Gov. Corzine Sees No Bear Problem
September 29, 2008
Today I am in no mood to deal with politicians. I have absolutely no respect left for any of them. Today, they are all ignorant and more interested in themselves and saving their own butts than anything you or I have to say to them. But I must move on.
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine exemplified his expertise, dazzled us with his wisdom and bowled us over with his intelligence recently by telling a reporter for the New Jersey Herald that the current black bear problem in parts of New Jersey was only a problem “if you want to call it that”.
I’m glad he set me straight because today I am angry because I was told we have a problem with our economy. Now that I know that if I just stop calling it that, there won’t be one anymore. Problem solved? Only if you’re a moron.
The governor also said it was only a matter of perception. Even though recent reports from his own state agencies say bear complaints have skyrocketed this year over last, Corzine says that’s not true. He says there are fewer complaints this year and I guess if we see more or read about the increase in complaints, we are perceiving it wrong. Am I glad I got out of bed today.
Maybe I need to move to New Jersey. Things must look a whole lot different there than other places. I once knew a man who discovered he was dying of cancer and had only 6 weeks left to live. He decided he was moving to New Jersey. When asked why, he said that he heard living in New Jersey for 6 weeks seemed like 6 years.
But in Gov. Corzine’s ability to excite his constituency with his vast knowledge of events around his state and in particular the bear problem, he once again impressed upon us all how dutifully he does his job. I assume he must have made the mistake because nobody would rationally admit to it, he said that he hadn’t yet talked with anyone at the Division of Fish and Wildlife about the bear problems.
Maybe we should check to see if Corzine is somehow related to Barack Obama. Perhaps he too is “anointed”. Maybe he is just all-knowing and doesn’t need to have facts and information given to him. Maybe he just knows it all.
Or, then again, he probably is just an anti-hunting, liberal, animal lover who could care less about science and wildlife management.
Further updates:
Last week I told you about Janet Piszar, the director of the Bear Education And Resource (B.E.A.R.) Group. Seems there is a lot of rebutting going on at the Daily Record.
Anthony Mauro, Chair of the New Jersey Outdoor Alliance took Piszar to task over supposed facts and information she had written about in the editorial I had commented on with readers earlier last week. Piszar didn’t like Mauro’s rebuttal, so she respondedagain.
Piszar once again laments that New Jersey doesn’t have a bear management plan in the context that it is somehow the fault of bear hunters in New Jersey and if they had a plan all this would magically disappear. I’ll remind readers again that the reason New Jersey doesn’t have a bear management plan can be blamed on DEP Chief, Liza Jackson. She tossed the court-approved plan in the garbage upon taking over the position under newly elected Gov. Jon Corzine.
What I find strangely odd and actually quite humorous is Piszar’s latest reference to where her vast knowledge comes from. After citing the work on probably the only person who fits her group’s agenda, she gives us all a brief history of wildlife management, stating that the states wildlife management decisions have been ongoing for over 100 years. Isn’t a bit disturbing that someone would simply discard the proven successes of the past 100 years in favor on one man’s opinion of what he thinks is the best way to “learn to live with bears”?
Isn’t it just as odd that up until the time that the liberals took over and the animal rights and anti-hunting groups have fallen under the favor of the governor, parts of the state have the biggest wildlife problems they have ever faced?
It is disingenuous to blame this on 100 years of proven bear management and hunters. Time for Piszar and her group to take the governor and Ms. Jackson and act like bears and go hibernate.
And to finish this off on a quite humorous note, reader Jim shared with me that he went to the Morristown Street Fair, he said to pick up the latest propaganda the antis were passing out. He said a “very sensitive male anti” approached him and asked him if he knew what to do if he saw a bear.
Jim told him he’d shoot it.
“No, no, no, no!” the man said. “You have to make noise and back away slowly!”
Jim’s reply, “Not if he’s in my house!”
Tom Remington
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