Fort Worth Students Pro-*test*-('") TAKS TestTexas has standardized exams called the TAKS (Texas Achievement something something) and the trustees refused to allow a bunch of students who failed the -*test*-('") to graduate. If you take a look at the pro-*test*-('") signs in the photo, I think you'll agree that the trustees had the right idea. *headdesk*
| QUOTE (kariestel @ May 28, 2007 08:55 am) |
Holy shit.
What the... that's like, elephant size. Jeebus. |
You know, Skyblade sent me a link to that story the other night, and my comment was that the real story is that we have 800-1000 lb hogs running wild HERE IN AMERICA. I mean, things like that don't fit in with Starbuckses and Walmartses.
So, that thing was just like, roaming around in the woods in Alabama? Holy crap dude.
| QUOTE (nikita @ May 28, 2007 12:19 pm) |
| So, that thing was just like, roaming around in the woods in Alabama? Holy crap dude. |
I know! It's like, what if you went in your back yard one day and saw...that?
I'm such a loser because I thought it was a little sad. I'm not opposed to hunting at all; I just think it's a shame that something so majestic got taken down by some kid.
I'm amazed that the kid bagged his first deer when he was five. That's a five-year-old handling a rifle, people.
But 500-700 lbs of sausage! Can you imagine! Holy cow! (or should I say, holy pig?)
| QUOTE (nikita @ May 28, 2007 12:19 pm) |
| So, that thing was just like, roaming around in the woods in Alabama? Holy crap dude. |
I'm trying to figure out if I should be proud or afraid right now.
I dunno, but your rooster seems kind of puny now.
That kid's not going to be so smug when he finds a demonic curse on his arm and he and his pet elk get exiled.
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| I'm such a loser because I thought it was a little sad. I'm not opposed to hunting at all; I just think it's a shame that something so majestic got taken down by some kid. |
Honestly I felt like that enough that I almost didn't post the link, because I AM opposed to hunting in general.
But a second later I remembered how ecologically destructive feral pigs are, and I sort of don't feel so bad. A boar that size alone could threaten entire species populations in its lifetime, I would think. That beast down might mean a re-emergence of some flora and fauna lower down on the ecosystem foodchain.
This isn't "interesting" so much as it is really scary...
Creationist museumSomething even more frightening than giant hogs to come out of the South.
Arg, that's pretty nutty.
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| In one exhibit two palaeontologists – a light-skinned creationist and a dark-skinned evolutionist – are shown digging up a dinosaur skeleton and, of course, reach different interpretations. The message is that it is OK, even scientific, to defy evolution. |
Grrr.