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I do need to set my email alerts. Wow I can't believe this discussion hasn't been shut down yet. I would love to submit a rebuttal Ken but I have been up to my neck here on the homestead replacing all the temporary infrastructure with something more permanent. Wood sheds and greenhouses and broiler coops and the like. Whipped up a few quickies to get us through the first few years and now its time to rebuild. Coupled with harvesting summer crops and replanting winter crops I am not left with a lot of time. I am sure you can understand. So here's hoping things don't degrade and the thread gets shut down but I will get back to you. I love a good debate and looking forward to sharing some points with you and learning a thing or two. Oh and I would like to point that yes I have been on the NASA website many times. Still as glossy as ever. As I have said I was once a believer too. Can I ask what parts of the video I submitted for forum review did you agree or disagree with and why? PS Agree to disagree was my polite way of saying I am really rather busy and don't see any point in carrying this any further at the present time. But if you bare with me and my busy schedule I will be glad to engage as soon as I can.

It's funny how both sides can find flaws in the other. And that's where one needs to start thinking for themselves. So it all comes down to who believes who. I won't deny climate change it happens all the time. I don't know anyone who does deny it. I will be skeptical of human caused global warming though. My decision and a lot of other peoples on this matter goes far beyond science. I see the political and money driven reasons to promote global warming. The money being raked in by environment groups is truly staggering. How about the government funding of such a popular subject as this. I can't call it climate change. Like I said climate change happens all the time and as far as I know from my years in school and every book or documentary I have read or watched has told me this. As you may have guessed I am no scientist. So like most people in the world we have to believe someone who is. And we should take the info in from all sides, digest it and make a decision. As far as I can tell it's just a theory. A thin one, at least until absolute proof that the whole world can see and understand not computer generated graphs and cherry pick stats. And I am talking about both sides here not just one.. History shows huge amounts of climate change long before fossil fuels were being exploited for human gain. Several times over as a matter of fact. Colossal changes. Volcanoes in Russia that spewed fo over 1500 years straight. Ice ages lots of them. Floods and droughts that lasted for years and years. To think all that ended when man showed up is a rather hard one to swallow. Sorry but as a non-scientist I have to take what I have been taught and use good old common sense instead. It just seems rather vain of mankind to think we could alter an entire world climate in just 100 years or less. Especially propping the whole theory on C02, a gas that we are still taught to this day is necessary to all life on the planet. Give me a definitive date that we will all die and the planet will overflow, and fire will consume the land, stick to it and stop moving the goal posts when it doesn't happen and I promise as I cower in a cave and my toes start to burn I will repent. Until then let us agree to disagree.

One could ask where the IPCC gets their data. They don't like to share either. Where does anyone's data come from? I would suggest Tim Ball's come from 48 yrs of study and research in climatology, climate history, and meteorology. Drawing from historical writings and recent findings alike. He actually did a huge study on Art and it's depiction of climate through history. Plus all the years he spent in the arctic with the Canadian armed forces. Spending immense amount of time with aboriginals and the Inuit people. Ones who have a good idea of the way things are supposed to be. It takes more than computer modeling to make a thesis. If one took the time to read his books and or watch the clip I posted you would get a bigger picture of his knowledge. Similar in length to a slowly smoked Partagas Lusitania. A recent study I embarked upon. I have no data to back it up though, so perhaps it's best to see for one's self. I am not exactly sure what science community you speak of but if it includes Bill Nye or David Suzuki then yah he doesn't really require their respect anyhow. There are enough real scientists that could back him up. Funny enough it was David Suzuki who cleared my head and changed my views. I lapped the drivel and barked the rhetoric until I watched him say the climate debate is basically closed anyone who doesn't believe in Global warming should go to prison. I think Al Gore and Bill Nye and Neil Degrasse Tyson all said similar things also. Yah, I don't know. But things like that make me say, " what"? Where does a scientist or anyone in a democratic society or any society for that matter have the right to tell me if I don't believe what they believe I will go to jail? Of course, it made me look into things. And I was quite surprised by what I found. In the religion of climate change I am a proud dissident. And like any religion you risk condemnation when you turn your back on the flock. But, whatever. As long as I am free to think for myself I will do my best to do just that.

A little bit of brain food. Read a few of his books and other work. Pretty interesting I think. Do with as you see fit. Sorry if it starts half way through.

Been wearing a citizen slim eco drive for over a decade now. There's no night light on it and one needs to keep up on daylight savings time and the dates and such but I have never changed batteries or needed to wind it once. Nice and slim and been around the block a few times and considering the hell I put most things through it has been one of my most soundest investments. Since I took up farming and homesteading I don't wear it much anymore. Chickens don't care about things like that. But once in a while the Citizen and the Sendras go stepping out. Only bitch I have is that I got the leather band and have had too replace it twice now. Bt I dig it so much that $30 every five years is small potatoes. I think it was 180 Canuck bucks. Ten or eleven years ago mind you don't know what they would be worth now.

Oh jeez. What don't we make at home? Spent the last few months harvesting and canning. Peaches,apple sauce, pasta sauces, peach and berry jams, apple chutneys and pie fillings and a few others as they ripen.Blanching beans, broccoli, celery, collards and other veggies of that nature. Just filled the freezers with a pig and 30 chickens. Been dehydrating all our herbs and fruit stuff too. The wife makes all our hand soap and my shaving soap, plus we make all our own lard(chicken and pork) You haven't lived till you've had chicken lard and garlic mashed potatoes, oh my! It's funny. The whole thing started as a challenge for ourselves to eat better and cheaper when our first son arrived. Then it became an obsession almost and now it's just second nature. Our grocery bill including toilet paper ,coffee, and laundry detergent is less than $100 at Costco every two weeks. And we are planning to lower that again this year. I now just google it before I buy it and nine times out of ten there is a recipe for whatever i'm looking for. It sounds busy but farming and homeschooling my two boys is my full time job now and I am digging it.

I agree two things I wont tolerate from an employer is disrespect and a bounced paycheque. If either happens once I am gone. Kicked a boss in the nuts for calling me stupid once. It was construction in the 80's mind you. It was on a Friday and he called me on Saturday to see if I was still showing up on Monday. Worked for him off and on for ten years and he never called me stupid ever again. Life is too short for such bullshite.

The only NC I find I enjoy are Quorum Coronas. A buck a stick and have never really let me down. I am not a strong cigar fan no matter where they come from NC or CC. What little taste buds I have can't handle the stress. I generally go milder and pick up way more flavour. Which is sort of to bad and good because I am finding most of my two year old CC's are no where old enough for me to enjoy. But way more tolerable than when they were just of the truck. So I sit there longingly but at the same time I am learning a thing or two about patience. That's a good thing.... right?

picky people starve whether you you say you can or you cannot, your right F$%K It life's to short for this sh*t If you can't baffle 'em with bullsh*t , dazzle 'em with your footwork

I nurse about a 1/2 bowl of pipe tobacco a day and smoke about 1 petit corona a week maybe these days. Spring summer and fall are just too busy and winter is too cold.

Ok I'm back from camping! Good time had by all poured rain so hard last night that we threw the tent in the dumpster on the way out. Ten years of service from a $160 Costco special it seemed fitting. The zipper was broke anyway Thanks for waiting Ken. So fill us in please......

Can you wait till I get back from camping on Tuesday? I really don't want to miss any of this. The other guys will understand.

Me two!!

My mood booster.

Oh my, here we go. Let the opinions begin! 2 yrs into CC's myself and still asking the same questions. Cap'n Quint is right just get some samplers. And maybe try buying the boxes that Prez says no need to lay down. Right now I have been on a journey of aging and sampling and man oh man does aging make a difference with a lot of cigars. Most of mine are hitting the two year mark and still need time. There are guys who have been at this for a looong time and know way more than I do by infinity plus one, and they will mostly say taste is subjective and the only way to find out is to try everything out there and then some. Buy from a reputable source that you can trust, you'll know who when you see him. And all I can honestly say is aging for me makes or breaks it and that is a patience game I am playing, I also know once you go full CC you can never really go back. Oh yah buy a bigger humidor than you expect you will need. Trust me on this one.

They are the notes on a piano. I bet it's an aspiring musician just trying to make the world a happier place.

Nope not quite but I used to have an old double barrel 12 gauge with a bakelite stock. Long gone now though.

80 years of anal beads?!?!! Were the first ones made of bakelite? I had no idea. I am such a prude. Wonder if it's anything like The Starbucks Pumpkin Spiced Chai? Perhaps it was the inspiration.

As soon as I saw the title of the post my first thoughts were my old No sleep 'til Hammersmith from the 80's. I wore it to death. Just the way Lemmy would of wanted it.

I was reminded it's my birthday which is cool but the best part is one my best lifelong friends is coming with his family to visit for a couple days. I haven't seen him in a good 5 yrs so there will be a lot of catching up to do. He will be bringing me a bottle of his favourite scotch. Plus my nephew gifted me a 2006 Cohiba something or other at the last family reunion so its either smoke that or a custom Salamone. Not sure which to choose. I know, I will smoke both. It is my birthday after all.

6 boxes PSP please email sent to Di !!!!!!!

You might say I could be envious of people who can afford that sort of thing. And I bet I am but.... The guy said it was worth at least 12 Subaru Outbacks. I did the math and its worth 500 of my 91 Volvo 240s. Which when I have a wheelbarrow strapped to the roof probably turns a lot of heads also. Mostly because the tie down straps vibrate in the wind and it sounds like a 1920's cropduster flying down the road. Almost deafening at 90kmph. The trunk in mine will hold a tonne of fishing gear, tools and animal feed bags by the way. Put two apple trees in it once with a cherry tree draping the back seat. And trust me that old Volvo has been in a lot of places it should never have been. I may be jealous but I sure do love my Volvo.

Back on topic with a short story. Four years ago sitting on the roof of a nearly completed Kentucky Fried Chicken. I had been gently nudged into running the crew and subtrades that built it. Not to stressful been through a lot worse, but was recently hired on with this company and they were testing me I guess. I spent the last 15 years building my career working 16 hr days, 7 days a week tirelessly. Working my way up to site foreman and well on my way to site super for the general contractor of multi million dollar commercial jobs. Shopping malls and giant box stores etc. Always high pressure and crazy deadlines and such. Anyway great view up there and me and one of the roofers were shooting the hay and I happened to complain about needing to get back out of town and start making some real money. All work would be out of town though and if I went back with the company I had previously worked for there would be times I wouldn't come home for a month at a time. I was weighing the options and wondering how the wife would feel about it but I really wanted to just go and make the money. He turned and looked at me and said, "Man, your kids will never remember the money you made" And then I remembered why I left that company and bought the acreage with my wife and kids. Well, I finished up the KFC and asked for a layoff and went home and started farming. I haven't looked back with a single regret. Times get tough but who cares. I crunched the numbers and with my wife working 4 days a week and then with us growing most of what we eat our bills are less than ever. We raise enough pork and chicken including eggs to feed ourselves and a few other families which pays for us to basically eat for free. What more could a guy ask for. I see my boys (6 and 4) everyday all day and I love it. Maybe some day I will go get a "real job" as most people call it but I stay just busy enough being a house husband and farmer to keep me happy. So I say take your time put your feet up and relax. Your family will thank you for it plus the cigars are so much better when you take the time to think about them.

Me too. Messes me up everytime. Also, concerning the last post debate. I would like to point out that not only do you have just the red dot feature but if you go to the right under the users name and click on the time the last thread was posted it will take you there also. Comes in handy when you wish to re-read a post you have already read.

The times are so angry these days. I can feel it everywhere, anger, hate, and fear. The news is filled with it. I feel terrible for anyone affected by this pointless act and, feel equally sorry for anyone trying to bring up kids right in this strange new world we share.