Posted on 06/08/2008 1:02:51 PM PDT by Red Steel
Well, that's one hell way to handle an illegal alien problem.
A couple of years ago, we were invaded by mice. At first I wanted to trap and release them. The first one we managed to catch I carefully took outside and let him go. The neighbors cat had him in 30 seconds flat! After that, we went with poison. Sigh.
“Polar bears are trying to expand their range.”
Same thing here with squirrels. A couple years ago, I was totally overrun by them. I first trapped them, drove 5 miles out and dumped them. I finally gave up with that waste and threw the trap, squirrel and all, in a large tank of water. Saved a lot of fuel.
That is sooo cool!
I will guarantee you, I have every bit as much heart and compassion as any Polar Bear.
You should go meet them or their cousin Grizzly/Brown Bear in Alaska. I’m sure they would love you too.
“The last time a polar bear made a similar journey to reach Iceland was in 1993, and that bear was also shot to death.”
You’d think the other bears would have taken the hint when he never called or wrote.
We have our wetbacks, and they have theirs.
Polar bears are creatures of the Arctic. Penguins inhabit the Antarctic. So, attentive school kids know the illustration is invalid, right? Well, not so fast! The greenies are on the case:
McCain Expresses Support for Antarctic Polar Bear Relocation
From the above link:
Republican presidential nominee John McCain also supports the effort: "This is exactly the kind of creative public-private partnership we ought to be exploring. I support the basic concepts of this program."The first batch of polar bears will be released on the edge of the Ross Sea near emperor penguin colonies trapped by recent the movement of giant icebergs C16 and B15A. "These penguins would starve to death anyway," said Polar Bear Conservancy staff biologist Jon Heidenberg. "Now they can provide an initial source of food for the polar bears while they acclimate to their new environment."
Antarctica offers more than 5.4 million square miles of glacial habitat and a variety of food sources for the polar bear: emperor, adelie, rockhopper, chinstrap and gentoo penguins; leopard, fur, weddell and elephant seals; and humpback, minke, blue and orca whales.
In partnership with the Polar Bear Conservancy, Iceland's Reykjavik Zoo has been test-feeding samples of various Antarctic species to their polar bears. "They really like the minke and blue whale meat supplied by our government research expeditions," said chief zoo biologist Katrin Jonsdottir.
Because of the distance between release points and Antarctic research stations, scientists working in the Antarctic region do not expect roaming polar bears to interfere with their work.
I’m with you.
Animals are expected to act one way....humans another.
Actually just a week or two later another bear was found strolling around in Iceland, a child walked upon it, thankfully it ran away as a proper farmers child instead of wanting to stroke it as a greanpeace educated pawement child maybe would have.
Of course we shot him also though some expensive but futile attempt to save it were tried, because of the sentimentality of the first case.
The thing about statistic of these kinds of things, whatever happens, any change whatsoever is taken as a proof of global warming, in whatever direction it goes.
The funny thing is that for weeks after these incidents people starting seeing beers and beer tracks allover the country, like there was an epidemic of big foot and Elvis sightings.
Or maybe our succesful elimination of the first scouting parties gave subsequent scouts the message that a full scale invasion was not feasible at this time ;)
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