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#1
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Geo magnetic huh?
Last post by Okanagan - Today at 11:59:46 AMI went out for a minute at 3:00 AM night before last when they were supposed to be strong, and didn't see anything. It was a clear still night with no clouds and super bright stars, and I was too sleepy to stay up.
My son told me that they were very bright over half the sky the night before. He'd not seen northern lights here in Washington State before, though had seen them in northern BC near the Yukon.
My son told me that they were very bright over half the sky the night before. He'd not seen northern lights here in Washington State before, though had seen them in northern BC near the Yukon.
#2
Fishing Photos / Re: Skip the fries
Last post by Okanagan - Today at 11:53:26 AMThat's the biggest ring perch I've ever seen! They are really good eating, and you already had me drooling as I thought about cooking up those crappie you showed us. WTG!
I think yellow perch is more correct but growing up we called them ring perch.
I think yellow perch is more correct but growing up we called them ring perch.
#3
Fishing Photos / Re: Skip the fries
Last post by remrogers - Today at 10:22:43 AMThat is one hefty perch.
#4
The Tailgate / Today in history 5-13
Last post by remrogers - Today at 10:19:13 AM1920
May 13
Socialist party nominates "Convict 2253" for president
On May 13, 1920, the Socialist Party nominates Eugene V. Debs as its candidate for president in the upcoming November election. There's a slight complication, though: Debs is serving a 10-year sentence at a federal penitentiary in Atlanta and isn't due to get out until 1928.
As the New York Tribune observes, "his nomination marks the first instance in the history of the United States when the name of a person confined behind prison bars was presented to the people as a candidate for the chief magistracy of the nation."
It was the fifth nomination for the 64-year-old, Indiana-born labor leader, who began his career as a railroad worker and made his first bid for the presidency in 1900.
In 1918, Debs had been convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, controversial laws pushed through Congress by President Woodrow Wilson to silence critics of U.S. involvement World War I.
Debs appealed his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court—which, on March 10, 1920, decided to let the verdict stand. Debs attacked the justices as "begowned, bewhiskered, bepowdered old fossils who have never decided anything," before reporting to prison in Moundsville, West Virginia, on April 13, 1920. He was assigned a convict number of 2253, later to become 9653.
By that time, the war he'd been jailed for protesting had been over for more than a year. Several months later, he was transferred to the penitentiary in Atlanta, where he received the news of his nomination. Attempting to capitalize on his incarceration, the party put out buttons with Debs' picture and either of the two numbers he'd become known for, proclaiming "Convict 2253 for President" on some and "Convict 9653 for President" on others.
Despite his inability to hit to campaign trail, Debs won more than 900,000 votes in the 1920 election, his best showing to date. The victor, Republican Warren G. Harding, commuted his sentence in December 1921, citing Debs' age and physical condition. Though now a free man, Debs never ran for president again and died in 1926.
May 13
Socialist party nominates "Convict 2253" for president
On May 13, 1920, the Socialist Party nominates Eugene V. Debs as its candidate for president in the upcoming November election. There's a slight complication, though: Debs is serving a 10-year sentence at a federal penitentiary in Atlanta and isn't due to get out until 1928.
As the New York Tribune observes, "his nomination marks the first instance in the history of the United States when the name of a person confined behind prison bars was presented to the people as a candidate for the chief magistracy of the nation."
It was the fifth nomination for the 64-year-old, Indiana-born labor leader, who began his career as a railroad worker and made his first bid for the presidency in 1900.
In 1918, Debs had been convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, controversial laws pushed through Congress by President Woodrow Wilson to silence critics of U.S. involvement World War I.
Debs appealed his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court—which, on March 10, 1920, decided to let the verdict stand. Debs attacked the justices as "begowned, bewhiskered, bepowdered old fossils who have never decided anything," before reporting to prison in Moundsville, West Virginia, on April 13, 1920. He was assigned a convict number of 2253, later to become 9653.
By that time, the war he'd been jailed for protesting had been over for more than a year. Several months later, he was transferred to the penitentiary in Atlanta, where he received the news of his nomination. Attempting to capitalize on his incarceration, the party put out buttons with Debs' picture and either of the two numbers he'd become known for, proclaiming "Convict 2253 for President" on some and "Convict 9653 for President" on others.
Despite his inability to hit to campaign trail, Debs won more than 900,000 votes in the 1920 election, his best showing to date. The victor, Republican Warren G. Harding, commuted his sentence in December 1921, citing Debs' age and physical condition. Though now a free man, Debs never ran for president again and died in 1926.
#5
Fishing Photos / Skip the fries
Last post by FinsnFur - Yesterday at 10:48:24 PMThese are a whole meal.
I'm going to need a bigger frying pan.
I'm going to need a bigger frying pan.
#6
Fishing Photos / Re: Fish On !
Last post by nastygunz - Yesterday at 10:48:00 PMFish were biting like crazy, that was on a setback in the Connecticut river. The little guy was reeling in a perch and all of a sudden there was a big swirl and his line went slack and he reeled in and his line was cut right off. I told him you just got robbed by a northern pike son ha ha.
#8
Freshwater / Re: Pretty Crappie Day
Last post by Hawks Feather - Yesterday at 07:59:23 PMLooks like someone will be having fried fish. Yum!
#9
The Tailgate / Today in history 5-12
Last post by remrogers - Yesterday at 08:57:11 AM1963
May 12
Bob Dylan walks out on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
On May 12, 1963, the young and unknown Bob Dylan walked off the set of "The Ed Sullivan Show," the country's highest-rated variety TV show, after network censors rejected the song he planned on performing.
By the end of that summer, Bob Dylan would be known to millions who watched or witnessed his performances at the March on Washington, and millions more who did not know Dylan himself would know and love his music thanks to Peter, Paul and Mary's smash-hit cover version of "Blowin' In The Wind." But back in May, Dylan was still just another aspiring musician with a passionate niche following but no national profile whatsoever. His second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, had not yet been released, but he had secured what would surely be his big break with an invitation to perform on "The Ed Sullivan Show." That appearance never happened.
The song that caused the flap was "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues," a satirical talking-blues number skewering the ultra-conservative John Birch Society and its tendency to see covert members of an international Communist conspiracy behind every tree. Dylan had auditioned "John Birch" days earlier and had run through it for Ed Sullivan himself without any concern being raised. But during dress rehearsal on the day of the show, an executive from the CBS Standards and Practices department informed the show's producers that they could not allow Dylan to go forward singing "John Birch." While many of the song's lyrics about hunting down "reds" were merely humorous—"Looked up my chimney hole/Looked down deep inside my toilet bowl/They got away!"—others raised the fear of a defamation lawsuit in the minds of CBS's lawyers. Rather than choose a new number to perform or change his song's lyrics, Dylan stormed off the set in angry protest.
Or so goes the legend that helped establish Dylan's public reputation as an artist of uncompromising integrity. In reality, Bob Dylan was polite and respectful in declining to accede to the network's wishes. "I explained the situation to Bob and asked him if he wanted to do something else," recalls "Ed Sullivan Show" producer Bob Precht, "and Bob, quite appropriately, said 'No, this is what I want to do. If I can't play my song, I'd rather not appear on the show.'" It hardly mattered whether Dylan's alleged tantrum was fact or reality. The story got widespread media attention in the days that followed, causing Ed Sullivan himself to denounce the network's decision in published interviews. In the end, however, the free publicity Bob Dylan received may have done more for his career than his abortive national-television appearance scheduled for this day in 1963 ever could have.
May 12
Bob Dylan walks out on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
On May 12, 1963, the young and unknown Bob Dylan walked off the set of "The Ed Sullivan Show," the country's highest-rated variety TV show, after network censors rejected the song he planned on performing.
By the end of that summer, Bob Dylan would be known to millions who watched or witnessed his performances at the March on Washington, and millions more who did not know Dylan himself would know and love his music thanks to Peter, Paul and Mary's smash-hit cover version of "Blowin' In The Wind." But back in May, Dylan was still just another aspiring musician with a passionate niche following but no national profile whatsoever. His second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, had not yet been released, but he had secured what would surely be his big break with an invitation to perform on "The Ed Sullivan Show." That appearance never happened.
The song that caused the flap was "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues," a satirical talking-blues number skewering the ultra-conservative John Birch Society and its tendency to see covert members of an international Communist conspiracy behind every tree. Dylan had auditioned "John Birch" days earlier and had run through it for Ed Sullivan himself without any concern being raised. But during dress rehearsal on the day of the show, an executive from the CBS Standards and Practices department informed the show's producers that they could not allow Dylan to go forward singing "John Birch." While many of the song's lyrics about hunting down "reds" were merely humorous—"Looked up my chimney hole/Looked down deep inside my toilet bowl/They got away!"—others raised the fear of a defamation lawsuit in the minds of CBS's lawyers. Rather than choose a new number to perform or change his song's lyrics, Dylan stormed off the set in angry protest.
Or so goes the legend that helped establish Dylan's public reputation as an artist of uncompromising integrity. In reality, Bob Dylan was polite and respectful in declining to accede to the network's wishes. "I explained the situation to Bob and asked him if he wanted to do something else," recalls "Ed Sullivan Show" producer Bob Precht, "and Bob, quite appropriately, said 'No, this is what I want to do. If I can't play my song, I'd rather not appear on the show.'" It hardly mattered whether Dylan's alleged tantrum was fact or reality. The story got widespread media attention in the days that followed, causing Ed Sullivan himself to denounce the network's decision in published interviews. In the end, however, the free publicity Bob Dylan received may have done more for his career than his abortive national-television appearance scheduled for this day in 1963 ever could have.
#10
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Geo magnetic huh?
Last post by nastygunz - Yesterday at 08:50:08 AMI looked up and all I got was a faceful of rain.