You may get another British invasion the way thing are going at the moment.
]]>You can have the ostriches too! Though… They don’t get as stroppy as Emu’s. LOL Oh, and you can have the damned rabbit’s & foxes the Brit’s introduced here. Meddling sod’s!
]]>EMUS VS. HUMANS: THE GREAT EMU WAR OF 1932
]]>Today I found out about the Great Emu War of 1932.
Emus are native to Australia, and as everyone knows, nearly everything in Australia seems capable of killing you. If the sun doesn’t do it, there are still redback spiders, funnel webs, and Taipans, and others to contend with. It should come as no surprise, then, that the emu—part ostrich, part velociraptor—is also an annoyance bent on making the lives of people living in Australia miserable.
…
Major Meredith went on to attest that the birds could take several bullets without batting an eyelash. In fact, one bird was hit by a truck some days after the initial shooting. The truck killed it, but when the emu was examined they found five bullets in it. Meredith is on record as saying, “If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds, it would face any army in the world. They could face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. They are like Zulus, whom even dum dum bullets would not stop.”
There’s no way to replace him while he is still breathing. In some states you can’t replace a candidate who dies. After the convention they are toast.
Yes, other countries are finally facing reality that the US dangerous, and getting in and out keeps getting harder.
Your view of chooks is the same as my family’s view of Turkeys – the spawn of the devil who deserve death.
]]>I’m sure there will be many more *travel advisories* if any GOP win’s your next election, and thanks to GB! 😉
I was raised on a farm, and my job was to look after the chooks before school (most of whom deserve the Guillotine! The stroppy birds!) Once they stopped laying, they became Sunday dinner. A deserved reward IMO! 😉 😀 I get my milk & eggs from a local small organic farm. Way better than the store garbage! One of the reasons I decided to move out of *The Big City* and here. Large farming area around here. 🙂
]]>If you even skim the facts, the racial disparity leaps off the page. I left Okaloosa County after the sixth grade but I still remember the WHITE & COLORED signs. I know what it looks like and smells like and feels like. Don’t try to tell me it’s gone.
I have always eaten dairy farm meals and have never regretted it.
]]>I am talking, of course, about Chris Christie. (SNERK!).
Yeah, I saw that travel advisory. Given the rather, err, state of tan, of most Bahamian citizens, they’re right to be wary. Despite the fact that about the same percentage of blacks and whites use marijuana, for example, blacks are 3 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession. And of course are 8 times more likely to be shot and killed by police during that arrest. And no, it’s not a socioeconomic thing either. Rich black boys are more likely to go to jail than poor white boys in longitudinal studies. You can’t convince me that rich black boys commit more crimes than poor white boys. I was one of the latter. The shit we did, we woulda been buried *under* the prison if we’d been black…
I’m rather disgusted by the state of wellness research to tell you the truth. For example, for many years eggs were verbotten according to the experts. Well, now they’re not. Huh. Go figure.
]]>