Taken from ^kkart's journal, which was taken from =Iamidaho's journal.


A call for help.

I was sickened this evening to learn the news that a large motor sport dealer in Challis Idaho is hosting a coyote killing contest with cash prizes being given out to those who kill coyotes in many different categories including the most, the largest, the smallest, oldest and youngest among others within a 12 hour period of time.

These animals will be killed in many barbaric ways including baited with meats to traps, called in with electronic calls and shot from long distances with high powered rifles, ran down with snow machines to the point of exhaustion and either shot point blank or ripped apart by being ran over from the snowmobile. Many of them will be shoot from the roadside a highly illegal and dangerous practice.

Whats worse is these wild animals deaths are generating profit for the motor sport company because they are charging a fee for entry into the contest, the contest has been advertised in several newspapers and a big turn out is expected.

Mass killings like this do horrible things for the environment and can lead to population explosions of rodents. The rodents that would of been killed by the coyotes hunting are then killed with deadly poisons with your tax dollars costing you even more money.

There is not much we can do to stop this event from happening because there is absolute zero protection afforded to the coyote by Idaho law as they are classified as a trash animal or varmit.

But if you have a moment please call the Challis Chamber of Commerce at 208.879.2771 and express your outrage for this inhumane event phone calls work best for protest but if you are crunched for time shoot an email to them at challischamber@custertel.net , tell them specifically you will now refuse to do business with there community and will pass by there town whenever you are in there region for promoting and allowing such an event to occur. You can also call the sponsor of the contest 'Bent Rod Sports' at 208.879.2500

For more information please see Ralph Maughns Website posting here:
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Im beyond fed up with the attitudes and mindsets of the public here in Idaho about our wildlife, our state and other bordering states enjoy the largest mostly intact ecosystem in the 49 states (save Alaska) and its time we respect it. Coyotes are beautiful and essential animals to the wilderness out here and with proper management and sound science could even be very beneficial to the agricultural industry.

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Of course I TOTALLY clicked and now everyone will be infeeeeeected because they said my comment was hot and I just can't resist suspicious links to hoards of bad nude snapshots.
uh-huh.

I say we kill 'em all, eviscerate their corpses, and skip rope with their long intestines.

Well whaddaya know? I'm 19...

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I'm going back to bed now.

the main cooling fan on our computer finally gave up the ghost. shouldn't be on right now. of course this had to happen right after Nasa said that the fan on her laptop busted again. lovely. I BLAME YOU FOR THIS, NASA! this isn't the first time something has happened to me after hearing about it happening to someone else. it's some sort of psychosomatic bad luck...
dunno when we'll be able to get it fixed. we've got old computers downstairs and i was thinking we could cannibalize one of them to save this one. i have $300 i'd be willing to sacrifice to have a computer again.
*hopeless sigh*

Read this article!
When Bananas Ruled the World

O_o This is some weird stuff. I always suspected bananas were evil...

AND SINCE WHEN ARE BANANAS BERRIES?!