Bush's Pardons: Guns Out of Control

Get Real

OK, I admit that George hasn't been the best president in recent history, but get real. How can you report on something with such open bias?

The man in this case was trying to protect a local species of wild turkey. And your sympathy is with the "American Icon" the coyote? The coyote is a monumental pest, that has infiltrated every part of our country and devastates many local species.

It was an unfortunate accident that some Bald Eagles and other birds fed on the remains of the poisoned coyotes.

Federal law makes it mandatory to punish someone that kills two or more bald eagles (not making an exception for this being an accident) and it also declares that those punished for breaking federal law cannot own guns.

The judge in the case saw how this man was a victim and decided that it was an honest mistake and only sentenced him to two years probation.

So because of an accident and quirks in two federal laws, a man cannot take part in LEGAL hunting (be honest-what really bothers you is that hunting and gun ownership is LEGAL) and since you are already Bush-biased, you write this character slam, and since it is soooooo PC to bash Bush and gun owners, you get away with it.

The two year probation shows that the judge in the case saw circumstances that did not warrent jail time, but he could not rule on the fact that this man should not be banned from gun ownership for the rest of his life, so the president stepped in and applied common sense, something you should try before writing an article about anything, especially the president.

ALI La of PA.

Nice try... DDT has never been shown as a health threat to humans. Furthermore, I note you do not address the human death toll caused by its ban - Which, I'm sure you know, is indisputable. Did you know that every U.S. soldier in WW II used DDT to powder his clothes and body with in order to prevent insect born disease? Entire cities were sprayed with it and never has any study found a significant health risk? Tens of millions of lives have been lost because of a ban based on environmental correctness - Nothing more.

When the WHO and the UN phase out these last, very limited, DDT programs millions will suffer and die - For what? So that the intolerant dogma of Environmentalism can be applauded by the faithful?

No one is suggesting the rape and pillage of nature - Only that reason, commonsense and the acknowledgment that civilization is better than living in caves and dying at 30, should prevail.

I find your last, nearly hysterical, paragraph to contain the usual rantings of Neo-Pagan Environmentalists and so does not required a reasoned response.

Environmentalism

Finally, someone has put it all together to rebut the ultimate foolishness of the ur-environmentalists! Their childish desire to go back to the pre-Industrial age while enjoying their post-Industrial age luxuries appears to be just another 'return to the womb' journey. It ain't gonna happen.

And neither will the Gore carbon-capping system give them their hearts' desires; it will only give the rest of the world the opportunity to punish and fine the US, place restrictions on its industrial might and make US businesses even less competitive than they already are.

Won't they ever learn that the bedrock of any successful country is its ability to gainfully employ its citizens in private, for-profit industry? That its ability to employ is dependent upon its ability to sell its production at a profit; and that its ability to sell at a profit is directly impeded by indirect operating costs placed on US companies by organizations such as the Environmentalists, especially when our global competitors have no such cost-increasing strictures placed on them by well-meaning but wrong-thinking pressure groups.

Newton's Second Law works, even in economics.

to R.L.

fyi:

Today, DDT is still included in the WHO's list of insecticides recommended for IRS. Since the appointment of Arata Kochi as head of its anti-malaria division, WHO's policy has shifted from recommending IRS only in areas of seasonal or episodic transmission of malaria, to also advocating it in areas of continuous, intense transmission. The WHO remains, however, "very much concerned with health consequences from use of DDT" and it has reaffirmed its commitment to eventually phasing it out.

furthermore:

I live in the country, grow much of our own food and buy from local farmers most of the time. Most family members are out hunting today. None of us "live in a concrete tower, breathing filtered air, drinking bottled water and getting food from the deli or market, wrapped in plastic".

I find your dismissal of environmentalism offensive and ignorant (traditional definition, thanks). It's attitudes like yours that have led to the degradation we are living with today. The earth has neither infinite resources nor species. To act as though the planet and its inhabitants are given to us by god to rape and plunder until we get our fill is abhorrent. A sustainable existence for current and future generations must take our actions and their impact on the environment into account. Unless of course, we all (at least those who really matter) will be ferried up to heaven when the time comes and don't care what kind of mess we leave behind.

ENVIRONMENTALISM - THE NATION'S "STATE RELIGION"

Bonnie, it is plain that you have never had any “real” contact with nature. You may have gone fanny packing with the Sierra Club armed with nothing more than Evian, bug repellant and organic trail mix. But, from your remarks, I think it’s safe to say that you live in a concrete tower, breathing filtered air, drinking bottled water and getting your food from the deli or market, wrapped in plastic.

But eat, you do. The ranchers and farmers who bring you this food need to control the environment - even subdue it. Even if you are a vegan and eat organic, animals must die so that you might live.

All farmers, organic ones included, need to plow under the earth to feed us. That means that “ecosystems” are destroyed and native plants and animals killed.

The plow of an organic farm actually destroys more land than others. The reason is simple, organic farms do not produce as much per acre as those that use chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides - more of their crop is therefore lost to pests and weeds.

Here’s another little published fact. Many varieties of organic fruits and vegetables are pest resistant because they are hybrids that have been shown to contain natural toxins (carcinogens) that deters pests...You can’t wash off those toxins.

Just consider the DDT ban brought about by Rachel Carson’s propaganda piece, “Silent Spring”. Now, every year, millions of people, mostly children die from insect born diseases that were once controlled by DDT.

Also, West Nile Virus, which kills millions of birds, mammals and hundreds of Ameicans annually, might have been stopped had our nation possessed the political will to use DDT in 1999 when the disease was still confined to one or two counties. Now, this killer will exact its annual toll of death forever.

Paul Muller, the inventor of DDT, won the Nobel Prize in medicine. Franklin Roosevelt said that DDT saved millions of lives during WW II. Entire cities were sprayed with it to prevent the spread of plague and Typhus in Europe, Asia and China. No test has ever shown DDT to harm humans in anyway. Further, the animal/bird tests never confirmed the thinning of bird egg shells - only suggested the possibility.

The World Health Organization - not known as a right wing organization -admits that more than a million children die every year as a direct result of the DDT ban.

Your concern over eagles and coyotes is, I think, more than a little misplaced in light of reality.

Finally, as a radical feminist you support abortion on demand, same as Obama and all Democratic Party leaders. That’s over 40 million dead babies since Roe. Obama and the liberal elite now want to expand the abortionist’s killing fields around the world and forever enshrine this culture of death under the guise of the “Freedom of Choice Act”...

All this human death and you whine and wring your manicured hands over coyotes and eagles... This is what comes when we mistake nature for God.