Bush opens 300,000 acres of Alaskan national forest to logging

StarTribune.com ^ | Dec. 24 2003 | John Heilprin, Associated Press

[GATOR NAVY]

John Passacantando, executive director of Greenpeace USA, accused the Bush administration of ``gutting the last pristine temperate rain forest'' in the United States...

Gutting...yeah right. 3% of 9.8 million acres, the rest of which is still off limits. I guess it's too much to ask the media to ever call these Chicken Littles on their hyperbole.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Log on baby!!!

[carlo3b]

THE DU.. is going bananas...Woo Hoo. . BUSH really pulls their chain.. hahahahahahahah

Marianne  (1000+ posts)      Tue Dec-23-03 06:32 PM
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5. So sad, so very sad
 
Edited on Tue Dec-23-03 06:41 PM by Marianne

 this man, if he can be called a man, is a total, slimy, greedy bastard.

He and his fat assed, lazy, dullard of a wife, have taken over this country and forced it's demise.

He has attacked all that is beauty in favor of his own greed and for his own ego, and desired to lord it over all of us as his power over us all, as he laughs about it nightly with his "
lump" and she is indeed quite impressed with all of it.

He is indeed, the worst president ever to destroy this country--and will go down as the worst and the dumbest man ever to destroy beauty and truth that we have ever known.

He is the evil and he is slimy and he is without any sense, nor deserving of any respect. Who can respect a man who cannot even speak the language, yet has his finger on the button?
 

We are chained to corporations who have been enabled by him and who run our lives , even though we have not elected a single one of them, and we are chained to those who are making profits out of our beautiful natual resources. These resources belong to US, not them! They do NOT belong to Bush or to the frump, Laura, or to her two dumassed progeny.

This is a crime. I may not live to see it, but if he and his greedy conservative outlook gets elected in 2004, that will signify our demise.

We will, indeed, be "paved over" in favor of profit instead of in favor of health and welfare and well being and the peace of the beauty that our natural resources afford us. The wilderness is indeed, our spiritual strength.

This puny little , ignorant, pretence of a man is truly an ogre. I hate him. May he be voted out of office, the one he stole in the first place, and may he take his drugged up , chain smoking wife with him back to his pig farm where she and he may forever stay holed up in fear that someone they have indeed done wrong, may come looking for revenge.

May the both of them never ever take a trip anywhere again on the money of the people of America, especially the poor people or the seniors who are killing themselves at the age of seventy in a puny job just to pay for health insurance.

May they both go down in infamy. As well as all the wealthy bastards in this country who want something back from him--as if they do not have enough to begin with.
 

[CounterCounterCulture]

Am I logged on. LOL!

Happy Festivus Environ-MENTALS!

[carlo3b]

LIBERALS, pure love and peace party!

[RightWhale]

It seems that when they pump oil from the ground it is in barrels, when they spill it it is in gallons. It's a start, though. Maybe they will open some more to entry and claim. Maybe some coal lands, too. Alaskan development has been frozen over a century, excepting oil, and, of course, gold. Hard, even for the Feds, to stop the thundering herd.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

what will split faster a big old spruce tree or the head of the enviro wackjob hearing this news

[Fester Chugabrew]

YESSS! How much wood could a DUMchuck chuck if a DUMchuck could chuck wood?

Who cares? There's plenty to go around. In fact, high density, low quality wood blocks reside atop a good many liberal DUMocrat shoulders.

[Always Right]

I just wonder how many people have actually visited these 300,000 acres in the last year to enjoy this beauty. I suspect there have been ZERO, since we have no roads there.

[EggsAckley]

Hey, CM.....I live in a redwood forest and where I am, MONEY grows on trees! LOL!

[crz]

No crap! 300,000? Thats all? Not even a drop in the bucket. Here we are importing building lumber the beat heck while we got trillions of board feet going to waste in our own back yard. All Federal Forest lands should be turned back to the local areas and/states they are in. That would end the hassle once and for all!

[Fester Chugabrew]

[Howlin]

Look! More fodder for the envirowhackos!

[Stillwillin]

TIMMMMMBBBER

[KellyAdmirer]

I laughed out loud several times reading that, thanks. I can understand hatred and frustration of Bush on the left because he is so successful and politically dominant, but of Laura of all people? That really shows how diseased with hatred those people are.

[adam_az]

or 1,881,792,000,000 sq. inches....

...or 1.21405693 × 10^27 sq nanometers!

[waterstraat]

The problem with loggers cutting down trees on land owned by americans, or by mining companies taking gold out of the land owned by americans, is that it is a giveaway to special interests, and the money taken in is paultry, or in many cases, not even enough to pay to replant the forests.

If you want to sell off american assets, like our trees, or whatever, then the logging companies should be paying market value for the trees, in addition to replanting the trees in the same variety and species and patterns that existed before they came in.

American citizens have a great wealth in our resources, in land owned by fellow citizens, and giving it away to special interests is not in our interest.

Every Alaskan citizen gets a check for the oil that is taken out of the ground, I dont see why every american citizen should not get a check each christmas, for all the trees, oil, gold, etc taken out of the land that we own(not just Alaskans).

A $10,000 or $20,000 royalty check each christmas for each citizen would be a lot better than lining the pockets of logging company executives, or executives of Canadian mining companies that take out our gold.

Reasonable harvesting of our resources, without endangering our wildernesses, is ok as long as our citizens directly benefit from it, and not only the corporate executives and politicians who enable the corporate executives to get so much money.

[BriarBey]

OOOOHHH are the green weenies gonna be crappin their pants....the world has come to an end...LOL

[BriarBey]

Would someone please help me get rid of these dead and aging trees that can be useful to someone else?


Don't you dare touch those trees, there may be an endangered micro-organism in one of them and you don't know which one...lol NOT to mention that tree's rights and your infringement on them...jeesh.

[BriarBey]

or 1,881,792,000,000 sq. inches....

...or 1.21405693 × 10^27 sq nanometers!


OH will you quit showing off!!! :)

signed,
the mathmatic illiterate