Yikes! A UFO, Bigfoot, And A White Panther!

Several months ago, I was reading at 10:20 on a Friday night when I received a call from a public phone from a Mr. Thomas Hackett. He was cautiously saying hi to the people who were passing by him and was calling me from the Hawthorne, Florida area, just about twenty miles east of Tim Tebow's University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. God bless you Tim and onward Christian soldiers. Thomas Hackett had just seen a flying saucer right down to the windows. But he had not seen any figures in the windows. Years before, a friend of Thomas's had given him my black panther business card so he called me.
In response to my questions, he said he had heard of a Bigfoot in the area getting under the typical cracker houses and lifting up a floorboard to peek inside. He probably wanted to see what was on television! I am glad to see that the creator of the Virginia Bigfoot blog is using a super quiet camera he has been working on for years is finally able to use the camera outside windows that Bigfoot comes to in order to watch television. Unfortunatley, the gentleman calls these camera "traps."
This is the wrong thing to do as the word "trap" provokes the government and law enforcement to become involved. I had to buy a license to trap. Don't use the word "trap": just call it what it is - a camera. Again unfortunately, the Virginia gentleman is unlikely to take my advice because he is an FBI agent, but for the rest of us who don't want the government and law enforcement looking over our shoulders eager to charge us with a multitiude of hysterically overblown crimes and don't want to pay for licenses and don't want to have "trapping seasons" and anything else the government wants to throw at you, your cameras are cameras and not "traps." Don't get gulled into thinking you are being sophisticated by calling your camera a "trap." You're being hoodwinked! To return to my reporter, Thomas Hackett: This was the first report I had heard of in which a Bigfoot played Peeping Tom by lifting a floorboard though I have read about him looking through windows and even reaching through windows, including doing that trying to reach a child sitting on the toilet.
Next, I obtained the Holy Grail of panther reports when Thomas told me that in the 1990s he had been in camping in the George Washington National Forest in West Virginia, just across the Virginia border, when his friends and he had a white panther approach their campfire. There was about a two hundred foot cliff next to the camp, and the panther descended the cliff, screaming as he came. "We shined flashlights and could see the pink eyes. It was an albino," Thomas Hackett said.
Please call me with your Bigfoot and black panther sightings. I am trying to form a Bigfoot Camera-Hunt team to share gasoline expenses and fun. I'd like to do some night searching by vehicle in areas where he's been sighted. Also, day hiking in such areas to look for tracks and tree twists and to see if we can pique the curiosity of a Bigfoot or two. Call me, Pete Nickerson, please at 352-359-0850.

Reports of Tan Panthers in Florida

First I'd like to thank Deepcover for letting me know about a flurry of black panther sightings in upper South Carolina. Action in Florida has been slow. Last week I went to the Chiefland Walmart and asked two elderly gentlemen, white hair under their camouflage caps, The Question. One told me of three tan panthers he had seen in various spots in Florida including near Tampa. The other hunter told me that he had seen one panther, color not determined because he moved so quickly, while he was on the way to Cedar Key which is due west of Gainesville on the Gulf of Mexico. It is a frequent spot for panther sightings as the road goes through Devil's Hammock.
I also heard about a picture and article about a hunter almost arrested for killing the wrong kind of Felis concolor. It supposedly took a DNA test to save him from a major ticket. Don't you think this is going too far? It reminds me of the hunter who was almost arrested by the Canadian authorities for killling a bear that the authorities suspected was a polar bear. The hunter and his seasoned Indian guide had identified him as a grizzly. DNA testing proved he was a hybrid - half polar bear and half grizzly. He is called a pizzy. In both cases, careful field observation wasn't enough according to the government. You needed to take a DNA sample which of course if absurd and impossible. But Big Government doesn't care about that. It only cares about power - rubbing its crotch across your face. The "Wall
Street Journal" has been running articles about the ruthlessness of federal laws, particularly the ones applying to hunters and outdoorsmen. The answer for the increasing governmental oppression is to vote for Tea Party backed candidates.
Do it now before Big Government enacts so many ridiculous laws that no one dares go out into the woods. That's exactly what it wants. Big Government hates individualism.

Two Florida Bigfoot Stories & Two Black Panthers `

I heard these two stories from an Alachua County (Florida) worker. I asked him for any Bigfoot sightings by him or his friends, and he replied, " I don't believe he exists."
"It is hard to believe, isn't it?"
"My sister-in-law and her grandmother swear they saw one."
"What was the situation?"
"They live in Pensacola and said they saw one run through the backyard. Both of them swear they saw it. They ran for a camera, but it was gone."
Then a second story came to him: "A friend of mine swears he saw one on the main road in Hawthorne (Florida, just east of Gainesville). He was about five feet tall, with arms down to the road, standing on the main highway, just looking."
"I've read a report about one stealing chickens and appearing before a family in a mobile home just a half of mile from the pulp mill in Hawthorne. Apparently, they left because of it," I told him.
Recently I was having lunch outside and asked two other guests if they were hunters.
One said yes so I asked The Questions. His story was: "We put out a trail camera by a corn feeder. A black panther came in, and we got a picture of him eating the corn."
"That's very unusual," I commented. " A cat eating corn."
'I know. Maybe he wasn't eating the corn. Maybe he was just smelling it."
"Did you get a good picture?"
"No, just his head."
This took place about six months ago in Gilchrist County, Florida.
I received the second story at a grocery store. The lady, a sixty year old Jehovah's Witness, said, "This happened when I was only ten and lived in Maine, but it is still vivid in my mind. My father was a deer hunter, and we drove into the woods, parked, and waited to see if there were any deer. A black panther walked right in front of our car."
"How far away was he?"
"Twelve feet. My father whispered, 'Panther!' We also saw a bobcat and two deer."
Note: Bobcats are known to follow panthers hoping to get some of the panther's kill.
Having seen what the Enviromental Protection Agency did to humans in the Pacific Northwest, denying their jobs as loggers, by using the Spotted Owl for an excuse and more recently seeing what the EPA did to the farmers by drying up California's Central Valley to farming, I understand better the bias against recognizing the black phase of the panther as existing. Humans don't want to be prohibited from logging, farming, hunting, and developing through the efforts of the EPA to "protect" the endangered panther. I think this is another reason to elect conservative Republicans as Liberals and even country-club Republicans are more inclined to vote for utopian ideas that only make sense of an emotional basis. If people really cared about you, they wouldn't just offer emotionality but reasoned arguements that include facts, unintentional consequences, and trade-offs. Instead, liberals yell "Free games and grain!" and the ignorant yell back "Yay!" never thinking that there is no free lunch. Even the "free lunches" in the Western saloons were contingent upon you buying liquor. Conservative Republicans are much more likely
to preserve your rights to log, farm, hunt, and even develop in panther woods. Maybe a President Perry will take the little Caesar attitude out of the Enviromental Protection Agency.At any rate, the field guides need to start showing the black color phase of the panther. It's really ignorant of them not to and indicates that they are much too politicized instead of professional. Happy trails.

A Dog Overcoming Cancer

Rocket appears to be a Cairn's Terrier, and he is about twelve years old. He is a quiet, dignified little dog who is absolutetly irresistable to everyone, speaking generally. However, he is solely dedicated to his mistress, Tasha. Years ago she rescued him and a bigger dog, a collie-mix, from a couple. The husband was a troubled soul who claimed he saw dead people and had fits of rage during which he had picked up Rocket who was inside his cage and thrown him out the front door of the house.
Tasha was able to take the two dogs and eventually discovered that Rocket had Cushing's Disease. At great expense she treated it and got in under control. Then she learned that Rocket had Lymphoma, and he began cancer treatment at the University of Florida's small animal clinic which has just moved to a beautiful building. From what I can gather, a course of chemotherapy can cost $2,ooo to $4,ooo.
Rocket's chemotherapy went smoothly, and he is now in remisssion. But that doesn't always happen. An acquaintance has a dog who alerts her to her enviroment because she is totally deaf was treated for Lymphoma at the same time as Rocket. However, in the course of chemotherapy, it was found that the cancer had spread to the dog's liver. The last I heard the dog was still alive. The only time this dog wagged her tail at me was during her chemotherapy. Her mistress always referred to her lack of energy and enthusiasm as being "tired," but now we know it was cancer.
When Rocket was getting his last treatment, the doctor called Tasha to say that he had detected a heart murmur. This was almost too much for Tasha. She had tackled and paid for the treatment of Cushing's Disease and cancer. Now she was being told that Rocket had heart problems! She had no more money, and she had to tell the Vet not to
investigate the heart murmur. The Vet totally understood. Rocket's two week check-up revealed that his cancer was still in remission, and the Vet could not hear a heart murmur.
As pets become increasingly dear to humans, their health problems are going to become more obvious as they have such short life spans compared to us humans. That means humans must take into account the cost of health care when they buy an animal.
It is only realistic of a prospective dog raiser to ask himself is he is willing to give up a considerable chunk of his materialistic narcissism and self-indulgence to take care of his canine best friend. If you ever get into a position that you can not afford to treat your animal, take him to your Vet and tell him. If the choice is only to put him to sleep, it is far better than letting your pal suffer. Don't feel alone; there are plenty of people who go to the vet with the same problem. It's a very tough possiblity, but it's best you know about it. Your dog will give you a love and faithfulness that you will not find with a human, but remember that he is helpless and relies upon you to take care of him. Never let him suffer.

Conservatives: Don't Say 'Redistribution!"

It is commonly said that the liberals or those who think in terms of their favorite group du jour are more articulate than the conservatives or those who think in terms of the rights and dignity of the individual.I agree with this assessment and think the reason is that conservatives are generally the producers of goods and services while the liberals are generally talkers and are heavily found in such occupations as teachers, professors, trial lawyers, politicians, and greenie weenies. Talkers tend to be more articulate than doers. Liberals are using the word "redistribution," and conservatives are erroneously picking it and using it too. This is a mistake as "redistribution of wealth" implies that wealth was first distributed by the State, then collected, and distributed again.
This is not true and plays into the hands of the liberals who want to make the State all-powerful and all-providing. The reality is that money is first earned by individuals at their jobs or businesses, then it is collected through taxes by the State at the local, state, and federal level. After paying their armies of bureaucrats often very comfortable salaries, some of the collected money is given out as chump change to certain favored groups. The honest phrase to describe this process is "wealth is seized from some and gifted to others." "Redistribution of wealth" is simply a Liberal Trojan Horse. If you're an alert conservative, don't repeat the Liberal drivel. Say "wealth seized from some and gifted to others. Yes, it's longer, but it often takes more time to tell the truth than it does to simply lie.
Pete Nickerson, MS, MSW 352-359-0850