the night they drove ol' Dixie down...

Virgil quick come see..

ok, now I see that feral hogs are being hunted across the south...kinda like the hog roundup on the Channel Islands..the pigs are supposedly attacking people in their trailers, rooting around in the grass and crossing the borders and stealing jobs from white folks..well, a Republican Representaive has applied his keen analytical skills and suggested a way to curb illegal immigration: Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck (R) suggested Monday that the best way to deal with the illegal immigration problem may be the same way the state might deal with the problem of "feral hogs" -- by shooting them from a helicopter.

an elected official suggesting such a thing...are elected official just a mirror of the citizens? I've heard rumors about our local elected officials.. that some are bisexual, cheat on their wives and do drugs...of course, that's just rumor until the facts present themselves..but it seems that pigs are now more intelligent than Americans..or at least some politicians..it's a fact that pigs are smarter than dogs, and dogs are smarter than their owners, so it follows that pigs are smarter than both! I had a dream last night about two girls who rang my doorbell..I opened the door and they were trying to give away two little dogs..one had cataracts..white eyes...I'm haunted by that dream right now as I try to find its significance..two girls trying to give me two dogs....hmmmm..

anyway, some pig facts:
The associations people have made with the word, ‘pig’, are less than glamorous. In fact, there are downright negative connotations attached to the word, which is why we use it to insult people. But, let’s put aside our preconceived ideas of what we think a pig is, let’s take a look at who they really are.

Pigs have been touted as the smartest, and the cleanest domestic animals in the world. The phrases, "sweat like a pig" or "smell like a pig", may come to mind. But, consider that pigs don’t have sweat glands, and therefore, can’t sweat (except on the very ends of their snouts). The lack of sweat glands means lack of odor - affording no credibility to either statement.

Intelligence research was done with pigs in the 1990s. One of the experiments was to train the pigs to move the cursor on a video screen with their snouts. When the pigs used the cursors again, they were able to distinguish between the scribbles they already knew, and the scribbles they were seeing for the first time. The pigs learned this skill as fast as the chimpanzees.

All species of pig are smarter than dogs, and capable of abstract representation. "They can hold an icon in their mind, and remember it at a later date," says Professor Stanley Curtis of Penn State University, who discovered that pigs dominate at video games with joy sticks. Curtis goes on to say, "Pigs are able to focus with an intensity I have never seen in a chimp."

now considering all this, it is safe to say a pig is more intelligent than a guy like Virgil Peck..and I think future candidates should alert the voters as to their intelligence, not by wearing a cheap American flag pin on their lapels, but a little pig pin...and those of us who've been deferring compensation into our piggy banks will know exactly what I'm talking about!