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I think DeWine has been pretty good as gov, but I won't trust him on gun control. He's screwed up on that one, then had to reverse himself. A whole 'nuther 4 weeks. Crap.

Texas has bluebonnets, we have dandelions. Well, you can eat the greens and blossoms here, and make a bitter coffee with the roots . April 1st - I think we want to go fishing from shore over at a local lake, but it's still early - fish are still deep except for crappie and they love structure. Time to go sit in our beautiful woods.

NY, Cali, oregon..etc... Sanctuary States for Disasters

Yep, went out on me, too - Thanks to Kathy !!!

I think that the Browns would draft Thomas if he's there. I'm sure he won't be. I love the idea of the Browns drafting Simmons. I said elsewhere, Simmons at times, reminds me of watching Jack Lambert back in college. But assuming that Thomas is not going to be there, it seems that Josh Jones is still a great pick there. Biggest reason is, per my stupid mock draft, is that Kyle Dugger is there. I called Dugger a "poor man's Simmons" somewhere. Add to that, Tiam's impressive Jeremy Chinn - will both be there in the second round. So, I think Thomas is gone, and so is Simmons. Therefore - Round one preference: Thomas - primary, Jones - secondary As to the question if Thomas is gone and Simmons fell to the Browns? lol I'd draft Simmons. He is that much a BPA. Then, I'd see if the excellent OT tackle we signed as a FA will flip to LT, and I'd draft an OT for the right side. I think Josh Jones goes in the top twenty at worst, 10-15 at best. With no chance? at Thomas, Jones was my 1st round pick. whatever, It's freaking complicated. LOL If the Browns DID get Simmons in the first round? Ezra Cleveland, as noted elsewhere, going in the last pick of the first in a few mocks..... I really, really like this kid - he probably won't start his first year, but... - the only Division III kid at the Senior Bowl I think it was. Could be a serious gem - third round - https://www.bucsnation.com/2020/2/14/21133729/2020-nfl-draft-prospect-offensive-tackle-ben-bartch There was only one NCAA Division III football player who competed in the Reese’s Senior Bowl and that was offensive tackle Ben Bartch. Bartch attended Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota where he played tight end for his first two years of college before moving to offensive tackle. In his sophomore year, he caught four passes for 43 yards and one touchdown. After switching over to offensive tackle, Bartch started every game for the Johnnies. He was named Second Team All-MIAC as a junior. In his senior year, Bartch was named First Team All-MIAC as well as Second Team AP All-American. Heading into the Senior Bowl, Bartch was an expected day three pick. The 6’6”, 308 pound lineman boosted himself to a top 100 prospect following his week in Mobile, Alabama. He was consistent all week and showed he could compete with the top draft prospects. Bartch will also be participating in the NFL Combine. Steven Montez is running away with the ball and I can’t turn the camera away from Ben Bartch putting Kinlaw down. #SeniorBowl pic.twitter.com/63PsO4rejo — Austin Silvey (@SilveyESP) January 23, 2020 For Tampa Bay, one of the biggest offseason needs is offensive tackle. In many mock drafts, the Bucs are linked to OT Mekhi Bacon from Louisville. Bartch is projected to be selected midway through the 3rd round. If the Bucs decided to wait and select Bartch in the 3rd round, they could get more value that is needed at a different position.

Tucker Carlson Journalist Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American conservative journalist, author and political commentator who has hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News since 2016.

OMG. Kasich did THAT? Sick. I wonder if there are grounds (according to Ohio law) for suing to not be charged to do the subsequent surgery. I lost all respect for kasich, and now I have less. Negative respect ? Less than zero?

back in '69, we decided that we didn't drink, and my best friend's older brother had a friend who went down to Ft. Lauderdale, after graduation, and got into a lot of trouble. We didn't drink, and we decided the three of us would go to the wilderness camping instead. Way, way up into Ontario - a ways past the main road crossed the Mississauga River, down a long dirt road, down a 6 mile jeep trail, to a beautiful lake. We took my Parent's big canoe and went way cross the lake til we found a perfect place to put our camp. Had perfect weather for the entire trip. The stories are priceless. Following a big moose and baby right in front of my 66 Chevy, a bear stepped on our tent three times, sniffing near our heads til he walked away ...it was 3 AM. We got up, restarted the fire and stayed up til dawn. lol. I was diving in 12' of water for some big spoons that spilled out of somebody's tackle box, and a few pieces of crystal clear quartz, but I got bit by a bunch of black flies, and later that evening, I broke out in a rash that stung and itched like hell. All over my body. It got worse the next day, and my friends insisted we had to pack up and quit our vacation days early, but I wouldn't do it. We went to the ranger station, at this little store there - and the Ranger's Wife looked at my rash, and said she had some of that, once, and the old indian out back knew a plant that would fix it. So, back out behind the store was a little old cabin, and this old indian came out, probably in his late eighties, and told us about a plant we could pick right in the area we were camping. So, we go back to camp, they help me pick a bunch of the green leaves of the ground plant, and I sat around the fire crushing them up and rubbing them on my skin. Oh, yeah, they had a field day laughing about that one. Except, wherever I put the juice of the leaves on my skin, the itch stopped in about 20 seconds. and by the next morning, 98% of the rash was gone. Oh, how I have always wanted to know what that plant was. I want to grow it in our woods ! There was something he said about if the plant is flowered, only use the yellow flowered ones, or if it was purple? - it would not help at all. We caught 21-24" northern pike aplenty, none to waste, and ate like kings, with blueberry cobbler, etc. I taught them about eating cattail plants, even cooked up some roots.... Priceless memories.

this is actually concerning. What the heyl excuse is there for this? https://news.yahoo.com/border-patrol-stopped-chinese-biologist-194214726.html Border Patrol Stopped a Chinese Biologist Carrying Viable SARS, MERS Viruses at Detroit Airport in 2018 ******************************* It's time we completely stop trading with the commie chinese.

I felt sorry for LOL LOL LOL, but then read the rest of the article. Now I'm good. LOL

Tiam's Jeremy Chinn? WHAT ? lol lol Actually, Kyle Duggar got picked three picks later in the third round. But he was rated a bit higher. I wasn't far off the mark there. Kinlaw would be a great, great pick. But we signed a DL. You have to love Kinlaw though. I don't see it - unless you relegate Ogunjobi (eventually?) to being in rotation and not a starter. ? BPA would be Kinlaw. But without signing a FA LT... I don't know how good Ezra Cleveland would be at LT vs the speed rushers he'd face in the NFL. My goofy opinion - I will be shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, if Chinn and Duggar fall out of the second round. Interesting mock though. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2020-nfl-draft-kyle-dugger-jeremy-chinn-highlight-small-school-sleepers-who-could-land-in-first-three-rounds/ I'm thinking, if the Browns DID draft Kinlaw (who is surely to be a star in the NFL)... they could draft Chinn/Duggar in the second, and then pick the OT (division III though) in the third round: "Ben Bartch, OT, St. John's The only Division III player at both the Senior Bowl and the combine, Bartch is bound to get drafted and, unlike many lower-level offensive linemen on the NFL radar, he likely won't have to move to guard to play in the pros. At nearly 6-foot-6 and 309 pounds with arms close to 33 inches, he has adequate left tackle length by NFL standards. His film shows a nice blend of technique, nastiness, and anchor in pass protection, all of which probably got the attention of GMs and scouts. Also, while many small-school blockers are devastating in the run game but have a ways to develop in pass protection, Bartch already thrives in the latter area and understands three of the most vital facets of blocking on a pass play -- he sinks his hips to win the leverage battle, he makes initial contact with the defender and routinely resets his hands, which helps him stay balanced. The third round is not out of the question for the Division III stud."

sorry. I wouldn't have said anything, but it looks like we might not make another trip to Hawaii anyways... too many other places to visit... "Shhhhh" beach. lol

they reopened their gutter wet markets - with bats, too. yep. "no new cases in China".... because their tests are faulty. don't work. https://www.theblaze.com/news/back-in-business-chinese-wet-markets-that-unleashed-coronavirus-on-globe-have-re-opened--and-theyre-still-selling-bats

part of what happened is unions with too much power, too much desire to go overboard, just because they could. In the early years of unions - it was an absolute desperate necessity. Fair, decent wages to live on, safe working conditions, fair labor practices... coal miners worked and died in dangerous conditions for pennies a day? Long hours, fired if the worker got sick for a while? etc etc. But in later years, unions workers had really nice wages. And very safe working conditions, treated well, job security. But the unions kept getting more powerful, with more workers and more money from the required dues. In the later years, some unions were hell bent to demand raises for all that weren't fair, job security where a member could not be fired for anything... threats of a strike simply because they had pushed into arrogant and extreme greed levels. And some companies folded. Some moved plants away from the U.S. Sure the companies that were crap hated the unions. Tennessee Ernie Ford even did the old famous song, "Sixteen Tons", about the pitiful existence working for the coal mines. In the early days, I used to go on strike shifts with my Dad. Donuts, hamburgers, a bunch of really great guys with tremendous honor about themselves insisting a detrimental unfair change to their contract, not negotiating in good faith at all. In later years, younger union members, and union leaders - would threaten a strike about the time a lot of them wanted to go on vacation without using their vacation time later. "haha". The big union leaders sometimes became very famous. and corrupt with power and wealth. And even when things were going awesome for the workers - leaving no legit demands unfulfilled .... unions kept coming up with hostile demands every so often. They had to justify their existence. Eventually, that started crashing plants' cost-effectiveness. I saw this happen over the years. In the later years of my career, I subcontracted for the company my Dad retired from. My supervisor had been a staunch union guy for many years, until he saw the greed and the damage done. He told me a lot about it - admitted the union became a monster that destroyed the profit margins that started it's downfall.

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Woody - "two terrible candidates" isn't why Pres Trump won - it was time for the political pendulum to swing back. Pres Trump came to the forefront because of that. It isn't that he is loved and admired and people think he's pretty. He isn't. What he is, is a man I didn't like earlier, who honestly said the things a lot of people believed about our government. Activist judges on the supreme court, all over the place. America first. Our Constitution. and he's kept so many promises already. Biden had eight years of being a no leader. he's a TERRIBLE candidate. Higgardly was completely corrupt and vicious - a TERRIBLE candidate. ObaMao was a terrific candidate - until it was clear he reversed who he was after getting elected - going way far left. Take George Washington - a terrific candidate - but most of his life he was not a man I would have admired at all. But there came a time later in his life, when he accrued great wisdom and strength - like Pres Trump. Not my cup of tea, I called him a circus barker earlier on. Pres Trump is a badly needed candidate. Ben Franklin was an ornery but brilliant cad in his early years. But later in life, he became a great man, as did George Washington. Pres Trump is not a great man - he's being a great president. Keeping his promises we need him to keep is part of the great job he has done. For all of his faults, he IS a leader. Pres Trump is hardly a terrible candidate, Woody. He won the first election. Biden won't win this one.

oh, Jblu - it's tragic that would happen. Remember Jerry Sherk and his close call with staph? I think it was Sherk...and was just a cut on his leg. I have an artificial knee for ...three years. I went to the very best knee replacement expert I could find. He's done thousands by the time he got to mine - and said mine was the second worst he'd ever seen. I'm so sorry to hear that, Jblu. That hurts that that surgeon failed her.

this is really impressive. https://www.theblaze.com/news/abbott_labs_coronavirus_test_breakthrough US company announces a major breakthrough in coronavirus testing: This is a 'GAME CHANGER' Physicians and urgent care clinics will soon be able to test for COVID-19

wait. it's 2149 divided by 125,903 = 0.0170686957419601‬ that's 1.7% However, we haven't yet ascertained the total number of cases, actually. Not all have been tested. the percentage of deaths vs cases. sadder still - that is less than several other countries: https://heavy.com/news/2020/02/coronavirus-covid-19-cases-deaths-updates/ Austria – 68 Belgium – 353 Brazil – 116 Canada – 61 China – 3,300 Denmark – 52 France – 2,314 Germany – 478 Indonesia – 102 Iran – 2,517 Italy – 10,023 Japan – 55 Netherlands – 639 Philippines – 68 Portugal -100 South Korea – 152 Spain – 5,982 Sweden – 102 Switzerland – 271 Turkey – 108 United Kingdom – 1,019 United States – 2,223 (this is nearly a 1,000 death increase in one day) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NOTE: about half of U.S. deaths are from New York. As I posted elsewhere, people are fleeing NY for all sorts of reasons, with the virus being a final straw for many. and they are spreading it.

7 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton's Win Over Donald Trump Is a ... https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson... Oct 28, 2016 · Done Deal Polls, early voting, money, ground game and more point to Hillary Clinton beating Donald Trump. By Robert Schlesinger Managing Editor for Opinion Oct. 28, 2016, at 1:15 p.m.

Exactly !!! I wish I had thought of that. Thanks !

along with pharmaceuticals, etc, you betcha !

yes, yes, everybody knows that. Attribute it to diplomacy. If Pres Trump doesn't say that, then all the left will go Sheply "frightened" because Pres Trump will get us into a war with China over diplomacy. Woody, it's an old saying: "you get more flies with honey than you do with vinegar." it's a life lesson. Most leaders do it to a point.

ALF??? You may have had accidental spillsies of whiskey-spiked root beer into your drink... LOL

but as far as our country goes - Biden's bid is burnt up already, and Cuomo and Bloopberg are driving so many Americans out of the state. It's what big government radical democrats do.