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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
 Posted - 01/08/2011 : 06:59:25
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A damned fine piece at Greg Laden's blog.
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 01/08/2011 : 07:43:29 [Permalink]
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A very good, sober article indeed. Thanks.
Back when I was a kid, in those ancient days of the '40's, there was a scumbag about a mile down the road from us who used to hunt crow roosts in the Fall and Winter. When he located one, he'd go out during the day, when the murder was off doing crow stuff, and wire in a stick of 60% Austin Powder (dynamite) and leave his hellbox stashed close by. He'd go and do scumbag stuff during the rest of the day, then he'd return to the roost at night when the crows were sleeping and shoot the charge.
That memory was the first thing that crossed my mind when I read of it. Ridiculous, of course.
These die-offs, including fish, serve a valuable, natural purpose; they provide food for a vast number of species, from mammals to arthropods, down to humble vermiforms and more.
My neighbor's crow-blasting came to an ironic end. He rigged a hang-fire and when he foolishly went to clear it, it went off. It didn't kill him, dammit, but he was in hospital for a right long time and, to the best of my knowledge, never messed with dynamite, or crows, again.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2011 : 03:44:50 [Permalink]
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| Cooper must have fallen into a stupor. Or maybe he was pushed, by a producer? |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2011 : 07:37:15 [Permalink]
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| I think Kirk was even baffled as to why he was asked to comment on the birds. Was Anderson trying to bait him into saying something crazy? |
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2011 : 11:09:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Robb
I think Kirk was even baffled as to why he was asked to comment on the birds. Was Anderson trying to bait him into saying something crazy?
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Probably. Our media is fucking retarded. CNN less so than FAUX, but still retarded.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Mass bird deaths explained properly
