Lions, Tigers and Bears - Oh my
 

The real questions is do big cats eat little cats? In other words, do cougars eat domesticated cats? With the size of the rabbits around here I think the cougars and the monster jack rabbits are fairly matched. But the red tailed foxes, they are tiny, I don't think they have much of a chance. If you can crawl through a storm drain I don't think a cougar will have much of a problem with you.

My house is infested with skunks. They are everywhere beneath the house. A friend asked me why I didn't get rid of them, but I figure they are the best defence against the cougars, the monstser rabbits, and the stags.

Besided they have never bothered me.

Lions, Tigers and Bears - Oh my
 

Thank you for reminding me of this:

• Big fleas have little fleas
  upon their backs to bite 'em.
  Little fleas have littler fleas
  and so ad infinitum

Ugh
 

The better question is could I keep the kid off the stage if I tried?

Anyway, I thought you were just talking about how they dressed her.

But, if I were a Presidential candidate, yes -- my whole family would probably be on some stages with me. It is what is done.

S_A_M

Ugh
 

Could be a remote control.

Is the kid wearing a collar?

S_A_M

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Good Iraq News
 

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNe...rpc=22&sp=true

[Reuters reporting violence down 70% since June]

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I am here to report to y'all today an important development in the War on Terror.

We now have got squadrons of highly trained birds -- like lil' Hootie here -- ready to go to Iraq and find those weapons of mass destruction.

S_A_M

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• In 1942 behavioral scientist BF Skinner came up with the idea of using rained pigeons to guide weapons. The system worked by training pigeons to earn a food reward by pecking at the image of a ship. Three of them were then placed in the nose of a missle. Once launched, the pigeons would see the ship in their window and peck at it, triggering a corrective mechanism linked to the missle's guidance system.
  
  The closer the ship got, the bigger it appeared in the screen, and the more the pigeons pecked, so that just before they hit the target and were obliterated, [the pigeons] were being showered with grain.
  
  The systems worked well in simulations but the navy eventually balked at putting it into practice.

-- John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know is Wrong, p. 69

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Not from the pigeon's perspective, so to speak.

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Oh, I dunno. Being showered with grain might trigger feelings of joy in pigeons akin to Hank's finding a non-chain restaurant.

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John Paul II reveals his membership in the Fantastic IV.

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President Bush introduces his proposal for a "third way" between hawks and doves.

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Ascension of the Golden Flame?

Happy Islamofascism Awareness Week, everyone!

http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.c...amofascism.jpg

At the risk of diverting attention from Islamofascism, this is pretty remarkable.