April 29, 2004


Bad Science Central...located at the corner of Dollarsign and Lobby St

Ketchup is a vegetable. Wild salmon are the same as salmon bred in a hatchery. There is no Ozone, and the Earth is 6,000 years old and flat.

Amazingly enough there are folks in the 1600 Crew who believe all that stuff, the latest addition to the list above concerns salmon.

The Bush administration has decided to count hatchery-bred fish, which are pumped into West Coast rivers by the hundreds of millions yearly, when it decides whether stream-bred wild salmon are entitled to protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Why, you might ask does bad science prevail in the Idiot Adminstration so prevalently?
In the past 15 years, the federal government's effort to protect stream-bred wild salmon has forced costly changes in how forests are cut, housing developments are built, farms are cultivated and rivers are operated for hydroelectricity production. Farm, timber and power interests have complained for years about these costs and have sued to remove protections for some fish.

They are enthusiastic advocates of counting hatchery fish when assessing the survival chances of wild salmon. Unlike their wild cousins, hatchery fish can be bred without ecosystem-wide modifications to highways, farms and dams.

"Upon hearing this news, I am cautiously optimistic that the government may be complying with the law and ending its slippery salmon science," said Russell C. Brooks, a lawyer for the Pacific Legal Foundation, an industry-funded group that has challenged federal salmon-protection efforts in court.

So, will they tell us when Soylent Green is people? Or will we all die of v-CJD from 1600 Crew and Lobbyist-inspired cannabalism beginning in the near future?

posted by Jo Fish on 04.29.04 at 01:06 AM





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Why, you might ask does bad science prevail in the Idiot Adminstration so prevalently?

Because ShrubCo is "faith-based". And "faith-based science" isn't science, it's religion at best and blatent fraud at worst.

posted by: Satan luvvs Repugs on 04.29.04 at 09:13 AM [permalink]



Hatchery and farmed salmon are an atrocity that should not be consumed, much less counted.

This 19th century attitude that the earth can heal and Man is Destined to control Nature, so don't sweat the massive destruction and stopped worrying about melting glaciers and ice floes, is total BS. Give things time to heal and they might.

The New England fishermen who complained about over-regulation two decades ago now realize that it didn't go far enough because they are out of business.

posted by: Bryan on 04.29.04 at 11:38 AM [permalink]



and our great leader, preznit yale ain't shit, talks to a ghost in the clouds. maybe darwin was wrong.

posted by: tim on 04.29.04 at 12:17 PM [permalink]




My mistake, on first read I thought the name of this site was "Democratic Twelve-Year-Old".

You make the IndyMedia trolls look like they're still on their meds. It's going to be fun to come back here and crap all over you when John "That's My WIFE'S SUV" Kerry loses in a landslide.

Heh,

furious

posted by: furious on 04.29.04 at 02:12 PM [permalink]



Don't feed the nitwit trolls folks, please.

I think that one of the reasons this administration is unconcerned with gutting environmental concerns is less a case of the earth healing itself than it is of apocalyptic Christianity. The administration subscribes to a brand of Christianity that believes we are in the End Times and is more than happy to bring it about. If you read the apocalyptic visions of John, you see that famine and suffering are widespread in the End Times. To save themselves any such suffering, the Bush Regime intends to see to it that wealth is concentrated as much as possible in the hands of as few people as possible, which I think they believe will also hasten the End Times. And if we are in the End Times, who cares about a few species of fish?

posted by: dean on 04.29.04 at 02:38 PM [permalink]



Apropos of nothing, saw your Weaselly Clark quote (has he registered as a Democrat, btw), and just had to respond, and there's nowhere else to post this...

Funny Wuss-lee should say that, and that you should cite it, without mentioning the REST of the story:

"WASHINGTON — In the two weeks since retired Army general Wesley Clark entered the Democratic presidential race, Democrats have learned that Clark voted for Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, praised President Bush and raised money for Arkansas Republicans in 2001, and is still registered as an independent in Arkansas. Some party leaders wonder whether he's Democratic enough to be their nominee."

Voted! For! Nixon! Guess he oughtta know.

Heh,

furious

posted by: furious on 04.29.04 at 04:34 PM [permalink]



kerry may very well lose in a landlide, but that won't change the fact that george bush is a drunken, illiterate, deserting cheerleader.

posted by: on 04.29.04 at 05:41 PM [permalink]



what does heh mean? is that a bushism?

posted by: on 04.29.04 at 05:42 PM [permalink]



at this point, dick nixon looks attractive compared to preznit dipshit. at least nixon could speak english, and he was a war veteran.

posted by: on 04.29.04 at 05:44 PM [permalink]



Yes, yes, and then the Sublime, Credentialed Intellects of the American Left realize they've been painted into a corner yet again, and there's that damn, dumb cowboy holding the brush and the bucket.

Heh. Heh.

--furious

posted by: furious on 04.29.04 at 08:09 PM [permalink]



Oh...my...god.

Shrub's former professor from B School is on Air America right now (with that awful Janeane Garofalo, who really combines all the worst stereotypes of liberals) and he is brutally honest about Dubya's mental weakness. It is so direct and honest that I thought it was parody at first, because he is basically calling him dumb, insensitive, and a liar, among other things. It is amazing. It is stunning. I wish I had started recording this. There has got to be a tape of this somewhere for you all to hear. It is fabulous.

posted by: dean on 04.29.04 at 09:27 PM [permalink]






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