In two days, I witnessed two of friends murdered in cold blood.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Whether you know it or not, I'm a bird lover, referring to them as my friends as I feed them bread, et al. from the back porch of my home. They even come when I call them.

Yesterday, and today, while tending the vegetable garden I'm putting in, a racist chicken hawk swooped down and snatched up a blackbird. I have reason to believe that the same killer is responsible for the decline of Red-breasted robins and Belgium finches no longer frequenting my humble abode.

Yesterday's tragedy will live forever in my mind as I not only witnessed the kidnapping, but also the couple dozen other blackbirds trying, but all in vain, to get the killer to release our friend, prior to the chicken hawk breaking its neck, thus ending his cries for help.

My goal is to create a vanity bitcoin address to garner charitable donations via Kickstarter to end this madness, for I have a hunch that he's in cahoots with a raccoon and a opossum that have been terrorizing the neighborhood at night as well, as of late.

~Bruno Kucinskas

[bluefirecorp]

That's harsh. If you armed yourself adequately, you wouldn't have had to worry about it. Just shot down their captor.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

That's harsh. If you armed yourself adequately, you wouldn't have had to worry about it. Just shot down their captor.

Then, I would have to vet it.

[efreeti]

Part of nature.

People eat cow and pig everyday. The condition they live in is horrible.

There isn't much you can do unless you can convince people to convert to vegetarian.

Not so much different than bird eats bird world.

[bluefirecorp]

Part of nature.

People eat cow and pig everyday. The condition they live in is horrible.

There isn't much you can do unless you can convince people to convert to vegetarian.

Not so much different than bird eats bird world.

But corn can scream. Who will save the corn? Killing plants is MURDER!

Might as well just eat rocks, right?

[Taras]

Part of nature.

People eat cow and pig everyday. The condition they live in is horrible.

There isn't much you can do unless you can convince people to convert to vegetarian.

Not so much different than bird eats bird world.

But corn can scream. Who will save the corn? Killing plants is MURDER!

Might as well just eat rocks, right?

But corn can't scream; it's no more sentient than the rocks in my driveway.

[bluefirecorp]

Part of nature.

People eat cow and pig everyday. The condition they live in is horrible.

There isn't much you can do unless you can convince people to convert to vegetarian.

Not so much different than bird eats bird world.

But corn can scream. Who will save the corn? Killing plants is MURDER!

Might as well just eat rocks, right?

But corn can't scream; it's no more sentient than the rocks in my driveway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(physiology)

It's a lot more sentient than the rocks in your driveway.

[IamCANADIAN013]

To the OP. it's just nature taking it's course.  We as humans need to allow it to happen and stop trying to play God.

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Part of nature.

People eat cow and pig everyday. The condition they live in is horrible.

There isn't much you can do unless you can convince people to convert to vegetarian.

Not so much different than bird eats bird world.

But corn can scream. Who will save the corn? Killing plants is MURDER!

Might as well just eat rocks, right?
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What about the cries of the carrots? Who will fight for their rights?


And the angel of the lord came unto me snatching me up from my place of slumber.
And took me on high and higher still until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself.
And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own midwest.
And as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil.
One thousand nay a million voices full of fear.
And terror possessed me then.
And I begged "Angel of the Lord what are these tortured screams?"
And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!
You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust."
And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared,
"Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul!
Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!"

Can I get an amen?

Can I get a hallelujah?

Thank you Jesus.

[st4nl3y]

Part of nature.

People eat cow and pig everyday. The condition they live in is horrible.

There isn't much you can do unless you can convince people to convert to vegetarian.

Not so much different than bird eats bird world.

But corn can scream. Who will save the corn? Killing plants is MURDER!

Might as well just eat rocks, right?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2595087/Indian-villager-addicted-eating-mud-rocks-BRICKS-gets-three-kilos-debris-day.html

[BurtW]

It's a lot more sentient than the rocks in your driveway.

I don't know about that.  This one time while in a chemically enhanced state of awareness I talked to some corn and some rocks.  I found the rocks to be much older an wiser than the corn.  The rocks told me things the corn just did not know and will never know.

[bluefirecorp]

It's a lot more sentient than the rocks in your driveway.

I don't know about that.  This one time while in a chemically enhanced state of awareness I talked to some corn and some rocks.  I found the rocks to be much older an wiser than the corn.  The rocks told me things the corn just did not know and will never know.

The problem with rocks are: they're lying sacks of shit. All the years of lying have made them hard.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Part of nature.

People eat cow and pig everyday. The condition they live in is horrible.

There isn't much you can do unless you can convince people to convert to vegetarian.

Not so much different than bird eats bird world.

But corn can scream. Who will save the corn? Killing plants is MURDER!

Might as well just eat rocks, right?

Years ago, I overheard my best friend's GF say, "Nothin' goes in where corn comes out." All three of us were in the living at the time where the exchange took place as part of the conversation at hand.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Part of nature.

People eat cow and pig everyday. The condition they live in is horrible.

There isn't much you can do unless you can convince people to convert to vegetarian.

Not so much different than bird eats bird world.

But corn can scream. Who will save the corn? Killing plants is MURDER!

Might as well just eat rocks, right?

But corn can't scream; it's no more sentient than the rocks in my driveway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(physiology)

It's a lot more sentient than the rocks in your driveway.

If I were you, I'd keep an eye on them rocks.

[bluefirecorp]

Part of nature.

People eat cow and pig everyday. The condition they live in is horrible.

There isn't much you can do unless you can convince people to convert to vegetarian.

Not so much different than bird eats bird world.

But corn can scream. Who will save the corn? Killing plants is MURDER!

Might as well just eat rocks, right?

But corn can't scream; it's no more sentient than the rocks in my driveway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(physiology)

It's a lot more sentient than the rocks in your driveway.

If I were you, I'd keep an eye on them rocks.

LOL! There're out to get me man. Actually that photo reminds me of this XKCD.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

To the OP. it's just nature taking it's course.  We as humans need to allow it to happen and stop trying to play God.

I hope you realize it's just a story I contrived around an actual event(s), and have no qualms with chicken hawks eating my "friends". My cross-dressing neighbor has already trapped and relocated ~80 squirrels so that less damage would be done to his home under the eaves, whereas the reckneck on the other side of me uses them for target practice for the same reasons. I feed them and, again, would have no qualms with some hawk eating them. Rabbits in my lettuce patch, on the hand...

[xXBEVOXx]

Bird racism is a serious case. I am glad to see someone is taking this serious matter into their own hands. Another tragic epidemic that should not go unnoticed is polar bear suicide.

[IamCANADIAN013]

To the OP. it's just nature taking it's course.  We as humans need to allow it to happen and stop trying to play God.

I hope you realize it's just a story I contrived around an actual event(s), and have no qualms with chicken hawks eating my "friends". My cross-dressing neighbor has already trapped and relocated ~80 squirrels so that less damage would be done to his home under the eaves, whereas the reckneck on the other side of me uses them for target practice for the same reasons. I feed them and, again, would have no qualms with some hawk eating them. Rabbits in my lettuce patch, on the hand...

Yeah, I realized it soon after, was kinda hoping the comment would fly under the radar, LOL! My bad, too many beers.

You should keep an eye out on the rabbits. They have been know to eat carrots...

[OnkelPaul]

Another tragic epidemic that should not go unnoticed is polar bear suicide.

Alleged polar bear suicide!
Sadly, most cases of apparent polar bear suicide won't be investigated thoroughly, so we're never really sure.
It is always claimed that polar bears have no natural enemies when in fact they kill quite a number of other animals, so they should have lots of enemies. I think there's quite a cover-up operation going on, possibly orchestrated by the seals.

Onkel Paul

[railzand]

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/good-news/mourning-goat-reunited-best-friend-ends-hunger-strike-163550205.html



(props to bitcoinpete)

[LostDutchman]

Whether you know it or not, I'm a bird lover, referring to them as my friends as I feed them bread, et al. from the back porch of my home. They even come when I call them.

Yesterday, and today, while tending the vegetable garden I'm putting in, a racist chicken hawk swooped down and snatched up a blackbird. I have reason to believe that the same killer is responsible for the decline of Red-breasted robins and Belgium finches no longer frequenting my humble abode.

Yesterday's tragedy will live forever in my mind as I not only witnessed the kidnapping, but also the couple dozen other blackbirds trying, but all in vain, to get the killer to release our friend, prior to the chicken hawk breaking its neck, thus ending his cries for help.

My goal is to create a vanity bitcoin address to garner charitable donations via Kickstarter to end this madness, for I have a hunch that he's in cahoots with a raccoon and a opossum that have been terrorizing the neighborhood at night as well, as of late.

~Bruno Kucinskas

I have a similar situation here in Kansas with GREY SQUIRRELS which attack and kill RED SQUIRRELS!

The Red Squirrels are indigenous while the greys are intruders.

Occasionally the Reds will take female greys hostage and use them for perverted purposes.

Is this not genocide?