Just in time for bed

Hell, the coyotes echo over my back fence, never mind the high desert.

I like the high desert!

Wolves make much better howlers. Coyotes just sort of "yipe yipe yipe" as a group.

The high desert?

Dude take the mothership back to the beach please!

Meep, meep!

As day turns to night

Time.

As day turns to night, and the lonesome yell of the coyote echoes over the high desert, here’s an overnight open thread...

Can we round that out some more? We have starlight and campfire too, yes?

/Let's make smores!

You are in the high desert ?

I am in the LOW desert !

Let me know ! I can take you to a treat !

And the coyotes around here don't seem very lonesome. They frequently sound, uh, much more involved then lonesome. And there sure are a lot of pups come spring.

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there

made a few more commas for tfk and sat?

/can't remember the nics of all the comma addicts

re: #2 Dublin(CA)Dude

Hell, the coyotes echo over my back fence, never mind the high desert.

WELL, They are across the road in the 600 acre pasture in front of the house, and packs of them running and yelping on the back 40 here in the deep South... Dublin Dude, my dogs going nuts when they start yelping at the trains in the distance,...heh heh...they get unbelievably loud...

And if you're looking for some coyotes for target practice, might I suggest these?

Open Doctor Memory!

Oh, that reminds me of the nutty woman in the line ahead of me at Wal*Mart the other day. She went on and on about my need to get batteries for The Kid's new, big-ass, brass clock. I told her a few times (then, I just ignored her--she really was obsessed) that I had the "C" batteries at home.

Dagnabit. I was wrong. Wrong. WRONG. WRONG. WRONG.

re: #8 Sharmuta

Weenie roast!

re: #12 BODYGUARDEAGLE

I grew up in NYC, so living here in suburban San Francisco, I'm just amazed at the wildlife that exist amid so much development. A few hundred acres of open space and the coyotes and turkeys just thrive. And I'm talking about packs of coyotes and 70-80 turkeys at a time invading the local residences.

When I was growing up, my idea of wildlife was pigeons and rats. Nice change.

Ron Paul!

Saturday is the Murder, She Wrote marathon on the Hallmark Channel.

Heaven!

Is Charles channeling Art Bell?

Here Chen, Chen, Chen!

re: #17 Dublin(CA)Dude

I heard one of the towns in the area was thinking of having a turkey hunt.

/parents live in Concord

I number 22

re: #17 Dublin(CA)Dude

There are turkeys in San Francisco?

High desert?
Carlos Castaneda?
Stay away from mirrors!

re: #23 coquimbojoe

Miss

re: #17 Dublin(CA)Dude

Keep your cats inside. I lost a cat to a mountain lion near Denver a while back.

re: #26 unclassifiable

re: #23 coquimbojoe

Miss

That's Mister to you

re: #24 DesertSage

Yeah

Grand Gobbler Pelosi fer one

re: #25 IslandLibertarian

High desert?

High Island.

re: #26 unclassifiable

re: #23 coquimbojoe

Miss

Miss? Ah, you sexist pig! It's Ms.

re: #22 unclassifiable

The turkeys have become a problem equal to the Canadian geese. The population has exploded in recent years and they are everywhere. Nasty, dirty birds, the roast on cars and houses, eat everything in sight and have no fear of man.

And of course, some people just have to feed them, like the do the racoons.

If you think geese leave a mess, you see what the turkeys leave. People back east laugh when I mention it, but it has become a very serious problem in the area.

Is this the coyote thread?

Oh, boy! Where's the lamb shish-kabobs?

re: #24 DesertSage

I don't live in SF, I live in Dublin, 25 miles SE of SF and 25 miles NE of San Jose.

re: #28 coquimbojoe

No no

you said "I number 22"

I said "Miss" 'cause your not 22

not cause you are a miss

or something is amiss

hmmm

re: #16 MandyManners

And tequila! Where's Sage?

re: #27 MandyManners

I don't own a cat here, but people who do try to keep them indoors. A loose cat frequently becomes "coyote chow". And we do see the occasional mountain lion, usually in the fall, when, after six or seven months of dry weather, the deer come down from Mount Diablo to feed in the irrigated yards and the mountain lions follow them.

re: #17 Dublin(CA)Dude

re: #12 BODYGUARDEAGLE

I grew up in NYC, so living here in suburban San Francisco, I'm just amazed at the wildlife that exist amid so much development. A few hundred acres of open space and the coyotes and turkeys just thrive. And I'm talking about packs of coyotes and 70-80 turkeys at a time invading the local residences.

When I was growing up, my idea of wildlife was pigeons and rats. Nice change.

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Dublin Dude, I grew up in the Deep South,[Alabama], and wild Turkeys were for hunting, and the Coyotes had actually just started migrating BACK in to our areas, they had all been killed as predators and pest in the late 40's and early 50's..
After 20 years or so of unchecked breeding and cross-breeding with loose pets and wild dogs, they are getting HUGE in our rural area. I've shot two in the last year as big as big German Shepherds, that looked more like wolves. One had just killed a baby calf in the big pasture across the road as I watched, and then ran to get my rifle to dispatch it.

re: #31 MandyManners

re: #26 unclassifiable

re: #23 coquimbojoe

Miss

Miss? Ah, you sexist pig! It's Ms.

I'm old fashioned.

The songdog lurks on the periphery of the flock. He is hungry, but he is patient.

He watches to see who falls behind.

re: #32 Dublin(CA)Dude

What about the MOOSE at Eielson AFB?

re: #32 Dublin(CA)Dude

re: #31 MandyManners

re: #28 coquimbojoe

OK OK Is this the coyote, pig, turkey or friggin gender title thread?!

Dammit people make up yer mindz!

re: #34 Dublin(CA)Dude

re: #24 DesertSage

I don't live in SF, I live in Dublin, 25 miles SE of SF and 25 miles NE of San Jose.

But...they do have turkeys in SF?

re: #30 DesertSage

wusss hap'nin dude.........?.......
Maui Wowie?
Kauai Electric?
Elephant?

That was long long ago and far far away........

Power to the Correct People!
(The sober ones too.)

re: #36 Sharmuta

He's present and accounted for.

re: #27 MandyManners

re: #17 Dublin(CA)Dude

Keep your cats inside. I lost a cat to a mountain lion near Denver a while back.

Mandy, I've lost some really good rural country farm cats to the coyotes, and I mean these cats were domestics, but big Thoms, that were the killers of the farm rodents themselves.

re: #38 BODYGUARDEAGLE

The local coyotes are still rather small, and still very shy and avoid contact with humans as much as possible. I hope that doesn't change.

Hear that lonesome whipporwill...

I was tempted to put up the Hank Sr. version, but LeAnn is much purtier.

Okay, here's Hank.

Libya admits torturing nurses...
BBC puts "torture" in scare quotes even though it's the younger Gaddafi admitting they used electricity.

re: #43 DesertSage

I seldom go into SF, but somehow, I don't think they do, unless you consider wacked out lefties as turkeys, in which case they are overwhelmed with them.

Bluuuuue shadows on the traaaaaaaaail....
Soft wind blowin' through the treeeees abooooooove...

/Martin Short, 3 Amigos

Night, Lizardz

re: #37 Dublin(CA)Dude

After my initial outrage, I didn't blame the mountain lion.

Hell, we were intruding on HIS property.

re: #41 MandyManners

Only moose I've ever seen were in Yellowstone Park.

re: #33 SgtSongdog

Is this the coyote thread?

Oh, boy! Where's the lamb shish-kabobs?

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SGTsongdog, we're just discussing the aggravations of another pest such as the Leftist and 'Troofers' lol

re: #44 IslandLibertarian

Elephant?

Elephant you say?

Yes, an elephant...
An elephant is a majestic, noble, feeling, intelligent animal.
A donkey...is just a jackass!

Disturbance near Jamaica could threaten Western GOMEX coast mid-week, probably neat Tampico, but South Party Island, TX not 100% in the clear.

Environment Canada model forecasts biggie in the Gulf. However, as a caveat, the Canadian model was programmed by crack smokers.

re: #7 MandyManners

Time after time

Good luck today. Bet you cry when The Kid goes to school!

re: #47 Dublin(CA)Dude

re: #38 BODYGUARDEAGLE

The local coyotes are still rather small, and still very shy and avoid contact with humans as much as possible. I hope that doesn't change.

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Dublin Dude, thats the way i remember them when i was a kid, but they have progressively gotten bigger....and less afraid of humans and Guard dogs, and the herd dogs,

More victims found in US bridge collapse
10 Aug 2007 01:39:50 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Authorities said on Thursday that searchers have found the remains of more victims in the wreckage of the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, raising the total death toll so far to at least eight.

One of the victims was identified as 47-year-old Peter Hausmann of Rosemount, Minnesota, who had been among the eight listed as missing and presumed dead following the Aug. 1 collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge into the Mississippi River.

Remains of other victims besides Hausmann were also found, Minnesota Department of Public Safety spokesman Christine Krueger said, without being more specific.
[snip]

Peter Hausmann + more victims. That's as specific as this story gets. Doesn't the public have a right to know how many?

re: #52 MandyManners

Mountain lions not to be messed with but they are majestic.

I stood about 50 yards from one at Big Bend. Felt like my heart was about to pound out of my chest.

/bbbig kitty

re: #39 coquimbojoe

So am I. To a point.

BTW, how does one pronounce your nic?

Yale expert: Not enough known about anti-Semitism

.....
Across 10 European countries, Small and Kaplan conducted a telephone survey of 5,000 respondents, asking them about issues of classical anti-Semitic stereotypes and about anti-Israeli views. "There were questions about whether the IDF purposely targets children, whether Israel poisons the Palestinians' water supply - these sorts of extreme mythologies," Small says.

The study found that Europeans who are extremely anti-Israel are also disproportionately anti-Semitic. "The people who believed the anti-Israel mythologies also tended to believe that Jews are not honest in business, have dual loyalties, control government and the economy, and the like," Small says. The correlation is an astonishing 56%. That is, an Israel-hating European is 56% more likely to be anti-Semitic as well than the average European.

"This is extraordinary. It's off the charts," says Small. "If a food or a drug was 56% more likely to cause cancer, it would be taken off the shelf."
.....

Fox ran a clip from Cindy Sheehan announcing her run against Nancy Pelosi. Cindy cited the U. S. Constitution regarding impeachment. I did a little research on her citation. She got it wrong, really wrong.

I realized that I had misappreciated this bitch. I had thought her garden-variety suburban dumb with a lot of falling in love with the camera. I was wrong.

She is STUPID!

re: #55 DesertSage

and then there is Thai-Stick Elephant Gras........ahh, you had to be there.......

PTTCP!

re: #42 unclassifiable

re: #32 Dublin(CA)Dude

re: #31 MandyManners

re: #28 coquimbojoe

OK OK Is this the coyote, pig, turkey or friggin gender title thread?!

Dammit people make up yer mindz!

All of the above.

re: #59 abolitionist

There could be trouble identifying some victims, and DNA testing is required, and/or family has to be located...

re: #65 MandyManners

Ms.

That's a miss. It's now the mountain lion thread.

re: #54 BODYGUARDEAGLE

Hmm. Hope this works -- first time I've tried the new "reply" feature.

Agreed about all three pests, but someone has to defend my namesake!

/indignant

re: #57 NY Nana

One of my favorite Cindi Lauper songs, thanks so much!

on local Fox affiliate, re-run of "Cops", Tarrant County constables and Mansfield PD arresting D&D redneck in trailer park. Man has empties of MD 20/20.

Why the same people that make Mogen David Kosher Blackberry wine in Upstate NY would also make the preferred beverage of rural North Texas T.T., is just beyond me.

re: #69 Dublin(CA)Dude

You are most welcome. Same here. Enjoy!

Dear Lizards,

You may be interested in this:

Neoconservative Foreign Policy: An Objectivist Perspective

From The Objective Standard, entitled Neoconservative Foreign Policy: An Autopsy by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein

Thanks

I live in the high desert. It's my property. Mountain lion couldn't hold it. Too bad, so sad.

re: #56 Ed Mahmoud's Sock Puppet

Disturbance near Jamaica could threaten Western GOMEX coast mid-week, probably neat Tampico, but South Party Island, TX not 100% in the clear.

00_054_G1_north@america@zoomout_I_4PAN_CLASSIC@012_144.jpg" target="_blank">Environment Canada model forecasts biggie in the Gulf. However, as a caveat, the Canadian model was programmed by crack smokers.

That link should have worked. Well, I'll just paste URL. Maybe Canadian programmers also on crack when designing EC website.

[Link: www.weatheroffice.gc.ca...]

re: #70 Ed Mahmoud's Sock Puppet

A finely tuned marketing machine.

re: #70 Ed Mahmoud's Sock Puppet

BTW I have been drunk on MD 20/20 in Dallas

re: #68 SgtSongdog

re: #54 BODYGUARDEAGLE

Hmm. Hope this works -- first time I've tried the new "reply" feature.

Agreed about all three pests, but someone has to defend my namesake!

/indignant

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SGTSongdog......many on here will get your back, and help defend the SGT's namesake, i'm sure... lol

G'night, all!

re: #46 BODYGUARDEAGLE

The one I lost found me the night that Lt. Col. Oliver North spoke in Seattle back in the late 1980s. This cat had survived in a nasty urban environment.

Maybe the ampersands in the URL mess up the linkage.

Go here, [Link: www.weatheroffice.gc.ca...] , and pick your own forecast time.

I was overjoyed to hear about the reputations of those 2 Marines being restored today. The Haditha 'massacre' was a fraud and a hoax from day 1, brought to you by the very same vermin who brought you the Jenin 'massacre'. Just when all the PC garbage begins to get on your nerves and your Psyche, good news arrives. I am self deleting comments about Murtha and Tim McGirk.

re: #71 NY Nana

Did you ever hear her "At Last" CD from about three years ago? Great work.
Underappreciated artist.

re: #2 Dublin(CA)Dude

Hell, the coyotes echo over my back fence, never mind the high desert.

I will take coyote's any day than frogs.

/snicker

re: #70 Ed Mahmoud's Sock Puppet

on local Fox affiliate, re-run of "Cops", Tarrant County constables and Mansfield PD arresting D&D redneck in trailer park. Man has empties of MD 20/20.

Why the same people that make Mogen David Kosher Blackberry wine in Upstate NY would also make the preferred beverage of rural North Texas T.T., is just beyond me.

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LMAO..........ED>>>>>>>> IT's Redneck CHEAP ! lol............

re: #49 Beagle

Libya admits torturing nurses...
BBC puts "torture" in scare quotes even though it's the younger Gaddafi admitting they used electricity.

I wish we would bomb the fuck out of them on behalf of those victims.

re: #80 MandyManners

re: #46 BODYGUARDEAGLE

The one I lost found me the night that Lt. Col. Oliver North spoke in Seattle back in the late 1980s. This cat had survived in a nasty urban environment.

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Mandy, Thats a shame, made it in the hard city, but in the WILD, it IS a different story altogether....

re: #42 unclassifiable

re: #61 MandyManners

re: #39 coquimbojoe

So am I. To a point.

BTW, how does one pronounce your nic?

Coe-kim-boe Joe

My dad recently forwarded an email newsletter from Dick Armey's blog, that said their online poll showed Ron Paul with 56% of the vote.

The RonPaulistas are legion! And spamming!

I told dad to disregard all online "polls".

re: #57 NY Nana

re: #7 MandyManners

Time after time

Good luck today. Bet you cry when The Kid goes to school!

HA! Not at all.

re: #88 coquimbojoe

Where's the accented syllable?

re: #84 Highrise

Highrise, I love the frogs, can't wait for that first rainy night when the tree frogs burst into song. Amazing how much noise a tiny little (less than a inch long) frog can make.

I used to go coyote hunting when I was a kid. They were very fast learners.
We would build a fire and wait in the shadows against a tree until we say the glow of their eyes.
We would then shoot between their eyes.
This worked fine for about the first 4 hours.
After that we kept coming up shy with carcasses.
Stumped at why this was happening we decided to get a portable spotlight and see what was going on.
When their beady little eyes appeared again we immediately put the spot light on them. Much to our surprise they had bee putting their heads close together and then closing their outside eyes.
We had been shooting between them.
Smart little critters.

re: #91 MandyManners

re: #88 coquimbojoe

Where's the accented syllable?

Kim, I guess. I have been called that since '84, so I haven't really thought of it.

re: #53 Dublin(CA)Dude

Funny story: my Dad and I went on a trip to see all the sights in Wyoming; Jackson Hole; Devil's Tower; Grand Tetons; lots of mind-numbing prairie in between, taking pictures all the way. At Yellowstone lake I spotted a Moose on the other side and, seeing that I only had one shot left in my camera, I elected to snap a picture of this moose, not really concerned that with the moose so far off, it wouldn't make for a impressive picture because we were about to get in the old scout and head back home. The moment I snapped the picture, this moose starts to amble across the lake and, to my astonishment made a line straight to me. This moose was three feet away, looking me right in the face, and I had snapped my last picture when he was a dot on the horizon. He sort of snorted at me once, and then moseyed off along the trail.

Disappointing, but kind of magical at the same time.

re: #63 MikeySDCA

Fox ran a clip from Cindy Sheehan announcing her run against Nancy Pelosi.

I saw that..and man did she look bad. I'm not just saying that. Her shoulders were hunched, her face had the actual look of depression on it, she was pale and kind of sickly looking....not candidate material for sure.

While I passionately dislike her, I would bet she sticks to her true self more than pelosi...but pelosi is a millionnaire. Not only is it a fat chance for sheehan to win in that district due to pelosi's money and history of reelections there and the fact she IS the 3rd in line which does have an impact on decision vote making, she just doesn't look confident enough as a leader to make it. But if you look at most green party types, none of them look healthy that try to run.

re: #89 SgtSongdog

My dad recently forwarded an email newsletter from Dick Armey's blog, that said their online poll showed Ron Paul with 56% of the vote.

The RonPaulistas are legion! And spamming!

I told dad to disregard all online "polls".

TOO funny.

#86 MandyManners

Or at least not reward them with nuclear power and other goodies like France.

#93

Steve,

How much you want for that bridge?

Earlier today it was 9, then 20, now it's 50: Over 50 killed in southern Philippines fighting

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops shelled Muslim rebel positions and raked them with helicopter fire overnight on the southern island of Jolo after a day of intense fighting in which at least 54 people, including 26 troops, were killed.

The fighting which broke out on Thursday morning is the heaviest in the volatile Philippine south for almost three years, but the military said it suspended operations at daybreak on Friday following a request from the provincial governor.

"We got a call from Governor Abdusakur Tan to suspend operations because of the Muslim holiday," said Major-General Ruben Rafael, the local military commander. "We have agreed."

Sandman's calling.

re: #92 Dublin(CA)Dude

re: #84 Highrise

Highrise, I love the frogs, can't wait for that first rainy night when the tree frogs burst into song. Amazing how much noise a tiny little (less than a inch long) frog can make.

Well 10 frogs..ok...1000 plus...not so much.

re: #101 MandyManners

rest well :)

What holiday are the Musselmen celebrating?

re: #95 Salem

I remember the moose at Yellowstone to be somewhat aggressive. Fortunately, I had a serious telefoto lens on my cam, so I could keep a good distance and still get some great shots. The buffalos were another story, totally unpredictable.

Well, It's time to say "Goodnight all", I've got to leave early in the morn, on a drive for Chesapeake,Virginia, from Alabama. [long drive]-sigh-... enjoy the Wild animal thread fine folks
....catch you all later...

re: #49 Beagle

Libya admits torturing nurses...
BBC puts "torture" in scare quotes even though it's the younger Gaddafi admitting they used electricity.

Beagle..how awful. I really want to know what hand our state dept has in their release. I'm a bit angry that they have not come out and pressured and condemned them as much as I'd like to see.

re: #95 Salem

Forgot to mention: I was about nine at the time.

Got a picture of a black bear cub in the Lake City (CO) cemetery while visiting my grandfather's grave about ten years ago. Never did see the momma bear.

re: #102 Highrise

They do get VERY loud. But they are so small and cute, with those little sucker tipped fingers, get them in my fountain and bird bath all the time.

yes yes time for the grave yard shift

yabba dabba do

sliding down the brontosaurs' tail

and onto bed

aloha

re: #109 Dublin(CA)Dude

re: #102 Highrise

They do get VERY loud. But they are so small and cute, with those little sucker tipped fingers, get them in my fountain and bird bath all the time.

I'm an animal lover to a normal extent anyway...and I lived near a pond when I was in college. I swear during the spring time there were over 1000 frogs croaking ALL night, I never slept that entire quarter in college. Needless to say, I stayed awake at night contemplating how to kill them without doing it by my hand..like maybe bags of salt :P . I ended up moving it was so bad.

Now with that said, I nearly cried the other night when my daughter 2.5 yrs old started hopping around like a frog saying ribbit ribbit...now that was cute!

Florida: Padilla Judge Says No to ‘Defensive Jihad’

Jurors in the trial of Jose Padilla and two other men cannot consider whether the men’s actions were justified by Islamic law, a federal judge ruled. The judge, Marcia G. Cooke of Federal District Court, agreed to a request from prosecutors to instruct the jurors that each of the men could be convicted even if they “may have believed that the conduct was religiously, politically or morally required, or that ultimate good would result.” A cornerstone of the defense during the nearly three-month trial has been the idea that Islamic teaching provides for legitimate “defensive jihad.” Mr. Padilla and his co-defendants, Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi, are charged with being part of a North American terrorism support cell.

Whew!

Florida not a sharia state this week.

Even at 1:30am local time (EST) the thread is going to fast for me. Back to lurking around the perimeter.

I love this blog. Reading the comments always gives me a chuckle, gives me insight, renews my faith, and sometimes even teaches me something.

And Ed-of-the-many-names *Songdog waves across the Internet* Don't you ever stop giving us the weather reports! Tell me one other blog that has their own weatherman!

G'nite, all.
Songdog out.

re: #105 Dublin(CA)Dude

re: #95 Salem

I remember the moose at Yellowstone to be somewhat aggressive. Fortunately, I had a serious telefoto lens on my cam, so I could keep a good distance and still get some great shots. The buffalos were another story, totally unpredictable.

My Dad said at the time that it's a good thing I didn't try to take a picture of the moose when he was so close up because he might have charged me. But this one just came right up to me like "Hey, how ya doin'? You folks having fun at the park? Well, good. Don't forget to visit Old Faithful. Ciao!"

Cindy Sheehan is a Sissie.

Why is she wasting her time running for an office that makes her only one of 535. She should set her sights a little higher, she should run for president!

Sheehan/Kucinich '08

re: #82 MrArchieBunker

Yes if we truly believe in innocent till proven guilty..especially in this case with a he said he said eye witness scenerio and not a hard paper trail crime....

why call it a massacre?

Shame on you press...damn you for doing this to our Marines!

re: #111 Highrise

Maybe I'm weird (hell, I know I'm weird) but I find the tree frogs lull me to sleep. When the first fall rains come I try to keep the bedroom window open so I can hear them.

BTW, met Dianna and Carolina Girl last month at Dianna's house warming in San Jose. As I recall, you're local too.

re: #117 Dublin(CA)Dude

No you aren't weird, I just doubt you have a pond right outside your window like I did with 1000 frogs haha.

/smiles

Actually, when I lived in the middle of 20 acres with the pond about 1000 feet away with about 100 frogs maybe, I agree completely with you..it is really cool actually.

I went to a reunion that had fireflies..aren't those one of the most cooliest bugs ever? I think this was in iowa..we don't have them in wa or calif..too bad :( .

Hey! I just noticed. . .

I just went over 100 comments!

Do I get a doggie treat. . .

Or a swat with a rolled-up newspaper?

Okay, now I'm really going to bed.

re: #119 Highrise

Sad isn't it? Fireflies are only to the east of the Rockies. I see them whenever I go back to New Jersey in the summer to visit my mom. Neat insects, kids love them.

re: #120 SgtSongdog

Hey! I just noticed. . .

I just went over 100 comments!

Do I get a doggie treat. . .

Or a swat with a rolled-up newspaper?

Okay, now I'm really going to bed.

You should know better than to give LGF posters a multiple choice list...some of us would choose the newspaper :P

kidding :) . Nite to you!

Speaking of sharia...

Mauritania law promises jail for slavery

Human rights campaigners praised the law as a signal that a long-awaited cultural shift might finally be taking hold in Mauritania, where slavery has existed for hundreds of years and is ensconced in traditional proverbs, songs and poems. The new law prohibits many of these as pro-slavery propaganda.

Not to mention fatwas saying slavery is still as Islamic as ever, but AP would never let that slip past their filter. It's a total whitewash of the Islamic foundations of modern slavery.

Nice they reported the event as slavery in Mauritania without mentioning the war in Iraq as a possible cause.

I remember my days serving in Germany under Reagan. We used to run over coyotes by lurching our Mercedes to the left so that the tail swung toward the coyotes, who would then bolt into the street just in time for us to jerk our Mercedes to the right...and the coyotes were just a chalk outline.

/

re: #115 DesertSage

It's a spat with nancy. They were once so close.........

re: #124 Stallion

FOTFLMAO

PIMF
ROTFLMAO

re: #90 MandyManners

HA! Not at all

Ha...cya later, with virtual Klennex™

G'nite all!

re: #116 Highrise
Amen highrise, the pinko press and their Arab allies were looking for another My Lai massacre in order to complete the 'Iraq is Vietnam' paradigm. Tim McGirk of Time magazine is the real villain here. He bought a stinking kettle of fish from professional anti-American liars who are very skilled at this sort of thing, and who know they will always have allies in our twisted media. Where is Ernie Pyle when you need him?

Wish I was back in the Mojave Desert.
One of the books I'm currently reading is Michel Digonnet's Hiking Death Valley: A Guide to its Natural Wonders and Mining Past.

re: #116 Highrise

Highrise, you can send one of the Marines a message at this [Link: www.justinsharratt.com...] site

Time to turn in, 5 am comes early.

Later lizards, its been fun, as usual.

re: #15 MandyManners
Don't be so hard on yourself...batty women in a Wal-Mart line have that same effect on me sometimes.

Sometimes.

re: #19 MandyManners
I think I'll wait for the Hallmark She Wrote marathon on the Murder Channel.

re: #115 DesertSage
If she were President, the struggle between her Love of Impeachment and her Will to Politically Survive would create a terrific BUZZ in her brain.

Actually, maybe a buzz would have done her more good than all of the protesting.

Highrise

We live in the middle of 151 acres, the pond is about 150' feet south of the house and I'll we've got left after a cropduster hit us on 7/23 is bull and leopard frogs.

Speaking of coyote, this is pretty funny:

Dog on a rope.

Good stuff.

re: #115 DesertSage

And Thugo could be our First Lady!

re: #124 Stallion
PRICELESS!
Mad me almost spew my Coke.

re: #135 Racer X
Wow!
This gets in my Top 3 of the Day for Video Clips.
Excellent!

Like most of the reporting from the ME, stringers rule the context and content for 'frugal' (cheap) and lazy reporters who only add words like ~ "pretty" ~ before words like ...awful, ...bad, ...wrong, ...scary, ...much, ...confused, ...tired, ...nasty and so on... they can't read or write English anymore let alone tell the truth. Hell I remember reading the inventive word heighth in the NYT's. They sure have gone into hiding lately though...

Bedd

The Border Patrol had better leave those coyotes alone!

Submitted for Lizardoid analysis-

Obama's Church: Cauldron of Division

Several prior remarks by Obama's pastor have caught the media's attention:

Wright on 9/11: "White America got their wake-up call after 9/11. White America and the Western world came to realize people of color had not gone away, faded in the woodwork, or just disappeared as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns." On the Sunday after the attacks, Dr. Wright blamed America.

Wright on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway: "Black women are being raped daily in Africa. One white girl from Alabama gets drunk at a graduation trip to Aruba, goes off and gives it up while in a foreign country and that stays in the news for months."

Wright on Israel: "The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism."

Wright on America: He has used the term "middleclassness" in a derogatory manner; frequently mentions "white arrogance" and the "oppression" of African-Americans today; and has referred to "this racist United States of America."

With role models like this, Obama would make a great Prez!

I can often hear the call of the Coyote at night... I've seen them a few times in my backyard, and even had one attempt to attack my dog. (a 90 lb Labrador)

Once, I heard an awful noise in the woods behind the house, and out sprang a deer, at least a full year old, with a Coyote on it's back who had a vice like grip on the deer's neck. Another Coyote was attacking from the rear. They downed it and killed it before myself or my neighbors could scare it them off.

Sound like an episode of "Wild Kingdom"? It sure looked like it. Here's the kicker, I live about 50 miles southwest of Boston. Not exactly the high desert.

LOL at this one!

"Coyote's are conservatives" - Ugly plus ugly = Diane Fienstien

re: #124 Stallion

I remember my days serving in Germany under Reagan. We used to run over coyotes by lurching our Mercedes to the left so that the tail swung toward the coyotes, who would then bolt into the street just in time for us to jerk our Mercedes to the right...and the coyotes were just a chalk outline.

/

Coyotes are not in Europe. Perhaps the Gray Wolf?

Is this thing on..?

hilarious, dog on a rope...though I cringed at the end of Ugly plus Ugly, cant stand to see an animal shot with a high power riffle with a scope, thank god he got away. coyotes are important to keep around for the Eco system, yet I am no farmer and livestock culling by the dog usually happens to the weakest, part of the peril of raising livestock.

88 logged in CB. Just you and me watchin talkin' coyotes.

Yeah I cringed too. But it was damn funny up to that point.

sure was...those guys sure have a lot of time on there hands

re: #141 Americain

Shhhh! We're supposed to keep that stuff under wraps until September '08.

Just one more

Did Mike C. self ban?

re: #152 BenZacharia

No.

re: #153 Sharmuta

I saw a warning, did he jump froggy with Charles after that?

re: #152 BenZacharia

Nope. He is banned. Check his LGF on this comment.

G'nite for real!

re: #154 BenZacharia

You could search what Charles said about it. To me, it's not worth the time or effort.

Ok, OT, but this is an OT thread.

This picture of a "sign" is photoshopped. No doubt. The perspective (and even paint density) is all wrong for a sign seen at this angle.

Question: why? Isn't there enough sympathy going around for these miners?
Why craft such an obvious fake for a pedestrian story like this, CNN?

re: #157 Malatrope

Send it Charles so he can add it to his fauxtography folder.

re: #158 BenZacharia

Done. I presumed he would read the thread, but he's a busy guy. (Not sure he reads all the mail, either!)

If you have time, check out this nonsense.

Ed, its cheap.

re: #155 NY Nana

All I can say is, you won't see a tear from me.

/smiles

re: #152 BenZacharia

Its one of those things...that one pushes the envelope on purpose..yet hopes to never get called out.

I'll leave it at that..hehe.

As day turns to night, and the lonesome yell of the coyote echoes over the high desert, here’s an overnight open thread...

I have seen the future, and it is Lancaster!

some people like to test the waters..others like to push the waters..and then play innocent.

it's interesting as an observer to see who is doing what....hehe.

re: #164 FlyingTigress

Tigress, seriously, you're not thinking of moving to Lancaster, are you? It's a hellhole.

Anyone wanna buy Elvis' army fatigue shirt? Bids start at jus5 50 grand!

[Link: cgi.ebay.com...]

re: #165 Highrise

Continuing to give hat tips to that 46 year old arrested adolescent Rich was annoying.

Water is wet. Hat tip--Rayra

You know you get to a point where you realize that all of it and none of it matters. Everyday its really just all the same. The only thing that can change is the perception of the reality.

/nothing

re: #169 Salem

LMAO!

re: #169 Salem

I found them to be not quite as interesting as that.

Ok this just might not be right...but its sure to get a laugh.

/is she acting?

re: #173 WrathofG-d

before I click, how many megs?
/Dial up

re: #174 BenZacharia

Its a youtube link.

I dunno.

Yeah, Mike never went after me, really, but that frequent channeling of Rayra was pretty daft. You'd think he'd have bigger fish to fry.

re: #176 Salem

Daft? It was straight up rude.

/But your 169 was hilarious.

Ty. Gn!

Good Morning Dead Thread!

They won't let my bible in, but will they let me in?

Yo Mama! Ok, very good. Now, stay calm - breathe-in, breathe-out - squeeze the trigger slowly as you exhale.

But Achmed, your standing....

That looks like Irans newest RPG, the worlds only RPG fitted with a rear-view mirror for the caddie. The Iranian's are really quite savvy in their design & manufacturing techniques. They build the only self-igniting auto and I believe they've just introduced a new passenger jet. Yesterdays Gulf News Daily's PDF version carried a story that Iran's Air Fright from Tehran to Bahrain had to make an emergency landing after the plane catching fire mid-flight. And to think we let the SOB's fly their own planes and enter NY-US airspace so Ahmad could attend UN meetings while hallucinating.

Let'em develop a nuke or two....

Mornin folks, lookin to be another great day in zee zones.

re: #24 DesertSage

re: #17 Dublin(CA)Dude

There are turkeys in San Francisco?

They run San Fransico.

Howdy Carl - how about that samaH Navy...

Can a tired night time lizard say hello?

re: #173 WrathofG-d

That looked disturbingly like R O'D....brrrrrrr

So its still 2am?

... til Dead Thread

4 am

re: #185 RTLM

4:06 edt

It's exactly 7:35. Somewhere.

re: #183 Resistance Girl

Can a tired night time lizard say hello?

Yep - (waves)

Hiya litttleoldlady :)

Could I have a short stack with banana - please

re: #190 RTLM

Don't even need a fruit cup here...night crew saying a last hello the morning gang.

RTLM! :-)

I'm cooking as fast as I can!

/seem to have lost my assistant...

Resistance Girl! :-)

re: #193 littleoldlady

Indeed ;)

Here's a Supersized IED. (not graphic)

re: #193 littleoldlady

RTLM! :-)

I'm cooking as fast as I can!

/seem to have lost my assistant...

Resistance Girl! :-)

Black coffee is good enough for me AND I brought my own. :)

re: #196 Resistance Girl

You're drinking coffee and intend to go to sleep?

/how do you do that?

Pulls a chair out (with an ottoman) and brings the lady a fruit cup to the small table I have set by her hand.

re: #198 Resistance Girl

This is good. I intend to have a "needy" day. Starting off great!

:-)

Two fruit cups and a brandy?

Israel Captures, Then Releases Terrorists

morning Little Old LAdy

Jewels! :-)

How've you been?

/busy, I bet! :-)

Resistance Girl,

Hold the brandy, please. I'm still in wake-me-up-with-coffee mode...

Here's a real confidence building piece of news coming out of Londonstan, I understand Iran better now - MP

Newark Mp Patrick Mercer says he has learned a lot from a visit to Iran.

He travelled to the country - ostracised over its nuclear programme and alleged links to Iraqi rebels - on behalf of the Conservative Middle East Council.

The council wants to get an "objective view" of what is happening there.
[...]
"It's fairly clear a number of things we're doing in the west are seriously irritating the Iranians," said Mr Mercer.

I'm sure ya'll will enjoy the whole story.

re: #183 Resistance Girl

Can a tired night time lizard say hello?

Hello Resistance Girl .

I like marinated fruit cups...that's why I'm on nights or early mornings.

Your best morning food coming up when you have an appetite.

Keep your feet up. I'll do the running.

re: #205 Resistance Girl

You're too kind!

/I knew that someday, somehow I'd find the upside to being old.

;-)

Foot rub, too?

Anyone who works as hard as you could use one. :)

re: #204 aboo-Hoo-Hoo

'Morning, aboo! :-)

He went with an open mind...so his brains fell out.

"I went with pretty blinkered vision, and whilst I still am in no doubt there are elements who are jolly dodgy, I think I understand the problems a lot better."

...and obviously read all the Harry Potter books before he left.

Heh, missing my mom and thought I'd offer a virtual foot rub.

Wishing I could give her one. :)

re: #207 Resistance Girl

YOU'RE HIRED! :-)

sorry....making dinner here

No one...and I mean no one..

can pass on a good foot rub. :)

Resistance Girl needs a Jewish mother?

How convenient for both of us that meannastyteenager leaves for college in less than 3 weeks!

/oy
//oy oy
///oy oy oy

..."I thought we agreed not to talk about our children."

I'm all grown up, need no money and a minimal amount of attention.

Put a food and water bowl outside.

I'm almost a chea pet.

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup* is on the buffet ------------------------->
Help yourselves!

*loving made by Resistance Girl
/now go away while I enjoy my foot rub!

re: #214 Resistance Girl

I'm all grown up, need no money and a minimal amount of attention.

Put a food and water bowl outside.

I'm almost a chea pet.

I already have a cat. I'm in pre-missing my daughter mode. You'll do just fine.

GREAT, in fact! :-)

Here's a nice cool cloth for your forehead, too.

They all know where the food is.

Sit down. :)

Crap, I am drinking tonight maybe I should see everyone in the morning?

re: #218 0321

Crap, I am drinking tonight maybe I should see everyone in the morning?

Here's a cool cloth for your forehead, too.

Don't tell my new mom I am having a drink too. Sssh.

Kids.

/sigh

I'm not driving anywhere. It's ok.

"Everything in moderation."

/Cliches 'R Us

Sitting in my kitchen and having a wee nip.

Ah...the tolerance of Islam & those faithful adherents of the Religion of Body Pieces™ shines through: I have never come face to face with death like this: Taslima

'For half an hour death stared at me from close as I locked myself in a room and those men tried to break in and kill me....'
[...]
'I was wondering how they would kill me. Would it be with a knife or a gun! Or would they simply beat me to death.

A "wee nip"? Oh boy! Do I get another Irish daughter?

/better and better!

re: #219 Resistance Girl

Don't tell my new mom I am having a drink too. Sssh.

I won't say anything.

re: #225 littleoldlady

A "wee nip"? Oh boy! Do I get another Irish daughter?

/better and better!

Irish and Jew.

Scary.

Lol - Good morning to you also. Slipped right-by your post, so how are the Flakes© this fine mornin? Might need a bowl, even three, to give the day a real kick-start. ;-)

re: #226 0321

re: #219 Resistance Girl

Don't tell my new mom I am having a drink too. Sssh.

I won't say anything.

I won't tell anyone else about you, either.

Is it safe? May I come in?

re: #230 Fearless Fred

Is it safe? May I come in?

Your name is fearless. :)

re: #230 Fearless Fred

Is it safe? May I come in?

Yes you fascist!

/kidding

re: #229 Resistance Girl

re: #226 0321

re: #219 Resistance Girl

Don't tell my new mom I am having a drink too. Sssh.

I won't say anything.

I won't tell anyone else about you, either.

Well as long as desertsage understands. I will be gone for about 18 months but take care of desertsage and RTLM, would you?

re: #227 Resistance Girl

re: #225 littleoldlady

A "wee nip"? Oh boy! Do I get another Irish daughter?

/better and better!

Irish and Jew.

Scary.

Aha, so you know!

Drink all night - wake up riddled with guilt. ;-)

For aboo, and anyone else who needs them: Urinated Cranky Flakes™

/© Shiplord Kirel

LGF...serving insomniacs around the globe.

You guys kept me up wayy to late last night..it's all your fault..never mine.

/LLL thinking

re: #233 0321

re: #229 Resistance Girl

re: #226 0321

re: #219 Resistance Girl

Don't tell my new mom I am having a drink too. Sssh.

I won't say anything.

I won't tell anyone else about you, either.

Well as long as desertsage understands. I will be gone for about 18 months but take care of desertsage and RTLM, would you?

How do I take care of them? Let me know...

The racists and fascists are here! YAY!

re: #231 Resistance Girl

re: #230 Fearless Fred

Is it safe? May I come in?

Your name is fearless. :)

Can we ... lol ... just play like we didn't see that then?

Hey -- you registered here at LGF on my birthday. What do you think that means?

Good morning.

Moms with attitude...I love it. :)

re: #239 Fearless Fred

I saw nothing. I remember nothing. Not even my registration date. :)

re: #232 Highrise

re: #230 Fearless Fred

Is it safe? May I come in?

Yes you fascist!

/kidding

he he ... should I study my physics texts to review the concept?

Okay, sorry --- that's enough.

How do I take care of them? Let me know...

Desertsage give him a drink, tell him its on me 0321 he will understand. RTLM, I still don't know.

re: #233 0321

Give an addy and if you're going to the sandbox I'll keep in touch with you and look in on anyone you want me to.

re: #241 Resistance Girl

re: #239 Fearless Fred

I saw nothing. I remember nothing. Not even my registration date. :)

You were deep in your cups ... it was a wild party!

/averts eyes.

Some things moms just don't want to know...

re: #238 littleoldlady

stop it ... laughing so hard I can't deal properly w/ my fruit cup ...

Can't give information here. My bad.

If I can get it somehow, I'll be more than happy to take care of anything for you. :)

re: #247 Fearless Fred

re: #238 littleoldlady

stop it ... laughing so hard I can't deal properly w/ my fruit cup ...

Here's a napkin, Fred. Wipe it up.

Don't make mom upset again.

re: #247 Fearless Fred

re: #238 littleoldlady

stop it ... laughing so hard I can't deal properly w/ my fruit cup ...

Well, I can't help it. Most of the people I hang around with are - like me - boring.

You guys have PANACHE!

re: #212 Resistance Girl

No one...and I mean no one..
can pass on a good foot rub. :)

I don't know about that...
had a friendly girl-student in college who invited me over for chat and "a foot rub"...

...where, after pleasant chat and chamomile tea, she cheerfully and intensely began on my feet, quite pleasant, but halfway thru my second foot, she shuddered uncontrollably, broke into a sweat, slumped down...

...then looked at me with a strange, guilty face... and excused herself, to 'tidy up'...

/I'll pass on THESE

You missed a spot. Right there.

That was for Fred and the giant mess he made.

I didn't want to have to take care of it in the morning.

(peeking in window before coming in)

Hello everyone!

One fruitcup, please.

/Wha...? No arguments?!?! I even wore my protective gear, just in case!

:D

re: #251 Carridine

Was she epileptic? Or a foot fetish type?

Hebron's 'triangle marketplace' to be made Judenrein

Morning all.
gettinby: You're ugly and your momma dresses you funny.
/do I need to?

re: #255 Resistance Girl

I suspect the latter. Heh!

re: #257 jim in virginia

I DO NOT DRESS FUNNY!

LOL

re: #255 Resistance Girl

I know petit mal and grand mal seizures... hers was neither.

/but it WAS a good rub...

re: #250 littleoldlady

re: #247 Fearless Fred

re: #238 littleoldlady

stop it ... laughing so hard I can't deal properly w/ my fruit cup ...

Well, I can't help it. Most of the people I hang around with are - like me - boring.

You guys have PANACHE!

Oh yes indeed ... I'm even wearing an ornamental ploome of feathers this good morning!

re: #258 Carridine

That's not my scene, baby.

/Austin Powers

That made me laugh a little and cringe a little.

re: #259 gettinby

re: #257 jim in virginia

I DO NOT DRESS FUNNY!

LOL

ooops .... removing ploome of feathers ...

re: #257 jim in virginia

Morning all.
gettinby: You're ugly and your momma dresses you funny.
/do I need to?

I dressed myself 24 hours ago and I AM dressed funny.

So?

re: #248 Resistance Girl

Can't give information here. My bad.

If I can get it somehow, I'll be more than happy to take care of anything for you. :)

Just make sure you get Desertsage a drink on me one night. One of the only people who remembers me from way, way, way, back when (he is also a Marine). I have posted more tonight than I ever have, must be the drinks. Good night all.......

re: #265 0321