White House seeks limits to endangered species act - Jesus Christ!

[rndmprsn]

there is no low that this bad excuse for an administration can stoop too, WTF?!

i guess they know that the so called "conservative revolution" is finished and they're going to try to get all of their right-wing-think-tank projects done in the next two years....please can we IMPEACH NOW!

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070328-9999-1n28esa.html

Behind closed doors, the Bush administration is moving ahead with its long-held goal to overhaul the nation's landmark law for wildlife protection, something several politicians have tried for years without success.

A leaked document shows potential revisions to the Endangered Species Act that could give states more authority over imperiled species, limit the use of some federal safeguards and curb the autonomy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The 114-page document was made public yesterday by two environmental organizations, the Center for Biological Diversity and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which consists of government officials who deal with natural resources.

“Draft regulations . . . undermine every aspect of (the) law. Recovery, listing, preventing extinction, critical habitat, federal oversight, habitat conservation plans – all of it is gutted,” said Kieran Suckling at the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson.

The leak gave the public its first glimpse into the administration's process. The draft's online publication caught officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service off-guard...

[drm604]

1. Wipe 'em all out now while they still have the chance.

That way there'll be no reason to protect their habitats later.
:sarcasm:

[Eric J in MN]

2. "The Grand Unifying Theory"

"Nitpicker: The Bush administration and their cronies screw up everything"

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/27/the-grand-unifying-theory/

[muntrv]

3. Let's make neocons an endangered species.

:evilgrin:

[whistle]

4. That's how it begins and ultimately ends up like this

<snip>
The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945 and on the Brief History of the Holocaust at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum website.

1933
•Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party gains control of the German government.
•The Nazis decree a 3-day boycott of Jewish businesses.
•The Nazis establish a concentration camp at Dachau, the first of many prison camps where they will confine communists, socialists, trade unionists, homosexuals, Gypsies, Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other "undesirables."
•Nazi laws remove Jews from German courts and civil service positions, limit the number of Jews who can attend German universities, remove Jews from German college faculties, and expel Jews from German cultural life (i.e., film, theater, literature, music,journalism).
•Jewish food preparation rituals are outlawed.
•Nazi laws require involuntary sterilization of mixed race children, the physically or mentally handicapped, Gypsies, Blacks, and others deemed racially or genetically "inferior."

1935
•The Nazi's "Nuremburg Laws" prohibit marriage and extramarital relations between Jews and non-Jews, revoke the citizenship and civil rights of German Jews, and forbid Jews to display the German flag.

1938
•Nazi laws require Jews to report their financial assets and property.
•The Nazi government assumes control of all Jewish religious institutions.
•Nazi laws forbid Jews to practice law or medicine, and require Jews to carry special identification cards at all times.
•Jews are ordered to turn in their passports so they can be stamped "Jew."
•Kristallnacht ("The Night of Broken Glass," November 9): a government-sanctioned night of anti-Jewish riots, during which synagogues are burned, Jewish homes looted, Jewish businesses destroyed, and thousands of Jews beaten, tortured, arrested, or killed.
•Nazi police arrest approximately 30,000 Jewish men for deportation to concentration camps.
•Nazi laws ban Jewish newspapers and journals, expel Jewish children from German schools, and bar Jews from theaters, museums, and other public gathering places.
•The Nazi government closes all Jewish businesses and prohibits further Jewish business activity. •The government imposes a tax on Jews to pay for Kristallnacht property damage.

1939
•The Nazi Gestapo (a secret police force) assumes control of all Jewish affairs.
•The Nazis establish detailed procedures for confiscating Jewish property.
•Nazi Invasion of Poland (September 1): Nazi Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) follow the advancing German army and execute thousands of Poles, whom the Nazis regard as "subhuman." Thousands more are shipped to Germany as slave laborers or relocated within Poland to provide open space for German settlement.
•Nazi forces round up approximately 3 million Polish Jews and confine them in urban ghettos.
•Polish Jews are required to wear the Star of David.
•In Germany, the Nazis initiate a euthanasia program to kill institutionalized and handicapped patients who are deemed incurable.

1940
•Nazi Conquest of Europe: Anti-Jewish policies are imposed in Nazi-occupied Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and in other European countries under Nazi domination.

1941
•Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union (June 22): Einsatzgruppen following the advancing army exterminate Jews, Gypsies, communists, and other "undersirables"; more than one million people are massacred.
•Extermination camps with gas chambers for mass executions are constructed in Poland at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek, and Treblinka.

1942
•Nazi leaders, meeting in Wansee outside Berlin, adopt a policy of mass execution as "the final solution of the Jewish question."
•Deportation of Jews from Nazi-occupied and Nazi-dominated countries across Europe to the extermination camps in Poland begins.

1945
•The Nazi's extermination camps, concentration camps, and forced labor camps remain in operation until Germany surrenders on May 7.

Permission is granted to educators to reproduce this worksheet for classroom use

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[seafan]

5. Bush thinks he can do whatever the hell he wants.

More from White House seeks limits to species act, March 28, 2007

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The administration's efforts follow the failed strategy of Richard Pombo, a former Republican congressman from Tracy and a property-rights advocate who championed major modifications to the species act before he was voted out of office in November.

Changes to the law could ripple through San Diego County, which is home to more than 40 threatened and endangered species, one of the highest counts in the nation. Elsewhere, it might complicate efforts to protect species such as the polar bear, whose habitat is jeopardized by greater melting of sea ice. In December, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed giving the bear threatened status.

The species law is widely viewed as flawed for various reasons, such as the litigation that it generates and the small number of species that have fully recovered as a result of its protections.
In February, a study by the Fish and Wildlife Service said 6 percent of federally protected species were improving and 27 percent were stable as of late 2004. Twenty-two percent were declining, and the agency couldn't determine the status of 42 percent of imperiled plants and animals.

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The draft revisions made public yesterday range from altering phrases to deleting paragraphs in the species law. The implications are likely to be debated by lawyers, legislators and interest groups as the document is reviewed more widely.

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Daniel Patterson at (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) said it was a “fresh” proposal that was given to his outfit when it was “well along” in the internal review process.
He wasn't shocked to learn that the Bush administration was tinkering with the law, but he said “the radical nature of the changes is a surprise.”

“The administration (is) trying to use what they see as unlimited executive authority to do what they want,” Patterson said.

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Bolding added