Arkansas Blog

I sure hope Mrs. Huckabee gets to kill something. She told all the kids at the opening of our nature center here that she was really looking forward to shooting her a deer. To a kid I think that's worse than showing them your wing wang. I remember being a kid and thinking it was to cool that the hunter killed Bambi's mother.

And I was mighty sad when I graduated from the rectal thermometer to the oral kind. Bye bye to my little butt buddy and bye bye to Bambi's mother! I hope the stacks of dead animals in Wyoming out number our troops killed this month in Iraq.....better get to killing Huckabees, you're going to have to shoot like crazy to top Bush's number.

Huck may be onto something.

Rick Daniel said, "He very impressively made the point that the right to own firearms was more about self-defense. But more specifically, he said, it gives the citizenry the ultimate protection against a tyrannical government."

So, was this "one-shot" hunt out in the wilderness? It wasn't at one of 'em pet farm shooting galleries, was it?

24fps, I googled it but couldn't find much. I suspect it is and here's why:
Huck said he thought the shot would be 50-75 yards, not 250.
BTW,
I think I just figured out why Huck doesn't take commercial flights. He's packing all the time.

It does seem hard to pin down exactly where the One-Shot hunting grounds are, but it's mostly governors, other politicians and the usual rich suspects who get invited.

One past shooter was former Interior Secretary James Watt, who earned the nickname "Two Shot" because he missed his pronghorn.

Apparently another dignitary back in the '30s was the Nazi zeppelin the Hindenburg, which despite being one big-ass bullet, didn't have any kills. It did, however, carry a load of pronghorns back to the Fatherland to satisfy the bloodlust of Aryan Bavarian hunters.

And it seems the hunters follow a tradition of breaking into "tribes" who must provide for their people or explain why at the big powwow, which likely features a much more sumptuous spread than the Shoshones who once owned these lands enjoyed after their one-arrow hunts of yore.

Arkansas State Police probably provides the weapon, shells and telescopic lens......reckon?

Is there any way for Governor Argue to excommunicate Huckabee while he's off sharing his love in other states? Must we wait until January to be done with the Huckster? It's all so tiresome.

PS it appears everyone on this blog must be as tired as I am tonight. I am plumb tuckered out!

Yeah, I bet that hunt that included three Governors was the "real deal".
So that's why the RevBroGuv never flies commercial--he can't pack a heater. I never put 2 and 2 together.

His antelope-dropper is small potatoes compared to the Dickster's famous shot, though.

"But more specifically, he said, it gives the citizenry the ultimate protection against a tyrannical government."

It is a total amazement to me how grown people can still entertain this myth. After decades of spending TRILLIONS on our military preparedness, equiping hundreds of thousands of troops with the latest, high-tech killing devices, with sattelites showing us every apple on the tree in your back yard, and at least ONE TRILLION Unaccounted for in Dept of Defense expenditures which could easily have built some sizeable, undisclosed defense, underground command cities...after all this plus a military-industrial-complex that is now marketing to local and state police departments....after all this these Right-to-Bear-Arms romanticists insist that protection from a tryrannical government is why they keep and bear arms.

My god. No wonder we spend billions on carbonated sugar water, and waste small fortunes on lotteries with a Million, five hundred thousand to ONE odds.

People will believe any thing!.
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CHICKENHAWKS-Lovers of war as long as others fight them. It would not be so fun if those deer were shooting back!

Lwood,

It would take little to get the military to round up unarmed citizens. It would take A LOT to get the military to slaughter their own citizens.

Your "MYTH" is based on the fact that it is a major jump to have FELLOW CITIZENS firing back. The military must demonize the enemy in order to get soldiers to disregard their respect for life and become a killing machine.

A soldier needs to believe he is fighting for something bigger than himself to transition to a killer from a good old boy that would have helped pull a stranger's car out of a ditch.

When the soldier is commanded to fire on targets that he can identify with and then be able to visualize that HIS OWN COMRADES may be firing on his mother and family. That soldier is very likely to turn his own weapon against his own army.

Propaganda is how you get nonmurderers to go out and kill the identifiable enemy such as yellow buck-tooth glasses wearing commies or towelhead Islamiacs.

Post tramatic stress disorder is the result of a normally good person being required to go out and kill other humans. If those humans look like you, talk like you, eat the same foods as you and go to the same churches as you the incidents of PTS Disorder cassualties skyrockets.

The war will be won or lost in the mind of the soldier. If the soldier is unable to carry out an attack or is reluctant to follow orders, the attack on the citizens will fail.

That is why an armed citizenry is in fact a very effective restraint on the military.

That is why I sign myself as Citizen1, because first and foremost, I am a citizen. I have received many many benefits and opportunities and I owe a great debt to our country.

I don't hunt and I am not a gun nut and I wouldn't care if hunting was banned tomorrow. I have read the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and the Federalist Paper plus many lettes and articles by the Framers and I don't recall ANY mention of gun collector"s or sportsmen's rights.

Y'all are missing the Presidential tie-in here. Game hunting? Rigorous physical schedule of marathons? Mike Huckabee is, no doubt, remaking himself as the neo Theodore Roosevelt.

But he better put that weight back on to be convincing ...can't wait to see him snap his teeth. Bully, Mike! Bully! Going to swim with the stingrays next?

One shot? Janet don't need no steenkin' one shot. She run her antelope down in her bare feets and dispatched the vicious sucker with a rabbit punch taught to her by her bestest frien', Jermaine!

Antelope is strictly a trophy hunt. It does not provide food for your table. You go on to private land with a guide that sets up your shot, and then you kill the antelope and have it mounted. All of this for $1,000. There is no skill involved here folks.

These so-called canned hunts are disgusting and say a lot about those who participate (i.e. Cheney/Huck). It's one thing to use good sportsmanship to kill a deer you're going to use to feed your family and another to participate in an ego-pumping 'trophy' hunt.

I find it particularly revealing that the likes of Cheney used several deferments to avoid military service (where they use real guns to do real shooting) but now pays money to have others line up the critters for his pleasure. What a blood-thirsty hypocritical chicken-hawk...guess he's Huckster's model.

Antelope is strictly a trophy hunt. It does not provide food for your table.
Posted by: Raven

Somebody needs to explain this to the governor, then, because he's eating the thing. The article says: "The governor said he brought the meat home and had antelope sausage for breakfast Wednesday morning."

Maybe those posting on the blog haven't been into the woods beyond the park in the Heights so they don't know the first thing about hunting. Not all hunts are canned and I don't think this one is a canned hunt or everyone who went would have been able to shoot one. That is how canned hunts work, you are sure to kill something. Congrats to the Gov. and the others who know how to hunt and shoot.

"Maybe those posting on the blog haven't been into the woods beyond.."

I'm afraid, James, you have fallen into that ever present entrapment of over generalizing. But you did say "maybe."
I won't relate my hunting experiences or gun ownership but will say quail hunting the the best sport I have ever been involved in. Period.

I've been on an antelope hunt. Wyoming was absolutely crawling with them. It was not difficult. I had mine made into hamburger and enjoyed every last bite of it! I wish I had some more. The head is of course on my wall.