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[rex desilets]

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This goes hand in hand with people that use 2-3 parking spaces.........although that is actually not illegal in many states.

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Reminds me: one year, near Christmas, I saw a Mercedes parked across two spaces in a very crowded mall parking lot. Someone had keyed it to ruin. Many laughed and chortled at the sight.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Question:
Is there any chance Miley Cyrus will stop sticking her tongue out?
Second question, though related to the first: What is that tongue searching for? (I think I know but would rather not say on so polite a family-based forum as thisn.)

[HONDO74]

Question:
Is there any chance Miley Cyrus will stop sticking her tongue out?
Second question, though related to the first: What is that tongue searching for? (I think I know but would rather not say on so polite a family-based forum as thisn.)

She said recently she was changing her ways because she was only thought of as a sex object. When you pose nude on a wrecking ball and act like a s l u t that's how it works. She wanted the bad girl image, she got it. She started off with a very wholesome image as Hannah Montana. The tongue is just part of the s l u t image.

I really hated to see her go this route because she had done so well as Hannah with Disney. Billy Ray had managed her early career but I think he lost control. She wanted to run her own life.

[rogruth]

IMHO, it occurs because some folks feel - very strongly - that they are "entitled" to be the exception to the rules .

Add to that notion, a younger generation that is coming of age presently which has been told constantly that everything they do is awesome or wonderful or great. They seem to have absolutely no idea that they could have made a mistake, been mistaken, or (and here's the biggy) WRONG.

I don't think these people ever think they are WRONG.
Everybody else is.

[robert.]

"IMHO, it occurs because some folks feel - very strongly - that they are "entitled" to be the exception to the rules ." Da murph.
It's very hard to enforce rules these days. The other day i went to home Depot. To pick something up. While standing at the courtesy desk a man was returning something. Something Home Depot does not sell. Three people told him " Sir this is not our product" The fourth person ask " how much did you pay for it" and gave him his money back. It was a product from Lowes hardware. Fourth manager did not care he gave the guy his money. It's hard for police officers to get a traffic ticket to stick. Most can be thrown out in court. I got one hanging on my frig. It's from the state of NY. They said " This ticket can not be enforced buy a police officer" I'll post a photo.

[robert.]

Here is the letter Mr morocho is the officer that gave me this ticket. They ganged up on me. Three cops. three tickets. Each officer wrote one. I called the chief of police and complained how unprofessional his officer were. He agreed with me.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Question:
Blight.
Trees.
I took these photos, yesterday, to share with you, along Rt.11, between Kirkwood and Cortland, NY. The purpose was to ask you a question.

For years, I have noticed great swaths a denuded trees among the forests in Pennsylvania, and New York, in particular, especially along routes: 11; 81; 80; 380; 17; 23; 231; 13, even during the Summer.

Do you think the completely defoliated and gray-looking trees in these photos are the result of blight or, simply, Autumn ?
Murph

[rogruth]

Murph, I honestly don't know.
But . Yes. No. Maybe so.
I think autumn scenes are fantastic but I don't have any on my layout because I think they are hard to do
AND they seem to vary greatly with what part of the country is being modeled.
We have three pear trees that don't make pears in our yard. This time of year The leaves change to a
very deep red before turning brown and dropping.
They also have a blight that makes the green leaves curl up and turn brown, This is called "fire blight",
can happen at any time and will eventually kill the trees.

[Roy]

Do you think the completely defoliated and gray-looking trees in these photos are the result of blight or, simply, Autumn ?

Why the bifurcation? Are there no other possibilities? Like, a lack of water, or nutrients in the soil?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Do you think the completely defoliated and gray-looking trees in these photos are the result of blight or, simply, Autumn ?

Why the bifurcation? Are there no other possibilities? Like, a lack of water, or nutrients in the soil?

Good points, Roy.

[webenda]

Looks like blight but Roy is correct, blight is not the only thing that kills trees. I have had trees in my yard die from old age, not all trees have a lifespan exceeding 5,000 years (bristlecone pine.) My Mexican Paloverde trees all die after twenty years (normal lifespan for the species.) But I am never without trees, they are prolific at reproducing from seeds that they drop every year. Overpopulation is more of a problem because they are hard to exterminate. At one foot high they already have a three-foot taproot. I try to pull them up immediately after sprouting.

If they are just dropping off leaves due to the season, they should be green again next spring.

[robert.]

Could be a done by a very localized frost.

[John Webster]

Way back when I was a kid there were elm trees, chestnut trees and buckeye trees in the places I lived. Most are gone now, killed by invasive species.

[webenda]

Same thing happened in Tucson to the Chinese Elms. A lot of them died over a two year period (including the one I had.) The University Agricultural Extension said it was caused by a fungus.

[robert.]

We had a fungus in the N.E. it was crushing pine trees. One by one you could watch them brown out Huge rows were dropping. Some Asian Bug would inject a fungus for it's hatchlings eat. It took about 3 weeks from first sight of brown needles to the chainsaw removing it. Tree surgeons would remove 2 healthy trees inline just trying to stop it from moving tree to tree. Nothing worked. Enter Mother Nature. She gave us a winter with a spread of 10% highs and -15% nights. Froze out that bug and it's breakfast fungus. All the pine trees are green and upright.