And contrary to the narrative license invoked by screenwriters for the 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, which had William Bligh summarily discharged from His Majesty's naval service for the offense of being that film's primary villain, Bligh's career actually continued apace after his return to England. He rose steadily through the Royal Navy's ranks, eventually attaining the lofty post of a line admiral (Vice Admiral of the Blue) in 1814. He died peacefully in London in December 1817, at age 63.

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Not sure if he was looking for something stating white people who carry gun in public get shot by cops as well.

He never made the point, only referred to my posting stating that even if Crawford has a real gun, he was in an area where it's OK to openly display it, as bunk.

Here is a great myth buster about wolf packs and the notion of alpha leaders.. Great read..

The alpha-beta-omega model of wolf packs is dead in scientific literature, hammered into the ground, so to speak, and it's been dead for over ten years. So why am I still hearing about it on TV and reading about it in articles? Why are popular dog trainers that encourage you to "be the alpha" still taken seriously?

There is a 3 part series on Netflix about Yellowstone wildlife.  In detail, they cover how wolves and wildfires rejuvenate and protect life in the park.

They follow the wolves and it's very interesting in they have a pack called the Druid pack, that is the only pack in all of the world known to hunt and take down animals the size of bison.  And how in the summer the wolves are thin and struggle while everyone else is getting fat for the winter.  But then in the winter, the wolves are the ones getting fat because everyone else is struggling.

It also cover how the landscape at Yellowstone actually make the bison prone to starvation/disease because the colder it gets the closer they heard around warm areas, areas with volcanic features.  But those feature actually wear their teeth down, sulphur I think, in the water and plants, so without the wolves taking out the weak, disease was much more rampant than bison outside the park.

Ditto for wild fires, they actually kill relatively small numbers of animals, but ensure that a wild fire cannot happen in that areas for something like 30 years.  It also show how the magic number of I think 25 seconds, the time it take a wildfire to go through a pine tree, and how that is precisely the time it take a pine cone to drop it seeds.  Longer and the seeds burn, shorter and the sap doesn't melt and the seeds don't fall.  Or how a certain bird plants like 10,000 seeds all over the park for winter and manages to locate like 80% of them, with the remaining seeds sprouting new life.

The series also covers the migration or elk and antelope outside the park, and how the local ranchers are working with the park officials to figure how to allow animals to migrate naturally without infringing on the ranchers business.

Nature is much like an organism, where all the parts work hand and hand, all interconnected and necessary for the best chance of survival.

Yellowstone: Battle for Life

It funny how we can verifiable proof that removing any part of the food chain seriously screws up the environment and still wipe out species after species in the name of progress.

When I was in Red Lodge, MT there was Hunting Guide store clerk explaining why they are poisoning rivers to get ride of some sort of trout because people like another kind of trout much better.  He mentioned it kills everything in the river and I was stunned, we were a mile outside Yellowstone.

To keep things interesting, I have taken the liberty of rewriting some famous scenes from classic books and movies with this new definition of confrontation in mind.

Gandalf, regulating the Balrog:
"You shall not PASS!"
The Fed, regulating the Balrog:
"Just to button up one point -- it seems like you're maybe considering sort of circumventing some of the usual obstacles here, and I'm -- if you could consider instead of passing, perhaps, an alternative -- how does that maybe strike you?"

Batman asking the Joker where Rachel is:
"WHERE IS SHE?"
The Fed, asking the Joker where Rachel is:
"Just to button up one point, the location of these two people you've seen fit to commandeer and relocate, for whatever purposes that might have been, their location, is that something you'd feel willing to divulge, or ... ?"

Brad Pitt in "Se7en":
"What's in the BOX? What's in the box?"
The Fed in "Se7en":
"Now, just a final concern we thought maybe could be brought to the table concerning the, I guess, the contents -- of this box here -- is that a subject that could be touched on at all? I assume not?"

Ygritte to Jon Snow:
"You know nothing, Jon Snow."
The Fed to Jon Snow:
"I mean it certainly seems as if you might be able to know -- not more necessarily, but certainly that it wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility entirely for you to obtain maybe -- not more information, even, but -- well, some information, certainly? Never mind, forget I said anything."

"As a retired cop, one who has been there done that, and not like most on this board who post just from sheer emotion and ignorance, these cops have horrible tactics, training, and officer safety!

"Who chases two suspects by themselves with no backup???? He would have gotten written up for that at the very least on our Dept. Which happens to be the largest in the world!

"These small town law enforcement agencies are a joke. When they come to a large Metro agency for training it is very scary when you see them in action.

"Most of these shootings could be avoided with better training! This one sure could have.

"Let the guy run! We've got all day! Call backup, set up a containment, call an Air Ship, and Canine! Use your resources!

"It worked for me for 25 years without getting shot, thank the Lord!

Not enough is known at this time but if he converted to Islam his Jesus Christ tattoo is a meaningless factoid.

Are you insinuating that Islam had nothing to do with it?  Or would you rather use this as an opportunity to take a shot at Right Wingers for their reaction?

Heh.