"Leemo, The 'Pet' Panther

The Leemo books by Stanley Brock from British Guiana were wonderful books, full of day to day information about panther behavior and full of kindness by the author. I wonder what happened to her. In "More About Leemo," Mr. Brock discusses Leemo's proclivity to re-enact her killings. She would take her kill and re-create the entire hunt. Mr. Brock attributes this to the sadism of the panther -puma- and writes that he did not find it with his "pet" ocelot or jaguar (page 173). What else could it be? Compulsiveness maybe? Two-Guns (Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW) at 352-359-0850.

Man With a Knife

Recently, I was at Hardee's early in the morning and saw a man in full camouflage sitting with another man I knew. I went over and asked the man in cammies if he had ever seen a black puma. He had seen one in Hague, Florida which is a village about ten miles north of Gainesville. He said the panther was only about ten yards away. This was the often seen panther in Hague. I also asked him about Bigfoot, but he hadn't seen one. Curiously, I saw him that evening at McDonald's having dinner with his wife. I asked him if he had either seen a black panther or Bigfoot. He snarled that I had asked him that question earlier that day and that he had seen the black panther in Hague and there were "no damn Bigfoot around here." I was about to say something about his hostility when I glanced down and noticed that he had a sheath knife on his belt. I decided to simply thank him and move on. If you have any black panther sightings, please call me, Pete Nickerson, at 352-359-0850.

Panther Killed!

I heard a disquieting story last week: A man was boasting about his hunting property in Hawhorne, Florida saying that he had plenty of deer, turkeys, hogs, and cats. Big cats. In fact, he "had" to kill one. Why, I don't know. He said it was almost solid black with some red and tan on him. Of course, this didn't happen because the always truthful state fish and wildlife says that black pumas don't exist. Much to the shame of the personnel who I believe are in the pockets of big development and big timber. Please report your sightings of big black cats to me, Pete Nickerson at 352-359-0850.

Sunday we were at the Black Diamond Restaurant not far from the Suwannee River. I asked one of our two waitresses, Rachael Smith, if her husband, a deer hunter, had seen anything unusual out in the woods. "You mean Bigfoot? she asked, "No, but two weeks ago we were on our way to Horseshoe Beach and had pulled off the road for some reason and saw a tan panther. She appeared to be in good shape."
About a month ago, I called into a local talk radio show and identified myself as "Black Panther." The host, Chip Miller, asked, "Do you mean the kind with black fur?"
"Yes," I answered, "The kind that isn't recognized as existing because of the development (and timber) interests." Peter Nickerson MS, MSW at 352-359-0850.

#179 Florida Panther In North-West Georgia

I want to thank DeepCover for making me aware of the article at Georgia Outdoor News - gon.com- about a Florida panther shot and killed by a hunter last year in Troup County, Georgia. The National Cancer Institute has confirmed that he was a Florida panther, in excellent shape and without a lot of parasites. He had no collar or chips. Of course, all the unfortunate "professionals" are being lined up to say he must have hitchhiked his way up there from the Naples,Florida area because there couldn't be any wild, flourishing panther populations anywhere else east of the Mississippi. I say that these professionals are unfortunate because their jobs depend on making that lie, and they are also unfortunate in that their spines aren't sufficiently strong enough to say job or no job, they aren't going to lie. I urge the Georgia legislature to pass a law prohibiting the shooting of panthers except in self-defense or defense of others. Isn't there a Georgia panther lover who can make that his or her project?
About two weeks ago, while I was having my teeth examined and then cleaned, I asked the technician if she had ever seen a black panther. This is something else that doesn't exist according to the same unfortunate professionals. Maybe one of these days, one of these guys will get an inheritance or win the lottery and then speak the truth. My dental technician lived near the Suwannee River and said, "Yes, I've seen one. There's a cattle ranch next to our house, and I've seen one crossing the road there, going from one field to another." She hesitated and added, "Of course, they'll tell you they don't exist, but they do." Here again, dear readers, is another example of my adage that the only thing government produces is grief.
For the sake of precision, I have broken out my commentary on Bigfoot to another blog exclusively for the big guy. It is "UnmaskingBigfoot.blogspot.com. Peter Nickerson at 352-359-0850.

#178 In Memorian

Earlier this week, Justin Smith passed away after being in a coma for ten months. His death is still a mystery. He had gone for a ride on the four-wheeler, and later he and his vehicle were brought back to his home by some strangers who then disappeared. They were never found. I knew Dustin because he loaded the vehicles at a local feed store. It was a job only for the very strong and the careful. Justin gave me a tan panther sighting. He saw the cat by his home which was on the north border of O'Leno State Park. He had also seen a cougar in Colorado, and was a great lover of nature. May you rest in peace, Justin.

#177 Early White Man's History Of Bigfoot

I read through "The Unidentified," and "Creatures Of The Outer Edge" by Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman Sunday, looking for mention of Bigfoot. First, the authors opposed the idea that Jacko, the ape-like creature supposedly caught in British Columbia in 1884 was a baby Bigfoot. The authors wrote that the research showed that there was only one source for the story, and that source fabricated the story (page 29).
The Bigfoot sightings in Antelope Valley, California were those of a three-toed Bigfoot (page 31). You may recall that I have written about Christian's report that there is a three-toed Bigfoot in his area, and bear hunters are trying to get their dogs to run his trail. Talk about exciting!
The Northern Athabascan Indians of the Canadian Plains and Alaska, have long believed in the "Nakani" whom they also call the "Bushmen." They say that the Bushman, a hair-covered, manlike creature, cannot be caught or killed and should be avoided. They even cast their eyes down when they think they are near one. At least, this is what Bob Betts and Jim McClarin reported after flying into the isolated village of Ruby on the Yukon in 1970 (page 32). It took a couple of days before the Indians would discuss the Bushmen, but said they visited the Indian villages in the fall because the Indians were drying salmon then. Salmon disappeared at night.
In the July 17, 1918 editon of the "Seattle Times," there is an article about hairy creatures, seven to eight feet tall, attacking a miner's cabin at Mt. St. Lawrence near Kelso, Washington. But that was all the article said, and unbelievably, there was apparently no followup by the newspaper (page 37).
Sunday evening, I stopped reading and went into the edge of a big woods in an area I've received some old Bigfoot sightings and track reports. As soon as I got out of my vehicle, I smelled the odor of rotting flesh. It was private land so I didn't go any farther. Rotting flesh is the odor of Bigfoot, but the odor could have simply been that of rotting flesh. Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.

#176 More Panther and Bigfoot Sightings

In the past month, I have collected three black panther sightings from the same area, coincidentally. The sightings took place in the Taylor village which is inside the Osceola Forest (a swamp). One was by Jim Lawrence who saw a black panther crossing a road, and the other two sightings were made by Robert Winn who saw the black cats while hog hunting with his buddies about eight years ago. The dogs were not running the cats, the cats were simply trying to get out of the way. This supports my hypothesis that if you want to find a panther or a bigfoot, find out where the wild hogs are, and the panthers and swamp apes will be there too.
Last week, on my way to Tampa, I went through some bigfoot country and saw three deer, three turkeys, and a Sherman fox squirrel. On the return trip, I saw only a deer at 10 p.m. Nevertheless, it was good to be in country where there have been bigfoot sightings.
Author Otis Mathews claims that Bigfoot has several names in Florida: skunkman, swamp skunk, swamp monster, and swamp ape (page 7A). He also wrote that recently in Ohio a family had a great, white, shaggy beast who came onto its porch, rattled the doorknob, and then went to a pen where he helped himself to a rooster. A family member fired at him with a .22 pistol, and the creature ran off with a limp.
Mathews also talks about a UFO picture taken in Rock Hill, South Carolina and how recent bigfoot sightings seem to be in conjunction with reports of bigfoot in the area (page 11A).
The author cites a friend who is in the Fortean Society and thus believes that there is a column or "spear" of electromagnetic energy that passes through the planet. That energy is sometimes influenced by the magnetic forces in the earth's core. When that happens, it brings the earth in touch with another dimension, at which time beasts such as the bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster are seen (page 5B).
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.

#175 Bigfoot Running 55 mph Alongside A Car?

I have asked my friend how she knew Otis Mathews, and her reply was, "He was my friend!" She knew him when they were on some island in South Florida. I will try to talk to her privately to find out if he was pursuing Bigfoot at that time or just her. Continuing with my reading of Otis Mathews' "The Genesis Of Belief," I find that he claims that hundreds of cattle were killed in 1955 in Paraguay, Columbia, and Venezuela with no visible wound beyond having their tongues pulled out. Internal organs were missing too, though there was no mention of how they came out without a visible wound. Surely, they weren't just pulled out through the throat. All this was thought to be the work of "mono grande," the term for bigfoot in those countries (page 6A).
Mathews also claims that in the Guaianas, Sir Walter Raleigh named the bigfoot there "manimals." and that in Florida, bigfoot has several names including skunkman, swamp skunk, swamp monster, and swamp ape (7A).
Mathews tells the story of two men seeing a "horse" lying in a field. When they approach, the horse gets up and reveals himself to be a bigfoot. The men dash for their car with the bigfoot pursuing them on a parallel course. They get into the car and roar away as fast as possible. To their horror, they see the bigfoot running next to their car with the speedometer showing 55 mph. Apparently, they accelerated more and left the beast behind.
If anyone knows Otis Mathews, please ask him to call me, Pete Nickerson, at 352-359-0850. I'd like to interview him and see if he's continued any bigfoot research in the past twenty years since he published his book and find out why if he hasn't. Did he get visited by the men in black suits?

#174 More About Bigfoot

A friend loaned me her book, "Genesis Of Belief: A Personal Journal" by Otis Matthews, 1983, Zeus Publications. The author was working as a carpenter as a nature museum near Fort Mill, South Carolina. One of other workers at the museum went to Fort Mill after a lady saw a Bigfoot in her garden there and returned with a plaster of Paris footprint 18 inches long. The museum's taxidermist said it was of a human foot. Eighteen inches long? Bigfoot sightings were being made so Matthews began walking at night, three or four nights a week, along dirt roads. One night he was sitting at a small campfire with his dog, Sherman (surely a popular name in the South), a Shepherd-collie mix, when the dog gave a low growl. Matthews hushed him. In the distance, he heard what he thought was a fox hunter whistling for his hounds. This, he found later was a Bigfoot's all-clear signal. It is used by the Yeti who are often heard whistling to each other. No known primate below man displays this practice (page 5A). Then Matthew heard something heavy, like a cow, running, but it had the footbeat of a man. Then he observed, "It was hollering in pure joy, 'yow, yahoo!'" The creature got within 25 feet before he seemed to notice Matthew, fell silent, and disappeared.
At the same time, hundreds of bigfoot footprints were being found on the nearby Saluda River next to dog and cat kills, thus establishing that bigfoot is omnivorous.
Matthew's book concerns the happenings around Brown Mountain, North Carolina and York County, South Carolina. At Riverbend in York County, a man and his friend were standing only ten feet apart when something sounding like a bull ran between them. He was snorting and kicking up dust. They saw nothing but the dust. This parralels the sighting I covered of the bigfoot walking, bushes moving, but the observer could only see the outline of the bigfoot by what looked like thermal waves the creature was apparently emitting.
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com

#173 The Mysterious Black Panther Book

I've learned that hunters and others might see a Texas mountain lion in North-Central Florida because about ten were captured by the jaguar and puma hunter Roy McBride from Texas and his carefully bred pack of cat hounds. These mountain lions were released by game biologist Chris Beldin of the Florida Game (now Fish and Wildlife) Commission in the Osceola Forest area. Some say that so many mountain lions were killed by hunters and landowners that it is true that Roy McBride and his cat hounds recovered all the survivors who were returned to Texas. What happened to them then in Texas? Other people say the mountain lion still roams Florida.
A panther can only be killed legally in Florida in defense of others or self. It has not been lawful to hunt the big cat since the sixties. If you have to kill a panther and report it to government officials, you will probably be interrogated by both state and federal government officials. Your questioning probably will be intimidating. Even if you clearly killed the panther for the protection of another human or yourself, you may be charged simply for its supposed deterrent effect on others. As one who believes in the sanctity of the individual, I abhor the idea of being cruel to any one person simply as a deterrent for others. You should not use individuals that way, but government, the enemy of individualism, does. The end does not justify the means, but government is full of ambitious, little princes. If you do kill a panther and decide to report it, I'd get an attorney first.
Panthers adjust easily to hunters and even their dogs, unless they are cat hounds. David Maehr documented this in his book, "The Florida Panther." The Florida panther has not been hunted legally for over forty years, and it shows in many of the sightings I have received. Many times they appear to be less fearful than deer.
I've noticed that the deer in Florida are generally far more wary than the deer in Virginia and attribute that to night hunting. The deer population appears to be exploding in Florida. I am seeing far more dead deer on the sides of roads than I did when I came here in 1997. I came here in June and did not see a live deer until New Year's Eve. Now I occasionally see deer when driving at night and sometimes see them during the day.

#172 The Most Fanatastic Bigfoot Story

I was very happy to hear from Deep Cover, formerly known as Blackwater. He told me that Blackwater was a dangerous name to be called since the Muslim world widely blames the organization for shooting innocent civilians. You may have noticed that Blackwater has changed its name to a letter or two, much like Gatorade has done. This fantastic bigfoot story comes from Deep Cover who got it from another bigfoot researcher who collects sightings just as I do. Here it is: A man was out in the woods when he heard heavy footsteps coming his way. He listened and watched as the steps got closer until he could see the brush moving but couldn't see anyone there. Finally, through what he described as something like heat waves, he could see the outline of a bigfoot. The creature walked right by him. You who have seen "Predator" will know what I am talking about. The only story that comes close to this one is the one I related a day or so ago. That was about fifteen people on a hill in Pennsylvania who saw a UFO land and a couple of bigfoot disembark. If you can ride UFOs, you can probably make yourself almost completely invisible to humans.
I told Deep Cover that I needed to call Christian and get the name of the bigfoot researcher who claims he has a dead bigfoot he found out in the woods.
Christian had told me that another very religious man had actually won the confidence of this bigfoot researcher and had seen the dead bigfoot. This was long before the scam the sheriff's deputy and another man ran on the world about having a bigfoot in an icebox up in Tennessee. Christian said he would try to get the religious man's phone number so I could talk to him. Lazy me never followed up on it. I must do that now.
Florida has become very hot. It was 90 degrees inside the house last night at 12:30 a.m. The oldest dog, Gator, was having trouble breathing so I put the fan he was next to and the fan in the window on high. Yesterday, I saw a dead doe deer next to where the lane hits the paved road. I hadn't seen her before because of the grass. Now she had blown up in the heat, and her belly and legs were sticking up into the air. I got out and looked for her fawns just in case they were still with her. I didn't find them, and most probably they have either starved to death by now or been ripped apart by coyotes, foxes, or dogs.
Last week, I was checking the laundry on the line to see if it was dry and happened to look over at the lane. There, where I put out the cat food for the feral cats, was the biggest gray fox I've seen. He was eating the latest can of food and didn't see me as I was behind the laundry on the line. He was gray with very little red on him with a lot of black at the end of his tail. He crossed the lane and went into the field behind the clothesline, probably to feed his kits. I wondered if the feral cats were getting any of the food, and as if to answer me, the next day I put out a can of food, I saw the orange and white cat waiting in the brush nearby. I acted like I hadn't seen her so I wouldn't scare her away.
Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com

#171 Bigfoot Book

Jeannie Chapman saw the Bigfoot approaching her cabin near Ruby Creek, British Columbia, gathered her children, and fled on foot to the railway station where her husband was working. Her husband's crew, all hunters, gathered their rifles and returned to the cabin. They saw where the creature had picked up a 55 gallon barrel of salted salmon, carried it out of its shed, and hurled it onto the ground. They followed the tracks to the Ruby Bluff where they lost the trail on the rocks.
Albert Ostman started looking for gold and was captured by a Bigfoot and carried to the Bigfoot family where he lived for almost a week, eating food from his pack.
In Pennsylvania, fifteen people watched a UFO descend and two tall, hairy creatures with eyes that reflected yellow-green emerged and walked away into the dark.
These are stories covered and more from Norma Gaffron's book, "Bigfoot: Opposing Viewpoints." Curiously, Gaffron claims to have never heard of Bigfoot until her son joined the Boy Scouts. Now, I must return the book to the library.
Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com. If you would like me to talk to your group about any of my topics, please call 352-359-0850.

#170 More Panthers and Bigfoot

In the last posting, I mentioned that the DEA Agent found that Bigfoot had put rocks up on fallen tree trunks. The only correlation of rocks with Bigfoot has been in Bigfoot throwing rocks at humans. Perhaps, as this was apparently the same spot as where they had been sleeping, they found rocks and put them on logs to be armed.
Over the weekend, I called Christian to thank him for the black panther picture, and to make certain he had reports of people seeing dark spots on black panthers. Roger that. He said that he was going to try to trap a black panther and have the media and other experts outside of law enforcement (and government in general, I hope) there to see the big cat. Christian said he has a trap. I wanted to tell him about the Game Commission putting out a trap for a black panther after he had followed a young black boy all the way to his house. This happened only about a mile from my house. The Game Commission came from Jacksonville and placed the trap in the woods behind the chicken, duck, and geese pens the cat had visiting. He went into the trap and then began a terrible, hugely loud struggle to get out. Thankfully, he did. I believe the Game Commission would have had him killed and denied he was a black puma.
Christian also said that a five-toed and a three-toed bigfoot were being seen frequently enough that bear hunters were trying to get their bear dogs to run them. I can't remember having read of any dog standing up to a bigfoot. They all flee, even the most courageous of them. But perhaps in a pack, the dogs would have the couarge to pursue one. Unless bigfoot had some quirk about being pursued by dogs like the panther does - he's terrified - I would anticipate bigfoot killing the dogs. Leopards and jaguars will lie in wait for the lead dog and pick off the lead dogs one by one until they are all dead or grievously wounded. Perhaps bigfoot would use his rocks for this contingency too.
Now I have two panther sightings here in Florida. The first one is a tan panther seen on Lake Orange just below Gainesville and the University of Florida. Larry Santucci, a portrait artist ,told me that the big cat walked across his yard. He lives right on the lake, and I believe this sighting was very recent. The second one from Larry Thompson who saw a black panther crossing the road near Taylor in the Osceola Forest ( a flat pinewoods swamp) in the seventies. He said "it was awesome" seeing the big cat.
One of the librarians here at the library where I post wanted to know if I had any sightings of panthers to tell her son about. He's writing a paper for school. I gave him my business card, and if he's reading this, please let me know if your government teacher makes any negative comments about my writing or penalizes you for not parroting the party line. The indoctrination is that there are no panthers except in Southwest Florida. Call me at 352-359-0850. Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.

#169 More Bigfoot Sightings

This weekend I received a call from Christian who didn't have my new phone number until Blackwater gave it to him. Blackwater wanted him to call me because he didn't want me being mad at him because Christian sent him the black panther picture. Christian had sent me the picture about a year or so ago, but I had closed that PO Box. Thanks Blackwater for giving Christian my current number and too bad it turned out that it was you who got mad at me. I was amazed at the bigfoot reports Christian gave me. I think one reason he is getting so many in his area is because he runs a hunting preserve. That means there is a large piece of land loaded with hogs and exotics. Bigfoot apparently loves hogs, and I would imagine the young ones are especially easy to catch. I have one report of a Bigfoot carrying a club so a nine hundred, eight foot tall creature with a club could probably have his pick of any creature on Christian's hunting preserve. Maybe he should rename it "The Bigfoot Hunting Preserve" and see if people would pay a modest fee just to hike it and look for prints. The mo sensational sighting is this, and I'm paraphrasing Christian: "A DEA agent saw two Bigfoot together. One was about eight feet tall and the other was smaller. The smaller one was reddish brown while the big one was dark brown. This DEA agent had seen one other Bigfoot in South Carolina. (Is this guy just extremely lucky or is there a skill to finding them that he has mastered?) The agent said to himself, 'I am now going to make myself the most famous man in the world.' With that, he leveled his gun on one of the Bigfoot and prepared to shoot. Then the second thought came: ' I may be making myself the man in the most trouble in the world!' and he decided not to shoot the creature. The agent found where the two had been lying down, and he also saw that they had been placing stones on fallen trees.( The latter obervation is the first time I have heard of such a thing. What could it be for? Communication is an obvious possibility.)"
Then Christian told me this story: " A guy was coming home one night from fishing. He was towing his boat behind his truck, and as he came into his yard, his lights swept the backyard. There was a Bigfoot standing there looking at him. His eyes shined which tells you that he is an animal. Then he ran off."
Signing off. Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com or much better 352-359-0850.

#168 Is The Sex Good?

Before we go to sex, Jack Brown, the director of the teaching zoo at Santa Fe College did call Liz Newton at the History Channel's MonsterQuest and was told the go-to person would not be Blackwater but someone in New York who is seeing black cats. James expressed relief that our black pumas would not be endangered, but I am not so sure. Will these black cats in New York be identified as black leopards or black pumas? If they are portrayed as dangerous, black leopards, then any Floridians watching the show, would be more likely to shoot the black pumas we have here in the Sunshine State.
I told Jack Brown where Blackwater got the idea that black leopards roamed America - from being released from slave ships after they had served to keep the Africans docile on the voyage from Africa. He had never seen that in print, and I couldn't recall where I had once seen it. I went through my index cards and found it: Gerry Parker, author of "The Eastern Panther" mentions it on page 185. He doesn't relate it to anyone or anything, and there is no footnote. Now to sex!
Rick told me this: "I've been bothered by this for some time. I talked to my sister. Loopy. about writing my daughter, Pit. Loopy cautioned me that if I just had to write a letter to say as little as possible about the incident and to emphasize how much I value my relationship with Pit and her little son, Webster. Loopy is the kind of person who can drink it up and yuk it up with her mortal enemy. That's why she's Loopy. But I take what people say seriously. Character is everything for me. The rock in my shoe came at the end of Webster's birthday party when her husband and the thirty-some members of his family had left. Just our family was there, about four or five people. Pit brought up the "fact" that I had asked her husband's mother if the sex was good with her boyfriend. Maria had started talking about her boyfriend on Christmas, trying to explain why he wasn't there. She said he was recluse, never went anywhere, never attended the frequent family gatherings, and resluted in some of the family wondering if she wasn't making up his existence. My tongue was a little loosened by Evan Williams, and I asked, 'Is this a sexual relationship?" Maria laughed and replied, "There's not much of that." Then we pointedly went to another subject. Now Pit was saying I asked her " Is the sex good?"
I have never asked anyone if the sex was good, and can't see myself asking it. It's a woman's question, a woman who loves "Sex And The City," which is Pit's favorite TV show. Pit pointed out that I had drunk half the bottle of Evan Williams, and of course her brother, Fisher, had to say, 'I've seen Dad when he's had two drinks out fishing, and he will say anything!' Well no, Fisher, that's not true either because if it were, I'd be telling you that you drink too much and smoking is only for stupid people. There's other self-destructive behavior I'd address too. It's not like me to sit there and take this from anyone. I like to be right in their faces when people start something, particularly my family members, because I particularly want them to be honest and therefore strong. But I didn't want to do it at my grandson's first birthday party. I didn't want his birthday to be ruined by a confrontation. It also galled me how Pit claimed I had drunk half a bottle of bourbon on Christmas day, because only a few weeks before, she had claimed that I had drunk two-thirds of the bottle on Christmas Day. She was absolutely sure that no one else had touched the bottle. Then she turns around and says I drank half a bottle because her husband and a buddy had a drink. Now she's absolutely sure that I drank half a bottle. It must be nice to be so certain. First she's certain of X, then she's certain of non-X. One thing I am sure of is that if I had asked "Is Sex Good?" Pit would have been the first to say something to me about being out of line.
We don't call her Pit for nothing. I named her that when I saw her brother, Drifty, asking her to beat up a kid who was throwing rocks at him. Pit was five, and Drifty was nine. She confronted the kid and made him stop throwing rocks at Drifty, her big brother. Some time after the birthday party, Calamity said, "Maria has been dating this man for a long, long time. He's got a lot of money."
"Then it's a financial relationship."
"He's good to her, and he's got a lot of money," she repeated carefully.
Being careful with Pit and her husband, Smooth, might be the bedrock of my discontent. Every time we visit them, Calamity gives me instructions on what I am not to say. I am a John Wayne type of person not a tippy-toer. I was raised in a dog culture, beagle hounds, and I like being like beagles on the chase, wide-open, rocking and rolling. Tippy-toeing is not my forte. Do you understand, Two-Guns? You're a dog man yourself."
"Absolutely, Bill. I love to rock and roll and be wide-open too. I've got nothing to hide. I only regret that I didn't jack up a few rock and rollers who got too far out of line.
Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW.

#167 Is Fish and Wildlife Killing Black Panthers?

During the last posting, I cramped up and could barely finish. My workouts have become a little more intense. For example, I have worked up to doing 50 pound dumbbell bicep curls. But only a few: two on the left arm, and only one on the right.
But still, how many 62 year old men do you know who can do that? Hmm, how many men period do you know? I'm pretty much a recluse so please forgive me for congratulating myself. Now to return to my suspicions about Roy McBride and his pack of cat hounds : Dr. David Maehr wrote in his book, "The Florida Panther," that Roy McBride would occasionally shoot a bobcat his dogs had treed to keep them interested. I've written extensively of Florida Fish and Wildlife (the old Game Commission) haveing a great antipathy for the black panther, and the question has occured to me if Roy McBride was actually shooting treed black panther and not bobcats and this was the reason he wouldn't allow anyone withing a quarter of mile when his dogs were running a cat. Maybe Roy would like to respond to that. I've talked to him before. He can reach me at 352-359-0850. Several years ago, I was talking to a young game warden whose name I will not give for his own protection and because he is the most honest game warden I have questioned about the existence of the black panther. In our conversation, I mentioned to him black panthers. He replied, "Oh, so you have them up here? I'm surprised. I know they have them down in the Everglades, but I didn't know they were this far north." I assured him they were. The next time we talked, he had obviously been "educated" by Fish and Wildlife for he said, "You know, Mr. Nickerson, Fish and Wildlife says there is no such thing as a black panther."
"You have to work for Fish and Wildlife. I don't," I replied.
"Goodbye, Mr.Nickerson."
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Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.
PS Anyone wanting to read a good book in bed, see Elmore Leonard's "Freaky Deaky."
It's very conversational and though there are several murders, it is not upsetting.
I just finished it.

#166 MonsterQuest To Show Black Panthers in New York

Summary To Date: Black Panter Researcher Blackwater called me from Charleston, South Carolina to say that Liz Pollock of the MonsterQuest series on the History Channel had contacted him about his black panther picture and video. He anticipated she would call me. I began pushing Blackwater not to identify these black pumas as black panthers as this would sensationalize the TV show and result in them being more readily shot by hunters and property owners. Blackwater read my posting and ended our relationship.
I received the call from Liz Pollock just as I was about to post. She wanted to look at my black panther pictures and was in a hurry. I left the library immediately and began rushing back home to get the pictures and take them to Federal Express in Gainesville before it closed. I had trouble finding one of the pictures, and that gave me an opportunity to ask myself "What will be the consequences of sending these pictures to Liz?" That was a no-brainer: They might be used as examples of black leopards. I called her back saying, "I need a contract from you. In exchange for these pictures, I want a guarantee they won't be used as black leopard pictures."
Liz responded in almost exactly these words: "I can't do that because it will be up to our expert to say what they are."
"Liz, we both know we can find an expert to say whatever we want him to say."
She thanked me and hanged up. I then called Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission as I had promised James Brown, the director of the Santa Fe College teaching zoo that I would. I first got Officer Bolton, and she gave me two names and their numbers. I called Karen Parker, a biologist, who was polite, interested, but guarded. She promised to talk to her supervisor, Gary Doonen, about the situation and said I could talk to him myself. I asked her that if the Commission took any action, I would like to know about it. I never heard from her. I then called Karen Parker, a public relations person. Since her phone was busy, I left a message asking her to call me back. I never heard from her.
Having done my duty with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, I got back to talking with real people by calling Jack Brown. I said I had done as he had asked, and now I would like him to call the MonsterQuest producer, Liz Pollock, and see what he could do to dissuade her from the claim these black panthers were black leopards. I couldn't think what else I could do so I had time to think about Roy McBride, the Texas panther and jaguar hunter. Florida Fish and Wildlife has used him for many years to tree panthers with his pack of cat hounds. I had read that Roy McBride always insisted that the numerous people involved with examining, treating and collaring the panther stay at least a quarter of a mile behind his pack of dogs so they would disturb them. As a lifelong dog man except for the four years of undergraduate work, the idea that you could disturb cat hounds by following them struck a discordant note. Our hounds were little beagles under 13 inchess who ran tutty fruitty bunny rabbits, and there was no problem with us humans being right on top of them. In fact, it was necessary in field trials so they could be scored by the judges. The idea that a big plot hound who is used to fight hogs, bears, and panthers would be finicky when he was on the hot scent of a panther was highly questionable. To be continued.

#165 The MonsterQuest Show about Black Panthers

When I finished the last posting, I had no time to go over it. I'm on a clock here at the public library. As I mentally reviewed what I had posted, I wished that I had said that I gave Blackwater, a name I've assigned him as he said he had worked for Blackwater, permisssion to talk to my source, Christian. I thought I could share my sources with others, but found out I was too competitive when Blackwater scooped me by attracting the attention of the History Channel first. Plus, I am sure Blackwater will be pushing for these big, black cats to be identified as black leopards. He calls his research group, the Panthera Study Group. Panthera is the family for the leopards, jaguars, and African lions. Puma is the family for the cougar, panther, puma, catamount, swamp screamer, painter - whatever you call him. The puma has the most names of any animal, partially because its range is from British Columbia to Argentina and partially because it is such a mysterious, strong cat that exudes a remarkable presence and vitality. So the Panthera Study Group is hardly going to be pushing for their animal to be identified as a puma. It would make the group look silly.
Blackwater called almost immediately after I finished the posting, and I told him that I was worried about what his Panthera Study Group was pushing, that the black cat was a black leopard. A two-hour arguement ensued. At first, he said he would not even suggest that the black cat could be a panther because experts had said that it is impossible for panthers to throw black kittens. I said I had heard that about ten years ago and had asked Dr. David Maehr, author of "The Florida Panther" a remarkable little book and the leader of the research team that for about nine years ran Florida panthers up trees, darted them, lowered them from the trees, and evaluated them and even treated them. Finally, the team put a radio collar on the panthers so their movement and lack of movement could be studied, and the cats could also be tracked. David said you could not say that panthers could not have black kittens. Blackwater seemed to accept this and seemed to back away from his position that black panthers could not be real panthers or pumas.
Blackwater is very much like my father, who is now probably talking the ear off everyone in heaven; you don't have a conversation with him, you listen to a lenghty monologue that goes off in many tangents, and you try to get a word in edgewise. At one point in our arguement, he said that an expert had told him that his video of a black panther near Charleston, South Carolina was that of an ancient American lion that had somehow survived out in the wilds of the Santee River area. He also coyly remarked that the United Kingdom Black Cat Society had identified Christian's (my source) picture of the black panther as definitely being that of a black leopard, and who was he to argue with the experts. In saying that, Blackwater turned his back on the very reason we were doing our own black panther research: the "experts" lie
and deny. I was having trouble with a lot of static in my phone, and Blackwater ended the conversation.
The next day I started calling around to be absolutely sure that you could see the spots or rosettes of a black leopard through his fur. I knew you could with the black jaguar because I had done so myself. I called various people including taxidermists and a two big game hunters in Idaho. Finally, I hit the motherlode: Jack Brown, Director of the teaching zoo at Santa Fe College in Gainesville. He shared my position that the black panther is a puma and said that he is asked from time to time if he has lost any black panthers, meaning that black panthers are being seen right here in Alachua County. He asssured me that he had seen many black leopards, and their spots could be seen if you were close enough, and there was good sunlight. He was alarmed to hear about the MonsterQuest program, and the probablity that the phenomenon of black panthers being sighted through Southeast United States would be twisted to dangerous, black leopards. There is no doubt about it; leopards are dangerous. In Asia and Africa, they have been maneaters. When wounded they almost invariably hide and charge. He agreed with me that there was a high probability that the MonsterQuest show would unleash a wave of hysteria and make hunters and property owners much more likely to shoot the black puma, thinking he was a black leopard. I was asked to call Florida Fish and Wildlife to tell them of this impending hysteria. I was not enthused, but promised to do so because Jack Brown wanted me to.
Then I got a short call from Blackwater. He had just read my posting of the previous day and said it had "some serious inconsistencies in it." He claimed that my writing that I had scooped him was one of them, and he had enjoyed our relationship, but was ending it. His final monologue. I have no idea how he can claim that he didn't scoop me unless he doesn't know the definition of the word. I looked it up after he hanged up just to be sure. Of course, he scooped me, and it was my own fault. I gave him my source - Christian - and he and his colleagues in his study group formed good relationships with him and got the black panther picture Christian had been promising to send me for several years. Shame on me! I'm a big enough man to admit it.
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#164 The Black Panther In America Is Not a Leopard

I feel sick to my stomach for several reasons: Last night, Blackwater called me and said that he had been contacted by MonsterQuest - the History Channel's series on "monsters" in America. Several years ago, I had told Blackwater of an owner of a hunting preserve who was having black panther and Bigfoot sightings reported to him.
The owner had promised me a black panther picture that a neighbor had taken. Blackwater, who is much more energetic than I am, and his friends began making contacts with this gentleman, and have recently acquired the black panther picture. They put it on a local fishing forum on the Internet, and it captured the attention of the a black panther organization in the United Kingdom and MonsterQuest. MonsterQuest is now talking with Blackwater. Of course now I am regretting being so open with Blackwater as he has apparently scooped me using my source - the hunting preserve owner. But it goes beyone me to the safety of the black panthers in America, because Blackwater is working the angle that these black panthers are the black color phase of leopards, and there is a definite safety problem with them. This will encourage hunters and people who see them on their property to shoot them. Let me assure you that black panthers are commonly seen in Florida by people living or traveling through rural areas. I often ask people in Florida if they or anyone they know has ever seen a black panther. If these people live in the country, almost invariably they have seen one once in their life or have someone who has. These animals must be protected. They cannot be shot as dangerous black leopards as the whole color phase will be wiped out. There is not enough land left thanks to illegal immigration and cowardly enviromentalists who will not push for the protection of wildlife habitats. The photograph Blackwater has of the black panther is supposedly of a cat weighing 150 to 175 pounds. That was the estimate of the cat's weight made by the owner of the hunting preserve. He supposedly has seen the tree the cat was standing next to when the trail camera took the picture. Since he owns a hunting preserve, I am sure he is an expert on judging the weight of animals. A 100 pound leopard is a big leopard. A 175 pound panther is huge. Also, Blackwater did not say that any rosettes or arrangements of black dots, were discernable in the picture. He did say the cat looked very much like the picture I have of the St. Marys River black panther. If that is true, it is not a leopard but a panther. The St. Marys River panther picture showed a big cat with a muscular body and a long, thick tail. Those are the hallmarks of a panther not a leopard.
Blackwater thinks we have black panthers in America because he believes they were used on slave ships to keep the Africans in line. When the slave ships got to America, the slaves were sold and the black leopards let go. Does that make any sense? Where were they let go? Right there in the harbor by the ships where people lived and worked? Would the people who lived and worked where the black panthers supposedly let loose allow that to happen. If so, President Obama would like to know where they are because he has about 200 alleged al-Quaeda terrorists he would like to release in America. Who would be so stupid as to allow black panthers or terrorists released in their community? Blackwater learned from John Lusk that Charles Humphreys, the author of "Panthers of the Coastal Plain" told him, John Lusk, that in researching his book he found mention of black panthers on ship manifests. John Lusk also told Blackwater and me that he has talked to blacks who told him stories of black leopards on slave ships are part of their verbal family history. I have asked several blacks here in Florida about their family history in the slave days, and they have no history of black leopards on slave ships.
I fear that MonsterQuest will sensationalize a couple of black panther pictures, along with some incidents of black panthes showing a little backbone to humans who are only destroying their habitat and inspire an open season on black leopards. Leopards are extremely dangerous when hunted and more so when wounded. Panthers are pussycats usually. Teddy Roosevelt killed them with a knife; the guachos in the Pampas used to run them down with their horses and beat them to death with the iron rod part of their stirrups. We don't need any MonsterQuest hysteria that will target the innocent black puma. Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.

#163 A "More Compassionate" IRS?

Rick called today, very happy: "I got my Social Security check today, and the $150 the IRS had taken out last month was not repeated. I got my entire check today. I had no idea who or what was responsible for it, but I called Jean Clough, the congressional caseworker for Cliff Stearns, Ms. Walker, the IRS advocate, and Cliff Stearns' office. I thanked all of them for their efforts, saying that we all shook the tree and out fell my $150. Perhaps you remember the last letter from the IRS was that they had received my Innocent Spouse form and would not take any action to give themselves time to research the situation first. Of course, they had already taken action - taken $150 out of my Social Security check. I think the most likely explanation of why I got my money back is that the IRS researched the situation and also became aware that I was protesting the seizure of my money through my congressman, just as I had told them I would do, and saw that there was no legal basis for seizing my money."
Two figures in the public action that the two Gainesville cops took against me have been prominent in the lcoal news lately. One is Chief Botsford of the Gainesville Police Department. The department had been plagued with firings and "resignations" of officers in the past year. Then three officers went into a black area and started throwing eggs around because they were mad at prostitutes and drug dealers. Gainesvile police officers stopped them two times, but they continued. The solid blue line at work. If you or I had done it, we would have been arrested the first time, and charged with hate crimes. Immediately after this, Botsford announced he was retiring. Botsford was a figure in my case because I complained to him that the two cops, but especially Whitney Stout, were driving on the lane too fast. Botsford wrote back that he was aware that our lane was rather rough and therefore the appropriate speed would be whatever the lane allowed. Nice, aye? No wonder the "Gainesville Sun" got off its knees long enough to note that some people worried that there was a culture of criminality at the police department.
The second figure was Judge David Glant, the judge who took my guns away. His name has come up in the tragic case of a four year old girl being beaten to death by her father. Glant gave custody of the child to her father just last February, and by April she was dead. Her step-grandparents have employed the Robert Rush Law firm in Gainesville, the best one around, to look into why custody was given so carelessly to the father. I don't know if judges can order court studies in Florida, but I bet they can. They order all sorts of things. If Judge Glant had ordered social services to do a home study, certainly social services would have discovered that they had already awarded custody to the step-grandparents but had neglected to inform them.
That's the double tragedy in this case. I don't know how far this case will go. Judge Glant is a judge, and the step-grandparents may just be poor people out in the country somewhere. If you understand what Obama has done with Chrysler's "secured"
creditors, you know that he is trying to make America a land ruled not by laws, but by men. Most importantly, him. Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.

#162 What's Better For Republicans (USA) This Week

1. Nancy Peloosi lied when she said she never knew about enhanced interrogation techniques. Not only have Republican congressman said they were at the briefings with her, but now the CIA has released the title of a briefing she attended. The title included the words "enhances interrogation techniques." Now it remains to be seen if the Republicans have the manhood or womanhood to try to do something about her lying. I'd moved for a censure, and when the Demonrats overruled that, I'd report her to the Ethics Committee. We need to differentiate our party from the corrupt Demonrats.
2. You can usually tell a Demonrat from a Republican on Fox News when it is trying to be "fair and balanced." The one who looks mean is usually the Demonrat, and the one who has a smirk on his face is usualy the same. All too many of the Republicans look and talk as if they were computers giving you adult-to-adult information. They give only the facts which show that the Demonrats are lying or gaming us Americans out of our money and our freedoms, but the Republicans rarely get angry or rarely put down the Demonrats. They seem to want to be perfect little gentlemen. You can be a gentleman and not be weak. For instance, you could say after your adult-to-adult information on the misdeeds of Demonrats, "They should not be acting that way. They should be telling the truth to the American people!"
3. President TortureBabiesToDeath Obama did not honor Bush's eight-year practice of having a breakfast for religious leaders on National Prayer Day. This is better for the Republicans as it is more evidence that Obama is demonic.
3. An Archbishop has finally come out and said that Obama should not speak at Notre Dame's commencement. Little steps in the right direction, Catholics. Do you want to make your religion look less corrupted or more?
4. One of Obama's campaign lies was his concern about outsourcing. Now Obama-controlled General Motors is announcing the outsourcing of many of its jobs. This is more evidence that Obama does not love America.
5. Wade Sanders, one of the defenders and friends of John Kerry against the Swift Boats For Truth organization has been convicted of viewing kiddie porn. You're known by the company you keep, and Demonrats are generally corrupt people who want to enslave us and suck out all our money.
6. Word has leaked out that Obama is hiring behavioral psychologists to find out how he can manipulate us. Why can't you just tell the truth like a man, Obama, instead of sneaking around using psychologists to tell you how to game us best?
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# 161 Goodbye, Redbones

I woke up around 7 a.m. yesterday hearing a dog barking, I thought. I slipped on my boots and walked through the house calling, "Pogo!" I thought the noise came from my rat terrier who sleeps with me. Then I heard it again and realized it was a crying from Redbones, the sixteen year old beagle we brought with us from Virginia twelve years ago. He was the last dog still living who had made that move with us. I looked out into the front of the house and saw him lieing on the sandy ground. I hurried out to him. He was struggling to breathe and could not get up. His mouth was open, and his tongue looked dry. There was sand and debris in his mouth. I hurried back to the house to get a towel to put under his head and a glass of water so I could put water onto his mouth. Redbones struggled to get up but couldn't. I noticed a new pile of poop that was his, and I wondered if he had noticed my anger about his constant pooping and peeing in the house for the last few days. In retrospect, that was a sure sign that he was failing. He had eaten very little of his dinner the night before too. I called Tasha who was on the way to work, and she said she'd turn around. I wanted to put him down. There was no point in him suffering anymore. The little beagle's whole body worked to get him each breath of air. I began asking God to take him and end his suffering. This was a mistake because the little dog continued suffering, and I found myself growing angry at God. Couldn't He just release this little animal from his pain. It is a trap to ask God for anything beyond strength for yourself because you are most probably not going to get what you asked for. But I had fallen into the trap, feeling angry at God, and realizing while I was being emotional how other people had lost their faith after seeing other people suffer for very long periods of time with no intervention from God. Finally, the little warrior seemed to struggle even harder with his breathing, tried valiantly to get up, and collapsed into a quietness. There were two other hard breaths as his heart realized it was dying, and then he was gone. I composed myself as much as I could and called Tasha again. I said only, "Flowers" and hanged up. She called back immediately, but I didn't answer. I had hoped she would figure out what I meant and stop at a grocery store for flowers in his grave. But that's not Tasha's style, and she arrived with no flowers to cover him with. After she left, I braced myself with a vodka tonic, dug his grave, and buried him with the rest of the dead dogs.
Redbones was brought home by Hawkeye who hid the dog in his closet for several days so I wouldn't notice him. He was being abused by some fat woman up the road. Redbones had already become very attached to Tasha, following her on her eight mile runs in the country. I tried to get Tasha to get a concealed weapons permit and carry a short gun on her runs, but she wouldn't. Then I tried to get her to carry a gun if she wouldn't get the permit. She had worked for the commonwealth attorneys office, and I was sure no one would charge her. Then I gave up. Who knew, maybe Redbones would bite anyone who approached her.
My most memorable moment with Bones came one afternoon up in Virginia. A couple walked by with its chow, a big, black dog. The chow saw me by the house and came toward me. I picked up a lawn chair and folded it to use as a weapon if necessary. The couple looked over as if they could care less about what their precious little dog was doing. Redbones saw my predictament from the front porch, and he quickly put himself between the Chow and me. That gave me time to get onto the screened-in front porch where I had access to many things I could protect Bonser with, if needed. But Bones sensibly beat a dignified retreat from the big Chow and joined me on the porch.
What a smart, courageous guy!
Bye, Bones.
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President TorturesBabiesToDeath's "More Compassionate" IRS

I met with Rick today, and he said this: " I got the packet from Mrs. Walker, the lady who told me she was not the IRS. Do you know what the first line of the return address read? Internal Revenue Service! In smaller letters, the second line read, 'Taxpayer Advocate Service.' I don't think she is my advocate. The first thing she said to me when she called me was 'I had a hard time reading your writing.' If I had been quicker, I would have replied, 'You mean my printing.' The first thing out of her mouth was part of the process of bureaucracy grinding you down by pointing out your mistakes in the process when all you want is to address the rules and the legality of them. The bureaucrats work to make sure that gets lost in their process that is meant to dispirit you until you give up. You also remember how she hanged up on me without saying goodbye when I called to tell her I would be blogging about her. That too was the action of a bureaucrat who is not looking out for you but for his agency and himself. If she had been a real advocate, she would have said, 'Good. Maybe we can interest someone else to help you with this situation.' Instead, she hangs up on me without a good-bye. This is the action of a rude IRS agent, not the action of your advocate.
This weekend I almost decided not to fill our her form. Remember, the purpose of the form is to show that I have so little money that I can't afford for the $150 to be taken out. In other words, take off your cap, and scrape, bow, and grovel in front of us until we hypocritical brownshirts making $50,000 to $100,000 a year tell you that you who are trying to survive on less than $10,000 a year can, of course, pay $150 a month for your ex-wife's back taxes, penalties, and interest. I was about to tell Ms. Walker to forget her poverty form, but two things stopped me. First, when I mentioned fighting this IRS levy on a legal basis, she quickly told me that I didn't have a case because joint returns were sent in. So what? Is she and the IRS so naieve that they think a husband and wife carry the tax return together to the post office and together drop it into the mail chute? If tax law is that you are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent, and that is supported by the Constitution and precedents, I can deal with that. Except the other thing is that I don't have the $350 for the filing fee in federal court. There's a poverty form for that too, but how do I know I qualify? How do I know the IRS won't make sure I don't qualify? So getting to federal court is questionable. I then decided to play the bureaucrats' game and fill out the IRS poverty form Ms. Walker sent me. However, I did write this to Ms. Walker, Congressman Cliff Stearns, and Congressional Caseworker Jean Clough:" Using my Black's Law Dictionary and a more up to date edition, I have ascertained that Florida is not a community property state but is a common law state. My Black's states: 'Under a community property system, one-half of the earnings of each spouse is considered owned by the other spouse." But as Florida is a common law state system, Black's states, 'In a common law system, each spouse owns whatever he or she earns.' Thus, it is patently clear that what my wife earned was hers, and I cannot be legally taxed for it. There is an urgency to this because I need my $250 stimulus check for foot orthotics. If something is not done by you, I am certain that the IRS will steal this check."
I think Rick is making good points and could think of nothing I would do differently.
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#159 President TorturesBabiesToDeath's "More Compassionate" IRS

It finally dawned on me to look up "community property" in my old Black's Law Dictionary. I then checked it against Edition 8 for accuracy when I went to the library. My edition checks out fine and is much more complete. It says, "Community Propety. Property owned in common with a husband and wife each having an undivided one-half interest by reason of their marital status. The nine states with community propety systems are Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and Wisconsin (with adoption of the Uniform Marital Property Act, The rest of the states are classified as comon law property jurisdictions. The difference between common law and community property systems centers around the property rights possessed by married persons. In a common law system, each spouse owns whatever he or she earns. Under a community property system, one-half of the earnings of each spouse is considered owned by the other spouse."
I will call Rick about this. It is patently clear that he never owned any of the money his wife made as they lived in Florida, a common law state not a community property state. Therefore, if he never owned anything his wife made, how can he be taxed for any of it? Legally he can't, but then as the Demonrats keep telling us, Obama won, and this is no longer the United States of America but a banana republic with a generalissimo. Something else bothers me. You remember when Jean Clough said her IRS laison said Rick would probably get stuck with the $150 theft from his Social Security check because he "benefited" from his wife's employment. The IRS advocate has said nothing of this, and I'm wondering if they plan to wear Rick out filling out IRS forms and making appeals, and then hit him with the "You've benefitted from her employment" hoping that by then he will be too exhausted to fight that little trick too. Rick needs to address that soon.
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#157 Obama's "More Compassionate" IRS

I have an update on how Rick is faring with the IRS and will use the first-person to relate it: "I got a call from Jean Clough, the caseworker for Congressman Cliff Stearns. She had received the packet I sent her and called the congressional laison. This person told her that at first glance, prima facie for those who speak Latin, she would uphold the IRS decision to take $150 out of my monthly Social Security check because I benefited from my wife's earnings. That tossed me back for a few days until I asked myself 'What benefits?" Therefore, I began making a list of benefits. Halving the mortgage and house insurance payment would have been about $600 back in 2005 and 2006. My wife and I were not getting along, and I think she was seeing someone else then so she was not spending money on me. In fact, I had a friend in her seventies who bought me groceries on Saturday, and we used her car to do our errands each day. So I wasn't getting a car, gas, or very much food from my wife, Calamity. I'm still thinking about the benefits I got, but they do no add up to a lot. I'm in the range of 10,000 a year, and I don't think a single person pays income taxes on $10,000. In fact, he may receive an Earned Income Tax Credit check at that level of poverty. I'm not sure. I worked the EITC calculator on the Internet at $15,000, and I didn't qualify. The congressional laison said she would send Jean Clough a written decision.
I just got a call from a Mrs. Walker with the Tax Advocacy Center in Jacksonville, Florida. She was going to work from the perspective that I had too many expenses to justify the IRS taking $150 dollars out of my check. Mrs. Walker was going to send me some forms and wanted copies of everything I had sent out. I asked her, ' So first you are going to try to stop the IRS on a compassionate basis, and then you are going to try to stop them on a legal basis?'
'Oh, no. You filed joint returns. There's nothing legal you can do about it.'
'I didn't sign any returns except one about 18 years ago. What happened then was that I discovered that Calamity hadn't filed a tax return in the past three years, and I insisted that we go H.R. Block and filed a return for that year. Her response was 'What do you care? We'll probably be divorced by then?' I insisted, and we filed a resturn (as well as me getting in touch with the IRS about the past three years. I think I remember filing that return.'
Mrs. Walker asked, 'Can you prove that?'
'I have to prove I'm not guilty. I'm not innocent until proven guilty?'
'Not for taxes.'
'Okay, I can handle that. I can go to federal court, and I think my ex-wife is truthful enough to testify that I did not sign those returns (If she isn't, I think her Green Beret boyfriend would be very disappointed. I think his sense of honor is real unlike the everyday worms I deal with.)
'Well, let's not go to court yet. I will call Jean Clough, send you the forms, and then within two or three weeks of receiving them, I should have an answer.'
'Okay, it's just that Obama is sending us a check for $250, and the IRS is going to take that (if something isn't done soon.)'
Next, I called Jean Clough and learned that the congressional lasion had referred me case to Mrs. Walker. Mrs. Walker just called me out of the blue, not saying how she learned of my problem. I also called Mrs. Walker back to tell her she would become a feature of my blog. She said she couldn't read or comment about my blog. I asked her to call me if I said anything untrue. For her edification, I want to state here that everything I state is not a quote but a paraphrasing. I don't claim to have perfect recall. She didn't sound happy to hear she was going to be blogged about and hanged up without a 'goodbye.' A pity too because she had been so sweet and respectful. That's where I am with my IRS problem, Two-Guns."
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#156 "The Wrestler"

Last night, I watched the DVD "The Wrestler." Having listened to talk show host, Michael Savage, I anticipated seeing the wrestler making a comeback as Savage said he did. That was not established in the movie at all, but if you were a optimistic person you could say that the wrestler survived the jump he made - he didn't die from the heart attack he seemed to be having - and he made a stable, intimate relationship with the stripper who helped him form a stable, intimate relationship with his estranged daughter. I say that's what happened because he was so physically strong, but that is not what the film said as Savage claimed. I'm disappointed in you, Michael Savage. It was a great film, and I tried to get Tasha interested in seeing it as her public persona and her true self are very different just as the wrestler's and the stripper's were. Ironically, I was trying to sell Tasha on seeing the video just as she was ordering cuts of meat and cheese in the deli section of a Wal-Mart. That's where a great scene occurs with a demanding, slightly malicious old lady and the wrestler who is working part-time in the deli.
There is definitely a turkey hen nesting on our property where it borders the lane. I saw her running off when I came down to feed and water the horses and goats three days ago.
She's been doing this for years, and I have had to make the hard decision of whom do I support and nurture - the hen turkey or the feral cats. I have decided in favor of the turkey, and it is not only she but Hawkeye tells me that there are at least four other hens nesting on the abandoned railroad bed behind our property. Since cats and turkeys are mutually exclusive, I have decided to take actions by chasing away the cats. Two nights ago, I put on my Snakeguardz leggings and my headlamp and went out on the property after feeding and watering the horses and goats. I picked up the eyes of two raccoons and a deer. One coon went up a huge tree, and as I approached the tree, the other coon broke to my left, running away.
I also picked up the eyes of a white cat, and chased him away too, putting on three stalks until he disappeared. Last night, I saw nothing until I returned to the corral and found the white cat there, apparently coming in to eat the horse feed. He must be very hungry. Again, I drove him away, putting on several stalks until he finally disappeared from my light. This is hard action, but it is necessary if I want the turkey hens and their poults to survive. I continue to feed the feral cats off-propety, away from the turkeys, but I don't if this white cat is able to eat there. I have heard cats fighting near the feeding spot.
Talking about hard action, I want to ask a white person who voted for Obama to tell me why he did so knowing that Obama approved of killing a partially born baby and knowing that Obama championed the torturing to death of born, unwanted babies when he was an Illinois legislator. How do you rationalize such evil? I think a black person will simply say he voted for Obama because he was black, and that will probably be a true statement, rascist as it is.
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW, at peternickerson12@yahoo.com or 352-359-0850.

#154 Rabid Raccoon?

I was driving home from the City of Alachua (Florida) when I saw two cars parked along C.R. 239 ahead of me. They had their emergency flashers on, and there was a gray fox standing on the edge of the road by the cars. I drove up and put my flashers on too. I stayed with the animal thirty minutes waving traffic around him and watching his behavior. He didn't seem fazed by people, stood motionless for many minutes, would lie down on the road, then sit up and eventually arch his head way back and open his mouth, and then walk about twenty feet where he proceeded to repeat the same. The remaining Hare Krishna and I both called the police and soon after my call, an officer appeared. He walked up to the fox with impunity. By then I had noticed that two thin streams of blood had either come out of the fox's mouth or nose, so I warned the officer. The officer then found a long stick and pushed the fox off the road. The poor animal walked into the high grass and was gone. The first Hare Krishna said that she had just seen another fox act like this fox a few days before. "He was lying on the side of the road, and suddenly got up and took off," she said. I suspect rabies since the behavior was so odd.
This makes my fourth 911 call in about the same number of months. I had blogged about the first two, and the third came when I saw a blonde girl about ten years old, running along 441 in High Springs. Each time a car passed, she would look at it. I thought it wouldn't be long before some pervert came along and pulled over to offer her a ride, so I called 911, asking them to send over a cop to ask her what was wrong.
For about a month, I have had two arrows lost out on the range. Last week, I happened to look at a line an armadillo had plowed into the leaves as he searched for bugs. I followed the line with my eyes and saw an arrow that he had pushed up from beneath the leaves. Armadillos will also eat eggs and young animals, and I am sure they are one reason Florida no longer has the abundant quail and rabbit populations it used to enjoy.
For years, I have seen a turkey hen nest just off our lane, on our property. I saw her the second time this spring. Even though I love cats, I have to decide it I should help the hen turkey raise her brood again this year or help the cats by feeding them on our property. They are mutually exclusive choices. I'm deciding right now that I will make a determined effort to consistently drive off the cats when I pick them up at night with a headlamp and put corn on the lane for the turkey hen. I will put food for the cats off-property. Tasha and I helped a mother feral cat raise her three kittens by putting out food for them over the span of about a year, but they can find the food that I will put out off-property for them. We have a new set of neighbors for the turkey hen to contend with this year. They drive on the lane a lot, and more importantly, they have a big red dog who now only runs the lane but runs in the cattle pasture next door. The dog is a big threat to a the hen and her brood. I may start chasing him away when he comes on the part of the lane that we own. By law, he's supposed to be leashed. He goes by the Starling's trailer all the time, and they are showing their hypocrisy by not taking his picture and reporting him like they did our dogs. It shows they did it with our dogs only to be hateful toward us. Remember how Shadow, the black lab, jumped out of Tasha's truck on the lane, and before Tasha could get him back into the truck, Sheri Starling got a picture of him "being loose" and called Alachua County Animal Control? Also, remember how the robotic brown-shirt fined us $100 for the dog momentarily jumping out of the truck on a private lane? Isn't big government grand?
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com

Fishing With My Son

I went fishing with my son Jon on Lochloosa lake. Jon knew the fish were spawning and where to find them. He is one of the most knowledgeable and succcessful freshwater fisherman in the area. Jon called me and asked if I wanted to go fishing, I of course said yes. We agreed to meet at 2 pm. When Jon picked me up at the dock he had already been fishing for a couple hours. He said he knew where the fish are and off we went across the lake. We came off of plane and idled into some thick grass where I met one of Jons fishing Buddies Tom who was fishing in his canoe that he has had for 30 years. We fished with no bobbers or weights just a line, a hook, and a shrimp. The specks were laying there eggs under the grass and would bite the shrimp when it landed on there beds to protect there nest. We ended up catching around 40 specks and ended the day with a few drinks.

#152 Our "Compassionate" IRS, part three

Today has been a frustrating one as I've rummaged through clutter trying to get organized. I did get the the box mailed back to Hydrolyze, but it cost me $6.20. That makes almost $20 I have spent for one application of an ointment to get rid of the bags under my eyes. Vanity! Remember Hydrolyze lies: it is not free for the shipping will cost. I then called Rick who was trying to get the packet of information that Jean Clough, the caseworker for Congressman Cliff Stearns wanted. He had received a call from Jean Friday, and she was very careful not to even discuss law as she didn't want to be interpreted as being a lawyer. If I ever ran for office, one plank of my platform would be that I would work for the individual to have the liberty of appointing anyone he wanted to represent him in court. He wouldn't be limited to lawyers who had passed the bar exam because such people are usually too expensive for us poor people. Yet there are people who haven't passed the bar such a former jailhouse lawyers, who could represent you in court for very little. Nothing is worse than representing yourself for the simple reason that you can't testify. If my daughter could have been my representative in court, and I could have testified against the Stouts' and the Starlings' testimony, the whole thing would have been very different. Rick finally found and gathered all the papers Jean Clough wanted and left the house for the library to make copies. As he drove he wondered if he were just unorganized or was Mr. Alzheimer playing a role. As if to answer him, he then recalled that he probably had not brought Jean's permission form to contact the IRS with him.. When he got to the library, Rick found that indeed he hadn't. He's not sure where he put it either.
On Friday, Rick called Jean back to let her know that I was blogging about this problem with the IRS stealing $145.50 from his Social Security check each month. When he told her that meant her, she seemed surprised, but then said something like, "Well, it's all out there nowadays." She thinks this issue can be resolved with the IRS and advised Rick not to make his complaint to Federal court yet. Then he heard on the "Handel And The Law" radio show Sunday that in some states, there is a community of property concept, and a spouse is responsible for the debts his spouse makes. I hope Florida is not such a state.
Also on Sunday, I heard the Great American Divider, President Obama, say that the fact that doctors left Cuba should teach us that we should not deal with countries just in terms of drug interdictions or military intervention. I thought, "There he goes again. Our communist President is not going to tell the truth - that doctors and thousands of other Cubans have left Cuba due to the butchery and tyranny of the communist, Fidel Castro. Instead, he's going to imtimate that it was the bad old USA that caused the Cuban doctors to flee Cuba."
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.

#151 A "Compassionate" IRS, part two.

I've been talking to Rick, and he's really trying to be a fighter. He's sent a second letter to Congressman Cliff Stearns telling him that the IRS claims it has taken no action against him and won't until it "researches" his Innocent Spouse form. Maybe the IRS should "research" what it is doing. He included one of the two letters the IRS sent him that states this as well as the $150 levy stub that was on the bottom of his April Social Security check. He also tried to call the IRS yesterday but could only talk to robots. As he said, there's not much chance the IRS is going to change directions for one agent has already told him that if he sent in the Innocent Spouse form, they probably wouldn't raid his checking account (but the $150 levy would continue). Today, Rick called Congressman Stearn's office, but they hadn't even received his first letter sent over a week ago. Maybe Nancy Peolosi is having all correspondence to Republican congressman taken to the nearest dumpster. Rick was advised to call the local office as the worker there is the one who usualy does the casework. Rick called, left a message but has heard nothing back. He decided to try to find Tax Court and drove to the Federal Courthouse in Gainseville after the Toastmasters' Meeting. Now the last time Rick was at the Federal Courthouse, a Federal Marshall at the front door went postal on him. Rick said something about his cell phone being ruined if it went through the X-ray machine.
The marshall, an older man with solid white, thin hair ended up threatening to strip search Rick. It was totally inappropriate. This time, Rick took off his sunglasses and took off his camouflage cap as you do to women, your elders, and your betters. Rick has a commanding presence so he virtually bowed and scraped before the three Federal Marshalls to hide his true personality. There were three of them sitting at the front door, and they advised him to go to Social Security. Rick politely persisted that he wanted to go where tax matters were litigated so one marshall relented and escorted him upstairs to the Clerk's Office. The clerk has given him a form on which to make his complaint, a website to go to so he can attempt to find what law he is complaining under, and another form to see if he is poor enough to avoid the $350 fee to file a complaint. Then the marshall came back in, told him it was 5, and he had to leave the building.
I would like to say something about Hydrolyze, the ointment for baggy eyes. I'm no woman, but I do have baggy eyes, and I ordered some. You may have heard the advertisments on the radio. They specifically say, "Free trial" and "Try it free."
Well, it's not because if you don't like it, you must send it back, and the post office will not mail it free. Their shipping charge to you was also very high - $12.95. Caveat emptor- buyer beware!
In driving around with my protest sign "Two-Guns says big government is slavery," I've noticed that old male drivers will read the sign, and then hang back, apparently afraid of Two-Guns. No testosterones left.
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com

#150 A Fire Instead Of A Tea Party

I did not go to a tea party today. I have a pile of limbs about five feet across and three feet high that needed burning. Otherwise, it would continue to be a snake magnet. I had covered it with a tarp for several weeks waiting for a time after it rained to burn it. Today was the day, and I owed it to the safety of the dogs to get the snake magnet burned.
Over the weekend, Peanut, the little yellow lab and father of Rambo and Cowboy, died. Years ago, Peanut and two other labs were bitten by a big timber rattlesnake that I shot as it was about the strike Tanner, another lab. Peanut was bitten in the neck and as a result, he had coughing and swallowing problems the rest of his life. He died Saturday of a twisted stomach, a malady common in dogs with big chests. The twisting of his stomach was probably precipatated by one of his coughs. He was vomiting, in agony, and dieing in Tasha's arms at the vet's. So he was injected, but he was barely alive. I have been trying to get Tasha to give me a picture of Peanut for weeks now because he had made such a comeback from hip problems. Tasha got about ten pounds off him and got him acupuncture. But Tasha won't get me a picture. I don't think she likes me writing on the Internet. Control is very important to her, and I am very hard to control.
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#149 A More "Compassionate" IRS

I understand that President Obama has said that the IRS will be more compassionate. This is not what's happening with a fellow Toastmaster, Rick. In Toastmasters, everyone is given a chance to speak at every meeting, even the visitors. In one of Rick's extemporaneous speeches, he told of something absurd from the IRS. Several of us stayed after the meeting to talk to him further about this travesty of justice as we are Fair Tax advocates. Rick is trying to live on his Social Security, and this month the IRS took $150 out of his check becuase his ex-wife owed back taxes from two years. Rick was not even working then, and he did not sign the joint tax return. Yet the IRS is taking a big chunk out of his Social Security check and says they plan to do the same every month. Of course this is wrong. If Rick's wife had committed a crime, and Rick had nothing to do with it, would he be convicted for it and go to jail? Maybe in Obama's world, but it would be crazy and absurd. Rick has written Congressman Cliff Stearn but hasn't heard from him yet.
Yesterday, I wote "Two-Guns Says" on the piece of cardboard that supports cans of dog food ( I took the cans out and threw away the plastic wrapping), and I have tied that with baling string from a bale of coastal hay to the rear left headrest of the 4Runner. The sign is facing backwards so people driving behind me can see it when I lower the rear window. On the right rear headrest, I fastened another piece of cardboard that read, "Big Government Is Slavery." People behind me can read "Two-Guns Says Big Government Is Slavery."
Today, I hear that Texas Governor Perry just gave a speech saying that the federal government -certainly an example of big government- has become so oppressive that he wants Texas' right to sovereignity recognized.Great minds work in the same direction! I also hear that Obama has issued a memo to law enforcement everywhere that a person who is interested in a single issue such as the murdering of unborn infants - abortion - or the Second Amendment is a right-wing extremist and needs to be watched. Of course those who kill unborn babies, partially born babies, and babies born after abortionists tried to kill them are elected President Of the United States in this absurd world of dead-brains and death values.
I shall let you know how Rick fares with Congressman Stearns and also what the reception is to my sign in the SUV.
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com. Please report bigfoot and black panther sightings to me.

#148

Last night Gainesville (Florida) set a record low of 34 degrees Farenheit. Someone should tell Al Gore and the other global warming alarmists this inconvenient truth. I was watching Sean Hannity and his interview with Amity Shlaes, the authoress of "The Forgotten Man" (the taxpayer) and became even more worried about the direction of change Obama is taking us on. Amity Shlais told Hannity that FDR's economic stimulus campaigns - basically the same campaigns that Comrade Obama is initiating times a trillion- were worthless. She also said that Obama's stimulus bills and whatever else he calls his crazy spending would cause him to dump trillions of worthless dollars into the economy through the printing press at the Treasury Department. She said Obama will do this knowing it is the way to pay back the trillions he has borrowed (from China). The scarey thing is what that does to us folks living on a fixed income and the poor folks who also are living on almost nothing. It means they will be living on nothing at all! What Shlaes told Hannity was more validation of my hypothesis that Comrade Obama not only wants to destroy capitalism but also the dollar. If he prints trillions of worthless dollars and dumps them onto the economy, the dollar could become like the German currency after World War I: it took a wheelbarrowfull to buy a loaf of bread. Essentially, Obama would make the dollar worthless, and to get our loaf of bread we would have to stand in long lines like cattle at the slaughterhouse door to get a loaf from his brownshirts. There would be no need of money then. Obama would decide what you needed and what you got. Even the most ignorant and the most envious would realize this was not what they wanted when they voted for hope and change.
To get away from such a dismal person and topic, I will do a little crowing. Yesterday, I did something that possibly no person has done before (or cares to): I hit a clay pigeon thrown from a launcher on four occasions, breaking it on two, with an arrow (a flu-flu arrow, a type of arrow that will only fly about seventy yards).
Now, I was only shooting from twenty feet, but it is still quite a feat, I think. Your target is only about two inches long and an inch and a half wide, and it is whizzing through the air. Once I hit two clay pigeons in a row. When I can hit three in a row, I will move back about a yard. My readers will know that two perjurying cops and a very agreeable judge deprived me of my gun rights. I love to shoot, and in 2002 won a trophy for "Most Improved" at the Gator Trap and Skeet Club in Gainesville. Wouldn't it be something if I could make lemonade out of one of life's lemons and become a wingshooter with a bow?
I have some reservations about writing about what I do on a daily basis as it gives the perjurying cops and another couple, the Starlings, information about me. Information is power, they say. Hopefully, they don't read my blog, though they read my column in a hunting magazine even though none of them were hunters. Somehow, they found out I was writing for "Florida Outdoors" and started buying the magazine to see what I was writing. Some people have no lives. I am not being fearful without reason: at one point, the perjurying cops, the Stouts, had gone to court with a list of terrible things I had done. It was odd that they had never called the county sheriff's office about even one of these terrible things they claimed I was doing. Of course, you know why they didn't: I hadn't done them. One of the cops, Whitney Stout, was a sergeant with the Gainesville Police Department. That means she supervised cops. Did she tell her supervisees, " If someone calls to complain about their neighbor shooting thousands of rounds of ammunition straight up into the air (this is one of the things she accused me of doing), just tell them not to bother callilng the police, but just start making a list of all the bad things that person does, and then go to court with the list someday"? If that's true, what do we need cops for? It is also interesting that when we did indeed do something wrong - let our dogs bark at night- the Stouts were right on the phone to the sheriff's office which sent two police cruisers to investigate barking dogs. Dogs bark, and the Stouts call the sheriff's office. I supposedly fire thousands of rounds straight up into the air, and the Stouts don't call the sheriff's office. Even an Obama supporter can see the lie. So I do worry about the Stouts and Starlings knowing what I do every day as they are consummate liars, but having enemies, even rogue cops, is not going to make me hide like a rabbit or keep my head bowed.
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#147 The Wild Man Of Olustee (Florida)

Yesterday, I went on another Bigfoot hunt. I did not see him, but I did see one turkey fly across the road, followed by another who ran across the road. I also saw a crow. Back in the woods, I saw three men having a redneck conference, which is hanging over the sides of the back of a pickup. They were parked in front of a deserted homestead. I had passed two of them on their four-wheelers. I got out, and one of them said," I guess we should have warned you that the road was washed out."
"It doesn't matter. I had to turn around somewhere."
I asked them the Bigfoot question, and two of them said no. Then the third man, Willie Croft, said this," Have you ever heard of the Wild Man of Olustee? They talk about him up at the store in Olustee. That he's 6 foot 7 and has long hair, and lives in the woods around Olustee. You can see him running across the highway in front of you. About ten years ago, I was living with a woman in Lake City and working in Jacksonville so I drove through Olustee twice a day. I saw him once; he ran right across the road in front of me."
"Was he naked?"
"It was impossible to tell."
"Because he was so hairy?"
"Right."
The next step for this is to go up to the store in Olustee and see if anyone there has heard about the Wild Man Of Olustee.
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.

#146 The Black Panther: A True Story

"The Black Panther: A True Story About a Mysterious, Big, Black Cat And How The Government Denies His Existence" continues: In the early summer of 1999, I read in "Swamp Screamer" that when the Florida Game Commission stocked panthers or mountain lions from Texas into North Central Florida, namely the Osceola Forest just north of Lake Butler, several were spotted by hunters hanging around the hunters' wild game feeders. The panthers did not eat corn; they ate those who did. I have put out corn around the house, and doing so has made a big difference even in the summer. It has drawn many more birds onto the property. I have even seen an indigo bunting, a solid blue bird, and a scarlet tanager, a solid red bird.
I have decided to stop taking my dead raccoons and possums to other people for food. I've been using a live trap to catch them and then I shoot them in the head with a .22 rifle. Taking them to other people takes too much time, and the people are not very appreciative. I took one up to a black woman in Lake Butler, and as I took it out of the back of my truck, I held the dead coon with a paper towel. The black woman got indignant about it saying, "You expect me to eat that animal, and you won't even touch it with your bare hands?"
"Lady, I don't expect you to do anything. Do you want it or not?"
"Give it here," she replied.
I'm not going to waste time and gas for those kinds of games. Instead, I've started taking them over to a pine plantation about a hundred yards from the house. The Santa Fe River is only about three hundred yards on the other side from the pine plantation, and maybe a panther prowling along the river will smell the carcasses and come to them.
Cabela's is advertising a Moultrie feeder for less than a hundred dollars. I plan to order one and put it up at the Sandhill Hunt Club close to the Tide Swamp Unit Game Management Area where Wendy, the worker at the check-in station, saw two black panthers. I will try to hang the feeder where there is a lot of sand so I can see the tracks around it. That way I can tell who is using it and maybe even see the track of a panther.
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com or 352-359-0849.

#145 Seniors, Obama Will Kill Us!

Mere minutes ago, I heard Rush Limbaugh say that when Obama was in the Illinois state legislature he voted three times to allow doctors who had a baby born while they were trying to kill him by abortion, could neglect the baby until he died. Rush said the same thing last week, and this backs up the courageous reporting by Sean Hannity during the presidential election. This means that Obama already approves of killing humans during three stages of their lives: in the womb, partially-born, and fully born. If he can kill babies, the stage of human lives that evoke the greatest protective feelings of adult human beings, why do you not think he can kill us old geezers? We are not attractive anymore, and we look like we are scowling most of the time. Most important to a statist like Obama, we are a drain on the state. We are not productive any more. We are not paying taxes. Indeed, we are using tax money to sustain ourselves. To a statist, we are a waste. If a statist can okay the killing of babies, what makes you think he won't okay the the killing of wrinkled old people who have already had their stay here on earth? Presently, there is a doctor shortage in America. How do you think Obama is going to serve those who don't have insurance including the 15 million illegal aliens under socialized medicine? He can't serve them all, and he can't serve them to the hilt as we people with insurance are being served, more or less, now. Obama will institute rationing and cut services to us "useless" seniors in order to serve the previously uninsured. That is the way it is being done in every nation that has national health insurance. We seniors are at the back of the bus, and we'll be dead before we get off..I know that this may seem hard, but it is true. It will only be harder, infinitely harder, if you support Obama in nationalizing health care. Just listen to the stories of the people who have lived under nationalized health care. All you hear is one horror story after another. Do you want that for yourself or your family, friends, and fellow Americans? Forget Obama's lofty speech. Just remember this is a guy who okays the killings of babies in the womb, partially born, and fully born. The man is a monster, a wolf in sheepskins. What can you do? You can find Congressmen and Senators who are against nationalized health care, and you can contribute to as many as you can. I can only afford to contribute to one, and this month it was only $10, but the trick is to send money every month. It adds up. Your congressman or Senator will then start sending you a letter asking what you think about issues. You need to fill that out and write " No nationalized health care!" He will also have meetings and dinners. Attend them if you can afford to. Give him your support and advice. He's your fighter, your freedom warrior, so nurture and encourage him.
Again, I know that this may be hard and upsetting for you, but the consequences of nationalized medicine are infinitely worse. Act now because Obama is moving fast.
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Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.

#144 Global Warming For Truth-Seekers

As you may know, the control addicts in Washington, D.C. are seeking to take away much more of our money and many more of our freedoms in the name of trying to prevent global warming. Politicians have triangled in climate control between your money and freedoms and them. Children, "assault weapons," and public safety are also things they triangle in between your money and freedom and them to take away more of your money and freedom.
You may also know that I am plodding through Christopher Horner's "The Politically Incorrect Guide To Global Warming and Enviromentalism. The book is very interesting, but I am plodding because I am taking notes. Horner discusses the iconic graph of the global warmers, the "hockey stick" graph of temperatures for the last 1,000 years. The graph is called a hockey stick because there is a long stretch on the graph of low temperatures ( the hockey stick), and then at about 1960 there is a pronounced spike as temperatures got much warmer (the blade of the hockey stick).
This graph was developed by Michael Mann at the University of Virginia. However, according to Christopher Horner, Professor Mann lied. He lied by omission. Big time. On his graph, he left out the Medieval Warm Period which Horner writes is a well-documented phenomenon. In the Medieval Warm Period temperatures were higher than they are now (page 120-131).
Professor Michael Mann also lied by omitting the Little Ice Age, which occured from about 1200 A.D. to the end of the nineteenth century (page 62). There is proof that Professor Mann knew about these two weather events because they are included in his research data. But he left them out of the hockey stick graph. Why? I don't know, but it is possibly because he wanted to go along with the global warming mob so that he could advance his career. Maybe he wanted to be politically correct for the people-eaters, you know, the politicians who want your money and freedoms. That gives them an adrenaline rush and satisfies their addiction, for a while. Then they'll be back for more of your money and freedoms.
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.