<p>Watch out, camels - <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/australian-camels-in-sights-of-federal-law-that-could-have-them-shot-for-methane-emissions/2011/06/09/AGT1SvMH_story.html">you have been targeted</a>:</p>
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<p>Kill a camel, earn cash for cutting greenhouse gases: That offer may be coming soon in Australia, where vast numbers of the nonnative, methane-belching animals have been trampling the Outback for more than a century.<br />
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<p>&ldquo;Potentially it has tremendous merit, because feral camels are a dreadful menace across the whole of arid Australia,&rdquo; Dreyfus told The Associated Press on Thursday.</p>
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<p>Mark Dreyfus is the government&rsquo;s parliamentary secretary for climate change. I believe he is also in charge of herding unicorns, runs the leprechaun job training program, and handles other make-believe departments right along with his duties of combatting climate change (i.e. global warming).</p>
<p>So Mr. Dreyfus's idea is that because camels are a &quot;dreadful menace&quot;, why not shoot them and then say it benefits the planet? If you want to shoot them because they're a &quot;dreadful menace&quot;, fine, but can we please stop saying everything that liberals want to do is for the good for the planet?</p>
<p>I'm making a wild assumption that Mr. Dreyfus is a liberal. I can't imagine a conservative with as a &quot;parliamentary secretary for climate change&quot;.</p>
<p>Since camels are such as &quot;dreadful menace&quot;, will we here in Clinton County be able to rid ourselves of our &quot;dreadful menaces&quot;? I'm not talking about Democrats (well, maybe a little), I'm talking about our bovine population.&nbsp; Will our herds of cows have to be culled for the benefit of Mother Earth? Will skilled hunters riding in camouflaged Prii (plural of Prius) &quot;take out&quot; those &quot;dreadful menaces&quot; that roam the fields of Bath and Dewitt and St. John's?</p>
<p>Bessy, you have been warned.</p>