First Redneck: So, you know why there aren’t any wooly mammoths?
Second Redneck: No. How come?
First Redneck: Indians hunted them to extinction*
Third Redneck: And good thing they did, too.
First Redneck: ?
Third Redneck: Imagine one of those hairy SOB’s coming through the windshield of a Dodge truck.
It is probably just as well, it takes the Department of Highways or the DNR weeks to remove a deer carcass, imagine if we had wooly mammoths all over the place.
At the rate our Metis and Aboriginal brothers are going we may soon not have to worry about Moose coming through our windshields either.
Daniel
You mean like that moose did to the SUV?
LOL!
I checked out the “mammoth dig” link, which is a teaching unit whose development was made possible by the National Science Trachers Association…
I despair. A perfect illustration of “let’s construct a vaguely plausible, seemingly scientific, ‘experiment’ to support my agenda.”
Utterly classic…right down to the misuse of statistics.
Oh, but the desired ‘teaching moment’ is attained: People are bad, children. They kill animals and make the world as worse place.
At this bloody rate, in a generation it will be impossible to properly train scientists and engineers. And people wonder why I homeschool my children.
Ahh but once they start cloning them….they’re going to be all over the place again….
personally, I’d love to see somone clone a mammoth….shoot one of those and you can eat for weeks!
(…of course you’d need one helluva gun…)
I can’t imagine you’d need more on a mammoth than an elephant. And elephants can easily be easily taken out with something only somewhat larger than a .308. A .50 cal is waay over-kill.
If you were facing one head on, and it was annoyed, you might want something quite large. Like a truck, with armour, headed away.
On the other hand, wooly rhino’s sound like they might be both tank-like and mean, if their modern ancestors are anything to go by.
Cloned wolly mammoths call for large rifles, such as the old Victorian era .700 Nitro Express double, or the newfangled .585 Nyati. http://www.reloadbench.com/cartridges/w585nyati.html
750 grain bullet going 2000+ feet per second. Recoil, punishing at best, trip to the hospital at worst. Don’t fire both barrels!
I’m sure any mammoth would be suitably impressed before falling down.
The Wooly Mammoth lived here in the Yukon, and the remains of the same have been found in the perma frost in Dawson City area by Gold Miners in the 1970’s and 1980’s ( the environmental groups – mostly imported from USA and B.C. and the East have made gold mining fiscally impossible because ……you name it the land of a thousand reasons not to budge from your couch in Whitehorse …..anyway, the reason Dawson City has the remains of so many of these mamals is that the area of land around Dawson City was never covered by the last Ice Age. Dawson City was once a warm land – proof that we MUST have had “global cooling and/or warming” in the past. The meat of the Wooly Mammoth remains in Dawson City has been frozen solid for eons of years but it stinks like a recent rotting carcas when it is exposed to the air!! There are a few of the huge tusks on display in the Berenga Centre museum in Whitehose. A tribute to all the miners in the Klondike for presurving their finds so the rest of us can see what these Wooly Mammoth’s really looked like. BTW Dawson City is one of the most beautiful places in Canada to visit in the summer. The sun shines 24 hours a day, it is about 30 C above and the lush vegetation that grows almost before your eyes is strangely tropical. The history and the beauty of this lovely make it magical.
Hey Jema54,
It sounds very beautiful in Dawson City. Talking about 24 hour days reminds me of trips to Yellowknife, NWT in June. On the 21st of June they celebrated “Raven Mad Days”, the festivities started at midnight with a golf tournament that teed off at that time. There was an all night party in the streets and just general mayhem. I guess after 3 months of night in the winter, you can’t blame them for cutting loose. Can’t say as I remember seeing any Wooly Mammoths though, perhaps I didn’t stay up late enough or wasn’t drinking the right refreshment!
Daniel
Heh.
Cloning should start shortly.
You were not looking for Wooly Mammoths Danial – they are sometimes mistaken as Musk Oxen and they travel in circle groups. Makes their tracks difficult to follow! heh.
I have never been to Yellowknife but I have been to Tuc and Inuvik. LOTS of BUG bugs (could be wooly mammoths in miniture) and mud in summer – just snow and cold in winter….really nice people.
Are there Indian reservves in Saskatchewan? Heard there is/are. Any clean water for the mammoths? Why is Moose Jaw called Moose Jaw? Who is Jim Prentice? +
The [Harper Conservative] government has a five-point plan for improving water standards on native reserves, which includes:
* Set standards for the design, construction, operation, maintenance and monitoring of reserve water plants.
* Ensure all systems are overseen by certified operators by 2007.
* Kick-start action plans for 21 First Nations considered most at risk.
* Help develop related legislation with input from First Nations.
* Require regular progress reports.
Work is expected to begin right away in 21 communities identified as most at risk for waterborne health hazards.
Under the long-term plan, natives will be in charge of making sure reserves live up to federal standards for design, construction, operation, maintenance and monitoring of drinking water.
In the short term, the federal government will temporarily contract out water services to private companies. …
[The Librano$ response: Let them drink/boil money.]
Liberal native affairs critic Anita Neville called that an alarming plan.
“I find that very troubling,” she told The Canadian Press in an interview.
“You don’t threaten to withdraw funding when people’s health and well-being are at risk.”
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13229.7
ctv.ca
More on the East-West thing: Dodge, the Liberal appointed banker, is gonna level out the Rockies, & the other mts.,. Beware the central banker. Remember the NEP, Lougheed, Trudeau, & etc. +
Bank of Canada governor David Dodge said late Tuesday that Canadian productivity has begun to recover, but called the balancing act between East and West “a very real challenge.” The head of Canada’s central bank said productivity is “one of the issues that we are bearing down on for our April report.” +
See Financial Post, etc. for details.
maz2:…maybe you could help me out here…”productivity”, when discussed by business leaders/bankers, normally means more work for less pay…any other valid definitions? Thanx.
Maz
“Are there Indian reservves in Saskatchewan?????”
How many would you like? We have every shape and size. Call 1-800-GoldEagleCasino for more information.
Clean water for Wooly Mammoths? Not hardly even for human beings in North Battleford, although they have installed a state of the art, muti-million $$$plant to dump sewage effluent DOWNSTREAM from the drinking water intake. Big improvememnt.
Water treated to federal standards on reserves. Good move but it is going to $$$$$$. Talked to a plumber friend who contracted schools on reserves. One school they had to replace all windows three times because vandals at night bkoke them all out each time. Finally put plywood over all of them until ribbon cutting day. Another friend lives next to a reserve and knows many of the band members. He tells of the time that the band council decided the reserve needed a new fire truck. They ordered a new truck for a quarter million dollars. Two days after it arrived the pump was removed (stolen). A fire truck without a pump is no good so the entire truck was stripped, tires, engine and all. In no time at all the only thing left was a red shell. The stories like this could go on and on (housing, businesses etc). This is what happens after generations of nanny-state welfare mentality. Years of addiction and abuse problems have left these people with little or no self-esteem and thus litle hope.
The reserve system has failed them but it is a self-perpetuating Wooly Mammoth…large and impossible to feed so it is doomed to extinction but not before we throw many more millions or billions at it.
Daniel
Are there reserves in Saskatchewan? Let me answer your question with a question{or two}. Are there cows in Texas? Do fish swim? Do birds fly? It is estimated that by 2030 the indian population will surpass the whites. Question then is, “Where’s all that welfare money gonna come from”? Saskatchewan residents are already taxed to death! Saskatoon and Regina are two of the largest indian reserves in Canada and the crime is unreal!! Saskatchewan has a communist government that only looks after union people and welfare people {votes} and doesn’t give a hoot about the actual people that work and want to progress! Investment in the province is very slow as no company will invest because the government will either tax them to death, force them to hire lazy union types or compete directly with them!! Saskatchewan could be soooo much more if it had a PROGRESSIVE government but so long as fools keep voting in the NDP, will remain the land of wooly mammoths and other assorted dinosaurs. Pity.
There are no rednecks in Saskatchewan. Only agrarian socialists and fat happy hunkies. Rednecks are an Alberta thing.
bigcitylib
“There are no rednecks in Saskatchewan”…
big city, you gotta get out a bit and smell the country air once in awhile, your brains will get stale otherwise.
Of course there are Rednecks in Saskatchewan. Why just the other day a gal from Saskatchewan posted on this very blog site about lovin’ to drive big gas guzzling trucks. Why I have a truck or two of my own.
Alberta has no monopoly on Redneckism. Saskatchewans agrarian roots have guaranteed a steady supply of lil’ rednecks for all of Western Canada (youth being our number 1 export). As a matter of fact you are about to see a whole lot more western rednecks walking down Bay street and Young street as the economy in the west continues to heat up. When we pass you on the street, we’ll be the ones tipping our hat to you as we pass by. Y’all have a good day in yer big city, me, I’ll take the wide open skys and the clean fresh country air anytime.
Daniel
10 ways to tell a REDNECK was using your computer
10. The monitor is up on blocks.
9. Wheat and barley straw plugging the CPU fan
8. The six front keys have rotted out.
7. The extra RAM ports have truck parts stored in them.
6. The numeric keypad only goes up to six.
5. The password is “SmallDeadAnimals”.
4. There’s a gun rack mounted on the CPU.
3. There’s a beer can in the cup holder(CD-ROM drive).
2. The keyboard is camouflaged.
AND the number 1 way to tell if a redneck has been working on a computer is…
1. The mouse is referred to as a “critter”.
Dear Danial,
I doubt she was a “real” girl. Conservative blogs are like porno groups; the women are mostly men pretending.
It has to be that way. Otherwise, you people couldn’t pick up girls on a radar screen.
Hey Big City…
Kate is a “real girl”…
“You know what the funny thing is about my “gas guzzler”?
Trading it in for something that gets even double the milage will end up costing me more.
That’s the bottom line. When you’re driving a truck that’s paid for, that costs $36 a month to insure, for which parts and service are a fraction of that of a newer vehicle (even less used) – 12 mpg. is affordable.”
Posted by: Kate at June 23, 2005 09:44 PM or
Kate at September 9, 2005 04:49 PM
Now I don’t know who visits the Libs sites…perhaps that’s where your “men pretending” are hanging out along with all the other gender confused big city libs.
As for picking up girls, I suppose that is why so many of us drive “pick up” trucks.
Daniel
Dear Daniel, I wish I could know for sure. Get her to send me nekkid pictures (of her, not you, obviously).
bigcitylib
Kate is a girl in fact she is my sister. If you want to see nekked pics pick on someone elses sister, since you so liberal how about your own.
Avro
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