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Fishing Photos / Re: Skip the fries
Last post by Hawks Feather - Yesterday at 04:48:24 PMAre you sure you didn't paint stripes on a bass? Nice looking fish.
#2
Fishing Photos / Re: Skip the fries
Last post by nastygunz - Yesterday at 02:50:40 PMThats the legendary Moby Perch!
#3
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Geo magnetic huh?
Last post by Okanagan - Yesterday 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.
#4
Fishing Photos / Re: Skip the fries
Last post by Okanagan - Yesterday 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.
#5
Fishing Photos / Re: Skip the fries
Last post by remrogers - Yesterday at 10:22:43 AMThat is one hefty perch.
#6
The Tailgate / Today in history 5-13
Last post by remrogers - Yesterday 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.
#7
Fishing Photos / Skip the fries
Last post by FinsnFur - May 12, 2024, 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.
#8
Fishing Photos / Re: Fish On !
Last post by nastygunz - May 12, 2024, 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.
#10
Freshwater / Re: Pretty Crappie Day
Last post by Hawks Feather - May 12, 2024, 07:59:23 PMLooks like someone will be having fried fish. Yum!