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2007-04-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by phil_b 2007-04-20 06:05|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Uh, is this really a surprise? I always figured rodents were opportunistic scavengers. Ever had a hamster that ate its young?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2007-04-20 06:57|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-04-20 06:57|| Front Page Top

#2 can we release some in Alec Baldwin's pants? Cuz he REALLY deserves em

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-20 07:04|| 2007-04-20 07:04|| Front Page Top

#3 "Willard! There are rats in the basement!"

Posted by Mike 2007-04-20 07:57|| 2007-04-20 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 INFRA-red footage showing a "superbreed" of giant flesh-eating house mice chewing into an albatross chick has been used as a stark warning of what awaits pest-infested Macquarie Island.

The evidence that normal house mice on Gough Island have evolved to become predators gives us very serious concern the same thing is happening on Macquarie Island, he said. More than 100,000 grazing rabbits and plagues of rats and mice are threatening endangered species on World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island, 1500km southeast of Tasmania.

Rabbits are devastating the island's indigenous fauna, causing landslips to crash into penguin rookeries and destroy albatross breeding sites. Exploding rat and mice numbers are also causing huge concern.

Nice. What's the condo market like there?

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-20 08:37|| 2007-04-20 08:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't let them read the Koran.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2007-04-20 08:48|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-04-20 08:48|| Front Page Top

#6 can we release some in Alec Baldwin's pants? Cuz he REALLY deserves em

That's extreme cruelty to animals which I can't condone. OK well maybe just this once.

Posted by Sonar 2007-04-20 09:19|| 2007-04-20 09:19|| Front Page Top

#7 So... are they bigger or smaller than a dire rat and what is their AC?

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-04-20 11:38|| 2007-04-20 11:38|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-20 14:15|| 2007-04-20 14:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Obviously, they're a serious threat to local fauna. Relocate them in Gitmo, by Gum, where they can be both useful and happy!

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-04-20 14:29|| 2007-04-20 14:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Dire rat? What about the Giant Rat of Sumatra?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-20 14:29|| 2007-04-20 14:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Lest we fergit, DAWN.JPL.NASA > Asteroid 2004XP14, of UNCONFIRMED ESTIMATED SIZE 1/3 - 2/3rd of a mile, may hit Earth come Year 2012, espec iff caught in local gravity forces. Idd does hit, ALL HUMAN CIVILIZATION WILL GO BACK TO THE "STONE AGE". IOW, we don't need OWG -SWO/CWO to have a WORLD OF DARKNESS ala MIDDLE AGES OR WORSE [Lucianne/BBC [2005?]> A WORLD OF DARKNESS. The present = future world iff America nor AMER POWER is NOT AROUND.

D *** ng it, as a Madonna Fan these sound like dreams/visions of mine but where? I just know I've seen AEROSMITH and a Texas-sized asteroid somewhere before in my childhood. BACK TO THE FUTURE of the 1980's of the 21st ecntury of the 1960's.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-20 22:27|| 2007-04-20 22:27|| Front Page Top

#12 lets chain Rosie and Michael Moore to Big Mouse Island.

think of the Pay Per View windfall!

Posted by RD">RD 2007-04-20 23:28|| 2007-04-20 23:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Think of the barf bags!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-20 23:33|| 2007-04-20 23:33|| Front Page Top

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