>From:    "NEEPS, Inc." <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: POP Ferret Points Program
>
>The "points" won't be able to be donated because there is no way for us
>to transfer points to another account, BUT it would be a great idea for
>people who redeem the free items to donate them to a shelter of their
>choice, as a gift.
 
Before anyone thinks of that as a problem... These folks are a wonderful
to shelter folk!  They help out in many ways that we can not go into.
They are not in any way anti shelter.
 
>From:    Fred A Hurd <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Ah...Here We Go Again....
>Why is it that when I read this list I hear so much vitrol about our newly
>and LEGALLY Elected President George W. Bush???
 
If this was a list for legal issues we would explain in great detail how
that is not true.  But it's not.  So we won't.  We'll leave it with Bush
having been anointed by judicial fiat with a decision that almost no legal
experts can justify.  That decision is destined to be thought of in the
same regard as the Dred Scot decision.
 
>I know that Zen has alot of dislike for his own personal reasons
 
We consider a coup d'etat to be a serious issue but not personal issue.
 
>but hey I am willing to bet that at the end of his Presidency, President
>Bush will NOT have to make a deal to keep from being prosecuted for
>illegal activites while in office,
 
That is not a good bet.  His elected father had to pardon folks to keep
them from testifying against him for serious illegal activities.
President Clinton broke no laws.
 
Our President Clinton agreed with the fact that as he had already stated
his testimony was misleading.  That is not a crime.  Ask former Presidents
Bush and Reagan about their misleading testimony involving the Iran Contra
matter.  We are sorry you dislike having others disagree with your view.
 
It is WE not just one of us.
 
Despite the magnitude of the importance of this issue we do not intend to
make this ferret list a place for long political posts.  Neither now former
President Clinton nor the usurper will have much bearing on domestic ferret
issues.
 
There is no partisan effort to change the status of ferrets in the eyes of
the federal government.  Neither party has a vested interest in changing
rabies testing policy for ferrets.  Nor any federal mandate of ferrets as
no longer considered domesticated.  We have no domestic ferret worries.
 
But Bush will not be a friend to the Black Footed Ferret as he has
nominated someone who has expressed disdain for endangered species.  When
cattle ranchers come to Norton to seek permission to slaughter Black tailed
prairie dogs to make public lands more suitable for grazing we should
expect her to do as her mentor James Watt and acquiesce to the destruction
of the species.  If there are further losses of these prairie dogs we will
suffer related losses of the BFF that depends upon these rodents as their
only source of food.
 
The other North American mustelids are not as endangered as the BFF so we
are not as concerned about their surviving the next four years.  Some of
the Republican senators from out west such as Pete Domenici were quite
vocal in support of Norton proclaiming their belief in a need to lessen the
importance of preservation of endangered species.  Mentioned was a minnow
but it is unlikely they would think a mere "weasel" is more important when
their political belief systems are based largely on property owner's rights
as more sacred than conservation or prevention of pollution.
 
If we had not been singled out by name with a post far longer in political
content than any post we have made we wouldn't have felt any need to make
this post.
 
bill and diane killian
zen and the art of ferrets
[Posted in FML issue 3304]