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Hundreds of Tortoises to Be Snuffed Out by Their Saviors
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| August 27, 2013
| Anna Hess
Posted on 08/27/2013 5:30:07 PM PDT by kevcol
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Who woulda guessed that Nevada had run out of vast empty deserts for these creatures to live?
$1million/yr govt funded facility:
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:30:07 PM PDT
by
kevcol
To: kevcol
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:32:00 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: kevcol
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:32:07 PM PDT
by
patriot08
(NATIVE TEXAN (girl type)
To: kevcol
Sounds like the abortion argument.
“If we can’t keep them, they must be killed.”
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:33:22 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: kevcol
That’s a lot of tortoise soup .... I guess Harry Reid can have a few of his fellow lawyers and crony capitalists over for supper.
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:33:49 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Progressives are never accountable for "unintended consequences" .... just for causing most)
To: kevcol
Why euthanize them — start turning them loose — and then go find a real job.
To: kevcol
For those unaware (most) the BLM claims that there is a disease spread by contact with the DTs. I once made a ranger blow a gasket asking him who these turtle touchers that searched endlessly running from one RARE (right) tortoise to another touching them inappropriately and giving them turtle herpes.
He was not amused. I laughed a lot. Many of us off roaders did.
THAT is why this favility exists. No joke.
To: kevcol
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:37:12 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: patriot08
Desert tortoises are an endangered species. I fail to see why they have to euthanize half of their stock. Why can’t they simply release them?
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:38:12 PM PDT
by
EinNYC
To: kevcol
The facility was created in 1990 when the overdevelopmentnamely McMansions, solar plants, and strip mallsof the turtles' native habitats caused the critters to be put on the endangered species list.
And so their answer is to kill them? WTF?
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:38:39 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: kevcol
What a wonderful parable about the welfare state.
Trust us, we'll take care of you.
close its doors and euthanize about half of its 1,400 tortoise residents, reports the Associated Press.
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:39:05 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: patriot08
Insane indeed. These “conservation groups” collected this species wherever found, ditches, arroyos, construction sites etc, concentrating them in cages to “save them” from the vicissitudes of survival in the wild, and when the money runs dry... take them out and kill them. Liberals destroy everything they touch.
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:39:17 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: kevcol
They are desert tortoises, right? They can survive in the desert, right? Oh wait - I guess they are now dependent on gov’t handouts and can’t survive on their own anymore. Wonder how many of them are registered rats and voted for Dingy Harry?.
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:39:46 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: kevcol
Tortoises live in small, well-defined ranges. Remove them from that range and release them somewhere else and they will spend the rest of their lives trying to find their way back to their home range. Letting these poor critters go is probably a death sentence, too.
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:39:54 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: SpaceBar
Why does this sound like a prelude to obamacare?
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:40:33 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: EinNYC
It says something about half of them being sickly or old. This story is less than clear, but the only thing I can think of is they were injured or recovering at this place?
Freegards
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:42:14 PM PDT
by
Ransomed
To: EinNYC
“I fail to see why they have to euthanize half of their stock. Why cant they simply release them?”
I think you missed the message. “If you don’t give us more funding, then we’ll kill the turtles.” It’s like saying, “If you don’t fund this (program, project, plan) then hundreds (thousands, millions) of CHILDREN will suffer and die.” (Not just die, but suffer and die.)
To: kevcol
” mostly fueled by “raking in funds from fees imposed on real estate developers who chose to build on the tortoises’ habitats,”
So the solar farms are gone? Since these government approved rapists of the land, the solar and wind farms are still using the tortoises habitat let them pay for the facility. I find it incredible that the Eco Nazis go rabid over average Americans using the desert for recreation but it’s OK for “GREEN” businesses to rape the land and displace or destroy the wildlife.
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:44:17 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Gen.Blather
Are the tortises nobama-minority and can’t survive on their own in the desert? DESERT tortises...DUH!
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:45:22 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: Red in Blue PA
Why does this sound like a prelude to obamacare?
Hundreds of Tortoises elderly Obama voters to Be Snuffed Out by Their "Savior"
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posted on
08/27/2013 5:45:41 PM PDT
by
kevcol
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