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Old 03-28-2013, 03:16 PM   #161
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Happy Easter, and, I'm sure this will make you feel better at work. Just remember, somebody has to work to support my pension.

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Won't be me. Since I work for Uncle Sam, my taxes this year, and the taxes of three other people who make what I do, go to pay my salary for next year.
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Old 03-28-2013, 04:13 PM   #162
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Won't be me. Since I work for Uncle Sam, my taxes this year, and the taxes of three other people who make what I do, go to pay my salary for next year.
No. Your taxes plus 300 others pays your salary plus the office redecorating budget for one congressman.
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Batman doesn't fly into Canada.

But we have Mr. Canoehead.

HAHA! That is great! Its an aluminum canoe too!
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There are several ways to ward off problems when traveling alone:
  1. wasp spray + backup and dash cameras + remote start on the truck. An ounce of prevention.
  2. shave your head, don't shave your armpits, wear sleeveless blouses & stretch your arms above your head frequently, eat garlic and slug sandwiches
  3. go to a thrift store and buy the biggest pair of broken down work boots you can find. Always set them outside the door of your Airstream when sleeping inside. If you leave the Airstream to empty garbage, walk dog, etc., stick your head back inside and yell "Cleatus you lazy bum, could you just once stop cleaning your gun collection long enough to take the dog out/empty the garbage/etc."
  4. Carry a few pet snakes. I once made a Harley rider do a drawer dampening "girl scream" - with a harmless garter snake about 15 inches long!
  5. be careful, but not paranoid. ask for help from forum members about campground selection, and meet up with a few correspondents along the way.
Most of all - IF A PREMONITION does hit you stongly that you're heading into danger... keep driving until you can no longer hear banjo music!

Enjoy safe travels, Paula
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Most of all - IF A PREMONITION does hit you stongly that you're heading into danger... keep driving until you can no longer hear banjo music!
Banjo music is very dangerous! Be careful
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Old 04-04-2013, 05:31 PM   #166
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On the......Eve of Destruction?

I am always intrigued by those contrails that slash across the sky.



Most of them are coming from the west (YVR or Vancouver International Airport) and are headed dead east or north-west. Right now I am parked directly under the old vector known as Green One. Sixty years ago I would have heard the propellers from a Trans-Canada Northstar airliner orchestrate the sky.

But for the past few days I have noticed a new contrail coming from the south-east, headed north-west. The contrail would appear with military precision. Always at the same time and at a very high altitude.

I was telling one of my pilot friends about this. He thought it could be an airliner headed to Japan or China. But when I mentioned "military precision," he believes it could be the USAF. They are deploying anti-missile batteries to Alaska and anywhere else they think North Korea could reach.

Scarey times.

And just when we thought we got rid of that other looney despot.....

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I am always intrigued by those contrails that slash across the sky.



Most of them are coming from the west (YVR or Vancouver International Airport) and are headed dead east or north-west. Right now I am parked directly under the old vector known as Green One. Sixty years ago I would have heard the propellers from a Trans-Canada Northstar airliner orchestrate the sky.

But for the past few days I have noticed a new contrail coming from the south-east, headed north-west. The contrail would appear with military precision. Always at the same time and at a very high altitude.

I was telling one of my pilot friends about this. He thought it could be an airliner headed to Japan or China. But when I mentioned "military precision," he believes it could be the USAF. They are deploying anti-missile batteries to Alaska and anywhere else they think North Korea could reach.

Scarey times.

And just when we thought we got rid of that other looney despot.....

Hi FaN,

I thought you were going "Caesar Chavez" on us for a second.

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JDS, I lump the majority of conspiracy theorists in the same pile of froot loops. This is one of the whackiest! 5% believe exhaust seen in the sky behind airplanes is actually chemicals sprayed by the government for sinister reasons.
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JDS, I lump the majority of conspiracy theorists in the same pile of froot loops. This is one of the whackiest! 5% believe exhaust seen in the sky behind airplanes is actually chemicals sprayed by the government for sinister reasons.
Conspiracy theorists need to learn that, in order to have a conspiracy, the conspirators have to know what they're doing, and take deliberate action. Therefore the government cannot conspire, by definition. Incompetence and conspiracy are mutually exclusive concepts.
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I don't think she was saying that the USAF was laying down some kind of chemical barrier...just that they may be sending military apparatus to points north as a possible defense strategy against any N. Korean shenanigans later. That would not surprise me at all. Did I miss something else?
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Conspiracy theorists need to learn that, in order to have a conspiracy, the conspirators have to know what they're doing, and take deliberate action. Therefore the government cannot conspire, by definition. Incompetence and conspiracy are mutually exclusive concepts.
lol!

Or, government in its excess, is a mass conspiracy of the unproductive, organized against the productive body of the unorganized!
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I don't think she was saying that the USAF was laying down some kind of chemical barrier...just that they may be sending military apparatus to points north as a possible defense strategy against any N. Korean shenanigans later. That would not surprise me at all. Did I miss something else?
Correct.
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I do believe that the government is spreading something in the air!

Why else would we get the idea that we should drive around the continent, towing 8 to 10000 lbs of stuff that you already have at home. Spending all our free time either repairing, updating, or shinning the 'anchor', and we somehow think thats fun? There just has to be a reason for this unusual behavior.



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American Airlines flies from Dallas Ft. Worth to Tokyo - a great circle route shows that flight would go over B.C-Vancouver Island as you describe. And, a scheduled flight would be... scheduled for the same time each day. A military flight goes when it needs to and would likely not be at the same time each day.
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I do believe that the government is spreading something in the air!

Why else would we get the idea that we should drive around the continent, towing 8 to 10000 lbs of stuff that you already have at home. Spending all our free time either repairing, updating, or shinning the 'anchor', and we somehow think thats fun? There just has to be a reason for this unusual behavior.



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Now THAT is some funny stuff right there!
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American Airlines flies from Dallas Ft. Worth to Tokyo - a great circle route shows that flight would go over B.C-Vancouver Island as you describe. And, a scheduled flight would be... scheduled for the same time each day. A military flight goes when it needs to and would likely not be at the same time each day.
Maybe that's where they empty their black water tanks en route?
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Maybe that's where they empty their black water tanks en route?
They have one wicked sense of humour!

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American Airlines flies from Dallas Ft. Worth to Tokyo - a great circle route shows that flight would go over B.C-Vancouver Island as you describe. And, a scheduled flight would be... scheduled for the same time each day. A military flight goes when it needs to and would likely not be at the same time each day.
awwwww.....phooey! I like the idea of the USAF overhead, protecting this little ol' Canadian. I was even starting to watch the clock so I could go outside and wave the red, white, and blue.

Now you're telling me it's just the daily sushi flight from Dallas/Foat Wurth?
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awwwww.....phooey! I like the idea of the USAF overhead, protecting this little ol' Canadian. I was even starting to watch the clock so I could go outside and wave the red, white, and blue.

Now you're telling me it's just the daily sushi flight from Dallas/Foat Wurth?
If you read my post, its actually awwww...pooey.

lol, smiles, olive branch.
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