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2011-06-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-06-02 04:26|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Their eggs make good omelettes.

The problem is that you need a lot of them.

Posted by gorb 2011-06-02 16:18|| 2011-06-02 16:18|| Front Page Top

#2 And they are in no need of "protecting". They are all over the place and range across North America, Asia, and Europe.

Who protected the plover before the dam was there? Plovers that nested too close to the river got their nests washed away. Plovers that nest a little ways back survive. Pretty soon, you have a population of plovers adapted to not building nests where they might be flooded because those with that tendency have been selected by natural flooding.

The Corps of Engineers is messing with their natural adaptation. Basically, they are making the plovers stupid.

Posted by crosspatch 2011-06-02 21:05|| 2011-06-02 21:05|| Front Page Top

#3 here in San Diego - it's Snowy Plover. Never seen one. Lost a couple construction cycles to the "potential" unseen Snowy Plovers. I hope they're tasty on the BBQ

Posted by Frank G 2011-06-02 21:38|| 2011-06-02 21:38|| Front Page Top

#4 They're taste is cross between Sea Otter and Spotted Owl, very delicate. Really tasty with a nice Wine and Shallot sauce.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2011-06-02 22:34|| 2011-06-02 22:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Why are we protecting species anyway? Really - that is a serious question. Why are we doing it?

Extinction is a perfectly natural process which has been going on for millions of years before man even appeared. And it will be going on for millions of years after we, ourselves are extinct.

Protecting a species is against nature. To attempt to stop it or defer it is going against the very ecology they claim to be protecting. Its the 'circle of life' - but on a species scale - they are created, grow and adapt, get old and specialized or whatever and die.

The Spotted Owl? Should go extinct if it's too specialized to live in a new environment.

I suspect its the same with the Plover. If they are so stupid to build their nests in a flood plane - they don't deserve to live as a species.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-06-02 23:10|| 2011-06-02 23:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Correction: Flood plain - floods don't fly planes.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-06-02 23:11|| 2011-06-02 23:11|| Front Page Top

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