Re: "When Atheists Attack"--Newsweek

On Sep 26, 11:59 pm, "*Hemidactylus*" <ecpho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 26, 7:32 pm, j.wilki...@xxxxxxxxx (John Wilkins) wrote:

Paul J Gans <g...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

chris thompson <chris.linthomp...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Deer hunting is a mixed bag. I see it as beneficial if its done in a
sustainable yield fashion that keeps the populations well managed in

Sustainable? You're kidding right? They're rats with antlers.
Collisions with deer are one of the leading causes of highway
mortality in this country. The populations are out of control in many
places. Some states allow you to take one deer (either sex) **per
day** for the whole season.

Hey, that's ON TOPIC for this newsgroup!

The deer problem is that their natural predators have been
removed by us.  We are part of nature too.  The result is
an overabundance of deer in many parts of the country.

My preferred solution is to reintroduce wolves into the
suburbs.  That will cut down on deer, vagrants, feral cats
and dogs, burglars, hikers, process servers, runners, door-to-
door touters of various religions and delivery people.

Nothing in the world is totally without drawbacks.

Unfettered year-round hunting would have roughly the same
effect except that people *in* houses would have to wear
body armor.

Strictly, wolves know not to attack humans. I don't think there's been a
case of a wolf attack on a human in Europe or America for centuries
unless they were in extremis or habituated to humans. The WWI attack was
due to starvation from the armies eating the wolves' usual prey.

However, suburban wolves would cut down seriously on the feral cat and
dog problem, not to mention solving the occasional homelessness crisis.

We've got a new menace (Burmese pythons) in South Florida which might
help curtail the feral cat and dog problem and could feast on smaller
humans too:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080223111456.htm

But this article might be alarmist if this other one is more on the
mark:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080812213816.htm

Yet then here's this:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080520131750.htm

I wonder if a Burmese python could take a wolf.

And you Aussies think cane toads are bad. They're in Florida too, but
confined to the southern part I think.

I can't wait til pet mambas start getting loose and setting up
residency in Florida. The things people keep as pets. If people keep
snakes, which I've have in the past, why can't they keep nice native
nonpoisonous snakes like garters, ribbons, kings and rats? I don't
suggest Aussies keep their native snakes as pets. Yipes! (or is it
crikey?)

Anyone tempted to keep an Australian Brown or Tai-Pan as a pet has
already died or moved on to raising Funnel-Web Spiders or Blue Ringed
Octopuses.

But be careful- I once said something like what you did and Lenny
Flank got really irate- seems he DOES keep rattlesnakes and such...


Chris

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