That's really cool!

To the best of my knowledge we don't have anything poisonous in our area, although I do recall a story from my hubby's friend about an incident last summer.

He works in a steel factory and somebody found a black widow in the shop! They figure it made it's trip there in a shipment. Last I heard one of the guys took it home for a pet.

I don't know a lot about the ammendments they are attempting to pass in the US, although XxDuyxX's site enlightened me somewhat. I heard more about it around election time. It's one of those topics the goverment likes to use to keep everyone distracted from more important issues.

Even for us now, having a new government in power there is the threat that they will use the "notwithstanding clause" to overthrow the Supreme Court judgement. Of course they used that as a platform, and since they have been voted in (a minority goverment at that, and more due to the fact that most Canadians were mad at the Liberals and used the opportunity to give them a well needed time out) the point has been moot.