1 Racer X  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:34:46am

Don’t eat it.

2 DEZes  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:35:22am

Can we please see Obama eat some?

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.

5 Sharmuta  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:37:49am

How poetic.

6 Racer X  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:37:49am

“Crow - its what’s for dinner”
- Pamela

7 Desert Dog  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:38:09am

The Crow

8 Kronocide  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:38:31am

CAHH CAHH CAHH CAHH!

9 Kronocide  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:39:08am

re: #6 Racer X

Timing: one point
Delivery: one point

10 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:39:13am

Now Buck Owens and Roy Clarke standing in the cornfield….

11 Sharmuta  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:39:46am

re: #6 Racer X

“Crow - its what’s for dinner”
- Pamela

LMAO!

12 midwestgak  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:39:53am
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!

14 lifeofthemind  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:40:00am

Why does the crow?
Caws

15 Kronocide  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:40:24am

re: #12 midwestgak

Not worky.

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…]
18 midwestgak  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:41:42am

Try again

Darts?

19 UncleRancher  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:42:21am

re: #12 midwestgak

Darts anyone?


FYI
Message box: “The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.”

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

re: #18 midwestgak

Try again

Darts?

Mucha bettah.

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

re: #14 lifeofthemind

Why does the crow?
Caws

Caws and effect?


/S

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.

/

27 Cathypop  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:45:00am

re: #21 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
LOL ! FBV you are a nut case

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.

33 pat  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:45:56am

A Crow named Sheryl

34 debutaunt  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:46:36am

re: #33 pat

A Crow named Sheryl

Singing in the dead of night.

35 HelloDare  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:47:26am

Ravens are even smarter than crows. Here’s a video.

[Link: www.pbs.org…]

36 [deleted]  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:47:40am
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.

38 Kronocide  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:47:52am

Crows = smart. Must be intelligently designed… here we go!

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.

42 Bubbaman  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:52:10am

I have crow’s feet, do these count?

43 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:53:35am
44 Kragar  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:53:42am
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

re: #17 jaunte

Smart birds.

Maisey say WHAT!

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

re: #43 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Poe’s “The Raven”; read by Christopher Walken

The Raven rap, with EAP in the House

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.

Here’s a short video with Heinrich.

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

re: #54 pre-Boomer Marine brat

MWAH!

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

re: #54 pre-Boomer Marine brat

LOL!

Clap on-Clap off…:)

/s

60 yma o hyd  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:00:07pm

re: #49 HelloDare

Here’s a short video with Heinrich.

Thank you for that video!
Great to hear and see Heinrich himself.
As for those ravens - just brilliant!

Updinged and hearted.

61 UncleRancher  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:00:12pm

Nevermore.

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

Richard Williamson, the so-called “Nazi bishop”, hurtled through Heathrow so fast last Wednesday that he didn’t speak to the mysterious blonde who had come to meet him. Flanked by reporters demanding to know if he would take back his views on the Holocaust, he made a beeline for members of his religious order – the Society of St Pius X – who bundled him into a Land Rover bound for their Wimbledon base.

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.


Image: ravens_400.JPG

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

MWAH!

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

71 NYCHardhat  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:02:55pm
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.

74 So?  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:03:25pm
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

Drudge link

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

re: #53 MandyManners

That is one awesome bird!

Thanks!

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

I don’t understand people.

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

85 screaming_eagle  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:07:08pm

Let me grab my shotgun.. .. ..

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!

94 Macker  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:09:44pm

re: #6 Racer X

“Crow - its what’s for dinner”
- Pamela

And she should eat it.

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.

96 Sharmuta  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:10:14pm

Here’s a Sheryl Crow song I like, from Cars:

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

Drudge link

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

re: #101 HelloDare

Parrots are very smart, too. It seems birds aren’t birdbrains.

WHAT?

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.

111 Lincolntf  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:15:16pm

re: #102 Maximu§

Kinda like the Sioux?

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

Perhaps he was scared away by Pink Floyd.


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

re: #118 yma o hyd

Will do - and a little tummy scratch to your Tiger!

Tiger say TA and purr…:)

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

re: #117 yma o hyd

Something sickening, I’ sure!

Oh, yeah.

123 midwestgak  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:19:39pm

Another cro…

Ain’t he cute?/

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

re: #124 Sloppy

You had to bring in the feet to collect.

Crow’s feet are delicious./

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.

137 pingjockey  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:23:05pm

re: #134 yma o hyd
Minining engineers they ain’t.

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

re: #145 Racer X

“Went missing”?

I think we all know where they are.

Dirt nap.

Mud nap.

148 debutaunt  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:27:17pm

re: #61 UncleRancher

Nevermore.

Quid pro.

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.

Olmert: Gaza will face ‘painful’ hit if attacks don’t stop

155 Maximu§  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:30:22pm

re: #151 MandyManners

I just made it up a few moments ago.

Your a Genius!

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.

Olmert: Gaza will face ‘painful’ hit if attacks don’t stop

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

re: #46 Walter L. Newton

Maisey say WHAT!

That is hilarious!

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

re: #155 Maximu§

Your a Genius!

Maybe some of Buzzsawmonkey has rubbed off on me.

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.

168 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:38:35pm

This Nat Geo show on the KKK is good. Scary stuff.

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
172 So?  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:40:36pm
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
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
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.

185 [deleted]  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 12:51:18pm
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

re: #175 Desert Dog

Now we know why they prefer Coca Cola over at the White House!

And, that as HE said, is the rest of the story. Thanks for that.

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

192 [deleted]  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 2:26:55pm
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.

194 MrC_5150  Sun, Mar 1, 2009 5:55:10pm
Crow

Red-tailed Hawk

Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 400 mm


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Ranked-Choice Voting Has Challenged the Status Quo. Its Popularity Will Be Tested in November. JUNEAU — Alaska’s new election system — with open primaries and ranked voting — has been a model for those in other states who are frustrated by political polarization and a sense that voters lack real choice at the ...
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