Sweet list Pete!

– MacDonald presented industry positions as equivalent to scientific studies, denigrating scientific studies as mere “opinion,” and saying, “We should treat [them] as we would treat an industry publication.

This is just the normal, typical, everyday conservative mindset. They are ALL like this. Science is a no-no. They are conditioned to think honest science is persecuting them like the “liberal” media. Rush tells them so and they eat anything he tells them. Critical thinking is scorned by conservatives.

In Conserv-a-world the value of any life is based on how much money it has or whether it represents a political issue to manipulate the soft headed – like choice. You know – save the unborn and slaughter the children in places like Iraq. Conservatives tell themsleves that these neat-o bombs try to kill as few children as possible and since they believe – like any cult controlled group – that they are personally doing God’s will and more patriotic than Betsy Ross, anything can and is rationalized. It all fits to their conditioned minds.

Over the last 25 years conservatives have been conditioned to hate groups like teachers, scientists, unions, the French, the Germans, liberals, gays, and intellectuals of any kind that do not support their false conditioned reality…it goes on and on. Everything not approved by Rush, Drudge, FOX and Sun Myung Moon is out to get them. Any wonder the rest of the world sees us as a rogue cult-run nation that hasn’t the sense God gave a turnip? A torture loving nation that can never be trusted?

Conservatism is a huge national security problem for the country and the world. Our nation will never survive when half its citizens are controlled and live in a false reality.

Always keep in mind when viewing Bush’s approval ratings that probably 25% do not approve of him because they do not think he is a big enough extremist freak.

I’m a nature nut. My short list includes the California Condor, Gray Whale (no longer endangered) Peregrine Falcon, Whooping Cranes, and Gray Wolf (back in the 70’s when they were still endangered in Minnesota), plus several regional subspecies of songbirds, reptiles and amphibians (sadly, I rarely see a frog anymore). Bison, if you include Yellowstone as a “natural habitat”. But, best of all, I’ve seen two species come back from the dead.

I’ve been witness to the reintroduction of the wild Turkey (once extirpated from Minnesota though they were not threatened as a species) and the “Giant Canada Goose”, which is a subspecies thought extinct in the 50’s but was rediscovered about 15 miles from where I lived as a youngster. They have rebounded to become pests! Huge, majestic, delicious pests. LOL!

How about running a post about which Departments have NOT been politicized? I am sure it will be a very short post…

You are so right. I don’t think there are any left.. I think Bush and Cheney made sure of that.

“The tawny brown or yellowish Steller sea lions, which mate on the rocks around the island from mid August, are most often seen on the rocky outer portions of the island…”

And Yet wins the first round. Do tell!

This is not a problem, this is standard operating procedure. The rich will continue to get richer, YOU and I paying for it.