Alaska sues federal government over beluga whales

Threatening to sue is one thing. But actually doing it so a billion dollar company can make even more money? You are the partisan douchebag. Dragging anything you can think of, however loosely tied to Obama and you still can't make the point. Sad

i think people would be happy to bitch about that too should a story on the subject be posted. sure people are taking potshots at palin because they still have a bad taste in their mouths from the campaign, but that shouldn't detract from the issue, which should be nonpartisan.

“Threatening to sue is one thing.”

Yeah threatening to sue is “one thing.” Then again it becomes an unnecessary “thing” when you pressure the US Fish and Wildlife service to remove black tail prairie dogs from the candidate list and also help convince the US forestry service to poison over 10,000 acres of prairie dog habitat the very day following the decision made by the US fish and Wildlife service.

“But actually doing it so a billion dollar company can make even more money?”

So somehow poisoning federal lands to prevent the spread of an animal onto privately owned ranches is somehow any different?

“You are the partisan douchebag. Dragging anything you can think of, however loosely tied to Obama and you still can't make the point. Sad”

The only thing being dragged around here is your ridiculous argument thanks in part to yourself and those stylish partisan blinders of yours.

Last point; when the hell did verbal nomination constitute a loose tie and therefore what then constitutes a strong tie? Let me guess so long as Obama did not physically chuck Salazar into the Department of the Interior’s headquarters then he’s someone absolved of any blame?

Just keep hating and hating. It's why you lost by 9 million votes. Hate and Fear and Money is all your party has to run on and the rest of us are fucking tired of your shit.

Ok it’s recap time.

I bemoan the shortsightedness of partisan banter given the issue at hand.

Then you call me a republican douche.

Wow LAMO ROFL and all that other stuff.

You stay classy now Jason.

PS. I’m not a republican.

Uhhhhhhhhh, maybe you are not as impressed with living things as the rest of us. They can die out on their own and I can't feel one way or the other. When big oil companies and private interest want to eliminate species, then I have a problem. No one is talking about saving EVERY species. We are talking about not letting people exterminate a species that might keep them from lining their pockets. A little cold and evil don't you think?

Making them an endangered species isn't actually going to stop the oil companies from drilling there. They have the money and legal resources to get through the paperwork and show how there drills won't actually hurt the sacred whale. The only people who will really be hurt by this are the smaller businesses in the region who dont have those resources. I really really hate to admit it... but Sarah Palin is right.

Little do you know about how it could affect us. There is a delicate balance. This whale might eat a particular, I dont know, shrimp. The whale eating this shrimp keeps the population in check and prevents them from out-competing with another species of shrimp. This other species of shrimp is the main diet of another whale. So the cook inlet whale becomes extinct. Shrimp#1 takes over the inlet and this prevents shrimp#2 from thriving. Other species of whale has no food. Do you see how not protecting this whale destroyed 2 other species? Stuff like this happens all the time so it's not far fetched.

There is a reason people fight really hard to protect every last species on the planet. Because to some extent, we do need every last species on the planet. We might not know how we need them, but finding out later that not protecting the cook inlet beluga has dissipated other species found in the inlet might be a heavy environmental price to pay. But people want their oil, so screw the whales and the environment, right?

What nkeg87 said.

Right after you explain to us why we need tome_erau.

The simple answer to your question is this: Money is not more important than life.

Your question is not only tragically cynical, it's also very self-centered, as if small-business owners (or even massive corporations) going under is somehow significantly more important than an entire species going extinct.

In terms Sarah Palin and other "Christians" should understand, none of God's creatures is more important than another. Certainly, this is the moral of the story of Noah.

In human terms, when species go extinct, they tend to throw nature out of balance (the food chain, the weather), and that ultimately affects humans. For example, many of the cures for diseases have been found in rainforest plants. Does it harm humans to make one species of some obscure rainforest flower extinct? Yes.

In political terms, if the U.S. doesn't set an example for saving species of animals from extinction, what's stopping any other (less progressive) country from not making orangutans or dolphins or any other species redundant?

In selfish terms, I want my child to grow up in a world where they can see animals other than the ones we "grow" for consumption.

Is that enough reasons?

I'm not saying I think the oil companies should be aloud to be there, I'm just saying that this law is just another hurdle to them and they are going to drill there anyway. This isn't about orangutans or obscure flowers, nor is it about deglecting the environment for money. It's about an inefficient law that will really do nothing but hurt the local economy of the area. And I'm sorry if it seems like i care more about people then animals, but I do.

So you dont think the companies should be allowed in the inlet but you also dont like the idea that this could hurt the economy there?

Sometimes, you can have your cake and eat it too. Why dont they protect the whales and use it as an opporunity to attract tourist to see these rare, endangered whales in the only place they exist? There are other ways to help the economy without destroying the environment.

By your own admission, it's about destroying a species of animal to help boost your local economy.

Isn't that a bit short-sighted? I mean, you do realise that oil will be worthless (if it's even still being used) in 50 years? Do you realise how many villages, even major cities, have disappeared over just the past thousand years of human existence because what they were hawking or mining became useless?

It's pathetic. It's akin to saying let's make the elephants extinct so we can use their tusks to make money selling pianos. We don't have to, and it won't last long, anyway. We're the smartest animal out there. Think.

V., I love it when you bring that dry sense of humour.

I can, remember Bush is one!

Hey, I used to live in Alaska -_-

But yea, I'm soo glad Palin didn't make it to the Presidency. I thought Bush was bad, if she made it imagine the world. Geez.

I have one question:
Besides being the governer of Alaska, what has Sarah Palin done? And I mean stuff that is IMPORTANT!

HHAHAHA. They probably wont take it back = (