Fueled by a multi-million dollar budget for self-promotion, and capitalizing on a nearly universal love for animals, PETA can attract Hollywood stars and school children to its cause by keeping its language about animals warm and fuzzy. By staging large, glitzy events and sending out glossy mailings, PETA has turned animal activism into the #1 hip cause of the 1990′s. Most of PETA’s rank-and-file members have no clue as to the true agenda of the movement–to end all human interaction with animals–nor to the means some will go to accomplish that goal. But it’s becoming more difficult for the glitz to cover the movement’s sinister side.
The Justice Department report warns that “the general momentum of animal rights extremism in [the U.S.] has and continues to follow closely the example established in the United Kingdom.” Incidents in the U.K. — now averaging 80 a month — are becoming increasingly violent and widespread. In just the past year, ALF activists have been involved in more than 100 attacks against people; in the previous 12 years there had been only 25. Prince Charles received booby-trapped packages after he decided to take his sons fox hunting. Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorism branch is starting a new unit to work with local police to help with intelligence and control of animal activist groups.
Tim Daley, a U.K. member of the Animal Liberation Front said, “In a war, you have to take up arms and people will get killed . . I can support that kind of action by petrol bombings, bombs under cars, and probably, at a later stage, shooting (researchers) . on their doorsteps.” Replies are not possible and this is being anonymously posted for obvious reasons. Join and support your pro hunting/fishing/pet/livestock interest groups, watch your local papers for restrictive legislative proposals. Be educated and aware, and fight back for your RIGHTS not to be harassed and more by these animal freaks who live in a “Wizard of Oz ” world trying to foist THEIR warped views on the rest of us! Their main thing is influencing legislation, and public relations propaganda designed to make us look like villans. They also send paid operatives to our schools to brainwash our children to their agendas. These groups enjoy illegal acts, firebombing, phone threats, demonstrations, break-ins and false propaganda. I think it’s time we start turning the tables and dose them with their kind of medicine.
ARROWHEAD: Water off color, 48 degrees, normal level; black bass are fairly slow to 4 pounds; crappie are good; catfish are fair. FORT PHANTOM HILL: Water muddy, 64 degrees, 12 feet low; black bass are fair to 8 pounds on spinners and cranks in 3-8 feet of water; hybrid striper are fair to 13 1/2 pounds for a new lake record; crappie are fairly slow off the rocky ledges; catfish are fairly good to 6 pounds on silver side minnows. HUBBARD CREEK: Water clear, 58 degrees, 6 feet low; all fishing slow due to windy conditions and lack of fishermen. KEMP: Water off color, 57 degrees, 2 feet low; black bass are fair in the shallows on cranks and worms; crappie are fairly good on the shallow banks on minnows as the fish prepare for the spawn. MCCLELLAN: Water off color, 10 feet low; all fishing slow except for blue catfish which are good to 8 pounds on minnows and cut bait on rod and reel.
According to the report, one percent of the world’s 3.5 million fishing boats account for half or more of the worldwide catch. The world’s industrial fishing fleet needs to be cut in half to maintain sustainable fisheries, according to the environmental group Greenpeace, which released a report Tuesday detailing what it calls an explosion in capacity of commercial fishing over the past few years. It’s not news that nearly 70 percent of the world’s fish stocks are fully exploited, overexploited or depleted. The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization came to that conclusion in 1995. What’s alarming, according to Greenpeace, is that in the face of such depletion, the world’s industrial fishing fleet has increased by 22 percent since 1991.
That’s a good idea. Or, even better, have the map/bottle plop down on the deck automatically–with the deck decay in effect, macroers wouldn’t get their SOS/map because it would decay before they returned to their computers. Maybe make them decay super-fast, like corpse speed, to up the ante. Even though my fisher can fend for herself perfectly well against serpents, (in fact, I enjoy fighting them–breaks the monotony) the thing that I worry about is that this change will generate yet another type of jerk character that profits off the work of others–the serpent kill stealer.
I have seen this deal on the fishing tackle dealers site and want to know if it would be a good value outfit for an absolute beginner to the sport on a pretty tight budget. The rod (you only need one) is quite capable of dragging an average carp out of a reedbed – if your waters are more open you might already have something suitable, and you can probably put stronger line on one of your existing reels. OK, you don’t need -any- of these except the hooks and the disgorger.
You should average about three times as many carp per session than the garden gnome style of angler without having to hump huge piles of gear down the bank and without having to stay for days at the water waiting for a fish to take pity on you.
I started a charachter 6 weeks ago i fished on average 7 hours per day and reached GM after 3 weeks an 4 days. Ther was no macroing involved and no long periods of no gain. My chars magery also went from 30 to 84.4 and she has reached the nice title of The Illustrious Karrinia Grandmaster Fisherman just from sea serps (still Rising to) she also reached GM hiding after the first 2 weeks of fishing. I have to say that fishing although not exactly exciting is the most profitable skill i have tried ,in the 6 weeks i have had her she has collected me over 600,000gp and a chestful of vaq weaps and other nice. I only play 1-3 hours a day, so the time played isn’t that different, that being said. I have to question the fame karma thing a bit. I have fished every minute from 70 skill level to GM in deep water and killed every single sea serpent plus more then a few water elemental.
What kind of fishing would you like to do? And how hard are you willing to work (travel) to get to them? While I have caught fish in the valley, I wouldn’t recommend it as an “action” spot. But great fishing turns up frequently just outside the valley. One step you can take prior to arrival is to peruse/query the nearby newspapers (Fresno Bee in Fresno, just south of YNP and the Merced something or other in Merced). I know the Fresno Bee has a fishing report.
