According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the 2010 preliminary estimate of the total duck population from the traditional survey area of the Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey is 40.9 million birds. Half the bastards live on my street and breed worse than rats. They foul walkways, carports and specially anywhere on your property you used to deem safe to walk barefoot. For some reason they like my mother’s hot-less habanero pepper and parsley, lay eggs under my porch… and prey all eggs hatch or you will know how nasty a duck’s egg will smell after it goes bad.  And there is not a damn thing you can do about it because you will run “afowl” (rimshot) of the South Florida authorities.

So, that is why I feel all warm/fuzzy when i see an osprey or other birds of prey doing their own version of Census in the neighborhood. Or we can lobby for an urban hunting license for dealing with the feathery pests! Fat Chance in the era of Gaia Unchallenged and the Aflac commercials.

Via Monster Hunter Nation bouncing out of Bayou Renaissance Man I find out that Ernie Pyle’s home is in dire straits and about to be closed. Times being tough are making the State of Indiana having to decide if such crime against history will be committed.  Ernie Pyle was the raconteur of the Greatest generation and that his memory might disappear even a little would be a tragedy.

I can’t find an organization or link to collect funds to save the house, but at least I can pass the word and see if somebody knows somebody who knows someone.

UPDATE!

I guess I missed an address at the end of Bayou Renaissance Man‘s post and also his challenge:

I’d like to appeal to all my readers to support the Ernie Pyle Home and museum. Donations may be sent to:

The Friends of Ernie Pyle
P.O. Box 338
Dana, IN 47847

I’ll challenge all of you. My $10 donation is on its way. How about matching or beating it? If all of us do so, we should be able to send enough to cover at least a year’s operating costs.

I’d also like to appeal to all fellow bloggers who read this. Please consider posting your own article about Ernie Pyle, or linking to this one, and helping to raise funds to keep the museum open. I think it’s a cause worthy of our support.

Thanks in advance, friends.

Mine’s on the way. How about yours?

“It is our hope that Chicago’s citizens will follow the lead of the residents of the District of Columbia–who were stripped of their handgun ban in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller.

Only the idiocy of those who think themselves superior can lead to such unbelievable statement.  Do they actually think the People in Chicago enjoy having their rights suspended and be defenseless victims of crime?

Are they really that stupid?

Hat Tip to Say Uncle. Congratulations to the evil twisted mind behind the Wiki-Edit.

Keeping track with SCOTUS Blog.

UPDATE:

It is done and it is OURS! McDonald incorporated.

US Spec Ops Command has abandoned the 5.56 version of the SCAR. And I thought they were doing well and the troops love them.

Arizona governor Jan Brewer with a message to President Obama.

I am just sick that D.C. just doesn’t give a damn about the Country. Maybe we need to start having some shooting sport championships in the Arizona Border with Mexico: IDPA, IPSC, 3Gun, Bullseye, etc.