Tom DeLay: 'Everybody likes beaver, even women'

by **Rigorous Intuition** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:16 pm

Celebrity auctioneer DeLay brings down house with beaver double-entendres RAW STORY Published: Thursday June 29, 2006 Celebrity auctioneer and former Congressman Tom DeLay (R-TX), reportedly generated plenty of laughs Tuesday night... with a barrage of Beaver-related double-entendres, Roll Call reports. At the annual Safari Club dinner, DeLay managed to bring in $1,400 for the sheared--or shaved, some say he called it--beaver fur vest. Excerpts from the Roll Call story follow: “Who wants a beaver?” asked DeLay, whom attendees said looked happier and more relaxed than ever. Hoots and hollers followed. The Hammer continued with lines such as, “Everybody likes beaver, even women” and, as a couple of people in the crowd recall, “The best thing about it, it’s a shaved beaver!” (Though two others, both of them DeLay supporters and protectors, said they think they remember DeLay saying it was “sheared beaver,” not “shaved beaver.”) At one point, as the bidding went up, DeLay pointed in the crowd to Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) as he held up the fur vest and said, “Sen. Burr, they don’t have beaver like this down in North Carolina.” Burr, according to his spokeswoman, got to the event late and “was not aware” that DeLay had impugned the beaver of North Carolina. <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Celebrity_auctioneer_DeLay_brings_down_house_0629.html">www.rawstory.com</a> After he was indicted on conspiracy and money-laundering charges, DeLay smiled like a choirboy for his mug shot. The move was a political masterstroke since the picture looked better than many of his official photographs. But DeLay explains that his smile wasn't motivated by politics at all. He was wrapped in Christ. "I said a little prayer before I actually did the fingerprint thing, and the picture. And my prayer was basically: 'Let people see Christ through me. And let me smile.' <a href="http://img.slate.com/id/2139263/">slate.com</a> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rigorousintuition>Rigorous Intuition</A> at: 6/29/06 10:20 am

by **professorpan** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:24 pm

Safari Club International is soaked in blood. <a href="http://www.hsus.org/about_us/about_hsus_programs_and_services/eye_on_the_opposition/a_view_to_a_kill_how_safari_club_intl_works_to_weaken_esa_protections.html">www.hsus.org/about_us/abo...tions.html</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>The mother of all these obsessions, though, is the awards competition. SCI members shoot prescribed lists of animals to win so-called Grand Slam and Inner Circle titles. There's the Africa Big Five, (leopard, elephant, lion, rhino, and buffalo); the North American Twenty Nine (all species of bear, bison, sheep, moose, caribou, and deer); and the Antlered Game of the Americas, among many other contests. To complete all 29 award categories, a hunter must kill a minimum of 322 separate species and sub-species-enough to populate an entire zoo. This is an extremely expensive and lengthy task, and many SCI members take the quick and easy route. They shoot captive animals in canned hunts, both in the United States and overseas, and some engage in other unethical conduct like shooting animals over bait, from vehicles, with spotlights, or on the periphery of national parks. Wayne Pacelle, HSUS senior vice president for communications and government affairs, captures the essence of SCI members and their motivation: "It's a perverse and destructive subculture," he says. "Thousands of animals suffer and die for the amusement of wealthy elites who have the means to pursue any form of recreation, but choose to shoot the world's rarest and most beautiful animals. There's no societal value to the exercise, just a selfish all-consuming mentality of killing, collecting, and showing off trophies. They know the price of every animal, but the value of none."<hr></blockquote> I was once approached to do some freelance graphics work for an organization that was very similar, but smaller and even more reprehensible than Safari Club (which is hard to imagine). It was a trophy hunting organization for the über-elite, offering hunting trips that cost more than I've made in my entire working life. The trips involved killing large numbers of endangered animals, including elephants. I told the guy to fuck off. Looking at their catalog really opened my eyes. It seems that once bored executives begin killing for sport, the taste of blood becomes insatiable, and soon they are killing things higher on the evolutionary scale. It sure makes the allegations of "the most dangerous game" claims more plausible to me. I have no gripe with people who hunt for food, though I'm not a hunter myself. But killing sentient beings for fun is the sign of a sick motherfucker. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=professorpan>professorpan</A> at: 6/29/06 11:37 am

by **professorpan** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:53 pm

<img src="http://www.scilowcountry.org/images/Mark%20Peterson%20photos/Coenraad%20Vermaak%20Safaris/Baboon.JPG" style="border:0;"/> From their advertising rate card: • An overwhelming majority of SCI members either own their own businesses, or are professionals or executives. • Average annual income is greater than $200,000 • More than 40% earn in excess of $250,000 • Approximately 10% earn more than $750,000 • Nearly 7% earn more than $1 million • Nearly 70 percent are married, and 85 percent hold a four-year college degree. LIFESTYLE • SCI members own an average of 1.8 homes each and 38% own at least one ranch or farm. • 75 percent own an average of two domestic automobiles. • 34 percent own an average of two foreign automobiles. • More than 70 percent own an average of two domestic trucks. • More than half own a domestic SUV. • Nearly half own an average of two ATVs. • 38 percent own tractors and nearly half of those own an average of two tractors. • 11 percent own planes and hold pilot's licenses. • Members spend an average of $7,000 a year on vehicle accessories. • 27 percent own a fishing boat. • Nearly five percent own yachts. • More than 22 percent smoke cigars. • More than 88 percent consume alcohol. • Members spend an average of nearly $44,000 per year on hunting. • Members spend an average of nearly $10,000 per year on hunting and shooting-related equipment. <img src="http://www.scilowcountry.org/images/Mark%20Peterson%20photos/Coenraad%20Vermaak%20Safaris/Zebra%20stallion.JPG" style="border:0;"/> <img src="http://www.scilowcountry.org/images/Kukuzans%20safaris%20photos/Carlos%202%20genet.JPG" style="border:0;"/>

by **NewKid** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:19 pm

The guy in that last picture sure looks like he might play. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_the_Game" target="top">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_the_Game</a>

by **friend catcher** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:38 pm

<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107076/">www.imdb.com/title/tt0107076/</a> A John Woo film, with the always watchable Lance Henrikson, that followed an urban hunt plot line. In spite of van damme's presence its entirely watchable. Remembering a Van Damme interview at the time, he alleged that Belgian Aristocrats in the late 19th century had paid to hunt humans in the ' Belgian Congo' which was possibly an inspiration for Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Possibly as a Belgian this had been common knowledge amongst the elder generations. The Belgian Congo of Leopald truly was a hell of human creation that the Belgian state manages to glide over with ease. Also remember a Clint Eastwood pic that narrated John Huston's obsession with killing an elephant during the making of African Queen.

by **Gouda** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:58 pm

Nice, Pan! More penis pumps. These do the shooting, however. (The guy in the last photo has a lil' ole hole dug in the sand waist-level, dudn't he.) *** Delay: I figure his is the smile of one blissfully unburdened of maintaining any further pretence of weighty clothing. At ease, soldier. It's summertime for assholes, and you are a prancing nudist in the ascendant court of obscene hypocrisy. Guard your film you freaky voyeurs - with all the Christ beaming out from the innards of Delay, you risk overexposed negatives. *** <blockquote>Quote:<hr>The Belgian Congo of Leopald truly was a hell of human creation that the Belgian state manages to glide over with ease.<hr></blockquote> Oh, yes indeedy.

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