Asteroid Killed Off Dinosaurs? New Study Suggests Comet Instead Caused Extinction Event

I am. I wrote "We Need Zero Sum Pollution Now" a few years ago, exactly for this reason. And Pollution, of air, water and FOOD does indeed threaten. But, man's "expansion," while certainly threatening to some species (That darn old snail darter, or the desert insect so highly valued) are just flash points for environmentalists, not real substance in the discussion. The problem is, who makes the judgement call? Once someone, anyone, can say with real or imagined certainty "that species has no value, or whatever hasppens, happens, since nature does the same thing hundreds, even thouands of times a week," does that make man a more threatening possiblity than Nature? Riddle me that!

However, rather than treating each and every extinction possibility as a catastrophic event, I would hope that reasonable people could reach common ground; ground rules would help! Maybe each and every event is the "slippery slope" environmentalists fear...maybe not.
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Asteroid Killed Off Dinosaurs? New Study Suggests Comet Instead Caused Extinction Event

In Maryland and elsewhere, environmentalists fight tooth and nail to prevent wind farms and high power electric grid towers, claiming they kill millions of birds (no mention of higher numbers of insects as well).

Yet people from the same groups want wind power as "greener" than fossil fuels. AND, competing groups within the environmental community have similar conflicts when discussing preserving the snail darter while fighting a hydro project, a very clean power project. The point is that I can agree on controling pollution (See "We need Zero Sum Pollution Now") through transparent regulation and licensing, while disagreeing with environmental radicals who oppose any development or improvement in the name of preserving environmental purity and opportunity, when Nature laughs at their hubris by destroying hundreds of species every week.
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Asteroid Killed Off Dinosaurs? New Study Suggests Comet Instead Caused Extinction Event

I think it's worthwhile to consider that many millions of species have gon extinct as Naturte continues the process of experimentation through evolution. It is in this contect that one also condisers that probably 100 or more species of insect, and mammal, less of fishes, go extint each and every day. A new species starts with the evolved offspring of a pairing of some species and adoption thereby of mutated genes, reflected in the design of the offspring. If few or none of the offspring survive to propagate and multiply...extinction. This could happen many, many times each day and year, and we would never know. I think environmentalists sometimes confuse the necessary mission of protecting the environment with interfering with the evolutionary process.
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Bill Clinton: High-Capacity Magazines Are 'Nuts' (VIDEO)

Why high capacity magazines? Target shooters can tell you. Next to hunting, target shooting is a favorite sport of gun owners everywhere. As many have noted it is the failure of states and agencies to conduct and require background checks that allows so many wepaons to get into criminals and whacko's hands. It is also partly the responsiblility of the NRA to guarantee it's plegde of supporting "responsible gun ownership." I proposed in the past that every high school senior, male and female, should take an elective or voluntary course in pistol and rifle shooting, mainly oriented towards responsible ownership, and receive a graduation certificate and a License Application, for which the requirement of training would have already been completed. (NRA has offered to provide qualified instructors, practice equipment and range time, as I understand it).

The failure of most states to enact background checks at every potential stage of gun ownership is inexcuseable, as is the government's. This is NOT to ask for more regulation; we have enough. But this one item, making sure who owns the gun is a responsible person, not a "straw buyer" not a "mentally impaired person," is truly needed. The magazine capacity "problem" isn't, nor is the availability of assault weapons.. Getting iweapons of any type nto the wrong hands IS.
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Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Debate Performance Tailored To Woo Women, Independent Voters

I'm sorry, did I miss something? Are you actually saying that Citizen's have no responsibility to register and Vote? That even limited Voting fraud is OK?

Voter's rights are not "restricted" by having them do what hundreds of millions of other voters do-Register and Identify.

And, your last comment is just wrong. Voter Registration and Identification are not just applied to Democrats, they are applied to ALL-Libertarians, Greens, Communists, all.

You should be ashamed for pointing out that Registration Verification and ID seem to hurt Democrats most, since that just proves my point that voting manipulators are trying to game the system, by constructing scenarios that allow more of the unwilling and unknowledgeable to get their votes lined up for liberal candidates. Those who care enough about their Citizenship responsibilities always seem to get Registerted and to Vote. Using flimsy excuses to attempt to get those who don't care to vote "your way" is just wrong.
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Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Debate Performance Tailored To Woo Women, Independent Voters

You miss the point. Voting is both a right and a responsibility. Voting is one of the privileges of Citizenship-a most highly valued privilege, I'm sure you would agree. Affirming Citizenship in order to exercise a right seems reasonable. The laziness of people in Registeringing and confirming ID is the culprit, not rationalizing the lack of motivation of the many who don't care enough to participate without the pushing from behind of those who want to control their decisions. Making it "easier" is just an excuse for driving down the standards of "personal decisions, personal consequences; individual effort, individual achhievement."

Those who want to make it easier are just in the business of attempting to control masses of people for their own benefit.

I've voted in every election,state federal and local, since 1961. I've Registered, gone to the polls even when it was difficult, and exercised my rights in a responsible way. I want to see everybody else do the same.
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Iron Dumping In The Pacific Ocean Stirs Controversy Over Geoengineering

Agree with labeling, as long as there are also choices of alternative foods. I also think it should be mandatory for these genetically modified foods to be consistently folllowed up, transparent in reporting and judged by independent scientists. One could make a case that these foods lead to obesity through genetic modification of the human consumption and metabolic processes. There is no evidence to the contrary, so why not?
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