Posted on 08/28/2019 4:28:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
California’s decades-long affair with liberal politics has brought disease—literally. Rats are overrunning parts of the state. It’s only amplified by the rising homelessness crisis. For a region of the country that is smug, wealthy, and condescending to no end about how great they are—they do have a lot of bums in the street, fecal matter in the street, and hypodermic needles in the street. San Francisco is covered in crap. And the solution is quite simple: clean up the damn cities. But that would mean be mean to homeless people or something. Well, they’re ground zero for the rat infestation, which has brought back diseases we haven’t seen on such a daily basis since medieval times. Typhus has broken out. Police stations in Los Angeles were forced to pay fines that soared into the thousands of dollars due to the unsanitary conditions. City hall is running wild with rats. And now the state EPA office in Sacramento was forced to close its outdoor playground due to their rat problem; they were worried about kids getting sick. And what is the state proposing now? Oh, they want to ban rat poison (via WSJ):
There were so many rats scurrying around the California EPA office in Sacramento this summer that the agency had to close its outdoor playground to prevent children from getting sick. After California’s EPA applied rat poison, environmentalists howled that the pesticide could harm species that prey on rats. Democrats in Sacramento are now moving legislation to ban “second-generation” rodenticides that are more potent than earlier poisons against which rats have developed immunity. “Predatory species, such as raptors, bobcats, and foxes, regularly consume rodents as part of their diet. Poisoned rodents also become more lethargic and exhibit abnormal behavior,” a bill analysis notes. But “data are less conclusive in pointing to [anticoagulant rodenticides] as the specific cause of death in necropsied animals.” […] The bill, sponsored by Santa Monica Assemblyman Richard Bloom, would exempt food factories, breweries and wineries from the ban. No doubt Napa Valley vintners and their customers will be grateful. While liberals say the solution is better sanitation, they also protest whenever government officials try to clean up homeless camps or propose building shelters in their neighborhoods. Low-income folks who live near homeless populations as usual will suffer the greatest harm from the rat-poison ban. If only there were an antidote to California’s toxic progressive politics.
It’s possible that rodents carrying bubonic plague are scurrying around LA. In the meantime, don’t expect California liberals to handle this situation seriously or find a rational solution to this problem. They’re mentally incapable of doing it.
Victor Davis Hanson Tells Tucker Why California Could Be 'America's First Third-World State'
I should have explained that I am a hunter, carnivore and survivalist. I have tasted and eaten just about everything except human. I have been fortunate to have game hunter friends who over the years have sent me chunks of stuff from all over the world. Africa, Asia, Australia... There are only a couple species shy on my list. :)
There is the edge, and then there’s the abyss. CA left the edge in the rear-view long ago, they are headed into the abyss full throttle.
Off topic, but I gotta ask. Did any ah “non-standard” meats taste remarkably good, or bad? Or does most stuff end up “tastes like chicken” after all?
Or catch some rats and stencil “MAGA” on them and release them, and watch liberal heads asplode*.
(*Yes, I know how to spell “explode.” I’m using the Strong Bad spelling.)
Good question, When I trapped for awhile I even tried many of these species just out of curiosity. What I found is pretty much what is “accepted” as fodder aside from a few surprises is right on with best flavors. I have been surprised with a few, Like Snake of all types and Howler Monkey when I was in Panama. But most were in the least palatable, and what we find as “normal” are the best. But for myself, my favorites so far are Emu and Elk, and believe it or not they are both red meat and taste the same. They are both a good medium between gamy and mild.
Heres one for you... We bought ten acres on the rim of the Grand Canyon about 20 years ago, we have Deer, Elk, Upland Game birds, Pronghorn, Etc. had them all in mass over the years, but the one thing I have not tried yet is squirrel. I have been trying now for 20 years to get caught up and go harvest some squirrels from my own 10 acres and keep getting shut down. You have no idea how much this has me craving this animal. Had just about everything else in the world worth eating and just can’t get there to get one damned squirrel. lol
They have stopped selling the good De-con mouse/rat poison here in Phoenix... Somebody told me they bought the same thing by another name at a feed store up the road, I was going to go get some and try it.
My mom got the last box her feed store had up in Oregon a couple years ago, I think it had 12 smaller boxes and she still has a couple left. We are wondering if it is a state by state thing, but we started looking for more before she runs out too, she lives out in the country with a huge hay field out back. Everything else I have bought, they wont even eat... so you are stuck baiting traps to get rid of them, which she wont do.
I live in Bakersfield. Every older neighborhood here has what we call tree rats. I poison them. I use plastic saucers for planters nailed to the top boards of our back fence. Fill them with rat pellets. A few years ago we wound up with rats in our attic. Cost me $500 to get rid of them. Don’t want to go through that again so yeah, I poison them.
I can’t find D-con in our stores here in Cali either. I buy the big boxes of Rid X (I think that’s what it is) rat pellets. They work. Dog got a rat out by the pool the other day that was sick from eating the pellets.
Bigger than LA?
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