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City extends bidding deadline
for O'Hare goat herd
Chicago Tribune, by Bridget Doyle
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Posted By:JoniTx, 9/27/2012 6:36:08 AM
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| It's not a bird or a plane — it's a goat. A whole herd of goats. O'Hare International Airport is planning to sign on a shepherd and about 30 goats, sheep or other grazing animals to munch on overgrown brush at the perimeter of the airport later this fall. The chosen herder will be responsible for transporting the animals and maintaining them via a mobile electronic fence. The overgrown property is difficult for machinery to reach because of hills and standing water and will be easier for the herd of animals to handle than mowing or spraying with herbicides,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 9/27/2012 6:42:50 AM (No. 8892763)
Goats browse, they do not graze. They'll eat the shrubbery but not the grass. Use sheep, Chicago.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
gerty, 9/27/2012 6:44:25 AM (No. 8892768)
Hey, whatever works!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
globalwarmer, 9/27/2012 6:58:38 AM (No. 8892796)
Is the goat herder's name Abdullah?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
thelmalou, 9/27/2012 8:09:44 AM (No. 8892924)
I've always heard goats'll eat anything. But I agree that I'd rather use sheep.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
secondtimelucky, 9/27/2012 8:34:08 AM (No. 8892991)
they want to eliminate poison oak and poison ivy as well as brush. for this, the goats are perfect. they're not looking for critters to eat grass...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Grambo, 9/27/2012 8:38:22 AM (No. 8893000)
Ahmadinejad is in town, check with him.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bullhead, 9/27/2012 9:01:28 AM (No. 8893066)
I heard that the SEIU is organizing a goat local and that 0bama will address the fledgling flock from Air Force One during a low flyover as well as shower these new union members with drachma's. s/
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mrduc, 9/27/2012 9:05:59 AM (No. 8893075)
With Chi-town's big moooslim population, I predict those goats will be stolen and et within 1 week.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
enuf8, 9/27/2012 9:25:43 AM (No. 8893134)
I'm disappointed! I knew for certain Hussein would apply for the job and offer Jan. 20, 2013 as his start date. Did they lose his application?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 9/27/2012 9:54:26 AM (No. 8893211)
#8, a few times a year, my dad used to haul a handful of goats from his south Texas ranch to sell to the small community of Iranians in Dallas. I don't know if they dined on them, sacrificed them or found other uses, but twenty years ago, their dollars were just as green as anyone else's.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mickturn, 9/27/2012 10:01:38 AM (No. 8893243)
I have to gusss that the 'brother in law' didn't have a herd...now what do we do?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kiwinews, 9/27/2012 10:22:04 AM (No. 8893313)
Tennessee fainting goats near the runway would be hi-la-ri-ous.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Words have Meaning, 9/27/2012 10:22:15 AM (No. 8893314)
What better way to get access to a secured area of the airport.
I don't know any goat herders, but I bet Obama does. In fact, wasn't his "dad" a goat herder from Kenya?
Pretty soon every airport in the country will have their own herd of goats. I predict there will be goat herding schools with the best foreign nationals applying to be goat herders.
Nothing to see here folks, move along.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Eheu Fugaces, 9/27/2012 11:12:20 AM (No. 8893490)
#1 - excellent point! But a goat herd is the sort of bright idea you can expect from a bunch of city boys whose exposure to nature has been limited to accidently getting behind the sounthbound end of a northbound mounted cop's horse. What the pols probably want is a flock of sheep -- now, those guys can keep the weeds trimmed down to the bare dirt.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
veritas, 9/27/2012 11:18:43 AM (No. 8893517)
Let's not lose this great opportunity, friends.
Goats? Sheep? Even Black Angus beef cattle? Nuts!
Rhinos! [Real ones.]
Yeah, rhinos. They're endangered, they eat a load more than a sheep or two, they're tough -- we'll have to keep wacky Chinese "traditional medicine practitioners" [read ignorant, superstitious charlatans who prey on ignorant, superstitious clients] away, of course. It'd be worth it. And they'd be easier to see on taxiways and runways. You're not gonna suck a rhino into a 747's engine, I'd bet.
Black rhinos, white rhinos, plaid rhinos -- I don't care. Let's get started!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet, 9/27/2012 6:30:07 PM (No. 8894669)
Are the shepards going to be unionized? Better yet, are the goats going to be unionized. Ba a a a a a d idea.
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WASHINGTON -- A senior Democratic senator who helped write President Barack Obama´s health care law stunned administration officials Wednesday, saying openly he thinks it´s headed for a "train wreck" because of bumbling implementation. "I just see a huge train wreck coming down," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told Obama´s health care chief during a routine budget hearing that suddenly turned tense. Baucus is the first top Democrat to publicly voice fears about the rollout of the new health care law, designed to bring coverage to some 30 million uninsured Americans through a mix
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Politico, by Alex Isenstadt
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National Republicans are pulling the plug on Mark Sanford’s suddenly besieged congressional campaign, POLITICO has learned — a potentially fatal blow to the former South Carolina governor’s dramatic comeback bid. Blindsided by news that Sanford’s ex-wife has accused him of trespassing and concluding he has no plausible path to victory, the National Republican Congressional Committee has decided not to spend more money on Sanford’s behalf ahead of the May 7 special election. “Mark Sanford has proven he knows what it takes to win elections. At this time, the NRCC will not be engaged in this special election,”
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