"What is man without the beasts?

     pregnant female coyote with right leg mangled by steel jaw trap...last meal

UPDATE TO THIS BLOG
this photograph was taken with a cuddy game camera which I set.
insofar as this image is a good advertisement for the cruelty
which a leg hold trap or wire noose trap can impart to
an animal I relinquish all  commercial copyrights to this image and
anyone who would like to use this image is free to do so and
I would like for people to consider contributing to organizations
which promote wildlife and especially what are referred to as predators.

I had seen this animal a couple of miles away a week before when I was at the
top of a hill and her mate ran across the desert towards cover...a few minutes
later she appeared limping towards him....

I felt bad for her as I know that these coyotes have to dig
for their meals a lot of the time...she must have been hungry.
It was near dark and I had not put out the game camera yet
and she appeared as she came out of the dry wash...
I grabbed the game camera and set it up and returned
to the van to see if she would return to finish her meal...
she did...
the next day about 10 in the morning I heard a bunch of dogs barking coming
from where some folks  had set up their camper a half mile away
near the mouth of the canyon. then about half an hour later a lot
of gunfire...I assumed they had spotted the coyotes and were having
a bit of target practice...
I shot and killed a coyote in my younger days and most people
assume that all coyotes are vermin and need to be killed because they
are bad for the environment... actually these animals are an important
part of the environment and removing them from the environment can
cause the prey animals (rabbits, rats, etc.) to multiply to such an extent
that their activities damage the environment. Some native Americans believe
that coyotes will be the last animals alive on the planet...certainly they are
one of the most resourceful animals alive.  In my three winters frequenting
this part of the desert I have only encountered coyotes twice...and they may
have been the same coyotes both times...seeing them raises my spirits...
We need to take a thoughtful approach to what animals we choose to
 eliminate from the places we inhabit.

"What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts
were gone, men would die from loneliness of spirit,
for what ever happens to the beasts also happens to the man."
                                           Chief Seattle (1885)

Bayes Theorem

"My conscience has a thousand several tongues..."

                             ever get the feeling you're being tracked

just came from mexico and the dentist office
hooray! a crown where there was once a hole...
interesting thing about crossing the border
some folks just look like government workers

then to the bank...to open an account
after a 20 minute explanation about accounts
I could not afford we got down to brass tacks
and when we got to the PERMANENT ADDRESS
question I pointed to the 30 year old suite van
and said in april I will have been a resident in that
van for 10 years...bank lady looks a bit shocked
then she says a permenant address is needed...
I say I do not want to commit BANKING FRAUD
and she looks kind of disappointed at that
as I get up to leave I ask for my federal debit
card...she says she returned it...but NO! there it
is under the keyboard of her computer...silly mistake!
as I am driving away some female federal employee
gives me the nasty swipe with her paw while glaring
at me from her car...missed again....

"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain."  William Shakespeare

zaftig

"Nor love thy life..."

      Fighters of the YJA-STAR (womens force) PKK Sinjar, Iraq..2015 (Harpers Magazine 1//20)
      article by Azad Cudi "Long Shot-the story of a Kurdish sniper"

in this article by mr. cudi he tells of spending a lot of time
and bullets shooting at a vehicle which is in the distance and
which is the ememy which means to do them harm...
then one day an American fighter jet appears in the sky
and swoops down and lets off a missle and sends the jeep
flying into the air...
when USA withdrew our support from the Turkish border
it left these Kurdish fighters exposed to much danger...
every day in this part of the world (Arizona) I look up into the air
and see fighter jets..some large and some small (my favorite)
I often wondered where these machines were plying their trade
and now I know where some of them are doing good

when listening to NPR last week I was astounded to hear
Mary Louise Kelly a woman reporter broadcasting from
Iran and I expected to hear that she never got out alive
but she said she was treated well and allowed to do her job.

also there were a couple of women walking in space last week
which also takes some guts
salute the bravery of the good ones

"Nor love thy life, nor hate; but whilst thou liv'st
Live well; how long, how short, permit to Heaven."  Milton

Valerie Solanas

    

"The last, best fruit which comes to perfection..."

                                                      GUESS WHO'S COMING TO SUPPER!

rare to get a lagomorph but this one was just passing through
first time to get a pair of foxes
miss fox seems to not appreciate the attention
the kangaroo rat appears to have been spotted by mr fox
and heads back to the tunnel
and the white on the screen is probably the foxes tail
and the motion is probably the fox brushing against the camera

"The last best fruit which comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul,
is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing,
warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic."
                                                                        RICHTER

Electrophorus voltai

"He taketh the wise...

               more business as usual?

NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH NEW FLASH

Mr. E Teatsqueezer, political consultant and bovine expert announces
candidacy for president in 2020.
As Mr. Teatsqueezer stood on the steps of Teatsqueezer Tower beside
the Manure Lagoon he had this to say...

"Sadly, but with confidence and humility...but just a little humility...
I have decided to throw my hat into the ring to run for president,
and Mrs. Teatsqueezer will act as my consultant and be my running
mate also...we is going to be frugal as there is no need to burn up
a bunch of our or anyone else's money... most of the social media
is free and the only thing whut is lacking is time...
We has decided to make our motto
"MAKE THE AMERICAN BISONS GREAT AGAIN!"
and we is going to run on a third party called the Buffalo party.
since this country has been formed we has crowded out the bisons,
which is the only bovine native to this country and they used to be
60 million or so them here and they was in most every state from coast
to coast and now there is hardly more than a few thousand.
In Australia they fenced off the outback, killed off the kangaroos and
brought in sheep which about ruined their ecosystem.  Now they has
cut down the fences and removed the sheep and allowed the kangaroos
back where they belong. They harvest the kangaroos and they have
 a sustainable source of income. We figure that if there was less domestic
stock and more buffaloes this would be a better method of managing the
land than whut is going on at present. We do not figure that we need to
begin to eat crickets and other bugs because domestic cattle use up too
many resources...If folks realize that less people means more for everyone
then eventually most of the problems, including the climate changing
could be handled without drastic changes in the way we live...but since
people hardly every change without putting up a fuss it may be that
we need to incentivize folks to keep the population down...
We is open to ideas and we propose to have a Department of Cleaning Up
and Recycling which could put some of the tent dwellers to work...
We noticed that New York spent $3.2 billion dollars on 80 thousand so
called homeless which according to my calculations is about $40 thousand
per person...that is not a good deal and I believe that there is too much
corruption in the social services which needs to be addressed...or we is
going to be bankrupted...some more...
So remember "MAKE THE AMERICAN BISONS GREAT AGAIN"  and
we think America will be better too.

"He taketh the wise in their own craftiness."  Job 5:11

"E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries..."

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                                          Bibliomancy?   Synchronicity?

"E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires."
   Thomas Gray "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."


found this mashed flat insect in my Bartlett's book of
quotation's which is 1540 pages long...

music recommendation
Diana Krall in Paris 2001 DVD
I especially like "Cry me a River"
one of the best piano and voice
performances ever...and the old guys
in her band seem to really like being
on stage with this young woman..

Radiyya Begum...only female sultan

"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased;"

                                                                   my lawyer

was called into the chief of polices office
to be questioned about certain associations
the conversation went somewhat like this

we have 8X10 color photos of you in conversation
with know criminal elements
what was the subject of the conversation?!

i have constitutional rights to my privacy

you is got no constitutional rights
you is got no civil rights
and you would be lucky to have any
last rites
you is little more than a human poot
a poot with legs on it

well these fellows said that they had been
watching me and liked my style and would
be willing to get me into the BUSINESS

what business was they going to get you into!

they said they could supply me with the
BIG "H"

heroin! was they going to supply you with heroin

well, no PREPARATION "H"
suppositories
they said folks would be knocking my
door down to get at it when they needed it
and besides it is writ in the constitution in plain
language the I have the right to
LIFE, LIBERTY AND TO POOT IN HAPPINESS
and you will wish you had treated me much better
if your himeroids begin to hurt!

then she threw me out of her office

"Canst thous not minister to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?  Shakespear

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