The 83rd Save Rain Forest Thread

Interesting stuff, sumac. I, too, hope Memo and his kind make it ok.

The alternative energy item is one of Obama's areas to create jobs for Americans to begin rebuilding the country. All he needs is the Senate now.

All cleeked down here.

Can't remember if I posted this recently - but, what the heck, it's funny.......

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Words slightly changed =

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the
> subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
> 2. Ignoranus: A person who is both stupid and an asshole.
> 3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until
> you realize it was your money to start with.
> 4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
> 5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops
> bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows
> little sign of breaking down in the near future.
> 6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of
> getting laid.
> 7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high
> 8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person
> who doesn't get it.
> 9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
> 10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
> 11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these
> really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's
> like, a serious bummer.
> 12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day
> consuming only things that are good for you.
> 13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
> 14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
> they come at you rapidly.
> 15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after
> you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
> 16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your
> bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
> 17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in
> the fruit you're eating.
>
> The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its
> yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings
> for common words. And the winners are:
>
> 1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.
> 2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has
> gained.
> 3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
> 4. Esplanade, v, To attempt an explanation while drunk.
> 5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.
> 6. Negligent, adj.Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a
> nightgown.
> 7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.
> 8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.
> 9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been
> run over by a steamroller.
> 10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.
> 11. Testicle n. A humorous question on an exam.
> 12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
> 13. Pokemon, n.A Rastafarian proctologist.
> 14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with yiddishisms.
> 15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up
> onto the roof and gets stuck there.
> 16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by
> Jewish men.

February 5, 2009
Drilling Leases Scrapped in Utah
By LESLIE KAUFMAN

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday canceled leases to drill for gas and oil on 77 parcels of public land in Utah.

The leases, which cover more than 100,000 acres, including lands near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, were auctioned in the last weeks of the Bush administration. They were among 11th-hour actions taken by the Bush Interior Department that have been criticized by environmental groups and are being reviewed by Obama officials.

In a news conference, Mr. Salazar said that after a review of the leases he concluded that the Bush administration had “rushed ahead to sell oil and gas leases at the doorstep of some of our greatest national icons, some of our nation’s most treasured landscapes” without proper scientific review or consultation.

He did not rule out drilling on the lands in the future if a review found it feasible. He said, however, that the Obama administration would find a “new balance” between protecting environmentally sensitive park areas and opening public lands to energy exploration and drilling.

The Bush administration put the properties up for auction in December. Environmental groups filed suit days before the sale, asserting that the Interior Department had not done a proper analysis, particularly of the potential damage to air quality. In January, a Federal District Court judge in Washington agreed and issued an injunction preventing the oil and gas companies from taking possession of the leases.

The cancellation is effective immediately and means that the government will forfeit $6 million in fees from the bidders.

Environmental advocacy groups immediately hailed the decision.

“This is a critical first step and a dramatic difference from the Bush administration,” said Sharon Buccino, senior lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Washington-based advocacy group that worked on the lawsuit to block the leases.

But Kathleen Sgamma, director of government affairs for the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States, a nonprofit association that represents independent natural gas and oil producers in the Intermountain West, said her group had “grave concerns” over the direction the new administration was taking.

“This is going to make it more difficult to develop the natural gas resources we need for our nation’s energy security,” she said.

Mr. Salazar said reviews were continuing of other Bush administration decisions in nearly a dozen policy areas, including offshore drilling and endangered species, particularly those made in the final months.

Good ones, Danon.

No matter what I do, logged in, logged out, through Stradee's link, I can't click today.

sue, the computer mouse may be having a bad day.

Give the link a fast click and see what happens.

Dan, those definitions are funny!

Beth, the pics of Cleo are just to cute! Lovely landscape shots also. Multiply folks, take a look. Awsome pics.



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Group slams Palin for allowing aerial hunting of wolves and bears

Story | Killing wolves from the air worked " for the caribou
Story | Alaska aerial hunters killed 124 wolves this winter
By Tom Kizza | Anchorage Daily News


Defenders of Wildlife has put Gov. Sarah Palin in the crosshairs of a new national campaign focusing on Alaska's predator control program as an example of the governor's "wider anti-conservation agenda."

The new campaign features an Internet video in which the actress Ashley Judd says, "It is time to stop Sarah Palin and stop this senseless savagery."

The campaign, unveiled Monday, drew a response from the governor's office Tuesday.

"It is reprehensible and hypocritical that the Defenders of Wildlife would use Alaska and my administration as a fundraising tool to deceive Americans into parting with their hard-earned money," Palin said in a statement. (huh)

She called Defenders an "extreme fringe group" that she said was "twisting the truth." Palin defended Alaska's program as scientifically based and an important effort to sustain game populations for Alaska hunters.

The state's "intensive management" program targets wolves and bears in six zones where moose or caribou populations are judged to be too low. It allows hunters with permits to shoot wolves from the air. They have killed more than 800 wolves in five years and a much smaller number of bears.

The state's predator control program came under criticism last year when state biologists killed 14 wolf pups in their dens as part of a control effort to protect the Southern Alaska Peninsula caribou herd. Biologists say the predator effort there proved successful in ensuring calf survival for a herd that had shrunk in number from 10,000 animals to 600.



http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/story/678093.html

Thanks stradee! the first (close-up) pix are of Cleo. The diving dog pix are of Bailey, tunneling into the snow. They sure love snow and ice and cold weather.

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Great pics, ehBeth...... As usual you excell in photos.....keep it up.

sumac, thanks for the info. I love it.

Stradee, the Pailin thing stinks - just about as much as her choice of words to say anything she tries to say. The spoof spelling of Pailin was on purpose.

Great way to say we love the Earth all - keep clicking.

Cleo and Bailey are just so cute and happy babies. Good job, hon.

Your landscape photos bring to light the ambiance of Canadian winter - color and brrr both at the same time. Super pics

Dan, Palin's a menace.

The caribou herds have depleted, not because of the wolves - who btw only take the weak and sick animals from herds - and not decreasing because of Alaskan hunters either.

It's humans (The Safari Club and out of state hunters} and Palins' senseless enviornmental "management" programs that haven't evolved since the stone age, and the lies told by Palins "biologists" to the people of Alaska. Btw, the cowardly destruction of the wolf cubs in their dens is a direct violation of the Endangered Species Act.

You bet Defenders won't stop until Palin's held accountable for the slaughter.


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Well, Stradee, politically, Pailin's out of politics here in the lower forty-eight....... She has an ego trip going, but, it won't last two seconds in a political race outside of Alaska. I, having lived in Fairbanks, AK for two and a half years - realize that those people are of a different culture than we are. They are aggressively independent in survival methods. That includes shooting animals - both wild and humans. Doesn't matter to them. It's the old West Frontier attitude. I always stapped on my .357 Magnum when I left the city limits of Fairbanks - when visiting friends in Nome. AK - I strapped on my gun when I stepped out of the house. True story.

They don't call it the last Frontier for nothing.

All clicked.

I believe it, Dan.

There are people in Alaska that have a sense of the land and the animals, and know resourses won't last forever. They also voted down aerial shoots, but the game board overrode the vote and continued. The last election, people voted for aerial hunts simply on special interest 'scientific evidence' - led by Palin and her supporters. The out of state hunting dollar is more lucrative for Alaska and Palin than thought. Typical right wing politics.

God bless Alaska

ha! I beat the aktbird to his clicks this morning!


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Sat it is - and all cleeked.... Another tree smiling today.

Stradee, you're right about the "hunt" in AK - as if it could be called a hunt. The guides know ahead of the shoot where the animals are. That's their bread and butter, making it easy for the wealthy shooters to feel like they really went out hunting something. It's really ego talking and bragging rights bought by the dollar and at the expense of the animals killed.

A bunch of cowardly wealthy people trying to feel good about themselves and failing miserably at their attempt to do so. S--t stinks no matter who slings it.

Oh, and, Palin and her moose - as if that was a grand thing - Moose roomed about in town and even poked their noses in windows that were open when I was in Alaska - I doubt things have changed that much from the Moose's standpoint. It's no big deal to shoot a Moose in AK.

Well, at least there is still another tree smiling today.

Yeah, I know.

There is no excuse for the slaughter. Waiting for winter, then chasing wolves using airplanes and snowmobiles, the animal run to exhaustion, the idiot with the rifle hanging out of the airplane won't get or take a clean shot. The animal suffers unbearably.

Palins idea of 'skill'.

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Yep, trees are smiling. Lets make certain the animals will safely take refuge in their forest homes.

Good earthturn, Wildclickers

Some wildclickers may be able to see the newly discovered comet without using binoculars. cool

Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has calculated that Comet Lulin passed through the perihelion point of its orbit (its closest approach to the sun) on Jan. 10, 113 million miles (182 million kilometers) from the sun. However, while the comet is now receding from the sun, its distance from the Earth is decreasing, with a minimum of 38 million miles (61 million kilometers) on Feb. 24.

Read about Lulin here:
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/090206-ns-comet-lulin.html



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ehBeth, the AKT actually clicks????? I thought you did that each day........

HEY AKT - Hello and good going.

Stradee, let's hope the comet keeps it's distance.

yes, the aktbird57 clicks most days
fairly early as near as I can make out



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