Sunday, September 06, 2015

Europe is being invaded

It is exciting to see European countries being invaded again. AP reports:
More than 1,000 people from the Middle East and Asia, exhausted after breaking away from police and marching for hours toward Western Europe, boarded scores of buses provided by Hungary's government and arrived before dawn Saturday on the border with Austria. The breakthrough became possible when Austria announced that it and Germany would take the migrants on humanitarian grounds and to aid their EU neighbor. ...

More than 1,000 people from the Middle East and Asia, exhausted after breaking away from police and marching for hours toward Western Europe, boarded scores of buses provided by Hungary's government and arrived before dawn Saturday on the border with Austria. The breakthrough became possible when Austria announced that it and Germany would take the migrants on humanitarian grounds and to aid their EU neighbor. ...

Mohammed, a 35-year-old Syrian man who was packing his belongings in the sunken plaza of Keleti train terminal and informing other migrants about the buses, said he was happy to be leaving Hungary.

"The situation is so ugly here and I want to send (a) message to all Syrian people and all refugee people: Do not come to Hungary," he said.
I guess Hungary is resisting the invasion, while Germany and Sweden welcome their new occupiers. The migrants apparently know where they can get the best deals. Israel and Saudi Arabia are deporting their illegals.

Historians may eventually label this as a great war, like World War I and the Cold War. Or the American Civil War. Many war names were only adopted long after the war was started, or even after the war. What will this be called? Is this like the Barbarians overrunning the Roman Empire?

On another matter, here is a great wildlife video: Common Cuckoo chick ejects eggs of Reed Warbler out of the nest. The cuckoo bird has put its egg in the next of an unrelated warbler bird, and tricks that bird into hatching the egg and feeding the chick. Furthermore, the video shows the baby cuckoo chick destroying the warbler bird eggs in the nest, so cuckoo gets all the food for himself. The dumb warbler bird gives all its resources to the unrelated cuckoo.

There is where we get the word cuckold, meaning a man with an unfaithful wife. The suggestion is that he might be raising someone else's kids. It is funny how wild animals can behave.

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