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Floriduh! Man Never Takes a Day Off! Even During a Pandemic!

by Adam L Silverman| April 9, 202011:03 pm| 32 Comments

This post is in: Faunasphere, Humorous, Lizard Blogging, Nature, Nature & Respite, Open Threads

Florida authorities tracking a stolen car also discovered heroin, cocaine, guns and a baby alligator when they went to make an arrest.
Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma announced details of the bust at a news conference Friday.
He said a deputy ran the plates on a car, learned it was stolen and followed it to a Lake Mary house.
That’s where deputies found the drugs and a baby alligator that was being kept as a pet.

Since it is Floriduh!, I can pretty much guarantee that the baby alligator will be charged and tried as an adult!

Open thread!

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Late Night Open Thread: Well, That Explains Tuesday…

by Anne Laurie| August 15, 20181:59 am| 27 Comments

This post is in: Election 2018, Grifters Gonna Grift, I Can No Longer Rationally Discuss The Sanders Campaign, Lizard Blogging, Open Threads, Trump Crime Cartel, Assholes, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Riveted By The Sociological Significance Of It All

Happy #WorldLizardDay! pic.twitter.com/gI0J6w3nJ0
— Jen Moss (@moss_etal) August 14, 2018

Living Colour wrote a song about guys like this. https://t.co/3lBqX30glq
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) August 14, 2018

2020 Iowa Caucus-Avenatti comes out wearing a short, yellow, skin-tight onesie with a leather jacket. Bernie is wearing a tank top and Zubaz pants.
— Forsetti X (@ForsettisCreed) August 15, 2018

… but this was Monday:

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Trump voters are allegedly motivated by their resentment against the disdain and contempt they get from coastal elites, but coastal elites didn’t actually have so low an opinion of them as to expect things like this. pic.twitter.com/AAtCh03IzQ
— Jacob T. Levy (@jtlevy) August 13, 2018

Uday & Qusay also had their admirers. https://t.co/l5gE55DyO1
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 13, 2018

Is prison librarian an office? https://t.co/k6DHmUlW6a
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) August 13, 2018

Note the difference in tone between this speculation and that over Chelsea Clinton. https://t.co/WjsEEmqLdv
— Donna Gratehouse (@DonnaDiva) August 13, 2018

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Florida Iguana! Wait, What?

by Adam L Silverman| June 25, 201811:53 pm| 100 Comments

This post is in: America, Faunasphere, Lizard Blogging, Open Threads

Well you don’t see this every day!

Iguana fight: Only in South Florida would you see two massive iguanas facing off in a Starbucks parking lot!
STORY: https://t.co/itMzQTgCV4
(Video: Shannon Moskoff) pic.twitter.com/W4xyimUMuo
— WSVN 7 News (@wsvn) June 25, 2018

From WSVN 7 News in Miami:

A South Florida woman says she was shocked when she spotted two iguanas duking it out in the parking lot of a Starbucks in Boca Raton over the weekend.
Shannon Moskoff captured video that shows the large reptiles fighting for over a minute, as she and a friend try to figure out what is happening.
Moskoff says that she didn’t know how the fight ended since other cars were behind her.

Open thread!

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TGIF Open Thread: Lizard Edition

by Betty Cracker| March 10, 201710:21 am| 234 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Lizard Blogging, Open Threads

Here’s a lizard sunning on a painted bamboo:

Didn’t have my camera handy, so please excuse the poor quality iPhone photo. It’s amazing how quickly one becomes a camera snob! Unfortunately, my offspring’s entire childhood is documented with crappy phone camera photos. I suppose that’ll be her version of my “look at all these crappy Polaroids from the 70s!”

Open thread!

PS: There’s actually an existing tag for “Lizard Blogging!” Cole is right; we have too damn many tags!

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I Don’t Have to Outrun the Bull Alligator, I Just Have to Outrun You

by Adam L Silverman| January 17, 201710:40 pm| 143 Comments

This post is in: America, Because of wow., Faunasphere, Lizard Blogging, Open Threads, WTF?

This wee fellow was caught on video near Lakeland, FL yesterday.

This truly massive alligator was spotted casually walking across a path in Central Florida. The locals call it "Hunchback." pic.twitter.com/yRkXtuDU0K
— CNN (@CNN) January 16, 2017

That’s a big boy!

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Smile and Wave Boys, Smile and Wave: Dogs and Penguins Edition

by Adam L Silverman| July 9, 20169:23 pm| 274 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Foreign Affairs, Lizard Blogging, Nature, Open Threads

A pair of Maremma Sheepdogs in Australia have become the protectors of a waddle of penguins Down Under.

These two dogs are an Australian penguin’s best friend — with skills that have saved as many as a two thousand birds in the last ten years.
Foxes had nearly decimated the population of ‘little penguins’ on Middle Island — killing nearly 200 a year.
But, since 2006 when Eudy and Tula started guarding the species, which is the smallest type of penguin in the world, there hasn’t been any evidence of a predator attack.
After the dogs started patrolling the island, the flock grew from a low of just 10 birds to more than 150 today.
It was a local chicken farmer, Swampy Marsh, who first suggested using the large, white Maremma sheep dogs as penguin guardians because they were so good at protecting his free range hens.
The community of Warrnambool sponsored the dogs’ training and still provides homes for them through the winter.
During the penguins’ mating season, the dogs patrol the island five days a week, spending their days off at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, where they meet visitors and help educate people about conservation.

(H/T: to a commenter in one of yesterday’s posts at Little Green Footballs)

And because its in the title:

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Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Betty Cracker| June 15, 20163:57 pm| 141 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton 2016, Lizard Blogging, Open Threads, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, Assholes, General Stupidity, Green Balloons, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Peak Wingnut Was a Lie!, Sociopaths, Sweet Fancy Moses!, The Wingularity, Their Motto: Apocalypse Now, WTF?

After revoking the WaPo’s press credentials for accurately reporting that he insinuated President Obama is in league with terrorists, Trump is now doubling down on that very same bat-shit insane accusation and tweet-wanking over his own alleged prescience yet again:

An: Media fell all over themselves criticizing what DonaldTrump "may have insinuated about @POTUS." But he's right: https://t.co/bIIdYtvZYw
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2016

The embedded article from Trump propaganda outlet Breitbart is entitled “Hillary Clinton Received Secret Memo Stating Obama Admin ‘Support’ for ISIS.” Vigorously auditioning for the role of “MiniTruth” in the dystopian hellhole of a Trump administration, the Breitbartians offer proof of nothing but their own disconnection from reality and inability to comprehend an intelligence report. Hillary Clinton is not amused:

Your @GOP presidential nominee responding to a terrorist attack with lies and conspiracy theories.https://t.co/TZJmXefmx4
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 15, 2016

Early on in this circus, someone observed that Trump’s success in the GOP primary was based on his willingness to ratchet up the insults and accusations beyond the bounds of rational discourse but that eventually, he would run out of room to escalate without sounding like a drooling psychopath.

Fellow citizens, we’ve arrived at that moment: The primaries officially ended last night, and Trump is already accusing both his opponent and the sitting President of the United States of being traitors who conspire with ISIS. I don’t believe in Peak Trump, but I am having a hard time imagining where he goes from here. The Illuminati? Chem trails? Lizard people? Help me out here…

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Han shot first.

Naturally gregarious and alpha

Screw the Judean People’s Front. Splitters.

Gastritis Broke My Calculator

Saul Alinsky is my co-pilot

The Math Demands It!

Reality always wins in the end.

‘Forty-two’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

Women: They Get Shit Done

Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!

Shocking, but not surprising.

The house always wins.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Verified, but limited!

I showered with Rahm and all I got was this shitty blog.

We Survived Breitbartpocalypse!

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

This Blog Goes to 11…

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

We can agree to disagree, but I’m right.

This blog will pay for itself.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Wetsuit optional.

Floriduh! Man Never Takes a Day Off! Even During a Pandemic!

Late Night Open Thread: Well, That Explains Tuesday…

Florida Iguana! Wait, What?

TGIF Open Thread: Lizard Edition

I Don’t Have to Outrun the Bull Alligator, I Just Have to Outrun You

Smile and Wave Boys, Smile and Wave: Dogs and Penguins Edition

Cloud Cuckoo Land