Sec. of State Rice warns Russia about Bombers off Alaska

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:26:36 -0400, "Dean A. Markley"
wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:00:32 -0700 (PDT), george
wrote:

On Aug 22, 6:10 am, "William Black"
wrote:
"Rob Arndt" wrote in message

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So what? Sounds like Condi has more ****ing balls than you do. What do
you do when a hunter with a rifle encounters a hostile bear? Drop his
gun and get into the fetal position hoping it will just sniff around
you and leave? No, you aim and shoot the ****er dead.

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That's great, right up to when you realise that the bear has a gun too,
and so does his wife and his kids.

I can't work out as to why his only solution to a wild animal is to
destroy it.
The simile is absurd

Of the critters in North America, only bears, possibly moose, are
dangerous enough to occasionally need shooting in self defence. All
the rest get a pass unless one needs to eat them. [I haven't shot any
game in about thirty years.]

Casady
Disagree. Ever have a Northern Banded Watersnake come at you? Not big,
not poisonous but mean and scary as all hell.

Don't need a gun to kill one. It's a small snake not a Cape Buffalo. I
would hit it with my stick and not draw even if I was carrying. If it
is moving it would be a difficult target. Unless you are expecting a
war, the defence gun will likely be a pistol. A snake is a difficult
target for a gun and dead easy for a cane. I had a rabid coon in the
house and I killed it with a baseball bat, without spilling any blood.
Maybe I used a golf club. Whichever. I have both lying around, handy
in case I want to hit something.

Casady