Posted on 11/03/2013 5:45:41 AM PST by Kaslin
Only if it was falling out of a tree.
It's actually 0.15 mph. :^)
I did a marketing internship for a natural science center with a zoo, they had a few sloths. Occasionally the rheas, smart sneaky birds, South American kin to the ostrich but slightly smaller, would unlatch a gate or work a section of fence loose and go on the lam. Other species would join in at times, once a sloth. All hands were called out to corral them back into the enclosure. Yes they can run, as fast as a human can. Got some claws on them, too. Capable of being quite nasty if they don’t want to do what you’re trying to make them do. Koalas can be surprisingly nasty, too. They’re sleepy, cuddly and cute most of the time, but man don’t ever piss one off, lol.
Welfare started to become generally stigmatized in the 1950’s as it became associated with single mothers, divorced women and black women with kids but without a man in the house (primarily AFDC). Probably a lot more than today simply caught up in the wrong situation falsely stereotyped and judged as scamming the system or not doing their part to advance themselves.
Actually, yes. Depression used to be considered one of the deadly sins.
What timing! Today there was a Jack Hanna program on TV where he was visiting a wildlife rescue center in Panama where they have rescued numerous baby sloths and raised them until they can live on their own in the wild. Cute little animals.
“As a matter of fact it is 1.09 miles, which is practically walking distance”
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I walk farther than that just trying to find my mislaid tools.
There was a time in this country when Oregon was walking-distance from St. Louis.
Yes.
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