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Wednesday – The North Carolina Branch of the Box Family Squawk Never Mentions

A North Carolina man decided to take a more creative approach to tackling a persistent bear problem in his backyard by putting on a cartoony bear costume and, somehow, successfully scaring the unwelcome ursid away.

Video footage captured a man in Asheville, bravely approaching a ferocious-looking black bear in his own brown bear costume that more closely resembled a college mascot.

The man emerges from the side, attempting a mock prowl while slowly approaching the wild animal.

and,

Before he got too close, the black bear appeared to have been spooked. It scampered away, but not before pausing at the edge of the property to stare down his faux counterpart before giving up and making its way back into the woods.

The black bear had been spotted multiple times on the property, and the residents were fed up and decided to take matters into their own hands.

Bears tend to have seemingly erratic responses to challenges in their path.

 

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50 responses to “Wednesday – The North Carolina Branch of the Box Family Squawk Never Mentions”

  1. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This is the place where I would like to send most leftists and muzzies.

  2. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This is what needs to be the standard for race hoaxsters.

    School ‘Social Justice Ambassador’ Arrested For Allegedly Staging a Hate Crime Against Herself

    An Allentown, Pennsylvania school employee has been placed under arrest and is facing charges after she allegedly channelled her inner Jussie Smolett, planted a noose on her own desk, and screamed “racism.”

    /snip

    As it turned out, evidence suggests Brown actually place the “noose” on her desk all by her lonesome in an effort to stage a hate crime. After initially demanding an investigation that involved taking DNA samples from every other employee in the building, Brown suddenly began asking for the whole issue to be dismissed – right around the time police asked her for a DNA sample to compare with the DNA found on the rope.

    Three guesses as to whose skin cells proved to be an exact match – I’m betting you’ll only need one. Let’s check in with the Allentown police, shall we?

    The demand for racism against blacks far exceeds the supply.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, I need to get out and hook up my trailer to head up to the Mower Shop and pick up my Zero Turn Beast. I had it in for the annual service and blade replacement. I normally do this in the fall but somehow I it missed last year.
    Later,….

    Oh and Mornin’ Gang

  4. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Today should be slower paced than yesterday. My dental appointment ended up being three hours instead of my anticipated 1.5 hours. The parts that were supposed to fit my implants didn’t, despite the attempts of my dentist, her second year assisting, and the attending all having their fingers in my mouth at one time. That was fun. Fortunately, I’m patient and I really like Dr. Salam, so I just sat still when necessary and cracked jokes when possible.

    One of the scanning bodies was in place, but the angled (profile) implants wouldn’t receive their scanning bodies. So here I am, with this long metal thing sticking out of my jaw (I called it “the fang”) and trying to swallow and talk without poking my upper palate. After an hour of communal frustration, the attending suggested that Dr. Salam order the new parts and redo the whole process. I’m in the chair with all this stuff in my mouth but manage to pipe up with “Yes, let’s! Because this was so much fun the first time!” All three of them had to leave the room laughing.

    Dr. S. finished taking care of my mouth and selecting the color for my new crown. She’s going to at least get me one tooth instead of waiting for the other bottom pieces. I go back in two weeks to hopefully get that tooth in place and get the other side processed so those parts can be ordered.

    I still have drilling and two implants for the top jaw, but I think that is the last major surgery. I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

  5. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I barely made it to mass in time. I rushed home to change after the dental appointment, but got caught by a slow moving train, which was frustrating. Last night was a special event, as Father was going to bless our new Marian Daughters group. I literally sat down about 20 seconds before it started. Then there was a reception afterwards since it was also the Feast of the Annunciation, the titular feast for our church.

    I stayed after to help clean up, but ended up finally having to call it quits because the after dental chair, the cleanup activities were straining my back. A big, burly, rough looking gentleman escorted me to my car in the nearby parking lot. He’s going through the initiation process to become Catholic. He said he looked scary so he would be a good escort. He was right. His name was Steve and he’s a boat captain. He works offshore two weeks at a time, and his wife has back problems, too, so I was able to give him some ideas for things that have helped me. It was a good conversation and he was so kind.

  6. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Here. Just busy.

  7. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Kathy’s travel center at the Brazos River is an oft-used pit stop for me. They have these extraordinary speakers in the rest room and always play classic rock, so I dawdle sometimes to finish out a song.
    Recently, I heard the Doobie Brothers’ song Without Love and was admiring the bass player having such a good time on the cut.

    I was looking for a version to play here. I found one but the sound quality doesn’t do the bass line justice.

    But it’s a fun one to watch anyway, Tedtam.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Thoroughly enjoyed that one, thanks! Makes me want to drag out some of my vinyl. I have a Doobie Brothers in there somewhere…

  8. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    re: OC

    Rawr!

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      Adee,

      Ditto!

  9. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m going to try for some gardening today, before the weather goes to crap tomorrow. But first, I’ll go wander over to my happy place…

    Today’s C&C roundup:

    Good morning, C&C family, it’s Wednesday! And the week is off to another cracking start. In today’s wonderful-news roundup: in which I respond to blackpilled critics who claim I’m too soft on Trump and too dang optimistic all the time; updates fly in on the Signal leak story and, like fascism, reality bleakly descends on Europe; NYT crying about how big law firms are silent in the face of Trump’s democracy destroying whatever; NIH gets terrific new Director; FDA gets masterful new Director; vaccine study gets amazing new lead researcher and CDC stripped of control; and a questionable pick to run the Centers for Disease Control.

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It seems that Mr. C. is getting some rather strange pushback on his recent statements, and he thinks he’s figured it out:

    What I really believe these comments show is that the left is shifting tactics again. With their popularity wedged under a rainbow-colored coral at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, and with nobody sane listening to a word they say, they are doing what they always do: pretending to be conservatives so they can attack other conservatives.

    Hello, Lincoln Project! Hello, NeverTrumpers!

    Because lying and subterfuge is the left’s forte.

    Then, on to the problems with mass deportation, and the pearl clutching that accompanies….

    In response, I politely ask what, exactly, did you expect from mass deportation? That is exactly what we all voted for. There are between 12 and 20 million illegals in the country. …Again, someone please explain how on Earth any careful, granular approach to mass deportation can possibly work.

    I get it; mistakes are bound to happen…Mass deportation stresses the system and raises legitimate constitutional questions. But I have two questions for you: first, do you believe we are under an invasion, or not? If yes, then you should expect a constitutional stress test. Take heart, we’ve always survived them before.

    If you don’t believe it’s an invasion, you’re a progressive pretending to read my column. (Keep reading, you might come around.)

    He also points out that legit green card holders can file appeals from their (re-)home countries, that ICE doesn’t HAVE to apply cuffs.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Then, on to the Signal “leak” – Europe’s leaders are fuming that they were being insulted. Mr. C. opines that the leak may have been intentional, to drive certain reactions.

    The Europeans just got a dose of JD Vance. “An EU diplomat noted it underlined the impression that Vance was the driver of U.S. hostility towards Europe.” They are suddenly taking the Vice President a whole lot more seriously…

    … In one harmless leak, the Europeans have been convinced that Trump is serious, in a profound way that no public statement could ever have achieved:

    It seems that the message is getting across the pond, the one where the American government is tired of toting their water and getting kicked in the butt for not doing enough.

    …Britain’s former Defense Secretary Grant Shapps posted on X that, “I agree Europe must do more on security.”

    /snip

    In other words, the leak is convincing Europe to step up and pay for their own security. That’s a clear win for the President and his team. JD’s not just the junior Senator anymore—he’s living rent-free in the Brussels brain pan.

    … Even if you disagree the leak was deliberate, then it’s an example of the Trump Curse, wherein his missteps boomerang and bonk his enemies in the tender bits.

    It does seem that even Trump’s “mistakes” turn out to benefit him.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. C. then dives into the legal world, where “Big Law” has decided to lay low and stay quiet, rather than go against the juggernaut Trumpian administration. What a difference an election makes!

    I happen to agree with the Professor about her main thesis, which is that Big Law is too conflicted, and too reliant on lucrative government largesse, to effectively do its most important job in protecting the Constitution…. because Big Law has become dependent on government, they can’t afford to annoy their federal masters. So their position is simple: don’t snap at the hand that’s feeding you dessert.

    Where the Professor and I part ways is in the prescription. My view is the federal government is too big and too powerful, so it distorts all our essential markets. Not just law, but health and industry and everything else. Shrink government, I say, and the problem resolves itself. Simple.

    The article’s author disagrees, opting for a collectivist action against The Man. It seems the usual response is always from the hive mind.

    I’m just happy they are finally getting a taste of their own medicine. They swooned over Big Law while it stood by and let Biden issue mandates for destruction and despair— over the flu. Now, the Big Law problem is smacking them about the face like an unhinged mask fanatic. Welcome to our world.

    I celebrate this development not from schadenfreude, although I’m sure that’s some part of it, but from the blossoming hope that a common understanding of the problem might actually produce a solution this time.

    Here’s hoping for productive change.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More winning appointments:

    Yesterday, the Senate confirmed Stanford Professor Jay Bhattacharya as our new NIH Director, and Johns Hopkins Professor and surgeon Marty Makary as FDA Commissioner. You literally could not ask for two better appointments to those positions. Both courageous men took massive professional risks during covid to publicly oppose Biden’s pandemic policies (unlike cowardly Big Law).

    /snip

    Jay holds a healthy distrust of the so-called public health agency. In other words, Jay walks into the NIH not just with a résumé—but with a long memory and unfinished business.

    /snip

    The confirmations are terrific. Over-enthusiasm is impossible. We have no right to have been blessed this abundantly. Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. Makary left behind their professional sinecures to join the Trump Administration— to fix the broken system from the inside. It’s not revenge! — it’s Reconstruction.

    Go get ’em!

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More winning appointment news: David Geier, a vaccine researcher who was controversial over linking a mercury based preservative used in vaccines to autism, has been placed in position to continue doing the same, but this time from the inside of HHS.

    …He’s been hired to investigate the link between vaccines and autism, and he has access to the entire federal government research database and national patient health databases.

    The CDC has been ordered to turn over all of its vaxx data to the NIH (Jay Bhattacharya). I can only guess why the CDC wasn’t trusted to “conduct” its own study. The WaPo is all verklempt. Go figger.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Next up on the appointee news: Susan Monarez to head the CDC.

    Lotsa MAHA folks aren’t happy with her. She was chosen by Biden, so there’s that smearing of feces on her resume. She was also quiet during the WLR period. She has a PhD, not an MD, after her name. Why her when there were other, better alternatives? Mr. C. has some points to make:

    Trump’s team appointed her as interim director, so they must’ve had some reason. We may not know what it is, but…

    Also, Times doesn’t like her, especially her cooperation with DOGE.

    She also cooperated with eliminating all of the alphabet culture crap from the CDC website when ordered and didn’t resist. She follows orders.

    Finally, RFK’s old outfit, seminal anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense, essentially endorsed her. It ran its endorsement yesterday under the headline, “RFK Jr. Defends Trump’s Pick to Lead CDC After Critics Lash Out on X.” According to the story, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he handpicked Monarez because she is a ‘longtime champion of MAHA values, and a caring, compassionate and brilliant microbiologist and a tech wizard who will reorient CDC toward public health and gold-standard science.’”

    CHD’s article continued, adding more reassuring facts about Dr. Monarez. Read the whole thing if you’re worried about it.

    So, Mr. Childers suggests we just “let the man work”. See how this all pans out.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Okay, out to see what hurt I can put on my outside plants before the rain moves in…

  17. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK, I’m not keeping up and just popped in for some water but I find the whole Chat leak story highly suspicious. First I have NO IDEA what Signal is or how it works but apparently it is used by everyone inside the loop for communications. So, we have several of Trump top cabinet members on a group “chat” and none of them really know Jeffery Goldberg and certainly don’t talk with him regularly but he winds up on their group chat? A so called reporter and one of the most evil Trump hating Bastards anywhere somehow winds up in the loop?!?! How did he get there? Did some staffer add him to sabotage Trump? If so the penalty should be death, you know that treason thingy and this would be true no matter the President. I did hear that some big wig on NPR is on the board of Signal but not sure what that means. One other thing is that all the media and Democrats got their talking points out quickly and were ready with their feigned indignation.
    I smell a rat! ~SPITS~

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      If you read the C&C (or my review and opinions here) you’d see there’s a different possibility. Think “Trump trolling” and you’d be close.

  18. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Work Smarter not Harder. 😉
    I always use the tractor to put the trailer back in the barn stall. Once in there is exactly 6″ to spare total, +/- 3″ per side, a tight fit and I can accomplish the task with my truck but it isn’t fun at all and since I’m chicken, I get out a dozen times to make sure I’m not banging the walls. For some reason it seems harder to get the dang thing out than put it in.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Hubby is amazing with backing up trailers. A professional told him he could get a job as a trucker with his company, after watching Hubby back up our 20′ trailer into the pickup zone at Lowe’s.

  19. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Day 66
    no perp walks
    no indictments
    still playing games with kangaroos usurping and taking over executive branch powers
    hypocrites trying to start another Russia hoax via the deep state signal app fiasco
    republicant’s playing tiddlywinks instead of dissolving the lower courts.

    and an example of why I never read links off CFP that go to propagandist media websites.

    the link says mike Johnson floats eliminating some federal courts.

    see anything wrong with this headline?
    someone?
    anyone?
    Ferris?

  20. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I do love the folks sat the Mower Shop, they do good work at a very reasonable cost. Change oil/filter, air filter, grease all fittings, replace both spark plugs and 3 blades with Gator Mulching blades, $186 TTnL 😉

  21. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    GEAR HEAD ALERT

    Pill shaped pistons. Ferrari thinks these are the way to go.
    Ferrari Just Patented Pill-shaped Pistons and Siamese Connecting Rods
    12:19 minutes

  22. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    RE: OC video
    In my branch of the family tree we have training classes too

  23. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Disclaimer—-
    THIS IS NOT A MEMBER OF THE BOX FAMILY. IT IS SOMEONE TRYING TO SULLY THE FAMILY REPUTATION. NO WAY WE WOULD BE CAUGHT IN BLUE HAIR,
    Besides none of us knows how to spell fashist.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      DUDE! GIVE US SOME WARNING, WILL YA?!

      What has been seen cannot be unseen.

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      😀

  24. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Stealthy.

    H/T Michael Berry

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I saw that the other day. Funny!

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ve done enough gardening for the day. Converted a couple of deteriorating tubs into new, planted tubs under the shade cover. Moved some things around. It’s taking shape. I have a lot more to do, but I do have to stop at some point. At least I got some seeds into dirt before tomorrow’s expected rain.

    Hubby looked at my garden with me and I noticed more beans, tomatoes, lettuce, and basil coming up. Even though I’m late, we have a long enough gardening season to make it worthwhile to go ahead and plant.

    I’m thinking that come winter time, I could put clear plastic over the dome and turn it into a greenhouse. I’ve done it before, and with a strong shop light inside the dome, I can keep it warm enough that a freeze won’t be a problem. I can always put more heat into it if necessary. The last time I did that, my lettuce and chard was happy and perky all winter long.

  26. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Beautiful day, been working most of the day so I came hit the shower and now it’s time for an ice cold Yuengling and sit on the porch for a spell. After I picked up my mower I went by the North Union Stop N Rob to get some Corona Light for the wife since she was out. It seems that we have supply problem with that particular beer and the dude at the store said he’d have some today.

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      Try Shiner Blonde

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Good grief. If they can’t depend on the Lower Alabama supply chain for a national beer like Corona Light, what are the chances they can get a lesser Shiner product??????

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      wagonburner, what he said Shiner is almost nonexistent here in L.A.

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Though it didn’t really need it yet, I rushed out and mowed the place before the two days of rain expected.
    I got fatally behind on the mowing last Spring and I’m determined not to fight that brutal fight again this year. Those juicy spring weeds are just too hard on me and the mower.
    Keep on scalping, baby!

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Happy to report that my current part-time gig unexpectedly just doubled in scope. Thank you, Lord.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Very good. If I remember right this is a work from home job?

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Nope. Same old burning up the road, checking rural water systems.

        1. Super Dave Avatar
          Super Dave

          Oh, you mean the job you already have I thought you meant the “new” part time job in the freight business. But you did say “my current part-time gig” so I guess I wasn’t paying attention.

    2. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Whoooop!

    3. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Mazel Tov !

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    KTRK ABC13 reporting that Jewish Republican Houston City Councilwoman Amy Peck has been harassed, threatened by pro-Palestinians.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The whole narrative of massive protests in the streets of Gaza against Hamas is a bigger hoax than Hunter’s laptop. Further info tomorrow.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have an unnerving and strange report for the Weekend. Don’t miss it.

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Is the shizzle about to get hot in the Middle East?

    ***

    A significant force of B-2 Spirit stealth bombers looks to be currently wending its way to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. Satellite imagery shows at least three C-17 cargo planes and 10 aerial refueling tankers forward-deployed in the last 48 hours to the highly strategic British territory, which has been used as a staging point for U.S. strikes in the Middle East on multiple occasions in the past. The build-up comes amid a new surge in U.S. strikes targeting the Houthis and growing warnings to Iran from the Trump administration over support for the Yemeni militants and Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We’re really into our third day in a row of bombing the crap out of the Houthis in Yemen?
    Thanks. That’s nice to know.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RE: Diego Garcia

    10 Aerial Refuelers and 3 C-17s. They’re advertising this and want Iran to know we’re coming. Very interesting strategy.

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      Our President Trump wastes no time it seems. Good.

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