Wild Turkey
Three days ago, a wild turkey hen began hanging out at my bird pen/coup. I raise Guinea hens and chickens. While they are "outdoor" pets, they earn their keep. Guinea hens can consume a huge amount of deer ticks daily, and considering how many people on my road got Lyme disease last year, I appreciate their efforts. I have chickens, because Guinea hens will follow them back into the coup at night.
The turkey hen stuck her head into the pen several times to get cracked corn, but one male Guinea hen would peck at her. He pecks at everyone but me or my cats. So I began feeding her at the edge of the pen. By the second day, she associated me not only with food, but a variety of treats not commonly found by wild turkey.
Evenings, she would roost in the pine tree nearest to the coup. From my window, I could see her neck & head, peering up like a periscope in a sea of green.
This morning, as the weather has turned warmer, I opened the bird pen. From a lawn chair my son set out for me, I enjoyed the sunshine, and feeding the birds. The turkey is comfortable enough to come within arm's length of me, while the others scurry around my feet. Soon, they are exploring the lawn. The cats are fascinated by the birds, including one cat that serves as a border collie when one bird strays from the others.
This has provided a break from concentrating on two issues -- my friend Dr. Bandy Lee's being fired from Yale, and a new threat to the water supply in the rural neighborhood that I grew up in. Tomorrow, I'll bring a spiral notebook & pen out with me, and work on what I used to be able of accomplishing in an hour.
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It's like seeing into a space that is full of intelligence and wisdom, not to mention love.
Thank you for giving us this healthy glimpse of a ever-youthful and contemplative mind.
So much Bourbon is just insanely overhyped and overpriced today (do not even get me started on my main brown liquor, single malt Scotch, lolol). I included a video about this below. It is worth the watch, the bloke is really funny (and tells the truth).
Cheers!
Top Overhyped and Overpriced Bourbons & Whiskeys!
Looks like a trip to the liquor store is in order. Thanks!
of its flavour profile in most cases. You also have the option (one we take all the time) with a high proof bottling to cut it with good water yourself and find your own happy medium. That video I posted is a good example of a knowledgeable bourbon connoisseur talking about proof strength.
Here in Sweden the state runs an absolute liquor monopoly (Systembolaget) and it has a great upside of charging only retail (plus the obligatory high tax) for ALL spirits and beer, wine, etc. We get insanely good deals on rare AF bottles/cans (you do have to instantly buy them and many times and they will sell out quickly) of wine, beer and hard liquor. Hundreds of USD less for some of the higher end/rare offerings than what many Americans living in the US pay, due to US law allowing mark-ups.
Blanton's Straight From The Barrel (not a real favourite of mine but crazy popular in the US and globally) costs us (in USD) around 85-95 dollars. Wholesale (if you have a license or know someone who does) is only around 65-70 usd
these are wholesale prices in Swedish kronor (divide by 10 and then add 15% to get a rough conversion to USD at current FOREX rates)
589kr is around 67 usd
Now look at the USA prices on wine searcher, in USD
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/nv+blantons+straight+the+barrel+bourbon+whisky+kentucky+usa/0?Xcurrencycode=USD&Xsavecurrency=Y
Skål!
For the really good hooch, looks like prohibition is still here
for us regular folks here in the USA. Still possible, though, to
enjoy a very good single malt scotch or bourbon in the $100
price range. I checked the price here in PA of the aforementioned
Wild Turkey. $86 + sales tax, so off to the liquor store tomorrow!
The 21 Year Old is even better, but you are talking about 225-275 usd a bottle. The summit is the 27yo, but now you are into top line (for a normal range) single malt Scotch prices, 450 to 500 usd a pop.
The 15 year old can be found for 75 to 85 usd.
https://www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/redbreast/redbreast-15-year-old-whiskey/
https://www.redbreastwhiskey.com/en-EN/the-range/redbreast-15-year-old-whiskey
my favourite whisky/whiskey reviewer, a German bloke, Horst Luening
Things get scary sick, fast.
The Final Lesson Donald Trump Never Learned From Roy Cohn
The unrepentant political hitman who taught a younger Trump how to flout the rules didn’t get away with it forever.
By MICHAEL KRUSE
Politico, September 19, 2019
One of Donald Trump’s most important mentors, one of the most reviled men in American political history, is about to have another moment.
Roy Cohn, who has been described by people who knew him as “a snake,” “a scoundrel” and “a new strain of son of a bitch,” is the subject of a new documentary out this week from producer and director Matt Tyrnauer. It’s an occasion to once again look at Cohn and ask how much of him and his “savage,” “abrasive” and “amoral” behavior is visible in the behavior of the current president. Trump, as has been well-established, learned so much from the truculent, unrepentant Cohn about how to get what he wants, and he pines for Cohn and his notorious capabilities still. Trump, after all, reportedly has said so himself, and it’s now the name of this film: “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”
What Cohn could, and did, get away with was the very engine of his existence. The infamous chief counsel for the red-baiting, Joseph McCarthy-chaired Senate subcommittee in the 1950s, Cohn was indicted four times from the mid-’60s to the early ’70s—for stock-swindling and obstructing justice and perjury and bribery and conspiracy and extortion and blackmail and filing false reports. And three times he was acquitted—the fourth ended in a mistrial—giving him a kind of sneering, sinister sheen of invulnerability. Cohn, Tyrnauer’s work reaffirms, took his sanction-skirting capers and twisted them into a sort of suit of armor.
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“I decided long ago,” Cohn once told Penthouse, “to make my own rules.”
He was acquitted in ’64, and he was acquitted in ’69, and he was acquitted in ’71, all the while thumbing his nose at the feds, but Cohn’s screw-you stance was a lifelong philosophy, entitlement plus boldness.
He was “an incredibly spoiled princeling of an only child,” Cohn cousin David Lloyd Marcus told me. “He always got his way,” recalled his favorite aunt. As an adult, the resting expression on his face, which was marred by a scar that ran like a scrape down the middle of his nose, was a mixture of “arrogant disdain” and a “whipped-dog look,” people observed, “caught somewhere between a pout and a challenging glare.”
Continues...
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/19/roy-cohn-donald-trump-documentary-228144
An important picture that ties things from commie-hunting Joe McCarthy era to Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump via Roger Stone and Associates and the late Jeffrey Epstein:
The Ghost of Roy Cohn
BY TERRY MELANSON · AUGUST 24, 2014
EXCERPT...
In an interview with former NYPD detective James Rothstein, this author discovered that such operations do exist and go far back into America’s secret history. Rothstein is no conspiracy theorist. He is a legend in American law enforcement and speaks from experience. Furthermore, he gave me two notable examples from his time as a detective. Rothstein had an opportunity to have a sit-down with infamous McCarthy committee counsel Roy Cohn. During this sit-down, Cohn admitted to Rothstein that he was part of a rather elaborate sexual blackmail operation that compromised politicians with child prostitutes (Rothstein, no pagination). Cohn told Rothstein that this operation was being carried out as part of the anticommunist crusade of the time (no pagination).
Rothstein also had an opportunity to speak to infamous Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. During this conversation, Sturgis revealed one of the reasons for breaking into the Watergate. According to Sturgis, there was a “Pedophile Book” hidden away at the Democratic National Committee headquarters (no pagination). The book was supposed to have a list of pedophiles on the American political scene (no pagination). One can only imagine the power G. Gordon Liddy would have held over the government if he had such a book in his possession.
I asked Rothstein if Roy Cohn was a real anticommunist or just using the fear of communism to justify his sex ring. It seemed like a fair question. After all, Cohn had argued against homosexuals being schoolteachers when he himself was a homosexual. Perhaps Cohn’s hypocrisy extended to his anticommunism. Rothstein made it clear that Cohn was a genuine anticommunist (no pagination). Anticommunist sentiments aside, evidence suggests that the sex ring operation started by Cohn was used for more than fighting the threat of domestic communists. Fugitive ex-CIA officer Frank Terpil has claimed that sexual blackmailing operations directed by the CIA were intensive in Washington during the Watergate era (DeCamp 179). Terpil also asserts that his former partner, Ed Wilson, was coordinating one of these sexual blackmail operations (179). In a letter to author Jim Hougan, Terpil revealed Wilson’s modus operandi:
“Historically, one of Wilson’s Agency jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary…. Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasies in the flesh…. A remembrance of these occasions [was] permanently recorded via selected cameras…. The technicians in charge of filming… were TSD [Technical Services Division of the CIA]. The unwitting porno stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office.” (Qtd. in DeCamp 179)
According to John DeCamp, a former Nebraska Senator and Vietnam War hero, Wilson’s operation was merely a continuation of the one set up by Cohn (179). When I asked James Rothstein if Palfrey’s outfit was a continuation of the sexual blackmail rings that began with Cohn, he answered in the affirmative (Rothstein, pagination). The NYPD veteran made it clear that Palfrey’s outfit could not exist in Washington unless it was a tool for the power elite and sinister factions of the intelligence community (no pagination). Somewhere in a Queens cemetery, the corpse of a high-powered attorney is smiling in his grave.
SOURCE:
https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2014/08/24/the-ghost-of-roy-cohn/
The same Roy Cohn who taught Donald Drumpf also schooled Roger Stone and Jeffrey Epstein...
... Who knew what when? In Palo Alto, after Epstein’s conviction, he was a guest at a dinner for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden that was hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. At the same dinner Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. Is money so powerful that it tramples all other considerations? As James Baldwin put it, “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
One of the most remarkable moments in Tyrnauer’s documentary comes near the end, when it’s no longer possible to pretend that Cohn isn’t a liar and a fraud, when it’s no longer possible to deny that he lacks both shame and conscience. When Cohn was about to be disbarred in 1986 for defrauding his clients and for taking advantage of a dying and incompetent man, character witnesses began to emerge. There were letters to the court from William F. Buckley Jr., Barbara Walters, William Safire, and, of course, Trump, who wrote that Cohn “has been extremely loyal and extremely honest.” Were Cohn’s parties—was his protection—really that good?...
Source: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a29130905/roy-cohn-documentary-wheres-my-roy-cohn/
It’s conceivable Matt Gaetz got some learnin’, too.
Link to tweet
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Today the kitten of one of the feral cats ate at my feet for the first time. It's amazing how much pleasure I get from this simple moment. It speaks of trust - just like your wild turkey.
I'll start taming it tomorrow - not sure of its gender.
And yes I thought of you immediately when I saw that Dr. Bandy was fired. 
I think the restaurant shut downs mean no food so they are following our ferals to get a meal.
Love that idea - I have a few cat toys for the kittens. Even the tough old alpha male is my friend these days And yes the cats work for their food - they keep the rats and mice away. 
Knob Creek at the moment!!!!!
The later the same day by a peacock !!!
Wasn't my day....
Welcome to DU
My Shanghainese friend got all excited and started exclaiming, "The famous Open Turkey!" It was the first time she'd actually seen a turkey open and displaying. They've kind of adopted the campus region, and are quite visible. We saw some crossing the street, with one displaying as a warning to approaching cars.
...but I enjoyed it nonetheless!
