From Mark Muford, SFgate:

As if 600-year-old redwoods give a damn for your politics.

As if struggling salmon care a whit for the Catholic Church's sneering
homophobic stance on gay marriage. Like Alaskan elk think your
viewpoints on war are far too lopsided to hold sway in the national
dialogue.

There are typical GOP evils and there are warmongering BushCo flying
monkeys and there is Dick Cheney's pallid sneer as he slaughters a
small mountain of birds for blood sport, and then there is perhaps the
most vile and destructive notion the GOP has succeeded in foisting
upon the numbed nation to date: that caring about Mother Nature makes
you, yet again, a "goddamn hippie liberal."

This is what has happened: The GOP has succeeded, woefully, viciously,
in demonizing nature. Right now, to love our unlogged forests or to
wish air quality to be protected or to hope our leaders don't allow
monster crony oil companies to jam their snarling proboscises into our
country's nature preserves for a handful of crude is now to be thought
of as a dreadlocked Greenpeace-Earth First!-tofu lover.

It's true. You cannot think solar power is cool without being labeled
a hippie. You cannot want the U.S. Navy to knock it off with the
goddamn high-powered sonar that damages whales without being cast as
some sort of New Age freak. You cannot drive a Prius without being
deemed some sort of nutball geek who probably feeds your kids only
hemp seeds and homemade sproutburgers with a side of fresh mulch.


This is the other thing: Bush is the worst environmental president in
the nation's history. Period. The proofs are irrefutable, and the list
of his administration's sinister assaults on the pale blue dot we all
call home is painful and tragic and punishable in the afterlife by
seven billion years of listening to Lynne Cheney being scraped across
a chalkboard.

No natural resource has been left unmolested: From forest management
to air quality to water pollution to emissions standards to land
management to industrial farming to reduced controls on heavy
polluters to global warming to nuclear waste to our energy policy,
BushCo has made atrociously efficient progress in decimating, in just
three short years, 30 years of staunch environmental protections.

Dubya, by way of his industry cronies, have initiating more than 200
major rollbacks of America's most significant environmental laws. Hey,
it's nothing new: As governor of Texas, Bush made his state No. 1 in
thick smudgy black air and water pollution that makes babies gag and
eyes water and cancer cells flourish. He had the ugliest enviro record
of any governor in the state's history.

He has openly sodomized the Clean Air Act. He has given the green
light to clear cutting the nation's largest old-growth forest,
Alaska's stunning Tongass National Forest. He is allowing huge
industrial polluters extensive new freedoms to pump toxins into rivers
and lakes. He has scoffed at the Kyoto Treaty, even as the world's top
scientists wave proof after proof of the reality of global warming in
his face.

Here's a telling fact: During Dubya's State of the Union speech, the
environment received not a single mention. According to
Environment2004, not since Bush Sr.'s 1992 State of the Union address
has a president failed to acknowledge that a healthy environment is
essential to the survival of our species. Dubya did, however, scowl at
steroid use by athletes. Now, there's a pressing issue.

The list of BushCo enviro assaults is enormous, appalling, increasing
and far too extensive and outright depressing to detail in this
column, but much gruesome proof can be had by perusing Robert F.
Kennedy's superlative, damning essay in Rolling Stone, "Crimes Against
Nature," or by simply browsing through the National Resource Defense
Council's many pages on BushCo's enviro-hating policies. For a start.

Here's how successful the GOP's antienvironment brainwashing has been:
With the exception of Dennis Kucinich, not one of the major Demo
presidential candidates has truly focused on environmental issues in
the debates or in their campaign speeches, for fear of being labeled
"too liberal." Thanks to the GOP, to talk too much about the health of
the planet now is to be thought of as anticapitalist and antiprogress
and an outright traitor to the American causes of money-uber-alles and
the-world-is-our-sandbox.

So duped is the nation that to even hint that you care deeply about
safe drinking water for kids or the direct connection between toxic
big agribiz and the increased rates of heart disease and cancer in
this nation is tantamount to spitting on the flag.

BushCo even shames its own party members. Abundant, I imagine, are the
staunch Republicans who still care deeply about the health of the
planet and want to see pollution decreased and their children able to
drink the water or go fishing at the local lake without worrying about
mercury poisoning from the local coal factory -- the one Bush just
excused from complying with the Clean Air Act.

But they don't dare speak up. They don't dare mention that they care,
lest the "liberal" label get slapped on their asses and they are
instantly considered treasonous terrorist sympathizers who would
happily give refuge and a nice organic chai tea to Osama bin Laden.

This is the GOP credo: You're either with us 100 percent, or you're a
commie hippie homo who should move to France. And there are few things
a conservative fears more than being ostracized by the party.

The truth is, no matter which party you align yourself with, nowadays
it takes more guts, more outright nerve, to care about this planet, to
work to strip your life of the plastic and the poisonous and minimize
your waste and your impact, eat more consciously and support local
farming and cherish the flora and fauna, than it ever could be to load
up the Escalade with Malaysian-made crap you bought at Wal-Mart that's
now 89 cents cheaper because it's made in a sweatshop and not at the
local factory that was forced to shut down.

This, then, is the ultimate BushCo credo: No sanctity. No reverence
for that which is larger and more ancient and more divine. No concern
for that which provides beauty and nourishment and sustenance. Mother
Nature is not a source of life and inspiration and vital health --
she's just a lowly wench who needs to be put in her place.

And this, then, is the only possible response: If there was any better
time in American history to proudly announce yourself as an
environmentalist, this is it. It really doesn't matter where you stand
on other issues. Because when that beautiful bitch Mother Nature
really begins to strike back, nothing else will matter.

On 28 Jan 2004 08:57:11 -0800, (basskisser) wrote:

From Mark Muford, SFgate:

As if 600-year-old redwoods give a damn for your politics.

As if struggling salmon care a whit for the Catholic Church's sneering
homophobic stance on gay marriage. Like Alaskan elk think your
viewpoints on war are far too lopsided to hold sway in the national
dialogue.

There are typical GOP evils and there are warmongering BushCo flying
monkeys and there is Dick Cheney's pallid sneer as he slaughters a
small mountain of birds for blood sport, and then there is perhaps the
most vile and destructive notion the GOP has succeeded in foisting
upon the numbed nation to date: that caring about Mother Nature makes
you, yet again, a "goddamn hippie liberal."

This is what has happened: The GOP has succeeded, woefully, viciously,
in demonizing nature. Right now, to love our unlogged forests or to
wish air quality to be protected or to hope our leaders don't allow
monster crony oil companies to jam their snarling proboscises into our
country's nature preserves for a handful of crude is now to be thought
of as a dreadlocked Greenpeace-Earth First!-tofu lover.

It's true. You cannot think solar power is cool without being labeled
a hippie. You cannot want the U.S. Navy to knock it off with the
goddamn high-powered sonar that damages whales without being cast as
some sort of New Age freak. You cannot drive a Prius without being
deemed some sort of nutball geek who probably feeds your kids only
hemp seeds and homemade sproutburgers with a side of fresh mulch.


This is the other thing: Bush is the worst environmental president in
the nation's history. Period. The proofs are irrefutable, and the list
of his administration's sinister assaults on the pale blue dot we all
call home is painful and tragic and punishable in the afterlife by
seven billion years of listening to Lynne Cheney being scraped across
a chalkboard.

No natural resource has been left unmolested: From forest management
to air quality to water pollution to emissions standards to land
management to industrial farming to reduced controls on heavy
polluters to global warming to nuclear waste to our energy policy,
BushCo has made atrociously efficient progress in decimating, in just
three short years, 30 years of staunch environmental protections.

Dubya, by way of his industry cronies, have initiating more than 200
major rollbacks of America's most significant environmental laws. Hey,
it's nothing new: As governor of Texas, Bush made his state No. 1 in
thick smudgy black air and water pollution that makes babies gag and
eyes water and cancer cells flourish. He had the ugliest enviro record
of any governor in the state's history.

He has openly sodomized the Clean Air Act. He has given the green
light to clear cutting the nation's largest old-growth forest,
Alaska's stunning Tongass National Forest. He is allowing huge
industrial polluters extensive new freedoms to pump toxins into rivers
and lakes. He has scoffed at the Kyoto Treaty, even as the world's top
scientists wave proof after proof of the reality of global warming in
his face.

Here's a telling fact: During Dubya's State of the Union speech, the
environment received not a single mention. According to
Environment2004, not since Bush Sr.'s 1992 State of the Union address
has a president failed to acknowledge that a healthy environment is
essential to the survival of our species. Dubya did, however, scowl at
steroid use by athletes. Now, there's a pressing issue.

The list of BushCo enviro assaults is enormous, appalling, increasing
and far too extensive and outright depressing to detail in this
column, but much gruesome proof can be had by perusing Robert F.
Kennedy's superlative, damning essay in Rolling Stone, "Crimes Against
Nature," or by simply browsing through the National Resource Defense
Council's many pages on BushCo's enviro-hating policies. For a start.

Here's how successful the GOP's antienvironment brainwashing has been:
With the exception of Dennis Kucinich, not one of the major Demo
presidential candidates has truly focused on environmental issues in
the debates or in their campaign speeches, for fear of being labeled
"too liberal." Thanks to the GOP, to talk too much about the health of
the planet now is to be thought of as anticapitalist and antiprogress
and an outright traitor to the American causes of money-uber-alles and
the-world-is-our-sandbox.

So duped is the nation that to even hint that you care deeply about
safe drinking water for kids or the direct connection between toxic
big agribiz and the increased rates of heart disease and cancer in
this nation is tantamount to spitting on the flag.

BushCo even shames its own party members. Abundant, I imagine, are the
staunch Republicans who still care deeply about the health of the
planet and want to see pollution decreased and their children able to
drink the water or go fishing at the local lake without worrying about
mercury poisoning from the local coal factory -- the one Bush just
excused from complying with the Clean Air Act.

But they don't dare speak up. They don't dare mention that they care,
lest the "liberal" label get slapped on their asses and they are
instantly considered treasonous terrorist sympathizers who would
happily give refuge and a nice organic chai tea to Osama bin Laden.

This is the GOP credo: You're either with us 100 percent, or you're a
commie hippie homo who should move to France. And there are few things
a conservative fears more than being ostracized by the party.

The truth is, no matter which party you align yourself with, nowadays
it takes more guts, more outright nerve, to care about this planet, to
work to strip your life of the plastic and the poisonous and minimize
your waste and your impact, eat more consciously and support local
farming and cherish the flora and fauna, than it ever could be to load
up the Escalade with Malaysian-made crap you bought at Wal-Mart that's
now 89 cents cheaper because it's made in a sweatshop and not at the
local factory that was forced to shut down.

This, then, is the ultimate BushCo credo: No sanctity. No reverence
for that which is larger and more ancient and more divine. No concern
for that which provides beauty and nourishment and sustenance. Mother
Nature is not a source of life and inspiration and vital health --
she's just a lowly wench who needs to be put in her place.

And this, then, is the only possible response: If there was any better
time in American history to proudly announce yourself as an
environmentalist, this is it. It really doesn't matter where you stand
on other issues. Because when that beautiful bitch Mother Nature
really begins to strike back, nothing else will matter.

And he didn't say anything about motorcycles, or boats, or fishing, or
kite-flying, or menhaden, or tennis, or GMC pickups. Hell, he is
anti-almost every damn thing!

He didn't even talk about babies. What a baby-hater!

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"John H" wrote in message
...


And he didn't say anything about motorcycles, or boats, or fishing, or
kite-flying, or menhaden, or tennis, or GMC pickups. Hell, he is
anti-almost every damn thing!

He didn't even talk about babies. What a baby-hater!

John H

Oh stop....you know it's all true. :-) As long as the ranch is clean and
safe, your boy doesn't give a hoot about anything else.

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:53:38 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .


And he didn't say anything about motorcycles, or boats, or fishing, or
kite-flying, or menhaden, or tennis, or GMC pickups. Hell, he is
anti-almost every damn thing!

He didn't even talk about babies. What a baby-hater!

John H

Oh stop....you know it's all true. :-) As long as the ranch is clean and
safe, your boy doesn't give a hoot about anything else.

I heard he had a mole problem in his front yard, and he would *not*
let Laura put out traps. All because of his concern for all of God's
creatures.

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"John H" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:53:38 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .


And he didn't say anything about motorcycles, or boats, or fishing, or
kite-flying, or menhaden, or tennis, or GMC pickups. Hell, he is
anti-almost every damn thing!

He didn't even talk about babies. What a baby-hater!

John H

Oh stop....you know it's all true. :-) As long as the ranch is clean and
safe, your boy doesn't give a hoot about anything else.

I heard he had a mole problem in his front yard, and he would *not*
let Laura put out traps. All because of his concern for all of God's
creatures.

John H

.....in HIS yard, as I mentioned.

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:26:54 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:53:38 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .


And he didn't say anything about motorcycles, or boats, or fishing, or
kite-flying, or menhaden, or tennis, or GMC pickups. Hell, he is
anti-almost every damn thing!

He didn't even talk about babies. What a baby-hater!

John H

Oh stop....you know it's all true. :-) As long as the ranch is clean and
safe, your boy doesn't give a hoot about anything else.

I heard he had a mole problem in his front yard, and he would *not*
let Laura put out traps. All because of his concern for all of God's
creatures.

John H

....in HIS yard, as I mentioned.

Don't you have something better to do than sit there waiting to
pounce!

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"John H" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:26:54 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:53:38 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .


And he didn't say anything about motorcycles, or boats, or fishing,
or
kite-flying, or menhaden, or tennis, or GMC pickups. Hell, he is
anti-almost every damn thing!

He didn't even talk about babies. What a baby-hater!

John H

Oh stop....you know it's all true. :-) As long as the ranch is clean
and
safe, your boy doesn't give a hoot about anything else.

I heard he had a mole problem in his front yard, and he would *not*
let Laura put out traps. All because of his concern for all of God's
creatures.

John H

....in HIS yard, as I mentioned.

Don't you have something better to do than sit there waiting to
pounce!

John H

I'm pouncing on customers, mostly, and Dave Hall, whenever possible.

Doug Kanter wrote:
"John H" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:26:54 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:53:38 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .


And he didn't say anything about motorcycles, or boats, or fishing,
or
kite-flying, or menhaden, or tennis, or GMC pickups. Hell, he is
anti-almost every damn thing!

He didn't even talk about babies. What a baby-hater!

John H

Oh stop....you know it's all true. :-) As long as the ranch is clean
and
safe, your boy doesn't give a hoot about anything else.

I heard he had a mole problem in his front yard, and he would *not*
let Laura put out traps. All because of his concern for all of God's
creatures.

John H

....in HIS yard, as I mentioned.

Don't you have something better to do than sit there waiting to
pounce!

John H

I'm pouncing on customers, mostly, and Dave Hall, whenever possible.



There's no meat on Hall's bones. And no marrow, either.

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As John Livingsone, the mayor of London so eloquently put it, "I believe
George Bush is the greatest living threat to life on this planet."

That's why he is the mayor of London . . .BTW, does he own a boat ans what
did his comment have to do with boats?

"Messing In Boats" wrote in message
...
As John Livingsone, the mayor of London so eloquently put it, "I believe
George Bush is the greatest living threat to life on this planet."