hehe..i am a tad long in the tooth as well.my days of tripping balls are pretty much over.
8 years ago there was a fantasy ranch reunion show.an old school 90's rave reunion that i was all excited about and my ex and her husband bought me tickets (vip,limo..the works) and i felt soooo out of place.last time i ventured into the underground world of the young and extremely high.i was forced to recognize my time in that world ..was over.

basically i was talking out my ass.

and i am ok with that.

My family's ranch has had beavers living on it for many decades, and more than once have we had to deal with them in order to maintain the landscape.
Obviously as "humans" wanted it.
I was a kid when all this went on, so I didn't know any better, but even still this video was interesting.
Usually these science and 'did you know' videos give me a couple pieces of information I didn't know about, along with 20+ I was already aware of. This was a good one though, despite having specific memories of beavers with *white* teeth, (maybe young? different species?) this was a good learning experience.

JSing and Chaos made the two small leaps here that points to the interpreter as the responsible party to context. Meaning can be elusive to folks who have problems with critical thinking and with regard to 'racism' (the definition and intensity of this label range from arbitrary to anally-exacting considering the range of interpretation) there is no clear, consensual handbook...In the 00's, the word 'nigger' being so flagrantly abused and praised as it has become a filler-word in hip-hop and rap culture as well as a safe-haven for haters who love to toss the convenient label 'racist' around like skee-ball tickets, when they simply refuse to fucking think, or dislike someone, or are simply cunts, etc.

True racism exists but not on the scale imagined by the weak-minded and overly sensitive who both recoil from the very notion of certain words even existing (wouldn't the world be such a wonderful place if the word nigger did not exist and the world could all hold hands and blow soap bubbles and kiss puppy dogs?? Pretentious, American, WHITE PEOPLE have so abused both the concept and history of racism that the waters of it's essence have become murky. Chumps use the label 'racism' as if it were ranch dressing to refer to all manner of perceived evils of the world when their little cruise-liner of self-delusion drifts ever-so-slightly off course.

This. Seriously, if a Republican was in office right now, they would be screaming the same thing everyone else was screaming, that's he a welfare rancher, refusing to pay his federally mandated dues that Regan made last forever now...

They are so obsessed with their Anti-Obama message they are missing their best chances to score with the American public at large. The individual mandate of Obamacare, is their idea, it is funded the same way they wanted to fund it. If they were smart, they should be shouting, "we could have had this back under Bush Sr, but the Democrats stopped it twice, and they stopped it again under Clinton. They couldn't pass their single payer or government option so t hey went with our plan. We told them so, and the American people had to wait all these years for them to come around to our plan." They then could explain why they oppose the changes from their versions like going from catastrophic only care to comprehensive care is bad, since apparently stopping people from getting sick is bad in their eyes... For this situation they should be noting how the Federal government got the land in 1848, before Nevada became a state in 1868 and before Bundy and his extended family was grazing cattle on the land in 1877... and ages before his family actually purchased the ranch in 1948... after the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 was passed... and even before the BLM was formed in 1946. Their hero, Reagan passed, as Stewart noted, the right to collect grazing fees forever. Bundy is just attempting to make a profit off the government's dime without compensating the government back. They should note how he threatened violence against federal officials... which if a Republican was in office now rather than a black man, they'd be screaming he's a domestic terrorist, and when he called in militia to support him, they'd be screaming how they were all terrorists against the government doing its rightful duty.

The right's hatred of Obama has blinded them to the very things they would normally be for and against, just because suddenly a man (who's probably closer to the Reagan era Republican than any of today's Tea Party members are) they oppose is in office rather than one of their Tea Party extremist...

That's not my experience with them, and I did have one.
Sharp...yes. Stinky breath... also yes. Unwashable oily stank, not mine. He washed up nicely. EDIT: Maybe the oily stink is why the goat keeps licking?!?
True enough, like with most smart dogs, most of them are owned by people that never work them, and that makes for a neurotic dog. When given a job they understand they can be great, loyal, patient, and loving. Great for farms and ranches, not so good for apartments and lazy people. So, "never see the full potential of in the U.S." is an exaggeration, "rarely" would be a better word to use.

As for your look, what I'm looking for is removal of the insulting, vilifying, often outrageous and vulgar additions to your point. They make it difficult if not impossible to actually consider your point because it's obscured by attack and nastiness. Because you have gone so far overboard with that in the past, many of us here have little tolerance for it from you now, and may even read it into your posts at times. That means to avoid the attacks back, you need to make an effort to not antagonize others for no reason. Try reading your posts before posting them, and consider how you would react if they were written about you or yours. Also, perhaps consider that your mother may read your posts and act accordingly, that alone would probably make you look incredibly better to all, and make discussions with you more positive....at least I would hope so.
Your response here was a good example of what I'm looking for, you disagreed, but did so relatively respectfully....thank you. If you could do that regularly, without devolving into 'flapping your sloppy c*nt lips' types of descriptions of others and their ideas, I would never complain, and many others would be grateful.
Being nasty doesn't help your argument and doesn't make your post clever or interesting, it detracts from it and eventually from yourself and only makes you look bad, at least that's my feeling about it in a nut shell....thanks for asking!

I would at least try one, but I also feel there's a perfectly acceptable alternative in more natural ranching. Cultured meat is not too far off from GMO's, and I avoid those completely. Until it's thoroughly tested I don't think I'd dive right in.

I think it is kind of funny that so many people think "Oooh...Bryan Cranston is in it! So it must be good." Not only before Breaking Bad...but SINCE Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston has been in one awful movie after another. Before Breaking Bad: The Big Thing. Terror Tract. Erotique. After Breaking Bad stared: Love Ranch. Larry Crowne. Rock of Ages. John Carter. And he is not stranger to awful remakes of old movies either, with Total Recall.

So having Bryan Cranston in your movie credit is far from a guarantee of a good movie.

http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/history/la-as-subject/los-angeles-pigeon-ranch.html

You're argument seems to be if it's legal then there is little incentive to do it illegally. But just think of your example...The Bunny Ranch. I'd bet there is far more illegal prostitution going on in Nevada then legal prostitution.

"AMSTERDAM — This city's famed red-light district looks much as it has for years, with bikini-clad women behind plate-glass windows fluffing their hair or beckoning to passersby, colorful beds visible in the background as an unspoken invitation.

But things could soon change for the sex-for-hire industry following a recognition in the freewheeling Netherlands that its decision in 2000 to legalize brothels has failed to stem human trafficking."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324049504578543370643627376.html

It seems to me that that's how it works in countries where prostitution is illegal. In countries where the brothels are legal and regulated it's nearly impossible to force sex slavery, at least in a legal brothel like this one. The customers are not criminal, and most would not stand idly by and watch slavery occur in their country, and would likely report it if it seemed their prostitute was being forced. They are also inspected. In countries where it's illegal and immoral, far fewer are willing to admit to using the services in the first place, and so won't ever report the other crimes they see.
You might note that there are certainly not any sex slaves at the bunny ranch, they seem to have a waiting list of prostitutes waiting for the chance to work there.
That is not meant to indicate it can't and doesn't happen at all, just that in this kind of country it should not be the same issue as in countries that make sex a black market, and that fact is diametrically opposed to the message they are sending.

Maybe because I grew up on a cattle ranch, but I never got anything out of hunting besides food and more work piled on the many chores we already had.

I generally disdain people that talk about hunting like it's a foot ball game. It reminds me of the out-of-state hunters that would come in for sport acting all stoked and shit to kill something. They were generally ass-hats that showed little respect for animals or boundaries.

This is pretty common all over the place. When I was growing up we had dozens of "barn cats". They were just feral cats that lived in the barn or other structures on my families ranch, and inbred like they were Lannisters.

I have seen more than my share of 2-headed, 5-legged, 2-faced, crippled, or otherwise conjoined kittens in my day. At least one with every litter! It was like a grotesque toy surprise nuzzled away in every new box of cuteness.

Rap music is far, far worse than rape jokes for perpetuating violence against women. A rape joke gets told by one person, once. Rap music is used, over and over, like a mantra. Even girls and women singing about bitches not being anything but hoes. Over and over again. Till the words mean nothing and the idea becomes subliminal.

No, I don't mean ALL rap music, but I can't remember the last country and western song talking about a slut that will sit at the ranch with no panties on. Knowing she can say no, but never will.

There's a future we can all wish on our daughters. Mmmhmmm. Yep.

Hardcore. Looks like an Aussie cattle dog, smarter than hell herding breed, great for ranches.

Cattle rustling is alive and well-Nowadays it's not such the hangin' offense that it was 150 yrs ago but it may as well be-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/texas-man-gets-99-years-f_n_936841.html
*promote the Bar THC ranch!!