Friday, October 21, 2011

Teach the classificatory controversy

Ricks Perry and Santorum are off to northwest Iowa this weekend to pose for pictures with Rep. Steve King, firearms, and dead pheasants. William Petrowski of the Des Moines Register provides some background and context.

King said in an interview with the Des Moines Register that he won’t be bringing his Desert Eagle handgun, a powerful semi-automatic weapon that he used last year to kill a raccoon at his rural Iowa  home. His use of the handgun to dispatch the rodent raised the ire of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
No word as of yet as to what guns the Ricks will use to shoot at the penguins cranes fowl birds.

5 Comments:

Substance McGravitas said...

Shredded raccoon is the tastiest varmint.

J— said...

Do you have to marinade the meat first?

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Squirrel libel!
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Smut Clyde said...

His use of the handgun to dispatch the rodent

Now you're just trying to wind up us taxonomy pedants.

J— said...

Yeah, pretty much the purpose of the post.