Language Liberalism Freethought Birds
Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Milkweed bugs gather in a large multi-instar group, their bright coloring a warning to predators that they are poisonous. I don't know what the large brown bug under the cross-beam is, though.
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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 9:51 AM, September 29, 2008
Wishydig had this to say...
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At 8:33 PM, September 29, 2008
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->up in north dakota they call these box elder bugs. at least the 'older' looking ones with darker coloring and the red appearing as stripes. the outside of a house might be crawling with them on a bad year -- patches the size of a door, blackened with the annoying creepers.
they were pretty much harmless but occasionally you'd feel a bite on the back of your neck or some other sensitive area where a bug had enough time to start some trouble.
The black ones are the adults; the others are younger stages (instars) of maturity. Milkweed bugs go through 4 instars, I think.
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