Up Close And Personal With The Humpback
Posted on 01.08.10 by K. Daniel 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.


Filed under: Human Interest and People and Photography and Wildlife
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Mike Huckabee: Unfit To Be President
Posted on 12.05.09 by K. Daniel 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.

    Filed under: Entertainment and Government and Human Interest and Hunting & Guns and Media and News & Politics and People and Redneck Rants and Sports and Technology and Wildlife
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    Hunter And Bike And Deer, Oh My!
    Posted on 12.01.09 by K. Daniel 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:


    Filed under: Human Interest and Hunting & Guns and Just For Laughs and Redneck Humor and Rednecks and Video and Wildlife
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    Serial Killer Of Polar Bears And Puppies
    Posted on 11.30.09 by K. Daniel 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 K. Daniel 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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    Turkeys With Talent
    Posted on 10.07.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:38 pm

    During my hunting heyday, I became enthralled with turkey hunting. There weren’t many wild turkeys in West Virginia at the time, but the population was recovering.

    My interest piqued when the birds started appearing on my grandfather’s farm, where I had been hunting deer, squirrels and rabbits for years. One summer I was lucky enough to stumble upon a hen and her poults while I had my camera and snapped of few pictures of the young turkeys.

    As my fascination with wild turkeys increased, I started hunting them. I loved the thrill of trying to lure a gobbler within shotgun range by talking like a turkey. I attended a seminar on turkey hunting and spent some time outside the pen of a neighbor’s domestic turkey trying to learn the language with my own voice rather than using manufactured calls.

    I learned to gobble fairly well but never could cluck like a hen. These brothers can do it all — and they know how to have fun doing it:

    (more…)


    Filed under: Hunting & Guns and Just For Laughs and Video and Wildlife
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    Marauding Raccoons
    Posted on 10.07.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 8:36 am

    We’ve had a pesky raccoon in our neighborhood for several months this year. First, he chewed holes in our plastic garbage cans to get at our trashy leftovers. Then when we bought a metal garbage can to deter him, he just started pulling the lid off and tossing it.

    That’s actually how we learned it was a coon. I heard the metal hitting the driveway and ran to the door to catch the destructive critter in the act. When I turned on the porch light, he bolted and I chased him across the street for good measure.

    After hearing this Fox News story yesterday about a pack of marauding raccoons attacking a Florida grandmother, I won’t be doing that again.

    Parting thought for the day: The raccoon is known as “bear’s little brother” because the two creatures are distantly related, so resist the urge to make a pet of either creature.

    Raccoons may look adorable with their masked faces and striped tails, but they are rodents with attitude — and sharp teeth and claws to boot. If you want to have one in your life, think like enlightened redneck Daniel Boone and get a coonskin cap.


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    Pet Bear Mauls Owner To Death
    Posted on 10.06.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 11:14 am

    The bear has been my favorite animal ever since black bears started recovering as a species in my home state of West Virginia and some of them made appearances on and near my grandfather’s farm during my hunting days in high school.

    I was so fascinated by bears that I wrote my first college term paper on the historical tensions between man and grizzly bears as the United States expanded westward in the 1800s. I dreamed of a career in wildlife management and wanted to be a bear researcher. The thought of crawling into bear dens as they hibernated to gain insights into the species both thrilled and terrified me.

    But not once did I ever think of owning a bear as a pet. I might be tempted to romp with a cub in a controlled environment, but no way would I climb into a cage with a grown bear.

    A woman in Pennsylvania made that mistake. Now she is dead. Fox News reported the sad tale:

    If you’re thinking of trying to make a pet of a wild animal, especially one as large and powerful as a bear, remember these words of Calvin Dubrock of the Pennsylvania Game Commission: “Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your perspective, the law allows folks to keep wild animals in captivity. And they begin to treat them as pets, begin to trust them, and it really is misplaced trust.”


    Filed under: News & Politics and Pets and Video and Wildlife
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