Comments on: Morning Links

By: UCrawford

UCrawford — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:54:56 +0000

Tokin,

That was pretty good :)

By: Tokin42

Tokin42 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:24:30 +0000

I’ve always heard that there are ducks as big as volkswagens in the sewers. That’s what the alligators as big as buicks eat.

By: chsw

chsw — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:20:43 +0000

At least Dr. Baur wasn’t freeze-dried, milled, reconstituted, fried and salted before he was placed in his can.

chsw

By: UCrawford

UCrawford — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:55:05 +0000

Russ,

It’s only because ducks are cuter than Orwell :)

By: Russ 2000

Russ 2000 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:26:43 +0000

I feel sorry for eveyone who doesn’t feel the Orwell picture was the saddest.

By: CC

CC — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:59:11 +0000

This may be the first time in history that a comment threat on theAgitator has given me the warm fuzzies.

By: UCrawford

UCrawford — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:16:51 +0000

Found a story that appears to be about the same group of ducks, and apparently all of them got pulled out of the grate after the photographer called animal control. Can’t include a link because Radley’s spam filter apparently won’t let me.

Actually, there are quite a few stories out there about ducks and storm drains. Looks like the cities with waterfowl should consider using grates with slightly smaller holes.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:53:21 +0000

A few years ago, a feral cat and about 5 cute little kittens took up residence under our deck. One night as my wife left for work, she noticed them over by the street drainage grate and called me to ask that I go out and check on them. When I went out, sure enough, there was one of them at the bottom of the drain. I pulled the grate off, but couldn’t get the kitten out since he (and all the cats), being feral, would scurry away from me. I eventually left the grate open a bit and tied an old bed sheet and let it hang down so that the kitten could use his claws to scamper up and out.

The next day, we noticed all of them back together again, so it must have worked!

By: Lori Wilson

Lori Wilson — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:34:07 +0000

Many years ago, while driving to work on a Sunday afternoon, I came upon a mother duck going crazy by a storm drain. I stopped and looked and saw several ducklings had fallen through the grate. Because I couldn’t lift the grate myself, I drove on to work, rounded up some strong guys and a crowbar, went back and we reunited the family, much to everyone’s (especially mama) delight. Definitely made our day!

By: Michael Chaney

Michael Chaney — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:55:20 +0000

I’m telling myself that the photographer pulled the cover off and rescued the ducklings after the picture, so don’t ruin it for me.

As for Che, if you *really* want to desecrate his memory:

http://www.che-mart.com/

By: The Other Jeff

The Other Jeff — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:10:07 +0000

I think the photo of the dog next to his master’s body bag that you ran last year is sadder.

I was going to say the same thing, so…um…what he said.

The duck picture, sad though it is, extracted a burst of evil laughter from me. (In my defense, I’ve been watching a lot of Jeff Dunham lately. I think he’s a bad influence.)

By: UCrawford

UCrawford — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:55:26 +0000

CC,

Yeah, that was much sadder.

By: CC

CC — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:50:32 +0000

I think the photo of the dog next to his master’s body bag that you ran last year is sadder.

By: Morning Links | GOT FANATICS!

Morning Links | GOT FANATICS! — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:49:47 +0000

[...] The Virginian-Pilot runs yet another editorial critical of the way the state is handling the Ryan Frederick case.http://www.theagitator.com/2008/06/06/morn… [...]

By: Dave Krueger

Dave Krueger — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:38:02 +0000

If the city relaxes its focus on Frederick even for a minute, attention might shift to their conduct of the raid and they’re probably afraid that wouldn’t stand up to much scrutiny.

It’s a shame, but the only thing that can save Ryan Frederick is enough of a public uproar that it becomes impossible for the city to prosecute him (or win a conviction). It’s not about common sense or right and wrong. It’s about covering their asses and ignoring the elephant in the room.

Thanks god it’s getting press attention locally as well as here.

By: UCrawford

UCrawford — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:36:25 +0000

And the dead steroid dealer is being looked at as a possible murder-suicide (the woman found with him was an apparent ex-girlfriend). It didn’t necessarily have anything to do with the war on drugs at all.

By: UCrawford

UCrawford — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:33:20 +0000

On the ducks, it’s sad, but I guess you could say that a mother duck who wasn’t smart enough to realize that it’s a bad idea to go walking her ducklings across a grate big enough for them to fall through is probably what Darwin was talking about when he discussed natural selection. Surviving in nature is about adapting to hazardous conditions. It’s not really more sad than the deer and turtles I see dead along the roads every spring and summer. Actually, the deer and turtles are probably more sad because highways aren’t as avoidable for animals as a storm drain.

By: Nando

Nando — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:25:52 +0000

Yes, it’s kind of ironic that a Communist leader’s image has brought in so much money in merchandising. Che is probably turning in his grave about it, too.

BTW, have you seen the red shirt with a picture of a monkey (wearing Che’s hat) that reads, “Viva la Evolucion?”