Junior Bear and I just finished watching the Arizona/Dallas game. What a great defensive game!
The OT win by Arizona on a blocked kick was the greatest play I’ve seen all season.
Junior Bear is a Dallas fan for some reason, so we watched this game. For some reason, it seems that every Dallas game I watch this year, they lose.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 12, 2008
https://daddybearsden.com/2008/10/12/cowboys-lose-cowboys-lose/
Apparently everyone else on the Internet is already listening to this, but I’ve just discovered Dan Carlin. Two outstanding podcasts. I’ve listened to all of his available Hardcore History stuff, and then I listened to the last few episodes of Common Sense.
He talks like a normal guy, and discusses things that most other commentators either don’t or refuse to do in a non-partisan way.
He talks politics without turning it into a mud throwing session, which I really appreciate.
Have a listen.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 12, 2008
https://daddybearsden.com/2008/10/12/found-a-couple-of-new-podcasts/
Well, found out the other day that I won’t be going to the quota hunt I requested this year. I asked to go to either the 2nd or 3rd hunts at Taylorsville Lake, which is only about half an hour from home. I would have been able to go for a weekend hunt and still sleep in my own nice warm bed.
Last year, I got chosen for a hunt in Jackson County. It’s about 2 hours southeast of here, and it’s on the northern edge of the Daniel Boone National Forest. Beautiful country, but it was a haul to get down there.
I was hoping to get something a little closer, but no luck. Better luck next time. I should find out about Fort Knox in the next few weeks.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 12, 2008
https://daddybearsden.com/2008/10/12/no-quota-hunt-this-year/
for human evolution.
Guess this means that Baby Bear is more likely to be a mutant than Junior Bear. I hope his special powers have something to do with paying for college.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 7, 2008
https://daddybearsden.com/2008/10/07/just-doing-my-part/
Apparently, a member of the teachers union in the UK believes that if a teacher decides to cruise the hallways for a “friend”, that teacher shouldn’t be prosecuted as a sex offender.
No offense, but I send my kids to school with the trust that the teachers won’t hit on them, no matter how old they are. Certain professions, such as educators, police, and doctors, shouldn’t have any kind of relationship with the people they work with, especially the children.
Any teacher who uses the school as a pool of potential mates should be treated as what they are: sexual predators who should be shunned for the rest of their natural lives.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 6, 2008
https://daddybearsden.com/2008/10/06/umm-no-thats-what-we-call-a-bad-idea/
This is true irony. Man gets lost and runs into a map store in New York.
I’ve been lost, but not so lost that I ran into a storefront.
Usually, I stop the car and get out before I go into a store to ask for directions.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 6, 2008
https://daddybearsden.com/2008/10/06/someone-call-alanis/
Good things happen to good people, and bad things return to bite the bad people.
OJ Simpson is currently sitting in a small cell, segregated from the general population. He’s been convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery, and a host of other things. He’s facing spending the rest of his life in state prison, probably in something close to solitary confinement. Apparently there are enough people in the prison system that would like the notoriety of beating the bejeezus out of Simpson that they have to keep him away from the rest of the prisoners.
Good. Let him try his “I’m a nice guy, look at me” act when he only sees the sun and other human beings for 1 hour a day.
Of course, there are those that think this whole thing is payback for his past legal troubles. And if it is, they can try to prove it. And of course, he’ll appeal the conviction, and will drag this out for years. I hope he spends his last dime trying to prove he’s been set up.
Putting him away for this doesn’t even come close to what he owes society for the death of his ex-wife and Ron Goldman, but it is a start. Of course, the Goldman’s seem to be happy about this. And they deserve to be. I hope that with this waste of protein behind bars, they’ll be able to find the money he’s been hiding since he lost the civil trial in court.
And I hope he spends the rest of his lonely, stinking life looking at the world through a small plexiglass window.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 6, 2008
https://daddybearsden.com/2008/10/06/what-goes-around-comes-around/
Took a little time Saturday afternoon and went bow hunting. I tried out a new state park south of Louisville.
The area I hunted was absolutely gorgeous. Small hills with thick woods, some fields, and creek beds running all through it. There’s been no real rain for a while, so the creeks were dry and made for great avenues to move in.
I set up in some woods on the edge of a field, with a knob and a creek bed at my back. I was watching the area under a tall oak as my primary target area, and was sitting under another oak. There were a lot of acorns on the ground for feed, and I figured that was as good a place as any this early in the season.
Unfortunately, the deer had other ideas. I did see a small buck at the other end of the field, either a 4 or 6 point. He was too far away for a bow shot, but if it had been muzzleloader or modern gun season, there’d be venison in the freezer.
Overall, it was a really nice day. The temperature was in the mid 70’s, very slight breeze, with sun in the field, but the trees still have enough leaves that I was in deep shade.
Other than the lack of shots at deer, the only hitch in the entire afternoon was when a LARGE flock of blackbirds took up residence in the oak trees I was sitting in . They provided a good cover noise for me to shift around a bit, get some water from my canteen, and pop in a cough drop. Unfortunately, they also shook the limbs of the trees enough to make it rain acorns. For half an hour, I was getting pelted by acorns that were falling 3 stories. No harm done, but it did sting at the time.
I stayed in the woods until sundown, then made my way back to the truck. No deer, but I got a great afternoon alone in the woods.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 6, 2008
https://daddybearsden.com/2008/10/06/no-joy-in-the-hunting-ground/
But I’ve been dealing with a sick baby. Baby Bear had his first real illness, and I’ve been busy doing dad stuff. He’s still a bit under the weather, but we’re getting through it.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 6, 2008
https://daddybearsden.com/2008/10/06/sorry-for-the-absence/
Tam over at View from the Porch lost her feline companion tonight, and could use your thoughts and prayers. Up your karma and give her some love.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 1, 2008
https://daddybearsden.com/2008/10/01/someone-needs-your-thoughts/
DaddyBear’s Den 