK -- researched it a little. Here's a link to an article about the legislation. Just reading this article gets me riled because it shows how a basically decent idea (incent domestic energy production) can get so muddied up that it ends up a bad law. Energy Policy Act of 2005

I was adding to my post as you were typing... Yeah, I'm not doubting he played a part. But blame should go where blame belongs, and there's plenty to go around. Cheney didn't get to vote (unless there was a tie), much less sign anything into law as VP and/or president of the Senate. Then there's the House. I don't know what caused the exemption either. Was it legislation signed by Bush, or some other process or legal interpretation? Regardless of the details, it's something that clearly needs to get figgered out sooner rather than later. I'll write my Congressman and maybe they can get a new law on the books before Christmas break.

Ahhhhh....so it was Congress. They should have known better. Interesting that Cuomo lifted the ban in NY. Hopefully this will gather steam convince Congress they need to vote for restrictions, pronto.

Yeah, I remember being jazzed when we picked Blackledge in '83. Best QB of the bunch in the draft, by far. BTW, what ever happened to those others -- Elway, Kelly and Marino?

When did Cheney ever get to sign anything into law? And, if I'm not mistaken, he's been gone from Halliburton for a long time. Regardless, I don't doubt the meat of what you're saying.

I want Cowher.

Nice goin' there Bamboozle!

I liked the River Why

Growing up in Independence there were a lot of stories of folks running into Truman. He was a big walker, and strolled around the neighborhood and 'the Square' daily while he could. And this wasn't with a Secret Service detail either. I'll check out that Elliot West book -- I'm interested in the era too. BTW -- the Empire book's not bad, just not great. I came out of it knowing a lot more than I did before I went in. I got used to the hyperbole and just shrugged it off after a while. The book's more about Commanche and plains Indians history, life and culture, and their struggles with the whites. Lotsa bad stuff done on both sides, and it adds a little balance to the story. It's not a Quanah or Cynthia Parker biography.

That's gonna lead to peace, satisfaction, contentment and happiness. The older (and presumably wiser) I get, the more value I place on that stuff.

If I'd have known they would have some value someday, I wouldn't have torn them to shreds in the spokes of my far out Schwinn Orange Krate.

Well, just finished Empire of the Summer Moon. I was a little disappointed overall. For a book that claims to be about Quanah Parker right on the cover, it was surprisingly light on material about him, and mostly all concentrated in the last quarter of the book. I've had Truman sitting on the shelf for years and convinced myself to start it last night. Interesting beginning talking about his ancestors and the border wars. The building I work in sits on a piece of the farm he lived on his first few years before moving to Independence (where I grew up). Lots of familiar places, streets, families mentioned there. McCullough's usually a good read.

Do I spy a fiberglass rod in those pictures? Been thinking about doing one....

Goodun. I kinda feel the same way about the fly tying mags. They're just doing their job trying to keep it interesting with the latest and greatest flies, and there's some value in that I suppose. It's pretty common to want to subscribe when you're starting out new on something -- at one time or another I've subscribed to Fly Fisherman, Fly Tier, Fly Rod and Reel and the Drake. I enjoyed getting them all at first, but the interest kinda waned after a while and I haven't renewed in years. I'll occasionally grab one off the rack and skim it, but it generally confirms that I don't want to buy it. I've given a few of the web-based ones a looksie, but I never got too excited about those either. I say give Fly Tier a try -- either by buying it off the rack or popping for a subscription. Either way you're not out a lot of dough.

Thanks for that recommendation. I've had TR in the back of my mind for some time, since a friend suggested Mornings on Horseback.