We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:26:32 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:26:50 -0600 Tongue, eh? I wonder what parts of a coyote are palatably edible.... Hey, if you stew it for long enough, there's no tellin' what critter it came from to start with.... Lotsa onions and garlic and spices are helpful, here.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77284 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77284 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:55:22 -0600 Actually, just checking the Kansas website - they aren't paying bounties for coyote any more! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77276 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77276 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:32:11 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77266 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77266 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:34:25 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77245 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77245 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:55:08 -0600     Here in Virginia, we turn in the tongue to the VDGIF. (VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries.) We get a $50 bounty.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77239 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77239 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:01:03 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77235 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77235 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:14:43 -0600
If it goes like roadkill, before today is out, it will only be skin and bone left, and not much of that.

I've not had to kill anything else, but we live in a very rural area with lots of woods.  Out here, nature's recycling process is pretty efficient.

If I have to start really culling this pack, I'll probably call the state and ask 'em what I need to do to claim the bounty - but I'm guessing the state doesn't want me bringing in whole carcasses - which *they* would then have to dispose of.

The situation is different out here than in the city, where there are fewer scavengers, and a lot less room]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77232 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77232 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:06:44 -0600 THIS may be his response.  I for one prefer to partake in more permanent solutions.


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My grandpa lived on the same farm all of his 99 years.  But, I forgot to ask how do you dispose of a coyote carcass.   I even forgot to ask him how he disposed of the skunks around the barn. 

In July, atop Monarch Pass in Colorado, the tram operator said he shot coyotes on his days off because they killed the rancher's calves.  He turned them in for the bounty. 
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I don't doubt there are ethically consistent liberals out there, but sometimes you have to examine the actual ethos involved.

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Kinda of an oxymoronic statement there, don'cha think. ;P]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77210 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77210 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:13:02 -0600
Leave my tribe alone, canis latrans...

Apparently, war has been declared.  There was another avian casualty last night.

Heh.  Little does the coyote know... I have night vision sights, and since television so universally blows... plenty of available time.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77185 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77185 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:43:12 -0600 ..and so does every other living creature that comes into this world.

So, what's your beef with John's defense of *his* living creatures' right to exist?

Oooooh -- beef. Lunchtime...

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77182 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77182 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:22:37 -0600
Alan, I must disagree. little wolf is not a hypocrite, he is a liberal.

First, he believes that humans should "share [the world] with the rest of God's creatures." Apparently this includes allowing feral carnivores the free run of Beth's little domestic friends, in the interest of "fairness."

Second, he believes (from context) that predators are "person[s]" who have a "right to exist." I wonder if little wolf has ethically pursued this concept to the logical conclusion that a predator has the right to eat him in order to pursue it's right to exist.

It also follows that, if a real human being type-person assaults little wolf, in order that the assailant may pursue his own "right to exist," little wolf has no right to self-defense. This follows from his apparent belief that the Donovans have no right to defend their little friends from assault and death.

I'm sorry, what's that? little wolf may defend himself, as that is also another unalienable right?  Ok, fair enough. But the li'l pup should at least concede that his position negates the idea of coordinate defense; that is, defending those close to you. Therefore, the manky wolflet may defend himself, but may not defend others important to him. So much for your wife, sons, or daughters.

Ah, but scrappy-wolf responds that those people are family, hence defensible. And who's to say that Rocky, Pebble, and Brownie aren't family to Beth and John? Didn't scrofulous canis minimus just say that animals are people, too?

Sorry, li'l wolfie, but I prefer John's primitive approach to your, ah, more nuanced concepts.

"Do not mess with me, or mine, else you suffer the consequences."

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77178 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77178 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:49:01 -0600 Chihuahuas were specifically bred for obnoxious behavior by the Original Mexicans, IIRC, because they were also bred to be food. I think the theory was, that if they were really annoying troublemakers, one wouldn't feel so badly about killing and eating them. Anyway, good shootin', and what are you gonna do with the hide? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77177 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77177 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:47:24 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77169 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77169 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:41:47 -0600    If you are ever in Halifax County, VA, my wife and I will be glad to let you shoot our Glocks, Bushmasters, Springfields, Colts, Smith & Wessons, Rugers, Steyrs, M1 Carbines, Remingtons, Kel-Tecs, Kimbers, Tauri, Mausers, Glenfields, Winchesters, Marlins, and anything else in our small armory. We will also take souvenir photographs to hang on your walls to impress / outrage your neighbors.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77166 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77166 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:16:00 -0600
I'm a Nazi. Want a kiss?

Regards,
Roy

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As to my location, it's the tonier PART of a standard SoCal city (kinda an upscale suburb--where our 1500 sq ft is considered a "cottage," the neighbor is a glamorous wedding planner who meets clients in her home, and "immigrant" groundskeepers are everywhere).  I don't know what the gun ownership laws are here, but I think they're not unusually restrictive for CA.  However, I get the impression that most people around here count on electric rather than ballistic security systems.  ;)
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The coyotes have had too many babies this year, because it has been a cool, rainy summer, with lot's of food available to them.  So there is an over population of coyotes.  I intend to kill any coyote, fox, racoon, wild cat, bob cat or other vamint that tries to take away my right to raise my egg laying chickens by stealing them and eating them and leaving my hens defenseless.

The coyotes have no more rights to live than my birds, and do little but spread disease and fleas.


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FbL, what semi-tony part of SoCal are you in, 'cuz in Irvine, they would go balistic for the mere ownership, much less use of such a weapon...
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We could use you around here.  We have a coyote who regularly beds down in our backyard--about 15 feet from my bedroom window, max.  I'm not joking.

Heh.  Can you imagine the fuss your rifle would create in this semi-tony SoCal neighborhood? ROFLMAO
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His M1A is his Springfield Armory M14 clone...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77149 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77149 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:40:58 -0600
Sorry to hear 'bout Rocco.  He was a proud bird.  Who will fill his spurs now that he's gone.  Sachmo is much a pretty boy for that.
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Besides, it was the best tool for the job, all things considered.  Second choice would have been the M1A, but I didn't have any 7.62x51 open, it was all still in battlepacks, but I did have an open case of charger-loaded 5.56mm...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77144 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77144 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:14:42 -0600
One little thing, though: dunno if Right Girl wants to be known as the woman who owns a vibrating chihuahua.

I'm just sayin'...

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RG
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And a grey wolf teamed up with a Lab-Shepherd mix will flat clean the clocks of a pack of six.

Heh. My little sis doesn't *need* a bang-stick...
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Grumpy]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77138 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77138 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:31:26 -0600 No guts no Glory http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77135 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77135 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:19:44 -0600 You owe me a new computer monitor and pants. Hilarious! Poor Bugs. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77134 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77134 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:18:23 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77131 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77131 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:53:17 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77130 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/08/wendy_said_it_b.html#comment-77130 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:40:30 -0600
RG
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