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Re: Re: Re: Re: I might have forgotten to tell you your answer.
Myrrhage,
I spent the summer that I graduated from High School, 19mumble3, much of the time working as the other end of a shovel, (the dumb end) on Mott Island right across from the lodge on Isle Royale! That's where I developed my appreciation for the finer points of, and taste for beer! Playing cards with the Finns half of the night, swapping lies and drinking beer, waking up in the middle of the night, stumbling outside, choosing a new spot to puke, AHHHH! Great memories! Then they shot JFK, and ruined everything.
Guy
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northsage_45
on January 10, 2009 at 8:52 PM
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Re: Re: Re: I might have forgotten to tell you your answer.
Oh yes, I've been past Calumet, on our way to the ferry heading over to Isle Royale. At the time I was dating a French boy who did fabulous moose impressions whilst trying to explain to my parents that he had seen one (he didn't speak English). If only I'd had a Camcorder! Sort of like Dances with Wolves meets Napolean: Dances with Moose.
Anyway, I don't think I held onto all my sanity after dealing with the music. It's fun in small doses, but ACK it can grate on you.
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myrrhage
on January 10, 2009 at 10:18 AM
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Re: Re: I might have forgotten to tell you your answer.
Myrrhage,
Back in the mid-sixties, I lived in a tiny little burg in the Keewanaw Peninsula, called Laurium. It is within spittin' distance of Calumet. Now I live in the Saginaw Bay area, in "The web-o'-the mitt. The UP is beautiful, but I think that one should have to show a passport to visit it. It really seems like a foreign country. If you don't like both kinds of music, (Polka & Country) you had better be deaf! That way, you won't go CRAZY!
Guy
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northsage_45
on January 9, 2009 at 11:19 AM
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I might have asked you this before, but what part of the UP do you live in? I lived in Marquette for about 10 years, beautiful place.
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myrrhage
on January 9, 2009 at 7:31 AM
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Guy, this was quite informative and makes a lot of sense. My husband doesn't believe in statistics - and they are losing credibility with me, too - mainly because they never tell all sides of the story.
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myrrhage
on January 9, 2009 at 7:30 AM
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Re: My magic number.
Sam,
I only need eight more reads and I will top 3,000. That only should take another week or two. GASP! I know that it is only a number, and doesn't really mean ANYTHING, to anybody but me. Maybe I am really Adrian Monk's long-lost brother. Long-lost and much better looking brother, I should have said! Damn!
Guy
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northsage_45
on January 9, 2009 at 6:53 AM
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Couldn't have said it better myself!
Most people overstress themselves worrying about what they're doing wrong, what they're eating wrong, if they're not exercising, is it any wonder depression and anxiety are rampant? What's the cure? Take a pill for the rest of your life. If you fail to take it one day, you may just become suicidally depressed or violently aggressive-but it's the best that we can offer you. Well, not really, but the only one that you'll have to keep paying us for or else deal with the consequences I mentioned. Be warned, if you do realize that there is something better, we may just have to lock you up for trying it. Great post!
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calia14
on January 9, 2009 at 5:43 AM
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I think stress is a big problem for health! Entertaining as always! Did you get your number yet? sam
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sam444
on January 9, 2009 at 5:18 AM
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Big Phama wants money and they will sell anything for that! Tobacco is good or you! Chief Rolling Thunder made that clear! I support him. Cigarettes now have too many non-tobacco ingredients. The big cartel wants to kill you, not addict you~! To improve things, grow your own food and prepare it yourself! These genetic engineering people are into too many things. You hear about it after they've been in it for years. No processed food! Evil is when you have to depend on another for an input into your daily life! This is what the Zionists are doing! Kick their axxes!
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Soul_Builder101
on January 8, 2009 at 11:20 PM
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I believe, like you said, that stress causes most ailments.
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hazel_st_cricket
on January 8, 2009 at 5:26 PM
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Re: Why smoke? Because I stupidly BEGAN! Slippery slope, time.
Sinome,
I agree with you that opiates and cocaine are truly evil drugs, but that is where the regulation part of government, needs to step in. If one has a physical need for an illicit drug like one, or probably BOTH of those, managed and medically controlled dosages can prolong lives to very close to normal length, and make it unnecessary to rob people and live a socially irresponsible life of crime, like buglary or embezzlement, just to be able to feel normal for a short time. Like censorship, the most logical and instinctive answers to problems as thorny as this, always do more harm than what is being fought, with draconian measures. Every family member of an addict suffers right along with them. Marriages and families are the first victims of addiction. The addict doesn't think that it is a problem, until after it is too late to stop. Pharmaceuticals are also often extremely addictive, and are increasingly becoming abused by our youth. If decriminalized, addiction can be treated as the medical and psychological problem that it is, instead of being treated like a crime. The crime comes when good people are segregated among career criminals, and feel poorly treated and become bitter outcasts of society. Robbing people at gunpoint doesn't seem so bad, in a case like that, where the addict has lost everything, except the drug habit.
Guy
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northsage_45
on January 8, 2009 at 11:45 AM
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Re: Now that you have solved the world's problems, what will you think about
Benzinha,
I think that I finally got your name right. I am really awful with names, in case you didn't know. I have been a smoker since JFK was president, starting right after high school. Never as much as three packs a day, (!) but I'd bet that my lungs still must look like two lumps of coal! I know that I must quit smoking (tobacco) while I am still young and handsome, or I will wind up with skin that also looks like old saddle-bag leather. I guess that I don't have any "won't power." Don't worry about me running out of things to think about, until after my upcoming stroke. After that, all bets are off. "Gallows humor," they call that around here. Pretty graphic and all too true, if my life continues as it has, up 'til now.
By the way, I don't think that it is possible for anyone to agree with me, too often, me being a sage and all! Ha! Ha!
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on January 8, 2009 at 11:16 AM
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Guy, I don't know about the legalization of the now criminalized drugs... Some are addiction wise harmless enough ... like pot, but health wise they are not without side effects since they are packed full of carcinogens... many more than the cigarettes we now smoke. I have seen in my work the result of hard drug addiction and they are so terribly devastating that I think to tell people : "Hey, do as you please" would be as irresponsible as taking the warning signs off the bottles of poison. Perhaps the answer lies somewhere in between. Instead of incarceration for addicts I would provide treatment... but the sellers, the ones that profit from human misery should be held accountable... though I am sure they already are at some level of cosmic justice. You are right in that not all that smoke die of it and many die and never have smoked... Truthfully we all will die sooner or later... but its the quality of our life that matters and the manner of our death... is also , or should be, important to us. Minimizing the chances of a terrible painful suffocating death from lung cancer is not a bad thing so if one knows cigarettes could possibly produce that consequence... my question to you is why smoke then? Its like running really fast through a fire... you might catch of fire and yet you might not... but why would you even do it? Anyway... Excellent thought provoking post my friend...
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Sinome
on January 8, 2009 at 11:08 AM
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Now that you have solved the world's problems, what will you think about
today??
The drug companies are having tooo much fun spending our hard earned money spent on their overpriced drugs, by their spending it frivolously on t.v. ads designed to make us see our world as diseased and infected and bacteria filled, to scare us into requesting more drugs, which we are buying.
I remember when a child, I almost never went to the doctor unless I burned my hand on a BBQ grill or needed stitches to sew my face back together. We were six kids and never went to the doctors. My daughter drags herself, her kids and her husband to doctors every month of every year, if not more often. Silly.............expensive. Foolishness.
And all drugs on Earth should be legalized. LIke you said, anything else is just stupid and cruel law making.
Gosh, I agree with you too often, I fear. You are a hunter and a smoker and I agree with so much. heh heh heh....I must be getting early dementia.
Addicted since 11 years of age and a three pack a day person in my youth, I quit one million times and finally really quit with Welbutrin. Dunno its cigarette addiction stopping name, and I used a smaller dose than they gave me, but it made addiction, addiction, disappear, something that I had thought impossible. Impossible.
Felt my lungs shift from real working lungs to ineffectual bladders of air at age 46........should have stopped at 40, I guess.
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benzinha
on January 8, 2009 at 9:27 AM
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