#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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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.

#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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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.

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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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com