Guest Thomas Keske Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 DIARY OF A MAD MESSENGER PIGEON The Vice President is on a hunting spree shooting clay pigeons, one-by-one He says that he has to keep shooting them until the job is completely done One man and one woman are newylweds They are poisoning pigeons in the park They do it just to be cute They say it is just for a lark You see an angry young Asian man and he says that his name is Cho You ask him why he is angry and he says that you are a cow Give him the McBeef or else go on home You try explain to the pigeons- they have no Constitutional right to be left alone Tell it to the judge, when pigeons pull you from the car and burn your corpse in the riot zone You then try to tell the pigeons, though violence, acceptance cannot be gained They retort that they don't want acceptance By now, they just want to see the bloodstains You get the unsettling feeling that these pigeons were professionally trained These pigeons should just learn to accept that their existence is just second-rate Against violence, we will stand firm We simply will not tolerate Anti-pigeon propaganda justifies the game by claiming that pigeons are dirty It is a technique to distract the masses Follow my hand and watch the birdie All right, perhaps our top politicians should not be gleeful students of Machiavelli when at heart they are fat-fried doughnuts filled at the center with strawberry jelly Perhaps the newlyweds should coo on the sofa, stick to safe things like mindless home shopping They are not really prepared for war or radioactive pigeon droppings To pigeons, we act sometimes like pigs then want police to keep the calm When you treat people or pigeons like dirt, expect them to fight back with big, dirty bombs Pigeons are postal, they deliver a letter You kid yourself, to think that you are anything better... You make war like a bully playing a video game From a weaker position, you would do just the same Their droppings are sacred, though they make such a mess They are pure and white, flowing like the Pope's dress Though they bring war, not the peace of the dove their droppings come down, like Judgement from above Don't preach that it is sin to be poisoned pigeon Maybe you ought to try finding a different religion ------------------------------------------------------------------ 60. When a Pigeon Becomes a Canary .... them of chemical or biological attack -- but their first hint of danger may well come from a pigeon ... Dan Wallace, who is responsible for all precautions against nuclear, chemical and http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/03/58061 ------------------------------------------------------------------ DEATH BY GUANO They poop on top of you! Many times, it's happened to me. ... Posted in Poop | 1 comment | Dirty, dirty, dirty birds. ... Need any more proof that pigeons are filthy, disgusting creatures http://www.killthepigeons.com/nucleus/index.php?catid=4&b... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lets make a dirty bomb Making a dirty bomb is like making rabbit stew. .... If these can be overcome we will find spent fuel rods in huge tanks of water. ... http://www.giwersworld.org/911/dirty-bomb.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.centristcoalition.com/blog/archives/003703.html One dirty bomb at Long Beach will be many billions. Well-placed IEDs in Jersey would cost even more because of the material located there. Targets overseas are even more vulnerable. If not Dovish, it is certainly Pigeonish. Escalation of terror will likely get worse. Almost ALL experts agree on that. ------------------------------------------------------------------ "These are dirty homosexuals, I am an orthodox believer and that is my belief," said one man involved in the scuffles. A group of thick-set young men turned up wearing surgeon's masks, which they said would protect them from the "gay disease". Other men and women screamed abuse such as "death to homosexuals" at the activists. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PIGEONS BECOME NUCLEAR WASTE AT BNFL PLUTONIUM FACTORY; GREENPEACE WARNS OF SERIOU... .... is based on the analysis of pigeon flesh, feathers and faeces-contaminated soil. ... would require the pigeons to be classified as nuclear waste in British archive.greenpeace.org/pressreleases/nucreprocess/. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 20. Bill Oddie - Idiotica.co.uk presents Oddie-itica, Bill Oddie's bird crazy website ALL LONDON'S PIGEONS ARE GOING GAY... total lack of any baby pigeons whatsoever anywhere in London (have you ... Gay pigeons are a menace, I reveal. ... idiotica.co.uk/archive/bill_oddie/studies.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Pigeons in Trafalgar Square - Icons of England Pigeons in Trafalgar Square. 740 of 1089 ... reduce the population of pigeons in Trafalgar Square, London Mayor Ken ... http://www.icons.org.uk/nom/nominations/pigeons-in-trafal... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Battle of Trafalgar Trafalgar was the decisive battle of the Napoleonic Wars. It had always been essential to Napoleon's master plan to control the world that he should have ... http://www.voodoo.cz/victory/trafalgar.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 23. Pigeon Bombs and Nuclear Chickens at Quad Lasers UK pondered suicide pigeon attacks - ?A thousand pigeons each with a two ounce explosive ... No Responses to .. Pigeon Bombs and Nuclear quadlasers.com/wp/humour/pigeon-bombs-and-nuclear-... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 18. Sam Smith - I'm a writer, honest! (Including the newly erected "beware nuclear terrorist pigeon" signs.) 3) Your once mighty Jaguar has been turned into something with control, breaking and ... http://www.samsmith.co.uk/index.php?start=1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Creature Features - Pigeons Word of Napoleon's downfall at Waterloo reached England by pigeon 4 days before the fastest couriers could carry the news by horse and ship! ... http://www.abc.net.au/creaturefeatures/facts/pigeons.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ 11. Commander Reed Episode LXIV - Harold the Nuclear Pigeon The Commander Reed Saga - An unforgettable space adventure in the year 3010. Follow Commander ... EPISODE LXIV - HAROLD THE NUCLEAR PIGEON http://www.commanderreed.com/61_70/episode_lxiv_harold_th... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.nuclear.com/n-sites/Pigeon_Spur_news.html Pigeon Spur could receive spent fuel within two years of licensing "We need new nuclear power plants now, but before we can start building we need to solve the SNF dilemma. I believe that we have the only SNF solution that can be done [this] decade. After we are licensed, we can get our first phase storage and transfer built and be operating in two years." Pigeon Spur cost advantage over Yucca Mountain, which needs fans for cooling For the first fifty years, and perhaps even one hundred, spent nuclear fuel generates a lot of heat. Deep storage in Yucca Mountain will require 50 years of 10,000-horsepower worth of fan cooling, costing more than $5 million per year just for the electricity. It makes sense to store spent fuel "at or near the surface where it can be cooled with natural air convection and easily monitored and accessed. The cost to store SNF at the Pigeon Spur Repository is less than a tenth as expensive as Yucca storage. Near surface storage at the Pigeon Spur requires no fans; cooling cost is zero." Source: William D. Peterson, "Use N-waste over and over", Deseret News (Salt Lake City), April 4, 2002, p. A22 Federal funding sought for Pigeon Spur ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nuclear Power and Climate Change, Presentation by Prof N Pigeon ... Prof Nick Pigeon, School of Psychology, will be giving a presentation entitled "Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Perceived Risks, Public Acceptability and http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/schoolsanddivisions/academicscho... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. US Missile defense test fails after "clay pigeon" goes astray ... US Missile defense test fails after "clay pigeon" goes astray ... You are advocating tactical nuclear threats against Amerika. pressesc.com/01180199363_missile_test_failure ------------------------------------------------------------------ 32. Cajo - Company for Pigeon Deterrence Systems - Credentials Church St. Peter Emmeran. Electric Pigeon Defense http://www.cajo-pigeon-defense.com/html/referenz_gb_17.ht ------------------------------------------------------------------ 20. ISLAMIC NUKES - NUCLEAR WEAPON DOCTRINE OF INDIA On the other hand, pigeon is very peaceful harmless bird ... Nuclear Indian New Defense Doctrine- Kalki Gaur http:// indiatalking.com/blog ... The credible minimum nuclear deterrence will be. my.opera.com/kalkitv/blog/index.dml/tag/ISLAMIC%20... A rattlesnake is highly poisonous and can kill by a single bite. Nevertheless, two rattlesnakes fight to death and die. Nevertheless, no rattlesnake would ever inject poison into other during a duel even if it would die during the fight. On the other hand, pigeon is very peaceful harmless bird, which out of fear closes its eyes in the presence of a danger; thus, some cats catch them easily. Nevertheless, two pigeons fight to death. Homo Sapiens specie is more similar to the specie of rattlesnakes not that of pigeons. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.alternet.org/environment/38261 Here's how it's going to go down: We're going to burn oil until we're out of oil. Then we're going to burn coal until we're out of coal. Then we're going to fission uranium until we're out of uranium. Then- after the war of all against all and the Great Dying, the scattered tribes of survivors will construct wind, water, tidal, and solar energy collectors from the scraps and ruins of the old empire. Then we will have a society running on renewable energy. But no sooner. Since the former continental U.S. will be the world's largest desert by then, all our nuclear waste disposal sites will be surrounded by hundreds of miles of windswept dunes. Coastal Canada and the Scandinavian islands will be tropical rainforest. There should be plenty of ground squirrel and pigeon meat to go around. And besides, if you think we can keep expanding markets into the indefinite future, you're flat wrong. Wake up and smell the smoke of our burning civilization, folks. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. BNFL REMOVES NUCLEAR WASTE FROM PIGEON GARDEN "PROBLEM NOT SOLVED ... The owners of the house have been feeding pigeons since the late 1970's, but only in February 1998 was the nuclear contamination discovered. The pigeon archive.greenpeace.org/pressreleases/nucreprocess/... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. Mario's Cyberspace Station: Animals trained to be - spies! (1) The pigeon missions remain classified, made possible only after the CIA secretly developed a camera weighing only as much as a few coins. ... mprofaca.cro.net/spyanimals.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Cloning Extinct Species, Part II The last known Passenger Pigeon, Martha, died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo. Nuclear DNA has been recovered from human bone fragments from 1918 tiger_spot.mapache.org/Biology/extinct2.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Avian Influenza ('Bird Flu') and Pigeons Now, what is the role of pigeons in Avian Influenza? To answer that question more fully, we can look at some past examples of outbreaks of the disease in http://www.albertaclassic.net/chalmers3.php ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Avian flu worries create tough times for seagulls, pigeons Avian flu worries create tough times for seagulls, pigeons. Tuesday, November 08, 2005 ... Pigeons are unfairly taking the rap for avian flu in Hong Kong. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05312/602370.stm ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6669165.stm No definite link In 2005 a case officer was appointed to look into similar allegations against another charity, White Pigeon, but no formal probe was launched. Sathiya Moorthy, the charity's chairman, said: "White Pigeon has been cleared. They looked into the charity's accounts and activities." The UK has listed the LTTE as a terrorist organisation since 2000, while the European Union banned it in 2006. But in many cases it is impossible to provide a substantial level of proof that the money was intended for terrorist purposes," said a spokesman. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 17. Pigeon - Breaking the Rules 2001 Pigeon Corporation Tomiyama-cho, Kanda Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 101 Japan. Promotion to the public. Promotion in health care facilities. Adequate labelling http://www.ibfan.org/english/codewatch/btr01/PIGEON-en.HT Pigeon, like other brands, has attractive cartoon characters on its bottles. Shop attendants in Malaysia promote new and expensive Pigeon bottles by explaining that they have a new anti-gas valve on the nipple which is supposed to regulate the flow of formula ------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. Images for the project "la cicatrice/the scar" Photo Gallery by Eric Herbelin at p... This Book Project just intend to show somes of the ... Electric Pigeon. electric erection. electric bath. electric daylight. electric smog. electric diving . http://www.pbase.com/eric_herbelin/images_for_the_project. Images for the project "la cicatrice/the scar" This Book Project just intend to show somes of the great scars drawn by the Electricity companies on the face of earth. In progress but very slow. Please contribute by any picture, short story, test, poem, song, multmedia, etc.... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://physiolgenomics.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/2/155 Molecular characterization of an inward rectifier channel (IKir) found in avian vestibular hair cells: cloning and expression of pKir2.1 A fast inwardly rectifying current has been observed in some of the sensory cells (hair cells) of the inner ear of several species. While the current was presumed to be an I(Kir) current, contradictory evidence existed as to whether the cloned channel actually belonged to the Kir2.0 subfamily of potassium inward rectifiers. In this paper, we report for the first time converging evidence from electrophysiological, biochemical, immunohistochemical, and genetic studies that show that the Kir2. 1 channel carries the fast inwardly rectifying currents found in pigeon vestibular hair cells Negative currents hyperpolarized the membrane 20 mV before block but 60 mV following block. RT-PCR studies revealed that the pKir2.1 channels found in pigeon vestibular hair cells were also present in pigeon vestibular nerve, vestibular ganglion, lens, neck muscle, brain (brain stem, cerebellum and optic tectum), liver, and heart. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 15. Electric Rc Buggy Products Electric Pigeon Thrower. Electric Potpourri Burner. Electric Punch. Electric Sander ... (New) 4WD Electric Remote Control Mini Racing Buggy RC $59.99 http://www.lightsmithmm.com/electricrcbuggy.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16. Electric Pigeon Scarer - Electronic Circuits Projects Diagrams Free Hello everyone, I would like to make a birthday present for my grandpa that lives in Brooklyn, NY. He has a major pigeon problem(they poop all over. http://www.electro-tech-online.com/general-electronics-ch. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 66. cbs4denver.com - Chinese Scientists Control Pigeons Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely control the bird's flight, state media said. cbs4denver.com/national/topstories_story_058085313 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 27. The Pigeon Shooter Electric Pigeon Flapper with battery [ back ] ... This flapper comes complete with battery and will last up to 8 hours. Place among your http://www.pigeonshooter.co.uk/ProductDetails.asp?ID=34&C... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 39. Cho Seung-Whatever The only things I've ever shot were a clay pigeon and a clown with an open mouth. Then there's the argument that Cho couldn't've killed all those people if only guns didn't exist, or weren http://www.readjdm.com/main/jdm/more/380/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ 22. Duly Consider: America in Denial: The Virginia Tech Shooting -- ... It will pigeon-hole Cho with another high brow label that amounts to nothing more than calling him a 'freak' that places him safely outside of . donoevil.netscape.com/story/2007/04/19/duly-consid. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Birdman Bryant: St Petersburg Pigeon Flap & the Ugly People .. Documents on Pigeons and Pigeon-Feeding Prepared for the St Pete City ..... (b) As a result of my criticism of Jews I stirred up a hornet's nest on two ... http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/SPBird/SPBird-AssortedDoc... d) Their droppings are prized as the highest quality fertilizer. Pigeons have a bad reputation which is completely undeserved: Pigeons, then, are not 'messy'; rather it is humans who are messy, and it is pigeons who clean up the mess. POSSIBLE MOTIVES OF THOSE PRESSING FOR THE ANTI-BIRD-FEEDING AGENDA Irrational hatred of pigeons Irrational fear of germs The Jews have a well-known motto: "Never forgive, never forget." (f) The founder of Zionism, Theodore Herzl, once spoke of "the terrible power of the [Jewish] purse" in referring to the way in which Jews typically wielded power over gentiles ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Russian Jewish Leaders Join Orthodox in Supporting Moscow Russian Jewish Leaders Join Orthodox in Supporting Moscow Mayor's Ban on Gay Pride ... who banned the Moscow Gay Pride parade scheduled for May 27. ... http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06032705.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Russian Muslim Chief Predicts Violence if Gay Parade Allowed in Russian Muslim Chief Predicts Violence if Gay Parade Allowed in Moscow. ... Russian Orthodox Church Awards Euro-Asian Jewish Leader. 16.01.2007 14:24 MSK, ... http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/02/14/gayparade.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. Russian Jews Urge Jerusalem to Ban Gay Parade, Warn of Possible The Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia (FJCR) calls the Jerusalem authorities to bar gay parade planned for September 21, the eve of the Jewish New ... http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/08/29/jewsagainstgays.sh... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 10. What Jews Believe Jews believe that we do not need a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. ... 11-13, it states, "If, however, he cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, he is to ... whatjewsbelieve.org/explanation02.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.petertatchell.net/international/moscowmarch.htm A spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church, which also urged the Moscow Mayor to ban the parade, spoke out against Moscow Pride, telling media outlets that homosexuality is a "sin which destroys human beings and condemns them to a spiritual death." Not to be left out, Russian Chief Rabbi, Berl Lazar, said that if a gay pride parade was allowed to go ahead it would be "a blow for morality". He stopped short of calling for violence, but warned that the Jewish community would not stand by silently. "Sexual perversions", he said, did not have a right to exist. Lazar said that gay pride marches were "a provocation" similar to cartoon depictions of Mohammed. ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Right to exist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Right to exist is a phrase referring to the question of whether the Jewish people, acting through the modern government of Israel, have a right to maintain ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_exist ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/11/16/140521.shtml The Forward further reported, "Israel's chief rabbinate issued a statement Monday calling Israel's homosexuals the 'lowest of people.'" Jews suffered so much under the Nazis who killed six million of them. It boggles my mind that Jews and rabbis in particular would seek to dehumanize and even to injure fellow Jews of whose sexual orientation they disapprov ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.kakanien.ac.at/weblogs/transitory-i/1131974670 Pigeon Holes It was most certainly not the young, Jewish, Viennese filmmaker's intention to alienate. However, stereotypes came across in this film, and stereotypes alienate. A stereotypical attitude and portrayal make life too easy: as stereotypes do, it discourages actual confrontation of that which is new, strange or threatening. Even if this boxed portrayal is positive, the fact remains that anything that has more to do with pigeon holes than with people is pretty easy to utilize in any manner, should the circumstances make it convenient. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 74. Israel Not Facing Existential Threat - OhmyNews International Another wall of pigeon holes, this time much smaller filled with human skulls. ... years from even having one workable nuclear warhead, and depending on the size . english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4739815.stm Gay Pride weathers Belfast storm By Patrick Jackson BBC News, Belfast If parades are what you are after, this is the place to be - marching is so much a part of life here, they have a season named after it And if your cause happens to be not local politics but the right to be gay, does the culture not dictate banners, bands and your best foot forward? But there is also a perception that the easing of the Troubles has led to a search for new scapegoats. "The old sectarian tensions aren't an excuse anymore," said Andi Clarke. "I feel people are channelling their anger to the ethnic minorities, to sexual minorities instead." Gays, as another Pride organiser put it, are "probably the most discriminated-against group in Northern Ireland" ------------------------------------------------------------------ 19. Cops, Protesters Prevent Moscow Gay Parade, Gay Rights Activists ... Gay Rights Activists Pummeled by Protesters and Detained by Police, Thwarting Moscow Parade... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/28/ap/world/mainD8... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 37. Pigeons Bombing Russia? Pigeons Bombing Russia?, European History, Yes, somebody once planned to train pigeons to drop explosives or biological weapons on Moscow europeanhistory.about.com/b/a/087409.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2003/12/20/51873.html Moscow hosts international pigeon exhibition An international pigeon exhibition opened at the Sokolniki expo center here today, RIA Novosti learned at the Russky Tumbler pigeon-lovers' society. Pigeons were treated as sacred birds since times immemorial; among other things, they were bred for sacrificial purposes. Pigeons were first mentioned in Shumer cuneiform tablets circa 4, 500 B. C. Priests in Babylon and Assyria considered pigeons to be the symbol and mundane incarnation of love goddess Astarta. Egypt, Judea, as well as Greece and Rome, also believed them to be holy birds, which symbolized love gods and goddesses. Christianity inherited this tradition, saying that pigeons symbolized the Holy Spirit, as well as God's love toward Man. The people of Russia have been breeding pigeons ever since the tenth century, to say the least. Russian pigeon-breeders offer quite a few unique breeds. According to experts, the world has more than 800 pigeon breeds, decorative breeds, for the most part. For their own part, Russian experts breed approximately 200 pigeon varieties; many of them live in Russia alone. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n759/ai_20830596/pg_5g San Francisco Arts and Athletics Inc. v. U.S. Olympic Committee: The court ruled in 1987 that the word "olympic" was the sole possession of the U.S. Olympic Committee and that the gay group could not call its event the "Gay Olympics". The event was renamed the Gay Games ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=7576&cid=63&p=14.02.2007 The evaluation commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has started inspections of the cities that had filed their bids to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games Vladimir Rebekka wants to send exactly 2014 pigeons to make the sky above Sochi all white. He either has no doubts that his native city will win host the Games in 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 25. 2014... The End? PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD ... .... m. EDT on June 1, 2014. "The good news is that this finding confirms several cutting ... to cease to exist in 2014 once a http://www.eyepod.org/EndoftheWorld.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Cloud Of Dust - My Sahara Life Pigeon Head features Andy Hunt on the drums, lead guitar by ex- Burning ... Quantum Enterprises For more information about Cloud Of Dust, please contact http://www.quantumenterprises.co.uk/cloud_of_dust/mysahar ------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. JSTOR: In Vitro Release of Arachidonic Acid and In Vivo Responses ... Pigeon droppings, a dust also associated with pulmonary disease similar to that ... sample and drawing the dust cloud through a Ca- sella Hexhlet horizontal . links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0091-6765(198604)66%3C87... ------------------------------------------------------------------ do not ignore those who seem weak dried skin, feather, bone, and beak flesh and feces, ground to fine dust infect the lungs of armies, crushed ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.nonoise.org/quietnet/cqs/polphil.htm The first person might think of a dead pigeon in the gutter and go on to describe it being parked on by cars in the hot summer months and finally becoming flat and dried whereupon tiny flakes of dried skin, feather, bone, and beak (not to mention viscera) come available to be part of the dust cloud. The second person might think of snail trails, droppings, and the snail himself crushed underfoot and dried on the sidewalk. The third person might think of the exhaust from the two-cycle leaf blower combined with the exhaust from every other engine whose exhaust (a small representation) has chanced to settle in the sample area. The fourth person is likely to bring up dog dropping he has seen. There is always someone like this in a group but his point is valid. The fifth person, eager for a different image, will think of broken glass ground to dust and blown into the air along with the residue of whatever the glass container contained. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=macdonald&book= curdie&story=battle HE commanded the page to blow his trumpet; and, in the strength of the moment, the youth uttered a right warlike defiance. Their attack, especially the rush of the Uglies, threw the first line into great confusion, but the second came up quickly; the beasts could not be everywhere, there were thousands to one against them, and the king and his three companions were in the greatest possible danger. A dense cloud came over the sun, and sank rapidly toward the earth. The cloud moved all together, and yet the thousands of white flakes of which it was made up moved each for itself in ceaseless and rapid motion: those flakes were the wings of pigeons The men made frantic efforts to seize their tormentors, but not one could they touch; and they outdoubled them in numbers. Between every wild clutch came a peck of beak and a buffet of pinion in the face. Generally the bird would, with sharp- clapping wings, dart its whole body, with the swiftness of an arrow, against its singled mark, yet so as to glance aloft the same instant, and descend skimming; much as the thin stone, shot with horizontal cast of arm, having touched and torn the surface of the lake, ascends to skim, touch, and tear again. So mingled the feathered multitude in the grim game of war. It was a storm in which the wind was birds, and the sea men. And ever as each bird arrived at the rear of the enemy, it turned, ascended, and sped to the front to charge again. With lifted sabre, one of his attendant officers rode at the miner. But a mass of pigeons darted in the faces of him and his horse, and the next moment he lay beside his commander. The rest of them turned and fled, pursued by the birds "Call off your hounds, Curdie, and let the pigeons do the rest," he shouted, and turned to see what had become of the princess In full panic fled the invaders, sweeping down their tents, stumbling over their baggage, trampling on their dead and wounded, ceaselessly pursued and buffeted by the white-winged army of heaven. Homeward they rushed the road they had come, straight for the borders, many dropping from pure fatigue, and lying where they fell. And still the pigeons were in their necks as they ran. At length to the eyes of the king and his army nothing was visible save a dust cloud below, and a bird cloud above. Before night the bird cloud came back, flying high over Gwyntystorm. Sinking swiftly, it disappeared among the ancient roofs of the palace. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 102. LIS > Code of Virginia > 18.2-145 18.2-145 . Protection of homing pigeons. It shall be unlawful for any person at any time or in any manner to hunt, pursue, take, capture, wound, maim, disfigure, or kill any homing pigeon o... leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+18.2-... ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. HRC | Virginia Hate Crimes Law State law does not address hate crimes based on gender identity or sexual orientation. http://www.hrc.org/TemplateRedirect.cfm?template=/Content ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://changeservant.blogspot.com/http://changeservant.blogspot.com/ Political Ill Wind? Today in Austin, Texas, city streets were shut down in the State Capitol on the eve of their legislative session because 60 pigeons, grackels and sparrows were found dead. I've heard of political hot air but this seems to be a new form of political toxic cloud accompanying the arrival of their state legislators. And, in NYC, another ill wind was blowing. Hmmmm. Better be careful to stay away from Jamestown on Wednesday. Oh, that's right, there's no room for the public anyway. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dgarneau/indian14.htm April 18: Powhatan Confederacy leader 99-year-old Opechancanough and his forces attacked the English along the Pamunkey and York rivers. This was 22 years after his first attack at Jamestown. His followers killed almost 400 Virginia colonists The second great battle is fought at Pigeon Lake where the Iroquois had made a strong fort. A great number of Ojibwa is killed before the fort is stormed and as a result few Iroquois are spared. The Iroquois said: Go and kill that dog; the Dutch told us that what the Jesuit does is of no account; that act (a sacred sign of the cross) will cause some harm to my grandson. The champion of Father Isaac Jogues (1607-1646 is killed for using the sacred sign on his grandson. The prisoners were burned by the Huron, in the manner of the Christian fires of hell. The Infidel Annenraes was spared. July: About 800 Onnotaeronnons (Iroquois) are preparing for war against the Huron for the defeat earlier this year. The Infidel Annenraes who was freed by the French pleaded for peace among the People. The drum is banned among the Christian People at Sillery, Quebec as they represent forbidden superstitions. The Jesuit say by giving up the drum they renounce the Devil. The Huron believe in three kinds of disease, some are natural and cured with natural herbs and remedies; others are caused by a sickness of the soul and cured by obtaining for the soul what it desires; the other diseases are caused by spells that some sorcerer (medicine man) has cast upon a person and is cured by withdrawing from the patients body the spell cast. The Jesuit believed this was superstition and paganism. The French use of holy water and blood letting suggests they had similar beliefs. Exorcism as practiced by the French assumed an evil spirit has infected a person. The concept of witchcraft is inherent in the Jesuit belief system and failure to teach it is a grave sin. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 19. Superstition .... credulity, or that religion which remains when real religion is dead. Paul said to the ... ("'Superstition' in the Pigeon", B.F. http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/su/superstition... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner#Superstition_in_the_Pigeon Superstition in the Pigeon One of Skinner's experiments examined the formation of superstition in one of his favorite experimental animals, the pigeon. Skinner placed a series of hungry pigeons in a cage attached to an automatic mechanism that delivered food to the pigeon "at regular intervals with no reference whatsoever to the bird's behavior". He discovered that the pigeons associated the delivery of the food with whatever chance actions they had been performing as it was delivered, and that they subsequently continued to perform these same actions. One bird was conditioned to turn counter-clockwise about the cage, making two or three turns between reinforcements. Another repeatedly thrust its head into one of the upper corners of the cage. A third developed a 'tossing' response, as if placing its head beneath an invisible bar and lifting it repeatedly. Two birds developed a pendulum motion of the head and body, in which the head was extended forward and swung from right to left with a sharp movement followed by a somewhat slower return. ? B.F. Skinner, "'Superstition' in the Pigeon", Journal of Experimental Psychology #38, 1947 [5] Skinner suggested that the pigeons believed that they were influencing the automatic mechanism with their "rituals" and that this experiment shed light on human behavior: The experiment might be said to demonstrate a sort of superstition. The bird behaves as if there were a causal relation between its behavior and the presentation of food, although such a relation is lacking. There are many analogies in human behavior. Rituals for changing one's fortune at cards are good examples. A few accidental connections between a ritual and favorable consequences suffice to set up and maintain the behavior in spite of many unreinforced instances. The bowler who has released a ball down the alley but continues to behave as if she were controlling it by twisting and turning her arm and shoulder is another case in point. These behaviors have, of course, no real effect upon one's luck or upon a ball half way down an alley, just as in the present case the food would appear as often if the pigeon did nothing -- or, more strictly speaking, did something else. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Blog : Superstitions...THE BAD ONES .... me that the "bird" of death is a pigeon...not any bird... just a pigeon. ..... 3/3/2006 10:33 pm, I have heard of the supersition that red-haired women personals.nwsource.com/blog/1439/post_11844.html?d... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle24.html In March 1998, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food cautioned residents of the English village of Seascale not to eat pigeons. It seems that a couple of dead pigeons removed from the garden of two sisters were found to have high levels of radioactivity. The pigeons had roosted on buildings at the nearby Sellafield nuclear plant, where they had become contaminated. British Nuclear Fuels, Limited, which runs the plant, checked for contamination around the sisters' home. A portion of their garden had to be cleared and disposed of as hazardous waste because of the radioactive pigeon droppings ------------------------------------------------------------------ A control rod with a "reduced worth" tip is provided for a nuclear reactor which includes an elongated tubular cladding with its opposite ends closed and having a plurality of pellets of two different types disposed in its lower end portion in an end-to-end relationship. One type of pellets is formed of a neutron absorbing material, such as B.sub.4 C, whereas, the other type of pellets is formed of an inert material, such as ZrO.sub.2. The absorber pellets and the inert pellets are interspaced between one another in the lower end of the rod so as to gradually reduce the rate of change of the neutron flux experienced at the rod's lower end portion as it moves in and out of the fuel assembly to thereby alleviate pellet-clad- interaction and thus reduce the likelihood of fuel rod failure. In one embodiment, the axial heights of the absorber pellets progressively increase from the bottom to the top of the rod's lower end portion while the axial heights of the interspaced inert pellets remain constant. In a second embodiment, the axial heights of the inert pellets progressively decrease from the bottom to the top of the rod's lower end portion while the axial heights of the interspaced absorber pellets remain constant. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The poison came in little pink lozenges that looked like Chicklets (the gum). I had to stand out on the balcony amongst all of the shit and feathers and grind these poison pellets into dust. I crushed up a third of a box of the mouse poison, mixed it with a couple of cups of seed, and spread the concoction around on an old pizza box on the balcony. Russian Long before the Christians or the Communists got to Russia, pent finches, larks, blackbirds and pigeons were let out of their cages to symbolize the coming of spring. As time passed, the freeing of birds became part of the annual celebration of the Orthodox Feast of the Annunciation. Even under the stern materialism of Soviet rule. Russia's common man, himself pent beyond hope, continued to find a fleeting moment of freedom in the liberation of small winged creatures on April 7, the Day of the Birds. ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. AN EVENING (WASTED) WITH TOM LEHRER - 1. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park All the world seems in tune On a spring afternoon, When we're poisoning pigeons in the park. Every Sunday you'll see My sweetheart and me, As we poison the members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/pigeons.htm Every Sunday you'll see My sweetheart and me, As we poison the pigeons in the park. When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide, But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide. The sun's shining bright, Everything seems all right, When we're poisoning pigeons in the park. We've gained notoriety, And caused much anxiety In the Audubon Society With our games. They call it impiety And lack of propriety, And quite a variety Of unpleasant names. But it's not against any religion To want to dispose of a pigeon. We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment, Except for the few we take home to experiment. My pulse will be quickenin' With each drop of strych'nine We feed to a pigeon. (It just takes a smidgin!) To poison a pigeon in the park. Thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Police handling of murder cases was hampered by homophobia, says ... Scotland Yard: criticised for handling of 10 murders of gay men or transsexuals. ... of Geoffrey Windsor, who was murdered in a south London park in 2002. http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,,2079781,00.h... ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Gays in China .... AIDS prevention, counseling gays who meet in parks, conducting opinion polls and ... Stories are told of gays being murdered during the Cultural Revolution, a 10 . http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/china-mod.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Danger Room - Wired Blogs Like the Chinese pigeon experiment, the sharks had brain implants used to control their movements. But don't hold your breath waiting for animal spies to blog.wired.com/defense/2007/02/cyborg_flying_r.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29. WATCH THE BIRDIE Wake up in the morning, s t r e t c h .... NO.4 - HYPNOSIS Carrier Pigeon (slave's who send coded or uncoded messages ... http://www.speedreading.com/phpBB2/ntopic34507.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 71. PigeonConspiracy.com - The original and best Pigeon Conspiracy portal ... .... against Pigeons Act in major march Pigeon Resistance announces 10,000 people have been dehypnotised by its psychotherapy teams Pigeons carrying nuclear waste found in London Pigeon http://www.pigeonconspiracy.com/pc/background_timeline.as ------------------------------------------------------------------ 32. Subject: [TSCM-L] Warning It is with great reluctance that I feel .... of pigeons and released over enemy targets in the 1970s. The secret gadgets currently used by CIA are left to the imagination of visitors http://www.tscm.com/tscm-l/122603.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------ 36. Danger Room - Wired Blogs A few decades ago, the CIA went to great lengths to capture pigeons who roosted on the window ledges at the Soviet embassy and implant them with wireless microphones (antenna wires were dra. blog.wired.com/defense/2007/02/cyborg_flying_r.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/WC/baker_m1.html Mr. Belin. That would be the building located on what corner of Houston and Elm? Mr. Baker. That would be the northwest corner. Mr. Belin. All right. And you thought it was either from that building or the building located where? Mr. Baker. On the northeast corner. Mr. Belin. All right. Did you see or hear or do anything else after you heard the first noise? Mr. Baker. Yes, sir. As I was looking up, all these pigeons began to fly up to the top of the buildings here and I saw those come up and start flying around. Mr. Belin. From what building, if you know, do you think those pigeons came from? Mr. Baker. I wasn't sure, but I am pretty sure they came from the building right on the northwest corner. Mr. Belin. Then what did you see or do? Mr. Baker. Well, I immediately revved that motorcycle up and was going up there to see if I could help anybody or see what was going on because I couldn't see around this bend. Mr. Belin. Well, between the time you revved up the motorcycle had you heard any more shots? Mr. Baker. Yes, sir; I heard--now before I revved up this motorcycle, I heard the, you know, the two extra shots, the three shots Mr. Belin. On the top of the School Book Depository Building on Exhibit 362. All right. Then what did you do? Mr. Baker. Then I came back down and I went and checked this building right here. It is an old deserted room there of some type. Mr. Belin. Some kind of a shack on the northeast corner of the building? Mr. Baker. That is right, sir. Mr. Belin. Out there. What did you see when you saw that shack? Mr. Baker. As I approached it, and looked under it, there wasn't anything under it, and you could tell that pigeons had been roosting there for sometime. Mr. Belin. All right. There were indications that pigeons had been roosting there? Mr. Baker. Yes, sir. Mr. Belin. Then what did you do? Mr. Baker. No indications that anyone would be around there. Mr. Belin. Did you see any pigeons there as you approached it? Mr. Baker. No, sir. They had all--at the time I kind of glanced and they were still flying around in the sky up there. Mr. Belin. What did you do? Senator Cooper. You referred to pigeons, did you see some pigeon droppings? Mr. Baker. Yes, sir. Senator Cooper. Had they been disturbed in any way? Mr. Baker. No, sir. Mr. Belin. Then what did you do? Mr. Baker. At that time I went on back. Mr. Truly was standing over here on this northwest corner and we descended on the stairs there Mr. Belin. All right. Mr. Baker. The next thing that I noticed was Inspector Sawyer, he was on one of those floors there, he is a police inspector. Mr. Dulles. City of Dallas Police? Mr. Belin. Then what did you do? Mr. Baker. I immediately went on out. I was with this motorcade and I went right on straight through the front door and got on my motorcycle and tried to find out what happened to the motorcade. Senator Cooper. I may be repeating because I missed the first part of his testimony. Mr. Dulles. Go ahead. Senator Cooper. But when you heard the shot, you said later you saw some pigeons fly up. Mr. Baker. Yes, sir. Senator Cooper. What was the sequence of time between the time you saw the flight of the pigeons and you heard the shot? Mr. Baker. As I got that motorcycle straightened up, and I hadn't gone just a very few feet there, it didn't seem like, you know, I went very far, but it is possible I went, we figured maybe 80, 60 to 80 feet there, and I looked up, as the shots started, I immediately looked up, you know. I was already facing ahead and I just kind of raised, I sighted up, and while I was looking-up, those other two shots came off, and as I come up, I noticed those pigeons start to fly up there, but I really didn't see which, there were so many of them I couldn't tell which building they were coming from but I know they were all over. Say you were facing north like Houston they were in the sky facing north in the street. Senator Cooper. Which way were the pigeons going? Mr. Baker. They were just coming up, you know. Senator Cooper. I assume you are a hunter, aren't you, from what you said? Mr. Baker. Yes, sir; I try to be. Senator Cooper. Have you seen birds in flight when they are suddenly startled? Mr. Baker. Yes, sir. Senator Cooper. Well, was this the character of the flight of pigeons you saw? Mr. Baker. Yes, sir; that is the way it seemed to me, that these birds, you know, just with a sudden uprush. Senator Cooper. Did you have any notice of anyone saying there might have been a shot from the railroad until you heard the statement over the radio just before you entered the School Book Depository? ------------------------------------------------------------------ 23. John F. Kennedy Je ne suis qu'un pigeon >> Lee Harvey Oswald. Lee Harvey Oswald nait a la Nouvelle-Orleans http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/dossiers/jfk/bio-osw... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 26. Dorothy Kilgallen .... money doubts if any amount of precaution can change his status as a clay pigeon. ... journalist who was granted a private interview with Jack Ruby since he killed Lee Oswald http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKkilgallen.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/paine_r2.htm Mrs. PAINE - Yes. Mr. JENNER - When next was there--did you hear from Lee Harvey Oswald at any time thereafter? Mrs. PAINE - Not until the afternoon of the 4th, which I have already referred to. Mr. JENNER - No word whatsoever from him from the 24th of September? Mrs. PAINE - 23d we left him in New Orleans. Mr. JENNER - 23d of September, until the 4th of October? Mrs. PAINE - That is correct; no word. Mr. JENNER - By letter, telephone? Mrs. PAINE - Or pigeon. Mr. JENNER - Or otherwise, anything whatsoever? Mrs. PAINE - No word. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 51. Campaigning about 9/11 : LA IMC They would go up for an errant pigeon -- unless ordered not to ! ... It's called "LEE HARVEY OSWALD, THE CIA AND MEXICO CITY," but it' s better known . la.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/173646_comment.php ------------------------------------------------------------------ 53. INSIDE THE DIXIE MAFIA .... would complain that he was a clay pigeon and sitting duck when he was told that ... similar evidence was difficult to establish in the case of Lee Harvey Oswald. http://www.insider-magazine.com/inside_the_dixie_mafia.ht... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Peace Actions: Martin Luther King Weekend '03 Flocks of pigeons flew through our circle, wheeled overhead and made three complete spirals .... It seemed an appropriate way to honor Martin Luther King. http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/mlkwee The day was relaxed, with women coming and going and some of us taking turns to go for tea and warmup. Around noon, when the weather had warmed and a slightly larger group had gathered, we circled up, sang and chanted. Flocks of pigeons flew through our circle, wheeled overhead and made three complete spirals above us, moving energy through the air. We spoke about the need to unbind the negative ties within us, the bindings that held the White House and the power it represented tied to undemocratic interests, and the need to weave new webs of peace and justice. We had over a dozen webs loosely framed in hula hoops, in various patterns, some like a spiderweb with radiating anchors and a loose spiral weaving them together: some like the spokes of a bicycle wheel, and some in dreamcatcher patterns. We had bundles of balls of yarn and ribbons of fabric scraps. I asked people to think about what negative ties in themselves they wanted to release. We had originally planned to create some kind of rope construction where we could actually take apart knots as we did the releasing- but the truth is we all had some resistance to making the tangle and never quite did. It was honestly too cold to take off our gloves and I thought perhaps doing the inner work and speaking the intention might be better than constructing something which we might not actually be able to undo. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 43. The Core: what his smack in the center of Earth? Two new theories could spark a fi... .... rules--from thousands of dead pigeons raining on London to lightning bolts ... Without control rods to slow the process, heat energy could incinerate the reactor. ... findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1590/is_6_59/ai_95... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mafia Use Carrier Pigeons to Deliver Drugs Into Prison ... Inmates collected them and released the pigeons with notes and payment for the ... Russian Orthodox Church Outraged as Internet Auction Offers Saint`s Bones ... http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/07/28/carrierpigeon.shtm ------------------------------------------------------------------ 78. Diary of the Mad Pigeon: Current Affairs I'm just a pigeon, and most folks think pigeons are flying rats. ... other's writings, the siblings work to manipulate world interest for a long time, helping to control ... http://www.themadpigeon.com/diary_of_the_mad_pigeon/curre ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Richard Leader: Gay Pigeons Come Home to Roost Portfolio, Art, Graphics, Articles by Richard Leader. http://www.richleader.com/cc4.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ 12. Broad Beans, Onions, Potting On and Percy Pigeon | Allotment ... I think the orange or red one was for equal rights for gay pigeons and the green one was for saving the planet for pigeon kind. Despite his good looks he http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/23/broad-beans-o... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Target-pigeon launcher - Patent 4508093 The target pigeon is releasably secured by a retainer head mounted on the rotating shaft and which is actuated by a control rod that is remotely actuated. ... http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4508093.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Control rod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A control rod is a rod made of chemical elements capable of absorbing many neutrons without fissioning themselves. They are used in nuclear reactors to ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_rod ------------------------------------------------------------------ FRONTLINE: nuclear reaction: chernobyl All the Chernobyl reactors were of a design that the Russians call the RBMK--natural ... At the end, the Number 4 unit was down to only six control rods, ... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/re... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Grandma Dora's Curtains .... would not be protected by the curtain rods Better dead, than to spend your life hiding under the bed It ... http://www.talkaboutarts.com/group/alt.surrealism/message... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 27. screenonline: Invaders, The (1909) Synopsis The enemy occupies the house but while they are out of the room, Dora sends the pigeon with a message for the territorials. The bird is shot down and the http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1114569/synopsis.h... The force is disguised as Jewish tailors. They reveal a cannon in the hideout. Disguised as women, the men leave a boat and fall in on the quay next to a box marked as containing a car, which in fact conceals the cannon. The cannon is placed in a field and bombardment of Dora's house begins. A friend has arrived to visit Dora. He has brought a pigeon as a present. During the bombardment, the friend and the gardener return the enemy fire; the gardener and the friend are killed and wounded respectively. The enemy occupies the house but while they are out of the room, Dora sends the pigeon with a message for the territorials. The bird is shot down and the message retrieved, the territorials set off and effect the rout of the enemy. The leader of the invaders drags Dora to the hideout. They are followed by her friend and on arrival, the leader of the gang is apprehended ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sandor Rado - spymuseum.com Sandor Rado. The DORA spy ring provided information to the Soviet Union about German military troop alignment. Some of this information was obtained from Rudolf Roessler, who ran the Lucy S... http://www.spymuseum.com/pages/agent-rado-sandor2.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nuclear Coincidence .... malfunction of control rods. On the previous evening, Feb 19, 2006, I had posted a poem called "Grandma Dora's Curtain Rods", that, ... http://www.medkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/aids/3715/Nuclear-Coi... ------------------------------------------------------------------ David Copperfield part 19 .... had thought, much and often, of my Dora's shadowing out to me what might have green curtains, with their pure brass rods, snugly enclosing the boxes; and at home.iprimus.com.au/brontesurf/cprfd_19.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mario's Cyberspace Station: Animals trained to be - spies! (1) British spy chiefs secretly considered training pigeons to fly into enemy targets carrying explosives or biological weapons, it has been revealed. ... mprofaca.cro.net/spyanimals.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ crashchgo96's Blog I start by working her soft, round tits in my hands, knowing that it starts to turn her own. He squeezes his exploding rod until the tip is between her lips. ... adultfriendfinder.com/blog/crashchgo96/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Warren Ellis - Pleasure KKK? -Using the power of your throbbing world exploding rod of judgement to play keep away the American Presidents head from the Secret ... warren-ellis.livejournal.com/14575.html purple #254 [Archive] - WetCanvas! .... flame...it is an exploding rod...I generally make my stringer by picking up the shards with the end of the rod and melt them all together ... http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-15429... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.historyisahoot.com/sixpartpres.html highlights of power pigeons ancient pigeoneers, including noah, knights, and the first olympians deployment of carrier pigeons and balloons during the siege of paris and the introduction of microfilm photography pigeons in world war i "cher ami", credited with saving the fabled "lost battalion" in world war i ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.besco.de/min_seaman_slangs.htm#PT Peeping Tom - An F-14 Tomcat fitted with the TARPs pod. Reconnaissance Tomcat. Pigeons, Pigeon Steer - Heading and distance to homeplate. "Your pigeons 285 for 125 miles." Pig of the Port - The least attractive member of the opposite sex brought aboard during a port visit. Awards and honors are often granted. Piping TAB - On submarines, a book that has all the systems drawn out. Used as a study guide. TAB stands for Training Aid Booklet, and actually there are two, one for piping systems and one for electrical systems. The systems bibles. Aka 'The Mickey Mouse Book' Queer - (1) An EA-6 Prowler, or the pilot of same, from the VAQ squadron identifier. R Rabbits - (1) (RN) Souvenirs. (2) Any unofficial job. (3) Hydraulic tracks that move weapons horizontally in a US SSN's torpedo room. (4) (RCN) Items stolen from the ship or shipyard and smuggled out the main gate. Redass - Official flap about something of little consequence. A pain in the butt. "Man, that gender sensitivity training was a real redass." Red Force - Opposing force in wargames. Redshirt - Aviation Ordnanceman. Wears a red jersey. Responsible for loading and downloading ordnance from aircraft, and other ordnance- handling duties such as assembling and attaching guidance packages. Aka 'ordie', 'loadtoad'. Members of Crash and S mash Team also wear red jerseys. ------------------------------------------------------------------ A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill'd with doves & Pigeons Shudders Hell thro' all its regions. A dog starv'd at his Master's Gate Predicts the ruin of the State. (William Blake - 1757-1827) http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/usa2001/june2001/ 10jun2001m/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/hcorson/bl-hcorson- intro-poems.htm Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry In a clean ewer with a fair towelling, Let her preside at the disembowelling Now, my friend, if you had so little religion As to catch a hawk, some falcon-lanner, And thrust her broad wings like a banner Into a coop for a vulgar pigeon ------------------------------------------------------------------ POET'S POSTSCRIPT Pigeons don't get much respect, sometimes called "flying rats". People typically don't acknowledge the degree to which they dehumanize other groups of human beings, but it is revealing to see how even pigeons can sometimes seem to rank higher than gays. In Moscow, Vladimir Rebekka wants to send release 2014 pigeons to advertise his city as a potential host of the 2014 Olympics. The gay pride parade in Moscow, on the other hand, triggered anti-gay violence, an ugly spectacle where the top religious leaders virtually encouraged the violence and gave blessings to neo-Nazis. In Russia's new-found capitalist squalor, the role of religion as sycophant to corrupt power and purveyor of hate also seems to have resumed its traditional role. In the United States, gays were banned from using the phrase "Gay Olympics", although the word "olympic" had been allowed in other contexts, like "Dog Olympics". In the state of Virginia, a court ruled there was no constitutional right to hunt clay pigeons. It seems like even pigeons made of clay get more consideration than gays, who were long treated as criminals under Virginia law. Lesbian mother Sharon Bottoms of Virginia had her child seized from her arms by the courts of Virginia. Even slave-women were often able to raise their own children, at least until the children were old enough to be resold. Issues of human dignity do not get much more basic than this. Yet, the deeper that oppression becomes, the less that is it seen and acknowledged as such. After watching child seized from arms of mother, we hear that we have never been oppressed. Never mind the history of death penalties in the American colonies, burnings at the stake in Europe, being thrown into concentration camps of Germany, or into the gulags of Russia. The massacre in Virginia Seung-Hui Cho does not sound like sometimes seriously political, nothing on the order of John Brown's massacre at Harper's Ferry, which was an assault against slavery and helped to precipitate the American Civil War. Unless the media is censoring information, it sounds like Cho was unreasonably disturbed by legitimate but relatively minor humiliations, many of which were largely of his own making. Even if there was racial bigotry on the campus, it certainly was not universal. Someone like Nikki Giovanni, a poet and professor of his, was certainly someone who championed racial justice (and also, interestingly, gay marriage). Cho could have found more hospitable surroundings, even in Virginia, if he had for example moved to the closer-in suburbs of D.C. Problems are magnified at college age, and seem insurmountable, when they are not. Cho, who sounds like he was probably heterosexual, in spite of speculation to the contrary, also sounds like someone of such abnormal reactions that it tends to make one suspect things like "ventromedial prefrontal cortex damage" - brain malfunction involving emotional response. At that point, a human being is broken like a watch that has lost a gear. It is meaningless even to try talking about the person in everyday, normal terms. Insults of classmates, and inability to get a date, are not political issues and not reasons for violence. Criminalization, dehumanization, demonizing, and interference with basic relationships such as mother-and-child are seriously political and can become justifications for violence on a large scale. It is more possible, because many thousands of people who have no particular emotional problems, personality disorders, or neurological problems could potentially arrive at the same conclusion. I would try to advise the Russia, America, China, all cultures, all over the world, really - it is pointless to dehumanize people and then tell them not to dare be "terrorists". The more important realization is that less dehumanization brings less violence. Even pigeons can be effective spies, so the same could be hoped of classes of people who are sometimes are given even less consideration than pigeons. --------------------------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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