"The butchering that went on..."

                                                  there were 9 deer in this herd...whitetail

                                          i saw this female pronghorn on three days...then she disappeared

                      this female rodent was on my engine block and had already snapped two mouse traps

 there were several butterflies on the iris blooms but this one was well hidden o the pine needles...a prong-tailed butterfly which i have not keyed out yet...

last friday as i sat in the truck i saw what i thought was a short fat black cow but it was a black bear...and not a small one...too far away for the lens i had on the camera...there were several black bear stories in the local news this week...a young black bear entered a dwelling and chewed on a 14 year old boy...14 year old boys have that effect on on folks sometimes...there was also a bear which "taken into custody" according to a news story (immobilized and transported)  but this bear got out of the transport cage and went into a neighborhood and they had to kill it...this morning i heard the woman who is head of louisiana wildlife and fisheries say that they finally have enough black bears in louisiana that they are going to allow hunting them again...i think they should introduce jaguars back into louisiana (last one was sighted back around 1910 or so) a few jaguar will make the hunters more alert...or dead...

36 truckloads of groceries delivered before the $320 million dollar pier broke...

 i watched this interview with ATF director steven dettlebach (5/23/24 -8:52 ) in front of a house judiciary committee concerning the shooting to death of the head of the little rock arkansas airport in his home and i was nauseated buy the incompetence of those persons who undertook this fiasco...it seems like a george floyd incident to me...

i read about a guy named william cobbett (1763-1835) who lived in england and was in the military and tried to have his superiors charged with embezzlement...he had to flee to france and then USA...his contribution to humanity was that he spoke up for peasants and the poor in general and tried to have flogging stopped in the military...also he disagreed with anonymous editorials in the local papers and began a daily written account of the parliament...there is a good short documentary on youtube about his life...he was not all sweetness and light...but did some good stuff...or tried to...

the pope poots...that faggot! which is a bundle of sticks i believe...

i was thinking about buying a handgun..i watched Dr.Bones interview with FBI agent Booth to get a handgun permit and when asked why she wanted a gun she said "To shoot people"...yep that's the idea. she was denied that permit...too damned bad (this TV series is much better without commercials...as are all of them...which is why i keep buying them on DVD)

"The butchering that went on cannot be explained by trying to get hold of a piece of land. They were really struggling with this central issue for them of the advent of the Antichrist...The savagery of vicious insult and vile denunciation they wreaked upon each other..." this is from Bernard Bailyn who wrote "The Barbarous Years" about the USA from 1600 to 1700 and describes how violent the beginning of this counties settlement by the Europeans was...i ain't nothin' nice!...