Posted on 07/13/2025 9:44:39 AM PDT by reasonisfaith
"After I see the people run, I just see something big, just walking just right over there, it went right over there I swear, I promise you, it went right over there. And it said 'rawr,' and I just kept walking," he recalled. "I seen it, seeing me, see it, so in my head I’m like, ‘Nah, I got to go man, I’m out.'"
Jones said he remains on edge.
"I am going to keep this bat right here, man, just in case," he said during Thursday's interview. "I am going to protect us, I ain’t going to let nothing happen to us, nothing. OK?"
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What a privilege. I’ve seen them myself in the forest on rare occasions.
When did patronizing insults become the chief stock in trade here? So much for your reason and faith.
“If you show evidence the flood of Noah’s time killed the dinosaurs, they refuse to accept the facts.”
Did Noah eat the dinosaurs on the Ark?
The regulated, scientific program of importation/breeding of the more numerous mountain lions with the sub-species in Florida was going on in 1993-it was not like it was yesterday or last year. It was done to save the Florida sub-species of mountain lion from extinction because incredibly stupid people had exterminated nearly all of them from the Everglades. It was also done in other states for the same reason at the same time. It wasn’t done by “leftists” just to annoy people. They are interbred with the Florida panther now to the point where they ARE part of your natural fauna, managed by your state, just like all the other native wild animals...
If you really want to get rid of an imported, ecosystem damaging animal, you should go after all the pet pythons released into the Everglades by their un-regulated, un-scientific owners over the last few decades-they have not interbred with native snakes-my cousin in Florida says they are encroaching on neighborhoods and decimating the native wildlife at an alarming rate. And I really do want a pair of python boots...
Not at all.
I’m simply stating fact.
Correcting the error in your thinking is your job.
Nobody was "exterminating" them. They were protected since the early 1900s. It was a mongralized species unable to adapt past its evolutionary sell-by date. The new, bigger, meaner species is completely exotic to Florida - right down to its DNA. A product of Ivy League pinheads, anti-growth pols, and NGO greed all exploited sentimentalist cat-ladies and ignoramouses.
It's twice the size of the original. Our ecosystem gains nothing from its existence. They stay mostly on high n dry, drained farmland, not the in the glades, which was how they were sold.
It's comical that you actually think the good enviro-faries and the "state" (lol) are saving something, but, obviously, know nothing whatsoever about the lucrative management contracts, the land grabs and the constant harassment of farmers/ranchers. If I had time I'd tell you about the pay-to-play gate keeping on land deals - where these cats have never even set foot, yet huge sums are collected and passed around. Kinda like a sophisticated 3rd world check point.
The "Florida" panther was and still is a tool... like California salmon and spotted owls. I know this because I've been here through all of it. So was my late friend and FReeper (Glades Guru) Jan Jacobson, who ran the Everglades Institute. These were part of his life's work.
You should probably advocate for Texas wildlife... not Florida.
If the Florida panther was not over-hunted why was it in decline? Animals that do not have a large enough breeding group/gene pool due to loss of habitat and resulting disease, disruption by an introduced predator or humans overhunting go extinct unless another branch of the species can be introduced to widen the gene pool. Is that what happened to the Florida panther? I live in a rural area-and advocate for Texas wildlife-I also believe in the proper management of wildlife-that is the only way conservation works-you don’t let any species overpopulate and you don’t hunt it to extinction-game wardens and managers have to carefully keep it all in the goldilocks zone-no small task.
We finally have our black bears back, after they were totally hunted out for years-people from Cali who moved here are freaking out-they thought they were moving to a rural area with none of the mountain lions or bears they had in Cali-they were horrified about the mountain lions-and now the bears are back, moving in from the Davis mts and Big Bend area-oh, the horror of having to secure your trash and pets-I hope they move back to Cali-I like the mountain lions and bears more...
We “ don’t have them here” according to the DNR but there’s warning posters everywhere about the horrible fines you will get and possibly jail time should you in any way inconvenience the mountain lions we don’t have here.
And there’s a 24/7 hotline available should you miraculously see one of the mountain lions we definitely do NOT have here.
Right.
😑
( locals watched the DNR turn loose two females and male who of course, quickly made their way to the ridge right above me because we did not have enough of the ones we don’t have already)
We know nothing about this guy. We don’t know how he earns a living or how he lives or even if he actually saw a mountain lion, so I didn’t address any of that. One thing we can say is that he could become a popular internet meme like Antoine from Atlanta, so I pointed that out as a kind of joke, and get your pompous, pedantic, preening and patronizing response.
“What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?”
In your case, I’d say none, since it hasn’t stopped you from being as smug a__h___.
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