MooPig to Sponsor 2009-10 Dust Bowl: Jack Rabbits vs. Farmers

by Pat Darnell

Did you know there was a Jack Rabbit Round up back in the '30's, before Roosevelt's New Deal?

Predators that usually thin out the jack rabbit population had been neutralized by the condition of the prairie in middle USA. It was the famed Dust Bowl. I saw footage on the History channel last night that in my mind resembled any "scariest" scene from any horror film, ever.

The rabbits were dashing in all directions, frenzied and fraught. Jack Rabbits apparently "do well in dry, drought periods. Hot and dry are no problem" for the bunny with huge ears and hind legs, with ridiculous speed. A Jack Rabbit also has the ability to change direction at full speed. What that does is lets Jack out maneuver a coyote, as the predator has to stop to turn as fast as its rabbit prey.

So the Jack Rabbit population reached improbable numbers and farmer\ranchers had to do something about it. What little grass and vegetation that survived was being taken away from their cattle. Jack's were also having litters of four to eight rabbits each every month. It was a fecund time for the Jack of all Rabbits, that is for sure.

Farmers gathered up to stage a roundup. Collectives of farmers herded the Jack Rabbits into rabbit proof pens. Some reported 30,000 at once were herded to their death pens. I think this rates as a holocaust for the Lepus Leporidae... no?

This is the old -- IF "Hulk Hogan wrestled so his son wouldn't have to wrestle" -- argument... but wrestling took a back seat to other entertainments in Hulk Hogan's lifetime;

THEN ...so instead, his son went driving after drinking, and is guilty of manslaughter. Same thing. [wipe that silly look off your face]

I am guessing the Easter bunny didn't visit children in the aftermath of mass killing of Jack Rabbits by frustrated middle American farmers. The Easter ascent has not been the same for lepus since 1930's. In fact, I am also reminding those who have read till this point -- nothing at all was done about middle rural America, and dissemination of American prairie into tiny specks of dust, until an enormous cloud of dust, Dust Blizzard, settled on Chicago, and then later all over New York City.

Only then did largesses send photographers to the Dust Bowl and images became prevalent in Newspapers. So that then Roosevelt could tout his New Deal: "...we take your tax money and centralize it over here for the world's royalty's, and send it back to you in truck loads of meat."

Be sure to tune in Next Year 2010, for the MooPig Sponsored Dust Bowl in Lubbock.

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Well, OK, some may say, "But you know, Obama is not a hunter." Right. And neither is John McCain. And isn't that a breath of fresh air! I, for one, am pretty damn tired of all this Elmer Fudd stuff coming from our politicians.
It all started with George W. Bush. I don't remember Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton trotting out into a field for a shotgun photo-op.
The funny thing here is that George W. Bush is not a real hunter. He's just a beltway frat boy who borrowed a shotgun in order to strike a redneck rural pose.
Karl Rove figured most National Rifle Association members would not care, and that many would not know the difference, never mind all those pictures that showed George W. Bush to be a walking gun safety violation.