[at-l] goats as "pack animals"?

[David Addleton]

Goats are best used for food, milk, cheese, and their skins to hold water or
wine. using them as pack animals will diminish their value for these other,
more valuable, purposes, and in actual, cause ---> effect sequence, and
notwithstanding American innovations in their use as pack animals. This is a
good thing to remember if you need to raise goats for subsistence in the
coming decade. Whether goats make a good metaphor for securitized mortgages,
I cannot yet say; but I suspect the economics of goats in a subsistence
economy bear good lessons for the idiots on wall street and in washington .
. . Besides, I cannot help but think that MacKaye would have supported goats
on the AT, though I cannot quote him chapter and verse; I think he was in
favor of basket weaving.

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Tom McGinnis <sloetoe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> ### This would not be a good time to confuse sequence with cause-->effect.
> This would not be a good time to short the market...
>
> Oh, but goats on the AT? The only thing worse than a hiker with too much
> time on his hands... seems to be an organization with too much time on it's
> hands....
>
> --- On Mon, 9/29/08, Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, voting down the 700 billion bailout resulted in the
> > market dropping over a trillion. Smart move.
> >
> > 2008/9/29 David Addleton <dfaddleton at gmail.com>
> >
> > > I finally read the tread about the goat on the AT.
> > >
> > > Since I've lived in several parts of the world where goats are
> important domesticated animals for many purposes, and since I've never heard
> of a goat being used as a "pack animal" anywhere, in any part of the world,
> I decided to run a WestLaw search looking for the meaning of "pack animal"
> in US law.
>
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