Posted on behalf of @Symbolman
On the 50th Anniversary of the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge Sarah Palin kills a docile caribou, while TLC advertises for Oil Companies. Coincidence?
In "Sarah Palin's Alaska" on TLC Sarah shows the public exactly how to be an Irresponsible Hunter.
An Alaskan Native jokingly asked me once, "How do you feed your family when you shoot like that?"
I'd like to ask Sarah Palin that question. I know more about Alaska than she does. In the 70's, for two summers, I worked for an exploration company hired by Los Alamos and the Department of Energy to prospect for uranium - all over the face of Alaska - 18 hours a day in helicopters piloted by Vietnam veterans. I literally saw all of the state north, east and west of Fairbanks via those choppers and our mobile camp. I crashed with my crew in ANWR in a blaze of fire, and it took them nearly a week to find us in endless tundra, even when they knew basically where we were. Was once chase out of a village naked while Native folks waved shotguns and axes, as the Vietnam veterans unsheathed their guns back at the camp where we fled.
From a chopper, I witnessed a caribou migration from 3000 feet above where the carpet of animals were so thick that you couldn't see a blade of grass between them, they covered the planet in every direction from horizon to horizon. Rainbows spawned in their collective breath under a golden lowslung sun that never set. I've literally seen the Earth ALIVE.
I watched a mother caribou give birth in a pool of slag oil outside the cafeteria at Deadhorse at the top of the world, while oil workers laughed as she desperately licked her baby, unable to get the goo off. They both died in minutes. Cute.
I've caught every salmon that exists in that state, from Reds to a 30lb King salmon I battled under a bridge in Anchorage that I could have brought home on the city bus. Worked in a fishery in the Aleutian Islands, after camping on the deck of a ferry that travelled the length of those islands. Attended the university where I won every art award, while driving cab in Fairbanks during the construction of the pipeline, shuttling drunken pipeline workers, native folks, and defectives from saloon to saloon at 50 degrees below zero. Mined gold for two summers in the bush.
I KNOW Alaska. I've seen things most folks wouldn't believe. The best part of Alaska is that you don't have to make bizarre tales up, they happen naturally there.
Unlike Sarah Palin, who lies like the bear rug in her den.
Having lived among the caribou in the tundra I know that for the most part they as docile as lambs. If you walk up to one slowly they'll just stare at you. Pull out a handgun and you can plug them between the eyes. You could kill them with a sledgehammer. They aren't spooked by people because they rarely if ever SEE people. They don't KNOW what a human being IS. A moose is a different story. They'll kick you to death. They do it to Iditirod dogs all the time, and people. If Palin had hunted a moose I might have marginal respect for her, they're delicious, as are caribou.
But she's a liar and a coward.
It took her repeated shots to drop an animal that never moved. She complained of the sights being off on the scope. As I mentioned above, you don't NEED a scope. A baseball bat will work, if you were starving. The number one rule of hunting is to maintain your tool. You test your scope BEFORE you ever shoot at any animal, for a number of reasons.
Number one is, if you're going to miss the animal you ain't gonna bring home the bacon. Number Two is, If you can't hit the "kill zone" on an animal all you are doing is torturing it. Hit anywhere else and the animal will run, bleeding to death, if it's lucky, or horribly injured and suffering while you try to find it and finish the job. Its that simple. Not to mention that if you stress the animal it can ruin the meat. I've eaten moose that was "run to death" via those 4 wheelers, until it's lung froze and it fell down dead. The meat is full of adrenalin, which your body processes when you consume it. You can get a buzz that makes you speedy and aggressive, which may have benefited ancient man, but may also explain Palin's cranked behaviour and aggression.
I've been with the subsistance hunters, watched Native folk gut and eat seals before my eyes. After a clean kill, they spread the animal out and share it. They THANK the animal for giving them life and light. (The same seal oil they consume, that would give a caucasian a series of articulated heart attacks, also gets used in their lanterns.) I noticed that Sarah Palin didn't donate that carcass to any Native folks, being rich and all. Moose killed on the roads in Alaska are regularly donated to folks in need, orphanages, or old folks, like the Pioneer Home.
On top of Palin selling irresponsible hunting, there's the Corporate Oil slant to all this. How coincidental is it that on this, the 50th anniversary of ANWR, she plugs a caribou on the edge of that wonderful place, after tweeting that it was "unihabited", while TLC sells advertising for SHELL OIL on their website. Seen it with my own eyes. TLC says on their Sarah Palin Alaska site that it's "not Political."
My ass.
Sarah Palin is a fraud, and TLC is a corporate shill.
I'm sure you haven't heard it here first, either.
So while this farce plays out every Sunday night, take a moment to catch the advertisers and boycott them.
Micheal Stinson is the co-author of the "Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book" http://goingrouge.net and added his Alaskan humor to the mix to temper his rage against what Sarah Palin has done to a beautiful, wonderous place formerly known as Alaska. He is currently working on his memoir of his time in Alaska, "The Jesus Bolt."