Posted on 05/03/2016 2:50:28 PM PDT by HomerBohn
Our nation is about to get a new national animal. It’s bigger than you might imagine and definitely different than the reigning champ, the bald eagle, but we never would have expected this.
America’s national animal has been for 234 long years the bald eagle. It has been the sole symbol of the United States, land of the free, home of the brave.
But now it seems that there is a new beast in town that will become an American symbol for years to come.
The new contender? The Bison. The National Bison Legacy Act was passed by Congress and is expected to pass the Senate next week. According to CNN, the act denotes the bison as America’s national mammal and a “historical symbol of the United States.”
While the bald eagle will still represent the nation, it will no longer be the sole animal to hold that position. The bison will join the bald eagle as the national animal, the oak as the national tree, and the rose as the national flower, and will become the new national mammal for the country.
The move, however, will not come with any special protections for the bison. A representative for the Wildlife Conservation Society says that it is a “milestone in a long journey … to prevent the bison from going extinct and to recognize the bison’s ecological, cultural, historical, and economic importance.”
This is also significant considering that the bison is “as strong as the oak, fearless as the bald eagle, and inspiring as a rose.”
They forgot to mention as tasty as a cow … but that may go against their conservation efforts.
“No other indigenous species tells America’s story better,” said Missouri Rep. William Lacy Clay, one of the men who sponsored the bipartisan bill. It’s “an enduring symbol of strength, Native American culture, and the boundless Western wildness.”
This is not the first time the bison has been held in high regard. It is already the state mammal of Wyoming and the state animal of Oklahoma and Kansas.
The bison was pushed to the brink of extinction in the late 19th century, but now they number 400,000 in commercial herds across the country with another 30,000 in the wild.
So hats off to the new national mammal; we have no beef with the bison.
Our government is getting rid of our eagle, our constitution, our faith, our current laws, the faces on our money which represented older people so they couldn't remind our children, grandchildren of the history of our country. WAKE UP AMERICA! Our nation has been morphed into a turd world country.
The bison is big, fat and stupid
Trust me.
A bull can go from its belly flat on the ground in a half heart beat.
It can run faster than a horse
It can turn at full speed and wipe your car out
The article didn’t say the eagle was departing. It said the bison was becoming the national mammal.
Have to get rid of the bald eagle. Too much white on its head.
obama for national orifice
To its feet
“The bison is big, fat and stupid”
I would say that a bison is strong, powerful and intimidating. It can run roughshod over predators and works hard to survive. You don’t mess with a bison.
I have little problem with this - assuming it is true and maybe one of the only thing Obama has done I don’t have a problem with. Be sides, if PIAPS wins the election we can put face back on the nickel
“I will fundamentally change America.” Obama’s turned America into the inverse of what it was.
AGAIN... This is a distraction. Obama has one planned for every week or two weeks all the way till the election... He doesn’t want terrorist refugees, or whatever else in the news. He wants us talking about the distraction on facebook or wherever else. Are you going to bite?
Oh Yeah?
Wait until he puts Ellen Degenerate on the nickel.
On the other hand, this will be his legacy.
Sakajewwaya didn’t work out too well, did it? Then there’s the Suzanne B Antony dollar thingy.
0 should pick the “Beastie 1000”, that’s his America.
The windmills have practically finished the national bird off anyway.
Buy more bison meat at the store.
It can also drop dead in it’s tracks from a 30-30 bullet.
The bison was the American Indian’s grocery store.
It’s cattle. How fitting.
Fat?
A hairy tank that can jump a six foot fence on those occasions it decided not to just walk through it.
‘I’ KNOW what this miscreant is doing!
How can we reach the legions of idiots who elected this halfrican president TWICE?
“A bull can go from its belly flat on the ground in a half heart beat.”
I have no idea what this means.
We got to a point in the park where they were blocking the road on both sides. She wanted to roll the window down and talk to them because she thought they looked so cute. I told her not to.
After 10 minutes or so, she begin to get nervous and suggested I honk, get them off the road and drive slowly away. Again, I explained they were big, strong, stupid and unpredictable. We were just going to sit until they got bored.
It was a tense 10-15 minutes later when they final got bored with blocking the road, sniffing the car and sauntered slowly off to graze. I started the car and put it into low gear and just as slowly drove away. Other than a little buffalo saliva, the car was untouched.
You reach them, but that won’t stop them from being idiots.
Absolutely, this is just to distract from the alien invasion and economy in freefall and ISIS gains, one strongly suspects.
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