14 Responses to “Illegal Loggers Nabbed by Environmentalists”

1. #1 |  Nathan A |  December 9th, 2008 at 11:56 am

   Someone please explain to me how an “environmentalist” can’t tell the difference between a tree felled by beavers and a tree felled by loggers. Wow. And these people expect to be taken seriously?

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2. #2 |  Edwin Sheldon |  December 9th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

   Line of the day:

   There’s nothing more natural than a beaver.

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3. #3 |  OLD NaCl |  December 9th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

   From The Notebooks of Lazarus Long (1978)

   By Robert Anson Heinlein
   “There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who “love Nature” while deploring the “artificialities” with which “Man has spoiled ‘Nature.’” The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of “Nature” — but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers’ purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the Naturist reveals his hatred for his own race — i.e., his own self-hatred.
   In the case of “Naturists” such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate.
   As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women — it strikes me as a fine arrangement — and perfectly “natural” Believe it or not, there were “Naturists” who opposed the first flight to old Earth’s Moon as being “unnaturaI” and a “despoiling of Nature.”

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4. #4 |  Highway |  December 9th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

   If environmentalists could find a way to make beavers follow their pet laws, they would. And sometimes they do, trapping and relocating them.

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5. #5 |  Mattocracy |  December 9th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

   Beavers are the evil industrialist corporate scum of the animal kingdom. Cows are creating global warming with thier low emission standards. Deer are hurting middle class americans in the heartland by raising insurnace rates everytime they fail to look both ways before crossing the street.

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6. #6 |  Sam |  December 9th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

   I’ve always said that there’s nothing more natural than a beaver…

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7. #7 |  aland |  December 9th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

   To be fair, people from Williamsburg/Brooklyn rarely get a chance to see a beaver dam.

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8. #8 |  Marty |  December 9th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

   I thought it said ‘illegal bloggers…’ and you were being shut down for critical articles about PETA and Greenpeace…

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9. #9 |  bob |  December 9th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

   Someone should inform PETA that the illegal loggers were wearing fur coats as they committed their crimes.

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10. #10 |  PersonFromPorlock |  December 9th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    #5 | Mattocracy | December 9th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    Beavers are the evil industrialist corporate scum of the animal kingdom.

    LOL! And lion prides an elephant herds, beloved of PBS’s middlebrow viewers, are the biker gangs and the tourists from Hell, respectively.

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11. #11 |  MacGregory |  December 9th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    You guys are hilarious.
    “wearing fur coats”
    “corporate scum of the animal kingdom.”

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12. #12 |  Rob Robertson |  December 9th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    The worst part is that the beavers failed to file an Environmental Impact Statement. Who do they think they are?

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13. #13 |  hexag1 |  December 10th, 2008 at 1:08 am

    anyone remember this dam classic ?
    http://www.getipm.com/personal/dam.htm

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14. #14 |  Greenies catch illegal loggers « Robbie’s Blog |  December 10th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    [...] Agitator thinks the beavers may have violated some wetland regulations. I want to know if they had a building permit for that [...]

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