It’s difficult to control the mosquitoes this time of year. A recent “Texas Gardener Seeds” newsletter suggests to “Put up a bat house to encourage the presence of these shy animals. Bats consume 3,000 or more mosquitoes and other insects nightly, and bats are less likely to be rabid than dogs are. Bats are also responsible for up to 95 percent of the seed dispersal essential to the regeneration of forests.” Our planet is populated with plenty of bizarre and astonishing creatures. Here are three from the Bat Family... Sucker-Footed Bat ![]() Red-Winged Fruit Bat ![]() Left-Winged Ding Bats ![]() ![]() So 2 out 3 Bats have a useful purpose! All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots. - Ozzy Osbourne A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith We don't have inflation because we are living too well. We have it because government is living too well. - Ronald Reagan At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov see also Bat Section Baby Bat Barthoven Bartman Bat Flying Blind Batman Wannabes Vampire Drinks Vantastic |
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