ExiledInIllinois

Okay... Since I responded to @BringBackFergy...I will respond to this. Some of the best smallie fishing in the world is done here in Chicago by the lock. Smallmouth like "stucture"... It's nothing but structure here, concrete floor, sheet piling/metal cells... I-beams... You can walk the barges in an see the huge smallmouth that lurk below in the cyrstal clear zebra mussel filtered water This was caught last May... Right at lock gates, notice sector (lock) gates in background. It's off limits to fishing except for the chosen few thay attemp to do "research" fishing... LoL... Wink Wink... To think... 40 years ago, nothing but sludge worms could live in this "industrial wasteland" and land of SuperFund sites. Bald eagles are here roosting and staying year round:

FakeNews©! GRASS CARP. They have been in all the Lakes except Superior since mid-1990s. It's amazing what stories and misinformation can be spread to push a political agenda. There are 4 species: Black Grass Silver Big Head Silver (the ones that jump) and big head... Are the ones they are worried about. Please don't be a low-information reader and just read headlines...

With these old battleaxe Republican election judges in Will county? No way a dead person and illegal alien is allowed to vote in my Republican collar county precinct. These election judge ladies fought the Battle of the Bulge... Nothing is slipping by them... Especially a Snowflake Democrat trying to vote twice. This is Deplorable Central, blue firewall country. It just didn't bend Trump as much as Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, & Pennsylvania because the Deplorable country element win out. 6% is NOT a landslide. Gary Johnson plucked off a whopping 4% and Jill Stein, 1.5%. There's your race or it would have been a landslide or if Trump was a decent human being, a dead heat. Hillary barely got 50%, in some of the deepest Blue of Will County (Joliet, etc...). Many people who couldn't vote for Trump went Johnson. It's a dead heat. This considering... Populist Trump ALMOST flipped me towards The Basket©. I never voted for a Republican in my life. Ever. I was that close, but my moral compass, what ever little was left of it for Clinton, prevailed. The results are showing with the mass corruption a businessman brings to politics. My #1 reason not breaking from ranks behind the Blue Firewall was that businessmen in politics bring even more corruption. It's showing. Sorry to get political... You can have last word. That's the situation here. The old stereotype are fun, but simply don't hold. Again, I am Will County, not Cook... There is very little Purple Buffer zone here. I know it's confusing for outsiders... Especially, Coastals to understand.

About 20 years ago I worked with a guy... He was telling me how he took a family vacation to S.California from Chicago in 1960... To visit his Brother that was in the service. Anyway... Riding in the family station wagon, he could see the door molding melting in the sun as they were driving through Arizona. Vehicles have come a long way!

Of course there is a surge: "The port of entry that connects Tijuana to San Diego, the country's busiest border crossing, will allow only 20 migrants to claim asylum a day beginning Friday, a Mexican government official said Friday. Prior to the policy change, Customs and Border Patrol officers had processed up to 100 individuals a day. The capacity reduction — known in immigration circles as "metering" — came the same day that the Trump administration implemented its "Migrant Protection Protocol," a sweeping policy change that forces asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they await their U.S. immigration court hearings. Prior to the policy change, asylum seekers waited in the United States, either behind bars or non-detained but monitored..." https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tijuana-port-of-entry-san-ysidro-allows-20-immigrants-claim-asylum-immigration-advocates-2019-01-25/

You know how thick that ice is? Pretty damn thick. LoL... Out on the bay, doesn't look too far out. My sister lives in the Burlington area. Shelburne is pretty pricey...$$$ that was an $85,000 2019 Model X out tooling around on the ice.

@mead107 @Gugny Hope You Guys got your sh.. together! You know, I believe, you have to mark ALL your ice fishing equipment, shanties, Tesla Model X's, etc... With your contact information: ❤️ M+G ❤️ TLF/BFF '19 So when spring comes and your pig sty that you left behind, your winter fun/love fest on ice, sinks or floats into the water... You two polluting clowns can be traced by the Vermont Enviro Nazis & their "attorney to the stars" @BringBackFergy

Trump whines.

Was a great moderator, even if nobody realized it.

We had the one... How you act on Christmas Eve is how you will act all coming year. Not sure why that is not New Year's Eve? Also: Bury silver (silver dollar) in backyard on New Year's (if you can dig in frozen ground). That way you will have money all year. /smh Funny thing, my mom would forget where she buried the prior year's silver. LoL... There's probably about 40 bucks (she passed away in 1999) around the house where we grew up... My Brother still owns it. I should get a metal detector. Oh... Just thinking of another one. Cover mirrors in house between Noon & 3pm on Good Friday. My grandmother, mother, and inlaws (inlaws still do it) did that..

Don't even ask... LMAO... I am probably borderline OCD. Seems like I have a new ritual everyday. I guess those really aren't superstitions. Just freaking whacked out habits.

Ramsey Lewis used to host the morning show on 95.5FM, WNUA... "Smooth Jazz" out of Chicago.

Just to be a contrarian, show my oppositional disorder: Arrested Development (original run)  That show jumped the shark! /smh

Just to be a contrarian, show my oppositional disorder: Happy Days. That show was cancelled TOO SOON! /smh

Want to lose weight? Break through weight loss plateau... Here's how to get your body into ketosis eating eggs: "Egg Fast" https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/egg-fast

All I heard was: I watched the whole thing many times... What did she say?

I think you need to correct that to: Selectively permeable. Like GORE-TEX®. Right? Am I in the right ballpark? Now... Go easy on Me! No need to get snarky. Just throwing it out there. ?

I think there is a "K" station in Pittsburgh & another on in NYC? But don't quote me on in it until "WikiFacts @BringBackFergy " peer-reviews what I just said. Also checks it with his barrister algorithm @ Lawyer.com. ?

LoL... @Blokestradamus do you act like this: @Gugny... You a fan of Oasis? Gotta be, you're a Beatles dude???

I have my suspicion about @Gugny ... ...But that's okay... The stranger the better but only done by Merseyside groups. ?

Too funny. I should actually do that. I get sick of people asking how my emails are colored red. I actually do similar. The ones that look important get flagged read... That moves them to the top of the inbox. I mark them all as read so it doesn't say the number... LoL...

Thanks! At least you're honest about it. I respect that.

Yet... You love a poached egg dripping with hollandaise sauce. Go figure? /rolling_my_eyes

They want me to disable private (incognito) mode to read link. Why? ?