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Ted Dantzler

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  1. Did you know that Kansas State's offense coordinator Collin Klein was a 2 star WR recruit and started his first collegiate game at QB against Texas in 2010? Collin went 2/4 passing for 9 yards (That was it, no one else threw a pass) and the Kansas State Wildcats won 39-14. 

    Collin Klein went on to beat Texas 2 more times in 11/12 and has as many Big12 Football championships (As a player) as Ricky Williams, Vince Young and Colt McCoy. 

    Collin Klein also has a Big12 Football championship as an OC last year (2022). 

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  2. Prairie rattler in NW KS while my dad was planting some wheat at the edge of the pasture.

    This one lived as it was well away from the house. I've seen a couple of rattlers out there but always in the crp or pasture well away from the house/out buildings.

    Only thing I have seen near the house/buildings are bull snakes.

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  3. What are your guys thoughts on CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease, basically mad cow but deer) in deer? I've never deer hunted but my family has some land in NW Kansas where I go pheasant hunting and I see plenty of deer while chasing birds.

    My concern is that 1/3 deer in that part of KS test positive for CWD and while there has been no transmission to humans yet maybe it takes like 10 years to develop or something.

    Anyways I'll probably kill a deer at some point but it's not on the top of the priority list. Last year while pheasant hunting I watched 2 bucks fighting in a Milo field long enough for me to walk up almost next to them with a dog...here is the winner.

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  4. On 3/23/2023 at 9:40 AM, Al_4_ISU said:

    That is an absolutely crazy-ass story.  I had some good buddies at ISU who grew up just across the border from there in Iowa, and it's been on my radar for years.  The documentary was really interesting.

    That far northern Missouri/far southern Iowa area is fucking weird in a way that's hard to describe if you've never been there.

    I read In Broad Daylight a couple of years ago and its a great book. Here is his wikipedia page

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy

    The TL:DR version is the local town bully/fucktard keeps getting away with crimes due to technicalities/intimidating witnesses. Eventually the townspeople have enough, he goes to the local bar, leaves and is shot with 30-40 witnesses but nobody saw a thing. 

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  5. Ran into this guy in NW KS last October while walking my mutts through CRP. The mutts didn't even notice it and I walked right by it before hearing the rattle.

    At first I thought it was some horny grasshopper but it kept rattling so I turned around and found it.

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    ENHANCE

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  6. Pretty sure I flushed a mountain lion out of a 60 acre CRP field a couple years ago in NW Kansas while pheasant hunting. I was about 100 yards away from it when I stopped to see if any birds flushed, all I saw was some tall grass parting and a tan back.

    Then the cat reached a pasture, sprinted across it and right before it hit a new patch of CRP stopped and looked back at me.

    50/50 chance it was a large bobcat but if you put a gun to my head and asked me what I saw I would say mountain lion, solid tan color with no spots.

    We do get some decent sized bobcats out there tho.

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  7. As a JOCO/KC resident Its good to have an actual vote on abortion instead of having to vote for a state senator etc who makes the policy.

    Abortion rights is probably like #6-9 on on list of priorities for me but I think women should have the right to have an abortion. Being a 30 something year old male in JOCO(I live on the Kansas side of KC about 2 miles from the state line)  I will say that alot of local females I follow on the gram were blowing up the social media with VOTE NO for the past month or so.

    I am still shocked that 2/3 of the votes in a primary (not general) election were pro womens rights...IN KANSAS.

    I think the GOP is the dog who chased a car for years and finally caught the car and realized its alot bigger than they thought.

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  8. 3 hours ago, Ewreck10 said:

    I have a GSP female that just turned 10. As many mentioned the first several years are a blur of non-stop energy. The turning point for us was getting her obedience trained (with a shock collar). Once that happened it was a game changer. She could be off leash, go hunting with me etc. Great family dog, great bird dog, not super needy, but affectionate enough, and super tolerant of kids. My wife might not let me, but I’d probably get another, for no other reason than keeping my fat ass in shape 😂.

     

    One of my friends husbands grew up with GSP's and when I got mine and was bitching about how much energy they have he said "Don't worry, they calm down around 4 or 5"...My GSP was 1 at the time.  😳

    I never had to use a shock collar on my first dog but it is a must IMO with a GSP. The breaking point was when I took her out to to our land in Western KS the first time when she was a year old and she started chasing my uncles cattle...Yeah, the next time she was out there and tried it was the last time. 

    Obedience Obedience Obedience is a must with them. After a couple of years Milo is much better and I can have her off leash when we go fishing/hiking/etc and rarely have to use the shock collar on her. 

     

     

  9. I have a 3 year old GSP which was my first GSP and they are definite nut jobs. Great dog for the 10-15 days a year I hunt birds but the other 350 days a year she sprints in circles in my backyard and kills my grass. I walk her at least 30 minutes a day but as someone else says that just gets them in better shape. We will hunt all day where she probably runs 10ish miles back and forth and will still have energy when she gets back to the house. 

    She's great and I love her but I probably wont get another GSP unless I can move out onto a couple acres, will probably get a lab as my next dog. 

    If you do get a GSP make sure to take some obedience courses and train them constantly. Nothing like watching your dog chase a jackrabbit across the high plains for 3/4 of a mile...

     

     

     

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  10. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:


    I’m not a stupid person.
    And I understood like 1.3% of this.

    1. Mud Stuff - Even if the ground is not ideal for planting crops farmers will do it because the prices are so high.

    2. PP - Prevented planting aka our field is still soggy and its past the last recommended planting date for my crop in my area so pay me for not planting aka crop insurance. Alot of farmers used this in 2019 when prices were lower but if they use it again it will screw up the expected yields that is factored into crop insurance...aka they wouldn't be fully covered. 

    3. No idea about the drying because I'm just the descendant of a hay seed and not a true one. 

    4. Weather and crops are looking great in Indiana/Illinois/Iowa (Which are the most productive areas) so far.  

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  11. Fun Fact, Almost everything at Applebees is a fancy microwave dinner. This comes from a girl I know who used to work at Applebees corporate. 

    The same restaurant group that owns Applebees also owns IHOP and she did quality control. She would have to fly to random area's of the country, walk into an IHOP and order a meal then take pictures of the pancakes/etc with a measuring tape to show how big the pancake was/how many chocolate chips were in it etc. Then with the waitress not looking she would bag up all the food, label the restaurant and time then ship it back to HQ for it to be analyzed. 

    She would go to 5-6 IHOPs a day and then ship everything back in coolers with dry ice. Interesting job. 

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  12. As Royalsfan and other have pointed out this conflict is turning commodities markets on their head. Wheat futures up 70% YOY and that's just the beginning. Russia/Ukraine account for 25% of all wheat exports and 20% of all Corn exports. 

     

    Even if the farmers can get their grain planted/harvested Russia seems hell bent on cutting them off from the black sea. Russia has been shelling their ports and has sunk some merchant vessels. I think the Ruskies try and take all of Ukraines black sea coast (they are halfway there) including Odessa and that would make it impossible for Ukraine to export anything they harvest. Almost 95% of Ukraines exports go through the black sea. 

     
    Even if they don't succeed, no commercial bulk cargo ship is going to pull into Odessa to get filled up with grain if there is a possibility the Ruskies might shell the ship, the insurance companies wouldn't allow it. Gonna be a wild summer in MENA if this war continues. 
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  13. 13 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    Deer. Squirrels. Seagulls. Pigeons. Cockroaches. All pre-adapted to the environment humans create when they turn nature into a place to live.

    Coyotes at least perform a service by eating feral cats, pigeons, stray or lose dogs. Give me coyotes over any of those any day.

     

    Coyotes come around where I live fairly often. My dogs go crazy wanting to get out. They don't seem to realize they would be lunch (or a midnight snack) for a pack of coyotes.

    My family has some land out in western ks and the barn cat population goes from boom to bust every couple of years due to coyotes. About 2 years ago there were around 6-7 full grown cats and 10ish kittens running around the barns and outbuildings. Within 1 year they were all gone due to coyotes and the mice population boomed due to no cats, you could open a barn door and see 10 mice scurry to cover. 

    My dad tried to grab some feral/barn cats from a city shelter to repopulate the farm but they kept asking questions about how he would care for them, are there predators around etc so he just found some other farmer who had a surplus of cats and relocated a couple to his land. 

    The coyotes will probably get them at some point but then the cat and mouse game will begin again. 

     

     

  14. 21 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    Feral dogs out in the country are not uncommon from what I have read over the years.

     

    An ex GF's dad used to farm in western KS and he said every couple of years he would have to shoot some random dogs messing with his cattle. According to him people in the city (5k towns) would just drive their dogs out to the country and let them go if they couldn't take care of them since there were no shelters around etc. 

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  15. 22 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I do need to say— in a way, Ukraine can emerge as strategic threat to the Russian regime and any regime likely to replace it. I can’t stress enough how much Russian authorities rely on framing the “West” and its ways as foreign, hostile and entirely unsuited to the Russian people as a source of internal legitimacy.  Poland, the Baltics, and all of Central Europe can be absorbed by the West, but they have always been “other”— Catholic, or Germanic, or non-Slavic.  They belonged TO Russia but were not OF Russia.

    The absorption and integration of Ukraine into the West cannot be explained away in similar terms. Although much of the official Kyivan Rus to Moscow Princes timeline is bunk, it is firmly ingrained. Ukraine is not the other. Ukrainians are brothers. 
     

    And so a successful, prosperous, peaceful Ukraine integrated into Europe would be irrefutable proof that Russia is not mystically destined to be forever ruled by despots and would destroy the idea that what is good for the Westerner will not work for the Russian.  And the Russian people would begin to really ask— like they did in the 1980s— why them and not us?  The Kremlin knows the logical end to those questions. 
     

    This is not theoretical, it’s a very real fear.  A similar terror that a Communist or Socialist state might actually WORK haunted o Western policy makers minds for decades, so the impulse should be understandable. And even if Shady Ray’s grimmest pronouncements on the state of Ukrainian democracy are true, the Kremlin can’t take any chances. And we need to remember that keeping Ukraine poor, corrupt and dysfunctional has been official Russian policy for years now, and that every step away from Russia they take presents a risk (to Russia) that they might actually clean up their own house. 

    This is the best explanation I have seen for the Russia/Ukraine conflict. 

    I interviewed for a job this summer where I would live in Kiev and train employee's at the company's Ukrainian office. Good pay, free condo to stay in, free travel, they talked up how first world Kiev is and not some Eastern European shit hole etc etc but I turned it down specifically because I didn't want to be stuck in Ukraine if Russia started screwing with them again....which is exactly what Russia wants, to keep Ukraine from sliding further into Western European/American influence. 

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