Tarting up the pig costs dollars, it seems.

More votes could be bought by using the 200 thou for something halfway beneficial....you know...like a soup kitchen....

Palin is the McGyver of politics....give him a ball of twine, some old cans and a rusty wheel-barrow and he'd build you an escape module for the space shuttle....

Palin would just screw up someone's election prospects...

Pretty sure he's referring to poachers who kill just for "parts" of animals because some clown decided it makes his wang work better or do something else for him.

And not sure about the moose thing...but I know she has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make it easier for hunters to use planes to hunt down wolves and has also proposed a $150.00 bounty on the front left foreleg of each wolf killed. This is because she has deemed them to be a problem. What a gal!

And are they a problem? I know that governments often pay rewards to hunters for shooting animals that might endanger other animal populations.

Now, I am against hunting (except for the purpose of protecting necessary herds etc.) and I wouldn't eat game.

But since I do eat slaughtered animals I can condemn the hunters only for their method of killing not for the principle of killing an animal and eating it.

Well...personally I don't feel any animal is a problem...they've done pretty good on they're own without our help or intervention. But when people move into "they're" natural habitat..suddenly they become a problem. And we're talkin Alaska here. And rather than live with them...they're just killed...or culled if you want to put it a nice way.

I have no problem with someone that hunts and makes full use of what he kills...but if someones out there just killing for animal parts...I hope the animal wins.

I guess it depends on whether you think that as many species as possible should survive. For me it is about the gene pool. We know how genes work, but we don't know which combinations work and how the create the individual animals without having a close enough relative at the ready.

Hence we try to preserve existing species and that includes protecting them from predators (including us).

I can imagine that wolves are a problem for mooses and other animals and we might want to moose populations for some reason.

Trophies or not, Palin has no real NEED to shoot moose... there are ample supplies of commercially butchered meats available (shit, the best Aussie beef heads to the US by the shipload daily), so yes, Palin is killiing neeedlessly, and possibly an animal that could soon be on the endangered species list while people condone and participate in moose slaughter.

Yes, I have... the BBC, National Geographic and others have aired documentaries clearly showing hunters slaughtering wildlife all over the World and just leaving their carcasses to rot.  And there's no WOW about it... it's fucking disgusting.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit... and we have nothing further to discuss/debate.

I don't have a need to slaughter cows either. Other people do it for me. I don't have a need to eat those cows either. But I do eat beef, as I am sure you do as well.

I don't understand why it acceptable for you to eat meat and have an animal killed for it while it is a needless kill when Palin eats meat. Commercially butchered meats are animals too.

We are all killing needlessly (or have people to do it for us), and to condemn it when others do it while it is obviously all right when we do it is hypocritical at best and insanity at worst.

I don't doubt that. I just don't see why it is relevant. I have seen people do all sorts of bad things, but I never thought that I can use that as an "argument" against somebody I happen to dislike.

"Look at Obama! Other people do bad things. So obviously he must be bad." It shouldn't work that way.

If you believe that Palin killing an animal to eat it morally worse than you eating an animal killed by someone else, and if you believe that documentaries on other people are an argument against Palin, we do indeed have nothing further to discuss.

You are a hypocrite and a simpleton.

Seems like an unfortunate trend to me, transporting meat from one place to another using lots of energy. Surely the US can produce their own meat?

I wish they'd put those 'sport' (not for food) hunters down in the wilderness w/o their rifles/automatics and have the animals hunt them.

No, I'm not a vegetarian, and I realize someone does kill the animals I eat but he/she doesn't do to hang a set of antlers over the fireplace. That's some sick crap. If they were such good sports, maybe they'd try taking one of these animals on "up close and personal" without the telescopic/night vision scopes they so fondly display.

So if you hunt to eat, fine. If you do it for "sport" have the guts to do it "up close and personal".

Otherwise, it's sadistic cowardice.

The humanity of some people concerns me greatly.

So throwing away those parts of the animals one cannot eat makes one a more moral person?

I don't see that.

Bollocks! I've seen dickhead hunters here in Oz indiscriminately shoot dozens of kangaroos purely for 'sport' and leave their carcasses to rot... saw the same thing with fox hunting in the UK, they'd kill the fox, cut off it's tail and just leave the rest to nature to devour... and a similar thing on a National Geographic Documentary on moose and caribou shooting in Alaske/Nth America.  The moose/caribou were shot, their antlers removed (sometimes before they were dead) and their carcasses left in pre-dug pits to rot.  It happens in Africa with the elephant poachers, taking just the tusks... it happens with the baby fur seals, just for their fur... so don't tell me that I don't fucking know what I'm talking about.  It happens, and that's an inescapable fact, Worldwide.

What crap! Nobody NEEDS to spend almost quarter of a million on a wardrobe... and all in less than 4 months, all at the expense of others.  That is sheer greed and unnecesary extravagence on her part... and that is more than enough for me to dislike  Palin. I don't need a bias/misogyny... I have to fight, struggle and go without to get the things I need, much less want, and she has done more than enough to show that she is an airhead and a VERY poor choice as McCain's running mate. Poor bastard never stood a chance with her on the ticket.  Jafo got it in one... Palin would screw anyone's election chances, so why you think she is a worthy candidate for VP (any high office for that matter) has got me (and many others) beat.

Come on, Starkers, let's get real.  This pales in comparison to all the unnecessary extravagances, especially of our candidates (made up highly paid positions for family & friends, etc.), but also of our elected officials.  You're predisposed to dislike this woman so you jump on it when you wouldn't say bumpkis otherwise.

Considering the amount of evidence it is clear that Palin kills animals for fun rather than food. After all all those other people in totally different countries are doing it.

And on that subject, I have long suspected that Palin is a thief, too. I have seen a documentary on thieves in Belgium. Some of them were women.

At the expense of those who gave their money for the campaign. I wonder what Michelle Obama's and Hillary Clinton's costumes cost. I never saw the media being very interested in that though. To be honest, I was never really interested in what either of the three were wearing and how much it cost.

That seems to be true. She was hired to get conservatives to vote for McCain (since they wouldn't do it based on his credentials). But she is not in the same league as he is. She is an inexperienced airhead just like Obama, with the same amount of experience but without the racist friends.

Humanity? Fairness.

Parts thrown away? Well. I think they should definitely save that part of the moose, etc. for you so it won't go to waste.

 Yeah. There is surprising many people like that.