Rocker Ted Nugent addresses legislative hearing

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Passions soared. Voices were raised. Somebody even talked about stripping down to a loin cloth.

And that was before the crowd heard from Ted Nugent.

Standing before the Texas House Committee on Culture, Recreation & Tourism on Wednesday, the rocker best known for 1970s hits such as "Cat Scratch Fever" provided the crescendo to a debate on hunting deer raised in captivity.

Established nearly a century ago as a conservation measure, deer breeding has become a $650 million business in the state, according to researchers at Texas A&M University. Some ranchers, outfitters and guides have come to rely on breeders to provide animals selected for their outsize antlers.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Rocker-Ted-Nugent-addresses-legislative-hearing-4407729.php

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Cross-posted in Texas Group.

[tblue]

1. You're gonna shoot a deah?!

[Deep13]

2. You forgot two words at the beginning of that title.

"Off his..."

[MrSlayer]

3. Known for hits such as "Cat scratch fever"…

Name another "hit" this asshole had. There aren't any hits, there's one song. How he managed to hang around this long is beyond me. He's not a standout player by any measure, he can't sing, his songs are juvenile crap that KISS laughs at…where is the appeal?

[Moostache]

7. He is willing to be a rightwing poster boy....that's all you need apparently.

What the hell else could explain things like Victoria Jackson?

If there is any kind of name recognition AT ALL, and a willingness to say stupid things about Democrats or Progressives or Liberals of any stripe, then you are in like Flynn with the Knuckle-dragging, Mouth-breathing "base"...

[Fuddnik]

8. Explain things like Victoria Jackson?

My best guess would be Mad Cow Disease.

[Moostache]

9. That is as good as anything I could come up with!

Maybe there's something in the right wing brain that really needs to hear grating, nasally voices to drown out the rest of the echoes in there? Kind of like listening to white noise to fall asleep?

[Champion Jack]

29. Excellent !!!

[Aristus]

4. Texas has culture?

Shit, if I had known that, I might never have left.

In my post-Texas home, Washington State, you don't have to go looking for culture; it's everywhere!...

[Paladin]

14. Thanks for leaving. (nt)

[tabasco]

21. Thanks for staying. n/t

[Paladin]

24. My pleasure. (nt)

[Aristus]

25. You're welcome. n/t

[Mr.Bill]

41. Of course Texas has culture

It's just a few hours away by plane.

[The Wizard]

5. He promised to be

dead or in prison by April, 2013. Well Ted, we're waiting.

[Moostache]

6. They "hunt" capitive animals released 10 days earlier?

What the fuck kind of "sport" is that?

I must be missing something here. I do not live in Texas, I do not hunt deer and I do not see how this can possibly be true. I thought hunting was done in areas with NATIVE deer populations and was controlled to allow for adequate breeding populations or increased to cull herds that may have grown too large or become closer to farm land and the like?

So, in order to satisfy some kind of primal blood lust, these "hunters" track down likely sick or starving animals with no knowledge of their surroundings, which had until 10 days earlier been living in likely horrific breeding conditions and pumped full of antibiotics?

Damn, I always thought the was weak to use rifles and scopes and high powered ammunition in the first place (its not like the deer can fight back in any way); but now I see this, and realize they are also making sure that the animals are running around strange environments and without the advantages of a herd or familiarity with their habitat to actually have any chance at all.

Jesus Christ, why not just drug the animals, bring them to a firing squad line and let these sick motherfuckers execute their chosen buck with a 0.50 caliber rifle from point blank range?

[narnian60]

26. +1,000

[hamsterjill]

37. It's horrible, it's shameful, and it's inhumane.

I live in Texas and it makes me literally ill when I think about what is allowed to happen to these poor unsuspecting creatures.

If there is an overpopulation of a species, it is because of man's intervention in mother nature's perfect balance.

Anyone, man or woman, who feels "big" or "macho" or "tough" after participating in one of these canned hunts where the poor animal has no chance in hell of evading the hunter - that person is a jerk with no morals, no honor and certainly does not understand the Texas hunting culture that I grew up with. It's one thing to hunt for food. It is an entirely different thing to hunt merely to enjoy hurting something.

[MADem]

10. Perhaps the headline should read "Off his Rocker Ted Nugent..." nt

[lastlib]

28. "Pants-Shitting Draft Dodger Child-Raper Wet Turd-Smear Ted Nugent..."

...is the way it should read.

[Deep13]

39. I think you're selling him short...

He's also a misogynist, a traitor, and, like most cowards, a dangerous bully.

[Historic NY]

11. A jack wag from Michigan is now an expert in Texas.......

deer breeding for hunting......another senseless waste. There are places in the US being over run with deer (white tail) and we have an industry that breeds them for canned hunts. I don't see the sport in that.

[Kolesar]

13. There were 25 million deer in America ...

...the last time I heard any data. The population seventy years ago was only 25,000.

[tabasco]

23. Wrong.

A century ago, commercial exploitation, unregulated hunting and poor land-use practices, including deforestation, severely depressed deer populations in much of their range. For example, by about 1930, the U.S. population was thought to number about 300,000.[43] After an outcry by hunters and other conservation ecologists, commercial exploitation of deer became illegal and conservation programs along with regulated hunting were introduced. The Associated Press reported in 2005 that estimates put the deer population in the United States at around 30 million.[44] Conservation practices have proved so successful that, in parts of their range, the white-tailed deer populations currently far exceed their carrying capacity and the animal may be considered a nuisance. The lack of natural predators (which normally cull young, sick or infirm specimens) has undoubtedly contributed to the locally abundant populations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer

West Virginia and other eastern states were largely deforested in 1930. Forest restoration has improved deer population, not deer farms.

[yellowcanine]

30. Also, deer have become partially domesticated. (adapted to living in proximity to humans).

Deer didn't use to live in suburbs and in parks within city limits. Now they thrive there.

[Kolesar]

32. I heard it on NPr

So settle the ---- down.

[Berlum]

12. Did he (R) tell them how he dodged the draft?

Dude is due no respect whatsoever.

[just us]

15. Canned Hunt

The majority of American deer hunters hunt private or public land in areas preserved for wilderness or wild. Some who do not like that competition lease hunting land.
The Texas canned hunt is sold on TV and INTERNET and is a promise of a large horned buck
to hang on your wall to prove your penis is the largest.
They are mainly to tell lies about.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. What I really 'love' about modern hunters is the 'baiting'. You feed

the deer for months, so they are dependent on it and don't fear coming into the feeding area. Then on the first day of the season, you sit up in a tree and shoot them when they come.

Yes siree, that's a real 'sport'.

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Another reason to avoid Texas.

[Paladin]

18. Thanks for avoiding my state. Must be nice, there in oh-so-progressive Arkansas. (nt)

[sinkingfeeling]

19. I spent a little over two years in Southlake. And I'm boycotting several

states. That's my right.

[Paladin]

20. Thanks again. (nt)

[sinkingfeeling]

22. You're welcome.

[Trajan]

27. You know ...

I have always appreciated your stances in the Gungeon battles ... and while I understand your affected defense of your own state, you have to admit that the government of the state of Texas, as well as at least half of the constituents of that state, create a strong conservative political environment that is anathema to most of us Northern Liberals ...

What are we to do? ... ignore this extreme right wing thrust into the national polity because some of our friends happen to live there?

The government off the state of Texas is an absurd right wing circus that deserves whatever condemnation it receives, in spite of the fact that you and other Liberals live there ...

We have to be able to criticize that awful right wing government and their crazy supporters ... How do we do that without offending you?

[mountain grammy]

35. So true.. We have family in Texas and we love them

but when they tell me I'm not a Christian because I voted for Obama, and most of the people I meet there feel the same way, I just have to point out this dangerous extremism. Texas is a big and powerful state, we should criticize their extreme beliefs, which are often used against the rest of us.
Hell, I lived in Texas for 8 years, my husband was born and mostly raised there. We are thrilled to live in Colorado, which has it's share of nuts too. I respect any liberal who has the fortitude to live in Texas, Colorado's enough of a challenge.

[Paladin]

42. You Do Me No Offense By Trashing Perry, Cruz, et al.

I tend to blow a gasket when DU'ers condemn THE ENTIRE STATE OF TEXAS as nothing more than a culture-deprived, third-world country, and its ENTIRE POPULATION as a bunch of ignorant, gun-crazed hicks---with the usual, tiresome exception of Austin, which, as everybody knows, is The Only Cool Place In Texas (in point of fact, Austin stopped being cool a good 30 years ago, but I digress). As a lifelong Democrat, I take such blanket insults personally, as do the rest of Texas DU'ers. You want to bad-mouth Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert, et al? Feel free---you won't be saying anything that me and my liberal Texas friends haven't been saying for a long time. We're here on the ground, trying to change things in our state from Red to Purple to Blue just as soon as possible. Are you and other Northern Liberals aware that Obama received over 3 million votes in 2012, and that Obama took most of the big cities (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and The Only Cool Place In Texas)? To come to Democratic Underground and get regularly insulted rather than encouraged in any way, gets really fucking old, really fucking fast. I trust I've made myself clear.....

[MuseRider]

45. A big hug from Kansas.

Yup, it sucks here on DU most of the time right now because of the state I choose to live in. GREAT democrats here who look out of their Blue states and get their "oh aren't we so great" back patting trashing others. I wager most of them would not make it a year trying to change things here. Good for you. Keep working, you are a lot closer than we are up here to making the big switch to blue. Rooting for you.

[Paladin]

47. Hang in there, and thanks for the encouragement. (nt)

[yellowcanine]

31. I think we should just all agree that Ted Nugent is an arsehole and not devote any more

bandwidth to discussing his various antics. What is the point?

[Sunlei]

33. Ted must be eating to much of his steriod filled pet animals he shoots in a cage.

[radarluv]

34. That explains the nastier than usual stench around my hometown that day...N/T

[Sunlei]

36. 650 million to mutant animal breeders and taxpayers are required to pay to

clean up damages outside their breeding ranches including the chronic wasting disease that came from these 'mighty hunters'

[rdharma]

38. Ted Nugent - Sportsman

[TygrBright]

40. Life imitates "Reality TeeVee." Gross. n/t

[Wolf Frankula]

43. I would be very careful around Toilet Ted

He might poop his pants from fear.

Wolf

[4bucksagallon]

44. This is the month that Ted should be in jail or dead.

I like the latter but either option works for me. As a veteran I am disgusted that NE1 would take this cowardly draft dodging chicken hawk seriously.

[muntrv]

46. Ted is no Texan. I thought you have to be born Texan.