Turtles win, you lose
 

There aint nuthin like money fallin like manna from heaven to make
bureaucrats act foolish; so as they look forward to the "Stimulus"
money arriving, local bureaucrats here in Tallahassee have been
mightily struggling to find ways to spend it. Not having better
sense, they propose to spend it on turtles, yes, you read right,
turtles, you know, like Yurtle.
Seems that back in 1935, US 27 was built next to Lake Jackson North of
Tallahassee cutting off a tiny pond and every now and then a turtle
wanders across the road and gets squished. Of course, there is a
culvert under the road and so the road serves as a sort of unnatural
selection mechanism for turtle intelligence but local eco-fools want
to give mentally handicapped turtles a chance so they propose to build
a "Kinder and Gentler Culvert". Originally, they talked of a $12
million dollar turtle underpass but when this seemed too much like
something out of Onion the cost suddenly dropped to ONLY $4 million.
The local newspaper has been pushing the new turtle parkway with tales
of mass turtle-icide and turtles flying thru windshields although
nobody else knows of this happening. In fact all the years I have
been here I only remember one incident of a small gator crossing and
stopping traffic.
I pointed out to a local bureaucrat that for this cost they could have
given a steak dinner, an escort service and limousine ride to the
other side of the road for every turtle that has crossed the rode in
the last 10 years but she was not amused.
It just goes to show that when foolish Obamacrats spend your money, it
gets spent foolishly.

Turtles win, you lose
 

Frogwatch wrote:

It just goes to show that when foolish Obamacrats spend your money, it
gets spent foolishly.

You mean, as in...Iraq, or on the military components your company used
to produce?

Turtles win, you lose
 

On Jun 25, 12:52*pm, HK wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
It just goes to show that when foolish Obamacrats spend your money, it
gets spent foolishly.

You mean, as in...Iraq, or on the military components your company used
to produce?

We never made military stuff.

Turtles win, you lose
 

Frogwatch wrote:
On Jun 25, 12:52 pm, HK wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
It just goes to show that when foolish Obamacrats spend your money, it
gets spent foolishly.
You mean, as in...Iraq, or on the military components your company used
to produce?

We never made military stuff.


Oh...thought you used to be a government contractor...

Turtles win, you lose
 

"HK" wrote in message
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Frogwatch wrote:

It just goes to show that when foolish Obamacrats spend your money, it
gets spent foolishly.

You mean, as in...Iraq, or on the military components your company used to
produce?

So that makes foolishness for turtles okay?

Turtles win, you lose
 

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:09:43 -0400, wrote:



I don't think you can blame this on Obama any more than you have to
blame GHW Bush for the $150 million they spent for tunnels under
Alligator Alley to save the non-existent Florida Panther.

I saw a video on the news recently - within the last week - that
showed a Florida panther in somebody's back yard.
That's what they said it was, anyway. You see that?

--Vic

Turtles win, you lose
 

HK wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:

It just goes to show that when foolish Obamacrats spend your money, it
gets spent foolishly.

You mean, as in...Iraq, or on the military components your company used
to produce?
Didn't you read anything the man wrote? You truly are a moron, Harry.

Turtles win, you lose
 

Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:09:43 -0400, wrote:


I don't think you can blame this on Obama any more than you have to
blame GHW Bush for the $150 million they spent for tunnels under
Alligator Alley to save the non-existent Florida Panther.

I saw a video on the news recently - within the last week - that
showed a Florida panther in somebody's back yard.
That's what they said it was, anyway. You see that?

--Vic




That backyard probably was the cat's backyard before it was tractored
out and developed.

Healthy wild animals typically avoid close encounters with humans. We
have critters crossing through our yard just as they did before we moved
here. They walk from one woods to another. We leave water and sometimes
food out for them at the edge of the woods. Just once some baby raccoons
came up close to the house.

In fact, our youngest cat, Cal, actually lived among a family of
raccoons when he was a really small kitten. I have no explanation for
it, other than he is a Maine coon cat, but of course that's really no
explanation. Once we saw him, I started putting out a plate for food for
him, and in a few days, was able to catch him in a cage trap baited with
a can of sardines. He was only a few months old then. Took him up to the
vet for an exam (no feline leukemia) and shots, and the second I got him
home he became a wonderful little housecat with absolutely no desire to
go outside.

This is Cal, shortly after we brought him indoors:

http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...urrent=002.jpg

Turtles win, you lose
 

Turtles win, you lose
 

On Jun 25, 1:44*pm, HK wrote:
Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:09:43 -0400, wrote:

I don't think you can blame this on Obama any more than you have to
blame GHW Bush for the $150 million they spent for tunnels under
Alligator Alley to save the non-existent Florida Panther.

I saw a video on the news recently - within the last week - that
showed a Florida panther in somebody's back yard.
That's what they said it was, anyway. *You see that?

--Vic

That backyard probably was the cat's backyard before it was tractored
out and developed.

Healthy wild animals typically avoid close encounters with humans. We
have critters crossing through our yard just as they did before we moved
here. They walk from one woods to another. We leave water and sometimes
food out for them at the edge of the woods. Just once some baby raccoons
came up close to the house.

In fact, our youngest cat, Cal, actually lived among a family of
raccoons when he was a really small kitten.

Bull****.