Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now?Now testifyIt's right outside your door.

Rampant fucking stupidity. That link is to an article discussing grizzly bears and the Endangered Species Act. The federal government wants to de-list grizzlies from the Act due to their "successful recovery." The grizzly bear population had dwindled to 225-300 bears in 1975 when they were first listed.

Now, there are a whopping 600 bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

De-listing would remove all federal management of the species, and turn it over to state control, which would open the possibility of limited hunts. Wyoming tried (unsucessfully) this last year to institute a wolf hunt, due to their successful reintroduction to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. There are somewhere around 300 identified breeding pairs of wolves. (Wolves generally group into packs, and only two members of the pack breed, so one could extrapolate that there are a couple thousand wolves.) And they want to hunt them.

So, without a doubt, they are going to want to hunt for grizzlies. A grizzly would make a nice trophy.

I am all for less federal government involvement in all aspects of our lives, but this astounds me.

600 is considered "recovered." Not only "recovered," but enough that states (I'm looking at you, Wyoming) will likely let people out and start killing them. Isn't that how they became endangered in the first place?

600?!

Yeah, 600 is a lot. Let's shoot some.

Fuckin' A.

That is dumber than a 30,000 calorie sandwich.

I would like to issue human hunting licenses. Let's cull the herd. I think it is a little thick in Washington D.C. Generations of overfeeding with an absence of natural predators has caused this overpopulation.

Fuck.

At the very least, could we get a little Mad Politician Disease?