Rejoice!

Despite all the headlines of deep cuts in the budget that will bring a financial armageddon, you should be happy to know: 

Robosquirrel survives the sequester
 

As budget axes begin to fall, lines grow at airports and federal employees prepare for furlough days, one taxpayer-funded project has emerged unscathed: the robosquirrel, a $325,000 experimental biorobotic animal, which will continue to receive its funding from the National Science Foundation as scheduled.

headsup DaveBarry. this is very important information on how squirrels protect their babies against rattlesnakes:


of course, this is how squirrels actually communicate with snakes:

They tell the snakes is that they belong to the NRA:

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