Are you ready? I think this is gonna be a rough couple years.

[OldSchool]

In 'trying' to stay on topic: I'm not worried about the next couple years. I mean after all we've been through and miraculously survived.... lol about "miraculously" .... we have a way of taking the hand we've been dealt and living to tell the story.

 

[elkhound]

I like them, you just have to cook them right
I like eggplants too but they don't grow well here

you use free software and cook alien turnips...you are a closet communist....roflmao

just picking on you this morning....make ya laugh or smile since ya dog is not well...that sucks...hope he gets better.

i am breeding up a sweet corn and i am going to put it in open seed source thing so a corp cant patent it....eventually....i may be called a liberal conservative communist....lol...its a sugary enhanced heirloom.

 

[Pearl]

Folks, let's just agree to disagree.

If you need help activating the ignore member software, let me know.

That's my new "go to" button! I'm even thinking about making "ignore" stickers to put on people I'm face to face with!

 

[elkhound]

That's my new "go to" button! I'm even thinking about making "ignore" stickers to put on people I'm face to face with!

you going to look funny floating with them stuck on ya noggin in that pool.


make them colorful so be like my little pony band aids !

 

[Mountain trapper]

Evidence of climate change is all around us. Hottest years ever recorded. Floods in North Carolina. Fires in California, all off the norm.

Climate change is real. I don't think anyone disputes that. It's been changing since the beginning of time. The world has gone through many ice ages. It's common to find fossils of palm trees in Antarctica. While drilling for oil on the north slope every now and then they drill through tree trunks a couple miles down. Sea shells can be found on top of mountains in places. I once ownd a gold mine that had an ancient river channel way above any current creeks. Fires are normal in the west, which includes California. In just the last few years right around our property over 600,000 acres burned. It doesn't get any press because it's not California and no houses burned.
Every year the weather and conditions are a little different. Floods, fires, heat and cold will always be slightly different from place to place and year to year.
As our population continues to grow, more and more people are building in places where they probably shouldn't be building.
I think it's pretty obvious that nothing that Man can do will affect the climate in any way. Or stop the flooding or stop the wild fires. We just have to learn to live with it.

 

[Pearl]

you going to look funny floating with them stuck on ya noggin in that pool.


make them colorful so be like my little pony band aids !

I would stick them on people in the store. I'd have to get out at red lights to stick them on people's cars! Heck, Hubby would probably have a few stuck on him, lol!! FYI, I'm heading for the pool float right now!! Cold front is coming early, beer at 11:15 am!

 

[OldSchool]

Climate change is real. I don't think anyone disputes that. It's been changing since the beginning of time. The world has gone through many ice ages. It's common to find fossils of palm trees in Antarctica. While drilling for oil on the north slope every now and then they drill through tree trunks a couple miles down. Sea shells can be found on top of mountains in places. I once ownd a gold mine that had an ancient river channel way above any current creeks. Fires are normal in the west, which includes California. In just the last few years right around our property over 600,000 acres burned. It doesn't get any press because it's not California and no houses burned.
Every year the weather and conditions are a little different. Floods, fires, heat and cold will always be slightly different from place to place and year to year.
As our population continues to grow, more and more people are building in places where they probably shouldn't be building.
I think it's pretty obvious that nothing that Man can do will affect the climate in any way. Or stop the flooding or stop the wild fires. We just have to learn to live with it.

Did you read my mind and put it to better words than I could have?

I mean I get that the underlying meaning is: It's not Mans fault and changing our underwear won't fix it.

 

[Mountain trapper]

While pouring a fresh cup of coffee, I counted the coffee wife has stored up.
The mid size plastic "cans", they are 28 oz. I can see 14 of those, no telling how many others she has. Those are only the ones out in the open.

That should be enough for at least a year, so I'd say we are ready for what life throws at us for a while.

Silly question, does coffee still come in metal cans?

 

[UrbanHunter]

I think that a lot of people are very nervous right now and that may account for the tone of some of the posts. I guess it's fun watching your neighbor get their butt kicked by the mob, until they come to your door. We shouldn't be to quick to judge everyone as this or that. In the end this is the start of something that will swing between the extremes every 4 years and puts everyone at risk. We should all be working together to figure out what we can do to protect our families as things start happening around us.

I feel sorry for the Federal Employees who are not politically motivated, the GS10- GS13s ($50,000 to $115,00 per year) who have no say in the politics but wanted a steady job to support their families. These are mostly accountants and manager types with degrees in accounting, engineering, or project management who's job is just to execute the orders from above. These people are the ones being told that they are toilet paper and that decades of service no longer has any value. It is just like when GM and Ford decide to close plants, the employees are let go, then the local suppliers close, then the foreclosure rates go up, grocery stores close, and the city starts to look like a ghetto. The goal is to remove 80% or 1.8 million of these employees and they are scattered across all 50 states. At some point this will impact all of us and we need to be ready for it.

Sorry, I got on a soapbox by mistake.

 

[SLADE]

Silly question, does coffee still come in metal cans?

It does but they have fake tops.

 

[Hooch]

Please explain your reply. I don’t get news from forums, and the fact that I am concerned about my account numbers and personally identifiable information being in unauthorized hands isn’t unreasonable. You aren’t concerned about your information being handled by young men who may or may not share it with whomever? The do have the data, no one is contesting that. The group that took it may be very bright, but are they trustworthy? One was fired from an internship for sharing proprietary information with a competing company.
Actually, this is the only “forum” that I have monitored.

It seems a tad ironic to me... that you have said your concerned with I'd theft issues, SSN numbers n whatnot.

The most likely people who are stealing, or buying ...the stolen ID information are the illegal criminal people who are working in the Ag fields or construction etc to which you attempting to somehow justify that workforce should somehow be givin a pass to deportation because those areas would suffer labor shortages making food more expensive etc..

I'm not a person without compassion ..I recognize a need for this countries immigration system to be updated so good hardworking folks from other countries can try for a better life.

However, after decades of mismanaged loose borders..Americans cannot afford to float millions of people who do not belong here.

Americans need to take care of our own first..fix our issues and then it will be more reasonable to ask American taxpayers to open the doors towards compassion to non Americans seeking a better future.

If folks like yourself want to sponsor a foreign person ..you pay for it.. vet that they are not criminals in their origional country, pay for all that paperwork ..house them, give them jobs and medical care on your dime if you choose.

In the meantime..there are millions of Americans loosing their jobs who I bet would be willing and able to work the fields, construction and doing laundry n cleaning in hospitals if it meant that or becoming homeless. It might not be what they went to college for but so what. High schoolers can get out in the fields too ..call it work experience and gym class.

 

[rice paddy daddy]

Silly question, does coffee still come in metal cans?

Certain brands do. My Cafe du Monde and French Market New Orleans coffees do, as does Bustello Cuban coffee from Miami. There are others as well.
What used to be one pound cans now are 13 oz, some are 11 oz.

I'm a coffeeholic.

 

[montanabill]

I like them, you just have to cook them right
I like eggplants too but they don't grow well here

Just trying to inject s little levity...We have grown kolrabi and everything from tobbaccoo to ashwaganda....Altho for sheer eatability and storability in a corner for 8 months nothing beats spaghetti squash for us......

 

[montanabill]

I just got a email from JASE the antibiotic and other medicine supplier. They re talking about interruptions in shipping and things since 80% of medicines come from china.

 

[Amish Heart]

You should be ashamed of yourself.

I'm not