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Title: The twilight of the elites...in the European Union
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URL Source: https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10 ... wilight-elites-european-union/
Published: Oct 17, 2017
Author: Jazz Shaw
Post Date: 2017-10-17 10:35:59 by Tooconservative
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Signs of that happening come to us with additional news in a similar vein this month. For one example, can you name the youngest national leader in the world right now? If you said Emanuel Macron you’re probably in the majority, but you’re also wrong. Macron is already almost an old man compared to the guy who is set to take power in Austria. That would be 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz, leader of the reinvigorated People’s Party (OeVP), who is about to topple the Socialist Democrat establishment in his nation. This has resulted in what the Washington Times’ Wesley Pruden describes as, “An Austrian thumb in the eye of the elites.” But the new Austrian chancellor, youthful as he is, represents just the kind of new blood that Kennedy brought to the fore in the new world. He has achieved something close to rock-star status. He took over a fading political party whose party colors were black and black, replaced them with turquoise, rebranded the party as “a movement,” promised to get tough on runaway immigration, go easy on new taxes but to stay in Europe and “put Austria first.” Did Kurz come up with “put Austria first” as a copy of Trump’s America First or did they arrive at those catchphrases independently? At this point, it doesn’t really matter. But there’s more of a similarity here than simple sloganeering. Check out the details of the Kurz platform which the Daily Mail described with palpable alarm. Some of this may ring a bell to American observers of politics. (Emphasis added) Kurz, dubbed the Conservative Macron due to his age and his party reform, said: ‘I would of course like to form a stable government. If that cannot be done then there are other options,’ adding that he planned to talk to all parties in parliament but would first wait for a count of postal ballots that begins on Monday. Kurz may form a coalition with either the now weakened Social Democrats or with the more right-wing Freedom Party. But he’s also indicating a willingness to simply go it alone if he can’t structure a deal in keeping with his campaign pledges. But Kurz isn’t the only one. The Czech Republic, also part of that same eastern block, is closing in on their own elections and if the current polling is remotely accurate the race won’t be all that close. Their next leader is most likely to be a far less youthful, but equally revolutionary gentleman who is being referred to as “the Czech Trump” or “the new Berlusconi,” depending who you ask. 63 year old Andrej Babis is the leader of the ANO party and is on track to take control. He’s similarly alarmed the defenders of the status quo with comments about how he is, “done with multiculturalism.” (The Telegraph) To be clear, I don’t believe any of this signals the absolute end of the European Union, nor will the socialist tendencies of their more western member countries be completely subsumed any time soon. Neither Kurz nor Babis is signaling an immediate move toward leaving the EU and both of their nations still benefit greatly from trade through that organization. But at the same time, they have no interest in having Brussels micromanage the affairs of their respective nations and they want their borders to be secured. And seeing how well Hungary has done in thumbing its nose at the EU, both of these men have little reason to fear reprisal. “Make Europe Great Again?” When I recently wrote about the possibility of a coming east-west schism in the European Union (EU), I focused primarily on Hungary and Poland. They’re part of that eastern block of countries which joined the EU a bit later and introduced a definite culture clash with their significantly more socialist, globalist neighbors in France and Brussels. Recent events to the east seem to have signaled a swift erosion of the older, established “elites” who have been running the show. But there are still more dominos left to fall. Herr Kurz is called “the Austrian Trump,” and not, to celebrate his youth, “the Austrian JFK,” which illustrates just how far time has marched on. Two generations have been birthed in Europe that can barely recognize the late president by his mere initials. The young leader, dubbed Wunderwuzzi in his home country, which translates to Wonderkid, has pledged to cut benefits for all foreigners in Austria and has vowed to stop the European Union meddling in the country’s politics. “We have other enemies than Russia. We have to fight the human traffickers in the Mediterranean. Twenty thousand have died in that sea. We have terrorism blighting Europe. What are we waiting for?” Mr. Babiš insisted that there are no genuine refugees arriving in Europe.
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#41. To: redleghunter (#33)
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Hence a proper set of hobbles. And a rope if they're really uppity. : ) My hobbles were very old and looked just like this I see they have nicer nylon hobbles now that would be gentler to the skin.
I'm not saying the reindeer are untrainable, just undomesticated. You can break even a herd cow in adulthood to milk. But you find that most aren't amenable. They just don't like us. I can't blame them. However, something around 15%-20% of herd cows can be bribed to docility with a quart or two of corn. Just make sure that you're done milking before they finish their bribe. : )
So...IF they can become domesticated, it is plausible they will hold still and cooperate for a quart or two per day? You can break even a herd cow in adulthood to milk. But you find that most aren't amenable. They just don't like us. I can't blame them. However, something around 15%-20% of herd cows can be bribed to docility with a quart or two of corn. Just make sure that you're done milking before they finish their bribe. : ) Don't like those odds. And timing. As a Joisey guy, I think I'd rather roll the dice and brave the lunatics in the dairy section of Walmart. WAIT....
Just for fun, do it all in remote Siberia. Vic had better win the lottery. You might be surprised. Sell it as all-organic, super-healthy, tell the rubes that the Eskimos are eating and drinking reindeer milk and living to be 185 years old, the usual sales blarney. It's not impossible, given adequate marketing and enough stupid rich hippie types. Vic probably knows tons of 'em right in his own neighborhood.
Being truly domesticated takes many centuries. Dogs are domesticated. Most cow breeds are domesticated. Cats are barely domesticated. Goats and sheep are mostly domesticated. So you wouldn't get truly domesticated animals in your lifetime probably. But if you raise them in captivity and that is all they know and they can't really forage for themselves, complete dependency of a herd on humans does look a lot like domestication. You could likely find feeds they would especially like, that would increase their milk production as well. Clovers, alfalfas, apple cube products, all that stuff you can buy to attract deer. You only need to get them to walk into their milking stall and hold still for five minutes twice a day. And they do have some discomfort if they aren't milked so that works for you. It would be a total yuppie product. Not in the price range of the People Of Walmart.
I'm from Michigan - a Midwesterner - not a Yankee.
Quite impossible, really. Reindeer, moose and elk are skittish. You have to do it by hand. Cervid milk is very rich in milkfat. Producer cow milk is 3.75% milkfat. Reindeer milk in on the order of 23%. Market demand is easy to generate. You take the milk and you make gjetost desert cheese out of it. You cut it into three ounce blocks and you put it in green, red and white wrapping with a picture of Santa's face and reindeer, and you market it at Christmastime as "Santa's own" - genuine reindeer milk cheese. You sell it for $15 a cube. Likewise, you make reindeer milk chocolate, in the form of a reindeer, and sell that. And finally, you market a triple-creamy Bullwinkle's Butter, made from moose milk.
Rudolph's own. Santa's own. Bullwinkle's own butter. And once you've milked the white-tails, Bambi Brand And Hart Healthy Elk milk.
There are ways to significantly gentle most any species. It may take a generation or so. We just haven't tried very hard yet. I can think of a number of approaches that might work beyond food bribery. First, you have to explain to the yuppie foodies what that is and why they want it more than life itself. You're making me uncomfortable. LOL
A man with ambitions. Heh-heh. I think you might be more commercially viable with elk than with whitetail or reindeer. A bigger animal, it can produce more milk per animal, reducing labor costs, facility overhead, etc.
But is it enough of a challenge? 8-P You might be surprised. Sell it (reindeer milk, cheese, yogurt, etc) as all-organic, super-healthy, tell the rubes that the Eskimos are eating and drinking reindeer milk and living to be 185 years old, the usual sales blarney. It's not impossible, given adequate marketing and enough stupid rich hippie types. Vic probably knows tons of 'em right in his own neighborhood. Absolutely. I wouldn't be surprised at all that reindeer dairy products could find a very viable marketing niche in New England as well as the Pacific NW. Yup...parade some wrinkled up 185 year old Yankees claiming IT has been THE reason for challenging Methuselah's longevity and good health.
SOMEWAY, I feel compelled to defer to the skilled hands of you midwestern types and Yankee types who find squeezing and tugging on select animal parts for milk more routine. Walmart might carry the Chinese "reindeer" milk for a very reasonable price ;-) Yes...the snob-appeal should also work in Vic's favor. I can see Whole Foods carrying Reindeer milk. Say $12 per quart (is that enough??)
Likewise, you make reindeer milk chocolate, in the form of a reindeer, and sell that. And finally, you market a triple-creamy Bullwinkle's Butter, made from moose milk. Duuude! Marketing looks done! ("Triple-creamy Bullwinkle's Butter"?) Get a move on with this dream! 23% fat? Moose and Squirrel Milk Shakes! Whatchoo waiting for? Seriously...
You're making me uncomfortable. LOL Heh...(now that you mention it)
Since we've had a number of posts now based on this reindeer "farmer", I thought I'd mention a bit more about him. He's a Santa impersonator and his thing is getting his reindeer to pull a sleigh in parades and at special events. I can't find a picture of them actually pulling the sleigh. Bentivolio said he took up acting in movies to get rid of his stage fright in front of cameras. In 2010, he acted in the low budget movie Lucy's Law in the role of a TV News reporter.[9] In 2011, he appeared in another low budget political satire, The President Goes to Heaven.[10] . . . Bentivolio's wife Karen is a registered nurse. They have resided in Milford, Michigan since 1982 and live on a small farm raising reindeer trained to pull Santa’s sleigh in various parades and special holiday events within Michigan. They also maintain a small flock of chickens, a 25-hive apiary of honeybees, and a 115-vine vineyard. Bentivolio is an avid sportsman and bass fisherman. He is a novice golfer and enjoys clay pigeon shooting.[49] I don't think he milks the reindeer or the chickens. I have to wonder if he's brave enough to stand that close to the reindeer bucks during the rut. I know I wouldn't.
It would be in that price range, I think. At least initially.
Bwaahaa!
Dunno about that; the menage a buck look kinda...happy. Especially the mammal in the middle.
I like the bovine faces of the reindeer and their larger bodies (more meat/milk) and fur type. More attractive than deer or mooses (who have been known to bite your sister). The reindeer faces/bodies remind me more of cattle.
Remember, I'm Basque AND Sami. Basques have been fishing herring and milking sheep for something like 40,000 years. And Sami have been fishing herring and milking reindeer for about 30,000. The reindeer thing (and moose) is already a think in Samiland - has been since before anybody walked into America from Alaksa. But milking the WHITE TAILS, our kind of deer way down here - THAT is a new thing! Not hard to see why. Cows and yaks and buffalo are relatively docile (bison aren't - and nobody milked them), and sheep and goats are relatively docile and small, so you can manhandle them. There are those things wherever there are whitetails, and deer don't have the same production. So, to milk the deer would have meant trying to tame an immensely skittish, dangerously strong animal you can't manhandle, and that can get away, and kick the hell out of you...in other words, you get hurt a lot, and you get maybe a cup of milk out of them for your troubles. And the males will kill you during certain seasons (not that you're going to be milking the males (...not that there's anything wrong with that...)). OR you could just get three cups of milk everyday from a little goat that isn't going to randomly go berserk and kick you to death. Deer are hard. Reindeer are quite a bit more docile. You can actually harness them up to pull a sleight. Moose also. Try pulling a sleigh with whitetails. Think of the insane, tangled, braying, kicking goat rope that would be! There's a reason that we haven't tried this yet. But there's a reason to do it. Truth is, forests are good and clean the air, but they are really not economically productive at all, unless you chop them down (and then you h'ain't got no more forest). The deer naturally thrive in woodland, so if you turn them into vast semi- domesticated dairy herds, the forest becomes a source of ongoing meat, milk and soft deer leather that is native to the environment and does not require anything like the endless care that other dairy animals require. The forested vastness of Canada and Siberia is mostly uninhabited and has no economic function or much of a future other than to become Japanese chopsticks. Systematize cervid dairy, and suddenly there is a modest but steady stream of useful products that will generate more economic return and employ quite a few more people than simply slashing down the taiga. Also, because the milk is unique, wild and healthy, and a new thing, it could be done in a very different way. If you run the taiga whitetail farms (and red deer also) as wild organic no-kill, you could create a food supply for the animal loving niche, and no-kill soft leather.
Moose bytes kan be pretti nasti!
Those aren't necessarily bucks. The thing with reindeer. In the summer, the males have antlers to compete for females. But as winter comes, the male antlers fall off and the females grow antlers, which form a redoubtable antler wall around the babies when the snows come. The relatively defenseless males get eaten in the winter by the wolves, while the antlered females circle and defend their babies and themselves. Come spring, the females lose their antlers and the males gain theirs. So, when you look at Santa's sleigh, you note that all of the reindeer have antlers, and it's winter, which means that Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen are all females. Rudolph is confused.
Of course. But you see, that is the CHALLENGE. My people have been milking reindeer for 40,000 years. And moose. But nobody's done the whitetails yet. The poor whitetails just get shot and hit by cars. But there they are, grazing milk producers that don't need pasture at all - they take care of themselves and feed themselves on your flowers. I would be happy to take on the body management duty too. Lots of deer get hit. That meat would make great dog food and cat food, and the pelts are the softest leather. Let me have the bodies. Let me tag the deer and raise up the females to be tame enough to approach later - we do not tame the males - they don't produce milk, and they are dangerous in rut. Leave the males wild, and leave the females part-wild. Give them safe pasture for birthing and baby raising - and milk them there. This lets you hand tame the new crop of babies. Let them run wild and free the rest of the year. A side effect will be to clean up the diseases that run in the wild and have a healthier herd. But this will remain just a dream unless I win the lottery.
I suppose you could milk the males also - produce the cervid equivalent of Elmer's glue. It doesn't seem like a rewarding job for most, but it would give an economic function to serious sex offenders. Putting them in cages is costly. Put them on Svalbard on reindeer male-milking duty and they will have a function. Then we just have to find something to do with reindeer jizz. I'm sure you can make a fortune on it as an "ancient medicinal substance" in China, and as the "secret ingredient" in cosmetic skin care products in the rich West.
Yes the pizza and change of seasons is well missed. But we make the most of it when we visit.
The best beaches of all are those of northern Lake Michigan. Bright clean sand, blue clear lakes, no salt, no jellyfish, no sharks, no pollution...practically no people. You never get thirsty on the beach because you just go swimming and drink the water.
OR you could just get three cups of milk everyday from a little goat that isn't going to randomly go berserk and kick you to death. Deer are hard. Reindeer are quite a bit more docile. You can actually harness them up to pull a sleight. Moose also. Try pulling a sleigh with whitetails. Think of the insane, tangled, braying, kicking goat rope that would be! Yeah, I'd stick with the reindeer. Or try the elk maybe. Whitetails (or mulies) seem like an exercise in masochistic husbandry.
I was unaware. I can see why it would work for the survival of the species in very harsh climates. Males are pretty dispensable once they've contributed sperm. And they eat too much for Mother Nature to keep them around through the winter.
You don't know any farmers, do you? The whitetail is an evil parasite. It lives off the finest feed you can produce. Your best alfalfas and clovers and wild hay and cane that you stockpile for the winter are a favorite target for these foul creatures. Naturally, much of the Midwest was untreed before man settled so these were not areas where deer were native. So farmers do resent that the states will board these parasites on their property, eating and destroying their best feed.
Well, plenty of males DO survive - probably most of them, year to year. (Also, it's the old males who shed their antlers in the winter; young males keep theirs, as the females grow theirs.) There aren't THAT many wolves, or polar bears. But it is the males that get eaten in the winter, yes. You figure that a wolf will eat about a deer a week, if that's all they have to eat (it isn't - they eat salmon, rodents, rabbits, etc.) so a pack of 20 will eat 20 a week. If they were just eating deer, that'd be 1040 deer a year. Reindeer herds run in the tens or hundreds of thousands, and it is really humans that keeps them limited. Wild herds in wild Siberia where there are no people run to over a million. The wolf and bear populations are large to match.
I have known a few, back home and down South. In Connecticut, the deer herd is large and suburban, and there are no farmers or hunters. Their biggest predators are coyotes and cars. You can't keep flowers where I live without a fence, and the fence has to be a high wall. The "deer repellent" they sell makes the deer unhappy, but if they are hungry enough, they'll eat whatever it is sprayed with anyway. And it washes off with the rain. Cows and sheep would be pests to crop farmers also, if they weren't herded.
I've seen some footage of their migrations. Awesome stuff. Reminds me of the migrations of wildebeests across the African savannas. Like the reindeer, they have predators waiting for them and following their migration (lions, crocs, hyenas, etc.). Sometimes you start to see these herd animals as Nature's protein transfer systems. But they are more than that. Hey, if milking the reindeer and whitetails doesn't work out, you could try the gnus! : )
Naturally, the parts of the Midwest where my folks headed were the tree- covered, lake-splotched, snowy far north of it. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is like Finland, but without the glitter. Up there, crop farming is hard, and people really didn't. They fished and hunted, and mined copper and cut trees, and trapped fur, and moved the stuff around, for employment. Some tried to cut down the forest and plant crops, and you can make rutabagas and cabbages grow there...which the hares will promptly devour...and you can get that sort of stuff down the lake by trading the local products. Today, everything comes in by truck, and nobody mines copper or traps fur anymore for a living. But the deer are there, waiting for somebody to come and make a new industry. Nobody else is going to do it, because nobody believes in it. I win the lottery, and that's what I do - starting in Michigan. I love animals, get along with them, don't like to kill them. So I'm going "no kill" with two native species: the white-tails. I'm happy to add the moose and the elk to that, but that's for show and to get interest. The whitetails are the heart of the operation. No-kill whitetail dairy and leather. That's one line. I don't pretend that it would be easy, but I do believe that it is doable, and that after a decade or two of unprofitability, a steady if low margin profit stream can be generated by the milk and the leather - maybe the meat as dog food and cat food (you don't want to be eating meat that dies of natural causes). The other line would be more profitable: there are wild sturgeon in the great lakes, and they spawn in certain rivers. Sturgeon produce caviar. The Michigan sturgeon are not used for that, and there is only a limiting fishing season, but the point is that they ARE there, naturally - this is sturgeon habitat. That means that certain of the breeding pools can be established as a sturgeon hatchery. Now, here's the thing: a German fellow has developed a means to hand milk the eggs out of sturgeon females, such that the females are not killed and continue to grow. This or similar techniques are already used at a Latvian sturgeon farm and a South Korean one, which produce no-kill caviar thereby. The fish live and get bigger and bigger by the season (no longer having human predators), and produce more and more eggs. Deer milk, soft deer leather, and no-kill sturgeon caviar - straight from Northern Michigan. That's a good start. The third thing I have in mind is zebra mussel harvesting. Thanks to the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Great Lakes have become infested with zebra mussels. These shellfish are not noxious, but they do cover everything...including the insides of municipal water pipes, causing issues. Shellfish are edible, and mussels are good for you. Their shells concentrate calcium and potassium and, ground up, make enriching fertilizer. Harvesting those mussels - just stripping them off of stuff - would be a public service. And a process could be made, maybe, to extract the meats. Otherwise, just grind up the whole mass and make fertilizer or salmon feed. And finally, duck, goose, swan and seagull eggs. These waterfowl abound in a place where one is never more than 1 mile from some body of water. Michigan is a wet place. Wild birds are free range, and seagulls, at least, are not a remotely endangered species. So set up nesting and harvest some eggs. Then there are the trees themselves and their edible products. A lottery win means freedom to pursue these things. If God wants them to be, He will make it possible.
That's a gnu idea. But first we gotta try milking pigs.
The Michigan tourism board wouldn't care for that description. : ) Now that is interesting, providing you can avoid disease. You know the challenges for fish farms. Pretty much the original Republican Big Gooberment project. The ruinous demands for taxation of the South that set off the Civil War were to be used to fund such projects. Goddammed Yankee scum.
Other than some bacon and the occasional pork chop, I tend to agree with the opinions of the Jews about swine.
You let the sturgeon be wild. It's just that when they swim up the rivers to spawn, you gate them in during the season and milk some of the eggs from the large, wild fish. You don't pen them all year, and you do let them naturally reproduce. Unlike salmon, sturgeon swim up river, nest, spawn, and swim back out to the big lake afterwards. They'll do that for a hundred years and more if they aren't killed. So you protect them from hunting, and you protect their spawning ground, and you hand-harvest some of the eggs. And you otherwise let the fish be.
Alright then, dogs milk and cat milk. We can turn the dog pounds into producing dairies!
The St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959. Don't think it was a cause of the Civil War.
The Michigan Tourist Board actually ran a campaign about 20 years ago called "Say Nice Things About Detroit". Sounded to me more like a desperate plea than a call for tourism. I'm thinking that something more pungent like: "Bite the Bullet: Try Detroit". Or "Detroit Convention Center: Dirt cheap, and you probably won't die."
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#42. To: Liberator, redleghunter, Vicomte13 (#37)
The couple quarts + untrainable reindeer does present logistics probs if the intent is commercial liability.
#43. To: Tooconservative (#42)
I'm not saying the reindeer are untrainable, just undomesticated.
#44. To: Liberator, Vicomte13, redleghunter (#37)
The couple quarts + untrainable reindeer does present logistics probs if the intent is commercial liability.
Reindeer milk. Reindeer Mozzarella. Reindeer yogurt. Hmmm...
#45. To: Liberator, Vicomte13, redleghunter (#43)
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So...IF they can become domesticated, it is plausible they will hold still and cooperate for a quart or two per day?
Don't like those odds. And timing. As a Joisey guy, I think I'd rather roll the dice and brave the lunatics in the dairy section of Walmart. WAIT....
#46. To: redleghunter (#35)
Come on down to Texas and leave behind your Yankee ways
#47. To: Tooconservative (#32)
Siberia aside, I still think it would be difficult to line up and milk reindeer with milking machines...You would really have to have a market demand t
#48. To: Tooconservative (#44)
#49. To: Vicomte13 (#47)
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Reindeer, moose and elk are skittish. You have to do it by hand.
Market demand is easy to generate. You take the milk and you make gjetost desert cheese out of it.
And finally, you market a triple-creamy Bullwinkle's Butter, made from moose milk.
#50. To: Vicomte13 (#48)
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And once you've milked the white-tails, Bambi Brand And Hart Healthy Elk milk.
#51. To: Tooconservative, Vicomte13, redleghunter (#44)
Just for fun, do it all in remote Siberia.
#52. To: Tooconservative, Vicomte13, redleghunter (#45)
You only need to get them to walk into their milking stall and hold still for five minutes twice a day. And they do have some discomfort if they aren't milked so that works for you.
#53. To: Vicomte13, Tooconservative, releghunter (#47)
Market demand is easy to generate. You take the milk and you make gjetost desert cheese out of it. You cut it into three ounce blocks and you put it in green, red and white wrapping with a picture of Santa's face and reindeer, and you market it at Christmastime as "Santa's own" - genuine reindeer milk cheese. You sell it for $15 a cube.
#54. To: Tooconservative (#49)
("And finally, you market a triple-creamy Bullwinkle's Butter, made from moose milk.")
#55. To: All, Vicomte13, redleghunter, Liberator (#22)
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TheLibertyConservative: Reindeer Farmer Turned Congressman Hopes To Regain Lost House Seat In 2018
Bentiviolio has worked as an autoworker, reindeer rancher, automotive designer, teacher, commercial home builder, Santa Claus for hire, and amateur actor before running for political office.[6][8] He taught in private schools, public schools, and adult education institutions. 
#56. To: Liberator (#52)
I can see Whole Foods carrying Reindeer milk. Say $12 per quart (is that enough??)
#57. To: Tooconservative (#55)
I don't think he milks the reindeer or the chickens.
#58. To: Tooconservative (#55)
I have to wonder if he's brave enough to stand that close to the reindeer bucks during the rut.
#59. To: Liberator (#58)
#60. To: Tooconservative (#49)
It may take a generation or so.
#61. To: Tooconservative (#59)
who have been known to bite your sister
#62. To: Tooconservative (#55)
#63. To: Tooconservative (#50)
I think you might be more commercially viable with elk than with whitetail or reindeer.
#64. To: All (#63)
#65. To: Liberator (#40)
Btw, dunno how anybody can leave NY/NJ/CT pizza and beaches for...Texas ;-/
#66. To: redleghunter (#65)
Btw, dunno how anybody can leave NY/NJ/CT pizza and beaches for...Texas ;-/ Yes the pizza and change of seasons is well missed. But we make the most of it when we visit.
#67. To: Vicomte13 (#60)
There are those things wherever there are whitetails, and deer don't have the same production. So, to milk the deer would have meant trying to tame an immensely skittish, dangerously strong animal you can't manhandle, and that can get away, and kick the hell out of you...in other words, you get hurt a lot, and you get maybe a cup of milk out of them for your troubles. And the males will kill you during certain seasons (not that you're going to be milking the males (...not that there's anything wrong with that...)).
#68. To: Vicomte13 (#62)
So, when you look at Santa's sleigh, you note that all of the reindeer have antlers, and it's winter, which means that Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen are all females. Rudolph is confused.
#69. To: Vicomte13 (#63)
But nobody's done the whitetails yet. The poor whitetails just get shot and hit by cars. But there they are, grazing milk producers that don't need pasture at all - they take care of themselves and feed themselves on your flowers.
#70. To: Tooconservative (#68)
#71. To: Tooconservative (#69)
You don't know any farmers, do you?
#72. To: Vicomte13 (#70)
Wild herds in wild Siberia where there are no people run to over a million. The wolf and bear populations are large to match.
#73. To: Tooconservative (#69)
Naturally, much of the Midwest was untreed before man settled so these were not areas where deer were native.
#74. To: Tooconservative (#72)
#75. To: Vicomte13 (#73)
like Finland, but without the glitter.
Now, here's the thing: a German fellow has developed a means to hand milk the eggs out of sturgeon females, such that the females are not killed and continue to grow. This or similar techniques are already used at a Latvian sturgeon farm and a South Korean one, which produce no-kill caviar thereby.
Thanks to the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Great Lakes have become infested with zebra mussels.
#76. To: Vicomte13 (#74)
But first we gotta try milking pigs.
#77. To: Tooconservative (#75)
Now that is interesting, providing you can avoid disease. You know the challenges for fish farms.
#78. To: Tooconservative (#76)
Other than some bacon and the occasional pork chop, I tend to agree with the opinions of the Jews about swine.
#79. To: Tooconservative (#75)
The ruinous demands for taxation of the South that set off the Civil War were to be used to fund such projects.
#80. To: Tooconservative (#75)
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The Michigan tourism board wouldn't care for that description. : )
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