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Pres. Obama: “Our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes.” Uh, that’s because the Founders were trying to prevent exactly what you are trying to do, Mr. President. They did not want the Federal Government to dominate the life of every citizen from cradle to grave. They wanted people to be free – to earn their own keep and keep what they earn. What a concept.

Deep snows and blizzard-like conditions have combined to create a "moose emergency" in Southcentral. The group tasked with recovering moose hit by vehicles on local roads, Alaska Moose Federation, was rolling almost non-stop Thursday and Friday, responding to at least 15 collisions in 20 hours. "We had one truck with two moose on it," AMF Executive Director Gary Olson said. "Literally, a bull was hit in Eagle River on a curve, then a cow was hit by another car. They were (loaded) on the truck and we delivered them to a local church." Just a week after taking over as...

You know what? I have been watching this blog for some time and this is my first post. I seem to see those who take the name Christian, but through their post they don’t seem to baring much good fruit. A lot of the posts are slanderous to say the least. Some condemn Romney others condemn Gingrich etc. People we as Christians need to get down on our knees and first and foremost ask our LORD to forgive us of our Backslidden sinful ways (sin is sin with no degrees). God is the Person who will put our next president...

Heavy snows in parts of Alaska are taking a deadly toll on moose as deep snowdrifts force the animals into hazardous detours on plowed roads and railroad tracks, prompting one group to seek declaration of a “moose emergency.” State and local officials said the ambling animals are being killed in increasing numbers in rail and road collisions. In the Matanuska-Susitna Borough north of Anchorage, 315 moose have been killed in vehicle so far this winter, said Tim Peltier, a biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The average is roughly 270 for the winter, he said. The state-owned...

She was going to get creamed in the general election, anyway.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An 85-year-old Alaska woman used a grain shovel to fend off an agitated moose that was stomping her husband.

An agitated moose ran down and stomped a well-known Bush pilot from Willow, but he was saved when his wife grabbed a shovel from their pickup truck and whacked the big animal until it backed off.

Anchorage, Alaska, probably has more wildlife within its borders than any other city in the world. Bears, lynx and king salmon all coexist with city dwellers — peacefully, for the most part — so it's no shock when the snow piles up in the mountains and hundreds of moose descend on the city each winter. But learning to live with the quirky beasts takes some patience. A few weeks ago, my husband, Dave, was biking home from work late at night. A thin layer of snow blanketed our street, making it hard to miss a winding trail of fresh moose...

I recently downloaded SPYBOT Search and Destroy and ran it, it found stuff, but I cannot delete all of it because it said the administrator had to do it and I did not have that privelege! How do I slap this software up the head and let it know that I AM the administraotr of my own computer??

Western Newfoundland couple followed trail of young animal's blood CBC News Posted: A western Newfoundland couple used the hide of a freshly killed moose overnight Tuesday to keep warm after getting lost in the woods during a hunting trip near Gros Morne National Park. Stephen and Sheila Joyce said they lost their way after wounding a young moose and began following the trail of its blood. Shivering and soaking wet, they eventually caught up with the wounded animal. “My wife thought it would be a good idea to skin the calf and we could use the skin as a blanket....

The story goes that these guys from Maine dressed their truck up with a hunter dummy spread-eagled on the roof of the crew cab- then they put on the moose heads. After cruising down the 95 awhile (causing accidents), they were pulled over... no word on the charges. More news/views/humor at Reaganite Republican

Is there trouble with the site or did I do something wrong? One was a story about a five-legged lamb and the other was a story about video games in men's bathroom urinals.

A woman was injured Wednesday when her car ran into an injured moose that had already been struck by another vehicle. Phoebe Payne, 70, of Mount Vernon, was driving south on U.S. Route 201 when her 2005 Toyota Camry ran into a moose, according to a statement from Detective Lt. Carl Gottardi, with the Somerset County Sheriff's Office. The car, which Payne swerved in an attempt to avoid the moose, ended up in a ditch. It was destroyed. Payne was taken by ambulance to the Jackman Region Health Center with non life-threatening injures. The yearling moose was killed. Before Payne's...

Kevin Wayne Reddick, 35, appeared in provincial court in Gander this morning on charges related to an incident on Friday in which a woman was shot in the chest while she was near a pond off Philpott's Road, just outside the town of Lewisporte. The woman, who is from Little Burnt Bay, is in stable condition and is recovering in hospital, police say. Reddick, who was apparently moose hunting at the time, is facing charges including: careless use of a firearm; unauthorized possession of a firearm; possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized; possession of a weapon for...

When people from away think of Maine, what’s the first thing that comes to their minds? “Isn’t it winter there, like, ten months a year?” “I think it’s part of Canada. Or Sweden.” “Stephen King is the governor. Or the governor is some other psycho like him.” Which just goes to show that people from away are idiots. What they’re supposed to think of when the subject of Maine comes up is a rockbound coastline with lighthouses, lobsters being plucked from the sea and plopped into steamers, hardy rural types tapping maple trees each spring in order to listen in...

A camel broke free from its farm in Saudi Arabia and ran amok through the streets, damaging cars and sending frightened people into their homes. The camel chased passers by and smashed car windows as it kept running astray through the streets of the western town of Taif. Its owner chased and tried to stop the animal but could not and the situation was quickly reversed when the owner was himself chased by the camel. “Car started to honk and this made the camel more mad…after wreaking havoc, the camel ran out of the streets and disappeared,” the Arabic language...

This time of fall, transition time for me and the critters, a time of migration, a time of storing up food for winter, a time to slow down a bit, a time, perhaps for reflection. A brief hike on Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge earlier this week produced a surprising number of biting mosquitoes, the few photo opportunities that I had were hampered by mosquitoes that seemed to be landing on me with mouths already open and immediately inflicting pain. I managed to get an image of this chipping sparrow in between mosquito bites! Mid-October biting mosquitoes, who’d have guessed?...

Hardly a week has gone by this autumn without reports of serious collisions between vehicles and moose in Norway. A new study indicates motorists aren’t taking posted warnings about moose on the roads seriously. Moose wander dangerously close to roads and into urban areas at all times of the year, but autumn seems to be high season. PHOTO: Morten Andersen Several of the accidents in recent weeks have been serious indeed, with one collision tearing off the entire roof of a car that hit a fully-grown moose on a country road in Østfold, southeast of Oslo. Both occupants of the...

No incoherent rants or long-winded speeches from yours truly. Just a great big THANK YOU to all who do their part to make Free Republic the best conservative gathering place around.

I'm definitely in MNF dt's. The wife is mad at me the Fox "Terra Nova" sucks. Jack Daniels is my only comfort. (Which might explain why the wife's mad at me but I'm not sure because she won't talk to me.) Now,let's deal with Cain,Romney,Perry and whoever might arise from the mire. Let me cut to the chase. Your next King has been chosen and it is Barack Obama. Back in 2008 I was barraged by calls for Obama. I asked one question. "What qualifies Obama to be President?" I never got an answer to that question. One poor bastard...

Check out Hank's new song in response to espn and the jokers at fox and friends.

'Many deaf and hard-of-hearing people have been left bemused by some unfortunate mistakes in the BBC’s computer generated subtitles. The errors asked for ‘a moment of violence’ to commemorate the Queen Mother at her funeral and mistakenly called the Archbishop of Canterbury the ‘Arch b*tch of Canterbury’. Mistakes are so frequent they’ve prompted the creation of a website dedicated to sharing the gaffes. Live subtitles are generated by speech recognition as someone talks into a microphone while listening to a programme, or by a stenographer typing words manually. A news reporter visiting a farm spoke of the pigs’ habit of...

In the long term, the Pagami Creek fire still burning east of Ely, Minn., should improve moose habitat, clearing the bramble to make way for saplings and berries that the animals love to munch on. But for now, the forest fire is proving problematic for moose hunters, many of whom have been unable to access the territory they are permitted to hunt starting Saturday. The situation has led the state Department of Natural Resources to offer refunds for the cost of permits. Those permits, for what is often known as "the hunt of a lifetime," are a coveted commodity that...

Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is going to use this teeny, tiny space to talk about a huge, but under-acknowledged local problem: moose alcoholism. As you can see from the disturbing photo above, this is a growing issue in our community, with moose practically dropping everything to chase down Coors trucks and other such madness. We can no longer look the other way. But our concern is not only for the well being of our local fauna — we can't have our moose developing hangovers or liver disease — but also for...

Moose gut pile leads to Alaska bear mauling

When Dave Collie looked out his window Monday morning he saw a very unusual sight. A moose was hanging about in the yard outside Collie's house on Bayview Court. "My neighbor phoned me at about 7:00 am and said to look out my window because there was a moose just outside our house." Collie was able to tip toe about 50 feet away from the moose and snap some photos. "He decided to lay down for about half an hour. I went out to see if I could perhaps get a better shot, but he just got up and moved...

A moose hunter attacked by a grizzly bear north of the Denali Highway survived the severe mauling Monday after hiking to his camp, traveling by boat downriver to a wilderness lodge then getting an airlift via Alaska Air National Guard helicopter to an Anchorage hospital. Donald "Skip" Sanford, 65, was hunting about five miles upriver from the Maclaren River Lodge when the bear attacked, according to Alaska State Troopers. Sanford had been hunting with his son John, 12, his friend Monty Dyson, 47, and Dyson's son Chad, 22, Dyson said. Dyson relayed Sanford's story Tuesday by radio phone from the...

A woman was taken to the Whitbourne Clinic for observation Sunday evening after the car she was in collided with a moose on the Trans-Canada Highway. The accident happened just before 8:30 p.m. in the Hodgewater Line area about 100 kilometres west of St. John’s. RCMP said the woman's injuries were not serious. Early Monday morning, RCMP from the Holyrood detachment reported there was a moose-vehicle accident between Makinsons and Bay Roberts. The moose was killed. Police didn’t say if anyone in the vehicle was injured.

Two drivers received minor injuries after running into moose on the Outer Ring Road outside St. John's Friday morning. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said a pickup truck hit two moose. Then a sport utility vehicle that had been following the truck hit one of the animals. The accident happened in the eastbound lanes between Topsail Road and Thorburn Road. Meanwhile, the RNC also said a vehicle hit a moose on the Southern Shore highway, south of St. John's, on Thursday evening. The driver sustained minor injuries.

A drunk Swedish moose had to be cut free from an apple tree after an intoxicating evening foraging for fruit. The silly moose suffered the fate of many an intoxicated human after a night of heavy drinking - and found himself in a very embarrassing predicament. Police believe the inebriated elk got into a state after eating fermented apples, and got stuck while trying to reach fruit higher up the tree. The binge-drinking beast somehow managed to wedge itself into the branches of the tree with all four legs off the ground. Fire crews had to chop down the tree...

Woman Hits Moose With Car After Sister Hits Moose With Car The moose of Canada are stalking and haunting Connie Evirett and Yvonne Studley, two car-driving sisters from British Columbia. Last month Studley, 49, had a car accident involving one of the beasts; the melee left her in a coma, and the moose in a moose coffin. Then, while on the way to the hospital to visit her younger sister, 51-year-old Evirett had a moose/car accident of her own. Everitt told a reporter: "My first thought was, 'Are the moose going out [on a] hunting season for my family?'" Seems...

Starting today, September 1, most Pay Per View services are offering "The Undefeated". Dish Network has it on channel 538.

For the first time, this year's aerial surveys indicated a statistically significant decline - down from more than 8,000 in 2006 - in the moose population of northeastern Minnesota, including the Arrowhead region. The population in the northwestern part of the state already has collapsed, down to about 100 animals from more than 4,000 in 1986. This as the range of the moose has shriveled steadily since the 1960s, when moose could be spotted all across the northern part of the state. A new draft plan released by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources last week spells out not only...

The cheese is sliding off of Chris Matthews' cracker.

<p>Officials say a moose burst through the dining room window of a retirement home in southwestern Sweden, knocking over furniture and flower pots before taking off into the wild again.</p>

You never know what might happen when you're reporting on a farm. WWBT reporter Tara Morgan learned that lesson the hard way. While working on a story in Hanover County, VA, a camel started eating her hair. For a moment, it seemed like the camel had a good grip on the reporter. But with some help from her photographer, it didn't take long for Morgan to free herself. Both Morgan and her photographer got a good laugh, and no one was injured.

Why do Americans drive around in Fred Flintstone vehicles and what's the underlying problem behind the vast majority of Brits buying Fords and Vauxhalls year after year? Why does your tap water taste like sh*t and why don't Italians tear down buildings that no longer are in use? What's the idea of building a house out of cardboard? Denmark has the highest wages on Earth. Norway can compete. OK. But why is it that every time I visit our dear western neighbors I feel sorry for people driving wrecks instead of Volvo V70s? Is the V70 a far too sophisticated...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A moose in an Alaska park kicked a woman who got too close while trying to pet it, police said. Police spokeswoman Anita Shell said the unidentified woman in Anchorage's Town Square Park was kicked several times in the chest and shoulder Monday about 4:30 p.m. but declined to go the hospital, the Anchorage Daily News reported. The animal was seen feeding on trees in the park during the day and continued its feed after the woman, in her 20s, and police left about 5 p.m., the newspaper said Tuesday. "At this time, we are telling people...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 9 (UPI) -- A moose in an Alaska park kicked a woman who got too close while trying to pet it, police said. Police spokeswoman Anita Shell said the unidentified woman in Anchorage's Town Square Park was kicked several times in the chest and shoulder Monday about 4:30 p.m. but declined to go the hospital, the Anchorage Daily News reported.The animal was seen feeding on trees in the park during the day and continued its feed after the woman, in her 20s, and police left about 5 p.m., the newspaper said Tuesday."At this time, we are telling...

Ryan Streeter reckons that Governor Palin’s fiscal record in Alaska does not bear comparison with Governor Christie

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Don't mess with the moose. That's the warning police in Anchorage, Alaska, are repeating after one of the animals kicked a woman in the chest and shoulder at a city park. She was checked by medics Monday afternoon and didn't have to go to a hospital.

The world is approching the ultimate crunch. The selfcentered mind made world created by human nature cannot survive the divine spirits of love truth and life. Self active human nature is filled with the spirits of hate, lies and death. These ill spirits are clearly displayed by the Islamo-Marxist-Chicago Gangster occupying the White House. The vessels dedicated to serving these ill spirits must pass away. We are in the third year after the inaugeration of Obama. This correlates to the third horse in the book of Revelation. In Revelation the black horse reveals famine and rationing. We see this before...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said biologists were unable to remove a rope from around a moose's neck despite employing a special wildlife stun gun. The department said biologists had the stun gun specially shipped to use on the Fairbanks moose, which has had the rope around her neck since she was pulled from the Chena River Jan. 2 by people who saw her fall through the ice, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Wednesday. The biologists said they attempted to stun the moose from 25 feet, the device's maximum effective distance, but the animal seemed unaffected....

Michelle Obama's Barbecue Hypocrisy By Andrew Cline February 4, 2011 The first rule of political pandering: Know what you're talking about.The classic example: In 2004, Sen. John Kerry, trying to bolster his regular guy image, spoke of Green Bay's hallowed ";Lambert Field." It's Lambeau Field. Ten dork points for Kerry. This week, Michelle Obama walked into a culinary version of the Lambert gaffe. In an e-mail congratulating Charlotte, N.C., on being named host city for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Obama mentioned that Charlotte has "great barbecue." As someone who grew up an hour from Charlotte, I can tell you...

On Tuesday February 15th, Wisconsin will hold a primary election for The Wisconsin Supreme Court. Wisconsin Freepers, please do what you can to get your conservative friends to vote in this important primary.

This video was taken in Anchorage, AK. back in June 2008. A good Sunday video to get you ready for the week. The person who took the video had this to say about the day they took the video.      "It was a warm day and mother was lying down next to the shed for a couple of hours. We finally realized that she was overheated so I put the sprinkler out for her and her little one discovered it first.  I wasn't nervous because the mother is a neighborhood moose and has been coming to our yard for years...

THURSDAY - JANUARY 13, 2011 - NAPA, CA - The "moose" on the eucalyptus tree on Dry Creek Road has gotten a new coat of paint honoring the San Francisco Giants and Oregon State University. Someone is unhappy with the new colors and is holding a moose toy for "ransom" until the tree is repainted. . . A small stuffed moose is being held hostage somewhere in the Bay Area, miles from its Napa home. As a ransom, the kidnapper is demanding that a local landmark — the moosehead-shaped growth on a Dry Creek Road eucalyptus tree — be restored...

Wolves and grizzly bears are mostly to blame for a steep population decline in a signature elk herd in the northern range of Yellowstone National Park, government scientists said on Wednesday. The elk population in the northern section of the park is prized by sportsmen who hunt outside Yellowstone boundaries in Montana and by the millions who pour into the park each year to see wildlife. Annual counts of the northern Yellowstone elk population show it has plummeted by more than 70 percent since 1995, falling from 16,791 to fewer than 5,000 today. Biologists said wolves and grizzlies are the...

The omission is intolerable IMO.

I have compased it yet.. but I think this might be my best yet... stand by... (If you want a hint look at the drudgereport. It's 4:30 PM CST on November 7th, 2010)