Of Mice and Mexicans

200K mice plagued the islands. Now, none

A subantarctic archipelago is making "huge news": The New Zealand Herald reports there are officially no more mice on the country's Antipodes Islands, which once housed up to 200,000 of the rodents.

They caused a big threat to the World Heritage Site by preying on native birds, bugs, and plants, and the five-year effort to do away with them got an assist from the public, with the "Million Mouse Project" fundraising campaign bringing six figures.

The Department of Conservation explains that cereal bait laced with rodent toxin was dropped via helicopter on the island during the winter of 2016. A team scoured the island last month looking for any mice and found none.

"This is huge news for conservation both in New Zealand and internationally," says New Zealand Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage. She says more than two dozen types of birds, 21 uncommon plants, and more than 150 insect species will benefit.

Both Radio New Zealand and NPR note the mice originally found their way to the Antipodes either on 19th-century ships or via a shipwreck and proceeded to purge the island of at least two insect species, as well as to displace some seabirds to other islands.

The initiative in the Antipodes isn't a stand-alone: The island nation has also gotten rid of other invasive species in the name of boosting biodiversity, including goats, rats, cats, rabbits, and a local meat-eating weasel.

New Zealand's ultimate goal is to rid itself completely of all invasive pests by 2050, per Nature. 

Talk about invasive pests. 
What if we air dropped tainted burritos in CA?

Of Mice and Mexicans

This is what you don't get from the MSM

Stephon Clark Criminal Record 

A little background information on St. Stephon.

A son, brother, father and a convicted criminal. Although Clark’s family has waxed eloquent about what a great guy Clark was, and that he was “turning his life around,” the facts about the African American unarmed man shot and killed by Sacramento Police on March 18, 2018, do not paint such a rosy picture. A criminal since his teen years, the 22-year-old had a juvenile record of grand theft, robbery and receiving stolen property. As an adult, Clark pled guilty to felony armed robbery, assault, and child endangering in one case, and “pimping” a prostitute in another case for which he pled no contest. In a third adult case, Clark was arrested for domestic violence for punching a woman in the face, and in yet another case from this year, Clark was again arrested for domestic violence. Why do people make a hero out of someone who has assaulted women? Before being shot he was allegedly breaking car windows and when spotted by a police helicopter the cops witnessed him breaking the sliding glass doors to a house. Police on the ground were directed to Clark’s location and chased him on foot to the backyard of his grandmother’s house where he failed to drop something in his hand (it turned out to be a cellphone) and was shot to death. While it is true that a person should not receive a death penalty for breaking car windows, breaking a glass door to a house, and running from police, the fact is that if Clark was not breaking the law and had stopped when the police first told him to, he would not have been shot. Being a career criminal and committing crimes other than murder or attempted murder is not a good reason to die, but Clark had played a huge role in the outcome of his own fate.

One more observation:

Instead of the police... had the owner of the car came out and shot Clark 20 times the story would have been buried on page 20 in the local newspaper.

This is what you don't get from the MSM

At what point do the citizens of CA wake up?

Oakland mayor who warned Illegals about ICE raids

At what point do the citizens of CA wake up?

Enigmas

The classic Obama loving, tree hugging, GMO hating, liberal. The only thing they hate more than gluten is Capitalism. 

1. Isn't it weird that in America, our flag and our culture offend so many people, but our benefits don't?

2. How can the federal government ask U.S. citizens to pay back student loans, when illegal aliens are receiving a free education?

3. Only in America are legal citizens labeled "racists" and "Nazis," but illegal aliens are called "Dreamers”.

4. Liberals say, "If confiscating all guns saves just one life, it's worth it". Well then, if deporting all illegals saves just one life, wouldn't that be worth it?

5. I can't quite figure out how you can proudly wave the flag of another country, but consider it punishment to be sent back there.

6. The Constitution: It doesn't need to be rewritten, it needs to be reread.

7. William F. Buckley said: "Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other points of view, and are then shocked and offended when they discover there are other points of view."

8. Joseph Sobran said:

· Need' now means ’wanting’ someone else's money.

· 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own.

· 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer."

Enigmas

Another #MeToo moment

Another #MeToo moment