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I can honestly say that I am impressed that there are so many that are able to say they they can use weed so much and still be successful in life. More of you than I thought. So maybe I am wrong and my experience growing up was a bad sample. I will say that if someone said they drank to get a buzz on every day for 20 plus years, I would think that might be a problem. If you have smoked weed every day for 20 or more years with only short times when you didn't, I am sorry, but that sounds like some form of addiction to me. And don't equate coffee addiction or cigarettes with weed or booze. I would let a pilot fly me in a plane after a coffee and cigarette. Look I am all for live and let live. And I hope I am wrong and the world will still spin around once a day and all will be fine. Probably will be for most people. And no doubt for those that need medical use, it will be vastly better. Hell, once its legal I might have a puff once in a while. Nah. Probably not. I kinda like the reality I live in without augmenting it. But that's just me. ( I do remember a couple Pink Floyd albums that were more interesting after a joint though. Hmmm. I could never understand Animals until I listened to it high. Hmmm. Nah. crappy album )

Sometimes I wonder about myself LOL. I will say that I do think that alcohol is more physically addictive than pot. It's a habitual choice for most of us, but an addiction for many. I don't think its good to trivialize alcoholism. I guess if you smoked all you life and were very successful then that is great. I just don't think that is the average experience. Anayway, time will tell. Maybe legalization wont make any difference. I hope that's the case. Peace out.....

Wading in late, and may regret it I'm 53 and spent the majority of late elementary and high school smoking weed, hash and oil. I was one of those kids that worked hard and got good marks in school, but liked to have a good time too. Because of my smoking I had two groups of friends - The ones that made weed a priority in our lives and the ones that did't smoke or not much. Then in grade 12 I realized the heavy pot smokers were not planning on going to 13 or college or university and most of the other group was. I smoked maybe 20 joints in 4 years of university. It was there (so were all the other drugs), but only the Caribbean students seemed to smoke all the time. In my experience I think there is a relationship between use of pot (or any mind altering drug) and success where motivation and drive is needed. It kinda makes sense. Heavy pot use makes you chill and less motivated. I don't give a rats a$$ if its physically addictive or not. I think if they ever did a study about "life success" for pot smokers vs those who moved on and grew up, I think there would be really noticeable difference. I don't just mean financial success. I mean stable job, nice house, stable family - that kind of success. For those of you that smoke weed a lot. I mean no disrespect at all. I don't think you should be treated like criminals or risk jail time or anything like that. Its my choice not to smoke, and your choice to smoke. But have you ever thought if it has had any effect on your success in life? If not, no harm, no foul I guess. What about your friends? Do you think that it has affected any of their success? For all of you that are employers or make hiring decisions, humour me with an informal survey: You have two guys interviewing for a job at your company. One says he likes to spend his weekends smokin with his buds. The other one says they like to hang with the buds and have a few beers. Who you gonna hire? What does that say? Discrimination? I don't think so. For me, decriminalizing pot makes 100% sense. Allowing it for legitimate medical reasons I am absolutely 100% for. But legalizing it, I am not for at all. I am not convinced that society will be able to prevent the vulnerable from making their lives worse than they could be. For those of you that smoke weed a lot. No disrespect at all. I don't think you should be treated like criminals or risk jail time or anything like that. Its my choice not to, and your choice to smoke.

We've got a golden doodle. He's a medium size. About 44lbs. Very smart dog. Really easy to train. Very agile. Super friendly with people and dogs. Great with kids. High energy but also likes to chill. Fur needs cutting about 3 times a year. Nothing bad to say about him.

I wish Ontarians and Canadians made sure that they educated themselves on all aspects of a political parties platform instead of focussing on how much they like the individual or focusing on one aspect of their platform that they like. That naive approach feeds right into the politician's election strategy of focusing on one or two high popularity issues, and glossing over major tax increases that are needed to pay for the other aspects. I could care less if a politician is boring, ugly, has a bad haircut, etc. The ONLY thing that matters is that they prudently and economically use our money to run the country. And that they not lie or have hidden agendas.

Carbon Tax impacting everyone in Canada vastly more than you will directly see (it will be hidden in everything you pay for), Ontario skyrocketing power prices as a result of incompetent government management of our power generation, forced early adoption of renewable power generation at prices we could not afford (with the profits from the overpricing going to offshore investors), leaked plans to force Ontarians to not heat your house with cheap natural gas, but rather this hugely overpriced electricity, and now Trudeau saying that he wants to shut down the oil sands. Its pathetic that so many voters seem to be so ignorant of what they really voted for,

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This NFL series will make you wet your pants. Here is the first one. be prepared to waste some time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-kGosnzvjU

I have got to upgrade to the 7200. Great prosumer camera.

When we bought our cottage it had a wood insert in an old masonary fireplace. I was told the same kind of thing. The old stove was not good (not insurance if we used it) and the flue was not to code to convert to open fireplace. We had nat gas to the street. We could use the flue for a gas fireplace with the dual stainless liners (one for air in and one for exhaust out). We went for a Napolean gas one with blower and thermostat. We use it for heat when we are there and at 5 degrees when we are not (backup to baseboard electrics set at 7). Only thing I would do differently is buy a bigger one. I went cheap at the time. Thought I was saving money. I didn't realize the Liberals would make the baseboard heaters eat into my reiterment plans so much.

This guy hung around the boat looking for some grub.

Ok. I did some googlin' Turns out they are pretty established and well known. Very unique and have done some very well known projects, like the steel cone sculptures in front of the Air Canada Centre. The web site is pretty interesting. Nice to see a successful business in the little ol town of Lafontaine. http://www.liwi.ca/

Near our cottage, on Lafontaine Rd, there is a metal fab guy that does some really neat stuff. These are so cool. Some are wilderness scenes. These globes are pretty neat. I don't want to know how much they are to buy though.

Canadian Tire has these: http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/small-wood-stove-0642406p.html#srp

Do the big bluegills have worms like the larger perch do in the summer? It's not a big deal, just an extra step in cleaning, but curious. I also prefer perch and sunfish over eyes in terms of taste. It's just more tedious to clean them. It's not hard, just time consuming to clean 25 fish. I will keep smaller perch maybe over 6 In or so too, as well as larger pumpkinseed sunfish. Maybe that is why they are slow. I like to clean them the least waste method, which is boneless/skinless filets. Small rapala filet knife and take the clean filet off the fish down the backbone and along and over the ribs to take all the meat off, then de-skin the filet. I know some just take the whole side off then cut out and throw away the rib portion. To me that is a waste and I avoid it except on the really smaller fish.

You need to make sure your charger has a desulphate feature to get the most life from deep cycles. Some of the new charger maintainers have that, but they are not designed for large capacity batteries. If you do some research, you will read that large deep cycles need high amperage bulk loading charging with a charger that is at least 10% of the amp hour capacity (or something like that). So a high capacity battery will not last if you charge it with a small trickle charger. It will need maybe 30 amps. Plus the new chargers have a condition mode that you run periodically to break up the crystals that settle to the bottom. It uses high amp/voltage and basically boils the battery for a short period, then drops off to a trickle mode again.Another less helpful alternative if you have an older but high amp automatic charger is to use a Battery Life Save or similar pulse unit. You can read up on them. It basically constantly pulses into the battery that continuously desulphate said. They add that circuitry to the new small maintainers to help make batteries last while in storage. They prevent desulphation or slow it, not fix it. And they are not as effective on large capita batteries unless you get the really large maintainers. This is an area where if you go too small, you pay the price in cost of new batteries over the long run.I bought one of these to use on my golf cart battery bank on my bigger boat because it had an old charger without desulphate mode. It worked well until I replaced the charger with a higher capacity new one. It's now not in use. I should sell it.https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Life-Saver-BLS-12-24BW/dp/B006X24P50

Ram mount and I bought a waterproof "snow lizard" iPAD case in the US for $49 at West Marine. It has a build in battery too that extends the life of the ipad battery (running Navionics really runs the battery down). Re the plexiglass idea, I don't recommend hot glue. Its too weak. Clear silicone caulking holds much better.

Donald Trump represents the worst aspects of the USA. His businesses are built on Bull and snake oil promises and have no substance. He licenses his name, but puts very little of his own money at risk in any/all of his business ventures. He has somehow conned the American people that Trump means luxury and success. In reality, the Trump brand is like K-Tel. But I guess that is the land of Honey-Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. I guess if you keep telling stupid people the same thing over and over again, they start to believe it as fact. Do Americans realize that their entire political system is becoming the laughing stock of the rest of the world? The cruel irony may be that Donald Trump is complaining that the political system is broken in the US, and yet that is the reason he has been able to get to where he is. Here is a prediction for you: Donald Trump loses in November and then immediately blames everyone else around him and launches a lawsuit against the GOP to recover the money he invested in the election.

The sale seems to move around. There was a similar "bin" sale in Oakville earlier in the summer. I picked up a few at $4.99, including a bright yellow jointed perch that seems to be VERY attractive to the pike in the spots I have fished this year.

Looks like it will be nose heavy and maybe run squirrelly.

Do something maybe. Do Wynnes plan? Not a chance. We have achieved enormous pollution reduction overt the last 40 years. It was done at a pace that took advantage to technology as it evolved. It's has worked and will continue to work. For a non supporter of Wynne you seem to align with her policies and those of the Federal liberals as well an awful lot. I do respect a lot of your posts and views (not all, clearly) but you are not going to convince me you don't put a Liberal sign on your lawn election time. Efficient, honest and effective government is what we need. We don't have it in Ontario with this liberal majority or the last one.

Obviously can't sway your view. You have drunk the Koolaid and are happy with government incompetence wasting your money. Or maybe you think it's the "governments" money. I am all for clean air and adopting rules and technology to ride the environment. But he money has to be spent and not wasted. And we should adopt technology when it is cost effective and ready. Not be early adopters at an enormous cost. Spend some money to truly incentivize Canadian companies and universities to develop clean tech that is economical and then when it's ready roll it out with programs. For the rest of you reading this. Rise up. Spread the message. The liberals are going to cost Ontario untold misery. We cannot compete for capital investment and jobs if we have the highest energy costs in the world. We will become even more of a have not province than we are.

Really? How many in Ontario and what is the cost here. Fearmongering with lame liberal analysts.

You joke, but j won't eat tilapia or basa (farmed catfish) for that reason. They REALLY swim in their own poo.

Same thing with Shneiders bacon. It used to be the best by far. It went downhill right after ML bought them. It seems to have moved a bit back to where it was but its not the same. I like the boutique small company bacon now. Not the grocery store stuff