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Obama task force calls for National Ocean Council
AP/Google ^ | 9/17/09 | Jason Dearen

Posted on 09/17/2009 4:29:59 PM PDT by pissant

SAN FRANCISCO — The Obama administration on Thursday released the first glimpse of a plan to strengthen the way the nation manages the oceans, coasts and the Great Lakes.

President Barack Obama's Ocean Policy Task Force — comprised of 24 officials from the U.S. Department of Interior to the U.S. Navy — recommended creating a new National Ocean Council with power to coordinate and hold accountable myriad federal agencies in conservation and marine planning efforts.

"Right now (ocean policy) is done on a piecemeal basis, one agency regulating fisheries, one shipping, one water quality, another national security and there's no real mechanized thinking on how sectors interact with each other," said Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a task force member.

"Today is a historic day. For the first time, we as a nation say loudly and clearly that healthy oceans matter," she said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: larrysinclairslover; obama
Oh no, just what the hell we need
1 posted on 09/17/2009 4:29:59 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

I keep hoping I’m going to wake up from this never-ending nightmare.


2 posted on 09/17/2009 4:31:30 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: pissant

This nitwit is insane with power. By December he will be the total dictator of our Country.


3 posted on 09/17/2009 4:31:51 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: pissant

Fascism on the seas? No thanks.


4 posted on 09/17/2009 4:31:53 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: pissant

Damn!

Now were going to have an “Oceans” Czar.


5 posted on 09/17/2009 4:32:23 PM PDT by SwedeBoy2
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To: pissant

What ?? He didnt name an Ocean Czar?


6 posted on 09/17/2009 4:33:28 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: pissant

jeez its like have the UN run the country...


7 posted on 09/17/2009 4:34:05 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: pissant

If it’s not broke...don’t fix it....


8 posted on 09/17/2009 4:34:11 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: pissant

Why doesn’t this SOB just admit he wants to be king of the whole world and get it over with?


9 posted on 09/17/2009 4:34:14 PM PDT by taillightchaser (When a democrat says "The American people" you know the next words out of his mouth will be lies.)
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To: pissant; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ..

The list, ping


10 posted on 09/17/2009 4:34:20 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: pissant

how many CZARS will be on that council


11 posted on 09/17/2009 4:34:37 PM PDT by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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To: pissant

This administration couldn’t build a task force to get hard water stains out of a urinal.


12 posted on 09/17/2009 4:35:01 PM PDT by maddog55 (Socialism is communism with fewer re-education camps.)
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To: jersey117

“I keep hoping I’m going to wake up from this never-ending nightmare.”

I go back and forth between wanting to wake up in the morning one more time just to see what he’ll think up that day, or downing an entire bottle of sleeping pills with a vodka chaser at night, LOL!


13 posted on 09/17/2009 4:37:03 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: pissant

So now he wants to be Barry Barack Neptune Hussein Soetoro Obama, huh? Barry is weird.


14 posted on 09/17/2009 4:37:24 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans! "Behaving badly" since April 19, 1775!)
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To: pissant

” “Today is a historic day. For the first time, we as a nation say loudly and clearly that healthy oceans matter,” she said. “
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WTH kind of crap is this? These people are like a really bad SNL skit, a complete mockery of themselves!

It’s only scary when you think there are actually idiots out there buying the horsepuckey coming out of this administration!


15 posted on 09/17/2009 4:37:39 PM PDT by delphirogatio (Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD's unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him.)
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To: Logical me
If the bureaucracies are too convoluted to act coherently, the solution isn't a new, super-manager, it is to prune back the bureaucracy. ObamaCare Jokes Obama Jokes
16 posted on 09/17/2009 4:40:46 PM PDT by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: pissant

The only thing I want to hear from these loons about the Ocean is that all of Obama’s Czars are at the bottom of it.


17 posted on 09/17/2009 5:06:56 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama, you stop lying; we'll stop callin' you a LIAR.)
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To: pissant

i suppose obeyme will command the waves to rise every time he makes that request


18 posted on 09/17/2009 6:33:12 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT ("I never knew there were Martians in my garden...." J.Edgar Hoover,Fmr. Director, F.B.I.)
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