Comments on: …goes the weasel https://thenewneo.com/2013/08/20/goes-the-weasel/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: nightfly https://thenewneo.com/2013/08/20/goes-the-weasel/#comment-643857 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:56:43 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=30811#comment-643857 You gotta be careful with “solving the problem.” I can’t recall specifics but I’ve heard of trying to solve a problem with invasive species by introducing a different critter, causing yet another problem.

You’d think the cat problem would solve the rabbit problem, but I guess they haven’t gotten to equilibrium yet…

]]> By: Wm Lawrence https://thenewneo.com/2013/08/20/goes-the-weasel/#comment-643306 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 03:43:03 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=30811#comment-643306 I checked out the Eagle Pub website. The wallpaper shown in a picture on the gallery page is quite appropriate to the conversation…

]]> By: Gringo https://thenewneo.com/2013/08/20/goes-the-weasel/#comment-643167 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:55:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=30811#comment-643167 Pat @ August 20th, 2013 at 10:16 pm

Australia solved its rabbit problem with biological warfare. It introduced the myxomatosis virus, which killed 99.8% of rabbits that were infected.

Not quite. According to Wiki,

In 1950, after research was conducted by Frank Fenner, myxoma virus was deliberately released into the rabbit population, causing it to drop from an estimated 600 million[15] to around 100 million. Genetic resistance in the remaining rabbits allowed the population to recover to 200-300 million by 1991.

It helped, but resistance set in.

Since 1991,there have been other viruses tested and released.

]]> By: DNW https://thenewneo.com/2013/08/20/goes-the-weasel/#comment-643102 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:20:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=30811#comment-643102 Art writes:

To “Pop” is the slang word for “Pawn”.
“weasel and stoat” meaning coat

Pawn your coat

Up and down the City Road
In and out the Eagle
That’s the way the money goes
Pop! goes the weasel.”

Nice explanation. Thanks. But … gee … What happened to the mulberry bush and the monkey?

]]> By: Lord Squirrel https://thenewneo.com/2013/08/20/goes-the-weasel/#comment-643022 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:07:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=30811#comment-643022 Wolverines are also a member of the weasel family and are known for their incredible savagery. They have been known to attack *bears*. Something in the DNA of weasels (of all kinds, including wolverines and badgers) apparently predisposes them to their acts of violence, killing without any discernible reason. They are perhaps the most insane animals of all (excluding humans, of course).

]]> By: scottthebadger https://thenewneo.com/2013/08/20/goes-the-weasel/#comment-642978 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:19:30 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=30811#comment-642978 Does your cousin have a .22? A CCI Stinger, or a Remington Yellow Jacket will take the starch out of the toughest weasel.

]]> By: scottthebadger https://thenewneo.com/2013/08/20/goes-the-weasel/#comment-642977 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:15:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=30811#comment-642977 The Greatest, ( and most cuddley) of the weasel family, is the Most Noble Badger, that lives on brats, pizza, fried chicken, and Dad’s root beer!

]]> By: sharpie https://thenewneo.com/2013/08/20/goes-the-weasel/#comment-642949 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 07:24:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=30811#comment-642949 http://www.amazon.com/Sonnets-Present-Everymans-Library-Pocket/dp/0375411771#reader_0375411771

]]> By: sharpie https://thenewneo.com/2013/08/20/goes-the-weasel/#comment-642942 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:58:57 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=30811#comment-642942 A strict Hindu does not eat meat. Or dairy. That to me is a singular fact requiring analysis. Caveman somehow became Hindu and abhored the taking of life for subsistence.

Did that happen fairly quickly, like “punctuated evolution?” In other words, how did any particular Hindu, in observing his religion, wrest himself away from one half million years of eating meat?

The record isn’t clear here. Did it happen gradually or suddenly? Like “punctuated evolution” the facts resist generalization.

]]> By: Wry Mouth https://thenewneo.com/2013/08/20/goes-the-weasel/#comment-642906 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 04:46:22 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=30811#comment-642906 This puts paid to the stupid bumper-sticker mentality that “humans are the only animal [sic] that kill for pleasure.”

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