"I can see Russia from my house" (rent, transfer)

[LittleJazzyP]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

Maybe I misunderstood? As a former military member, "red" always meant communist to me.
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So, hopefully I didn't offend anybody in this forum. The truth is that when I was associated with being "Red," I truly turned red on the face in rage

I don't know your age, but I think the use of "red," in its current sense, is a bit of a generational thing, or at least fairly recent. When I was growing up, it was, as you have said, a term for communists/socialists, usually a fairly derogatory one.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by LittleJazzyP

I don't know your age, but I think the use of "red," in its current sense, is a bit of a generational thing, or at least fairly recent. When I was growing up, it was, as you have said, a term for communists/socialists, usually a fairly derogatory one.

I enlisted in the military during Vietnam. So, red=socialist communist to me

However, now that I understand what the other posters were talking about ("red" = red States), then I see their point.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by RedJacket

Deer season just opened here. I still say its much easier to walk to the supermarket and get your meat.

Standing out in the cold at four or five o'clock in the morning is my definition of insanity.

You got that right. I remember this old fellow I knew years ago, and a couple of times I asked him if he wanted to go fishing salmon with me. His answer always was, "no. I fish the Safeway." The resin why he always responded that way was because the river I go fishing is quite treacherous. The water is extremely cold and murky, and some people drop in the water and drown every now and then.

[ShipOfFools42]

The best hunting I've done has been on the afternoon hunt. Screw getting up before dawn and all that noise.

Oh, and I read that apparently Congress's approval rating has dropped to a whopping 9%. That's lower than the unemployment in many places!

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by ShipOfFools42

The best hunting I've done has been on the afternoon hunt. Screw getting up before dawn and all that noise.

Oh, and I read that apparently Congress's approval rating has dropped to a whopping 9%. That's lower than the unemployment in many places!

I usually getup early, make an oatmeal breakfast (boiled milk and oatmeal), and a piece of wheat bread, and ride out of the campsite at sunrise. But sometimes I stay in bed and leave the campsite around 10:00 AM. But my hunting partners stay in their tent sometimes until midday, and hunt in the afternoon until it's too dark to see. By the time they return to the campsite I already have a fire going in the middle of the campsite.

Anyway, I have killed all my moose except for two in the morning. The first moose I ever killed was at 2:30 PM on Friday the 13th. There was about 2" of snow and ice on the ground . Then the other one I killed it at 9:30 PM on a ridge. There was just enough daylight left when I shot it, but it was already dark by the time we found it in the brush.

I would only kill a moose late in the afternoon if my hunting partners are hunting with me. Otherwise I pass the shot. Moose are too large for me to work on one through the night by myself, but a lot of people hunt alone and have no choice but to work in the darkness of night. No me; I am a big chicken where there are grizzlies around.

[ShipOfFools42]

Yeah, I'm sure it's quite different with moose in some ways. But all the deer I've gotten have been in the afternoon. Mostly because I've very rarely hunted in the morning. That's mainly because I have sleeping problems, and getting up before dawn is something I just don't do unless absolutely necessary. I usually just stay until I get one or until there's no light left, which is pretty early here because the season is November 19 through January 31. Quite different from AK moose season.

[GreyKarast]

Originally Posted by starlite9

No, there was a lot of folks that only saw the Tina version of it and then the media started quoting it as if Palin really said it. But I don't care at this point about that.

With the TV show mentioning it a lot, figured I just point out to people that Alaska has had close ties to Russia both good and bad.

By the way, the reason those Pilots are so paranoid of crossing the boarder into Russain Airspace is two fold, one is drama for the TV show, and second, the Russians have a history of shooting down commercial Aircraft already entering their airspace... Kinda hard to forget if you remember them shooting down a 747 flight that left Alaska heading to Korea if I recall correctly. They claimed it was a spy plane....

With regard to that voyage, there nebylo of civilians, he has been remade for the observation of the strategic points of Russia. This plane flew exactly on all stations in the Russian far East. And the corpses were put in the plane, so because they knew that he will be Destroyed. Proof that it was not a peaceful plane fact that passports of all the passengers were in bundles, they are even too lazy to each carcass put passport in his pocket separately. But then America said that Russia had destroyed the civil aircraft of it all Lipa.Russian divers have raised the wreckage and investigated aircraft

[Лютый]

By the way, my friends, as for Russia so today, June 12, is the main State holiday - Day of Russia.

[gobrien]

Originally Posted by Лютый

By the way, my friends, as for Russia so today, June 12, is the main State holiday - Day of Russia.

How do you feel about this day? Was it a happy occasion? I've never heard of this day as a holiday, but I remember the event. To me, what it commemorated was more freedom for your country. The "Cold War" was a scary time. I looked it up on the internet to understand.

Russia Day in Russia

[Лютый]

Originally Posted by gobrien

How do you feel about this day? Was it a happy occasion? I've never heard of this day as a holiday, but I remember the event. To me, what it commemorated was more freedom for your country. The "Cold War" was a scary time. I looked it up on the internet to understand.

Well, I feel quietly and exactly if it is so possible to tell. Without superfluous fanaticism. I think, as well as you feel in days of your State Holiday.