Shadow Void

Poisonous Birds????

As promised, here is another one of my articles on venomous or poisonous animals. This animal that we are featuring today is called the Hooded Pitohui or Pitohui dichrous. In Papua New Guinea the natives call it the garbage bird. For good reasons, they can't use it. It's feathers, skin, and dander seem to contain batrachotoxin ( BTX ). It's another animal that makes use of neurtoxins. It's also not the only animal to use BTX. Arrow poison frogs also use BTX. However unlike many other poisonous or venomous animals, it is widely accepted that both the frog and Pitohui get the poison from the beetles that they eat. Luckily for us, the birds don't have the same concentration of the toxin in their feathers. It is thought the poison keeps them from being eaten. Anyway, that is it for today. Talk to you later!

Somtimes:

A piece of shit man from my area has been arrested for being a dick. He was molesting kids. The next words out of my mouth will shock some of you but I need to say it any way and I need to say it to him.

You are a coward, a piece of crap who should never see the light of day. And now I am gone.

*************  I  have decided to remove the oringinal top half of this post.   I'm going to post the article on my blog so at least you can read about this creep.  I don't work in any of the schools mentioned in this article.

Article from the NW Indiana times

This Past Weekend; General Conference

This past weekend was General Conference. General conference is a basically 2 days of meetings that my church does twice a year to edify the members of the church. It is beamed in from Salt Lake City to almost every corner of the Earth. The church does its best to see that every member of the church sees or hears conference. It's available on radio, cable, satellite, and on the internet. In a couple months' time, it will also be out in print. This meeting is held like I said twice a year once in April and once in October. There are three sessions on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. Each session is about 2 hours in long.

 

Conference can be a bitter-sweet experience for me. While I love hearing from the prophet and other speakers, I do sometimes come away feeling a bit down. I'll explain a little bit more about that later. Overall, I enjoy conference. I find myself taking notes on the talks so that I can come back later and use bits and pieces as topics for posts or even at times poems. I do walk away feeling refreshed. Conference as I've said before leaves me a little sad, and it boils down to just being me.

 

For as much as I like conference, it's hard to sit there and listen to talk when they are talking about family and the blessings of a temple marriage. I know that a temple isn't in my future and having a wife isn't in my future either. I would rather be single for the rest of my life than to get married live the lie while being married and raising kids. I don't want to live one a life of continual lies.

 

When of guys talking about how they are no longer gay, I cringe. I just don't believe there is a cure. Basically, you are a gay man living the life of a straight man. I can totally see where you could be 100 percent happy in that life. It still change that a part of you is still that gay man. I've tried to be the "hetero man" that society and church said I should be, but let's face it, I'm gay. Can I be happy as a gay man? Hell yeah, I can be.

EPA APPROVES PRAIRIE DOG POISON

Prairie dogs are an essential part of healthy prairie ecosystems; they are a food source for predators, maintain short vegetation, and dig burrows that many other animals also use. But these keystone mammals already have been eradicated from more than 95% of their historic range across the Great Plains! Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have questioned the EPA’s approval of Rozol and Kaput-D, citing serious concerns about the effects of these poisons on prairie ecosystems -- and especially on highly endangered black footed ferrets and imperiled swift fox, burrowing owls, bald and golden eagles and other wildlife linked to prairie dogs in the food chain. Yet these poisons are now being used to kill prairie dogs, threatening many of the imperiled prairie bids and mammals that we’ve fought so hard to rescue from extinction. Last week, we filed a lawsuit with our local allies at Audubon of Kansas challenging the use of Rozol and Kaput-D. We face a tough fight ahead as we take on the lawyers at the EPA and the well-funded legal teams of the makers of these poisons. Help us win in court with your tax-deductible contribution to save prairie dogs and other endangered wildlife from an agonizing death. Rozol and Kaput-D can take weeks to kill a poisoned prairie dog, making them easy prey as they become disoriented and slowly lose bodily function. And, because these poisons can linger in a prairie dog’s carcass for weeks, animals like black-footed ferrets and birds that feed on dead or dying prairie dogs or live in contaminated burrows (as burrowing owls often do) can also inadvertently become poisoned and share the same grim fate. The effects of Rozol and Kaput-D are widespread and dangerous. Will you help us fight in court to end the misuse of these deadly poisons and protect America's prairie wildlife? For the Wild Ones, Jonathan Proctor Rocky Mountain Region Representative Defenders of Wildlife P.S. Your help can make a big difference. Thanks to the actions and donations of caring people like you, Defenders has been able to help the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana and private landowners in Kansas save two important prairie dog colonies in these states and help establish two new footholds on America’s plains for endangered black-footed ferrets.

Top Two Questions

Whenever I do a presentation or have the animals out at an activity, I'm amazed at the questions that I'm asked. Sometimes, I get asked a question that I haven't heard before but I almost always get one of these two questions. The first question that I get a lot is "Are they poisonous / venomous?". Well, the answer is actually yes. Almost all of my animals with the expectation of my hissing cockroaches are in fact venomous and only the millipedes are poisonous. I suppose the better question really is "Which animal poses a risk to humans?". Well, that is a hard question to ask, but without a doubt my gray tunneling spider and my Orange baboon spider are perhaps more toxic than any of my other creatures. Don't get me wrong, you don't want to get bit by any of my animals. The other question that I get a lot of is "Does that animal still have its venom?". My answer to that is yes. All my animals still have their original toxins. To take away the venom of a spider is too kill it. What benefit is gained by removing the venom from an animal? There is not any benefit to be gained. One just has to know what to do when working with the animals and what not to do. There is no second guessing the animals at all. I believe strongly that one must never be distracted when working around the animals. Anyway, I am going for now.

I was scammed and here is how I found out