Ernie needs "Protection?"
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Ernie needs "Protection?"
Wow, 3 environmental groups are already on top of this. Ernie, what's the REAL story? 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051215/...sc/polar_bears
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051215/...sc/polar_bears
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So after we all give up our gas burning vehicles, will we be required to stop burning wood and coal to stay warm? If so, then won't we be forced to kill the polar bears for their extremely warm fur?? This is quite the conundrum...
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We Polar Bears would like to thank The Center for Biological Diversity, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace for their concern and support. We are, however, mightily concerned. Norwegian Scientists have established that Orcas, not Polar Bears, are at the greatest risk, and laws must be passed immediately to regulate the chemical industry.
This is totally unfair! Everyone knows the aggrieved party will get a much better deal in an American Court of Law. Just because Keiko spent his last days among throngs of adoring fans in Norway is no reason to sell out for a few tons of Salmon. We wouldn't be surprised if he ate himself to death, now how good an idea is that?
Instead of vying for the best Smorgasbord, the Polar Bears have established that it's far better to focus on the Arctic. After all, there's a ton of oil under here, and we feel it's in our best interests to establish control over drilling rights in our territory. Once endangered species can be established, we can commence negotiations with some really big oil companies for royalties in return for drilling rights. Sure, we'll have to relocate, but, lets be honest, it's really friggin' cold up here, and we wouldn't mind living somewhere a bit warmer. Like Northern Canada, maybe. With room service. And catering.
This is totally unfair! Everyone knows the aggrieved party will get a much better deal in an American Court of Law. Just because Keiko spent his last days among throngs of adoring fans in Norway is no reason to sell out for a few tons of Salmon. We wouldn't be surprised if he ate himself to death, now how good an idea is that?
Instead of vying for the best Smorgasbord, the Polar Bears have established that it's far better to focus on the Arctic. After all, there's a ton of oil under here, and we feel it's in our best interests to establish control over drilling rights in our territory. Once endangered species can be established, we can commence negotiations with some really big oil companies for royalties in return for drilling rights. Sure, we'll have to relocate, but, lets be honest, it's really friggin' cold up here, and we wouldn't mind living somewhere a bit warmer. Like Northern Canada, maybe. With room service. And catering.
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I'd like someone from greenpeace or the sierra club to prove to the world that global warming has anything to do with human activity, and wouldn't have happened anyway if humans didn't inhabit this planet.
Where was the sierra club when the wooly mammoth went extinct?
And I'd also like to know when I can expect the world to end because a bunch of polar bears died off (no offense, Polarbear - I like the new avatar, BTW
). Millions and millions of species have become extinct over the last couple billion years. Amazingly, life managed to pick up the pieces and move on.
Where was the sierra club when the wooly mammoth went extinct?
And I'd also like to know when I can expect the world to end because a bunch of polar bears died off (no offense, Polarbear - I like the new avatar, BTW
). Millions and millions of species have become extinct over the last couple billion years. Amazingly, life managed to pick up the pieces and move on.
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some of these groups are way out of hand. we just finished a bear hunt out here and you should see all the suits to stop anything more against their beloved bears.
bears are very adaptive animals. they will servive even with gobal warming just as well as us.
bears are very adaptive animals. they will servive even with gobal warming just as well as us.
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From: Kiefer, Northeastern Okla
Dear Ernie: As an active member of the Sierra Club (Okla. chapter), I can empathise with your predicament. Rest assured that the full resources of the Club are at your disposal. Our attorneys and lobbyists are working to achieve the goals of which you speak. However, the full weight of the Oklahoma chapter cannot be brought to bear on this issue as we are currently employed by the Prairie Chicken and Buffalo interests, ensuring that their rights are not being infringed. As for the wooly mammoth issue- an unsympathetic Congress is to blame, along with an adversarial White House, for their demise. Please feel free to contact the Alaska chapter if you have any questions. Sincerely, Pete.
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Sometimes I'm dense on these matters. Global warming? Is that not when the average temperature rises? Ok, and does not reproduction make heat? So should the environmentalist reproduce? May I sue Greenpeace for their contribution in global warming, or should I just plug their smokestack?
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Yeah some of those guys are way out of hand.
However, being a far right wing conservative, i am interested in knowing if there actually is a GOOD conservation group available, not the nutjobs im reading about here. I am in the petroleum industry and i am concerned with unneccesary destruction of a delicate balance of life/nature. It bugs the hell out of me to hear about them opening these wildlife preserves for drilling of oil that the liberals are screaming we 'are running out of'.
Its unneccesary to do this.
Honestly, i would much rather forcefully take the middle east and TAKE the oil from there (regardless of political cost) than to destroy our own wildlife to get resources that we dont even need.
However, being a far right wing conservative, i am interested in knowing if there actually is a GOOD conservation group available, not the nutjobs im reading about here. I am in the petroleum industry and i am concerned with unneccesary destruction of a delicate balance of life/nature. It bugs the hell out of me to hear about them opening these wildlife preserves for drilling of oil that the liberals are screaming we 'are running out of'.
Its unneccesary to do this.
Honestly, i would much rather forcefully take the middle east and TAKE the oil from there (regardless of political cost) than to destroy our own wildlife to get resources that we dont even need.
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