Texas Could Impose Ban To Rattle Snake Hunters

bluemingidiot
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Texas Could Impose Ban To Rattle Snake Hunters May 14, 2016 19:27:50 GMT

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Post by bluemingidiot on May 14, 2016 19:27:50 GMT

The government wants to prohibit spraying gasoline fumes into snake dens to flush the snakes out.

www.npr.org/2016/05/14/477694584/amid-much-hissing-texas-could-impose-ban-to-rattle-snake-hunters

Think I'll be Libertarian on this one and leave it up to the landowner. Maybe to the landowner rattlesnakes are a bigger problem than varmints are a blessing. Rats are a problem for peanut crops. I don't go along with do-gooder urban interventionists saving the Easter Bunny crusades. Leave a bunch of rattlesnakes in the ground and you won't have a strong rabbit population, just a bunch of fat rattlesnakes. And as far as killing the invertebrates, they may be some that some landowners find worthy of protecting but I am okay living with diminished populations of black widow spiders, stinging scorpions and possibly fire ants.

I find this intervention absurd compared to the vast amounts of land and wildlife habitats turned into convenience stores, big boxes, parking lots, and subdivisions. What about all the creatures that lived in those places? It is all like me eating a cheeseburger, fries with ketchup and washing it down with a diet soda. Drinking a lot a diet sodas just hasn't been working for me.

Last Edit: May 14, 2016 19:31:26 GMT by bluemingidiot

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Texas Could Impose Ban To Rattle Snake Hunters May 15, 2016 12:24:39 GMT bluemingidiot likes this

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Post by tenbusybees on May 15, 2016 12:24:39 GMT

I think there are more important hills to die on.
The save-all-the-little-woodland-creature people are a strange lot.
They are worried about the effect of petrochemicals?
But yet the majority of the food people consume is tainted with it or some other horrific chemical(s).
Where's the outcry for people?

Last Edit: May 15, 2016 12:27:15 GMT by tenbusybees

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copperkid3
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Texas Could Impose Ban To Rattle Snake Hunters May 16, 2016 22:36:12 GMT

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Post by copperkid3 on May 16, 2016 22:36:12 GMT

May 14, 2016 19:27:50 GMT bluemingidiot said:

The government wants to prohibit spraying gasoline fumes into snake dens to flush the snakes out.

www.npr.org/2016/05/14/477694584/amid-much-hissing-texas-could-impose-ban-to-rattle-snake-hunters

Think I'll be Libertarian on this one and leave it up to the landowner. Maybe to the landowner rattlesnakes are a bigger problem than varmints are a blessing. Rats are a problem for peanut crops. I don't go along with do-gooder urban interventionists saving the Easter Bunny crusades. Leave a bunch of rattlesnakes in the ground and you won't have a strong rabbit population, just a bunch of fat rattlesnakes. And as far as killing the invertebrates, they may be some that some landowners find worthy of protecting but I am okay living with diminished populations of black widow spiders, stinging scorpions and possibly fire ants.

I find this intervention absurd compared to the vast amounts of land and wildlife habitats turned into convenience stores, big boxes, parking lots,
and subdivisions. What about all the creatures that lived in those places? It is all like me eating a cheeseburger, fries with ketchup and washing it down with a diet soda.
Drinking a lot a diet sodas just hasn't been working for me.

Perhaps you and NYC's Mayor Bloomberg, who proposed banning those large gulp sodas, should get together and try getting that law passed in your own little corner of the world.....?