Pepper sprayed for public safety.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I endorse greek yogurt.

And speaking of former vegans, this article on slate about hipster hunters sort of cracks me up:


I can only imagine the cognitiave dissonance that this causes some in the gun set.

I think a lot of them see themselves as environmentalist. Deer herds around here need thinning because there are no predators anymore. Of course, a decent percent of hunters are drunk Neanderthals too, so some of them are probably bothered by hipster hunters.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I think a lot of them see themselves as environmentalist. Deer herds around here need thinning because there are no predators anymore. Of course, a decent percent of hunters are drunk Neanderthals too, so some of them are probably bothered by hipster hunters.

Yeah. Few people are more bloodthirsty than suburbanites whose azaleas are being eaten by deer. And it's also delightfully cynical of them the call the deer overbred instead of admitting their backyard was where the deer had lived for generations before the woods were cut down to build their McMansions.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

Yeah. Few people are more bloodthirsty than suburbanites whose azaleas are being eaten by deer. And it's also delightfully cynical of them the call the deer overbred instead of admitting their backyard was where the deer had lived for generations before the woods were cut down to build their McMansions.

Page 2 of the article goes into that.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

I am so happy Jim DeMint has been freed up to recruit Senate Candidates full time! This is an early Christmas!

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I am so happy Jim DeMint has been freed up to recruit Senate Candidates full time! This is an early Christmas!

I read that defection as a guy with no retirement savings saying to himself, "Oh, fuck... My party's screwed. This country's fucked. I have to cash out now before the shithouse totally goes up in flames."

(Seriously, DeMint has no net worth.)

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I read that defection as a guy with no retirement savings saying to himself, "Oh, fuck... My party's screwed. This country's fucked. I have to cash out now before the shithouse totally goes up in flames."

(Seriously, DeMint has no net worth.)

Retirement benefits for Senators are pretty good. On the other hand, if he got a severance deal like Dick Armey....

The guy did nothing as a Senator - has zero accomplishments, absolutely zero - other than recruit fringe right candidates. He enabled Angle and the Witch and all sorts of others like that. He's going to be doing it full time and have more cash to do it with. This is just fantastic news.

I'm willing to chip in for his retirement to keep the crazy coming, and Reid ought to be willing to as well. This guy is a big part of what got Obama a second term, and an even bigger part of why the Dems are the Senator majority.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Retirement benefits for Senators are pretty good. On the other hand, if he got a severance deal like Dick Armey....

The guy did nothing as a Senator - has zero accomplishments, absolutely zero - other than recruit fringe right candidates. He enabled Angle and the Witch and all sorts of others like that. He's going to be doing it full time and have more cash to do it with. This is just fantastic news.

I'm willing to chip in for his retirement to keep the crazy coming, and Reid ought to be willing to as well. This guy is a big part of what got Obama a second term, and an even bigger part of why the Dems are the Senator majority.

He's getting $1mil at Heritage. And he'll get speaking fees like mad - even more so than he could have already.

What I think will be interesting is his interfacing with a think tank. Heritage may be severely right wing, but there is thinking going on. Based on much of the stuff you've already cited, I don't see a hell of a lot of thinking going on in DeMint's head. Or fundraising taking place under his stewardship. He appears to have worked to defeat all the establishment candidates in primaries. I can't imagine big business, which lost what should have been GOP control of the Senate because of DeMint and Co., have much interest in donating to an organization he's running.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I think a lot of them see themselves as environmentalist. Deer herds around here need thinning because there are no predators anymore. Of course, a decent percent of hunters are drunk Neanderthals too, so some of them are probably bothered by hipster hunters.

I've known both the responsible hunters and the Neanderthals. The Neanderthals poached deer from the sunroof of a Honda Accord.*

*I think they did this in your home state.