The birth of an endangered camel was an "unexpected" arrival on Merseyside after its mother's long hair concealed the pregnancy for more than a year.The yet unnamed Bactrian camel calf was born at Knowsley Safari Park in Prescot, weighing about 88lbs. Staff were surprised by the new arrival after discovering his mother Wendy was pregnant only six weeks ago. A normal gestation period is 15 months. There are only about 1,000 Bactrian camels left living in the wild.
The birth of an endangered camel was an "unexpected" arrival on Merseyside after its mother's long hair concealed the pregnancy for more than a year.
The yet unnamed Bactrian camel calf was born at Knowsley Safari Park in Prescot, weighing about 88lbs.
Staff were surprised by the new arrival after discovering his mother Wendy was pregnant only six weeks ago. A normal gestation period is 15 months.
There are only about 1,000 Bactrian camels left living in the wild.
The problem is the camel was entirely a beast of burden on Asian overland trade routes. NOt only has it been replaced by trucks and trains, but overland Asian trade has not exactly been booming since the end of the silk road.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
Eight hundred Chrysler dealerships are closing almost overnight. If Future Shock is "too much change in too short a period of time" then we are experiencing FS on meth. The jobless rate hit 9.4% ten days ago. Oil hit $70/bbl today. It's a race to the cliff. You and others have written often that Mr. Obama needs to level with the American people and tell them the truth. My question is, which American people? The 69.5 million who voted for hope, change, or at least, "different"? I think many of us have gotten the message and are working toward a simpler, more local life. Or are you talking about the nearly 60 million who voted for the Party That Wrecked America? Think about what you're demanding. Re-read your own withering descriptions of these cheeze-doodles and remember the words of Col. Jessep about handling the truth. They can't. I repeat, 60,000,000 people voted for the party of Palin, Limbaugh, Hewitt, Hannity, Inhofe, Romney, O'Reilly, McCain, McConnell, Cheney, Huckabee, and George W. Bush. You live in a nice small town, James. Would you be willing to invite the most passionate, paranoid citizen of Limbaugh Nation to your apartment, crack him across the face with the Truth and then hand him a loaded gun? Of course not. Yet you seem to demand that very thing from Mr. Obama. You demand that he "stop pretending" and get in our faces. I don't agree. I think it is YOUR responsibility as a new kind of old-testament prophet to speak these dangerous truths to all of us. Those who have ears will listen. But it is Mr. Obama's responsibility to land this thing safely on the Hudson River. Inflaming and terrifying the passengers would be stupid and homicidal. Mr. Obama has raised the bar to unheard-of levels. We seem to forget that a young Kansan-Kenyan beat the ever-loving hell out of a pre-crowned Clinton and then won the home state of Jesse Helms four months to the day after we finally put his racist butt in the cold ground. So, yes, I still trust the guy. I still believe that Mr. Obama has yet to be a second-tier intellect in any given room. Jesus, Jim, it's been less than five months since he took office. Ask yourself what McCain would be doing right now. I bought your book, The Long Emergency, two years ago. I read it once and made plans to move. I finally sold my house last December to the one and only person who made me an offer. It was like walking out of a bank with all my money just before it crashed. I now live near fresh water, beautiful mountains, an active railroad line, and am surrounded by small, successful farms. The hospitals are good. The schools are first-rate. And, yes, the local gun shops are running low on bullets. But the overall attitude is progressive and growing more so each day. So I am one of the ones who is listening. Keep preaching. Keep writing. Just realize that half this country wouldn't hesitate to burn the other half. The last thing we need to do is ask the President to hand them a torch.
Eight hundred Chrysler dealerships are closing almost overnight. If Future Shock is "too much change in too short a period of time" then we are experiencing FS on meth. The jobless rate hit 9.4% ten days ago. Oil hit $70/bbl today. It's a race to the cliff.
You and others have written often that Mr. Obama needs to level with the American people and tell them the truth. My question is, which American people? The 69.5 million who voted for hope, change, or at least, "different"? I think many of us have gotten the message and are working toward a simpler, more local life. Or are you talking about the nearly 60 million who voted for the Party That Wrecked America? Think about what you're demanding. Re-read your own withering descriptions of these cheeze-doodles and remember the words of Col. Jessep about handling the truth. They can't. I repeat, 60,000,000 people voted for the party of Palin, Limbaugh, Hewitt, Hannity, Inhofe, Romney, O'Reilly, McCain, McConnell, Cheney, Huckabee, and George W. Bush. You live in a nice small town, James. Would you be willing to invite the most passionate, paranoid citizen of Limbaugh Nation to your apartment, crack him across the face with the Truth and then hand him a loaded gun?
Of course not.
Yet you seem to demand that very thing from Mr. Obama. You demand that he "stop pretending" and get in our faces. I don't agree. I think it is YOUR responsibility as a new kind of old-testament prophet to speak these dangerous truths to all of us. Those who have ears will listen. But it is Mr. Obama's responsibility to land this thing safely on the Hudson River. Inflaming and terrifying the passengers would be stupid and homicidal.
Mr. Obama has raised the bar to unheard-of levels. We seem to forget that a young Kansan-Kenyan beat the ever-loving hell out of a pre-crowned Clinton and then won the home state of Jesse Helms four months to the day after we finally put his racist butt in the cold ground. So, yes, I still trust the guy. I still believe that Mr. Obama has yet to be a second-tier intellect in any given room. Jesus, Jim, it's been less than five months since he took office. Ask yourself what McCain would be doing right now.
I bought your book, The Long Emergency, two years ago. I read it once and made plans to move. I finally sold my house last December to the one and only person who made me an offer. It was like walking out of a bank with all my money just before it crashed. I now live near fresh water, beautiful mountains, an active railroad line, and am surrounded by small, successful farms. The hospitals are good. The schools are first-rate. And, yes, the local gun shops are running low on bullets. But the overall attitude is progressive and growing more so each day. So I am one of the ones who is listening.
Keep preaching. Keep writing. Just realize that half this country wouldn't hesitate to burn the other half. The last thing we need to do is ask the President to hand them a torch.
