Monday, November 21, 2011

Flint Hills in the Morning: First Snow in Autumn

The early dusting of snow on the burnt orange flint hills was nice in the autumn sunrise. (The flint hills of kansas are MY BACK YARD)



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Eastern View:
My Western View

Wild Turkeys Can Make You Love Them (Apparently): PBS' My LIfe As A Turkey

I just watched a PBS Nature Special from a guy (Joe Hutto) who is a nature/animal buff, about Wild Turkeys, and it was excellent, beautifully filmed, and mind-expanding.
For thanksgiving, give it a watch:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/my-life-as-a-turkey/introduction/7268/


Wild turkey fact sheet:
HERE

Class: Aves

Order: Galliformes Family: Phasianidae 
Subfamily: Meleagridinae  Genus: Meleagris
Species: Meleagris gallopavo
Subspecies: There are five subspecies of North American wild turkey: Eastern, Osceola, Rio Grande, Merriam’s, and Gould’s.

When I lived down south, the wild turkeys saw you a mile or two away; they did not let you see them. Here, I try hard not to hit them with my truck. (with complete success so far...)




Friday, November 18, 2011

Snow Cats and Sweetest Fridays: Time for Sweetest Grey Kittens and the Thanksgiving Break!

Snow Cats, Grey Cats, Blue-eyed kittens.
Oh, Sweet Blessed Break. Here are snow-loving felines and i will continue to add grey cats and kittens to this post.

Christmas Cat say, "Teh Really?"

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Kitten Loves Jesus

Teh Yoga






 Invisible Vail Cat
I am stealing yur skis.



more snowDOGS HERE and also HERE

the real santa HERE





Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Dogs Welcome Home Their Deployed Troops

What happens when Dog's best friend comes back from Afghanistan or Iraq? If you listen, there is more than just barking-- there is a little crying and sighing and toward the end, a couple dogs are yelling.
Turn the sound up.




watch also
HERE

Rape Reports Are Everywhere. What Do You Think Is Happening?

There is Rape in the Locker Room.
and more HERE

There is Rape in the Protest Camps for the
 Occupy Wall Street movement.
and more HERE

There is Rape on College Campuses. and HERE and HERE

There is Rape in our Homes.
In our Communities.

There are special drugs used to facilitate rape.
More HERE

There are gangs raping kids in front of crowds.
Gang rapes here and everywhere.

Populations of entire villages are raped.

This is insanity. Read more HERE


More HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Penn State and Joe Paterno's Biggest Sin Isn't in Showing Mercy; It's In Allowing the Malignancy to Live On.

Are you a hypocrite or would you call the police on your best friend Bob or your brother Jim or your dad, upon catching them in the act of an immoral felony?
Do you Destroy a man? Everyone's pointing fingers; are you squeaky clean? What do you let slide? Your brother who deals drugs in a neighborhood, a son who beats his wife in front of the children--you are calling the police,
Yes?
Or do you intervene, call a family meeting, confront the guy, etc etc.
If you spare a man, if you excuse a woman because of friendship, love, contextual circumstances--fine. But concomitant with that mercy is the responsibility to take custody. YOU are in lieu of the confinement of jail bars.
There must be an end to the behavior. No contact with children, for example. 'While i will not destroy you, it is now my responsibility to make sure you never never even have a chance to fall again.'

So if we abhor the first case of mercy (particularly if given by someone else) when there are traumatized victims involved, we simply Will Not Allow the freedom for the behaviors to continue. There is no  logic, love, justice or meaning in that. There must be a deep heavy sense of the weight of Godness--I'll keep your evil quiet, but you gotta be sorry and stop doing it.

being generous,
Whatever acts of mercy occurred at Penn State-- when
the "rape of a boy"
became
"inappropriate abuse"
then
"shower horseplay"
as the cover-up moved up the chain--
Paterno and others
did not corral and quarantine the filthy mutation of
taking pleasure in the destruction of innocence.

[And if you believe in Soulless Evolution, should you not be advocating for the euthanizing of such mutant globules--these troublemakers? If we are just lovely collections of coordinating atom clusters, why not excise the freak ones? Not "good" or "evil" as evolution would have it, i understand--just whatever the Jew du Jour is-- in  Cambodia, the intellectuals; in Germany the Jews and homosexuals, in China's wombs, the females-- the ottoman's Christians, the Taliban's Strong Women (you get the picture).
Just curious. ]
Full Grand Jury Evidence HERE

Friday, November 11, 2011

A Long Time Ago in Colorado

This was taken in the mountains of colorado in Nineteeneightysomething. Just found it (august 2012) and thought i'd bury it in a past-dated post so i will find it someday re reading the blog.

Mary Todd young


a farmgirl pic from the same time period is HERE

younger...
 after college...
 

K-State Men's Basketball versus Charleston Suthern 11.11.11 at Bramlage Video

Enjoyed the game last night (except for ONE PART **--)
i have
some video of the warm-up, and of the action in the second half.
You can watch these larger on youtube by clicking on theyoutube icon...

Here is some second half action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTWiXsyoAU

Here is a K-State Steal: turn up the volume




Here is some warm-up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPEE6Y-rt8A

and more here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNb5DtWcHjs


and




**
At the KSU men’s basketball game last night,
during the chant where the Crowd yells,
 “We…Are…Wildcats!” a large section of students near me were adding a four-syllable obscenity in between, yelling at the top of their voices,
 “We Are The M…..F….Wildcats!” Sadness for the four children standing in front of me (always sit behind tiny peeps at a BB game…)
Why can’t they just be Wildcats? Why do the have to be M..F.. Wildcats?

I wish, when the other team was introduced, the Kansas State University Student Body would find clever ways to react. What if the entire crowd fell dead silent but clapped politely?
What if when KU comes to play basketball here, when each player is introduced, we all yell, “Good luck Brian!” or “Hello Jimmy!” That would do more to freak them out than yelling snotty stuff anyway...

Sweetest Fridays: The Love of a Good Dog; Hays Calling and a Year or Two Passes

The Bittersweet Trip to Hays

All is High
Relief



Surreality with Love



SparksView




Our Sparkle:


mis woo woo



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The wind carries me to Hays


even the flowers are traumatized