Posted on 03/19/2005 11:18:14 AM PST by Beckwith
Edited on 03/19/2005 11:20:08 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan’s renegade daughter, has an article in the current Newsweek titled “Dirty Footprints” in which she pleads, “We must write letters of outrage to the senators who voted to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). But maybe all there is left to do is weep. When I saw the news today, I sat down and wept.”
Davis continues with, “President Bush must be feeling so victorious. The Senate has now said ‘yes’ to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—the pristine place President Eisenhower took measures to protect in 1960.”
She laments, “Environmental groups have said the fight isn’t over, and I want to believe there is still something we can do—write letters, e-mails, rise up en masse and say no. But I don’t know if anything will help at this point. It’s possible that the only thing we will be able to do is weep—at the devastation of wild, untamed land where caribou are free to breed and give birth far away from the harm that humans bring. Where polar bear are a common sight and where cars and trucks and engines are never heard. Where people are outnumbered by the vast numbers of birds and animals—safe for the moment, but soon to be doomed.”
“The absurd statements made by politicians and oil companies that the environment can be protected while drilling for oil are just that—absurd. It assumes that we are ignorant. Roads will be carved, trucks will rumble through, drills will be stabbed into the earth. Oil companies don’t care about nature, the environment or the animals that will be terrified and traumatized. They don’t care, and neither does the Bush administration. We will be left with the damage this administration has caused, with scars on the earth and memories of wildlife that used to roam and fly over vast acres … before they started dying.”
Davis’ conclusion is that, “We have an administration in Washington that cares nothing for this planet, for beauty, for pristine places, for innocent animals with soft brown eyes. Everything is a war to this president, and he is determined to win.”
Link: Dirty Footprints
Does she have a job?
Funny how the best of the Reagan kids was adopted. Perhaps that made him appreciate his Dad all the more.
I don't mind if the rich Hollywood elite prevent us from drilling at ANWR--as long as they pick up my gas bill.
It's time to start writing laws for the majority and considerations for the exceptions again instead of making laws for the exceptions and making considerations for the majority.
We should be drilling in every backyard and building 100 new nuclear power plants.
Add 20 new refineries and we're off to a good start.
We need oil and the 100s of thousands of new jobs created would be an added benefit.
Let the greenies try to run their automobiles with wood-fired engines.
Oh no!
Air pollution
I don't quite think polar bears wander ANWAR. They spend most of the year on the Arctic Ice, and (MAYBE) a few months on the coast in summer when the ice breaks up,and when females come out of their den.I presume Patti, having hiked to northern Alaska from home on foot, noticed the ursine abundance while gamboling about the preserve. Ms. Davis no doubt wrote this crie de couer on a manual typewriter using vellum hand processed from animal hide, and hand delivered it by bicycle to he publisher, who had a stable of unemployed monks make copies using quill pens and candlelight.
They weep for the caribou but shed not one tear for Terry Schivo.
THey're you go with those damned facts again.
You need to understand the liberal mind. With them it's all emotion. It's how I feel, not what I know.
I'll bet a dollar to a doughnut this woman has ever been near ANWR and has no idea what the real impact of drilling would be.
It's how she feels that's important.
Oh for heaven's sake. I've been to many wildlife refuges and national parks, and they've all had roads going through them. The Point Barrow drilling has not appreciably damaged the environment. And while the environment is important, it is one of many factors to consider, including economic growth and reduction of dependence on oil controlled by enemy or untrustworthy Middle Eastern (or South American) countries.
Top Ten Reasons to Develop ANWR:
http://www.anwr.org/topten.htm
And Number Eleven? To see uninformed, ignorant, touchy-feely liberals cry. Tee-Hee! :)
I'd better not hear that Patti Davis uses fossil fuels in any way, shape or form or I'm gonna be REALLY disappointed in her. /sarcasm
"The past is like the rudder of a ship. It keeps you moving through the present, steers you into the future." - Patti Davis
Man. What a deep thinker that woman is! *Rolleyes*
Pristine? It's one of the most God forsaken places on earth. God knew what He was doing putting it there where there was virtually nothing to destroy. Liberals are idiots.
Boo-hoo-hoo!
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http://www.gottshall.com/thesis/article.htm
"Mother Earth" is a living, feeling, higher-power to these idiot liberal democrat ecoterrorist wicca witches!
From what I hear, the polar bears and caribou love hanging out around the pipelines. Maybe the animals are actually blue-state urban types who *like* living within earshot of the machinery of commerce -- the engines and the buildings and the pipelines. This is the case for most human liberals; that's why they crowd together in the bustling cities. Why should the animals be deprived of the environment that liberals prefer and seek out for themselves?
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