Ashley Judd and Defenders of Wildlife want you to know that Sarah Palin still hates wolves 10

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   amazingdrx Posted 10:21 pm
   04 Feb 2009

   HBO Palin vehicleA new HBO series.
   "Sarah Gone Wild".  In this episode the governor arranges a shotgun marriage for her daughter Bristol, into one of Wasilla's many meth lab operating families.  Will her new grandchild emerge a "tweaker"?  
   Meanwhile "Joe" the "Plumber" (he's not a plumber and his name isn't joe) decides to propose the legalization of meth as economic stimulus.
   How will this affect Sarah's new PAC?  Will big meth money swell its coffers?  Will aerial Wolf killing teams on meth "accidentally" shoot Todd during a race, mistaking him for a Wolf riding a snow machine?  Will "Joe" move to Alaska to comfort a bereaved governor?
   Forget Vampires, Romans, mob families, or frontier prostitutes; Alaskans on meth are way more telegenic.
   
   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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   Pompey Road Posted 10:59 pm
   04 Feb 2009

   Fueden country:Palin may have met her match with Judd. Judd being from East Kentucky the home of the Hatfield & McCoy feud.
   Better tread lightly around a clan that would make the Palins look like charm school graduates.
   I don't know about the level of difficulty, shooting a wolf from a moving chopper but barking a squirrel is required by age 5 in Kentucky.
   I can almost hear the theme music from the movie Deliverance in the background.
   
   The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

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   davedenali Posted 2:35 am
   06 Feb 2009

   good for juddGood for Judd and Defenders. Palin is a sicko and so is her program.  What I don't know is what practical ways there are to end it at this point.  I can't imagine Alaska's new senator wouldnt have a problem with federal legislation outlawing the wolf kills.  Wolves are not endangered in AK.  Seems what you have is still another referendum in AK. And these are people who elected Palin.  

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   davedenali Posted 2:50 am
   06 Feb 2009

   to fuedenJokes about people being from Kentucky are a form of bigotry. Pathetic and mean and vulgar.

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   Pompey Road Posted 4:26 am
   06 Feb 2009

   Jokes about Feudin:
   
   Ashley Judd is a joke,
   She is a third rate B actor who is trying to revive her career by getting some national attention and free PR at the expense of the Republican's party's Poster Girl for the incest philosophy of how to cater to the trailer trash vote.
   She is no more concerned about an Alaskan Wolf than she is by the animals that are being driven to extinction by Mountain Top Removal and Valley fills right in her back yard. The mountain grouse is in more danger of extinction than an Alaskan Wolf. The Eastern flying Squirrel is all but extinct.
   The GD coal Corporations bring Elk from out West to replace all the species that were driven out by MTR. The animals that need a deciduous forest in her back yard replaced by an artificial attempt to make the flat land look natural and more appealing to the yokels down in dog patch.
   Why don't she go get the wolves and introduce a natural predator back in this artificial environment to keep our artificial Elk herd in check.
   Woody Harrelson is more of my Hollywood type, he is down here in Southern Appalachia, East Ky. Her back yard with his I love mountains campaign fighting Mountain Top Removal. Down in the trenches doing the dirty work and drawing attention to the problem of MTR not himself. I feel his motives are sincere and more pure. She is a publicity seeking has been riding that conservative nuts coat tail to some free PR.
   There are a lot of animals right at her back door and some environmental causes she could have chosen without going up to Deliverance North.
   By the way I am from East Kentucky and am vulgar and mean and know first hand about the bigotry toward the people of Appalachia. That's why the rest of the country wrote this place off and lets this MTR destruction go on. Nobody gives a crap about Southern Appalachia.
   I am not pathetic or stupid enough to not see this showboat for what she is. Harrelson has got more credibility and sincerity in his little finger than this washed up wanna be has in her whole hick body.
   
    
   
   The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

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   vtaylor724 Posted 12:28 am
   10 Feb 2009

   Judd vs. HarrelsonWell put & I understand your anger, moutian top removal is unspeakably horrible.
   I think you may be misplacing your anger when you lash out at Ashley Judd. When you put Ashley next to Woody, I think you're comparing apples to oranges. It sounds like you feel betrayed in some way that Ashley should speak out for a cause that is so far away while atrocities are happening in your back yard.
   All I want to say is please make allowances for anyone who supports any worthwhile issue. There is so much need, so many terrible situations & far too few people to speak out, lend a hand, support or otherwise do anything beyond observe. Counterproductive diatribes regarding anyone that puts themselves out there for a cause defeats our purpose of trying to offset the damage done by greedy, callus, self-serving people every day. I know this is important to you or you wouldn't be reading Grist.
   BTW, I appriciate your dry humor, I didn't find it degrading & people need to learn to laugh at themselves more. I must say that I believe the banjo music you refer to was played in Georgia, the state I live in & yes, those people do exist, I've met them. I don't believe in promoting prejudicial stereotypes, but I see no harm in what you said.
   We all need to accept others & grow a sense of humor at the same time. Please try to make allowances for Ashley's choice, it's a valid one even if it is far away. I live in Georgia & worry about everything from stray cats to Tibetan persecution. I'm hoping for some change.
   
   Vicky

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   Pompey Road Posted 1:42 am
   10 Feb 2009

   Crying Wolf:    The reading on here gets technical and dry for most issues so I am not beyond evoking an emotional response to make a point. In reality Miss Judd was born in California and her mother one of the famous Country Music duo the Judd's moved to Ashland Kentucky  a town in the foothills of East Ky. I doubt she resides there now and her knowledge of East Kentucky is probably limited. She still attends the University of Kentucky basketball games and visits from time to time. The thing is even the people from the Bluegrass area of the state don't know that much about MTR or care. They love to see the muddy cars from East Ky coming into Lexington and Louisville spending all that coal money buying the big ticket items but know little about how the money is made. There are coal bought so called environmentalist who post positive articles about MTR in the Lexington and Louisville News Papers.
       I looked at Ashley's bio and she has a long term association with that animal rights organization she was representing. Still she has not made a film in a while and well we will not go there again. Just outside Ashland is a large coal power generating plant and the coal stock piles are enormous. The large tractor trailer trucks haul the coal in from East Kentucky from mines that are 3 hours one way from the plant. They just get 2 loads a day if they are lucky and just think of the diesel fuel they are consuming. It would be hard not to have lived in or around Ashland Ky and not have noticed that power generation plant. It would be difficult to live even in the foothills and not have partaken in the discussion about Mountain Top Removal.
   I see pieces on this sight often about deforestation, for the most part they are about the Amazon area of South America. It is more PC and the high brow intellectuals will go on about the deforestation of the Amazon while the forest of Southern Appalachia are being decimated in their own back yard. Will go on about how large corporations treat the indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin while the people in Southern Appalachia are being blasted off the land they have lived on for generations. I am just naturally suspicious when I see celebrity jumping on highly visible environmental causes when they are from an area that is being decimated, especially if they have not had any press for awhile.
   I have several blog entries about the stereotyping of the Southern Appalachian people and the way the nation interacts with the area. Long term yellow press and current movie and TV productions help reinforce and maintain the stereotype of the slovenly hillbilly who just spends his day drinking  moonshine and feudin or the modern day meth head who lives for the end the month to get his draw check.  The area is actually seen as expendable, if it is seen at all. The indifference is allowing the destruction of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. I know an Alaskan wolf takes priority over the creatures of the Appalachian forest. I know it is more chic and mod to to banter about the Amazon. I just throw some stuff in for shock value every now and then to draw some attention to an area that is below the radar .
   It will be difficult to explain to the next generation how we allowed a whole area of the Appalachian forest to be decimated while we traded barbs with Nanook of the RNC or focused exclusively on the Amazon while a large portion of the earth's lungs up here in the lower 48 was ripped out.  
   
   The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

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   Pompey Road Posted 1:26 am
   18 Feb 2009

   Apology in order:I would like to make the effort to apologize to Mrs. Ashley Judd, it seems I was way out of line. I have not been following her to the extinct I was cognizant of her local activities. I have been a little perplexed why she was not more vocal about MTR with here association with East Kentucky and being so close to the problem.
   I just noticed an article by Roger Alford, Associated Press Writer has just hit the local media, 02-18-09.
   
   Judd was among 500 demonstrators on the Capital Steps at Frankfort, Ky., protesting Mountain Top Removal during this current session of the legislature. Local environmental organizations have for the last 4 years introduced legislation to stop Mountain Top Removal in Eastern Ky. U.S. Representative John Yarmouth from Louisville Kentucky told the crowd he is going to introduce federal legislation as well.
   I applaud Ashley Judd for her efforts in joining us to stop the worst type of  Mountain Hardwood forest land destruction I have ever witnessed and again apologize for my former remarks.
   She may have come to the fight a little late but she come on board in a big way and she is another big gun, especially locally when trying to persuade the Kentucky Legislature.
   The 4th District Federal court ruling just set our effort back a year at least on the Federal Level unless Mr. Obama makes some changes by executive order. Ashley Judd brings a little hope this time to the state legislature passing the Stream Saver bill Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and the Sierra Club have fought for the last four sessions.
   
   
   
   The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

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   caniscandida Posted 5:49 pm
   06 Mar 2009

   gun rights, huntingSorry, Pompey Road, about this misunderstanding/digression regarding regionalism.  (But the supporters of Sarah Palin seem to have cultivated that, both before the election and even now, before the next one ... ; and it certainly turned out to be a blunder, however well-meaning he was at the time, for Barack Obama to speak before his contributors in San Francisco about rural white Americans being "bitter," and "clinging to guns and religion.")
   You know I admire you, and enjoy everything you write here.
   (And I am a returning, well-satisfied customer of Grandpa's Pine Tar Soap and Shampoo, from Erlanger, Kentucky, founded in 1878 -- one wonders if Grandpa fired a shot in the War between the States, and if so, on what side ... )
   Believe me, I have tried hard, and yet still cannot understand the paranoid, pro-NRA attitude of so many rural Americans.  The pro-gun-control ideas of us urban Americans have to do exclusively with life in our cities, after all, and have nothing to do with limiting the traditional humting practices of rural Americans.
   As for Sarah Palin, on the other hand, I cannot understand the aggressive, self-entitled attitude of so many rural Americans, that all wild animals are simply shootable "resources"; as though it did not matter at all, morally, what the circumstances may be, in which they suffer, and die, by way of being "collected."
   And on top of that is the horrendous, persistent anti-predator prejudice.  With regard to wolves in American history especially, I highly recommend "Vicious: Wolves and Men in America," by Jon T. Coleman.
   
   Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

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    caniscandida Posted 6:02 pm
    06 Mar 2009

    wolves in trouble againBy the way, not in Alaska but in the Yellowstone states, wolves are still in trouble:
    http://www.defenders.org/
    I have long suspected that Obama was not going to be the man to stand up for animals (as happy as I am otherwise regarding his election), nor is Ken Salazar the right person either.
    
    Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

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