Re: wow - is a "shadow" politician still a politician?

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

> I'm not sure where this fits in the discussion but, yeah, that SOUNDS
> like a ridiculous program. The article did not read all that unbiased
> so I have to reserve judgment to some degree - as I do with any news
> story.
>
> On the other hand, the saving of several species of migratory birds
> has come by way Ducks Unlimited. Further, in the US, EVERY TIME you
> buy anything to do with hunting or shooting (to include ammo and guns)
> you have contributed to the care of our parks and conservation
> departments. If everyone in the country stopped buying hunting and
> fishing stuffs tomorrow they would have to close our national parks.

Huh. So there's no other way that this could be financed. 

> Never mind the arguments any government conservation agent will give
> you about bettering the herds of wildlife and creating habitat -
> without hunting there wouldn't be a conservation department in your
> state, AND you'd wipe out the populations of several large game
> species.

This sounds *so* like the arguments used by foxhunters to defend their 
fun of chasing a small brown fox using a huge pack of dogs and cavalry.

I expect the Spanish use the same arguments about bullfighting, and the 
bear-baiters, cockfighters and dogfighters were likely the same.

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