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Lincoln Osiris said:
Since we are talking about Zelda, can we bring back the Captain Planet posting?
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One of my favorite Captain Planet bits is when Duke Nukem stole an air conditioner factory and moved it to Antarctica. Then he started making air conditioners, just to cut them open immediately to release the CFC's to burn a hole in the Ozone layer.
 
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Breadbassket said:
It's strange what the status of squirrels is now considering that in the distant past of America they were commonly kept as pets.

Benjamin Franklin even wrote a poem for one that had died:


They only started being seen more as pests in the early 20th century.
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In England, in the 1500s, Sir Thomas Lovell's (The attendant to Henry VIII) coat of arms had a Squirrel. Wait, a squirrel you say? I understand the more commonly used lion, but a squirrel?
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I don't know about you but I wouldn't fuck with that rodent.

0713 said:
You are one of the most valuable people in this entire website.
Incredibly informative post. I learned a lot. It's crazy that we have a regular be so close like this to this situation.
Thank you for taking the time to explain all of that.
Bless you!
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Just pure coincidence that a world I'm involved in happened to collide head first into the public consciousness and this election. Of course I'm always happy to share whatever I can when I can. But thanks so much for the kind words.

Feline Supremacist said:
God bless you, I mean this sincerely. Everything you said is one hundred percent true. Raccoons, skunks and possums don't have a natural affinity for rabies, its simply endemic in NYS among wild critters, mainly because DEC/NYS won't fund and implement a rabies eradication program for wild animals. Bats, and I believe its particular to certain species of bats, not only can harbor rabies asymptomatically, they are also suspected of harboring hantaviruses and other lethal pathogens without being affected so they really do need experienced and careful handling. Bats truly are a natural rabies vector but they should just be left alone.

DEC is just plain nuts. Avoiding them is really the best unless an animal is truly rabid or mortally injured.
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No doubt. NY State actually is not very fond of rehabbers and considers us to be a menace. They make it as difficult as possible to be a rehabber - having to take licensing tests and paying for them, having to submit paperwork on EVERY squirrel I rehab at the end of the year or I risk having my license revoked. Surprise inspections of my facilities / cages / setup. This is all for VOLUNTEER work. They're fucking insane. They take the position of, "If the animal was supposed to die, leave it alone and let it die".

Of course being a government agency they're completely detached from the real world. They just assume all my rescues / litters are the result of natural problems like storms / hurricanes blowing nests out of trees, a predator killing mom so now the babies should starve to death, or mom being killed from a fall, etc.

What they don't take into account is how much of my rehab work (about 70%) is actually cleaning up someone else's mess. And I don't just mean mom getting hit and killed by a car. One litter of babies I got was from a school out here on Long Island who decided to just start clearing all the trees off their land before school opened in the fall without checking if there were nests. The tree fell on the nest in its branches, killed mom, and the babies were found scattered outside the nest. *sigh*


Or the two babies I got that needed desperate medical attention because a tree pruner never bothered to check if there was a family living in a tree and instead fired up the saw, cut through the tree, and cut mom in half and killed her. She had two babies, a boy and a girl. The girl had her front arm ripped off by the saw and the little boy had his face / nose split open by the saw. :mad: They were barely 5 weeks old and didn't even have their eyes open yet. Thank God the vet I work with who generously donates her services to me was able to to perform surgery on the boy's palate / nose and eventually he made a recovery and was released. As for the girl, Squirrels are amazingly resilient and adaptive and a squirrel can get around just fine and still climb with only one front paw. She was released eventually also.

But yeah, I'll consider the DEC's stance on "If it's supposed to die, let it die" when humans eventually figure out that we share this planet with other creatures and we're not entitled to just tear through their homes with no consideration.

Thankfully at least this latest debacle prompted this:


Looseleaf Paper said:
Null was making me really really mad. I was about to reply and call him a cuck but instead I wrote a really nasty email and deleted it. I feel a lot better now.
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Should have written it on loose leaf! Hyuk hyuk I'll be here all night, folks...
 
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Since no one has posted anything, I take it Kamala hasn't made a tweet or video encouraging voters to stay in line like Trump and others have? Has she even been seen in person at all today?
 
GunCar Gary said:
i will not doom about elections. i will not doom about polls. i will not doom about wars. i will not doom about woke capture of institutions

i will doom about someone having an opinion this wrong
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I can do you one worse: I don't like Zelda very much, period, and I've played more games in the series than I should've just to see if it would finally click with me. It never did, and as a result the only game in the series that I like is Zelda 2, because it's completely different.
 
0713 said:
I hope it's not too early to start drinking.
Who else has started already?
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I started once I got home from voting so about 10 AM.
I've been going slow though, but part of me wants to pass out before tonight because I don't want to be drunk and elated or drunk and pissed off because I don't want to risk drunk posting and feeling like a fool the next day when I come back on here.
 
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As bad as he is he's not jewish. (Anglican means a member of the Church Of England, which is protestant. It used to be the Catholic Church of England until King Henry VIII split it from Catholicism, thus splitting the British Christian population into Anglican and Roman Catholic as many objected to what he did. Now Anglicanism has female and openly homosexual clergy and pushes all the globohomo bullshit.)
John William Oliver[3] was born in the Erdington suburb of Birmingham on 23 April 1977,[4][5][6] the son of music teacher Carole and school headmaster and social worker Jim Oliver. His mother was from Liverpool, while his father came from the Wirral. He has a younger sister who currently lives in Australia.[7] His uncle was the composer Stephen Oliver.[8] He grew up in Bedford, where he attended the Mark Rutherford School and learned to play the viola.[8][9][10] He was raised Anglican, but later told interviewer Terry Gross that he lapsed at the age of 12 after the death of a school friend and an uncle, followed by a feeling of receiving no useful answers from the church.
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