Because goats are brighter than most animals...

Yes, it's a goat riding a man, riding a bike -life in Addis Ababa is interesting.

Do I need to change my blog name now?

The BBC report that:

'A rare, hybrid animal that is part goat and part sheep has been born on a farm in the Republic of Ireland.

The animal, referred to as a geep, was born about two weeks ago on Paddy Murphy's farm in County Kildare.

The unexpected arrival is thought to be the result of mating between a goat and one of the sheep farmer's Cheviot ewes.

...

Mr Murphy confirmed that the geep appeared to be healthy and "thriving" and was able to run faster than other lambs that were born around the same time.

"He's unbelievable," he said. "He's so fast you'd have to get him into the pen to catch him. There's no chance you would catch him otherwise."'

You see the goat genes mean this geep is faster than its lamb contemporaries; goats are just better than sheep!

Never underestimate the resilience of the goat

Un groupe de chamois se fait prendre dans une avalanche au dessus du refuge du Roc de la Pêche (www.rocdelapeche.com) - Pralognan la Vanoise. Vidéo réalisée par un de nos clients en avril 2013. Heureusement tout se termine très bien pour les chamois, ils n'ont pas d'ABS mais ils s'en sortent pas mal!!

Influx of Roma migrants could spark city riots, warns Blunkett | Mail Online

'The Mail yesterday quoted the mayor of two Romanian villages as saying half of their residents will move to the UK when restrictions are lifted in January.Koller Gabriel-Adrian said he believed '50 per cent' of the 1,100 people in poverty-stricken Berini and Uliuc could travel to Britain in search of higher salaries – and the generous welfare system – in the New Year. He added: 'In January, the only thing left in the village will be the goat.'

More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2502072/Influx-Roma-migrants-spark-city-riots-warns-Blunkett.html

Sensible creature the goat!

Goats are the go-to in historic Congressional Cemetery's eco-cleanup quest | Fox News

My brethren are being exploited for human gain...
More here http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/07/goats-are-go-to-in-historic-congressional-cemetery-eco-cleanup-quest/

Don't confuse lamb and goat

The Sunday Times reports that 'goat has been found in place of lamb in processed food'.

My view: getting goat instead of lamb, how lucky can you be...

A new born goat's 'happy dance'

And why not, sometimes even I get bored of posting depressing stuff.

A selection of goats making odd noises

Well why not!

Goat Family needs a new home!! | Rehoming & Adoption | RSPCA special appeals

Give my people a home....
Could I persuade Mrs NotaSheep?

Is that me in another music video?

Following on from my appearance in the video for Blondie's 'Rapture', is this me in a music-video style advert for the Samsung SH100 camera?

I believe that the rapper is called Watsky. Personally I like the chain I am wearing in the video.

I must apologise on behalf of my relatives

Yahoo News report that 'Rampaging goats accused of Nigeria election sabotage'

Sorry.

Not guilty

'A hiker was killed by a mountain goat on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, a companion said Sunday.

Bob Boardman, 63, of Port Angeles, Wash., his wife Susan Chadd and their friend, Pat Willits, had gone for a day hike Saturday on the Switchback Trail to Klahhane Ridge, the Peninsula Daily News of Port Angeles reported.

The three had stopped for lunch at an overlook when a goat appeared and moved toward them, Willits said. When the goat became aggressive, Boardman urged her and Chadd to leave the scene, the newspaper said. Then he tried to shoo the ram away.

Although Boardman also tried to leave, the goat attacked him, goring him in the thigh, the report said.

At 1:23 p.m., park rangers called the Coast Guard. A Coast Guard helicopter crew made it to Klahhane Ridge at 1:51 p.m., Lt. Cmdr. Scott Sanborn said.

An emergency medical technician was lowered to administer electric shock to revive Boardman. He had no pulse, Sanborn said, and was lifted into the helicopter, where the crew restarted resuscitation efforts, the Peninsula Daily News Report said.

Boardman arrived at Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles at 2:47 p.m., where further efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. (c) UPI'

Thanks to Post Chronicle for the spot.

Goats are talented individuals

A goat on the curved wall of a dam, showing the lack of fear that us goats are renowned for; as well as the urge to eat anywhere...



Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.

My brethren are just so helpful!

Cricket Wireless have hired a herd of goats to munch away at some troublesome growth around the bottom of Oregon transceivers, in a trial for a potential contract that could fill goat bellies at dozens of blocked base stations and save thousands of dollars for the company.

Cricket's Keith Casey told OregonLive, using a variation on the pun that's no doubt been thrown around Cricket offices for months: "I'd rather have my operations team keeping our customers' Blackberries in perfect working order so we've hired the goats to take care of the other blackberries at our cell sites"

Good job kids...



Thanks to Engadget for the spot.

Yes why not blame the goat?

The Mirror reports:

'Hiker Walter Kaiser, 59, ended up in hospital after tumbling 50ft when he was hit by a falling mountain goat in Filzmoos, Austria. The goat was unhurt.'

Yes why not blame the goat?

'A goat is for sex, a boy is for love and a woman is for procreation'

So they say...

A 'lucky goat'

Sean Linnane records the story of the 'lucky goat' and the '13-year-old girl called Meena, who says her own family tried to turn her into a suicide bomber.'

This is a story well worth reading as it gives a glimpse into the sort of people that the BBC respect and the Labour government seem to want to try and pay to be on 'our side'. Nice people?

"In that hideout they used to train suicide bombers.

Most were children of my age or younger than me. They were used for these activities because they were too young to know any better.

...

My father and brother told me to carry out a suicide attack. They were pressuring me to do this.

They told me: "If you do it you will go to paradise long before us." I replied: "Why don't you tell me I will go to hell long before you?"

Every day they used to tell me this. Every day. I was very young when they started telling me this. I said to them: "What about all the people I will kill? They are all Muslims."

They started beating me when I refused. They beat me non-stop. They made my life hell. I never had a single moment of happiness. They did everything other than kill me.

They said: "The bomb will be connected with a button, or something like the remote control of a TV. We will give you this kind of remote, and you will go to the place.

"We will also give you a mobile, and we will ring that phone, and press the remote, and you will be blown up with this bomb."

They told me they would use such a large amount of explosives that no-one would even know if it was a man or a woman.

They told me that I had to do it.

There was a kind of medicine they used to give to the bombers that made them go around smiling, in a trance.

They said they would give me that medicine, and then I would go running to die - with a smile. I was so scared I decided to prepare my own tea, and my own food.

I was afraid they would mix that medicine with my food."

Please do not read on if you have a weak stomach...

"They attached a bomb to my sister Nahida. They tied rectangular pieces to both her arms, and a black strip was wrapped around both her legs.

Then they connected the whole thing. She told my brother the bomb was heavy and she could not walk.

He said she would be comfortable once she was sitting down in the car.

They gave her medicine. But she was crying very loud for my mother. She kept going to her and hugging her. When my sister looked down at the bomb, she shivered.

Then my brother and my father started beating my mother, and they were shouting: "Why you are distracting the girl from her mission?"

I heard my sister saying: "Where is Meena? I want to see her." But I didn't have the strength. My heart couldn't take it.

My mother fainted when they put her in the car. My brother said my sister's attack was in Afghanistan.

I always think about my sister. She was healthy and a very nice girl. She was younger than me, but she was wiser. My mother used to tell me that I was an idiot, but she was very wise."

Will the suffering of my brethren never end (part xx)

I see that my brethren are suffering again:

"Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has a black goat slaughtered at his house almost every day to ward off "evil eyes" and protect him from "black magic," a newspaper reported Wednesday.

A spokesman for the president told the Dawn newspaper the goats were slaughtered as an act of Sadaqah -- meaning "voluntary charity" in Islam whereby one gives out money or the meat of a slaughtered animal to the poor to win Allah's blessing and stave off misfortune."

"Let my people go!"

Another clever goat

Darren the waving goat seems just the sort of clever chap I should befriend.

Wind power

Wind power (in the UK) is a waste of time, the wind isn't reliable enough so we will still need the ability to generate 100% of our power needs from more tangible power sources, they despoil the countryside, expend more CO2 in building than they save in use and now I discover THEY KILL GOATS.

"Late-night noise from spinning wind turbines on an outlying island of Taiwan may have killed 400 goats over the past three years by depriving them of sleep, an agricultural inspection official said on Thursday. "

Is there no end to the suffering my brethren around the world must suffer?