Friday - May 09, 2008

What, coyote blogging again?

Melissa Rowley left her children playing in the front yard for only a moment to step into her house.  When she came back a coyote was dragging her daughter away.  The coyote grabbed the 2-year-old by the head and tried to drag her towards the street in the mountain community of Lake Arrowhead on Tuesday.  When Rowley came out of the house and ran toward her daughter, the animal released the girl and ran away.  Rowley took her daughter to a hospital where the toddler was treated for several puncture wounds to the head and neck area, and a laceration on her mouth.  She was then flown to Loma Linda University Hospital for further treatment, although her injuries were not life-threatening. She was released from the hospital Wednesday afternoon and is expected to fully recover.

It was the third time in five days a coyote had posed a threat to a small child in Southern California, San Bernardino Sheriff’s spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire said.  State Fish and Game wardens and county animal control officers set traps for the coyote and were monitoring the neighborhood high in the San Bernardino Mountains about 65 miles miles northeast of Los Angeles.

On Friday, a nanny pulled another 2-year-old girl from the jaws of a coyote at Alterra Park in Chino Hills, a San Bernardino County community about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. The girl suffered puncture wounds to her buttocks and was treated at a hospital.

A coyote came after another toddler in the same park Sunday. The child’s father kicked and chased the coyote. Alterra Park is near Chino Hills State Park, a natural open space of thousands of acres spanning nearly 31 miles.

The park was temporarily closed by Fish and Game officials so trappers could locate the animal. Trappers caught and killed three animals in Chino Hills Tuesday night, one of which they believe is the coyote who bit the child, said Fish and Game spokesman Harry Morse.  Morse said biologists can’t explain the rash of coyote incidents.

Looks like the coyote problem is getting a little out of hand in California. And, while I am proud of the adults who fought back against these critters to save their kids, there is a better way to deal with the problem. A long sturdy hardwood hiking staff or a baseball bat if there’s nothing else at hand, sure. But what you really want is a gun. Just about any centerfire pistol will take out a medium coyote at across-the-sandbox ranges, but the better way is to actually hunt them before they try to eat your chidren. Really. Proactive measures are called for.

Oh, and for you non gun nuts, the .22-250 shoots the exact same diameter and weight range of bullets that the Army uses in the M-16 rifle. But it shoots them a good 25% faster than the 5.56x45 NATO cartridge that the Army uses. So this coyote shooter is quite a bit more powerful than the “high powered assault rifle” crapola you always hear on the news. And just so you really know, a .22-250 is still a pretty wimpy round. Many states do not allow it to be used for deer hunting, although some do. Most deer hunters use guns that shoot far bigger bullets than this one does.

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   Saturday - May 03, 2008

Coyote Blogging

CHINO HILLS, Calif. — A nanny pulled a 2-year-old girl from the jaws of a coyote when the animal attacked the toddler and tried to carry her away in its mouth, officials said.

The girl was playing Friday in a sandbox at Alterra Park in Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. Around 10:30 a.m., the caretaker heard screaming and saw a coyote trying to carry the child off in its mouth, officials said.

The babysitter grabbed the child and pulled her from the coyote’s grasp, the sheriff’s department said in a statement.  The coyote then ran off into nearby brush.

The child suffered wounds to her buttocks and was taken to Chino Valley Medical Center and was later released, director of nursing Anne Marie Robertson said. She was later transported to Loma Linda University Medical Center to receive the rabies vaccine.

San Bernardino County Animal Control and the State Department of Fish and Game were searching for the animal, Wiltshire said.

Miller said there was another attack in the area in October when a coyote bit a 3-year-old girl playing in a cul-de-sac. The girl needed treatment for puncture wounds to the head and thigh, Miller said.

“When Animals Attack!” “A dingo ate my baby!”. No, I’m not trying to go down the sensationalist path. But I’m not buying into the “displaced from their natural habitat by encroaching suburbia” argument either. Animals adapt, given time. Even predators. This example doesn’t surprise me at all; it’s only a matter of time until a child is killed and eaten. Controlling the predators is one reason we have hunting. Looks like this part of California could do with some more of it. Sooner or later the folks in charge will have to decide that people are more important ... but right now even bullets are illegal in some parts of California, a move Ahnold signed into law 15 months ago to save the condors.

Chino Hills is a very well-to-do little area in the eastern part of the greater Los Angeles area. Partway up a mountain, it’s an oasis of “country” (with only 915 people per square mile!) surrounded by mega-suburbia. And it’s not like this incident is anything really new. The city webpage has a whole FAQ about coyotes:

Chino Hills officials urge residents to learn the steps they should take to live safely near open space areas and wildlife. Residents need to take steps to protect their children and small
pets at all times, even in their own back yards, their front yards, and at local parks. Children and small pets should be supervised at all times and should not be left outside alone. Pets should be fed inside if possible. Outdoor food and water dishes should be removed when pets finish their meals. Residents should never leave water or food out for wildlife.

Chino Hills was ranked as the 25th safest city in America in 2005 ... I wonder if that will change now?

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   Tuesday - April 15, 2008

MUSLIM THREATS CONTINUE AT TRIAL: update

Airline suspect’s ‘volcanoes of revenge’ threat

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent
Last Updated: 9:16pm BST 14/04/2008

One of the leaders of the alleged airline suicide plot threatened “volcanoes of anger and revenge” on the British public for caring more about foxhunting than the war in Iraq, a court has heard.

Ahmed Abdulla Ali, 27, filmed a “martyrdom video” in which he said that large demonstrations had forced the Government to change its policy on bloodsports and accused his targets of showing “more care and concern for animals” than for Muslims.

Well DUH!  Of course we care more for animals.  They smell better usually, even when they don’t they still smell better.  They don’t usually have lice and don’t wear silly unkept beards.  Animals are more civilized, better looking, smarter as a rule, not sneaky and underhanded, don’t become terrorists, are nicer to be around then muslims AND .... they don’t smell as bad. Animals are nice, mostly.  Muzzies ain’t.  Cept rats. None of what I wrote about animals applies to rats. Rats are the muslims of the animal world.

He said he would teach the West a “lesson they will never forget” in the video played to the jury.

Ali and seven other men are accused of planning to blow up transatlantic airliners in a suicide bombing operation planned in August 2006. As the trial moved into its second week, jurors at Woolwich Crown Court were shown the full “suicide” videos filmed by members of the gang accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic jets in mid-air over America and Canada.

Referring to the foxhunting debate he said: “When foxes are being killed you do massive demonstrations and forced the Government to change policies, so what when the people are being killed?

“You don’t care about the Muslims that are being killed.”

Of course not.  Foxes a problem sure but ... they’re better looking then any muslim can ever hope to be.  Even they’re more civilized. Foxes that is.

Story and jury video here: >> http://tinyurl.com/6nmael

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   Saturday - April 05, 2008

Police withdraw anti-gambling posters depicting Bill Clinton

It’s very late here and I just couldn’t resist posting this.
Cheers.

Met Police withdraw anti-gambling posters depicting Bill Clinton
By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent
Last Updated: 6:40pm BST 04/04/2008

The Metropolitan police have embarrassingly removed posters which used a cartoon of a “shifty” looking Bill Clinton to warn of the dangers of gambling.

Bill Clinton depicted in the Metropolitan Police’s poster
It emerged yesterday that community police officers in east London had produced the posters proclaiming: “Street Gamblers: Don’t Give Them Your Money!” with an image of the former American president looming over a gambling table, with his large hands planted next to a three-card trick.

The image was drawn by the Australian Pulitzer prizewinning cartoonist and can be viewed at the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill.

Scotland Yard became aware of the posters yesterday and in a statement said that they have “since been removed”.

They also apologised for “any inconvenience caused by the posters” - presumably to the cartoonist and Mr Clinton. The statement said: “We are aware of the Safer Neighbourhoods poster produced by officers from the Green Street Ward in Newham.

“The poster was intended to tackle the issue of illegal street gamblers in the Green Street area and had been printed as a result of concerns raised by local residents and business owners.

“Only five posters were produced over three months ago and have since been removed.

Officers of Green Street ward will continue to liaise with the local community to tackle concerns they may have about anti-social behaviour and apologise for any inconvenience caused by the posters.”

http://tinyurl.com/6fdg59

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   Friday - January 25, 2008

A SHORT CROCK STORY

Nothin’ to do with Moonbats I know but an interesting piece (and a short one).
See photo: 

http://tinyurl.com/3apzl6

Man shot while being rescued from crocodile
By Mark Chipperfield in Sydney
Last Updated: 2:48am GMT 24/01/2008

An Australian man shot his friend in the arm while trying to rescue him from a crocodile.

Jason Grant was collecting eggs at a crocodile farm at Marrakai Station, 75 miles east of Darwin, Northern Territory, when a saltwater crocodile snatched him by the arm. His colleague, Zac Fitzgerald, immediately grabbed a pistol and fired two shots.

Bite to eat: crocodile farm worker Zac Fitzgerald, who accidentally shot his friend in the arm in rescuing him from one of the beasts
A police spokesman said: “The male colleague shot at the crocodile causing it to let go of the victim’s arm, but a further shot hit the victim in the upper right arm.”

The injured man was flown to the Royal Darwin Hospital where he underwent surgery for a broken arm, crocodile bites and a bullet wound.

A spokesman said that Mr Fitzgerald saved his colleague’s life, but could not confirm whether Mr Grant would regain the full use of his arm. Mr Grant, apparently, is not holding a grudge against his mate.

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   Tuesday - October 30, 2007

Terrorists in Massachusetts

From Tamera, we see that the sheeple in MA are beyond hope.

Turkeys Terrorize Massachusetts

The Boston Globe tells us that the wild turkey population is up in Massachusetts and that residents of Brookline don’t much like it. Assertive turkeys are harrassing people on sidewalks.

“The problem, according to some Brookline residents, is that the turkeys can be aggressive at times. Dr. Ruth Smith, an internist from New York City, was staying with a cousin in Brookline a couple of weeks ago when she was stalked by what she describes as a 3-foot-tall turkey.

“He came at me and, at first, I tried to shoo him away,” Smith recalled. “I figured I’d just go ‘Shoo!’ and he’d go. But he was very aggressive.”

Smith said she escaped by ducking into the Dunkin’ Donuts on Beacon Street.”

Good grief.  I think anyone over 10 years old in my whole county knows what to do with an aggressive turkey.  They have the means & motive, but not this opportunity.  Heavens.  What I wouldn’t give to have this bird come strutting into my sights.

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   Friday - July 06, 2007

Fat People Are Killing The Polar Bears

Indeed.

Two recent gems from New Scientist magazine…

First up, Climate Change Sceptics Criticise Polar Bear Science, a story about some bad scientists, funded by bad money, who have apparently published some bad science in what is presumably a bad science journal, for bad reasons.

As the poster child for the climate change generation polar bears have come to symbolise the need to tackle climate change. But their popularity has attracted the attention of global warming sceptics funded by the oil industry, who have started to attack polar bear science.

Willie Soon’s paper, which appears in the journal Ecological Complexity, questions ‘whether polar bear populations really are declining and if sea ice, on which the animals hunt, will actually disappear as quickly as climate models predict.’ But that’s all New Scientist has to say about the science.

No need to really put science in a science journal when there are so many good feelings and opinions out there, is there?

Even more absurd is Say No to Global Guzzling - How the Obesity Epidemic is Aggravating Global Warming by Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who appears to be offering an epidemiological perspective on global warming.

We tend to think of obesity only as a public-health problem, but many of its causes overlap with those of global warming. Car dependence and labour-saving devices have cut the energy people expend as they go about their lives, at the same time increasing the amount of fossil fuel they burn. It’s no coincidence that obesity is most prevalent in the US, where per capita carbon emissions exceed those of any other major nation, and it is becoming clear that obese people are having a direct impact on the climate.

Roberts speciously reasons that obese people, who (allegedly) consume 40% more calories than non obese people, (allegedly) use their cars more because they are too fat to move properly, and (allegedly) eat the kind of things which are more CO2 intensive, contribute disproportionately to global warming than their thin counterparts.

The one quote in the commnets is precious:

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   Thursday - June 28, 2007

Mitt’s Doggie Story

According to Time Magazine, Mitt Romney is under the microscope for animal cruelty.  Of course, it happened in 1983 and was, to my nieve eyes, a simple case of necessity.

Here’s the story (as told to the Boston Globe):

The white Chevy station wagon with the wood paneling was overstuffed with suitcases, supplies, and sons when Mitt Romney climbed behind the wheel to begin the annual 12-hour family trek from Boston to Ontario.

Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family’s hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon’s roof rack. He’d built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog.

Then, the inevitable happened.

As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon, keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. ‘’Dad!’’ he yelled. ‘’Gross!’’ A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who’d been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.

As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station. There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway

I don’t know about your dog, but mine refuses to ride in the truck with me unless she can have her head out the window.  Summer or winter, makes no difference, she wants the 60MPH air blast up her snout.

But, after a couple of hours, my guess is any dog would need to relieve itself.  If it is in a cage (on a car, in the laundry room or in your basement), its going to do the deed where it can.

I’m not sure I understand the big deal here.  Help me out.

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   Wednesday - June 20, 2007

Pest Control

We don’t have too much trouble with squirrels here because of the two lazy dogs, but if you do, this guy has the solution!

Mean? Yes
Funny? Absolutely!

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   Saturday - April 28, 2007

EPA Estimate: 2.5 Miles Per Cow

Euro-Peons are about to go to war ... over cows. In Britain, they’ve been processing cow guts after our little milk-producing friends are sliced and diced. They are using the gunky stuff to produce biofuel to drive “green” trains.

The peasants on the continent have different ideas. They are somewhat concerned over the amount of greenhouse gases these same udder buddies are producing ... i.e., too many farts.

Now, somehow I just can’t picture British spies sneaking into France just to find a cow who will moo “pull my hoof, mate.” Either way someone is going to have to grab the bull by the horns and squeeze out a solution. Beano, anyone?

Cows Make Fuel For Biogas Train
(BBC) - 24 October 2005

You have to tell yourself the cows are going to die anyway. Inside the abattoir at Swedish Meats in Linkoping, the cows stood patiently, occasionally nuzzling the lens of our camera. From there, it was a short walk past the white-walled butchery, down the steps to the basement where the raw material for biogas, slid greasily down a chute.

Still bubbling and burping, and carpeting you with an acrid stench, came the organs and the fat and the guts. Enough, from one cow, to get you about 4km (2.5 miles) on the train.

A tanker collects the organic sludge and makes the short journey to the biogas factory, where the stinking fuel is stewed gently for a month, before the methane can be drawn off.

The world’s first biogas-powered passenger train is taking its first passengers between the Swedish cities of Linkoping and Vastervik. And the biogas comes from the entrails of dead cows.

The boss of Svensk Biogas, Carl Lilliehook, is a proper, serious Swede. But his eyes twinkle at the biofuel “revolution”, as he calls it. You don’t have to look far beneath the number-crunching CEO to find the muesli-crunching environment-lover.

Yes, he says, the train between Linkoping and Vastervik will cost 20% more to run on methane than on the usual diesel. But the oil price is going up and up, and in any case, Swedes care about being able to pick our mushrooms and their fruit.

Nor is it just trains. In Linkoping, the 65-strong bus fleet is powered by biogas. Indeed the city boasts that it was the first in the world to try out its buses on methane. The taxis, the rubbish trucks and a number of private cars also fill up at the biogas pump, housed under a dinky green corrugated iron roof.

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   Sunday - March 25, 2007

Virginia Deer

Question: what do you get when you (a) discourage people from owning firearms, (b) only allow hunters to hunt during a brief three-week period in the dead of Winter, (c) enact local ordinances all over the state to make it illegal to discharge a firearm within a hundred miles of any whining Liberal, (d) throw together in the state legislature a set of hunting regulations so obtuse and complicated that a New York lawyer would have a major headache figuring it out, and (e) keep building suburban housing further and further out into wilderness areas?

Answer: you end up ass-deep in antlers invading suburbia and carrying ticks with Lyme disease. Then again, all those little kids who watched “Bambi” back in the 1950’s are now grown and in politics and they’re determined to keep anyone from hurting those pretty little deer. As usual, they never stop to consider the implications of their actions. And if you think the problem is bad in Virginia, take a look at really weird states like Kalifornia and MassaTwoShits. Will they never learn ... ?

In Swelling Herds, A Growing Risk
Larger Va. Deer Population Making Lyme Disease a Public Health Issue
_{(WASHINGTON POST) - Sunday, March 25, 2007}

A surge in reported cases of Lyme disease in Fairfax County has prompted an outcry from residents who say the lawns and woodlands surrounding their homes are overrun with infected ticks and the deer that carry them.

The exponential increase has also led county health officials to acknowledge that managing Fairfax’s burgeoning deer population, which in some locations has numbered 400 per square mile, is no longer about nuisance control. It has become a serious public health issue that requires immediate attention, they say.

“Deer are the Metro system for the ticks” that carry Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, said Jorge R. Arias, who manages Fairfax’s disease-carrying-insect program. “The ticks are all over the county. Wherever the deer can go, they will take the ticks with them.”

Confirmed cases of Lyme disease, which is characterized by such varied symptoms as a bull’s-eye-shaped rash, fever and fatigue, rose from three in 2004 to 82 in 2006, according to county data. Much of the increase is due to better reporting of a disease that is often quickly treated with antibiotics without being confirmed by blood tests. Still, public health officials say there is little doubt that case numbers are rising locally and nationally.

According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported cases rose from 19,800 in 2004 to 23,300 in 2005. Cases remain relatively low in Virginia—274 in 2005 compared with numbers in the thousands in such Northeastern states as Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York.

But the increase in the Washington region is causing growing concern. Loudoun County claims half of all reported cases in Virginia. In Maryland, Montgomery County has seen confirmed cases grow fivefold since 2004, to 216. And the very neighborhoods where deer are least welcome might be attracting the tick-carrying herds.

“Suburban lots with azaleas and rhododendrons is just like laying out a buffet for deer,” Arias said. “We have created in suburbia what is essentially a perfect habitat for them.” That, in turn, has created the perfect environment for transmitting the bacteria to humans, he said. “The deer population has been out of control for years,” Jakubowski said. “There have been minimal attempts to control it.”

Fairfax launched a deer management program about a decade ago after several traffic accidents involving deer made headlines. The county sponsors managed hunts during the winter months, during which screened applicants participate in a daytime hunt on parkland. Separately, police sharpshooters “cull” herds on overnight expeditions several times a year.

But the results are limited, said Earl L. Hodnett, the county’s wildlife biologist, who noted that most county parks where deer are counted remain far from his goal of no more than 15 to 20 deer per square mile. Officials are limited to parkland where firearms pose little risk to people but where shooters have limited access to deer, which are not constrained by public boundaries. Managed hunts in January and February netted 133 deer. An additional 48 deer have been killed in four sharpshooting events this year.

“We’re starting out with a big problem,” Hodnett said. “There’s no easy way to quickly fix a problem that’s been building since the mid-’80s.” But all agree the problem cannot be erased overnight.

“Eradicating the deer herd is probably not achievable,” said Frey, who counted more than 40 deer on a recent daytime tour of Cub Run Stream Valley Park. “Short of shutting down the parks and hunting 24 hours a day, I’m not sure how much we can do.”

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   Tuesday - March 20, 2007

You’ve Got To Be Cruel To Be Kind

When can you prove your a true “Animal Lover”?  Why, when you call for their euthanizing, of course.

Meet Knut, a polar bear whose mother abandon him.

Tiny, fluffy and adorable, Knut the baby polar bear became an animal superstar after he was abandoned by his mother.

He rapidly became the symbol of Berlin Zoo, whose staff bottle-fed him and handed out cuddles in between

At three months old, however, the playful 19lb bundle of fur is at the centre of an impassioned debate over whether he should live or die.

Animal rights activists argue that he should be given a lethal injection rather than brought up suffering the humiliation of being treated as a domestic pet.

”The zoo must kill the bear,” said spokesman Frank Albrecht. “Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal protection laws.”

So you see kids, in the upside-down, topsy-turvy world of an animal activist, the best way to protect the little buggers is to kill them.  Thatisall.

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   Monday - March 05, 2007

Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day

Teens Accused Of Making Ostrich Impotent
_{BERLIN (YAHOO NEWS) - Mon Mar 5, 9:33 AM ET}

Three teenagers may be on the hook for a hefty fine if a court decides that their festive firecrackers outside an eastern German farm scared the libido right out of an ostrich named Gustav.

Rico Gabel, a farmer in Lohsa, northeast of Dresden, is claiming $6,450 in damages for the alleged antics of the three youths, ages 17-18, between Dec. 27 and 29, 2005.

According to his lawsuit, the farmer claims that fireworks set off by the boys made the previously lustful Gustav both apathetic and depressed, and thus unable to perform for a half-a-year with his two female breeding partners.

Before Gustav regained his sex drive in the second half of the year, the farmer estimates he lost out on 14 ostrich offspring — worth $460 apiece. The suit is due to be heard next Monday in a regional court in nearby Bautzen, the court said Monday. The teenagers’ names were not released.

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   Wednesday - February 28, 2007

PETA Silliness

What would life be like nowadays without incredibly silly groups like PETA? It would be pretty darn boring, let me tell you. Where else can we see nekkid wenches protesting KFC or better yet someone dressing up as a big, fat, pink pig - in a country with a large Muslim population?

As if that isn’t enough they also bring us outstandingly beautiful Filipino actresses clad in nothing more than a few scraps of lettuce. I am reminded of the old McDonalds ad tune which listed the ingredients of a Big Mac - “two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce ...”

Talk about a “Happy Meal”! Yum-yum .... I’ll have two to go. And send the pig to Iran ... 

(Left) A member of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) wears a pig costume while walking around Manila’s Chinatown as preparations began for the ‘Year of the Pig’.

(Right) Popular Filipino actress-model Alicia Mayer poses for a campaign advertisement for PETA clad only in fresh lettuce to promote vegetarianism.

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