A blue jay couple that lives in our yard hatched the whiniest chick in the history of the universe this year. The nestlings fledged 24 days ago. I know this because of a photo date stamp: One chick crash-landed in the yard and subsequently failed to achieve air, and my husband rescued it and placed it back in a tree before our dogs could make a snack of it.
Jays aren’t known for their dulcet tones, but this bratty little shit is particularly shrill. It stands around under the bird feeder, flaps its wings, screeching all the while, while the parents frantically shuttle food into its open maw. You can tell the parents are goddamned exhausted by the little bastard. Here’s a shot through the window, with the fledgling throwing an ear-splitting tantrum on the ground while a parent looks on from the top of the gate:
[Dialog supplied by me.]Sometimes I want to tell those parents that it’s time to cut the damned cord already. Their offspring is perfectly capable of flying now, shaky start notwithstanding. There are bird feeders all over the place. Let it paddle its own canoe! But I try to refrain from intervening in the personal business of other families, so I just complain about it here.
Open thread!
PaulWartenberg
best way to get a Blue Jay to leave is to tell it Spring Training in Dunedin is over.
/rimshot
Roger Moore
I think you might be projecting just a tiny bit.
Mr. Mack
We are inundated with rather polite Cardinals this year.
different-church-lady
Travel ban blocked again, Lieberman won’t be FBI director, and it’s pouring cats and dogs on Mark Zuckerberg’s outdoor address at Harvard. Pretty good day, no?
TenguPhule
So Trump has a future reincarnation as a blue jay?
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
Eventually they’ll leave it. We had a nest in our backyard with a mother and two eggs. After they hatched we saw two babies trying to learn to fly and one was able to make it up and over the wall right away but the other struggled. After a while the mother left and the other baby bird flew away. The one who didn’t make the wall died pretty quickly–life is cheap in the desert.
Jeff
I watched a jay peck at the ground then look at the kid and do it again and again to get the message through to the kid.
germy
schrodingers_cat
@different-church-lady: People who get all their news from the Faceborg are the ones who fall prey to “fake” news the most. Anecdata not research.
ETA: I am so old that I remember a time when Faceborg was cool and aimed at college kids. Now its crazy uncle and aunt central.
different-church-lady
@schrodingers_cat: Zuckerberg got rich based on his instinctive manipulation of the lizard brain. Fuck him and his creepy, oppressive toy.
TenguPhule
@germy:
All of this talk is going to boil down to in the end is the AHCA, with some whipped cream to hide a little of the shit sandwich. Mcconnell is already crafting La Merde De Trump Ala Panini behind closed doors with zero Democrat input. They’ll vote on it before they bother to read it and hey presto, ignore the reconciliation rules and its a done deal.
TenguPhule
@different-church-lady:
Trump still has the nuclear codes, the AHCA is still a zombie preparing to eat America’s brains and we only have tentative checks from the last of the three branches of government only as long as it takes Trump to figure out he can pack the courts with Republican support.
lamh36
germy
@different-church-lady:
And in the back of his mind he’s thinking maybe he’d like to be president someday.
lamh36
BigHank53
We kept the murdercat indoors for most of a week last summer while the three (!) bluejay fledglings figured out the whole flying thing. They all made it, mostly due to the peanuts out of our feeder.
different-church-lady
@TenguPhule: IT’S RAINING ON ZUCKERBERG! CAN’T YOU BE HAPPY?
BGinCHI
Baked blue jay is delicious.
opiejeanne
You have the pretty eastern blue jays. At our current house we have Stellar Jays which are a pretty bird too. When we lived in SoCal we had scrub jays which have some blue on them but are mostly gray and with no topknot. When the girls had chickenpox, two weeks apart, andd were well enough to go outdoors, I gave them each a bag of peanuts and they tamed a couple of jays. Over the years they would bring their whole family to meet us each year after the new chicks had fledged; if we ate outside one of them would land on the table or one of our shoulders, but not if we had company. The girls would close their bedroom door to keep our cats out and open the French windows in their room upstairs, and those birds would fly in and entertain them by swooping around the room and exploring the crayons and legos.
Jays are pretty cool; they live in large family groups and will feed the elderly birds who can’t feed themselves.
geg6
This is why I never had kids, Betty. Too many of them like that bird. With stupidly indulgent parents like the bird parents.
Just have to say, on a more positive note, my department mates and I decided to try out this BBQ shack that opened up not too far from campus for lunch. Holy shit, that was some lunch! We got what they call the Shack Stack: their homemade mac and cheese, with the smoked meat on top along with whatever sauce you want and coleslaw on top of all of it. OMG, so good!
TenguPhule
@different-church-lady:
Not unless its a rain of frogs. South American ones.
chopper
reminds me of my youngest.
Spanky
@lamh36: Say what you will about Trump (I sure do!), but the man’s a uniter.
Aleta
Imagine how we would feel if some well-meaning other species kept bringing our most annoying kids back home, just after we had finally pushed them off to “college.” (joking!) Though chances are this little one will eventually develop into the jay genius on the block and be worth all the parental effort.
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
Like these ones?
trollhattan
@germy:
I believe that thought is marching right up to the front.
chopper
@different-church-lady:
TP is only happy when it’s raining death on people.
dr. bloor
No truth to the rumor that the parents have named their flightless offspring “Donald.”
raven
This is a Bluejay attacking and owl in our yard.
This is what the owl’s head looked lie after repeated attacks.
TenguPhule
@chopper: Or frogs. Or dead frogs. I’m not that picky.
Major Major Major Major
Betty, you’re a national treasure. What a great little post.
raven
Bluejay attacking an owl in our yard.
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore: You’re getting to know me very well.
raven
The owl after a series of attacks. Check out the back the head.
TenguPhule
@lamh36:
If this doesn’t get the piss out of them, nothing will.
germy
@trollhattan:
He’s a normal person!
jl
Projection Post?
SenyorDave
I think the latest post from this blog should be required reading for Tom Perez and the DNC staff:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Highlight (this is in reference to the people who voted for Trump, will be hurt badly by his policies and would still vote for him again):
I’ve said it before: Fuck the dumbasses. The hell with the sick fucks. Don’t court them. Don’t count on them. Build up the outreach to the people who didn’t vote. And then get elected and pass programs that help the dumbasses and everyone else.
My thoughts:
Expand your base, have a national voter registration campaign. Make sure that we don’t lose 200k votes in Wisconsin because we have a Koch puppet restricting voting rights. The out-of-work coal miner in Kentucky who says he voted for Trump because he’ll bring back coal jobs? He still can’t get over the fact that a black man was president, he wants to take his country back. Don’t waste a nickel trying to switch his vote.
lamh36
So I see some ome members MSM won’t grow some balls about covering these RWNJ, pols, even after one of their own get body slammed by one. Welp, if they let this slide, do they realize this really does mean anything goes? And sadly next time might not be just body slam
jl
@SenyorDave: I agree. Better to craft a good policy platform that appeals to a wide range of potential supporters and publicize it, sell it door to door and local meeting to local meeting. Trump voters who can be salvaged will hear it and will come. I don’t see point in trying to do custom appeals to that group.
Getting big voter turnout a better bet.
Felonius Monk
Thought for the Day:
Spanky
@Felonius Monk: That would be Chris Christie, and I do not pity Chris Christie.
Gin & Tonic
@germy: I don’t think it’s the back.
glory b
@geg6: Western PA, where is it?
glory b
@chopper: Reminds me of my oldest.
TenguPhule
@Felonius Monk:
You presume he wears the same one more then once.
Gin & Tonic
@Felonius Monk: Apropos of nothing (certainly not anyone’s linens) but your nym, a fascinating story about a lost Monk album.
ruemara
I’m trying to find my current roommate an affordable place to live that isn’t with me. As soon as possible. I’m trying to provide him with assistance since I can’t take cleaning up after him or the fact that he creeps me out any more. I feel ridiculous trying to be nice about this. But I can’t help myself.
@lamh36: Well, since it was a choking and a punching, I’d say it’s more than just a body slam. And the media is geared towards authoritarianism, because they simply cannot believe they’re next.
The Moar You Know
@lamh36: Apparently not. The lack of awareness over what they’re about to get dealt to them is staggering.
History teaches these lessons, but that requires reading them.
D58826
@TenguPhule: I realize that the GOP is dead set on killing Obamacare but it would be so much easier to just plug some of the know holes and move on. All of the front end work has been done to set up the exchanges, retrofit ins. company procedures, etc. but a new law means starting over again.
Heck include a provision that every hospital in the country must be renamed TRUMPS BESTEST HOSPITAL!!!
Betty Cracker
@opiejeanne: That’s such a cool story!
@raven: Poor owl! But it must’ve been after their babies.
@SenyorDave: A thousand amens to that post! Also, I saw something on Twitter from Tom Perez today about a DNC voter rights project, which is definitely a step in the right direction. If we can address suppression and pull a few more people off the sidelines, we can win without the Trump-voting assholes!
TenguPhule
@lamh36:
But just think of the ratings! /the management
Jager
@Felonius Monk:
I’m pretty certain it’s not Melania.
Chyron HR
@TenguPhule:
You presume he has more than one pair.
lamh36
Interesting conversation at the new job yesterday. The youngest tech was talking to another about their crazy RWNJ FB friend posting…then the discussion got on the subject of crazy RWNJ relatives or how whenever there is a gathering that it was “soo uncomfortable” being there and how their crazy conservative family members say the crazing most fowl things, it makes them “soo uncomfortable”.they dont even like to go to gatherings (but they do)
It’s a new job, I’m the ONLY Black tech there, so I tried to NOT roll my eye super hard and all I said was, “oh well, I don’t have that RWNJ problem in my family”…
Then the younger went on to say she even follows some folks at work on FB, and “OMG, you’d be so surprised who posts the most pro-Trump political garbage…” and she named one name in particular… the other tech was like “really?” I was like…”yeah, I’m not surprised…so…”
Basically, as a Black person in the South, hell in America, I am NEVER surprised by the racist/bigoted conservative bend of a MAJORITY of the white folks I interact with professionally…
It’s just the way it is and sadly has always been…
Betsy
Saw a baby jay on the ground downtown yesterday, between a massive convention center and a parking deck. Ma or Pa was in a street tree — the only greeniage for a block — nest must be up there. Baby Jay was just barely flying, had a tough time getting past car-door height. I wanted to help, but my movements only scared him further toward the city street, under a line of parked cars. I got him shooed back towards the sidewalk, but had to leave it at that. He sure could let out a yelp, though — velociraptor style! “MA! PA! She’s getting near me again! JEAHHHH!” And it made Ma just livid when he hollered. JEAH! JEAH! they screamed at me. GET LOST! I left before I got velociraptor-pecked.
TenguPhule
@D58826:
Feature, not a bug. The goal was never to provide healthcare coverage. The goal was to burn it all down because an uppity black man built it.
Mike in NC
When I work in the yard I leave the garage door open. Yesterday as I was about to close it I spotted what I thought to be a field mouse or maybe a vole zip past me — a small brown furball moving very quickly. I informed my wife, who suggested I go buy some mousetraps at the hardware store. “Well, you know,” I said, “We do have three cats living here. Maybe it’s high time they earned their keep.” She declined so they get to remain looters and moochers, as Speaker Ryan (R-AynRandistan) would say.
TenguPhule
@Chyron HR: At this point I’m making a generous assumption he’s actually wearing any at any given time.
Jager
If Gianforte wins in Montana today will he be awarded the Preston Brooks award by Speaker Ryan and his new colleagues?
raven
@Betty Cracker: It’s called mobbing, basically all the species attack the owl because they are killing machines. The thing that was interesting is that the owl just sat there and took it for hours on end.
TenguPhule
@raven:
Mobs prevent it from picking out an individual target. And if it experienced it before, it would have learned the hard way that fighting back just pisses them off even more.
Miss Bianca
Betty, do I detect a note of “should have let the dogs snack on the little bastard” in your own dulcet tones?
Felonius Monk
@Gin & Tonic:
Thanks for that. Really interesting story.
Betty Cracker
Trump just tweeted an outlier Rasmussen poll that shows him with a whopping 48% approval rating as if that were the most awesome thing ever! Sad!
Gin & Tonic
@Mike in NC: Years ago we had a cat that was a great huntress, always leaving pieces of small animals on the front steps. She even had a particular sound she’d make, somewhere between a purr and a growl, that said “I’ve brought you something tasty” but signaled to us “do not open the door.” Once my wife made the mistake of not hearing that, and the cat brought a not-dead rabbit into the house. That was some fun.
Every cat since then has ranged from mediocre to couldn’t-be-bothered. The sole currently remaining one is as lazy as sin. Must be a millennial.
SiubhanDuinne
@TenguPhule:
Remember when a 1992 TownHall question for Bill Clinton was “boxers or briefs?”?
TenguPhule
I hate being right all the time.
I just mentioned today how letting the Republicans stall Obama’s appointees was gonna come back to bite us. And lo and behold, its CALVINBALL RULE TIME in the Senate.
The last line of peaceful checks and balances is now looking a lot more frayed.
lamh36
@The Moar You Know: Right…Don Lemon was on a tear last night, because some of his guest werent’ taking it a seriously as he was.
He mentioned that this isn’t new, just recorded…he mentioned Katy Tur of MSNBC having to be escorted during primary rallys, and also mentioned that he personally knows a number of journalist AND their families, including him, who have been getting continuous threats from folks, and out in the public if they recognize him they get more.
IRC, Dana Milbank discussed some of the threatening emails and letters he was getting since the primary rallies about him and his Jewish faith…
lamh36
Immanentize
@raven: Jays are mean birds too. So I have seen smaller birds – red birds and sparrows, go after blue jays in a group. The racket is amazing!
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
¡Trigger warning! You’re assuming he doesn’t go commando.
clay
@lamh36: One of these days, you’ll put up a tweet that is so obviously ridiculous that everyone will laugh and say what a great joke you pulled on all of us.
Today, sadly, is not that day.
Peale
@lamh36: Huh? Did he mean “schöne”?
jeffreyw
Feed me, momma!
lamh36
So Cheeto tried his “power shake” on Marcon, and apparently like with Trudeau…Marcon was ready for his ass…
@RupertMyers
Out-shaken
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore: Hah, way ahead of you at @58.
jl
@lamh36: My German is not so good anymore, but from what I can tell from the text, Trump is still under the delusion that German economic policies play a big role in US trade deficit. He has no clue that German economic policy has different effects for other Eurozone countries, other EU countries. and countries outside either Eurozone or EU.
Anyway, Trump goes on to rant about German automobiles being sold in the US.
The ignorant goofball is gonna ignorant goof.
Edit: I wonder if Trump still mistakenly thinks Germany has a bilateral trade deal with the US that ‘takes advantage’ of us. Probably, to the extent that anything that goes through his head makes sense in the real world.
Major Major Major Major
@jl: trump doesn’t even know what a trade deficit is. Didn’t he call one of the generals at 2am one time to ask?
ArchTeryx
The great Jack Aulis once said that it is easy to tell a Blue Jay, but it is impossible to tell one to shut up.
ArchTeryx
Dammit, in moderation, prob because of my new phone.
Felonius Monk
@Immanentize:
Yes, they are. Recall the scene from the movie King Kong where he is on the top of the Empire State building batting away at the airplanes attacking him. Years ago we had a woodpile in the side yard upon which our old tomcat was sleeping in the warm sunshine. All of a sudden a squadron of bluejays descended upon him in perfect formation trying to peck at him. They made several passes while he tried to fend them off. I don’t think they ever connected with him, but he soon found another place to take his nap.
Roger Moore
@Gin & Tonic:
My cat managed to bag a hummingbird earlier this week, which is both more and less amazing than it sounds. It’s more amazing because I live on the third floor and he’s an indoor only cat. It’s less amazing because the bird got chased in by another when they were fighting over access to a feeder, and Mr. Jake caught it while it was panicking and trying to find its way back out.
efgoldman
@lamh36:
Poor baby.
If it’s political (as opposed to intelligence) and you don’t want it ever to become public, DON’T WRITE (OR TYPE) THE FUCKER DOWN!
Fuckem
Immanentize
@jl: oh no. I own a German car. Does this mean I can now expect Trump dicks to start vandalizing my car?
Immanentize
@Felonius Monk: Poor kitteh! In Texas it was the mockingbirds that would buzzbomb my cats….
jl
@Immanentize: Sie sind böse, sehr böse.
lamh36
Oh my damn…you can see Cheeto thought he was coming his way…mahn…ya know this mad Cheeto mad as hell, and look how Merkel is central walking w/swag…ya know Cheeto don’t like that either, even if it’s how it’s supposed to be since Merkel is the host…
@jrmaidment
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Macron walks directly towards Trump, swerves at the last second to greet Angela Merkel first instead. Spectacular.
Peale
@TenguPhule: Still function that their voters make a bigger deal out of court appointments than our voters do. One of their Senators talking about the importance of overturning Roe v. Wade which requires judges that they’ll approve. Our voters look at the need for judges as somewhat of a distraction from real issues, like whether or not we like our candidate and consider them honest.
burnspbesq
Somebody at Forbes just distilled the whole damn thing down to six words that will make perfect sense to anyone who was around in the 1980s.
“Trump is the white Marion Barry.”
Immanentize
@Roger Moore: Wasn’t “Mr Jake” the villain in Moonraker?
Immanentize
@burnspbesq: With or without a crack pipe?
jl
@Immanentize: Trump doesn’t need any crack to get high.
Roger Moore
@Immanentize:
That was Hugo Drax. Mr. Jake is my kitteh.
clay
@lamh36: Nice. When Macron finally makes it over to Trump, Trump tries that grab-and-pull handshake shit. Probably trying to reassert dominance after getting pantsed by Macron’s earlier shake. But Macron just puts his hand on Trump’s arm to steady it, and it stops.
Well, folks, the afternoon leaks always seem to come when I’m driving home from work. I’m packing up now, so see you on the other side! *fingers crossed*
Immanentize
@jl: It must be so damn confusing for the neo ‘zis. You gotta hate the cars but love the original industrialists who created the car companies without whom –no Hitler.
Funny, it was the California car dealers who really gave us Reagan….
efgoldman
@TenguPhule:
It’s basically up to the Judiciary chairman. Leahy allowed it when the Dems had the majority, Hatch dumped it when they won the senate back. Really has only peripherally to do with who’s in the WH, and it’s not a new happening.
Gin & Tonic
@Peale: Need an English transcript, since Der Spiegel has it as “böse, sehr böse”
TenguPhule
@efgoldman: They abused it to the point of madness against Obama. Now they want to ignore it to pack the Trump judges in.
Immanentize
@Roger Moore: I know….
But OMG, Mr. Jake looks exactly like the smartest cat I ever owned — Jean Louis. He figured out how to open the screen door — from the outside! By standing on his hind legs, putting his front paw claws in the door and then walking backwards. He would then drop and scoot inside….
Thank you for the pics which reminded me of one of my dearest kittehs.?
jl
@Immanentize: I don’t have time to do a search to find the complete data. But just because a care is made by a foreign owned corporation doesn’t mean it was imported. From what I did find, Toyota and Honda domestic production support more US workers than other companies, including a lot of ‘domestic’ companies. Scare quotes used because Ford is a huge international producer. It’s foreign manufacturing lines kept it from going under at least once recently.
Anyway, not only is Trump ignorant, he is unteachable. I guess once he hears stuff on Fox News or from Bannon, it’s hardwired and imprinted into his psyche forever.
jl
@Gin & Tonic:
böse can mean a lot of things: angry, vicious, deranged, sinister, wicked, bad, nasty.
TenguPhule
Paging Adam SIlverman, I think this one needs your input.
The author seems to think this is important because of this.
efgoldman
@jl:
Most of which, I’m now guessing, are made in this hemisphere now.
Some Buicks are originally German Opels, but i don’t know if they’re still being imported or made here.
lamh36
@michaelcrowley
Angela Merkel showed Trump a map of the old Soviet Union as a warning about Putin’s ambitions
jl
@TenguPhule: So, that is Mulvaney’s standard for responsible policy: it won’t destroy the global economy, so all’s good? Comforting.
Immanentize
@jl: oh that is so true. And almost every car is now made in several countries. When Mrs. Imm bought her first VW, we made sure it was a Wolfsburg product rather than the Hecho en Mexico version of the same car because of manufacturing tolerance differences between the two countries. Of course, that car was destroyed when a huge branch of a pecan tree dropped smack dab in the middle of the roof the night before we moved from San Antonio to Boston.
Gin & Tonic
@jl: Right, which is why I said we need the English transcript to see what he really said.
ingrediorum
Our little screecher (more at johnny one-note) is a juvenile White-Rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus). It flies, but only when chased by the Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus), otherwise its mom and pop feed it constantly… often attempting to show it how to find food right at its feet.
Spanky
Hmmmm. A familiar MO:
Felonius Monk
@efgoldman:
Maybe Trumply should look at this.
Peale
@jl: And what’s he going to do about it? Demand that German consumers buy 500K US made autos a year or else? Yell at upper middle class Mercedes owners in the US and demand that they start buying Cadillacs?
rikyrah
@jl:
He’s been told that they don’t have a bilateral trade deal. Merkel told his azz when she was in Washington.
efgoldman
@TenguPhule:
I believe congress can vote to increase the ceiling while Mulvaney naps in his office, dreaming of pulling arms and legs off of toddlers. Not predicting they will, but they don’t require anything from him.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@lamh36: AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHH
i’M LAUGHING OUT LOUD AT MY DESK
It’s fukcing priceless. Trump even extends his stubby little TRex arms for a hug and is REJECTED.
Roger Moore
@jl:
I suspect that the kind of complexity you’re describing is part of what makes Republicans so angry at the world. The world used to be simpler: American cars were made in America, and that’s what everyone drove unless they were a rich asshole who felt the need to buy some exotic foreign car. Now, essentially all cars are international. Which company made them doesn’t tell you anything about what country they were assembled in, and they’re all made from parts sourced all over the world anyway. Nobody but a handful of people working for the big car companies understands anything but the tiniest bit of the complexity involved, and that’s scary for the kind of people who desperately want the world to be simple and comprehensible.
jl
@Gin & Tonic: As I said, my German ain’t so good anymore, but from my read of the German version of the Trump statements later on in the article, Trump meant ‘bad’ or ‘vicious’.
@rikyrah: Trump probably thinks Merkel emits Deep State Fake News. Can’t trust her.
zhena gogolia
@jl:
“vicious” is too long a word for him. I’d bet a thousand that the English transcript will read “bad, very bad.”
efgoldman
@rikyrah:
Ah, but has he been told multiple times a day, every day, so that it might penetrate?
Peale
@rikyrah: But he still thinks the German’s owe us money for the troops we’ve leased to Europe.
TenguPhule
@efgoldman:
Sure they could, if we had a responsible Congress.
Now try saying it again while keeping in mind what the majority of Congress actually is.
Roger Moore
@jl:
Worse. His standard is that he doesn’t care what the “experts” say about its impact on the global economy; he doesn’t believe it would be bad, so everything’s cool.
jl
@Roger Moore: Auto production is manufacturing sector where domestic employment took a big hit in the wake of NAFTA and then, the 2008 Great Recession. But due to factors that affected operations of both domestic and foreign owned corporations.
So, Rust Belt, and maybe upper South, worker resentment against foreign auto corporations is misplaced. Not that it would mean anything to Trump.
Miss Bianca
@Roger Moore: Mr Jake is a slinkylicious kitteh, and those are some awesome pics! Did you take all those?
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore: Worse then that. The asshole voted against raising the Debt Ceiling FOUR TIMES when he was in Congress.
schrodingers_cat
@Roger Moore: Pretty Kitteh!
Roger Moore
@Miss Bianca:
Yep. Mostly with a DSLR, but there are a few camera phone pictures.
TriassicSands
@different-church-lady:
Pretty good day? Well, goodwill ambassador Donald J. Trump is over in Europe insulting and lecturing everyone on what losers they are. He’s quoted as saying the Germans are “bad, very bad” because they sell so many cars in the US. Gee, if only the US could destroy the economies of every other country in the world we’d be the economic superpower Trump dreams of us being.
Everywhere Trump goes he spreads the message that the American people are incredibly stupid. Thanks a lot, Trump, from all of us who didn’t vote for you.
The Guardian has an article up about Trump’s handshaking adventures. It looks like he lost big(ly) to Macron. There are several video clips of Trump but the one that is most striking is the one in which he shoves the leader of Montenegro out of the way — apparently because he doesn’t want to stand behind anyone. It’s appalling.
No Drought No More
I scatter seed in my yard nowadays. The bird feeders I first used led to bird wars, and which the blue jays claimed them as their personal property. They knocked doves and sparrows off the feeders for sport too, of course, although they never, ever dared mess with any insane looking neighborhood woodpecker who dropped in to chow down, which was smart of them and funny, too. With plenty of room to peck around for the seed in the dirt, they all share and share alike and gather in little mini-flocks.. including some wild pheasant that drop by to dine every evening, for the first time since I’ve lived here in redwood tree country.
burnspbesq
@Immanentize:
Don’t forget Earle Jorgensen, the steel distributor.
burnspbesq
@Immanentize:
No shit. My last five “German” cars were assembled in Finland, Hungary, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Germany.
Wilson Heath
No one has suggested naming the jay Paul Krugman yet?
The commentariat is slacking.