My first morning at Pueblo Bonito Emerald Bay is beautiful. I arrived about 7:30 last night after a pretty grueling flight that included an extra couple of hours at LAX, my most favorite airport in the whole world. Thanks to all of you who have responded to the blog via email. Please register on the blog, if you'd like. For the next month I will be focusing on Mazatlan and my activities here. After today, I'll try to give the Alaska action a rest, unless incited by the news or your comments. The photo (if I can get it loaded....slow down here to upload) is of my view off the patio this morning. Have a wonderful day and week, I know I will.
Matt cries “fowl”…
Please check out this article in the Sunday Anchorage Daily News: ‘Turkeygate’ fiasco is prime example of weirdness. It should be on ADN.com for those of you in the other 49. In my opinion, Craig Medred, our Anchorage Daily News Outdoors writer is a little whacked out on this one.
In the article, the great white urban hobbyhikerfisherhunter has managed to waste newspaper space by offering more blahblahpaidblogging about Sarah P’s indiscretions at the MatSu turkey farm. He portrays himself as a natural born killer by stating that “one of the few things I’ve been good at over the years is killing”. I believe I’ve read that before, and it’s a cliché.
Now, Craig is the same guy, who several years ago was hunting moose with a .454 Casull pistol when he stumbled upon a brown bear sow and cub. The sow failed to recognize his expertise as a killer and decided to test him out as her newest chew toy? Also, if my memory serves me, he is the same dude that shot said momma bear, but failed to kill her because he only got off one shot due to a locked cylinder on his pistol. Medred himself admitted later that he thought he had failed to correctly crimp his bullets when making his reloads, thus causing the casing to back off the unfired rounds when he made his first nonfatal shot, which then locked up his peashooter. Anyway, the sow high-tailed it after taking the first round, and may or may not have survived the “encounter”. Surely she spent some time suffering from her wound. Medred limped out of the woods and immediately wrote a story about his misadventure.
Now, here’s my take on the “Turkeygate” story. In the article, Medred “goes on and on” about his prowess as a hunter, and then talks about how it’s okay for turkeys to be killed and eaten…if you abide by his rules. He feels that shooting animals, then eating them, is acceptable practice. However, raising animals for the sole purpose of slaughter is wrong, and makes him feel “funny”. He makes further remarks implying that Sarah should have been more sensitive to the turkey executions that were occurring during her presence. LOL! Note: Sarah was at a turkey farm. This is where they raise and kill turkeys.
Medred doesn’t stop there. He leads the reader into questioning, what the Alaska Native Elders, who of course always demonstrate unfailing “deep and honest respect for animals even in the process of killing them”, would think about Sarah’s obvious lack of sensitivity to the matter. Well slap my rear, and call me “Valley Trash”! This may not be PC, but I’ve spent, and continue to spend a significant amount of my time in the Native villages of this Great State. And, although it is true, that clearly stated in the Handbook of Native Values, there is policy that suggests cultural and spiritual respect toward the food source, it doesn't always happen. In practice, those guys kill ‘em just like we do. They are, however, generally more efficient than Medred was with his bear. It’s also my opinion, that some, in the younger Native population, are not as respectful as the elders have been in the past. Proof of this can be found in the archives of the ADN, or Google the following: Point Hope + caribou slaughter.
Bottom line: Craig, you and the other “Sarah haters”, can knock off this weak crap anytime. The turkey exterminator was just doing his job. Palin was engaged in hers. It was “politics, as usual, for all parties”. The media, once again, decided to take advantage of the situation, so they could nail Sarah, and milk it “till it squeals”. She who is Governor owes no apology.
And for those out there who don’t believe in Santa Claus or turkey at Thanksgiving …the rest of us don’t tell you how to butcher your broccoli, so let us have a few million turkeys once a year without this nonsense. After all, it’s not like we’re out there clubbing baby seals.
Today’s bonus:
PETA APPROVED METHODS FOR DISPATCHING THE NATIONAL BIRD
Let ‘em live out their lives at CRAIG MEDRED’S WILD ALASKA DOMESTIC TURKEY REFUGE AND SPA. Once they die, make them into body lotion.
Send them to Letterman and let him and Paul pet them into a coma before gently smothering them by holding their beaks shut with a clothespin.
Buy them ten trips to “Carib Tanning Salon”. Bake ‘em live at 325.
How ‘bout the old tried and proven black hood and noose?
Cuff ‘em and have ‘em walk the plank.
Lethal injection.
Give ‘em a Dr. Kivorkian Gift Certificate.
Tuck their little heads between the breasts of the Deal or No Deal gals. They will then, quietly, but very happily, expire.
Firing squad.
Stick ‘em in front of Ted Nugent’s guitar amp.
Nuke ‘em, Jack!
Matt cries “fowl”…
Please check out this article in the Sunday Anchorage Daily News: ‘Turkeygate’ fiasco is prime example of weirdness. It should be on ADN.com for those of you in the other 49. In my opinion, Craig Medred, our Anchorage Daily News Outdoors writer is a little whacked out on this one.
In the article, the great white urban hobbyhikerfisherhunter has managed to waste newspaper space by offering more blahblahpaidblogging about Sarah P’s indiscretions at the MatSu turkey farm. He portrays himself as a natural born killer by stating that “one of the few things I’ve been good at over the years is killing”. I believe I’ve read that before, and it’s a cliché.
Now, Craig is the same guy, who several years ago was hunting moose with a .454 Casull pistol when he stumbled upon a brown bear sow and cub. The sow failed to recognize his expertise as a killer and decided to test him out as her newest chew toy? Also, if my memory serves me, he is the same dude that shot said momma bear, but failed to kill her because he only got off one shot due to a locked cylinder on his pistol. Medred himself admitted later that he thought he had failed to correctly crimp his bullets when making his reloads, thus causing the casing to back off the unfired rounds when he made his first nonfatal shot, which then locked up his peashooter. Anyway, the sow high-tailed it after taking the first round, and may or may not have survived the “encounter”. Surely she spent some time suffering from her wound. Medred limped out of the woods and immediately wrote a story about his misadventure.
Now, here’s my take on the “Turkeygate” story. In the article, Medred “goes on and on” about his prowess as a hunter, and then talks about how it’s okay for turkeys to be killed and eaten…if you abide by his rules. He feels that shooting animals, then eating them, is acceptable practice. However, raising animals for the sole purpose of slaughter is wrong, and makes him feel “funny”. He makes further remarks implying that Sarah should have been more sensitive to the turkey executions that were occurring during her presence. LOL! Note: Sarah was at a turkey farm. This is where they raise and kill turkeys.
Medred doesn’t stop there. He leads the reader into questioning, what the Alaska Native Elders, who of course always demonstrate unfailing “deep and honest respect for animals even in the process of killing them”, would think about Sarah’s obvious lack of sensitivity to the matter. Well slap my rear, and call me “Valley Trash”! This may not be PC, but I’ve spent, and continue to spend a significant amount of my time in the Native villages of this Great State. And, although it is true, that clearly stated in the Handbook of Native Values, there is policy that suggests cultural and spiritual respect toward the food source, it doesn't always happen. In practice, those guys kill ‘em just like we do. They are, however, generally more efficient than Medred was with his bear. It’s also my opinion, that some, in the younger Native population, are not as respectful as the elders have been in the past. Proof of this can be found in the archives of the ADN, or Google the following: Point Hope + caribou slaughter.
Bottom line: Craig, you and the other “Sarah haters”, can knock off this weak crap anytime. The turkey exterminator was just doing his job. Palin was engaged in hers. It was “politics, as usual, for all parties”. The media, once again, decided to take advantage of the situation, so they could nail Sarah, and milk it “till it squeals”. She who is Governor owes no apology.
And for those out there who don’t believe in Santa Claus or turkey at Thanksgiving …the rest of us don’t tell you how to butcher your broccoli, so let us have a few million turkeys once a year without this nonsense. After all, it’s not like we’re out there clubbing baby seals.
Today’s bonus:
PETA APPROVED METHODS FOR DISPATCHING THE NATIONAL BIRD
Let ‘em live out their lives at CRAIG MEDRED’S WILD ALASKA DOMESTIC TURKEY REFUGE AND SPA. Once they die, make them into body lotion.
Send them to Letterman and let him and Paul pet them into a coma before gently smothering them by holding their beaks shut with a clothespin.
Buy them ten trips to “Carib Tanning Salon”. Bake ‘em live at 325.
How ‘bout the old tried and proven black hood and noose?
Cuff ‘em and have ‘em walk the plank.
Lethal injection.
Give ‘em a Dr. Kivorkian Gift Certificate.
Tuck their little heads between the breasts of the Deal or No Deal gals. They will then, quietly, but very happily, expire.
Firing squad.
Stick ‘em in front of Ted Nugent’s guitar amp.
Nuke ‘em, Jack!
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