I love love love my toy chicken!!!
An evening pause: Something wholesome to start the week. And stay with it, it gets better and better.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
This woman gives a chicken toy to this donkey. He loves it, brays with utters of joy, & funnily plays with it. No innocent being stays indifferent to love.pic.twitter.com/7jCzHa4UZP
— Hakan Kapucu (@1hakankapucu) September 3, 2025
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
An evening pause: Something wholesome to start the week. And stay with it, it gets better and better.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
This woman gives a chicken toy to this donkey. He loves it, brays with utters of joy, & funnily plays with it. No innocent being stays indifferent to love.pic.twitter.com/7jCzHa4UZP
— Hakan Kapucu (@1hakankapucu) September 3, 2025
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The donkey is the symbol for the democrat party and the chicken is tax dollars laundered through NGOs.
HEE HAW HEHHE HAW HE HAAAWW HEH HEH !!!11!!1
Wholesome?
That was terrifying!
The burro of Diomedes
Who knew donkeys were closet carnivores?
That is the happiest donkey I have ever seen.
Had a friend with a German Shepard that was the same way about a garden hose. Turn it on to moderate flow, and the dog would grab the end and go to town. Turn the hose off, and he would start whimpering and nosing the hose.
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This put a smile on my face.
He obviously likes his squeeze toys.
That is one happy donkey.
To Mr. Eagleson,
There is footage out there of deer eating fledglings.
Stallions can do to foals what that burro did to the rubber chicken:
Viewer discretion and all that:
https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/5bx2os/horse_viciously_attacks_new_foal_and_throws_it/
Had a young mother carrying a newborn fainted-and the baby cried–it may easily have suffered the same fate as the foal and the chicken.
Nature is far from innocent.
The scene of the wolf dog coming apart in John Carpenter’s THE THING was likely inspired by stories of lunar births seen in barns from time to time.
I myself heard my parents speaking in hushed tones (thinking I was asleep) about dog-headed babies when extended family members would visit. Vernon, Alabama was my state’s Dunwich.
The internet was created back in the late 60’s by the Dod Advanced Research Projects Administration for the purpose of linking massive computer systems together. Over the course of more than 50 years it has now grown into a massive, globally-interconnective system, resilient, and basically making available to almost anyone the knowledge of the human race.
Yet here we sit, watching a donkey play with a rubber squeaky-chicken. I’ll admit, I watched it too.
This is possibly the nadir of the human species.
I sympathetize.
I guess I became a Debbie Downer because of some horrific things I saw growing up long before the World Wide Web.
My first cousin, Alicia, chased me with a horse when I was a boy. Schoolmate Kim Kennedy lived in something of a ranch in Clay, Alabama. Oh–always feed horses with an apple placed on an open palm–otherwise you can lose fingers
Simple animal husbandry can be deadly:
https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/warning-distressing-video-mare-kills-stallion.819461/
My lady-friend Debra, who passed away due to cancer surgery complications, had a niece who she loved to visit. The toddler loved to zip around–on the hardwood floor.
Debra and the girls’ Mom were chatting away while I was wincing….all I could do was envision the tyke busting her head wide open.
Fortunately a couch that had nothing but pillows on it was close at hand–the tot started to bobble backwards a few steps. I slid a pillow across the floor right before she fell backwards and onto it.
As Debra and I were leaving, I heard the inevitable thud followed by wailing
Parents all fear baby’s first real fall. It reminded me of Dad falling after answering the hospital call on the phone following a procedure
I had guided him to bed–with a phone next to it. He was stubborn and wouldn’t use it. I had just sat down and heard him trying to hang up the receiver. I turn around and saw him pass out and fall before I could get to him–having followed him all day to keep just that from happening in the first place.
I wish these fool secretaries would learn to call patients a day or two AFTER patients return from hospital to give them time to sleep off medications.
I don’t know why I told you all that, except to let you know where my deep pessimism comes from.
Blackwing1 opined: “This is possibly the nadir of the human species.”
I believe you greatly underestimate the Human species.
That donkey is living the simple happy life.