Tuna tackle depends on what your method. When I've been trolling big game fish you use short beefy rods with 1000yd penn internationals. Generally NJ tuna fishing is canyon trolling fishing, gas is expensive hence they aren't cheap trips. If you are trying to jerk or jig a school it'll be much lighter tackle. I'm a fan of shimano tyrnos reels if you go for the lighter option, had good luck with them in alaska. For trolling can't do much better than penn internationals, caught an 8 ft Marlin with one. Don't be too upset with "only" 60lb tuna, they'll still wear you out at that size.
Haha, anytime a wife gets hit with an axe the police will likely want to ask many, many questions.
I got that particular handgun because I wanted something smaller that I could have with me while driving. Long story short, I had a run-in with a crazed mountain man with a gun who threatened to murder me and hide my body in a lake. He claimed I had recently attempted to kill his family in his backyard; I have never met nor seen his family, and I have no idea where he lived. It dawned on me that I should probably see to it that I'm at least as equally well-armed as the lunatics if I encounter any more of them.
That makes sense. Shall I assume you and CMM did not have any further encounters?
That was awesome, they are also the guys that had the soccer game with the people strapped with electric dog collars to their legs. That was pretty funny too
That makes sense. Shall I assume you and CMM did not have any further encounters?
Thankfully, no. He claimed to be law enforcement though, and refused to tell me what agency he worked for. That made the Roanoke County Police pretty eager to find the guy, but unfortunately they didn't. Or, in Mountain-Area fashion they did find him and covered it up. One of the two.
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What's everybody's take on the KONY 2012 movement? It seems like the hype has started to collapse in on itself. I'm interested because there's a group from Invisible Children coming to give a presentation at our church this Sunday.
Just watched Coogan's Bluff. Clint Eastwood is a bad motha ****a!
I got in this long drawn out argument with an old "friend" who was trying to say that Clint was an awful person because he's for gun control, but made all sorts of money acting in films with a gun in his hand. I tried explaining the whole thing about how he was "acting" in those films, but he wasn't buying it. Dude's a bit of a tool.
What's everybody's take on the KONY 2012 movement? It seems like the hype has started to collapse in on itself. I'm interested because there's a group from Invisible Children coming to give a presentation at our church this Sunday.
Good cause, the charity behind the "movement" is supposedly pretty marginal however. I think something like 3/5 of the money donated goes to salaries and overhead. The whole premise of the movement is to leverage public desire for Kony's arrest into the US government remaining involved in Kony's pursuit, or even intensifying their efforts. It's one big "raise awareness" type of thing. Supposedly they've done some good ground level work in Africa also though. I would probably just write my congressman expressing desire for US involvement before I donated money to them to be spent towards supporting the "movement".
There are plenty of other charities focused on Africa that would probably make more efficient use of your dollars. Although who's to say 70 cents of your dollar spent on mosquito netting has more of an impact than 30 cents of your dollar spent on village alert networks (referenced in their Kony video). One's unarguably more efficient, but which is more impactful is tough to call.
All in all, no true charity is bad charity IMO (though some are better than others).
Good cause, the charity behind the "movement" is supposedly pretty marginal however. I think something like 3/5 of the money donated goes to salaries and overhead. The whole premise of the movement is to leverage public desire for Kony's arrest into the US government remaining involved in Kony's pursuit, or even intensifying their efforts. It's one big "raise awareness" type of thing. Supposedly they've done some good ground level work in Africa also though. I would probably just write my congressman expressing desire for US involvement before I donated money to them to be spent towards supporting the "movement".
There are plenty of other charities focused on Africa that would probably make more efficient use of your dollars. Although who's to say 70 cents of your dollar spent on mosquito netting has more of an impact than 30 cents of your dollar spent on village alert networks (referenced in their Kony video). One's unarguably more efficient, but which is more impactful is tough to call.
All in all, no true charity is bad charity IMO (though some are better than others).
Thanks for your feedback. I largely feel the same way. It's an interesting movement from a social-responsibility kind of way, and one (unlike most others) with a specific, (theoretically) attainable objective. I'd be very hesitant, however, offer much in the way of financial backing, considering the apparent lack of checks and balances in their fundraising, and the high rate going to administration.
This pic sums up probably what too many are thinking:
What's everybody's take on the KONY 2012 movement? It seems like the hype has started to collapse in on itself. I'm interested because there's a group from Invisible Children coming to give a presentation at our church this Sunday.
That's how the mindset of North America works for the most part. Care about it for two days and then it disappears into obscurity.
The whole premise is a good cause but nothing will come from this viral video because the powers that be don't care enough and a bunch of teenagers and twenty something's that it's geared towards can't change anything with regards to the subject.
The people who act holier than thou because they watched a video piss me off though. I understand it's a good cause but when you ask those people to find Uganda on a map and they can't it bothers me to no end.
Now I look like an ass.
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That's how the mindset of North America works for the most part. Care about it for two days and then it disappears into obscurity.
The whole premise is a good cause but nothing will come from this viral video because the powers that be don't care enough and a bunch of teenagers and twenty something's that it's geared towards can't change anything with regards to the subject.
The people who act holier than thou because they watched a video piss me off though. I understand it's a good cause but when you ask those people to find Uganda on a map and they can't it bothers me to no end.
Now I look like an ass.
Actually, you look like someone I would probably get along with.
What's everybody's take on the KONY 2012 movement? It seems like the hype has started to collapse in on itself. I'm interested because there's a group from Invisible Children coming to give a presentation at our church this Sunday.
I don't know anything about the Invisible Children group, and I haven't seen that video everyone's been talking about, but the LRA are some of the worst mother****ing arseholes to have plagued the world during the past decades.
It was kind of funny when Rush Limbaugh tried to blame Obama for killing Christians (and aiding Muslims) when the US sent troops into Uganda.
That's how the mindset of North America works for the most part. Care about it for two days and then it disappears into obscurity.
The whole premise is a good cause but nothing will come from this viral video because the powers that be don't care enough and a bunch of teenagers and twenty something's that it's geared towards can't change anything with regards to the subject.
The people who act holier than thou because they watched a video piss me off though. I understand it's a good cause but when you ask those people to find Uganda on a map and they can't it bothers me to no end.
Now I look like an ass.
That's part of the intrigue for me to meet some of these people beyond the pre-packaged stuff.
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It was kind of funny when Rush Limbaugh tried to blame Obama for killing Christians (and aiding Muslims) when the US sent troops into Uganda.
Video blocked. I guess the mighty Canadian border is doing its job efficiently of impeding the tsunami of American culture on our pristine civilization.
Video blocked. I guess the mighty Canadian border is doing its job efficiently of impeding the tsunami of American culture on our pristine civilization.
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