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Bush Administration’s Antienvironmental Policies Hurt Polar Bears

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According to a 2002 study by the WWF polar bear populations are doing just fine:
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Deprogramming is a painful process.

Maxton of CA 8:29PM May 09, 2009

OBAMA IS A SELF THINKING MAN. HIS BELIEFS ON HOW THE POLAR BEAR SITUATION SHOULD BE HANDLED IS NO WHERE NEAR WHAT BUSH HAD IN MIND. All things and situations take time to adjust, and in due time OBAMA will adjust accordingly,all things that need to be adjusted. It will all take time to undue the damage that has been done BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION,and fill up some of the holes that were dug in the last decade or so.OBAMA is a fair, intelligent, honest, and just PRESIDENT, he will do whatever it takes to help the POLAR BEAR, and the invironment, and the many other items that so badly need rectification, OBAMA is made of much stronger metal than bush ever was. These UNITED STATES finally has a PRESIDENT that is invironmentally aware, and is willing to do something about it.He is a man of action and not just retorical words. He IS NOT A WEAK PREDSIDENT, AS UNFORTUNATELY THE LAST ONE WAS. Given enough time OBAMA will restore AMERICA'S PRESTIGE, AND win back its rightful status as the greatest most respected NATION IN THE WORLD TODAY. Decreasing our national debt, and dependency on foreign oil are only 2 of the many issues on his plate, America is slowly being auctioned off to the highest bidder incriment, by incriment, at this rate, if it is'nt stopped soon, even the true owners of the land......THE AMERICAN INDIAN..wont have enough land left to hold a POW WOW on. NOT FUNNY? i agree. But it wasnt funny to the indians either,and it won't be funny to any land owner in the UNITED STATES either if the land carnage doesnt cease. It has to stop, or none of us will own enough land to build a good OUTHOUSE ON. OBAMA is on the right track, and i believe that the course he is on now, with the help of the people, he can and will,succeed. And if you want to take something to the bank, WELLLLLLLLLLLL. "YOU CAN TAKE THAT ONE"
Sincerely
Mr. Larry E.Coats

Larry E. Coats of AZ 6:36PM May 08, 2009

BUSH ONLY CARES ABOUT ONE THING OIL, AND HOW TO LINE HIS POCKETS WITH MORE MONEY FROM OIL EXPLORATION. Anything, animals, people, GLOBAL WARMING, won't stop him from siding with the oil industry. He has made millions and probably billions, from this kind of conduct. All he is interrested in is how can he keep filling his pockets with ill gotten gains. That is why he was such a BAD president. Oil is the main reason the economy went into the crapper, not the MORTGAGE COMPANIES. When the price of a gallon of gas went so high that you could'nt afford to drive to work, even if you still had a job, And trucks, and planes, and trains, couldnt afford to supply the nation with its basic needs because the fuel cost to get back and forth was so far out of proportion that the normal everday joe had no money left over for the basic needs of every day living. Af homeowner or renter had to choose between feeding the family he loves, or paying the rent or mortgage because fuel for your car or truck had to come first in order TO GET TO YOUR JOB, OR DELIVER GOODS TO CUSTOMERS EVEN IF YOU HAD A FAILING BUSINESS. It was'nt the mortgage companies that caused the economical destruction. It was the BUSH ADMINISTRATION and the foreign oil companies. Now he is retired and is so stinking rich that he could care less about a POLAR BEARS NEEDS.AND STILL ON HIS WAY OUT OF OFFICE, ONCE AGAIN HE SIDED WITH THE OIL COMPANIES TO THE BITTER END. IT WOULD SERVE HIM RIGHT IF A POLAR BEAR BIT HIM RIGHT IN HIS BIG FAT GREEDY ASS. The congress was just as guilty as he was for allowing such a thing to happen. As long as the country is being run by GREEDY REPRESENTATIVES LIKE BUSH, OUR PLANET,OUR FOOD, OUR ANIMALS OUR TOTAL EXISTANCE AND SURVIVAL WILL BE IN JEAPORDY. NOTHING OR NO ONE WILL BE SAFE. least wise the POLAR BEARS. This whole mess reminds me of a DICTATOR IN GEMANY, I wont mention any names but thank the powers that be he is gone forever. If we allow this kind of leadership to exist then WE ALL DESERVE WHAT WE GET. It looks to me like we have a leader now called OBAMA that will hopefully stop this out of control greed and fleecing of the people and the destruction of our invironment and out animals and get back to A HONEST COURAGEOUS PRESIDENT that will stand up tall, and proud, and show the world what THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THESE UNITED STATES, REALLY STANDS FOR..SINCERELY MR.LARRY E. COATS.

LARRY E. COATS of AZ 4:26PM May 08, 2009

Say, Bonnie, will you be writing an opinion piece taking President Obama to task for leaving the same rules in place that Bush had?

William Teach of NC 4:18PM May 08, 2009

The web of life is interconnected. we are all polar bears.

vexact 9:07PM December 14, 2008

OH BONNIE-IN 1970 WE HAD 4000 PLOAR BEARS IN 2005 WE HAD OVER 25,000 . THATS HURTING POLAR BEARS? OH BONNIE-EVER MEET A POLAR BEAR UP CLOSE. I GUARNATEE YOU SOMETHING IDIOT. THEY DONT CARE ABOUT THIS "FRIEND OF THE EARTH" MALARKY. ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS WHAT THEY CAN EAT. AND BELEIVE ME THEY WILL RIP YOU BODY APART LIKE TISSUE PAPER(AND CAN) IF THEY ARE HUNGRY ENOUGH. I KNOW GREEN NUTJOBS LIKE YOU HATE AMERICA AND HATE CAPITALISM DEAR, SO ILL LEAVE YOU WITH MY POLAR BEAR ENCOUNTER. THIRTY YEARS AGO, I WAS A 23 YR OLD EX MARINE WORKING ON THE ALASKA PIPELINE PROJECT. SOME "POOR, UNFORTUNATE" POLAR BEAR DECIDED HE NEEDED TO TURN 4 OF THE PIPELINE WORKERS INTO DINNER. UNFORTUNATELY FOR HIM YOU SEE, I TURNED HIM INTO A BEARSKIN RUG FROM ABOUT 50 YARDS WITH A HIGH POWERED RIFLE. YOU SEE DEAR, THE MARINES TAUGHT ME HOW TO SHOOT AND WHEN I NEEDED TO. SOMETHING AN IGNORANT MEDIA LIBNUT LIKE YOURSELF NEVER SEEMS TO GET. TATA POOR DEAR AND MAY I HOPE SOMEDAY YOU MEET UP WITH A HUNGRY POLAR BEAR. TOO BAD YOU LIKELY WONT HAVE A REAL MAN LIKE ME OUT THERE TO SAVE YOU. YOU LIKELY THINK THE "CUTE LITTLE BEAR" WOULD WANT TO POSE FOR PICTURES.

JOHN GALT LIVES of IL 4:08PM December 13, 2008

Polar Bears are not endangered - Their numbers have steadily increased over the past two decades. Furthermore, the polar ice cap is approximately the same as in i987... But that makes little difference since we have fossil evidence that polar bears survived the last prolonged period of global warming (interglacial period - as we are in now) when much of the pack/ sheet and sea ice melted and sea levels were 20-30 feet higher than now. The bears did an amazing thing - They walked inland and changed their diet and ADAPTED!
Dogmatic Environmentalism has become the State Religion that everyone feared - That is until, it turned out to be Environmentalism instead of Christianity.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 2:01PM December 13, 2008

of course a wild animal has precedence over human life,YOU live at the opposite end of the food chain--the bottom,not the top.
You've been reeducated very well and are a credit to that sKool of thought,right down to being a proabortionist.If partial birth abortions were done on pugs you'd be first on line for the protest.

salome of NY 10:51AM December 13, 2008