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Left arm gone clean up to the elbow.....................Amos Moses

Got an education this weekend while on a little genealogy trip. Landed in Charleston, WV Friday 29 about 5:00pm. Drove down I-64 about 45 minutes. Decided to go check out a cemetery in a little town called Pax before we went on in to the motel at Beckley. Within about five minutes, we had trees dropped across the road in front of us and behind us. We were without power at our motel for the next three days, people were lined up for miles trying to get gas. Stores and parking lots were empty........what a mess. Reminded me of some dooms day movie where the town gets deserted. Just google Derecho and you can see just how lucky we were and how much devestation this little bugger did this weekend. I have pictures, but this is the first motel we have been in since Friday that had internet service and all services up and running. We are in Richmond Va.

I remember I was 8 years old. Not sure if any of you tried this as a kid, but, I would stick a match in the end of my BB gun and shoot the match at the wall of our house. Those matches back then would ignite on impact. I caught our dry bermuda grass lawn on fire........wow what an idiot......lucky the garden hose was right there. I got two whoppins.......one for burning the lawn and putting our house in danger of burning down and the other for putting an object in the barrel of my BB gun.

Keep bumping it up, that is a sweet gun.......fun gun......

How about them bears.........awesome pics all the way around great looking cat......lots of fun........

Congrats to the cats...............way to go...........

Unfettered......wow, such terminology........interesting read thanks for red flagging it for us.

Great big bull in the velvet on the side of the road late last night.....woke me up for the rest of the drive home.....need some rain to help those antlers grow

Incredible how fast they put it back on....I am always amazed no matter how many timed I see it....thanks for the pics

Location, location, location......and time..............good luck out there..............

I had to laugh when I heard this story the other day, check it out.....bear interrupts graduation ceremony..... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153063/Bear-graduation-Bear-interrupts-graduation-California-elementary-school.html

So did the lion trigger the camera or that fast moving monster very unique pictuure for sure............

Great write up and what looks like some dang fun fishin.....

This has gotta be salt in the wound today......one game away from the college world series....go cats..........

Great peek a boo picture by the little guy in the tree. that sounds like a fun trip in.

Cool pics for sure.......

One thing I remember after we moved to New Mexico in 63. We came from Cotton City, up through Silver City, Cliff, Glenwood. Glenwood was always a picnic stop. That changed after my mom discovered that there was water cress growing in the creek off the side of the road just north of Glenwood, so then we stopped along there and ate lunch and collected water cress. I didn't eat the stuff but mom and dad loved it. Stopping at the tackle shop in Alpine was the greatest. Herb always treated us like we were the only people he had to wait on and he always had a huge selection of fishing lures and flies. Worms were always the bait of choice so dad would pull over next to a meadow full of cows. I think it was on the Big Lake road from Alpine. We would start turning cow pies over and take a scoop with the shovel to reveal worms. Dad built a summer home in Alpine mid 70's. We made a habit of fishing Big Lake in the evenings after work. The road dropping into Three Forks we nick named slickery hill. Any time it got rained on that road was a challenge going up or down. Dad took care of a church camp by Buffalo Crossing, it is called Brentwood. We spent many days there testing water, fixing the pump and chasing chipmunks. I miss those days and my dad............but this mountain has been one of the best places to spend time.........lots of great memories.

Good deal. I enjoyed the read.............................

???? Got something you need to get off your chest?????

Bill, I don't go back quite that far. My mom says that I got sunburned at 4 months old in 1960 when we were camping down at Diamond Rock. She claims she was positive she kept moving me into the shade but well, we all know how that AZ sun can catch you. I do recall many more deer than elk and the only time we ever really got to see elk was on the fishing trip to Reservation lake. That is a good read, thanks.........

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Politics doesn't kill my desire to help or serve the concepts of wildlife management. It kills my desire to dump my money into something that may not represent what I really believe. If I donate time to a project I know exactly what got done and why, if I send money into an organization/politics.....I don't know whos pockets are benefiting.

I know this will catch alot of double LL but I figure it will stir the pot for some fun bantering. Our family has a friend that is graduating high school this year and headed to U of A. I told my wife I could make her a present extraordinair. My ASU grad son has promised retrobution, but just give me time and I will come up with the devil night light.

WASHINGTON: More than a million Chinese counterfeit electronic parts are estimated to be in use in US military aircraft, according to a US Senate report released Monday saying the discovery jeopardises safety and national security. The Senate Armed Services Committee said its year-long investigation launched by Democratic chairman Carl Levin and ranking Republican John McCain uncovered 1,800 cases of bogus parts, including on the US Air Force’s largest cargo plane, special operations helicopters and Navy surveillance planes. The 112-page report “outlines how this flood of counterfeit parts, overwhelmingly from China, threatens national security, the safety of our troops and American jobs,” Levin said. “It underscores China’s failure to police the blatant market in counterfeit parts — a failure China should rectify.” The report also said the Chinese government denied visas to committee staff to travel to the Asian giant as part of the committee’s probe, with a Chinese embassy official saying the issue was sensitive and that a negative report could end up “damaging” US-China relations. While the senators laid the blame squarely on China, the report said US authorities and contract companies contributed to the vulnerabilities to the defense supply chain by not detecting the fakes, or routinely failing to report suspected counterfeiting to the military. “The failure of a single electronic part can leave a soldier, sailor, airman or Marine vulnerable at the worst possible time,” the report said. “Unfortunately, a flood of counterfeit electronic parts has made it a lot harder to prevent that from happening.” The fakes included parts in the Electromagnetic Interference Filters used in night missions and in operation of “hellfire” missiles on SH-60B Navy helicopters. The were also found in memory chips in the display systems of C-17 Globemaster III and C-130J military cargo planes, and refurbished ice detection modules on the Navy P-8A Poseidon, modified Boeing 737 aircraft incorporated with anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare capabilities. The report said the Defense Department “lacks knowledge of the scope and impact of counterfeit parts on critical defense systems,” and that the use of unvetted independent distributors for the supply of critical military parts results in unacceptable risks to national security and safety. Comments (2) Share this article Print this page Email a friend Related Stories 01 May 2012Pakistan placed on US top copyrights pirates list: Report 05 May 2012US military orders troops to fall in line after misconduct Not to hijack the thread but heard about this on the radio today....pretty disturbing news and a blatant example of what ails our country right now.