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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."
Aww c'mon! For once that bullshit could have been on topic and you ruin it!
That's why we can't have nice memes.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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.
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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What about insects? What are you - some sort of racist?
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!
Well with the current situation, anything meaningful will not be passed.
The Senate has a Republican Majority of 4 additional
The House of Representatives has Republican Majority of 59
The Supreme Court of the United States is currently evenly split
The Executive Branch is Democrat.
The republicans big thing right now is limited government so they will not be passing any laws of consequence. Especially sense the president takes reward of any positive changes, and they want to control the Executive branch so they can put in a Republican in the Supreme court and have control of the the process to push their agenda. Now the democrats want their side to be in full control too, so I am not complaining about that.
However the problem is that because the republicans limited government agenda means they just have to block laws from getting created vs actually voting on them. So they had hacked the political process to their advantage.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I thought that since politicians were reptiles that the president was the national reptile by default.
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.
Those are both the same species: Bison bison. The third qualifier (bison or athabascae) indicates a subspecies. The bill seems to include both subspecies, as it refers to the common name of "North American Bison".
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!"
Why, what did he do?
He changed the banking laws, bringing on the housing bubble. We all know how well that turned out.
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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Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Yeah, about that:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
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From Does the United States have a national insect?
No, the United States does not have a designated national insect. However, Congress did consider the Monarch butterfly as the national insect, but the legislation did not pass. Some U.S. states have "state insects," which are usually noted on state government web sites.
And List of U.S. state insects. Interestingly I recently head an entomologist talking about state insects on NPR. Apparently there had been cases where specific insects were nominated, but they actually weren't native species.
Monarch Butterflies fly back to Mexico every year, so no wonder they never got the bill passed. Don't tell Trump, or the wall will have to get taller.
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!
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.