I say if their crap is so precious then let THEM keep it contained & not contaminating any nearby fields!
If you have precious diamonds, jewels or metals & you leave them out in your yard & some force of nature comes along & blows them into a neighbors property, or one even further away, I think it should be too bad for you. If you have something of great value the onus is upon you to protect it the best you can. I realize this isn't the greatest analogy but I think the main gist drifts through!
They've already done it with corn &/or soy beans here in the states! Several farmers have fought to keep the rights to part of their crops for next years seed & lost!
Some have mortgaged everything in the fight & lost all!
What a sad place this once beautiful garden has been devolved into by the GREED of man!
Hey Stew, good to see you back! Great to read things are going so well for you! Still driving?
I'm still here in IL. down by St. Louis. I haven't seen our other Illinoisan, Friendsfirst on here in some time. But I did see a check back from Diogenes a while back, I miss his ultra secret public diary or whatever he called it! That guy could write some very funny stuff!
I'd been out of commission from Oct 2010 to Apr. 2013 due to a death in my computer. But it has now been resurrected.
Same old bickering, dickering & clichering ! If you missed the pre election on here then you didn't miss much but a bunch rhetoric crap & hatred! Bet you're really sorry you weren't here for that, eh?
Actually the Monotremes are the minority among the mammals, not the marsupials.
As for there being more marsupials in Aus. & New Z. is because after the last mass extinction before the land masses separated there weren't near as many if any placentals there. Thus the placentals didn't have the chance to crowd/devour them out.
There are/were several marsupial carnivores there, so it's not a matter of no carnivores, so much as it is a matter of less placentals!
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World popped into my mind first! It had such a HUGE list of old time comedy stars!!! Must be 20 stars in that movie.
Yes V, I too, LOVE the Thin Man Detective movies! William Powell & Myrna Loy were a perfect chemistry on the screen. And who could forget Asta the back flipping wire haired terrier! What a hoot!
I think Robert Charles Benchley did a cameo in at least 1 of them. He was a short story columnist for The New Yorker in the late 20's into the 30's. He also wrote a few movie shorts for MGM, one of which was How To Be A Detective, I think it was derived from or inspired by the Thin Man Detective movies. This man was a riot of laughter & dry wit!! Worth a look see to anyone that appreciates dry wit. By the way his grandson is the author of Jaws!
They seem like bits & pieces of a much larger work of knowledge/truth. Unfortunately, with concurrent(of the time) cultural dogma splattered all over in between the pertinent bits!
I think this is true of most religion's doctrines.
One similar theme threading through most of the world's major religions is, in the christian terms, the Golden Rule!
If nothing else probably the most important one of all of them!! IMO
I saw a TV program about tracing the genome of the neanderthal & it was found that some of their genes are found in some current people. So H. neanderthal & H. sapiens must have inter bred sometime back.
So, if true, they didn't all die out, rather they got diluted out into the H. sapiens specie.
Or so the scientists that were researching this said.
Come to think of it I think it was a Scientific American episode, the show hosted by Alan Alda.
The title may have been 'The Human Spark', either way it was on PBS(Public Broadcasting System). They have great science & nature films on this station as well as many other types of programs.
Mijas I already have the 55 gallon barrels no need to dig!
Thanks Venus & Sophia you fine ladies will get the first cases of wine! You know, when/if I ever figure out how to turn the water to wine, other than the conventional way. I'll have 22 barrels, so that'd be a LOT of grapes to stomp. Of course if you ladies would be willing to come over kick off your shoes & hem up your skirts & do the stomping, I'll start looking for grapes right now!!
We did something, hunted them all down & slaughtered them. Pretty much like the wolves here in N. america. We also slaughtered the last Woods Bison back in Washington's day.
Basically if man can't profit from it or it cuts into man's profits we wipe it out. Or it dies out due to toxins released into the environment by man removing other things for profit(mining most anything) or it's habitat is destroyed by man for home &/or profit.
This would actually be a good candidate! They were basically eaten into extinction by sailors.
There's a particular tree(I forget it's name) that lives on the same island. It seems it co-evolved with the Dodo & it's seeds can germinate only by passing through the Dodo's digestive tract via the bird eating the fruit. I forget when the last Dodo was killed on the island..1700 - 1800's , but no new trees of that specie have sprouted since.
So in essence we could be resurrecting 2 species for the price of 1!
RE: What does your screen name mean?
It was my Great Dane's name.SHHhhhhh! Don't bother him, he's watching Clifford the Big Red Dog!
SHANTI