Tell her she can’t shoot caribou but one day a year. And who in Obama’s Islamic Kenyan Socialist Federal Government would dare to stymie the Real Americans of Alaska in this evil manner? Uh, no one. It’s Alaska’s bureaucrats that are the problem:
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Friday that it would close the Fortymile caribou herd hunt after a single day.
In an effort to avoid an over harvest, the season will close 11:59 p.m. Sunday. […]
In two of the past three seasons, the Fortymile hunt has closed early because caribou were congregated near the highway, easily accessible to hunters.
Last year, for instance, hunters exceeded the quota by 36 percent in just three days, killing 870 animals. As a result, the winter Fortymile hunt was cancelled.
What the hell are those state bureaucrats thinking? That just because Palin quit as Governor they could get away with ruining the lives of Hunters? Well, actually, maybe they’re a little concerned that the caribou (reindeer everywhere else on the world) population is declining so rapidly large scale hunting is no longer viable unless we want to make Santa’s sleigh pullers extinct within the next generation.
June 22, 2009 — In Alaska, Canada, Greenland and other Arctic regions, people depend on caribou and reindeer as both a food source and a spiritual anchor. A new study reports that the animals have declined dramatically in recent decades.
Overall, caribou and reindeer populations have dwindled by an average of nearly 60 percent, the study found. In some cases, dips have been far more extreme than that. […]
Land development is one of the biggest threats to caribou and reindeer, especially for the subspecies that migrate long distances. Caribou are among the few species left that have retained their ancient migration routes, said Justina Ray, executive director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Toronto.
Even those that don’t migrate need lots of space, and they’re extremely sensitive to changes in their environment. Logging has changed much of their habitat from old-growth forests to leafier vegetation. […]
Climate change is another problem, albeit an indirect one. For one thing, warming has increased mosquito populations to the point where caribou spend so much time running around and shaking off insects that they don’t eat enough to make it through winter with a good supply of stored body fat.
With warming, whitetail deer have also spread further north — bringing along a parasitic disease that doesn’t sicken the deer but does kill the caribou. At the same time, spring is getting greener earlier that it used to, but caribou haven’t adjusted the timing of their migrations. As a result, birthing females are missing out on the freshest vegetation and the chance to build up the highest-quality milk for their calves.
Of course, I’m sure the communist overlords of The Discovery Channel (i.e., anyone who buys its stock listed on NASDAQ) are lying about climate change having anything to do with the caribou problem. Still if I were Santa, I’d hedge my bets and see if Penguins can be taught to fly again. Might be a good idea anyway considering the real estate at the North Pole is a little too liquid these days.
But hey Alaskan caribou hunters at least you can still shoot wolves from helicopters! The meat might not be as tasty, but I’m sure the thrill of the hunt more than makes up for it.
If reindeer can fly then shooting them from helicopters seems pretty reasonable.
Just got back from a hike up into the hinterlands behind me where I came across two early hunters scouting the territory. Boy were they even annoyed at me when I pointed out that the whole area had banned motorized vehicles. It’s just no fun to shoot a deer and then have to carry the carcass out ya see so they want to roar in with their 4×4’s. They had orange camoflage face on, their fatigues and cute boots while I had on shorts and a red tshirt. Serious dudes!
Course best part was trekking home to find 6 bucks napping in my carport!
Booman I don’t think there are any penguins north of the equator (except in zoos.) But other than that your post is right on the money. I predict that if the caribou does in fact go extinct, the “Palinologists” will claim it was do to carbon taxation.
Obviously, you are not familiar with Chilly Willy. Also, I didn’t write this one.
Lol. Got me. Also, I’m not familiar with Chilly Willy. But I’m old enough to have a recollection of the Buster Brown show and Froggie Gremlin (an obvious precursor to your perp walk avatar.) He always said, “Hiya kids! Hiya, hiya, hiya!” in a really gravelly voice.
🙂 Thanks for the explanation of who Chilly Willy is. Your reply is sorta like a cartoon wiki using the UToobz for which I’m entirely grateful. It reminds me that I’m on my third generational pass at cartoons – me (Disney and Hanna Barbera), my kids (Disney, Smurfs, Ducktales), and my grandkids (Disney, Pixar, Fuzzy Wubzy).
It also reminds me that we are an exceptional country – not because of the garbage produced by the ‘speechifiers’ like Beckola & Sarah Moosilla. But rather because we’re able to laugh at ourselves and our silly foibles through the caricatures we still find every Saturday morning on the TV. I think people would be a lot better off if they came to understand how the Roadrunner vs. Wiley Coyote is really an allegory for the futility of obsession. Then maybe they could stop “hatin’ on” things that have so little reality in and/or impact on their own lives (e.g. “ground zero mosques”, “new Black panthers”, “death taxes”, anything Joe Arpio, Michele Bachmann or Andrew Breitbart talks about, etc.)
Well, at least she isn’t the VP and to quote Wanda Sykes “McCain isn’t having to tell her she can’t hunt in the national zoo.”