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I’ve never disclosed smoking or alcohol use to any medical professional. I don’t want to be lumped in with a 3 pack a day smoker who starts his day with a bloody and a beer. 

@ghostsofpompeii I agree with the doing it right! Can’t say I’ve ever thought about naming it. Just focused more on drenching it on a stack of flap jacks. Since you’ve brought it up though, I think Treecle might work. 

@MrMustache That sounds about as complicated as trying to make the old fashion hard fudge. But anything worth doing is worth doing right. Be honest now - did you come up with a product name for your home made maple syrup? Half the fun of attempting to make new tobacco blends was coming up with a name for it.

I dont enjoy talking politics online for the most part . I find it almost worthless . But I do enjoy pointing things out sometimes 

Ever since I can remember anything politics , which would be the 70's being I was born in the 60s , I remember everyone talking about getting a grip on wasteful gov spending . Im talking from both parties since the 70's . Im sure theres video online of everyone talking about it and of course no one doing anything about it . So finally there is a real push to get something done .... but its Trump , lol , so it must be bad . I mean , anyone could have done whats being done but didnt , at least not in a significant way that I can recall . 

I blame the media for being in the business of pitting folks against each other . Look at how facebook used agitating feeds to get reactions that were negative , as a modern example , which they learned from traditional media . It was done on purpose because negativity gets more reaction than positivity for some reason . Kinda like  Johnny Cash singing bad news spreads like wild fire [ good news travels slow ] , right .

My wish is that the American public would get past being a reactionary lot . Everything is about immediate reaction and its about the most sophomoric mindset possible ... but , easy to manipulate . 

Have you ever watched an episode of Ancient Aliens [ bare with me ] ? Its basically bs but theres always a point when they say " some believe that .... " .... yada yada . Its how they interject absurdity into the conversation as a point of validity just because someone [ usually unnamed or known ] believes it , lol .  This is an example of media tactics . You can always find some idiot that believes something absurd , no doubt

The word ... Experts , generally equates to biased funded disinformation . This was something I learned as a teen by the end of the 70s . Fast forward to current times and people actually think the opposite . The whole energy behind messing with the establishment has gone away from the left . I think they believe they are the establishment of the day , as if they won from back in the 60's and 70's . If they believe that , then theyve been played . Because the right are the only ones messing with the establishment . Its funny that the conservatives are the rebels of the day . The left just has absurdity to use as a message . Pretty soon theyll be saying that someone believes a monkey can fly out of your arse , so you'd have to get on board with that . Im here to tell ya that a monkey can not fly out of your arse and its more important to audit governments wasteful  , fraudulent  and abusive spending and doing something about it 

Thats me in a nutshelll ^^ . Take it or leave it 

A few of you may remember that I was once a musician and have recorded several CDs under the moniker Ghosts Of Pompeii over the years. But back in the mid 70s' I was the keyboardist in a progressive rock band called Vesuvius. Well now forty years past an Italian label called Black Widow Music is releasing some of our music on vinyl and CD. I was floored when I discovered someone was actually releasing music that had never saw the light of day - other than copies we'd made for our friends and family. The majority of the tunes were demos and not even completely finished. Rough cuts. But the guys at the label somehow got access to some of those bootleg CDs and wanted to do a legit production fit for release. I've got no idea what the finished product will sound like but it will be pretty cool having a vinyl record of the stuff. I was about 24 years old when the music was made - and now that I'm approaching 75 it's finally being release by a legit label.