We all know the law of unintended consequences.\u00a0 Perhaps the best example of this is with the introduction of rabbits to Australia.\u00a0 It appears that there were some rabbits brought on the first ships back in 1778.\u00a0 But they apparently did not become a problem until 1859.\u00a0 Then a farmer named Thomas Austin decided to up the ante.\u00a0 He was a member of the Acclimatisation Society which believed in introducing exotic animals in exciting new locations, like Australia.\u00a0 He brought over 21 European rabbits, for hunting purposes and released them on Christmas Day, 1859.\u00a0 Some present.\u00a0\u00a0 The rabbits bred, well\u2026like rabbits, and the rest is history.\u00a0 By 1869 hunters were killing about 2 million rabbits a year, with no noticeable impact on the population.\u00a0 The rabbits did so much damage that in 1907 Australia built a rabbit proof fence over 2,000 miles long to try and keep the rabbits out of Western Australia.\u00a0 The fence was completed in 1907.\u00a0 Since then, Australia has waged a decades\u2019 long battle against the rabbits using Warren & Harbor destruction, poison, fumigation, explosives, introduction of predators, parasites and even disease.\u00a0 Results:\u00a0 killing 80% of the rabbits wasn\u2019t enough to even dent the population.\u00a0 Most experts report you have to get rid of between 90% to 95% of the rabbits to have any significant long-term impact on its population.<\/p>\n
In this case, the law of unintended consequences may have struck Mitt Romney.\u00a0 Donald Trump surged in the polls because he pointed out the obvious fact that no one really knows where Obama was born.\u00a0 In response, Mitt Romney did something incredibly stupid.\u00a0 (Perhaps this is an inherited trait because his father was considered to be a Presidential candidate himself, until he told the world he had been brain washed with regard to Vietnam.) \u00a0Mitt Romney said it didn\u2019t matter where Obama was born because his own father was born in a Mormon colony located in Colonia Dubl\u00e1n, Galeana, in the Mexican State of Chihuahua.\u00a0 His grandparents moved there because the United States had inconveniently outlawed polygamy.\u00a0 Mitt Romney\u2019s campaign reasoned that if George Romney was eligible to be President, then Obama must also be eligible.\u00a0\u00a0 While this may be an interesting legal argument, it is incredibly dumb.\u00a0 Romney has already been struggling with the Mormon issue.\u00a0 Trotting out his polygamist grandfather, who moved to Mexico so he could keep all three wives, hardly makes that issue go away.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, the first casualty of the Trump birther campaign may actually be Mitt Romney.\u00a0 I actually like Mitt Romney and don\u2019t really care whether or not he is a Mormon.\u00a0 Prior to this little dust up, I would have considered him to be the leading Republican candidate.\u00a0 But this kind of mistake is sometimes impossible to overcome.\u00a0\u00a0 His own father never recovered from the brain washing comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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We all know the law of unintended consequences.\u00a0 Perhaps the best example of this is with the introduction of rabbits to Australia.\u00a0 It appears that there were some rabbits brought on the first ships back in 1778.\u00a0 But they apparently … Continue reading