North Carolina State Mammal: Squirrel

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North Carolina shares the squirrel as their state mammal with Kentucky, so we’ve already covered this interesting but annoying little creature.  And we also covered National Squirrel Appreciation Day in January (along with the saga of Peanut), so this month, we’re going in a completely different direction.  On the georgiawildlifeblog, I found this article listing 5 recipes using squirrels.  I am only presenting names and pictures of the dishes.  If you’d like the actually recipes, please click on the link listed.

From: georgiawildlifeblog:

Squirrels are everywhere! In fact, they’re the most common species in Georgia. They also happen to be pretty dang tasty. No seriously, don’t knock it til you try it. With the longest season of any species in Georgia (Aug. 15 thru Feb. 28) and a bag limit of 12 per day, you can quickly bring home enough tree rat meat to try all of these delicious recipes.

Need your hunting license before you hit your local Wildlife Management Area (WMA) grocery store? You can grab that here.

Buttermilk Fried Squirrel with Southern Gravy

Barbecued Squirrel

Slow Cooker Squirrel and Veggies

Squirrel Casserole

Squirrel Alfredo

5 Best Squirrel Recipes You’ll Ever Taste
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  2. just talked with Mom. they moved her from the hospital to a nursing home/rehab facility. She is not having a good experience so far. She waited 15 minutes for someone to help her get to the bathroom and no one came, so she wet herself. sigh

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  6. Caffeine under a microscope

    “This is planet J1407b, a, I quote, “Super-saturn” with “over 30 rings, each stretching over tens of millions of kilometers in diameter”

    WW 1 trench today

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  7. X-ray of baby’s hand

    “The Hisashimichi Interchange, located near Tokyo, perhaps one of the most complicated roads in the world”

    “A nerve inside a tooth”

    Mexico City from the air

    “This is what the knots on the outside of a tree look like on the inside”

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  8. Old time cough syrup

    Baby pigeon

    Possibly carrying twins but not necessarily

    World’s heaviest hamburger

    Deep scars don’t sweat, so dirt doesn’t stick to them

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  9. This is what a nuclear warhead looks like

    4 person see-saw

    This is what a golf course green that’s been struck by lightning looks like.

    USS Midway vs. canoe

    In 1924, a game of Human Chess was played in the Soviet Union

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  10. Ah-ha! A way for them to get him off the hook!!!

    EXCERPT: “…On Friday, former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer. The cancer has metastasized to his bones:

    Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his personal office announced on Sunday.

    “Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms,” read a statement released by the president’s personal office. “On Friday he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.”

    “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” the statement continued. “The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.”

    This comes, as RedState’s own Susie Moore informed us last week about the discovery of “nodules” on Mr. Biden’s prostate. The statement of Mr. Biden’s diagnosis was also released on X…..”

    “….The implications of Mr. Biden’s diagnosis are not yet fully known, although, as noted, it is a form of cancer that normally responds well to treatment, so that’s hopeful….”

    https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/05/18/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-aggressive-grade-group-5-prostate-cancer-n2189252

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  12. Red State: “Say what you will about President Trump, but it’s undeniable that he’s breaking some new ground in his various appointments. He’s remaking the Pentagon, he’s reworking all of our international trade deals, and he’s reforming federal law enforcement. Most notable of that last task is the new leadership the president has put in place at the FBI.

    On Sunday, Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo (who I maintain is one of the best in the business) hosted FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino in a free-wheeling discussion that covered a lot of ground. Earlier today, my colleague Susie Moore covered some fascinating segments of FBI Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino’s remarks:

    There are a few more highlights that bear watching. First, January 6th:

    Maria Bartiromo: What actually happened on January 6?

    Kash Patel: (Laughs) So, there is… it seems that I find myself in a similar situation as Russiagate. Because on January 6 in the prior Trump administration, I was a chief of staff to the Department of Defense. And I spent four years and a minor fortune litigating the truth, because people politicized what actually happened on January 6th. And we now know unequivocally that President Trump lawfully authorized the deployment of the National Guard. Me as the head of the office of the Secretary of Defense, took that action. When it finally came in — because it had to have the governor and mayor of DC’s approval on it, that’s the way the law works, and once it finally came in on January 6, remember we offered it to them days before and they rejected it, we put out the letters and your show has done great coverage showing how it was rejected — we mobilized the fastest cold start in Washington DC since World War 2 and the largest occupation of DC by the National Guard since the American Revolution. That’s what happened on January 6. But what you and your viewers want to know now that we’ve beat back that disinformation campaign with actual truth, is, what was the FBI doing?

    That, Detective, is the right question. And Deputy Director Bongino made one very important and possibly revealing distinction:

    Dan Bongino: You’re about to… I saw it, I saw the portfolio of information. We dug far and wide to find it. And I’m pretty sure now we have a conclusive and definitive answer, but you and the public are going to have it, you’re going to see it, in writing, over to Capitol Hill, but I just want to be sure we’re clear, having been an agent and a police officer. There is a difference between an agent, I know you know this, I don’t mean to sound ridiculous, an agent, I mean a trained, GS-18/11 federal agent, and a source. Or an asset. There’s a difference. So when you see the material which I promise you is coming – again I’m not asking you to trust us, I know it’s coming, because I saw it yesterday – when you see it, I just want you to understand that, it’s not an apology for anything, but there’s a difference between agents and assets.

    What an interesting time and place to draw and emphasize that distinction. Shall we take that to mean that there were no FBI agents in the crowd on J6 – but there were assets? If so, what were those assets doing? Who sent them there? What instructions, if any, did they have?

    We may be on the verge of finally getting some answers. But here’s a real sockdologer:

    Maria Bartiromo: You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don’t believe it.

    Kash Patel: Well, I mean… listen. They have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor, who has been in that prison system, who has been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who’s been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one. And that’s what that was. 

    Dan Bongino: He killed himself. Again, you want me to get… I’ve seen the whole file. He killed himself.

    When Epstein’s death was first announced, I was reminded of an early Cold War-era Bill Mauldin cartoon, in which two very Soviet Union-looking prison guards are in a prison cell, awakening an old, old man with a long white beard. One of the guards is holding a noose, while the other is telling the old man, “Don’t worry, Excellency; Comrade Popov and I have committed hundreds of successful suicides.” But this is a pretty flat denial by the Trump administration’s FBI Director and Deputy Director. 

    There is a lot more in that interview, most notably some commentary from Director Patel about the border, specifically, the northern border, where human traffickers and drug smugglers have turned their attention now that the southern border is effectively under control. The border between the United States and Canada presents a whole new suite of difficulties, not least of which is that significant portions of it are water – the Great Lakes and places like Minnesota’s Lake of the Woods. But with one border under control, we can presumably focus attention on the other.

    And as Director Patel notes, there are some significant releases of information coming in the days ahead. Stay tuned.”

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      1. sockdolager /sŏk-dŏl′ə-jər/
        noun
        A conclusive blow or remark.
        Something outstanding.
        That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like.

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  18. Jeez, I am sooooo sick and tired of this wind! It’s wearing on my nerves! But at least the temp is up to 75 w/clear skies. Still no word from Jason…..

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