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@faceBook :: Too many cooks are gonna' spoil the stew ... 
Retrieved from fB by Pat Darnell


"Joey M :: got a boar tonight. Gonna have some tenderloins tomorrow. mmmm."
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"Arline C :: what's boar taste like ??"
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Is Humanity just an Oxygen Breathing Plankton Omnivore?
by Pat Darnell, and, ... [No One else could stomach this Post]

When Pigs cry, it is a desire to escape. Boredom, early weening, intensive systems of farrowing, and environmental overburden, having to live in North Carolina, and daily mortality are all reasons for Pigs' suffering, and reason enough for them to cry..

Viva!'s When Pigs Cry shows Viva!'s investigation of pig farms in the country's #2 'pork' producing state, North Carolina. Sick and diseased pigs are common. On a small farm in Georgia, mother pigs are kept in gestation and farrowing crates - banging their heads and frustrated by their inability to walk or even turn around.

Enter feral pig. I may barf loudly. But feral pigs are easily "harvested" since there is no kill limit to any feral pig group if it is a nuisance. Eat Pig, Eat Feral Young... just because I hunt them doesn't mean I don't love them... 
  AND that is about as EAT UP as it GETS !! Better Run Fast PIG!
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Swine Flu -- Patient ZERO!! MooPig Exclusive Cut\Paste Embed...

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Earmarks? Are those like Skidmarks?

Retrieved by Pat Darnell and the Litter



God, History and You [HERE]

Briefly: Earmarks
Thursday, March 12
During his Presidential campaign, then Senator Barack Obama vowed to fight this policy that was referred to as 'earmarking', or 'earmarks'. I seem to remember that...am I mistaken? At the time, I thought I had a pretty good handle on what, exactly, earmarking was - based on the conversational context, inference, etc. As I am reading today's Washington Post article on our now President Obama's signing of a $410 billion spending bill that includes these notorious earmarks, I'm now wondering - do I understand earmarking? (Posted by Christina HERE)

Call it Pork, call it Foxy; we, the last of the Boomers, are just doing to society what has been done to us for our whole lives: Prodded and poked, experimented on and over- analyzed from childhood. Tangents of psychology have been used by its agents to unlock late blooming Boomer's behavior and isolate it, remove all other possibilities, and punish "the first ever batch of Understood Children" to hatch out a virtual developing market in the USA... with dangerous "has-went by the wayside" products.

Destroying hope and capitalizing on plenty of brains to mess with... inventing Brain Industries, NASA and militaristic agencies that skirt God, and develop their own self-guided bluffing humanism organizations... based on experimentation of a boomer group third sons and daughters, only to vamp the age we live in. We go about our work criminalized, and apish. [MooPig\ pdnf\ I got a bone to pick right here]

As you can see, one fact stands out pretty clearly: Alaska bags a lot of earmarks. The runner up states tend to be smallish states. And that's a clear effect of the disproportionate weight small states get in the senate. But, still, Alaska gets almost four times more in federal earmark dollars than the next runner up, Hawaii.

Another interesting way to look at this is, look at the top three states: Alaska, Hawaii, and West Virginia. All smallish states but each also have senators that have been in office, respectively from 1968 (Stevens), 1963 (Inouye) and 1959 (Byrd).

Earmarks can be a good thing. An example of an earmark that we should be outraged at:

In the emergency stimulus bill (you know, the massive one that was suppose to turn our economy around), Harry Reid included an earmark to double the budget of the Pacific Salmon Foundation. He then added a provision in the bill to allow Nevada (which doesn't border the Pacific) access to said Pacific Salmon money.

The real problem with earmarks is when they have nothing to do with the bill they are included in. It is a way of sneaking money out of the treasury under the cover of night. (Andy D; HERE)

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PHOTO: Salt Lick Contest, 3rd place [SOURCE]

Does your Cow lick rocks? We have an explanation for that.

From D2R2 in the field, Third Coast Correspondent, Texas Gulf Industries:

d2r2 has left a new comment on your post "Open Letter to Presidential Candidates":

"I was thinking about how the cattle lick rocks in West Texas. Gives them some way to make saliva to chew their cuds. They can gain two pounds on six ounces of grass by chewing it for three days."

Many thanks D2R2. Folks with questions pursed on there lips might send them to dpdassoc@yahoo.com ,or D2R2

Thanks to Pribek.net for throwing out some lavish humor from salt lick city. ooorah.

Baseball Hero, Historical Texas Ranch, Squeaky the Feral Pig, and a herd of Cattle

If ever there is a self-fulfilling prophetic story of non-fiction to enter in the MooPig Wisdom radar, well here it is. This human interest story meets the four corners of the MooPig vision for humanity, and then some:

• Eating
• Herding
• Wallowing
• Sleeping

ROSHARON — Call her Squeaky the Wonder Pig, or the cowpig or a 385-pound guard pig. But most of all, call her when it's time for pizza.

Squeaky is clearly no ordinary pig.

The pet and partner of Mike Veara, manager of Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan's China Grove Ranch in Brazoria County, she herds cows, eats pizza and greets most visitors to the ranch.

"And she's a wild pig," Veara said. "You never see a feral pig like that."

Veara insists that Squeaky taught herself all of her skills, not all of which are helpful.

She adopted the 1,800-acre ranch as home.
There are about 1.5 million feral pigs in Texas, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Squeaky has known at least one feral hog. Seven months ago she gave birth to a pair of piglets.

One day Veara and some ranch hands were herding some cattle on horseback when Squeaky got between the riders and the cattle. "I said let's just back off and see what she'll do," Veara said.
Squeaky herded almost 200 head of cattle into pens, just where Veara wanted them. Since then she's been a real cowpig.

She absolutely refuses to eat pig food. Her main rations are cat food and deer corn, Veara said. "And fish sticks. She loves fish sticks," he said.

He often gives her cookies for snacks and she nibbles on marshmallows with delight.

She loves to wash down a snack with a nice bowl of Dr Pepper, Veara said.

"Mr. Ryan likes to bring her candy, but I have to discourage that," Veara said. "If she gets too much sugar she goes into some sort of sugar high and starts running around all over the place.

"Ol' Squeaky is getting to be better known than the historical marker," he said, referring to a marker on FM 521 that notes that China Grove was once part of the plantation owned by Texas Revolutionary War hero and Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston.

She considers a wallow in mud to be the height of fashion and doesn't like to be washed off. Although she seems to think of herself as some sort of porcine breed of dog, complete with barklike "oinks," she's never become uh, ...housebroken.

(Almost forgot: this story scooped by our Bryan, Texas, associate: Bobby Suhes in middle of the night Aug 14, 2008. Way to go Bobby!)