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SSTF@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Bipartisan bill naming bald eagle as the national bird heads to Biden's desk

www.usatoday.com

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Bipartisan bill naming bald eagle as the national bird heads to Biden's desk

www.usatoday.com

SSTF@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 7 months ago
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    Americans: we want affordable healthcare

    US Government: best we can do is make eagles the official bird. You didn’t even know it wasn’t already, did you?

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      Good thing we fixed it before people noticed! There is no telling what could have happened

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    So, it was never official? They need a bill for this!?!?

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    I had always thought it already was.

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      iirc, it wasn’t named natl. bird bcs you cant eat the natl. bird, and we uh, we like eating turkeys

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        • Botzo@lemmy.world
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          Can confirm. Tom attacked my Volvo.

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            +1 classic Tom

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          They are also rather graceful.

          But, I say turkey because, like. Have you ever seen them jumping to get at apples/crab apples?

          It’s freaking amazing.

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              I should note… Bald Eagle’s aren’t all bad…

              Though I will say if it was a turkey on the perch… Trump would have been wearing several maxipads the next day.

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      To be fair, the turkey he wanted to be the national bird was not the fat and stupid kind people eat for dinner, it was the angry dinosaur that was around in his day. I still see them around here. They have spurs on their legs that would rip your stomach open if it wanted to do it. You don’t want to fuck with a wild tom.

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      Nah he wanted the turkey because it is clever and resourceful. The bald eagle is a scavenger and not particularly clever. Turkeys are smart.

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      I bet if that had happened we would all eat eagles on thanksgiving!

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    Another productive day for congress I see.

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    Tackling the tough issues, like enshrining trash birds as national birds despite the clear State association. https://www.vice.com/en/article/bald-eagles-love-trash-drop-garbage-on-human-neighbors/

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    Quick! Think of what a Bald Eagle’s cry sounds like!

    Did it sound like this? Or were you actually thinking of the cry of a Red-Tailed Hawk?

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      I’ve seen a lot of eagles on the west coast, those ones to me

      sound like

      Ukikikikiii~

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    i might have voted this one down, because the ‘FINDINGS’ part of the legislation didn’t include mention of the species’ dislike for spray painted diaper fillers.

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