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Posted By Fedquip 1 year, 1 month ago in Political NewsGeorge Bush is working at a breakneck pace to dismantle at least 10 major environmental safeguards protecting America's wildlife, national parks and rivers before he leaves office in January.
With barely 60 days to go until Bush hands over to Barack Obama, his White House is working methodically to weaken or reverse an array of regulations that protect America's wilderness from logging or mining operations, and compel factory farms to clean up dangerous waste.
In the latest such move this week, Bush opened up some 800,000 hectares (2m acres) of land in Rocky Mountain states for the development of oil shale, one of the dirtiest fuels on the planet. The law goes into effect on January 17, three days before Obama takes office.
The timing is crucial. Most regulations take effect 60 days after publication, and Bush wants the new rules in place before he leaves the White House on January 20. That will make it more difficult for Obama to undo them.
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djn3nunez31 year, 1 month ago
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Not suprising. He is the environmental catastrophic president. His legacy amoung other horrid legacies will include being the first president in 32 years to leave the country more polluted than when he came into office.
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The Psuedo-Conservatives must be so proud.-
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Lincoln851 year, 1 month ago
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I am, I think he is the cats pajamas. I think Clinton left it more polluted on a moral level than any other president. A football team that forced a mentally retarded girl to perform ******** on them in 1999 or 2000 (ABC did the story), when the kids were interviewed and asked if they felt the charges of rape were warranted , they said no and they did not have sex with her. When the interviewer said "so you don't think ******** is sex?" the 17 year olds response was...."Clinton didn't think so". What a role model. At Clinton's library ...there should be a statute of Monica under his desk. Yea...good for him...who cares...as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else....pitiful
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Fedquip1 year, 1 month ago
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How does one go from "Bush on the Environment" to "Clinton Blow Job"? so quickly. You don't understand a Blow Job does not harm anybody, what Bush is doing to the environment will effect you, your family for generations.
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As long as Bush defenders continue to spin every argument back to Clinton and Monica no progression will be made in America
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antibrainwasher1 year, 1 month ago
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ot suprising that an endo times creationist moron would enjoy the thought of hastening the enviornmental distruction of the planet.
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No need to worry endomoron, the baby jesus will take your choking starving grandkids to the walmart mega-church in the sky. Bring on the rapture. Lets blast out the coal and burn it in Colorado, let the fumes rain down all across the northwest, acid rain destruction of forests, increasing the greenhouse gasses, what do you care.
YOu know, endo, the moment you take your last breath, you will realize there is no heaven, no god, no baby jesus, and your worthless meaningless life was wasted dragging society into the evangelical toilet with the rest of you mega-church festering liars, and you brainwashed and poisoned the minds of your children as well, condeming them to a life of irrational conformity to the lie that is superstitious zombiehood. Ignorance and arrogance, what a combo.-
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chuck-the-canuck1 year, 1 month ago
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You hit it right on the head. Why should end of times religious wackos give a rat’s ass about the future of the planet? That’s why people of that mind bent are so dangerous.
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Waiting for Mr. Jesus to teleport them to heaven. What a bunch of half-wits.-
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wtagg1 year, 1 month ago
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I so don't get the idea that an omnipotent and omnipresent god can't do something right the first time. Unfortunately, the bible appears to believe that god is fairly incompetent.
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He's either omnipotent or he isn't.
The story of Job is the perfect example.
He created heaven right here. We screw it up, it's on us. Quite frankly, I really don't think there can be much in the way of forgiveness for it either.-
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Eagle_Eye1 year, 1 month ago
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"He created heaven right here. We screw it up, it's on us. Quite frankly, I really don't think there can be much in the way of forgiveness for it either."
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You could be so very right......and when we do die......we'll find out....I would rather be on the side of error personally than to be so arrogant as to think I know every thing and that my actions have no repercussions.
At least I know when I stand before God I can say with all truthfulness, my heart and soul that I tried to make a difference and be a good steward of Gods beautiful creation. -
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djn3nunez31 year, 1 month ago
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He is doing just the right thing. Great concept.
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Silly liberals will have a conniption fit.
Spoken like a truly proud psuedo-conservative.
LIke I said "Not Suprising" He is the President of big bussiness. Big business see's profits in polluting the lands and resources we all share in common. However I believe it will be the psuedo-conservatives we will see having conniption fits in the coming months and years. -
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Bluedragon9121 year, 1 month ago
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AHAHAHAHAHA
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Great joke, Endo. Your impression of a moronic sludge maker's lobbyist is really good. Be careful, though. People might actually think you are one.
Seriously. Endo, where, pray tell, does your food come from? Your water? Your clothes? Your house? That's right. OUTSIDE. What will happen to your food, water et al if you pollute the OUTSIDE? That's right. It becomes unhealthy. As to that conniption fit, I'd say it's one well deserved. -
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blainegarrett1 year, 1 month ago
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Ish, so much for being a "lame duck" president. This is why they usually escort fired employees out of the building and cancel their clearance when they are fired... so they don't try to burn the building down on the way out the door... or steal the red swingline stapler.
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Tangent0011 year, 1 month ago
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If it is done responsibly, yes. There is such a thing as sustainable logging practices, with greatly reduces impact to regional ecosystems, but it is seldom implemented because it is more expensive than simply clear-cutting and single-species replanting.
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Eagle_Eye1 year, 1 month ago
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I hope they build a coal plant next door to you or better yet, a crap waste water treatment plant or better yet a chemical manufacturer, better yet, a pig farm, how about some mining....hopefully your retirement account has gone the same way as the Endangered Species Act
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Ciera-Marie1 year, 1 month ago
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At the same time there are some in this administration (Cheney comes to mind) who have made provisions to their homes in case the scientists are right that GW does exist. Also at the same time, plans are underway to develop the moon and Mars. Great if you're wealthy and can afford to leave. What about the rest of us? i think we should take care of what we have before we go do the same thing or worse to the moon, Mars and God only knows where else.
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awongscreen1 year, 1 month ago
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Lots of people have already been left behind economically as a result of the capitalist society we live in. We moved away from the aristocratic system where the kings hold on to most of the wealth many years ago. Now we are moving back to a similar system where most of the wealth are concentrated to the rich and powerful. The difference now is earth does not have enough resources anymore to satisfy both the greedy riches and struggling poor. Destroy the environment will make the situation even worse.
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Eagle_Eye1 year, 1 month ago
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Every one, kiss your a$$ good bye because this is the beginning of the end.....Profiteers have been waiting 8 years for this and now they will have 60 days to create utter KAOS in the environment.
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I guess it wasn't enough to destroy the world financially, now it has to end it's administration environmentally....
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