Palin's Wildlife Savagery Exposed
This fantastic ad by Defenders of Wildlife exposes Sarah Palin's savagery towards animals, especially wolves. A focus group found
the most prevalent emotional responses from voters were "angry" and "disturbed" after viewing the ad. As Digby writes,
It's one thing to be a frontier gal who hunts moose in Alaska for food. But most people instinctively get that there's something fundamentally wrong with this:
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Thanks Bob, and thanks to the Defenders of Wildlife
and its supporters for getting this ad aired in battleground states.
This needs to be seem by everyone who will vote in November.
Do we want this blood thirsty woman who offers a $150 bounty
for every wolf leg
-- one heartbeat away from the Oval Office?
Oh yes- I saw this scribbled on the window of a car, plastered with RW bumper stickers in a parking
lot this morning- it was written on the inside,
(i.e, by someone who owns or uses the car)
" Beware Evangelicals, "baby doll" Palin is not what she seems to be"
Wow- even THEY are getting it!
The introduction of wolves back into the wilds of the NW...
has created much controversy. Much of the negatives come from the farmers and ranchers who are rightfully worried about their livestock and in some cases, family pets and small children.
Wolves are freeranging now throughout the NW. They have been found to have even made it to northeastern Oregon. There may well be areas where they are too numerous to sustain themselves on deer, elk, moose, caribou herds. If this occurs, then culling the wolf population may be the only control.
In an area(Alaska particularly)there are no roads into wilderness areas. Tracking wolf populations on foot is not cost effective and could be dangerous--the more so in winter.
If the wolf population is creating problems, what would the naysayers(to ariel hunts)come up with as a solution. Ranchers and farmers in Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon want to know.
Anyone have an alternative?
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Grinch, I believe the ranchers and farmers
are shooting wolves who threaten their livestock
and families.
There is no way around that one.
However, a wolf pack located in the wilds of Alaska, hundreds
of miles from any town, livestock or human is another story
altogether.
Wolves gotta eat too.
Wolves gotta eat too. How about feeding them instead of shooting them? After all, we invaded their territory, and not the other way around. If some rancher started running his cattle on my property, I would help myself too.
When wild animals who have made a living in these regions for thousands of years become a "nuisance" to our so-called civilized society, which part of being civilized justifies arbitrarily killing (culling?) them? Isn't that the same civilized justification we used to cull the Native American population?
Animals only kill what they eat. Man kills anything that competes with him for even an infinitesimal amount of the food supply -- or simply for "sport."
I will fight to the death for the Right To Arm Bears!
Wolves
Loved that last line Bill!
IF wolves are a problem in a given local, and IF aerial hunting is the only economic means to cull a heard, then would it be too much to ask that MY (and YOUR) wolves be killed by MY (and YOUR) Government officials?
For myself alone, my problem is with the gleeful, FU, masturbatory, gummermunt-bad "hunters" getting off on killing "my" wolves on "my" land, and not giving a rat's ass about the hypothetical IF-THEN statement above.
I see nothing wrong with shaming that group of faux "hunters".
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As to real world problems needing real world solutions, I too have met with insanity on the far left. Perhaps this is something grinch is alluding to and I sympathize. I'm way out here however in the Northeast where we are trying to get wolves introduced ;)
So far the only "doggies" I've had to deal with are insanely loud packs of coyotes howling in the near woods surrounding us, and a red fox who visits us each morning 20 feet from the door to drink from a puddle.
(A fox who now goes by the name Graddy. Those of precisely the correct age might guess why. Hint: it's a red fox that looks gray and bedraggled).
The packs can be a little spooky. Hell even the Red Foxes (sprouting up with the rabbit population) get pissed now - paralleling my path along a ridge, one in particular SCREAMS at me. Follows and screams. Pups nearby? Don't know. Anyway folks, wolves can be scary and if they are a problem, humans will kill them.
The problem I've seen however is the same one I've seen in economics: Republicans point out real world problems and then "solve" them.
Jim
Oh God Jim -- please NOT the
Oh God Jim -- please NOT the guvmint!
That would cost the taxpayers a 1-foot stack of $100 bills per wolf. Plus, I guarantee that they would "contract" the operation to Blackwater, who would turn all wilderness areas into free-fire zones, with no adult supervision -- kind of like Iraq.
The American Indians lived in harmony with wolves for centuries. Now, they are both endangered, and inconvenient, species.
Would it be too much to ask that the ranchers move their freakin' cattle herds back to Wall Street, or downtown Chicago?
Game Wardens...
It takes away the political incentive: Republicans can't reward special interests (and the peanut galleries they generate, living vicariously through trouncing "liberal" straw men).
My thoughts:
1- Kill the wolf dead if it's going to attack a loved one, or your livestock (if that is your view).
2- The vast majority of vehement claims about the need to kill wolves come from the conservative ME generation, "I love those canned hunts" faux hunter, crowd.
3- The rest of the claims come from concerned citizens that worry, as grinch said, about their pets and kids.
Generally though:
I'm not going to bother to fill in the blank.
I'll just say this: I've heard Super Models carping about how tough their jobs are. I've heard the canned hunting crowd screaming about wolves. I'm just wondering what the hell would happen if Soldiers, Cops, Truck Drivers, etc starting getting a little air time about Salaries, the Price of Gas, etc?
Jim
Bill you made a great point.
When writing my first response this morning, my head
was yelling,
Who was here first?
That's a question I frequently ask, especially when urban dwellers
in new developments complain about the wildlife next to their houses.
My family lived in a house on the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains
for 16 years. Coyotes, deer, opossums, raccoons, you name it, they came
and raided the flower/vegetable gardens and trash cans. Mountain lions
were spotted not far from our house, too.
We lived with it, and kept our cats indoors every night.
:-)
You're exactly right Karin.
You're exactly right Karin. Just like people who buy property near an airport, and then complain about the noise...
Starved, tortured, murdered wolves
Maybe the blood-thirsty hunters should not be killing off the wolves prey, so the wolves in turn would not have to seek out livestock instead of their usual prey. Ecology is a fine balance and the humans must learn to live with-in it's circle, not control it!
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