I’ll Get You My Pretty…and That Little Wolf Too! Palin’s War on Wildlife Continues…
I have used this term in the past, but never before has the phrase ”Palin’s war on wildlife” seemed so chillingly accurate. It is well known that Sarah Palin has stacked the board of game with “harvesters” while shunning conservationists. But, the detailed article in Alaska Dispatch by conservationist and author Bill Sherwonit is absolutely chilling. I don’t say that lightly.
Most Alaskans understand and respect subsistence hunting. I know people for whom moose was, and is, a staple food that carries their family through the winter. And most Alaskans don’t frown too much at some degree of sport hunting, because it’s understood that we, as humans, are predators too, and we somehow fit into the amazing ecosystem that surrounds us. The balance of nature is generally respected by hunters and non-hunters alike, and these two groups tend to have an uneasy, but workable alliance. At least, that’s how it’s been in the past. But now, in the spirit of free market sport hunting in the Mat-Su Valley, the Palin administration has figured out how hunters can compete even more effectively with natural wild predators. Kill them. Kill a LOT of them.
The Board of Game and Department of Fish and Game aim - or at least hope – to kill up to 60 percent of the 2,500 to 3,000 black bears that, in their opinion, prey upon an unacceptably high number of moose calves in Unit 16B, a huge area that extends from the foothills of the Alaska Range to Cook Inlet and from the Yentna River southwest to Redoubt Creek (which flows off the rumbling Redoubt Volcano).
Sixty percent! If that’s not a slaughter, what is? (The state admits it is unlikely to reach that goal, but why not shoot for the moon, eh?)
There’s more.
In discussing the unprecedented use of snares to catch and then kill black bears, Board member Ted Spraker talked about the inevitable “collateral damage,” in this instance involving brown bears. It is, of course, a term he borrowed from the military.
And Ben Grussendorf, the most moderate member of the Board (which isn’t saying much), described his initial gut reaction to several proposed changes this way: “Man, this is a jihad against black bears by paramilitary groups.”
Welcome, once again, to wildlife management under Gov. Sarah Palin, where everything possible is being done to kill off the predators that compete with Alaska’s human hunters for moose and caribou. No matter that many, perhaps most, of these people live in urban areas and participate in “sport” hunts.
In fact many of the ones most interested in Unit 16 moose live in Palin country, the Mat-Su Valleys. These folks – and lots of Anchorage-area hunters, too – simply want to fill their freezers with wild game and by God the Palin administration is going to do everything it can to help ‘em out, short of controlling the weather.
The Board also voted to extend the bear baiting season in Palin’s Unit 16. And they’re also gearing up to start gassing wolf pups in their dens. Probably makes it a lot easier to dispose of them that way, than waiting for them to grow up so they can get shot from helicopters.
Apparently the person who holds the newly created position with the Orwellian name “Assistant Commissioner for Abundance Management,” Corey Rossi, was able to assuage the concerns about these new policies by assuring the board that it would create an equally Orwellian “attitude of stewardship”. Did I mention that Assistant Commissioner Rossi was a good friend of the Palins before he got this job?
And don’t think that the only people affected by these new policies are semi-lazy middle-aged guys in flannel shirts who want to be able to go out with their buddies and be guaranteed to bag a moose without a whole lot of looking around. Nope, this is a family affair. The Board voted 4-2 to let children from the ages of 10-15 come along for the fun killing bears, since public participation will be required to reach the enormous kill goal.
Sherwonit’s final point, and it’s a good one, is the fact that hardly any attention is being paid to these issues. Alaska conservationists may be feeling beaten down, or marginalized or tired. The mainstream media may be feeling like nobody cares, and the only people they hear from are the ones who sneer at the “tree huggers” and the “radical environmentalists.”
I recall several years ago, when massive tourist boycotts were called for because of the aerial wolf hunting controversy. Alaskans got all riled up and distressed because, they said, these policies didn’t represent the average Alaskan’s opinion. Why punish the regular folks who make a living from tourism because of a few people at the top? So, where are the regular people who are outraged by this? If these policies do not reflect your values, it is an obligation to step forward and say so. There’s an old adage, “silence is consent.”
Sherwonit goes on to say:
I also remain discouraged that, with few exceptions, Alaska’s conservation groups remain out of the picture. I suppose that with global warming, oil and gas industry activities, clean-energy initiatives and other big-picture items, their plates are pretty full and perhaps overflowing. But this new push for “abundance management” – the latest buzzwords for intensive management and predator control – is way out of control.
Only a few greenie organizations even commented on the proposals considered at this meeting. Even fewer sent people to testify; and most of them quickly vanished afterward.
For much of the last weekend, I sat in the Dena’ina Center surrounded by big-game hunting guides, trappers and hunters, state wildlife managers, and Board of Game members and their support staff. At most a handful of us opposed to the state’s current wildlife-management regime bore witness to the machinations, and only one of those few represented a conservation group, Wade Willis of Defenders of Wildlife.
Perhaps the Palin administration is counting on the fact that if eco-tourists boycott Alaska travel (if this ever gets picked up by the mainstream media) it will be counterbalanced by those who want to come here to kill off some of the “abundant” wildlife. Or, perhaps she just feels like tipping the scales so folks in her home district can keep themselves and their kids entertained by killing not only more moose, but more moose, and bears too.
Either way, what’s clearly needed here is dissemination of information. So for readers out there who have blogs, or are in the media, or who can write letters to the editor, or tell friends, or fire up your local conservation groups, this is your official invitation to help those of us in Alaska who see this “management for abundance” for what it really is – a war on Alaska’s wildlife.
[And once again, a hat tip to flyinureye, who graces the Mudflats blog with talent, wit, and the undisputed ability to be "worth a thousand words."]
Oh my g*d AKM, I love it!
I am disgusted by this and her and the Board of Killing…
We absolutely have to put a stop to this monstrosity!
The art work is above all !! The narrative…..sigh…..DANG she really hacks me off !! Someone call Ms. Judd pronto !!
Poison gassing wolf pups and snaring grizzlies is giving plenty of amo to knock Palin out of any national political aspirations she has. Little doubt Sarah has no idea how unpopular she is in the lower 48.
You have got to get this on Huffington Post and other sites ASAP!
Just posted it on Huffington Post. Thanks for the nudge! AKM
I don’t know wether to be angry as hell or to just vomit. Or both.
Gassing wolf pups, slaughtering bears… and in 5 years they’ll be bitching and moaning about how the moose have gone wild and Alaskans are getting attacked hitting them left and right while driving.
The white man doesn’t seem to be happy until they destroy the whole damn planet (and I am white, so head hanging in shame).
Oh where oh where is Ashley Judd?
AKM, I think I am in span for saying the po-ed word…
Sitting here, I could almost cry. It felt like such a long, long, long 8 years. We finally got rid of Bush but the rest of this will take so very long to fix. Exhausting. Civil liberties, war crimes, economic distress, fossil fuels, sadly, I guess some bears won’t make a lot of #1 lists. Until there are 3 left, or none. Ho hum…
My Mom put it succinctly thus: The Alaskans need to do something about that b—-h.
Hey, those skeletons are gonna miss playing with that witch’s hat in her closet! She spoiled the dress up party they were planning tonight. She’s already taken their favorite Naughty Monkey shoes away, and now their favorite hat, what’s next?
SIXTY PER CENT? Good God,
Omigawd, I just read this bit:
after Bob Bell objected to TEN YEAR OLDS (NOT 12!) getting involved in this, “Spraker, who’s taught hunter-education, found great merit in the idea of having kids kill bears over bait, no matter if some of those bears happen to be moms with tiny cubs. Or even the cubs themselves. “I think it could be exciting for a 10-year-old,” he said.”
“Exciting” he sez!
And this: “In the end, the Board voted 4-2 to let boys and girls 10 to 15 join older hunters in the black bear kill, with Grussendorf and Bell opposed, but only if supervised and after completing some sort of hunter-education course and obtaining predator-control orientation materials that, I presume, will help them understand the difference between killing bears over slop buckets of bait for sport vs. doing it for the sake of the moose.”
What kind of people up there are running things, anyway? I thought it was bad before…
…speechless and heart sick….
RUN Black Bears RUN. GINO is coming for you.
Unbelievable
omg, what in the hell? you poor folks up there. What can the folks in the lower 49 do to help stop this?
She truly is the anti-governor. And getting uglier, both inside and out, by the day. Mirrors are breaking as she hurls them off the wall. Go ahead, Sarah – you can’t break them all.
GINO is NRA’s center fold. She is at her best in front of a bunch of guys with guns, powerful men, real achievers, hard core go getters, and shoot first and ask questions later folks.
Trophy hunting makes me sick!!
I was in dinning out in a Kodiak a few years ago, and there was a hunting guide and clint eating behind me talking about there up and coming brown bear hunt. THe clint was a rich disco dancer city slicker, from NY City that wanting to prove he was tuff enough to kill a big brown bear with out shitting his pants. THe guide was almost sucking his w*we (*ss kissing in a big way) right there at the dinner table. Its was SICK!!! That was the worst form of prostitution I have every experienced.
I cannot believe what GINO is capable of. I am ashamed for her (since she has no conception of shame) and heartsick.
Sickening. And involving children in the killings is unconscionable. This is NOT about teaching a subsistence lifestyle. For the vast majority of the hunters, it is bloodsport. Unfortunately, until some child actually shoots another child because they got too excited over being out hunting with Daddy, this will probably go unchallenged.
OT Palin makes the real comics:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/12/sarah-palin-comic-sales
Statement from SarahPAC on Governor Palin’s selection of Judge Christen
Gov. Palin is totally pro-life. Always has been. Always will be. She believes in a culture of life from cradle to grave. Her choice for Supreme Court judge was made in accordance with Alaska law. She chose the person most qualified from the names sent to her. The Governor’s choice has a record of fairness. That is important as the courts sort out some very thorny issues. Governor Palin’s choices were either a liberal or an independent. She went with the independent. And as the following article reflects – this selection process is flawed.
What follows is a column from the Catholic Anchor, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Anchorage, by Anchorage lawyer Bob Flint, headlined “Process of selecting Alaska’s judges is clearly flawed.” (You need to scroll down the page to find it; it’s under the piece by Archbishop Roger Schwietz).
———–Pro life? Alway? I don’t think so. But here’s hoping the judge she selected supports teens getting abortions w/out parental concent. Will keep Team Sarah screaming. Maybe the right will start hating her too. Burn baby burn.
I want to forward ALOT of the information that is posted on this site.
There is no link to make that possible.
HELP!!!
I’ve linked to the Alaska Dispatch article where it is quoted. Links are in the text. Is this what you mean? AKM
Just when your wondering what next…………..she is just pure evil on all levels. I wonder if the RNC paid for her outfit, it looks quite appropriate.
MaryNo Gravatar (11:34:17) :
I want to forward ALOT of the information that is posted on this site.
There is no link to make that possible.
HELP!!!
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Mary, the gray-colored text at the beginning of the quote is the link.
What a strange karmic synchronicity. I just finished showing my kids “The Wizard of Oz” for the first time. And then I pull up mudflats and realize I’m going to have nightmares tonight!!! (click. click. click. there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home). dang.
I am on the media alert for Huff Po and am going to send this on to them. We must get this one viral! I think that the Scara Palin supporters down here would be disgusted by this. At least I hope so. That is just so sickening. I am going to bury my head in brownies for comfort. No. Really. I mean that. ugh!!!!
I am saddened and heartsick. This is not the Alaska I know and love.
MaryNo Gravatar (11:34:17) :
I want to forward ALOT of the information that is posted on this site.
There is no link to make that possible.
HELP!!!
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Not very sophisticated, but why not just copy and paste the URLs (the http: address thingies for each page that you are interested in into an e-mail to yourself? You could then forward the e-mail to anyone else you though would be interested.
SmallStepsNo Gravatar (11:48:07) :
I am on the media alert for Huff Po and am going to send this on to them. We must get this one viral! I think that the Scara Palin supporters down here would be disgusted by this. At least I hope so.
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They were certainly more uncomfortable with the Ashley Judd thing than they have been with a lot of other news about their darling. (Yes, I used to lurk at TS and watch the tiny-minded hate scroll by.)
“Chilling” is the perfect word. This is beyond sickening and it should be criminal.
Dastardly deeds. I am speechless, yet again.
Palins “FInal Solution” for the cubs? how this beast made it to where she is reflects poorly on the folks who voted her in. Please redeem yourselves AK’ers.
I have a question about snares. If I remember my Jack London right, a snare doesn’t actually kill the critter, it only traps his foot or leg. Is that right?
The reason I ask is that if someone approached an ensnared bear, thinking it was dead – well, that’s why I’m asking about snares.
Nan
(feeling pretty stoopid, but will deal with it)
Martha UYS suggested a lipstick color contest for Sarah. I hereby submit : Wolf Puppy Blood Red. And I’ll personally apply it on and IN two places.
Stop the madness…recall Palin.
I read flyinureye’s post the other day and was horrified. I had to hold my hand over the photographs posted on palingates. I am a city girl so this is very foreign to me but I have the capacity to understand the necessity of subsistence hunting and have no problem with it. It is killing for sport that I cannot wrap my head or heart around and I have zero tolerance for policy not based on science.
When I read the story on palingates I saw what is perhaps the true motivation behind the hunting policies:
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2009/03/sarah-palins-board-of-game.html
“I obtained these prices from a random hunting club :
Day hunt for a single species
Moose $10,500
Grizzly Bear $8,500
Brown Bear $12,500
Combination hunts (add the species above to the species price below)
Black bear $2,500
Wolf $750
Rates from another site:
Trophy Fee on Grizzly Bear $9750, Moose $9450, Caribou $6800. These prices are on top of the $19,500 all inclusive (licenses, air charter, G.S.T. and meat flight) for the hunt.”
Now if corruption has occurred in Alaska with Big Oil payments, is it possible that sport clubs are providing a few kick backs as well?
Because I know little about hunting, I have a question regarding the snares and traps. What prevents moose and caribou from becoming ensnared and trapped?
Hopefully, with our present economy, few sport hunters can afford the fees now which would provide time for those who are horrified by these policies to get the word out. Does sport hunting provide more $$ to the Alaska economy than tourism?
Just for clarity, flyinureye is the graphic artist who did the witch picture at the top of the post. Bill Sherwonit is the writer who did the article in Alaska Dispatch. AKM
@Grandma Nancy
I cannot believe what GINO is capable of
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Believe it, sorry to say. just look at her track record, as it is unfolded and exposed to the rest of us…she certainly does take advantage of the loose legislation of Alaska…the rules she had a hand in putting into place. I worry about her unscrupulous, and extreme, un-Christian like ways…not only for Alaska, but for the rest of us down the road.
Paula:
“Sitting here, I could almost cry. It felt like such a long, long, long 8 years. We finally got rid of Bush but the rest of this will take so very long to fix. Exhausting. Civil liberties, war crimes, economic distress, fossil fuels, sadly, I guess some bears won’t make a lot of #1 lists. Until there are 3 left, or none. Ho hum…”
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I have days when I feel like that do, but hold on. I remember when Obama first declared his candidacy and he was considered an extremely long shot. I had friends who told me he should wait for awhile before running, build up his resume. I told them no, his time was now. Well, our time is now too. Think about what this site, and others like it, have managed to do in a small amount of time for rural Alaska. Progress may seem slow because we’ve been sinking in the mud for 8 years, but in reality, things are moving quickly. Obama doesn’t think that you have to address only one problem at a time — I think the same can be assumed of the public imagination. There are many people in economic distress, and many more in economic fear, but that doesn’t mean they can’t care about other things at the same time. In fact, one positive by-product of our current woes may be a renewed expression of compassion in all forms. When we all do our part, however small it may seem, we can move mountains.
…I’ll step off the soapbox now!
Fools, all of them…..they have no concept of the future beyond their immediate needs. There is such a thing as ecological balance…but I wouldn’t expect SP and her highschool friends to understand that. What cruel, stupid, ignorant specimens of humanity they are.
Kudos to flyinureye for the artwork…it is my favourite portrait of Palin.
The saddest part of it is ADFG is full of people who should know better but they won’t speak the truth. A once well respected agency is becoming a department of political hacks under murkowski and palin.
Lipstick shade: Team Scarah Scalding Pink
Gross, just gross.
If the committee is looking @ 60% species reduction – then they haven’t been doing their job for awhile.
I understand having to limit the number of animal species in an area of land. That oftentimes, hunting is a more humane way of controlling a species population growth than allowing them to starve or move into “populated areas”
But 60% ??? That is quite high considering there may be an “outbreak” of some disease within that species that will “naturally” decrease the population numbers. I believe any amount over 20% in a given year is considered substantial. Otherwise Fish & Game will try to relocate them to another area that is less populated.
“So protecting – just like a bears with tiny cubs”
Guess that saying only applies when GINO is using that term when trying to paint a picture in out minds with reference to herself & her [insert a few cuss words here], treatment of the ppl of AK…
…and by the way, that picture shows her TRUE spirit….her @$$ is all about the dollar-bill…it’s at the root of all her EVIL’ness!
double-triple “eeewwww”
sjk from the belly of the plane (12:12:43) :
Palins “FInal Solution” for the cubs?
Maybe that explains the fetish with the shiny black boots.
(Not saying….just wondering)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rj-QpbSI6pQ/RoTZRcAGTOI/AAAAAAAAARQ/vE_76p1rgnE/s1600-h/_nazi_3.jpg
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I swear to whomever might be listening, Sarah Palin is where “dumb” MET “ass”.
And think of the multitudes that call this woman “sexy.” In fact, read yesterday that she is considered one of the top 10 sexiest women in the nation. Gimme a break. What kind of man would turn their back on this rifle toting broad. Ready, aim, fire. AK friends, you are in my thoughts.
Don’t you find it a bit odd that someone who claims to be
quite religious thinks they understand nature’s balance
better than God?
Predators actually help strengthen the herds by killing off
the sick and weak animals. I guess GINO and friends don’t
understand when you create a void in the ecosystem you
open the door for many unintended consequences.
Reap what you sow…
SP is a Sick B—-
So SP thinks the problem with the world is we need more killing…
Yes, AKM get the word out on HuffingtonPost and anywhere else…
Thanks AKM for this post, and for getting over Huffington. It is maddening that GINO continues to out do herself in wildlife “management”. Please everyone, do as AKM suggests and write your Senators and members of Congress. A strong letter to Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior would be most helpful too. I had hoped he would, in the spirit of the new Obama Administration, immediately make this one of his priorities, but once again, Interior is letting the country down. I understand GINO has already invited him to Alaska. And certainly any monetary donations to Defenders of Wildlife would help as they are developing another segment with Ashley Judd to air hopefully very soon.
Vistied the Wolfsong site again –
it has been awhile since last there.
additional information is avail. @
http://www.wolfsongalaska.org/
under News & Current Events
Oops forgot to add. The kind of man:::::: puttsy whipped. lol
OT: but an excellent reminder why GINO should not hold any elected
office – http://tinyurl.com/46lwxq
Okay, I am sitting here wondering if she is intentionally trying to ruin her life? Oh, wait, she is not smart enough to know that this might actually finally FINALLY push her over the edge. Hope HOPE HOPE!!! I think we should all send her teddy bears!! Isn’t there some service that sends Bear-grams on Valentines Day? I think it would be worth a few bucks.
How does this witch sleep at night??
Check out the defenders of FOOD . org…..this is the Alaska Professional Hunters Association Incorporated’s attempt to put governorgirl where she needs to be
RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS ISSUE
poor girls gonna hate this when this gets the national attention it deserves!
defendersoffood.org
AKM back on Huff Post
Another Great Job !!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akmuckraker/ill-get-you-my-prettyand_b_174815.html
Also love the article about “How Palin’s Publically Trash Their Exes”
Mandatory reading for anyone planning on Dating a PALIN !!
@ Pepper 1939
ROFLOL That putts (ha) a whole new spin on “putt putt golf” …
Laughing through the flies in my eyes.
Crying in my heart.
AKM, do you post on the Daily Kos? Want to start?
In the meantime, I will. And link it to you here.
@ Dr Patois re the “Hunt clubs”
There would *have* to be some kind of interchange between these clubs and the state, surely. I take it that the club furnishes the hunting license to the hunter? So, those fees would have to paid to the state, while said hunting club rakes in the difference (after the cost of the blasted airplane(s) ).
Sooooo, who owns the hunting clubs? Are there any big bucks donors to political campaigns included on that list?
I’m just sayin’
p.s.
do the snares kill the trapped beast or just hold ‘em until the big guns get there?
Congrats on getting it in Huff Po. Hopefully, it will garner a lot of attention.
Flyinyureye: great pic, perfect! Depicts her evilness perfectly!
I had occasion to call US Fish and Wildlife earlier this week re: the delisting of wolves in yellowstone park. The man was very nice and also took my comments about GINO and the predator control and how despicable it is and even letting kids participate!
If you want to call here is the contact number:
Call the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at 1-800-344-9453, select option “3” (for endangered species) and hit “0” to speak with the operator.
She is a SICKO and so is the rest of the BOG (her friends) to do this and want to include children in the killing!!
the wolfsong site also has contact info for people in Alaska.
Just for clarity, flyinureye is the graphic artist who did the witch picture at the top of the post. Bill Sherwonit is the writer who did the article in Alaska Dispatch. AKM
Sorry AKM, I obviously read it on Alaska Dispatch and I am very grateful to Mr. Sherwonit for spending his weekend listening to all of the horror so we might me informed. Flyinureye, it is a brilliant picture!
Below are links to organizations who have helped in the past. In Defense of Animals, Friends of Animals, and of course, my favorite, Defenders of Wildlife who had a representative at the meeting. I included the link to the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Service as well.
Start your campaigns!
http://www.idausa.org/
http://www.friendsofanimals.org/
http://www.defenders.org/
http://alaska.fws.gov/
Where is the sport in all this? There is none. Palin is a monster.
OMG! Just saw a link to HuffPo, AKM awesome! And Flyinureye…You will be famous now!
Get the word out about this vile creature!!!
AKM – thank you for getting this on Huff—- Children 10, 11,12, and even older are simply not ready for this bloody sport killing. Cubs? What will they (the kids) think? But, then any family who would take a child this young on this type of “jaunt” has some problems anyway. Arrrgh! SP is truly an enigma.
AKM – way to go !! can’t wait for the commenters to come out in full force over at Huffpo !! hey caligrl – thanks for coming back. and I STILL mean it about applying the lipstick……emphasis on stick.
O/T (but just can’t help myself)
“The lawyers of disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff have appealed against a judge’s decision to revoke his bail and send him to jail, a US court says. ”
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The man hasn’t even served 48 hrs yet and his attny’s are at it !!
(Hope they get paid LAST)
more @ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7943235.stm
LORDY…I Thought I was bad….
0whole1::::”I swear to whomever might be listening, Sarah Palin is where “dumb” MET “ass”.”
LLLLOOOOOLLLLL
palin is on Hypocrisy Watch on the David Schuster 1600 Pennsylvania Ave show……gufffawww
This seems like really, really poor wildlife management in action if it took them this long to realize the bears and wolves are decimating the moose and caribou herds that badly. Wildlife management is an on going process that’s where the “management” part comes it. But I wonder if it’s not a lot more then that. She had really big plans for sport hunters to come and and hunt polar bears now that the polar bear has been cemented into the Endangered Species Act again maybe this is her way of getting even and at the same time fill the lust of those blood thirsty hunters who will miss out on the polar bears. Kinda like a win, win situation the state still brings in the revenues and she gets to watch all those boys and girls kill defenseless critters. Cause well it’s fun!! She is evil and vindictive after all. Boy her day of Rapture can’t come soon enough for me.
Kmart – you’re just fine.
Shadow’s Heart – You say Rapture , I say Rupture,,,,,,,,
Austintx, thanks
and thank AKM!
that “and and” is an Oops!!!!
Can’t anything be done now?
It’s two years before Palin can be voted out of office. How much more damage can she do in that time?
palin requests “earmarks”!!!!!!!!…Alaska is #1 in the nation.
@mlaiuppa
It’s two years before Palin can be voted out of office. How much more damage can she do in that time?
Can’t anything be done now?
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I’m afraid to imagine how much more damage she can do…uhhh, how about a recall or impeachment? protests, marches, letters to Congress, KEEP the light shining on her, ad nauseum.
@Dr. Patois:
Grizzly Bear $8,500
Brown Bear $12,500
Trophy Fee on Grizzly Bear $9750, Moose $9450, Caribou $6800. These prices are on top of the $19,500 all inclusive (licenses, air charter, G.S.T. and meat flight) for the hunt.”
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Puts a whole new meaning on “It’s a Bear Market,” doen’t it?
In 2 years she can be responsible for the lives of many wolves and bears and traumatizing many kids!
She can do a lot of animal and human damage in that time. Who in their right mind would do this let along expose a kid to it?
Austintx, I’m with you lets put the “stick” in lipstick!!!!!
Shoot the mama bear, and gas the cubs and we’ll all be havin’ moose stew and cookies! Then we can work on progressing those pesky Native village leaders.
Next week we’ll have a “sighting in” party. Bring your rifles and stew cookie recipes. It will be more fun than draining upside down turkeys!
sjk – are you secretly a writer for Jon Stewart ?? speaking of Jon………he would have a blast with this…….if someone has his e-mail….fire away…….oops…..sorry…send him an e-mail.
GINO-LIPSTICK [or maybe not]
Kus Mijn Blauwe Ezel U Wijfje…[on-line translator-Dutch...hehehhe]
MEGa Gloss…[tries to cover up all of GINOs Bull Crap]
Redder Dearest…never enough for haraS maeT, watch out for wire hangers
Blushing Hide…see AK # I in Swingers Post…
Stimulus BloodSucking Lips…
Juicy Red State Lies…can’t tell a little white lie, she’s all about the whoooppper
Rouge A$$ Kisser……see Rush & AK # I in Swingers Post…
What can we do to get this article on the home page at Huffington Post? It desperately deserves to be there where it will really be noticed by the masses!
http://floydmorr.blogspot.com/
sjk::::
don’t forget these Bear Club [scout] Cookies!
Kmart – bravo !!
What’s a ho to do?
Kmart – Does Kus mean “kiss” ?? if so , I’m having a hoot figuring out the rest ……..LOL !!
Wasn’t SP herself hauled out to “learn to hunt” by her dad? Or am I mis-remembering that? Or was he the one that bragged on her about field-dressing a moose?
Dang. Too much info, too few memory cells left lol
Oh please! Somebody throw the bucket of water NOW!
Can’t describe how angry I feel after reading this. Wonder how Palin peeps would feel if a bounty had been given for gassing the Heath pups in their den years ago. Probably a bit harsh on my part, but perhaps we wouldn’t be having this abomination now.
For a blusher (she definitely needs, since she feels no natural shame), how about Goin’ Rogue Rouge?
Good to see you back, caligirl.
lipstick, one more,
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MARK MY WORDS
The Moose and Caribou population will DECREASE proportionately to the level of predator kill perpetrated.
Guns kill the stronger healthy animals.
Predators kill the weak and infirm.
THIS IS STUPID
Bess in Georgia, Myself and some others here are from Ga. too, also and let it be known that Shameless, Isakson, pushed Bush’s last ditch effort to remove the Polar Bears off the endangered list (S.Amdt. 599 to H.R. 1105 (Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009).. My fellow Alaskan friends Murkowski, Begich also voted to remove Polar Bears from the endangered species list. But you would think Murkowski would vote this way because it was her trying to strip language from the omnibus spending bill that would help restore vital protections for polar bears and hundreds of other species protected by the Endangered Species Act.
the problem child (an aunt, also):
Thanks, you were right BTW about the troll thing.
Wonderful article here on Huffington – by John Ridley
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/obama-v-palin-america-pic_b_174868.html
I hope it’s legal to post a link
OT OT
Sorry, I forgot to put “OT” on that last one
BigSlick(14:27:57) :
MARK MY WORDS
The Moose and Caribou population will DECREASE proportionately to the level of predator kill perpetrated.
Guns kill the stronger healthy animals.
Predators kill the weak and infirm.
THIS IS STUPID
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And overgrazing kills, too, if you have a temporarily increased population. And I emphasise that it WILL be temporary in these areas.
Here’s how I see it playing out:
The animals don’t recognize the boundaries between federal lands and state lands. If herds of caribou, for instance, increase to the point where they are overgrazing in one area, they’ll move into the federal areas, and impact the populations there, also. And many of the predators will follow. Meanwhile, the hunters will be complaining that there aren’t enough animals on the state lands, and say they need to kill MORE predators.
And just speaking of bears, I have never heard of bears going after ungulates, at least not where I live. Is it different in Alaska?
crystalwolf aka caligrl–very good to see you back!
@the problem child (an aunt, also) (14:39:36) :
Oh yes, the bears (esp. the brownies/grizzlies) eat ungulates here, esp. the calves, which is why GINO is so bound and determined to kill them all off so ALL the little moose and caribou grow up to be big enough for the trophy hunters to hunt.
For those that are not sure what snares are here is a link, BUT BE WARNED VERY DISTURBING: http://www.antisnaring.org.uk/gallery.html
Certain predators when caught in a snare by the foot or leg, will chew that limb off to escape the snare…
@Nan (14:36:24) :
(yes, perfectly fine and encouraged to post links!). That’s a great article.
There’s something vile about this, particularly in the context of what’s happening in the financial world. There’s such cynicism, and such willingness to strip resources–financial AND natural–for short-term gain. It’s like those in power have simply given up on the idea of a tomorrow. It’s tempting to put this down to more End Times mentality, but I think it goes beyond that. I find the idea of having as one’s stated goal killing off more than half of the representatives of ANY species astounding–what can that board, or committee, or whoever it is who made and voted upon this decision, be thinking? Our resources are not infinite, and it’s long past time we stopped behaving as if they are. And yet, I feel so powerless. I’m not even an Alaskan, for pete’s sake. I can affect what happens in my town, my area, my state, but I see those who should be most responsible running amok and it scares me. How do we persuade the powerful to grow consciences?
Getting some good comments on the HuffPo posting of this thread! It’s on the Politics page.
Hope you don’t mind AKM it is on topic, a poem:
THE SNARE
by James Stephens, 1915.
I hear a sudden cry of pain!
There is a rabbit in a snare;
Now I hear the cry again,
But I cannot tell from where.
But I cannot tell from where
He is calling out for aid;
Crying on the frightened air,
Making everything afraid.
Making everything afraid,
Wrinkling up his little face,
As he cries again for aid;
And I cannot find the place!
And I cannot find the place
Where his paw is in the snare:
Little one! Oh, little one!
I am searching everywhere.
@Tewise
I hesitated to click that link, then I read the next post. It answered my question.
yes, I did go to the link. Me being chicken seemed a poor excuse not to.
Honestly, I thought snares and traps had been illegal for years. Precisely because it was so inhumane.
We never seem to get it right, do we? Or if we do, we don’t retain the lesson, and wind up having to learn and relearn it over and over and over.
Once again, the stupid of our species want to be the only predator on the planet. The question is…………….why are there so many of these types in Alaska? I gather that the less endowed in the brain department tend to be attracted to the ‘last refuges’ which are also the last refuges of our once thriving wildlife. The Yukon is no exception, being Alaska’s equivalent in Canada, opened up by many of questionable backgrounds back in ’98 – having wafted through the goldrushes in California, Australia and British Columbia. There were many more Soapy Smiths than just the one. Scurrilous is a word that comes to mind. Unfortunately, this out-dated mentality of ‘if it moves, shoot it’ seems to thrive in these last outposts where ‘men can pretend to be men’ and confuse manhood with brute force. In your governor’s case, she ‘ain’t no lady’ to put it mildly – she is a wanna-be man with twisted logic and low standards. That old saying of ‘you’ll never make it in the bush’ can be applied to some of these Neanderthal throwbacks as “you’ll never make it in civilization’.
Other than a few pockets of ‘carefully managed and harvested (read killed)’ wildlife, until you weed out the mentally deficient Neanderthals that have escaped up to Alaska (probably one step ahead of the law), that is likely to be the future of Alaska and all other once unspoiled wildernesses.
Please help make Ginosaurus go from an endangered species to EXTINCTION. Impeach it now.
Sorry…off subject. MORE COOKIES FOR SARAH. A shameful incident in Juneau provides a great photo op for Sarah. Cookies strike again! http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031309/loc_408679248.shtml
“I also remain discouraged that, with few exceptions, Alaska’s conservation groups remain out of the picture”.
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Obviously the term “Conservation Group” in Alaska is like George Bush’s “Clean Air Act”, a meaningless phrase meant to deceive by pretending to be the opposite of what they really are.
I just sent the links to this story at both Mudflats and Huffington Post to the World Wildlife Fund. I hope it reaches the right people. Animal lovers, unite!
http://floydmorr.blogspot.com/
Maybe Bill Maher will address this issue. Has anyone e-mailed him or his people?
Slaughtergate
@snowbound
How cool is it that the guys in the “Correction Facility” want to “get the word out” that the Girl Scouts are off-limits.
AND COOKIES STRIKE AGAIN!
I just donated about bazillion cookies (which I bought because my son’s wrestling team was selling the dough to earn uniforms, then discovered I didn’t have room in my freezer for even one of the tubs) to the college up the road. Because I had roughly 20 dozen cookies (we were trying to win a jacket and I was rich in those days, okay?) I parked in the “deliveries” space behind the Administration building. I was “delivering,” right? Not according to campus police. They wrote me a ticket for $30 for “not registering” (with whom?) and for being in the “delivery” space. Boy, am I ticked! But in this crummy (no pun intended) experience lie the seeds of inspiration–possibly something similar could be used the next time the gov shows up with cookies rather than appropriate, substantive help in times of crisis? Might cure her of giving away cookies–it sure has put ME of the whole idea…
How does a woman develop such an insensitive and destructive mentality? She had to be one of those kids who were cruel to animals and would throw gasoline and a match on a kitten. This speaks volumes about her upbringing. Better still, how did she ever get voted into any public office? Yes, we need to make sure this article and its information go viral. She needs to be stopped and “Yes We Can” do it!
@Nan (15:04:08) :
Trapping is a very traditional activity in Alaska and many other states. Some people are still able to make a bit of a living at it, though most use it to supplement their other income. Some traps are instant kill, which are obviously more humane. There are problems when traps get set near trails where people let their dogs run off-leash, and there have been a number of recent dog deaths in Anchorage and Juneau.
I just went to the Interior dept. website and although the site wouldn’t let me attach a link to your site, I mentioned it prominently as well as my feelings regarding this issue. Please, everyone, for the sake of other sentient beings who can’t speak for themselves make a stink about this.
Tewise – thank you for the lovely and poignant James Stephens poem.
It reminded me of this short line from a longer poem by William Blake:
“A robin redbreast in a cage puts all of heaven in a rage.
A skylark wounded on the wing: a cherubim does cease to sing.”
The poem goes on to talk about how dimly heaven views certain humans who profane nature. Of course, Sarah is a total stranger to literature and theology outside her narrow church view, so this would be lost on her and her ilk.
OMG, I’d just heard about the inmates at LCCC buying cookies to sell inside and GINO’s planned appearance right before I refreshed this thread. I was getting my delivery of cookies and the mom was saying that the Council office is now out of cookies because of the publicity from the theft. Way to go Juneau!
I notice that when I log onto mudflats that there is an announcement that you have moved to http://www.themudflats.net. How do I log onto the forum? There is no “Join the Conversation” on the right as it was previously.
I’m not sure where I read it but apparently Sarah’s father and Wooten were hunting one time and came upon a wolf. Her father shot the wolf but didn’t kill it then tried to run it over with a snow mobile and laughed hilariously while the wolf cried out in pain. Finally Wooten shot the wolf in the head and put it out of it’s misery. All you need do is look into his eyes and you can see the sick kind of bastard that he is and she’s just like him. Both of them if not all of them are bereft of a soul.
@califpat (15:51:18) :
Click on the “The Mudflats Forum” link right under the “Join the Conversation” heading (it’s hiding right above the new sleeping bag thing photo).
@injuneau:
Thanks injuneau. I found it.
Makes me sick. Hoping for a special “freaky friday” for GINO. She wakes up as half wolf, half black bear, in the sights of an out-of-state sport hunter, just in time to say, “oh sh**” and get blown away. Buh, bye.
To borrow the guy’s words about Stanford in S. Carolina……”beyond the pale (palin).
I’m calling in every karma card I’ve got. Don’t care what happens to her, as long as it is worse than what she has pushed for every wolf, moose, black bear, whale, polar bear, etc.
At Nan:
We never seem to get it right, do we? Or if we do, we don’t retain the lesson, and wind up having to learn and relearn it over and over and over.
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Will you be my defacto grandmother? I miss the spot-on advice from my dearly beloved Grandma and Mimi.
You ROCK!
to flyinureye…. excellent work.. I was nearly fooled into thinking that was from the original movie!!!
Sabrina – What am I , chopped liver ??
http://defendersofwildfood.org/
LEARN THE FACTS ABOUT ALASKA’S WILD FOOD
Brought to you by….
THE ALASKA PROFESSIONAL HUNTERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
http://www.alaskaprohunter.org/
AND
Sportsman for Fish and Wildlife
http://www.sfwsfh.org/
These are the groups that run governorgirl and the BOG….
Scurrilous? Less endowed in the brain department? Mentally deficient Neanderthals?
Alaska? Yukon? Dang!
Denali National Park has healthy natural populations of wolves, bears–and also caribou, moose, and Dall sheep. How so when no bears or wolves are killed by humans? Provide plenty of habitat and let nature keep its own balance. Keeps us strong.
Moose Pucky (16:49:31) :
Scurrilous? Less endowed in the brain department? Mentally deficient Neanderthals?
Alaska? Yukon? Dang!
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You betcha!
After reading about this subhuman Bimbo, I suggest everyone talk this up to friends in the travel industry, cruise ship lines, local papers, pretty well everywhere. I know of many, many animal lovers who won’t want to drop a penny in Alaska if they know of the barbarity which is encouraged by this sick creature of a slovenor. Beyond disgusting!
Tewise (15:02:13)
;-(
(Why, oh WHY do I keep trying!)
Tewise, that poem made me cry!
flyinureye — everything you do is spectacular, but just have to say that THIS one is a true work of art!
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The one thought that keeps going through my mind is — if they’re going to kill off such large numbers of predators, where’s the ‘Mother Nature’ effect? … you know, the one where the old and unhealthy are naturally culled from the group? I can see some real genetic problems cropping up in future years if humans start doing Ma Nature’s job.
Shadow’s HeartNo Gravatar (15:53:46) :
I’m not sure where I read it but apparently Sarah’s father and Wooten were hunting one time and came upon a wolf. Her father shot the wolf but didn’t kill it then tried to run it over with a snow mobile and laughed hilariously while the wolf cried out in pain. Finally Wooten shot the wolf in the head and put it out of it’s misery. All you need do is look into his eyes and you can see the sick kind of bastard that he is and she’s just like him. Both of them if not all of them are bereft of a soul.
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OMG! The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree does it???
Well its obviously their all a pack of sociopaths! Did anyone send this to DoW? There is one in Anchorage and they were the only conservation group there or able to protest? Ugh! I can’t remember where I read it.
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Thank you InJuneau
MonaLisa (call me Kelly) in CTNo Gravatar (17:17:31) :
Tewise (15:02:13)
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@califpat
How does a woman develop such an insensitive and destructive mentality?
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Shadow’s Heart has your answer.
I’m not sure where I read it but apparently Sarah’s father and Wooten were hunting one time and came upon a wolf. Her father shot the wolf but didn’t kill it then tried to run it over with a snow mobile and laughed hilariously while the wolf cried out in pain. Finally Wooten shot the wolf in the head and put it out of it’s misery.
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her and her family seem manaical to the max!
…and they got rid of blago (unreal, thinking out loud)
I’ve tried to post comments on HuffPo since this afternoon and can’t???
Maybe b/c I called her a vile creature??? Pro-life my A$$???
New post, and it’s soothing…
@InJuneau
Thanks for the clarification (trapping). I kinda wish there were more feasible ways for hunting for food, but I don’t condemn *anyone* for feeding their families! Nor for using the means at hand to do it.
I do strongly disagree with the whole concept of wholesale slaughter – what we’ve been talking about here.
We only *think* we’re at the top of the food chain. ha!
She needs to be stopped..Very dangerous ..What is she like on a good day..yikess..GVS needs to see this..
@Sabrina (aka Karin in CT – I wondered where you’d gone!)
Aww… I’d be delighted and honored.
Hey, a family member I can actually talk politics with! lol
Its a terrible thing they are doing. On the bright side it will have very limited success. The forest out there on the Yetna is so thick it can’t be hunted by helicopter. And the mighty hunters will be crawling back to their boats after 100 feet of Alaska jungle. Once again Sarah Palin proves herself to be a dim bulb.
After reading the Alaska Dispatch story on this, I think this stuff seriously needs to get out to all MSM. I mean, Defenders of Wildlife was the only serious Green representative there? *Not* to knock ‘em at all – they’ve been wonderful – but this outcome is deplorable. And even our own AK press didn’t spend much time listening to all the testimony.
The fact that this affects GINO’s home district makes it the worst. And the people she appointed.
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We live in a verrrrrry small remote bush community on the Yukon – hard to get to by anyone’s standards. Every year during moose hunting, here come the big new rigs – new trucks/trailers, fancy boats, ATVs – and they all park right next to our house so sometimes we can’t even get out of our driveway. (Jealous?–well, yeah maybe…) But what I resent is that they breeze in to get that trophy moose and breeze back to Anchorage or Wasilla or wherever it is they come from. And in the past few years the folks in our town haven’t come out with very many moose. Here, we don’t hunt for sport. We hunt to eat.
The article was great; the information really, really disturbing. We have been to Alaska five times, and it is partly this kind of thing that made us slack off on going up there.
I believe there are many people on this planet who won’t be happy until we are the only animals left. Only then will they realize their mistake. But it will be too late.
I’ve sent both blog post to DoW!
What she’s doing is despicable! And if it isn’t bad enough they want kids to participate in kill baby kill!
I just pray, everyday the FEDS will take her away! She has so many gates, throw ‘em on the wall and see what sticks!
This Mudflats post is currently the lead story on The Daily Kos. Way to go,
AK!
she is just plain evil!
please, get rid of her!
I was aware that Sarah Palin, Wicked Witch of the West, was evil, but gassing wolf pups in their dens? Sickeningly, stomach turning-ly evil. I wasn’t aware of HOW intent GINO is on upsetting the balance of nature.
Califpat wrote: How does a woman develop such an insensitive and destructive mentality? She had to be one of those kids who were cruel to animals and would throw gasoline and a match on a kitten. This speaks volumes about her upbringing. Better still, how did she ever get voted into any public office? Yes, we need to make sure this article and its information go viral. She needs to be stopped and “Yes We Can” do it!
May I propose that GINO (Governor in Name Only – for anyone unfamiliar with the acronym) is not just a sociopath but a psychopath, also, too?
I like that you showed GINO as a wicked witch in the visual, AKM, good job.
Re: your earlier post about GINO as Santa Claus (if she can do a “tour of rural Alaska” in only an afternoon, then maybe she’s practicing to be Santa…) – why would GINO require a team of wolves for transportation from the North Pole if she has her loyal mouthpiece Meg Stapleton at her beck and call, available to be shapeshifted into a trusty broomstick?
AKM: “It is well known that Sarah Palin has stacked the board of game with “harvesters” while shunning conservationists.”
How can balanced wildlife management policies be implemented if there’s not balance in the Board of policy makers??
Just WHO do these skewed policies benefit??
From AKM’s post and the palingates blog (mentioned earlier by Dr. Patois), it’s pretty clear that local sports hunters and outfitters, as well as wealthy hunters from the lower 48 and beyond, are the beneficiaries (aka “like-minded people who share her vision.”) Certainly not the traditional subsistence hunters, since GINO has showed her unequivocal disdain and disrespect for their culture and needs. Certainly not the wildlife itself. And certainly not the people who disagree with these policies.
flyinureye….Great work satirizing the “Wicked Witch of Wildlife!!” GINO could use a Kansas house spinning out of the blue and landing on her about now….might make her realize that Alaska is not hers and her friends to personally plunder.
@crystalwolf aka caligrl (18:27:44) :
I’ve sent both blog post to DoW!
ATTAWAY!!!!
Just hafta say this …
I’m just a rural bush Alaska resident … NOT Native.
But believe me, Native Alaskans and rural Alaskans have much in common …… and we really do need to get together to help make policy in our state. All of our futures depend upon it.
GINO is ready to sacrifice all of rural/Native Alaska to get what she wants.
Hey. Great post. Do you think you could provide a hyperlink to the original story next time, in this case, alaskadispatch.com?.
Thanks.
Amanda Coyne
Sorry. I see it now. Thanks again. Great post.
Thank you for posting the piece by Bill Sherwonit. Important stuff. AKM
@Canadian Against Dubya of the Bush Crime Family Setting Foot in Our Country (21:10:46) :
“…why would GINO require a team of wolves for transportation from the North Pole if she has her loyal mouthpiece Meg Stapleton at her beck and call, available to be shapeshifted into a trusty broomstick?”
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ahh, very good question!!!
Amanda (23:00:10) :
Hey. Great post. Do you think you could provide a hyperlink to the original story next time, in this case, alaskadispatch.com?.
Thanks.
Amanda Coyne
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@Amanda (23:00:10) :
If that was my fault, I apologize. I thought it was in the original article — but did not check it out.
You’re right, we should always provide the link. You’re pretty go**amn good — thanks for checking — and especially for reading Mudflats !!!
Typical Evangelical: hypocritical and heartless.
I found this on the HuffPo.
@BigSlick (14:27:57) :
The Moose and Caribou population will DECREASE proportionately to the level of predator kill perpetrated.
Guns kill the stronger healthy animals.
Predators kill the weak and infirm.
THIS IS STUPID
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UH — EXACTLY !!!!!
@BodieP (15:01:46) :
There’s something vile about this, particularly in the context of what’s happening in the financial world. … I find the idea of having as one’s stated goal killing off more than half of the representatives of ANY species astounding–what can that board, or committee, or whoever it is who made and voted upon this decision, be thinking? Our resources are not infinite, and it’s long past time we stopped behaving as if they are. And yet, I feel so powerless. I’m not even an Alaskan, for pete’s sake. I can affect what happens in my town, my area, my state, but I see those who should be most responsible running amok and it scares me. How do we persuade the powerful to grow consciences?
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Bodie, I truly do not know. Wish I did.
But all I know is, we’ve got to take control of this, because it’s totally OUT of control.
Somehow the people who have a conscience need to make their voices heard in our country – before it’s too late.
Thanks, AKM, for this article and all your efforts. I will do what I can as well. Palin is obviously a cold hearted person.
What is wrong with you all? Whenever I go killing for fun, oops, I mean sport hunting, of course I expect to be supported by helicopter gunships. It is the socialist way. Schedule cranial detonation. Snark.
Love it AKM! The Daily Kos has you front page headliner, with the great picture by flyinureye!!. I’m thinking viral, Toast! I tell you, GINO is TOAST!
aoeu (01:21:12) :
What is wrong with you all? Whenever I go killing for fun, oops, I mean sport hunting, of course I expect to be supported by helicopter gunships. It is the socialist way. Schedule cranial detonation. Snark.
HUH ????????
Here you go for giggles this am…..click on the heads. The person that did the “palinforpresident” site needs to come back with a clock. My suggestion for a Sarah be gone clock would be “Countdown to Ectstasy” (credit to Steely Dan)
http://www.democrats.org/page/content/partyofno
I apologize in advance for the following rant. I would like to say it makes me feel better. But it doesn’t.
Scientists who study “populations” of just about any type of living organism, (including political and other types of polls) in both statistical studies, behavioral, ecological, and genetic studies – are pretty much in agreement that a population of around 10,000 (or a statistical study of around 10,000) is the Minimum necessary to maintain a healthy population. (or to get a really accurate poll or statistical result.)
This number, 10,000, if it applies to living, in the wild, organisms also has to include genetic diversity and environmental diversity in order to assure survival of the species if disease or natural disaster strikes a portion of the surviving population.
(There are a few wild card species that live in only one environment, like some cave insects, and pup fish in desert sink holes, but even they need the same minimum of genetic diversity to deal with changes and diseases in their limited world.)
(World zoos are beginning to have difficulty maintaining species robustness because of extensive inbreeding in zoo animals like elephants, tigers, and lions.)
Alaska’s black bear population, like that of many or most of the world’s large animal populations (except us of course) is already too low to insure healthy survival.
So why not just kill all of them and get it over with Sarah? It’ll make you feel closer to God. Along with Drill Baby Drill, its Kill Baby Kill to Extenction.
Consider the lilies of the field and then plow them under for those cute organge carrots in Cambell soup.
It is estimated that by the Middle Ages 150 species of large animals that were indigenous to the British isles, had been killed or driven to extension, including the native deer. The deer in Britain now were imported so the aristocracy could have deer to hunt and kill kill kill.
Does it strike anyone else that Palin like Bush is growing increasingly and dangerously insane. She is so amoral, filled with hate, and the need to harm that she is likely to increase her “Sherman’s march to the sea” tactics of burning and pillaging everything she can get her hands on. The Tsarina like Duhbya is a control freak, if you can inflict pain or destroy, you are in control of.
(Does it strike anyone else that instead of the devil being exorcised out of her, it was instead exorcised into dear sweet loving Sarah?)
I hope for Alaskan’s and American’s sake that some group or groups will come up with the means to thwart her as much as possible. I hope for her children’s sake somebody will slap a straight jacket on her, duct tape that awful mouth, and put her away somewhere where the rest of the world, and her children, are safe from her.
Extreme Christian Lifestyle ?? http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/03/14/joyce_quiverfull/
Hey just wanted to let you know I got here through http://www.dailykos.com.
Guess you have already seen the post. Sooooo good to read a blog of substance from Alaska. I got to checking in with ADN during the election and reading the letters/opinions and I must say I am still shaking my head. Won’t go into detail, I am sure you all know what I am talking about.
And I agree with a post above that Palin has no idea how we feel about her. I am not sure which was the bigger feeling when Obama won; joy that he was our President or relief that she was not anywhere near President. (not sure if I did that coding right – we’ll see
guess not
but you get the drift
@Austintx
Wow, glad you posted that. good on her for getting out, too! (both of ‘em)
@sugarmoon
A lot of us found Mudflats when Palin was selected for the VP spot. It’s been an education for sure. (Welcome to Mudflats!)
Nan
I’ve just developed a nifty new sport — Palin Hunting. No, it doesn’t include firearms, just a bunch of camera loving stalker mindset-type folks to follow the family around on ALL of it’s daily activities. Imagine! Oldest son doing drugs in Iraq, Hubby Todd at the Child Molesters Convention, Daughter Bristol dropping trou for anything that looks, even vaguely, like Chuck Norris. Oh, and then there’s Sara herself and the case of the missing candle… Gawd, the fun that could be had.
One would think after the reign of Bush, that people wouldn’t elect a moron. But I guess Alaskans don’t really pay attention to the Lower 48 and Washington politics.
Hopefully, Sarah will not do irreparable harm to the State, but she sure is trying to destroy it, asap with her boga-boo extreme fundamentalism.
Palin is horrific, it is very disturbing to read about her nonsense. There must be a cell with rubber padding and Sarah’s name on it some where. Perhaps it’s that “undisclosed bunker” Cheney used to supposedly hide out in, from time to time.
I haven’t read all the comments, but do not doubt that mine has or will be echoed somewhere. This is obscene. This all-out slaughter on the wildlife that “Alaskans hold dear,” that attracts tourists from the Lower 48….it’s just obscene. SP has done her level best to make an absolute mockery of governing, managing, and leading. She’s like a character from the “Terminator” movies, only in a skirt.
Meansit – I hear ya on the pics. I really can’t believe we are not seeing pics. Most cell phones are camera equipped. Welcome Sugarmoon !! Hang around and post , it’s fun !! Tell your friends also.too.
@El Jefe { Charlie } (16:45:04) :
Sabrina – What am I , chopped liver ??
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Sorry Charlie! Or should I call you “gramps?”
@Nan (18:05:59) :
@Sabrina (aka Karin in CT – I wondered where you’d gone!)
Aww… I’d be delighted and honored.
Hey, a family member I can actually talk politics with! lol
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Thanks Nan!
I hear you on talking politics/family. I’m banned from discussing the topic with my bunch. My son is a mini-politician (he’s in the student senate in college) and even he’s sick of hearing about it.
Thank goodness for the Flats!
CO almost native – posted and told about her friends group of 70 , who upon learning about this , bailed on AK. and went to Canada…….I know a lot of small business will suffer because of a boycott – but dang it – if they all band together and show the Leg. and Gov.Palin the error of her ways……I dunno know any more ?!?!
No , not a “gramps” yet…….
Marnie (05:14:10
Marnie, excellent post! I think we all agree with you, she surrounds herself with her “cronies” and therefore thinks she “untouchable”….Somewhere THERE IS a chink in that armor…
I just hope we can stop her before she does too much damage to Environment and animals…
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Austintx: thanks for the links
How can we stop the biggest massacre of wildlife since the buffalo hunters from happening?
The only way to stop this is starve them. An economic boycott of Alaska. Do not take a cruise, don’t go fishing, hiking, camping. If you are going to spend money on those activities do it in Canada or the lower 48. The cruise ship industry is the big money maker don’t get on a boat in Alaska. And flood the ADN’s editorial office, governors’ office, Mayor offices in Ketchikan, Sitka, Juno, Anchorage, and Kenai.
Defenders of Wild Food . org
Call this number and send a message to Salazar! Call the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at 1-800-344-9453
No to wolf & bear killing and aerial hunting and involving young children!
I was so unbelievably disgusted by this latest Palin attack on wildlife that I couldn’t even comment last night. Instead I went to Defenders of Wildlife and sent them a link to this post. Then I posted the Mudflats link on my facebook and wrote more on two of my blogs. Not that many people actually read my blogs, but I did feel better knowing that I was helping get the word out, if only to a few.
Someone may have pointed it out already, but last year there was a hiker on Sauk Mountain in Washington state who was killed by a hunter. Now, here’s the thing. The hunter was 14 and with his brother who was 16. Experienced. But nonetheless, not discerning enough to see that he was shooting at a woman wearing a light blue jacket – and it was morning. Later they said it was foggy and he thought he was shooting at a bear. A bear? Are you kidding me?
Including children in the blood lust of killing anything on four legs is perhaps the part of all of this latest move by the Palin minions that I find most disturbing. Even if they are with an adult, they are not old enough or clear thinking enough to be hunting. If they have to have a gun in their hands, then take them out for target practice. But they should be learning about the wonder of animal life not how to destroy it.
Maybe that’s the key to Palin’s problem. She was taught at an early age (8 by her father’s proud account) to handle a gun, and had her first kill at age 10. That’s so creepy on every level. No wonder she has no regard for animals other than seeing them as targets.
Thanks, AKM, for keeping all of us up to date on Palin’s latest insanity.
Looks like President Obama doesn’t much care for wolves either:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031303211_pf.html
Not meant to offend those in the party who are decent representatives of our sick species, but just exactly what is wrong with what seems to be the majority of Republicans? Dick Cheney going to ‘farms’ where he could kill up to 40 birds planted upside down in bushes, flushed out by dogs for him to kill. Irresponsibly sending men and women (never any relatives of theirs) to almost certain death or severe wounding/maiming to self-created wars, created for their personal gain, and now this obscenity of a female who has no respect for life of any kind it seems, the spawn of a very sick father who should never have been allowed in a schoolroom near vulnerable children. The more I learn of these ‘old-school, bible-thumping low EQ” creeps, the more I realize that the decent people left in the US have to step up to the plate and make a lot of noise and put these people out of everyone’s misery by relegating them back under the rocks from which they’ve crawled. The total disrespect for “Mother” nature and “Mother” earth speaks volumes – this Republican party has deteriorated into a chauvinistic, misogynistic party of old men and either Men in Drag (like Palin) or mindless women (like Stepford wives – i.e. bubble brains with big hair, big (phony) boobs, neon teeth, plastic faces, and the intelligence of unwashed ashtrays). Time to take the country back and teach these spawn of these foul creatures respect for the earth and ALL of its creatures (including us). And while we’re at it – I cannot believe the garbage people throw out their car windows. Does no one take pride in their country at all or has it just become one huge garbage can for those birds who insist on dirtying their own nest.
End of rant.
Hi Meteor Blades. Nice feature on that Green Diary rescue.
VidOmnia, thanks for that link.
This comes from Salazar. His background is ranching.
Supporting the removal of wolves in the Rockies from the Endangered Species list is controversial, for sure, but far from the all out endorsement and financial support for aerial slaughter that is the case with Palin’s Alaska.
Mail back all the tourism brochures with Sarahs face on them that say “The Face of Alaska” with a Sharpie red X thru her face with a curt note saying “Thanks , but No Thanks !!”
VidOnmia is, as you might have guessed, a GINO troll, who most recently has been fouling the Alaska Dispatch.
Of course, the link is to a respected news source, but in the circumstances, a red herring. We might not like Salazar’s decision, but that is an issue for another day. I don’t hear those western states proposing to let children take part in hunts, nor do they propose gassing cubs in their dens.
That would be “VidOmnia”.
More people come to AK. for non-hunting tourism by far. Start stompin’ and back this b***h DOWN !!
Vo a c4P troll
Hello!
Some environmentalists and congressional Democrats are unhappy that Salazar cleared the way for hunting of the once-imperiled wolves just days after President Obama declared his support for federally protecting vulnerable species.
once again Vidious odious got it wrong!
I’ve been trying to find that story about Palin’s father and Wooten. Now I’m wondering if it was a spin on the father shooting a wolf, wounding it and then supposedly Wooten chased it down with a snowmobile and shot it three more times which I guess is illegal, chasing a wolf and shooting from a snowmobile that is. I read so much on Sarah Palin during those first few months she came on the scene my head was spinning. But I had to read the shooting it in the head thing somewhere its not something one would make up so my search continues.
However in my search I found a quote from Chuck Heath on a sight called “Wolfsong” taken from the ADN in 2003 referring to the tourist trade boycott over the aerial hunting of wolves back then.
“To those people who advocate a tourist boycott of Alaska as a result of the proposed wolf-control program here, I say, have at it! It will simply be their loss if they stay away.
I do wish a few of those East Coast wackos, who know little or nothing about Alaska, will slip through the boycott and, upon departing our state, leave for home with a wolf under each arm.”
– Chuck Heath / Wasilla
My first assessment of him and the whole Palin clan still stands.
Shadow’s Heart:“To those people who advocate a tourist boycott of Alaska as a result of the proposed wolf-control program here, I say, have at it! It will simply be their loss if they stay away.
I do wish a few of those East Coast wackos, who know little or nothing about Alaska, will slip through the boycott and, upon departing our state, leave for home with a wolf under each arm.”
– Chuck Heath / Wasilla
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God what a#$-h*&^%! The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree…does it?
This need to be posted on HuffPo AKM’s article. I would do it but my posts don’t go through…something about “vile creature” and “Pro-life..my A$$”???
Shadow’s Heart – SIGH……..F**K chuck.
I will try to post that comment on HuffPo…grrrrr….vile creature….
@austintx
More like F**ked up chuck
I do wish a few of those East Coast wackos, who know little or nothing about Alaska, will slip through the boycott and, upon departing our state, leave for home with a wolf under each arm.”
– Chuck Heath / Wasilla
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A perfect example of your education tax dollars NOT at work!! Lol. Neanderthal man and his bleeding knuckles. I think we should let the healthy and genetically strong wolves ‘have at it’ and weed out the genetically inferior of our species, like above. No guns or knives allowed, – just past-puss man versus cunning wolf. We could all leave for home with the dollops of his miniscule brain in the palm of one hand (assuming, of course, that the little fella has a brain at all!)
“pasty-puss man” that should read
I, for one, resent his ignorance about what we know about Alaska. Having ties to Alaska since the goldrush of 1898 and having lost some of my ancestors in the Princess Sophia disaster of 1918 on Vanderbilt reef in Lynn Canal and having been to Alaska many times, starting with the 1960′s, I gather this fool knows little of Alaska’s history and certainly sullies the history of the natives of that fine land by his encouragement of the destruction of its natural resources. He is a prime example of someone who needs to learn from the past and to look at older countries whose ‘big game’ consists now of birds, foxes, and domesticated ungulates where bozo brains such as himself can go and ‘bag a deer’ while out ‘pseudo-hunting’ on a fenced enclosure. Sorry, little man, you are one of the world’s losers. Grow up, grow a brain, and use it to evolve.
Isn’t chuck from Idaho ?? Maybe he would be more at home at one of those neo-nazi , white supremacist enclaves in the woods there. I understand there are several. NO offense to clear thinking Idahoans(?).
Vlad – creationists are unevolved………just sayin’……he ain’t changin’.
What do you think of the commerical that’s been airing with the AK Native man telling people to stay out of their wildlife management stuff? You know, the one like the littering commerical from the 70s with the tear running down the Native American’s cheek while he sits on his horse above a major highway? This guy has a tear too. What do the AK Natives think of Palin’s policies? They seem skewed toward the sportsman, but she touts them as being good for subsistence lifestyles as well.
I don’t see how gassing wolf pups can be spun to sound anything less than amoral, but I’m aware that’s never stopped Palin from trying.
Here is a bizarre story from Alaska Dispatch.
Racist threatened to kill NY Gov. because of Palin’s remarks
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/palin-watch/10-palin-watch/990-racist-threatened-to-kill-paterson-because-of-palins-remarks-which-may-or-may-not-have-been-racist-
*big irony alert* He’s a christian who doesn’t like hunters!
wingnuts!
No offense to Real Christian’s intended…
Here is from Amazon about his book “This is one of the best books ever written on the subject of animal welfare. Scully, a journalist and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, chooses to fight on his own ground, and he rightly argues that the important thing is not insisting upon equal “rights” for animals but in treating them with a modicum of respect and dignity. His book is as close as a philosophy can come to representing “animal rights” goals while not proclaiming animals to be equal in status to humans, as do classic works like Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation.”
Wonder what he would think of GINO killing Wolves and their cubs and Mama bears and their cubs???? just sayin’…..
austintx (11:16:55) :
Vlad – creationists are unevolvedâ?¦â?¦â?¦just sayinâ??â?¦â?¦he ainâ??t changinâ??.
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Lol – that’s called ‘selective cherry-picking reasoning’ – Little mr. heath has evolved away from the fig leaf of Adam (although in heath’s case it was probably a one-leaf-clover) into today’s chemically-created clothing. Surely, a brain can’t be far behind.
austintx (11:16:55) :
Vlad – creationists are unevolved………
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I couldn’t agree more……..
Sorry, Scully is the one who wrote GINO’s speech, not threatened the Mayor. Its kind of confusing there, sorry, sorry, sorry!
@Larry K
The only way to stop this is starve them. An economic boycott of Alaska. Do not take a cruise, don’t go fishing, hiking, camping. If you are going to spend money on those activities do it in Canada or the lower 48. The cruise ship industry is the big money maker don’t get on a boat in Alaska.
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I agree…hit ‘em in the pocketbook where it hurts! That always works to make a change, but you’re dealing with a psycho named palin…no telling there.
hey, crystalwolf aka caligrl………how’d you change your kaleidoscope thingy to that cool wolf picture? I tried to change mine, but I’m having trouble, so I must be leaving out a step…or two.
@austintx……I heard that also, too about Idaho…never been there to verify.
I betcha palin would fit right back in though. Too bad she was relocated to Alaska…feel sorry for you guys with all this negative attention.
“Shadow’s HeartNo Gravatar (10:33:32) : I’ve been trying to find that story about Palin’s father and Wooten. Now I’m wondering if it was a spin on the father shooting a wolf, wounding it and then supposedly Wooten chased it down with a snowmobile and shot it three more times which I guess is illegal, chasing a wolf and shooting from a snowmobile that is. I read so much on Sarah Palin during those first few months she came on the scene my head was spinning. But I had to read the shooting it in the head thing somewhere its not something one would make up so my search continues.”
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You can find this under Troopergate. Wooten explains what Sarah’s father did in the police interview transcripts…. Sarah’s father (the great hunter) invites Wooten to go wolf hunting on snow mobiles. Mr Heath shoots wolf in the back, injuring it. He fires again, missing it. The wolf runs off but Heath chases it on his snowmobile and runs over it. Wooten then kills it with his police depart issued pistol.
This whole thing just sickens me. Seems as though SP will do whatever she can to destroy the environment and wildlife.
For many years, we’ve been looking forward to RVing in Alaska, to see American’s last wilderness and enjoy the abundant wildlife. I have to say, though, that since that awful day when John McCain plucked her out of relative obscurity and put her in the national limelight, we’re not that anxious to make that trip. And now that I’m finding out how anxious she is to kill off the majority of wildlife, I guess she’s not interested in tourist dollars.
Thanks, Mudflats, for the informative article.
I’m not giving up. I have already contacted Salazar and tonight I also contacted Obama – felt I had to after reading that article in the Post. If he knows how we really feel about this, perhaps he can get Salazar to leave all of the wolves alone. In memory of my late and much beloved wolf hybrid Maggie, I feel I have to do something for her wild kindred.
Lainey(14:42:09) go to the FAQ on the top of the page AKM explains it, but you have to sign up a Gravatar and upload your pic, then it is linked by your email address in wordpress and some other blogging. A PIA but worth it.
You can upload more than one so you can switch. I had a wolf wearing a Santa hat for Christmas
Maria from Landover Hills, MD-Yes I have also contacted Salazar, DoW, And someone in Alaska? I think from the wolfsong site.
“In memory of my late and much beloved wolf hybrid Maggie”
I’m sorry you lost a great and loyal friend….
I just got a email from wolfsong and they posted AKM’s blog to their website
http://wolfsongnews.org/news/Alaska_current_events_3049.html
I just got a email from wolfsong…they posted AKM’s blog on their site:
http://wolfsongnews.org/news/Alaska_current_events_3049.html
I’m really not a troll I just lost my shortcut to this site and for the life of me couldn’t remember the name,thought it was mud puppies LOL.This is one of the best blogs I have ever been on,not that i have blogged very long,Now I know why Mr Heath stuck up for her he is just as bad. If it wasn’t for this site and ADN to some extent none of us in the lower 49 would know what was really going on up i Alaska.Even with family up there we don’t get into these kinds of thinks it is mostly family stuff. Love the witch picture by the way.How can some one claim to be pro-life and kill baby animals.It would be different if it was grown animals for food but how can this woman live with herself and Mr heath How does he live with him selfafter what he did,That whole family needs to be sent I don’t know maybe to the north pole and let them kill what they can find