Michigan State Senate's Top Priority: Wipe Out the Last Wolf

A few days ago, the Michigan State Senate held an “emergency” one-day session.  You know, the Rust Belt's unemployment rate is through the stratosphere, Detroit is pretty much on fire, etc.  Except, the Michigan Senate only voted on one issue, which is apparently much more urgent.

Michigan has two competing ballot measures — both concerning trophy hunting of wolves —  coming up in the next election.  Both initiatives already have more than enough valid signatures to qualify.  One initiative — being promoted by Keep Michigan Wolves Protected, among other groups — would maintain protection for Michigan's small wolf population.  The other initiative would allow the trophy hunting of wolves.  And there's more:  this other pro-hunting initiative would not only allow trophy hunters to ejaculate all over the wilderness — it would permanently lock in the rights of trophy hunters to hunt and shoot and kill wolves forever; to ejaculate all over themselves 'til they collapse in ecstasy.  This initiative would be irreversible, with no chance of ever being changed or over-ridden.

Basically, if one side wins, they've won a battle.  If the other side wins, they've won the war and annihilated the enemy.   If the 49ers beat the Seahawks, both teams congratulate each other and go on to the next game.  If the Seahawks beat the 49ers, every player on the 49ers will get kneecapped and blinded before the next game.  Or something.

Anyway, so we have two totally different mindsets; two opposing initiatives on the ballot.  Michigan voters will make this decision.  Right?

And this is why the Michigan Senate held their emergency one-day session.  They voted Yes on a bill which is identical to the pro-trophy-hunting initiative.  Presto!  The pro-hunting initiative is now the law, and the wolf protection initiative has just evaporated into thin air.  Poof!  It never existed.  And that's not all:  the trophy hunters' rights bill is technically an “appropriations” bill, which means it can't ever be overturned by a referendum.

This legislative sleaze is all legal under the Michigan Constitution.  Legal, but about as slippery and underhanded as anyone can get.

The Michigan House will be taking up this issue on August 27th.  Let's hope they have a little less contempt for voters than their counterparts in the state senate.

Here is a link to the Humane Society's website, where I first heard about this.

California — Finally! — Bans Bear-Hunting with Dogs

California state legislators, after weeks of false starts, have finally passed S.B. 1221, which will prohibit using packs of dogs to hunt bears and bobcats.

Here are some links.

Governor Jerry Brown hasn’t signed the bill yet, but presumably he won’t buckle under to the NRA and other “sporting” groups.  Ahh, the thrills and ejaculations of using a pack of hounds to chase a bear for hours and hours, and then finally shooting the cornered exhausted animal at close range.  It’s not quite as sporting as beating up little old ladies with a tire iron, but it comes close.

Most people — i.e. those who can find their way in and out of a one-room apartment and whose parents aren’t first cousins — are in favor of this law.   On the other hand…

If you’d like to see a description of this sickfuck “sport” — or if you’re one of the above-mentioned inbreds and you’re looking for something to masturbate to — here’s a fact sheet on  Hounding for Bears.

This “sport” is cruel to the hunting dogs as well as the bears.  The cornered bear will often fight back and tear the hounds to shreds.  I would have thought the already-existing laws against dog-fighting would make this “sport” illegal, but what do I know.

There was one down side to the article about this new law.  I had always thought animal cruelty was one of the few issues that cut across party lines.  Not this time.  In the California State Senate, not a single Republican voted in favor of this bill.  (I got my information from a Humane Society e-mail.)

Put Rep. Steve King in a Tiny Gestation Crate. And Leave Him There.

Factory farms, and Big Ag in general, have thousands of their prostitutes corrupting every branch of government.  But one of these prostitutes is sleazier and skankier than all the rest, and that would be Steve King (R—Hands Around His Ankles).  He added an amendment to the 2012 Farm Bill, H.R. 6083.

This amendment — euphemistically named the Protect Interstate Commerce Act — will eliminate every state, county and local law that protects animals’ rights.  The amendment is supposedly directed only at local rules that affect agriculture — health and safety standards for farm animals, bans on tiny gestation crates, workers’ safety and environmental protections.  That’s bad enough.

But the way the amendment is worded, it could overturn ANY local ordinance concerning animals’ rights.  Laws regulating puppy mills, laws against dog fighting and cockfighting — POOF!  Gone.

A spokesman for the Environmental Working Group said:

“This is exactly the sort of thing that’s done at midnight on a Wednesday night.  We’ve never seen anything that would so profoundly threaten the ability of states to protect consumers, farmers and the environment.”

Someone from the Humane Society said:

“The scope of this amendment is so absurdly far-reaching that it’s even difficult to talk about.”

If you’d like to see Steve King’s own personal spin on the Protect Interstate Commerce Act, here’s his website.  You can even contact him and tell him what you think of him.

Not many people know this, but Rep. Steve King is anorexic and only weighs 94 pounds.  He only looks big and pudgy because of the gallons of Big Ag jizm sloshing around inside him at any given moment.