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Don't Scapegoat Environmentalists: Saving Minnows Saves Humans
LA Times ^ | February 17, 2003 | by Roger G. Kennedy

Posted on 02/17/2003 7:55:24 PM PST by greydog

A recent spate of newspaper articles about the shortage of water in New Mexico and southern Colorado has presented it as a case of people against minnows. This is nonsense.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: endangeredspecies; water
The Endangered Species Act is doing its job. It is forcing us to look at what we are doing, to set limits to wasteful uses and to make up our minds as to how a limited water supply should be allocated.

Study Lesson: If you want to prove a (worthless) point, project your beliefs as those shared by the majority, especially if you are a f@#$%^g socialist idiot.

1 posted on 02/17/2003 7:55:24 PM PST by greydog
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To: greydog
Another pure unadulterated PANTLOAD from the LA bad-Times!!!
2 posted on 02/17/2003 8:01:04 PM PST by SierraWasp (Snap Out Of It, CA!!! Be Courageous! It's Contageous! Zap Zany Gray!!!)
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To: greydog
Saving Minnows Saves Humans

That's what I thought! < /lame joke>

3 posted on 02/17/2003 8:06:49 PM PST by martin_fierro (oh, did I say that out loud?)
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To: martin_fierro
Is that a picture of the SS Minnow?

(Sorry, it had to be said.)
4 posted on 02/17/2003 8:15:11 PM PST by CPOSharky (Therapist for those hockey-puck irrational numbers)
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To: CPOSharky
Aye aye!
5 posted on 02/17/2003 8:20:31 PM PST by martin_fierro (oh, did I say that out loud?)
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To: martin_fierro
You said it, little buddy!
6 posted on 02/17/2003 8:26:07 PM PST by Jonah Hex
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To: greydog
Saving minnows saves humans? That must have been written by a minnow.
7 posted on 02/17/2003 8:40:10 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Ignorance ain't bliss...except to liberals.)
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To: greydog; snopercod; joanie-f
There is no shortage of water in New Mexico.

There is a shortage of access to water in New Mexico. Laws actually restrict access to the waters which plentifully flow down from the mountains. You get to watch it go by, but you don't get to do anything with it.

The underground aquafers are tremendous.

The minnows' long-term life cycle as a specie, relies upon drought for survival, incredible as that may seem; drought challenges their durability, only the strong survive.

The minnows have "known" drought worse than now, many hundreds of times going back through the ages when the population of New Mexico lived in holes in the ground ... too.

The little minnows are just fine. Instead, it's the people who need the water, but they are prohibited by The Party, the Democrat Party, from going after it.

The state has had decades to develop underground water storage reservoirs which would be replenished by the seasonal runoff from the mountains. But no, the liberals who use any excuse that the sky is falling, not to mention that they cannot bear to hear anything suggesting personal industry as a way to improve mankind, will not permit such civil engineering --- they're too busy social engineering.

Drilling for water is prohibited by The Party.

To wit: Industrious solutions to New Mexico's problems are prohibited, because The Party, there, is the country's largest per capita collection of fruits and nuts who are petrified that they will lose the "issues" they've ginned up, with which they work the crowds into "divisive frenzies," keeping "the little people" in a state of envy over "the wealthy landowners" who allegedly "own the water."

That's right; you guessed it.

With their backs to the water, listening to The Party Agit-Prop, instead of listening to the roaring stream, the crowd keeps its "public eye" on the little birdie ... over there ... on the golf course ... of the "exclusive properties of the rich."

It's all about self-denial, of the truth.

The little minnows burrow into the ground, when the water is missing, happy as clams.

The little people, who actually do know where the water is, and they know how to get it, some of them, because THEY OWN IT according to old tribal rights, play the part of unhappy clams for The Party.

So, on the surface, the natives appear to not like "the rich," but underneath, where the truth is, the natives distrust The Party because it speaks with forked tongue.

The Party might notice this honest appraisal, if The Party was not high on itself and the local p___ti weed.

The Party in New Mexico, is made up of the usual suspects, the incredibly wealthy liberal elite, almost all of whom got their money the easy way, they sold their souls to make a big splash in Tinsel Town; so unfortunately, they don't know what its like to go without water ... and therefore be willing to construct public works to ensure its supply.

When was the last time you ever saw a limousine liberal donate to the construction of a public aqueduct, viaduct, or even tape-a-duct plant?

Yes, that's right, soon enough, probably even this week, Hillary Clinton will demand that the Congress fund the redistribution of plastic sheeting and duct tape, yet another government program.

8 posted on 02/17/2003 9:01:12 PM PST by First_Salute
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To: greydog
Minnows come first. Don't ask me why a fish darting behind rocks in the river is more important than humans. Man-free nature is part and parcel of the enviro wacko creed to the effect we should all get off the planet. And they're not exactly kidding.
9 posted on 02/18/2003 2:31:56 AM PST by goldstategop
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