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Almost sixty years ago my father took me with him to go look at a bird dog over on the Sac River bottoms, now dammed up by Lake Stockton since 1970.
If you’ve watched the movie Deliverance that was about the level of civilization there.
The man with the bird dogs wasn’t home. His wife (not exactly a supermodel) directed us to a certain spot on the river.
There a bunch of river dwellers were having a coon on a log contest.
There was a raccoon on a log in the river, and dogs would swim out and attempt to pull the coon off the log and drown it. The coon seemed to be winning. The dogs would swim back a bloody mess.
There were men drinking whiskey right out of the bottle and beer right out of the can, and some women too, whose clothes fit too tightly. They were gambling and cussing loudly, right in front of those girls.
I started crying, and said Daddy that coon is going to kill one of those poor dogs!
He said he’d come back later to the man because he had to go milk and on the way home Daddy taught me tolerance about river rats and their ways.
He said if you don’t like a coon on a log contest go someplace else.
Today those coon on a log contests are as much a crime as cockfighting all over the USA.
The problem we smokers have is other folks look at us, and think of us like we are sinful and wicked.
They really don’t care what our pleasures are, since they don’t find pleasure in them.
Now here is why I like pipesmagazine forum. Come for the discussion on Canadian tobacco legislation and stay to hear about the coon dunking competition. I really had no idea that was a 'thing'. I'm still not sure what I think about that, seems pretty hard on hunting dogs and raccoons.
And thats how you end up on the FBI domestic terrorist watchlist folks.....
I'd bet he's on the Metro's "to do" list now. 
The Brit's aren't much on free speech these days.
The Brit's aren't much on free speech these days.
But we are big on sarcasm. Unlike the FBI, who now have me on their domestic terror list, supposedly.I'd bet he's on the Metro's "to do" list now.
In countries that provide health care it is especially a fact of life that tobacco is going to be hit hard by government. That said, they should look at junk food too. Its easy to hit the smoking population as they are already down.
Every wealthy nation on this earth provides basic health care to everybody who is in obvious distress.
When you hear sirens going to an accident scene they’ll patch up the survivors, every time, and the dead will get buried, too. Then who pays is decided.
The decree of health care nations provide varies considerably, but the reaper always wins in the end.
The hardest part of self government is to leave other people alone that aren’t hurting you.
The coon on the log I saw had a small chance of whipping every dog that swam out to drown him. If he did they cut him loose to die a horrible death in the woods some other time.
Why coon on a log contests are outlawed today is little kids like I was grew up and decided to put an end to the drinking and gambling and fast women that characterized such events.
The grandchildren of those river rats are somewhere out today hooking their pickups to each other and seeing which one can pull the other. The debauchery is the same.
A Canadian wouldn’t have to be much of a smuggler to lay by 20 pounds of tobacco from across the border, and it would pay them back for all the booze they sold us during Prohibition .
And he could grow his own for nearly nothing.
Canadians seem to be less tolerant of vice than Americans.
Not, that they’ll have any less vice.
So what happens if there is an accident, the survivors are patched up, but have no insurance and no money to pay?Every wealthy nation on this earth provides basic health care to everybody who is in obvious distress.
When you hear sirens going to an accident scene they’ll patch up the survivors, every time, and the dead will get buried, too. Then who pays is decided.
The decree of health care nations provide varies considerably, but the reaper always wins in the end.
The hardest part of self government is to leave other people alone that aren’t hurting you.
The coon on the log I saw had a small chance of whipping every dog that swam out to drown him. If he did they cut him loose to die a horrible death in the woods some other time.
Why coon on a log contests are outlawed today is little kids like I was grew up and decided to put an end to the drinking and gambling and fast women that characterized such events.
The grandchildren of those river rats are somewhere out today hooking their pickups to each other and seeing which one can pull the other. The debauchery is the same.
A Canadian wouldn’t have to be much of a smuggler to lay by 20 pounds of tobacco from across the border, and it would pay them back for all the booze they sold us during Prohibition .
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And he could grow his own for nearly nothing.
Canadians seem to be less tolerant of vice than Americans.
Not, that they’ll have any less vice.
Every time in every place.
People bitch about socialism who draw benefits from it.
The do gooders who hate to see you take a smoke also hate to see a long haired hippie smoking a reefer or a good old boy drink a light beer at a tractor pull.
Intolerance is why they hate us having fun.
Health care savings is an excuse they use.
The way I see it is, if I can afford it I buy it, if I can't I forget about it until I can afford it. Eventually tobacco will be on the block in America an we will be having the same discussion but Americanized and forced to feel like we are bigger victims than our brothers to the north. But we are the same, Trudeau is learning from America we just have amendments and declarations to save our gun loving, tobacco, cannabis, alchohol, prescription pill loveing, plastic surgery filled nation we call our home.
Just wait until you find out what “noodling” is lol
We really need a Constitutional amendment to protect butt lifts and boob jobs.
Or humor.I'd bet he's on the Metro's "to do" list now.
My ISP blocked that content, whatever it is. Apparently it's too saucy for my Canadian eyes.
Dang, sounds like pretty soon it's going to be cheaper to smoke hard drugs than cigarettes!It's a link to the etailer selling RYO for $10/lb.
I am completely disgusted to hear that Canada blocks it's citizens from seeing ANY internet content. I always thought well of Canada. I've spent a lot of quality time there. Had a girlfriend in Toronto, canoed most of Algonquin Park and some of the Boundary Waters, had my honeymoon in Quebec... WTF, Canada?
Meh. I like Canada just fine. The weather sucks a few months out of the year, but my chances of catching a bullet in a random mass shooting are effectively zero. The only thing that makes me nervous is how close we are to the U.S.
Also $10/lb sounds great, but it's likely that Canada Customs would impose over $200 duty on that pound, so it's kind of a moot point anyway.