Posted on 08/29/2013 1:10:59 PM PDT by george76
As the casinos don't have an interest in it though that isn't what they are planning to do.
Why don’t we reduce welfare so-called “benefits” for the looter class and save the tortoises? The tortoises are at least kind of... well, not cute, exactly, but not downright ugly, right?
As for this euthanasia proposal, I've never heard of such gall. These extortionists disgust me. But it's so typical.
Seeing that a tortoise isn’t a horse and doesn’t even eat for 5 months out of the year, more people might be inclined to own one.
What do you care anyway?
Thanks for that info. Don’t understand why the different policies between the states but they may not either:)
It is hard to understand the whole euthanasia thing after all the years disruption that’s been caused.
It can be done.
This problem exposes the communist structure of the environmental laws.
Bureaucrat created law trumping common sense and the will of the people.
Cue the National Lampoon “Buy this magazine or we’ll shoot this dog” cover.
Or one of PBS’s “Cut our funding by a single cent and we’ll cancel Sesame Street” press releases.
Now why this sanctuary in Nevada is not encouraging adoption is baffling. I don't get it.
“Bureaucrat created law trumping common sense and the will of the people.”
I was interviewing (for an artcle) the president of what was then the fifth largest home builder in the country. He said that if they discovered an eagle’s nest all work had to stop. He was spending half a million a week and an eagle’s nest on his several hundred acre development it would cause him to go bankrupt. He could figure when to the day. That would cost not only his multi-generation company but 500 direct jobs and thousands of indirect jobs. So, (and he said he’d never done this) over a weekend somebody would cut down the tree and kill the eagle and he’d pay the (I think) $15,000 fine. It was either that or go bankrupt. He called the environmental laws “well intentioned insanity.”
The reason they were endangered is that their preditors, the Bald Eagles and the Condors were eating all the tortoises while they were under the protection of the govermint due to them being threatened by DDT!!!
Meanwhile, multi-millions of tax dollars and uncountable losses in business dollars have suffered through exercices in futility called MITIGATION!!! (enforced on legitimate business losing the "War On The WEST!")
Cain't you guys rememmer any of this stuff suffocating both naychur and our economy? Of course you can!!!
Thanks for posting this artickle Mr. George76, thank you very much.
I know at least three large ranches making money on warehousing "wild horses"....It's a joke. I don't blame the ranches....I blame our STUPID FED'S....!!
We are totally stupid to let this happen..
Back in the day, some desert homesteaders rescued the tortoises on their own.
Then that was made illegal.
These laws are not ‘well intentioned’.
They are the outcome of the desire by certain forces working within our country to outlaw private property by individual citizens, as well as freedom to make decisions about your property and then do them.
The environmental movement- or green movement- is the child of nazi socialism. I say this because the nazi party in germany, in the late 1960’s changed their name from the nazi party to the green party because the word nazi was so off-putting to people.
But, no matter how you apply the lipstick, a pig is still a pig.
Please remember, our ancestors realized property is power, and owning property can give you wealth and standing in the community. That is why so many Americans settled Texas and the West— to own property.
It is the reason private property is the enemy of the environmental socialists. It is why so much of the country is now under control of local, state or federal governments— all the greenbelts, parks you can’t get to because the roads are closed, beaches where humans are banned from setting foot, and blm lands that are being set up as national monuments to keep private individuals from ranching, mining, fishing or logging them.
“It is the reason private property is the enemy of the environmental socialists. It is why so much of the country is now under control of local, state or federal governments— all the greenbelts, parks you can’t get to because the roads are closed, beaches where humans are banned from setting foot, and blm lands that are being set up as national monuments to keep private individuals from ranching, mining, fishing or logging them.”
I’m hoping the pendulum will fall the other way and all this goes away. The county to the south of me is 95% government land. It hasn’t advanced economically in decades. If the land was open it would be a gold mine.
Yep....
I remember..............
Soylent Green is Desert Tortoise ! It’s Desert Tortoise !
IIRC, the Vegas to Barstow race was shut down over these critters.
It’s not difficult to understand why the government would simply kill them all rather than release them or adopt them out. It’s a straightforward hostage situation:
“Restore our funding through other means, or we’ll kill the hostages.”
They’ll probably start by killing them a few at a time to see if new funding appears.
Yes, I believe the tortoise ended the off road races. It was also responsible for delaying the expansion of the Ft. Irwin National Training Center outside Barstow for years.
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