It seems like there may be a serious alligator problem brewing down in Florida. Back in the 1970’s, their population was dwindling, so legislation was enacted to protect them. Now, several decades later, their population is booming. So much so, that it would almost seem competition for food sources is driving them to attack humans.
What can be done about this? Well, another issue at the front of the news cycle these days is the illegal alien issue. You notice I didn’t call them “immigrants”? Immigration is a legal process whereby people are legally admitted to our country. They’ve bypassed that and crossed the border illegally. They aren’t immigrants, they are criminals.
Anyway, so the Senate has voted to build a wall to keep some of them out. A rather short wall. At 370 feet, it’s a bit shy of covering the nearly 2000-mile border. But I have an alternate
I don’t know if this is real, but it purports to be from a newspaper in North Carolina. It might be real, it might not. But it makes a damned good point:
To the Editor:
Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.
Be careful what you’re drinking…
Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported.
According to online magazine www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and were shocked when the body of a naked man fell out.
Yikes! Apparently, the guy had died, and his wife shipped him back from Jamaica 20 years earlier to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return.
UPDATE: It seems Reuters has retracted the story…
