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If you don’t mind the Disqus commenting system, one of the better running threads is going on at Going Postal (it’s a spinoff blog of Guido Fawkes’ Order Order). It’s moving really fast, though.

Twitter is moving unfeasibly fast.

True factoid: the possibility of Turkey joining the EU was one of the things driving Brexit. If this is a secular coup, it’s win-win: get rid of the Islamists AND never, ever get Turkey into the EU.

I’m watching all my war movie DVDs.

Just to get in the mood.

It’s like 1968 all over again

Labour MPs are claiming that Brexit caused the coup.

I picked THE BEST week to go on vacation. I’m checking out completely, save swealsaldom, for the next 7 days. No BLM protests, no Islamotards, no RNC convention…just the shoreline of Lake Tahoe, a beer or three, a dog and a tennis ball, and grilled meats. Hell/Handbasket – some assembly required, just not by me this week!

I’m nearing the point where I just stop listening/reading anything to do with current events (present company always excepted). I’m thinking of taking up embroidery. Doing more gardening. Getting to the gun range more regularly. Drinking more. That sort of thing.

Enjoy your vacation, Gromulin. Tahoe, beer, dog, grill… sounds like heaven on earth.

AliceH, I will. Thank you.

Have a great time, Gromulin. And yes… very wise!

Ah, Grom…I will find something nicer than current events to blog about, then. Chikkens, perhaps?

Coup failed. Shit. On, the other hand…CHIKKENS!

Here’s something to brighten your moment.
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http://www.odditycentral.com/news/scientists-draw-eyes-on-the-butts-of-cows-to-protect-them-from-lions.html
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Seriously? How has something so simple, so easy, so cheap, so potentially helpful, so *obvious* not been thought of before? How stupid cool!

MikeW, it’s particularly surprising since helmets with eyes drawn on the back have been recommended to the villagers in the Sunderbans in India for years, to prevent consumption by tiger (a very real risk in that area, unlike other parts, for reasons no scientist has yet pinned down).

Chickens, banjos, trains—I’ll take anything diverting. The news is too depressing and most television shows are dreck. Here lately, I can’t even listen to music and enjoy it. (I may be depressed.) I watch a lot of baseball. At least no one gets raped or murdered during a baseball game (not yet, anyway). And the Rangers are on top of the American League.

JuliaM, sadly, the answer is laid out in the article; my question was somewhat hyperbolic.
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No one is really looking out for the poor, subsistence farmers in the area. The scientist was there to figure out how to protect the ‘majestic felines’ from the farmers. If the ‘mighty predators’ leave the livestock alone, the farmers won’t kill them. Then all the eco-warriors can be less distraught (They’ll never be happy, amiright?).

Moar Chikins news. Also, I am havin’ a hankerin’ for news of Mad Jack… Lastest I heard the lad had taken to playin in the road…. Many’s the night I’ve had to drink myself to sleep for worrying about the boy.

Oh and about painted eyes to deter predators – Mother Nature is, as usual, way ahead of humanity:

Exhibit A: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aI9T1rwwbHU

Update: Spent yesterday at shoreline. Dog, tennis ball, beers.Met a fine couple from Arkansas, both college perfessors, on a cross country trip with their two daughters, tent camping (‘merica). They were headed for Santa Cruz next, so shared the proper ordering instructions for In-and-Out burger (Double double animal style, fries, well done, animal style). Nice folks. Today: I begged off the lake in favor of best of Car Talk on NPR, a hammock in the shade, an Arthur C Clark book, moar beers and sammiches. Wife, dog and spawnareenos with all the summer tourists at the shoreline. Blissful ignorance of current events is a Go, Houston.

Oh yeah. And: moar chikkens. Or lambs. Whatever ya got.

Anything’s got to be better than reality right about now!

“Spawnareenos” — never heard that one before. Very vivid.

Re: Using “eyes” to deter animals… It’s apparently a common trick to keep unwanted birds (*spit* starlings *spit*) out of garages, eaves, trees… You can get “eye” balloons, or painted eyes on shiny streamers, or on pie-pans. Or, you know, just draw some on aluminum foil and attach with a thumbtack.