Still posting from the library, and probably will be for some time (and rarely) but I wanted to do more now than just check in. I had intended to go into some detail about the recent bear attack that necessitated the closing of Red River Gorge. Here we go with what amounts to another Democratic Party boondoggle. Bears are put on the endangered species list. Fine. It is decided that we need to preserve the species and we need to keep their numbers up to sufficient levels in order to do what we can to help preserve the "balance of nature". That's fine too.
But when it gets to the point that a man is prosecuted for killing a bear who has tried to break into his own home, which he did in an effort to protect his beloved pet dog, I say its time to start taking out Democrats. Don't get excited now, I'm talking about at the polling stations during elections now (ie, that's what I'll say if the law asks me what I meant).
I didn't just not provide a link to that story, by the way, because I'm lazy or because I'm pressed for time. I challenge you to find the story on-line anywhere. It's been removed from any web-site, I assume, because its an embarrassment to Kentucky politicians and to the environmental lobby, which is pretty strong in Kentucky. Since most journalists in Kentucky are somewhat to the left of Leon Trotsky, its easy enough for me to see why they would obligingly agree to install this cone of silence on a story they once jumped all over themselves to report, probably on the assumption that most Kentuckians would support the bear, and the environmentalists story, that particular year being a Democratically trending one and all.
Now, you won't find any mention of the story, but then again, there's hardly a week that goes by that you won't hear of a bear being hit by a car on a highway, or rummaging through someone's trash can, etc. In Rockcastle County, one woman chased off a young black bear with a broom.
You are never advised to do that, of course, nor are you encouraged to shoot them. There are limited hunting seasons for that, and even then, the environmentalists fought tooth-and-claw to insert terms favorable to the bear, such as limitations on types of weapons. During the one period of time that was mandated as "bear hunting season", the weather was so bad, near blizzard conditions, the hunt produced not one bear casualty.
Then came the recent Red River Gorge incident, which necessitated the closing of the Gorge, a state park and major tourist attraction, for close to a week. Since then, the park has opened and the bear finally caught, and relocated.
The best part of this story, though-and yes, it is a bright spot-is that the man who was attacked was himself an environmentalist whack job, and actually defended the bear who attacked himn while he stood there filming the damn thing.
That would be a dream scenario for me. Here I go walking through the forest with my camcorder or video camera, and I hear the horrified screams of what turns out to be a rabid environmentalist in the process of being mauled by an angry, or hungry, black bear, the very kind he was worked hard to make sure I can kill only under the most limited circumstances.
"Hellllp, Oh God, Pleeeasaaase Helllllp!"
"Wish I could help you pout there buddy," I'd shout while holding up my trusty rifle. "But there's really nothing I could do. I would shoot him with this gun, but damn, that would be against the law".
Then from a safe distance, I'd film the event for posterity, maybe post it to YouTube under a suitable title. "Just Desserts", or something equally clever.
Is that wrong? Not in the least. These people are creating an environment where bears are going to lose their natural fear of humans, and the more of them there are, the hungrier they will be, and the more widespread will become their range. After so long of people going out of their way to avoid them, even when they intrude upon a human habitation, they are only going to get even more bold. Eventually, they will go from killing pets and livestock, to killing people, including children. It is so obviously going to happen one of these days, its a matter of when, not if, And when it does happen, Democrats and their environmentalist owners will be the ones who helped make it happen.
So no, if any of them, or their families, end up reaping the results of what they helped bring about-like almost happened to one environmentalist loon in Kentucky's Red River Gorge-not only do I not care, I hope it happens to one sooner rather than later. After all, if bad consequences only happened to those who pass bad laws, well, there wouldn't be very many bad laws for very long.
For now, they've just succeeded in making people think twice before going to Red Rover Gorge, one of the most beautiful areas of Kentucky. I'd like to think the economic ramifications of that alone might be enough to make Kentucky legislators revisit the issue in a more comprehensively SANE manner. But I'm not counting on that either.
