Crow
Camera: Canon Powershot G10 in ‘P’ mode (Program Auto Exposure), tripod-mounted, with wireless shutter release.
Camera: Canon Powershot G10 in ‘P’ mode (Program Auto Exposure), tripod-mounted, with wireless shutter release.
3 | Nevergiveup Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:36:20am |
re: #2 DEZes
Can we please see Obama eat some?
The problem is if Obama eats it, we all are gonna have to also eat that shit burger.
4 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:37:39am |
Feel kinda dumb. Didn’t know Cate Blanchett was in Lord of the Rings. Never recognized her.
Damn she’s brilliant.
10 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:39:13am |
Now Buck Owens and Roy Clarke standing in the cornfield….
13 | sleepyone Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:39:54am |
I hadn’t noticed that Charles started identifying the camera and settings. Is this a recent thing? I’ve often wondered what sort of camera he uses and have asked about it before but didn’t get a response. I’m glad to see it!
16 | Nevergiveup Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:40:54am |
New York City Metro Area Braces for Up to 14 Inches of Snow
[Link: www.bloomberg.com…]
Can you say 3 day weekend?
17 | jaunte Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:41:24am |
Smart birds.
The crow has a brain significantly larger than would be predicted for its body size, and it is relatively the same size as the chimpanzee brain. The relative size of the forebrain in corvids is significantly larger than in other birds (with the exception of some parrots) [2], particularly those areas thought to be analogous to the mammalian prefrontal cortex: the nidopallium and mesopallium. This enlargement of the “avian prefrontal cortex” may reflect an increase in primate-like intelligence in corvids.[Link: scienceweek.com…]
19 | UncleRancher Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:42:21am |
20 | scalleywag Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:42:31am |
That’s an amazingly clear shot of a bird. Nice work.
21 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:42:41am |
re: #13 sleepyone
He got tired of your constant questions. Questions, all the time. Nag. Nag. Nag. That’s all you ever did, so he started adding the information. Is that good enough for you now?! Are you never satisfied?!
(hair on fire, running in circles…)
22 | UncleRancher Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:43:15am |
23 | itellu3times Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:43:34am |
I’ve gotta crow!
I’m just the cleverest fellow
‘Twas ever my fortune to know;
I taught a trick to my shadow
To stick to the tip of my toe
I’ve gotta crow!
24 | Dustyvet Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:44:15am |
25 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:44:15am |
Charles can obviously afford all this fancy camera equipment. Perhaps he can afford to pay higher taxes.
26 | Racer X Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:44:22am |
Camera: Canon Powershot G10 in ‘P’ mode (Program Auto Exposure), tripod-mounted, with wireless shutter release.
And Photoshop. You forgot to mention Photoshop.
/
28 | Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:45:06am |
re: #17 jaunte
They are very smart. I watch them here all the time. They take nuts and place them in the street. They hang out on the powerlines and wait for cars to run over the nuts and crack them open.
They’ve also discovered that by soaking stale bred in my pond it will soften up and become edible. They experiment seeing if soaking will make other things like golfballs edible.
29 | UncleRancher Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:45:11am |
re: #25 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Charles can obviously afford all this fancy camera equipment. Perhaps he can afford to pay higher taxes.
I bought mine with my social security check. That means y’all got to help me buy it. Many thanks!
30 | Fenway_Nation Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:45:39am |
Holy Crow-
I actually learned a possible genesis for that expression. Apparently up until the 1920s, under the terms of the Crow’s Nest Agreement the Canadian Pacific Railway would haul grain from the praries to the ports at a subsidized rate in exchange for building a line through Crowsnest Pass in Southern British Columbia. Since the subsidized rate benefitted the farmers greatly, they sometimes referred to it as ‘Holy Crow’.
31 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:45:46am |
Nice photo!
When I tried my hand at bird photography, I usually ended up with lots of blue sky and some dot. Had to think very hard afterwards why I was taking photos of the sky …
32 | Timbre Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:45:47am |
Actually, that is the new, Stealth SR-72 Darkbird.
34 | debutaunt Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:46:36am |
35 | HelloDare Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:47:26am |
Ravens are even smarter than crows. Here’s a video.
[Link: www.pbs.org…]
37 | ArmyWife Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:47:46am |
I have a crow that lives in my backyard and it tortures my cat. Dive bombs her. Cheeky thing.
39 | notutopia Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:50:00am |
Cool Pix Charles!
Cool Crow Facts
* American Crows congregate in large numbers in winter to sleep in communal roosts. These roosts can be of a few hundred, several thousand, or even up to two million crows. Some roosts have been forming in the same general area for well over 100 years. In the last few decades some of these roosts have moved into urban areas where the noise and mess cause conflicts with people.
* Young American Crows do not breed until they are at least two years old, and most do not breed until they are four or more. In most, but not all, populations the young stay with their parents and help them raise young in subsequent years. Families may include up to 15 individuals and contain young from five different years.
* The American Crow appears to be the biggest victim of West Nile virus, a disease recently introduced to North America. Crows die within one week of infection, and few seem able to survive exposure. No other North American bird is dying at the same rate from the disease, and the loss of crows in some areas has been severe.
* In some areas, the American Crow has a double life. It maintains a territory year-round in which all members of its extended family live and forage together. But during much of the year, individual crows leave the home territory periodically. They join large flocks foraging at dumps and agricultural fields, and sleep in large roosts in winter. Family members go together to the flocks, but do not stay together in the crowd. A crow may spend part of the day at home with its family in town and the rest with a flock feeding on waste grain out in the country.
[Link: www.birds.cornell.edu…]
40 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:50:15am |
re: #28 Killgore Trout
They are very smart. I watch them here all the time. They take nuts and place them in the street. They hang out on the powerlines and wait for cars to run over the nuts and crack them open.
They’ve also discovered that by soaking stale bred in my pond it will soften up and become edible. They experiment seeing if soaking will make other things like golfballs edible.
Ravens are even smarter.
This book is about their lives - a brilliant observation (also called ‘Field Zoology’) by a most dedicated zoologist, and a fantastic read:
Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich (Author)
Second hand copies still available - get one while you can.
41 | lifeofthemind Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:51:39am |
That is the new Top Secret B1-rd stealth crow, a argain at $5,000,000,000 each.
43 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:53:35am |
45 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:53:57am |
re: #11 Sharmuta
I posted the link to the story about Putin and Chechnya at the end of the previous thread.
46 | Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:54:18am |
47 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:54:20am |
Charles, I dislike being given the bird.
This is totally uncalled for.
48 | Kragar Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:55:06am |
49 | HelloDare Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:55:15am |
re: #40 yma o hyd
Ravens are even smarter.
This book is about their lives - a brilliant observation (also called ‘Field Zoology’) by a most dedicated zoologist, and a fantastic read:
Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich (Author)Second hand copies still available - get one while you can.
50 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:55:48am |
re: #47 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Last night, I was nagging the wife about leaving every light on (she likes lots of light), told her “When you leave the kitchen, just flip it. You know, flip it.”
She said, “Like this?”, and shot me the finger.
51 | Bubbaman Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:56:09am |
Interestingly, nearby our home (the one that we’ll surely lose under the Obamamessiah administration once taxes shoot sky-high and we are no longer able to afford it), there’s a large flock of crows who roost year round in the trees. Apparently, they’ve been here for generations, dating back to the time that this area was nothing but farms. Even though their food sources are gone and the number of trees have diminished, their decedents remain.
52 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:57:04am |
Try singing The Raven to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
/we scandalized our 11th grade English teacher with it
53 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:57:06am |
54 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:57:46am |
re: #50 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Last night, I was nagging the wife about leaving every light on (she likes lots of light), told her “When you leave the kitchen, just flip it. You know, flip it.”
She said, “Like this?”, and shot me the finger.
LOL!
55 | goddessoftheclassroom Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:58:32am |
re: #4 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Feel kinda dumb. Didn’t know Cate Blanchett was in Lord of the Rings. Never recognized her.
Damn she’s brilliant.
And beautiful.
56 | goddessoftheclassroom Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:59:00am |
57 | Racer X Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:59:32am |
re: #39 notutopia
* The American Crow appears to be the biggest victim of West Nile virus, a disease recently introduced to North America. Crows die within one week of infection, and few seem able to survive exposure. No other North American bird is dying at the same rate from the disease, and the loss of crows in some areas has been severe.
We used to have a ton of crows around my house. A few years ago they started dying off. I saw several laying on the ground. They came back briefly last year but it has been a while since I’ve seen one. I don’t miss the noise though.
58 | Bloodnok Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:59:33am |
re: #4 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Feel kinda dumb. Didn’t know Cate Blanchett was in Lord of the Rings. Never recognized her.
Damn she’s brilliant.
Aren’t you Galadriel you know now?
59 | Dustyvet Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:59:37am |
60 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:00:07pm |
re: #49 HelloDare
Thank you for that video!
Great to hear and see Heinrich himself.
As for those ravens - just brilliant!
Updinged and hearted.
62 | pingjockey Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:00:16pm |
Just got here. A flock of crows is properly called a ‘murder’. A flock of larks is an ‘exultation’. A crowd of congress critters is called ‘the shallow end of the gene pool’.
63 | NYCHardhat Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:00:33pm |
Don’t look now lizards….anyone near the eastern seaboard will be buried under nearly a foot of Al Gore.
64 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:01:35pm |
re: #55 goddessoftheclassroom
And beautiful.
Cate is very visually striking. She is as beautiful as she wants/needs to be. Just an amazing actress. Old school. Talent as far as the eye can see with her.
Hiya Goddess! Gonna have a snow day tomorrow.
65 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:01:49pm |
Had Williamson looked back as he sped away, he might have seen the blonde slip back into the crowd. Her name is Michele Renouf, a model, former socialite and ex-wife of the late financier Sir Frank Renouf. She might still like to be a socialite, but since she took up the cause of Holocaust deniers (or “revisionists”) nine years ago, the stiffy invitations have dried up.
The society she now keeps is far from polite. Deny or query the Nazi party’s systematic murder of 5m-7m Jews 65 years ago, and Renouf, 62, a one-time beauty queen, shows up with a crack team of lawyers to keep you out of jail. She calls herself a free-speech activist. To others, the former girlfriend of Omar Sharif is an “antisemite”, a “neo-Nazi” or worse.
She sat with the infamous historian David Irving during the trial of his libel action in 2000 and has spoken at conferences with a former head of the Ku Klux Klan and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president. Last November, Renouf was key in getting Fredrick Töben, an Australian Holocaust denier, out of Wandsworth prison after the German government tried to extradite him from Britain.
SNIP
I am uncomfortable. Yet Renouf – who isn’t religious – claims she isn’t a Holocaust revisionist or an antisemite. She’s just annoyed that the Holocaust is, in her view, off limits to the scrutiny of doubters. “There is no other area in history where this kind of utter lunacy goes on. We must reestablish the norm of scientific, forensic and source-critical approach without exception.”
Renouf isn’t a professional academic. She is a campaigning antiZionist, who explains, in calm tones, that practising Jews are, “antigentile in their spirit and completely deceitful in their intention”.
She also believes they are responsible for most of society’s ills – “vanity”, “lack of empathy” and, of course, “greed”. “The Holocaust is utterly key to world Zionist control over us and our governments,” she says, matter-of-factly.
SNIP
Hat-tip: yma o hyd
66 | Dustyvet Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:02:32pm |
re: #60 yma o hyd
Thank you for that video!
Great to hear and see Heinrich himself.
As for those ravens - just brilliant!Updinged and hearted.
Seven ravens are in permanent residence in the Tower of London; their wings are clipped, so they can’t fly away. A superstition from the time of Charles II claims that when there are no longer ravens in the Tower, both the White Tower and the kingdom will fall.
67 | Sloppy Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:02:38pm |
RE: #46, Walter L. Newton
Wish you’d share more with us of what Maisey says. She sounds like a pretty astute bird, and probably would make a good feathered Lizard.
BTW, I know that crows are smart, but I understand they can’t count worth a damn. An old hunting friend says they’ll see three guys go into a blind, then when two of them leave, they’ll think it’s safe, fly out and get shot.
68 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:02:43pm |
re: #63 NYCHardhat
Don’t look now lizards….anyone near the eastern seaboard will be buried under nearly a foot of Al Gore.
Specially NYC Lizards. Be careful out there hardhat!
69 | pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:02:48pm |
re: #56 goddessoftheclassroom
Is THAT all the thanks I get?!?!
MWAH!
Got your email.
“Intriguiging” situation, in a raised-eyebrow sort of way.
(in quotes because it’s none of my business)
70 | Desert Dog Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:02:51pm |
re: #50 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Last night, I was nagging the wife about leaving every light on (she likes lots of light), told her “When you leave the kitchen, just flip it. You know, flip it.”
She said, “Like this?”, and shot me the finger.
You know, it is always better to be a smart ass than a dumb ass…you are a lucky man, you just didn’t realize it at the time….ha ha
72 | goddessoftheclassroom Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:03:03pm |
re: #64 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Cate is very visually striking. She is as beautiful as she wants/needs to be. Just an amazing actress. Old school. Talent as far as the eye can see with her.
Hiya Goddess! Gonna have a snow day tomorrow.
You’re welcome to it! My musical is this Friday and Saturday, and I don’t want to miss any practice time—we need it!
73 | Bubbaman Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:03:24pm |
re: #58 Bloodnok
Aren’t you Galadriel you know now?
Yes, but like many of her holy-wood compatriots, Blanchett is a climate change loon. As far as I’m concened, that makes her look butt-ugly and stupid.
75 | Desert Dog Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:03:55pm |
re: #63 NYCHardhat
Don’t look now lizards….anyone near the eastern seaboard will be buried under nearly a foot of Al Gore.
Come out here to Phoenix, it’s going to be pushing 90 today. We need to schedule an Algore speech so the temps will drop.
76 | HelloDare Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:04:00pm |
re: #60 yma o hyd
Thank you for that video!
Great to hear and see Heinrich himself.
As for those ravens - just brilliant!Updinged and hearted.
There are several videos on You Tube of a crow making a tool from a straight piece of wire.
Also, carrying a stick they used as a tool to another location.
Bunch of others too. The internet is a wonderful thing.
77 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:04:02pm |
re: #66 Dustyvet
Seven ravens are in permanent residence in the Tower of London; their wings are clipped, so they can’t fly away. A superstition from the time of Charles II claims that when there are no longer ravens in the Tower, both the White Tower and the kingdom will fall.
[Link: z.about.com…]
True - and when there are some abandoned raven chicks found somewhere in the country, they are given to the Tower so that there willalways be ravens.
78 | itellu3times Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:04:11pm |
GORDON BROWN hopes to forge a partnership with President Barack Obama in Washington this week, to call for a “global new deal” to lift the world out of recession.
Discusst.
79 | Racer X Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:04:11pm |
80 | Fenway_Nation Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:04:35pm |
re: #63 NYCHardhat
Quick! Let’s throw some money at it cap and trade carbon output!
81 | Sharmuta Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:05:22pm |
re: #45 MandyManners
I saw it. And I posted a link to this previous LGF article about jihadi mobys infiltrating the internet. I think it’s worth reviewing.
82 | notutopia Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:05:44pm |
re: #57 Racer X
We used to have a ton of crows around my house. A few years ago they started dying off. I saw several laying on the ground. They came back briefly last year but it has been a while since I’ve seen one. I don’t miss the noise though.
I’m surrounded in hardwood trees and tall eastern pine trees. They stay here all year. In spring and fall, it is a major endeavor to keep them out of our fruit tree orchard and off the grape vines. We use tree nets or else we would have NO fruit.
The noise is unbelievable when 100 or so land and eat in the fields at one time.
83 | Randall Gross Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:05:46pm |
Very difficult to catch a good shot of birds in flight, they are usually too distant, or if they are close they are moving to fast to catch in frame. Good pic Charles.
As Thymocles would say:
“Opportunity is the fairest, opportunity the lightest-footed of things; opportunity may not be overtaken by the swiftest bird in air.”
84 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:06:32pm |
re: #71 NYCHardhat
NEW DELHI (AFP) – The father of one of the child stars of the Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” slapped him for refusing to give media interviews, a report said.
Ten-year-old Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, plucked from a Mumbai slum to play in the movie, has been barraged by media attention since returning to his shanty home earlier in the week from the Oscars awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
Jet-lagged after the long flight, Azharuddin wanted to sleep and refused to talk to reporters when his father got angry and slapped him, the Press Trust of India reported Saturday.
“I was being naughty. I did not want to give the interview because I was tired so he slapped me but he loves me,” said Azharuddin, who came back Thursday to his tarpaulin-covered lean-to home.
SNIP
86 | pingjockey Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:07:10pm |
There is a show on Nat Geo right now about Neonazis and KKKers.
87 | Dustyvet Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:07:59pm |
re: #77 yma o hyd
True - and when there are some abandoned raven chicks found somewhere in the country, they are given to the Tower so that there willalways be ravens.
* Gwylum (male, 18 years old)
* Thor (male, 15 years old)
* Hugin (female, 11 years old)
* Munin (female, 11 years old)
* Branwen (female, 3 years old)
* Bran (male, 3 years old)
* Gundulf (male, 1 year old)
* Baldrick (male, 1 year old)
* Fleur (female, 4 years old)
Is the top name Welsh?
88 | HelloDare Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:08:21pm |
Crows playing in ridge lift in front of a mountain.
89 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:08:34pm |
re: #73 Bubbaman
I am mostly able to separate artists/actors from their moon-battery.
Can’t stand Alec Baldwin, love his movies. Same with Clooney, Penn, etc.
Cate Blanchette is the most talented actress since Streep (IMHO).
I do not see their political films.
90 | Randall Gross Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:08:45pm |
re: #65 MandyManners
“Lady Renouf” parents slept in kennels overlong. She’s really a white supremacist / neo nazi from either NZ or Oz IIRC.
91 | Rexatosis Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:08:50pm |
RE#16 Nevergiveup
Already cancelled classes for tomorrow. Now my M/W section is ridiculously behind the T/Th, got to cut out a whole lecture, rewrite the midterms, there will be a ton of paperwork on my desk for Tues., Snow Days are a pain in the …. I’d rather eat cold roast crow!
92 | nyc redneck Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:09:06pm |
re: #28 Killgore Trout
They are very smart. I watch them here all the time. They take nuts and place them in the street. They hang out on the powerlines and wait for cars to run over the nuts and crack them open.
They’ve also discovered that by soaking stale bred in my pond it will soften up and become edible. They experiment seeing if soaking will make other things like golfballs edible.
they are smart. they are one of the only predators that have figured out how to kill poisonous cane toads, which are over running australia. they flip the huge toads over and target their belly area.
and they teach this skill to each other.
93 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:09:41pm |
re: #76 HelloDare
There are several videos on You Tube of a crow making a tool from a straight piece of wire.
[Video]Bunch of others too. The internet is a wonderful thing.
It is indeed!
Interesting stuff in those videos.
The parks here have a large murder of crows. They love the park because they get free food: they go through the various rubbish bins, throwing out the inedible stuff, and get the binned fries, pizzas, that sort of thing. They are fearless, they will sit on the bin and stare at you. On the ground, they’ll just hop away with a couple of hops.
Mind - when I tell Madame Dog that ‘there’s a crow’ - she’ll chase them lustily. Good game, that!
95 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:09:53pm |
re: #81 Sharmuta
I saw it. And I posted a link to this previous LGF article about jihadi mobys infiltrating the internet. I think it’s worth reviewing.
Pam needs to take a gander at that for sure.
97 | swamprat Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:11:21pm |
re: #62 pingjockey
Just got here. A flock of crows is properly called a ‘murder’. A flock of larks is an ‘exultation’. A crowd of congress critters is called ‘the shallow end of the gene pool’.
even one is a “crowd”
98 | HelloDare Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:11:23pm |
re: #28 Killgore Trout
I’ve seen seagulls drop mussels on pavement. And I remember a video of a hawk or eagle dropping a tortoise on rocks to crack it open.
99 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:11:26pm |
re: #90 Thanos
“Lady Renouf” parents slept in kennels overlong. She’s really a white supremacist / neo nazi from either NZ or Oz IIRC.
Oz. She’s a proven liar.
100 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:11:39pm |
re: #78 itellu3times
Discusst.
Brown knows he’s losing it here in the UK, and hopes that becoming the economic saviour of the world, with PB)’s help, will save his bacon.
It won’t.
We’re in deeper economic doo-doo than you, btw.
101 | HelloDare Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:12:25pm |
Parrots are very smart, too. It seems birds aren’t birdbrains.
102 | Maximu§ Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:13:03pm |
I scope and kill any Crow that makes the mistake of landing on my property. I’m at war with the Crows.
103 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:14:04pm |
re: #87 Dustyvet
* Gwylum (male, 18 years old)
* Thor (male, 15 years old)
* Hugin (female, 11 years old)
* Munin (female, 11 years old)
* Branwen (female, 3 years old)
* Bran (male, 3 years old)
* Gundulf (male, 1 year old)
* Baldrick (male, 1 year old)
* Fleur (female, 4 years old)Is the top name Welsh?
Yes - as are Branwen and Bran. those two came from Anglesey, where they had been found and reared before being given to the Tower.
104 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:14:08pm |
re: #98 HelloDare
I’ve seen seagulls drop mussels on pavement. And I remember a video of a hawk or eagle dropping a tortoise on rocks to crack it open.
How about an eagle dropping a goat on rocks to crack it open.
105 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:14:19pm |
re: #90 Thanos
How did Renouf get in with this crowd in the first place? Born in Australia, she was a teenage beauty queen before moving to England in her early twenties. She married Daniel Ivan-Zadeh, a psychiatrist of Russian descent, and styled herself as Countess Griaznoff, based on her husband’s dubious claim to noble birth.
She became a fixture on the capital’s charity circuit, but the marriage collapsed and she moved on to the millionaire Frank Renouf. Their union didn’t last beyond the honeymoon, when Nigel Dempster, the diarist, discovered that the father the “countess” had said was dead was working as a truck driver in Australia.
But, get a load of this for sheer lunacy.
She skids further from reality when I ask about the company she has been keeping, such as Ernst Zündel, the German-born neo-Nazi. Zündel once published a book suggesting that after the second world war Hitler decamped to live at the South Pole and dispatches UFOs to spy on mankind.
“If he wants to believe in UFOs I see no harm in that,” she says. “For all I know UFOs might exist.” There’s probably more evidence to support the Holocaust than UFOs, though. “Only because we have not concentrated our media machine on UFOs.”
SNIP
106 | pingjockey Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:14:33pm |
re: #102 Maximu§
You keep it up and you may have to enlist the help of the Hatfields to help you against the McCaws.
107 | brookly red Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:14:42pm |
re: #98 HelloDare
I’ve seen seagulls drop mussels on pavement. And I remember a video of a hawk or eagle dropping a tortoise on rocks to crack it open.
Gulls will actually use clam shells as “bombs” if you get too near the nest.
108 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:14:45pm |
109 | VegasRick Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:14:45pm |
re: #20 scalleywag
That’s an amazingly clear shot of a bird. Nice work.
I am giving the dems the bird right now.
110 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:15:04pm |
re: #90 Thanos
“Lady Renouf” parents slept in kennels overlong. She’s really a white supremacist / neo nazi from either NZ or Oz IIRC.
From Oz, according to that article.
112 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:15:46pm |
re: #110 yma o hyd
From Oz, according to that article.
What would I get if I googled her name and David Icke?
113 | Dustyvet Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:15:49pm |
re: #103 yma o hyd
Yes - as are Branwen and Bran. those two came from Anglesey, where they had been found and reared before being given to the Tower.
Thank you…:) And please give Madame an ear scratch…:)
114 | Bloodnok Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:16:02pm |
115 | Maximu§ Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:16:21pm |
re: #106 pingjockey
You keep it up and you may have to enlist the help of the Hatfields to help you against the McCaws.
LOL, they’ll pay for crapping all over my new teak wood pool furniture.
116 | Bubbaman Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:16:38pm |
re: #89 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I am mostly able to separate artists/actors from their moon-battery.
Can’t stand Alec Baldwin, love his movies. Same with Clooney, Penn, etc.
Cate Blanchette is the most talented actress since Streep (IMHO).
I do not see their political films.
I struggle with this all of the time. On the one hand I don’t want to enrich these American hating lunatics, but on the other hand I still enjoy a good movie. How to reconcile the two?
117 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:16:57pm |
re: #112 MandyManners
What would I get if I googled her name and David Icke?
Something sickening, I’ sure!
118 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:17:32pm |
re: #113 Dustyvet
Thank you…:) And please give Madame an ear scratch…:)
Will do - and a little tummy scratch to your Tiger!
119 | Dustyvet Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:17:57pm |
re: #115 Maximu§
LOL, they’ll pay for crapping all over my new teak wood pool furniture.
Your in for it lad, the crows just signed a pact with the woodpeckers…:)
/s
120 | Dustyvet Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:18:37pm |
121 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:18:59pm |
re: #112 MandyManners
What would I get if I googled her name and David Icke?
davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?p=831371
northwestnationalists.blogspot.com/2008/08/lady-renouf-speaks-about-heretical-two.html
There is more.
I’m not posting hyper-text links.
122 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:19:22pm |
124 | Sloppy Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:20:00pm |
Where I grew up in Iowa many years ago, the state (or county) paid a bounty on crows. You had to bring in the feet to collect. Don’t know if that still obtains.
125 | Maximu§ Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:20:21pm |
re: #84 MandyManners
NEW DELHI (AFP) – The father of one of the child stars of the Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” slapped him for refusing to give media interviews, a report said.
Ten-year-old Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, plucked from a Mumbai slum to play in the movie, has been barraged by media attention since returning to his shanty home earlier in the week from the Oscars awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
Jet-lagged after the long flight, Azharuddin wanted to sleep and refused to talk to reporters when his father got angry and slapped him, the Press Trust of India reported Saturday.
“I was being naughty. I did not want to give the interview because I was tired so he slapped me but he loves me,” said Azharuddin, who came back Thursday to his tarpaulin-covered lean-to home.
SNIP
That POS father doesn’t sound much different than those Beauty-pageant Moms who drag their little girls all over the state. Thats a form of child abuse I think.
126 | Joo-LiZ Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:20:24pm |
Lizards! I need you’re web-prowling help!
I have just been informed that this coming week there will be a screening of Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land on my campus. I am looking for a resource to use in systematically debunking the film (I have not yet had a chance to watch it myself).
I am hoping for something along the lines of CAMERA’s debunking of a CBS documentary recently, unfortunately I have yet to find anything on Peace.
Please if you have come across anything or know where I can find it, send me an e-mail (my nick is blue).
Thanks!
127 | midwestgak Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:20:51pm |
128 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:21:06pm |
re: #121 MandyManners
davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?p=831371
northwestnationalists.blogspot.com/2008/08/lady-re nouf-speaks-about-heretical-two.html
There is more.
I’m not posting hyper-text links.
From the second one:
Lady Michèle Renouf speaks to David Duke about Simon Sheppard and Steve Whittle, known as the Heretical Two, Britain’s two asylum seekers, who are at present sitting in the Santa Ana Jail near Los Angeles USA awaiting their case of political asylum to be decided on.
SNIP
129 | jorline Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:21:07pm |
Obama can see it now…Top of the World Ma!
Brown woos Obama on global deal
GORDON BROWN hopes to forge a partnership with President Barack Obama in Washington this week, to call for a “global new deal” to lift the world out of recession.
As he prepares for his first White House visit since the president’s inauguration, the prime minister has hinted that he is ready to make further tax cuts to boost the UK economy.
Maybe Brown will help “O” see the light on tax cuts…yea, right!
*snicker*
130 | HelloDare Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:21:10pm |
re: #104 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
How about an eagle dropping a goat on rocks to crack it open.
Wow. Love the piano accompaniment.
131 | Bubbaman Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:21:27pm |
re: #77 yma o hyd
True - and when there are some abandoned raven chicks found somewhere in the country, they are given to the Tower so that there willalways be ravens.
Are ravens Halal? I suspect when the [bigoted word]s decide to look at this issue, either the birds will end up on their plates or will be removed from the Tower. How ironic that the “beheadings” which were common place in 11-13th century England have returned in the 21st century by a bunch of retards stuck in the 8th century.
132 | brookly red Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:21:29pm |
re: #116 Bubbaman
I struggle with this all of the time. On the one hand I don’t want to enrich these American hating lunatics, but on the other hand I still enjoy a good movie. How to reconcile the two?
IMHO you can’t…
133 | Syrah Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:21:50pm |
re: #100 yma o hyd
Brown knows he’s losing it here in the UK, and hopes that becoming the economic saviour of the world, with PB)’s help, will save his bacon.
It won’t.
We’re in deeper economic doo-doo than you, btw.
Its as if they think that they can harness the human spirit by given it no where t run.
Freedom would die in a global socialist state.
134 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:22:08pm |
OT, but can’t help meself posting this:
‘Gaza – Ma’an – Five Palestinians were killed and several others went missing when a tunnel under the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip collapsed Sunday. The collapse is believed to be a result of heavy rain throughout the region.’
[Link: www.maannews.net…]
(h/t Aussie Dave)
135 | VegasRick Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:22:20pm |
[Link: www.denverpost.com…]
He should have used a trillion pens. His presidency would be over before he was done. He’d also know what a trillion means.
136 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:22:38pm |
re: #125 Maximu§
That POS father doesn’t sound much different than those Beauty-pageant Moms who drag their little girls all over the state. Thats a form of child abuse I think.
Well, crown-hounds don’t slap on the face. Also, they already live in an abundant land—I think their motivation is narcissistic. But, yes, it’s abuse.
138 | Bubbaman Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:23:11pm |
re: #132 brookly red
IMHO you can’t…
I think you are right and for that reason, I miss a lot of films.
139 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:23:40pm |
re: #134 yma o hyd
OT, but can’t help meself posting this:
‘Gaza – Ma’an – Five Palestinians were killed and several others went missing when a tunnel under the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip collapsed Sunday. The collapse is believed to be a result of heavy rain throughout the region.’
[Link: www.maannews.net…]
(h/t Aussie Dave)
Very powerful Juice.
140 | brookly red Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:24:42pm |
re: #138 Bubbaman
I think you are right and for that reason, I miss a lot of films.
sooner or later they show up for free… be patient.
141 | pingjockey Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:24:44pm |
OT, Kansas is putting a whuppin’ on Mizzou.
142 | screaming_eagle Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:24:48pm |
re: #135 VegasRick
[Link: www.denverpost.com…]
He should have used a trillion pens. His presidency would be over before he was done. He’d also know what a trillion means.
Dump a trillion pens on the White House and let him dig his way out.
143 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:26:12pm |
re: #129 jorline
Obama can see it now…Top of the World Ma!
Brown woos Obama on global deal
Maybe Brown will help “O” see the light on tax cuts…yea, right!
*snicker*
Be afraid - be very afraid!
PB0 has been using some Gord-expressions already, such as calling public spending ‘investment’.
Thats original Gord!
He’ll teach PB0 how to go about using stealth taxes to increase revenue, none better than Gord to teach that. He’s been doing it for ten years …
We now work for the Government until nearly the end of June!
144 | VegasRick Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:26:16pm |
re: #142 screaming_eagle
Dump a trillion USED DEpenDs on the White House and let him dig his way out.
145 | Racer X Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:26:28pm |
re: #134 yma o hyd
OT, but can’t help meself posting this:
‘Gaza – Ma’an – Five Palestinians were killed and several others went missing when a tunnel under the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip collapsed Sunday. The collapse is believed to be a result of heavy rain throughout the region.’
[Link: www.maannews.net…]
(h/t Aussie Dave)
“Went missing”?
I think we all know where they are.
Dirt nap.
146 | Maximu§ Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:26:47pm |
re: #119 Dustyvet
Your in for it lad, the crows just signed a pact with the woodpeckers…:)
/s
Bring it on!
I have a pellet rifle and a tin full of ammo. Maybe I outta hang the bodies for all the other Crows to see…I want them to fear my house. They started this by crapping all over my new pool and outdoor furniture and now its open warfare.
147 | VegasRick Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:27:04pm |
149 | Killian Bundy Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:27:19pm |
Iran “not close” to nuclear weapon: Gates
Iran is not close to having a nuclear weapon, which gives the United States and others time to try to persuade Tehran to abandon its suspected atomic arms program, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday.
“They’re not close to a stockpile, they’re not close to a weapon at this point, and so there is some time,” Gates said on NBC television’s “Meet The Press
Mullen: Iran has fissile materials for bomb
The top U.S. military official said Sunday that Iran has sufficient fissile material for a nuclear weapon, declaring it would be a “very, very bad outcome” should Tehran move forward with a bomb.
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered the assessment when questioned in a broadcast interview about a recent report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog on the state of Iran’s uranium enrichment program, which can create nuclear fuel and may be sufficiently advanced to produce the core of warheads.
Mullen was asked if Iran now had enough fissile material to make a bomb. He responded, “We think they do, quite frankly. And Iran having a nuclear weapon I’ve believed for a long time is a very, very bad outcome for the region and for the world.”
/well, glad we got that minor detail cleared up
150 | Maximu§ Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:28:16pm |
re: #136 MandyManners
Well, crown-hounds don’t slap on the face. Also, they already live in an abundant land—I think their motivation is narcissistic. But, yes, it’s abuse.
LOL, I never heard that term Crown-Hounds…..It fits so well.
151 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:29:07pm |
re: #150 Maximu§
LOL, I never heard that term Crown-Hounds…..It fits so well.
I just made it up a few moments ago.
152 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:29:17pm |
The Washington State Biological Survey caught and tagged crows, with instructions on the tag to notify the state if these birds were found.
They received the following letter:
“I shot one of your birds and followed the directions on the tag. Wash. Biol. Surv. It tasted disgusting!”
153 | yma o hyd Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:29:58pm |
Gotta go, Lizards - that pocket house wolf has already pulled her box into the middle of the room and thrown the blanket out!
You’d think she was 12 months old and not 12 years!
Seeya tomorrow, all being well!
154 | jorline Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:30:05pm |
re: #134 yma o hyd
OT, but can’t help meself posting this:
‘Gaza – Ma’an – Five Palestinians were killed and several others went missing when a tunnel under the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip collapsed Sunday. The collapse is believed to be a result of heavy rain throughout the region.’
[Link: www.maannews.net…]
(h/t Aussie Dave)
Milk run perhaps?
Hold that billion, Hillary…Israel’s not through with their remodeling of Gaza.
155 | Maximu§ Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:30:22pm |
156 | Desert Dog Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:30:46pm |
re: #154 jorline
Milk run perhaps?
Hold that billion, Hillary…Israel’s not through with their remodeling of Gaza.
low on virgin goats
157 | debutaunt Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:30:46pm |
re: #124 Sloppy
Where I grew up in Iowa many years ago, the state (or county) paid a bounty on crows. You had to bring in the feet to collect. Don’t know if that still obtains.
You can get paid for crows feet?
158 | Maximu§ Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:30:50pm |
re: #153 yma o hyd
Gotta go, Lizards - that pocket house wolf has already pulled her box into the middle of the room and thrown the blanket out!
You’d think she was 12 months old and not 12 years!Seeya tomorrow, all being well!
see ya laters yma
159 | Desert Dog Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:31:23pm |
re: #157 debutaunt
You can get paid for crows feet?
I’ll be rich, but how can i get them off my face?
160 | A Kiwi Infidel Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:31:55pm |
161 | monkeytime Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:34:54pm |
162 | brookly red Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:35:02pm |
re: #134 yma o hyd
OT, but can’t help meself posting this:
The collapse is believed to be a result of heavy rain throughout the region.’
/ so it IS true… Bush did give the IDF the blue-prints for the weather machine… and when hurricanes start forming in the Mediterranean, global warming will get the blame, brilliant!
163 | ciaospirit Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:35:32pm |
re: #125 Maximu§
That POS father doesn’t sound much different than those Beauty-pageant Moms who drag their little girls all over the state. Thats a form of child abuse I think.
Didn’t this kid get paid? Save the world Hollywoodees are letting him live under a tarp?
said Azharuddin, who came back Thursday to his tarpaulin-covered lean-to home.
164 | Desert Dog Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:35:46pm |
re: #160 A Kiwi Infidel
So, you have enough oil for the next 40 plus years and no-body wants to do anything about it?
Un-effing-believable
We will only hear about this again if the price of gas goes waaay up. The reasoning is price…it’s too pricey to get it, just like oil shale. If we would have spent the money on the technology back in the 70’s, oil shale might be cost effective by now and we could tell the Middle East and Hugo Chavez to choke themselves on their oil…..
165 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:36:30pm |
166 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:37:18pm |
re: #163 ciaospirit
They get monthly stipends and will come into money when they turn 18.
167 | So? Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:37:34pm |
168 | Charles Johnson Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:38:35pm |
This Nat Geo show on the KKK is good. Scary stuff.
169 | So? Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:39:03pm |
170 | jorline Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:40:14pm |
re: #143 yma o hyd
Be afraid - be very afraid!
PB0 has been using some Gord-expressions already, such as calling public spending ‘investment’.
Thats original Gord!
He’ll teach PB0 how to go about using stealth taxes to increase revenue, none better than Gord to teach that. He’s been doing it for ten years …
We now work for the Government until nearly the end of June!
{yma}
I agree…whole new meaning for “New World Order”.
171 | Charles Johnson Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:40:21pm |
[Link: channel.nationalgeographic.com…]
173 | ciaospirit Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:42:30pm |
re: #166 MandyManners
They get monthly stipends and will come into money when they turn 18.
Not enough to rent a real house? That’s eight more years!
174 | jorline Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:42:42pm |
re: #149 Killian Bundy
Iran “not close” to nuclear weapon: Gates
/well, glad we got that minor detail cleared up
My left hand knows not what my right hand is doing.
/
175 | Desert Dog Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:43:25pm |
re: #169 So?
Ahh, the good old days when you could walk into your neighborhood apothecary and get some relief.
Now we know why they prefer Coca Cola over at the White House!
176 | elevenbravo1969 Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:43:33pm |
More while on the subject of birds:
Q: Do you know the difference between a duck?
A: One of its legs is both the same.
/to be used when you’re tired of listening to other people’s awful jokes.
177 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:44:40pm |
re: #173 ciaospirit
Not enough to rent a real house? That’s eight more years!
I reckon how the money is spent is up to the parents.
178 | VegasRick Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:45:35pm |
re: #176 elevenbravo1969
More while on the subject of birds:
Q: Do you know the difference between a duck?
A: One of its legs is both the same.
/to be used when you’re tired of listening to other people’s awful jokes.
Umm…..
179 | Empire1 Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:46:06pm |
It just started snowing here, and the weatther-guessers are saying we’ll get somewhere between 5 and 8 inches before it stops tomorrow. If true, that’ll be more than we’ve had all the rest of the season.
Oh — a bit west of Harrington, Delaware.
180 | screaming_eagle Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:46:22pm |
re: #169 So?
Ahh, the good old days when you could walk into your neighborhood apothecary and get some relief.
Congress needs to quit using that stuff ! !
181 | jorline Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:46:45pm |
re: #168 Charles
This Nat Geo show on the KKK is good. Scary stuff.
Watching now…thanks. Klan with weapons on mass destruction…scary!
182 | Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:47:42pm |
183 | jorline Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:48:59pm |
Klan…living proof white supremacist males screw goats.
184 | frangoldsmith Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:49:08pm |
Hi everyone, just one of your many readers/lurkers usually. The subject of crows reminded me of when I was around 4 our next door neighbor had a trained crow that could talk He taught it only to swear, sitting in the trees and telling you to F- off. Do I remember this correctly, Does anyone know if a crow could be trained to do this? I remember it always bomb-dived my Mom when she went out to hang laundry and try to peck her. Nasty thing and after afew weeks it was gone.
186 | MandyManners Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:51:52pm |
re: #184 frangoldsmith
Hi everyone, just one of your many readers/lurkers usually. The subject of crows reminded me of when I was around 4 our next door neighbor had a trained crow that could talk He taught it only to swear, sitting in the trees and telling you to F- off. Do I remember this correctly, Does anyone know if a crow could be trained to do this? I remember it always bomb-dived my Mom when she went out to hang laundry and try to peck her. Nasty thing and after afew weeks it was gone.
Was it a myna bird?
187 | frangoldsmith Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:54:47pm |
Could have been, it sure looked like a crow and to 4 year old they looked the same , although my mother called it a crow. It hated my Sister(3 years old) but did’t seem to mind me according to my Mom
188 | Empire1 Sun, Mar 1, 2009 1:01:09pm |
re: #185 buzzsawmonkey
There could be something to your season-slipping, but in this area, snow the last two weeks in February/first week in March isn’t that unusual — even a light “onion snow” in April isn’t cause for surprise.
Just listen to the farmers for planting info, though, not the official “Last Average Frost” date — the latter says April 15 for this area, but you’re wise to put off outdoor transplants of anything frost-sensitive until after Mother’s Day.
189 | So? Sun, Mar 1, 2009 1:16:00pm |
190 | NortonPete Sun, Mar 1, 2009 1:18:31pm |
A Raven for sure.
Ravens can fashion crude tools, this fact indicates a simple form of culture.
The tools used to exact bugs from tree bark vary from one location to another but the tools are remade over successive generations.
Adolescent ravens, on their own, also visit their parents weekly.
The world is a bit more complicated than it would seem.
191 | Throbert McGee Sun, Mar 1, 2009 1:42:11pm |
I wonder how Crows eat and breathe,
And other science facts…
/riffing on my first thought when I saw the headline
193 | sleepyone Sun, Mar 1, 2009 3:55:09pm |
re: #21 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
He got tired of your constant questions. Questions, all the time. Nag. Nag. Nag. That’s all you ever did, so he started adding the information. Is that good enough for you now?! Are you never satisfied?!
(hair on fire, running in circles…)
Uh, I think I only asked one time….
However, I assume you’re making a joke.