And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Think I read that story - it came out of a space ship and terrorized the area until they managed to kill it. Then they found and translated a note found in the space craft - "Please take care of my baby until I return".
That's an old trick. Divide a species into different subspecies and it makes it easier to get it on a threatened list. It also makes it easier to get funding to study and 'protect' those new subspecies. Example: Compare photos of a Juniper Titmouse to an Oak Titmouse. Neither bird existed until 1996, when the species Plain Titmouse suddenly became two distinct subspecies.
Think I read that story - it came out of a space ship and terrorized the area until they managed to kill it. Then they found and translated a note found in the space craft - "Please take care of my baby until I return".
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the cheesy Roger Corman movie "Attack of the Crab Monsters"
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Chiller Theatre 11:30pm Ch 6 ABC. Giant Gila Monster. Giant Leeches. Them 1954.
DeleteThey used a cooked blue crab as a model, they don't turn orange until they get steamed (yum) or (ugh) boiled.
ReplyDeleteKind of a crab isn’t he??
ReplyDeleteYou know how to protect yourself from a giant crustacean like that? Hot butter. Cover yourself in hot butter. Man eating Crabs hate butter.
ReplyDeleteWow. Talk about a rough commute.
ReplyDeleteFunny story, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife states that the Oregon Dungeness crab only exist in Oregon. Sorry Crescent City.
ReplyDeleteThat's an old trick. Divide a species into different subspecies and it makes it easier to get it on a threatened list. It also makes it easier to get funding to study and 'protect' those new subspecies.
DeleteExample: Compare photos of a Juniper Titmouse to an Oak Titmouse. Neither bird existed until 1996, when the species Plain Titmouse suddenly became two distinct subspecies.
Know the feeling ... "I know I had a car when I got here..."
ReplyDeleteI've heard of drivers getting crabby, but never crabs getting ...
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