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  1. 10 hours ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

    I grew up in red wing. Prairie Island was directly across the high bridge. Drinking age in Minnesota was 19. 18 in Wisconsin. The Indians always had the best frosting and booze was cheap. They’d run shit up the Mississippi and the res was one staging point. The late “70’s was the mean season for all colors of mind expansion 

    That certainly explains a lot.

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    After my recent Prostate Exam, which was one of the most thorough, long lasting ones I've ever had, the Doctor left and the nurse came in.
     
    As she shut the door, she asked me a question I didn't want to hear... 
    She said...."Who Was That guy?"
     
  3. JERUSALEM-Capital of Israel

     
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      And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years;
    seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty-three years reigned he in Jerusalem.

    (I Kings 2:11)


    With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Jerusalem became once more the capital of a sovereign Jewish state. Throughout the millennia of its existence, Jerusalem has never been the capital of any other sovereign nation.

    Jerusalem has stood at the center of the Jewish people's national and spiritual life since King David made it the capital of his kingdom in 1003 BCE. The city remained the capital of the Davidic dynasty for 400 years, until the kingdom was conquered by the Babylonians. Following the return from the Babylonian exile in 538 BCE, Jerusalem again served as the capital of the Jewish people in its land for the next five and a half centuries.

    The Christian link with Jerusalem is essentially a religious one. Except for the short-lived Crusader kingdom, it has not assumed political or secular connotations. During the six centuries of Roman and Byzantine rule, Caesarea, not Jerusalem, was the capital.

    During Muslim rule over the city, whether Arab or non-Arab, Jerusalem was never made the political capital of a Muslim entity or even a province within the Muslim empire. Under Muslim Arab rule (638 - 1099) by the Umayyad, the Abbasid and the Fatamid caliphs, Jerusalem was ruled from Damascus, Baghdad and Cairo respectively. In the eighth century, the city of Ramia was made the capital of the district which embraced Jerusalem.

    During the period of Mamluk rule (1250- 1516), the Land was ruled from Damascus; in Ottoman times (1517 - 1917), from Constantinople.

    Under British rule (1922-1948), Jerusalem was the seat of the High Commissioner and most administrative offices of the Mandate, as well as of the central institutions of the growing Jewish community.

    From 1948 to 1967, Jerusalem was a city divided as a result of a war thrust upon her. For nineteen years, concrete walls and barbed wire sealed off one part of the city from the other. Its eastern section, including the Old City, was annexed by Jordan, and ruled from its capital, Amman. The western sector of Jerusalem became Israel's capital.

    Following another war in June 1967, Jerusalem was reunited. The barriers dividing the city were demolished, the gates of the Old City were opened to people of all faiths, and the eastern sector was reintegrated into the nation's capital.

    In July 1980 the Knesset passed the Basic Law - Jerusalem, which restated Israel's rights and obligations concerning the capital. The Law affirmed that the holy places of all religions be protected from desecration, free access to them be guaranteed, and the Government provide for the development and the prosperity of the city and the well-being of its inhabitants.

  4. How easy folks forget the Facts:

     

    David Harris, Contributor
    AJC Chief Executive Officer, Edward and Sandra Meyer Office of the CEO

    Ten Basic Facts about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    12/25/2017 05:13 pm ET

    In all the discussion about this decades-long conflict and the quest for a solution, some basic facts are too often missing, neglected, downplayed, or skewed.

    Not only does this do a disservice to history, but it also contributes to prolonging the conflict by perpetuating false assumptions and mistaken notions.

    Consider:

    Fact #1: There could have been a two-state solution as early as 1947. That’s precisely what the UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) proposed, recognizing the presence of two peoples – and two nationalisms – in a territory governed temporarily by the United Kingdom. And the UN General Assembly decisively endorsed the UNSCOP proposal. The Jewish side pragmatically accepted the plan, but the Arab world categorically rejected it.

    Fact #2: When Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, it extended the hand of friendship to its Arab neighbors, as clearly evidenced by its founding documents and statements. That offer, too, was spurned. Instead, five Arab armies declared war on the fledgling Jewish state, seeking its total destruction. Despite vastly outnumbering the Jews and possessing superior military arsenals, they failed in their quest.

    Fact #3: Until 1967, the eastern part of Jerusalem and the entire West Bank were in the hands of Jordan, not Israel. Had the Arab world wished, an independent Palestinian state, with its capital in Jerusalem, could have been established at any time. Not only did this not happen, but there is no record of it ever having been discussed. To the contrary, Jordan annexed the territory, seeking full and permanent control. It proceeded to treat Jerusalem as a backwater, while denying Jews any access to Jewish holy sites in the Old City and destroying the synagogues there. Meanwhile, Gaza was under Egyptian military rule. Again, there was no talk of sovereignty for the Palestinians there, either.

    Fact #4: In May 1967, the Egyptian and Syrian governments repeatedly threatened to annihilate Israel, as these countries demanded that UN peacekeeping forces be withdrawn from the region. Moreover, Israeli shipping lanes to its southern port of Eilat were blocked, and Arab troops were deployed to front-line positions. The Six-Day War was the outcome, a war that Israel won. Coming into possession of the Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, and eastern Jerusalem, Israel extended feelers to its Arab neighbors, via third parties, seeking a “land for peace” formula. The Arab response came back on September 1, 1967, from Khartoum, Sudan, where the Arab League nations were meeting. The message was unmistakable: “No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with Israel.” Yet another opportunity to end the conflict had come and gone.

    Fact #5: In November 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat broke with the Arab rejectionist consensus. He traveled to the Israeli capital of Jerusalem to meet with Israeli leaders and address Israel’s parliament and speak of peace. Two years later, underscoring the lengths to which Israel was prepared to go to end the conflict, a deal was reached, in which Israel – led, notably, by a right-wing government– yielded the vast Sinai Peninsula, with its strategic depth, oil deposits, settlements, and air bases, in exchange for the promise of a new era in relations with the Arab world’s leading country. In 1981, Sadat was slain by the Muslim Brotherhood for his alleged perfidy, but his legacy of peace with Israel, thankfully, has endured.

     

    Fact #6: In September 1993, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) reached an agreement, known as the Oslo Accords, offering hope for peace on that front as well, but eight months later, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat confirmed the suspicions of many that he was not honest, when he was caught on tape in a Johannesburg mosque asserting that this agreement was nothing more than a temporary truce until final victory.

    Fact #7: In 1994, Jordan’s King Hussein, following in the footsteps of Egyptian President Sadat, reached an agreement with Israel, again demonstrating Israel’s readiness for peace – and willingness to make territorial sacrifices when sincere Arab leaders come forward.

    Fact #8: In 2000-1, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, leading a left-of-center government and supported by the Clinton administration, offered a groundbreaking two-state arrangement to Arafat, including a bold compromise on Jerusalem. Not only did the Palestinian leader reject the offer, but he shockingly told Clinton that Jews had never had any historical connection to Jerusalem, gave no counter-offer, and triggered a new wave of Palestinian violence that led to more than 1,000 Israeli fatalities (proportionately equivalent to 40,000 Americans).

    Fact #9: In 2008, three years after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon unilaterally withdrew all Israeli soldiers and settlers from Gaza, only to see Hamas seize control and destroy another chance for coexistence, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert went even further than Barak in extending an olive branch to the Palestinian Authority. He offered a still more generous two-state proposal, but got no formal response from Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat’s successor. A Palestinian negotiator subsequently acknowledged in the media that the Israeli plan would have given his side the equivalent of 100 percent of the disputed lands under discussion.

    Fact #10: At the request of the Obama administration, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a ten-month freeze on settlement-building in 2010, as a good-faith gesture to lure the Palestinians back to the table. Regrettably, it failed. The Palestinians didn’t show up. Instead, they have continued to this day their strategy of incitement; attempts to bypass Israel – and face-to-face talks – by going to international organizations instead; denial of the age-old Jewish link to Jerusalem and, by extension, the region; and lifetime financial support for captured terrorists and the families of suicide bombers.

    Isn’t it high time to draw some obvious conclusions from these facts, recognize the many lost opportunities to reach a settlement because of a consistent “no” from one side, and call on the Palestinians to start saying “yes” for a change?

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    The graduate with a science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
    The graduate with an engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
    The graduate with an accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"
    The graduate with an Liberal arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
  6. 1 hour ago, racer254 said:

    I can't remember if the DNR introduced these back in the late 80's or not.

    I have an old Birds of Wisconsin book, Turkeys were only in 2 places when the book was released, Central Wisconsin and Walworth County had a few Turkeys.

  7. 3 hours ago, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot said:

    I raise about a dozen turkeys a year for family/friends around Thanksgiving. Dogs love turkey shit, yumyums! Never had an issue .....

     

    I lost 1 dog about 4 years ago and the bar owner down the road lost 1 of his dogs, the lab tests done on their Livers showed it was Turkey poop which caused both deaths, so I don't know what to believe.

  8. 1 hour ago, Woodtick said:

    The amount of turkey in northern Wi and the UP is nuts. They must be fuckng like rabbits the last few years.

    Yup, I have bird feeders strung 12 feet off the ground, frick'in Turkey's are everywhere in my yard, my Vet says Dogs can die if they eat Turkey poop.

  9. Posted

    A couple of us local retired guys were asked to address a middle school gathering put on by the PTA. As luck would have it, I was the only speaker to show up, so I had the stage to myself.
     
    I talked about staying in school, getting good grades and all that usual bullshit, and, since I had plenty of time because those other guys didn't show, I threw it open for questions. The last one asked was, "Can you give us a couple of your life's philosophical beliefs?”
     
    I said, “That’s an easy one. Looking back over my 6-plus decades, I believe I've spent close to 90 percent of my earnings on booze and whores. The rest I just wasted.”
     
    The two rules to live by are:
     
    1) If it flies, floats, or f-cks, it’s cheaper to rent it!  
     
     
    2) If it’s got tits or tires, you’re gonna have problems with it.
     
    I was escorted out. I doubt they'll invite me back next year. I don't know why? Kids need to know this stuff.
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     I read that 4,153,237 people got married last year. Not to cause any trouble, but shouldn't that be an even number?
     
     I find it ironic that the colors red, white, and blue stand for freedom, until they are flashing behind you.
     
     When wearing a bikini, women reveal 90% of their body. Men are so polite they only look at the covered parts.
     
     Relationships are a lot like algebra. Have you ever looked at your X and wondered Y?
     
     America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won’t cross the street to vote.
     
     You know that tingly little feeling you get when you think you're falling in love with someone? That's your common sense leaving your body.
     
     My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.
     
     I think my neighbor is stalking me as she's been Googling my name on her computer. I saw it through my telescope last night.
     
     Money talks ... but all mine ever says is good-bye.
     
     You're not fat, you're just easier to see.
     
     If you think nobody cares whether you're alive, try missing a couple of payments.
     
     I always wondered what the job application is like at Hooters. Do they just give you a bra and say, "Here, fill this out?.”
     
     Can’t understand why women are OK that JC Penny has an older women's clothing line named, "Sag Harbor".
     
     Denny's has a slogan, "If it's your birthday, the meal is on us." If you're in Denny's and it's your birthday, your life sucks!
     
     The location of your mailbox shows you how far away from your house you can go in a robe before you start looking like a mental patient.
     
     I think it's pretty cool how Chinese people made a language entirely out of tattoos.
     
     Money can’t buy happiness, but it keeps the kids in touch!
     
     The reason Mayberry was so peaceful and quiet was because nobody was married. Andy, Aunt Bea, Barney, Floyd, Howard, Goober, Gomer, Sam, Earnest T Bass, Helen, Thelma Lou, Clara and, of course, Opie, were all single. The only married person was Otis and he stayed drunk.
     
  11. 6 minutes ago, Jet said:

    My grandfather was in the infantry in the Philippines during ww2. My father was born in 1942 and my grandfather never even seen him until he was 5 years old because he was in the war. 

    Ofcourse they had a terrible time over there dealing with starvation, disease, malaria,etc.. 

    like most, he didn't talk about it, quite a few pictures posing by shot down enemy air craft and the natives that helped them survive and fight the japs. After the war you didn't go near him when he was sleeping. 

    He had some army buddy's from the war days come looking for him in the 80's not realizing he had been killed in a rail road accident in the 70's. They gave us some pretty knarly details of what was experienced fighting the japs and it wasn't good and that would explain wh

    i doubt anyone wanted to nuke the mainland but it was the quickest way to get them to surrender.

     

    local vfw only has 3 ww 2 vets left alive today, interestingly one of them is a Bataan death march survivor

    oh and around gramps you didn't throw food away, I suppose between the depression and the war he figured you could clean your plate..

    also, he did buy a brand new 69 scorpion sled with a Sachs motor in it. I believe those engines were made in Germany. 

    I'm left to assume that it wasn't the country or the people that a vet might not like but more so the leadership.

    as far as the bombs go, Japan leaders Knew they were gonna lose. They sacrificed there loved ones and we saved ours. There is no other way to look at it  Imo. 

    We were gonna keep nuking them until they did surrender.. that I do believe. So they got off easy with just 2 

     

    My dad used to wait for us kids to finish eating then take the bones from our plates and chew off whatever was left, depression era must have been really bad.

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    A recent article in the San Francisco Examiner reported that Nancy Pelosi has sued Stanford Hospital, saying that "after her husband had surgery there, he lost all interest in sex".
     
    A hospital spokesman replied: "Your husband was admitted for cataract surgery. All we did was correct his eyesight.”
     
  13. 10 hours ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

    For the individual with no police, hunting, or military background with necessary documentation...yes you do. 

    Not in this State, open carry has always been Legal, exception is convicted Felons.