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Bison To Become First National Mammal Of The US (washingtonpost.com)
mdsolar quotes a report from Washington Post: North America used to be teeming with bison. But in one century, their numbers plummeted from tens of millions to just a few dozen in the wild after hunters nearly wiped out the continent's largest mammals. Now, the bison is about to become the first national mammal of the United States. The National Bison Legacy Act, which designates the bison as the official mammal of the United States, passed the House on Tuesday and the Senate on Thursday. The legislation now heads to President Obama's desk to be signed into law. At a time of political gridlock and partisan bickering, lawmakers agree on an official national mammal. The bison, which will join the bald eagle as a national symbol, represents the country's first successful foray into wildlife conservation. Lobbying for the official mammal designation was a coalition of conservationists; ranchers, for whom bison are business; and tribal groups, such as the InterTribal Buffalo Council, which wants to "restore bison to Indian nations in a manner that is compatible with their spiritual and cultural beliefs and practices."
What are all of those birds then? Don't these pension eaters have any better paper to push?
For a bull to be the national animal of a bully state.
The national product being bullshit this does not surprise me.
Your all c... err bisons!
Why is the parent at -1? The post is accurate.
How could we live without?
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Of the last 25 years, arguably the best president was Bill Clinton. Why, what did he do? Not much, he pretty much stayed busy getting laid and dealing with the consequences of getting laid. He didn't have a lot of time to screw things up.
Jacking around voting a "national mammal " may be the best thing for our politicians to do.
I have a bi son. I'm so proud of him :).
I assume by "American Bison" they specifically mean Bison bison bison, as the other species of "American Bison", Bison bison athabascae now only exists in Canada (with some modern transplants from Canada also living in Russia).
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And by fetish I mean the obsession in the US to name a national this or national that. or a state this or a state that.
For example there is this list: List of state dances Why do you need a state dance? And why does NC have an official folk dance as well as an official popular dance?
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Since the Bison is the national mammal, presumably they need to have a national reptile, amphibian and of course, fish..
A bison without a lexical analyser is pretty much useless! Wow would it recognize the tokens being thrown at it?
When the Republicans took over Congress, you knew they'd tackle the really important issues. I guess naming the national mammal is at least a step up from the 60 (yes, that's a six and a zero) symbolic votes to repeal Obamacare or another 72 weeks of investigations into "what really happened in Benghazi".
This is why they're too busy to even have hearings regarding trivial items like filling a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
"What do you say, shall we try to get something done?"
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National Mammal? There is no such thing in India as National Mammal.
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Bison as in Bisexual Son?
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A morbidly obese, stinking animal. Yeah, I think that represents our American heritage quite well.
Incipiamus, fratres, servire Domino Deo, quia hucusque vix vel parum in nullo profecimus.
I'm not seeing the tech angle.
I'm not seeing the news that matters angle.
Good old Slashdot.
Why the fuck is this submission on the front page of Slashdot?!
It has absolutely nothing to do with anything relevant here. It's not about computing, or science, or technology, or math. Hell, it's even more irrelevant than many of the other political submissions we've been inundated with lately.
It's completely inane and pointless!
Don't the editors realize that Slashdot was successful back in the day when it stuck to its computing/science/tech/math niche?! As it has deviated away from that, first under Dice and now under the new ownership, we've seen its readership drop and the quality of the comments decrease significantly.
Slashdot editors: lose the politics, lose the dumb-as-fuck submissions like this one, and put some stories about science, math, computing and technology on the Slashdot front page! That's the key to success!
Let the nay sayers decry this as political correctness, but I hold that other classes are no less worthy, no less deserving, no less anything. They too deserve a representative member of their class installed as the archetype and be represented as officially.
My fellow Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes, rise and demand to be represented. You have nothing to lose but the chains and the second, no pun intended, class treatment by the upper class Mammalia. We Americans despise class warfare and we strive to treat all classes equally. You will friends and well wishers among the more enlightened members of the Mammals. Do not suffer in silence.
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That's not fair! The Republicans did consider the problem of filling the vacancy on the Supreme Court and said that they weren't going to do anything about until the next president was elected.
Not the naming of a national mammal (while strange itself) but this: "... hunters nearly wiped out the continent's largest mammals".
Really?!? How can humans have such an impact on nature, the world is so large and humans so weak - the whole idea is genuinely ridiculous!
Personally I think is was the sunspots who did it, never trusted that glowing thing...
If we didn't have 'issues' like the National Reptile for those people in Washington to take up their time deliberating on, we'd have to send them sacks of rubber bands to chew or something, anything, else, to keep them from churning out more laws and other maladies.
Of the last 25 years, arguably the best president was Bill Clinton. Why, what did he do? Not much, he pretty much stayed busy getting laid and dealing with the consequences of getting laid. He didn't have a lot of time to screw things up.
Jacking around voting a "national mammal " may be the best thing for our politicians to do.
There is some wisdom to that. While his opponents wasted a lot of our tax dollars in a stupid chase trying to find somethinganything to pin on him, he just managed to keep the train on the rails.
A blowjob! Think about it. The fixation on a normal act, something that people seem to do pretty regularly, and badgering him about it until he slipped, perhaps ignited a storm of stupid that continues to this day, and unlikely reportage comes from characters like Larry Flynt now on the transgressions of people who might set themselves up as moral police.
Heading down this road of perfection will end up netting us pure candidates, who's qualifications are that they have never done anything.
I remember when during the 2008 DNC, Bill came out and gave a particularly adroit speech full of rich details and insight. I sat enthralled, and reflected on the previous 8 years of Nook-Ya-Lerr public speeches, where it seemed we were trying to show the world we were near-illiterates.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
We killed the bison, almost to extinction, to shit on the natives.
We put up fences everywhere to prevent the bison from ranging, so that we could raise cows. They're easier to control, and thus more economically viable.
The only reason we even have bison now is that they became commercially interesting, because there is a niche market for their meat.
Ben Franklin wanted the national animal to be the turkey. The Bison is a much better symbol. Hunted near extinction, prevented from living its normal life... and we pretend we love it.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
One of those bison may be his illegitimate child.
He's screwed everything else.
As an NDSU grad, I'm not sure how to take this.
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I would have preferred it if humans had been selected as the national mammal of the US.
At least congress is finally spending its time usefully engaging on the meaningful issues that face the country.
That's progress, I guess.
-Styopa
I've had bison meat and wasn't that enthralled by it. Seemed a little tough, if I recall.
But that was a while ago, and maybe my memory isn't the best. Do people like it? Enough to have them go extinct over it?
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Restoring buffalo habitat can be accomplished by changing feed for chicken, pigs and cattle from grain to chemically synthesized feed. Because solar panels are so much more efficient at collecting the energy needed than corn plants, this means much less land is needed and it can be desert rather than current cropland. Recreating buffalo habitat would eliminate the dead zone in the Gulf and also bring back a huge carbon sink, helping to mitigate global warming. https://slashdot.org/journal/2...
Congress will not fulfill its important role of creating a budget, but we have a national mammal.
Well, in part because I wrote a chemistry song about bringing the buffalo back. https://slashdot.org/journal/2...
That and bombing Iraq and Serbia.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
NAFTA has certainly hurt us.
His administration's actions against the 2nd Amendment still linger (a misdemeanor leading to the loss of a right, redefining an assault weapon to be a semiautomatic rifle, etc.).
His administration's support of legislation through litigation still hurts us.
"Lets just launch a few cruise missiles to stir up the bee hive and then ignore the problem" certainly hurt us.
Stripping down our military hurt us.
So ... whats going to happen to Flex now?
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stripping down the military?
We still outspend every nation out there on military resources alone. You are fucking mad.
The bison, which will join the bald eagle as a national symbol, represents the country's first successful foray into wildlife conservation. Srs? This might be the stupidest thing I have ever seen written here
He once inserted random mutations into his code, just so he could have the experience of debugging.
I, for one, welcome our new wood cow overlords.
Witness some long term effects of basic income.
Gave North Korea nuclear power. Don't forget that one.
Doing nothing was probably more unintentional, so he could not be called best, but rather ineffective. Same result, but very different people. He did sign DMCA into law, remember?
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homo sapiens is the first official mammal of USA,no?
What you say isn't true, and things like incitement to "eliminate" and "get rid of" a people isn't simply politically incorrect it is criminal.
"When I'm National Reptile, I'm going to make Squamata so great again it'll make your head spin!"
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People always moan and wail when the government "shuts down". It's much better than when they're working with a uniform voice (congressional pay raises, exemption from insider trading laws, etc.) if there's one thing most politicians can agree on, it's that they're above the rabble. Regarding Clinton, I seem to remember something about a cruise missile and aspirin factory.
One can't forget what isn't real.
It was Bush that removed the only obstacle for the North Koreans to make nuclear weapons though, one very stupid move that will cause great costs to the US for a long time.
Or explained in a simple manner: Clinton: "How about nuclear power and other stuff if you don't make nuclear weapons?" Kim: "Sure, that's a deal" Bush: "We will make no deals with the great eeeevil!!" Kim: "Well fuck you then! I'll go build some nukes, with blackjack and hookers!"
except republicans , they screwed themselves,
I recently read the memoirs of an officer from the first troop of the RCMP (then NWMP) to go out to the West to quell the abuses of the whiskey trade. (Cecil Denny.) Sitting Bull was encamped across the Canadian border, safe for the moment from the US Army after Little Big Horn.
Just four years later, he was starved out. The Canadians wouldn't let the Americans across the border, but they also wouldn't feed him...and he could no longer feed his people. The bison disappeared THAT fast.
Really, really weird to bless an animal as the special national symbol when it was exterminated in just a couple of years, as soon as we could possibly get enough guns to bear upon the task.
Why, what did he do?
He changed the banking laws, bringing on the housing bubble. We all know how well that turned out.
What we really need is a regulation to determine whether it's better to do the official folk dance or better to do the official popular dance - in a bathroom. People who feel the urge to dance in bathrooms clearly need to be regulated on these matters.
and I say that as a Socialist who voted for Sanders in my primary. Clinton moved the country hard right so that he could form a coalition of voters to get in office. He sold out the American people time and again to get the support of Wallstreet and the money needed to win a national election. I don't say that lightly.
.com boom hid the damage for a time. Finally him and his wife blew our chances at socialized medicine for the next 50 years.
He rolled back mountains of vital securities and investment legistaltion. Most importantly Glass-Steagall which kept risky Wallstreet banking separate from safe mortgage, car and student loans. You can thank the 2008 melt down on him. He destroyed the social safety net but got away with it because the
About the only thing good I can say about him is he gave us the Notorious RBG. That and at least he didn't ignore disasters and get us into an oil war in Afghanistan like his successor did.
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Does this mean it will be politically incorrect to eat bison burgers?
Bathrooms are for prayer and virtuous behavior of other sorts. And most of all, bathrooms are for our kind.
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> redefining an assault weapon to be a semiautomatic rifle
Only the scary-looking black ones. :)
His second amendment policies were all kinds of stupid, but didn't really do that much harm. Precisely the same weapon, with exactly the same capabilities is legal with different aesthetics.
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Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
because your a nation of pussies. Because TERRORISTS, SAVE ME Gubberment !!!
Historically, when a vacancy came up during the last year in Office, such opening have often been deliberately left open, and filling the position is usually done with the next president; so this doesn't speak negatively of congress at all ---- There is a disagreement on which people are suitable for the position, therefore, there is no nominee which can be successful: if anyone that reflects badly on the president failing to pick a satisfactory candidate; this is not an issue for congress to address.
This is not a dereliction of duty: it is a deliberate choice by Senate to reject or delay the exiting president's preference.
Note, however; this may mean that Hilary makes the nomination of Obama to the supreme court during a recess appointment, after she wins the election....
Yeah, about that:
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That's how I read the headline because tired.
What?! It's clear that this plays out that Cruz gets the Republican nomination in a contested election, Hillary gets the Democrat one and Trump/Sanders wins the general in a massive independent campaign landslide. :-P
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
A while ago I went to a pie shop and ate our Australian coat of arms.
One kangaroo pie and one emu pie, kangaroo is really good, emu is a bit strong.
Go well
A blowjob! Think about it.
I think about it everytime I look at my 401K, and remember that it went up 400% will Bill Clinton was president. Unemployment was low, the economy was booming, the country was (mostly) at peace, and the budget was balanced. Congress was too busy focusing on oral sex, and didn't have time to screw up the economy. Thank you Monica!
NAFTA has certainly hurt us.
Canadians and Mexicans would disagree. They think America benefited and they got screwed. Most economists would also disagree, except they believe that all three countries benefited.
Huh. Must be a fair deal if everyone thinks they got screwed.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
...for varying definitions of "have often".
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Nope, you're not even remotely correct.
At a time of political gridlock and partisan bickering, lawmakers agree on an official national mammal.
bicker - v. argue about petty and trivial matters.
What bickering. By agreeing on a national mammal it seems they demonstrate they are perfectly capable of agreeing on petty and trivial matters. It's the big stuff - whether the budget should grow a little to fast or way to fast, whether our freedoms should be nearly eliminated or merely greatly reduced, whether we should become like Mexico through native stupidity or by importing large numbers of Mexicans (and later giving them the vote) etc. that they argue over. Those aren't trivial matters.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
While his opponents wasted a lot of our tax dollars in a stupid chase trying to find somethinganything to pin on him, he just managed to keep the train on the rails.
They didn't waste near as much as would have been wasted had a few more bills been passed. It's probably a good thing they used their time on investigations rather than on legislating or worse yet - compromising.
A compromise in DC is when the Tax and Spend crowd gets together with the Don't Tax and Don't Spend crowd and they agree to Don't Tax but Spend Anyway. I would rather have no compromise than that compromise.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
The worst part is when they compromise. The High Tax High Spending guys get together with the Low Tax Low Spending guys have Low Taxes and High spending with is the recipe for loss of freedom and economic disaster.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
Republican voters agree with you. They're sick of the leadership of the Republican congress refusing to fight Obama by using the power-of-the-purse that the Constitution gave them. That's why their so anti-establishment this election season. The sad part is that so many turned to that liberal Trump instead of the conservative Cruz.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
Why is filling the vacancy a problem? The Supreme Court is perfectly capable of functioning with 8 members. In fact I would argue that it functions better with 8 members because why should they be dictating their personal feelings as public policy to the rest of us when they can't get a majority to do so. When their persona feelings are split evenly they simply shouldn't rule. With 8 members that is a possible outcome.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
A compromise in DC is when the Tax and Spend crowd gets together with the Don't Tax and Don't Spend crowd and they agree to Don't Tax but Spend Anyway. I would rather have no compromise than that compromise.
That is a tactic called "Starving the Beast, and it is a time honored operation of those who would call themselves conservatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
And its a train wreck of a philosophy, because those who would call themselves conservatives are engaging in deliberate sabatoge. As well, since they have shown that they are at least as incapable of fiscal restraint as the "tax and spend" crowd they castigate, they have given rise to mutant offspring like the tea party, with it's hilarious "Keep your Government hands off my Medicare" oxymoronic outlook, and finally to the weirdness of this season's leading candidates, either Trump - who isn't remotely conservative, or Cruz, a man so patriotic and conservative that he quite on purpose brought the government to a stop.
Give me Barry Goldwater any time, a conservative that actually believed in the principles of conservatism, and who knew that it takes compromise to run a country. We so badly need to get back to that sort of conservative it makes my heart ache.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
At one time "Starve the Beast" (don't provide money for the government to spend and thus force it to shrink) was a theory one could argue was worth trying. However over the years liberals have responded with "Starve the Children" (take the money from our children by borrowing it so that our children will have to pay off the debt). As such Starve the Beast is a failed technique and should be abandoned because it cannot work in the face of Starve the Children.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
lacking sufficient genetic diversity.
At one time "Starve the Beast" (don't provide money for the government to spend and thus force it to shrink) was a theory one could argue was worth trying. However over the years liberals have responded with "Starve the Children" (take the money from our children by borrowing it so that our children will have to pay off the debt). As such Starve the Beast is a failed technique and should be abandoned because it cannot work in the face of Starve the Children.
Sorry, but your futile attempt at trying to turn the argument arund so that these librerals that you hate so much is that Republicans, when they are in power, spend liike drunken sailors, and hey, isn't that emergency appropriations technique awesome? They spend it differently, but just as well.
And I'm so glad you brought up "Strve teh Children". The abstract concept that high spending liberal assholesl are taking the food out of future children's mouths pales in comparison the easily researchable proof that Republicans are trying quite hard to do just exactly that, and right now.
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Please, if you are just going to regurgitate Fox News hate propaganda, you ain't worth aguing with Comrade.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
This is a great move - but at least partially motivated incorrectly. We should not be honoring them like this for the reason of "restor[ing] bison to Indian nations" - who gives a fuck about that.
On a related note - I vote for a bison on the new $20 bill, as far more deserving than Harriet Tubman (please don't let this xkcd http://xkcd.com/1672/ have any basis in fact)!
Shouldn't people be the first National Mammal of the United States? Or, did they fear that would give common people too many legal rights?