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Thank you to all that serve and have served to attain and keep secure our "unalienable Rights".
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Well, I haven't had a picture for Fridays for a while now, mostly because of my inability to get around to take pics. But by coincidence this morning I happened to have the camera beside me when my lap was invaded.
She pushed the lappy almost out of my reach. Well, it was either that our let her lie on the keyboard. Silly cat wouldn't have been caught dead in a lap a couple of years ago. Guess my long suffering love finally won her over.
Update: 2007.05.30
Heard today on Fox News that it was a 50 caliber weapon the kid used. That's packing some heat.
It occurs to me that for a boar to get this big in nature it would take one of two things. One, someone was raising it to be this large. Or two, the natural predators to hogs, whatever they be, are in short supply.
Quick Oddity - Boy Bags Wild Hog Bigger Than 'Hogzilla'.
Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.
They grow them big up north. That thing looks as big as a rhino!
An insecticide's to blame? - Here's an interesting article on the Colony Collapse Disorder facing the Bee Hive industry.
Amy Ellis Nutt reports: Suspect in bee die-off: Insecticide Widely used bug spray may be behind deaths of millions of bees- mlive.com.
The chief suspect, say many scientists, is imidacloprid, the most commonly used insecticide on the planet.
Honeybees come into contact with pesticides because they are needed to pollinate scores of crops, including apples, cherries, blueberries and other crops in southwestern Michigan. The die-off has been a major concern for farmers and scientists, who have been looking into potential causes, from diseases and parasites to pesticides.
A member of a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids, imidacloprid is a synthetic derivative of nicotine and works by impairing the central nervous system of insects, causing their neurons to fire uncontrollably and eventually leading to muscle paralysis and death.
At first it's hard for me to understand why something so widely used should now be causing a problem. But the use of this chemical has grown from being used on select crops to almost ubiquitous across the board use from farming to home lawns.
The article makes mention that France was faced with a huge bee die off that many there associated with this chemical and it's use was banned from several uses there.
Also noted is that this insecticide is not necessarily the culprit and so further testing is underway.
Here's another quote from the article that is intriguing to me in how this chemical works on termites:
Some U.S. entomologists who recently have been analyzing dead bees have found a remarkably high number of viruses and fungal diseases in the carcasses, leading them to suspect there may be other culprits besides neonicotinoids.
"I don't think there is one smoking gun,'' Hayes said. "When neonicotinoids are used on termites, they can't remember how to get home, they stop eating, and then the fungus takes over and kills them. That's one of the ways imidacloprid works on termites -- it makes them vulnerable to other natural organisms. So if you look at what's happening to honeybees, that's pretty scary.''
So you're saying you had nothing better to make? - Here's an art-animal-oddity for you today. An artist has created a thing that looks like something from a World War I outfit for Mustard Gas. The "art creation" enables the wearer to see the world from a dog's perspective.
Why? Uh... Beat's me.
But it does put a smile on my face.
Dog's Eye View: One Eye Ball is Nothing Like It Sounds - Gizmodo.
Mr Hung's helmet, shaped like a dog's head, natch, has small LCD displays inside, that are connected to a knee-high tube that looks like an elephant's trunk with a camera at the end. The camera can be controlled either by hand or by moving the body, so you can view the world from different perspectives.
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