Bush makes move to gut Endangered Species Act
Basically, he wants to end environmental reviews and let federal agencies decide for themselves if their new mines and dams will have an effect on local species. I'm guessing the answer will typically be "no," and occasionally "no, you hippy idiot."
Reasons for the change include worries that those hippy bastards will use reviews to limit CO2 emissions (the Polar Bear just became the first animal endangered by climate change) and the omnipresent desire to save time and money on development projects.
I know some people believe that eliminating a few species is OK if it would cost ridiculous amounts of money to work around them. I disagree, but that's just my opinion. This change seems to be more along the lines of eliminating a few species if it would be inconvenient to check and make sure we wouldn't be.
Seems to me the only three reasons someone could support this are A) they believe federal agencies are more able to honestly evaluate the environmental impact of their projects than an agency dedicated to evaluating the environmental impact of projects, B) they believe that the survival of a species is the dominion of God and humans are incapable of really killing off a species, or C) they're evil and don't care how many species need to be wiped off the face of the earth to boost their profit margin.
With the rate at which we're losing species I really don't understand how people can think we offer TOO MUCH protection.
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For those who didn't click on the article, the gist is that independent scientific reviews of endangerment would be dumped in favor of internal review by the agencies proposing the environmental impact. Oversight ditched for self-interested review, in other words. Just bad practice.
"Sometimes I go around saying, 'Kommisar Paulson has seized the commanding heights of the economy!'" - Paul Krugman, asked if recent changes to banking are socialistic.
Only animals we need are as follows:
Cow, chicken, pig, dog, cat, assorted fish, ohh yeah and lambs too I like to eat Greek food.
Everything else can be reproduced with animatronics.
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Tempest says: "A team hat doe snot communicate and talk to each other about what the next move will be is going to lose."
Mex is my hero = "f*ck it, I'll do it. WE'LL DO IT LIVE."
What, no shrimp?!
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And where would I get my coon skin caps from? ;P
And you're a filthy commie or arab terrorist for not including eagle on that list.
Doves? Pshaw!
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
It's like he isn't even bothering with the illusion of pretending to care.
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Lame Duck Syndrome, basically.
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I agree on the balls. Not a fan of the balls. -- wordsmythe asserting himself in OOC Theater
I hate shrimp, now maybe if they could get some sort of genetic no poop trail shrimp then I might like them.
Also I'm in the market for a coonskin cap, but I have yet to find a place in Houston that sells them. I keep on trying to get out to the Davey Crockett Memorial east of here as there surely must be some there.
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Tempest says: "A team hat doe snot communicate and talk to each other about what the next move will be is going to lose."
Mex is my hero = "f*ck it, I'll do it. WE'LL DO IT LIVE."
Does anyone else feel like the President is using policy decisions as his buy-in with his poker buddies?
"I'll see your military reconstruction contracts in Georgia with these offshore drilling rights, and raise you the Endangered Species Act. Hehehe A flush just has to be the same color right?"
Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.
There's a species of microscopic arachnid that never poops. It doesn't have an anus. The downside is it fills up with waste and explodes. The best part? IT LIVES ON YOUR FACE. These guys live in our pores and eat our dead skin.
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Spore
What a remarkably terrific reminder to any environmentalist who is squishy on Obama that they don't have much of a choice come November.
I remember having this very conversation with some of the "Sportsmen for Bush" in 2004. Many of them have bumperstickers on their cars that say "Save an elk. Shoot a developer".
Another example of the remarkable hypocrisy of the average Bush supporter.
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Obama is against microscopic arachnids living on my face? These exploding poop balls are part of the republican agenda?
Oh... the other thing. Sure.
Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.
But how do they taste fried?
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Like crap.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
There's a burst of flavor.
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Spore
Is Bush running again and no one told me?
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You obviously don't read many of the threads in P&C. Either that or you do and ignore it.
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Yes. Technically it's his crazier doppleganger McCain, but it's the same difference. The 2009 version of the republican party is showing no major changes from the 2008 model. It doesn't even have a new racing stripe or bigger tailfins.
I can't decide if Funk and Edwin skipped the sarcasm or if they're on to a new level of meta-sarcasm.
McCain isn't even republican his is a Rhino. He is like a moderate democrat.
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Tempest says: "A team hat doe snot communicate and talk to each other about what the next move will be is going to lose."
Mex is my hero = "f*ck it, I'll do it. WE'LL DO IT LIVE."
Pharacon shh, they can't tell the difference between Bush and McCain, they think all older white guys look alike.
"Also, I have four legs and am covered in wool. Baa!" *Legion* reveals his inner furry.
Now you're just being a jackass.
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Yeah, what's with all the anti-liberal hate today, Nos?
"Sometimes I go around saying, 'Kommisar Paulson has seized the commanding heights of the economy!'" - Paul Krugman, asked if recent changes to banking are socialistic.
You're thinking of the 2000 model. The 2008 model is version 2.0 and contains all the most popular hard right positions. There must have been a major patch.
This from the guy that posted a photo of GWBs face superimposed on McCains head? LOL
"Also, I have four legs and am covered in wool. Baa!" *Legion* reveals his inner furry.
Just compare their records and you will see that they are more alike than not. You are just plain wrong along with Pharacon.
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This particular "liberal" stupidity I've always expressed hate for, the Democrats seem to believe that they are running against Bush as well as McCain, because Bush comes up as often as a reason why Democrats should vote for Obama as McCain does. I hate to break it to them but Bush isn't running again, none of his policies should matter an iota about whom you vote for this fall. It makes as much sense as saying because Edwards is a cheating liar that you should vote for McCain this fall.
"Also, I have four legs and am covered in wool. Baa!" *Legion* reveals his inner furry.
I absolutely agree that they shouldn't, but you'd have to have your head in the sand to think they don't. Or do you think that our presidents tend to alternate between Republican and Democrat by coincidence?
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Spore
And yet the same republicans are voting this time and in 2012. We know what they support. Nobody in the republican party is demanding someone more liberal than Bush, so why would anyone think that McCain will ever move to the middle? He's simply the guy the party is willing to stomach in the hope of maintaining the status quo.
McCain has a much "stronger" record of environmental protection than Bush policy would dictate, until very recently he was opposed to drilling in the ANWR equating it with the grand Canyon. Recent economic trends have changed his mind on this issue.
"Also, I have four legs and am covered in wool. Baa!" *Legion* reveals his inner furry.