ANIMAL POACHING!!!!
The article is in WaPo, "Hillary Clinton and John Kasich: We cannot cede ground on animal poaching." I don't expect you to read it. I just want you to know it's there.
We come from different parties, but we both agree that we cannot remain on the sidelines in this fight. Animal poaching — driven by criminal syndicates every bit as ruthless as those that traffic in arms, drugs and humans — corrupts local and national institutions that seek to manage natural resources, imperiling good governance and the rule of law.... Now is not the time to take our foot off the gas when it comes to fighting wildlife crime....
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Reaching across the aisle with unclean hands.
They've got their fingers on the pulse of America.
Next week, Chuck Schumer and Mitt Romney will join together to combat cattle rustlers.
Killing babies is OK, but animal poaching!
I have a microwave poacher but have gone with the hard-boil kit, which works beautifully. Microwave tends to explode eggs.
https://www.amazon.com/Dash-Rapid-Egg-Cooker-Scrambled/dp/B00DDXWFY0
We need wardens to keep the poor from hunting royal game.
Couldn't good old Jean Fraud Kerry, "where can I get me a hunting license" have joined in> He could swear that he had seen the light and given up goose hunting out of season.
the time to take our foot off the gas when it comes to fighting wildlife crime....
Oh Dear! The headlights!
It was just an excuse to bash Trump together.
What?! How about climate change?
I thought we only had, like, 12 years left.
At last, Robin Hood is recognized as the outlaw he always was, poaching the King's deer.
Both of these people have a terrific sense of timing and their fingers on the pulse of the American mind. They are both great in their own minds, and both think they should be in the White House today instead of that Trump creature. They have those things in common.
The Democrat Newsletter has two of its recipe contributors writing together about the latest dish. That sure is exciting stuff.
Had my foot on the gas as I went off the road and I blew out my mind...
Don’t know why that lyric came to mind... I guess they just dropped in to see what condition their condition was in.
John Kasich apparently never wants to win anything in the GOP again.
The right for all politicians to bump other passengers out of First Class?
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Well of course it is a pure vanity project. I wonder if they realize how many animals are killed for survival by people while crossing our borders. Game Wardens often are the first to come across smugglers.
Does roadkill count?
Whew. I thought it was going to be cat juggling.
"We come from different parties"
No. They are the epitome of the uni-party swamp.
Cute couple.
Its one thing to poach an egg, but if it's chirping...
This story leads me to suspect Dem oppo research has turned up a yearbook photo of Amy Coney Barrett sawing the horn off a dead rhino...in black face.
Coupla extreme centrists.
Desperation seeking attention. They're the route cause of Drumpf
They need a plausible meet cute for why they decided to run as a ticket.
David Begley said...What?! How about climate change? I thought we only had, like, 12 years left.
Seriously, who the hell cares about animal poaching? The whole damn World is going to be gone, in like, 12 years; and you people are making an issue about how people are cooking the meals? WE ARE ALL GOING TO FRY, IN LIKE, TWELVE YEARS!!!! don't worry about cooking styles now!
Now is not the time to take our foot off the gas when it comes to fighting wildlife crime....
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses... HIT IT!
The poaching of animals is a Communist dictatorship creation. The starving people will finally eat anything. To them poaching is just another way to cook some food, any food.
Picture in your mind the meeting.
The Witch of Chappaqua and the Mouse that Bored take seats at the same table.
What else but the lowest banality could issue forth?
The Sleazy and Criminal grasping hands with the Turncoat. Yay.
It is very simple: have 'no limit' hunting on poachers. Heck, put a hefty bounty on their heads, dead or alive. It worked for coyotes.
Will the next co-op ed be Jeff Flake and AOC on ending dwarf tossing?
They've got their fingers on the pulse of America.
I didn't realize that one could take a pulse in a rectum. You continually learn new things on Althouse's blog.
They're the route cause of Drumpf
Be grateful for Howard, fellow denizens of the Alt house.
Will the next co-op ed be Jeff Flake and AOC on ending dwarf tossing?
I doubt that. No conscientious staffer would allow either to undermine his own post-political career.
Ok. Brace yourselves. I am going to be serious for a moment.
The poaching of animals for commercial purposes is actually a big problem and is leading to the endangerment of species.
Bears for example are being slaughtered, not for food but for parts used in so called medical uses. Bear fir gallbladders. Rhinos for the horns. Others for scent glands and other body parts.
Poaching (lol Gilbar) an animal to eat by individual people is not going to complete eradicate a species. People routinely will 'take' a deer out of season. The meat will last all winter long. It is the massive killing and wasting of animals for stupid human medical magical remedies is the problem.
That Hillary and Kasich have teamed up tells me that they, as washed up politicians, are desperate for publicity. Any publicity will do. All the other issues have been taken and they are scrapping the bottom of the barred for relevance.
Hillary needed to get out there or be left behind. Lefties are fighting on multiple fronts at the moment so she needed something different. Look bipartisan! So says her strategists.
Sorry for the typos :-( To lazy to fix.
Here it comes. Hillary wants back in. It starts with a drip.
YO Democratic voters - you want this again? Her private server never went away.
The writing style is so - micro-managed by a consultant. ugh.
I'm against animal poaching and I'm not afraid to admit it.
Bob Boyd said...
"Its one thing to poach an egg, but if it's chirping..."
Tell that to Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.
Is it poaching when you eat the zoo animals in Venezuela?
Who, I say, WHO is the culture who has such ardent beliefs in the medicinal benefits of a rhino horn or a tiger penis?
This may be a problem. It is not so much an AMERICAN problem. One needs to look Eastward for where this market exists.
Heck, I was in SD. They have 'bison hunts'. You go to a place, and have to pay TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS to shoot essentially an animal staked on the ground. The ones who are 'open' to shoot have targets painted on them.
I...would not pay for that kind of privilege.
Never mind the issue. John Kasich should be ashamed of himself - hooking up with an un-indicted felon. Hooking up with someone who uses a fake charity to enrich herself.
"I don't expect you to read it. I just want you to know it's there."
Thanks for making me aware of their worthy efforts to combat poaching. It is not a left or right issue. I would go further and outlaw hunting and trapping like what Costa Rica has done. Naming your kid "Hunter" is thoughtless, and cruel. I would greatly expand the food stamps program, so rednecks can't use the "hunting to put food on my family's plate" excuse.
http://www.trueactivist.com/costa-rica-becomes-the-first-nation-to-ban-hunting/
The comments predictably demonstrate how ignorant and nasty the Trumptard deplorables are. They stink up every forum they enter with their usual heartless foulness.
Well we can eat the tree bark as in North Korea, that's free I think,
Howard said...
Desperation seeking attention. They're the route cause of Drumpf
She didn't nominate herself Howard, your party chose her as it's champion.
Trumpit - I'm against poaching.
Are you against Private Servers set up in secret and used for personal profit (including Russian profit) while head of the State Department?
Tim: The party apparatchik choosed Hitlary and stold the nomination from Bernie. Then, Trump used Bernie's rust belt rescue mantra to swing Obama voters. Brilliant
"I don't expect you to read it. I just want you to know it's there."
LOL. Don't read it. Just comment on it.
It's like Trump, blandly admitting "I didn't see the report from the intelligence," before saying immediately thereafter, "When you read it, it is a lot different than what is covered in the news." (Speaking of the Worldwide Threat Assessment released by Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats earlier this week and the subject of Senate testimony by Coats, CIA Director Gina Haspel and FBI Director Chris Wray. The testimony that led to Trump's Tweetstorm insulting all of them, followed by Trump's Oval Office meeting with them, and then Trump's incredible, laughable assertion that the intel chiefs told Trump that after their testimony had been carried live on television, their testimony had been "mischaracterized" and "misquoted" by the fake news media. Trump told reporters to ask the intel chiefs about it. The press did; the intel chiefs wouldn't comment.
Trump didn't read the report he just knows it's fake.
Sean Davis read the report, found out dilanian muscharacterized it,
Hohum:
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c54f9e4e4b00187b5510ff0?2vq
Wow! It takes great courage to stand up to the powerful poaching industry and their lobbyists.
Chuck and Howard should try to merge into a single-cell organism.
That can be flushed.
1) These comments are priceless. Suck on this, SNL.
2) I live in Ohio. No one takes Kasich seriously anymore. This editorial will not help him. What was he thinking?
3) They compare this to human trafficking, as if it's equally significant? WTF?!
4) Oh for the love of God, she's going to run again.
5) I killed a deer once with my car. Didn't mean to. Damn thing jumped right in front of me at nighttime. Deers is stupid.
Like brindle and house fly:
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/02/01/heres-the-list-of-new-york-legislators-who-voted-to-legalize-abortions-up-to-birth/
Kasich could have written about poaching someone else's seat in first class on an airplane.
Dickin'Bimbos@Home said...
Here it comes. Hillary wants back in. It starts with a drip.
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I've thought of Kasich as many things..but that's good...for the guy who, by the way, Dad worked for the post office.
Well, Howard, you would not know that if it weren't for Putin, right? Now you start to get some sense of the depths of the evil of his pact with Trump!
MY guess was better mail service cause Trump was somehow to blame. Kasick was a son-of-a-mailman - in case you've forgotten.
Looks like Kasich will work with pretty much anyone - except a conservative Republican.
DBQ:
But that type of poaching is to meet demand in shithole countries. If those people would come to their senses, they wouldn't need those folk remedies.
The poaching of animals for commercial purposes is actually a big problem and is leading to the endangerment of species.
While I agree whole heartedly; the issue is what action to take? I don't think for a second that what Hillary and Kasich plan to do will do anything other than line their pockets.
The problem is in countries that we dare not send troops. Nor would troops really be the right solution, but armed patrols of some sort will be the only way to control poaching. Another tactic is increased customs patrols for such goods entering and leaving a country, but that requires recognizing borders. I'm for providing arms and training to these countries, but we tend to shy away from such things even when it is young girls getting poached.
I'll believe politicians are serious about stopping such things when their other pet projects aren't at odds with their stated beliefs. Otherwise, I think they are distorting a crisis to build personal attention themselves for the simple sake of money to be made.
Poaching. Thank God someone has taken up the cause. But when I first read Ann's post I guessed cow tipping. I mean, those two are certainly experts on cow tipping.
They did not write the story. The story was written because Trump may cut back on some sort of funding and let the rest of the world pick up the slack.
Says a lot about elephants being killed for ivory tusks.
How about the African Govt sedate the elephants and remove the tusks themselves?Then, no profit for poachers.
Oh, and somehow,this situation ties into national security and spreading diseases.
Read the story,it is pretty stupid.
Reading their own words below, Trump in his first year used a negotiating posture to force the proponents of these programs to justify the level of funding through a labyrinth government agencies and NGOs (every agency gets their piece, see link at article).
And these two harpies, Clinton and Kasich, are simply using Trump's opening salvo in that budget negotiation to assail him in disingenuous fashion.
Yet the Trump administration has pushed to drastically reduce appropriations for global conservation programs critical not only to the protection of wildlife and wild places, but also to our national and economic security.
Though Congress [and Trump?] has restored much of this critical funding in recent budget negotiations, the time has come to recognize that the world is less safe when criminals profit from stealing and poaching its wildlife and natural resources, and when shortages of fresh water, food and other natural resources lead to instability and conflict.
If only we had the "recognition" skills of these two grifters.
"John Kasich apparently never wants to win anything in the GOP again."
Except Republicans are stupid. They'll forget his behavior 4 years from now. CF: John McCain.
Hillary cares. When it works to her advantage.
Throw another fetus, baby on the barbie, there are animals to be saved.
Trumpit said... "I would greatly expand the food stamps program, so rednecks can't use the 'hunting to put food on my family's plate' excuse."
The term "redneck" is a nasty, gratuitous slur. Also, if a poor person says that (s)he is "hunting to put food on my family's plate," it's probably not just an excuse.
WaPo had some free space available, evidently. Organised poaching is a problem, but the demand seems to be driven by a particular culture. As with any problem where high demand leads to dangerous and socially unacceptable activities and outcomes, one needs to consider demand reduction in the solution set. Unfortunately, that may be perceived as critical of that culture...
Mattman26 said...
"Whew. I thought it was going to be cat juggling."
Outstanding reference.
I sooo want the imagery of these two in pith helmets standing in a Range Rover.
Might have to bungee Hil to a rollbar.
"I would greatly expand the food stamps program, so rednecks can't use the "hunting to put food on my family's plate" excuse."
There is more than a grain of truth in what I wrote, and the "redneck" epithet I used was accurate from watching many vile so-called hunting videos on Youtube. I won't apologize. I want poaching, hunting, trapping and nasty, gratuitous violence against animals to STOP! Good for Secretary Clinton and Gov. Kasich for using their prestige to oppose poaching.
Obama did his best, Trumpit.
Still have your Obamaphone?
Animal Poaching.
Another phrase used to describe what Chinese who have waaaaay too much money & absolutely no sense do with their money.
Rhino horn powder. It's what Africans slaughter rhinos for. It costs more per weight than gold dust. And you know who buys it? Wealthy Chinese men, because they believe it helps sexual performance. Scientific evidence for that claim? Absolutely none. Viagra is a lot cheaper, and actually works.
Basically, until the world calls out the Chinese on their absolutely mind-blowing stupidity by name, nothing will change. Chinese take very poorly to gweilo (foreigners) telling them that they're behaving like some of the stupidest fuckers on the planet. But, sadly, they're also not very good at taking hints, either, and often require a metaphorical 2x4 upside the head to realize the errors of their ways.
Good for Secretary Clinton and Gov. Kasich for using their prestige to oppose poaching.
LOL. Nobody is for poaching, what I can’t figure out though is why Trumpit is so opposed to the president who is trying to stop wars and gets her knickers wet for somebody like Hillary who started a war in Libya that has been a “shit show” in Obama’s words, and sent arms to Libya to make the civil war their worse and extending it. Unleashing millions of refugees that have destabilzed Europe.
Why aren’t you against war, Trumpit? Or do you want fewer humans so we won’t bother the animals so much?
Temujin said...Both of these people have a terrific sense of timing and their fingers on the pulse of the American mind. They are both great in their own minds, and both think they should be in the White House today instead of that Trump creature. They have those things in common.
I think you meant to say "fingers up their ass", right?
Blogger FIDO said...I didn't realize that one could take a pulse in a rectum. You continually learn new things on Althouse's blog.
I think FIDO concluded the same.
Dave Begeley says: But that type of poaching is to meet demand in shithole countries. If those people would come to their senses, they wouldn't need those folk remedies.
Yes. I know that. However, what we can do in our own country is under our control (ha ha she said) and to try to control SE Asia. Well...we tried that in the 60's. Didn't go so so well.
Just because ignorant, superstitious and backward people believe that there is magic in bear gallbladders, doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to stop the practice.
How? I have no idea, and neither do Hillary and Kasich, who are just looking for some relevance in their impoverished lives.
Meade said...
"Reaching across the aisle with unclean hands.2/2/19, 7:10 AM"
LOL - Meade I know you don't think that Clinton is Republican. Why do you actually think Kasich is a Republican?????? Because he had the name (R) behind his title - LOL! Try again! "Reaching across the chair..." is more like it.
"Nobody is for poaching,"
Well, that's good to know.
So are you a. war-mongering Hillary supporter, or a peacenik Trumpkin, Trumpit?
Trump is the first president since Carter who has tried this hard to keep us out of wars.
The neocons all supported Hillary. I will give you links if you doubt it.
Wait, what? Kasich is a Republican? Huh. Never would have guessed.
Animal poaching is far down on the list of problems demanding immediate attention.
Alright, hands up — Who supports poaching???
(Crickets)
More courage from Clinton, Kasich, et al.
Can’t wait to see the avalanche of letters taking Clinton and Kasich to task for their dangerous, risky political position. Better git me a beer and cozy up to the TV to watch this intellectual bare-knuckled rumble. Whoa. Wanna wager whether they’re against pollution, kidnapping and identity theft, too?
The opinion piece starts by saying voters sent a signal that they want politicians “to come together and solve our problems.” Like the real problems that affect working Americans like....... poaching? This is just indicative of UniParty elites and their tone deafness. It almost reads like satire. Two of the silliest has-beens in politics.
I'll wait to make up my mind until I hear from the pro-poaching side.
We need candidates who will take a strong stand against bird burglary.
" Now is not the time to take our foot off the gas..."
Or, as one of my South Sudanese colleagues exclaimed when we rounded a bend and there was a gazelle crossing the road, "Hit it! That's good meat!!!"
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