http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/mary-chickenland/ Mary Chickenland is a poultry excuse for a character, and we freely admit we have no eggscuse whatsoever for allowing her to contribute. She is the mother of 23,000 eggs, none of which have hatched, yet remains at the top of the social pecking order. What a crack-up, eh? en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gaddafi-vs-sanders-a-comparison-of-colonels/ Gaddafi’s dead. Good. We got Osama and now we got this creep. As The Sun in Britain said: “That’s for Lockerbie”. And as I myself often say: “begeeeeerrrrk”. While the world is rightly celebrating the death of the tyrant Gaddafi today, here in the chicken coop the mood is more sombre. Across the world, millions of my fellow hens continue to be slaughtered daily in the name of another colonel. These two colonels lived different lives, on different continents, in different eras. But the hens and I had a scratch around in the dirt today, and we came up with a few similarities. Begeeeeerrrrk! feedback@thepunch.com.au (Mary Chickenland) Behind the picture http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gaddafi-vs-sanders-a-comparison-of-colonels/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gaddafi-vs-sanders-a-comparison-of-colonels/#item6978 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:45:43 +0000 Mary Chickenland | Author bios | The Punch