Louisiana State Mammal: Black Bears

Nature, State Animals 4 Minutes

Since, we’ve already had a post about black bears, I brought this article from treehugger.com detailing 8 fun facts about black bears.

From treehugger.com:

The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is native to North America and is found primarily in Canada and the U.S., with a small population in Mexico. There are 16 subspecies which differ slightly in appearance. An estimated 600,000 to 700,000 adult black bears exist throughout their range, and they are not considered endangered.

Black bears vary in size: males weigh from 100 to 900 pounds and females from 85 and 500 pounds. They measure between four and six and a half feet long from nose to tail. From their ability to pack away pounds for a long winter’s nap to their keen sense of smell, here are a few things you may not know about the American black bear.

1 Black Bears Are Impressive Climbers

Black bears are expert tree climbers. Their strong claws are built for climbing, and they can run up a tree with incredible speed. Female bears teach their cubs to climb at a young age, and often send them up a tree to escape from danger. Adult black bears continue to climb throughout their lives. They latch on with their front paws and use their back legs to walk up a tree. Black bears don’t turn around to go down a tree. They come down the same way they go up: back legs first.  When it comes to climbing, black bears have a distinct advantage. It’s not a good idea to try to climb a tree to escape a bear, as it can provoke them to chase and possibly attack. 

2 They Are Fast Runners 

Don’t be fooled by their waddling walk. While they are notoriously slow, black bears can move quickly when necessary. Black bears can execute short and powerful bursts on flat land, uphill, or downhill in search of prey or to outrun danger. Though only for short distances, they can reach speeds of 25 to 30 miles per hour, faster than most humans, so do not attempt to outrun a bear. 

3 They Are Skilled Swimmers

Black bears aren’t just swift on land — they’re also proficient swimmers. They have no trouble swimming across rivers or lakes, and thanks to their powerful legs, they move through the water with ease and seem to enjoy it.  Depending on habitat, the water is also a source of food for black bears, and they teach their baby cubs to swim early.

4 They’re Not Always Black 

Black bears have a bit of a misleading name. The species most often has a shaggy black coat, particularly in the eastern portion of its range, but not always. Black bears can also be brown, cinnamon, red, grey, tan, or blond. The individuals in the western portions of the range tend to be lighter in color. A small subspecies of black bears found only in coastal British Columbia known as Kermode bears or spirit bears are white. 

5 They Have Great Senses

Black bears have a keen sense of hearing and good vision, but their best sense by far is their sense of smell. With their oversized noses, bears have the ability to sniff out even the tiniest morsels of food. Because their sense of smell is so sharp, they easily find food discarded by humans and can detect the smell of food over a mile away. Their sense of smell also helps them identify danger and find a mate.

The hearing frequency of black bears is also superior to humans, and while their distance vision is not great, they have excellent eyesight at close range. Between their superior senses of smell and hearing, black bears usually notice humans before we see them.

6 They Usually Hibernate

In October or November, black bears begin looking for a place to hibernate. Most often they select places like tree cavities, spaces under logs or rocks, deep caves, or dens they dig out themselves. Their hibernation period is genetically predetermined based on their habitat and the availability of food. In the northernmost portions of their range, black bears hibernate seven months or longer. In southern areas, where temperatures are warmer and the food supply is available year-round, the bears hibernate for shorter periods, or not at all.

The hibernation of black bears is different from other animals. Their temperature and heart rate drop, but not dramatically, and they don’t need to leave their dens to eat or defecate. Females often give birth to their cubs during hibernation. The bears’ hibernation process is of interest to researchers who hope to discover how they are able to maintain bone mass and manage their cholesterol levels during their long period of rest.

7 They Like to Eat

Black bears are omnivores, and their diet is dependent on habitat and time of year. They primarily feed on a number of plants, grasses, fruits, and nuts. Those in the north also feed on spawning salmon. Their diet is composed of primarily carbohydrates, with a small amount of protein and fat. Black bears are not predatory. Most of the protein they ingest is from insects like termites and beetles; a small amount of their diet may also consist of carrion. 

For those that have a long hibernation season, fall is the time that bears pile on the pounds. In order to have sufficient fat stores, bears eat four times their normal calorie intake — around 20,000 calories per day — during the fall. Bears need to consume enough to last after hibernation too, as the food supply may be scarce when they emerge.

8 They Only Socialize During Mating Season

During the majority of their lives, black bears are solitary animals. For breeding purposes, adult bears come together during the summer for a brief mating season before parting ways. Females give birth to an average of two to three cubs every other year. They keep their cubs close for about 18 months, teaching them how to find food, avoid predators, and move about their habitat, before sending them on their way before the next mating cycle begins. 

SOURCE: TREEHUGGER.COM

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    1. Morning, Pat! Still dark here, too – temp at 53. Predictions are calling for a string of at least 10 days with no rain, clear skies, temps in the high ’70’s to mid-80’s. We’ll see how that works out since they’re usually wrong anyway.

      I’m considering making a run to Yankton – not only to find some fruit-flavored vape refill pods (illegal here in NE – stupid ’cause the kids are going to find a way to get them anyway!) to try to wean myself off of cigs but I also want to find a better chair where my butt doesn’t get numb and my back doesn’t hurt by the end of the day.

      Wheezer wasn’t around when I got up; I switched back to plain tuna again and called to him after putting some in his dish. Within 5 minutes, he showed up and chowed down on the tuna, eating every bit of it, whereas he was leaving almost half of the canned cat food. Lesson learned!

      Now, about that interesting story you mentioned yesterday from your banana run….?

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      1. Morning Filly!
        good news on Wheezer maybe?

        oh yeah! thanks for reminding me! i asked hubby to get the lunch meat while i did the rest of the shopping and when he found me in the aisle afterwards, he sad come with me–there’s someone you gotta see. we found the man in the meat section and hubby tapped him on the shoulder, saying Sir…this is her.
        He turned around–an older, older man–who was wearing a “i’d rather vote for a felon than a Jack (picture of Dem donkey)”
        I laughed and said…I LOVE IT. He also had on a ball cap that stated I’m voting for the FELON.
        I had on my I’m voting for the outlaw and the hillbilly t shirt.
        he told me about his “lost” family–daughter–a liberal and a teacher and a son who married a liberal…and they were all raised conservative.
        shaking his head, he said “it’s up to us to save our country so they can be free.”
        I asked where he got his shirt–he said a site called I Love My Freedom. I checked it out briefly last night when we got home. I guess you can become a member (shirts are cheaper then) or just buy w/o it. they had tons of stuff. the t shirts were like $25 without membership, but $10 if you were a member. gonna check it out more today.

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        1. Well, he’s still sick, that’s clear, but at least he’s back to eating ALL the tuna, whereas he was leaving a portion of the wet cat food every day. Who knows what chemicals are in it! They add many of the same poisons to animal food as they do to people food.

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            1. No, that’s not it – he comes back periodically and eats dry food all the time thru the day and night. The bowl I use will hold about 8 – 10 ounces and I have to refill it every day.

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        2. Oh, how cool!!!! I’m betting there are a LOT of families having this issue. I’m gonna check out that website, too! Hope it doesn’t cost anything to be a member. I refuse to pay for any of these sites. They’ll get my $$$ if/when I buy something. If I were going to buy a LOT of stuff, then it might be worth it over the long run but I won’t so…..

          Just remembered something from my trip yesterday. After I filled my truck with gas, I was walking inside to pay when I saw an SUV with 4-5 Hispanics in it trying to pull up behind my truck far enough that they could reach the other pump. I stopped and asked if I needed to move my truck to give them room – it was clear they didn’t understand so I tried again.

          Then I noticed the guy sitting in the front passenger seat: tats all over his face and down his neck, including a few teardrops. I made some hand motions to explain what I was asking and the smiles broke out with the head nods when they understood. I think they were surprised that I was being polite and friendly.

          EXCERPT: “Tattoos have always been a profound way of expressing oneself and none so enigmatic as the teardrop tattoo. Often seen inked just below the eye, this small yet powerful symbol carries a depth of meanings. Traditionally linked to sorrow and loss, the teardrop tattoo is more than just a mark; it’s a story, a personal narrative that holds different significances for each bearer.

          For some, it’s a tribute to lost loved ones, a mark of endurance through life’s toughest trials, or a symbol of regret and reformation. Yet, in certain circles, it’s seen as a badge of tougher, more ominous experiences, like incarceration or gang affiliation. This duality of meaning makes the teardrop tattoo a compelling subject, meriting a closer look to unravel its true significance….”

          https://tattoomean.com/what-does-a-teardrop-tattoo-mean/

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            1. At first his head was down and he picked it up as I approached. I would venture a guess that it WAS gang tats – he had that look about him. Of the 5 in the SUV, there were 3 women and 2 men and it was clear that one of the women in the back seat was translating. I kind of think he expected a negative reaction because of the look on his face as I remained pleasant and friendly, even offering a slight smile.

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              2. OK, if you insist….brave to me would mean having the guts to sing (as I know I can) in front of a crowd of people….or speak, for that matter.

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              8. Ya’ know, it’s been sooooo long since I’ve done any dancing, IDK if I could any more! At least w/o looking incredibly stupid! Oh, I can always do the western dancing – and no, that is NOT line dancing, thank you very much! I always refused to participate in that! My dancing to the staying alive Tweet is just wiggling in my chair! LOL

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            2. Besides, this is NE – MY state, thank you very much! I’ll approach anyone I damned well please and if they don’t like it, they can walk away or put it where the sun never shines!

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              4. I didn’t look at the license plate but we’ve always had a lot of Hispanics in the area because of the beef/pork plants, specifically one in Madison. My ex-hubby worked there briefly gutting hogs hanging on the hooks of the conveyor.

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              6. Oh, yeah – he didn’t work there but about a month – standing there doing that all day (those guts are HEAVY!), his hand kept cramping up. It’s a common malady for those who did that work – they have heated pots of wax standing by for them to dip their hands
                to warm them up and stop the cramping.

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            3. Having said that….had this happened in Omaha? I honestly can’t say what I would do….it’s much more dangerous in that neck of the woods vs. Norfolk any day of the week.

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      2. We are having a little weather issue here in N FL… :8->

        However, Helene isn’t looking as formidable this morning as she did last night, after passing through the channel between Cuba and Mexico. The eye isn’t as large or well defined on the Windy.com satellite and wind pages.

        We are hoping for a less than Cat 3 or 4 storm as Helene is predicted to pass right over my city. Since I moved to N FL from S GA 18 years ago, the homes in our city have withstood many hurricanes and tropical storms… so far. Only the occasional trees falling on homes and autos, but not massive wind damage…and a few power outages that lasted several days. I didn’t lose food thanks to Publix hauling in truckloads of ice.

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        1. Oh, I was hoping that would happen! Still, best to beware ’cause I expect that can change on a dime, like our weather is wont to do!

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  3. Camus
    @newstart_2024
    Excellent speech by dr. Marty Makary:
    “I’m trained in gastrointestinal surgery. My group at Johns Hopkins does more pancreatic cancer surgery than any hospital in the United States. But at no point in the last 20 years has anyone stopped to ask, why has pancreatic cancer doubled over those 20 years? Who’s working on that? Who’s looking into it?

    We are so busy in our health care system billing and coding and paying each other and every stakeholder has their gigantic lobby in Washington D.C. and everybody’s making a lot of money except for one stakeholder, the American citizen. They are financing this giant expense of health care system through their paycheck deduction for health insurance and the Medicare exercise tax as we go down this path of billing and coding and medicating.

    And can we be real for a second? We have poisoned our food supply, engineered highly addictive chemicals that we put into our food. We spray it with pesticides that kill pests. What do you think they do to our gut lining and our microbiome? And then they come in sick. The GI tract is reacting. It’s not an acute inflammatory storm. It’s a low grade chronic inflammation. And it makes people feel sick and that inflammation permeates and drives so many of our chronic diseases that we didn’t see half a century ago.

    Who’s working on it? Who’s looking into this? Who’s talking about it? Our health care system is playing whack-a-mole on the back end and we are not talking about the root causes of our chronic disease epidemic. We can’t see the forest from the trees sometimes. We’re so busy in these short visits, billing and coding. We’ve done a terrible thing to doctors. We’ve told them put your head down, focus on billing and coding. We’re gonna measure you by your throughput. And good job, you did a nice job. We have all these numbers to show for it.

    Well, the country is getting sicker. We cannot keep going down this path. We have the most over-medicated, sickest population in the world. And no one is talking about the root causes. The Pima Indians are the perfect example. Here is a group where the obesity diabetes rate was less than 1%. The land in New Mexico and Arizona had its rivers supplied, diverted by ranchers and settlers, and the land and the soil was destroyed. The government, recognizing this tremendous injustice, started to send free government food, but it wasn’t organic kale and fruit and vegetables, it was processed and junk food. Instantly, the Pima Indians developed an obesity, diabetes rate of 90 percent. And what did the United States government do? What did our health care system do? The NIH dispatches its researchers to draw the blood of the Pima Indians to look for a gene that predisposes them to obesity and diabetes. What are our leaders doing?

    The H in NIH is supposed to stand for health. Where are they spending their money on food as medicine and looking at the estrogen binding properties of pesticides that are driving our fertility rates down? They’re funding research in Wuhan, China, and they’re funding research on a new food compass to replace the misinformation they put out with the food pyramid, telling us lucky charms is healthier than steak. Somebody has got to speak up.

    Maybe we need to talk about school lunch programs not just putting every kid on obesity drugs like Ozempic. Maybe we need to talk about treating diabetes with cooking classes, not just throwing insulin at everybody. Maybe we need to talk about environmental exposures that cause cancer, not just the chemo to treat it. We’ve gotta talk about food as medicine and research these areas. 20% of our nation’s kids are on medication. And as you heard, half are obese or overweight. Are they more disobedient than children in Japan or have we poisoned the food supply? Is this a chronic disease epidemic that has been a direct result of what adults have done to children?

    We like to blame people for their diseases, but maybe we need to look inward. We see all these shiny objects thrown at us. Politicians talk about, oh, we’ve got a new healthcare proposal. Medicare can now negotiate the prices of ten generic drugs. Don’t be fooled. These are things in the periphery. It’s not to say they don’t have merits, but the proposed program savings in year one by their own description is six billion dollars. In a four point five trillion dollar economy that’s expanding at eight percent per year in the commercial sector, that’s a two hundred billion dollar expansion, we save six billion dollars. The best way to lower drug costs in the United States are to stop taking drugs we don’t need.”

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  4. Buzz Patterson
    @BuzzPatterson
    Tonight’s episode of “Buzz’s Bedtime Stories.” Cuddle up and pour a glass of wine.

    (Dedicated to @Brahmslover1278
    )

    When I first arrived in the Clinton White House in the spring of 1996, I got busy immersing myself in my new experience, learning my job carrying the “nuclear football,” meeting the staff, and getting to know the Secret Service guys and girls.

    The first thing I immediately noticed only a few days was a young female intern who had unusual access to the Oval Office. She was actually assigned to the Old Executive Office building and not the West Wing. But her security access badge matched mine, as the carrier of the nuke football who needed access to POTUS. I asked one of my agent buddies who she was. He said, “Oh, don’t go there. That’s a close friend of the president.” That “close friend” was Monica Lewinsky.

    Over the next several months, I saw a lot of Monica. Not as much as Bill did, of course, but a lot. One lazy Saturday afternoon, Clinton asked me to come to the Oval and place a phone call to the president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak. It took a while to hook up the call with the Egyptian military aide. When I finally got Mr. Mubarak on the phone, I walked into the Oval to inform the president. As I did, I walked in on Bill and Monica actually hanging out in the Oval. I knew what was going on, the staff knew what was going on, and, yes, Hillary knew what was going on. The rest of the world didn’t.

    While this affair was ongoing, Paula Jones was simultaneously suing Clinton for sexual harassment years earlier in Little Rock. I attended the Jones deposition with Clinton in D.C. and, for the first time, the lawyers for Jones raised the name Monica Lewinsky in their questioning. I knew the history and my eyebrows raised. Ultimately, as a result of that deposition, Clinton agreed to a payment of $850K to Jones to make her go away.

    For the first time, in addition to Jones, Clinton immediately knew he had another problem with Monica. A few weeks later, the Drudge Report would shock the world with the news about Monica and the national media immediately picked up on it. For the second time in less than a month, Bill had a huge bimbo problem.

    As fate would have it, and timing is everything, the following morning, I was the first appointment on Clinton’s schedule. It was 7:00 AM and I was there to update him on our nuclear plans and answer any questions he might have. As I walked into the Oval that morning, I saw Clinton seated at his desk, his head in his hands and his eyes bloodshot. I knew it was not going to be a happy day in the White House, so I asked him if I should come back later. He said, “Yes.”

    As I was leaving, I turned and asked him to confirm he had the nuclear codes with him. It was standard procedure and a national security safety check. He confessed to me he’d lost them. He’d lost them. Never happened before, hasn’t happened since. As I drilled down, it turns out that, for a period of time, days, weeks, or months, who knows, Clinton didn’t have the necessary codes and didn’t tell anybody about it. He couldn’t remember how long it had been since he’d lost them, and he didn’t care. He was a neutered president because of his affairs. He appealed to me to not let the media know. I told him I wouldn’t (and I didn’t until I retired from the military and wrote “Dereliction of Duty”).

    When I contacted the Pentagon, they were incredulous. It had never happened before. Being the American military, they hopped to and reproduced new codes that were then required to be disseminated not only to President Clinton but also to every military nuclear arm (

    missiles, submarines, and bombers). No easy task.
    Initially, as you recall, Bill denied it publicly. Hillary blamed the “right-wing conspiracy.” Eventually, Clinton paid Paula Jones the $850K and found Monica a cushy job in NYC. Eventually, he’d be impeached and survive. Compare these crimes and Clinton’s malfeasance with what they accuse Trump of.

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  5. Truthstream Media
    @truthstreamnews
    WOAH! After years of fighting, Fluoride Action Network just got a U.S. federal court to rule water fluoridation is an “unreasonable risk” to our children’s developing brains, so it looks like the EPA will finally be forced to regulate it!

    “The court finds there is an unreasonable risk of such injury, a risk sufficient to require the EPA to engage with a regulatory response… One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court’s finding, is to ignore that risk.”

    How sad it took such a long legal battle just to get them to do their damn jobs!

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    1. I posted a link to a CHD article about that at M’s last night. It’s an opening at least….but I expect a LOT of appeals first.

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    1. Our Guy isn’t holding punches this time around – and neither is Melania!

      TUNE IN: Former First Lady Melania Trump joins ‘FOX & Friends’ for an exclusive interview tomorrow at 6a ET on Fox News Channel

      Melania Trump opens up after assassination attempts on her husband: Surviving both were ‘really miracles’
      Former first lady Melania Trump spoke out in an exclusive interview airing on ‘Fox & Friends’
      Published September 25, 2024
      -snipped-
      Former first lady Melania Trump recalled how she found out about the two assassination attempts on her husband’s life in an exclusive sit-down on “Fox & Friends,” her first television interview in more than two years.
      https://www.foxnews.com/media/melania-trump-opens-up-after-assassination-attempts-her-husband-surviving-both-were-really-miracles

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      1. Remember how Melania spoke through her choice of clothing designs?

        Remember that ivory Inaugural gown with the red belt?

        It had a symbolic meaning and message…

        It was symbolic of the US Constitution and Donald Trump’s Contract with America.

        Old parchment legal documents used to be rolled and tied with red thread.

        There was also perhaps a little snark toward the Mormon White Horse ‘Constitution hanging by a thread’ prophesy.

        From her hot pink Pussy bow outfit to the Inaugural gown and on through her tenure as First Lady – Melania Trump engaged in Couture comms.

        Can’t wait to see what she will say through her fashion designs this time around!

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  11. TheseTruths(@thesetruths)

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    September 26, 2024 01:14

    George:

    BREAKING: Trump just revealed that the FBI has been unable to “break into” the accounts and devices used by his two shooters

    “They must get Apple to open these foreign apps, and they must get Apple to likewise open the six phones from the second lunatic… They had no problem breaking into the apps of the J6 hostages.”

    Yet another reason to ABOLISH THE FBI.

    BREAKING: Trump just revealed that the FBI has been unable to “break into” the accounts and devices used by his two shooters

    “They must get Apple to open these foreign apps, and they must get Apple to likewise open the six phones from the second lunatic… They had no problem… pic.twitter.com/0rZCa1nDvl

    — George (@BehizyTweets) September 25, 2024

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  12. TheLastRefuge
    @TheLastRefuge2
    A reminder to those who might consider harm to President Donald J Trump.

    We are not locked into this nation with you. You are locked into this nation with us!

    We are the backbone of industry, the people who keep it all functioning, the builders, diggers and blue-collar workforce that keeps everything functioning.

    We are the people you will never fully control. We speak in languages you do not understand, and we absorb targeted ridicule as fuel.

    We are the movers of goods, the truckers, the farmers, the nameless people behind the skilled trades that keep what you call ‘American society’ moving.

    We are the people who grow the food, pick the food, transport the food, stock the food, cook the food and facilitate the life you live.

    We are a visible, yet disregarded, insurgent force within your sphere of life that is never considered, yet we control the outcomes of every moment you value.

    We pick up the trash, answer the phones, run cables to your devices, mow your lawns, solve your problems, control the flow of essential services and keep our heads below the radar.

    We are the majority.

    The only thing we need to do to fuck you up, is nothing.

    If we don’t work, your everything fails.

    We are a self-reliant, freedom loving, normally peaceful and God-fearing assembly.

    We drive you to your destination; we are comfortably out of mind until needed, and yet we are irreplaceable for the things you require.

    We are armed with hammers, pens, rulers, perhaps mice, pickup trucks, laptops, post-it notes, stickers and alternate forms of messaging that circumvent the control mechanisms deployed to create our silence.

    We are inside every facility, every institution, every meeting, every moment of your existence – and we notice everything.

    We have eyes of mice and ears of elephants. We are there when they you do not expect, and we melt away before you notice our appearance.

    We are smart, strategic, highly intelligent and carry a brutally obvious and pragmatic common sense that finds optimal solutions to everything.

    We identify our tribe immediately and without conversation.

    We see what you hide, we hear what you whisper, we decipher your codes, and we understand the complexity you create in your effort to conceal.

    We control the physical world that operates around every element of society, and we value real and tangible assets.

    We do not sit around pontificating eloquently about philosophic nuances; we get shit done.

    We are the people who facilitate your ability to take us for granted, and we do so without issue, resentment or desire for recognition.

    We are optimistic, affable, kind, generous, friendly, loyal, warm and quietly spiritual in purpose.

    We are polite, considerate and slow to anger.

    We prefer to be left alone. However, pushed entirely far enough, decisions are reached. Right now, we are tenuously staring; deliberately, with deepened gaze.

    In every town, village and hamlet we are encountering the same conversation. On every porch, in every shop, at every event, the topic is the same.

    The two biggest mistakes you can make right now is not understanding why we have begun to bow our heads.

    First, our heads are not bowed because we are subservient, cowering or accepting the current effort to control us….

    ….We are praying!

    Your second mistake would be to ignore that we are not praying for us…

    ….We are praying for those who trespass against us!

    You may not like what follows, “Amen!” Because we are resolute and of common purpose.

    We are, quite simply, MAGA!

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  13. Troublemaker10
    September 26, 2024 1:31 am

    Strategic petroleum reserve…

    As the Biden/Harris administration comes to an end, reminder that they drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, risking national security for short-term political gain, and will now leave office without ever refilling it…

    Lowest level in ~40 years. pic.twitter.com/N9SzYhoKJN

    — Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) September 25, 2024

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    1. Every time I see “Winston,” I wonder if it’s the same guy I used to “talk” to @ Breitbart every day. I think I encountered him at CTH, too. We had some rather interesting back-and-forth convos but were on the same page, for the most part.

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        1. Once in a while, yeah, but for the most part, we were on the same page. He felt the same about Constitutional law vs. corporate law so we only differed in the details. It was always an interesting, intelligent convo, which I enjoyed.

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  17. Hmmmm…PA is a member of ERIC, Pat. NE is not.

    https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/23/trump-hating-colorado-secretary-of-state-loses-another-election-integrity-battle/

    Our Take: This is an article (and lawsuit) about ERIC, so I’m surprised the author missed one of the most relevant and explosive details about Colorado’s relationship with ERIC.

    ‘In 2022, Griswold’s office ‘mistakenly’ mailed postcards to some 30,000 foreign nationals encouraging them to vote. She blamed a glitch in the database tied to Colorado’s driver’s license list.’

    The official explanation is actually a ‘data coding mismatch’ between the CO DMV database and… ERIC.

    Also, ERIC routinely sends non-citizens to member states, but doesn’t tell the states they’re non citizens. This is part of the design.

    Deputy Secretary of State Chris Beall — who I was cross examining in those screen grabs above during my trial in July — runs every aspect of Jonestown Jena’s office, and he admitted all of this under oath. It’s all part of the official records, but isn’t mentioned at all in this article; instead, Kittle breezes past the explosive 2022 postcard issue — which also happened in 2020 — and blames the CO DMV, and not ERIC, in a story about ERIC.

    Weird. I’m still glad The Federalist is sort of reporting on Colorado voter rolls and those who criminally collaborate to corrupt them. It’s something…

    Chief Justice Brimmer’s ruling in the District of Colorado comes as similar ‘glitches’ are being reported in California and Iowa. California is still a member of Eric, though Iowa withdrew in June 2023 citing, ‘…multiple states leaving ERIC resulted in reduced data making it less effective and Iowa no longer agreed with ERIC rules requiring all member states to abide with its bylaws.’

    If the saga of ERIC is to end justly, it must end with the criminal indictment of David Becker and his inter-state collaborators. It’s a house of cards, and the wind is blowing. — Ashe in America

    List of states (25): https://ericstates.org/about/

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          2. Just like NE – Omaha/Council Bluffs, IA (right across the river) and Lincoln are the only real leftist cities; No. Platte & Grand Island come a close second, tho.

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  18. NF: As a victim of mild sexual abuse, I agree with her wholeheartedly, as I know my Sis would – she experienced truly horrible abuse by our step-Dad when she was only 12!!!

    https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/us-news/susan-smiths-arguments-to-be-paroled-from-prison-revealed/

    Susan Smith, in prison for the cold-blooded 1994 murders of her two young sons, has a parole hearing in just six weeks — and family members say that she has come up with at least four arguments she will make as she makes her bid for freedom — including that she’s been (mostly) well behaved in prison.

    “She believes she might be a free woman in less than two months,” a relative told The Post.

    “And she’s hoping that [the parole hearing] will go her way. She’s put all her hopes in that basket, and she’s manifesting her freedom.”

    The Post has learned that Smith, 52, plans to argue that she grew up in a sexually abusive household that skewed her understanding of right and wrong. “She has a different moral compass than other people, because of her trauma,” the relative said. “It really did a number on her.”

    Secondly, Smith wants to argue that she was not in her right mind as a young mom — and that she may have suffered from undiagnosed mental illness.

    She was a 22-year-old mom when she let her car roll into John D. Long Lake in Union County, South Carolina, with her boys — 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander — still strapped into their car seats. — NY Post

    Our Take: She was spared the death penalty, but she shouldn’t have been. Susan Smith is a monster.

    I was 15 when this woman drowned her two young sons in an effort to appease her boyfriend. I remember it vividly. Two little boys died in a terrifying way. They were betrayed — murdered — by the person who should have defended them against all harm. Her reason was that she was pursuing a relationship with a man that didn’t want children.

    She then blamed a black man for her horrible crime, because she’s also a racist, and now she wants to convince people that she’s actually a good person.

    She claims childhood sexual abuse skewed her perception of right and wrong. This is offensive to actual survivors of abuse. We don’t believe it’s okay to kill our children. If anything, we are exceptionally more protective of our children because we know that monsters exist.

    Smith is claiming that she had sex with guards in prison, but that she couldn’t have consented because of the asymmetrical power dynamic. She sounds like she’s still manipulating, and it also sounds like leftist criminal justice reform propaganda. Who is coaching Smith on her parole hearing?

    David Smith, the father of the two murdered boys, is fighting the appeal. I feel for him having to relive the likely worst experience of his life, but I applaud him for going through it. His boys deserve that much.

    The bottom line for me is that mercy sentencing for monsters in murder cases is a misguided virtue. She should have been executed. — Ashe in America

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    1. agreed. killing someone in a self defense situation may call for leniency but for those who kill the innocent in cold blood? God might have mercy on them, but i don’t know that i could in that situation.

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  19. “Innocent Black Man Lynched Because the US Is a Serial Killer of Black People”

    Twitchy, Brett T. | 10:30 PM on September 25, 2024

    I’ll summarize some of the Tweets….

    EXCERPT: “If you look around X today, you’ll find plenty of the usual suspects weighing in on capital punishment. Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri Tuesday night. Just for starters:

    AOC – “We must abolish the death penalty.”

    Here’s the AP’s coverage: “BREAKING: Missouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her family’s calls to spare his life.”

    “A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday over the objections of the victim’s family and the prosecutor, who wanted the death sentence commuted to life in prison.

    Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted in the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle, who was stabbed during the burglary of her suburban St. Louis home…..The Department of Corrections released a brief statement that Williams had written ahead of time, saying: “All Praise Be to Allah In Every Situation!!!”

    Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said he hoped the execution brings finality to a case that “languished for decades, revictimizing Ms. Gayle’s family over and over again. No juror nor judge has ever found Williams’ innocence claim to be credible,” Parson said in a statement.

    The NAACP had been among those urging Parson to cancel the execution. “Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.”

    From Greg Keller Tweet : “Williams lay in wait in her apartment till she came home and stabbed her 43 times, leaving the knife lodged in her neck before making off with her purse. Her purse was found in his car and he confessed to two separate people. Her name was Felicia Gayle.”

    Ibram X. Kendi: “Tonight, Missouri lynched Marcellus Williams. DNA evidence proved he was innocent. It didn’t matter. Because the United States is a serial killer of Black people.”

    George Takei: “A nation that allows an innocent man to be executed does not value justice. A governor and a High Court that do nothing to stop such a travesty do not value life.”

    Tristan Snell: “The same 6 justices who claim to be “pro-life” just signed off on the lynching of an innocent Black man.”

    Rebuttal from Buck Sexton: “If you read, even briefly, about the Marcellus Williams case, there was a mountain of evidence proving his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt People shouting online that he was innocent are delusional, or just like to publicly preen as champions of the “wrongfully convicted.”

    Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior): “Marcellus Williams is 100% guilty btw. History of home burglaries, he had property from the murder victim’s home in his car, his cellmate, girlfriend & the man he sold the victim’s laptop to testified against him. This isn’t a remotely difficult case.”

    Will Chamberlain: “Every time the Innocence Project makes a cause celebre out of a death row inmate, if you read the court filings, it becomes obvious that they committed an absolutely gruesome murder and that the evidence against them is overwhelming.”

    A bunch of other rebuttal Tweets…..

    https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/09/25/innocent-black-man-lynched-because-the-us-is-a-serial-killer-of-black-people-n2401412

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  24. Clay brick with a stamped cuneiform inscription and a dog’s pawprints. From the ziggurat at Ur, 2112 BC – 2004 BC

    Artistry in steel, wood and stag

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  26. This new gadget to keep my coffee hot is working perfectly except that it never seems to acquire a “full charge.” The red light blinks when it is charging and is supposed to turn to a steady red when it is done….I had it plugged in for 6-7 hours and it never did. Whatever – it’s working – that’s all I care about!

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  27. Just The News: “Local officials and law enforcement  testified on Thursday before the congressional task force investigating the two assassination attempts against former president and GOP nominee Donald Trump and said the provided what the Secret Service asked for, potentially exposing a failure by the protective agency to fully utilize its local partners.

    “I feel that with them being the lead, and we were request assist function, we provided we provided what they asked for and we secured the perimeter of the fairgrounds,” Lieutenant John Herold of the Pennsylvania State Police said Thursday. 

    This is the first hearing conducted by the task force and will focus on the Butler, PA assassination attempt where shooter Thomas Crooks fired on Trump’s rally, killing one and injuring three, including the former president who was struck in the ear. 

    “It’s the obligation of this of this Congress, this administration, and public servants at all levels of government to stand against those who would use violence to interfere with our elections,” said task force Chairman Mike Kelly, R-Penn., said in his opening statement. 

    “Every American should be outraged, regardless of who they intend to support by these attempts to nullify their votes through violence. We use ballots, not bullets, to make a determination who’s to serve. Today’s hearing is the task force’s, latest attempt to seek accountability and answers on what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania and to restore the faith, trust and confidence the American people deserve,” he continued. 

    Witnesses include: Sergeant Edward Lenz of the Adams Township Police Department, the Commander of the Butler County Emergency Services Unit ;  Patrolman Drew Blasko of the Butler Police Department; Lieutenant John Herold of the Pennsylvania State Police; Allegheny County Medical Examiner Dr. Ariel Goldschmidt; and Former United States Secret Service Agent  Patrick Sullivan. 

    Sergeant Lenz described the moments leading up to the attempt. 

    “Yes, I was aware through radio traffic that there was somebody on the roof and also that he was armed,” Lenz said of the minutes leading up to the moment shots were fired. 

    “The first report that there was somebody on the roof came on a different radio channel than the tactical units were operating, which would be PD ops three, and that transmission at 18:08 and 20 seconds is somebody’s on the roof, 18:09 I made a phone call to the PSP sergeant in the Secret Service command center and relayed the information that there was a suspect on the roof of the AGR building.”

    He describes how further radio traffic shows Butler Township units spotted Crooks and notified the others that he appears to be armed with a long gun.

    “So my actions for that at that point, the gentleman on the roof clearly is a threat, and I radio to our quick reaction force to deploy them to the AGR complex to begin to address that threat,” he said. “Prior to me finishing that radio transmission, you can hear the shots being fired through my open microphone.”

    The hearing follows an initial investigation by the task force which visited the rally site, collected documents, and conducted 23 transcribed interviews with witnesses.” 

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  30. Just The News: “New York City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams has been charged on five federal counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. Adams is the first sitting mayor of New York City to be indicted.

    The case appears to be connected to a roughly year-long investigation into accepting bribes and illegal campaign funds from foreign sources. Adams has denied the charges. 

    The charges stem from contributions to Adams’ 2021 mayoral campaign from “wealthy foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish government official seeking to gain influence over him,” according to the indictment. The charges include federal program bribery, receiving campaign contributions by foreign nationals; one count of wire fraud; two counts of solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national; one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and one count of bribery.

    Prosecutors also allege that Adams used a program that matches $250 donations up to $2,000 with public funding to amass about $10 million for his 2021 campaign.

    In a news conference outside of Gracie Mansion on Thursday, Adams said he would continue to do his day-to-day duties as mayor. He answered some questions related to the indictment. “I follow campaign laws,” he said. “We do not participate in straw donors. We do not participate in foreign donors.”

    Protestors attempted to interrupt the news conference on numerous occasions. One protestor kept yelling, “you’re an embarrassment.” 

    This is a developing story  … “

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      1. disregard where its from…it seems sound

        K1tt7-fzn

        K1tt7-fzn(@k1tt7-fzn)

        Online

        Reply to  pat frederick

        September 26, 2024 11:48

        From arksirc @ Sylvia’s

        Emerald Robinson
        ECONCHICKINTELCHICK@ECONCHICKINTELCHICK
        3h
        Emerald Robinson is the very definition of a Grifter. She can get half her posts right but another 25% are pure clickbait sensationalism on topics that she knows nothing about. Even when Newsmax was a small fledgling news operation, they kicked her to the curb for that reason.
        MissYouMike@missyoumike

        Replying to @AAESZC and @ECONCHICKINTELCHICK
        Speaking of Twitter, your good friend (sarcasm) Emerald Robinson is going after Scott Pressler – saying his dad is some DOD Intel spy and Scott is a plant inside the GOP. That woman is cray cray and one who is spouting that voting is useless against the cheating. I know you called her out a loooong time ago.

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  34. Fascinating, Ms. Pat. I don’t expect to see bears around here, but how to escape one it he or she comes near me? Sounds like they are physically superior in every way. Should I try grinning at them, as Davy Crockett did with his treed possum?

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    1. Hey Katharine! We were concerned about you with the coming hurricane! Batten down the hatches and stay safe!! I can’t tell you anything about bears but no doubt Pat can! LOL

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    2. hi katharine…so glad you checked in!!!

      Get as tall as you can–stand on something, raise your arms. do not climb a tree–they love that…lol

      we had a bear come visit us the first night we grilled outside when we built the house. he was attracted by the smell, but we were up on the deck and he was down on the ground. he stayed a few minutes sniffing the air but never ventured up the ramp. we were bigger in his mind i guess.

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  35. Yeah! Another free period on a series of pay channels. Went thru the guide and scheduled a bunch of stuff to record, not least of which are the Little House episodes! Some older movies I liked, too.

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  38. Well, alrighty then! Took a minute to check the thermometer and discovered it had shot up to 78!!! Presto-chango!!! I had to water all my plants and did some trimming on the trumpet vines while I was out there. And the thermometer reads 81 after doing that!

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  39. SMDH – they could care less about the sexual abuse of children!!!

    NEW: In a multi day operation on Nantucket Island, ICE’s Boston office announces they arrested four illegal aliens who are charged with raping or sexually assaulting Nantucket children or residents – all of whom were released from local custody despite the serious charges.

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  40. I second this opinion 110%!!!!!

    “If it’s network news, I don’t wanna hear it anymore, because the vast majority of it is some chucklehead telling you his or her opinion of what’s going on. Local news isn’t actually local – it’s relative to the nearest big city (in my case Orlando) and I just don’t give a fuck how many gang-bangers killed each other or terrorized a neighborhood doing wheelies. If I have no plans of visiting somewhere overseas, I don’t give a fuck what happens in Lebanon or Ukraine or whatever Fuckthatistan they’re talking about. Why would anyone waste a minute watching that shit? Life is too short and too precious. Juss’ sayin’…”

    “In case you’ve never been through one, this is what a CAT 5 storm is capable of. It’s kinda like a tornado, but the motherfucker hangs around for good couple hours. I know – I’ve been through three CAT 5’s and probably at least a couple dozen more of varying degrees over the last 70 years It ain’t fuckin’ fun, Bubba…”

    Before/after:

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  41. NF: Seems kinda prudent to me….but that IS a bit much! Even Nebraskans aren’t generally that bad – natives anyway!!!

    “And this is what happens when you’re surrounded by idiots from the mid-west who’ve never had to deal with a hurricane before. I was outside a BJ’s Club yesterday afternoon and some guy had six cases of water and a 32-pack of TP’s he was loading in to his cart. Ya can’t make this shit up.”

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  42. NF: I can manage a mile….but not much more! On my trips to Norfolk, there is ALWAYS some asswipe getting in the way!

    “We tend to forget how truly funny – and incredibly prescient – these guys were in their time…And yes – I do know what ‘prescient’ means. Do you?”

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  45. Attorney General Andrew Bailey
    @AGAndrewBailey
    🚨NEW: A DC court has SHUT DOWN Missouri courts by blocking our lawsuit against Media Matters (FILED IN MISSOURI) from moving forward.

    DC courts have no say over Missouri courts.

    This is an attack on our ability to protect your rights in our own state.

    This will not stand.

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  46. Not only are 90% of the ads big pharma but now, more and more, they are showing ads for drugs that will counteract the negative effects of the 1st drug. You keep taking that 1st one, tho – you just ADD this drug…..and a few years down the road, they will have a drug to counteract THOSE negative effects….ad nauseum! I’m seeing ads for several follow-on drugs for Ozempic!

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      1. That’s why I record everything – I’d be screwed without the FF button!!! And, since I have the DVR, I can put the current station on hold for up to 2 hours, after which it starts automatically. So I watch recorded stuff until enough time has gone by, then rewind that station and again, FF thru the commercials. I’ve got this down to a science! Commercials have been an issue for me ever since they came out with pay TV = no commercials back in the ’80’s. Regular TV was free with an antenna. But noooo, they had to end that! SMDH

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        1. we have an antenna. we get some regular channels. when they switched to high def we got rid of our $15 antenna and bought the newer one for $19…lol…walmart. we get more channels–but nothing like espn. but hubby can watch a lot of regular season football games–that’s all we really watch on tv anymore.
          usually we stick to dvds

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          1. Well, I primarily like the documentaries, ID and other investigative shows that aren’t on “regular TV,” a few older series like Castle, and nature stuff. There is an antenna I could buy to get some so-called “local” channels (few and far between ’cause I’m on the edge of the Sioux City territory) but where I’m sitting, I can’t even get radio reception – when I moved it to the front window and put the antenna in the window – nothing but scratchy noise. So it wouldn’t be worth the effort, no matter how cheap it is.

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