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France fuel protests: Who are the 'gilets jaunes' (yellow vests)? - BBC News It would seem that it is actually the French people behind the protests? but like with any protests things can get out of hand fairly easily? Some people just look to start trouble?

I don't know Brian, but if a whitefish won't eat them a smallie would!

I don't know all the details, or even much of them, but some of the stuff makes no sense to me. https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/07/europe/who-are-gilet-jaunes-intl/index.html " A recent favorite with the media is Jean-François Barnaba, 62, a former director of culture and tourism in Indre, a department in central France, who was removed from his post and placed on extended "gardening leave" on 80% of his salary, 10 years ago. Barnaba currently receives $2,900 dollars a month, which he says leaves him with just $1,000 a month to support his wife and seven children after all the bills are paid. " 62 and still supporting 7 kids? " gardening leave "? growing a fresh crop of kids?

They show some knots for braid to a leader on this video.

I haven't worked since 2003, but even before that it was a pretty common complaint from smaller companies that supplied parts to the auto companies. They want us to cut our prices to them so their executives can make more! Some of those smaller companies were trapped by allowing the auto companies to become their major source of business.

LOL, John it's a beautiful late fall day here, sunny and bright and the temps will be pushing 60, although they are calling for storms and wind later on in the day. It's looking like one of the nicest days weather wise in the last month, and the tournie ended at 8 am this morning. The weigh in station was supposedly open all night for last minute fish entries, it was raining and blowing last night here so the numbers are probably final? big fish in the open 13.745 30.50 inches and in the kids 11.275 31 inches, better weather might have changed those numbers a bit over the course of the tournament, but I doubt by a lot, maybe a pound or so, it's Erie and those numbers are pretty good for a walleye anywhere? Ya Lake Erie can be a beast any time of year, it doesn't take much of a sudden storm to get it moving. I still recall going out one late fall day years ago smallie fishing and having the fog roll in, we were only fishing less than a half a mile from shore and luckily could hear the trains passing on shore or we wouldn't have known where shore was, I put a compass in my boat before the next trip out. Kind of mixed emotions about this, it's nice to have great walleye fishery close by, but just from experience in my own family and circle of friends it has changed tourism to Canada, very few people that I know that used to make an annual trip up north still do. Different strokes for different folks? The scenery and Canadian experience was always worth the trip for me, good fishing or not.

Time is running out, but they are pushing 14 pounds now. There will a couple of happy people with new boats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_sucking_sound Ross Perot was right! That nafta agreement decimated manufacturing in this area, there was an older Fisher body plant on the east side of Cleveland, it was turned into a used machinery store to sell all the equipment from factories closing up because of it. I seriously doubt if there is anything the union can do except to try and get enough public and political support to change some of these " free trade " agreements, they all seem to have hidden costs?

They broke 12 pounds! With the weather we have been having here this fall? hats off to those guys!

One of the trucking companies I worked for was a major carrier for ford gm chrysler, those numbers are probably pretty close. A lot of the parts that go into a car aren't made by an actual auto company. There used to be dozens of metal stamping factories in the Cleveland are that made various pieces, spring companies, wiring, seat assembly s, and even the vinyl for the seats, floor mats, oil filters, you name it.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2017/07/07/can-chronic-wasting-disease-jump-humans-concerns-keep-rising/453371001/ Hunting was never an interest for me, but it's seems like we have a different food recall weekly? You even have to be careful of buying food for your animals.

My mom and youngest brother bought a couple of new cars years ago, like a 1977 mercury cougar and a 1978 ford thunderbird, the back bumpers fell of of both of them a year apart. Mom's fell off as she pulled into our driveway a few months after the warranty expired, and it wasn't like a big bump she hit. Funny that our auto executives seem to think they are worth millions of dollars a year more than the Japanese auto executives?

? So it isn't the auto workers, it's the auto executives?

One day at work I had made some pickups from customers, my boss called me on the radio and asked did you pickup at company x yet? yes it's on the truck! OK, go to Burke Lakefront airport and meet a guy that will take some of those parts. What about the rest of my pickups and closing times? We will get someone else to cover those, just get to the airport! So I get to the airport and they direct me to a small plane, like a piper cub, and we had to unload like 3-4 hundred pounds of small metal parts onto the floor of the plane, he couldn't take more because of the weight, and they needed them quickly to prevent an assembly line shutdown. Expensive? yes, but having hundreds of people standing around because of a lack of parts is too. At another larger trucking company I worked for it wasn't all that unusual for a helicopter to land in our yard to pickup critical parts to avoid a shutdown of an assembly line. LOL, not to second guess the suits, but things like that didn't seem to start happening until they decided to go to just in time shipping?

LOL, years ago I fished a tournament here, there was like 5 boats in the tournament already fishing a marina, you could see what everyone was using and catching, and there wasn't much action. So in rolls boat #6, two dudes throwing flukes, something no one else was throwing, and bam - bam two fish and they leave. It isn't how fast you get there, it's what you do when you get there?

As long as one country on this planet allows wages for the same job that are significantly lower than others there will be a rush to exploit that advantage? Even if all our workers had college educations the push would still be there to maximize profits seeking cheaper help elsewhere?

My youngest daughter went to Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio and graduated about 4 years ago. Since I am severely disabled I couldn't attend the ceremony, but did watch it live streamed on line, that was an eye opener! OSU is the largest, or at least one of the top 5 largest, colleges in our country and it seemed like most of the students graduating with PHD degrees were foreign, and their degrees seemed to be in fields that actually meant something. No intent to demean any educational attempt intended, but the subject matter was revealing.

Ford motor has a factory complex in my area, engine plants 1&2 and the Cleveland casting plant, all on one piece of land. Back in it's hey day in the 1970's there was like 12 - 13 thousand people working there, it now has like 2-3 thousand. Chevy and Chrysler also had plants in my area, a common theme for all of them was tax incentives to expand or modernize and keep those jobs in their communities, sort of like blackmail? They were given tax breaks, and to pay for them the communities created city income taxes or regional income taxes, the jobs may disappear, but those taxes never do! So now it has become give us tax breaks or we move production to a foreign land? and how many of those workers can afford to buy what they are producing? A lot of reasons though, pollution controls, robotics and others, it cheaper for them to build a new plant in a 3rd? world country than to build here.

LOL Sir, supposed may be the key word? New NAFTA: U.S., Canada and Mexico agree to USMCA - The Washington Post

https://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-labor-wages-and-global-automakers-2017-10 In Mexico, $2 per hour workers make $40,000 SUVs | Financial Post It's not just GM, why pay an American or Canadian 20+ bucks an hour when you can get cheap help? The Largest Employer in Every State - 24/7 Wall St.

A day of change here tomorrow sw winds to 27 mph and turning to n nw with gusts to 45 mph. https://fox8.com/2018/11/25/millions-under-blizzard-warning-as-winter-storm-impacts-holiday-travel/

http://www.cleveland19.com/2018/11/22/thanksgiving-cleveland-forecast-be-one-coldest-ever/ ???

Great pictures and report! Still miss that PAB, so many choices of where to fish and what to fish for.

They allow dove hunting here, and I like them a lot more than cormorants!

LOL JoePa, you must be in southern Pa, here in northeastern Ohio my wood burner has been going for a month already.