Several days have passed since Sarah Palin's final stop on the "Quitstock" Tour. I feel like I've awoken from a strange, surreal dream. I can't yet tell if it was real or not.
I listened closely to Palin's final speech as governor. Her classic "word salad" style is no less confusing in print. What Palin was supposed to read off the teleprompter--what was released as the transcript, and what she actually said, are two different things. AKM at The Mudflats blog transcribed the actual speech and deserves the "Golden Comma Award" for her efforts.
Palin's politicization of the troops was vulgar. Her right-wing claim to the second amendment was offensive. Her verbal spanking of the "media" was laughable-the same media she was so grateful for covering her "exit strategy" from the governorship of Alaska.
With such a large national audience, Palin didn't talk about the plethora of issues facing Alaska. Why would she? She has much bigger fish to fry. She decided to slam Ashley Judd instead. Yes, really.
I don't know Ashley Judd, but I like her. I know this must shock the Palinistas; they think I dislike Sarah because she's pretty. According to Palin, she is some sort of Hollywood pixie; a "delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlet." I don't judge Ms. Judd on her stunning appearance; but on the criteria of her politics...just like Palin.
"...you're going to see anti-hunting, anti-second amendment circuses from Hollywood and here's how they do it. They use these delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets, they use Alaska as a fundraising tool for their anti-second amendment causes. Stand strong, and remind them patriots will protect our guaranteed, individual right to bear arms, and by the way, Hollywood needs to know, we eat, therefore we hunt."
Sarah brought up a fight she lost. Ashley Judd's ads fighting Palin's policy on aerial hunting and the gassing of wolf pups still in their den, were effective. While governor, Palin dedicated $400,000 to fight against the citizen initiative to ban the practice. Her faith based science included bears in the aerial program. As incendiary as the topic is, bringing it up in her final speech was more telling. Mean-girl, high school, vindictive Palin had to get another shot across the bow of the SS Ashley Judd.
The late Charlton Heston, president of the NRA, was from Hollywood. The lionized President Reagan was from Hollywood.
As an Alaskan who has trapped and hunted, the aerial killing of animals is to hunting what hiring a hooker is to dating. A sure thing, with no work. No wonder it appealed to former governor Palin.
Just this week, Congressman George Miller and Senator Dianne Feinstein have introduced the Protect America's Wildlife (PAW) Act, federal legislation to end the controversial practice of using aircraft and gunmen to chase and kill wolves in Alaska. Please contact your legislators and tell them to support the PAW Act.
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1. Alaskans eat WOLVES!?!?!
2. Ever heard of farms, fruit, vegetables, grains?
Heroes die for humanity, and yes we eat for humanity. But why "aerial hunting and the gassing of wolf pups still in their den"? Are they "truly" in-Palin's-way that there's no room on earth for them?
I'd like to thank Mockley for posting this: "The balance of nature is a precarious thing and the entrance of man into the equation is a recipe for disaster."
The killing of wolves in any way is wrong. The balance of nature is a precarious thing and the entrance of man into the equation is a recipe for disaster.
For those of you interested in a better understanding of wolves, may I suggest picking up a copy of "Never Cry Wolf" by Farley Mowatt, who is a national treasure here in Canada. It was also made into a movie which remains faithful to the book.
I assure you will have a different perpective on these wonderful creatures.
So, we are left to some notion of morality to killing; be it ourselves or other living things. Any slaughter house video will leave you squeamish...as well as the rest you suggest. Any true view of war will easily do the same. There is no honor in taking life, yet, we are left with little choice. At what point can I not be heartless?
I was faced with the same dilemna and became a vegan.
What a twisted mind you have. I'm sorry for you. How dare you slander good people who step up for animal rights? Who are you to say what kind of person I am? You don't know me, thank God.....and you can't talk about me without my defending myself and others who work for animals.
I also work to take care of people.
What, sir, do you do?
Here's the whole bill:
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=c889c91f-5056-8059-765d-986a0b21aba0&Region_id=&Issue_id=
I have snared wolves with my father. I lack a squeamish nature when it comes to hunting on the ground. Wounding an animal out of a plane with nowhere to land and "finish the job" is vulgar. What the country needs to know is Alaskans who are pro-hunting think she is guano crazy with her policy.
Puzzled, squeamish, anti-hunting, vegan.
I eat, therefore I shop.
Any hunter or trapper has an unfair advantage over animals and take the chance of wounding an animal and then needing to finish the job. And I don't think a snare or trapping is much better. Like the other poster said, often the animals die a slow death.
My friend lost her dog in a trap and it was traumatizing for her.
then they wouldn't of been born with feelings
So to see them as nothing more than a moving "plant" .. is blocking their feelings/pain out of your mind
I actually like hunting.. for food.(I personally don't do it).. but not for sport. If someone kills an animal, quickly I hope, and packages it up and eats it .. good! I find that more humane than buying packaged meat from factory farms.
But this sport thing.. messed in the brain. Something is not connecting in there. Seeing something suffer is not "fun" and if it is to someone..that is scary. Just another reason ms. palin creeps me out.
I hunt and I defy you to tell me why there is any dif than you (if you eat meat) going to the grocery store for a pound of hamburger? Actually, if you know how it works, my kill is faster & cleaner, far more humane than a slaughterhouse killing. Why would you have a problem? Or is this an elitist thing where only designated hitmen can kill, provide my family w/food? And what suffering do you refer to? You really believe that a slaughterhous offers less suffering than a clean shot? Your experience in such matters or are we dealing w/pure emotion, that meat grows on trees?
Sorry, but I've never understood, could never comprehend why libs want us to fall back a step or two from the top of the chain? Would you prefer that lions be released into our neighborhoods, grabbing whatever food they can find? It really is a matter of eat or be eaten, the reason we have meat & fish departments at the local supermarket and why we kill creatures that destroy crops.