Coyote sighting

I see rabbits and hawks every day, woodchucks, possum, buzzards and raccoon once a week or so, and a couple of times, fox. But for some reason, though I know they're around and have heard them, I have only seen coyote around here from a distance.
OK, this photo is from a distance too; he bolted from the bushes at the side of the road and stopped probably only 30 feet away when I first saw him as I rode past, but he was probably 300+ feet away by the time I snapped this photo. For some reason, coyote are nervous about weird people wearing fluorescent lime colored shirts looping back and stopping on the road and pointing things at them; they tend to run off.


100% crop @ 6x zoom from a 7MP camera set to ISO 400 to try to get the fastest shutter I could (I feel grain is better than blur if I have to choose).

Don't get me started...

This is a rather long response to a thread on the GT list that I was responding to. I decided that I'd wandered too far off-topic to post to the list, but at the same time was pretty happy with what I'd written and didn't want to just throw the text away. I think I could keep going on this all day but I need to stop at some point...
( Agnostics, atheism, religion )

AFA Alert

I was up on Google image search, looking for a new userpic to use with these alerts. Turns out that when you search on "idiot" you get a lot of pictures of GWB.

Anyway, without further ado, here's a warning that the liberals are trying to get your kids into bed.( full text behind cut )