Maggie's Farm

From Ann Coulter:

I've seen so few mentions of Kwanzaa this year, I was going to declare my campaign a success, but I see that President Bush issued another absurd Kwanzaa message this year, referring to millions of African-Americans gathering to celebrate Kwanzaa.

I believe more African-Americans spent this season reflecting on the birth of Christ than some phony non-Christian holiday invented a few decades ago by an FBI stooge. Kwanzaa is a holiday for white liberals, not blacks.

It is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge, Ron Karenga, aka Dr. Maulana Karenga. Karenga was a founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers and a dupe of the FBI.

In what was probably ultimately a foolish gamble, during the madness of the '60s the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the organization, the better. Using that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves was perfect. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police.

Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. They did not seek armed revolution. Those were the precepts of Karenga's United Slaves. United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (That was a big help to the black community: How many boys named "Jamal" currently sit on death row?) Whether Karenga was a willing dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear.

Read the whole thing.

This bit came in over my transom from parts unknown:

In a news conference Deanna Favre announced she will be the starting QB for the Packers this coming Sunday. Deanna asserts that she is qualified to be starting QB because she has spent the past 16 years married to Brett while he played QB for the Packers. During this period of time she became familiar with the definition of a corner blitz, and is now completely comfortable with other terminology of the Packers offense. A survey of Packers fans shows that 50% of those polled supported the move.

Idiotic? Well, Hillary Clinton makes the same claims as to why she is qualified to be President and 50% of Democrats polled agreed. She has never run a City, County, or State.

When told Hillary Clinton has experience because she has 8 years in the White House, Dick Morris stated "so has the pastry chef".

I drove to southern New England from Waitsfield, Vermont last night.  Wish we skiied, 'cause the locals said the new year entered with the best snow since whatever. 

Well, anyway, the Massachusetts flatlanders had to, we mean HAD TO, get their pups back for a Jan 2 school opening, and good old crunchy, stupid Vermont doesn't salt its roads, nope!  Might harm the environment.  Near killed the flatlanders.  Dumb bastids drive too fast anyway...

This Yule story, which occurred 3 weeks ago, came in over the transom:


It started last Christmas, when Bennett and Vivian Levin were overwhelmed by sadness while listening to radio reports of injured American troops.

"We have to let them know we care," Vivian told Bennett. So they organized a trip to bring soldiers from Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda Naval Hospital to the annual Army-Navy football game in Philly, on Dec. 3.

They created their own train line to do it. Yes, there are people in this country who actually own real trains. Bennett Levin - native Philly guy, self-made millionaire and irascible former L&I commish - is one of them.

He has three luxury rail cars. Think mahogany paneling, plush seating and
white-linen dining areas. He also has two locomotives, which he stores at his Juniata Park train yard. One car, the elegant Pennsylvania, carried John F. Kennedy to the Army-Navy game in 1961 and '62. Later, it carried his brother Bobby's body to D.C. for burial. "That's a lot of history for one car," says Bennett.

He and Vivian wanted to revive a tradition that endured from 1936 to 1975, during which trains carried Army-Navy spectators from around the country directly to the stadium where the annual game is played. The Levins could think of no better passengers to reinstate the ceremonial ride than the wounded men and women recovering at Walter Reed in D.C. and Bethesda, in Maryland. "We wanted to give them a first-class experience," says Bennett. "Gourmet meals on board, private transportation from the train to the stadium, perfect seats - real hero treatment."

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Ayn Rand 

This came in over the transom (sans photo):

Editor's comment: How can you be sure that isn't just a Bambi hitching a ride from a sympathetic animal-loving bicycler?

Well, I could give you a half-hour shaggy dog story, entirely true by MSM standards, on the subject of a deer, skull-grazed by a 14 year-old in an old Maine apple orchard, which regained consciousness (the buck, not the orchard) after being hauled across the orchard and lifted over a barbed-wire fence (the deer, not the orchard), on a bike with the kid, and pedaled the bike (the wakened deer pedaled, not the kid) three miles to the nearest roadside bar and walked in and said (the buck, not the kid)...well, but I don't want to do that story today. That's enough unclear run-on sentences for one post.

History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fireworks in Jaffrey, NH, Aug. 2006, by Atlas Pyrovision:

The federal government today announced that it is changing its emblem from an American Eagle to an AMERICAN CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government's political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually getting screwed! 

This came in over the transom:

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink I feel shame. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes  and dreams.  If I didn't drink this wine, they might be out  of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, 'It is better that I drink this wine and let their  dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what the hell happened to your bra and panties.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

‘I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. ' ~Frank Sinatra

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, smarter, faster and better looking than most people.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

‘When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.'  ~Henny Youngman

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are laughing WITH you.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

‘24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.'  ~Stephen Wright

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause you to think you can sing.

The rest on continuation page below -

Photo borrowed from Lucianne:

That's Yankee, our friend's Large Munsterlander pup, retrieving a large, heavy Canada Goose:

Some things in life are foolish, inconvenient, uncomfortable, sometimes dangerous and often plain frustrating. Duck hunting is one of those things, work is another, and blogging is another, but a guy's gotta do what he's got to do. Photo is a two weeks ago. As you can see, the weather was a little bit too good for ducks, but we knocked down a few.

A good day in the field. Cold as heck putting up the decoys in the dark, in the lights of the pick-up, but it was warmer by 9.

The bulk of the flocks came in to the field  from the lake, where they sleep, at the break of dawn.

Some of these birds will be Christmas dinner. The rest will be other dinners. Goose is an under-appreciated fowl. It has to be cooked right.

Canada Goose-looking birds come in widely different sizes and ornithologists, who love obsessing about taxonomy, have a lot of fun with the subject.

The subject comes up because we shot quite a few Cacklers in Canada in October, which were probably what we used to call Hutchins' or Richardsons' Goose.

These birds are high-Arctic breeders, and only winter on the East coast as rare vagrants. Bird Dog says he has seen them occasionally on the East coast. Their CLO link here.

'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.

 But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.

 We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'

 Theodore Roosevelt 1907

From a Dick Morris piece on Bill and Hillary:

Would we expect Dennis Thatcher to speak up for Maggie? What would we think if he berated the men of the Argentine Junta for piling on against his wife? How would we respond if he accused the BBC of bias against his Prime Minister/wife?

The fact that Bill has been president just makes his intervention the more obvious and politically costly. Here we have not only a husband standing up for his woman, but a former president helping his ingénue wife in her efforts to fend for herself. The stereotype is not appealing and undermines Hillary’s candidacy.

Photo: Billary Clinton

Waterfowl Tomorrow:US Dept of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Svc.
JP Linduska, Editor, 1964

Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America
Frank Bellrose
Stackpole Books, 1976

Flyways - Pioneering Waterfowl Management in North AmericaEdited by AS Hawkins, RC Hanson, HK Nelson, HM Reeves
US Dept of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1984

Prairie Wetland Ecology
Edited by HR Murkin, AG van der Valk, WR Clark
Iowa State University Press, 2000