Bush* just opened three hundred thousand acres for logging in Tongass

[Bandit]

National Forest. He just overruled President Clinton's roadless policy by Presidential Order without Any Public Commentary Great Christmas Present for Alaska and America. Don't have a link as I just heard it on the news on radio. Doesn't make me very happy on this Christmas Eve.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. One of the few remaining temperate rain forests in the world

and all he sees is board feet.

:-(

He definitely gets a lump of coal in his stocking for that one.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Here's the LBN link on the story.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=283327&mesg_id=283327

[Bandit]

4. Thank you

I hadn't yet ventured to LBN but I should have known this would be there. Sometimes I spend too much time here instead of LBN and other sites.

[rasputin1952]

3. AHA! I KNEW it!...

the Alert goes to Orange...and under the radar....open up the Tongass Forest to logging.

This happens every-time! The Alert status goes up, some horrid thing comes from this administration. These bastards are the REAL TERRORISTS!

:grr: :nuke:

[Blaze Diem]

5. Will logging make room for Haliburton??

Clearing the path for future revenues, no doubt. I recall a piece written some time ago..sorry I don't have a link..something about oil deals in that area of the world. More of the same..Bush cronyism,and abuse of Presidential powers for profit. This needs to be kept at the forefront..Dem Canidates are you listening?? I hope you will ALL use your positions as candidates to expose every single shameless abuse that Bush perpetrates on this planet. While the world looks on..more slight of hand. Please Speak Out about this.
Tks..Blaze

[Medical Speaking]

6. Merry Christmas Says Bush

Grate Christmas present for the American people. This idiot never stops amazing me and yet some Americans support this. When will it end. 2004 Anyone but Bush.
All Du's I dint post much but enjoy reading the posts. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and just think next Christmas Bush will be history.

[Blaze Diem]

8. Merry Christmas to you too, Medically S...

I don't post much either, but some threads, I just cannot pass by without lending a voice..Anyone But Bush.

[G_j]

7. the Orcs are after the last real stand of old growth n/t

[G_j]

9. RFK Jr., Indictment of the Bush Anti-Environmental Record

(thanks to Karenina for providing this in another thread)

A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW

"This, to me, is one of the most alarming things that this Administration is doing -- it’s compromised the scientific process and systematically intimidated, blackballed, fired, muzzled and gagged scientists in every department of government. Scientists who produce science that challenges corporate profit taking, or that might be an obstacle to corporate profit taking, are routinely punished or punished by muzzled or gagged." -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.


<snip>

Under the Bush Administration, we’re seeing the same thing that happened in this country during the 1880s and 1890s, during the Gilded Age, where now -- as then -- large corporations have an undue influence on government officials, and where they are literally stealing things that belong to the public.

<snip>

There are over 200 major environmental rollbacks that are now being promoted by the Bush Administration, and they’re listed on NRDC’s website. They’re getting away with this because the media isn’t paying attention. And the reason I say that is that polling, including the Republican Party polls taken by Frank Luntz, consistently shows that Americans across party lines favor strong environmental protection and strict enforcement of our laws. Republicans and Democrats favor strengthening our environmental laws by margins upwards of 75 percent. So the White House proceeded with an understanding that its anti-environmental agenda is unpopular with the American people and has successfully concealed its agenda through a series of stealth attacks designed to eviscerate 30 years of environmental law.

<snip>

All of our federal agencies have now been captured by the industries that they’re intended to regulate. The head of the Forest Service is a timber industry lobbyist. The head of our public lands is a mining industry lobbyist. The chief of staff in the White House, Andrew Card, was chief counsel to General Motors and its top lobbyists. And 22 of the top 38 White House officials all have energy industry pedigrees. We have a president that says that he doesn’t listen to TV, and he doesn’t get his news from the newspapers, but gets it from his staff. Unfortunately, all of his staff are from the energy industries, and the rest of them have corporate pedigrees. So they, of course, have a rosy view of what’s going on in our country, and their opinions about how our nation ought to work may not always reflect the best interests of the American public.

more:

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/12/int03325.html

[ochazuke]

10. Despite low demand for Tongass timber

I heard on the radio or read somewhere that there is particularly low demand for the timber "harvested" in the Tongass at this time.

I hope somebody sues those bastards and makes them implement the roadless rule.

Shrubco is completely without values. It's all about the money.

Damn them all to hell.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Explanations:

From a "compassionate conservative": "It could have been 500,000 acres."

From a DLC Democrat: "It's not so bad, it could've been 500,000 acres and if we complain about it we might not win Alaska."

From a Libertarian: "Let's make it 500,000 acres and let the markets decide."

From the rest of us: "Aaaaaaarghhhh!!"

[KoKo]

12. Retaliation for "snowmobile stay order for Yellowstone" an "eye for an

eye"...that's their policy.

[rasputin1952]

15. For this administration, "an eye for an eye"...

doesn't cut it.

It is more like: both eyes, a kidney and a heart, in retaliation for a skinned knee. These 'people', have no souls.

O8)

[Cleita]

13. A pox on him for this and all the other destructive

things he does.:grr:

[maggrwaggr]

14. this is war

no shit. this is war. this is an attack to rob every American of what is THEIRS. The trees do not belong to the logging industry, they belong to the American people.

It's time to get out there and simply stop these people with human bodies.

This is war.

[G_j]

16. kick