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22 Jun 2014, 11:02 am

If you want an example of someone who is a true conservative, look at Ted Kaczynski. As close to that as possible is the way a true conservative would live. Problem with him is he crossed the boundary and tried to control others (which is a fault many are guilty of) instead of just sticking to true conservativism, not bother people, live as simply as possible, be responsible for your own survival as much as possible, and living on as little as you possibly can.

Faux conservatives call these types liberals but truth is, these are the only conservatives, all others are something else.

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22 Jun 2014, 6:32 pm

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The article in the OP is 6 years old and it contains no links to the polls/studies mentioned.

Can we have those, please?

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22 Jun 2014, 7:06 pm

Looks like a kitchen. I wonder what roast eagle is like....... :chef:
What would be a good side dish for roast eagle? I think mashed 'taters with eagle gravy for starters.
Are you shocked that I could even entertain such a thought and speak so irreverently of eagles?
Did you really think I identify closely with them? Or could it be that I just fell in love with that blatantly nationalistic avatar and use it for its galling effect.

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22 Jun 2014, 7:39 pm

Looks like a vet office to me.I don't think they would taste good,most predators are real gamey.I don't think they'd be greasy enough to get any drippings from for gravy,dry and stringy.
You probably only like birds of prey made of metal that smell like JP.
It's not that galling an avatar,I see it everywhere.The sheriff's dept had it posted on the door at the store,advertising some benefit.

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22 Jun 2014, 8:03 pm

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I don't know whom to blame, but I have seen a lot of people who think that lying is clever.

There's a WWII propaganda film made by Frank Capra called "War comes to America," which you can get here:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... merica.ogv

At about the 31 minute mark is some footage of Adolf Hitler reading a letter from Franklin Roosevelt in which the president asked the chancellor to respect the sovereignty of a list of countries. The letter can be found here:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/7-2-188/188-12.html

By the end of the letter, Hitler and most of the chamber are in stitches, apparently finding Roosevelt's sincerity laughably naive. Some of the footage may be fake, but there are shots that are clearly taken at a Reichstag meeting in the Kroll Opera House. Over the next few years about 10 million Germans died for that mistake and others like it.

On the other end of the spectrum were people like Robert A. Taft, who was willing to argue after the war that even Nazis deserved protection from ex post facto laws. And there were principled, frank people like Thomas Heart Benton, who told lobbyists seeking a ship subsidy that he would support it as long as the ships would be used to take all scoundrels like them out of the country.

By comparison, almost every politician who's represented my district seems venal.

I believe the footage is legit.

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22 Jun 2014, 8:55 pm

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Looks like a vet office to me.

Most likely but I can't see enough. I seriously doubt anyone would want an image that could be tied to them preparing to cook a protected bird for the roasting pan.

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I don't think they would taste good,most predators are real gamey.I don't think they'd be greasy enough to get any drippings from for gravy,dry and stringy.

You'd have to keep in captivity and feed it to suit your tastes for a while before axe time. Could be quite succulent then.

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You probably only like birds of prey made of metal that smell like JP.

Because napalm sticks to kids! :twisted:

Those words are actually part of an old running cadence glorifying dropping M-74 incendiary bombs on enemy villages in SE Asia. Shame on you for making me think of it. :shameonyou:

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It's not that galling an avatar,I see it everywhere.The sheriff's dept had it posted on the door at the store,advertising some benefit.

Yeah, but it has galled the enemies of America, both foreign and domestic, that have been known to frequent PPR. They whined about it 3 years ago so I adopted the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf which bears similarity to the SS Totenkopfverbande insignia. As you might imagine, butthurt ensued for the next year.

I could elaborate more about that glorious era, which I christened The Year of the Raptor, but I hear a white dog starting to growl at me so I'd better stop. :jester:

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22 Jun 2014, 9:49 pm

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22 Jun 2014, 10:01 pm

/\ Looks like she found it dead and frozen stiff.

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22 Jun 2014, 10:13 pm

I thought she was telling you a beddy bye story.

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22 Jun 2014, 10:22 pm

Those things are a real menace where I live, not so much for their own sake, but because one nesting on your property causes the value to plummet, as it prevents you from doing anything that might disturb the eagles, so 'eagle tree on property' is the real estate kiss of death. Lots of rumors of midnight assassinations and such, though I'm not sure how often that actually goes on.

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22 Jun 2014, 10:25 pm

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Hm, I've never seen any eagles in the Spokane area, though I have seen my fair share of hawks.

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22 Jun 2014, 10:27 pm

We have them in the winter here,especially around the lakes.I've seen them on occasion.

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22 Jun 2014, 10:42 pm

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It probably happens as much as it needs to, given the alternative of having a bird own your property that you need to sell or build on. I've heard people admit that they'd taken steps to ensure that nothing was living on their property that would prevent them from building on it when the land was in an area that required an environmental impact study to be done.

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22 Jun 2014, 10:45 pm

While reading this thread it occurred to me I have never seen an eagle in the wild. I looked on wikipedia and it turns out there are only 5 breeding pairs of eagles in the Netherlands. Maybe they were more numerous in the past, since there is even a city named after them nearby (Arnhem - means Eagle-home).

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22 Jun 2014, 10:49 pm

They could be scared off,you just wouldn't want to get caught doing it.I wouldn't want to bother them if they had nestlings,but after they have fledged,there are non lethal way to get birds to leave.

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22 Jun 2014, 11:02 pm

/\ As in with an air horn? Then it's more obvious what you're doing. To most people within earshot, a single shotgun blast is automatically written off as a car backfiring and given not a moment's thought. An air horn gets attention and makes people wonder WFT is going on. I say air horn because that seems to be the preferred way of scaring the hell out of some animals that I'm aware of. I won't be doing either since I bought a lot with a house already on it.

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