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Saving Mother Earth, One Dead Adorable Baby Bear At A Time

Marc Vander Maas


Posted by Marc Vander Maas
on Friday, March 23, 2007

Hey, what can I say - sometimes in the great war to save Gaia, you have to do some… unsavory things, like killing baby polar bears so they don’t have to suffer the humiliation of being raised by humans after being rejected by their mothers. With an assist from our resident Photoshop genius, Jonathan Spalink, I humbly present this artistic token of support to our friends in the environmental movement, in the hopes that it will help them to educate the public about the importance of their quest to save this bear by killing it.

The boss is out of town this weekend, and he left me the keys to this sweet blog!

It should be noted that cooler heads have prevailed in this situation…

Update: Atomic cuteness bomb explodes over Germany; mass cases of “the snuggles” reported

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  • Marc, from one former “Homespun Blogger” to another, nice to see you making your “marc” at Acton.

    Doug Payton
    March 23, 2007
    1:24 pm

  • FOTFL!!! Too much, guys.

    How about “get Al Gore off the stage or the bear gets it…”

    :-)

    Don Bosch
    March 23, 2007
    3:47 pm

  • Don -

    we’ll see if we still have jobs on monday. Your tag is good, though. I think we may have to resurrect this concept again in the future…

    Doug -

    Good to hear from you!

    Marc Vander Maas
    March 23, 2007
    7:44 pm

  • how can you kill this adorible little polar bear

    emily
    February 8, 2008
    11:30 am

  • Hey, it’s not us! I want the bear to [i]live![/i]

    Marc Vander Maas
    February 8, 2008
    12:09 pm

  • Wait, animals don’t feel embarassment. How would it be “humiliated” if humans raised it? It doesn’t have a sense of humiliation. And besides, many animals in America that weren’t domestic (like polar bears, wolfs, ect) and it actually better. They were easier to handle for vets and they acted normal with their own species. Killing the bear wouldn’t help the envioromental situation. Enough bears are dying from hunting and global warming. We don’t need any snooty animal rights people running around killing healthy baby animals that are already at risk of extinction.

    me
    April 24, 2008
    2:49 pm

  • Me, you’ll be interested to know that the polar bear population has doubled to 22,000 in the past forty years. Quit drinking the kool-aid and do a little fact finding on your own. You can start here: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/56861

    boomercat
    May 14, 2008
    7:40 am

  • WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE KILLING OF LITTLE BABY BEARS WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS YOU ARE THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE ME SICK AND THAT ARE KILLING OFF THE EARTH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Nicole
    July 11, 2008
    12:50 pm

  • You guys are sick!! Killing baby bears is NOT, i repeat NOT okay!! That would not be putting them out of their misory!! There are human babies facing the same problem, would you kill them too?!?!?!

    Jen
    November 30, 2008
    2:57 pm

  • Satire, folks. Satire. We don’t want the bears to die.

    Marc Vander Maas
    November 30, 2008
    6:56 pm

  • how would you people feel if somebody wre to do that to you huh you would be mad!!!!!!!!

    morgan hilliard
    April 23, 2009
    3:58 pm

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