Sunday, June 17, 2007

 

Obligatory post on today’s news

Roger Rodoni revs for re-election by bringing pot to the table. Well, the discussion of legalized pot, anyway. But Roger risks revolting 2nd District voters because everyone knows a corner-store pack of Marlboro Spliffs would cause cannabis prices to bottom out.

Meanwhile on the opinion page, the Times-Standard­ gets misty over “compassion” used to round up immigrants in Fortuna and ship them over the border forthwith. While the T-S did a great job covering the surprise raids this week, today’s sugarcoating burns the swallow pipe. After reporting that children were left without one or both parents the editors now say they “hope” the reports aren’t true.

In other news, the Eureka Reporter published an authorless news item bemoaning California getting out-logged by our neighbors to the North. Oregon and Washington, we learn, are cutting more timber than our fair state. Maybe with enough lobbying we can have clear-cuts right up to the highway, just like Oregon! Gee, that would be swell, Wally.

But for some real “troubling questions” head to this opinion piece by a Willow Creek resident worried about the uncomfortable number of recent mountain lion sightings. The big cats have been helping themselves to domestic pets in “long-established” neighborhoods, prompting the writer to ponder hunting season on the predators. Perhaps the mountain lions are way ahead on this issue. After suffering decades of invasion in their long-established territory, the native felines appear to have concluded that thinning intruding populations is an appropriate action. Some among us would obviously agree.


permalink I posted by Heraldo Riviera @ 9:44 AM
Comments:
When I was in college circa 1986 I completed a study of just how dangerous mountain lions are to the human population. This was when the measure to ban lion hunting was on the ballot. It turned out that in U.S. recorded history, escaped circus elephants have killed more Americans that mountain lions.

Deer kill far more people each year than mountain lions will ever kill. My sister was killed in an auto accident attempting to avoid hitting deer crossing Highway 97 near Yreka. Mountain lions keep the overpopulation of deer in check. Mountain lions save human lives.
# posted by Anonymous Andrew Bird : 6/17/2007 05:22:00 PM
 
Andrew wrote, "Mountain lions keep the overpopulation of deer in check. Mountain lions save human lives.".

No. Hunters keep deer in check.
# posted by Blogger Fred : 6/17/2007 07:12:00 PM
 
Andrew makes a good point.

Hunters cannot hunt in the places where deer pose the greatest danger to humans (near highways and towns), but cougars can.
# posted by Blogger Carson Park Ranger : 6/17/2007 10:42:00 PM
 
Mountain lions are hunters.
# posted by Anonymous Andrew Bird : 6/17/2007 11:57:00 PM
 
Let's delcare open season on hunters and see how they like it!
# posted by Anonymous I Heart The NRA : 6/18/2007 10:05:00 AM
 
Why don't we make prisoners clean the roads around Willow Creek and maybe kill 2 birds with 1 stone?
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 6/18/2007 10:40:00 AM
 
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# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 6/18/2007 11:46:00 AM
 
The Times-Standard proved its bias against upholding existing American immigration law in its coverage of the so-called "Day Without an Immigrant" march and rally in Eureka on May 1, 2006.

It should not surprise anyone that Rich Somerville is now making unsupported assertions of cruel treatment of the children of illegal aliens by members of law enforcement.

He is simply continuing his ongoing campaigns to 1) support Amnesty for people who break our immigration laws and 2) undermine our confidence in our own law enforcement institutions.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 6/19/2007 10:33:00 AM
 
Do Environmentalists believe Human Beings have no rights that a Mountain Lion is bound to respect?
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 6/19/2007 07:39:00 PM
 
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