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Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 4249
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 - 11:30 pm: |    |
Fire keepers ? Thanks |
Flanders_field
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Username: Flanders_field
Post Number: 1844
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 - 11:47 pm: | |
quote:OK, I'm back from the frozen north.
Pics?
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Gazhekwe
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Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 2982
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 9:10 am: | |
I'm sorry, I'm camera-challenged. I wish I could have gotten a picture of the icebreaker though, because everyone was asking me about that. |
Lilpup
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Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 5415
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 11:11 am: | |
The Locks are set to open next Wednesday and the Welland on the 31st. The cutters need to get ahead of the game to keep ships moving. |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19571
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 11:49 pm: | |
Never been to a kibbutz, heard about them though, an awful and failed small scale social experiment. |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8739
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 - 8:40 am: | |
ah, your ignorance is showing big-time bats |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19610
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 - 3:53 pm: | |
Sigh...another comment without any argument in favor of your conclusion. |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 400
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 - 4:59 pm: | |
C'mon Mr. Batson! Please do not interpret every post as a personal invitation to comment. It looks like you zipped down the line and commented on 15+ threads today alone.
I started what I thought was a simple post about a cool satellite photo, and it seems you felt the need to add over fifteen posts, most of which have nothing to do with Lake Superior almost freezing over.
I, for one, appreciate your thoughtful comments on a variety of topics. But I'm asking to please stay (mostly) on topic and perhaps pick and choose which threads on which to post. |
Islandman
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Username: Islandman
Post Number: 2010
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 - 5:00 pm: | |
Good luck with that.  |
Gazhekwe
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Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 3004
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 - 5:05 pm: | |
A dog can have too many fleas for its comfort. I guess the Earth can be infested with too many humans as well. |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8744
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 7:53 am: | |
"Sigh...another comment without any argument in favor of your conclusion."
funny, considering it was made about yet another of your comments that clearly shows your ignorance and makes claims YOU do nothing to support
don't worry Gaz, earth will shake us off like a bad case of fleas eventually |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19633
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 5:11 pm: | |
Compelling arguments (mine) are the support that you are missing Rb |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8755
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 9:17 am: | |
Anyone here compelled by bats' "arguments"?
not including, of course, compelled to laughter
(btw bats, your baseless one-liners are argumentative, but they are NOT arguments. best you learn the difference) |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19658
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 5:55 pm: | |
An example of these alleged non arguments of mine please Rb? |
Gazhekwe
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Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 3010
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 8:41 pm: | |
Back to Lake Superior, you guys. The locks opened at 12:01 am this morning. Here is a nice article about it that discusses shipping ups and downs.
The Soo Locks reopen at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. The Coast Guard has had three ice cutters working on the ice in the northern lakes (plus one brought in from Maine for work in the far eastern reaches of the Great Lakes system). The Algostar is expected to be the first boat through the Soo, upward bound and arriving to lock up sometime during the day, bound for Thunder Bay, Ontario, carrying fuel. Major ice-cutting duties aside, though, this may well be a down season for shipping, unless stimulus money kicks in well enough to get domestic steel mills running full blast. But even without iron ore moving from the western end of Lake Superior to steel mills in the lower lakes, there’s regular traffic, especially in coal to fire up a lot of the electricity-generating plants around the Great Lakes.....
http://www.freep.com/article/2 0090324/BLOG2501/90324052/1068 /opinion/Shipping+unlocked |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8762
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 8:17 am: | |
just read any of your posts, Bats.
work on demolition of the two old locks should get underway this summer, with construction of the new to follow soon after. this will inject HUGE amounts of money into the UP economy |
Gazhekwe
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Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 3011
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 9:02 am: | |
After reading the article, I tend to agree with the idea that we should try to ship more by freighter where possible. From harbor to delivery point could be a combination of rail and truck. It would save a lot of traffic and roadwork. |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8767
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 10:07 am: | |
and create jobs for longshoremen |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19672
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 6:01 pm: | |
I have, but apparently you haven't Rb.
Still waiting patiently. |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8778
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 8:59 am: | |
asked and answered bats.
Back to frozen stuff --
Anyone see Nova's Extreme Ice? fabulous stuff, esp. the photography
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/e xtremeice/ |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19767
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 11:41 pm: | |
Ice? We still have that stuff? Naturally occuring? But Al Gore and his Polar Bears said there wasn't going to be anymore of that stuff. |
Alsodave
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Post Number: 803
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 11:43 pm: | |
Didn't see it, but thanks for the link, Rb336. |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19770
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 11:44 pm: | |
Better get there quick before Al Gore censors it and revises history to cover it up. |
Alsodave
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Username: Alsodave
Post Number: 804
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 11:46 pm: | |
It's only 50 minutes, so I'll have to watch it online, or wait for it to be available on DVD. |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19772
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 11:49 pm: | |
AL Gore invented the internet you know (if you don't, just ask him), so he will likely wave his magic wand (the same one that created his mythic tale of doomsday by man made global warming) and erase that video from the internet without a trace. |
Alsodave
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Username: Alsodave
Post Number: 805
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| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 11:52 pm: | |
It's already available from the PBS store. I'm sure our local library has it available for check out. |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19775
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 11:55 pm: | |
P...as in Public. Al has lots of flunkies that can shut down the further distribution of this material that flies in the face of his Academy Award and Nobel Prize winning fallacy. |
Alsodave
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Post Number: 809
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 12:01 am: | |
It's already available from the PBS store. I'm sure our local library has it available for check out.
Thanks again for the link, Rb336 |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8781
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 8:45 am: | |
Bats, you have had numerous opportunities to support your claims, yet you never have. You are also evidently trying to use a program you have never seen to discredit Gore. what a sad thing. once again, science trumps ideology for everyone but you and the creationists
the science presented in the nova piece is ok, but the images are spectacular |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19790
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 8:28 pm: | |
Remember Chris Horner's book and everything he referenced Rb? |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8792
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 10:40 am: | |
remember all those times (every time you mentioned him) i thoroughly discredited that hack by discrediting not only him but also everything he referenced? |
East_detroit
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Username: East_detroit
Post Number: 2095
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 11:06 am: | |
I don't remember either one. |
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