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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 02:08 PM
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Bush OKs Navy Use of Sonar to Kill Whales, Other Mammals
WASHINGTON-President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast -- a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals.

The White House announced Wednesday that Bush had signed the exemption Tuesday while traveling in the Middle East.

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"The president's action is an attack on the rule of law," said Joel Reynolds, director of the Marine Mammal Protection Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "By exempting the Navy from basic safeguards under both federal and state law, the president is flouting the will of Congress, the decision of the California Coastal Commission and a ruling by the federal court."


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/73967/

DO THEY HATE ALL LIVING THINGS?? This is absurd!

Send a letter to the Navy here:
http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/nrdcaction_092506_a




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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 02:10 PM
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1. all of God's creations he wants to kill off, and he calls himself
a Christian???? or a born-again, more like the anti-christ to me.
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Dawggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 02:11 PM
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2. Good god! Does this man sit around and try to figure out ways to piss off Americans?
And he does this out of the country so maybe no one will notice?
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 02:19 PM
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3. This isn't just "sonar." It's a new SUPER-DUPER sonar.
It's sad it's taken so long to be addressed. This came out shortly after dip-shit allowed us to be attacked, although it was obviously in the works even before that. It's a massive sonar so loud that it blasts the mammals eardrums until they bleed, and the get disoriented and ground themselves. But if Bush doesn't care about human life, why would anyone expect him to care about some little fishies?





(Yes, DU Armchair biologists, I know that whales and dolphins aren't fish...but dumb-ass probably doesn't).
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 02:23 PM
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4. Just when I thought it was not possible too hate him more.....
:mad: :grr:
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allalone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 09:37 PM
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19. I second that
he always manages a new outrage
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:25 AM
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21. It's so true.
Just when you think he can't sink any lower, he somehow manages to dig deeper into the cess pool. I despise him.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 02:24 PM
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5. Of course! Why should only Iraqis and their children be subjected to Bush's "shock and awe?"
Let's let him have a few more mammal species...
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Faux pas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 02:36 PM
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6. Just another part of his 'end times' plan. There has to be a
special place in hell for him, probably on the right hand of satan.
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Yavapai Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 04:51 PM
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15. Are you sure that he isn't Satan himself?
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Faux pas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 06:45 PM
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16. LOL satan is smarter and probably a lot prettier!
;)
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:25 AM
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22. Oh, there's one thing I know:
Bush and his cabal have a special layer of hell waiting for them. And I can't think of anyone who deserves it more.
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Faux pas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 03:44 AM
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24. Amen plus tax! n/t
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Blue Congress Donating Member (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 02:39 PM
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7. Why is he allowed to break the law?
He is only a dictator if we allow him to be...
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DadOf2LittleAngels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 02:51 PM
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8. Holy deceptive title
"Bush OKs Navy Use of Sonar to Kill Whales, Other Mammals"

Bush OKs Nave Use of Sonar, Whales and Other Mammals will be harmed

is for more appropriate..
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Usrename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 03:00 PM
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9. And some folks here think that MONSTER is too harsh a criticism.
And others here think that there is NO REASON to try and stop him, that somehow it is better to just let him continue on this path.



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lebkuchen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 03:01 PM
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10. What's next? Throwing unwanted puppies on the freeway?
Is this the Navy's idea of self-promotion???
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femrap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 03:02 PM
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11. W is a fucking sadist...
he gets off causing pain and destruction. Let there be a hell for him that is everlasting.
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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 03:46 PM
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12. At some point, like now, one simply has to wonder who is calling the shots and
Edited on Thu Jan-17-08 03:47 PM by shance
making George Bush take the heat for the continued harsh, nonsensical declarations and laws.

Something seems too obvious.

What is the saying, it's not the hand their showing you, its the hand behind the back you need to watch.

I do return to a probability that his father is calling all the shots, making the decisions along with Dick Cheney, while allowing his son take essentially all the heat.

Because who would want to continue to okay things and pass barbaric laws as to have everyone despise you and loathe to the level everyone does.

No one.

I don't know of anyone who would do something so obviously damaging and threatening to oneself.

Unless they were being threatened in some way.

Remember the attempted coup against FDR in 1933.

Remember the Reagan years.
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:26 AM
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23. You're right - as scary as this is,
what are they not telling us. I'm sure it's far worse.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 04:02 PM
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13. One would think that perhaps the creatures of the deep sea
would be safe from Bush's "Killing Machine". But, no. Capt. Ahab presses on with his mad quest.
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 04:42 PM
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14. Time for Flipper
To flip him the bird.
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Ghost Dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 09:29 PM
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17. Earlier LBN Link here:
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allalone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 09:33 PM
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18. why do we have to keep fighting the same battles
Edited on Thu Jan-17-08 09:35 PM by allalone
over and over? why does he hate all living creatures except himself? I'd ask him to come view the marine mammals bleeding fron their ears on the shore, but I think he'd like it too much
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 09:40 PM
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20. Serial killer onto the whales now. Fuck I hate him.
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