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On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs - Dave Grossman By LTC (RET) Dave Grossman, author of "On Killing." ### Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always,even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for? - William J. Bennett - in a lecture to the United States...

It's everywhere in the South. The green, winding vines of kudzu line highways, climb trees and fill backyards. It can be downright aggravating if you want to get rid of it. Except if you're a sheep or a goat. "They'll eat just about everything," Brian Cash, of Decatur, told the AJC. As the owner of Eweniversally Green, Cash makes a living helping customers fight off kudzu, ivy and other weeds. His employees? About 100 four-legged friends. "Primarily sheep and a few well-behaved goats," Cash, 30, said. Unwanted greenery gets chomped away quickly when Cash brings his animals by. The sheep...

Incident Reported In Eastlake Neighborhood Off Of Exploration Falls DriveSeveral Chula Vista residents woke up Monday morning to a flock of sheep running through their neighborhood. Residents in an Eastlake neighborhood told 10News they witnessed seven sheep traveling in the neighborhood on Exploration Falls Drive shortly after 8 a.m. One resident told 10News the flock gathered on Journey Street, where Chula Vista police surrounded them. However, the flock then made their way to a nearby cul-de-sac where they rested on the roadway. A Chula Vista Animal Control officer was able to corral them into a resident's backyard where they waited...

The president mind is extraordinarily active at the moments sleep grips and releases him. It must by exhausing. (Snip to video)

LONDON (Reuters) – New diets for cows and sheep could reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, research funded by the Department for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) shows. Feeding the animals maize silage, naked oats and higher sugar grasses could reduce the amount of methane they produce, the study by Reading University and the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences showed. Agriculture accounts for around nine per cent of all British greenhouse gas emissions. Most of this comes from sheep, cows and goats. Farming accounts for 41 per cent of Britain's overall methane emissions, which are harmful to the...

Realizing an ultimatum made by MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) to unilaterally act against Arab sheep thieves if police continue to look the other way, a group of several dozen Jews Thursday tried to recover a herd of sheep that was stolen from Jewish shepherds in Tel-Zion. At about 2:00 A.M., a group of Arab rustlers entered the Jewish community of Tel-Zion and stole a flock of sheep worth 50 thousand dollars, smuggling them back to their own village of Qalandiya. In an conversation with Israel National News, the flock's owner said, "Last night the Arabs stole 30 sheep. Just...

Enlarge ImageSlimming down. Sheep on the remote Scottish isle of Hirta have been getting smaller.Credit: A. Ozgul/Science Call it the case of the shrinking sheep. On the remote Scottish island of Hirta, sheep have been getting smaller, shrinking an average of 5% over the last 24 years. Don't blame evolution, though. Researchers say climate change is the real culprit. The Hirta sheep belong to a breed known as Soay, after the remote Scottish island where they arose. One of the most primitive forms of domestic sheep, Soays first came to Hirta in 1932. Because Hirta is a remote island,...

Strong immunity may play a key role in determining long life, but may do so at the expense of reduced fertility, a Princeton University study has concluded. An 11-year study of a population of wild sheep located on a remote island off the coast of Scotland that gauged the animals' susceptibility to infection may give new insight into why some people get sicker than others when exposed to the same illness. The answer to this medical puzzle may lie in deep-rooted differences in how animals survive and reproduce in the wild, according to the study, which was led by Princeton...

It locks up. It locks up Blogger, too. It did it when I was composing this despatch, and I had to recreate it. What a waste of my time! Furthermore, it takes forever to load, as if it's scanning every byte of my computer for stuff it can parse with my email and put together into some sort of profile of me that it can sell to someone. I'm over that. I'm also over this obesity shit. I see people who literally *wobble* around, wearing this "oh, feel sorry for ME!" look on their faces. When I was a kid,...

If only we could register our “dislike” of scams on Facebook. A “Dislike” button is the latest in a string of cons circulating on the social-networking site. It purports to offer users a way to express their aversion to links, videos and other annoying content posted by friends on Facebook, as an alternative to giving a thumbs up with Facebook’s “Like” button. To get it, they supposedly have to fill out a survey – at which point they unwittingly agree to recurring cellphone charges......

It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times–in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis. It is preposterous to think that they are divided by any racial characteristics. Germans may be more susceptible to...

"The charming bouquet bandit, who handed a bunch of flowers to a frightened teller when he robbed a Manhattan bank, has been connected to a second heist," reporters Christina Boyle and Jonathan Lemire tell us: His weapon in that stickup was a potted plant. No, this isn't a satire piece from The Onion, although as far as gun owners are concerned, the New York Daily News is as big of a sick joke site. That urbane reporters characterize the robber as "charming" is our first clue to a massive worldview disconnect from those of us who instead consider him an...

Want to get a sense of how a Shep Smith, Tony Hayward interview might go down? Today’s heated exchange between Shep and Andrew Napolitano offered a small preview. The blow-up between the two came during a discussion over today’s WSJ report that BP had based its spill plans on out-dated government models. Napolitano essentially made the argument that this news was merely further proof the government is to blame for the spill (and you know, he does have a point), which did not go over well with Shep…to put it mildly. "I’m getting kind of grossed out, Judge….and now you’re...

MADISON (AP) - A judge has appointed a special prosecutor to determine whether to file criminal charges against nine UW-Madison researchers and officials responsible for experiments that killed sheep. Dane County Circuit Court Judge Amy Smith appointed Madison lawyer David Geier to consider whether to file charges over experiments in which sheep were killed through decompression. Animal rights groups, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, filed a petition seeking criminal charges against 14 UW-Madison employees. Smith found probable cause that nine of them violated the law directly or as party to a crime. The petition came after Dane...

The good fortune of this current war (or perhaps its misfortune) is that it has imparted only the smallest effect on our day-to-day lives. Perhaps if more people had to walk to work because they couldn’t get a “Gas Ration” or a “Tire Ration” coupon to drive the five year old Ford in the drive or a “Sugar or Butter Ration” coupon so they could buy Cocoa Puffs for breakfast or butter their toast. Perhaps if we were all forced to sacrifice to the cause and we could not charge our cell phone or play Halo 3 because we have...

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The Demon Sheep of Zion It is time to say openly what Jewish Republicans in California whisper quietly: throughout her years in public life, Carly Fiorina never associated demonstrably with those supporting a secure and safe Israel with united Jerusalem as her capital. Quite the contrary: everything she has written, down to her memoirs, points otherwise. Everything she has said – the curious way and timing of her pronouncements on the Middle East – points otherwise. Even her close associations, as with the Reverend Jesse Jackson , augur otherwise. There is something unseemly in Ms. Fiorina’s posturing on Israel in...

SHEEP are not exactly born swimmers — but un-baa-lievable Mildred is wowing fans as a talented SURFER. More than 50,000 web surfers have flocked to get a glimpse of the six-year-old. In the footage of her unprecedented surf at St. Agnes in Cornwall the anything but sheepish ewe is seen being helped on to her board by three surfers in wetsuits before being towed out to sea. As the waves carry her back to shore she uses her skill and clever footwork to keep the board steady and straight — before leaping on to the sand. But for her legions...

Link (includes a video posted at link) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100420/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1710_2 A "sheep pig" may sound like a fanciful creation — "Charlotte's Web" meets the late Nickelodeon "CatDog" cartoon, perhaps. But there evidently is such a thing on Planet Earth, and as the name suggests, it's a traditional curly-tailed pig covered in a sheep-like wool coat. (The opposite pairing, an overgrown sheep who eats anything in its path and ferrets out truffles, is an experiment that natural selection is apparently not yet up to tackling.) And no, we're not trying to pull the wool over your eyes. (Sorry — it had to be...

Two escaped convicts have dodged a huge manhunt - by disguising themselves as sheep. The pair dressed in full sheepskin fleeces, complete with heads, to lie low among farm flocks. Robbers Maximiliano Pereyra...and Ariel Diaz...stole the sheep hides from a ranch after breaking out of an Argentinian maximum security prison a week ago. And they have managed to evade the 300 cops on their trail - despite locals seeing them running through fields at night. Police say spotting the pair among thousands of sheep is "almost impossible." But one warned: "They can't pull the wool over our eyes forever."