OT: [oclug] POTS -> SIP providers in Canada?

[miden]

At band camp, one time, Adrian Irving-Beer said:
> Hear, hear.  The other day, my family had to deliver a baby squirrel
> to a rescue operation because a crow raided the nest.  First it picked
> the baby up, but dropped it; then, it (reportedly, according to the
> children) carted the mother off.  There were probably more in the
> nest, but nobody could reach it.  Grumble.
> 
> Crows are evil. :)
> 

Tragic and terrible without question and children shouldn't have to see 
it. On the other hand have you ever allowed them to watch a National 
Geographic wildlife program, for example, which features such charming 
scenes as a cheetah taking down a gazelle or wild african dogs taking 
some larger creature or the classic - a lion taking down anything? For 
some reason that is 'the terrible beauty' of nature. Local animals doing 
what they do is not. Odd that.

I don't watch nature specials. Can't stand that much suffering packed 
into one hour and always had the feeling that it is somehow titillating 
for its intended audience.

I would have chased the crows off if I had seen it happening as I'm sure 
you would have. Perhaps feeding them makes such things a trifle less 
necessary? Hmm... perhaps that is a bit like extortion - feed us or we 
eat the cuties?

Hmmm again... a dominatrix in a glossy black feather outfit? I should 
stop now.

-m