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Opossums Overrun Brooklyn, Fail To Eliminate Rats
__roo writes "In a bizarre case of life imitates the Simpsons, New York City officials introduced a population of opossums into Brooklyn parks and under the boardwalk at Coney Island, apparently convinced that the opossums would eat all of the rats in the borough and then conveniently die of starvation. Several years later, the opossums have not only failed to eliminate the rat epidemic from New York City, but they have thrived, turning into a sharp-toothed, foul-odored epidemic of their own."
Actually, ignorant rednecks who think their manhood enhancement will solve anything are far worst than any animals.
The only thing worse than ignorant rednecks is stereotyping anti-RKBA asshats such as yourself.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I've never seen a gator shot -- what kind of gun do you use on them to ensure a quick and clean kill? Do you really use a varmint gun (when I hear that I think of the Mini-14 and .223) or something with a little more power behind it?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
It's idle. Everything is offtopic.
Besides, I don't care that they mod me down. Got lots of karma to burn. I only care that the dipshit who is hurling insults isn't being modded down along with the rest of us.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
You are completely off your wagon there, there was nothing that crippled USA in that time period, the proof is the dramatic rising of the standard of living in that century, and if you didn't notice, nothing that happened in any local community in US had any effect whatsoever on other parts of the country, much less the world.
And USA didn't wage wars upon other nations all over the globe by using income tax money, and US gov't was so small that it was able to do whatever it did on sales taxes and the taxes were actually very low - single digits, under 2% low.
Go read a book.
You can't handle the truth.
Wow, tons of anti-second amendment idiots in this thread. Way to waste those mod points!
Right, because firing a gun is the answer to every problem in every situation in ever environment and anyone who says differently is trying to take your gun rights away from you.
Right, so the true statement that 19th century, with almost no government control produced much better results than the 20th century in terms of improving relative quality of life of people in the beginning and end of the century, while the 19th didn't have anything that could even closely be described as a 'depression', while 20th had one 'great' one and now there is another huge super-great one, this gets moderated a Troll.
Is that because moderators believe this is a false statement, or because they believe people shouldn't be reading about this?
You can't handle the truth.
You're absolutely right. There were no significant differences between the 19th and 20th centuries, except for the level of governmental involvement in the economy. This proves your statement that the government is what caused the great depression.
You are completely off your wagon there, there was nothing that crippled USA in that time period
Except the major depressions of 1839 and 1873, the Panics of 1837, 1857 and 1893, the depressions of 1807 and 1815, and the recessions of 1802, 1812, 1822, 1825, and 1828. Other than that we did swimmingly.
Didn't a few people also die of dysentery.
Also there was a pretty major civil war.
Not to mention cholera, polio, influenza was deadly. Oh and most people in the US were subsistance farmers or workers before and in the industrial revolution
Where's this Roman Guy to tell us how much better life was before then, what was the average life expectancy of an American in 1850, infant mortality, adult literacy?
Feck, in life expectancy alone the US is up about 10 years in the last 60 or 70.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
1807 duration: 3 years.
1812 duration: half a year.
1815 duration: 6 years.
1822 duration: 1 year.
1825 duration: 1 year.
1828 duration: 1 year.
1839 duration: 1 year.
1857 duration: 1.5 years.
1873 duration: 5.5 years.
1893 duration: 1.7 years
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That's right, those are busts, which are CURES for the booms that preceded them. Government WAS NOT INVOLVED AND THOSE RECESSIONS ENDED.
1929-42 - that's 'Great Depression' that happened with gov't involvement, which turned a recession into an asset bubble, but US economy still was strong because it still had its manufacturing/production intact and when the war ended a lot of cheap labor came back from war and was utilized to rebuild the economy.
The Keynesian ideas were used all throughout the 20th century to try and re-pump the bubble before it burst, and because of this the inflation, the money printing, getting off the gold standard, giving powers to monopolies, setting wage laws, fixing prices, bailing monopolies out, gov't spending and wars, all of that is now resulted in the biggest bubble that is being pumped right now, the treasury bill bubble, the bond bubble, when it bursts, the US will print enough money to buy back all those useless papers thus turning USD into a piece of garbage, which will result in a hyper-inflationary depression.
Rather than that, the gov't is doing swimmingly.
You can't handle the truth.