When I was first married and living in Colorado, things were tight. We went Elk hunting and froze the meat and that was our protein for a year... I know people who still live off of protein each year from hunting...Not my choice if I can afford not to.


>>Humor, Alan, humor! I forgot my smiley!
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>>Seriously, I don't like hunting PERIOD as a sport. You kill it to eat it, fine by me, but not for fun. I know that puts me in the minority of libertarian/conservatives but so be it. Heck, I don't even own a gun.
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>You're not alone. I own lots of guns but I'd never use them to shoot an animal that didn't have a gun. I figure if one is out to prove he's a great woodsman, go out with a pocket camera with no zoom and let's see how big the grizzly is in the frame. Picking off an elk at 600 yards with a Weatherby 308 and bushnell optics isn't more than marksmanship and you can do that on targets.
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>>>>Whiny, liberal BS. Sometimes I want to grab the guys who write stuff like that and yell, "Grow a pair, man!". But then their lattes would spill all over me and they'd piss my shoes so it's not worth it.
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>>>Are you seriously saying it's ok to shoot wolves from an airplane and call it 'hunting', and anybody who doesn't think so is a wuss? Call me a wuss then.
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>>>How about fenced in hunting where people stand around and shoot animals that are fenced in an enclosure. If I don't like that either should I grow a pair?
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>>>>>Not sure if this one is the same article or not (since I can't open the other link):
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>>>>>http://www.alternet.org/election08/97207/sarah_palin's_big,_sleazy_safari/
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>>>>>>That link no longer works.
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>>>>>>>>>>Yes, Bill Clinton thought that about every attack prior to 9/11 - WTC1, Khobar, Cole, Kenya .... Bin Laden has actually said he found that approach quite encouraging, so it did indeed have some positive effect on foreign opinion.
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>>>>>>>>>>Perhaps, after a thorough investigation, we should have gone to the Hague and sought justice?
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>>>>>>>>>The US don't recognize that court. So... what are you suggesting, that they should recognize it?
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>>>>>>>>No, I was sarcasticly suggesting it as an option
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>>>>>>>Likewise :)
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>>>>>>>>... that would have yielded no results whatsoever but is the kind of bone-headed feel-good solution that would be favored by those who find feeling good about themselves to be more important that achieving the goal of removing enemy pieces from the board.
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>>>>>>>>I believe the Afghanistan operation was exactly what was called for but was squandered at Tora Bora, partly due to Rumsfield's obsession with doing it all on the the cheap.
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>>>>>>>BTW, just got this link: http://exiledonline.com/sarah-palins-big-sleazy-safari/
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>>>>>>>Back to the title subject, then...