So, George Zimmerman has finally been arrested. It had nothing to do with all the protesting and outrage, though. Nope. Then it turns out his real name is George Dylan. But who cares about all this nonsense, anyway? The most important thing in the world right now is that somebody named Hilary Rosen said Ann Romney has never worked a day in her life. This is outrageous (other than the fact that Ann Romney has never actually worked a day in her life)! Especially since Hilary Rosen is actually Barack Obama in drag, pretending to not actually be affiliated with Obama or the DNC. Oh, we’re not falling for that load of crap.
Basically, this proves that Obama hates women – and mothers, in particular. I mean, it’s hard work maintaining a staff and hiring maids and nannies and all that (not to mention getting your Cadillac serviced and whatnot).
Ann, of course, knows what it’s like to struggle. Oh, not financially, heavens no. She was born to money and married more money. But she does have MS, which has interfered with her horse riding activities, and she did have a lumpectomy. But, hey, it’s not like being married to a millionaire gets you any special medical care. Not in the good old US of A, where everybody gets treated the same.
So, clearly, Obama needs to apologize for this Rosen woman, and then do the decent thing and resign.
Oh, and Nerlens Noel is a dick.
The Many Careers of Hilary Rosen
You’ll soon hear Ms. Rosen is an adoptive Lesbian parent but this is another problem for me…
This kind of bothers me a lot more.
She’s just another corporate hack trying to parley her political ‘position’ to gain advantage for her real bidness.
I know, I know, the statistic that 90+% of the job loses were women is totally misleading. However, If the Rethugs believe it is true then their drug tests for unemployment insurance and the GOP’s constant attacks on extended benefits is more GOP war on women. No?
I guess this is a question for Hilary Rosen.
In Mystery of Hawk Deaths, Rat Poison Emerges
By JAMES BARRON
Published: April 11, 2012
It had the makings of an avian mystery, albeit almost the opposite of that Hitchcockian one. Two red-tailed hawks were found dead, one in Central Park, one just outside. A third died 24 hours after being taken out of the park and sent to a wildlife rehabilitator because concerned park rangers could see that it was “not acting right.â€
Was it a whodunit? No, birders said on Wednesday, it was a whatdunit.
The results of necropsies on the three birds are in, and the culprit was not some predator in the park — not a cat stalking a snack, for example. Toxicology tests showed that all three hawks had died with rat poison in their systems.
That was just what some birdwatchers had suspected. One, Lincoln Karim, a wildlife photographer who was arrested after he kept one of the dead hawks in his apartment overnight, has maintained that the Central Park Conservancy applied rat poison in the park.
On Wednesday, a parks department spokesman acknowledged that until last June the conservancy had indeed used rat poison. But now the group uses snap traps in tamper-proof boxes that look like bait stations.
Still, the hawks’ deaths were more recent than last summer, and there was one place in the park where there was poison in February, around the time the urban park rangers reported the hawk that was behaving erratically. That place was outside the Central Park police precinct, on the 86th Street transverse.
Mr. Karim noticed an exterminator’s sign as he was leaving the precinct on Feb. 27, after spending most of the night in a holding cell there after his arrest. He asked a friend to photograph the sign that morning.
“That’s the only spot in their hunting ground that has rat poison,†Mr. Karim said.
A police spokeswoman, Deputy Inspector Kim Royster, said that a contractor had placed rat poison outside the temporary station house in preparation for its demolition, as is often done when a building is to be torn down.
It had been vacated after renovations were completed and precinct operations moved to a newly remodeled building next door in January, she said.
So the plot thickens. Did the dead hawks feast on rats or mice that had crawled into the containers, swallowed some of the poison and managed to crawl out again? There is no way to know, birders say.
“Hawks cover a large area,†said Glenn Phillips, the executive director of New York City Audubon. “It’s big enough that they don’t feed, forage, in a single park.â€
He added, “Every single park in New York is faced by tall buildings, which have their own garbage, which feeds rats, and their own rat-control programs. We believe the most likely source of rat poison is residences and other businesses surrounding the parks.â€
The first hawk, a female, was found dead on Feb. 10. Another of the dead hawks was Lima, the mate of Pale Male, the celebrity red-tail with the Fifth Avenue address. She was found dead under a tree on Feb. 26. Mr. Karim said that the day before Lima died, she had coughed up the remains of a rat, as hawks will do after a meal.
A necropsy by the State Department of Environmental Conservation found that Lima had small amounts of three chemical components of rat poison in her liver. One was bromadiolone, a powerful poison that can kill rats or mice within 48 hours.
The third hawk, who had been turned over to the wildlife rehabilitator, also had bromadiolone in her liver, along with two other types of poison, according to the necropsy. She
was found at Central Park South and Seventh Avenue on March 4. She too had bromadiolone and other poisons in her system. But the state pathologist who performed toxicology tests concluded that it died from shock related to a problem with her oviduct, a passageway from the ovaries.
As for Mr. Karim, he carried Lima’s body out of the park on Feb. 26 and kept it in his apartment overnight. On Feb. 27, he carried it back to the park. He was arrested that evening and charged with illegal possession of a raptor without a permit and with obstruction of government administration.
He said on Wednesday that the charges had been dismissed.
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