The only smoking kangaroo, should be on the barbie

via heraldsun.com.au

The Australian Government has hit out at a major tobacco company that is using a kangaroo on cigarette packages overseas.  Australian Attorney-General Nicola Roxon says there is nothing the Government can do to stop one of Australia's most treasured national icons being used to flog cigarettes in Europe.
An image of a kangaroo and the phrase "An Australian Favourite" are on packets of Winfield being sold in France.

The branding of the cigarettes, made by British American Tobacco, has angered health groups and the Federal Government.
One anti-smoking advocate dubbed the image the "cancer kangaroo".
Ms Roxon said while the Government is set to force all cigarettes available in Australia to be sold in drab olive-brown packages from December 1, it has no legal control over the packaging of cigarettes overseas.
But it was inappropriate to use Australia as a marketing tool for a dangerous product, she said.
"Frankly I think it's pretty un-Australian," Ms Roxon said.

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Eat Kangaroo and Save the World

Australians are being encouraged to eat Skippy in a bid to reduce the all farting all greenhous gas belching bovines so popular on Aussie Barbies, by Kevin Rudds Chief Greenhouse Gas Spinmeister, Professor Garnaut.

"Sheep and cattle production is highly vulnerable to the biophysical impacts of climate change, such as water scarcity," he says.
"Australian marsupials emit negligible amounts of methane from enteric fermentation. This could be a source of international comparative advantage for Australia in livestock production.

Australian Endangered Species?

"For most of Australia's human history of around 60,000 years, kangaroo was the main source of meat. It could again become important."

In a poll in the Australian, 85 percent of respondents seemed open to this. I quite like Kangaroo meat. You just have to cook it with a delicate touch. No stewing and no well done steaks. It is easily available in the Supermarket and very popular in Russia, which is one of the largest export markets for Skippy Steaks and Minced Skippy.

I loved the use of the term biophysical impacts of climate change or what you or I may say, where has all the water gone? Why can't people just use plain English?

I mean I could walk down the road on a day like today (clear, sunny, blue sky and 25 degrees) and comment on the positive biophysical impact of climate change to anyone who would listen.

Antipodean Nessie?

No just a kangaroo out for a swim.

I had no idea that they liked to swim. Perhaps it is just wave jumping. As you know most Aussies like surfing. Perhaps he is just getting started.

Cowaroo to fight global warming

Blognor Regis has the scoop on moves to reduce the flatulence contribution of cows to global warming. Apparently Kangaroos are also large fart contributors to the environment, but that they have different enzymes, significantly reducing the carbon dioxide contribution.

The obvious solution, a joint breeding research programme. Look for Cowaroo meat in the Supermarket in the coming years. Challenges will be how to round up bouncing cows and maintaining the quality and quantity of milk.

Why did Kangaroos come to Australia A Christian Conservative View

Everyone to their own view. I love the equivalent to the legal disclaimer at the end.

From Conservapedia

According to the origins theory model used by creation scientists, modern kangaroos are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah's Ark prior to the Great Flood. It has not yet been determined by baraminologists whether kangaroos form a holobaramin with the wallaby, tree-kangaroo, wallaroo, pademelon and quokka, or if all these species are in fact apobaraminic or polybaraminic. There is, however, no evidence of a genetic bottleneck in the kangaroo species which would be expected if all kangaroos were descended from two individuals.

After the Flood, these kangaroos bred from the Ark passengers migrated to Australia. There is debate whether this migration happened over land with lower sea levels during the post-flood ice age, or before the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart, or if they rafted on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters. The idea that God simply generated kangaroos into existence there is considered by most creation researchers to be contra-Biblical.

Other views on kangaroo origins include the belief of some Australian Aborigines that kangaroos were sung into existence by their ancestors during the "Dreamtime" and the evolutionary view that kangaroos and the other marsupials evolved from a common marsupial ancestor which lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

A majority of biologists regard evolution as the most likely explanation for the origin of species including the kangaroo.

Conservapedia, The Trustworthy Encyclopedia has Commandments rather than rules governing their work. Everything must be original, true and verifiable and no opinions are to be stated.

That said, one of the sources used for this article claims the following.

Kangaroos are ingenious examples of God’s craftsmanship, designed by a Creator who knew perfectly what He was doing. To Him all praise, glory, and honour is forever due.

That sort of stuff is right in line with the Commandments, obviously. No mention of the Ark in Wikipedia. Obviously a left wing atheist bias.

So basically Joey and Skippy, the kangaroos from the ark made their way by a series o improbable means, chosing Australia as the ideal spot to raise their family. The rest as they say, is history.

I think I will stick with the scientists.

Welsh Granny Evicted after Dancing with a Kangaroo

Meanies!

Thanks Arbroath