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First, Kill All The Burmese Pythons
National Review Online - The Corner ^
| January 31, 2012
| Jonah Goldberg
Posted on 01/31/2012 7:11:37 AM PST by C19fan
As you may have heard, invasive Burmese pythons have nearly wiped out populations of white tail deer, raccoons and other mammals in the Florida everglades. Now I am not an absolutist when it comes invasive species. I like wild horses and tumbleweeds, for instance. But I am biased against giant frickn snakes that can eat small children and large dogs illegally sneaking into our country. Thats just me. (Oh and my one word response to the objection that there are no reports of feral Burmese pythons eating children: Yet.).
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: pythons
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I do not live in Florida so is there ANY discussion about putting a bounty on these pythons?
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:11:39 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Yeah. And nuke them from orbit, just to be sure.
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:13:29 AM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(The GOP: Hurtling down the road to join the Whigs, a hundred miles an hour on the Romney Express!)
To: C19fan
BOUNTY??
Start a shoe and purse and luggage business and clean up.
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:14:01 AM PST
by
ZULU
(LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
All we have to do is make it fasionable to wear Burmese Python hats, jackets, pants, handbags, wallets, etc.
And eat Burmese Python burgers...........
The Rednecks will take care of the problem.....
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:15:46 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
To: C19fan
—and Johah wouldn’t like tumbleweeds if he had them growing in his otherwise desert decor lawn in southern Nevada-—
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:16:58 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: C19fan
Same goes for Starlings. Invasive species.
To: C19fan
"But I am biased against giant frickn snakes that can eat small children and large dogs illegally sneaking into our country." So now we have to worry about small children and large dogs illegally sneaking into our country?
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:18:23 AM PST
by
moovova
("Obama Bulbs" - That's what I call the new CFL light bulbs...because they're not too bright.)
To: C19fan
—was yesterday and someone pointed out the incident of some other “bounty” situation where , upon application of the bounty , someone was discovered growing the object of same in a back yard——
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:19:25 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: C19fan
I think the bounty idea is an excellent one. My only concern would be that people might start breeding them, only to kill them for the bounty. If they can find a way around that, put a price on their head and the pythons will be quickly eradicated.
To: C19fan
Sounds like a great opportunity to start a new handbag and shoe line?
To: Red Badger
All we have to do is make it fasionable to wear Burmese Python hats, jackets, pants, handbags, wallets, etc.
And eat Burmese Python burgers...........
The Rednecks will take care of the problem..... Or we could just transplant some Cajuns to the Everglades. Then the only issue is, "Are they edible?" and "fashionable" becomes irrelevant.
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:20:51 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: Red Badger
Exactly. And as an added bonus, we might even attract more redneck voters to move into Florida to counter the votes of the snowbirds from New England, New York and New Jersey.
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:20:55 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: The_Victor
Well, that’s an idea! The Cajun’s and Haitians can communicate very well together!...............
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:22:13 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
To: Vigilanteman
Went camping in the Everglades in my younger years. Not any more.................
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:23:27 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
To: C19fan
Florida-the state that never stops giving.
To: C19fan
I do not live in Florida so is there ANY discussion about putting a bounty on these pythons? If they actually killed the snakes the money for government funded studies would dry up.
So the answer is no - no bounty.
But there are already calls for more studies.
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:24:10 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
To: C19fan
Just be sure to not harm any Monty Pythons.
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:26:24 AM PST
by
Cboldt
To: C19fan
To: The_Victor
If the pythons developed a taste for tender, aged, blue-haired social security meat, the state would be solidly right wing.
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posted on
01/31/2012 7:29:54 AM PST
by
Never on my watch
(As a matter of fact, IT IS something worth getting angry over!)
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