"Sportsmen for Bush"--You've got to be joking......

It's hard to figure out why there are so bumper stickers that say "Sportsmen for Bush" when the chimp's policies are so anti-sportsman.
We have a local hunting and fishing store, "Turner's Outdoors" that actually has a big poster in the window saying that Kerry will take away your guns.
How friggin' stupid is that?


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Bush Rejection of Roadless Forest Policy a Bonanza for Timber Industry

The Bush administration's announcement this week that it plans to open nearly 60 million acres of pristine, roadless National Forests to logging, mining, oil and gas drilling and road building may be one of the largest environmental rollbacks of the modern era. It also dramatizes the urgent need for genuine campaign finance reform.

Industries that opposed protections for roadless areas on National Forests have given nearly $25 million in campaign donations to President Bush and the Republican Party, according to the Heritage Forests Campaign. <1> These same industries have contributed close to $5 million to Democrats. President Bush alone has received nearly $5 million in campaign contributions from industries that oppose environmental preservation.

Shortly after President Bush took office, the selection of Mark Rey as under secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture -- which oversees the U.S. Forest Service -- signaled that conservation policies were in jeopardy.

More...... http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000155.php


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Bush Administration Directs Agencies to Ignore Clean Water Act

Using a back-door route to deregulation, the Bush administration has removed clean water protections for 20 million acres of American wetlands and tens of thousands of miles of streams, lakes and ponds, according to documents obtained through the federal Freedom of Information Act. <1>

The documents, used to produce the report "Reckless Abandon: How the Bush Administration is Exposing America's Waters to Harm," outline the consequences of a 2003 federal policy directive that encourages regulators to routinely avoid enforcing Clean Water Act protections for American rivers, lakes, streams and wetlands unless otherwise directed.

The report was produced by nonprofit environmental groups Earthjustice, the National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Sierra Club. It can be found online at www.cwn.org.

"For the first time in over 30 years of cleaning up our waters, we're going backwards," said Paul Schwartz, national policy coordinator for Clean Water Action. Schwartz noted that after the Clean Water Act took effect in 1972, the percentage of the nation's waters deemed clean enough for fishing and swimming nearly doubled. But recent state reports now show those numbers declining, he said.

More......http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000182.php

I heard all about the people after us and the numbers on the Telephone poles to show them where we lived. I felt I was in some far out space. These people also knew I was a little old lady that lived alone. Now what was that all about? I met men in Alaska that kept guns in their socks. I am not to sure these people play with a full deck.

PENIS-ENVY for most of them.

stuck right next to a sticker that said "I don't hate cates - They taste just like chicken"

I thought this was very representative of the mindset (or mindlessness).

There is an article in Salon about this where they interview some hunting guides and avid hunters in Montana where a lot of these people hate what the Bushies have done to the environment. This was one article but I think there is some truth to it. Those who break free of the NRA mindset realize that there is more to hunting than just guns; if the environment is in the toilet ther won't be any deer left to hunt. Most hunters I know are conservationists at heart- they have a great deal of respect for the environment. A lot of them get into initially for the sport but it later becomes more of an excuse to just get outside and enjoy nature. There are plenty of irresponsible hunters out there, don't get me wrong, like the yahoos above (and Ted Nugent), but most are not. Some are even Democrats.