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That thing looks mean.

Hello, from WA, just here to learn more about the phenomenon and hopefully share some stories after getting up in the mountains this Spring and Summer.

When I was a little kid at my parents house we spent all of our time in the woods behind their house. Then the ban on hound hunting and bear bating happened. Cougar and bear numbers went way up. Since the ban, there has always been cougars on his property. None of my brother's or my kids were allowed outside unless an adult was within 5 ft of them and armed and carrying a tag. I took up residence with a cougar 24 years ago and she's ornery as heck, but, sometimes I can get her to purr. She's only 8 years younger than my mom and I am three years older than my oldest step daughter. Side note; the last cougar kill I was involved with, we butchered it and made backstrap steaks and had sausage and pepperoni made from the rest. HANDS DOWN, the BEST meat I have ever eaten!

Yes, they are. All of the so-called hostile Eastern tribes had pretty much the same traditions of torturing prisoners...the point being to prolong the suffering as long as possible to see if the condemned would manage to die with some degree of dignity. It seemed it was mainly for the entertainment of the women and children. In my family there is an ancestor who was kidnapped by Shawnee...her father was killed in the initial attack on their farmstead, her baby brother was brained against a tree and she, her mother and an indentured servant were taken out of SW VA (present day Tazwell County) over the Allegheny and up to the Shawnee villages over the Ohio. Her mother was burned alive as the village women prodded her with flaming hemlock poles. She was spared, ransomed and eventually returned to Rockbridge County, VA. When my children were old enough to understand, I took them to her grave and related the story to them, as it had been told to me in turn. The longer I live the more clearly I see the Shawnee's point of view.

Yup. You’re right. She withdrew. At the advice of her own attorneys It was Standing’s case in Canada that got tossed the derail is entirely yours. I was merely addressing your media blackout comment.