Author Topic: Another reason to hate california (Read 5358 times)

wuluf · « **on:** February 29, 2012, 12:26:44 AM »

California Game and Fish Commisioner in trouble for shooting a mountain lion legally.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mountain-lion-20120229,0,6849096.story

Lt. Gov Newsome (former San Francisco mayor) wants him to resign.
It seems to upset some people that a Game and Fish Commissioner might be a hunter...

230RN · « **Reply #1 on:** February 29, 2012, 01:11:39 AM »

Pack behavior: Buncha ki-yi-ers and yelping yellow dogs. Hand wringing seems to be a way of life in some of California.

Jeez, I hope they don't find out that he probably used a lead core bullet or something. More ki-yi-ing. Oh, and there's all those nitrogen oxides coming out of the gun. OMG!

Pic and article:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/02/28/state-fish-game-commission-chief-under-fire-for-mountain-lion-killing/

Big kitty, no? Maybe they should import the things into Sacramentlol.

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:13:20 AM »

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #3 on:** February 29, 2012, 08:31:25 AM »

don't read the comments!

Ben · « **Reply #4 on:** February 29, 2012, 09:25:14 AM »

Another item to add to my "get out of California" list. The F&G Commission was once staffed predominately by people who hunted and fished, which makes sense, since if you're going to regulate something, you should at least have an understanding of it. It was once the same with DFG wardens. Many of the younger ones though, come out of "environmental sciences" (little science, lots of environmental management politics) programs at college and mostly seem to think their job is to curtail all hunting and fishing.

Both the F&G Commission and the wardens are developing an "us against them" mentality regarding not poachers, but all hunters, and hunting and fishing in general.

longeyes · « **Reply #5 on:** February 29, 2012, 11:01:14 AM »

If only "California" had not been forged as much outside California as within...? Those who believe that "California" is something alien to the mainstream of America, with so many of its problems precipitated from far off, are deluding themselves. I'd put illegal immigration at the top of what went wrong, along with the hypertrophic growth of the public sector, but California didn't invent either thrust. California is just the most obvious manifestation of America Two, and America Two is everywhere in these 50 States.

Angel Eyes · « **Reply #6 on:** February 29, 2012, 01:43:53 PM »

Cali F&G commissioner responds:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/29/BADO1NDMOS.DTL

The money quote:

"While I respect our Fish and Game rules and regulations, my 100 percent legal activity outside California, or anyone else's for that matter, is none of your business."

...

Richards also attacked lawmakers for cutting the Department of Fish and Game's budget recently, and said he will "continue to hunt and fish wherever I please."

Another endangered species in California: the human spine.

MillCreek · « **Reply #7 on:** February 29, 2012, 02:07:00 PM »

So from the article, they ate the cougar. I have never even thought of eating a big game cat. I wonder how they taste. Like chicken?

HankB · « **Reply #8 on:** February 29, 2012, 03:54:18 PM »

Not all the responses at the linked website are lunacy - my nomination for best comment:

". . . should we fire anyone who rents a car in another state that doesn't meet California emission standards?"

Balog · « **Reply #9 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:07:50 PM »

Quote from: MillCreek on February 29, 2012, 02:07:00 PM

So from the article, they ate the cougar. I have never even thought of eating a big game cat. I wonder how they taste. Like chicken?

It was considered a delicacy in ye olde frontiery days.

230RN · « **Reply #10 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:18:56 PM »

HankB quoted:

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Not all the responses at the linked website are lunacy - my nomination for best comment:

". . . should we fire anyone who rents a car in another state that doesn't meet California emission standards?"

I second that nomination. Damned good point.

Ben noted:

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Another item to add to my "get out of California" list. The F&G Commission was once staffed predominately by people who hunted and fished, which makes sense, since if you're going to regulate something, you should at least have an understanding of it. It was once the same with DFG wardens. Many of the younger ones though, come out of "environmental sciences" (little science, lots of environmental management politics) programs at college and mostly seem to think their job is to curtail all hunting and fishing.

Both the F&G Commission and the wardens are developing an "us against them" mentality regarding not poachers, but all hunters, and hunting and fishing in general.

^+1

Although I have not actually had a hunting or fishing license for over ten years, I noted the same trend in Colorado quite a while ago. They started to be ticket writers rather than game managers with a helping attitude. That might be unfair nowadays, but that's the way I started to see it back then. And the H&F-ing brochures nowadsys are freakin' legal tomes which are almost of a size worthy of being hardbound in brown leather.

Well, as somebody noted, the more laws or regulations "we" make, the more "we" can control "them."

Ter-gr-r-ry, 230RN

41magsnub · « **Reply #11 on:** February 29, 2012, 11:58:26 PM »

Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on February 29, 2012, 08:31:25 AM

don't read the comments!

Too late.. brain.. hurt.. confused..

gunsmith · « **Reply #12 on:** March 01, 2012, 04:35:41 PM »

So this guy, some kind of big cheese went mountain lion hunting in Idaho ( I believe )
now the busybodies in CA say he should lose his job.
I read also that he is claiming he ate the mountain lion. .... I've never heard of that-is he just blowing smoke or do people actually eat mtn lions?

http://www.news10.net/news/california/article/181419/430/Democrats-call-for-Richards-to-resign-he-says-no

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 01, 2012, 04:54:24 PM »

Already in discussion

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=33621.0

Ben · « **Reply #14 on:** March 01, 2012, 04:58:33 PM »

Dupe topics merged.

Lee · « **Reply #15 on:** March 01, 2012, 05:25:16 PM »

Broke back mountain lion defense?

gunsmith · « **Reply #16 on:** March 01, 2012, 08:37:06 PM »

Who eats mountain lion?

Plus, a lot of Californicators come over to Nevada and patronize the legal brothels-probably including some politicians I would imagine.

longeyes · « **Reply #17 on:** March 02, 2012, 12:26:10 PM »

Yes, Nevada is the moral center of America. :) Is there anything or anyone not for sale in Nevada? (Or, if you're in the Great Nothingness, working for the Federal government?)

Is there any place more dispiriting than Las Vegas? Having covered too many trade shows there my vote is no.

gunsmith · « **Reply #18 on:** March 03, 2012, 02:46:45 AM »

Quote from: longeyes on March 02, 2012, 12:26:10 PM

Yes, Nevada is the moral center of America. :) Is there anything or anyone not for sale in Nevada? (Or, if you're in the Great Nothingness, working for the Federal government?)

Is there any place more dispiriting than Las Vegas? Having covered too many trade shows there my vote is no.

I wish the feds would hire me but there is so much nothing where I am that where they were building that bridge to nowhere has more people there then here. I'm much closer to Idaho/Oregon then Vegas.

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Author Topic: Another reason to hate california (Read 5358 times)