I thought I followed Trump administration fuckery pretty closely — too closely for my mental health, to be honest. But I had no idea that pack of depraved, gun-humping fascists required artists who entered the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s annual Federal Duck Stamp Contest to include hunting imagery in their artwork. According to the Audubon Society, that was the rule, and it will be in force for this year’s contest but dropped afterward. Some artists are having some fun with it now:
“Several artists appear to be saying to the government: You want hunting scenes? We’ve got your hunting scenes right here.”
As always, everyone should read the latest @AMcGlashen. https://t.co/nplF8FLXi5
— Nicolas Gonzalez ? (@NicoSGonzalez) September 22, 2021
Makes you wonder what other wildly stupid shit those psychos embedded in federal agencies. I mean besides Louis DeJoy. Open thread!
PS: My dad calls all agents of federal or state fish and wildlife services the “bunny sheriffs,” and I do too. No disrespect intended, and I don’t call them that to their faces, of course! I just think it’s funny. :)
Spanky
And your post dropped right as it turned Autumn. Duck season up here along the Chesapeake Bay.
germy
Suzanne
This amuses me no end.
I had an illustration professor in college who did nothing put images of waterfowl for decades. These remind me of his work, but funny.
eclare
@germy: Wow those colors!
germy
germy
@eclare:
Bird should be on a psychedelic album cover!
Bill K
This quacked me up.
Baud
I would buy an NFT of that painting.
dr. bloor
Let’s face it, this is Dick Cheney’s only shot at getting his image on a stamp.
Betty Cracker
@Spanky: Yay autumn! Right on time, we’re supposed to have cooler, drier weather next week, when overnight temperatures plunge into the mid-60s! Can’t wait to open the doors and windows.
Bostondreams
So, Betty, I’m sure you saw that our state’s new surgeon general has banned quarantines for exposed students, opposes masks, and thinks vaccines aren’t all that great?
Shame on UF for giving him a faculty job.
Bostondreams
@Bostondreams: well, missed the post below. Still, bleh.
Just One More Canuck
Elmer Season
Catherine D.
Kill the wabbit! My and many others introduction to opera. Later I decided opera was beautiful music ruined by horrible singing, but the podcast Aria Code, hosted by the goddess Rhiannon Giddens, makes me appreciate the operas. Still horrible singing, though ?
ETA – Rhiannon found her path – listen to Songs of Our Native Daughters for good singing.
Betty Cracker
@Bostondreams: I think the state’s surgeon general automatically gets a faculty job at UF, so it’s not necessarily UF’s fault. But UF has plenty to be ashamed about, including Marco Rubio. I do my best to cancel out the alum scum, but I’m only one person! ;-)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
The previous year’s winners were just funny with used shotgun shells discarded all over the landscape.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Bill K: Groan!
On another topic, if you’re a cheap read, Wyldblood (a new science fiction/fantasy magazine) put their initial issue free on Kindle Unlimited. I have a story in that issue. The price is right!
brendancalling
@germy: His name is basically mud among the GOP rump. Hell, they basically pretended he never even existed after Obama won in 2008.
The current GOP hates Bush—and any Republican that doesn’t pledge fealty to TFG.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@brendancalling: Sometimes I wonder how my R neighbors square this circle. They all voted for W. And a lot (though fewer) of them voted for Trump. Aren’t they puzzled by this schism?
trollhattan
Stevie the emu has found his hoomans after two months on the emu lam during the wildfires.
The Dangerman
What else is buried? I’ll put money it involves Hope Hicks and TFG’s need for her to straighten his, um, clothing.
Gravenstone
I’m reminded of the classic Bloom County series in the early 80s, where the Meadow Gang were out hunting hunters.
LongHairedWeirdo
Hee! In point of fact, there’s a wine named “Duck Hunter” and it features a duck in hunting gear. (Not one possibly taking a bead on a hunter *of* ducks, as in the tweet above, mind you….)
Frankensteinbeck
@brendancalling:
And yet, the last big primary battle where TFG helped campaign, his guy lost. Almost certainly why we got a bipartisan stimulus package of any kind, because a bunch of elected Republicans realized that TFG does not control whether they can get reelected.
They do give a big “Bush who?” though.
NotMax
Eine kleine duck musik.
:)
justawriter
@Gravenstone: “A FAT BELLIED STOGIE SUCKER! THEM’S GOOD EATING!”
BigJimSlade
@dr. bloor: Damn – you beat me to it! The duck with the gun should be Dick Cheney.
Catherine D.
@NotMax: I’ve never heard a recording of that – just absorbed it from family. Thanks.
Anotherlurker
I apologize for Off Topic, but it looks like the Herman Cain Award Subreddit has been taken down. I tried to view it, on and off, for the last 1/2 hour. I am directed to Reddit but the HCAs does not load.
Could it be too much traffic or could it have been booted off?
germy
raven
@Anotherlurker: this is an open thread
germy
@Anotherlurker:
There’s always this:
https://twitter.com/HermanCainAward
BigJimSlade
@Gravenstone: Hm, I’m trying to find that. There were some about hunting the endangered liberal (and commie ducks):
https://raincoaster.com/2006/11/29/bloom-county-on-the-endangered-liberal/
https://coffee-for-two.com/2017/08/22/laughing-matters-bloom-county-hunting-wild-liberals/
Benw
@germy: war criminals vs fascists? Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!
Steeplejack
@Anotherlurker:
I think maybe Reddit is having traffic problems. I tried to go to a non-HCA page and it wouldn’t load. #Anecdata
germy
Anotherlurker
@Steeplejack: Thanks for pointing out the possible traffic problem.
UncleEbeneezer
The Moar You Know
@brendancalling: I have been told by more than one Republican that Obama was president on 9/11/2001. Giving him an unprecedented four terms in office. W never existed for these people.
W committed the unpardonable sin of not going out of his way to make the libtards cry during his second term. That’s really why the base turned on him.
Betty Cracker
@UncleEbeneezer: Cool — thanks!
sab
In Scots, doesn’t “wabbit” mean unwell?
Feathers
Required link to the magnificent March of the Sinister Ducks: https://youtu.be/yVkQo9dqq9g.
My brother was a Marine Patrol Officer in New Hampshire. Preferred nomenclature: fish cop or trout trooper.
Old School
@The Moar You Know: Katrina and the attempt to privatize social security were in his second term. I think Bush did enough to irritate liberals.
VeniceRiley
@Anotherlurker: I cannot get to any reddit sub, not just the HCA. Could be a dns attack on the site
Edit to update: I can see it via the reddit app on my iphone. Just is a bit slow
Cameron
@germy: Sorta Mothra vs. Godzilla, except it’s War Criminal vs. Traitor.
Mart
Bunny Sheriff, Trout Trooper; whatever happened to Tree Pigs? (No harm intended, we were in HS.)
Cameron
@The Moar You Know: There are people in New Orleans who complain Obama did nothing for them after Katrina.
Omnes Omnibus
This should be here. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2392606876
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: Autumn? It’s 104 fucking degrees here
ETA: It’s a dry heat.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You Californians can suck it.
opiejeanne
@Catherine D.: My introduction to opera was the Sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor, in a Mighty Mouse cartoon.
sab
@Cameron: Well he didn’t do anything for them for years, until he got elected president. I suppose he ought to have done something as senator from Illinois, but he was busy with other things.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: One new Gainesville resident will be making better waves. DC’s WTOP radio reported that local swimming star Katie Ledeckie will train at the University of Florida, and serve as volunteer coach for the Gators swim team.
VeniceRiley
@Omnes Omnibus: 90 today where I’m at. I keep begging future Mrs. to get me out of this hellish sunshine and spirit me off to England already!
:-
ETA: Flights have been booked! Wheeee
germy
Anyone remember the “Rich Dad Poor Dad”
gurugrifter bankrupt?Anotherlurker
@VeniceRiley: Thanks! I can barely navigate my Mac, so I thought it might have been something I neglected on my laptop.
I went to catholic school and I’ve dated many Jewish women so I am always ready to believe that if anything happens, it is my fault. ;-)
HumboldtBlue
We got the Humboldt mist today, and you can definitely feel autumn in the air.
I’m back to walking the dogs next door and could use some dog walking tips to get Athena better trained on the leash. She’s a good girl, but leash walking ain’t her thing yet.
Fetching the ball? She’s world-class, walking on a leash, minor leaguer.
Omnes Omnibus
@VeniceRiley: Congrats.
It is 64 and breezy here in Wisconsin. This is why Wisconsin exists.
Albatrossity
Yes. The “hunting imagery” requirement was an excellent example of how Trump and his NRA/Russian handlers thought they could own the libtards.
OzarkHillbilly
Bunny Sherriffs… I got busted for hunting bunnies with an unplugged shotgun once. Ended up in jail for that one.
MaryRC
TIL that the duck stamp is not a postage stamp. So Fargo lied to me?
sab
@Omnes Omnibus: Does Wisconsin still have winter, with actual snow? Ohio doesn’t much anymore.
Omnes Omnibus
@sab: Yes, we have that too.
sab
Our local (NE Ohio) neighborhood cafe (actually a diner, but we call it that to discourage east coast reporters) has had prints on the wall for at least twenty years with ducks paddling around shotgun shells. Is that a thing in wildlife art?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Brrrr!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@germy: Damn, that really is stomach churning seeing those dumb people kill themselve like that.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I can finally turn off the air conditioning and open windows.
sab
@Omnes Omnibus: Damn. Maybe we will move north. My grandmother was from near Milwaukee. Can I function without German? Hers was fluent. They only spoke English at home.
Omnes Omnibus
@sab: Only one way to find out.
MisterForkbeard
@germy: Working people cannot inflation, it is true.
The rest of it is hot garbage, though :)
zhena gogolia
@germy: Wow. You know, I have never looked at any of this HCA stuff before today. I thought it was kind of stupid. But it is devastating, stomach-turning, apocalyptically disturbing.
sab
Back when she was new to us I bought the pitbull a nylabone. She was bored. Six months later when she was too frisky wanting to gnaw on my arm I hauled the nylabone out from under the dining room table and into my bed. Pitbull is now happily gnawing.
Context is everything.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: I’ve not used the AC here since Nikki died.
debbie
@germy:
I hope she rakes it in, if only because it will piss off TFG.
debbie
@germy:
“Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful!”
HumboldtBlue
If you need a laugh, she’s got a joke for you.
sab
@Omnes Omnibus: I am game. Spouse with German surname is not. Sad. It was a good marriage while it lasted.
Chetan Murthy
Just now listening to “Cathedral” by CS&N: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lA_je4NtAc
I could *swear* I heard somebody else do a cover of this song, and a really good one. But I can’t remember who it was. Lovely song.
sab
Columbus jackals. My family has a large furniture item that I think is ridiculous although beautiful. My sister wants to unload it. Kids are scattering in horror. Our nurse’s aide actually has a house big enough and wants it. ( It is beautiful.)
If I can get my sister to give it up to nurse’s aide is there any possibility of Columbus meetup when I go to retrieve it
ETA Item is a highboy. You have lived your life wrong if you even know what that is.
debbie
@sab:
It is. I remember selling a small publisher’s book about duck stamps. It had its niche, but I can’t say it ever sold well.
There isn’t a subject that hasn’t had a book published about it.
Danielx
54 degrees and dropping, cold autumn rain all day long.
Fall is definitely here.
NotMax
He did it his way. Melvin Van Peebles dies at age 89.
sab
@Omnes Omnibus: Just announced to spouse. I will miss his kids a lot.
debbie
@sab:
I would, but I’m still isolating. My lungs have not done at all well with all this pollen.
sab
@debbie: My sister the art historian had a friend who wrote a catalogue about orange crate art. Just to develop a market.
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus: 73 in Memphis! Ahhhh….
sab
@debbie: My sister is always slow. Maybe come winter?
eclare
@HumboldtBlue: Oh slam! Hahaha…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@sab: Here in Southern California, we have snow in the mountains that we can drive to. Surf in the morning, have snow in the afternoon.
Geminid
@germy: After the orange churl endorsed Wyoming attorney Harriet Haggeman to run against Cheney, three Republican candidates dropped out of the primary field. A few others remain. USA Today just published a long (for them) article on the race that included comments by former Senator Alan Simpson to the effect that Wyoming’s same day party registration allowing Democrats and Independents to cross over could be a factor in the primary.
Haggeman had been a political ally of Cheney’s in years past. Cheney’s response to trump’s endorsement of Haggeman was, “Bring it.”
sab
Pitbulls have silly overactive tails. Annoying, actually. Very annoying, actually.
sab
@?BillinGlendaleCA: CA has much too much driving. I like home.
sab
@?BillinGlendaleCA: CA has much too much driving. I like home.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Didn’t you just say it was 94?
debbie
@sab:
Sure. Hopefully, the coughs will have subsided.
Pete Downunder
@HumboldtBlue: Re leash training. We have found that if they pull (the most common problem) stop and turn around 180 degrees and take a few steps, make them sit. Then turn back the way you were going with command “heel” or whatever you use. If they pull again just repeat the reversal. They will quickly learn that going forward requires being at your side not pulling. Hope this helps.
BigJimSlade
@justawriter, @Gravenstone:
Ah! That’s the ticket! I couldn’t recall that one off the top of my head:
https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2020/01/01
Steeplejack (phone)
@NotMax:
One of my first “cinema” experiences as a college freshman in the fall of 1969 was seeing Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song in a tiny “art house” theater. After a steady diet of Hollywooden fare growing up, it was glorious! And just the first of many classic, foreign and indie films I saw in the next three years.
I don’t have to remind any of the geezers here that this was back before streaming, DVDs or even videocassettes. If you wanted to see a movie, you couldn’t just order it up. You had to keep track of multiple screening schedules and hunt it down. And often wait a long time.
Dan B
@sab: Amazing to hear about a lack of snow in Ohio. We kept a yardstick by the front door at our house 3 miles south of Wadsworth.
debbie
@Dan B:
I remember home movies of kids coming over for a birthday party and wading through chest-high snow. I think it was about 4th or 5th grade.
Geminid
Congressman Conor Lamb was endorsed today for the Pennsylvania Senate race by Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse, who tweeted,
Pennsylvania’s primaries will be held next May.
evodevo
@The Moar You Know: Well, also that he was in favor of immigration reform…the MAGAts can’t forget that…
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/senate-kills-bush-immigration-reform-bill-idUSN2742643820070629
trollhattan
@sab:
I know a guy who will bust up a chifforobe.
evodevo
@sab:
We deal in antiques…those are hard to come by nowadays…all the youngs want is IKEA crap..
The Thin Black Duke
@Steeplejack (phone): I remember. When I lived in Connecticut (and was next door to beautiful downtown Yale University, I hit the local indie film circuit pretty hard. Blade Runner, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Repo Man, Stop Making Sense. I recall seeing a double bill of A Man of All Seasons and The Lion In Winter at the York Square Cinema in New Haven.
stinger
@sab: Location, location, location!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@sab: No, 104.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack (phone):
Oops, I have made a dreadful error. I didn’t see Sweet Sweetback until a couple of years later—it came out in 1971. What I saw as a dewy-eyed freshman in the fall of 1969 was Putney Swope, an equally incendiary satire and revelatory experience. Mea culpa.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Putney Swope played for (at least, might well have been more) 2½ months at the theater where I worked as an usher, to the point that for years afterward I could recite entire chunks of dialogue from memory.