Minnesota State Mammal: Gray Wolf

Nature, State Animals 4 Minutes

The Grey Wolf (Canis Lupus), also known as the ‘Timber Wolf’ is the largest of the wild dog family. Grey Wolves were once in abundance and distributed over North America, Eurasia and the Middle East. However, because of human-related activity such as destruction of habitat and excessive hunting, Grey Wolves now only occupy a fraction of their former range.

The Grey Wolf is listed as an endangered species under the 1973 Endangered Species Act as they continue to be hunted in many areas of the world as a perceived threat to livestock, humans and also for sport. As extremely adaptable animals, Grey Wolves generally live in mountains, temperate forests and grasslands.

Grey Wolf Characteristics

Grey Wolves have a grey coat (hence their name) with interspersed yellow and pepper colored flicks which seep through from the base of their thick fur. Their coat has a kind of ‘grizzled’ look about it. Adult Grey Wolves weigh around 75 – 125 pounds. Male Grey Wolves are larger than the females and can even grow to weigh as much as 175 pounds in some cases. Grey Wolves stand between 27- 32 inches at the shoulder.

Wolves can appear much larger than they already are, this is because of their long fur. In winter when their fur is fully grown, their fur can be as long as 2 – 2.5 inches on their backs and sides. The hairs in their mane can be as long as 4 – 5 inches long and when stood upright, this makes them appear taller. The length of the Grey Wolf varies between 50 and 70 inches long from nose tip to tail tip. A third of this length is the length of its tail.

Compared to a large dog, a wolf has a narrower chest and longer legs. Because their chests are narrow, their left and right footprints are closer together than those of a dog’s. Grey Wolves have very strong jaws. Wolves have 42 teeth altogether. These consist of: 12 incisors, 4 canines, 16 pre-molars and 10 carnassials and molars. A wolf’s canine teeth can be as long as 1 inch long. A wolf’s teeth are extremely sharp, strong and slightly curved. This enables them to grasp their prey in their teeth and chew down to the soft marrow in the bones. It also helps the wolf to eat nearly all of its prey, leaving very little waste.

Wolf paws are able to traverse easily through a wide variety of terrains, especially snow. There is a slight webbing between each toe, which allows wolves to move over snow more easily than comparatively hampered prey. Wolves are digitigrades, so the relative largeness of their feet helps to better distribute their weight on snowy surfaces. The front paws are larger than the hind paws and feature a fifth digit, a dew claw, (a claw that grows higher on the leg so that, when the animal is standing, it does not make contact with the ground) that is absent on hind paws. Bristled hairs and blunt claws enhance grip on slippery surfaces, and special blood vessels keep paw pads from freezing.

Grey Wolf Population

Today, there are over 300 wolves in Yellowstone Park and over 500 in Idaho. The reintroduction of wolves is still in ongoing debate and is sometimes heated about already introduced wolves and the possibility of reintroducing more. Through negotiations between livestock ranchers and Defenders of Wildlife, the reintroduction of wolves has been a great success and number recovery goals have been met. However, the reintroduction still provides a sharp divide between industry and environmentalist.

Grey Wolf Reproduction

Wolves mate in January to March. The female wolfs gestation period is 63 days. An average litter is 4 to 7 pups. At birth, wolf pups tend to have darker fur and blue eyes. Their eyes will change to a yellow-gold or orange color when the pups are 8 – 16 weeks old. Though extremely unusual, it is possible for an adult wolf to retain its blue-colored eyes. Wolves can live to be between 8 – 13 years. In the wild, Grey Wolves live about 6 to 8 years and sometimes up to 13 years. In zoos, Grey Wolves may live up to 17 years.

Grey Wolf Diet

Grey wolves are carnivores. Their natural diet is solely meat and they often prey on animals larger than they are including – deer, moose, caribou, elk, bison and musk-oxen as well small animals such as beaver, hares and other small rodents.

Grey Wolf Behavior

Grey wolves live in packs, which have complex social structures that include the breeding adult pair (the alpha male and female) and their offspring. A hierarchy of dominant and subordinate animals within the pack help it to function as a unit. Wolves communicate by scent-marking, vocalizing (including howling), facial expressions and body postures.

Grey Wolf Range

Today the range of the Grey Wolf has been reduced to the following areas of the United States: Alaska, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Grey Wolves can also be found in Alaska, Canada, as well as Russia and a few eastern European countries. Mexican wolves have been reintroduced in New Mexico and Arizona.

Grey Wolf Habitat

Historically, Grey wolves have the largest range of any land mammal, other than people. Grey wolves have lived in all habitats in the Northern Hemisphere except for tropical forest. Grey wolves tend to occupy forests, tundra and grassy plains as well as deserts and mountains.

SOURCE: ANIMALCORNER.ORG

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  5. Good morning, Pat and Filly!

    Temp here today high 71 – but it won’t feel like it. Gray, cloudy, drizzly.

    OK – why are male human predators called wolves?

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    1. Morning GA!
      high of 71*?????????
      gees we got 17 currently…lol
      too dark yet here to tell what it’s going to be like.
      I have no idea why they’re called wolves…lol
      maybe because we call young women “chicks” LOL

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    2. Morning, GA! Still dark here w/temp @ 41 and drizzly- we could possibly hit 50 tomorrow! I think I’ll p/u a couple of things here today and plan on my trip to WM tomorrow. SMH – I was sleeping soundly at 2 am when I got 2 texts on my phone, saying don’t lose this code but I haven’t the foggiest idea who or where they were coming from! DELETE!!!! What a royal PITA!!!

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      1. Sally Q woke me up @11:45 having a bad dream – accusing me of not giving her the pain pill. She is having high blood sugar readings. Our doctor and nurse advisors say it’s probably due to inflammation caused by the tumors.

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    1. Morning, Pat! Temp @ 41 here this morning with light rain/drizzle. I’ll wait to go to WM tomorrow I think – it’s supposed to be up to 50 and mostly sunny! Got 2 texts from someone – no idea from whom or where – @ 2:20 this morning about saving this code. Yeah, right! DELETE!!!

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  9. Vvek wants to import a lot of hbi visa workers…some dude responds

    TheLastRefuge
    @TheLastRefuge2
    Dear, @VivekGRamaswamy
    , my counter take….. 😇

    Several years ago, Florida Power and Light won the prestigious international Edward Demming Award for excellence in multi-platform engineering, efficiency superiority and total quality in the process of energy management.

    However, the scruffy rednecks did not blow every PhD intellectual out of the water with slide rules, CAD programs, articulated and quantified quality improvement processes and engineering acumen. They did it with hard hats and dirty fingernails.

    Because they lost the award, the jaw-agape Japanese spent 6 months visiting and reviewing FPL and later published a 1,000 page study essentially saying FPL “wasn’t really good, they were just lucky.”

    You see, the reviewers couldn’t actually quantify the reason why the Florida-based energy company was so successful. In response the FPL field leadership laughed, took out magic markers and wrote on the back of their hard hats: “WE’RE NOT GOOD, WE’RE RUCKY.”

    A few years later, every single Kuwaiti oil field was blown up by Saddam Hussein. Global analysts and think-tanks proclaimed it would take 5 years to cap them all off and restart the Kuwait oil pumping industry. Well, the Kuwaiti’s and Saudi’s called Texans, who had them all capped and back in working order in 6 months.

    We are a nation that knows how to get shit done.

    A few more years pass, and the Northern Chile mine workers were trapped two miles underground. The eyes of the world began to tear as the word spread. Most began to whisper no one could save them. Who did they call for help? A bunch of hick miners from USA coal country who went down there, worked on the fly, engineered the rescue equipment on site, and saved every one of them.

    Yup, that’s our America. Ingenuity born from freedom.

    Across the pond a half-breed Islamic whack job, armed with an AK-47 and a goal to meet his virgins, began opening fire on a train in France. The scruffneck Americans on board didn’t run to the nearest safe room and hide themselves amid baguettes and brie. They said, “let’s go”, and beat the stuffing out of that little nut with a death wish.

    Legion d’Honneur or not, that’s us. WE ARE AMERICANS! That’s just how we roll.

    In fact, Lady Liberty can stroll along the Champs-Elysées with a swagger befitting Mae West because without her arrival, they’d be speaking German in the Louvre. Yet, for the better part of the past decade, a group of intellectual leftists have been teaching our children that it’s better to be sitting around a campfire eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off each other; because ‘save the planet’, or something similarly minded. It would appear, they hate the outcomes and inequities from freedom.

    Warmest regards,

    Sundance

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    1. I saw that yesterday about Vivek and, tbh, it didn’t surprise me coming from him! That’s what people from India do – take our jobs!!!

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  11. another woman set on fire

    FTA
    Downey has been transferred to a local burn facility, where she continues to fight for her life in critical but stable condition, according to WRAL News. Almost three-quarters of her body is burned to some degree. Her family has established a GoFundMe site to pay for medical costs that will include surgery, additional treatment and rehabilitation. 

    Harnett County Sheriff Wayne Coats said the incident was the most horrific crime his police unit has ever had to deal with. “It’s just a nightmare for this family,” he said, observing that he hasn’t a clue what the motive for the attack might have been. “It could have been domestic-related,” he said. “It could have been a gang initiation. We’re mystified by what’s happened.” 

    https://thepostmillennial.com/three-suspects-pour-gasoline-on-north-carolina-woman-set-her-on-fire-with-lit-cigarette-police

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      1. let the punishment fit the crime. these people who argue for abolishing the death penalty forget that we have to provide food, housing, clothing and medical care for criminals their entire life. things they denied to their victims. it is not a deterrent.

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        2. Yep – been saying that for years – why should OUR tax dollars be used to keep such excrement alive and breathing? At least make them work it off, FFS!!!

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  12. “California Announces Mass Deportation Of U.S. Citizens”

    U.S. · Dec 26, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    SACRAMENTO, CA — In an effort to crack down on the invasive influence of American culture, the state of California announced that come January, it will commence mass deportation of U.S. citizens.

    Governor Gavin Newsom issued an order today for authorities throughout the Golden State to begin preparing for a statewide operation to round up and expel all native-born American citizens from California.

    “This will help California stay California,” Newsom said in his announcement. “For far too long, we have put up with the increasing effects of having U.S. citizens walking Californian streets, buying up Californian housing, taking Californian jobs. No more. We’re drawing a line in the sand. It’s time for these Americans to get out of California and go back where they came from.”

    The move was met with mixed reactions. “It’s about time,” said one non-citizen who entered the United States illegally in 2021. “I’m tired of seeing Americans everywhere I go. Don’t they have a place of their own?” Others said the deportations would not be sufficient. “We should build a wall,” said another illegal immigrant. “Did you know that most of them don’t even speak Spanish? Can you believe that? Get them out and keep them out. California — love it, or leave it.”

    At publishing time, Newsom said the deportations would begin in earnest in January but refused to comment on the possibility of allowing some American citizens to remain in California as refugees. “California has its own problems to deal with,” he said. “We can’t be helping everyone else from other places.”

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  13. “So, ya get a job after being outta work for however long, and the first thing you do is go on strike for higher pay. That forces your employer to raise prices to a point (like $5.00 for a cuppa Joe) where people just stop coming in to where you work and the place goes bust and you’re out of work again. How’d that whole barista strike thing work for ya?”

    NF: BTW, there were some baristas striking briefly – IKR? Just blew right past the vast majority of Americans! LOL

    Just The News: “The Starbucks strike began on Friday and lasted five days, according to News Nation. It expanded to 10 cities, including Denver, Pittsburgh, and Columbus, Ohio, though it impacted a fraction of the 16,000 locations nationwide.” 

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  15. “The Legal Immigration Debate Over Work Visas—Elon & Vivek piss off portions of MAGA – do they have a point or are they full of techbro shit?”

    Jordan Sather, Dec 27, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “We’re just over three weeks away from Trump taking office for round 2 and the immigration debate, which was one of the main points of contention during the 2024 election, is in full swing. But rather than the debate being about illegal immigration, over the last few days it has now focused on legal immigration. No doubt, both the legal and illegal forms of immigrations are royally FUBARed in this country – so they should both be looked at.

    A portion of MAGA wants a full shutdown of all immigration, including the legal work visa kind, while another group is pushing for increasing legal immigration through H-1B and O-1 work visas (allowing skilled workers into the country).

    Most H-1B work visas given in this country (there is a cap at 65,000 allowed annually) are petitioned by Tech companies bringing in foreign workers as computer programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, being a part of Trump’s team in their Dept of Govt. Efficiency roles, have recently weighed in on this issue due to their involvement in the tech world.

    Elon triggered a good portion of MAGA world by saying that legal immigration should be expanded to bring in skilled workers to this country based on merit, and Vivek upset some even further by exposing how our culture values mediocrity instead of excellence. (is he wrong though?)

    Does Elon have an incentive to push for continued use of H-1B visas because he owns tech related companies and uses them to find labor? Yeah, for sure. There’s likely some self-interest there – but he does have a point that we should continue allowing legal immigration as long as it’s based on merit. Expand the scope though? I may disagree on that point. But I don’t think it should be disbanded completely.

    I figure if Tom Homan comes in and deports the 10+ million illegals – while we bring in 40-50,000 legal immigrants per year that are actually benefitting this country – I think we’ll be fine as long as we prioritize American citizens first. And if no American citizen willing or capable for the role can be found, then sure, look into the foreign talent pool.

    ALTHOUGH, it goes to note that the current use of H-1B visas by large corporations is typically done to bring in cheap labor for unskilled jobs they could easily hire America for. Not all H-1B visas, but some of them. Just search examples from companies like Facebook and Disney over the last few years how they’ve fired their American workers and forced them to train their foreign replacements. The Biden Administration also used these work visas as “legal loopholes” to import more immigrations than they needed to – so the way H-1Bs are used and approved needs massive overhaul.

    This was a great thread on Twitter from Nicole Shanahan detailing her experience in Silicon Valley around H-1B workers and companies who hired them, and she offers some solutions for how the overhaul could be done.

    We need to stop giving large corporations incentives, subsidies, and free reign to hire foreign born workers to replace Americans. We are a nation build on legal, merit-based immigration, so I don’t think it should end – but we surely need to fix both the legal and illegal immigration happening in this country.

    Another issue impacting this debate is what Vivek described that I linked above, our culture in America is promoting and valuing mediocrity far more than it should, which impacts the talent pool for hiring and ultimately how successful we as a society are.

    Why do we look at spoiling kids like it’s a good thing? Why do parents feel bad having to discipline and say “no” to their children? Why isn’t our youth pushed to challenge themselves and excel? Why do we accept so many distractions so easily – video games, partying, mindless sports, drugs, wasting their lives on insignificant shit. We live in the movie Idiocracy with a lot of dumb, fat, lazy people in this country, let’s be honest with ourselves here. Looking in the mirror is required if we want to correct course of this ship and get back on the path of American excellence.

    Maybe we’d have a greater talent pool for hiring domestic American workers in STEM fields if we weren’t made to be retarded and apathetic by our public school systems. Our society values comfort and dopamine happiness over personal growth from discomfort. That’s a large issue I’m not seeing discussed all that much in these online debated – how screwed up our public education is, along with how we’re raising our children. I’m quite passionate about how weak willed and spineless many parents these days are becoming, raising entitled brats by over-spoiling them.

    I think we have two issues to solve here:

    – Fix our legal immigration system by limiting the amount and scope of work Visas we allow to foreign born workers, and incentivize (or force) corporations in America to hire from local/national talent pools rather than internationally.

    – Work on adjusting our cultural/societal values and the way we raise our children – pushing them for personal growth by becoming uncomfortable, bringing back proper discipline and instilling values of success rather than lazy, dopamine-ridden comfort.

    And a third, really:

    – Find a way to adjust the values of those in business to stop prioritizing their love of money over doing what’s right and moral.

    The good thing is that this debate is happening on social media before Trump is inaugurated on January 20th and any policy changes are made.

    It’s also pretty awesome that we have a social media app of free market ideas (X) where we can debate political issues like this. Never before have we been able to see CEOs, billionaires, politicians, and influential people talk to each other in real time about important issues facing us all.”

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    1. Neither Sather nor Vivek are wrong about the terrible culture and permissiveness that is so prevalent in the US. As I’ve posted before, IMO, the decline began when they eliminated PE in schools, as well as the traditional HomeEc, Shop, Firearms, etc. classes. The students aren’t even properly prepared for college!

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    2. i get their point, but they are stressing AMERICA over AMERICANS. they want AMERICA to win, but not necessarily AMERICANS. our education system needs to be overhauled–the brightest are being held back by the worst–no child left behind bullshit. they pass thru kids who can’t read or write or even speak correctly because they don’t hold every student to the same standards.
      and they make crime a lifestyle–like CA–you could (not any more thank heavens) steal up to $950 A DAY and not go to jail. that’s a hell of a lot easier than applying yourself to become something.

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      1. and the professional thug culture in sports. you can play (insert sport here)? well, no need to graduate…come into the NBA. NFL or whatever. give them millions to play a sport but not the sense to manage their money or their success.

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  16. “What Elon and Vivek Get Wrong About The H-1B Visa Debate—DEI and affirmative action, not a cultural predisposition to mediocrity, is what prevents the otherwise high-skilled American worker from pursuing his dreams in tech, finance, and law.”

    Paul Ingrassia, Dec 27, 2024

    EXCERPT: “Over the Christmas holiday, a firestorm erupted on X surrounding the H-1B visa debate. The debate has centered on two factions within the MAGA movement – on the one side are so-called “Tech Bros,” represented by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-chairs of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE.” This group has endorsed policies like continuing the H-1B visa program, which enables companies to hire foreign workers with “specialized knowledge.”

    Advocates of H-1B visas justify their position on the purported lack of high-skilled American laborers available today. Within the tech industry, where the program is especially popular, advocates maintain that there is a shortage of high-skilled computer programmers and engineers, and so H-1B visas are an indispensable part to the long term continued growth of their industry.

    Elon Musk personally got involved and added a geopolitical layer to the debate: arguing that without these workers, America would be at risk of falling behind foreign competitors in the race for artificial intelligence, thus opening itself to a parade of national security horribles over the long run if countries like China and India presumably get these workers instead.

    Those on the other side of the debate, people like Laura Loomer, Jack Posobiec, Gavin Wax, Josiah Lippincott, and many others aligned with the MAGA movement, stress that H-1B visas preferentially select for foreign workers over native-born Americans. As a result, Indian and Chinese laborers are getting jobs that otherwise qualified legacy American workers should have.

    The economic consequences of this policy are twofold: Americans are denied opportunities to work in high-wage jobs, like Tech and Engineering – and even industries like law, which increasingly rely on foreign applicants. The companies who hire these workers can then artificially depress wages industry-wide, which affects both foreigner and American worker alike.

    In an era of still rampant inflation, the depressive effects of these policies spread across American society are monumental. Culturally, many of the foreigners who receive these jobs generate a sense of entitlement over their American peers. The crude truth of the matter is that this entitlement in some cases breeds contempt for native American citizens, a contempt – both overt and implicit – that permeates the words and actions of those who have benefitted from the H-1B program, either directly or indirectly.

    Evidence for this contempt was observed in a particularly controversial recent X post made by Vivek Ramaswamy, who insisted that there are simply not enough high-quality American laborers to fill the jobs needed in tech and other industries. “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long,” Ramaswamy’s post read. “A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.”…..”

    https://paulingrassia.substack.com/p/what-elon-and-vivek-get-wrong-about

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  17. “Friday Funnies: Resistance is Futile: Christmas is coming”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS, Dec 27, 2024

    OK – that is it for the left-over Xmas memes – back to regular programming!

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  24. it warmed up a tad, so i got all dressed to go out to try to get more crap off the deck. took one step onto the deck and a whole bunch of heavy ice chunks and snow fell from the roof right next to me.
    no thanks! i hightailed it back in!

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  25. Clarion

    December 27, 2024 1:20 pm

    This is a good point by Jordan. We do subsidize the schools that give preference to the foreign students.

    We subsidize them indirectly because we subsidize the institutions https://t.co/0wVK8gtbs2

    — Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) December 27, 2024

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    vikingmom

    vikingmom

    December 27, 2024 1:29 pm

    Reply to  Clarion

    Exactly! The Universities charge more for foreign students so they give them preference AND their endowment funds receive substantial gifts from foreign countries looking to increase the number of their citizens who will be accepted…but we, the American taxpayers are often subsidizing the university system, rather than forcing them to spend down their huge funds!

    (To add insult to injury, once the foreign student graduates, they are often able to to get work with a US company, leading to a green card, which leads to the chain migration of their family, who is then AGAIN, subsidized by the American taxpayer, in the form of SSI and Medicaid, since most of the family members do not speak, or have any interest in learning, English!)

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  27. Skies have cleared and temp is up to 50. Next week: highs in the 20’s! Typical seesaw NE weather! No sign at all of Wheezer so far today.

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  28. EXCERPT: “We haven’t heard much from Tim Walz since his failed attempt to become vice president. The spastic Minnesota governor had his sights set on Washington, but Donald Trump and JD Vance had other ideas. Given the incredible level of embarrassment Walz and Kamala Harris suffered in defeat, it’s not surprising they’d hunker down for a while. 

    Walz recently returned to do a little political pandering, though, and that’s not going any better than the election for him. On Thursday, he made a post praising 38 men of the Dakota tribe who were executed in 1862, praising their “sacrifice” as a reminder to “recommit to accountability and healing for the Dakota people.”

    “162 years ago, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history. The sacrifice of these riders reminds us to recommit to accountability and healing for the Dakota people.”

    https://x.com/GovTimWalz/status/1872313065653653766

    Let me start with a disclaimer here because I do think some people take the various wars between the United States and Native American tribes and oversimplify them in the wrong direction. There were a multitude of Native American men, women, and children over the centuries who were betrayed, mistreated, displaced, or killed in completely unjust ways by the U.S. government. To deny that would be to manipulate history for the selfish reason of making one feel better about objectively heinous acts. 

    Here’s the issue, though. The idea that all or even most Native American tribes were peaceful inhabitants working the land, incapable of immoral actions, is likewise completely false. As I explained back at Thanksgiving in response to those slandering the holiday as an example of oppression, it was the Wampanoag tribe that declared war on the colonists. Likewise, very few of the wars between the newly-established U.S. government and various Indian tribes fell into neat modern ideological molds of “oppressor” vs. “oppressed.”

    What does that have to do with Walz’s post? The 38 men he paints as victims actually took part in the massacre of New Ulm. In this case, it wasn’t the U.S. government who declared war. Rather, it was the Dakota, who first ambushed a group about five miles out of town, slaughtering over 50 people. They then laid siege on the town, carrying out multiple attacks. Women and children were brutally murdered, with one account describing a Dakota warrior cutting out the baby of a pregnant woman. I’ll stop there with the description because it gets worse. 

    While around 2,000 settlers escaped the town, 650 of them were killed in cold blood. The Dakota suffered minimal casualties, and in response, the U.S. government began its war against the tribe. 

    Returning to the 38 men in question, then-President Abraham Lincoln personally reviewed the convictions of those involved in the attack on New Ulm. He then commuted the sentences of all but 39 who he ascertained had specifically and intentionally murdered civilians. In the end, 38 of those men would be executed on December 26th, 1862. 

    Could you argue that the justice system in the mid-1800s was flawed and prejudiced in some ways? Sure, but what you can’t argue with any certainty at all is that these men were innocent victims whose “sacrifice” should be looked upon glowingly today. And if you can’t argue that with certainty, then elevating them as martyrs is morally revolting….”

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/12/27/tim-walz-returns-and-promptly-gets-blasted-for-insane-post-n2183655

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  29. Good, altho I’d prefer the death sentence myself – all that $$$ spent keeping those sick bastids alive is SUCH a waste!!!

    EXCERPT: “OXFORD, Georgia — LGBTQ activists William Dale Zulock and Zachary Jacoby Zulock were sentenced last week to 100 years in prison each, followed by life on probation, for “routinely” raping their young, adopted, special-needs sons, producing “homemade” child pornography of the abuse, and inviting nearby pedophiles in the Atlanta area to “double penetrate” their two children, ages 9 and 10 at the time of rescue.

    “I tell people never say you’ve seen it all. Because in this line of work, you will yet again be reminded of the depths of depravity and men’s ability and willingness to engage in unspeakable cruelty to other humans,” said Judge Jeffrey L. Foster, who handed down their punishments at Thursday’s sentencing hearing.

    Foster highlighted how the harm that they’ve inflicted has foisted negative national attention on gay men everywhere, “who fought to be married and to live happy, productive lives, stable, who would never—” the Alcovy Judicial Circuit judge said, before trailing off….”

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2024/12/27/zulocks-sentenced-n2649379

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  33. Just The News: “President-elect Donald Trump on Friday asked the Supreme Court to delay a potential ban on the social media platform TikTok until after his inauguration on Jan. 20. 

    Trump has suggested that he could keep the social media app around after he takes office, even under its current ownership by a Chinese company, and credits his success among younger voters to the platform.

    President Joe Biden signed a law in April that would ban the platform from app stores in the United States starting on Janaury 19, unless its parent company ByteDance divests its shares of the app. The ban stems from concerns that the app could operate as an extension of the Chinese government. But the company has strongly denied being “owned or controlled by any government or state-controlled entity.”

    Trump attorney D. John Sauer on Friday said the incoming president holds the “electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns,” according to The Hill.

    “In light of these interests—including, most importantly, his overarching responsibility for the United States’ national security and foreign policy—President Trump opposes banning TikTok in the United States at this juncture, and seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office,” Sauer wrote in a brief.

    The Supreme Court is expected to begin hearing oral arguments on Jan. 10, nine days before the deadline.”

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  35. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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