Post Office kills chicks in Keene

[KBCraig]

Hundreds of live chicks being delivered through the mail arrive dead, dying, in Keene.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120518/NEWS/705189914

[Jim Johnson]

My uncle use to shoot chicken kill'n dogs.  The dogs would only have to kill two or three chickens before he'd send them to doggy hell.  I'm not saying that this what should be done with the post office folk; but my uncle was a marine, one of America's Heroes.  He claimed he could shoot a worm off a branch at one hundred yards, which I thought was a costly and ineffective insecticide...  He said I was missing the point, which was, and the U.S. Government Agrees with him cause that's who taught him, 'It's OK to destroy a destructive thing... no matter what the cost'.
I thought it strange that after kill'n a dog for kill'n his chicken he was out there chopp'n off the chicken heads.  Then he'd eat the chickens and bury the dog.

Anyway.... the chick deaths are a civil matter that can be handled by Postal guarantees.

I find it strange that the Sentinel can write a whole column about dead chickens but can't find two words about the crap Keene politicians do. 
Buy the way, my friend ordered a cast iron steam dragon for the top of her wood stove, and they delivered cracked.  Can the Sentinel write a big long story about that?

[Free libertarian]

If your Uncle were a real marine he'd of et the dog and he woulda liked it.   

Dead chicks ?  I knew I guy that was gonna get him some mail order chicks, but he thought them Filipino women would have a hard time adapting to our free country.

[MaineShark]

My uncle was a sniper in WWII.  He had chickens on his farm, after he got back.  His method of dispatching chickens for dinner was to pick the furthest one from the house, then shoot it's head off.  Guess he wanted to keep his skills up...

[Lloyd Danforth]

My grandfather would let my cousin and I watch him kill chickens with a screwdriver into the brain through the roof of the mouth, but he never let us watch him cut their heads off, or let us know where he buried, or threw them. He must have figured, correctly that we would have dug them up and played with them.

[Free libertarian]

My grandfather would let my cousin and I watch him kill chickens with a screwdriver into the brain through the roof of the mouth, but he never let us watch him cut their heads off, or let us know where he buried, or threw them. He must have figured, correctly that we would have dug them up and played with them.

Phillips head or common?

[Pat K]

Yankee Screwdriver

[Lloyd Danforth]

Most people my age will remember, that even though the screws had been around for a while, between about 1953 and June of 1973 nobody could find their Phillips screwdriver.

The spiral thing on that screwdriver can be retracted and locked under spring pressure by turning a ring. I picked one up in a used tool store and almost went the way of my grandfather's chickens when I turned the ring while looking at the blade.

[Jim Johnson]

Most people my age will remember, that even though the screws had been around for a while, between about 1953 and June of 1973 nobody could find their Phillips screwdriver.

The spiral thing on that screwdriver can be retracted and locked under spring pressure by turning a ring. I picked one up in a used tool store and almost went the way of my grandfather's chickens when I turned the ring while looking at the blade.

Most people your age are dead.
What does the Vietnam War have to do with Phillips screw drivers? 

[Lloyd Danforth]

Is that a riddle?

[Jim Johnson]

Yes.
Apparently, Phillips screw drivers disappeared in 1953.  Less than two years later the Vietnam War begins.  Then, less than thirty days after the end of the Vietnam War, Phillips screw drivers reappear.

Coincidents?  WTF

[Free libertarian]

... and Lincoln's secretary was named Johnson. 
...and Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

...see ?  See! SEE!  Conspiracy !  Johnson not only ramped up the Viet Nam war...he clearly has something to do with missing Phillip's head screw drivers...it's all making sense now.

...and isn't it strange there are no President Johnson stamps ?  Clearly he has a problem with the Post Office and had his inside Ops off some chickens as a diversion.   Things are adding up.

[Jim Johnson]

You seem to have a circular argument.

[Russell Kanning]

not conspiracy
cause and effect

I love those kinds of screwdrivers. Just don't point them towards anything you are not ready to kill.

[grasshopper]

(groan, sorry, I had to..   "or  ::)screw up!!!!!  Get it!!!)