Cynical Nation

Don't forget to yell "It's coming right for us" before you shoot it with your bazooka.

I say you take off, and nuke the bear from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

Yes, you must be careful when shooting a dangerous bear from 500 yards away with a high powered rifle. I mean, you might miss until you run out of ammo and barely beat the bear to your Hummer.

A sport for REAL men, obviously.

Should we alert the Vermont Teddy Bear Co. of your arrival or is this a surprise?

People really eat bear? Really? Is that a joke recipe? Oh, there are a couple of reviews of the recipe. Wait. Really?

Actually the black bear population inNorth NJ has doubled from the 1500 in 2003 (the year of the last hunt) to an estimated 3000 today and the number of complaints (human encounters) concerning black bear have nearly doubled as well.

Deer are hunted tin order to manage their population, as a unmanaged deer population will eventually produce numbers too large to be sustained in that area.

The black bear hunt serves the same purpose (population management) only the problems posed by bears to humans is far more severe than that posed by deer (thousands of motor vehicle accidents each year).

I knew a guy in Toronto who used to go bear hunting with a bow and arrow. Of course he had someone with him who had a shotgun. He's not THAT stupid.

These guys may also be related to bears. They have similar eating habits.

http://freegan.info

I don't see why we shouldn't be able to hunt mindless dittoheads as well. They aren't any smarter than bears, and they are certainly more of a danger to the American way of life.

Now Bailey, I came up with that one first, when I suggested, back in 1996 that we should have a hunting season on PETA activists.

Folks, the scary thing is that I've read enough of Bailey and JMK's posts to think that they're serious about hunting down and killing their fellow human beings.

I want to eat bear, though. If anyone knows of a restaurant near Morristown that's serving it, please post it here.

"Folks, the scary thing is that I've read enough of Bailey and JMK's posts to think that they're serious about hunting down and killing their fellow human beings." (Roger)

Now I can't speak for Bailey, but I see him as a teddy bear...yeah, maybe sometimes a little disgruntled, even at times an angry teddy bear, but a teddy bear none-the-less.

No, I don't believe Bailey would ever harm another person, except in self-defense, of course...and who wouldn't do that?

Me? Maybe when I was younger...with all my juices roiling, but I'm too old now. Hell, I don't even hunt no more. Last time was 1997...near froze my ass off. Don't even drink any more.

Come to think of it, I don't even fight fires any more. I've transferred to HazMat.

As a childhood hero of mine, Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé once said, "I will fight no more forever."

So basically, by calling Bailey a "bear", you're saying it's okay to let him loose in the New Jersey woods and hunt him down?

You're sick.

Of course, we really wouldn't have to 'manage'the populations of deer if we hadn't already hunted their natural preadators to excessively low levels in the first place. Modern hunting is an aberration, and pointless.

So is 90% of all human activity, including blogging.

Like our president, I believe in letting other people do the fighting while I sit back and pontificate ... and maybe occasionally get into a jumpsuit and parachute down onto an aircraft carrier or something.

We are both fun guys, having a good time.

So basically, by comparing yourself to the President, you're saying it's okay to let JMK loose in Iraq and deploy the army against him?

You're sick.

The army should only be deployed when American can clearly profit. That reminds me, who is operating those South African diamond mines? I think it's time to kick a little ass in Capetown.

"So basically, by calling Bailey a "bear", you're saying it's okay to let him loose in the New Jersey woods and hunt him down?

You're sick." (Roger)

I'd never hunt a teddy bear, Roger!

Now that would be just plain wrong.