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volume 6 number 2, February 2004
 

January 29, 2004
To the editor,

Please note that a recent article, 'Undressing for Defence", contained a historical error: Menachem Begin was not assassinated, it was his successor,Yitzhak Rabin, who was murdered by a Jewish fanatic in 1995. Indeed, many considered Begin, who died in 1992, to be a fanatic.

RE. recent editorial 'Spaced': I think the term 'Pecking order', did not originate in the military ranks, but instead devolved from the poultry farm.

Raymond Hadley
Ester, Alaska

February 7, 2004
Dear Editor,

I was greatly inspired by reading the front-page article in this morning’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (February 7, 2004) telling about Senator Seekins’ stand on predator control. His latest proposal to the Alaska legislature is to make it easier to shoot more moose-eating bears. Remembering that he was the one who lead the attack last year on moose-eating wolves, I was so inspired, in fact, that I wrote the following poem, presented here for your consideration:

Predator Control

God put moose and caribou on this earth for Alaska’s people to kill.
That wolves and bears should eat them too, surely was not His will.

So predator control is the righteous way for our Alaska to go,
Just ask Senator Ralph Seekins, the man who most certainly does know.

Yes, these predator wolves are bad, and those nasty ole bears too,
They compete with our valiant hunters for the moose meat in their stew.

But there are predators among us who are a far more serious curse,
And so we also need to get rid of them, ere they make our lives much worse.

These vicious predators aim to steal away our fiscal future, as sadly we do know,
So let’s cage up Murky with his GOP minions and ship them out of Juneau.

—Neil Davis, self-proclaimed poet

(P.S. Republican Ralph says he wants to shoot rather than relocate all the predators, but in this case he might agree that relocation is preferable.)

Fairbanks, Alaska

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