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Elephant kicks smack

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:47:41 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: Was addicted to heroin then a year of methadone

An Asian elephant that became addicted to heroin after being fed bananas spiked with the drug is to return home after undergoing a detox programme.

The four-year-old animal, called Xiguang, received methadone injections for a year at five times the human dosage, state media said.

It was illegally captured by traders in 2005 in south-west China.

When police arrested the traders and freed the elephant, it was found to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

The elephant's eyes kept streaming and he made continuous trumpeting noises, the Beijing News newspaper's website reported.

It is thought that the traders fed the elephant bananas laced with heroin to capture and control it.

Xiguang was sent to a wild animal protection centre on Hainan island in south-west China for rehab, the official Xinhua new agency said

He is expected to arrive at a wildlife park in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, on Saturday.

Tags: elephant, heroin, smack, methadone

to the right of even the Bush administration

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:52:42 GMT

clipped by: lifecyce1898
clipper's remarks: welcome to change and reform GOP style

Clip Source: www.defendersactionfund.org

"Sarah Palin's anti-conservation position is so extreme that she condones shooting wolves and bears from airplanes or using airplanes to chase them to exhaustion and then shoot them point blank. Most Americans find this practice barbaric, but it's routine in Alaska under Palin's leadership," said Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund president Rodger Schlickeisen.

"Sarah Palin's positions against America's wildlife could put her to the right of even the Bush administration," said Schlickeisen. "She is a promoter of one of our nation's most ugly and cruel wildlife hunting programs and Americans deserve to know her views on such matters before they vote."

SARAH PALIN SUPPORTS SHOOTING WOLVES AND BEARS
FROM AIRPLANES
Governor is Strong Proponent of Controversial Alaska Program

Palin, the killa from Wasilla

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:48:22 GMT

clipped by: lifecyce1898
clipper's remarks: Cut, kill, dig and drill..same old same old

Clip Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com

Palin, McCain's vice presidential running mate, has had frequent run-ins with environmentalists.

She has defended Alaska's right to shoot down wolves from the air to boost caribou and moose herds for hunters, and - contrary to a view held by McCain - is not convinced that global warming is the result of human activity.

Environmentalists have nicknamed Palin the "killa from Wasilla," a reference to the small town where she formerly was mayor.

"Her philosophy from our perspective is cut, kill, dig and drill," said John Toppenberg, director of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, maintaining she is "in the Stone Age of wildlife management and is very opposed to utilizing accepted science."

State officials characterized the killings as humanitarian, saying the pups would have suffered and eventually died without the care of their parents. Environmentalists argued they were killed to boost caribou populations to the benefit of hunters.

Drill Baby Drill?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:11:11 GMT

clipped by: trilogy01
clipper's remarks: Instead of oil drilling why don't we take all the money, time, and people power and put that into implementing the clean technologies that we already have. Getting off of oil completely with clean, renewable energy sources is the only way to help secure national security, achieve true energy independence, and stop polluting our environment.

Clip Source: mail.google.com

Ready to line our coasts with oil rigs that would pollute our waters, threaten dolphins and other marine wildlife and wreck coastal economies?

George Bush and Dick Cheney are making plans to do just that, and we’ve got less than two weeks to stop them!

As part of Defenders of Wildlife’s marine wildlife program and someone who has studied offshore drilling for more than three decades, I can tell you with absolute certainty that offshore drilling and sensitive coastal ecosystems are a dangerous combination.

Please urge the U.S. Minerals Management Service -- the federal agency accepting comments on the Administration’s plan -- to shelve the Bush/Cheney Administration’s latest offshore oil drilling scam.

Tags: oil drilling, energy independence, offshore oil, global warming, climate change, national security

Sarah Palin Sucks

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:55:02 GMT

clipped by: jaxselby

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

In March 2008, a federal judge in Alaska upheld the practice of hunting wolves from the air

On January 5, 2008, the New York Times published an op-ed by Palin, presenting her view that the polar bear should not be placed on the endangered species list.

Palin objected to the decision of Dirk Kempthorne, the Republican United States Secretary of the Interior, to list polar bears federally as an endangered species

the State of Alaska filed a lawsuit to stop the listing amid fears that it would hurt oil and gas development in the bears' habitat

Palin also opposes strengthening protections for beluga whales

Palin1

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:50:46 GMT

clipped by: jaxselby

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

In 2007, Palin supported the Alaska Department of Fish and Game policy allowing Alaska state biologists to hunt wolves from helicopters as part of a predator control program intended to increase moose populations.^[63] The program was criticized by Defenders of Wildlife and predator control opponents,^[63] and prompted California State Representative George Miller to introduce a federal bill (H.R. 3663) seeking to make the practice illegal.^[63] In March 2008, a federal judge in Alaska upheld the practice of hunting wolves from the air, though limited its extent.^[64] On August 26, 2008, Alaskans voted against ending the state's predator control program.^[65]

Dive with Sharks!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:28:46 GMT

clipped by: odiedog
clipper's remarks: I want to do this!

Clip Source: www.sharkdivingunlimited.com

Shark Diving Unlimited has had a fantastic start to 2008 with a record number of sharks being sighted for this time of year! However the water temperatures have been unusually low (7°C) and only the bravest divers stayed in the cage for a long time! But their tenacity was rewarded with some really breath taking encounters!

Tags: shark, travel, vacation, ocean, swimming, marine, wildlife

Palin

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:37:31 GMT

clipped by: lp97702
clipper's remarks: The bashing continues...

Clip Source: www.bloglines.com

Timothy Egan wonders how Palin will play in the other 49 states:

Among Alaskans, drunken driving, teenage pregnancy, shooting wildlife out of season and courting an independent political party whose founder once said, “the fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,” are not disqualifying issues. They’re dinner-table stories. [...]

They say Alaska is what America used to be – true enough, in my experience. But it may not be what America wants to be.

Tags: palin

Wildlife Preservaion and Palins Record

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:57:50 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: She is without a doubt, to the very right of Bush.

Clip Source: www.defendersactionfund.org

SARAH PALIN SUPPORTS SHOOTING WOLVES AND BEARS
FROM AIRPLANES
Governor is Strong Proponent of Controversial Alaska Program

Washington, DC - Alaska Governor and GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is a strong promoter of the aerial hunting of wolves and bears, a practice that has been condemned by conservationists, scientists and many hunters alike. It involves shooting wolves and bears from the air or chasing them to exhaustion and then landing and shooting them point blank. The animals, shot with a shotgun, usually die a painful death. The hunters involved in the program keep and sell the animals' pelts.

Palin has supported aerial hunting since taking office despite the fact that the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, the American Society of Mammalogists, and more than 120 other scientists have called for a halt to the program, citing its lack of scientific justification and despite opposition from many hunters who see it as violating the sportsmen's ethi

proof that abstinence only education works about as well as a tin foil condom

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:06:01 GMT

clipped by: nomereveneerofvanity

Clip Source: www.nydailynews.com

Bristol Palin's pregnancy was an open secret back home

He's a superhunky bad-boy ice hockey player from cold country; she's a chestnut-haired beauty and popular high school senior.

State troopers popped Johnston last year for snagging some king salmon out of season in Moose Lake, records from Alaska wildlife enforcement show. He had to pay $370 bail.

On his MySpace page, Johnston proudly declares: "I'm a f---in' redneck."

"I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing," he says on the site.

He also warns that if anyone messes with him, "I'll kick ass."

The Web site, before it was removed, appeared not to have been accessed for a year.

On the part where it asks about children, he wrote, "I don't want kids."

Proof Americans Are Dumber than Oxen

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:18:24 GMT

clipped by: Maxwell_Smart
clipper's remarks: "...mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves..." ~ Thomas Jefferson - Declaration of Independence

Clip Source: www.breakthematrix.com

We are the Ones We've Been Waiting For

Inspiring Video ...great wildlife scene with unexpected ending.

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10 Things You Need To Know About Sarah Palin

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:48:07 GMT

clipped by: monstersmom

Clip Source: www.themansfieldherald.com

10 Things You Should Know about Sara Palin:

She is presently under investigation in Alaska for abuse of power

She believes creationism should be taught in public schools

She is opposed to abortion even in cases of rape and incest

She strongly supports big oil (her husband works for oil company BP)

She has no federal or international experience. Prior to being governor (for less than two years) she was only the mayor of a small Alaskan town and a beauty queen!

She believes global warming is a farce and is opposed to listing the polar bear as an endangered species

She supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and anywhere else big oil wants

She supports Pebble Mine which will destroy the richest salmon run in the world

She supports aerial shooting of bears and wolves even though Alaskans voted twice to ban the practice.

She used $400,000 of state money to fund a media campaign in support of aerial shooting of wolves and bears.

Gov. Sarah Palin - just another dirty politician

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:01:58 GMT

clipped by: boniface

Clip Source: www.grizzlybay.org

The top 10 things you should know about Sarah Palin:

1) She is presently under investigation in Alaska for abuse of power

2) She believes creationism should be taught in public schools

3) She is opposed to abortion even in cases of rape and incest

4) She strongly supports big oil (her husband works for oil company BP)

5) She has no federal or international experience. Prior to being governor (for less than two years) she was only the mayor of a small Alaskan town and a beauty queen!

6) She believes global warming is a farce and is opposed to listing the polar bear as an endangered species

7) She supports drilling in the Ar ctic National Wildlife Refuge and anywhere else big oil wants

8) She supports Pebble Mine which will destroy the richest salmon run in the world

9) She supports aerial shooting of bears and wolves even though Alaskans voted twice to ban the practice.

10) She used $400,000 of state moneyto fund a media campaign in support of aerial shooting of wolves and bears

Putin 'saves TV crew from tiger'

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:14:30 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: And in the red corner, we have Dick Cheney who blasted his mate with a shotgun.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been feted by Russian media for saving a television crew from an attack by a siberian tiger in the wilds of the country's far east.

Mr Putin, taking a break from lambasting the West over Georgia, apparently saved the crew while on a trip to a national park to see how researchers monitor the tigers in the wild.

Man of action: Vladimir Putin holds the tiger's head as the tracking collar is fitted (Reuters: Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin)

Just as he was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew, the country's main television station said.

Mr Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilliser gun.

"Vladimir Putin not only managed to see the giant predator up close but also saved our television crew too," a presenter on Rossiya television said at the start of the main evening news.

dolphins stressed

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:09:18 GMT

clipped by: silvanaraihane

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Dolphins 'stressed' by sightseers

The RSPCA and environmentalists have warned sightseers trying to get close to a pod of dolphins off south Devon that they could be breaking the law.

About 35 craft surrounded five bottlenose dolphins in Hope Cove in the South Hams area on Friday.

Brixham Sea Watch said the mammals could have been "seriously stressed".

Dolphins are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Anyone recklessly disturbing them risks prosecution and a fine of up to £5,000.

'Warning shot'

Brixham Sea Watch was alerted to the dolphins' plight by a National Coastwatch lookout who was concerned for their welfare.

Sea Watch spokesman Lindy Hingley, who has monitored dolphins in the area for several years, said the creatures would have been "seriously stressed" by the presence of the boats.

RSPCA spokesman Jo Barr said harassing the animals by getting too close was something that was taken very seriously.