I’ve always been jealous of the really good social issues, having some neo-Jesus like Bono or Sting whispering in the President’s ear is guaranteed to fast track aid to the starving millions in [insert_name_here].
Us fishermen have endured the conspicuous lack of Tier 1 entertainment talent advancing our issues with heads of state, or immortalizing us in the lyrics of a tune that’ll haunt us from tinny elevator speakers – whose instrumentals follow us down the vegetable aisle.
It’s why we can’t get our agenda past the wooden-faced secretary – and we’re carted out screaming before the network news arrives.
Fresh from saving the entire human race, and specifically saving the planet courtesy of a stymied fish god, we’ve got the porcine William Shatner chatting up prime ministers to save the last six or eight Pacific salmon.
Eat your heart out hunters, all you can muster is Ted Nugent…
Mr. Shatner has petitioned the Canadian government to remove all the salmon farms that native fish must pass in their return to fresh water, otherwise he’ll ignore the Prime Directive and lay a three second phaser burst on Calgary, or possibly most of Quebec …
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Look for all that to CHANGE. HOPE is on the way ! The issue of fly fishing (catch and release) was taken firmly in hand by President Obama – who this very day has cast a virgin fly (his rod and reel are of equally virgin newness, as they were a gift from friends) into the pristine waters of Odell Creek in Montana. He has been promising Montanans to enact this ritual since the campaign (Apr. ’08, Missoula) and has DELIVERED ! Some causes are just too big to fail. Complete details on Google.
Obama is going fly fishing in Montana after his townhall with the local nay sayers. You missed that story!!! The 52lb. carp called Porkrind was MURDERED and you missed that story. You expect me to do the happy dance over a has-been space boy…Shatner?? Sigh.
Did Porkrind have a shsrk fin glued to his back?