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The death of rim brakes?
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:42:13 -0700 (PDT), Sir Ridesalot
wrote: On Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 7:07:22 PM UTC-4, John B. Slocomb wrote: On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 07:39:01 +1100, James wrote: On 14/3/19 3:54 pm, John B. Slocomb wrote: I read something to that effect the other day. Some sort of environmentalist site I think. I wonder what the tree huggers do when a cougar eats their pet dog :-) I think that is acceptable because ... nature. I'm not against environmental issues at all, just those who propose some "solution" without any thought at all. People that protest fox hunting while eating a McDonalds hamburger, for instance :-) There was something similar I read a little while back, about a Queensland politician who was photographed next to a pile of dead feral pigs. Apparently it is an annual event, to go shoot a heap of feral pigs, where he is from. Some city greens got all up tight about it and proposed that the pigs should be rounded up and sent to a pasture of their own somewhere. I think they were being serious. Made it all the more laughable. My usual argument for the more obnoxious Environmental is to ask something like "Oh! Will you take a pair of wild pigs at your house". Their usual response, "Oh! The government's got to do that" to which I reply, "Are you willing to pay more in taxes to take care of the pigs?" The point is that most, if not all, of the devoted are not willing to actually do anything about what they are ranting and waving their arms about. -- Cheers, John B. I just love the environmentalists and animal lovers. Some of them re absolutely clueless. Many years ago I rescued and raised to racoon kits*. One of them used to climb up on me and wrap himself around my neck and go to sleep. He liked children and because of that I'd often take him to a nearby school to do a presentation with the children there. One cool day I was walking to the school and the racoon was wrapped around my neck and dozing. Some woman came up to me and started to berate me for having a dead racoon fur just to keep my neck warm. then she tried to grab the racoon fur and abscond with it. I still chuckle today when I recall the look on her face when the racoon hissed at her and her response, "Oh my God it's alive!" I told her not to be so hasty to judge things. Cheers * When I found the two racoon kits it was clear they were abandoned. Unfortunately I could not interest any of the animal welfare groups in our area to look after them and thus I was the one who raised them. A friend had a whole tribe of pet skunks and if you were a country boy it would almost make your heart stop to see the mother skunk with a while parade of kittens walk out from under the couch. He also had a racoon, an old evil male (boar?) but he wasn't playful, in fact he would kill, or severely damage, a full grown dog if the dog attacked him. -- Cheers, John B. |
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