I thought they wanted to save the caribou
Posted on 09/18/2008 8:02:26 PM PDT by Pharmer
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There are still millions of potential voters across the U.S. who haven’t learned the truth about Governor Palin’s brutal aerial hunting program -- millions who don’t yet know about her proposal to dole out $150 for the severed forelegs of dead wolves.
Help us expose the awful truth about Sarah Palin before it’s too late. Tell others about Governor Sarah Palin’s record on the brutal and unethical hunting of wolves from airplanes.
With your help, we can ensure that voters know the truth about Sarah Palin.
Before I turn in, the ad went on at great length describing this poor wounded wolf staggering off to die in great pain - which is really stupid because I am quite sure if it had been shot by Sarah, it would have been a clean and accurate shot, and she would have had wolfburgers for dinner (yuck).
anyway you get my point. I hope someone else hears the ad - it is quite an amazing attempt to tug on the heartstrings and a really really dumb ad to run in Ohio. Now, if she clubbed baby seals, I might have a problem -
“I heard this ad (ohio) and all I could think was ‘how can they be so desperate ... and stupid’?”
There are a lot of sappy girls who will eat this stuff up... I can’t tell you how many of them I’ve run across who are convinced that hunting is cruel. I’m not exactly one to apologize, even though I don’t hunt. Mocking is far more fun. :)
I don’t actually like the idea of Sarah Palin hunting wolves.
“Leave the dam’n wolves alone, Sarah. Plenty of other things to shoot in Alaska.”
“Plenty of other things to shoot in Alaska.”
not if the wolves eat them.
On three legs? - The Ad is inaccurate, they only pay on the left forelegs; the right ones are worth nothing (so anyone counting on $300 per kill will be disappointed)
Does your friend know that big bad wolves eat defenseless little bunnies and chipmunks for breakfast? Maybe you can enlighten her ;~)
Here’s the latest Alaska regulations on bear and wolf control:
http://www.wildlife.alaska.gov/regulations/pdfs/predator_control.pdf
(Why aren’t the libs upset about bears being hunted?)
Here’s the regulatory/political history of the wolf management controversy in Alaska. Notice that it was going on way before Palin was Gov.:
http://www.wildlife.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wolf.wolf_mgt
I thought that the story of people hunting from the air had been discredited and that if someone was capable of making such a shot, (s)he would make a very good sniper.
Thanks for the myth correction:
Sarah has never killed a wolf from a helicopter because it’s ILLEGAL. In fact, you cannot even hunt anything the same day you fly. What she did do was approve the recomendation of Fish and Game Department scientists to allow state F&G dept employees to hunt them from airplanes. Given the size of the state, and the range of wolves, it’s the only realistic way to control the population.
Ask your friend what she does to stop PETA from killing unwanted dogs.
The ecoterrorists are only for ZPG (Zero Population Growth) among the HUMAN population, primarily in Western countries (because we use too much of the world’s resources, don’t you know?).
“What state does your lib friend live in?”
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Insanity.
Absolutely agree with what you wrote. I live in Northern Nevada and we are allowed to kill coyote. If some of these bleeding heart liberals saw how a pack of coyotes will bait and kill dogs, cats, or newborn livestock they might have a different attitude about hunting predators. Nobody wants to wipe them out completely anymore but they must be controlled.
Wolves in Alaska? So what. I want to know if she can shoot some jack-a... er, donkeys in Washington.
Yup...they’re outraged that Sarah offered a bounty for the front leg of a wolf as proof of the kill; but, they champion Obama, who offered legislation forbidding any doctor other than the abortionist to decide viability of a human infant who survived his/her attempt to kill it.
No outrage over leaving that baby, who survived abortion, to die alone and unattended in a hospital side room in order to get their dead body.
Been there, done that... or at least I tried to do that. My neighbor in Palmer was an Indian and he owned a light plane. He talked me into going on a wolf hunt with him one winter. He flew the plane and I shot the gun.
In order to shoot without damaging the plane we took the door off which left me sitting in the wind with a shotgun pointing out the door. I wore mittens until we saw a wolf when I would take off the one on my trigger hand. He’s try to put the plane over the wolf so I could get a shot. In the meantime my hand was getting colder and colder (it was about -45° outside) and the windchill was ridiculous. When we finally got into position my fingers wouldn’t work so the wolf got away.
Judging from personal experience I’d say that hunting wolves from the air gives them an unfair advantage over the poor stupid hunter.
They aren't vegans it's true, and individual wolves or packs may *think* they are higher on the food chain, but there's nothing on the planet that is higher on the food chain that homo sapiens sapiens, At least when we so choose.
We, humans that is, wiped them out from Europe, nearly wiped them out from most of North America. Probably not the smartest thing to do, but we did it, and the wolves remember..in their genes.
Probably not wolfburgers. But her husband's sled dogs might have eaten well for a while.
She would be wearing a nice new parka with a wolf fur lining on the hood. ( The Air Force used to issue parkas with wolf fur lining on the parkas. It doesn't ice up as easily as other materials)
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