“The Red Stater has a short attention span and underdeveloped cerebral cortex often causing significant cognitive dissonance. It lives through the south-eastern parts of the United States, from Texas to Florida.”

Yeah, I’d say sure, hunt ‘em from small planes.

Hunting for food, I understand. Hunting for sport, likewise, as long as you’re being sporting about it.

Target shooting as an activity is also understandable, until you start using live creatures as targets, at least.

But hacking off the limb of a creature so you can prove you shot it and get some money? Absolute savagery, and those who practice and condone it should receive psychiatric care immediately.

There used to be several hunters in my family. Most of them don’t care to hunt any more, but some still do. All of them are disgusted by the idea of “canned hunting” and by sadistic thrill of killing defenseless animals from an airplane.

No one worth a damn would take pleasure or pride from either of those activities.

IIRC, an Alaska judge shot down the bounty policy on constitutional grounds. At least someone had some sense. Of course the barbarism still continues, just sans the ‘reward.’ Absolute chickenshit fucktards.

Hell may be running out of room soon…

Someday anthropologists in the future will examine the wreckage of our (so-called) civilization and lament how our savagery resulted in our extinction.

Tom, lately you’ve been drifting over from basically all snark to more and more serious reporting and commentary. You’re good at the serious commentary, and I like reading it, but please don’t forget about the snark (it doesn’t have to be in every post – you must at all times follow your muse where it leads).

I am totally in favor of hunting, so long as the hunting is of large predators, and without weapons.

I’m also in favor of bullfighting, provided that every bull has had 30 minutes of practice beforehand.

I now plan to shoot both ground squirrels AND dickhead republicans on my property. They’re both fucking useless.

Boy, I bet those liberal commies at PBS who produced a brilliant two-part essay on wolves, dogs and humans are just happy as clams.

I mean, they’re wolves, horrible, dangerous fearsome creatures that stalk our dreams, their white fangs glistening with the blood of their latest kill. It’s enough to scare the pants off anyone who wants to take a weekend trip to grandma’s house.

Jim Hoft ignores something else: my great aunt was a lifelong conservative Repthug who owned a gun and once informed me that I was a “disappointment” because I wound up a leftist democrat. She was also a member of the Wildlife Federation and viewed killing animals in the manner described above as completely disgusting.

Not all wingnuts think hunting’s awesome.

As a wise man once observed, any statement/policy can be converted into its Reichtard equivalent by appending the phrase, “by killing people” (e.g., “We must bring democracy to the Middle East — by killing people.”

Apparently, that needs to be expanded to include “or defenseless creatures”.

“Sociopathic behavior” doesn’t come close to describing what these assholes are doing.

They’re both fucking useless.

Hey heydave. Ground squirrels are cute. Save your ammo for the real vermin.

“Ground squirrels are cute.”

They also don’t shoot their friends in the face.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

FAIL.

TB, the red wolf is considered extirpated in most of SE U.S. thought to now hybridize with coyote (Canis latrans) that has spread into SE.

Democratically, people in FL are allowed to be concerned about wolves in Alaska, or elsewhere. I’ve never seen one, tho care that they continue to exist.

HeyDave, they are cute, but I am shooting them on my property too…damn nuisance! They can be tasty tho, if young.

They are making an effort to save/breed a few remaining red wolves at a sanctuary here in SC. I understand that there have been some problems, since the female has been very…selective.

Alaska is shooting/trapping/poisoning Gray Wolves, a different species.

Wolves eat moose, as do bears, guess Palin is just trying to get rid of the competition!

Q. What shade of lipstick to wear while plane hunt’n wolves?

Chris Rock: “Michael Vick is asking himself, ‘Why am I in jail?’”

Wouldn’t this work more efficiently if the hunters just used AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, using either the M230 Chain Gun, or Hydra 70mm anti-personnel (or in this case anti-canine) rockets? Much surer target tracking, a kill every time. Of course, it might be harder to find the foreleg to hack off for the bounty.

Whatta bunch of goddam stupid unregenerate motherfuckers.

This ad has proven to be very effective:

http://mediacurves.com/Politic…..ifeRecord/

Let’s hope that it is played more widely.

I now plan to shoot both ground squirrels AND dickhead republicans on my property. They’re both fucking useless.

Yeah, I too have dreams of the corporate directors of Exxon rolling through our community because they got lost on the way to one of Dinesh D’Souza’s fundraisers. The meat on that chunky one alone, if properly frozen or smoked, would offset enough of my grocery bills to pay for the new fencing. (And without the danger of those nasty prions associated with ground squirrels!)

First of all, concerning this twerp’s concern about the ad showing in Florida, didn’t Myth Alaska just tell us that “Alaska is a microcosm of America!”? I thought so.

Second, said twerp wouldn’t be worried about it if he didn’t know the practice of aerial hunting is reprehensible, and that it will resonate with voters to see Rin Tin Tin running terrified and then mown down.

I have a solution for Jim, though. Stop hunting the fucking wolves from airplanes, and we’ll quit showing this fucking ad. Deal?

Yes, I was going to say if there are enough red wolves left to say get up a good volleyball game, they would be in the mountains of Mexico.
As for the whining kneejerk wingnuts, the only post I’ve read about this ad from a true lefty was Al Giordano, and he was pissed at them for A. leeching off of Obama for fundraising and B. hurting his carefully crafted message, especially in Ohio and the rustbelt.

didn’t Myth Alaska just tell us that “Alaska is a microcosm of America!”?

Yes, but be fair. She had no idea what that meant.

It’s enough to break my heart just looking at the pic on top of the post. I will dispatch a contribution to Defenders of Wildlife post-haste, and urge anyone who can spare any $$ to do the same.

I love animals. I hate that woman. It is beyond snark.

…..I hope she says something sooooo fucking stupid in that debate tomorrow night that they’ve gotta pause for instant replay to make sure they really heard it.

CarlJohnson, I don’t recall seeing your name on the masthead as “managing editor,” so it would behoove you to have a big cup of STFU before presuming to tell even a somewhat popular blogger what he should and shouldn’t write about.

And if you ever use the word “biofuels,” we’ll have you put to sleep, saw off your forearm, and present it to Sarah Palin.

Thank you for playing!

As to the topic at hand: Yes, I know real hunters, and this crap grosses them out.

hamletta, I’ll tell Tbogg what to write about whenever I feel like it. He doesn’t have to listen. I do feel like his sometimes more serious tone reflects the seriousness of the times. But the greatest master of snark the world has ever seen shouldn’t forget about the snark, even if he is more and more obliged to deal seriously with serious issues.

Actually, I think what you meant to say* was “I’ll tell Tbogg what I want to read whenever I…”.

*Which, in turn, should be read as “I think what you should have said was…”