Saw this and it sure seems to make sense in America:


CATCHING WILD PIGS Something to think about - the sad state of America Interesting viewpoint. CATCHING WILD PIGS

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the Prof noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked: 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke.

'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming.

When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.

The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again.

You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught.

Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.'

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/ Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax cuts, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.

One should always remember two truths:

1) There is no such thing as a free lunch

2) and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you Cheaper than you can do it yourself.

If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your friends.

If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably delete this email.

But may God help you when the gate slams shut!

I don't know...

I saw Apocolypto and that is not how they caught wild pigs there...

jag

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Originally posted by patioash:
Saw this and it sure seems to make sense in America:


CATCHING WILD PIGS Something to think about - the sad state of (...) But may God help you when the gate slams shut!

This is total rethoric BS! Nice story but totally fabricated.

I mean : "The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime."

Now, where might that be in 2008? (Remember it has to be a place with wild pigs - and they don't have those in Peru.)

And comparing US Democrats to Communists is simply laughable.

You should shorten that story. The target audience can't read well.

Hey that's how I captured my kids. It really does work!

That australian that got poked by that sting ray. I saw him a catch a wild pig. He chased it down and tackled it. Now it wasn't a 500 pound wart hog like in Africa. It was a ferral pig, a small sow, a descendant of some domestigated pigs that have gone back into the wild.

Now, THIS is a wild pig...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275524,00.html

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Originally posted by O Man:
Now, THIS is a wild pig...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275524,00.html

thats a big pig, imagine how much bacon you can shear of that thing

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Originally posted by flashman:
This is total rethoric BS! Nice story but totally fabricated.

Which is plainly obvious to anyone of reasonable intelligence. I bet the conservatives sure love it though!

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Now, where might that be in 2008?

Good question!

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And comparing US Democrats to Communists is simply laughable.

Republicans are a funny bunch.

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Originally posted by hydragoat:
You should shorten that story. The target audience can't read well.

I think you're mistaken.. I believe the target audience is liberals, not conservatives.

Does that mean you can only catch a pig if you can build a fence?

I don't see anyone complaining about mortgage company bail-outs or the San Diego mayor's proposal to establish a "foreclosure free zone."

Gramm was right -- Americans are whiners. They complain about the price of gas as if it is a God-given right but don't drive less. Sub-prime borrowing is all the fault of "predatory corporations" -- don't you dare blame the idiots who were happy to take the money. Oh, the poor consumer, once again a victim to the big corporations. And you know that Democrats are overjoyed to be able to step in and expand the size of government in times of crisis.

So while I think the original story is a bit weird, there is a good point in there (somewhere).

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Originally posted by Coriolanus:
Sub-prime borrowing is all the fault of "predatory corporations" -- don't you dare blame the idiots who were happy to take the money. Oh, the poor consumer, once again a victim to the big corporations.

Forget about the poor consumer, what about the poor taxpayers who are being gorged in order to bail out the "predatory corporations"? You know, the responsible taxpayers that didn't take on mortgages they couldn't afford, and those that didn't buy the supposedly low-risk securities that the iBanks derived from said crappy mortgages? Seeing as these taxpayers didn't participate in the sub-prime fiasco, are they not victims for being forced to bail out those who did?

I'll wait while you go look it up.

Still waiting... haven't you looked it up yet?

Well, I didn't read it as dem vs. rep, but then I don't trust either party, so...

It's just another way of illustrating the "First they came for..." principle. Nothing wrong w/ the story, imo. And surely you didn't take it as factual. Peru? Come on.

When politicians figure out there are enough people who want to be saved at the expense of others, they will cater to those in order to stay elected and maintain their power. Pretty simple.

If he comes from a country where he's getting bullets lodged in him, he could probably catch a pig with a rifle.
Save himself some calories and use the corn as a side.

I decided to edit the old comment out of the thread...as it wasn't contributing to the "giant animals" topic...

jag

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Here's a giant chicken

You catch those by disguising yourself as a seed.

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Originally posted by AnRyan:
If he comes from a country where he's getting bullets lodged in him, he could probably catch a pig with a rifle.
Save himself some calories and use the corn as a side.

If he comes from a country where he can be drafted or join the army in war-time while at the same time being able to go study in the US, why would he need to catch wild pigs anyway?