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theomaru · 7 months

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The usa is about hamburger. usa is about rock and roll. usa is about the first star wars trilogy. usa is about transformers. usa is about pizza. usa is about national parks. usa is about our friend the bison. usa is about big holiday meals with people you like and theres always a fuckin roast bird for some reason. usa is about root beer.

#THIS IS NOT A PATRIOTIC POST BY THE WAY.#AND YES I KNOW ABOUT THE IMPERIALISM INHERENT IN THE NATIONAL PARKS SYSTEM #I KNOW THE HORRORS COMMITTED AGAINST THE BISON.#DISCLAIMERS AGAINST TUMBLR READINF COMPREHENSION LOL #im not saying the usa is good im saying this is what its about. im not talking about the country

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goalhofer · 14 days

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2024 Colorado Rockies Famous Relations

#47 Cal Quantrill: Son of former Canada national baseball team assistant coach Paul Quantrill. #20 Peter Lambert: Brother of Chicago White Sox P Jimmy Lambert. #25 Jacob Stallings: Son of former University Of Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball head coach Kevin Stallings. #23 Kris Bryant: Son of former Winter Haven Red Sox LF Mike Bryant. #22 Nolan Jones: Brother of Iowa Wild G Peyton Jones. #52 Daniel Bard: Nephew of former New England Patriots player John Andreoli, brother of former Buffalo Bisons P Luke Bard & cousin of former St. Paul Saints LF John Andreoli; Jr..

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oneatlatime · 3 months

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Let's look back at my season 2 predictions!

When I got to the halfway point of season 2, I made a post detailing my predictions for where the rest of the season was going. They were delightfully subjective and conformed more to my hopes than to any legitimate foreshadowing.

I made 9 predictions (one per main character), and then I predicted three ways that the finale could go. I went into some detail in some of my predictions, so I'd recommend checking out the linked post. Keep in mind that I made these predictions before the Ba Sing Se arc started, and it shows.

For Azula, I predicted that she would be the finale's big bad, that she would be defeated, and that the Fire Lord would be introduced as next season's big bad. I'm giving myself one third of a point for this one. Azula was indeed the big bad.

For Toph, I predicted that she would get a subplot that revolved around either something she excelled at being challenged by an external force like those wrestling idiots, or something that she needed to work on that tied into her noble background. Once again giving myself a third of a point, because those wrestling idiots were involved and she did meet an obstacle that she beat by inventing metalbending. I correctly predicted the pieces involved but I got them in completely the wrong configuration.

For Appa, I predicted that he would come back after having many adventures and running into other sky bison. (What's the plural of sky bison? Devastated to say that I've never had to use it) I was right that Appa came back; I was wrong that he ran into remnants of sky bison(s?), but he did end up running into remnants of the Air Nomads, and dreaming about other sky bison(s?), so I'm giving myself three quarters of a point.

For Zuko, I predicted that he would be coaxed/dragged into being decent via a swordbending girlfriend, and that he would be redeemed by the end of Season 2. Hilariously, my prediction smashed Jin and Jet together, which breaks my brain a little. Also, he did the polar opposite of being redeemed by the end of the season. I'm going to give myself a quarter point, for getting the sword bit and the girl bit.

I predicted that Sokka would split from the rest of the Gaang and go on a multi-episode Appa hunting arc that focused heavily on his ties to his family. I was 100% wrong with this one. No point for me. Which is too bad, because I really liked the idea I came up with.

I predicted that Momo would do aerial reconnaissance for the Appa hunt with Sokka. I'm giving myself a full point for this one, because what was he doing in the Tale of Momo? Flying around looking for Appa. Admittedly Sokka wasn't there, but whatever, I need this point.

For Katara, I predicted some sort of moral crisis. Something to add some nuance to her world view. A good yet unapologetically patriotic firebender, or a downright evil waterbender. I was completely wrong on this one too, unless you count being talked into listening to Jet. No points for me.

I predicted that Aang would have to do some type of Avataring that involved delegating tasks to his friends, or putting his status as avatar first, probably due to unrest in the spirit world. This was by far my most broad prediction ("hey maybe the avatar will have to avatar it up" is a very safe statement), so no points for that. I was wrong about spirit world involvement, although I was right that his Avatar duties would conflict with his personal convictions. I'll give myself one quarter point.

For Iroh, I predicted that he would call on old resources to get himself and Zuko into a better situation. I got this one almost completely right, except two bits: I thought he would use blackmail or intimidation, when he actually used something more like the power of friendship, and I also thought that particular plot point would last longer than a single B-plot in a single episode. But what the hell, I'm giving myself the point.

All three of my predictions for how the finale was going to go were incorrect. There was no strike against the Fire Nation, there was no immediate dismissal of the eclipse as a possible time of attack, and there was no relegation of the eclipse to a single episode plot point. No point for me.

So, out of a grand total of 12 predictions, I scored:

3.91!

Ouch.

I'm going to be generous and round it up to 4, which is a third correct. Still ouch. I am less reliable than a coin toss.

But! I actually had a lot of fun both coming up with predictions and reviewing them. So I'm still counting this exercise as a win.

#atla #avatar: the last airbender #avatar the last airbender #if any of you play cards with me #bet against me

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historia-vitae-magistras · 11 months

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alfred straight up murdering his brother on accident just because he walked too quietly into the room is so fucking funny but how terrifying is alfred to regular humans? If he goes to casually throw some ridicously heavy thing he's working on over to the intern or whoever theyre not gonna get back up on their feet to chew him out for it lol. also... getting shot and squished by bisons still hurts like all hell right? does matthew start to get wary around him or is he just too used to it to be all that bothered?

Lmao right? I very much enjoy using these characters, especially fleshy loony-tune-style horror shows because good fucking god, it's funny. But its also very fun? Alfred javelining people into the water must be so fun. Alfred casually picks up Matt when he's on the sofa because he dropped his keys behind it. He will randomly rip up troublesome trees in someone's fields in the middle of the night. This is not a wholly negative, angsty or even humourous trait.

So for humans... not very as an adult. I think. Generally, Alfred puts his people at ease. He's handsome, funny, intelligent and friendly. Man has that kind of crooked smile and easy charm. The charisma, luck and social skills of the gambler and the grifters and drifters of the old Westerns if not the old West. When he was little and had less control because he'd get excited, I could see him getting himself in trouble and accidentally committing some violence. As an adult, I think he's much more careful around humans, and the only time he tends to bust out the super strength is to prevent accidentally killing humans. Picking up a car in front of someone getting aggressive will contain that person's aggression goddamn fast.

As for if things hurt, yes. Superheroes and Gods are boring for me to write about. I like making these fuckers creepy and overpowered sometimes, but I'm most invested in their humanity. So time to do the math. The average bison is about 816 to 1,088 kg, and the most recent record for a deadlift was 487 kg. So on the lower end of that, 816 divided by 487 is about 1.67; redeploy that as a percentage that's about 160% the strength of what's currently possible. I personally think this is why this dork is always snacking, so it has some effect on his metabolism and his physiology. He's not going to starve to death as fast as he should with that metabolism because there's that nation fuckery there, but my boy is peckish. So now that I've laid that nonsense out, I generally make him about 160% more resilient than the strongest human (yeah, my browser history is fucked, what about it?), but not in all ways because biologically, that would fuck up his brain something fierce cerebellum be whack big and I like my nerdy NASA boy. But I try to keep that 160 in mind, so it might sometimes be consistent? Maybe? But yeah, he's durable and walks away from a lot of things that most people wouldn't, but he can be shot, dropped, smashed, hit, etc. And his pain tolerance is limited because, again, that removes too much vulnerability and why are we invested in this nerd? Lord knows it's not patriotism on my end. Strong, but not indestructible.

Now with the biology and the physical aspect of my stupid brain's explanation of this yankee doodle dumbass (affectionate) articulated, onto the emotional and interpersonal consequences. This is a bit meta, but Alfred's perception of himself and his loved ones can reflect this fandom and canon. I don't know if canon makes them twins, but many people do despite some intrinsic differences in history, progress, culture and values. It's a valid take because who wants to lord over other people or think about being the superpower and the empire? And passport privilege, cultural dominance, and political hegemony are things that only come into play when we're online or in some sort of international situation. The world revolves around the US, but Alfred's 'first amongst equals' with the laurels of power is not his default setting. At home, he just wants to be another person. Abroad, he has to function on a different set of rules, and leadership, and that arrogance only comes out at certain points. He wants to be human, he wants to be loved, he wants to be normal. And it hurts his fucking feelings to be reminded he isn't, that it is lonely at the top, that no matter how similar, the Trudeau quote applies.

Matt's used to him, and Alfred's reasonably careful, but the gulf between them, Alfred's ability to just steamroll him if he wanted to (even if Matt would give him a hell of a fight) does leave its marks. Matt tries as hard not to show it as much as Alfred tries not to crush him. He's overjoyed about something and goes in for a hug, and there go a couple of subluxing ribs as he kind of affectionately slaps Alfred's shoulder like "indoor muscles! Indoor muscles, bud!" And its mainly because Alfred doesn't like thinking about being a weirdo, and Matt doesn't want to remind him. They want to be as equal as possible, but physics is a thing.

#the ask box || probis pateo #hws canada #hws america #alfred || o beautiful for spacious skies #matthew || my country is winter #alfred and matt || lonely boys with the longest borders #meatsack mechanics || the sociology and biology of nations

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sculptural-renaissance · 7 months

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SGU Week Day 3 (yeahhhhhhh, 3): Favorite Friendship

There are so many wonderful friendships in SGU, but I really love the friendship between Greer and Matt (sorry it just feels weird to call Greer "Ron" even though that's his name, idk why that is??). It's just so strong and genuine, and I love seeing healthy portrayals of masculine friendship.

I'd venture to say that they're the two most competent guys on Destiny's crew, but in my memes, they've kinda devolved into two lovable himbos who share a brain cell (but they lost it). Here are some of my favorites.

We all wish there were more episodes, right?? Here's an "episode" I made where Matt and Greer decide to capture a space bison, believing it to be a dinosaur.

Rush is there, too. He must suffer at the hands of Matt and Greer's combined energy.

See! They know stuff!!

OIL. [patriotic screeching]

They're so ambitious I love them

It is a dinosaur as long as you believe

For the oil [patriotic screeching]

And now for something completely different~

They know about dinosaurs and ghosts. They are very smart 💚

And just for fun, here's a little nonsense with guest appearances by Eli and Colonel Young. They're having a little too much fun with that Waluigi board.

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rabbitcruiser · 1 year

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National Bison Day

You see them everywhere — on coins, on sports team logos, and a couple of state flags. No, we’re not talking about the bald eagle. This honor is reserved for North American bison. On National Bison Day, November 5, an annual event that falls on the first Saturday in November, all Americans should reflect on the impact bison have as a part of our environmental and cultural heritage. Bison are especially revered by Native people — central to their survival as both food and spiritual inspiration.

National Bison Day timeline

1900s Bison herds severely reduced due to excessive hunting and abuses

Hunting dramatically reduced the population — leaving a mere 700 in private herds; even Yellowstone was left with only 23 bison by 1902.

1992 Native American tribes formed new group to share resources and help bison

The InterTribal Indian Council formed not only to return bison to tribal lands, but also to create culturally-sensitive educational programs and provide both technical resources and help to 56 tribes.

1997 Groups signed Bison Memorandum of Understanding

The first conservation agreement between an environmental organization and a diverse collective of Native American tribes agreed to combine efforts to return wild bison to tribal land.

2012 The U.S. Senate passed first National Bison Day Resolution

The Senate passed its first resolution honoring National Bison Day, which was also supported by various tribal groups and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

How to Observe National Bison Day

Sign a petition

Visit a national park

Wear your National Bison Day T-shirt

Stand in support of returning wild bison to their original tribal lands on thousands of acres of Native American reservations. Collaborations among certain groups are working to remind Americans about the important role bison play in the lives of native peoples. Bison are considered sacred and they are even featured in certain tribal creation stories. Bison have also been a source of food and clothing — providing hides for tents, robes, shoes, and tools so that people could survive in harsh climates.

You may not be able to get to a large national park like Yellowstone, but there are a vast number of smaller parks from which to choose. Imagine what it must have been like to see thousands of bison freely roaming the plains. Give your children a chance to experience the wonder of our latest national icon — the bison.

Many groups use this day to raise funds in support of bison. It won’t be hard to find a T-shirt showing your love of bison. Wear it proudly because it’s for a great, patriotic cause.

5 Reasons We Love Our Bison

Watch that tail

They've got skills

They're oldies but goodies

Throw a stone — hit a bison

Bison as symbols

If a bison’s tail is hanging down and moves naturally from side to side, the animal is relaxed. But when the tail stands straight up, it's a signal the bison is getting ready to charge.

Given their size as the largest mammals in North America, bison are surprisingly agile with an ability to swim well, jump up to six feet, and run between 35 and 40 mph.

Bison have always roamed in Yellowstone National Park as evidenced by prehistoric fossils found in modern times.

Herds of bison can be found in all 50 states.

The American bison is not only the country's official mammal; the bison is also the state mammal of Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

Why National Bison Day is Important

It's our national mammal

They're different from buffalo

They were almost extinct

President Obama, with the support of a broad coalition of Native American tribes, wildlife support groups, and concerned members of the Senate, signed a 2015 law making the proud and majestic bison our national mammal. This law helps to protect bison from extinction and encourages a return back to their native tribal lands.

We know you have been wondering about this so we're going to set you straight. Bison and buffalo are not the same. Bison are native to North and South America and Europe, while the traditional home of the buffalo is in Africa and Asia. At the height of their magnificence, there were between 30 and 60 million bison in the New World circa the 16th century. Today, there are currently half a million bison roaming happily across North America. .

Native peoples once lived their lives around the vast herds of bison that swirled around areas of the west and northwest, the central plains, and the southeastern U.S. Once pioneers started their westward trek, both the Native American tribes and the bison herds were seen as obstacles to progress. As the native peoples were systematically forced off their lands by either poachers or fake government treaties, the bison herds began to disappear; by the early part of last century, bison were on the way to extinction. Today, through the collective efforts of Indian tribes, wildlife associations, the national park system and others, bison have re-emerged as a protected species.

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alphaman99 · 1 year

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Donna Hammon

Do your remember history? How were the American Indians eventually defeated? The Federal Govt slaughtered their food supply... 90million bison were gone in 10 years time... then they were easily rounded up and some were slaughtered - " a deliberate strategy of extirpating indigenous hunting cultures" Remember Wounded Knee? Those who survived brought shame to the world to see... so the remnant were put on Reservations.... The Treaties were dishonored and now we are seeing the Federal Government is doing the same to the American's ... Welcome to the Rez! Wake up... YOUR food supply is evaporating. "A deliberate strategy of extirpating patriots? and excess people ( genocide? )

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stubobnumbers · 1 year

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College Football By State - Massachusetts

FBS: Boston College Eagles – Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts – They played their first game in 1893. They are in the ACC.

University Of Massachusetts Minutemen – Amherst, Massachusetts – They played their first game in 1879. They are currently an FBS Independent.

FCS: Harvard University Crimson – Cambridge, Massachusetts – They started playing in 1873. They are in the Ivy League.

Holy Cross Crusaders – Worcester, Massachusetts – They started playing in 1891. They are in the Patriot League.

Merrimack College Warriors – North Andover, Massachusetts – They started playing in 1947. They just moved up to FCS, and they are in the Northeast Conference.

D2: American International College Yellow Jackets – Springfield, Massachusetts – They are in the Northeast 10 Conference (NE10).

Assumption University Greyhounds – Worcester, Massachusetts – They are in the Northeast 10.

Bentley University Falcons – Waltham, Massachusetts – They are in the Northeast 10.

D3: Amherst Mammoths – Amherst, Massachusetts – They first played in 1877. They are in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).

Anna Maria Amcats – Paxton, Massachusetts – They first played in 2009. They are in the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC).

Bridgewater State Bears – Bridgewater, Massachusetts – They first played in 1960. They are in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC).

Curry Colonels – Milton, Massachusetts – They first played in 1965. They are in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC).

Dean Bulldogs – Franklin, Massachusetts – They first played in 1957. They are in the ECFC.

Endicott Gulls – Beverly, Massachusetts – They first played in 2003. They are in the CCC.

Fitchburg State Falcons – Fitchburg, Massachusetts – They first played in 1984. They are in the MASCAC.

Framingham State Rams – Framingham, Massachusetts – They first played in 1974. They are in the MASCAC.

UMass Dartmouth Corsairs – North Dartmouth, Massachusetts – They first played in 1988. They are in the MASCAC.

Massachusetts Maritime Buccaneers – Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts – They first played in 1973. They are in the MASCAC.

MIT Engineers – Cambridge, Massachusetts – They first played in 1881. They are in the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC).

Nichols Bison – Dudley, Massachusetts – They first played in 1932. They are in the CCC.

Springfield Pride – Springfield, Massachusetts – They first played in 1890. They are in the NEWMAC.

Tufts Jumbos – Medford, Massachusetts – They first played in 1875. They are in the NESCAC.

Western New England Golden Bears – Springfield, Massachusetts – They first played in 1981. They are in the CCC.

Westfield State Owls – Westfield, Massachusetts – They first played in 1982. They are in the MASCAC.

Williams Ephs – Williamstown, Massachusetts – They first played in 1881. They are in the NESCAC.

WPI Engineers – Worcester, Massachusetts – They first played in 1887. They are in the NEWMAC.

Worcester State Lancers – Worcester, Massachusetts – They first played in 1985. They are in the MASCAC.

The Awards!

My Favorite Mascot – The Amherst Mammoths. (But the UMass Dartmouth Corsairs AND Tufts Jumbos AND Western New England Golden Bears get honorable Mentions.)

The "Deadly Sin" Award – Springfield Pride.

The "Color Wheel" Award – The Harvard Crimson.

The "Best Town Name" Award – Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. (Home of Massachusetts Maritime).

#college football

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hedoughnism · 15 days

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If you have ever interacted with your state Fish and Wildlife Service, or If you have ever read anything with a large mainstream US based conservation NGO ( like Audubon or the National Wildlife Federation) you have probably come across “ The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation” ( or some variation thereof ) the idea is that conservation, at-least on this continent, is somehow crucially tied to hunters, that hunters provide most of the real support for conservation, either financially as hunting licenses, duck stamps, and taxes on equipment help fund state and federal conservation programs, or in terms of being an interest group, as hunters want wildlife habitat/wildlife so they can hunt, and that this is a great innovation of the US/Canada we should be patriotic about ( in a vaguely rural Red Tribe way)

To get a sense of what makes hunting in the US different from what is before, we have to go back to Europe, throughout most of European history since at-least the Middle Ages, hunting, at-least of large “game” animals like deer, boar, bison, and wild cattle. Was an Aristocratic activity, It was often restricted legally from commoners at all. ( If you ever heard the funny factoid about The Queen owning all the swans in Britain, this is why) . Aristocracy wanted to hunt animals, and this motivated them to conserve There populations, in part by restricting and regulating hunting to avoid the tragedy of the commons . We also see them maintain large areas of non cultivated semi-natural space as “ hunting parks” so The wildlife has habitat to maintain their population in , so they can continue to hunt them.

The last wild European Bison populations ( before reintroduction from captivity) belonged to the Russian Tsars and before that the Polish-Lithuanian Aristocracy, from the 13-17th century the last Aurochs populations could only be hunted by Aristocracy and then Royalty, and a number of British cattle breeds ( Chillinghan, British White Park , Vaynol, British White) are descended from populations of Feral White cattle kept as ornamentation and hunting victims on large semi forested/ semi-meadow parks since the Middle ages

I want to highlight this was not a uniquely European Phenomenon, for example, In China, the last herd of Milu Deer, in the late 1800’s , was maintained in the walls of The Nanyuan Royal Hunting Garden, owned by the Emperor Tonghzi. Eventually the garden was stormed by German Soldiers, and the only reason the species survived is some were exported beforehand from the Garden to European zoos. You can also look at the Establishment of Game Reserves for the white elite in Southern Africa.

As european settlers colonized North America, armed with guns and free from Aristocratic regulations, and eventually coupled with the rise of large industrialized populations in the North East, they engaged mainly in not the subsistence, sport hunting, or even hunting of pests your probably more familiar with, but Market-Hunting , hunting, especially unregulated and at industrial scale , for the sale of the animals body parts as commercial goods, Meat, Leather, Fur and Feathers from wild land animals were sought in large numbers by the general public, including in densely populated areas.

Elk and other deer, Geese, Heath hens, Passenger pigeons, Carolina Parakeets, pronghorn, Wading birds, Bison, Beaver, Fishers, american Martens, sea Otters, sea mink, trumpeter swan, Labrador duck, Great Auk, and many other species had There populations severely impacted, often to the point of extinction, by this commercial scale hunting for their body parts

Meanwhile, we started to see the formation among the settlers, at-least the Upperclass ones, of an American Identity in contrast to that of the English or other Europeans. This identity thought of themselves as tougher, more rugged, less civilized ( but better suited for “civilizing”, this wasn’t seen as in conflict, like how a wild tough man may tame a wild Bronco) than the Europeans, and was tied to the idea of the US as a Wild uncivilized land not yet altered by man ( and of-course the dehumanization of native Americans and the Denial that they have shaped and altered the land severely). Think of Davy Crocket, and Pail Bunyan, and Buffalo Bill. Look at The Hudson River school of landscape painting, and how it diverged from older European styles, the focus on wild landscapes instead of farmland, the sharp jagged rocks and landscape formations , the twisted trees and snapped broken branches, the dramatic storm clouds, and rushing waterfalls. It is nature wild, but particularly nature powerful and rugged, untamed and full of rough “imperfections”, this is how the US Naturalists of the time saw themselves and There country in contrast to Europe.

Now the Environmentalist movement as we know of it was really kicked off by Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, in 1962. That is when it went mainstream, when we see a greater focus on pollution, and the start of the understanding of different species as playing an important role in supporting a functioning ecosystem rather than being set pieces on the landscape

Before this Modern Environmentalist movement however , we had an older Conservationist movement, that was based in this rugged American Identity I discussed already. These people were “ Naturalists” , mostly outdoorsy upper class white men, who engaged in sport hunting alongside other outdoorsy leisure activities , There focus was on conserving natural resources, like Game Animals or Timber, so they could be exploited in perpetuity, as well as preserving scenic natural areas for themselves to hang out in and maybe shoot something in.

Teddy Roosevelt’s role in the timber industry is a great non-animal example of how these people see the natural world, he brought much needed regulation and reform to the Lumber industry, without which we might have lost all our forests and the US ran out of wood, but he only saw a forest as a source of wood, not as an ecosystem, so today large areas of federal/state land, that are in theory natural areas, are leased out to the timber industry to operate what are essentially monoculture farms, no more a forest than an apple orchard, but labeled as forests by the US government.

So these upperclass sport hunters, who recognized that the demands of the Market economy were unsustainable, put extreme regulations into place. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act, was aimed mainly at protecting birds, especially wading birds, from the feather trade for women’s hats, as was the first National Wildlife Refuge, Pelican Island. hunting and fishing regulations and licenses were introduced, operated by state governments, that restricted how many animals could be taken by how many people, Regulations on the production and sale of meat restricted Market hunting for venison, poultry and other meats for the table out of existence. The International Whaling Commissions Moratorium heavily restricted commercial hunting of large Whales globally, and among other things, the first National Park, Yellowstone, was note worthy for being home to the last wild bison herd in the US, with continued hunting in the park labeled “ poaching” .

Today the fur trade is all that’s left of Market Hunting of warm blooded native animals in the US and Canada, and even then it it only exists still as means of supplemental income and a hobby, not as a large scale industry and means of living.

So while the Conservationist of old were sport hunters motivated by sport hunting, their success largely if not mostly was due to being able to control, restrict, regulate and curb hunting. Including regulating Market Demand related hunting practically out of existence. The focus has been on how to control hunting pressure, giving money from hunting activities to the Fish and Wildlife Services makes extra sense in the light that they mostly exist to keep the hunters in line in the first place. If there was something novel about the North American Model, it wasn’t hunting incentivizing conservation, or even putting the wildlife into government hands, It was the democratization of hunting, while avoiding the tragedy of the commons, and the Near Elimination of trade of terrestrial wild animals based goods.

While it’s true Hunters give a share of funding to “conservation” larger than There share, it’s still a tiny share of the total ( 6% as of 2015 according to one study, likely decreasing, while they were 4.6% of the population in 2020 ( combined with fishers 18% in 2016)), and much of that is due to peaceful wildlife/nature goods, like high end cameras, Kayaks, or camping equipment, not getting the Conservation Taxed, additionally a large share of those funds would not be needed, or could be used for other things, without hunters , as they wouldn’t be needed for hunting regulation/support in the first place. We could also see great support for mushroom or wild plant foraging for income, or better yet, better funding from the general pot of State or Federal governments. But either way , the vast majority of funds, 94%, is already from the General public, not hunters specifically)

( This isn’t even to get into the ways advocate encourage damaging environmental practices or damage the environment themselves even under this system, but I’ll leave that to another post maybe, this is already extremely long)

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is based on the democratization of what we do with wildlife, and the regulating out of entire forms of hunting entirely. , as the general public supports conservation and protection of wildlife even if they don’t hunt, As hunters make up a tiny shrinking share of the population ( 7.7% in 1960 and shrinking since) , are not a crucial source of conservation funds, and a minor but large and growing share of the public disapproves of hunting, opposing hunting, and decentralizing hunting interest groups from wildlife and ecosystem management discussions , is not only the morally right choice, but in the spirit of the North American Model hunting advocates praise.

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bisonofyesterday · 9 hours

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Bison’s Big Cool April 2024 Art Dump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't draw much but then I started escalating around the end so I did draw a BIT!! Like these drawings of old world gods from a writing experiment that I may or may not eventually post here

(I don't like Poseidon's design I'm changing him drastically if I ever draw him again)

Here's also some drawings of my (persona) fashion sense that took way too long to complete!

And some guys from The Patriots that's STILL being worked on! Comicing is hard :(

ALSO I DO COMMISSIONS AT VERY AFFORDABLE RATES WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#bisonart #bisonfanart #Bison!The Patriots #bisonthecommissions2.5 #By Jove!#i'm not going to tag all the variety of mythologies those drawings encapsulate i'll just do that whenever if-ever i post it

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maximumparadisesandwich · 3 months

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WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE WORLD STOPPED TURNING: COUNTRY STARS REMEMBER 9/11

Sterling Whitaker

Sterling WhitakerUpdated: September 11, 2023

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"Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day?"

Alan Jackson posed that musical question in the days after the terrorist attacks that took place on Sept. 11, 2001, when hijacked planes struck the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon, while another plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.

It's one of the defining events of modern history, and one that no American who was alive that day will ever forget. We all watched our televisions in stunned, horrified sorrow as the towers came down, as our fellow Americans died by the thousands, as people leaped to their own certain deaths to avoid being burned alive. For that terrible day, and many after, there was a palpable fear and uncertainty about the future that Americans had almost never felt before — not since Pearl Harbor.

9/11 changed America in ways both great and small. It brought us together as a people in its aftermath, and then the hard decisions that came afterward divided us again, perhaps more bitterly than before. We fought wars against our enemies overseas, and we fought political and cultural wars amongst ourselves at home, the ramifications of which are still being played out today, two decades later. But that's not what this story is about.

Taste of Country reached out to some of country's most patriotic stars in 2015 to share with us their personal stories of 9/11 in their own words — where they were, what they were doing and how they felt on that terrible day, and how they think it has changed the world and their place in it. From those who wrote songs about the attacks to one who could have very well found himself in the thick of the fighting overseas, we thank the stars who took time out of their busy schedules to speak to us from the heart — not because they had a record or tour to promote, but because they believe that there's one thing we can all do to make sure we always honor those who sacrificed their lives on that day, and on the many dark days that followed:

Never forget.

Craig Morgan

I was out in the midwest. Believe it or not, I was sleeping in a teepee, hunting free-range bison. So the day of the attacks, we were actually out in the prairie hunting, and it took us all day to get loaded up on horses and to get back to where we were camping. It was late at night, and there was a note from the ranch owner where we were staying to come down to the ranch as soon as we got back, that it was very important. Of course, they were still up, and the media was still all over it.

We were just overwhelmed. We had no idea. It was actually into the next morning when we found out what was going on. As soon as we realized what had happened, we went back to camp, we packed everything up and we got in our rental car and drove all the way back to Nashville without notifying the rental car company, because I was still in the active Reserves.

I was confident I'd be leaving; I just knew I would. I was well-prepared for it. The unit that I was in, I received a phone call from the Army and we were activated, so I had to go in. But the unit I was in was not deployed.I felt like it might continue throughout the nation, so obviously I was concerned for my family.

I felt like it was not an isolated incident, especially once the Pentagon was hit. I felt like it might continue throughout the nation, so obviously I was concerned for my family. I'm very fortunate in where we live, because I didn't have the immediate threat that some people in the cities might have. But I was concerned that this might turn into a global event. And I'm not so sure it won't happen again.

We didn't think about terrorism then, prior to 9/11, the way we think about it now. Even young children understand the term. So it's a different mindset. What happened on Sept. 11 for me was just the beginning. I've since lost a lot of friends because of the acts that took place on Sept. 11 and our reactions to those acts. But I do know, in my heart, that those who are gone and those who have been injured, they did it with pride, and they know and believe with every fiber that's in their bodies, and their families believe and I believe that were it not for those sacrifices, we would be facing what happened on Sept. 11 on a much bigger front. I'm very humbled to think about the people that we have in our nation that are willing to make those sacrifices.

Clint Black

I was asleep when it happened. I came downstairs, and Lisa just walked over to me and took my hand and led me over to the television, and she didn't say anything. She took me over to the TV, and it was clear at that point what had happened. My heart sank.

I don't think I was feeling any fear at that moment. I think I was dealing with heartache. Depression. It was only in the time that followed that all of the possibilities creep into your mind. I remember going for a hike, and you know where the planes normally go, the flight patterns, and knowing that there are no flights, commercial or otherwise, and seeing the empty skies. If you know they're not allowed up there, you get it. No planes up there.

I read these accounts, these Green Berets who were retired or in the Reserves, somewhere out in the middle of the country, but saw that and went straight to their phones and called their former commander and said, "Let me back in." It makes me emotional, just so proud that they had that reaction.

Hayden [Nicholas] and I wrote a song just after that called "Code of the West" that was inspired by not only those soldiers, but the firefighters, the cops — all those who ran toward the buildings, all those who stood on bridges and so forth since then, who really are modern-day heroes. There's something really, really special about that, and it makes you — I don't want to say "proud," because I'm not responsible for those acts of courage — but I'm so heartened by it, and moved. I want the very best for those people. Look at what's happening with the cops. I want people to look at those people and give them the benefit of any doubts, and know that you may be safe and sound right now, and you may not have to think about those people, but if a plane ever flies into another building again, those are gonna be the first people you think about.

It's something we should all go back and think about. Never forget.

Aaron Tippin

I was at my outdoor store in Smithville, Tenn., standing there with two state troopers drinking a cup of coffee. I saw the second [plane] live, but I didn't see the first one. It was pretty strange to me, because I'm an airplane pilot, and for an airliner to hit a skyscraper in broad daylight in perfect weather sure didn't seem right. [Then when the second one hit], those two guys standing there, they hit the road, because they knew it was gonna be a busy day with a lot of stuff going on.

We were wrapping everything up trying to shut down when all of a sudden, all the neighbors started coming in, and they were talking about what was going on, and they moseyed on to the back to the gun shop and commenced to buying ammunition. They didn't know what was gonna happen. They knew the country was under attack, but I don't think hillbillies are used to taking things laying down. They bought almost every bit of ammunition I had on the shelves before we could close the store. I'm proud of my neighbors, because when it hits the fan, they ain't scared to stand up. I was real proud.

The fear was that this was gonna escalate, that it was gonna be more catastrophic than it was. It was plenty bad, but I think it could have been a lot worse. The most haunting thing that I've ever seen was looking at the sky and not seeing one single contrail. Airplanes could not fly. If you're a flier, that sticks in your head.

I didn't really wanna dwell on the fact that my country had just been sucker-punched by the enemy. I wanted to put a song out that said who we are as a people. That's what ["Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly"] is about. It's about recovery. We immediately began to bounce back, and we saw the pictures of all those flags up and down those streets, and you realized they hadn't by any means separated us. They just drew us closer together, which is a very, very proud moment.

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The song was two years old when the enemy attacked us. I didn't write that about 9/11. After the attack, Lyric Street called me up and said, "Aaron, after this attack we want to produce something for the families of the victims of the attack. We'd like to re-record 'You've Got to Stand for Something,' and put it out as a single, and let all of the proceeds go to the American Red Cross. Would you like to be a part of that?" And I said, "Absolutely."

Just after I got off the telephone, we were standing there watching the television, and there's a smoking hole in Manhattan, and the cameraman in the helicopter — I don't know what made him do it, but he'll never know how he sparked something. He turned that camera on the Statue of Liberty, and when I saw that, I said, "Thank God they didn't get her." And all of a sudden it hit me that this song was laying in catalog.

I said, "This is really the song I want to deliver to America," and we went out and got the players together, and after we did this work, not one single player would take pay. Not one. This is my Nashville guys standing up and doing what's right, and responding at the moment.

I walked into Lyric Street, and we commenced to listening to "Stars and Stripes," and we didn't even get past the first verse and first chorus, he had everybody in that office, barking out orders: "How do we get this song out to country radio? What's the fastest way?" It was a proud moment for me, because the music folks that I've dealt with, they're artsy and touchy-feely and stuff like that, but man, on this day I watched them be great patriots and stand up for what they thought was the right thing to do. I got to be a part of it and I got to watch it, and I was so proud. Everybody at Lyric Street Records put their best foot forward, and it was all about this country, all about our brothers and sisters in America.

Charlie Daniels

I was at the Tennessee Driver's License Bureau, and my son called me and said the plane had run into the Trade Towers. Like I'm sure 99 percent of the country, I thought it was a horrible mistake by an air traffic controller or something. I had no inkling that it was anything else. And when the second one happened, it cemented it in your mind what it was, and then the other things started happening.

It was one of the most confusing days of my life, and in the lives of all Americans. It was a day the world changed, and we started to realize how very vulnerable we had allowed ourselves to become over the years, and how very foolish we had been by doing that. There are people in this world that you cannot trust, and we had trusted people that we should never have trusted, and it had cost us dearly, and it was time for us to clean our act up and get back in the game and protect this nation, which we did a very good job of there for a long time, and I don't know — I'm afraid we're rolling back into complacency right now. I certainly hope not, but that seems to be the case.

You didn't know where it was gonna stop. There's the Trade Towers, and then there's the Pentagon, and then the plane crashed in the field in Pennsylvania, and it was like, "Where does this end? What's this about? What's gonna happen next? Is it gonna break out in California, is there gonna be something in Omaha? Are things gonna start blowing up around the country, are there cells here?"It was one of the most confusing days of my life, and in the lives of all Americans.

I found a cold anger that came over me when I finally realized what was going on, when the second plane hit and there was no denying what was happening. I got very, very angry, a dangerous kind of angry. Not where you get angry at somebody and want to slap them upside the head, but, "Okay, now it's our turn. There's no place you can run, there's no place you can hide — we're gonna hunt you down, we're gonna kill every damn one of you." That type of angry.

That is still the only solution to this thing. These people are either gonna die, or they're gonna kill us. It's our decision to make which one we want to happen. It was that way on 9/11/2001, and it's that way [today]. We had better dadblame well watch ourselves. We had better build our military back up, we had better build our intelligence facilities back up and start having some respect for them, and put some people in to run our intelligence that are not political hacks, because it's a very dangerous world that we live in.

Lee Greenwood

I was in Los Angeles. I went there for an agency meeting, a record company meeting, and my wife and kids were in Nashville. The boys were 3 and 6. My wife woke me up just in time to turn on the TV and see the second plane hit the second tower.

There's that moment when you know an attack is imminent; you get that second of adrenaline that rushes through you, and there's something about the fear of what's coming next. I'm thankful that the government shut down the airlines and shut down the airports. It probably would have been worse, although it's hard to believe it could get worse than that.

Our book that we released about a year ago, called Does God Still Bless the USA?, was sort of in response to that, and the first chapter was, "I'm Not Over 9/11." As we look back at it as history, I'm sure as we read about Pearl Harbor, and our kids read about 9/11, it's just a historic event. They recognize the magnitude of it, but they don't recognize the emotional impact of it. We were threatened for the first time in a long time, and I know that was their intention, to bring it to us and cause fear.

My first thought was to protect my family in any way that I could. Sequestered in Los Angeles, I could not get out of town unless I bought a car and drove, and the remainder of that afternoon was making that decision: how far do I have to go, what should I do? From a business standpoint we made sure that we canceled all the entertainment contracts that were impending, as would be expected, and then responded immediately to New York to Mayor Giuliani, through my management and offered our assistance in any way we could, and they responded within a few days about the fireman's memorial, and then eventually the policeman's memorial. We also sang the first game of the World Series, to kind of raise the spirit of New York.

It just gave you that same feeling I guess that my father had when he joined the Navy right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor: "I want to do something, and I'm gonna get involved." We were engaged for the next two years in many ways, singing wherever we could, talking to people, raising the spirit of America: "Don't give up, get off your knees and let's punch back."

It was a stark reality of vulnerability, and not really knowing which way to turn ... It's something America hadn't done in an awful long time, was having to raise its shield.

The only surprise was that it came to our shores. America's response to it was no surprise to me. I was right in the middle of it. The first entertainment event on television [afterward] was the Dover NASCAR race, so they had me fly in to do the national anthem. I'm standing on the track as they dismiss the drivers, and there's nothing left but the cameraman, who's kneeling on the track in front of me, and the director. I'm ready to sing, and he directs me to wait, and the jumbotron in the center of the field goes to NBC, and Tom Brokaw shows a picture of the bombs dropping in Baghdad, and he says, "America strikes back." And then the director said, "Now sing the national anthem."

Being right in the middle of it, wanting to respond as best as I could with the very little talent that I have, and just trying to inspire America, and then pick up the pieces. There's gonna be a lot of scattered pieces, and you just have to go along and pick up as many as you can.

I'm really inspired about Americans nationwide ... no matter what side of the coin you're on, people are really trying. They're trying to take care of wounded warriors, they're trying to support the military. They're moving forward with their lives, because they know this next generation deserves their chance and deserves our attention.

America will come to a place of somewhat normality. We are not isolated like Israel and constantly under attack. With America's shores protecting us, internally is what we have to worry about, and I believe our government will and has responded to those internal threats. As you see, 9/11's a ways away, and those threats seem to be random, inspired by the new threat of ISIS, if not Al Qaeda. We will reach another place of normalcy.

Country Stars Remember 9/11Eric Church

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Eric Church

"I was driving into work — the Shop at Home Network. I really couldn’t grasp what had happened until I got to work and saw it for myself on television. I remember I watched the second plane hit the tower in real time," Eric Church tells CMT. "I had just moved to Nashville earlier that year, and all I remember is wanting to go home and be with those I loved. I’ll never forget that feeling."Taylor Swift

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Taylor Swift

"I was in fifth grade, and all I remember was, they had us all get together in the lunch room for an assembly, and they were explaining it to us, but I didn't understand what they were talking about until I walked down the hall, and I saw all the teachers looking up at their TVs in their classrooms, crying," says Taylor Swift of her experience discovering what had happened. "People were getting their kids out of school, and I think it was my parents that really explained it to me in great detail, and it was just horrifying."Alan Jackson

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Alan Jackson

"The first plane had already hit. I was standing there when the second one hit," Alan Jackson tells Christianity Today about his inspiration to write "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)." "I didn't want to write a patriotic song, and I didn't want it to be vengeful, either. But I didn't want to forget about how I felt and how I knew other people felt that day."Charles Kelley

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Charles Kelley

"That's my birthday, believe it or not," Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley says. "I was in college, and it was wild. I woke up was getting ready to go to class, and I had a roommate come in and say, 'Man, turn on the TV. Classes are cancelled. You won't believe [it].' He had had an earlier class, and he comes in and said, 'Turn on the TV!' And we all got up and watched it.

"It was just wild," he adds. "You know, it's hard to put into words, but you know, I can remember it, and everybody can. It had such a huge effect on everybody."Toby Keith

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Toby Keith

"I was in my gym working out about six or seven days after the attack on the U.S. and got to thinking about how everybody’s written these songs about the sorrow we’ve gone through and how bad we feel about it, but nobody has put one together about how angry we are," Toby Keith recalls about writing "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American).” So I thought about my dad, being the veteran he was and the flag-flying patriot he was. He served in the Army. He did lose his right eye. He did come home, and he never did gripe about it. So that’s the reason I wrote the song — for him."Craig Morgan

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Craig Morgan

"We were just overwhelmed. We had no idea. It was actually into the next morning when we found out what was going on," Craig Morgan tells Taste of Country about finding out about the 9/11 terrorist attacks after a full day of hunting in the Midwest, with limited access to the news. "As soon as we realized what had happened, we went back to camp, we packed everything up, and we got in our rental car and drove all the way back to Nashville without notifying the rental car company, because I was still in the active Reserves."Miranda Lambert

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Miranda Lambert

"I was a sophomore in high school," Miranda Lambert tells Taste of Country. "I was in the choir, and I remember even in my little bitty town of East Texas — in Lindale, Texas — there was kids leavin’ school because their loved ones had been injured or killed in 9/11, so it affected so many people and so many lives, and it’ll never be forgotten as long as I live. I’ll always remember where I was and that feeling.”Lee Greenwood

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Lee Greenwood

"My first thought was to protect my family in any way that I could," says Lee Greenwood, adding that he and his team quickly reached out to New York to lend his support and the use of his beloved song, "God Bless the U.S.A." "[We] responded immediately to New York, to Mayor Giuliani, through my management, and offered our assistance in any way we could, and they responded within a few days about the fireman’s memorial, and then eventually the policeman’s memorial."Sara Evans

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Sara Evans

“I was in Venice, Italy, on 9/11. Such a strange and scary experience to have been in a foreign country when my home was under attack," says Sara Evans. "I'll never forget finally being able to get my mother on the phone! We both cried at hearing each other's voice! I didn't know when, if ever, I would get home again."Martina McBride

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Martina McBride

"I was at home in Nashville, and my husband called me on the phone and said, ‘You need to turn on the TV because you’re not gonna believe what’s happened,'" Martina McBride recounts to CMT. "So I ran out and turned on the television, and he said he was coming home. He came home, and we sat there for about the next three or four hours just completely in shock and watching everything happen like the rest of the nation did that day.

"This was really the first event in my lifetime that happened that made me really realize the pride that I have in being an American and being part of this amazing country," she adds.Ronnie Dunn

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Ronnie Dunn

"The event in New York occurred on the 11th, and I believe we had a show on the 13th or 14th," says Ronnie Dunn of performing "Only in America" just days after the attacks. "About 30 minutes before the show, it hit me that the first line in the show is, 'Sun comin’ up over New York City.' The crowd was so loud every occasion that we did it that we had to stop. Then we went on after that, and then the audience was a sea of American flags."Gary Allan

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Gary Allan

Gary Allan had performed in Switzerland on Sept. 10, 2001, and flew to London, England, on Sept. 11. He tells The Boot that he was doing an interview on the BBC when he first learned what was going on, and got stuck in London for two weeks waiting to be allowed to fly home.

"I thought it was very interesting to be in another country when something went so wrong with our country because I didn't realize the American slant we get to our news," Allan remembers. "We don't ever hear all the stuff we did to cause things; we're just like, 'Oh my gosh, we got bombed!' But hearing another country talk about all the things that Carter did and Reagan did and some things to bring this thing full-circle was very interesting, but it was also very scary to not be home when things were going wrong."Charlie Daniels

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Charlie Daniels

"It was one of the most confusing days of my life, and in the lives of all Americans," Charlie Daniels tells Taste of Country. "It was a day the world changed, and we started to realize how very vulnerable we had allowed ourselves to become over the years, and how very foolish we had been by doing that."Danny Gokey

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Danny Gokey

"But the thing that I think I remember more than all of it, than all the tragedy, all the despair of the situation, is I remember America coming united together," reflects Danny Gokey. "I remember, that night, I went on the corner, just the corner outside my house, and there was people out there that were having candlelight vigils everywhere. People just standin’ on the corners of the streets, holding lighters, holding candles, and I joined ‘em. And I was like, 'Wow, this is amazing.'"Keith Urban

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Keith Urban

"It probably reiterated to me the importance of enjoying life while we do have it," Keith Urban reflects to CMT. "Because life is much, much shorter than we all think and can be taken from us in a blink of an eye. So, you know, you’ve gotta put food on the table. You’ve got to satisfy your career aspirations. But I think you have to keep it in perspective with also living life."Hillary Scott

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Hillary Scott

"It's one of those things that's forever ingrained in your memory," says Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum. "And I actually had a close friend of mine -- it's actually my godsister's dad -- [he] has been in the military, and he's retired now. But he was on his way to the Pentagon and didn't get there ... but it's just, I think everyone has that personal connection to it no matter if you knew someone there or not."Scotty McCreery

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Scotty McCreery

“I was in second grade, and the principal came over the intercom and said, 'Teachers, please stop what you’re doing and go check your emails,'" Scotty McCreery tells Taste of Country. "We found out that the teachers were told not to turn the TVs, not to do anything, that they were told through the emails what happened. The fifth graders, they were the big dogs at the elementary school, and they got to watch the news. But us second graders, we didn’t get to find out. We got home that day, and Mom pulled me in the living room … I remember it like it was yesterday.”Josh Turner

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Josh Turner

"It was like a movie. Honestly, it was like watching a movie all day long," Josh Turner remembers. "I remember thinking, ‘This can’t be real, this can’t be real.’ And just to think that so many people in that building had to choose between jumping out of the building or burning up. It’s like they had to choose their form of death. It was an extremely tragic day for our country.

"And I’m always an optimist, too — I try to look at what good can come out of this — and the good thing that came out of that was, it brought it our country together. And it really kind of boosted our patriotism," he adds. "A lot of times, it’s good that we can have that, but it’s sad that it takes an event like 9/11 to do that."Clint Black

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Clint Black

"I don’t think I was feeling any fear at that moment," remembers Clint Black about the moment he found out what happened. "I think I was dealing with heartache. Depression. It was only in the time that followed that all of the possibilities creep into your mind. I remember going for a hike, and you know where the planes normally go, the flight patterns, and knowing that there are no flights, commercial or otherwise, and seeing the empty skies. If you know they’re not allowed up there, you get it. No planes up there."Big Kenny

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Big Kenny

"I was laying on my mattress on the floor of my apartment in Nashville … woke up to the morning news and just couldn't believe my eyes. I felt great sorrow," remembers Big Kenny of Big & Rich. "A few days later, John Rich and I got on a plane. We would not let fear invade our lives. Airports, of course, were in a state of emergency at that time."Eddie Montgomery

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Eddie Montgomery

"I had just gotten off the road and got in my truck and was headed to the little store to hang out that morning and had the radio on in my truck when they broke in with the news," says Eddie Montgomery from Montgomery Gentry. "I ran into the store and told them to turn on the TV, and we just watched in disbelief. I'm still not over it. A lot of a great Americans died that day."Zac Brown

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Zac Brown

"It was right around September 11; I was living with a Marine friend of mine. I was realizing how fortunate we are to be free, travel and to play music or whatever it is that you do as an American -- that there is a cost that other people have paid for us to be able to do those things and enjoy all the simple things," Zac Brown says of adding a patriotic theme to "Chicken Fried." "That’s where the patriotic line of the song came from. Sometimes all of the little things get taken for granted, and you forget about them. They’re the most important things in life. It was a reminder to myself and a reminder to everybody else to not take the little things for granted or the simple pleasures that really matter."Kenny Chesney

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Kenny Chesney

Kenny Chesney tells CMT that he was supposed to be in New York City, "basically a block away from the World Trade Center," on 9/11: "We played a fair in Pennsylvania on Sept. 10, and we were supposed to have driven from Pennsylvania into New York City that night and start shooting my video that morning," he recalls. Fortunately, those plans had been canceled just a couple of weeks prior.

"I think we were traveling through Virginia, and I went up to the front of the bus and turned the TV on to CNN and saw what had happened," Chesney remembers. "It didn’t hit me at first. I was laying on the couch, just watching this and couldn’t believe what I was seeing, and I thought, 'Oh, my God.' I said, 'We’re supposed to be there.' And it was a weird feeling."

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any other canadians out here just so sick of all of the LIES?!?!?

we are not "nice" people.

are we better than the average american??? MAYBE. not even a definite yes in fact personally i would lean towards a no except that since we do learn about a smidgen more world history than americans we happen to be a bit less obnoxious traveling and discussing other countries cuz well at least we know they even exist but y'all the bar is SO! LOW! so it's just a very small maybe.

just like the american bible belt (we have our own btw in case you forgot about alberta) we may appear to have warm hospitality and good manners but under that sunny façade we are just as miserable and immoral as every other colonial country founded on genocide.

we have committed atrocious war crimes and countless other crimes against humanity

we are the japan of north america - exporting this false image of a "polite" country that "can do no wrong" with a disgusting verocity all while blatantly ignoring our long list of problems because "hey at least we're not american!"

but guess the fuck what not being american is NOT a good enough standard - it's fucking embarrassing that this is our only point of patriotic pride; we have "free" healthcare and we're not the US! yay for us! we deserve a fucking gold star sticker on each of our fucking foreheads

in case you needed to be reminded there is a pipeline being built less than 50 metres away from MY APARTMENT (i am fucking furious) right now because our ugly ass prime minister is just as deceitful and dishonest as any other politician cuz guess what they're the exact same scum here that they are in the US and care only about satisfying the lobbyists that line their pockets and who are those people if not our very own oil conglomerates of our very own texas (alberta) and toronto is a shit hole and vancouver is a shit hole and lets not forget openly and proudly racist and islamophobic as fuck quebec!! every single inch of this land has blood on it and while those past deplorable acts were not directly all of our faults because at the time a lot of our ancestors were immigrants probably treated like shit too whether they were chinese, mexican, irish, italian, ukrainian- doesn't matter- but as the canadians that live here and run this country today we are a mockery to everything we proport ourselves to be by convincing ourselves of the same fantasy american's founding fathers created for them as our very own british and french overlords did for us and by spending all our time paying attention only to the ways that we are better than americans (if thats even true???? like tf you on?) we actively uphold everything that is still so very wrong about our own country.

i am just so. sick. of coming across media content painting canada as a lovely place where "you cant actually die" because its literal paradise on earth and so you just "respawn" ---

if shit like that were true then what the fuck happened to all the kids murdered by catholic and protestant churchs in residential schools? where did they go? why are we only just now barely beginning to unearth their bodies and return their remains to their homes where they belong if we can even identify them at all?

we say please and thank you all the time???

where the fuck was that please when we slaughtered all the bison of the plains for money and to starve out the prairie tribes occupying the land we declared with 0 authority was ours without asking to share???

where the fuck was the thank you for "letting" us stay here in shoving all of the survivors into reserves through manipulative and demeaning treaties and then several decades later offer reconciliation and reparations just to drop a billion dollar pipeline through some of these people's only clean water source for those "lucky enough" to have one in the first place!

where the fuck was the please when that ugly white tesla sped up to keep me from merging and breaking the rules of the zipper merge for the fifth time that day driving home in rush hour because he's "important" and "has places to be" and doesn't have time to let peasants get in front of him as if he's gonna get home any faster than me like wtf is wrong with you???

where the fuck was the thank you when i gave karen (HER NAME WAS LITERALLY KAREN) a discount on her box of cookies that were labelled as clearance when they were not actually on clearance because someone (probably another customer) put this one box of cookies in the wrong spot on the shelf and she threw a fucking temper tantrum all like "dont you know who i am? i shop here every week and now because i'll never come back because you're trying to say i lied to you and i dont appreciate this accusation" like BITCH HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU THE FUCKING POLICY PLEASE DO NEVER COME BACK IF I SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN IT IS ON! SIGHT!

and what about all the anti vaxx protests during a global pandemic?

what about all the conservative christians that tried to make school boards reporting the extra curricular activities of their children in GSAs to parents mandatory for the express purpose of being able to then beat them, send them to conversion therapy, and kick them out when it doesnt work the second they get home after that phone call???

what about all the lying liberal losers who think "sure black, brown and gay people deserve SOME rights" but they are "fiscally conservative" and still think that corporations maintain the right to poison our earth, sabotage our economy, hold the working class hostage including themselves because "hey maybe one day i'll get to be the rich bastard who can step on and rip people off and get away with sexual assault charges against minors and subordinates at school and at work" cuz as long as they can hold onto the dream that they get to be the asshole one day then its totally fine!!! everything bad about humans is cool so long is doesnt personally affect them cuz other people dont exist!!! yay!

everything is just great and fine here all of the time!!!

tims is the best!!! even though they stopped making jelly filled powdered donuts, have the grossest icing on the randomest special edition bakery items, water down their coffee, and pay their indian immigrant full time managers barely above minimum wage!!!

the rcmp are so great they wear funny hats and ride horses even though 90% of them actually dont and we have video footage of officers assaulting their suspects too!!! what about that international student who got yanked out of her dorm by the roots of her hair by a white woman during a "wellness" check??? y'all forget about that??? what about robert pickton? the highway of tears??? missing murdered indigenous women??? native poverty in vancouver, black poverty in toronto, the "starlight tours" in saskatchewan?

canada is not a good country.

stop spreading that delusion around.

and to my fellow canadians:

being better than america isn't the flex you think it is.

grow the fuck up.

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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Nathan Davis is out as the men’s basketball coach at Bucknell, ending an eight-year tenure that included a pair of close losses to much higher-seeded opponents in the NCAA tournament. Bucknell athletic director Jermaine Truax announced the move Thursday. The Bison went 12-20 this season, finishing with a 64-59 loss to American on Tuesday in the first round of the Patriot League…

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