Another week is ending, it’s Friday! Time for some rascality and monkey-business.
This week y’all get two posts from my fave Tweeps at the OKDWC, one funny and one educational:
If a bear wears shoes and socks he still has bear feet.
— Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (@OKWildlifeDept) August 29, 2023
This Oklahomie is a juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron. We have a scattering of these guys nesting around residential neighborhoods across the OKC metro! These birds typically nest alone or in small groups of two to four pairs. https://t.co/CZqXa2sQML
— Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (@OKWildlifeDept) August 28, 2023
This week’s Pearls strip:
A few Political ‘toons:
For those unaware of the context of the last one, a Pauite tribal cop in Nevada went all GTA on some climate protesters earlier this week. They blocked a highway on Tribal lands that was packed with vehicles trying to get to this year’s Burning Man festival. They found out at a pretty high level.
Soldiers sling-load an M777 howitzer onto an Army CH-47 Chinook during Fireball at Fort Liberty, N.C., Aug. 22, 2023. The exercise is designed to prepare, train and execute a mission to measure readiness and lethality. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Lilliana Magoon) (It will always be Bragg to me)
PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 25, 2023) An E/A-18G Growler from the “Cougars” of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 139 makes an arrested landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz is underway conducting routine operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin McTaggart)
U.S. Marine Corps Pvt. Bruno, the mascot of Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego, conducts a pull-up on the training grounds at MCRD San Diego, Aug. 28, 2023. The mascots job is to boost morale, participate in outreach work, and attend events and ceremonies. (U.S Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joshua Dreher)
Three F-22 Raptors assigned to the 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, fly next to a KC-46A Pegasus assigned to the 133rd Aerial Refueling Squadron, Pease Air Force Base, N.H., during exercise Red Flag-Alaska 23-3 over the Joint Pacific-Alaska Range Complex, Alaska, Aug. 18, 2023. The JPARC provides more than 77,000 square miles of airspace, one conventional bombing range and two tactical bombing ranges containing 510 different types of targets and 45 threat simulators. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Andrew Britten)
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