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Posts Made By: James Brown

July 20, 2021 12:18 AM Forum: Politics

The Racist Biden Administration gets hit for 3rd time from another judge.

Posted By James Brown
Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I believe the answer would be Republican for both questions based upon the history of the '40s and the white supremacists backing Trump in 2020... 
Maybe the 40's was the wrong date to pick - not really sure.  You are not however, saying that genuine southern anti-integration racists were never predominantly D are you?  That would be really odd.

July 20, 2021 12:46 AM Forum: Politics

The Racist Biden Administration gets hit for 3rd time from another judge.

Posted By James Brown
Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

No I'm not nor did I state, "that genuine southern anti-integration racists were never predominantly D are you?". But the history of the '40s backs up my answer to your question in post #81.
Roger

July 22, 2021 04:15 AM Forum: Politics

Hunting

Posted By James Brown
Originally Posted by Steven Moore
Rod we know you are anti-hunting and you do not eat meat so you think you are better than anyone that does eat meat and you had to post about this new book that tries to make every hunter in all the World look bad with all that this person wrote !! This is my last post on this because it is no use to post anything else to what you posted! Yes I know it is supposed to be about trophy hunting but they are using this to make anybody that hunts look bad! End of story!
Hi Steven:

I agree with you that the motivation for the book and Rod's post is probably to make all hunters look bad.  That said, if the excerpts  that Rod quoted are remotely true, the book is not describing hunters - it is describing sick and vile criminals.  "Shooting a baboon to see what it felt like to kill a stranger..."  "Shooting 13,000 birds in 5 days".  Those are sick criminal acts, not acts of hunting, which, at least in the civilized world, is an activity engaged in by decent rule-following people with many benefits to the environment.

Frankly, I seriously doubt that 4 people blew away 13,000 birds - I have no idea whether it is the alleged hunter or the author who is lying though.   

Jim

July 22, 2021 09:43 PM Forum: Politics

Hunting

Posted By James Brown
Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I guess it's real after all. Here's the gun club touting records:
"Sierra Brava‘s exclusive Dove Hunting CLUB includes members on the 7000, 9000, 10,000, 12,000 and 14,000 categories respectively. (birds in 1 day). 

https://sierrabrava.com/dove-shooting-world-record-toby-thomas
That's apparently an Argentinian dove slaughtering club catering to sickos.  If the figures are true - they could be lying as well.  I can despise a man who takes joy from shooting 14,000 doves in a day (if he exists) while still acknowledging that hunting is an ethical and well regulated sport, in the US at least.  According to US Fish and Wildlife figures there are 15,200,000 licensed hunters in the United States.  Very few of them would consider it ethical to shoot thousands of doves in a day.

As is your style Rod, you (and the book) are gleefully indicting a huge swath of the population based upon the actions of a tiny minority.  I'll bet you a million dollars that in the last year there are more democrats who have put on Guy Fawkes masks, black hoods, or the like and tried to set a building on fire in the name of "justice" than there are hunters who have shot 1000s of birds in a day.  Does this mean that you support burning buildings?  I trust not.

Jim

July 22, 2021 09:53 PM Forum: Politics

Hunting

Posted By James Brown
Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I guess it's real after all. Here's the gun club touting records:
"Sierra Brava‘s exclusive Dove Hunting CLUB includes members on the 7000, 9000, 10,000, 12,000 and 14,000 categories respectively. (birds in 1 day). 

https://sierrabrava.com/dove-shooting-world-record-toby-thomas
It is also complicated.  Googling around to try to learn something.  I am sure that I would not ever engage in a mass dove shoot, and this is not hunting as practiced today in the US.  But these doves are apparently pest animals that have robust increasing populations, even with the slaughter and even with wholesale poisoning.  So, an argument can be made that this is necessary culling, unless of course you would prefer to see Argentinian children starve...

"Eared doves provide the last big-bag shooting experience in the world. More than 23 million of these doves are thought to be in the fields around Córdoba in northern Argentina, and recent estimates put the figure in the 32-million range. Not uncommonly, a single gun can shoot 1000 birds in a day.

The scale of this wing-shooting recalls the numbers of passenger pigeons taken by North American gunners in the 1800s. That hunting pressure brought the passenger pigeon to rapid extinction, but the eared dove seems to be more resilient. Indeed, as with the passenger pigeons, eared dove populations in Argentina and Bolivia sometimes "darken the skies". Thus, populations on the sporting estates of Argentina seem to be holding their own, with the birds breeding four times a year and thriving on the vast areas of grain, some grown for their benefit, most of it on commercial farms, which are happy to support the dove shooting. Dozens of luxury lodges specialize in dove hunting, and the season extends all year long.[citation needed]

The eared doves around Córdoba do not migrate, and the enormous flocks are described as flying constantly between their roosting woods and the open fields. In the Córdoba region in Argentina, the eared doves are known as palomas doradas because of the shining feathers sometimes present in their plumage.

Further north, in Bolivia, around de Gran Chaco region, near the immense soy and sorghum plantations around Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the dove shooting is more seasonal, going from May to September, with large flocks arriving from Argentina to raid the grain crops. Locals attest that eared doves, which they call by the Guaraní name of totaky, were quite rare in the region just a few decades ago, a testimony not only to the resilience of the species, but also to the huge impact that the newly created large feeding grounds have on dove"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eared_dove

July 22, 2021 10:11 PM Forum: Politics

Hunting

Posted By James Brown
Originally Posted by James Brown

That's apparently an Argentinian dove slaughtering club catering to sickos.  If the figures are true - they could be lying as well.  I can despise a man who takes joy from shooting 14,000 doves in a day (if he exists) while still acknowledging that hunting is an ethical and well regulated sport, in the US at least.  According to US Fish and Wildlife figures there are 15,200,000 licensed hunters in the United States.  Very few of them would consider it ethical to shoot thousands of doves in a day.

As is your style Rod, you (and the book) are gleefully indicting a huge swath of the population based upon the actions of a tiny minority.  I'll bet you a million dollars that in the last year there are more democrats who have put on Guy Fawkes masks, black hoods, or the like and tried to set a building on fire in the name of "justice" than there are hunters who have shot 1000s of birds in a day.  Does this mean that you support burning buildings?  I trust not.

Jim
After some research, I see that my first off-the-cuff impression was off.  Mass dove shooting in Argentina is quite possibly necessary, environmentally beneficial and environmentally sustainable.  No less ethical than the alternative, which is wholesale poisoning.  This is not at all like "shooting a baboon just to see what it felt like to kill a stranger."

So, even though I would not participate and I doubt that this activity would be interesting to the hunters I know, I will withdraw my "sicko" characterization.  Jim

 

July 22, 2021 10:14 PM Forum: Politics

Hunting

Posted By James Brown
Originally Posted by Richard Davis

With 5 shooters, over 4 days, the math belies how absolutely asinine the claim is.  At 2600 over 4 days, that's almost 700 shots per day, per person.

Is that even possible to accomplish??

Apparently it is - although it still could be BS.  These Argentinian shooting resorts probably exaggerate as much as anyone.


https://www.cordobadovehunting.com/how-to-survive-high-volume-bird-shooting-in-south-america-by-book-your-hunt.html

July 22, 2021 10:51 PM Forum: Politics

Lumber prices

Posted By James Brown
Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
Still dropping:
"In the last two months, the composite price index compiled by Random Lengths has tumbled by 50% to $770 per thousand board feet.
"Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sees that drop as a good sign."
"Prices like that that have moved up really quickly because of shortages and the bottlenecks and the like, they should stop going up, and at some point in some cases, should actually go down," Powell told reporters in June. "And we did see that in the case of lumber."
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/08/1013819703/what-the-rise-and-fall-of-lumber-prices-tell-us-about-the-pandemic-economy
Dimensional lumber is down a lot - but this graph is of the price of millions of board feet - so not sure this has translated to the local Home Depot yet.  Plywood is still really high.

July 22, 2021 10:52 PM Forum: Politics

Lumber prices

Posted By James Brown
Originally Posted by James Brown

Dimensional lumber is down a lot - but this graph is of the price of millions of board feet - so not sure this has translated to the local Home Depot yet.  Plywood is still really high.
year v. year for studs.  (Lumber not the Astromarter).

July 23, 2021 09:51 PM Forum: Politics

Three States Cause 40% Of Covid Cases

Posted By James Brown
Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
"This week, just three states Florida, Texas and Missouri, three states with lower vaccination rates accounted for 40 percent of all cases nationwide," Zients said at a White House news conference. "For the second week in a row, one in five of all cases occurring in Florida alone. And within communities, these cases are primarily among unvaccinated people."
And what Does DeSantis say? "Don't Fauci my state"...
Hi Rod:

I wish they would all get vaccinated.  Skipping the vaccine is a silly choice to make, in my opinion.

That said, it cracks me up how you always fall for the administration's spin.  Did you know that yesterday 42% of all US cases were in three states?  Yep, shame on you and yours.

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