Punxsutawney Phil On A Platter
Posted on 02.02.12 by Danny Glover @ 1:52 pm

Yes, the day we all dread every winter — Groundhog Day — is here, and the world’s most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, saw his shadow. According to rural legend, that means we should expect six more weeks of winter.

That might not sound so bad during this winter of balmy weather, especially to skiers. But spring-loving rednecks who want revenge against the prophetic Phil and his Phamily of rodents should go here, where you’ll find a recipe for roasting your neighborhood groundhog, literally.

Why would you want to eat a groundhog? Every redneck knows the answer:
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The ‘Soldier Bear’ Of World War II
Posted on 01.12.12 by Danny Glover @ 7:02 am

A bear fanatic like me can’t help but blog about Wojtek, the Syrian bear who traveled with Polish troops in World War II:

Wojtek the bear was sold as a small cub to some Polish soldiers and civilians in Iran. They were making their way from Siberia to the Middle East after being released from camps in Russia. The Nazi German invasion in 1941 prompted the Soviet Union to let the Poles go.

It is thought the cub’s mother was shot by hunters. … Wojtek was adopted by what became known as the 22nd Artillery Supply Company of the Polish II Corps.

Wojtek is the subject of a forthcoming documentary. Here’s a clip of the trailer and a related video (via Weird Universe):


Filed under: History and Human Interest and Video and Wildlife
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Rep. Paul Ryan, Deer Slayer
Posted on 11.23.11 by Danny Glover @ 6:35 pm

During the legislative season, Paul Ryan is a budget geek in Congress. But when hunting season comes, he’s a whitetail wonk and a sharpshooter in the wilds of Wisconsin.

The proof is in this picture that Ryan, R-Wis., posted to his Facebook page today:

“I butcher my own deer, grind the meat, stuff it in casings and then smoke it,” Ryan told Politico. “Not much to it.”

That, my friends, is an enlightened redneck.


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Get Down, Gorilla
Posted on 06.22.11 by Danny Glover @ 6:15 pm

Zolo, a 9-year-old gorilla at the Calgary Zoo, knows how to have a good time in a puddle:


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Oh, Deer!
Posted on 05.05.11 by Danny Glover @ 6:38 pm

Residents of Georgetown, Ark., saved this herd of deer from the rising waters of the White River, according to KATV assignment editor Angela Rachels.


Filed under: News & Politics and Photography and Wildlife
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Baby’s First Buck
Posted on 12.06.10 by Danny Glover @ 11:48 am

I love redneck baby pictures, especially when they involve trophy bucks. I’m jealous of this camouflaged deer slayer in the making:


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Predator And Prey: A Political Portrait
Posted on 09.21.10 by Danny Glover @ 8:55 am

The tea party movement is the owl; the mouse is the political establishment.

We all know how the story will end in November, but the mouse still doesn’t see it coming.


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Bambi On Steroids
Posted on 08.25.10 by Danny Glover @ 6:55 pm

This is one smart monster buck. He’s hiding in plain sight in Colorado Springs, assuring himself protection from admiring neighbors, journalists and game wardens.

The news team at KKTV 11 made Bambi on steroids a celebrity by posting his picture to Facebook and airing a full video report with more amazing footage of a deer quite at ease in man’s spotlight.


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A Tiger Riding A Horse
Posted on 08.13.10 by Danny Glover @ 12:19 pm

I have no particular reason for posting this video other than the obvious — it’s a tiger riding a horse! You just don’t see that every day, so enjoy seeing it today on this blog:


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The Whole World Is Squirrelly
Posted on 07.07.10 by Danny Glover @ 10:53 pm

I was raised in a part of America where squirrels knew their place — in the woods. We West Virginians didn’t see those rats with furry tails unless we went looking for them, and they didn’t want to be seen by us, especially come fall when we were toting shotguns.

When I hit the hills every October, I had one goal in mind: Fill my game pouch with the daily limit of six squirrels. The only thing I hated more than squirrels were chipmunks. Their incessant chirping and scampering spooked the squirrels.

Absence from the oaks and hickories didn’t make my heart grow fonder of squirrels. I grew to detest them even more when my career path forced me to go urban. Squirrels own the big city and its suburbs, and they aren’t lovable like Rocky of “Rocky and Bullwinkle” fame.

Squirrels destroyed the corn we planted in our garden one year — even after we bought squirrel feeders just for them. They dug up all of my wife’s daffodil bulbs and replanted them in the neighbor’s yard. They ate through the top and bottom of our plastic garbage cans and to this day still string trash all over our driveway and lawn.

I was thrilled when our two dogs, Shelby and Peanut, successfully plotted to kill the squirrels that dared come into the yard at our old house. Shelby would go to one side of the yard and Peanut to the other. Shelby chased the squirrels to Peanut, who was part rat terrier, and she dispatched them more consistently than any shotgun I ever fired.

A few years ago at Thanksgiving, my wife put the pies on our screened back porch to keep them cool. It wasn’t long before one of the local squirrels got a whiff. My son and I shot him with water pistols all morning and finally thought we had scared him off. But a few hours later, just before the feast, we heard my mother-in-law yell, “Ahhh, there’s a squirrel on the pie!”

I wanted to cut out the part with squirrel footprints and eat the rest of my favorite chocolate pie, but my wife reminded me that squirrels are disgusting, disease-ridden squirrels. My favorite Thanksgiving dessert was ruined, and it now has a new name for the family cookbook — Squirrel Pie.

All of those bad squirrel memories rushed to mind today when I read this New York Times piece celebrating the wonders of the squirrel:

Researchers who study gray squirrels argue that their subject is far more compelling than most people realize, and that behind the squirrel’s success lies a phenomenal elasticity of body, brain and behavior. Squirrels can leap a span 10 times the length of their body, roughly double what the best human long jumper can manage. They can rotate their ankles 180 degrees, and so keep a grip while climbing no matter which way they’re facing. Squirrels can learn by watching others — cross-phyletically, if need be.

The article is full of fascinating information about the squirrel that I never knew. But as I read it, I just kept thinking of how tasty they are — yes, they taste like chicken — and how much I’d love to kill six a day for the rest of my life.

Squirrels have their moments. The little guy in the photo above is the resident mooch at the L’Enfant Plaza train station. He introduced himself my first week of commuting by Virginia Railway Express, letting me hover my iPhone a couple of feet above his head to snap the photo. Even I couldn’t resist that photogenic rodent face.

But at the end of the day, he and all his kin are still rodents and they deserve to die, just like the sewer rats who roam the city streets at night.


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Up Close And Personal With The Humpback
Posted on 01.08.10 by Danny Glover @ 12:05 pm

You might be an enlightened redneck … if your idea of a good time is paddling a tiny kayak into close range of feeding humpback whales so you can snap pictures of them.

“I have only a split second to decide whether I should either have my camera in my hands or my paddle to take evasive action,” Duncan Murrell said of his creative whaling expeditions.

See the full gallery of 10 photos at The Telegraph.


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Mike Huckabee: Unfit To Be President
Posted on 12.05.09 by Danny Glover @ 12:00 pm

Outrage and insights in a 140 characters or less (most of the time). This is a weekly recap of topics that capture my fancy. To get your fill of my rants on a daily basis, follow The Enlightened Redneck on Twitter.

Much to the chagrin of many fellow conservatives, I supported Mike Huckabee for president in the 2008 Republican presidential primary.

The news this week that he granted clemency to a man who years killed four police officers in Washington state, and Huckabee’s comments after the news broke, made me change my tune. I still like Huckabee, but I don’t believe he has the judgment to be president.

Here is what I had to say about the matter over a series of tweets: “Mike Huckabee freed a man now suspected of killing four cops. He no longer looks as presidential to me. … Huckabee dodges responsibility, blames “Arkansas” (and Washington) for freeing a man suspected of kiing four cops. What a cowardly statement from Huckabee. I expected better of him. He made a huge mistake and should own up to it. … ”

And here are some redneck rants on other topics:

  • Leave it to the perverts in Hollywood to pervert a classic children’s Christmas cartoon, “Frosty, The Snowman.”
  • Crashing a White House state dinner, and then bragging about it on Facebook, is really, really dumb.” Jail time?
  • Fact of the day, just heard on the news: Tiger Woods makes more in 60 seconds than he had to pay as a fine for his car accident.
  • Joy Behar thought Black Friday was racist until her black co-host, Whoopi Goldberg, enlightened her — for real. That reminds me of the “pot calling the kettle black” episode with Omarosa Manigault Stallworth on “The Apprentice.”
  • The U.N.’s alarmist-in-chief flew at least 443,243 miles in 19 months to decry global warming. Can you say “hypocrisy”?
  • At least 22.6 million reasons why ClimateGate matters to taxpayers (via @donsurber). I suspect there are many more.
  • Wanna run for Congress? Join the roster of candidates in non-existent districts. Only dead people vote there!
  • Deer own this country. America needs more hunters.
  • Twitter is the top word of 2009, beating Obama. Stimulus is No. 4. Obama-mania is No. 2 phrase; Obama is top name.
  • Today, ignorant people are afraid of Twitter; in the Civl War Era, they were afraid of telegrams.
  • Today’s media market in brief: Detroit got a new newspaper last week; it suspended publication this week.
  • I’m wondering whether the FTC news workshop is going to be a forum for media dinosaurs to bash bloggers for two days. Paul Steiger of ProPublica, the first speaker, took multiple jabs at bloggers in his opening statement. … The current panel is a portrait of what’s wrong with journalism — media dinosaurs who resisted new media until it was too late.

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    Hunter And Bike And Deer, Oh My!
    Posted on 12.01.09 by Danny Glover @ 1:06 pm

    You might be a redneck … if you bag a buck and haul the carcass to the checking station on a bike. (Hat tip to Don Surber, a must read for all enlightened rednecks. A reader sent the photo.)

    You’re also a candidate for Bud Light’s “Real Men Of Genius” commercials:


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    Serial Killer Of Polar Bears And Puppies
    Posted on 11.30.09 by Danny Glover @ 5:57 pm

    Rajendra Pachauri, the alarmist-in-chief at the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, logged nearly 450,000 miles in the air over 19 months while trying to convince the world that fossil fuels — the kind his airplanes burn on his frequent flights — are causing global warming.

    He is a serial killer of polar bears …

    … and he likes to drown puppies, too.

    Like Glenn Reynolds said at Instapundit, “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when they do these shindigs via video conference.”


    Filed under: Government and Just For Laughs and News & Politics and People and Pets and Video and Wildlife
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    Rednecks vs. Bluenecks
    Posted on 11.05.09 by Danny Glover @ 6:43 pm

    There are two types of people in this world — enlightened rednecks and elitists. Or, to put it another way, rednecks and bluenecks.

    What’s a blueneck, you ask? You might be a blueneck if …

    • You don’t know what a Moon Pie is.
    • You think Heinz ketchup is really spicy.
    • You have no idea what a polecat is.
    • You don’t see anything wrong with putting a sweater on your dog.
    • None of your fur coats are homemade.

    Read the rest at the Plainview Daily Herald.


    Filed under: Culture and Just For Laughs and Redneck Humor and Rednecks and Wildlife
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