McCain Attacks Bears, Twists Facts On Earmarks In Speech Against ‘Wasteful Spending’
McCain Attacks Bears, Twists Facts On Earmarks In Speech Against ‘Wasteful Spending’
One of Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) favorite examples of government abuse is a multimillion-dollar study of the Montana grizzly bear population by the U.S. Geological Survey. In a recent campaign ad, he attacks “wasteful spending by Congress,” giving the example of “$3 million to study the DNA of bears.” On the stump, McCain goes further, joking, “I don’t know if it was a paternity issue or criminal, but it was a waste of money.”
McCain continued his mockery in a campaign appearance today. Watch it:
McCain has long portrayed himself as a crusader against government “pork” such as Alaska’s notorious “Bridge to Nowhere.” McCain has mocked the bear study since 2003, when Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) allocated a $1 million earmark to the project.
His new attack on the bear project comes despite a Washington Post story yesterday digging into the actual project McCain is attacking — the USGS Northern Divide Bear Project.
As the Post explains, the project by field biologist “is focused not on the DNA of grizzly bears, but on counting them.” Before this study, the size of the population was unknown:
Grizzly bears in northwest Montana are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. But Kendall’s project — the results of which will be published soon in a scientific journal — revealed that there are more grizzlies than anyone had realized. That suggests that three decades of conservation efforts, costing tens of millions of dollars, have paid off.
A National Wildlife Federation spokesperson told the Washington Post, “Someone like McCain should be delighted, in fact. The Endangered Species Act works.”
Transcript:
I want to be President of the United States because I want to restore trust and confidence in the government, I want to secure our borders, I want to fix Medicare, I want to fix Social Security, I want to eliminate this wasteful and outrageous earmark and pork-barrel spending which has eroded the confidence of our Republican base and the confidence of all Americans in our ability to be careful stewards of your tax dollars.
By the way, my favorite in the last few years was we spent $3 million to study the DNA of bears in Montana. I don’t know if that was a paternity issue or a criminal issue. (LAUGHTER)
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March 11th, 2008 at 8:16 pmYes. It does cost money to see if a federal program has succeeded.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:16 pmWould certain trolls like to cancel the census for 2010?
“I’ve got poopy…GET OFF MY LAWN!“
March 11th, 2008 at 8:17 pmNow if they were asking the bears where they shit, that’d be a waste of money.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:19 pmColbert is going to have a blast with this one. Bears!
March 11th, 2008 at 8:19 pmHow about 3 million to investigate bush’s past business dealings gigi? your republican hypocrites had no problems spending 20 times that much to dig up dirt on Clinton?
March 11th, 2008 at 8:30 pmFrom the WaPo article:
In other words, he was against the bears before he was for the bears. And, hell, why let the truth get in the way of a good laugh?
March 11th, 2008 at 8:30 pmTeddy Roosevelt, the guy that McMaverick falsely compared himself to, lobbied for the Grizzly Bear to be the symbol of our Country, and against the Bald Eagle, which he characterized as a scavenger. He also established the National Parks system that McMaverick would apparently just as soon use as a bombing range.
McMaverick is as dishonest and self-serving as a politician can come. If you can live through torture, you can live through lying to the world without braking a sweat.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:30 pmHey, GG!
If it takes $3 million to count a few thousand bears, how much money do you think it takes to count all those illegal immigrants?
Sure that $3 million might be better spent counting illegal immigrants but as we must already be spending billions on counting them, what’s $3million between friends?
Besides bears steal our pic-a-nic baskets and ruin our back-to-nature camping trips with the mauling and the claws and the blood and stuff. SO maybe we should spend three million killing them all instead?
March 11th, 2008 at 8:31 pmObama coasts to victory in Miss. primary
Time to throw in the proverbial towel, CLINTON.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:32 pmOne must remember; trolls only approve of public funding for destructive actions. They’ve taken the “bang for the buck” analogy too far.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:33 pmBesides bears steal our pic-a-nic baskets and ruin our back-to-nature camping trips with the mauling and the claws and the blood and stuff. SO maybe we should spend three million killing them all instead?
Comment by 5th Estate
Those are just the republican troll bears. they’re worked into a frenzy by the evil neocon overlord bears who are to chicken to actually do anything.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:34 pm$3 million to COUNT
[. . .]
That’s even worse.
Comment by good_golly
Iraq war costs $8000. per second. In the time it took you to type this, we spent another $160,000.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:36 pmI have to wonder how many feet of “fence” along the Mexican border you could build for $3 million. Probably not enough to inconvenience the wealthy landowners and country clubs being skipped . . .
March 11th, 2008 at 8:37 pmgig has cut and run, just like a good troll.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:40 pmMcBush learned, if he didn’t have the trait already, to care about no one but himself & his personal survival/aggrandizement in the Hanoi Hilton’s crucible, where individual survival at all costs was everything. The only thing.
McCain is still there mentally, & what’s left of spiritually. All his pronouncements filter through that warped lense.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:40 pmTime to throw in the proverbial towel, CLINTON.
Comment by DieNowForPeace — March 11, 2008 @ 8:32 pm
Can I interest you in a nice embroidered towel!
March 11th, 2008 at 8:43 pm$3 mil??? Sheesh you can find that on a sidewalk in Iraq. Chump change.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:43 pmDoes a nihilist bear, give a shit, in the woods ?
March 11th, 2008 at 8:45 pmCan I interest you in a nice embroidered towel!
You mean the 4x overpriced KBR model? That would be very appropriate!
March 11th, 2008 at 8:46 pmIt’s he, it’s he, it’s Ernest T.!!!!!
How ya doin’, Mr. Bass??
March 11th, 2008 at 8:54 pmThen how the FARK did these fools know that they were endangered? Just a WAG?
More proof that putting Repukes in power is a bad, bad idea.
Ya born stupid, or are you still studying?
March 11th, 2008 at 8:58 pmComment by Billy Hill — March 11, 2008 @
They have the right to arm themselves to the teeth, just like any good ol red neck idgit.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:59 pmAnyone with an internet connection, who remains ignorant, must be profoundly stupid.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:01 pmCutting spending is hilarious. Rice’s state dept (temporarily) lost something like 12 million and that has never been explained, the DOD spent a bundle for weapons but can’t account for 180,000 of them according to a GAO report, we are getting close to spending a trillion on this war. I miss my taxes by 5 bucks and IRS is all over me with interest and bullshit. Now I ask you, how long will we put up with this thievery and waste. Who will do anything about it? If I hear one more story about Bush cutting programs and funds I’ll scream. The elephant is in capitol. Can anybody see it?! Taxed but not represented…sounds familiar to me.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:02 pm“Racism works in two different directions. I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white. How’s that?” G. Ferraro
How utterly idiotic. She thinks SHE can play the race card, after lobbing the first grenade?
GO TO HELL.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:05 pmObama is the projected winner by CNN and MSNBC, but Clinton still has the greater percentage.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:06 pmThe projected winner is based on exit polls – but maybe they don’t count on voting irregularities.
williamf
You forgot the 9 billion in cash Bremer could not account for in Iraq.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:11 pmWhere was McMaim’s outrage about that?
Comment by good_golly — March 11, 2008 @ 8:12 pm
Comment by Billy Hill — March 11, 2008 @ 8:49 pm
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 11, 2008 @ 9:09 pm
So we can trust you three are utterly enraged over the NINE BILLION DOLLARS that went missing in Iraq?
**crickets**
Boys? A little show of outrage?
**crickets**
March 11th, 2008 at 9:11 pmMs. Gin sounds like a nervous defense contractor whose already been paid Billions.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:12 pmHAH! Good one, lurker… great minds think alike!! :-D!
March 11th, 2008 at 9:12 pmoh boy… can’t wait to see what stephen colbert does with this…
btw – does anyone know the inspiration behind his bear … what is it?
fascination? phobia? … hard to tell with colbert at times…
looked like a cool national geographic show on a man who raised a bear…
i don’t get nat.geo channel though…
…
RU – still around?
“HUSSY” !?!? HOW DARE YOU!
I AM NO HUSSY, SIR… … not any more… hrmph!
March 11th, 2008 at 9:13 pm:-]
$3 million to COUNT
Comment by good_golly
How much was spent providing tainted water to the troops good_golly?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:15 pmAnd, frankly, GG, I think protecting GODs, or whatever force you prefer, quantum mechanics to magnetic solar dust, created these creatures is worth preserving.
Replenish the earth. Its your duty as a human
March 11th, 2008 at 9:17 pmIn the time it took you to type this, we spent another $160,000.
Comment by barfly — March 11, 2008 @ 8:36 pm
Me t’inks you credit g_g w/ over inflated cognitive skills. Typing that short could have EASILY cost 2 or even 3 times that much, barfly.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:18 pmMcCain also doesn’t mind taxpayer dollars going to his contributers.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/4821
March 11th, 2008 at 9:18 pm“Every day, and in every way, I am getting better and better”
March 11th, 2008 at 9:20 pm(Dreyfuss the madman) Blake Edwards
Small business qualifier Boston Dynamics, Inc. in Waltham, MA has received a $10 million completion-type, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to build a dog-like robot [from DARPA] with the capability to run fast, traverse trough terrain, jump over obstacles 1 meter (40â€) tall or 2 meters wide, and operate for 2 hours without refueling
Talk about screwing the pooch
March 11th, 2008 at 9:21 pmJust a thought…Is Spitzer a case of political warrantless wiretapping????
March 11th, 2008 at 9:22 pmYes, GG, we must spend 10 times more on robot dogs made by man than Bears made by things we dont understand.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:22 pmTalk about screwing the pooch
Comment by Xisithrus — March 11, 2008 @ 9:21 pm
Actually, isn’t the pooch the one giving the screwing here?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:23 pmLol TROS, I think you may be correct.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:24 pmPooching the screw!!
Snark!
March 11th, 2008 at 9:24 pmTalk about screwing the pooch
Comment by Xisithrus
Shall we have name that pooch contest?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:24 pmJust a thought…Is Spitzer a case of political warrantless wiretapping????
Comment by Alecto — March 11, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
We’re all wondering that at this point, Alecto.
And why was so much info about an ongoing investigation leaked to the press? Will the WH and DoJ demand the leaker be found and punished?
**crickets**
March 11th, 2008 at 9:25 pmLol TROS, I think you may be correct.
Comment by Xisithrus — March 11, 2008 @ 9:24 pm
CUT TO: GOOPer, w/ lust in eyes…
March 11th, 2008 at 9:26 pmthan Bears made by things we dont understand.
Comment by Xisithrus — March 11, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
Well geez, by that token, how much will a man made bear cost?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:27 pmJust a thought…Is Spitzer a case of political warrantless wiretapping????
Comment by Alecto
From what I read they had approval from Ellis the state AG. I dont think this is political because they would have waited to closer to the election.
Speculation on
March 11th, 2008 at 9:27 pmHere’s an offer. I will reimburse the first fifty trolls who want their $1.00 contribution to bear research back. Just post your home address, phone number, and work address in the ThinkFast thread tomorrow. I’ll send you a money order.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:27 pmWell geez, by that token, how much will a man made bear cost? TROS
Well, they have to mess around like cats in a litterbox =) so the cost would be at least double.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:29 pmShall we have name that pooch contest?
Comment by Nevar
I smell snark.
Okay, lets name it Booch
March 11th, 2008 at 9:31 pmSpeculation on
Comment by Xisithrus — March 11, 2008 @ 9:27 pm
I have to wonder, will we be treated to a endless series of such “events” between now and Nov?
Elliot, would could you have been thinking?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:32 pmCUT TO: GOOPer, w/ lust in eyes…
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity —
Pooch cooch would add another ten mil. =P
March 11th, 2008 at 9:33 pmso the cost would be at least double.
Comment by Xisithrus — March 11, 2008 @ 9:29 pm
Oooooo… and don’t forget overhead, and profit margin, and costy-plusy… all that sweet, sweet gravy… YEEEHOWZA! A F’in gold mine…
**snark**
March 11th, 2008 at 9:33 pmI have to wonder, will we be treated to a endless series of such “events†between now and Nov? -TROS
From what I read of the PDF there were some 10 customers or so involved with the prostitution ring. I imagine we havent seen all the fallout of this yet.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:35 pmThat suggests that three decades of conservation efforts, costing tens of millions of dollars, have paid off.
There’s the problem for conservatives.
NO government program, under any circumstances can be shown to be effective. It undermines their whole ethos.
In the face of evidence that a conservation effort (liberal) has been successful, McCain, as a good Republican, must belittle the program that assembled the evidence.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:37 pmI’m so happy I was able to give you a valid opening to actually use the phrase “pooch cooch” in a post, X… anybody here figger out howta use Booch ‘n hooch in the same line?
Speak up now or ferever hold yer tongue!
March 11th, 2008 at 9:37 pmI imagine we havent seen all the fallout of this yet.
Comment by Xisithrus — March 11, 2008 @ 9:35 pm
Yes, indeedy! I have bin wondrin’ fer months where are the stoopid Dems?
I t’ink we’re gonna start findin ‘em…
March 11th, 2008 at 9:39 pmI’m so happy I was able to give you a valid opening to actually use the phrase “pooch cooch†in a post, X
YVW
March 11th, 2008 at 9:40 pmI t’ink we’re gonna start findin ‘em…
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity
The good thing about the tatoots – equal opportunity enwhorers =P
March 11th, 2008 at 9:42 pmequal opportunity enwhorers =P
Comment by Xisithrus — March 11, 2008 @ 9:42 pm
Far too true… far too true…
**snark**
March 11th, 2008 at 9:44 pmSo who might benefit? I wonder.
Comment by Rodham Gin
Now your traveling into conspiracy theory territory..
March 11th, 2008 at 9:46 pmMcCain, as a good Republican, must belittle the program that assembled the evidence.
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — March 11, 2008 @ 9:37 pm
Or even as a mediocre, or flat out bad, Republican, ralph…
Don’t make a mistake and limit the possibilities…
March 11th, 2008 at 9:46 pmSo who might benefit? I wonder.
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 11, 2008 @ 9:45 pm
John McCain?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:47 pmMcCain, as a good Republican, must belittle the program that assembled the evidence.
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — March 11, 2008 @ 9:37 pm
Or even as a mediocre, or flat out bad, Republican, ralph…
Don’t make a mistake and limit the possibilities…
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — March 11, 2008 @ 9:46 pm
True, TRoS, true, but you have to keep in mind that “good” “bad” and “mediocre” aren’t really viewed the same way by Republicans as they are by those of us in the reality-based community.
To them, if someone is loyal, they’re “good”, even if what they do to maintain that loyalty results in disaster.
By the same token, a performance that we might judge as “mediocre” or “bad” could be seen as worthy of a Presidential Medal of Honor, if the bad performance, for instance, confirmed GOP convictions about the ineffectiveness of government.
But point taken.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:53 pmSo Cheap bathtub Gin doesn’t think the GOP benefits from taking out a charismatic rising star in the Democratic Party?
Then why were all the trolls celebrating like they’d just gotten laid by a real, live woman yesterday?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:55 pmSo who might benefit? I wonder.
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 11, 2008 @ 9:45 pm
Well, Rotgut, it certainly makes the Dems look bad by association, as you and yer fellow nickle-dimers spent the last 2 days trying so hard to…
Has Hillary Clinton rejected the pledge of SuperDelegate #9 yet?
Comment by good_golly — March 11, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
No this isn’t a vast right wing conspiracy. He wasn’t tapped by Bush you loony libs. He brought it on himself with suspicious financial movements from his bank. The Fed thinking it was bribes and led to this great news for the blind left…
Comment by drock234 — March 10, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
Well Larry Flynt, democrat party leader, said we would be shocked at who was next.
And Hillary must be glad she begged for that endorsement.
“Diane Rodham Ginâ€
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 10, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
Dang… in yer own words… short term memory loss?
Lay off the cheap booze…
“Larry Flynt… democrat party leader”… heh… good one, Rotgut.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:57 pmThen why were all the trolls celebrating like they’d just gotten laid by a real, live woman yesterday?
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — March 11, 2008 @ 9:55 pm
Let’s just say they all felt rewarded HANDsomely for their efforts, ralph…
March 11th, 2008 at 9:58 pmWell done, TRoS. I love “greatest hits” compilations, and this one does the trolls proud.
Especially the “Larry Flynt, democrat party leader”.
Nice work.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:00 pmBut point taken.
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — March 11, 2008 @ 9:53 pm
And excellent counter point, Young Master Llama!
March 11th, 2008 at 10:00 pmAw shucks… **snark**
March 11th, 2008 at 10:01 pmRU – still around?
“HUSSY†!?!? HOW DARE YOU!
I AM NO HUSSY, SIR… … not any more… hrmph!
:-]
Comment by katy HUSSEIN katy — March 11, 2008 @ 9:13 pm
OK, OK, don’t throw a hussy fit!!
March 11th, 2008 at 10:08 pmJust a thought…Is Spitzer a case of political warrantless wiretapping????
Comment by Alecto @ 9:22 pm
and/or/more likely, the machinations of the corrupt DOJ…
i wondered the same this morning… have heard many more
March 11th, 2008 at 10:18 pmthroughout the day…
oh, there you are! … well, i never!
.
time to unfold… all that fresh air today, i’m tuckered out…
g’nite all…
March 11th, 2008 at 10:29 pmTo all progressives read the march 24th issue of The Nation magazine and read the article by Robert Dreyfuss on Old Johnny Mclame, it will enrage everyone who reads this including some Repubs. If you can`t get the magazine go online.He is full of the “Noble Lie” neocon rhetoric when he speaks. This guy is for real ,if he gets in the white house he will start WWlll without blinking an eye.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:40 pmGnite Katy, thanks for being such a good sport!
March 11th, 2008 at 10:51 pmYou would think that the Guy who told us the other day that he was Teddy Rooseveldt in the 20 century would be a little better with real Teddy Bears.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:09 pmHint: He looks a lot like Curious George.
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 11, 2008 @ 10:44 pm
Is it John McCain?
March 11th, 2008 at 11:11 pmYeah, so canceling this study would pay for, what? More monogrammed towels for the troops?
March 11th, 2008 at 11:12 pmIs it John McCain?
Comment by dbadass — March 11, 2008 @ 11:11 pm
Well, given tha way g_g ‘n tha other trolls were celebratin’… it has ta be…
March 11th, 2008 at 11:14 pmAnd Hillary must be glad she begged for that endorsement.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — March 11, 2008 @ 10:00
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 11, 2008 @ 10:44 pm
Wow, Rotgut… yer really, really clever. Trying ta pass yer own words off on me. All sharp edges, jes’ like a bowling ball… ‘n equally dense…
March 11th, 2008 at 11:16 pmSo in this post, TP rips McCain for being against wasteful spending.
And in the following post you rip the GOP for big budgets and wasteful spending.
Flip-flop by you.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:34 pmSo in this post, TP rips McCain for being against wasteful spending.
And in the following post you rip the GOP for big budgets and wasteful spending.
Flip-flop by you.
Comment by muckdog — March 11, 2008 @ 11:34 pm
Yeah, that’s it.
(rolls eyes)
Can’t put anything over on you, suckdog.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:59 pmFlip-flop? That’s not how I read it. When I read the story I thought, “McCain running his mouth about a subject he hasn’t studied”. No news there.
Then I saw that it involved an issue about the environment and thought, “the trolls will be doing the stupid dance”. They have not failed to amuse.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:00 amSo in this post, TP rips McCain for being against wasteful spending.
And in the following post you rip the GOP for big budgets and wasteful spending.
Flip-flop by you.
Comment by muckdog — March 11, 2008 @ 11:34 pm
Gee, if McCain was against “wasteful spending” (har de har har) why did he vote for the bear funding after all?
March 12th, 2008 at 12:18 amIt must muck to be suckdog.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:34 am#92 If Hillary was against the war, why did she vote for it? If Obama was against the war, why does he vote to fund it? If Spitzer was against hookers, why did he spend $80,000 the last 6 years on hookers? If Bill Clinton was for a middle class tax cut in 1992, why did he raise taxes on the middle class in 1993? Why was John Kerry for the war before he was against it?
March 12th, 2008 at 12:37 amAh let it go. It’s not like he has a long record of voting for contracts to companies which contribute to his…
March 12th, 2008 at 12:38 am#95
The story isn’t about any of the people you mentioned. I’m pretty sure none of them are proposing a continuation, and escalation, of Bushco’s foreign policy.
If TP should run a story about those people I will express my opinion, or not, as I see fit. I’ve always been willing to examine flaws in my logic and that of people who I may, or may not, support on general political principles.
But, you see, it’s not McCain’s political principles I object to. It’s his illogical support for a ridiculous foreign policy and his abject hypocrisies on ethical issues. Pursuing the endorsement of that (bleep!) Hagee sealed the deal.
John McCain’s lust for the Presidency has unbalanced him and rendered him unfit for office. When I see one of his opponents displaying behaviors which suggest a similar collapse, I’ll comment on them.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:51 am.
McEarmark is upset about McWastful spending?
McLOL
.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:57 am.
McPorkchops wants to get rid of McPorkbarrel spending…
McLOL.
How? By registering another McLobbyist to his McTeam?
McROFLMAO
.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:00 amMcCain Attacks Bears….
It’s all over but the shouting. With Stephen Colbert’s endorsement and active campaigning for McNoUrsa, he’ll win in a walk.
Cheers,
March 12th, 2008 at 1:03 amMcCain is once again babbling about a subject he knows precious little about, much like the trolls in this thread.
Some things never change.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:20 amComment by muckdog — March 12, 2008 @ 12:37 am
In other words, you’re OK with McCain’s hypocrisy. Why not just say so?
March 12th, 2008 at 1:23 amTo the braindead trolls: This thread is tucked between the Bush administration’s $7.7Trillion deficit thread, and the US funds generously flowing the way of armed Iraqi militias thread.
If you are oh so outraged about wasteful spending, I would expect you to post your thoughts (assuming you can muster at least one) in either or both those threads.
Unless, of course, you are ok with your Dear (mis)Leader’s blunders, regardless of the consequences to the nation and the world.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:05 amComment by gummitch — March 12, 2008 @ 1:23 am
Because he has to symmetrise: He is a lot more comfortable being a hypocrite if he can prove to himself you are one too.
So much for the “moral values” crowd.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:08 am.
McCain Attacks Bears…
McBears!
.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:54 amComment by Gregor Samsa — March 12, 2008 @ 2:05 am
Can I post in all three?
Or is this thread reserved just for those trolls you reference…
Wait…
WE both posted here!
.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:57 amGrizzly Bears are almost as fun to hunt as big coastal Brown Bears. They are just a tad smaller.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:46 amThe only bear Rx2 ever bagged was Teddy Ruxspin.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:23 amThe only bear Rx2 ever bagged was Teddy Ruxspin.
Comment by Nevar — March 12, 2008 @ 9:23 am
And it took a “best 2 out of 3″ to git ‘er dun…
March 12th, 2008 at 9:47 amTo bad we can`t put old man Johnny Mclame on the endangered species list.I would not spend a dime on him or any other neocon to save from extinction.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:53 amThis is amusing. We talk about everything except what really matters at a critical time in our nations’ economy. And, I for one think that maybe it is not so much the leaders of the country,or Polar Bears, or Grizzly Bears and as long as we have career politicians, we are going to have wasteful spending. Out of control gas prices are my chief concerns right now, and the media wants to entertain us with something that we have no control over anyway. Politics!We do, however, have some control on the prices of gasoline and if we worked together(Companies and Employers)we could bring the prices down considerably. We could go to a more productive 3 or 4 day work week. Wal-Mart uses this scheduling practice and proved that it increases production while using less work days in a week. Think about it! Gas prices are out of control and it is on the verg of Bankrupting us and we talk about things that are not important at this point and time. Wake Up Americans!
Fred
April 8th, 2008 at 1:20 pmIt’s OK to spend trillions in Iraq, but any money for science should be questioned, according to McCain, who doesn’t understand wildlife biology. DNA studies on populations of animals that are under stress (bears in Montana) are important. You must know the genetic relatedness between the different populations of a species, for management decisions. As populations of a species decline, inbreeding becomes one of the biggest threats to the survival of that species. This is money for basic science. The lack of understanding of basic science by the politicians, of both parties, is shameful.
September 11th, 2008 at 5:44 pmTeddy Roosevelt, the guy that McMaverick falsely compared himself to, lobbied for the Grizzly Bear to be the symbol of our Country, and against the Bald Eagle, which he characterized as a scavenger. He also established the National Parks system that McMaverick would apparently just as soon use as a bombing range.
McMaverick is as dishonest and self-serving as a politician can come. If you can live through asus v6000 battery,asus v6000v battery torture, you can live through lying to the world without braking a sweat.
October 15th, 2008 at 4:16 amJust like the cold war when everyone who didn’t agree with the U.S. was either a communist or a communist sympathizer. toki This poor crazy guy spent half a decade being tortured because a bunch of stupid politicians araç sorgulama were sure the NVA was in bed with the Russians (minimal help) and/or the Chinese (ancient enemy of the vietnamese). ssk sorgulama You would think he would have learned from others’ mistakes. Guess not. Republicans need an enemy. key ödemeleri This century it apparently will be all Muslims, health all of whom must be alQaeda operatives.
March 1st, 2009 at 1:35 pm