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05-16-2008, 11:52 PM
From today's Wall Street Journal
Cold Comfort for Polar Bears By JIM CARLTON May 16, 2008; Page A7 Visitors to some of the oil fields that fringe Alaska's Beaufort Sea get this rather disturbing warning before venturing out into the Arctic cold: Look carefully under cars in the parking lot and the buildings on stilts. Why? Lurking there may be one of the world's largest land carnivores -- the polar bear, which can actually track a man down. But who's to protect polar bears against humans? For the past few years, polar bears off the Alaskan coast were observed drowning many miles out at sea. The suspected culprit: fewer ice floes upon which to hunt their favorite meal -- seals -- because of global warming. The plight of the polar bear, which became a world-wide clarion call to action on global warming, has brought unrelenting pressure on the Bush administration to do something to try to protect the bears, and this week it did. On Wednesday, Interior Secretary Dick Kempthorne accepted the recommendation of the Fish and Wildlife Service to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, affording it some of the same protected status as other endangered wildlife such as desert tortoises. Cold Comfort for Polar Bears - WSJ.com |
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05-17-2008, 08:11 AM
i like the way this guy thinks x]
for every hundred cows you eat you reduce 1 whole % of the total green house gases destroying our lovely little ozone x] thus... DOWN w/ CHIK-FIL-A!!! EAT LESS CHIKIN!! xDD In the shadows beneath the trees he waits. In the darkness under the moon he plots In the silence of the night he kills. |
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05-17-2008, 08:39 AM
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Some of your posts are about your morning foundation and make-up routine, and the other ones sound like you are a speech-writer for the Republican Party. You are discriminated against, and discriminate against freely. I don't get it. |
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05-17-2008, 07:33 PM
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though.... the rest i don't fully understand. i don't see how you're comparing my....well random posts w/ those that have a purpose (if that's what your doing) i'm discriminated against? if i am...then i must admit my ignorance to that >.>' and...sorry, but i've NEVER been able to understand the things that set aside a republican and a democrat (much less what it means to be called a republican)....other than that one is represented by a donkey, and the other an elephant ._.''' hehe... >.<' In the shadows beneath the trees he waits. In the darkness under the moon he plots In the silence of the night he kills. |
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05-17-2008, 07:46 PM
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Unless you're making fun of them.. Because Yuu's post are rather childlike and sweet. Never really discriminative. "The sky is cryin...
Can't you see the tears roll down the street?" - Stevie Ray Vaughan |
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