Political Caption Competition

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1. Could it be all of the above? But you’ve missed one: Flea.
   Flea, the common name for the order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds.

   I’m not sure though @ Grey that it’s a full definition. Fleas often ingratiate themselves on their hosts pretending friendship. But since they’re basically pretty thick in the brain department, it’s all about survival instinct. (Habit [learned ideology, rehearsed talking points and platitudes] over intelligence [critical thought and appropriate responses to current conditions]}

   Lately, birds seem to be doing better than mammals. Could they evolve perhaps into delivering a parallel Working Groups?

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   1. Interesting as usual owt. We get godwits and red knotted somethings down here from far away – godwits from Russia and so keen to get here that one bird flew 1000000 miles or so down here to their feeding grounds. Don’t know what melting ice and climate change etc is going to do to the poor dears. But they might work in with us and give us some lessons in how to be ‘bird-brained’ – a longer living, more balanced being than we are being.

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2. Humans have a word for everything but can’t comprehend true value of anything, it seems.
   ACT leaders and followers could be described by one of many synonyms of sly but I can’t decide which. Here’s the choice: cunning, shonky… and there’s more –
   crafty
   clever
   wily
   artful
   guileful
   tricky
   conniving
   scheming
   devious
   designing
   deceitful
   duplicitous
   dishonest
   disingenuous
   underhand
   sneaky
   untrustworthy
   manipulative
   calculating
   Machiavellian
   foxy
   shifty
   fly

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