I guess they must be eating well this winter, or their feathers are REALLY fluffed up to keep them warm, because lately the pheasants have looked like pumpkins with feathers! I’ve noticed a lot of portly, plump birds recently.
This particular fella and his friends were hanging out within 50 feet of the van as I loaded my video gear near Underwood yesterday. They didn’t seem too put out by the fact that some strange looking dude was working his way toward them with his camera, at least until I got pretty close. Then they simply sauntered off to the thick brush to hide out for a while.
Upon close observation, I think that the pheasant is quite possibly the stupidest of all feathered creatures, often nonchalantly walking toward speeding vehicles bearing down on them. At least they seem to be strong in number this winter, a fact I’m sure the hunters will be pleased about the next time hunting season comes around. Until then, people like me will hunt them with our telephoto lenses instead.
Once again, the cowardly Earl Pomeroy shows that he’s more devoted to trying to defeat Republicans than he is to defeating America’s enemies. While many on his side were calling for an increase in troop levels a while back to criticize the President, now they’re doing the opposite. But we shouldn’t be surprised.
You see, the cowardly Representative Pomeroy has always been clear on where he stands on this issue. As I pointed out in a post a while back, he voted against House Resolution 861 less than 24 hours before showing up at the funeral of a fallen Bismarck soldier, where he proudly looked all patriotic. This two-faced, cowardly liar had the nerve to wave and greet North Dakota soldiers and those of us there to support them less than a day after voting against a resolution supporting victory in the War on Terrorism.
The troop surge makes sense: let the rest of the soldiers in place in Iraq continue their operations as usual, while bringing in a force designed and deployed to root out the insurgency. But if we do that, then we don’t enable the Democrat party mouthpieces to cry “Civil War! Civil War!” But the fact of the matter is, they’re merely using this war as a means to attack Republicans here at home. That’s so cowardly, apparently Earl needed to be deployed back to Washington from ND to carry the mantle for the Democrats. He’s doing a bang-up job.
I’ve covered the text of the House Resolution in other posts so I won’t get into it again. Let it suffice to say that I’m not surprised to see cowardly Earl taking his five minutes to bravely stand the Democrat party line, trying to insure that our fighting men and women are not given the resources they require, hoping eagerly for a defeat to hang around the neck of a Republican president while paying for it with the blood of American soldiers. Way to go, Earl…you make me sick.
