HOW TOUCHING!!
Posted on 02/28/2014 5:11:23 PM PST by lowbridge
In one of Alaska’s most remote outposts, where a thousand hardy souls make their homes, the Obama administration has put the fate of birds and bears above the lives of people, blocking construction of an 11-mile gravel trail connecting a tiny fishing hamlet to a life-saving airport.
King Cove has a clinic, but no hospital or doctor. Residents must fly 600 miles to Anchorage, via Cold Bay’s World War II airstrip, for most medical procedures including serious trauma cases and childbirth. Frequent gale-force winds and thick fog often delay or jeopardize medevac flights.
According to local Aleutian elders, 19 people have died since 1980 as a result of the impossible-to-navigate weather conditions during emergency evacuations.
U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Monday rejected a proposal for a one-lane gravel road linking the isolated community of King Cove with the all-weather airport in Cold Bay some 22 miles away.
During an August visit to Alaska, Jewell was told that building a road that connects King Cove and Cold Bay was vital. But in December, Jewell rejected the road saying it would jeopardize waterfowl in the refuge.
“She stood up in the gymnasium and told those kids, ‘I’ve listened to your stories, now I have to listen to the animals,” Democratic state Rep. Bob Herron told a local television station. “You could have heard a pin drop in that gymnasium.”
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Woody Allen never looked so good.
Right. Because everywhere else roads have been built, the birds just come right up to the edge of the road and stop there, unable to proceed.
Seriously, what kind of person puts a non-issue, an imagined threat to wildlife, at higher priority than human beings?
Just build it! What’s Obama going to do?
UN Agenda 21 “rural cleansing.”
Always the Koch brothers. Whatever happened to the EEVIILLL Richard Mellon Scaife?
OMG! What is that ugly thing? Send it out to an ice floe to talk to a Polar Bear.
My God, she just stood right in front of those people and told them to die - and backed her death sentence with the claim that animals can’t cross an all but deserted dirt road.
What unutterable evil!
Oh yes, people, it can indeed happen here. Slavering demons like this creature are just waiting for the chance.
she looks like about one half the women in Berkeley...at least stylistically...... If I remember correctly..
she probably DOES think shes communicating with the animals...
a one lane gravel road? really?
This person is a monster unfit for a civilized society.
I’m glad I’ve never been to Berkeley then. That thing doesn’t qualify as a woman ‘round here. Not sure that’s an Earthling of any kind.
theres a contingent of woman...mostly who come from fairly affluent families..who are given to wearing tibetan jewelry...adopting all manner of so called “spititual disciplines” some even going so far as to SITTING IN TREES to “save their lives” over there.
this one.... strikes me as a run of the mill cult member...who likely has a secret HINDI NAME...something like..Wanda Meshugenada ..that she uses amongst friends!
I notice a similarity of names, a cousin of yours?
no actual hindi relatives that I KNOW of...but pehraps... a very VERY distant cousin who in fact is TRULY meshuge!
As a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner I am aware of the trade in stolen Tibetan treasures by Chinese “businessmen” aimed at rich American liberal women.
some of them have stuff that looks like it would take a necklace bearer to carry around...
then they match the necklace with a plaid scarf...go figure
Is that a man or a woman?
“Endeavor to Persevere” /obscure
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