08.19.12
Bears, mountain lions, terrorize California
Only an ignorant, uneducated society will fall for scams such as California banning mountain-lion hunting and turning a thriving black bear population from an asset into an instant liability by banning the use of hounds. Watch the media for reports of increased out-of-control bear-nuisance hysteria now that bait and hounds are no longer allowed to adequately harvest the annual surplus of California’s amazing bear population. More and more mountains of wasted tax dollars will be spent further compensating more ranchers and landowners for destroyed livestock, multiple relocations and ultimately the killing of bears and burying of these precious resources by government-hired killers for guaranteed lose-lose insanity …
The lunatic fringe is winning in California, and that should be a wake-up call to all concerned conservationists that when allowed, logic will be tossed to the wind and conservation will go out the window with it.
Ted, of course, is still sore because the state of California whacked him on a deer-baiting charge.
And with two convictions on hunting infractions in the last three years, he now has a reputation as something of a hunting scofflaw.
As for southern California and wildlife, we have a lot of it. Pasadena has raccoons, skunks, opossums, coyotes and the infrequent bear strolling into neighborhoods for trash and pool swimming in the housing developments up against the mountain.
This year, the Glendale bear known as “Meatball” became a semi-celebrity in the Los Angeles Times.
And recently a young male mountain lion has moved into Griffith Park, intriguing Park Service biologists who marveled at how the animal traversed the highways surrounding it without getting killed.
There is no evidence of hysteria in the locals. In fact, pretty much everyone likes such stories.
However, you shan’t want to miss this bit of smart phone video from Nugent at the House of Blues.
It’s a grenade. So fast forward to 12:15. I won’t spoil it for you.
Earlier in the summer Ted’s drummer was arrested for DWI with a golf cart. If you had to do that routine every night to earn a living, you might do the same thing.
Ted drummer: Uncle Ted, do we have to do that tonight?
Ted: STFU, I sign the checks and I salute our soldiers. You won’t be a lazy anti-American bloodsucker as long you’re in my band!
Ted drummer: But my daughter says her friends have all seen it on YouTube and make fun of her! She says they tell her we look like a bunch of old fools playing army and no one knows what it means.