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May 3, 2022

At the Hawk's Dinner Café...

... you can write about whatever you want.

26 comments:

Heartless Aztec said...: Saw a hawk grab a small rodent today in fact. Is it just me or has there been a resurgence of avine predators these last 30 years. I dont remember many from the 50's or 60's but now they seem to be everywhere - especially bald eagles, osprey, hawks and particularly owls.; 5/3/22, 9:05 PM
Andrew said...: I live in Ohio. I'm genuinely surprised that J.D. Vance won. He was dead in the water not too long ago. His campaign was kind of pathetic. I know sometimes Trump's endorsements have gone south, but this is one case where a Trump endorsement decided the primary. In case anyone was wondering, Trump has proven that he's still the kingmaker in the party.; 5/3/22, 9:39 PM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: I'm trying to conjure some outrage about the leaked SCOTUS draft, but so far, nothing.
I can imagine that the Supremes prefer to keep their deliberations secret, but as far as how it affects me, I can't see a difference. Why shouldn't the justices float ideas, express concerns, ask questions, and what's the harm in doing the public's business at least partially in public?
I'll be very happy if the ultimate decision is what was leaked, but it won't destroy my life if the final version differs from the draft in some way, or even if the final decision goes the other way and disallows some states' restrictions on abortion. The final document is what matters, and learning how they got there is not a bad thing, even if it makes life difficult for members of SCOTUS.
As has been said elsewhere, whether you like Trump or despise him, he said he would appoint anti-abortion judges, and he did it. Republicans in Congress took full advantage of existing rules to reach their goals. Elections still have consequences. God Bless America.; 5/3/22, 9:43 PM
traditionalguy said...: GOP nomination for open Ohio Senate seat goes to a Scots Irish American. Very interesting.; 5/3/22, 10:02 PM
Rusty said...: What kind of Hawk?
There is some animal taking squirrels around here. I find squirrel parts laying on the ground. I suspect the owls.; 5/3/22, 10:32 PM
gadfly said...: January 22, 1973 sign: "Everyone Should Have A Birthday"; 5/3/22, 10:56 PM
Jupiter said...: It's fairly obvious that some people are naturally opiate addicts, probably for genetic reasons, while others are just not vulnerable to that disastrous lifestyle. But now that we have decided it is a "way you are born", it would be cruel to force born heroin addicts to try to live without fentanyl. In fact, we should celebrate their courage, in living the only life that is possible for them. I'm thinking that we should arrange things so that young persons can discover their true nature as soon as possible, rather than suffering in the shadows. We need to have adult addicts visit kindergartens, pre-schools, and failing that, elementary schools. They can make sure that all the children have the opportunity to recognize and embrace their true, inborn nature. The helpful adult addicts can show the children how to cook heroin in a spoon, and how to find a vein and inject the fix. Those children who are more at ease with their inborn identity can experiment with injecting themselves with the deadly and addictive substances, so as to affirm their ....

What would they be affirming?; 5/3/22, 11:29 PM
Quaestor said...: Buteo jamaicensis; 5/3/22, 11:32 PM
gadfly said...: West TX Intermediate Crude said...
I'm trying to conjure some outrage about the leaked SCOTUS draft, but . . . it won't destroy my life if the final version differs from the draft in some way. . . .

You need to sweeten that crude, West TX, because the killing of babies could continue unimpaired. Approximately 43 million "legal" abortions have been performed over the past 50 years and there was never an official pandemic declared for all those murders. And almost all of the pregnancies aborted resulted from unquestioned choices made by the participating adults.; 5/4/22, 4:26 AM
madAsHell said...: Is it just me or has there been a resurgence of avine predators these last 30 years.

Well.....I think so as well, but I don't consider myself a good judge. First of all, no one under 50 does any bird watching......AVIAN bird watching.

Two, I live near a former Naval Aviation station. I have for most of my life. As a kid, I watched flying boat Catalina's roll down the Navy station boat ramp, and heard them wind up their radial piston engines on the lake. It was loud.

Today, the Navy base is a park. It's now full of wildlife. Beavers, otters, osprey, bald and golden eagles.

There were no bunnies in the neighborhood when I was a kid. Since about 2016, the place has been crawling with them. Again, I don't think I'm a good judge.

Yes, I think I see more raptors today than as a kid.; 5/4/22, 5:12 AM
R C Belaire said...: @ Rusty : "...squirrel parts..." Had to laugh at that description.; 5/4/22, 5:35 AM
tim maguire said...: West TX Intermediate Crude said...Why shouldn't the justices float ideas, express concerns, ask questions, and what's the harm in doing the public's business at least partially in public?

The term you’re looking for is chilling effect. Secrecy of deliberations is a common feature in group activities in and out of government (another example—jury deliberations). Deliberations work best when people are free to explore ideas, examine all the angles in safety. Without the confidence that their discussions will be kept in confidence, there will be a chilling effect that will harm the process and, therefore, the results.; 5/4/22, 5:40 AM
Kai Akker said...: Mattea's hands.; 5/4/22, 5:50 AM
wendybar said...: WOW!!! I agree with gadfly!!; 5/4/22, 6:15 AM
wendybar said...: I agree with gadfly that this is worse than a pandemic, but since Progressives like this pandemic...they want to make it worse...buy pushing abortion up to birth.
Murdering your kid has never had so much support!! Once again...showing WHICH party is the most violent. Watch an abortion and tell me those babies don't feel that pain.; 5/4/22, 6:18 AM
iowan2 said...: Is it just me or has there been a resurgence of avine predators these last 30 years

Yes.
In the 60's and 70's if I saw a hawk soaring, while running a tractor, I would stop to watch, because it was so rare. At the time, (Rachael Carlson, bio magnification) so few hawks was the canary in the coal mine.
The increase in crop yields and intensive farming that has evolved since then, along with the increase in Hawks, Eagles, Turkeys, are a sign of what?, Besides exposing the lies propping up the environmental wackos.; 5/4/22, 6:20 AM
Rusty said...: iowan2
Clean farming pushed a lot of species into areas that weren't cultivated. Railroad right of ways and creek bottoms and wood lots. There is a mating pair of Peregrine Falcons in my suburban neighborhood. There is a mating pair of Osprey along the river not to mention several breeding pairs of Bald Eagles. Coyotes roam this neighborhood at night. All the things that weren't here in the 60s and 70s.
Shameless promotion time; Even if you don't hunt or fish, buy a hunting or fishing license. That money, by law, is spent on local wildlife and habitat conservation. Buy duck stamps to support national wildlife conservation.; 5/4/22, 7:50 AM
Michael McNeil said...: Josh Blackman wrote this about Chief Justice Roberts post-Leakgate in The Volokh Conspiracy (at Reason): [quoting…]

Roberts has an absolute obligation to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation. And at the end of that investigation, Roberts must publicly identify the persons who are responsible for this leak — that includes Justices and clerks. Heads must roll. Clerks cannot fall on their swords to save their bosses. Anyone implicated in Leakgate (yes, I dubbed a term) should be referred to the Department of Justice for potential criminal activity, including theft of government property. And now there may actually be a need for impeachment proceedings. If Roberts cannot resolve this situation, he must resign. Yes, I said he should resign two years ago, but now I really mean it. A resignation would mean giving Biden another Supreme Court nomination. So be it. I don't care. Roberts has been an utterly ineffective Chief, who will never fill the shoes of his predecessor, Chief Justice Rehnquist. It's time to hang 'em up, Johnny. Not even Warren Burger presided over such a dysfunctional building. Can anyone say Chief Justice Garland?

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Gahrie said...: Why shouldn't the justices float ideas, express concerns, ask questions, and what's the harm in doing the public's business at least partially in public?

They do. It's called oral arguments.; 5/4/22, 8:37 AM
jaydub said...: Read an interesting fact the other day. Blacks account for around 13% of the population but have over a third of the abortions. Given those percentages and the number of abortions that have been performed since Roe was decided in 1973, more Blacks have been aborted under Roe than even existed in the US in 1965. Those are genocide level numbers. How ironic that the left has consistently accused the right of racism while at the same time facilitating the slaughter of Black babies on a scale that makes the Holocaust pale by comparison, e.g., Hitler only managed to kill around 6 million Jews while the American left has tallied 21.5 million Blacks alone. Yet, Sen Warren is apparently exercised because now she's afraid a few might escape. I've never understood how supposedly rational and caring civil rights champions can rationalize murder-on-demand of Black babies on such a scale and still bemoan the "disparate impact" of equally applied disciplinary standards on Black children in the classroom. Maybe it requires more cruel neutrality than I am capable of understanding?; 5/4/22, 8:38 AM
Fred Drinkwater said...: Got trapped on the east coast due to getting Covid. Ended up visiting the Great Swamp wildlife refuge in NJ.
A bird rescue center, the Raptor Trust, has a large facility there. They have about 25 birds permanently resident, due to being unreleasable (e.g. a Bald Eagle with almost no right wing (hah!)).
Golden Eagles, Harriers, Ravens, Kestrels, Red Tail Hawks, Barred Owl, Barn Owl, Turkey Vultures, and many others, all in large separate aviary cages. Good descriptive signage.
Four stars, would visit again.
No admission charge, but I donated. Free parking.
Dogs not allowed except service dogs, for obvious reasons.; 5/4/22, 9:10 AM
Achilles said...: Rusty said...
What kind of Hawk?
There is some animal taking squirrels around here. I find squirrel parts laying on the ground. I suspect the owls.

I thought owls ate the whole thing and coughed up a pellet.; 5/4/22, 9:39 AM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: Gadfly-
Please lighten up a bit. I wrote that I hope the final decision is same as the leak, but any possible outcome is an improvement on the current situation, i.e., fewer abortions, more clarity. My primary point is that I can't get all het up about the early leak- it affects me not at all, and I suspect that if the decision had gone the other way, all the people with hair on fire would be smugly satisfied and not at all unhappy about how it happened as long as it happened their preferred way.

Tim M-
I see a fundamental difference between jury deliberations, which I agree should and must be secret, and SCOTUS deliberations. Jurors are under (temporary) involuntary servitude, and must perform their duty under penalty of legal punishment. Their need for secrecy extends to personal safety in some instances, and they are amateurs at what they are forced to participate in. SCOTUS justices are complete volunteers, the ultimate Pros, and have government provided security and protection. Justices are indirectly selected by the people, through the elected president and senators, and giving the people a window into how the sausage is made is worth any circumspection that they may feel obligated to work under.

Jaydub-
I have made similar points, not as elegantly as you did here. The Ds are (statistically) trying to do away with black Americans, prove me wrong. A few subtly whispered suggestions to this effect in the black community would play havoc with the D's 90% vote share.; 5/4/22, 10:19 AM
Jupiter said...: See, the faggots slipped one over on us. They claimed that they are "born this way". Which means, that nothing that happened after birth could possibly have anything to do with the fact that they are perverts, so it would be heartless to blame them for what they cannot help. And since we are in agreement -- aren't we? -- that they were born this way, then it must be the case that plenty of other people -- our children, for example -- are also born that way. And so, the sooner they find it out, the better. Right? So let's hire a bunch of perverts to groom our children.; 5/4/22, 10:26 AM
Jupiter said...: "I've never understood how supposedly rational and caring civil rights champions can rationalize murder-on-demand of Black babies on such a scale and still bemoan the "disparate impact" of equally applied disciplinary standards on Black children in the classroom."

Allow me to right-splain. The Left doesn't care at all about anyone except "everyone", meaning themselves. They rely upon the fecklessness of blacks to give them a convenient "victim" class for their incessant accusations of "racism". They know blacks can be counted on to have lives filled with misery, which the Left can then blame upon the society they wish to destroy. But they already have all the blacks they need for that purpose. And they expect to be running this country some day. So, they don't want too many blacks. Thirteen per cent is plenty. Hell, ten percent would do just fine. Put up some billboards in the Ghetto.; 5/4/22, 10:38 AM
Rusty said...: Achilles said...
Rusty said...
"What kind of Hawk?
There is some animal taking squirrels around here. I find squirrel parts laying on the ground. I suspect the owls.

I thought owls ate the whole thing and coughed up a pellet."
Not something as big as a squirrel. Mice and ground squirrels, sure. They'll take the time to dismember it first. These are probably Great Horned Owls.; 5/4/22, 5:10 PM