Thank you for my Morning Owl. I love those little birdies! When I was working at the mall, I loved those days when Hawk Creek Wildlife Center, Inc., came with an exhibit. Often accompanying them, was a tiny screech owl. My boss was nice enough to let me go and look at all the stuff - as long as I left my wallet in the store. Hehehe....she didn't check my pockets, tho'.
Hunting Island State Park in South Carolina is a prime habitat for raptors, most notably the Great Horned Owl and the Barred Owl. These nocturnal birds of prey thrive in the park's maritime forests, coastal marshes, and heavily wooded campground areas.
When our giris were young we camped there and were taken on a nighttime owl watching tour by park rangers it was an experience that they still remember. The next morning we awoke to a hurricane warning. Hurricane Charlie had taken an unexpected turn and was headed our way. We never broke camp so fast in our lives.
One year I would be out side waiting for my ride to pick me up. Living on the edge of town with plenty of forest I could hear a BARRED OWL claim it's territory. The WHO COOKS FOR YOU-WHO COOKS FOR YOU ALL set a pleasent start for the day. LIFE IS GOOD!
At night I sometimes hear the hoots of an owl that must live nearby my home, but I've never seen her. Still, it makes me happy knowing she's there and also, like yours, probably helping to keep the rodent population in check... although Evie (the cat) is also quite good at that.
Could use a few around here. About five years ago, the "Town Fathers" (LOL) decided that feral cats were a big problem and pretty effectively eliminated them. The mouse population exploded!
Mail-in Ballots: (Watson vs. Republican National Committee): At least 29 states count at least some mail-in ballots postmarked on or before Election Day. People vote by mail for various reasons, and the decision could have a sweeping effect on geographically hard-to-reach voters, those with disabilities, or those without access to in-person voting.
Birthright Citizenship: (Trump v. Barbara): The court is reviewing President Donald Trump's executive order on Day 1 that denied automatic U.S. birthright citizenship to children born in America to parents without permanent legal status.
Authority to Fire Fed Members: (Trump v. Cook): When Trump attempted to Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over unsubstantiated claims of mortgage fraud last year, it launched another constitutionality question of whether a president has the unilateral power to not only fire a sitting board member but the limits of presidential authority.
Banning trans women in sports: (Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J.): Whether states can legally bar transgender women and girls from participating in female sports teams.
In the article, Herndon said, "People who pay those taxes also don’t always use the services they’re funding,."
This is such bullshit. My guess is that this is part of a bid to reduce school funding. The GOP wants to shift to all private schools. BUT, fact is the vast majority of residents do use all of the things funded by their taxes. They drive on the roads, get driving-hunting-fishing licenses from the state, use parks and malls and other infrastructure funded by the state. And if you've lived for generations in a home, you've sent generations of children to schools. When you interact virtually anywhere in the state, you are interacting with people who can read, write and do sums so even if you don't have kids in school, you benefit from the education system. You use the hospital system, you probably have elderly relatives receiving community services or in homes, ... .
If pressed, Herndon wouldn't be able to name one single person in Iowa who does not use services provided from the state on a daily basis.
How shall we ensure the nuclear industry is safe? Lemme guess. “The Invisible Hand.” If a company allows its reactor to melt down, the market will destroy that company. That’ll do it.
These techbros are evil, stupid children. They should not be allowed in public without their nannies.
The Invisible Hand is the most miss-used economic concept ever developed. In Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith specifically developed the concept to apply to a very specific type of economy, where small SMALL, individually owned businesses of approximately equal size competed for the patronage of the local community. Point being that none of the actors in this very limited economy had enough power to direct the economy individually. Prices were set by the market because no one could individually set the price.
What all of these conservative pundits completely ignore is the longish section in Wealth that spelled out the need for unions. Smith said that unions were necessary to redress the imbalance of power between workers and companies. Because companies were large and strong enough to set the price of labor - wages - rather than allowing the market to set wages.
There are other sections in Wealth that also address imbalance of power.
I remember, many years ago, we took our grandaughter to the state fair. Of course she was fascinated with the animals (especially horses). I had her in my arms when she reached out to pet the horse when it loudly snorted. She immediately spun back around and tried to hide in my embrace. My heart melted to know that she felt that I was there for her. One of my lifes unforgettable feelings.
LOL, Vladimir Trump has fucked himself on Crimea. He lowered the seismic hazard rating for the area so he could have his bridge built, but it’s a known earthquake-prone area, and the bridge is slowly being undermined, with or without Ukrainian strikes. “Ukrainian earthquakes will finish it off.”
“They have been told that they would be fulfilled with hookup culture, or some get-rich-quick scheme, or they could find fame on social media, and that would fulfill them,” (Transportation Secretary Sean) Duffy - A MAN WHO USED REALITY TV TO LAUNCH HIS CAREER - said.
"...they have about five times more cargo space than an airplane, but are five times smaller in length than a typical container ship." Where does the WSJ find it's writers?
"the idea wouldn’t be to sub property taxes with other taxes. Instead, he said, it would be a long-term plan and would involve being “patient.” Part of that includes not creating and funding new programs, and then directing revenues as the economy grows to pay down local taxing districts."
More money appearing in two weeks? Just be patient... while we drain the life force out of our state guv.
It is Idaho, where the real fight is between the libertarians who refuse to see how government assists them most of the time (and then complain about slow emergency reaponse and their failing schools) and psycho ex cops/firefighters from California who are literally retiring on government pensions to move to somewhere where they can "get government off their backs" and think the first group doesn't go far enough. Not a lot of understanding of public and collective goods.
They’ve been proposing this same dumb shit in Georgia for a couple of years now.
Thankfully we’re close enough to Florida and Alabama to see first hand what life looks like when no one wants to pay taxes to live here.
Yeah, I don’t think a 21% sales tax on everything I buy is going to save me any money (our current sales tax is already as high as Florida’s so it would have to be much higher than it is now) , & it’s certainly less fair to the people who make the least money.
Owlfredo! Your hed gif owl info here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/owlfredos-bathing-ritual
And a meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/28ef35af-124e-43f2-890c-c9eea8c0505c
Water sports at the owlympics!
A moist owlet!
And we have a winner, no further submissions will be considered... thanks for playing!
In case you missed it, have some Owls in Towels.
https://owlsintowels.org/
Wonderful!
this is great!
Live owl coffee stirrer. You'll love it, they said. It'll be great, they said.
Owlfredo Is a local! She’s in Stoneham, not too far from me.
I will have to go visit her, obviously.
We have a bird bath. Never had an owl but robins are really enthusiastic bathers.
Recently, two massive crows have taken to splashing through my water features. I am filling them up twice a day.
Thank you for my Morning Owl. I love those little birdies! When I was working at the mall, I loved those days when Hawk Creek Wildlife Center, Inc., came with an exhibit. Often accompanying them, was a tiny screech owl. My boss was nice enough to let me go and look at all the stuff - as long as I left my wallet in the store. Hehehe....she didn't check my pockets, tho'.
I live near a park, and when I visit it I often hear owls hooting back and forth to each other.
(Also hear pileated woodpeckers and noisy, complainy hawklings)
hawklings are the whinge-iest
i have some in one of my oak trees
Hunting Island State Park in South Carolina is a prime habitat for raptors, most notably the Great Horned Owl and the Barred Owl. These nocturnal birds of prey thrive in the park's maritime forests, coastal marshes, and heavily wooded campground areas.
When our giris were young we camped there and were taken on a nighttime owl watching tour by park rangers it was an experience that they still remember. The next morning we awoke to a hurricane warning. Hurricane Charlie had taken an unexpected turn and was headed our way. We never broke camp so fast in our lives.
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That owl is breathtaking
That was actually from Hunting Island.
I count myself very fortunate to have a local alley-owl...
He keeps the small mammal population, mostly rats and squirrels managed nicely.
One year I would be out side waiting for my ride to pick me up. Living on the edge of town with plenty of forest I could hear a BARRED OWL claim it's territory. The WHO COOKS FOR YOU-WHO COOKS FOR YOU ALL set a pleasent start for the day. LIFE IS GOOD!
At night I sometimes hear the hoots of an owl that must live nearby my home, but I've never seen her. Still, it makes me happy knowing she's there and also, like yours, probably helping to keep the rodent population in check... although Evie (the cat) is also quite good at that.
Perhaps the owls ARE what they seem.
Could use a few around here. About five years ago, the "Town Fathers" (LOL) decided that feral cats were a big problem and pretty effectively eliminated them. The mouse population exploded!
The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again!
That particular correlation has only been known since the introduction of agriculture. Give the Town Fathers time.
They're a little, uh, slow.
Now that's *my* kinda reality show. I ♥️🦉🦉.
Man, now I want fettucine Alfredo. Lordy, I love owls.
Awwwwww. A long time ago when I lived in a tidy suburban street, there was a resident screech owl. I loved to hear its warble. They are so cute!
CUTE PERHAPS. They are in the upper tiers of PREY SPECIES.
Owls are very wise, and they know how to cool off.
♫ ♪ ♬ I love to sing-a
About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a,
I love to sing-a,
About a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a,
Or a rub-a-dub-dubba in my very own tubba
I love-a to, I love-a to sing! ♫ ♪ ♬
And that owl’s name turned out to be…
Owl Jolson.
And now you know… the rest of the story.
And he loved his Mama.
But PAPA was an asshole...
(recalls that cartoon fondly)
*purrs*
Refreshing Owlfredo!
Eliminating/reducing property taxes is also a big talking point among Michigan rethuglican candidates.
Hmm. What think tank came up with those talking points, I wonder?
You can count me as one o' them nerds what thinks we need nuclear energy.
"But I’m guessing you didn’t mean like that."
You got that right.
Remaining pending SCOTUS decisions:
Mail-in Ballots: (Watson vs. Republican National Committee): At least 29 states count at least some mail-in ballots postmarked on or before Election Day. People vote by mail for various reasons, and the decision could have a sweeping effect on geographically hard-to-reach voters, those with disabilities, or those without access to in-person voting.
Birthright Citizenship: (Trump v. Barbara): The court is reviewing President Donald Trump's executive order on Day 1 that denied automatic U.S. birthright citizenship to children born in America to parents without permanent legal status.
Authority to Fire Fed Members: (Trump v. Cook): When Trump attempted to Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over unsubstantiated claims of mortgage fraud last year, it launched another constitutionality question of whether a president has the unilateral power to not only fire a sitting board member but the limits of presidential authority.
Banning trans women in sports: (Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J.): Whether states can legally bar transgender women and girls from participating in female sports teams.
In the article, Herndon said, "People who pay those taxes also don’t always use the services they’re funding,."
This is such bullshit. My guess is that this is part of a bid to reduce school funding. The GOP wants to shift to all private schools. BUT, fact is the vast majority of residents do use all of the things funded by their taxes. They drive on the roads, get driving-hunting-fishing licenses from the state, use parks and malls and other infrastructure funded by the state. And if you've lived for generations in a home, you've sent generations of children to schools. When you interact virtually anywhere in the state, you are interacting with people who can read, write and do sums so even if you don't have kids in school, you benefit from the education system. You use the hospital system, you probably have elderly relatives receiving community services or in homes, ... .
If pressed, Herndon wouldn't be able to name one single person in Iowa who does not use services provided from the state on a daily basis.
I love the look of joy on Tallulah's face!
How shall we ensure the nuclear industry is safe? Lemme guess. “The Invisible Hand.” If a company allows its reactor to melt down, the market will destroy that company. That’ll do it.
These techbros are evil, stupid children. They should not be allowed in public without their nannies.
The Invisible Hand is the most miss-used economic concept ever developed. In Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith specifically developed the concept to apply to a very specific type of economy, where small SMALL, individually owned businesses of approximately equal size competed for the patronage of the local community. Point being that none of the actors in this very limited economy had enough power to direct the economy individually. Prices were set by the market because no one could individually set the price.
What all of these conservative pundits completely ignore is the longish section in Wealth that spelled out the need for unions. Smith said that unions were necessary to redress the imbalance of power between workers and companies. Because companies were large and strong enough to set the price of labor - wages - rather than allowing the market to set wages.
There are other sections in Wealth that also address imbalance of power.
Not to mention the (to me) disgusting beverages on offer ...
Whoops, was replying to a non-comment about boba tea shops
I remember, many years ago, we took our grandaughter to the state fair. Of course she was fascinated with the animals (especially horses). I had her in my arms when she reached out to pet the horse when it loudly snorted. She immediately spun back around and tried to hide in my embrace. My heart melted to know that she felt that I was there for her. One of my lifes unforgettable feelings.
"Idaho Republicans, which is all of Idaho, want to get rid of property taxes and you won’t believe what they want to replace them with"
iirc correctly, this is how Kansas ended up with a Dem governor
TIL then, let’s just change “Idaho” on all the maps … Bundyhoma perhaps?
East West Washington
DJT closed at $7.52 yesterday. Worst-performing stock in any market this year. As a former licensed security investment manager, let me just say
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WE TOLD YOU SO!
I keep hoping that the price falls below $1 and NASDAQ starts delisting procedures
LOL, Vladimir Trump has fucked himself on Crimea. He lowered the seismic hazard rating for the area so he could have his bridge built, but it’s a known earthquake-prone area, and the bridge is slowly being undermined, with or without Ukrainian strikes. “Ukrainian earthquakes will finish it off.”
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/earthquakes-are-destroying-crimean-bridge-1782310318.html
Huh. Almost like the hand of God or something.
"Air Force re-mandating flu shots after Secretary Drunknstuff preened about no long forcing the manly WARFIGHTERS to get flu shots. (ABC News)"
No comment from Hegseth, I take it.
Heh.
“They have been told that they would be fulfilled with hookup culture, or some get-rich-quick scheme, or they could find fame on social media, and that would fulfill them,” (Transportation Secretary Sean) Duffy - A MAN WHO USED REALITY TV TO LAUNCH HIS CAREER - said.
Duffy tripped the light fantastic right outa CHEESELAND.
"...they have about five times more cargo space than an airplane, but are five times smaller in length than a typical container ship." Where does the WSJ find it's writers?
Seems like the world is making and shipping a lot of straight up garbage.
Less shipping capacity might make us more discerning about shipping products destined for the landfill?
Let’s hope.
I like the idea of sailing ships, it was the clunky writing that bothered me.
"the idea wouldn’t be to sub property taxes with other taxes. Instead, he said, it would be a long-term plan and would involve being “patient.” Part of that includes not creating and funding new programs, and then directing revenues as the economy grows to pay down local taxing districts."
More money appearing in two weeks? Just be patient... while we drain the life force out of our state guv.
It is Idaho, where the real fight is between the libertarians who refuse to see how government assists them most of the time (and then complain about slow emergency reaponse and their failing schools) and psycho ex cops/firefighters from California who are literally retiring on government pensions to move to somewhere where they can "get government off their backs" and think the first group doesn't go far enough. Not a lot of understanding of public and collective goods.
They’ve been proposing this same dumb shit in Georgia for a couple of years now.
Thankfully we’re close enough to Florida and Alabama to see first hand what life looks like when no one wants to pay taxes to live here.
Yeah, I don’t think a 21% sales tax on everything I buy is going to save me any money (our current sales tax is already as high as Florida’s so it would have to be much higher than it is now) , & it’s certainly less fair to the people who make the least money.