Panther Sighting

    I had the pleasure of making a panther report to the New England Mountain Lion Sighting Board - I think that's how it went. I was reporting a sighting told to me by an office manager of a health related business. She said, in essence, " I have a new neighbor who moved from Massachusetts. She was taking her dog and her alpacas -yes- out for a walk and saw a panther." The panther must have been amazed to see alpacas.
    This sighting board is very nice. It has a very pleasant tone about, apparently undiscovered by the sewer-fingers. I was pleased to see several black panther sightings in it. I attended an Aududbon lecture by the chief game warden in charge of supervising legal fur-bearing trapping in Vermont. When he discussed panthers, called catamounts here, he always framed them in the context of "passing through." But remember, the state pays him, not the truth. He also said that there are sometimes so many panther sightings that there would have to be panthers at every corner. Maybe there are, but only long enough for a person or two to see them. They are hardly statues.
    I also had the great pleasure of seeing my first fisher. Vermonters are very excited about "fisher-cats." Its a phemomenon somewhat like the Floridians and their alligators. I had a medical appointment in Bennington which is only seven miles from the New York state line. After the appointment I went north on Route 7 to asee some of the area where almost ten people are suspected of being carried away by Bigfoot including a college coed, a 75 year old hunting guide, and a party of three hunters. There was a constant range of mountains on both sides of Route 7, and it was easy to visualize Bigfoot coming out of them and down into the valley where I was driving. After it was dark, I drove back to Brattleboro by way of Route 9. As I was going around Sears Mountain - I think-
the cat-like Fisher crossed in front of me, left to right, where the cliff was. When he got under the guardrail for the cliff, he felt secure, and stopped to stare at me go past him. He was chocolate brown with black markings on his head. According to the books, his number one prey is the lowly, slow porcupine. The porky attempt to defend himself  by keeping his quill-filled back pointing at the determined fisher. The fisher then runs around to the front of the porky to try to bite him in the face. Both animals keep turning and turning, but after a half hour of this, the slower porcupine has accumulated so many bites to his face that he is too incapacitated to respond. Then the fisher flips poor porky over onto his back, and eats him alive through his stomach.
   Peter Nickerson, Philosopy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary, peternickerson12@yahoo.com

Medicare Promotes Homosexuality !

    Medicare promotes homosexuality by not covering drugs for men whose penises do not get stiff enough for vaginal penetration. This is no small number of American men as stiffness can be diminished by antidepressants, blood control pills, and heavy drinking. I am sure I have missed many other contributors. Say you go to your doctor for this problem, and he prescribes 50 mg. Cialis, and you take your prescription to Walmart. You will find out that each pill costs $55. Men being men, you will probably immediately think, "Damn, if I didn't buy four pills, I could have sex with a gorgeous hooker!" Then, you may, if you are a Walmart regular, realize you don't have $55 just to spend getting yourself primed for sex. Who wants to get intimate with a woman if you can't do anything? How can you get intimate unless you want to be Bill Clinton forever, and what woman would tolerate that anyway? Who is going to want you now that you are passive, a receptor instead of a penetrator? Guess who- homosexuals! You'll fit right in -rather, they will fit right in.
    Almost all men have problems with becoming homosexual. Some have heart attacks just thinking about it. But men adapt. Think prisons. If men cannot have sex with women, a sizeable number are going to adapt to sex with men. Then think of the consequences of that. As man are promiscous be an evolutionary dictate, unless a woman makes them walk the line, the spread of HIV, and other STDs is going to dramatically increase. The damage done in putting penises and semen into the posterior orifice can be significant. All these diseases and physical damages are going to cost Medicare sooner or later in all Americans lives. I say it will cost even more than the total cost of Cialis if Cialis were doled out by Medicaid at say three a month. Do we really want to spend more money in Medicare while Medicare drives men to homosexuality? The rules need to change! Allow reimbursement of penis stiffeners now before you women lose your men to homosexuals and you children lose your fathers because they've betrayed your mother. Such a win-win situation will never be accepted willingly by the federal employees. It's just not their nature. You're going to have to trump them by raising hell.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68 (see the self-interest?) W&M

Rubio: Character Not His Crotch!

    I told my ex that I wouldn't support Rubio because he looked weak and like a little boy. Hillary would eat him up because he wouldn't dare to tell her that she and Obama caused the four American deaths in Benghazi because she and Obama would not send in reinforcements during the 13 hour intermittent gun battle. I didn't think he would confront her about her criminal behavior either in breaking confidentiality with her e-mails, jeopardizing lives of agents in other countries. No wonder our intelligence sucks! I predicted Hillary would make him cry. But now I support him because he is, by far, the best candidate of the three.
    Unfortunately, his recent behavior in getting tough with Trump has included little boy behavior. He's questioned whether Trump peed in his pants because Trump had asked for a full-length mirror. Then I saw Rubio on TV yesterday walking in the audience and observing that Trump had small hands and "you know what that means." How childish! In spite of adolescent behavior trying to attack what looks like is going to be America's most erratic and fascist president, Rubio is much more stable than Trump and much more pro-business which will create jobs. He is also much stronger on defense.
    I would suggest Rubio attack Trump's character not his crotch. Show that he is not a populist. Bring up how he attacked a beautiful, young woman who criticized his beauty pageant as crooked. He sued her and won. A big, beefy billionaire "winner" attacks a lovely, young lady over a beauty pageant. See the lack of proportionality? He's a very nervous, loose cannon itching to fire at anything. Bring up how he again sued a woman, a little old, probably not so beautiful woman, because she didn't want to sell him her home. He wanted to build a most important hotel and needed her land. He sued citing eminent domain and won. This is someone for the people, a populist? Absolutely not. He's for Donald Trump, and the people be damned! He's the winner, and you're the loser.
    I like many have been raging for years about Republicans having no - shall we say "testosterones." Rubio is trying to find them. He's still on training wheels so let's give him some more time. He's moving in the right direction. Just raise your sights, Marco.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of 68, William and Mary
peternickerson12@yahoo.com

Men In Tunis Joining IS

    Tunisia reportedly has a high standard of living, but men are joining the Islamic State at two to three times the rate of other African nations that have a much lower standard of living, the WSJ reported today. Isn't this a paradox? Only if you believe the "root cause" of terrorism is only poverty. I was having coffee with a beautiful Ph.D. in English at MacDonald's one night when I objected to only that reason. Indeed, I stated the liberal heresy that the root cause was ideology. That earned me an intolerant and ignorant response of "What do you know about the Koran? I doubt if you've read any of it!" Then she put on her coat and walked out of MacDonald's. In that moment, she had lost a lot of her beauty which is good because I won't miss her so much.
    As I read the WSJ article, I learned that Tunisia's Arab Spring hadn't changed anything. One citizen commented that the cops still walked up to people and slapped them in the face, just as before. Money can't assuage getting slapped in the face by cops. So you have this situation in Tunisia: You are a young man full of testosterone, and you are getting slapped around by Tunisia's finest. Or you have this situatin: You are the same young man, but you are in the Islamic State being treated like a man, a heroic man to boot, and being given good food, a rifle, a knive, a weight room, military training, and sexual access to the women and children the Islamic State has as sex slaves. If you do well, you might even be awarded a "wife" sex slave. Tunisia or the Islamic State? What, in the name of reality, do you expect a lot of young testosterone-driven young men to choose?
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary

Cruz, You Lie

    So Cruz's latest dirty trick that we know about is that he altered information to make it appear that Rubio was dissing the Bible. Author Gregory Peck wrote that some of the most evil people are very active volunteers in the church. Cruz hides behind the cross and faith-based versus evidence-based people. It was repugnant to see some hard-faced talking head on a news channel saying the American people- the government- didn't mind lying done on campaigns. They expected it. I beg to differ. Cruz was lying to us- the government- while he was campaigning. That means that if he is elected, he will lie to us as the president. Who but Cruz, his buddies, and crazy people would want that?
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary

Pope! Then Tear Down Your Walls!

    So the Pope doesn't like Americans for wanting walls and declares Trump not a Christian becuase he supports international walls. But what does the Pope have around his little 110 acre country in Italy? Of course, walls. Is this not the age of hypocrisy? In fact, since the Islamic State said it was going to destroy the Vatican, the walls have been fortified with more shooters. How stupid does Pope Francis think we are that he says such a thing? Also, after pontificating that the Vatican was open to refugees, all I can find is that one family of four has entered the Christian See. So much for his Chrisitanity if letting refugees overrun your country is the criterion for Christianity now.
    I'd also like to know if the Pope's salary and the salaries of the rest of the employees at the Vatican are going to be taxed to reflect the services that the
Sharia-inclined Muslim refugees are going to get in his little country -all four of them!
    Good for you in standing up to the Pope, Trump. But do you really believe Bush knew specifically that 9-11 was going to happen, and that he deliberately misled us about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq because he was a cowboy who had run out of Indians to fight in Texas? You're loosing me, man! And I think you're the only one strong enough to take on Hillary, toe to toe, if the Democrats are so corrupt they nominate her over Bernie or my black lab, Maverick.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Classs of '68, William and Mary.

Trump: A Real Man?

    I was amused by the New York Times editorial yesterday sniffing that Trump's appeal was in the Appalachian Mountains as if only hillbillies who impregnated their daughters and anally raped out-of-town bowhunters were his supporters. Trump has come to the edge of cleaning the tables across America. Only as his statements are being analyzed for truthfulness is it becoming worrisome that he is not the real deal, not a strong man, but an impositor. The real deal does not lie over and over again like a Hillary Clinton nor does the strong man rely on lies. I had supported Trump as a protest against the corruption of America, but now I worry that a Trump might be worse than our present corruption. I am not alone in this. I just wish there was a more manly man running, someone strong who could attack Hillary, expose her, and a better vision. Peter Nickerson