Aloha

Hey Guam, you certain are preoccupied about the dead mice about to be dropped on Guam. I hope you know the government doesn’t give a damn about you. The eradication of your snake infestation is all about my Island’s prosperity.
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In a desperate attempt to kill off two million brown tree snakes that are plaguing the territory of Guam, the US is bombing the island with poisoned dead mice, hoping that the snakes will eat them.

“We are taking this to a new phase. There really is no other place in the world with a snake problem like Guam,” Daniel Vice, assistant state director of the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services in Guam, told the Associated Press.

The pile of dead mice, laced with painkillers that are deadly for snakes, will rain down onto Guam’s jungle canopy as scientists drop them from helicopters in a last-ditch attempt to eradicate the invasive species.

Even though the venom of brown tree snakes is nonlethal for humans, the snake infestation has damaged infrastructure and wiped out other species in Guam. Slithering into homes, the snakes often bite people and damage power lines and wires, resulting in large-scale blackouts. The tree snakes can grow to more than 10 feet in length, although most of them are usually just a few feet long.

Nearly all of Guam’s native birds have become wiped out in the years since the tree snake first came to the island aboard a US military ship more than 60 years ago. With much of Guam’s wildlife having become endangered or extinct, tourism has dwindled, thereby inflicting an economic toll on the US territory.

Located 3,000 miles away, officials in the state of Hawaii have long feared that the snakes could make their way over to the tropical island and destroy its local habitat, as well.

Vice predicts that if the US and Guam make no attempts to contain the snakes, “the possibility of the snakes getting to Hawaii is inevitable.”

The National Wildlife Research Center estimates that a Hawaiian brown tree snake infestation would inflict $593 million to $2.14 billion in economic damages each year, including widespread power outages and a significant decrease in tourism. In an attempt to control the Guam-based infestation and prevent it from spreading, the US government will bombard the island with the dead mice starting this spring. The painkillers that the mice will be laced with include acetaminophen, which is the active ingredient in medicines such as Tylenol.

Brown tree snakes are one of very few snake species that eat the corpses of dead animals that they didn’t kill themselves. Being highly vulnerable to acetaminophen, snakes that consume the dead mice will most likely expire.

Scientists will drop the dead mice individually from a helicopter. The bait will be attached to a flotation device with streamers that would ensure that the poisoned mice get caught in the branches of a tree, where the snakes live and feed.

Birds are also vulnerable to acetaminophen, but scientists claim that most of the birds have already been wiped out by the snakes anyway.

AP reports that the US government plans to begin dropping the poisoned mice in April or May.
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Notice that little dropped in paragraph from the National Wildlife Research Center on what your snakes could do to Hawaii, if they came her from Guam. Yeah, it’s about Hawaii, they will kill every animal on Guam if they think it might be good for Hawaii.

Aloha
Perry

If you have forgotten the words, I list them here. She said when you sing them, she hopes you will hear her singing along side of you.
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The mountain air is clear of wine
and the sent of pine

Is carried on the breeze of twilight
With the sounds of bells

The trees and stones there softly slumber
Captured in her dream

The city that sits solitary
and at its heart, a wall

Oh Jerusalem of Gold, of bronze, of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs

Michelle, I am employed at one of the gun ranges here in Guam. It is a big tourist attraction. Tourist come to shoot on our ranges, the difference is unlike white america they know the difference between hollywood and reality. Most whites think that John Wayne shit is real. I found this article about our gun tourist attraction.
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TAMUNING, Guam – Their well-equipped arsenals offer everything from tiny revolvers (for ladies) to Berettas, Glocks, semi-automatic pistols and M16 military assault rifles. If kids can see over the counter, they are welcome too.

Forget the white sandy beaches, coral reefs and laid-back island culture. For many tourists from Japan, the biggest thrill is the chance to shoot a gun at one of Guam’s ubiquitous ranges, dozens of which are tucked between upscale shopping centres.

The U.S. territory of Guam — a tropical island often described as a cheaper version of Hawaii — has long been the perfect place to put guns in the hands of tourists, especially from Japan, where gun ownership is tightly restricted and handguns are banned.

Despite a shared sense of shock over the recent rampage by a gunman at America’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, the gun tourism business here is as brisk as ever.

“It was such a feeling of power,” Keigo Takizawa, a 30-year-old Japanese actor, said after blasting holes in a paper target with a shotgun, a .44 magnum and a Smith & Wesson revolver at the Western Frontier Village gun club, a cowboy-themed indoor shooting range and gift shop on Guam’s main shopping street.

“But,” he said, “I still don’t think anyone should be allowed to have one of their own.”

Many Japanese see America’s gun culture as both frightening and fascinating. Back home, the only people with handguns are in the military, the police or the mob.

Because guns are so hard to find, gun-related crime is extremely rare. They were used in only seven murders in Japan — a nation of about 130 million people — in 2011, the most recent year for official statistics. In the U.S., with 315 million people, there are more than 11,000 gun-related killings annually.

The Japanese are proud of their low crime rate and generally support tough gun-control policies.

But this Pacific island halfway between Tokyo and Honolulu is America. Guam’s gun ranges are to the Japanese what Amsterdam’s cannabis cafes are to backpackers from the world over.

“I think it’s human nature to be curious about something that is forbidden,” said Tetsuo Yamamoto, a Japanese native who emigrated to the United States 30 years ago and runs the Western Frontier Village range. “Most of our customers are from Japan and have never had the opportunity to shoot a gun. It’s very exotic for them, and it’s very exhilarating.”

So exhilarating that he sometimes asks his guests to stay around for a while to calm down after they’ve finished shooting.

Many other tourists — from South Korea, Taiwan and increasingly Russia — are less impressed. All South Korean men, for example, learn how to shoot during mandatory military service.

“To them, learning how to use a gun was a chore,” said Patrick Chon, general-manager of the Hafa Adai indoor shooting range. “It brings back bad memories. They hardly ever come here.”

Visitors to his range are greeted by movie posters for “The Terminator” and “Die Hard,” with their iconic, gun-toting action heroes. The Hollywood shoot-’em-up image is a common motif at many ranges, playing into an image of America that many Asians share.

“When most Japanese people think of American culture, one of the first things they think of is guns,” said Natsue Matsumoto, a 38-year-old Osaka woman who said she enjoyed shooting so much she was back at a range for the second time in three days. “American movies and video games are full of guns and that’s appealing, in a frightening sort of way.

“But I think Japan has it right,” she added. “If you don’t have a gun, you can’t kill someone with it.”
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Lea