And thank you, kind lady.

Read the history of the Homebrew Computer Club from whence the Apple and a few other advances in communication came about. You might notice my name among the founding members. I was also an early member of he Air Pollution Control Association and a contributor to the Save Mono Lake movement. I have children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and a flock of nieces and nephews whose future I am concerned about because of the religious left and their political successes.

Understood. One inkling of reality and your pop stand collapses.

Hey, chickie poo, I have spent my life reducing pollution, increasing energy efficiency and opposing tyrany both foreign and domestic. A crooked politician steals enough to live like a king - an idealist politician equal;izes poverty first of spirit then of existence. This generation did not invent conservation out of whole cloth, they were handed a tradition. A shame you treat technology with the contempt women were treated in my generation.

I believe in scientific, rational game management in mankind’s interest, and it is the Innuit who want the aerial shooting. It is SNL science to suggest that this practice is all Palin’s idea. The main problem with this chickenshit nagging is that it will drown out legitimate criticism when Palin inevitably does some official act deserving criticism.

Hey, Cat, I was an engineer, a rational libertarian and an equalitarian long before I ever heard of Palin, and my pre-election knowledge was primarily from Engineering News Record discussions of the pipeline vs LNG question. Whatever I might be I am not typical anything.

More Bambi biology.

Man and ants are the only creatures who tend their herds of food animals. Yes, we endangered some species, but we learned.

Both Malthus and Ehrlich were totally wrong in their guesses about the ability of people to feed themselves within the earth’s limitations. Contrary to their predictions, the more people the less starvation. They both did not know how the earth could feed more people - but then as with most of the Malthusianers they don’t know how their contemporary food was grown, either. Man has as much right to Alaska as do the wolves, a right obtained the same way wolves got it. Name an animal gone extinct since the passenger pigeon, using the classic definition of species of non interbreeding.

Linda, the predator control is exactly to protect a food source.

While I have a superior singing voice I did not sing about that subject. A genuine dead end is lack of concern for family and society. Apparently, society can survive without your genes, Mickey.

Intelligent folk have learned to preserve animals, often at a price to man. There are more deer and coyotes now than when Europeans discovered the Americas. Trophy hunting is an acknowledgment of a skill once vital to and often still a defense of mankind. Deride our little boy games, but it is by those games we learn how to defend others at the risk of our own life, a trait I have had to call on a few times, a trait as compelling as a mother’s defense of her young.

Abortion is a biological dead end. If we don’t have children, others will and our society, that I value, will die. Vegetarian DeDe, if a wild boar was rooting in your garden or a rat was eating your stored food, would your compassion extend to that predator?

Meril, the caribou is a staple for many Alaskans, and the killing of wolves is he equivalent morally of trapping rats in your grannery or shooting pigs rooting in your garden. People who do not protect their food supply will starve, and I value people over animals. As to abortion, if we don’t have children, others will. Abortion is a biological dead end.

Roger, the caribou is a staple for many Alaskans, not just a trophy. Would you kill a fox in your hen house or a rooting boar in your vegetable patch? It is survival to preserve one’s food supply from predation. Now Roger you may be a “A boy is a dog is a rat” kinda guy, but I value people over brutes. I would kill any animal to protect even you, Roger.