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The Makah tribe on the coast of Washington is attempting to get permission to hunt whales again next spring and the wailing (pun intended) and gnashing of teeth has begun from environmentalists.

I am in full support of letting these guys go out on the open water and try their hand at bagging themselves a big smelly sea mammal, and not just because it pisses off the earthfirsters, but because there is evidence coming out that we might just have a local over-population of whales.

I like to call it ‘Thinning the Pod’.

I also like the idea because it forces the aboriginal worshipping left to remember that “indians� weren’t the peace-loving little forest pixies that they would like to portray them as. The natives of the North American continent, as every person who doesn’t hate the westward expansion of paleface knows, conducted wars against other tribes, committing murder, rape and arson along with engaging in cannibalism and conducting a slave trade.

They also hunted for no good reason other than they wanted to kill something. Such is the case of this whale hunt today and the whale hunts of this tribe in history. They didn’t hunt whales for food, it was a ‘manhood ritual’.

Now, those opposed to this hunt will try and tell you otherwise if you bring it up, but they’re either ignorant or lying since the Makah’s own website says differently.

Whales gave oil, meat, bone, sinew and gut for storage containers: useful products, though gained at a high cost in time and goods. Only families already wealthy could afford such outlay. Only such outlay rewarded with the highest possible prestige.

Who’s got the biggest stack of chips and brass gonads was the intent of the whale hunt. The Makah were fat on salmon and vension to the point that the first white settlers to the area were amazed at their lifestyle.

The one point I would conceed to the anti-whale hunt types is that the modern day hunters have a few new tools that their ancestors didn’t. Things like boats with internal combustion engines, waterproof/thermal clothing and a .50 caliber rifle.

Yep, the Makah are out shooting Grey Whales with a Barrett 50.

This piece of equipment was actually OK’d by the enviro-weenies because the thought of the hunters killing a whale with 20-25 spears sounded too grisly.

I’ll try to stay up on this for y’all, but I suspect that if the tribe is successful, it will be national news again and you won’t need me to watch it.