The simplest grammar, long thought to be one of the skills that separate man from beast, can be taught to a common songbird, new research suggests.

Starlings learned to differentiate between a regular birdsong “sentence” and one containing a clause or another sentence of warbling, according to a study in Thursday’s journal Nature. It took University of California at San Diego psychology researcher Tim Gentner a month and about 15,000 training attempts, with food as a reward, to get the birds to recognize the most basic of grammar in their own bird language.

Yet what they learned may shake up the field of linguistics, according to the Associated Press.

Hey, we talk to the birds all the time. Sometimes they talk back…

In September 2003, President Bush nominated William J. Haynes II to a key judicial seat on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. As a Harvard-trained lawyer for the Department of Defense, Haynes argued that the bombing of an island in the Marianas, an important haven for many rare species of birds, would actually be beneficial for bird watchers. Haynes and his team of Defense Department attorneys contended that the bombing would disperse the birds to other islands so many more people would be able to see the rare species. If you are one of the 15 million or more Americans who have an interest in protecting the habitat of birds, you might want to know about Birders United.

Now that President George W. Bush has stolen his last election and the American people are wising up and getting tired of the lies and spin, a few historians are beginning to weigh in on what Bush’s legacy might be.

Even before LocustFork.Net went live from the Washington, D.C. area on March 28, 2005, we reported that Bush was the worst president in United States history on October 26, 2003.

Theologian Says It’s Time for Civil Disobedience

Now Rolling Stone magazine has found more historians who are starting to say the same thing. It has been said that journalism is the first draft of history, or history on the run…

The lead?

George W. Bush’s presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents. And that may be the best-case scenario. Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.

Well duh. You think?

We just wish they had not used the line about a cataclysmic event in that paragraph. It might give the new White House chief of staff an idea…

New Bush Policy Chief ‘Brooks Brothers’ Rioter?

But it may not even matter. In the past few days, there have been two new videos released from radical Muslim extremists, called terrrorists of course by the Bush administration. Need we connect the dots and point out that every time in the past when there was a new video, a major attack followed?

Terrorist Leader Rejects Iraq Government
Terrorist Al-Zarqawi Pops Up In Video
Osama Bashes ‘Zionist Crusade’

What does the Bush administration do to try and diffuse the situation? Do they try and make more friends in the world? Or more enemies?

Iran Threatens to Hide Nuclear Program

Perhaps if we move quickly to impeach the bastards we might be able to avert the wrath of these religious zealots. Unfortunately, it is pretty clear that is not going to happen fast enough.

It has been said before that there is some strange connection between Bush and bin Laden. Maybe they met at a haram orgy in Saudi Arabia in 1972 and had a falling out after a brief affair.

Or maybe it is just that Osama hates the Bush’s for killing his favorite brother in Texas in 1988.

What should be apparent is that no country in the world will care if the American Empire comes crashing down, not even Canada, since Canadians hate Bush as much as the French.

Stock up on beans and shotgun shells, along with water and other stuff. I’m not kidding, sort of. It may be a long siege.

In a classic example of how crass the Bush administration can be when it comes to the natural environment and pandering to the public to try and make a come back in the polls, just hours after some of us celebrated the 36th anniversary of Earth Day, President George W. Bush went for a bike ride in a restricted mountainous area of California where the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep live, according to The (Palm Springs) Desert Sun.

It was uncertain Sunday night if White House organizers accompanying President Bush knew about the voluntary avoidance program, according to the paper - or whether they cared, according to us.

The wires are now reporting Bush’s remarks this morning in which he is supposedly calling for an investigation into gas price gouging. Does anyone actually believe there is any truth at all to this story? Bush lost any credibility on this issue long ago. It would be nice to see some skepticism of his sincerity reported as part of this story. Guess you have to turn to the blogs for that, eh?

Bush Takes Aim at Gasoline Prices

Really? This should be interesting. How many of the people can you fool some of the time again?