Post by pegasus on May 24, 2014 8:51:52 GMT -7
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Good afternoon my friends
A fair day but cool. If it was the middle of summer I might welcome this coolness, but for Memorial Day weekend, I want more warmth!!
Another shooting rampage has occurred. This time in California near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. A young man in a black BMW drove through the beachside community of Isla Vista shooting people at random. Before he was stopped he had killed y and y were in the hospital, but does anyone care? Except those involved? I don't think so because if they did, the country would do something about people's easy access to guns. But if the horrifying Newton school shooting and all those since then haven't created enough outrage to overcome the NRA's opposition, nothing will.
The US Agriculture Department needs firepower for a kind of rural reckoning and is gearing up with thermal imaging weapons. In its crosshairs are aggressive feral hogs that can weigh more than 400 lbs and have been known to carry off newborn calves. They cause about $1.5 billion of damage every year to farm communities and fields, say department officials, and now there are worries they may help spread a deadly pig virus. So the USDA wants to buy thermal scopes that snap onto high-powered rifles to kill the wild beasts. Feral hogs travel in herds, breed quickly and are good at adapting to their environment. Bruce Leopold, executive director of the Center for Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflicts at Mississippi State University, said they have even learned to become nocturnal after one of their group has been shot by a hunter. Everyone has always said that pigs were smart and, I guess, feral pigs are at the top. Like any wild animal without a natural predator, they have become a problem that we need to solve one way or another. So, since we like guns so much, here is a means of using guns for some good.
Thought for Today:
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
--Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) American clergyman
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Happy holiday weekend everyone
Good afternoon my friends
A fair day but cool. If it was the middle of summer I might welcome this coolness, but for Memorial Day weekend, I want more warmth!!
Another shooting rampage has occurred. This time in California near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. A young man in a black BMW drove through the beachside community of Isla Vista shooting people at random. Before he was stopped he had killed y and y were in the hospital, but does anyone care? Except those involved? I don't think so because if they did, the country would do something about people's easy access to guns. But if the horrifying Newton school shooting and all those since then haven't created enough outrage to overcome the NRA's opposition, nothing will.
The US Agriculture Department needs firepower for a kind of rural reckoning and is gearing up with thermal imaging weapons. In its crosshairs are aggressive feral hogs that can weigh more than 400 lbs and have been known to carry off newborn calves. They cause about $1.5 billion of damage every year to farm communities and fields, say department officials, and now there are worries they may help spread a deadly pig virus. So the USDA wants to buy thermal scopes that snap onto high-powered rifles to kill the wild beasts. Feral hogs travel in herds, breed quickly and are good at adapting to their environment. Bruce Leopold, executive director of the Center for Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflicts at Mississippi State University, said they have even learned to become nocturnal after one of their group has been shot by a hunter. Everyone has always said that pigs were smart and, I guess, feral pigs are at the top. Like any wild animal without a natural predator, they have become a problem that we need to solve one way or another. So, since we like guns so much, here is a means of using guns for some good.
Thought for Today:
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
--Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) American clergyman
Devil baby standard dwarf bearded iris
Happy holiday weekend everyone