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Kurt,

I don't know enough about birds to know if the black vulture is just an ordinary vulture. I have seen big black birds from a distance in this area, but I have never been close enough to see the distinctive head coloring of the black vulture. I've probably seen them in the air. I've probably seen in the street, but they fly away before I get close to them. I wonder if the one I saw in this case was sick.

04/18/24 09:30 AM

#30126

04/18/24 11:56 AM

#30127

David,

Funny post above.

Also, can vultures get sick?

Vultures, it seems, don't get sick in the usual ways that most birds do, do they?

They eat cast-off garbage and rotten flesh much of the time, so what would make them sick? They must have cast iron stomachs, and tremendous abilities to digest awful stuff, that no other creature would attempt to devour. They must have natural antibacterial immunities for the germs that would kill most animals.

Maybe eating human junk food would do them in?

I guess they can get cancer or deadly lice infestation, or maybe they could die of spousal abuse, on any given day; just fall face down with exhaustion and an excessively, tormented mental strain syndrom of sorts. Irate, female vultures are probably insufferable, throwing their weight around with impunity, at the drop of a hat.

Can't you picture it in your mind's eye? A big black bird with substancial girth, dive-bombing a male vulture of slim build, pecking away savagely at his scrawny neck and his left eye, clouds of black smelly feathers flyin' hither and yon? All because he located the roadkill before she flew by, and he ate it all at once, saving none for her?

04/18/24 12:32 PM

#30128

Did you hear Biden's story, yesterday, of his remembrance of his Uncle Bozzy, who piloted a plane in WWII over New Guinea, was shot down, then was thought to have been consumed by cannibals?

Wow!

Did Biden miss taking his Wednesday meds?

04/18/24 12:54 PM

#30129

Speaking of the Allman Brothers, the other founding guitarist Dickey Betts died today. RIP. The sole remaining original is their black percussionist Jaimoe.

04/18/24 01:24 PM

#30130

Wayne Gary

Janalu,

I was reading the Biden story and how he is in la la land. He said the uncle was in a single engine plane when it was a 2 engine A20 Havoc. He claims they were unable torecover the body due to the canabiles when the plane went down at sea and one of rhe crew members was rescued. The other 3 crew men went down with the plane.

04/18/24 02:35 PM

#30131

Lady Lanajuju,

Vultures can get sick ONLY when they eat the decaying, rotten flesh of Dem politicians. YEE HAW!!!

04/18/24 02:56 PM

#30132

Looks like my buddy from Portland saw AC/DC lately. This Portland guy is about my height - I'm STILL 5' 6.5" tall, as I was when I graduated from RHS. Angus Young must be 5' 2" to 5' 3" or thereabouts from the last pic from some years ago - plus it looks like Angus has a HUGE head.

04/18/24 07:17 PM

#30133

Biden Unveils Official Campaign Slogan 'Death To America'

POLITICS·Apr 17, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After workshopping several potential slogans with Democratic focus groups, the 2024 Biden campaign has settled on "Death To America".

"This is what the Biden Presidency is all about," announced President Biden as the campaign banner was unfurled. "Death to the Great Satan!"

According to sources within the campaign, Biden began considering the slogan after hearing his supporters organically chanting "Death To America" at his speeches. "Nothing fires up a Biden crowd like calling for the violent destruction of the United States," said campaign manager Steve Roscoe. "It's like how whenever Trump needed to juice the crowd in 2016, he would start saying 'Build The Wall'. For Biden, it's 'Death To America'. That really sends the crowd into a frenzy."

After weeks of considering alternatives such as "Allahu Akbar" and "From The River To The Sea", Biden chose "Death To America" for its inclusive messaging. "It's a big-tent slogan that encapsulates the heart of the Democratic Party," explained Roscoe. "Maybe you want to bankrupt America through entitlements - death to America! Maybe you want to murder the next generation in the womb - death to America! Maybe you want to brainwash children into a suicide cult that amputates healthy organs - death to America! Maybe you're an Islamist terrorist that want to literally bring about the deaths of Americans - death to America! Everyone who wishes the destruction of this country is welcome in the Democratic Party."

At publishing time, the Biden campaign had reported excellent sales across the Middle East of their new "Death To America" t-shirts.

04/18/24 09:36 PM

#30134

David,

Usually I laugh at the Babylon Bee articles, but that one is eerily on point. I don't think I like that one.

On another note, I was just reading online about how FBI Director Wray is warning the US of China's ability to create massive disruption of our IT systems, concerning our water supply and our energy supply, just to name two areas, in their efforts to create mass chaos and panic everywhere. Chinese cooperators have evidently already infiltrated our infrastructure in a number of IT software program systems. The FBI says they have found 600 areas where the Chinese got inside our IT set-ups, so those systems have been cleansed and returned to order. Many other possible infiltrations exist, according to Wray. The Chinese have malware called VOLT TYPHOON, to use to breach our IT, and they have capablities of inserting it by way of nefarious people who are working with them to mess us up royally.

I guess that is why we are seeing so many Chinese young men entering our southern border with ease, thanks to Biden and the Dems turning a blind eye to all the publicity focused recently on these particular Chinese.

Why can't we get someone to listen to what is being seen down here? Biden is responsible for ruining our country in massive ways, as we sit by and watch!!!

The info I am referring to is straight off of conservative press tonight. I doubt that this info is being reported on mainstream media stations or channels. Take a look, ya'll........this is scary shi-poo-poo.........

04/19/24 01:39 AM

#30135

Bob Davidson

I'm on vacation in Spain. Yesterday in Saville there was something that particularly grabbed my attention: the solid silver altar Hernan Cortez donated to his church after he got back from Mexico. I once lived a block from his palace in Cuernavaca, where he is a sort of national villian.
I've forgotten how to add a photo.

04/19/24 01:39 AM

#30136

Bob Davidson

04/19/24 02:25 AM

#30137

Lady Lanajuju,

Have you heard that the Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor is having health problems? So now many of the Dems in the D.C. Swamp and elsewhere are trying to get her to resign NOW. Why? So that Biden can replace her with another clueless, brainwashed Dem since they figure Trump's replacing her after he's inaugurated is a real threat to THEIR NEOMARXIST PARTY, which is ALL that matters these days, as usual.

Yes, the Dem voters don't realize they're at increasing risk the longer this totalitarian regime is allowed to ram Marxism down our throats. Like Winston Churchill said,

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Also:

"Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants, no longer civil."

"Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality."

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." (pure democracy)

"Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state."

"Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police" - witness the current sham trials, based on nothing, against one Donald Trump.

Yes the people who keep voting Dem don't realize that ALL will suffer sooner or later. These duped voters, having been led to the gates of hell, would probably be fighting each other to gain entry even as they're viewing what is before them.

Look at what the Dems are doing to Robert Kennedy Jr. Despite the fact that his father and uncle were assassinated, Biden still is refusing to give Robert Jr. secret service protection since he knows that Kennedy will draw votes from him, more than he will from Trump.

Now ask me what I really think!

Chief Jimi Bob

04/19/24 10:30 AM

#30138

Lawrence (Lance) Cantor

RHS GOLDEN EAGLE BAND

AT THE STATE CAPITOL

Hey David, Tommy, and Classmates....fyi!

The RHS GEB has won 2 major UIL Band Tournaments this year, and next week they've been invited to perform at the Capitol Rotunda in Austin next Thursday, April, 25th from noon to 1230pm!

Afterward, lunch will be available for purchase at The Capitol Grill & Cafe located just below the rotunda.

Since it is free and open to the public, I've asked our band Director if he could reserve some seats for Alumni.

While this is very short notice, I wanted to alert you to this event; and ask for your RSVP in order to estimate the Alumni headcount.

I understand David Cordell has also reached out to 69er classmate Katherine Houzvicka who was both in our GEB and Texas Longhorn band!

After leaving Austin, the entire GEB will be taking a 3-day field trip to Port Aransas beach!

Lance

...

Itinerary

Thursday, April 25, 2024

The day at a glance…

Travel and performance day! Show up on time wearing blue jeans and the Corpus T-shirt.

6:30 Attendance/inspection/announcements in the band hall

Students who arrive after 6:30am will board the buses last.

6:45 Move out and stage luggage and equipment for bus loading

7:00 Load the truck/buses

7:30 Depart for Austin

11:00 Estimated arrival into Downtown Austin

Unload buses and instruments.

Make your way to the Capitol Building.

Chairs will be available in the Rotunda.

11:50 PERFORMANCE SET UP

12:00pm PERFORMANCE START TIME

12:30 PERFORMANCE END TIME

Stack up your chairs and set them to the side.

Collect your instruments and make your way out of the State Capitol.

Load buses for the field trip to beach at Corpus Christi!

...

04/19/24 12:51 PM

#30139

Hi Ya'll!

I just heard on our local radio station, that Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan are running the country at present, as Biden is just an empty suit, given a script to read when he happens to draw a few people wanting to hear what he says. He has had a few more people coming around him at union gatherings, where the union employees are required to attend the event.

I think this stated opinion is correct.

I watch O'Reilly on YouTube each night, as he gives good, reliable summations of the day's events. O'Reilly's staff gets the President's daily schedule, easily available, and there is clear evidence that Biden does very little on any given day. He comes into the Oval around 9:30 or 10:00 AM, reads a few briefs, makes a phone call or two, sometimes has lunch with a VIP, has a photo op or maybe a conference phone call to some Congress folks or a dignitary of some sort, signs some official papers that are fairly routine signings, then he usually retires to the family quarters for the rest of the day, or, if it is Thurs. afternoon, he flies back to Delaware for the weekend. If he has a scheduled event for Friday midday, as soon as his event is over, he flies to Delaware, where Jill Biden nearly always stays. She doesn't come to the White House very often.

To say that these two people are residents of the White House is a stretch.

O'Reilly laughs every day at how "light" Biden's actual workday actually is. If one looks back at how many days Biden actually DOES some "work," he averages about three days a week of some arranged meetings, phone calls or photo ops. Does he ever make any heavy duty decisions?

Rarely.

I also read today that NATO folks are talking to Trump much more often these days, as they can see that Trump will probably win the presidency in November, noticing Biden's limited awareness of issues.

The idea of seriously placing this diminished man for re-election, is pathetic, in my opinion.

This man is dangerous for us to have in office. I posted two days ago of Bill Barr saying the same thing.

04/19/24 03:09 PM

#30140

Janalu,

I'm with you. Tami Lahren of FNC and I have both thought for a while now that Biden just can't be the nominee. He's obviously just too far gone. Even with their massive voter fraud, he's likely unelectable. Their circus of a convention this summer will likely be where he's replaced with some other fool.

04/19/24 04:04 PM

#30141

Well, Jimi Bobby, three votes for Trump is a good start, eh?

Hope we can get out the vote of ALL conservatives, and that the Republicans can monitor election integrity with ferocity. We all know what kind of election shenanigans our opponents are capable of, as well as down-right crapola, mixed with sheer BS occurrences already floating in the air, circling, circling, always circling.......We already know that Biden told ALL Washington official offices to sign up/register voters everyday of the past three and a half years, in any way that they could figure out useful, productive means. Then when the Dems were questioned about exactly what these governmental offices were doing, we got NO RESPONSE.(Those offices are using taxpayer money to fund whatever manipulating means they come up with.) The Dems were predictably mum and innocent appearing; surprized by our questions (probably wondering how the heck we found out!)

Our RNC found out that Biden had authorized the order just weeks after he entered office. It was Molly Hemingway who spoke of it all, when Laura Ingraham was talking to her, one evening. Molly and her staff have continued to find out more info, but the Washington offices remain mysteriously flummoxed by her questions, when she tries to get to the bottomline of what, exactly, the offices are doing.

The Dems are also ignoring questions about why they are keeping the borders wide open, saying nothing at all.

They seem to believe that Republicans should be kept in the dark as much as possible, no matter that we are citizens of this country, with equal rights, and our money is being spent without explanation.

Ms. Lahren's name is Tomi. She's a looker, isn't she? She started out working for Glenn Beck at his Blaze studio. I admire her spunk.

04/21/24 08:39 AM

#30142

Lowell Tuttle

55 years...

04/21/24 05:39 PM

#30143

Bob D., hope you're having a great time on your trip. Tell us more!

To add a photo to a message:

Click to post a message
While your cursor is in the message space, hit the return key. (This allows you to type something in the space above the photo if you didn't type stuff before adding the photo)
In the menu above the message space, click the icon on the top row, second from the left. Looks like two mountain peaks with sun or moon.
Click Choose File.
Find the file on your computer that you want to post. Double click on it.
If the name shows up, Click "Upload", and the photo should appear in the message space.

You'll probably want to resize the photo.

Right click on the photo
Click Image Properties.
On the horizontal section, try something like 200 or 400
If you don't like the size, goback to image properties again, HOWEVER, make sure the tiny icon in "Image Properties" shows a padlock that is locked, not unlocked, or else the proportions will be screwed up.

Somebody tell me if this didn't make sense.

04/21/24 05:58 PM

#30144

I said in this space months ago that I thought Biden wouldn't be the nominee. I've changed my mind.

Have you noticed very recently that every photo of Biden shows him with a big smile? Doesn't look nearly as old. He's Smilin' Joe Biden, not Cranky Joe

The Dems will tie up Trump every way possible to keep him from campaigning. I am convinced that it is intentional election interference. The New York situation is ludicrous, especially with the daughter of the judge being a big fundraiser for Biden. Assuming a conviction, and I am, even if it is reversed on appeal the damage will have been done.

It's a dirty tricks campaign, and it makes me ashamed that this sort of thing can happen in this country. I will never live in a big city. They are overwhelmingly dominated by Democrat politicians, and that can't be good.

04/22/24 01:49 AM

#30145

David,

Well, we now disagree about whether Biden's running. I hope you're right!!

04/22/24 12:31 PM

#30146

David says Biden has a big smile on his face lately, and I agree. He DOES have a big smile lately, a smile that looks like "the Joker" from the Batman series. The smile does not look natural. It looks fake and forced, in my opinion.

He MAY be smiling as he knows that people behind the scenes are working feverishly on some type of fix or maneuver to 'see to it' that there will be a tremendous effort and probable maneuver to defeat the opponent; an opponent that is equal to Hitler! How asinine is that equivalency, I ask? Mainly, at this time, there is a tremendous effort to CHARGE Trump with a felony, even though MOST citizens of this wonderful country KNOW that this 'felony charge to be' will be struck down by the Supreme Court. Most of the attorneys I hear who speak of the trial, the biased judge (who has a daughter working in efforts to help Biden) and the 'supposedly unbiased' jury.....most attorneys say the trial is a nonsensical trial that has been booted upward to a federal level (by questionable efforts) even after the original charge was passed over by other officials, who stated that they didn't see a valid charge to pursue worth wasting time upon. Besides that, this is a charge on which the time has run out! It happened too long ago! Professor Jonathan Turley, of George Washington Univ., is the main attorney I listen to, but he is not the only one who agrees with the absurdity of this nonsense. The Supreme Court is surely going to reverse all of this idiocy in due time, since THEY will see that this will have all been a scheme of 'getting rid of the opponent' which is UNDEMOCRATIC!!! The Democrats are SO worried that Trump is a threat to democracy, while it is THEY WHO ARE BEING UNDEMOCRATIC!!!!!!!!

How do these people sleep at night?

Devious and vicious people performing before us all! Take notice please, y'all! Vote accordingly.......

04/22/24 02:24 PM

#30147

Lady Lanajuju the Incredulous,

Yes, the D.C. Swamp & other Dem strongholds are a huge CIRCUS where it would be nice if the adults are put back in charge - hope it's not too late!

I heard actor Michael Douglas has now spoken out, supporting Biden and worrying about the DANGER the Orange Hitler Devil poses to ALL of us. Up is down, down is up, inside is out and outside is in, good is evil and evil is good.

Like the Apostle Paul says in the Bible in 2 Timothy 3: 1-13 (Berean Standard Bible):

But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these.

They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions, who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith. But they will not advance much further. For just like Jannes and Jambres, their folly will be plain to everyone.

You, however, have observed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance, my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Chief Jimi Bob the Incredulous (and you're NOT one of the vulnerable women described above - HALLELUJAH & AMEN)

04/22/24 03:09 PM

#30148