I just love this video, have been watching it all afternoon.
Watch these wildlife officials struggle to stay alive as they release the world's most badass bobcat kitten back into the wild. The bobcat, who we're calling Mr. Murderbritches, was relocated after he was caught eating ??? in Kanarraville, UT.
Long live Mr. Murderbritches! pic.twitter.com/j0ABaR8cqk
— Center for Bio Div (@CenterForBioDiv) December 5, 2018
West of the Rockies
Damn! That is one bad-ass kitty boy!
scav
love the profundo growl from the wee bit.
VeniceRiley
d’awwwww
A Ghost To Most
Resembles me trying to put ointment on my 18 lb cat’s eyes
I wilz cut yoo.
germy
Someone uploaded “The Courtship of the Newt” to youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKmEWwayKo4
80 year old short film about aquatic life.
trollhattan
Gaw dayumn, dude wished he carried his four-foot pliers to the office that day. “Mr. Murderbritches” FTW.
Burnspbesq
Coleās new spirit animal.
Ohio Mom
Good luck Mr. Murderbritches!
Something tells me Knarraville was a much more sedate place than the middle-of-nowhere you now find yourself in.
Hope your instincts serve you well and that you donāt find yourself impinging on somebody biggerās territory.
germy
What else is there to do in Kanarraville, UT besides eat chickens?
trollhattan
Damn, my yout keeps taking curtain calls.
Sixty-three, and Paul Sherwin was 62. Kids!
dmsilev
@germy:
If I remember the 1990s correctly, it involved a large amount of hypocrisy and infidelity, and a helmet-hair style that Cindy McCain did her best to emulate.
trollhattan
@germy:
SWAG–chase chickens.
ruemara
#TeamMurderbritches
CliosFanBoy
Don;t f with the Bobcats dude!! GO OU!!!! (Ohio, not those bozos in Texas-lite, AKA Oklahoma)
Raven
Speaking of nature.We are driving back to Cape Coral after and hour fishing trip in 10,000 Islands! Incredibly beautiful, lots of fish and wonderful birds!
eclare
Awesome kitty name!
trollhattan
Xcel Energy announces zero carbon goal of 100% by 2050, 89% by 2030. The supposedly serve 3.6 million, or about 1.5% of US.
schrodingers_cat
Grab that pussy if you dare, Doll Hands. In Soviet America, pussy grabs you. What a cute ferocious kitteh!
lamh36
So, Black Panther is the first superhero movie (ever) to receive a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Motion Picture Drama category.
Oh…now I see why all the haters have come out!
SEETHE HATERS SEETHE!!!
Immanentize
@trollhattan:
“There is no love in this world anymore!”
lamh36
germy
NotMax
@trollhattan
Recently learned of the Deanston whisky distillery in Scotland, which is 100% energy self-sufficient from hydropower and produces enough surplus to pump that into the grid.
MattF
@scav: Hearing a little kitty growl like that gives one pause. Grrrr.
JanieM
The video reminds me of this oldie but goodie: How to give a cat a pill, and a dog, too.
debbie
Take that, stick!
Hungry Joe
DOG ATTACK UPDATE: Good visit to the vet yesterday. He removed the drain from Alice’s belly and there is, so far, no infection or dead tissue. We reduced the pain meds — switched from a fentanyl patch to codeine pills, and she’s now off those, too — and by last night she was eating (a little) and drinking. We went on a short walk to the corner and back. The horrid Cone will be on for at least another ten days (the wounds are that bad), but she’s already starting to act like Alice again. Such a relief. It’s a Happy Hanukkah after all.
Cheap Jim
Ah, but have you seen a Pallas cat being weighed and radio tagged? With bonus central Asian throat singing!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjg6dKYpozfAhXSslkKHRLOBmwQyCkwAHoECAYQBA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-_LGaK3oxIk&usg=AOvVaw2xi1kTpYYJAvlJ7YC3QR4Y
debbie
@Hungry Joe:
Good for Alice. Where is the neighbor’s dog?
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Iām annoyed that Michael B. Jordan didnāt get a nomination as Killmonger. ? But Golden Globes voters are weird, so Iām still holding out hope for the Oscars.
A Ghost To Most
They just can’t hide it anymore.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Hey, thatās my employer AND my (grad school) alma mater doing good! ???
LMU is a private Jesuit university that is quietly a very good school. Their film program is top 10 in the nation, and they donāt have nearly as many resources as USC or UCLA.
JPL
@Hungry Joe: Good news indeed. Hugs to all.
NotMax
@A Ghost To Most
Yet they’ll invite him back on again and again. Got a quota of stupidity to fill, don’tcha know.
Doug R
@A Ghost To Most: Is Gohmert bucking for a job at Facebook?
trollhattan
@A Ghost To Most:
Needs moar Louie Gohmert flowchart.
guachi
@lamh36: Having seen Black Panther and just about every superhero movie of the last 20 years, it probably didn’t deserve it.
It wasn’t as good as Logan was, for instance, last year. It wasn’t as good as The Avengers from 2014. It wasn’t as good as Spiderman 2 from 2004. It wasn’t as good as The Dark Knight from 2008.
The only way it could have deserved it is if the crop of 2018 movies was just not very good.
Raven
@Mnemosyne: Were you there when Hank Gathers died?
zhena gogolia
@germy:
Cool.
lamh36
@guachi: I disagree.
NotMax
FYI, down Mr. Cole’s way.
A Ghost To Most
@Doug R: He’s just solidifying his position as the most willfully ignorant member of Congress.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: to be honest, I’m surprised BP got in with the Hollywood Press, especially since it’s Foreign Press…and BP did great internationally, better than expected, but it’s box office was driven domestically for sure.
Skepticat
@Burnspbesq: True dat!
Great video! Looks like an industrial-strength version of the trap/neuter/release/pamper program I do here in the Bahamas. I have (and need) elbow-length gloves.
mapaghimagsik
Mr. Murderbritches FTW.
@guachi:
I totally cannot see any redeeming value in Logan, other than the fidget spinner toy at the end. They might as well have had Logan waterski over a shark.
@lamh36:
I’ll see your “Black Panther” scholarship and raise you the “Logan” Scholarship, which will award some lucky kid the chance to be impaled on a tree.
Aleta
People have been pressuring lawmakers for this, while keeping the heat on to move the federal case forward.
A Ghost To Most
@guachi: I, for one, do not welcome our new comic overlords .
They have saturated the market, and then some.
NotMax
Hoocudanode? So much winning (emphasis added).
Ain’t nothing ironic about it.
trollhattan
@A Ghost To Most:
No shit. Well…yes, shit. Howzabout they get their own category–not comedy (unless it’s Guardians) not drama (pronounced drahmaa) not animation–and fight to the superhero death.
A Ghost To Most
@NotMax: What could go wrong? In West Virginia?
Mnemosyne
@guachi:
I didnāt see āLogan,ā but I did see both āBlack Pantherā and all of the rest that you listed:
Disagree ā āAvengersā has a couple of fun moments, but itās too scattered.
Good as Alfred Molina was, I disagree. Peterās teen angst quickly became tiresome.
Disagree. The āorigin storyā was too long and they killed off Ras alāGhul, one of the all-time greatest Batman villains who also just happens to be FUCKING IMMORTAL.
lamh36
@mapaghimagsik: https://media1.tenor.com/images/8ddd86d705603d027820adab48bcd99d/tenor.gif?itemid=5227250
A Ghost To Most
@trollhattan: Hunger Games for Superheroes. I’m in, as long as the ones that die stay dead .No reanimation. Or alternative timelines.
Mnemosyne
@Raven:
Nope ā I was at USC for undergrad. It was huge news locally, for obvious reasons.
I was at LMU for 9/11. Yay.
M. Bouffant
@Mnemosyne: And KXLU, the only student-run F.M. radio station still on the air in the Southland.
ruemara
@guachi: Gonna completely disagree. Logan is an amazing comic book movie for people who don’t like comic books. Black Panther is head & shoulders above the others and Logan is really just No Country for Superpowered Old Men. Civil War was great but I don’t think Infinity War was as good, although I don’t think the format was capable of delivering the pathos when it was 20k supers running around.
The other secret thing is that it’s ok to not like something and just let others like things.
mapaghimagsik
@Mnemosyne: The best thing to come from Dark Knight 2008 was a Bill and Ted Halloween skit skit where both Batman and Ras alāGhul fight gaining control of an IPhone through Siri, and she can’t understand either one of them.
@ruemara You’re right! Logan is a great movie for people who don’t like movies.
Alright, in all fairness I didn’t dislike it that much. I have seen far worse, but the kid was a formulaic shot in the arm into a weakening franchise, and I feel the X Men, as much as I loved their comics and concepts was one of the Marvel attempts that made worse movies than comics. Black Panther, the current reincarnation aside, was a bit of an improvement and Guardians was a huge improvement.
KithKanan
@M. Bouffant: I’m an outsider from the central coast, so I’m curious… Which part of that test does KUCI fail?
guachi
@Mnemosyne: Wrong Batman movie. Dark Knight was the one with Heath Ledger that got him the Academy Award. The movie itself wasn’t nominated for Best Picture (though in a day like today where there are more nominees it probably would have).
Checking Rotten Tomatoes reviews, Black Panther has a higher “recommended” score of 97 to 94% but Dark Knight has a higher average review score of 8.6 to 8.2. 8.6 is crazy high. As a comparison, the 100% Paddington 2 received an average score of 8.7.
Spider-Man 2 also has a slightly higher score of 8.3. No other super hero movie exceeds BP’s 8.2 that I could find.
Mnemosyne
@guachi:
Oh, you mean the one where they hand-wave away the fact that Batman is invading the privacy of hundreds of thousands of people by claiming that heās totally going to use that power this one time only, pinky swear! Christopher Nolan has a bad habit of raising moral issues and then just dropping them when he gets bored.
Oh, and I hated Memento because Teddy was right to be frustrated with Leonard and if you go along with the claim that Leonard is faking, the story makes no fucking sense.
Christopher Nolan is the most overrated director working today. Fight me.
jl
Thanks for cute bobcat video. Brings to mind a news report I heard yesterday that made me reflect on how dumb humans are. A guy was arrested for illegally owning a tiger cub, and abusing it.
And I thought that was a really dumb thing for the guy to do, even if the law had not caught up with him. A thinking person might reflect that a tiger cub will grow up be a big tiger someday. Even if the law doesn’t get you, do you really want to raise a tiger cub into a big full grown tiger, living with you, and that probably will not like you very much because you were mean to it when it was young?
A big full grown tiger has a good chance of getting fed up with your shit and taking you out no matter how nice you were to it when it was young. But if you start out being mean to it, how much more likely is that to occur? Tiger probably very much more likely to decide one day that it’s just had enough of your shit, and too likely it would decide that anyway.
I think house cats decide that on a monthly basis, it’s just that they are not big enough compared to us to do much about it.
mapaghimagsik
@Mnemosyne: Heath Ledger was a bright spot in a relatively weak plot, but for me, most superhero plots are weak-ish. I’m hoping, with the relatively new crop, like the new Ms Marvel, (not the current, which looks like a fun eye-candy fest, but the Kamala Khan version that will change.
Mnemosyne
@jl:
Like all cats, tigers have no interest in pleasing humans ā you have to convince them that doing what the human wants will be rewarding for them.
I almost wish that the tiger had killed the guy, except that it would have had to be euthanized if it did. Once a tiger figures out how easy it is to kill humans, theyāll keep doing it, which is how they end up with man-eating tigers in India.
Mayim
If you like the bobcat video ~ check out Big Cat Rescue (lots of bobcat rehab) and In Sync Exotics (currently three baby rescue tigers name Kylo Ren, Kenobi, and Anakin best night introduced to each other). Both have good Facebook feeds for those there, and BCR has various other webcams.
jl
@Mnemosyne: The tiger cub was so badly abused, IIRC, it needed vet treatment. Apart of the common decency angle, what was this dope thinking?
Imma gonna own this huge tiger that can destroy me with one swipe, and I am going to make sure it hates my guts, and everything will be great. Imma gonoa be the bigshot around here, and own me a tiger!
Wild animals tend to be less sentimental about human companionship that common pets, and cats, well its a cat and really cannot be convinced to think much of any not cat sentient being, no matter what you do.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
Reason #1,734 I have dogs.
Mnemosyne
@mapaghimagsik:
Author KM Weiland has a blog series called Storytelling According to Marvel, where she uses Marvel movies to explain particular aspects of writing.
She uses Black Panther to illustrate the importance of theme, because the plot is a little weak, but the audience doesnāt care because every bit of the plot relates to the theme and to TāChallaās character arc and growth.
Thing that I think some people still donāt realize about the movieās prologue: the child who asks for a story about the origins of Wakanda is Erik/Killmonger, not TāChalla.
ruemara
@mapaghimagsik: Oh, don’t even get me started on the X-Men movies. I’m a longstanding Chris Claremont X-men fan & I can hit my “rage against the Peter Jackson 2 Towers & Return of the King movies” levels with all the franchise. DAMMIT. Best team in the MCU & the shitest movies. Avengers were always boring. Thor was boring. WHO THE FUCK EVEN READS GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. Yet they all rock harder than X-Men on screen. Fuck me running. DO not get me started on the hot ass mess the New Mutants movie looked like in the trailers and absolute 1 note snore-fest Sophie Turner as Phoenix looked like. Better they burn the footage than they release what they did. I swear, this stress should have give me super powers by now. Now I’m angry that I don’t have a mutation gene. Where’s my fucking spandex & eyebeams?!
jl
Which also reminded me of the rich fool in the news who shot a family of baboons. Why would anyone do that? Is that a ‘thing’, shooting some poor family of baboons that was unlucky enough to amble near some rich guy’s vicious ass? I ran across a pic at the top of a follow-up news story on it, and it was worse than I imagined. This oaf sitting there with a pappa and momma baboon, and two little baboon kids all posed together, a nice horrically dead family, all together. Whee!. Why would anyonone do that. Shoot them and then pose them together for that gruesome pic?
Humans have some serious issues that they need to work out.
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: I felt that was Erik
Steve in the ATL
@trollhattan: aw man. “Ever Fallen in Love (with Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)” came up on iTunes shuffle this morning on the elliptical!
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
You were correct! It should have been obvious to everyone by the middle of the movie at the latest, but some people Iāve seen online were apparently still confused. ?āāļø
M. Bouffant
@KithKanan: I’m talking literally over-the-air; no KUCI broadcast in central L.A. May give their stream a listen, now that I know.
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: I’m still just annoyed with people who think he was a hero. No dammit, he’s a symptom.
Steve in the ATL
@jl: was chatting with some guys at a paper mill earlier this week (yes, h8ters, I am a man of the people!) and the conversation turned to hunting, as it often does. Was pleasantly surprised that they agreed with me about the stupidity of elk hunting. Where’s the challenge in shooting a giant animal that doesn’t move much? Same with elephant hunting, except it’s even worse.
PJ
@trollhattan: Buzzcocks were great (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4xt4KplnQ), and Shelley was the most existential songwriter of his era.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steve in the ATL:
Must have been management.
J R in WV
Mean kitty, staff not worried about mean kitty surviving in the wild, MEAN kitty will do just fine.
Grrrrwwwwwwow!
At least the Wildlife guys weren’t hurt, that time.
Steve in the ATL
Funny man!
Funny, but correct.
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
They actually spell it out in dialogue when the CIA guy played by Martin Freeman explains that Killmonger is 100 percent a product of the American government. He is what America made him and thatās why heās the villain. Why do people want to declare themselves the murderous products of a racist society? He can be genuinely injured by his past while being wrong about his plans for the future.
Ugh. I also donāt understand people who want to be part of the Empire/New Order in Star Wars and get their stormtrooper on. WTF is up with that?
mapaghimagsik
@ruemara:
Okay, I can totally agree with that . Righteous rant. I wondered at the time whether they would be able to cover the gravity of the Phoenix Saga. Sadly, no, but it might be a story whose time was then and has passed. I believe Guardians worked because they literally were “who?’ and the movie had a completely clean slate to work with.But I think Guardians, Thor, and Avengers managed to leapfrog the comics that inspired them. For some reason, the X-Men just couldn’t.
Now I *really* wish Defenders would have been Dr Strange, Hulk, Valkyrie, and Hellcat. But that might just be me.
ruemara
@mapaghimagsik: I’m looking forward to them doing Doom Patrol. Especially if it’s the Grant Morrison run. Or flipping to a Secret Empire version of Cap’n. At this point, just leave the X-Men alone.
cynthia ackerman
Kevin Richardson, yo.
mapaghimagsik
@ruemara: Doom Patrol has some real potential. I hope there isn’t some sort of “inverse potential law” regarding comics to movies, where the more potential the comic provides through its contribution to the comic universe indicates how horrible the movie will be.
For some reason, when I read Doom Patrol, I read “Metal Men” a comic I confess I barely remember only as the worst introduction to metallurgy ever.
Steeplejack
@cynthia ackerman:
Link engulfed by the Reply button. Fixed: “Lion Whisperer.”
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
Holy sheet.
:)
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
To be fair, his particular gimmick is coming back from the dead.
TenguPhule
@NotMax:
Don’t make us cut you.
SenyorDave
A story is out there saying William Barr will be nominated to be AG. He’s skeptical of Mueller’s investigation, and according to the Washington Post, last year, Barr said there was more substance to the Clinton-Uranium One situation than the Russia collusion investigation.
IOW, a complete asshole.
NotMax
@mapaghimagsik
The original run of Metal Men aspired to be nothing more than goofy fun, a frivol, and mostly succeeded at that so long as they didn’t interact with the rest of the DC stable..
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
Michael Bay.
A man who ruined giant fucking robots fighting a forever war. FIVE TIMES.
NotMax
Corrected linkage.
@mapaghimagsik
The original run of Metal Men aspired to be nothing more than goofy fun, a frivol, and mostly succeeded at that so long as they didn’t interact with the rest of the DC stable.
Aleta
@Steve in the ATL: Or a moose, the animal that stands there while you take your picture with it.
NotMax
Re-corrected linkage. FYWP playing dirty today.
@mapaghimagsik
The original run of Metal Men aspired to be nothing more than goofy fun, a frivol, and mostly succeeded at that so long as they didn’t interact with the rest of the DC stable.
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
you don’t get to talk about themes after Last Jedi.
mapaghimagsik
@NotMax: And according to the inverse potential law should make an incredible movie, of the likes we have never seen!
@TenguPhule:
I enjoyed Last Jedi, but I didn’t say *anything* about it. I think the only thing that I found interesting was people who thought the lack of color change in the salt was a mistake. The fact that Luke was a flawed teacher wasn’t enough to carry it for me.
TenguPhule
@ruemara:
To be fair, Two Towers was arguably a better film then the original novel.
cynthia ackerman
@Steeplejack:
Many thanks.
Cat lovers, check it out
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
Bringing order to a chaotic galaxy. Rooting for the Empire is a trope for a reason.
TenguPhule
@Steve in the ATL:
You have obviously never had properly made elk sausage. Otherwise you’d know the answer to that already.
mapaghimagsik
@TenguPhule:
Say what you will of the Emperor, he made the transports run on time!
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: And if Black Panther wins, the hatersā heads will collectively explode. Win win.
TenguPhule
@mapaghimagsik: Having been forced to see it twice, I have come to the cynical conclusion that it was some Disney business management grad’s bright idea to wipe out all of the original characters in order to push a new DISNEY ORIGINAL toy/merchandise line. That’s why they green lit that shit script.
NotMax
@mapaghimagsik
The modern super-hero movies do nothing for me and I’ve seen much fewer than a handful, each more a disappointing and vapid slog to reach the end credits than the last.
But if they ever make a comic book-based movie of Bat Lash, that I’d give a gander.
mapaghimagsik
@TenguPhule: Its a trope. The master must die to make room for the student to shine, but you might be right. They have to make up for Rogue One, where your choice of action figures are Darth Vader and “Someone who died.”
It makes for some morose children’s play.
@NotMax:
Be careful what you wish for. You might get the CW version of Jonah Hex :-;
KithKanan
@M. Bouffant: I guess I’m not entirely clear on the geographic boundaries of “The Southland”. There seem to be a lot of college stations to the east of you, but I gather Riverside/Pomona/etc are “The I.E.”, not “The Southland”?
TenguPhule
@mapaghimagsik:
Awesome movie, terrible toyline.
TenguPhule
@NotMax:
But not a goose?
Smite Me, oh PETA Smiters!
TenguPhule
Another Day, another environmental atrocity.
trollhattan
@NotMax:
He made it up–pulp fiction!
trollhattan
@TenguPhule:
This fuckin’ guy.
NotMax
@TenguPhule
Must be some confusion. That was G.H.W. Bush who gave a goose.
;)
TenguPhule
@NotMax:
By donating it to the Japanese PM’s lap?
trollhattan
@TenguPhule:
Bring back “Battlebots”!
mapaghimagsik
@TenguPhule:
I enjoyed the movie because everyone died. But it also underscores the idea that the Empire is completely out of ideas.
“We shall build a battle station to cow the rebels into submission” (Note, actual battle station did not, in fact, shoot cows at the planet)
“This is the fourth one, sir. The other three had flaws. Maybe we should try something else”
*force choke*
TenguPhule
@mapaghimagsik:
/laugh/groan
First one. Its the original!!! /raging pedant
Gravenstone
@ruemara:
All because Marvel had sold off the rights to the X-franchise. So the people making those movies had zero idea what to do with the property. Had Marvel retained those rights, we might have a legitimate Dark Phoenix movie eventually, since they are actually introducing the Kree and Skrull with Captain Marvel. From that basis, the Shi’ar wouldn’t be far behind, Then they could properly contextualize the Phoenix (and not toss aside the Hellfire Club in a shit ass useless “reboot” movie).
mapaghimagsik
@TenguPhule: I could have been clearer. That scene would be in the latest trilogy, but its like they have this obsessive compulsive tendency to build big round stations that small ships can blow up.
@Gravenstone: The Imperial Guard could be kind of fun. But I am one of little faith they can do it well. That, and while the Dark Phoenix saga is poignant, it might not have the freshness it once had, even if done well.
sm*t cl*de
@trollhattan:
I had no idea he’d moved to Tallinn. Living in the Old Town, even. I wonder if he ever went drinking here:
http://estonianworld.com/life/secrets-of-the-success-behind-tallinns-depeche-mode-bar/
A Ghost To Most
Superheroes, like gods, are magic, and therefore, time wasting bunk. Hokum.
There is an amazing, real world out there, one that requires no magic. YMMV.
NotMax
@mapaghimagsik
The Jersey Star. Grade A, cream of the crop cinema.
TenguPhule
@mapaghimagsik: Had they been smart enough to have adopted Dark Empire or the Thrawn Wars, they’d have made a lot more money then they will now. And retained a lot of customer goodwill.
Gravenstone
@TenguPhule: Hollywood knows that Bay is a shit director. Unfortunately, he’s also good at making the sort of brain dead eye candy that appeals to the slobbering masses, who toss money at the studios to keep making more brain dead eye candy.
Amir Khalid
@TenguPhule:
The Two Towers is not a novel, but the middle volume of a three-volume novel. JRR Tolkien was adamant on this point, and so are his publishers.
TenguPhule
@A Ghost To Most:
Which Donald Trump can destroy with a single phone call at any hour, any day.
Give me magic any day of the week.
Mnemosyne
@mapaghimagsik:
Grand Moff Tarkin was the real strategist behind the Empire. Once he died, no one else knew what to do, including the Emperor. Thatās why the original film shows him as Darth Vaderās superior officer.
Discuss.
TenguPhule
@mapaghimagsik:
We’ll always have the animated adaption.
Gravenstone
@trollhattan: Already out there. Battlebots.
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
The Disney Reboot comics makes it clear that the Empire’s most intelligent rank officers became part of the Emperor’s Hunger Game against Vader between IV & V and ended up getting so pruned back that all that remained were the cowed idiots of V & VI.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Before he bequeathed his middle initials to a letter deficient George Martin.
;)
Aleta
Joe Bruno @JoeBrunoWSOC9
BC in Illinois
@Steve in the ATL:
My father in law, who spent some years in northern Michigan (just across the water from the UP) compared moose hunting to going to a dairy farm and shooting a cow.
mapaghimagsik
@A Ghost To Most:
With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things heāll never know.ā
guachi
@NotMax: My favorite fantasy author, that George R. R. Tolkein and his Saga of Ice and the Fires of Mount Doom.
Gravenstone
@Aleta: Honestly, NC should re-do the damned Repub primary, then the general for that district. Unfortunately, that would likely just ensure the current (R) incumbent retains his seat now that the bad actions of Harris are coming into proper focus.
Platonailedit
Good, take the fight to the cheating thugs.
mapaghimagsik
@TenguPhule:
Great. Thanks for reminding me of “Spiderman and his amazing Friends” that featured one X-Men cameo with Juggernaut. Of course, Wolverine had to be thrown to the side after ineffectually slicing at Juggy to have his claws get stuck in a brick wall. It was then I truly learned the meaning of “For Fuck’s sake!”
Gravenstone
@mapaghimagsik: NBC Saturday cartoons were not kind to Marvel properties. A YouTube sojourn the other day reminded me of the debacle that was Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
“Thing ring, do your thing!”
/facepalm
mapaghimagsik
@Gravenstone: That’s magically stupid. But I still think putting Wolverine in a kid’s show was dumb.
“Wolverine huh? What’s his superpower?”
“Well he heals fast, and eviscerates people with metal claws.”
“Sounds perfect for the toddler age group! Lets add him to Spidy’s show!”
Mind you, Starfire had the same problem. She shot fire! And yet, no one gets incinerated. I think Iceman was the third. Of course he’s reasonably kid-safe.
CliosFanBoy
@Hungry Joe: Great news!!!
Platonailedit
Yet another fox news bimbo with zero foreign policy chops to be the murkan face in UN. Given pox news is the face of us of a, guess this is alright.
rikyrah
Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) Tweeted:
That’s because No Labels is a Republican front designed to sucker moderates and Democrats into supporting Republican policies.
https://t.co/ShqZiurX8i https://twitter.com/BruceBartlett/status/1070772441763495941?s=17
SiubhanDuinne
Oh great. “Ambassador” Heather Neuart. Ugh.
Jay
@BC in Illinois:
Here moose and elk hunting aināt easy. Moose means waist deep in swamps for days hopeing to see a moose, in sub zero or just above zero. Then hauling it out of the swamp, cleaning it, cutting it into quarters, and hauling it 8 to 10 miles back to a FSR, where if you are lucky, you have an ATV and trailer to haul it 3 -5 miles back to the truck.
Elk, same thing, but mountains, not swamps.
With either, providing you arnāt āsplitting a tagā, thatās enough meat for a family of 5 all winter.
Of course, if I really, really needed a moose, Iād just shoot one in my back yard, where they all show up once Moose season opens.
But we donāt allow any hunting on the property, not even for us, and all the wildlife knows it.
rikyrah
Go Maddow…connect more dots in NC
Gravenstone
@mapaghimagsik: Firestar (Angelica Jones). Starfire (Koriand’r) is DC.
sm*t cl*de
@TenguPhule:
It’s the Republican / Christianist equivalent of the Xhosa cattle-killing movement. “Destroy the world and the Millennium will come”.
AThornton
Imagine what would have happened if China had Steve Jobs arrested in Japan on unspecified charges.
That’s what the US had Canada do to Meng Wanzhou.
This is a Big Deal.
The word “hostage” is already being used.
mapaghimagsik
@Gravenstone: That’s right. So many brain cells lost.
mapaghimagsik
@AThornton: If Steve Jobs had been arrested, then we’d only have Branson’s mug to add to our social media posts to make them seem insightful.
Miss Bianca
@Steve in the ATL: evidently your “people” don’t hunt to eat. There’s a lot of fine, fine meat on an elk.
NotMax
@Miss Bianca
Only a short drive up the road to buy elk meat, as the big ranch here raises them along with cattle.
Jay
@NotMax:
They shouldnāt.
Are you sure itās Elk and not Fallow Deer.
The chief product of elk farming is the antler velvet, might as well farm bears for their gall bladders or tigers for their penii.
Steve in the ATL
@Miss Bianca: they do eat what they kill ’round these parts. But there are no elk here, so these are people who fly out to empty square states to shoot elk.
Jay
@Steve in the ATL:
In pens?
NotMax
@Jay
Yes, I’m sure, having bought meat there as well as having had elkburgers at the ranch store. They raise cattle, elk, deer, sheep and goats.
SectionH
@Hungry Joe: That’s so good to hear. I hope Alice’s healing continues to go as well as possible, or better.
M. Bouffant
@KithKanan: Really I meant stations I can get. I like “Southland” ’cause nobody but tee vee news & the L.A. Times use it.
The Lodger
@mapaghimagsik: one of the post-Grant Morrison runs of Doom Patrol had some humorous Metal Men stories by Keith Giffen in the back of the book.