"I have a bad feeling about this"

... the biggest climate protester of them all !

Actually, Australian kangaroos are pretty nasty ...

There's a story around about how a Australian helicopter simulator was being demonstrated to some US colleagues. After doing a few passes over some nice rural landscape they were very surprised when some of the kangaroos below pulled out a few shoulder-mounted SAMs and started shooting. They were even more surprised when they were "hit", and crashed and burned.

It turns out that when the software engineers created the kangaroo objects they did so by cloning some soldier objects, and then just changing the uniforms. They forgot to change some of the more aggressive behaviours.

The real reason that these researchers are being sacked is that someone high in the administration has what I term an "Edifice Complex". A common affliction in Australia, it consists of building something akin to the pyramids as a memorial to the wonderful wisdom, forsight, leadership, etc, etc, etc of the person at the top of the "pyramid". The edifice in question is called the "Centre for Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease".

Blaming the funding problems on falling student numbers, or routine maintenance, is incorrect.

If you are interested, read the gory details at http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3822688.html

... and what happened to those countries who chose to persecute their best and brightest ?

Greece after Socrates ... Italy after Galileo ... Germany after Kristallnacht ... America next ???