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Coloradans unleash wolves on their neighbors: A fitting metaphor for COVID
American Thinker ^ | November 14, 2020 | Adam Yoshida

Posted on 11/14/2020 5:20:23 PM PST by Jacob Kell

Some recent news from Colorado is a better metaphor for the current unpleasantness than any novelist or screenwriter could invent. On Election Day (or rather, in the late campaign, during the two months or so of voting), the people of Colorado voted, by the narrow margin of 50.84% to 49.16%, to reintroduce gray wolves in the areas of Colorado west of the continental divide. Without digging too deep into the details, the people for the measure, labeled Proposition 114, supported it for environmentalist and conservationist reasons. The opponents, especially those who lived to the west of the continental divide, opposed it because they feared that the wolves would harm their property and themselves. However, the measure carried largely because Denver and Boulder, despite overwhelming opposition in most rural counties, voted for it by a 2:1 margin. I'll let you guess on which side of the continental divide Denver and Boulder are.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; coronavirus; covid; covid19; wildlife; wolves

1 posted on 11/14/2020 5:20:23 PM PST by Jacob Kell
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To: Jacob Kell

We need to release wolves in Boulder, a very large and hungry pack of them.


2 posted on 11/14/2020 5:24:20 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Jacob Kell

I think that the meth heads and blm types fill the wolf niche in the boulder/denver axis of evil ecosystem.


3 posted on 11/14/2020 5:33:59 PM PST by dynachrome (People who get what they want are often surprised when they also get what they deserve. ~ james wood)
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To: Jacob Kell

“to reintroduce gray wolves in the areas of Colorado west of the continental divide.”

SSS. (Shoot, shovel, shut up. Toss the tracking collar onto a log floating downstream)

Reminds me of a middle ages poem about a poor farmer. Modified for this time.

“I raise sheep, the wolves kill them.
When I defend my sheep, I am arrested,
Because a Great Man who is above raising sheep,
Would be in need of wolves.”


4 posted on 11/14/2020 5:36:49 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Jacob Kell

This is nothing that good varmint rifles won’t solve. The wolves the planted in Idaho are now being legally hunted because they decimated the elk herds.
In cali where it is almost illegal to even speak badly about a mountain lion the folks who have to live with them should be live trapping them and planting them in Golden Gate Park.
That way the city slicker morons who voted to protect them can enjoy them up front and personal.


5 posted on 11/14/2020 5:44:31 PM PST by oldenuff35
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To: Jacob Kell

The people wjo vote for wolves don’t live with them. In Alaska the wolf packs try to pull down the dog sleds traveling between villages.

A good example why Democracy is stupid and our founding fathers chose a republic.


6 posted on 11/14/2020 6:18:22 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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