# Freakouts of the Right **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 28, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631 "2022-04-28T22:36:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/301 "2022-12-14T11:07:42Z")
Heh. “Slotting”. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/302 "2022-12-14T15:01:38Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > We throw away so much other trash. I find it hard to believe that plastic straws make up a material amount of it. Aren’t they dwarfed by plastic beverage bottles and plastic bags? The explanation I have heard is that; by reason of their size and shape; plastic straws are surprisingly difficult to sort from the waste stream and end up in waterways in numbers that belie their relative volume. I don’t use enough straws to have researched the issue, it may or may not be true. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/303 "2022-12-14T16:16:47Z")
I’m pretty sure my straws go straight to landfill, in the stuff that isn’t sorted to speak of. 🤷 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/304 "2022-12-14T16:27:14Z")
Spotted Owls How did we go this long without mentioned the single greatest job-destroying animal God, in His infinite wisdom, put on this planet: the Spotted Owl? Now there were plenty of endangered animal controversies, but the Spotted Owl was definitely a Thing In Itself. Heard about it for _years_. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/305 "2022-12-14T16:35:29Z")
Piss Christ Robert Mapplethorpe Preschool pedophilia (1980s) Bill Clinton: Draft Dodger! Whitewater Vince Foster Lincoln Bedroom (Clinton letting donors sleep @ White House) Marc Rich Pardon (2000) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/306 "2022-12-14T16:41:53Z")
The Spotted Owl being the only predator of the freshwater fish the Snail Darter. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/307 "2022-12-14T17:25:59Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > How did we go this long without mentioned the single greatest job-destroying animal God, in His infinite wisdom, put on this planet: the Spotted Owl? I think I may have killed a spotted owl with my car back in the '80s. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/308 "2022-12-14T17:35:21Z")
50,000,000 jobs were saved by your sacrifice. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/309 "2022-12-14T17:41:30Z")
You can substitute Bald Eagle for Spotted Owl. They taste almost the same. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/310 "2022-12-14T17:48:26Z")
Endangered species ‘turducken’? MMMmmm! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/311 "2022-12-14T18:04:40Z")
I didn’t read the whole thread, but your mention of birds reminds me of TFG’s (and his ilk) scare-mongering about windmills. Paraphrasing: “the cemetery of dead birds under a windmill!” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/312 "2022-12-14T18:05:30Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Endangered species ‘turducken’? MMMmmm! - Blue whale\> Sperm whale\> Orca\> Dolphin\> Manatee\> Baby beluga\> Sardine garnish ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/313 "2022-12-14T19:45:05Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > 50,000,000 jobs were saved by your sacrifice. Thank you. You may joke, but it really did happen. I went to a very liberal college, right near the Olympic Peninsula where the whole spotted owl brouhaha took place. I was driving off campus one day, and a bird flew out of brush alongside the road and right in front of my car. I retrieved the body (it was an owl) and took it to a friend who collected animal specimens for study. He said it was a useful find because it was a juvenile and they weren’t sure if those were breeding in the area. To this day I don’t know if it was a spotted owl, or if it made it into the college’s collection, but I like to think it’s there with my name on it. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/314 "2022-12-14T19:55:58Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You can substitute Bald Eagle for Spotted Owl. They taste almost the same. And both taste kinda like Whooping Cranes. ---
**Author:** ![Mortimus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mortimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mortimus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/315 "2022-12-14T20:02:14Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > And both taste kinda like Whooping Cranes. Around here we like the sandhill variety of cranes. Plenty of them, just hit them with your pickup truck and take home the carcass. They taste almost like chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/316 "2022-12-15T00:53:30Z")
In Alaska, fall is [Sandhill Crane hunting season](https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=sandhillcrane.management). ---
**Author:** ![Mortimus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mortimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mortimus)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/317 "2022-12-15T01:07:59Z")
Around here every day is sandhill crane or deer season or the season of whatever your big-ass pick up truck decides to hit. It’s pretty much standard around here to have a big deer-catcher on the front of your truck, usually made of heavy-duty pipe, festooned with many extremely bright blue colored floodlights and CB antennae. They seem to work, judging from the dead deer chunks littering the local roadsides. These fancy hood ornaments can spare you a bunch of auto body work when you hit a deer. Just pick out the smaller pieces of deer meat that are blocking your headlight beams and head on up to the nearest redneck bar up the road for another Bud Light. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/318 "2022-12-15T04:26:22Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > In Alaska, fall is [Sandhill Crane hunting season](https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=sandhillcrane.management). > Occasionally cranes damage rice field levees while burrowing for invertebrates, and local destruction of lettuce and other leaf crops can occur. Well, it’s understandable then. That multi-billion dollar Alaskan lettuce crop _must_ be protected. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/319 "2022-12-15T05:07:50Z")
Here’s a new one I saw last night. In response to the news of the Trump companies getting convicted during a secret trial, “Biden is turning America into Communist China/Soviet Russia!” Of course this ignores a couple of fun facts on why an organization would want a trial they’re subjected to being held in secret as opposed to open to the public. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/320 "2022-12-15T05:11:43Z")
… is the F/O the ‘secret trial’? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=17)