Thursday, July 14, 2011

Summer Re-Run: 5 Ways to Value a Pig

Posted by Mickey Z on 07/14 at 05:23 AM

  2. “Pigs rank #4 in animal intelligence behind chimpanzees, dolphins and elephants.”

    Elephants?  Really?  I knew they were smart, but I didn’t know they were in the upper echelon.  I’d have thought gorillas would be on the list too.

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  07/14  at  03:26 PM

  3. Good morning everyone. A beautiful, cool, sunny morning on the coast. Low tide, much bird activity.

    Years ago, I frequently visited a farm that always had pigs. The little, week old piglets were very cute, curious and fun to watch, much like kittens and not much larger.

    Unfortunately, the entire planet has become a slaughter house for all living things due to a man devised system that grows barbarians.

    The man asks where is the outrage. The frightened and apathetic respond, he has no sense of joy. I stated, he has a sense of joy, he is simply asking why americans stay asleep. And so, I guess with little communication that connects people deeply, understanding is imprecise, requiring too much discussion, too much noise?

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  07/15  at  06:34 AM

  4. Good morning Charles, Joe, Mickey, and all…

    About animal intelligence - squirrels outsmart people all the time. 

    Joe...are you seeing any cardinals or jays.  All of mine have disappeared this year?

    The government says that the Internet is a war zone.  What does that make us?  Maybe the Expendable Squadron.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  07/15  at  09:42 AM

  5. Good morning, all, from an overcast and cool hell-A.

    Pigs are #4, above homo autobilius, who this weekend will be outsmarted by a simple road closure.

    re. the internet as a war zone...I used to be on the front lines: the government had better hope they are wrong...all the talent is on the OTHER side…

    Captcha has finally id’d me - “british”

    Posted by subgenius from hell-A  on  07/15  at  12:56 PM

  6. If we rank animal intelligence based on how they perform in our tests...riddle me this:
    If a pig asked YOU to pick up the blue ball repeatedly, or to do a touch-screen computer game to pick a shape...would you do it?

    I think I’d probably deliberately do it wrong.

    I reckon on the pigs scale of animal intelligence, humans rank 5th, behind Pigs (obviously), squirrel, buffalo and cockroach.

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  07/15  at  01:02 PM

  7. RMJ 3, We have a pair of Cardinals that appear usually in the evening.

    The Bluejays don’t appear much any longer. They were around in the spring. We have Finches, Crows, Hawks, Eagles, Chickadees, Nut Hatches, TitMice, Purples Finches, Phoebes, Robins, Hummingbirds, Owls, Thrushes, Warblers, Vireos, Sparrows, Turkeys. At 4:15 am, I heard a Fox, shined flashlight on him and he came toward the light. We’re concerned with his ‘casual’ behavior.

    In town, we have war mongers, political parasites, idiots, stupid white people, obedient cops, limp clergy, civil war addicts. I can’t understand the romanticism about the civil war here. Just because Richard Chamberlain was from the area, people are so enamored by this civil war person, it’s in the newspapers damn near constantly. I want to scream.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  07/16  at  03:25 AM

  8. Hi Joe… What about gulls in your area?

    Yep, the population here is like yours… Hang on to my book. Someday it might be valuable. Did I tell you that after I donated copies to the public library so that anyone could read it without cost - the book was banned by the public library - a violation of all that public libraries are supposed to stand for. The library has a very large, impressive poster on permanent display ‘honoring’ banned books.  Explain that!

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  07/17  at  11:52 AM

  9. Hello RMJ...there are plenty of gulls around here. Different types, I don’t know the names.

    America has been banning life for over 500 years. Not many people have noticed by the dawns early light.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  07/17  at  12:19 PM

  10. Hello friends. After some pretty awesome summer weather, we’re back in hot-and-humid mode here.

    Great conversation here, as always.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  07/17  at  05:31 PM

  11. I was planning to put up a new post yesterday but I’m still waiting for a new article to go live. Should be up today.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  07/18  at  04:07 AM

  12. Me again.

    New jam-packed post is now up and running.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  07/18  at  01:45 PM

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