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Congress(man?) Barney Frank

Called Supreme Court Justice Scalia a homophobe this week (not sure why and don't really care).

I think that's just gay

Pun intended. See t-shirt to right.

AIG bonuses

While the $165 million in AIG bonuses is certainly an outrage the real outrage should be on how much money our government is spending on bailing out AIG and others.

AIG received $170 billion has in bailout money.

To put that in perspective the $165 million in bonuses is only 1/10th of 1 percent of the total amount of tax dollars given to AIG.

.1%!

The other outrage should be that the President and Sen. Dodd, who were some of first the people screaming about the bonuses, are the very ones who put the language in the stimulus bill that allowed for the bonuses to happen!

At first, Dodd denied it:

On Tuesday, Dodd told FOX News that he didn't add the exemption.

"When the language went to the conference and came back, there was different language," he said then. "I can tell you this much, when my language left the Senate, it did not include it. When it came back, it did."

Then he admitted that he did add the exemption but that the President's Treasury officials forced him to do it:
In a dramatic reversal Wednesday, Sen. Chris Dodd confessed to adding language to a spending cap in the stimulus bill last month that specifically excluded executive bonuses included in contracts signed before the bill's passage. Dodd, D-Conn., told FOX News that Treasury officials forced him to make the change.

The orchestrated outrage about the bonuses is, IMO, a smoke screen or distraction to keep the taxpayers from realizing what they REALLY should be outraged about: the fact that our leaders have acted recklessly, irresponsibly and quite possibly corruptly.

Scientists Claim Earth Is Undergoing Natural Climate Shift

Don't these scientists know the debate on Global Warming is over according to the Goreacle?

For the article on the silly Scientists click here

Obama Fingers

This has to be a joke . . . doesn't it?

Full article here

God help us

“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.” --
Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

. . . like nationalizing health care?
. . . like spending obscene amounts of money and increasing the size of government more than anyone thought possible?
. . . like allowing congress to pass a $410 Billion dollar earmark bill after campaigning against all earmarks?

Good grief.

Burning Cities?

For anyone slightly unnerved by the latest end of the world prediction you might want to read this

I haven't read much of this guys writings but thought he hit some good points here.

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Poker Report

When not fishing we played quite a bit of 4 handed poker. We mostly played sng's but take a look at this rare hand from a cash game of 5 card draw.

Never seen three full houses at once in draw with only 4 people playing. It ended up being a pretty decent pot to say the least. Glad I folded. (click on the picture to enlarge)

Fishing Report

Ice fishing on Lake of the Woods was pretty good. We caught about 50 walleye/sauger between four of us the first day and kept 14 of them. Day 2 was much slower but we still ended up with 5 or 6 keepers. That's me and my Dad with the first days catch.

The place we went out of was called the Sportsmans Lodge which is about 12 miles North of Baudette. Pretty nice.