KaskadskyjKozak

It's not just hunting fees. Look up the Pittman-Robertson Act. Every time you buy hunting "stuff" a tax has been levied at the manufacturers level. The money collected goes back to the states to manage hunting and wildlife. The cost of my rifle and scope is equivalent to about 80 years of hunting licenses, so you can see how this might add up. You must have bought your rifle from the military. Do you buy $800 toilet seats from them too?

Speaking of "living authentically"... There was an interesting article in a recent issue of Backpacker magazine about teaching kids to live a nomadic lifestyle in Vermont in the winter.

maybe, he's got a bad knee now

my uncle doesn't play "dress up". He walks out his back door in his jeans and a t-shirt, goes into the woods and bags a deer or a couple of rabbits. For the rabbits, he throws the entrails into a tree for the birds, gives the head to his dog to chew on, and cooks up some yummy grub.

me too. what's your poison of choice?

The hunters I know don't view it as a sport. It's a means to get fresh, organic, anti-biotic-free meat.

excellent post! it's nice that there is at least one rational person amongst this group of ass monkeys

"All things are permitted"

keeping waiting on that magic

in essence, they are about the same Your essence, not mine. One salient difference is that Michael Weiner (his real name) is yet another chickenhawk that never managed to serve in the military, even though he is of prime Vietnam war age. Randi Rhodes enlisted in the Air Force at age 18, and served in the reserves. BFD. She's a shrill lunatic. How people like them get on the air is beyond me.

he's a "shock jock" with a shtick saying all kinds of outrageous stuff. he and Randi Rhoads are two sides of the same coin. Anne Coulter is another one - as is Michael Moore.

in essence, they are about the same

I've never hunted, but I've eaten game. Venison is yummy.

You sound like the Nuge!

Tastes like chicken!

I shit bigger than you.

or the worms

wtf are you talking about, eric? Children CHOOSE to be raised poorly. Aren't you listening to KaskadskyjKozak? Sheesh. he just chooses not to put words in my mouth --- something you left-wing-nuts love to do.

Was talking to my Dad the other day (assistant superindenant, working closely with the WASL, used to be a principal at a very poor elementary school in Spokane where he managed to improve reading and math scores from around 30% to close to 90% in the space of 2 years, yada, yada, yada.... any way, lots and lots of experience dealing with kids from poor families, and lots of time spent looking at how to improve scores and improve kids chances of escaping the poverty cycle) Anyways, a study a few years ago looked at a whole bunch of possible predictors of whether a kid would end up going to college/be gainfully employed/escape the drugs/crime/poverty cycle was? Grades, family life, divorce, single parents, etc, etc, etc, etc...... So any guesses what the best predictor was with nearly a 90% accuracy rate? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The opinion of they're 5th grade teacher. So for most kids, by grade 5, they are already on the path that they will be on for the rest of their life. How can you even be responsible for the decisions that affect the rest of your life at that age? That doesn't negate personal responsibility, and some people do manage to break the cycles anyway, but they're few and far between. One big mistake I see made over and over is to assume that you are average and project yourself into the shoes of other people and say you could do better. Very few people I've met in the Seattle area, and even fewer climbers I've met are anyone I would consider in "average", or typically representative of "poor" people (measured in schools by the percent of kids that receive free or reduced lunch). An interesting example is one of the Hell's Angels that was recently convicted in Seattle. Turns out he has a daughter, and is one of the most caring, active parents in his school district. He's still committed murder, and done some nasty shit, but he's also doing everything he can to be a good parent. The problem is that he joined the gang 25 years ago, did some stupid nasty stuff, and now he's stuck. He can be a Hells Angel and try to be a good father. Or he can not be a Hells Angel and die. As a single parent, how does that affect his daughter, and her chances of getting out of the same cycle? please. people make choices and then blame "fate", "the system" or the "man", but the fact is, they make choices. repeatedly.

Vegans would be healthier if they ate grubs and bugs. They all look so sickly.

Think I'll grab a nice, juicy burger! Yum! Eat grass, vegan dorks.

Yeah, it's about waffles, with chicken mincemeat and gravy. Yum!

+1

sorry, I can't beat your meat.

Our right to effect change went by by the minute Bush took office. hmmm...no right to effect change?? whatabout the dem congress?? that was a change voted in. aren't they s'posed to be making changes? they're too busy spraying too. pulling an all-nighter on something they admit won't pass....and wouldn't be binding if it did. Oh but that Dem congress has really been busy enacting laws to bring about the social change they've been promising. Or wait.....What they've actually been doing is voting on resolutions to take our troops out of Iraq, that the president subsequently vetoes that the Senate subsequently doesn't have the votes to overcome nor will it until perhaps the next election. You talk about a bunch of posers....when in the hell are they going to quit their political posturing and start bringing about the social change that they keep talking about. that's the beauty of a split gov't - deadlock baby!