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HAHAHA he pulled out the recruit photo!!!! Poor Arch! ;D

Okay, you must be President of the Jessica Alba club because she is NOT better looking than Jessica Biel! She was the only reason I watched 7th Heaven!! You know how I know you're gay? ;D

Where did you see that announcement? I have been waiting for a blu-ray release.

lol. Arch and Rage you are both right in a way, so make love and let's move on .

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I'll be with you guys in the sun in March when I go Boar hunting in Florida, but I'll be freezing my buns off in South Dakota and Missouri too when I go for Snow Geese. You guys are lucky, I mean I bet when it gets down to 50 you guys say "man it's cold out" lol.

Watch Into the Blue, she looks incredible in that movie.

Chicago suburbs. It was colder Saturday night, the wind chill was 35 below :-X. Chicago weather is nuts though. We can have a day in January thats 65, then 2 days later its 0 degrees and there's a blizzard.

I'll be working outside as usual tomorrow freezing my buns off :-X.

Is this a serious question?! Jessica Alba hands down!

Was an awesome game! AP and TO were amazing, as well as the NFC QB's. I am happy to see the NFC get off the losing snide and now it's time for us to lay into the AFC for a few years! Oh and I can't forget to give my man Devin Hester love, he was killing the AFC every return (I believe he had 4 or 5 run backs of 25+ yards).

LOL nice!!

No offense, but that is a really narrow viewpoint on hunting. I've been bear hunting, boar hunting, shark fishing, nearly bit by a rattle snake, and this spring along with my annual boar hunt I am going for gators, so yeah. Also all animals know they need to be alert at all times because they know from being shot at there is always a possibility of being killed.

What do you think?: -------------------------- Imagine going out on a fishing excursion Nov. 11, surviving a cyclone that destroys your boat four days later, then being lost at sea with only a bamboo raft keeping you afloat – until yesterday. It would be one unbelievable story, right? However, three Myanmar fishermen claim that's exactly what happened to them. Upon being rescued off the east Indian coast yesterday the trio claimed to have spent nearly three months adrift on a raft after their boat was ruined in Cyclone Sidr, Reuters reports from Bhubaneswar, India. "They lived on turtles and fishes for food after they were separated from three other groups in the sea," said Siba Sankar Mohapatra, a senior police officer who questioned the men after they were picked up by local fishermen near the Indian resort town of Gopalpur. The rescued fishermen received food and new clothes from authorities, who, according to Reuters, are planning to send them back home soon. It's a jaw-dropper, to be sure, and a story that suggests the human spirit and our stubborn sense of survival is stronger than we might imagine.

> Be very very quiet I'm hunting Bunni rabbits

Actually hunting is quite difficult, there is no easy hunt. I'll give you a few examples: an aged buck is extremely intelligent and at the first sign of something awry he will bolt before ever giving you a clean shot; have you ever been waterfowling? If so, you'd know that it takes a very good decoy set up and a good calling to bring the birds in or they won't even come close; Turkey hunting is as just tricky as deer hunting. That's just a few examples, I could go on. I eat all the meat I shoot and have a great respect for the outdoors, it certainly isn't "easy" though by any means. The amount of scouting and preparation that goes into any hunt alone is a ton of work and fun. The real fun though is the thrill of the hunt, when you have a big buck, gobbler, elk, etc. Btw I have hunted and killed a wild boar with only a knife .

I joined. Smoke's Bleacher Bums all the way!

I found this while browsing on Ducks Unlimited. Just a note: for waterfowlers shooting a banded bird is fairly rare and is awesome because you can see the journey your bird took and how old it was (Some Canada Geese and Mallards have been reported 20+ years old). Here is the story: --------------------------------------------------------------- RULEVILLE, Miss. — The band was different, unlike anything Freddie Scott had ever seen. And likely neither had any other American hunter, for that matter. "It appeared to be stainless steel, and every band I have ever seen was aluminum in appearance." Scott said. "I showed it to my son and we were both in disbelief at what we were seeing; I didn't know what to make of it." Furthermore, Scott couldn't believe the inscription on the band; he thought it was a joke. "It is still quite unbelievable that a pintail could fly that many miles in his lifetime; and how he ended up my hands on a farm in Ruleville, Miss., is beyond me," Scott explained. Biologists say the band Scott recovered on January 3, 2008, from a drake northern pintail near Ruleville, was banded in Japan. The man with the band Freddie Scott doesn't possess a lanyard full of bands; he readily admits he has only killed one other banded waterfowl. He is a dedicated hunter who drives across the width of the state of Mississippi from his LaGrange, Ga., home to hunt ducks with his son, his daughter, and a close group of hunting buddies near Ruleville. A passionate hunter, the tone of his voice is genuine and comforting — he is just one of the boys. "I have always enjoyed duck hunting; it means even more now that I can hunt with my children," Scott said in his slow Southern drawl. "I wish my son would have shot that pintail — that would have been amazing. At least he was there with me... that means a lot." As soon as he and his son noticed this duck was unlike the others, he started the investigation. "I immediately called a hunting buddy of mine who couldn't believe what I was describing to him," Scott said. His friends reacted like most people would when faced with such an outrageous story. "I got ridiculed to death. Nobody believed me." On January 8, after receiving quite a ribbing from all of his friends, and a sarcastic "there ain't no way," from one of the guys at Mack's Prairie Wings (a leader in everything waterfowl out of Stuttgart, Ark.), he was fed up. It was time to confirm the origin of this rare piece of metal. Scott dialed 411 on his cell. When the operator answered, he asked for the phone number for a waterfowl biologist in the state of Mississippi. The operator on the other end asked Mr. Scott to be more specific. "Get me in touch with a biologist in Jackson, Mississippi," he said. After a few clicks and bit of silence, a phone rang in the office of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Pearl, Miss.; the call was then forwarded down the hall to USDA NRCS Biologist Jeffery Lee. Seriously, Japan? Lee listened as Scott told him about the hunt he had with his son that day and of the banded drake pintail, the last of only three ducks bagged that morning. He became more enthralled as Scott gave him the numbers 10A75422 from the band, and the almost unbelievable words inscribed above it: Kankyocho-Tokyo, Japan. Lee was the first of many biologists and conservationists who would hear Scott's story, and it was Lee who would eventually find the band's true origin, verifying its authenticity through emails and phone calls with biologists, researchers, and conservationists from around the globe. His first call was to Randy Wilson, a United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Biologist with the USFWS Migratory Bird Office in Jackson, Miss. Wilson agreed to check his sources and find out if this were consistent with a Japanese bird band, and if one had ever been recovered in the Mississippi Flyway. Lee then called Dr. Richard Kaminski, a professor of wildlife at Mississippi State University, who pointed him to the foremost authority in conservation bird bands in the United States, the Patuxent Bird Banding Laboratory, where Lee spoke with Dr. Paul Padding and Mr. Terry Liddick. Both biologists thought the pintail was indeed banded in Japan, and gave Lee the contact information for the Yamashina Institute of Ornithology's Bird Banding Research Center, located in Konoyama, Japan. Liddick would state in an email that in his three years at the lab, he had never been asked to verify a Japanese band — he knew it had to be rare. Lee forwarded the recovery information data sheet via email to the Japanese Bird Banding Institute that afternoon. "I could hardly sleep that night." Lee said. "I couldn't wait to get back to the office the next morning." When Lee checked his email, what had at first been thought near impossible was confirmed: The drake northern pintail was in fact banded on Hyoko Lake near Niigata, on the northwestern coast of Japan. The pintail had been banded on February 12, 2000, by Ryuhei Honma, a bird banding specialist for the Japanese Bird Banding Association, as part of an ongoing research project conducted by the Bird Banding Research Center. "I tried to find out more about the research they were doing in Japan." Lee continued. "The question I really wanted to know was if they had ever recovered a bird band in the Mississippi Flyway before." Keiko Yoshiyasu of the Japanese Bird Banding Association confirmed other birds banded in Japan had been recovered in five U.S. states, Alaska, California, Washington, Oregon, and Utah, with Utah being the farthest east any bird banded in Japan had traveled into the North America. Scott was amazed that he was actually in possession of one of the rarest bird band recoveries in history. "I have heard all of the Japanese duck jokes I can stand." Scott laughed as he continued. "Now I can have the last laugh." When asked what he was going to do with this rare piece of history, Scott said. "I am going to lock this band away in the safe deposit box for future generations of my family to hold and to talk about. How many duck hunters can say they have killed a duck banded in Japan?"

All the time.

Indeed. The thing PETA always fails to mention in their anti-hunter rallies is the fact that WITHOUT us hunters animal populations would balloon. Thus the ecosystem can not support the mass overpopulation, causing all animal populations to eventually die off due to disease and starvation.

A pathetic last ditch effort by Micro$haft to make some money off HDDVD before they throw in the towel.

If so, let's hear what you gave up. I'll start it off. I gave up fast food :-X.

The "F90" is a fictional name given by Zipper to the P90.

I don't like them because they treat and categorize hunters like myself as if we are savages.

NEW YORK -- Now it's New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez and Hall of Famer Juan Marichal who are being denounced for animal fighting. A video of Martinez and Marichal at a cockfight was posted this week on YouTube and it showed the two laughing before releasing the roosters. They took part as honorary "soltadores," the word used to describe the person who puts the animal to fight. The fight takes place in their home country, the Dominican Republic, where cockfighting is legal and popular. It is banned throughout the United States. Martinez told the Mets the cockfight occurred at least two years ago. In the wake of Michael Vick's recent dogfighting case, Martinez and Marichal are the latest sports stars to draw criticism for animal fighting. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent letters to both pitchers Thursday, calling on them to publicly apologize. The Humane Society of the United States said "Major League Baseball should join us in condemning Martinez and Marichal for their shameful example." "I understand that people are upset, but this is part of our Dominican culture and is legal in the Dominican Republic," Martinez said in a statement issued by the Mets. "I was invited by my idol, Juan Marichal, to attend the event as a spectator, not as a participant." In the video, which was posted Tuesday, the animal released by Martinez appears to be killed. The fight takes place in the Coliseo Gallistico de Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo Cockfighting Coliseum) in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic's biggest cockfighting venue. By early Thursday, the video was removed "due to terms of use violation." PETA also sent a letter to baseball commissioner Bud Selig urging all major league players and staff to take its animal sensitivity training course -- the same one Vick attended after pleading guilty to federal dogfighting charges in August. The Atlanta Falcons quarterback received a 23-month jail sentence. The NFL suspended him indefinitely without pay. In his letter to Selig, PETA assistant director Dan Shannon mentioned the Vick case and wrote, "it seems that education on the importance of treating animals humanely is in order for Major League Baseball." Baseball spokesman Rich Levin said Selig had not yet seen the letter. "We don't condone any kind of animal cruelty, but we're not going to comment on any individuals at this time," Levin said. Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society, released a statement admonishing Martinez and Marichal. "Animal fighting has no place whatsoever among those who presume to be role models for youngsters, not in this country and not elsewhere," he said. "Pedro Martinez and Juan Marichal exhibited appallingly bad judgment in participating in a staged animal fight. It doesn't excuse the behavior to find a legal haven for this reprehensible and inhumane conduct. It's animal cruelty, no matter where it occurs." Pacelle also referred to Vick's case. "Michael Vick brought home the lesson when his career was ruined by disclosures of his involvement in a dogfighting ring. Cockfighting is a similarly barbaric activity that forces two animals to mutilate and kill each other with sharp weapons strapped to their legs," he said. "There is no moral distinction between dogfighting and cockfighting -- both involve the torture of animals for the titillation of spectators who enjoy the violence and bloodletting." Pacelle called on the Mets "to take appropriate action to distance themselves from Martinez's behavior." "We do not condone any behavior that involves cruelty to animals," the Mets said in a statement. "We understand, however, that in many other countries activities such as bullfighting and cockfighting are both legal and part of the culture." Except for baseball, cockfighting is widely considered the Dominican Republic's most popular sport. Almost every small town along the Caribbean nation's highways boasts a covered fighting ring where trainers come to test their best roosters and rich and poor alike fill the wooden stands to drink, wager and watch the bloody spectacle. One of the best-known fighting rings is in Martinez's hometown of Manoguayabo, made famous in 1991 as the opening setting for Michelle Wucker's noted history of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Why the Cocks Fight. The island's fighting Mecca is the Coliseo Gallistico de Santo Domingo, a sparkling indoor arena on the outskirts of the Dominican capital where fights are tracked on an electronic scoreboard and waitresses walk the aisles with trays of beer and empanadas. Generals, politicians and cockfighting celebrities have their names painted onto assigned parking spaces outside. On fight days, well-heeled Dominicans and curious foreigners -- almost all of them men -- put on their best suits, polo shirts and chacabanas for a card with as many as 30 fights. Between bouts, bettors tour the fiberglass cages where prime roosters are examined with the same keenness of eye as a regular in the paddock at Churchill Downs. The fight begins when two roosters are lowered into the arena. Men in blue or white coats more at home in a laboratory or butcher shop prep the fighters, taunting them into a frenzy with a third rooster. As the timed fight begins, the crowd erupts in a flurry of one-on-one betting, flashing hand signals across the room to signal fast-changing odds with the ironclad frenzy of a New York trade floor. Roosters are generally armed with a small bone or resin spur meant to inflict maximum damage on their opponents, and the blood, feathers and poultry stench that linger afterward are a testament to their potency. But the roosters do not always die. Matches are timed, 10-15 minutes in length, and many end in a draw with both chickens bloodied and exhausted, but alive to fight another day. AP NEWS