Rattlesnake Logic

[Ol Mike]

As long as we insist on maintaining the "moral high ground" we will NEVER win the war on terrorism! We're in a conflict in which we absolutely INSIST in playing by the rules against a maniacal group who have NO rules!
Rattlesnake Logic....
After the Boston bombing the news media spent days and weeks trying to determine why these men did what they did. They want to know what America did(!) to make these brothers so angry with us. They want to know why these men were not arrested before they did something so terrible. The media is in a tizzy about this new era of homegrown radicals and about why and how they can live among us and still hate us.
A friend of mine from Texas explained it all to me: Here in west Texas, I have rattlesnakes on my place, living among us. I have killed a rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a rattlesnake on the back porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the shop and on the driveway. In fact, I kill every rattlesnake I encounter.
I kill rattlesnakes because I know a rattlesnake will bite me and inject me with poison. I don't stop to wonder WHY a rattlesnake will bite me; I know it WILL bite me because it's a rattlesnake and that's what rattlesnakes do. I don't try to reason with a rattlesnake or have a "meaningful dialogue" with it... just kill it. I don't try to get to know the rattlesnake better so I can find a way to live with the rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me. I just kill them. I don't quiz a rattlesnake to see if I can find out where the other snakes are, because (a) it won't tell me and (b) I already know they live on my place. So, I just kill the rattlesnake and move on to the next one.

[Luke611]

Sounds really right to me.

[Dinero]

See how simple life is?

[Fe Butte]

But all the sheep think they are cute.







Until a sheep gets snakebit...

[why_me]

[par_fore]

Amen brother!

[DAK47]

Originally Posted by Dinero

See how simple life is?

Originally Posted by par_fore

Amen brother!

Right there, sums it up for me.....

Dirk

[Margarita]

It's hard to argue with rattlesnake logic.

[albundy]

and,there are 20-25 dens of rattlesnakes in the U.S. that are in training to bite use harder.

[griffin]

maybe relocating some Rattlers to DC would help in the learning process !!

[Ol Mike]

Comparing rattlesnakes to terrorists might be a disrespect to rattlesnakes... in a way. At least rattlesnakes just want to be left alone and don't go out of their way to kill you.

[Turbo Turtle]

True that!


BOB

[Margarita]

I was just about to stand up for rattlesnake integrity myself. Terrorists are evil. Rattlesnakes are just pit vipers doing what they were put on earth to do- eat rodents and bite drunk 25 year old males who decide to try their hands at snake handling.

[Boop]

Originally Posted by Ol Mike

Here in west Texas, I have rattlesnakes on my place, living among us. I have killed a rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a rattlesnake on the back porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the shop and on the driveway. In fact, I kill every rattlesnake I encounter.
I kill rattlesnakes because I know a rattlesnake will bite me and inject me with poison. I don't stop to wonder WHY a rattlesnake will bite me; I know it WILL bite me because it's a rattlesnake and that's what rattlesnakes do. I don't try to reason with a rattlesnake or have a "meaningful dialogue" with it... just kill it. I don't try to get to know the rattlesnake better so I can find a way to live with the rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me. I just kill them. I don't quiz a rattlesnake to see if I can find out where the other snakes are, because (a) it won't tell me and (b) I already know they live on my place. So, I just kill the rattlesnake and move on to the next one.

You do, however, make sure it's a rattlesnake before you kill it, right?

[stupidglide]

I would never compare a rattlesnake to a terrorist.































That is SO disrespectful to the rattlesnake.
































(I would, however, compare a terrorist to whale poop, but whale poop occupies a much higher spot in the pecking order........................)