Weekly Shortcasts for 2013-01-10

Excellent article about difference between you and a bank: Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke: http://t.co/xBsu79Sf ->
Not-very-big snake eats pretty good-sized trout in this series of photos: http://t.co/NckZRVah ->
More Coffeepocalypse: $500/pound coffee beans harvested *after* being eaten (and shat) by elephants. Hmmm, elephant shit…. ->
More dead tarpon courtesy the "Professional" Tarpon Tournament series (via Moldy): http://t.co/i8rqqLkb ->
Feds confirm Stanford U under investigation for ESA violations (steelhead) for Searsville Dam: http://t.co/Xz45CfGL ->
RT @markgrossi: Want to download all or part of the 2,500-page Merced River Plan? Go here: http://t.co/MrmmRf84 ->
Pretty midge pattern (bet it's hard to tie) from Fly Fishing In Yellowstone National Park: The Killer Midge http://t.co/BQoxPECB ->
For Undergrounders who also shoot: Nice review of affordable ear protection for hunters: SportEar XP3 Plugz: http://t.co/rF2XieYQ ->
RT @sippingemergers: The fishing was hell. Fiction inspired by the lively banter over on the Trout Underground http://t.co/LPel0ccV ->
Jon Stewart rips former AIG CEO’s suit against government over interest rate paid for bailout money: http://t.co/1KrGHp3X ->
What Impact Could Fracking Have on California Vineyards? (and its water, and its fish, etc…) http://t.co/2RjhTcim ->

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3 Comments

marty January 11, 2013, 6:55 am Reply

I don’t get the tournament thing at all…. I’m just glad the cancer has thus far not metastasised into cold water…. a small charity tourney to raise money is one thing for fun. At a friends insistence I fished the musky tourney last year (only one with silk and bamboo go figure) it was a light hearted good time to raise money. . The whole angling as a competitive sport is just disgusting to me….. I’ve seen the floating bass after the idiots get done on our southern lakes sad to see it impacting tarpon too…

So could we start a “shat” coffee conglomerate????…. if elephant is $500 bucks pound we should be able to get $100 for beagle $4.99 store brand whole bean, $5.00 for gloves and washing stuff, $.25 for custom printed “organic” paper packaging (I’m thinking sharpie on paper lunch bags for that “authentic rustic” appeal) ….About $89.76 in profit per pound…. Now I just gotta find some wealthy hippies to sell it too…. retirement to a private water ranch “estate” in Montana is now in reach……..Tom get the marketing started… I’ll be in the yard picking up my retirement plan….

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Tom Chandler January 11, 2013, 9:39 am Reply

You’re not thinking “exclusive” enough. If a giant pachyderm’s waste is worth $500/pound (OK, the coffee *in* the waste), then we need to move up to more exclusive animals.

Because of the danger, Lion coffee would have to fetch at least $750 pound. Cheetah coffee (how fast do you have to run to get a pound) would be $900.

And for the morbidly patriotic, Eagle Coffee would fetch at least $1000.

Deer-and-Elk-generated “bubba” brands would go for less, but then, we wouldn’t have to separate out the waste materials from the coffee.

Now how’s that retirement looking?

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