California is missing its Bears

Missing Bear.com ^ | 23 Jan 2006

[edcoil]

California's bears are leaving - even disappearing from its flag. See link.

[edcoil]

Cute and accurate video at link.

[Squantos]

Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutly bring em back.......even if they are rugs by now !

[Lunatic Fringe]

http://www.missingcows.com/

[VRWCmember]

So is chicago since about a week ago.

[Red Badger]

They've all retired to Hawaii on their residuals from the Charmin' commercials......

[HEY4QDEMS]

California's bears are leaving

They were last spotted on Wall Street.

[GVnana]

Sorry to be so picky, but the bear on the flag is NOT A GRIZZLY. It's a California Brown Bear.

[niteowl]

Maybe now they can go back to what the creator of the flag originally intended to be on it:

http://www.snopes.com/lost/bearflag.asp

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Sorry to be so picky, but the bear on the flag is NOT A GRIZZLY. It's a California Brown Bear

The bear on the California State flag is a grizzly. And is now extinct within the state. The last grizzly in Orange County, where I grew up, was killed in the 1920s. Shot somewhere around Saddle Back mountain in the Cleveland National Forest..

[GVnana]

Dammit! That's what I get for listening to school teachers instead of doing my own research!

Found this little tidbit:

"The" California Bear
In 1911 one of the Sonoma flags was used as the model for the state flag. The last known California Grizzly was the Bear named Monarch. He was captured by William Randolph Hearst and gifted to the City of San Francisco, where he was housed in a special enclosure in Golden Gate Park. After his death he was stuffed and mounted for display at the California Academy of science. In 1955 this stuffed bear served as the model for the current specifications for the California state Flag. James J. Ferrigan III, 12 June 2000

And this:
Historic Bear Flag raised at Sonoma on June 14, 1846, by a group of American settlers in revolt against Mexican rule. The flag was designed by William Todd on a piece of new unbleached cotton. The star imitated the lone star of Texas. A grizzly bear represented the many bears seen in the state. The word, "California Republic" was placed beneath the star and bear. It was adopted by the 1911 State Legislature as the State Flag. [Source: California Blue Book.]

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

You might find this interesting.

[GladesGuru]

Good Riddance, I say!

I have to wear a Redhawk whenever I stop outside due to the "Endangered Florida Panther" which is neither specific to Florida nor endangered.

There are some 32,000 of these cats, all "genetically homogeneous" as determined by DNA analysis. Yet across America, bureau-scientists and a swarm of other socialism impaired 'crats have their snouts deeply in some Federal/state funded trough attached to some "endangered species" program/

For any urban Liberal Red stater, reads the Lewis & Clark report for what grizzly bear are really like. Such bear are why Alaskan bush pilots carry 12 ga. shotties "loaded for bear", literally.

And the endearing behavior of the bruins has spawned a growth industry of gunsmiths producing what amount to autoloading rifles with muzzle energy levels once thought needed for African dangerous game.

Can you say "autoloading elephant gun"? I knew you could.

Now ask yourself if these people would waste thousands of their own dollars if they did not have a legitimate fear of being wasted by a bear?

[GVnana]

Wow! They're even gone from Colorado and Idaho. One of the most dangerous predators on earth. Personally, I wouldn't go looking for an encounter.

[Amerigomag]

The California Insider; 01-23-06:

Someone took out an ad in the business section of today's Bee and claimed this web site for MissingBear.com -- a campaign that hits both the state's business climate and, indirectly, the man who says he's trying to fix it.

Seems like an odd mix for a potential political candidate, at least in California. Based on the fact that the web site is registered to a Reno, NV public relations firm that has done campaigns for that state in the past, I am guessing it is the leading edge of a move by the Nevada government to try to lure businesses to relocate east.

Anybody got a better theory?