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| Geoff West |
The first comment was made by this guy on your left! And, how does he address the mayor's points?! He doesn't! He starts off with his usual exclamation point style when he writes "This is a crock!" And, that's the most profound argument he can come up with!
That comment is followed by one from a woman who writes, in part: "Mr Mayor, be careful, beaten dogs don't succumb, they snap."
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| Karin Ahlf |
Of course, the associations are really just another term for unions. If it walks like a duck...
Be sure to read the full comments from the above three and the others that will no doubt appear shortly from the same crowd, and decide for yourself whether Mayor Righeimer makes more sense than these people. In our opinion he does. He presents the facts and gets right to the heart of the matter.
To keep things in perspective make sure you do read the mayor's full column (it's short) and then weigh his reasoned arguments against the emotional fact free nonsense and name calling that the lefties write to try to confuse voters.
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MAYOR RIGHEIMER HAS A NICE COLUMN IN THE DAILY PILOT
Be sure to read the comments that are sure to follow from the little band of lefty malcontents. It's almost always the same few characters, saying the same goofy things.
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| Olinguito |
What's missed in most articles about the discovery of this new species, including the one above, are the underlying truths of nature and evolution that organisms constantly change as natural selection and the other basic forces of evolution change them to be more efficient in any given environmental niche or so they can survive and thrive in a new niche or a segment of the niche.
Thus, it appears that the Olinguito which was, up until this discovery, thought to be an Olingo appears to be a branching off from the Olingos. And, it has now also been discovered that there are actually four subspecies of Olinguitos.
Subspecies are members of the species that are also starting to branch off.
The way it works is that a small group of any type of organism will be isolated from the main body of that type of organism and then with mutations and differing environmental pressures they will begin changing a little at a time, and if the changes give them a survival advantage, the changes will spread through the population and the population will head toward full specieshood.
On a DNA level the changes will often seem very minor. However, it's a little like firing a rifle. A minor flinch at the trigger will send the bullet many feet or yards away from the target.
So, with the split between Olinguitos and Olingos, one might speculate that some smaller, lighter weight Olingos found safety in the tree tops while their larger relatives stayed lower down and that over time the smaller Olinguitos adapted to the higher smaller branches and the fruits and insects they found at those heights and that their lighter weight and other factors gave them a survival advantage in that niche. And, as time went on, other mutations appeared and eventually their ability to reproduce with the Olingos disappeared.
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