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    trolling plate instead of trolling motor

    Does anybody have experience with using a trolling plate instead of a trolling motor? Please share it with us.
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    An interesting thought on the war in Irak.

    We have been in Irak for a few years now and things are not shaping up the way people hoped for.In fact things are changing on the ground in a frightening way.It started with removing Sadam,restarting the oil industry and bringing democracy to the middle east.Of those 3 goals only the first was...
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    long shaft conversion kit for 9.5 evinrude

    I am looking for a shaft conversion kit for a 1964 9.5 evinrude.I need to go from short to long.Has anyone seen one or heard of one ? What do they go for? thanks for any advice and leads.
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    Israel Lebanon

    Two of my Israeli nephews were called up to report to their units within 6 hours.They both serve in paratrooper units.One is an officer,the other an NCO. When they get called up,it means that it is about to get real ugly. Missiles have hit population centers up to 30 miles away from the northern...
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    Fishing Cape Cod

    The yearly pilgrimage to fisherman's paradise is over again and after 3 days on the water I can say that the fishing deities were well disposed towards this fisherman and his son. The first day out on Billings Gate shoals the Bluefish schools were so heavy that it was impossible to fish live...
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    thank you iboats

    Thank you iboats and moderator 5 for investing your time and money just so we can enjoy this site. You really did not have to do it,but not only did you try to improve this service ,you even continued trying after a bunch of whiners complained about this free fun place. Thank you and thank you...
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    nationality

    How many nationalities do you claim and how many passports of different countries do you have?If you have more than one ,how did you get them?<br />I sometimes wonder if having three is very exceptional.
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    Getting ready for Cape Cod trip.

    Around this time of year we check our wirelining gear we use on the cape to go after stripers and blues.For the fun of it we took it out to Keuka lake and over a hundred feet we started trolling 3 ounce bucktails with about 600 feet of wire line out.<br />After jigging for about fifteen minutes...
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    this is for txswinner.

    Although I very much dislike you mentioning right wingers as reich wingers,in fact as much as comparing democrats to communists,there is an interesting little tidbit.<br />You probably have heard of Leo Strauss the ideological guru of the neo cons.23 years after his death in 1973,his legacy is...
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    elections on the horizon.

    On opening the Sunday Times,I read the headline about the senate debating gay marriage.It struck me then.If it depends on the current mayority in the senate,this election is not going to be about the senator's performance or about sending a message to the president.<br />No, the gay subject has...
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    Is the bible fact or fiction?

    It was asked in another thread, so let's ask it in its own thread.<br />I will try and give the jewish opinion about it,after all,we wrote it!I lived in Israel and studied in the Hebrew university of Jerusalem. I will try to convey the dominant jewish view.<br />The old testament is a compiled...
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    Karl Rove Indicted?

    I was reading some blogs and it keeps on popping up that Karl Rove will be indicted in the Valery Plame case.Anybody know any facts?<br />It seems to be in character for the man who created "swift boat crews against Kerry" and tried to make John McCain's name mud in the last election,to have had...
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    Verizon versus Xingular.

    It is that time again,having to pick a cell phone provider.<br />We have had xingular for the past 4 years and we are reasonably happy with the reception in our area,but verizon is fully compatable on this front.Lately we had all sorts of creative billing by xingular.For instance text messaging...
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    Ethanol or Methanol?

    I listened to another "Science Friday" on NPR and there was this scientist who started his career in the seventies by researching the coal to oil conversion potential worked on at the time by Exxon and the US government.<br />He claims that corn ethanol together with hydraulic power and wind...
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    electron travel speed

    I am trying to explain to my son that in spite of the fact that electrons travel at very close to lightspeed,it may take a single electron about half an hour to travel through 3 feet of wire.The important thing I forgot is the distance/diameter/material resistance formula.Can somebody please...
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    Mellow yellow???

    Anybody hear or see anything from mellow yellow??
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    Lesions on stripers.

    This thread is directly connected to a post that Flyrod wrote in the Whales thread.<br />I read the article in "The boston Globe" about stripers having bacteria causing skin lesions.This happens in the Chesapeake Bay.<br />It seems that stripers are very prone to these bacteria mostly because...
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    What damage will we sustain if we shut off the Iranian oil flow?

    I hear the war drums and the nation seems to be preparing for the next war.<br />Maybe it is time to take a step back and analyze the possible backlash and damage it can do to us.Weigh the pros and the cons and just think it over.<br />To bomb a country to kingdom come is one thing.<br />How it...
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    Corn ,ethanol and gasoline.

    I heard some very interesting tidbits of news on NPR about the amount of gasoline it takes to produce a gallon of ethanol.<br />Every bushel(56 pounds) of corn that is grown in this country uses about 0.33 gallons of gasoline in the form of fertilizer.The amount of energy it takes in order to...
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    The old arab's potatoe garden

    An old arab living in NY sends his son, who lives in Paris, an email explaining how he really wants to grow some potatoes in his garden and how he is too old to turn the soil.<br />The next day his son sends him an email saying :"Dad please do not dig in the garden because that is where I buried...
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