Warning: Endangered polar bears threaten ‘all 50 states.’
Warning: Endangered polar bears threaten ‘all 50 states.’
The Western Business Roundtable (run by a former employee of Vice President Cheney) has sent out an activist email warning of the “major new threat to all businesses/industries” if the polar bear is added to the endangered species list:
Environmental extremists and activist lawyers are pushing the federal government to add the Polar Bear to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) list. Such a listing would have major negative implications for virtually every business and industry operation in the United States. The ESA is a very powerful law and could subject virtually any human activity in ALL 50 STATES to review and regulation by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) bureaucrats if the Polar Bear is listed as threatened or endangered. This will essentially declare “open season” for environmental lawyers to sue to block virtually any project that involves carbon dioxide emissions.
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If Al Gore had become President in 2001, the Earth would be so cool right now we’d be fighting off roaming Polar Bears here in Seattle! :-)
March 27th, 2007 at 4:12 pmThat’s funny. I just fought off one this morning. His hot stinky fish breath woke me up. I’m not sure what he was doing in my bedroom but this article sure clears that up. They are a threat indeed.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:12 pm“This will essentially declare “open season†for environmental lawyers to sue to block virtually any project that involves carbon dioxide emissions.”
That’s the idea, yess, and I love it :))
March 27th, 2007 at 4:13 pmThis will essentially declare “open season†for environmental lawyers to sue to block virtually any project that involves carbon dioxide emissions.
And this is a problem because……..?
March 27th, 2007 at 4:13 pmOh c’mon, hogwash. There have been several animals put on that list, and the corporate elite seem to be doing just fine and dandy.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:15 pmI am telling ya’. God D*mn Polar Bears tie up trafic here in North Carolina. We can’t get nothin’ done./sarc>
Save Knute!!!
March 27th, 2007 at 4:16 pmI thought the Bush Administration told people not to mention the polar bears. And here this woman is mentioning them. Hmmmm. This is part of an ingenious plot to make the current administration look like a bunch of lying idiots.
And it’s working, too! Don’t mention the polar bears!!
March 27th, 2007 at 4:17 pmStephen Colbert’s gonna have a field day with this one…
March 27th, 2007 at 4:18 pmThe problem really is the methane emissions from these fascist a$$holes
March 27th, 2007 at 4:18 pmApart from the absolute lie of WBR’s statement, it again represents the perspective of a bunch of people who feel it is their right to f**k up the planet anyway, anytime, for their personal benefit.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:19 pmYes indeed, the faux-religion of global warming is all about money. Shocking news here! Like the sun rises in the east and Jim Webb wants to surrender to anyone who will take his white flag.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:19 pmI knew them there polar bears were up to no good. They got all that white fur on the outside, and their skin is black undernieth.
/sarcasm
March 27th, 2007 at 4:19 pmFunny how the Republicans always find that profits for businesses trump any and all concerns for the environment. Recreational areas, diverse species, clean air, and clean water be damned. I forget the Bible passage that reads, “forsake the Earth and your children for another few cents of profit.”
March 27th, 2007 at 4:20 pmLMAO
Oh I needed the laugh; thanks TP for making the afternoon a little brighter
March 27th, 2007 at 4:20 pmFor more on the polar bear threat, click here
March 27th, 2007 at 4:27 pm“Yes indeed, the faux-religion of global warming is all about money.”
Damn rights, leave money to the real religions.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:31 pmThese people are so full of sh$%.
Yea, all these polar bears in the south are just making a mess of things.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:31 pmIs there any way to include either of the Clinton’s in on this?
March 27th, 2007 at 4:38 pmWhat’s the only reason the Western Business Roundtable didn’t make the case that polar bears represent a possible terrorist threat?
Terrorists blend in with the indigenous population, something polar bears can’t do.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:46 pmhail COlbert! all bears are a threat to National Security, didn’t ya know?
March 27th, 2007 at 4:57 pmIn America we call that the Justice system… judges are there to keep stupid over blown things from happening… no judge is going to tell America to shutdown.
March 27th, 2007 at 5:15 pmI will wear camouflage of polar bear hide while I stalk the Bald Eagles that will go into my stewpot, and you crazy hippies will all be jealous of my feasting!!!!
March 27th, 2007 at 5:26 pmI will wear camouflage of polar bear hide while I stalk the Bald Eagles that will go into my stewpot, and you crazy hippies will all be jealous of my feasting!!!!
Comment by tom baker
You can stew ‘em, but I wouldn’t eat ‘em.
March 27th, 2007 at 5:40 pmEven crazy old hippies know you don’t eat predators. :D
BTW, I can’t walk down the streets here in Idaho without tripping over a homeless polar bear. Such nuisances….
March 27th, 2007 at 5:41 pmPolar bears taste like chicken. Very, very fishy chicken.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:09 pmPOLAR BEARS FOREVER!!!!! KNUT WILL BE THE “POSTER BEAR” FOR ALL WILDLIFE CONCERNS AND CREATE A POLAR BEAR ARMY TO DEVOUR ALL POLLUTERS AND CAUSERS OF GLOBAL WARMING AND THOSE WHO NAYSAY IT LIKE Inhofe, Crichton, Sensenbrenner—-LET THESE SCUM BE TORN APART BY POLAR BEAR TALONS AND FANGS AND THEIR CARRION CARCASES BECOME POLAR BEAR POOP!!!!!
March 27th, 2007 at 7:29 pmNow why would Polar Bears become endangered?
Is it because their natural nhabitat is disappearing at an alarming rate?
Now you must agree, regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, that the PBs environment is changing.
Some (vast majority of scientists, Dems) think its caused by man, others by natural causes.
But it IS happening.
Or are you in complete denial and think the Polar regions are the same as they were 20 years ago?
Regardless of WHAT causes the climate change, surely we can save these wonderful creatures?
March 28th, 2007 at 3:59 amBush’s denial of global warming is just a chapter in a larger playbook which denies reality on many levels.
To even address the increased mortality of these creatures would be in conflict with Bush’s corporate masters, which he serves by ignoring every bad consequence of their business practices.
March 28th, 2007 at 7:39 amThe consequences he outlined sound like a dream come true to me! “This will essentially declare ‘open season’ for environmental lawyers to sue to block virtually any project that involves carbon dioxide emissions.”
March 28th, 2007 at 12:59 pmPolar bears endangered?? I don’t think so. Has anyone considered looking farther north? They can swim hundreds of miles and will follow the seals that swim pretty well themselves.
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