According to The Drinking Bird, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, who you can contact via email here, hasn’t yet signed (and will probably veto) a bill to ban lead bullets, which are accidentally eaten by critically-endangered California Condors. More information at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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condor are such ugly bird. Let’s just kill them off.
@tami: You are such an ugly person. Let’s kill all the tamis off.