Comments on: Viking Beavers Invade Britain

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:11:35 +0000

There are good reasons for eradicating beavers! Why on earth did they reintroduce the pesky rodents?!

Having dealt with both beavers and mink in my crick in Montana, I’ll take mink any day. Beavers are smelly, ruinous creatures, though one buffola male did cut down some trees for me in the protected streamside zone that *I* wasn’t allowed to thin. Then I had the trapper come in and remove him…

Mink do occasionally make a mess in the hen house, but Minerva and her jolly clan never attacked mine, perhaps because she and her kittens had plenty of trout. She was infinitely prettier than the beavers, didn’t wreak havoc with the streambed and woods, and didn’t smell (there had to be a Mr. Mink around to make the little ones and we never smelled him either).

As far as fur goes, beaver is handy but mink is splendid, and if you can get it, lesser weasel has got to be one of the softest pelts in the world.

By: Santay

Santay — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:11:32 +0000

Reminds me of a bumper sticker mentioned in all the obnoxious Palin coverage. PETA (people eating tasty animals).

By: Lars Walker

Lars Walker — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:07:24 +0000

And this we call paying the Beavergeld,
And we’ve known it forever and ever,
That once you have paid out the Beavergeld,
You never get rid of the Beaver.

By: Foxfier

Foxfier — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:59 +0000

Re: lady wearing fur: Good on her!

Mr. X: reactionist cowards *always* choose the safe target. Thus, Catholics not making women priests gets a thousand times the ink that honor killing of rape victims does.

By: Andrew X

Andrew X — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:18:23 +0000

One of my favorite jokes:

Q: Why do PETA activists get so much more outraged at people who wear leather than people who wear fur?

A: Because rich, matronly old ladies (and
supermodel / actresses) have a very different reaction to them than motorcycle gangs.

And why are California gays outraged at the Mormons and silent at the black and Hispanic communities who voted them down? Why are “human rights activists” outraged at Guantanamo and silent about the prison that is the rest of Cuba? Why do Euro-lefties march by the tens of thousands against Bush, and by the dozens, if that, against Putin? Why could I go on and on and on?

90% of all so-called “activists” are in fact cowards at heart, who will go after the ones who will never fight back, and will give the widest of berths and even apologize for those that will. There are so few of them that have the real courage of the civil rights workers of the fifties, for example. They “play’ at righteous indignation while never paying any price at all, any more than a hobbyist pays the price in time and money when he works with his stamps or whatever. It’s their “fun”.

Courage my ass. These people are cowards.