Lost and Found

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Fred Stiening

Are you missing your water buffalo?

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17 Responses to Lost and Found

    • Art Stone says:
      July 1, 2013 at 4:33 am

      Squeal like a water buffal0!

      • Nidster says:
        July 1, 2013 at 5:59 pm

        They look dangerous to me. A herd running at full speed could do some real damage. Guess that’s why in Florida, it is a felony to break or cut a fence containing animals. Wonder if it is a felony if your fenced pasture is not sufficient to contain your animals?

        • Art Stone says:
          July 2, 2013 at 1:58 am

          Don’t take this the wrong way, but why the hell are there “Asian” water buffalo in Florida in the first place? Immigrants farmers who can’t afford a tractor? Water buffalo cheese? Water Buffalo fighting? Water Buffalo racing?

          • CC1s121LrBGT says:
            July 2, 2013 at 11:34 am

            Why are there pistachios in California?

          • Nidster says:
            July 3, 2013 at 11:56 pm

            You raised an interesting question….”Why are “Asian” water buffalo in Florida in the first place?”

            Short answer to a complicated answer is this, there are all sorts of people with all sorts of ideas in the world, who desire, for one reason or another, to raise exotic animals. The “Asian” water buffalo’s are really not that exotic, but someone desired to raise them, found a way to purchase them, and had a ‘farm’ to raise them.

            These ‘exotic’ life-forms are typically owned and raised by folks with money, perhaps more money than common sense would accommodate in ‘normal’ times, but then who among us will assert ‘we’ live in ‘normal’ times?

          • CC1s121LrBGT says:
            July 4, 2013 at 12:49 am

            Why does a bear shit in the woods?

          • Art Stone says:
            July 4, 2013 at 7:03 am

            More than one “introduced species” starts out this way – someone wants a pet or exotic animal promising that they will never ever let it escape into the wild. Once a domesticated animal becomes feral, they can become quite the danger.

          • Art Stone says:
            July 5, 2013 at 6:27 am

            If you left off “Why”, then the rejoinder makes more sense, although the answer recently has been “no” and “It depends what you mean by Italian”

        • Art Stone says:
          July 2, 2013 at 2:44 pm

          California is just plain nuts

        • Art Stone says:
          July 4, 2013 at 6:59 am

          Because EPA laws against contaminating a watershed with fecal matter don’t apply to bears – yet

  2. Art Stone says:
    July 3, 2013 at 3:51 am

    The Civil War had only recently ended, the memory of the assassination of President Lincoln was still fresh. Railroads were being built as fast as the country could. Journeys that used to take a week bouncing around in a stagecoach or riding a horse now could be done in a day in comfort. The world was changing and needed reassurance that everything would work out because it was part of God’s plan

    • CC1s121LrBGT says:
      July 3, 2013 at 9:57 am

      Of course it was God’s plan. So was shooting buffalo from the trains… or 80 years later, shooting people:

      Songwriters: LOESSER, FRANK

      Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
      Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
      Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
      And we’ll all stay free

      Praise the Lord and swing into position
      Can’t afford to be a politician
      Praise the Lord, we’re all between perdition
      And the deep blue sea

      Yes, the sky pilot said it, you gotta give him credit
      For a son of a gun of a gunner was he

      Shouting, ‘Praise the Lord, we’re on a mighty mission
      All aboard, we ain’t a-goin’ fishin’
      Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
      And we’ll all stay free’

      Praise the Lord
      (Praise the Lord)
      And pass the ammunition
      Praise the Lord
      (Praise the Lord)
      And pass the ammunition
      Praise the Lord
      (Praise the Lord)
      And pass the ammunition
      And we’ll all stay free

      Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
      Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
      Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
      And we’ll all stay free

      • Art Stone says:
        July 4, 2013 at 6:22 am

        You appropriately realize that I don’t believe in predestination and an interventionist God who is going to save us from our stupidity. If a person goes to the top of the Empire State Building and jumps, that’s free will. When they hit the ground, that’s God’s law in action. If another person dies when they land on him, that’s unfortunate.

  3. Linda S. says:
    July 6, 2013 at 12:38 am

    I am laughing!

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