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21594. wonkers2 - 4/11/2007 5:19:06 PM

The muskrat industry in Louisiana

21595. wonkers2 - 4/11/2007 5:21:55 PM

jex was born 30 years too late!

21596. jexster - 4/11/2007 5:22:53 PM

Nutria!

21597. jexster - 4/11/2007 5:25:47 PM

Yes as I said..an OLD carpetbag



LA Dept Wildlife and Fisheries
LOUISIANA'S FUR INDUSTRY
At one time, Louisiana was the leading producer of mink and muskrat fur pelts in North America. Fur prices have dropped in recent years, making the time and effort required for trapping less productive and less lucrative. Many coastal resource users have been forced to seek employment in the oil and gas industry and elsewhere and it is questionable whether they will ever return to trapping. During the 2001-2002 trapping season, fewer than 1,000 trapping licenses were sold statewide.


So when's the Big EIGHT OH?

21598. jexster - 4/11/2007 6:22:25 PM

I have this virus I cannot seem to get rid of...HELP!?!?!!?

    Hi jexster,

    We just wanted to let you know that Ralph Deeds has just published a new Hub:

    BOYCOTT DON IMUS?


Anna Nicole for bored Macaca lovers - the PC crowd



I posted this to the MJ Rosenberg (Chosen People) latest gar-bage at TPMC...

    On April 11, 2007 - 11:17am jexster said:
    J. McCutchen

    "The Wire" is the best show on TV...next to the Imus Clusterfc*k

    How tiresome this is. Imus is the most watched show on MSNBC...

    Why do you think that is?

    And does anyone really think that Dan Abrams isn't going to pee when on his return, Imus's share jumps even higher?

    Not yet rated.
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    On April 11, 2007 - 11:47am Andrew Golis said:
    I haven't seen FNL, but The Wire is almost impossibly brilliant.

    Not yet rated.



21599. judithathome - 4/11/2007 8:55:34 PM

Did you close your tags?

21600. jexster - 4/11/2007 10:11:00 PM

I dunno.
Did I?

21601. Magoseph - 4/12/2007 2:25:43 PM

We had only six inches of snow, no big deal for us. The trees on the path leading to the golf course were beautiful with black trunks and every branch blindly white, really a fairy-like scene.

Now that Imus the Sacrificial Old Goat is gone, I hope that his spot is replaced with a program attracting the same political guests he had. I’m an early riser and usually spend the morning hours reading the international newspapers, and communicating with family abroad by telephone or emails. If I hear someone saying something interesting on the Imus show, I move ten feet away to watch the person Live or match the picture to the caller—more often I click the remote’s pause button until I’m ready to watch and listen.

So, did I hear the bad jokes?—sometimes, I did and like everybody else never took them seriously. Now, I’m getting re-educated watching MSNBC. The whole morning seems to be about the Imus incident.

21602. wonkers2 - 4/12/2007 4:03:34 PM

The weather is great in San Francisco. Please arrange for the snow to be melted in Detroit by Monday!

21603. betty - 4/12/2007 5:50:22 PM

We didn't get any snow, it's a freakin' miracle. This small little fact almost made me happy this morning.

21604. judithathome - 4/12/2007 6:51:19 PM

Today is the most beautiful, perfect day of the year thus far...it's an uncloudy sky, very mild tmeperature, light breeze, and the pollen ffrom the past few weeks seems to be gone. All the trees are leafed out and the air feels clean.

Won't last but nice while it's here.

21605. judithathome - 4/12/2007 6:53:14 PM

I awoke this morning to rose petals strewn down the hallway and up onto my bed...sounds romantic, huh? Hardley. And remove the "d" from that last word and you will get the name of the culprit who destroyed the last of my dried roses.

21606. alistairConnor - 4/12/2007 8:40:32 PM

Ah Mago is disappointed, she only got six inches, she was expecting ten...

21607. Magoseph - 4/12/2007 9:13:36 PM

What are you doing getting me to think about impossible deeds, Ali?

21608. alistairConnor - 4/12/2007 9:26:33 PM

Ah it's an old riff but it always makes me smirk.

We have at last got some decent spring weather, in fact the weekend was very nice indeed. If the frosts look like being over, I will plant dahlias and whatnot this weekend. I'll wait a bit longer before planting the potatoes.

21609. alistairConnor - 4/12/2007 9:28:20 PM

I will definitely try that recipe, Jex. Next time I hit a rabbit on the road.

(just kidding. I generally brake and swerve. They are hard to miss at this time of year.)

21610. arkymalarky - 4/13/2007 1:32:44 AM

Our day was gorgeous too, as was yesterday. Tomorrow afternoon is supposed to storm.

21611. thoughtful - 4/13/2007 10:36:37 PM

I'm reading...or rather listening to a book called the devil in the white city about the US's most prolific serial killer. The book is read by one of my favorite readers and it's fascinating. The story (nonfiction) is woven between the killer and the creation and opening of the chicago world's fair in 1892. What an unbelievable achievement. Further it was done at a time when there was incredible talent available including the likes of McKimm & White & St. Gaudens & William Chester French & Frederick Law Olmstead. All pulled together by Daniel Burnham. It also sparked a most massive creation to 'out Eiffel Eiffel' by some unknown fellow named Ferris.



To give you a sense of just how big the original Ferris wheel was, the 2 braces for the axel were 30' apart.

What an impressive achievement, especially when you consider the entire thing was done in less than two years.

21612. judithathome - 4/13/2007 10:39:43 PM

I read that book last year and loved it...have you read Isaac's Storm by the same author?

21613. jexster - 4/14/2007 12:15:54 AM

Take it down to the root cellar JAH


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