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Open Thread - Thurs 22 Feb 2024 - Amphibians - And Roman Recycling!

Amphibians - And Roman Recycling!
The other night I was doing the usual round of taking Jaska outside several times. The usual night has about 4 or 5 of these outs. The last out is always the coyote patrol, which we still do faithfully. The coyotes visit a couple of times a week but we've had no coyote problems since we started doing the patrols over a year ago!

Anyway, I saw this little one during one of those earlier outs, right at the side door of the garage, frozen in place. It was in the same position and spot at 8:30 pm, 11 pm, 1 am and 2:30 am after the coyote patrol.

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Picture taken by my husband. The little one is about 6-8 inches long, nose to tip of tail!

Stampede!

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The situation in Rafah is tragic and inhumane. Herding people like cattle into, essentially, city size pens and then bombing them until they either stampede into Egypt or perish is the crime of the century.

The Weekly Watch

A Western Ship of Fools

Sailing on a Sea of Corruption

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Why do you think Biden (et al) are so desperate to get more of our money to a failed proxy war in Ukraine? Think it might be the 10% for the big guy? I also heard much of the money comes back to DC to fund the Ukraine lobby, and therefore our representatives. Sounds about right. It is a similar phenomenon in Gaza with the Zionist literally owning the US government. Add in the utter incompetence of our administration from the top down. So here we are mired in unnecessary conflicts with no foreseeable escape. I thought Larry did a good job describing our predicament.

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