Last Year At This Time, Global Warming(Climate Change) Was A Big Topic Here

[jdmidwest]

Looks like the Chief is out of ammo.

That was kinda limp. He could not even squeeze out a Fox News jab or anything!

[Chief Grey Bear]

Looks like the Chief is out of ammo.

No. You just can't reason with the unreasonable.

Nothing he said there had any semblance of truth or reality,

[Old plug]

All I know is what I see in nature around me. We have had a few birds at the feeders that we had never seen before and they were not suppose tobe this Far East. Then there are the armadillos. I never seen a live armadillo till about 3 yrs ago. But since then I have shot several. 5 or 6 last year alone. There sure is something going on and it seems to have been going on for the past several years.

[bfishn]

... I never seen a live armadillo till about 3 yrs ago. But since then I have shot several. 5 or 6 last year alone...

Way OT, but since many here come in contact with 'dillos, it's worth mentioning that a good percentage of 'dillos carry a strain of leprosy that can be be transmitted to humans. Not only direct contact with the critters, but contact with soils they recently rooted in (gardens?) can lead to infection. I thought it was more urban myth when I first heard it, but it turned out to be true. Lots of articles online, here's the scoop from the New England Journal of Medicine;

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1010536

[jdmidwest]

All I know is what I see in nature around me. We have had a few birds at the feeders that we had never seen before and they were not suppose tobe this Far East. Then there are the armadillos. I never seen a live armadillo till about 3 yrs ago. But since then I have shot several. 5 or 6 last year alone. There sure is something going on and it seems to have been going on for the past several years.

I have see scientific reports that say glaciers came down to about the Missouri River and covered most of Illinois. I am sure the armadillos were farther south back then.

[Justin Spencer]

Way OT, but since many here come in contact with 'dillos, it's worth mentioning that a good percentage of 'dillos carry a strain of leprosy that can be be transmitted to humans. Not only direct contact with the critters, but contact with soils they recently rooted in (gardens?) can lead to infection. I thought it was more urban myth when I first heard it, but it turned out to be true. Lots of articles online, here's the scoop from the New England Journal of Medicine;

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1010536

If you read the whole article, it's nothing to lose sleep over, I'll continue to pick them up to get rid of them when I shoot them. Very hard to transmit.

[Quillback]

I'd at least wear gloves if I was going to pick one up, or get it in the scoop shovel.

[Justin Spencer]

I'd at least wear gloves if I was going to pick one up, or get it in the scoop shovel.

I'm too lazy for that, you can rub it in when I have the Leprosy.

[Quillback]

LOL, OK, I'll send you a "Get well soon" card if you end up in a Leprosy colony.

[Justin Spencer]

LOL, OK, I'll send you a "Get well soon" card if you end up in a Leprosy colony.

Very thoughtful of you.