On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:09:11 -0800 (PST), harry wrote:

On Dec 29, 5:49*pm, "
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:38:40 -0600, The Daring Dufas





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On 12/29/2010 11:02 AM, harry wrote:
On Dec 29, 12:57 pm, *wrote:
aemeijers wrote:

Sure there are. Visit any farm or temperate-climate area with
sufficent game to support a reproducing population. Where do you think
the Egyptions or whoever got theirs? *Just like dogs and humans bonded
for hunting purposes, cats and humans bonded for rodent control
purposes. The 4-legged ones that hung around with humans ate better,
and were more successful at passing their genes on. Some animal
shrinks claim that domesticated dogs and cats suffer from arrested
adolesence, since humans dote on them, and the ones that act like wild
animals get expelled or killed. And yes, their life in the wild is
shorter and nastier. If humans hadn't mostly eliminated wolves and
other predators, there would be no feral cat/dog problem.

You recall the Bible story of Joseph who predicted seven bountiful years
followed by seven lean years thereby encouraging Pharaoh to store up grain?

The Egyptians were the first to practice large-scale agriculture and, to
store up the harvest, they had to have granaries. The goddamn (Ra-damned?)
mice began eating the grain as fast as the Egyptians could store it!

Then some enterprising soul brought to Egypt a critter known as an "African
Tree Cat," which promptly set about catching mice. The African Tree Cats
caught a LOT of mice. So much so the Egyptians deified the cat, calling the
new god "Bastet."

Mummified cats are quite commonly found in Egyptian tombs.
Together with just about every other animal they could lay hands on.

Agriculture started in Iraq. *Saddams ancestors had civilisation long
before the rest of us.

But what happened to them that caused them to revert to savagery.

Mohammed.

It's like Egypt, once the center of civilization and now the people have
devolved into Proto-Mesopotamians.

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A bit like America's path today?

No, harry, quite like Europe today.