This seems to be a technique of our fearless leader. He rants and raves about a topic like that and then eventually backs down. I guess he shows the hard right-family-values people that his heart is in the right place but doesn't endanger the voting. Barry Goldwater used to do that.

One constant victim of "hot" cables are fruit bats (flying foxes) I remember you used to see dead ones hanging from electrical cables in the old days on Sydney's North Shore. Sometimes, they were pregnant and the baby could be saved by WIRES if you notified them. I wonder if they are having trouble too. They have been getting bad press lately; but they are magnificent creatures in my opinion.

Murray