Thank Yew, Alaska
I am extremely grateful for Alaska’s Congressman Don Young. Wanna know why? He makes Texas congressmen look relatively sane.
Young wanted gray wolves taken off the endangered species list because he wants to kill a few, I thought. I was wrong. Arguing his case, Young spoke to the House Natural Resources Committee.
“We’ve got 79 congressmen sending you a letter, they haven’t got a damn wolf in their whole district,” Young added. “I’d like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn’t have a homeless problem anymore.”
Well, that’s one way to look at it, I suppose. Not a sane way, but certainly a way.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Thats what happens when somebody is self-contained for years in what amounts to being a fly stuck in prehistoric amber. The little grey cells . . . so tragic!
1I couldn’t agree more with Rep Young concerning wolves’ role as an apex predator. Since such predators take the easy prey first, the young, the old, and the stupid, a small pack on Capitol Hill would rid DC of Republicans very quickly, maybe overnight.
2Personally, I think the Republicans keep a “crazy person of the week” rota going to make folks such as Jeb Bush and Scott Walker look “centrist” by comparison. It lets the High Broderists in the DC Press Cocktail Weenie circuit say things like: “Jeb Bush is moving to the center by distancing himself from the current Republican plan to introduce wolves into urban areas with a high level of registered Democrats.”
3i doubt that homeless people are a serious problem in alaska wolves or not.
4What a compassionate conservative!
5Yes, they want wolves off the Endangered list so they can kill them, and also because the wolves kill “too many” deer, moose, etc. that the hunters want to kill themselves. Funny how those species lived together for thousands of years and the wolves never wiped out the deer before the guys with rifles came along.
Young meant his remark as a joke. Maybe. Somehow when you sign up for the GOP, it disables that circuit in the brain that says, “Maybe every thought in my head shouldn’t be shot out of my mouth into a microphone.”
Need to share this irrelevancy. The Washington Post has a contest column every week, and this time they ran the results of the Famous Person’s Yo Mama joke contest. My favorite, though it didn’t win, was:
“Chris Christie’s mama is so fat, you can see her behind Chris Christie.”
6Wolves have a bad rap. In the U.S. there have been few documented attacks on people (and some of those are questionable) and very few fatalities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_America
Republican politicians, on the other hand, are constantly on the attack and have killed a whole lot of people. If they are allowed to gut healthcare and go to war with Iran they will add to that list.
7Here is more vintage Don Young.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/22/don-young-would-make-a-lousy-grief-counselor
http://stories.weather.com/homelessalaska
Wolves in Alaska are doing a lousy job of controlling the chronic homeless. Young maybe better stop killing the wolves so they can get their act together.
8I live around a whole lot of liberals. As a rule, most of the republicans around here are pretty tame. But I hear there are baggers in the next town who are pretty predatory. And yet—-
9no one I know has taken any potshots at them when they kick up a fuss and want uninsured people to die in the streets.
Let’s let Jim Wright sum it up best:
“But Don Young does have a point. Release of predators into urban areas COULD lead to a … thinning … of the less desirable and more useless members of the human herd.
I suggest we first start by releasing hungry wolves into the next joint session of Congress.
If that goes well, we could look at expanding the program to other areas.”
Like, oh… the Texas Legislature?
10Yipper-wingnuts have the natural sweetness(compassion) of a tangle of bobwire.
11What a humanitarian. What other Congressman would take such an innovative approach toward ensuring the fulfillment of protein requirements of the wolf population? He should copyright it and license the idea to Putin.
12Someone should give that bully the news that humans have invaded THEIR living space, not the other way around. To bad the wolf doesn’t eat him. Again they probably don’t like tired old hairy white men.
13Out of the mouths of wolves! (the Repugnant species)
14First of all, you’re welcome, Juanita Jean. We’re happy to be able to help Texas’ image.
Next, yes, we have plenty of homeless people.
And, third, (if I can remember the third thing), that jerk has no sense of humor. I’m sure he’d do it if he could. What an embarrassment to Alaska…as if Palin wasn’t enough. Out of respect for momma, I won’t describe him in my usual colorful terms.
15Any time folks gripe about poor or nonfunctional or sweet but otherwise not a great addition to a household, let them take in a few off the streets and try to get them the help they need. Introducing wolves to the neighborhood is not an option. Neither is dropping them off at the nearest park bench.
16i guess you know that Texas is considering closing a home for nonfunctional people, many of whom have lived there for their entire lives. How about we occupy some second or third or vacation houses and turn them over to the residents of that place if it gets closed?
17TalG — Love Jim Wright, and he’s got a point there. Let’s see how it works for Congress first. I don’t know a lot about wolves, but I believe they’d have to be truly starving to chew on some of those rotten congressvarmints.
18TalG, why do you hate hungry wolves so much? Sounds as though you want to poison the poor things. I mean, Ted Cruz for lunch?
19Canadian wolves can gnaw on Cruz. After all,he is one of them.
20Come to think on it,the wolves reintroduced to Yellowstone et al were Canadian wolves. Have to trap Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for real ‘murrican wolves.
I know I do not get to decide if someone is really a Christian, but I would like to be there when he tries to explain himself to his Maker.
21My Sunday School lesson this morning’s Bible passage included the story where Jesus, after defending the action of a woman who anointed Him with expensive perfume, said “The poor you will always have with you”. I said I sometimes wish he hasn’t said that because so many politicians (and others)use it as an excuse not to help the poor. They conveniently ignore the rest of His sentence the “you can help them anytime” part.
I agree about people moving into the animals’ space. I have seen skunks, armadillos, even deer in town, and can probably think of more kinds if I took the time. If we move into their space, where can they go?
22.
http://www.catholic.org/news/hf/faith/story.php?id=59031
The Pope opens the Vatican to the homeless.
I had the satisfaction of enclosing this in an e-mail to Don Young with the suggestion that he stop being such an asshole and an embarrassment to Alaskans. Not that it will do any good, but it made me feel better.
23Only reason the honorable legislator from Alaska suggests this is that he cannot play out “The Most Dangerous Game” or this for real just yet:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111323/
24@Bookworm, do you think Young WOULD be dangerous game? All you would have to do to trap him is set out a microphone somewhere he could see it and imagine there was a photo op too…come to think of it, that would work real well for Cruz,and Gohmert, and Rubio, and Inhofe, among others, as well. Wouldn’t it be fun if the mike(s) were spring loaded and filled their ugly mugs with porcupine quills when they started yapping?
25Aggieland:
Haha! You know, maybe we could even make it into a reality show. 😉
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