"Why would anyone be out hunting in a fire?"

Because that's when animals are terrified and are far less cautious -- therefore much easier to kill. How can it be Legal to hunt during a fire?

@2:

Huh, the story I heard was that he likes 9-11 so much, because that's the number white people are supposed to call to report suspicious people of color doing suspicious things like having barbecues or selling lemonade or mowing lawns.

Mountain goats are Big animals -- six feet at the shoulder -- and not necessarily afraid of people. They can also be quite territorial -- and aggressive.

These goats love their salt but not much is available to them in the Olympic Range, so they've come to rely on hikers, who are conveniently chock-full of salt -- from their food to their sweat, they're a treat for salt-craving mt. goats.

Note to WDFW -- put out salt licks (in the helicopters?) and watch them come flocking.

Goats are terrifying animals.

Mr. Hand!!!

Too bad them thar Carolinas folks dont go believin' in that soshal-ISM that they will need VERY BADLY to bail them out of this hurricane disaster.

Oh BTW, Al Qaeda won.

Al Qaeda’s goal was to draw the US into nation-bankrupting, unwinnable wars in the Middle East, while also totally discrediting our self-proclaimed values and democratic system of government. Mission accomplished with a big assist from our own Republinazi party, craven, pathetic Democrats, and the relentless, sinister stupidity of the American public. They’ve ruined the country more any terrorists ever could. Champers all around.

“For First Time as President, Trump to Answer Questions Under Oath”

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/for-first-time-as-president-trump-to-answer-questions-under-oath/

Careful, Mr. President, this might could be YOUR 9/11 --
you know YOU cannot tell the Truth, nomatterwhat,
and it was a Lie which almost nailed WJ Clinton.

One of my schoolfriends (class of 79) married a Vibrator. I didn't know they were still a band.

@9: What is up with calling all government funding "socialism" these days?

It is so very bizarre and so very wrong.

It's like calling Scandinavian countries "socialist nations" because they have large welfare programs.

$1.5 trillion? Why, that's the same number that the CBO predicts will be added to the national deficit as a result of the Trump/GOP tax plan, to be implemented just after the midterms. What an interesting coincidence.

@11: Ooohh, the really entertaining reality TV season is just getting started. Time to sharpen our knives.

@13: Drink some coffee, give 10 seconds' thought to the political views of those that support Trump and their track record in relation to climate change and natural disasters, and try again.

@4: The guy who was killed by a mountain goat in ONP several years ago would disagree with you.

@15: I am well aware of what is being conveyed, I just wonder why that point has to be made stupidly.

@9:

If their property somehow survives, they'll give credit to Yahweh for saving them. If it's destroyed, they'll blame teh Gayz and libruls for bringing Yahweh's wrath down upon them (although what I can't understand is: if Yahweh is so angry with Gayz, libruls, et-al, why does he almost always seem to punish his own worshipers?)

I'd SO love to read about Mein Trumpfy suddenly keeling over, choking on its 250 quadrillionth Big Mac, and dying of a severe heart attack (pretty amazing for a pig who doesn't have one). In sweaty desperation it calls 9-1-1-------and no EMTs, firefighters, or cops show up upon the discovery that---BWHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAAAW!---Mein Trumpfy doesn't have the right health coverage! Inherited asininity is a pre-existing condition, sorry.

Then we stuff Mein Pencey with 250 quadrillion Big Macs and repeat until all RepubliKKKans are gone.

@9: It's always a combination with capitalism. Blue collar jobs are up, according to the Washington Post, partly because of demand from rebuilding from previous hurricanes.

@17: My apologies. I misinterpreted what you were saying.

We love you auntie - you remind me of one of those very angry Parisians in The Tale of Two Cities.

I'm cool with getting them out of the Olympics, but
1. Don't do it now - fall is a bad time to relocate. they won't know the territory. Soring/Early Summer.
2. They got smart when this was tried previously and retreated to inaccessible cliffs.

Spring, not Soring. Obz

Just shoot the fuckin' things. Goddamn. The population is oversize for a reason, and moving them elsewhere just translocates the problem. The Disneyland Model that the NPS operates under is just ridiculous. How much does it cost to tranquilize and skylift a goat? There is nothing sacred about any one problem goat - or hundreds of problem goats.

@24; Yeah, well, I am among many who have a lot to be angry ABOUT, sugarlips.
Have another cinnamon roll.

Nathalie, was the chopper quote a reference to the Predator movie?

@28: Actually, I gave those up (from PCC) and am 5 lbs lighter. I will only have them on Christian holidays.

The nation that voted Donald Fucking Trump president also voted Taco Fucking Bell as their favorite "Mexican restaurant."

You don't say.

@30: Congrats on your weight loss.
@31: I know, right? The modern Err of Trump: The rich get richer and the dumb get dumber.