Posted on 01/29/2009 6:08:08 AM PST by publius1
In October, while Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska was campaigning to be vice president, the federal government added the beluga whales in the state’s Cook Inlet to the endangered species list. At the time, Governor Palin opposed the listing, saying it would be “premature.” (She said the same thing about protecting polar bears.) Now Ms. Palin has announced that she will sue to remove the whales from the protection of the Endangered Species Act.
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In explaining her intent to file suit, the governor has challenged virtually every aspect of the listing decision — including the scientific finding that these belugas are a separate and distinct genetic population seriously at risk. Former Senator Ted Stevens went so far as to call the listing “a deliberate targeting of an area vital to the Alaskan economy.”
There is no doubt that Cook Inlet is vital to Alaskans. But it is also vital to the species that live in its waters. Listing the belugas does not mean shutting down the economy of the Cook Inlet. It means adjusting it to accommodate species that cannot adapt or survive any other way.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I love it when the Times has half an idea and rushes out he door with it.
With each passing week Governor Palin is demonstrating she should have been at the top of the ticket all along.
Governor Palin is demonstrating she should have been at the top of the ticket all along. ......................... Its coming, keep the faith!
It's amazing that any life still exists on earth considering how fragile these people believe it to be.
They hate Sarah because they fear Sarah. They fear Sarah because she threatens their goal of gaining complete control.
I don’t doubt that any more than in 2004, when I posted Barack Obama would be the nominee for the Democrats in 2008.
Trees are an endangered species, all trees must be put on the endangered list and companies using vast quantities of paper (like newspapers) should be required to pick all all used paper (at their expense), recycle it themselves or immediately stop their wastng of a limited resource.
And she was right then too.
"And as we all know, animals are just as important as people, maybe even moreso!" /sarc
These fools can't starve soon enough for me.
“At the time, Governor Palin opposed the listing, saying it would be “premature.”
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Oh, so the talentless propagandists posing as objective journalists like quotation marks?
Let’s then make a small quotation marks revision to their slanted editorial posing as a news story:
In explaining her intent to file suit, the governor has challenged virtually every aspect of the listing decision — including the “scientific finding” that these belugas are a separate and distinct genetic population seriously at risk.
To the secularists, “science” and “scientists” are not to be questioned, as long as they further the leftist agenda.
Subsidize harpoons!
Humans before bluber!
And your point is????
Sheesh - doesn't anybody bother to look up the actual numbers?
This isn’t about protecting the whales. Governor Palin made it clear that they will be protected , but that it’s business of the State, not the Federal Government!
Polar bear populations have increased over the last 50 years. Don't let the facts get in the way of your editorials, Slimes...
I hope Sarah continues to go against those that lack any common sense whatsoever and the MSM keeps it on the front page. It just makes it all better for us in another 4 years.
Here we go, Sarah, here we go!
It’s like the Vatican vs Science reversed.
Today, it’s the “granola eaters” who are the preists of gaia and anyone who dares challenge them are declared infadels.
Their battle cry...
SAVE A WHALE...ABORT A BABY
Done! Also sent an e-mail asking her to post information regarding ideas on how we “the RIGHT public” can join forces to move this country in the right direction. So far the site is little more than a site to donate $$’s.
Hopefully the site will evolve with more info and material in days to come.
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