World's largest ocean preserve

Today Bush is expected to announce the creation of the world's largest ocean preserve near Hawaii. It will cover 84 million acres and will protect 7,000 species of animals. It is about time he did some good for the enivironment. However, we all know the reason he is doing this is to turn around the low numbers in his polls and to alter the name as "the worst environmental president ever". He thinks that by doing one good thing, it can reverse the hundreds of things he has done and is doing wrong with the environment. He knows that this will put him in history books, some are already comparing him to Theodore Roosevelt. The president of The Ocean Conservancy said "Teddy Roosevelt is largely considered the father of our national park system... President Bush may be securing a similar legacy in our oceans.” Just what Bush wanted to hear. He is far from being compared to Teddy in my book. Teddy started our national parks system, which Bush has done very little to help and preserve (in fact, this past week they started auctioning off our national forests in Oregon to loggers, per Bush's plan). Don't get me wrong, I think it is wonderful that he is doing this, it needs to be done and should have been done a long time ago. However, I am not blind to his ulterior motives. And this will not win me over, I will still think of him as "the worst enivironmental president ever." And global warming will secure that legacy.

Comments

BoneDaddy said…
Wow...I think I hear ol' Teddy turning over in his grave. I wonder if the Conservative got through that statement with a straight face...
6/15/2006 1:20 PM
Girl of Approval said…
Bush will never win me over. One, he's stupid and should not be president due to that fact. He cannot speak English very well and I don't need some home town guy to be president. I don't want that. I want sophistication, education, philanthropy without clandestine reasons, etc. Bush has none of those and will never have them.

Bush cares no more about the environment than he does about elephant shit. It's just something that sometimes you have to move around.
6/16/2006 12:09 AM
cdoc said…
Love the title of the story about Bush making the largest ocean preserve in Grist Magazine, it said "Must not be any oil there". So true, so true.
6/16/2006 8:09 PM
Anonymous said…
That is JUST what I was going to say cdoc. There must be no oil there cuz while he's making ocean preserves, he's fiddling his greedy little fingers to get them on the Rocky Mountain Front and ANWR. The ball is rolling too fast for him now to try and stop it.

Jackass.
6/23/2006 8:52 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"

I was always a bit skeptic of this phrase. How can being away from a person make you fonder? With time, you will slowly start to forget the sound of their laughter and the scent of their hair. You will forget the way they dance and the way they like their toast. Sure, when you see them again, when they laugh or dance, all those things come rushing back. Being away may make you yearn for them, but you no longer know them as well as you used to. At least that is what I used to think. I should have know this phrase was true since whenever I would see my sisters again, it was like no time had passed. I don't know what it was that made me realize all that I took for granted, maybe it is being away from home for so long or my travel mishaps or my friend's car accident or maybe just that I am getting older, something made me see how I took everything for granted in my life before I came here. It was so easy, I could go up the stairs or across the hall or get in my car and spend a day ...
Read more

I Heart The Office!

Image
My sister introduced me to the television show The Office . And I heart it. I saw Seasons 1 and 2 on dvd in the past week (I watched all of Season 2 between last night and today). The only problem now is that they are half way through Season 3, so I have missed several episodes and it won't come out on dvd until at least this summer... hmm, problem. But you want to know the one thing I heart even more than The Office ? Jim Halpert/John Krasinski (character/actor). He is on the show and I have a huge crush on him. I know what you are saying, you are 25 years old (turning 26 in 2 1/2 months) and crushes on famous people at this age is a little weird, and usually I would agree. It has been many years since I have had a crush on a star. But Jim/John is so an exception. In fact, if I could find a real life guy here in Minnecrap that looks like Jim/John, makes the same facial expressions, has the same sense of humor and is as nice, sweet and kind as him, so basically exactly like Jim/J...
Read more

All you need is love?

This is a question people have asked for a long time. Is it true? Is love all we really need? I think it would depend on who you ask. When it comes to young children, love is all you need. You know your parents love you and spend time with you, that is what is most important to a child. You don't understand the importance of money or work or health, all that matters is love. Maybe that is what is so appealing about childhood, why we would all do anything to go back, because we were innocent and love really was what made the world go round. As an adult, I now see things differently. Love isn't all there is, we need so much more. Some would say that makes me cynnical, but I am not. I want to believe that love is all we need and for the most part I agree with that statement, however I see that there is a lot more that goes along with love. As a parent, your role is not only to love, but to protect, comfort, support, provide, but common sense says that those things automatically go...
Read more