Unbearable

The "snail darter" scam became synonymous with government overreach and intrusion into our lives in the 70s, but it also heralded the rise of law making through litigation by environmental whacko groups.

Now it's polar bears.

The enviros chose the junk science poster child well; people, especially children people seem to get all weepy over the world's top predator. Throw a few Nat Geo photos of frolicking cubs out, tell little children these very animals are about to be killed by Republicans driving SUVs, and Mummy and Poppy buy a Prius.

Here it is concisely stated by Hugh Hewitt, radio talker and environmental attorney:

"The short version: If the polar bear is listed, every activity that emits a greenhouse gas of any sort in the lower 48 AND which receives a federal permit or requires federal agency action of any sort --even if that permit or action is unrelated to the emission of the gases-- those activities will be subject to new review by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and the approval may not be forthcoming, will certainly at least be delayed, and will almost certainly come with massive new costs attached.

"Thus coastal building programs that require federal flood insurance or Army Corps of Engineers permits, highway construction that gets FHA funding, or joint NASA-private industry initiatives that result in launchings, all these and hundreds of thousands of additional federal permits and actions get gathered in under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act."

If successful, it will be the first time in the history of the ESA, the threat of "global warming" would be used to list a well-known species.

Why should you care? Because once that's done--by proclaiming carbon dioxide as the cause of shrinking polar ice which reduces polar bear habitat and there fore "threatens" the exists of the species--then any activity that produces carbon dioxide and the government could compel U.S. industries to curb their carbon dioxide output.

Virtually everything--even breathing--produces carbon dioxide... you get the picture.

Drill for oil in the lower 48, in Anwar, off-shore... drill in old fields to produce the remaining oil with new technology? Nope... that produces carbon dioxide which causes global warming, which melts the ice, which kills polar bears, which live in the house that Jack built.

Facts? All through this horrible global warming we've suffered since Algore couldn't even carry his home state in 2000, the polar bear population has risen from 8,000–10,000 in 1965–1970, to 20,000–25,000 today. This is true of the polar bear populations in Alaska, Canada, Russia, and other nations.    

Click here for thorough story.

Still not enough to hammer your stupid jer congressman's phone lines and e-mail? Then how's this:

As you read, the Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA) is snaking it way through the House and Senate as HR 2421 and S 1870.

If passed, this would stand current law on its head by removing the word "navigable" from the Clean Air Act which currently protects only "navigable waterways." 

This would hand over control of all "intrastate waters" to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, thus, the feds would regulate every wetland, slough, meadow, intermittent stream, prairie pothole, pond, playa lake, mudflat, sand flat, gutter and ditch. The law could be interpreted to include public streets, roads, shoulders and culverts.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

         ---The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

Comments

[DontAskMe]

It isn't about polar bears... or a vague, unproven "global warming"... or ALAR... or nuclear power plants... or racism... or a million other calamaties, real and (mostly) imagined... it is always about imposing more and bigger government; raising taxes; reducing personal freedom... it's the same old Totalitarian/Big Brother trick... "Hey, buddy? Wanna Rolex? Only fifty bucks! All the profits go to feed homeless polar bear cubs."

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