Photo by Zach Meier
Early morning on Lake McDonald in Glacier Park. It was sooooo quiet.
I’m glad we went to Glacier this last week, because certain areas in the park are closed a couple of weeks early because of bear activity. We saw an adolescent Black Bear in the road, but he was a smart bear, and ran back into the woods as soon as he saw us.
Happy first day of Fall!!!
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TheZoo 
We saw an adolescent Black Bear in the road, but he was a smart bear
Black Bears are smart bears. 🙂
I may end up regretting getting involved with this douche nozzle, but what the hell. I can always ignore him.
Why such lies persist is amazing. There is zero, nil, nada and no evidence that Obama plans to take away guns — yet the proponents have convinced many that the opposite is true.
Well, that’s how you rake in the donations and sell more guns and ammo.
That is just the cutest thing ever.
Well, the kitten is adorable – but I have never, ever felt the urge to dress up my cats. Even a kitten has some dignity.
Poor kitty. It looks so unhappy. Is it thinking, “WTF did you do to me?”
“Whoever wrote the Bible?” That part sounds like an atheist to me. The rest sounds like a confused, hate-filled religious person.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/pastor-blames-colorado-floods-on-gays-marijuana-abortions-offending-whoever-wrote-the-bible/
I have it on Good Authority that God flooded Colorado because Colorado recalled two legislators that voted in favor of regulating guns.
Indeed. God love guns.
Conflicting reports from Nairobi. This article was posted about four hours ago.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-kenya-mall-attack-20130921,0,4570194.story
This tweet was about 15 minutes ago. Different casualty numbers.
of course there are conflicting reports, they are reporting a conflict, after all.
Justin Turner is a NY Mets infielder. When they interview a Mets player after a Mets win, Turner is the one who usually sneaks up behind him and hits him in the face with a shaving cream pie.
Make that cheesesteaks and soft pretzels. Be sure to purchase the soft pretzels from the street vendors. That way exhaust fumes will be included in the purchase.
This will have a major impact on our economy. I’m sure there will be a period of time when American stores have empty shelves.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24193201
Severe weather is everywhere.
OMG. Such devastation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-24191716
I’ll have to see what other cool factoids these folks have.
https://twitter.com/jeffe04/status/381728385371627520
That’s a surprising number. Looks like 94% of gun deaths are committed by non-criminals.
My data from the CDC comes back differently.
“In fact, a staggering 80% of gun homicides are gang-related. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), gang homicides accounted for roughly 8,900 of 11,100 gun murders in both 2010 and 2011. That means that there were just 2,200 non gang-related firearm murders in both years in a country of over 300 million people and 250 million guns.
I’ve long figured that 100% of gun homicides in the US are committed by terrorists, because only a terrorist is stupid enough and vicious enough to use a gun to murder another person.
More’s the pity that the Constitution actually “legitimizes” domestic terrorism by virtue of its stupid second amendment, today even further “legitimized” by the intensely MORE ridiculous ‘stand your ground’ laws. Are all gun owners terrorists? No, but each and every one of the buggers has the tool at hand to become one whenever the spirit moves him/her.
I don’t view them as vicious, I view them as absolute cowards and mental midgets.
Secondly, carrying a gun is a pain in the ass.
I wear flip flops, board shorts and a Guy Harvey fishing shirt.
And that’s when I’m getting dressed up.
My “go to” weapon of choice is a fishing rod.
Just watch where you’re pointing that thing, mister.
Sounds like the same “go to” weapon that Nonewhere would choose. 🙂
Not sure who the guy in the picture is (a soccer player?), but this is weirdly interesting
his hair reminds me of the President in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – which makes this photo strangely appropriate.
Looks like actor, writer, director Dax Shepard to me.
Ooops…
Wayne, what’s got you up so early?
Had to do some laundry so we have nice things to wear to as wake tomorrow. If I can, I’d prefer to do laundry on a weekend rather than during the week. Also, because I’m a bit agoraphobic, I’d rather there be nobody else in the laundry when I do mine, so I go there at around 4:00 in the morning. Anyway, the first few comments I did before I went out and the rest after I got back. Then I went back to bed. 🙂
I’m not much for crowds indoors myself. Now that I can’t do the walking, I don’t do much outdoor events either.
At 7:55 am pacific on the NBC Sports channel, they have live Barclays Premier League Soccer, Manchester City vs Manchester United. I bet Terry the Turtle will be up for watching that if he’s got that channel.
F1 at Singapore is up next, the series’ only night race, and that allows the race to be live at the usual time we’re used to seeing it, midday in Europe, and breakfast time here.
Beautiful photo on the post!
Is that you, zxbe? I know it’s not Kyle Petty. 🙂
It is indeed. A recent “selfie.”
Well, it’s nice to see what another person around here looks like. I see so few actual pictures of people. 🙂
Republicans Invoke the Soviet Constitution to Justify Food Stamp Cuts
About yesterday’s priest post….
UPDATE: Priest found with pantless 15-year old boy has been reassigned by Diocese 15 times since 1988.
Q. Why did the priest go to Macy’s?
A. Boys pants were half off.
Wayne LaFrenchy on Navy Yard shootings: ‘Wasn’t enough good guys with guns’
Shocking, I know.
George Zimmerman is avoiding divorce by hiding from his wife.
No, seriously.
Children shouldn’t be allowed to handle guns.
I’d LMAO if Zimmerman and another Floriduh gun nut shot and killed each other in a ‘Stand Your Ground’ confrontation.
Georgie would acquire a huge wet spot in his pants if he ever came across someone pointing a gun at him.
https://twitter.com/Stwallace23/status/381858880776458240
Cruz acts like a spoiled rotten child! Idiocy is rampant among the Repugnant party.
Only a repiggie believes he can gain support for a presidential run in 2016, by failing miserably at destroying Obamacare.
Sadly, he’s probably right.
Raphael Eduardo Cruz (R-apidly losing steam) is an asshole.
No wait, he’s Canadian, so he’s an ‘eh-hole.’
A Few Tweets from Cruz’s Speech Writer
Whatta dipshit.
Note: Carpenter identifies herself as Cruz’s “Speechwriter and senior communications advisor.” Sean Rushton is his Communications Director.
Right, ‘senior.’ She’s 31 freakin’ years old.
What an idiot. There are a whole lot of reasons Americans are hurting, the failure of a program that hasn’t actually been fully implemented yet is not among them.
Republicans must really hate Rafael “Ted” Cruz. They gave Chris Wallace opposition research on him.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/foxs-wallace-stunned-gop-leaders-sent-me-opposition-research-on-ted-cruz/
ZING!!!
Yea, Michael Moore
Only in America…
When a teammate expressed amazement to Yogi Berra that Dublin, Ireland had elected a Jewish mayor, Yogi replied, “Only in America.”
I don’t even get that. What is the relevance of ‘Breaking Bad’?
I’ve just about quit watching any new tv series.
The main character was a chemistry teacher who got cancer and needed to raise money for treatment, so he became a ruthless meth dealer.
This is why I was confused. The Breaking Bad wiki page says this:
So if he was terminal, even free healthcare wouldn’t provide for his family after he dies?
Well, I don’t watch it, either. I guess my memory of the plot was slightly inaccurate. Having the disease be terminal does defeat the point Moore was making. Maybe I’ll reply to him and mention that. 🙂
Walter White is an antihero for hard times.
I’m so not predisposed to make a hero out of a meth cooker.
Listening to the President speaking and wondering whether Faux is showing it and how soon until they and other reichwing talking heads will accuse him of politicizing the Navy Yard shoothing?
I have to wonder how anyone who believes in a god can say god loves America in addition to wondering how deep the shit would be if they believed their god didn’t love us?
If I see Rafael I will give him your message!
Interesting, since I’m pretty sure that’s his father’s name, too.
His father’s name is Rafalca?
Perhaps not Rafalca, however, both father and son Cruz are horses asses!
Yes.
What? Is Rafael ashamed of his heritage?
I gotta learn how to do this with tweets – post upside-down writing
I think those are text from any computer’s character map. If it were really upside down, the capital H would hang down from the middle of the text line, in line with the upside down f and d (really a ‘p’). It’s a trick.
Some of those characters are definitely upside-down, and they’re made so that the tops of the characters align along the bottom edge as we see them.
Hee-hee.
That reminds me…
I was going to post a link to them, but I thought I’d let you have the fun and honors. 🙂
It posts in the morning, but I wait so all the additions in the comments are included. 😀
Your Sunday LOLcats – Snack Machine Edition
Thanks for the laughs!
When I come across petitions to NBC/MSNBC to get rid of Chuck Todd, I sign them happily. And things like this are why I do it.
Either Chuck Todd is related to some big wig at NBC or he has the dirt on some big wig at NBC. Why else would that network keep this sock puppet?
FYI: Al Jazeera America has an hour documentary at 9pm eastern about Bill McKibben (350.org), called Do The Math. It repeats at midnight eastern.
Thanks, House. I set it up to record. 🙂
Ohhhh myyy!
I finally found a place that has one of my favorite newspaper snippets.
https://www.google.com/search?q=real+newspaper+fails&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS467US467&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=KZ0_Us64E5TJ4APe-YH4Bw&ved=0CDMQsAQ
The one I really like (among others) is:
Debra jackson says she likes shopping at the Dollar Palace because it is convenient and casual.
“I don’t have to get dressed up like I’m going to Wal-mart or something,” she says…
Here’s a reminder of how people get “dressed up” to go to Wal-mart.
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
While bouncing around the internet I accidentally came across this. This is one hilarious caption fail in the NYT, no less.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/03/nyt-caption-error-funnies_n_483865.html
That was funny. I have friends that have 4 rescue Huskies. They would love this.