New Perspectives: Good vs. Bad

I was reading an article on NPR recently, and it reminded me about how all of our perspectives differ, even if just slightly.

A new perspective on Mt. Rushmore

Our perspectives of a particular object or idea are completely subjective and relative; They are relative to our position.

Beaver Hunting!

Enjoy hunting Beaver?  I mean the animal, not the female body part...  lol.

Argentina seems to be over run with Beaver...  Might be a good opportunity to hunt them.  As far as I know, it's illegal to hunt them in the USA.

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Steve Rinella:  Why I hunt

"When he was gone I leaned back to wait for my pulse to chill out, as it was racing at a speed that I figured to be very unhealthy. When my pulse finally did slow down, I felt about as good as it’s possible to feel without breaking some kind of law. And within the feeling of that moment, I realized that I’d found a perfectly reasonable explanation for why I hunt."

TV Review: The Wild Within

It was a great show tonight.  Steven traveled to Scotland to hunt Red Deer (Red Hind).  He learned a new way to build a fire, bought a new suit (I've never seen anyone hunt in a suit before), lost a tooth, and shot a deer.  I learned you can immediately eat the back strap on a deer.  It's the one part of a deer that doesn't need to hang for a week before you eat it.  I didn't know that.

If it's Sunday, it's "The Wild Within."

US has more lions than Africa

The US now has more lions than Africa.

The Wild Within

One of the best shows on television right now is Steven Rinella's "The Wild Within" on the Travel Channel, Sunday's at 10 pm.  

A great take on hunting

While browsing weblogs this afternoon, I ran into one I enjoyed very much written by Retrieverman.  I wanted to share a quote with you from his post and a link to his weblog so you can read the full post yourself.

"The Darwinian world that is nature is not a pretty place. No one would ever want to build a society based upon those principles (at least not within the mainstream body politic). Predation is one of the factors that keeps nature what it is. Because nature requires predation to keep things in balance, I have often thought this to be the best argument against intelligent design.

If I were an intelligent designer, I’d make so that predation never happens and is never necessary.

But that isn’t reality.

And for those who do not understand that humans are actually part of the guild of predators, all I can say is that you’ve not really looked at your evolutionary history. You are an organism on this planet. Your ancestors were once totally controlled by the forces of natural selection. In the end, we still are. One of the most dangerous delusions of the modern world is for us to think we are forever separated from nature because we have all this nice technology.

In reality, nature still casts a shadow onto our condition, whether we like that shadow or not.

The moral thing is to accept it and to use it for purposes that uplift our species and the whole of animate creation."

Very well said Retrieverman!  Very well said.

Animal Rights

The people in the animal rights crowd know very little about animals or rights.  The idea that animals have "rights" is absolutely ridiculous.  Just talking to one for about 5 minutes reveals how little they really know about what they're talking about.

Palin hurts hunting

Sarah Palin hurts, not helps hunting

As if we hadn't already heard enough of Sarah Palin...  Honestly, I try hard not to talk about Palin because I think she gets way too much exposure in the media already.  In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit I despise her.  I think she hurts the causes of conservatives, women,  firearms ownership, and now hunting...