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Title: 1/5/2019
Post by: CigarBanter on January 05, 2019, 12:38:28 AM
What's up cigar enthusiasts?!  Any cigar deals on the various internet sites that are worth talking about? Join in this discussion and perhaps learn something along the way.  Warning: don't proceed if you have thin skin but don't be afraid to post either...  And welcome aboard!
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 03:50:52 AM
good morning. I'm up, truck packed, coffee on, La Palina Classic robusto lit. 64° and suppose to drop by tonight. good thing I'll be inside all day.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 04:05:39 AM
https://halfwheel.com/senate-bill-to-exempt-premium-cigars-from-fda-regulation-reintroduced/289270
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 04:06:09 AM
https://halfwheel.com/florida-state-senator-introduces-bill-banning-smoking-on-beaches/289245
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 04:06:47 AM
https://halfwheel.com/camacho-liberty-2002-churchill/289198
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 04:07:35 AM
https://halfwheel.com/protocol-john-doe-series-released-as-exclusive-to-berkeley-humidor/289172
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 04:44:12 AM
Morning Dean, I woke up too early and could not go back to sleep.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 04:53:14 AM
Morning Dean, I woke up too early and could not go back to sleep.
I woke up before the alarm and said fuck it and stayed up. getting ready to head out soon. just 130 some mile drive to St Augustine, I'll fill the tank before I leave.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 04:56:12 AM
Morning Dean, I woke up too early and could not go back to sleep.
I woke up before the alarm and said fuck it and stayed up. getting ready to head out soon. just 130 some mile drive to St Augustine, I'll fill the tank before I leave.
I don’t even own an alarm clock anymore
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 05:12:01 AM
Morning Dean, I woke up too early and could not go back to sleep.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 06:21:44 AM
SHEESH!

Guess Dean hit the road.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 07:10:18 AM
good morning. I'm up, truck packed, coffee on, La Palina Classic robusto lit. 64° and suppose to drop by tonight. good thing I'll be inside all day.
Don't drink too much of that coffee before your trip.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 07:10:50 AM
SHEESH!

Guess Dean hit the road.
Meetings and women to conquer await!
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 07:27:14 AM
Morning T Dave
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 07:28:15 AM
Morning SCDave and OnTheRoadAgainDean.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 07:28:52 AM
Morning Tug pushing a Corps of Engineer work barge for Tony

Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 07:30:16 AM
Today in History
Today is Saturday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2019. There are 360 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Jan. 5, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to help them resist Communist aggression in what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine.

On this date:
In 1066, Edward the Confessor, King of England, died after a reign of nearly 24 years.
In 1589, Catherine de Medici (MEHD’-uh-chee) of France died at age 69.
In 1781, a British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Virginia.
In 1895, French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, was publicly stripped of his rank. (He was ultimately vindicated.)
In 1925, Democrat Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming took office as America’s first female governor, succeeding her late husband, William, following a special election.
In 1933, the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, died in Northampton, Massachusetts, at age 60. Construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge. (Work was completed four years later.)
In 1943, educator and scientist George Washington Carver died in Tuskegee, Alabama, at about age 80.
In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s two-act tragicomedy “Waiting for Godot,” considered a classic of the Theater of the Absurd, premiered in Paris.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Elizabeth Dole to succeed Drew Lewis as secretary of transportation; Dole became the first woman to head a Cabinet department in Reagan’s administration, and the first to head the DOT.
In 1993, the state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd, an admitted child sex killer, in America’s first legal hanging since 1965.
In 1994, Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, former speaker of the House of Representatives, died in Boston at age 81.
In 1998, Sonny Bono, the 1960s pop star-turned-politician, was killed when he struck a tree while skiing at the Heavenly Ski Resort on the Nevada-California state line; he was 62.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 07:31:00 AM
Ten years ago: President-elect Barack Obama met with congressional leaders, declaring the national economy was “bad and getting worse” and predicting lawmakers would approve a mammoth revitalization package within two weeks of his taking office. Former Attorney General Griffin B. Bell died in Atlanta at age 90. Retired Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard, a paratroop officer who’d suggested the famously defiant answer “Nuts!” to a German demand for surrender during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, died in Arlington, Va., at age 93.

Five years ago: The Iraqi military tried to dislodge al-Qaida militants in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, unleashing airstrikes and besieging the regional capital. Acting with a court order, the family of Jahi (juh-HY’) McMath, a 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy, removed her from a California hospital to be cared for elsewhere. (Following several years of being on life support, Jahi died June 22, 2018, following surgery.)

One year ago: “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff, a book in which former aide Steve Bannon was quoted as expressing doubts about President Donald Trump’s competence, was released; Trump had said on the eve of publication that the book was full of “lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist.” New York City officials said the city had ended 2017 with 290 murders, the fewest on record in the modern era; the number of shootings and overall crimes had also declined. Actor Jerry Van Dyke died in Arkansas at the age of 86. Astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, died at his Houston home; he was 87.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 07:32:55 AM
Today’s Birthdays:
Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale is 91.
Actor Robert Duvall is 88.
Juan Carlos, former King of Spain, is 81.
Singer-musician Athol Guy (The Seekers) is 79.
Former talk show host Charlie Rose is 77.
 Actress-director Diane Keaton is 73.
Actor Ted Lange (lanj) is 71.
Rhythm-and-blues musician George “Funky” Brown (Kool and the Gang) is 70.
Rock musician Chris Stein (Blondie) is 69.
Former CIA Director George Tenet is 66.
Actress Pamela Sue Martin is 66.
Actor Clancy Brown is 60.
Singer Iris Dement is 58.
Actress Suzy Amis is 57.
Actor Ricky Paull (correct) Goldin is 54.
Actor Vinnie Jones is 54.
Rock musician Kate Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson) is 53.
Actor Joe Flanigan is 52.
Dancer-choreographer Carrie Ann Inaba is 51.
Rock musician Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age) is 51.
Actress Heather Paige Kent is 50.
Rock singer Marilyn Manson is 50.
Actor Shea Whigham is 50.
Actor Derek Cecil is 46.
Actress-comedian Jessica Chaffin is 45.
Actor Bradley Cooper is 44.
Actress January Jones is 41.
Actress Brooklyn Sudano is 38.
Actor Franz Drameh is 26.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 07:33:23 AM
Thought for Today: “It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, English author (1892-1973).
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 07:37:50 AM
Thought for Today: “It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, English author (1892-1973).
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 07:40:03 AM
Some other notable birthdays...

1209 Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, born in Winchester Castle (d. 1272)

1813 Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Sumter County, South Carolina (d. 1903)

1840 John Doby Kennedy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Camden, South Carolina (d. 1896)

1855 King C. Gillette, American businessman and inventor of inexpensive and disposable safety razor blades, born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (d. 1932)

1874 Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist (shock therapy-Nobel 1944), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1965)

1897 Jack Wagner, American actor (The Razor's Edge, Under Two Flags, Jive Junction), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1965)

1914 George Reeves, American actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), born in Woolstock, Iowa (d. 1959)

1917 Jane Wyman, American actress (Magnificent Obsession) and 1st wife of Ronald Reagan, born in Saint Joseph, Missouri (d. 2007)

1930 Edward Galven Givens Jr., Major USAF/astronaut, born in Quanah, Texas (d. 1967)

1931 Alvin Ailey, African-American choreographer (American Dance Theater), born in Rogers, Texas (d. 1989)

1932 Chuck Noll, American NFL coach (Pittsburgh Steelers), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2014)

Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 07:46:22 AM
Today’s Birthdays:
Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale is 91.
Actor Robert Duvall is 88.
Juan Carlos, former King of Spain, is 81.
Singer-musician Athol Guy (The Seekers) is 79.
Former talk show host Charlie Rose is 77.
 Actress-director Diane Keaton is 73.
Actor Ted Lange (lanj) is 71.
Rhythm-and-blues musician George “Funky” Brown (Kool and the Gang) is 70.
Rock musician Chris Stein (Blondie) is 69.
Former CIA Director George Tenet is 66.
Actress Pamela Sue Martin is 66.
Actor Clancy Brown is 60.
Singer Iris Dement is 58.
Actress Suzy Amis is 57.
Actor Ricky Paull (correct) Goldin is 54.
Actor Vinnie Jones is 54.
Rock musician Kate Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson) is 53.
Actor Joe Flanigan is 52.
Dancer-choreographer Carrie Ann Inaba is 51.
Rock musician Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age) is 51.
Actress Heather Paige Kent is 50.
Rock singer Marilyn Manson is 50.
Actor Shea Whigham is 50.
Actor Derek Cecil is 46.
Actress-comedian Jessica Chaffin is 45.
Actor Bradley Cooper is 44.
Actress January Jones is 41.
Actress Brooklyn Sudano is 38.
Actor Franz Drameh is 26.
The Who’s Who of Golf’s Heroes
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 07:46:59 AM
SHEESH!

Guess Dean hit the road.
yep, just arrived. place is huge. now to find out where I'm headed.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 08:16:15 AM
SHEESH!

Guess Dean hit the road.
yep, just arrived. place is huge. now to find out where I'm headed.
I know where you are headed, towards the nearest old woman!
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 08:41:18 AM
‘Gun-toting hippies’ greet Boulder ‘assault weapons’ ban with mass noncompliance

BOULDER, Colorado — Boulder’s newly enacted “assault weapons” ban is meeting with stiff resistance from its “gun-toting hippies,” staunch liberals who also happen to be devoted firearms owners.

Only 342 “assault weapons,” or semiautomatic rifles, were certified by Boulder police before the Dec. 31 deadline, meaning there could be thousands of residents in the scenic university town of 107,000 in violation of the sweeping gun-control ordinance.

Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 08:56:33 AM
SHEESH!

Whakin the woodies lull?
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 09:17:22 AM
2 buck chuck day at The Page
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 09:22:30 AM
got an email to check in early, prior to 4pm, nice room.
I have no activity until 10am, outside smoking.
alot of nice women I haven't seen before.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 09:25:29 AM
SHEESH!

Guess Dean hit the road.
yep, just arrived. place is huge. now to find out where I'm headed.
We all want to know that.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 09:29:18 AM
got an email to check in early, prior to 4pm, nice room.
I have no activity until 10am, outside smoking.
alot of nice women I haven't seen before.
You got one of those balconies to smoke on?
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 09:30:39 AM
got an email to check in early, prior to 4pm, nice room.
I have no activity until 10am, outside smoking.
alot of nice women I haven't seen before.
You got one of those balconies to smoke on?
I have a balcony, but smoking is not allowed. 😡
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 09:32:40 AM
got an email to check in early, prior to 4pm, nice room.
I have no activity until 10am, outside smoking.
alot of nice women I haven't seen before.
You got one of those balconies to smoke on?
I have a balcony, but smoking is not allowed. 😡
I smoke on the no smoking balconies all the time, just remember to close the door and use an ashtray or cup or something so you can flush the ashes and butts
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 09:38:12 AM
Just unfuckenbelievable!  The MF’r was re-elected while he was in jail🤬

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Texas lawmaker was released from a Texas jail at 11:34 p.m.Thursday after serving only four months of a 12-month jail sentence. Rep. Ron Reynolds, a Missouri City Democrat, was convicted of five counts of barratry in 2015 and sentenced to one year in jail.

Reynolds won re-election to the Texas House of Representatives in November to represent District 27. He was unopposed in that race, but still managed to gather 47,305 votes.

Reynolds was booked into the county jail on Sept. 7 and was supposed to serve a year-long sentence.

Reynolds served just shy of four months in jail. Reynolds was a sitting House member when he was convicted in 2015, but spent three years appealing the conviction.

Reynolds had his law license suspended on May 2, 2016. Reynolds, a 1999 graduate of the Texas Tech University law school, is still under a suspension by the State Bar of Texas.

Since the convictions were misdemeanors, Reynolds did not have to resign from office. Had Reynolds not been released early, he would have missed the entire first year of the 86th legislative session, which reconvenes in Austin next Tuesday.
 
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 09:38:33 AM
got an email to check in early, prior to 4pm, nice room.
I have no activity until 10am, outside smoking.
alot of nice women I haven't seen before.
You got one of those balconies to smoke on?
I have a balcony, but smoking is not allowed. 😡
I smoke on the no smoking balconies all the time, just remember to close the door and use an ashtray or cup or something so you can flush the ashes and but
can't really take a chance, I will be coming back every 3 months for the next 2 years.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 09:46:14 AM
got an email to check in early, prior to 4pm, nice room.
I have no activity until 10am, outside smoking.
alot of nice women I haven't seen before.
You got one of those balconies to smoke on?
I have a balcony, but smoking is not allowed. 😡
I smoke on the no smoking balconies all the time, just remember to close the door and use an ashtray or cup or something so you can flush the ashes and but
can't really take a chance, I will be coming back every 3 months for the next 2 years.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on January 05, 2019, 09:52:11 AM
Good morning, Dave and Dave.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on January 05, 2019, 09:54:24 AM
Morning Tug pushing a Corps of Engineer work barge for Tony
I'm thinking of creating a coffee table book with all of your photos. I'd buy it.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 09:54:39 AM
Good morning, Dave and Dave.
Morning Mayor
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 09:55:33 AM
Morning Tug pushing a Corps of Engineer work barge for Tony
I'm thinking of creating a coffee table book with all of your photos. I'd buy it.
Just be sure to send me one😀
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on January 05, 2019, 10:00:23 AM
Gray and drizzly here. Winter soccer training starts today. Football brunch (awards) tomorrow. There's always something.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on January 05, 2019, 10:02:04 AM
SHEESH!

Guess Dean hit the road.
yep, just arrived. place is huge. now to find out where I'm headed.
Hi BackAgainDean. Although it's 10 now so you're likely gone again.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 10:07:19 AM
Gray and drizzly here. Winter soccer training starts today. Football brunch (awards) tomorrow. There's always something.
Sunny and clear here with a very cold 15-25 mph north wind.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 11:39:57 AM
Double Sheesh!
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 12:11:28 PM
got an email to check in early, prior to 4pm, nice room.
I have no activity until 10am, outside smoking.
alot of nice women I haven't seen before.
You got one of those balconies to smoke on?
I have a balcony, but smoking is not allowed. 😡
I smoke on the no smoking balconies all the time, just remember to close the door and use an ashtray or cup or something so you can flush the ashes and butts
...and make sure they stay flushed...
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 12:14:12 PM
got an email to check in early, prior to 4pm, nice room.
I have no activity until 10am, outside smoking.
alot of nice women I haven't seen before.
You got one of those balconies to smoke on?
I have a balcony, but smoking is not allowed. 😡
I smoke on the no smoking balconies all the time, just remember to close the door and use an ashtray or cup or something so you can flush the ashes and but
can't really take a chance, I will be coming back every 3 months for the next 2 years.
More important to focus on meeting the new ladies then. Just go downstairs and smoke outside. It is Florida after all.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 12:15:30 PM
Morning Tug pushing a Corps of Engineer work barge for Tony
I'm thinking of creating a coffee table book with all of your photos. I'd buy it.
Call it Tony's Tug Log.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 12:19:30 PM
Boy left a couple of hours ago. Been assessing my cleanup plan...😖 
Emptied the refrigerator...five heavy garbage bags...sheesh.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 12:20:33 PM
Time for s cigar break...a Warped 300 Manos and coffee.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on January 05, 2019, 01:26:32 PM
Boy left a couple of hours ago. Been assessing my cleanup plan... 
Emptied the refrigerator...five heavy garbage bags...sheesh.
Throwing away food pains me.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 01:54:39 PM
Boy left a couple of hours ago. Been assessing my cleanup plan... 
Emptied the refrigerator...five heavy garbage bags...sheesh.
Throwing away food pains me.
.. and a lot of it. She's a food "hoarder" All these little bags of leftovers...and some weird shit growing.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 02:06:28 PM
not much of interest between now and dinner so it's cigar time.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on January 05, 2019, 02:19:40 PM
Boy left a couple of hours ago. Been assessing my cleanup plan... 
Emptied the refrigerator...five heavy garbage bags...sheesh.
Throwing away food pains me.
.. and a lot of it. She's a food "hoarder" All these little bags of leftovers...and some weird shit growing.
That's a whole other story. My wife is similar. Shit makes its way to the back of the fridge, never to be found again.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on January 05, 2019, 02:20:30 PM
not much of interest between now and dinner so it's cigar time.
Where ya heading to now, Deano?
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 02:22:02 PM
not much of interest between now and dinner so it's cigar time.
Where ya heading to now, Deano?
I'm in the parking lot in my truck, then to my room to unpack and get cleaned up for dinner.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 02:23:33 PM
this is where I am at:

https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/jaxbr-world-golf-village-renaissance-st-augustine-resort/
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 03:58:04 PM
Boy left a couple of hours ago. Been assessing my cleanup plan... 
Emptied the refrigerator...five heavy garbage bags...sheesh.
Throwing away food pains me.
.. and a lot of it. She's a food "hoarder" All these little bags of leftovers...and some weird shit growing.
That's a whole other story. My wife is similar. Shit makes its way to the back of the fridge, never to be found again.
+1Warden
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 04:26:16 PM
Shrimp and Grits on the menu tonight, 😋!
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: FloridaDean on January 05, 2019, 04:33:25 PM
Shrimp and Grits on the menu tonight, 😋!
I have no idea yet what's on the dinner menu. all I know is my flyer says $12-$21.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on January 05, 2019, 05:30:31 PM
Shrimp and Grits on the menu tonight, !
We had empanadas here. Yum.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on January 05, 2019, 05:31:06 PM
Page 5.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on January 05, 2019, 06:11:58 PM
Shrimp and Grits on the menu tonight, !
We had empanadas here. Yum.
Used to enjoy those in TX
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on January 05, 2019, 09:01:24 PM
Sheesh.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: Travellin Dave on January 05, 2019, 10:25:32 PM
Sheesh.
I'll second that.
Title: Re: 1/5/2019
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on January 05, 2019, 10:30:11 PM
Sheesh.
I'll second that.
I'll turd it.