Ray’s Thought for the Day - Why is US still bombing our colony?

Good Goddess! Us have had our colony, miserable Iraq, for years. Yet US are still bombing the bejesus out of it, blowing it up. Maybe the bombing is like for urban renewal. Maybe one of our brave realtors wants to put up nice hotels, parking garages and golf courses in those locations getting blown up. But it is way cheaper for US to blow up those old buildings from the air, so the brave realtor gets the US government to blow them up. Run for it miserable Iraqis. You are in the path of progress.

Oh well. Not much most of US can do about that, apparently. So on to the interesting topic of flies. Flies, as everyone knows are my buddies. As I get to know those flies, better, I like some of them more and more. I especially like this one, a Trichopoda sp.

This one, when it is a baby, a maggot no less, reputedly parasitizes bugs, the very same bugs that eat my collards, maybe. I used to grow collards and the bugs would get all over those collards. Those bugs would eat up my collards. Also those dang bugs stink. Some of them, really stink. They stink so much that they would stink up my delicious collards, rendering those collards stinky and inedible. That stink some of those bugs do can last a long time, too. Once I handled one of those bugs and the stink hardly ever washed off. Mercy! So this fly is my friend.