Despite, only this year they will finally make the bald eagle the national bird. Which, I also learned that they are not official symbols until a President signs a document for them to be. It is just a recognized symbol but not official. (Just my opinion but why do they really need a bill for this? What changes would making anything like this official really do?)
Here is a list of other US symbols (article includes links to other countries of the world national symbols, some official, some not made official) if you are interested:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_symbols_of_the_United_States
The eagle not being official is surprising since bald eagles have been protected with a pretty severe fine since 1940.
Also…Benjamin Franklin bitched about the choice of the bald eagle over the turkey?
Canadian dollars are maple coins, Australian dollars are kangaroo coins, American dollars are eagle coins…
No the eagle was the national bird just ridiculous that they have to sign a whole bill for it to be official. Seems like a waste of resources.
How else would it be official though?
Presidential decree could be overturned every time the president changes. If there was an agency that declared things to be official, then they would have to pass a law to grant them the power to do that.
Being official always starts with laws, might as well do the whole thing at once.
In between bombing seven different countries, Obama found a lot of time to do symbolic, meaningless shit. (Which most US presidents find time to do.)
Biden did an apology tour for native american boarding schools two weeks before election day
This, on the heels of a slew of Felony Mob indictments aimed at Gaza Protesters
The way presidents will flip the history book back 50 years and issue a polite “My bad” while they persecute a new generation of people and scrub out the associated civil rights movement in real time is nauseating. It’s less than meaningless. I have to wonder what horrors President Pete Buttigieg will be apologizing for in another twenty years, in between the ethnic cleansing of Panama and the War to Liberate Singapore.
it was atleast an interesting read. like finding out that Biden was president during obamas term for around an hour, lol. so he had his own mini term.
It is interesting, the little quirks of history.
LETS GO BUFFALO!!!
Hey-ey-EY-ey
What about like…humans?
Bald Eagle for national bird, but honorary mention for the red-tailed hawk, which is the sound people mistakenly associate it with
Bald eagle honestly sounds like a possessed seagull, which I dont think most folks are down with that.
Do we pick it by the species of which we murdered the most?
That’s be homo sapiens then.
he must have been wearing a tan suit and everyone just got distracted
Buffalo.
I will die on this hill.
European bison were called bison a thousand years before America was discovered by Europeans and is a very close relative (different species). Buffalo is the name of the African animal that is only distantly related (different genus) and has been called bufalus by Europeans since before America was discovered by those same Europeans.
If you are going to die on a hill, might as well call them by the names given to them by people who lived with them for thousands of years before Europeans came here:
in Arapaho: bii (bison cow), henéécee (bison bull)
in Lakota: pté (bison cow), tȟatȟáŋka (bison bull) - we all know how to pronounce that one, thanks to Dances with Wolves.
Hennessey
Where is the home where the buffalo roam? Is it in Senegal?
Was Buffalo Bill called that because he was an African game hunter?
Is it called a buffalo nickel because it has a bison on it?
And I can’t speak for you, but I only see buffalo burger on menus as an alternative option, they seem to have left bison off.
I rest my case. And if you wish to appeal, you can write to me in Buffalo, New York.
I dunno, Bison Bison Bison (actual taxanomic name) might disagree with you!Don’t you try to buffalo me with your “science!”
Bye son.
left the comments and came back to hand you your fuckin props
If you are on a hill with either a Bison or a Buffalo, the odds of you dying are high.
What if the hill is a buffalo jump?
