Closing Bell: Wild Quaker Parrot Protection Bill
Some of you have been lucky enough to espy the flocks or wild green parrots that proliferate South Brooklyn. If you haven’t, maybe it’s because they sometimes get poached, or befall other unfortunate fates. Thus, the introduction of a bill to protect them, courtesy of City Councilmember Tony Avella, says Brooklyn Parrots. The site has…
Some of you have been lucky enough to espy the flocks or wild green parrots that proliferate South Brooklyn. If you haven’t, maybe it’s because they sometimes get poached, or befall other unfortunate fates. Thus, the introduction of a bill to protect them, courtesy of City Councilmember Tony Avella, says Brooklyn Parrots. The site has info on how to get in touch with Avella to confirm your support (or, if for some reason you don’t want the little guys protected, express your lack of support) for the bill.
Photo from BrooklynParrots.
Sorry, BRG. I didn’t think you would be back here to see this. Not that I was trying to pool the wool (or the red hoodie for that matter) over your eyes.
“BRG be VERY careful here today. You’ve already started.”
DIBS, I’m not counting the hijinks in yesterday’s threads, including this one. The promise to behave only applies to the Friday stories.
BRG be VERY careful here today. You’ve already started.
Noki, your posts of late, have been hysterical!
“sam, come on…we’re trying to be less disruptive, but how do you expect BRG not to jump all over your zipper reference?”
Biff, how dare you!!
You’re insinuating that I only post crass comments!!!
Yep, with friends like you….
Nokilissa, that was one of the most hilarious posts I’ve ever read here and perhaps your best (and that says a lot since I’m perhaps your biggest fan). That was a brilliant and dead-on analysis. I promised myself I would try to behave today and I know what happened the last time you and 11217 went at it (and I got involved), but I just had to thank you for that one. It cracked me up.
“There are several posters who use zip codes, I find it hard to remember who’s which zipper.”
sam, come on…we’re trying to be less disruptive, but how do you expect BRG not to jump all over your zipper reference?
Thanks Nokilissa,
There are several posters who use zip codes, I find it hard to remember who’s which zipper.
11217, Sam, is the ex-runway-walkin’, handsome, incredibly successful, leggy (I just threw that one in) self-righteous, often indignant, outspoken, self-appointed arbiter of all things mature and appropriate on this site. He seems to like things tidy and clear and makes assumptions about posters quickly so as to pigeon-hole for convenience and sanity’s sake. He probably had some difficulty with childhood and late adolescent peer groups because he is quick to ridicule, project, and is relatively heavy-handed on the “why do you care what anyone thinks”, I’m not here to make friends” front.
But I like him, as he often contributes very useful nuggets.
You know, I really love wild birds and I love parrots…and not to eat, my prior posting was an attempt at humor. But really, I ask you, is Tony Avella not the biggest fruitcake on the city council? No wonder he has such few friends in City Hall. I mean, legislation to protect Brooklyn’s thriving colony of Argentinian parrots? Is he off his rocker?
I love the little guys. They fly all around the trees by our house. But does it make sense to legislate protecting I hate to say it but an invasive species because they are cute?I’d like to hear how they are getting legal protection. If they were a foreign plant they wouldn’t get protection and would be considered invasive. Should there be a distinction? They’re not to different from say a Norway rat or Japanese honeysuckle (considered invasive )