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America's feral hog problem about to get worse

A Jolly Good Scoundrel - Three Cheers for Harry Flashman!

Half Of California Lifted Out Of Drought; Flooding Now A Concern As More Rain Looms

Was Leonardo's mother a slave?

Oxfam 'Inclusivity' Guide Tells Staff To Avoid Using 'Offensive' Words Like 'Mother', 'People' and 'Headquarters'

Black Lives Matter and Related Causes Received Nearly $83 Billion from Corporations

DEI director fired after rejecting ‘woke’ ideology speaks out: ‘I’m not going quietly’

Stanford Students Who Shouted Down Judge Demand Their Names and Photos be Removed From News Reports

Silicon Valley Bank Was on Federal Reserve’s Radar For More Than a Year – Fed Reserve of San Francisco Issued Six Citations and Flagged Bank as Ticking Time Bomb

Joe Biden has been a corrupt politician for a long time, probably decades.

Keeping Up with the Bankman-Frieds

INSIDE STANFORD’S DISGRACE: JUDGE DUNCAN SPEAKS

Elon Musk says Trump will win ‘landslide victory’ if indicted

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"Silicon Valley Bank Was on Federal Reserve’s Radar For More Than a Year – Fed Reserve of San Francisco Issued Six Citations and Flagged Bank as Ticking Time Bomb"

Guess who was a director at that very Fed branch? Why, none other than Greg Becker, CEO of SVB!

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/ceo-failed-silicon-valley-bank-no-longer-director-sf-fed-2023-03-10/

#1 SK on 2023-03-20 09:43 (Reply)

Becker certainly can’t use the excuse that he never got the memos that his bank was a ticking time bomb! If the board voted on troubled banks, one might wonder how he voted.

#1.1 mudbug on 2023-03-20 10:57 (Reply)

The thievery has been ongoing for at least a couple of decades and was momentarily uncovered just before 9/11 by a Rumsfeld statement acknowledging a missing 2 trillion in the defense budget. That was quickly forgotten during the 9/11 fiasco. We have bounced from chaos, panic, emergency on a regular basis since that time and, I suspect, for coverup reasons.
Matt Bracken pointed out a Catherine Autin Fitts video found at Western Rifle Shooters about 2 days ago. It is long at about an hour but does connect the dots. BBB/NWO/WEF have been in the making for quite some time. That 2 trillion has blossomed into at least 21 trillion coming out of DOD and HUD. There is much more chaos, panic, and emergeny coming our way.

#1.2 indyjonesouthere on 2023-03-20 12:32 (Reply)

'Stanford Students Who Shouted Down Judge Demand Their Names and Photos be Removed From News Reports'

And yet I bet they'd have no objections to political rivals being doxxed.

Defund the colleges.

#2 Maniac on 2023-03-20 10:13 (Reply)

End the student loan program. It only encourages incompetent and unqualified students to use cheap and easy money to attend incompetent and unqualified universities in order to obtain useless degrees. Then they complain about having to repay the loan.

#2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-03-20 12:03 (Reply)

Much of the money is used for life style maintenance; not Fort Lauderdale for spring break but now its Cabo San Lucas; not Mt Tom for skiing but Colorado.

#2.1.1 SF jeff on 2023-03-20 15:54 (Reply)

I see that Newsweek is as on-the-mark as ever. For their wild hog story, their first photograph is of a javelina, a type of native North-American peccary - a different family of mammals altogether.

#3 Aggie on 2023-03-20 10:22 (Reply)

So we got together with some family this weekend and one of the young children had recently attended a Taylor Swift concert. So I was preparing to interact with her and the other children and decided to do some research on Ms Swift since i literarily knew nothing about her. If you Google her one of the first things that comes up is that Musk had apparently had some kind of conflict with her and said something that the Google sphere wasn't happy about. I thought that was dumb of him. I like Musk and don't want to see him shoot himself in the foot.

But as I kept researching I wanted to listen to her music so there would be one or two songs I could say I liked. But the first one was "dark" and kind of creepy so I pressed on to the next song and it was worse and all her songs are really negative in a psychotic kind of way. Now I'm thinking Elon was on to something. My conclusion is there is something wrong with Taylor Swift. Don't know what, she may be a witch or something but she is weird and a little crazy. Honestly if Trump were to say the things she says in her lyrics he would probably already be in jail.

Anyone else know anything about Taylor Swift or is she completely under the radar?

#4 OneGuy on 2023-03-20 10:46 (Reply)

All I know about Taylor Swift comes from an episode of Family Guy where she is treated exactly as a psycho [w]itch who sabotages her relationships just so she can sing songs about "poor pitiful me, how badly the world treats me", which apparently is what her fans want to hear because they're fully steeped in the teen angst BS.

#4.1 Jerryskids on 2023-03-20 12:42 (Reply)

OneGuy: Anyone else know anything about Taylor Swift or is she completely under the radar?

Under the radar? Swift is one of the best selling country and pop stars of all time.

Jerryskids: which apparently is what her fans want to hear because they're fully steeped in the teen angst BS.

Like most country and pop stars, she sings about her life and relationships.

#4.2 Zachriel on 2023-03-20 13:11 (Reply)

For the last 20 months or so the "conspiracy theory" has been that the virus was designed in a lab to kill humans and then was released in a suspicious way. AND then the vaccine was magically produced and it causes more harm and death than the virus has. The elite and the bureaucracy were in on this scam some with nefarious reasons others simply grifted along the way but all were in on it. Now there is a massive coverup as the truth proves the "conspiracy theory" to be right. What else are they hiding from us? Are all the conspiracy theories true?

#5 Anon on 2023-03-20 10:58 (Reply)

Keep in mind that Joe Biden gets away with his crimes because he isn’t the only criminal in the District. The criminals far outnumber the decent. By large margins, it would appear.

#6 B. Hammer on 2023-03-20 11:13 (Reply)

True, but there is the additional twist that all politicians are in a crime family not very different from the Mafia. There are rules even though the members of the crime family claim to be Dem or GOP they must obey the rules that support and favor the crime family. IF someone from outside the crime family somehow gets into the game then the "Don" issues orders to have his legs broken, or indicted/charged. The worst offense against our political crime family in DC is to be honest and speak truth about the crime family. They will break your legs (indict/charge) and the legs of everyone of your family members too.

#6.1 JustMe on 2023-03-20 12:08 (Reply)

The Bidens, Bankman-Frieds, Clintons, Bushes and a host of other celebrity families spend lifetimes talking ethics and service to others while spending their time clawing their way up the social ladder and grifting off the rest of the world while producing nothing but trouble and misery. There has never been a shortage of the never-do-wells where money congregates.

#6.2 indyjonesouthere on 2023-03-20 12:19 (Reply)

B. Hammer: Keep in mind that Joe Biden gets away with his crimes

What crimes? The evidence so far seems to only show that his family makes use of the Biden name to open doors. That's not illegal. It might be unseemly, but it's not even necessarily unethical. Compare that to Jared Kushner, who actually worked at the White House and often controlled access to the President, who then parlayed that into billions.

#6.3 Zachriel on 2023-03-20 13:25 (Reply)

Funny. Seems Quibble-DickZ are attacking the strawman again.

#6.3.1 Zachinoff on 2023-03-21 00:04 (Reply)

"Black Lives Matter and Related Causes Received Nearly $83 Billion from Corporations"

And Biden's IRS will never audit BLM or its donors.

#7 James Graham on 2023-03-20 12:05 (Reply)

Considering that the number is in the same ballpark as our weapons largess to Ukraine, and far in excess of what we left behind for the Taliban in Afghanistan, I feel it beggars belief that BLM could have vacuumed up that kind of money in the time frame we're speaking of. I suspect it's Fake News, especially since it's a hot-button issue and there has been no breakdown of these numbers whatsoever. It looks to me like their after a 'jaw-drop' dumbfounding-type outrage effect. Let's see the data first.

#7.1 Aggie on 2023-03-20 12:16 (Reply)

'they're'

#7.1.1 Aggie on 2023-03-20 12:17 (Reply)

Interesting coincidence about Flashman cropping up.

I was in an antique store over the weekend, and there was a section of children's / teen books. The newest ones were from the sixties, but most of the books in that corner were old when my parents were children (in the 1930's.) One of them was "Tom Brown's School Days." I mused to my husband that they certainly don't write books like that anymore for "young adults." I was tempted to buy it but it wasn't in very good shape.

#8 Lee Also on 2023-03-20 12:20 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Cinderella: When the wedding with the prince was to be held, the two false sisters came, wanting to gain favor with Cinderella and to share her good fortune. When the bridal couple walked into the church, the older sister walked on their right side and the younger on their left side, and the pigeons pecked out one eye from each of them. Afterwards, as they came out of the church, the older one was on the left side, and the younger one on the right side, and then the pigeons pecked out the other eye from each of them. And thus, for their wickedness and falsehood, they were punished with blindness as long as they lived.

They don't make 'em like they ust to.

Meanwhile, Hans Christian Andersen wrote to Edvard Collin, “I long for you as though you were a beautiful Calabrian girl . . . my sentiments for you are those of a woman.” When Edvard married another, Andersen wrote The Little Mermaid, a story about someone who doesn't feel right in her body and wants to replace one appendage with another, who feels burdened when she can't live up to the expectations placed on her, who is disowned by her own father, and who makes friends with other outcasts. In Andersen's story, "As the days passed, she loved the prince more fondly, and he loved her as he would love a little child, but it never came into his head to make her his wife; yet, unless he married her, she could not receive an immortal soul; and, on the morning after his marriage with another, she would dissolve into the foam of the sea."

#8.1 Zachriel on 2023-03-20 13:00 (Reply)

'In contrast to Wullschlager's assertions are Klara Bom and Anya Aarenstrup from the H. C. Andersen Centre of University of Southern Denmark. They state "it is correct to point to the very ambivalent (and also very traumatic) elements in Andersen's emotional life concerning the sexual sphere, but it is decidedly just as wrong to describe him as homosexual and maintain that he had physical relationships with men. He did not. Indeed, that would have been entirely contrary to his moral and religious ideas, aspects that are quite outside the field of vision of Wullschlager and her like.' Thank you for playing.

#8.1.1 Lord Heathen on 2023-03-21 09:10 (Reply)

Lord Heathen: it is decidedly just as wrong to describe him as homosexual and maintain that he had physical relationships with men

Whether someone has physical relationships is not what makes someone a heterosexual, homosexual, transgender, or bisexual; but desire. From the same source, the H.C. Andersen Centret: he is "like those flowers where the male and the female sit on one stalk").

#8.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-03-21 09:34 (Reply)

You just demonstrated your errant worldview: reality, to you is what goes on in your head. A modern Gnostic.

#8.1.1.1.1 DeGaulle on 2023-03-21 16:08 (Reply)

DeGaulle: You just demonstrated your errant worldview

So, if a young man has a romantic interest in the young woman working at the soda shop, he's not a heterosexual unless he has sex with her? Is that your position? That's not how the term is used. Here's the definition of heterosexual:

#8.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-03-21 16:30 (Reply)

You're just digging for yourself a bigger hole. You're making the fundamental error of presentism, being so vain that you think everyone always thought about things just as you do. The subject was H. C. Anderson and you are attributing ideas to him and his era which did not effectively exist. Notions of sexual identity are a very recent pathology and you'll strive very hard to find any use of the word 'heterosexual' or 'homosexual' in literature before our quite recent ideological era. You need to brush up on your Foucault, someone I thought you would know off by heart. You also need to learn that you'll never be credible in debate if you cannot stick to the issue; you continually, as others have repeatedly emphasised, deploy 'straw man' arguments.

Those older generations were so lucky. They escaped the dismal boredom of continuous talk about sex. The act, because it was much less a subject of conversation, must have had far more attraction, being a bit of a novelty. I'd reckon they had far more of it, too. Most of what is spoken about as sex nowadays is only mutual masturbation-sex, to be sex, absolutely requires complimentary sex organs, whether you believe it is the result of 'evolution', founded on natural selection, or the creation of a Higher Order. In this context, alternative opinions lack any authoritative foundation, whatsoever.

#8.1.1.1.1.1.1 DeGaulle on 2023-03-22 08:04 (Reply)

DeGaulle: Notions of sexual identity are a very recent pathology

Hans Christian Andersen to Edvard Collin c.1835, “I long for you as though you were a beautiful Calabrian girl . . . my sentiments for you are those of a woman.”

DeGaulle: and you'll strive very hard to find any use of the word 'heterosexual' or 'homosexual' in literature before our quite recent ideological era.

The English word is relatively recent, but the concept is ancient, such as the Sacred Band of Thebes, of whose destruction Philip II of Macedon wept and said, "Perish miserably they who think that these men did or suffered aught disgraceful."

DeGaulle: Those older generations were so lucky. They escaped the dismal boredom of continuous talk about sex.

Of that (Moll Flanders) you (Brobdingnag) are (Tom Jones) probably (The Miller's Tale) right (Arabian Nights).

#8.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-03-22 12:09 (Reply)

Re: the feral hog problem.

I have never seen a problem that would be so easy to turn into a success. Think of feral hogs as food. Think of hunting feral hogs as sport. Just ask each state to set some rules around hunting/trapping feral hogs year round and watch the hunters and sportsmen solve this problem. Get the meat industry involved to be ready to accept hog/pig carcasses and turn it into bacon or spam etc.

Where I live hunting is a big deal and there are a couple of meat/butcher shops in town that cater to the deer hunters and process their game. It's a money maker for the butchers and a good deal for the hunters who get a better quality product than they would get if they butchered it themselves. Many still do butcher their game themselves and that could still apply in a feral hog hunt but having the option for professional processing is a good idea.

Yes, I know, someone will say, "but feral hogs have a gamey taste. Well, don't eat it then. A lot of people do eat it and say it is good. Also live trapping would allow the trapper to "finish" the meat by feeding the hogs/pigs some commercial feed for a week or so to help rid the meat of it's gaminess AND to add more fat. I say bring it on!

#9 OneGuy on 2023-03-20 12:30 (Reply)

They have to taste better than the "bugs".

#9.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-03-20 12:36 (Reply)

There are a lot of such hunts here, and in other states. Some hunt from horseback with dogs, some even hunt from helicopter. The most successful hunts are at night though.

I know one guy that takes out his kids, his wife, his M.I.L. and they all hunt, all with silenced weapons. This guy has a helmet with one viewing scope clamped to it, Night Vision. The second viewing scope, for the other eye, is Thermal. He sends up a small drone with a thermal camera first, to spot where the sounder of hogs is from the air, so he knows which way to head to stalk them (over 1,000 acres).

Even with all this tech, the hogs are winning. The only sure way to eradicate them - for a time - is to use pens and drop gates, and get the whole sounder coming in for feed before you trigger the gates remotely. And eventually, new hogs will still return. You would not believe how quickly they will wreak destruction on a landscape, destruction that quickly escalates because of the consequential erosional effects.

#9.2 Aggie on 2023-03-20 13:21 (Reply)

Old boars may be gamy, but any feral hog under 100 lbs cooks up nicely. In Texas, it's open season on them all year round. Farmers pay teams with dogs to shoot as many as they can. In my neighborhood, there are still more deer than hogs, but hogs are plentiful and considered good eating.

#9.3 Texan99 on 2023-03-20 13:21 (Reply)

I used to hunt down in South Texas on a ranch with a lot of native pecans, and a live river. The deer and the hogs would get fat on acorns and pecans. Hoo boy! A 40-lb hog dressed out and de-bristled fits just perfectly on an Old Smokey type BBQ, and there was plenty of mesquite around. Delectable eating, as tender as could be.

#9.3.1 Aggie on 2023-03-20 13:26 (Reply)

It's impossible to kill enough of them. They start breeding before they'e a year old, breed all year long, and they're smarter than any deer. In most states on private property you can kill them at any time with any method.

I have friends with property who trap up to dozen or two at a time with corral-type baited traps, with cameras and gates operated by remote control via cell phone. When enough get in the trap they shut the gate. They kill so many at a time that they keep a few small ones to eat and bury the rest with a back hoe. I'm a lifelong hunter and not exactly squeamish but frankly it's a pretty gruesome affair, but it has to be done.

All this barely keeps up with the numbers, it certainly doesn't decrease them.

The small ones are good eating.

They're a scourge and compete with native animals, and they're terrible nest predators of ground nesting birds like my beloved grouse.

#9.4 SK on 2023-03-20 13:24 (Reply)

Washington, DC has had a hog problem for decades. I tend to think that the Texas approach is the right way to deal with it.

#9.5 Hairless Joe on 2023-03-22 09:28 (Reply)

Here is some stupidity https://thenewbittercenturion.blogspot.com/2023/03/simple-as-that.html
A man is cut and dies right in front of you in seconds.

#10 OneGuy on 2023-03-20 16:33 (Reply)

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