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During the 2004 campaign, Daschle couldn't avoid the issue of work he did for NARAL and Emily's List. He even refused to answer a reporter's question about whether he was pro-choice and, in the process, confirmed the criticism that he...

Lions on the plains would alter order of the food chain

First came the Princeton University spawned idea to return the Great Plains to what was called a "buffalo commons". (No farmers/ranchers need apply.) Now comes this idiocy of converting areas of the US plains into a new edition of the Serengeti, complete with AFRICAN type lions, etc.

Lions in your back yard?...Well, maybe, if a group of prominent ecologists gets to establish a "Pleistocene Park" on the Great Plains. Authors of the plan -- which appears in today's issue of the journal Nature -- say their idea to transplant African wildlife to North America could save many of the animals from extinction.

Oooooh Kaaaaaay. First these moonbats need to relocate their apartments to the middle of the Serengeti - without fences or doors. After a couple of years of this field testing THEN let's hear their ideas. No, let's not - throw them to the lions, and give them their great opportunity to contribute THEMSELVES to the food-chain.

Why is it that these eastern moonbat academics have all these great ideas on what to do with the rest of us out here on the plains. They must truly think that THEY are the only one's who have the intellectual understanding to decide the best way to manage the planet and all of it's occupants - including their fellow citizens.

"Obviously, gaining public acceptance is going to be a huge issue, especially when you talk about reintroducing predators. There are going to have to be some major attitude shifts.

Attitude shift? To becoming an item of catfood? Not in THIS life!

That includes realizing predation is a natural role, and that people are going to have to take precautions."

Right, dude. It's MY natural role to kill animals that try to eat me. I'll take precautions, alright. How's about a semi-auto 30-06 with a 20 round clip?

Nevertheless, the scientists say the relocated animals could restore biodiversity on this continent to a condition closer to what nature was like before humans overran the landscape.

This statement is just plain illogical. Bringing AFRICAN wildlife into North America is RESTORING biodiversity to the continent? It seems to the Chief (who has a biology degree) that this is REPLACING the continent's biodiversity. (At least the buffalo commons idea used North American animals.) I'm not alone in reaching this conclusion:

Some scientists and conservationists, however, hoot. "It is not restoration to introduce animals that were never here," says University of Washington anthropologist Donald K. Grayson. "Why introduce Old World camels and lions when there are North American species that could benefit from the same kind of effort?"

Phew! At least SOME reason isn't gone from academia!

There WAS a time in the history of western civilization when this sort of plan was followed to some extent:

I hate to give the left advice, but David Ignatius has some good tips for the Democratic Party. I note that his argument bears much similiarity to the point I've been making, including in this long post from yesterday. Ignatius...

Bob Costas may be the last media/news personality left who has an honest-to-God soul: Costas Refuses to Host Show on Holloway. While some cable TV hosts are making their living off the Natalee Holloway case this summer, Bob Costas is...

The blogosphere has expanded again. I'd like to send out a welcome to Talmage Ekanger, who is running the blog South Dakota Lawyer. Check it out....

National Democrats might want to use Herseth's playbook

This is interesting in light of Herseth's erratic and generally low level of legislative accomplishment. The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader's Dave Kranz continues to cheerlead the Donks hopes for a resurgance in the mid-term elections.

If national Democrats listen to Rep. Stephanie Herseth, they will adopt parts of the game plan that won her a seat in the House even though South Dakota is a bright-red George Bush state. Herseth took some conservative positions in her campaign, then voted that way on several occasions when she got to Washington. That has won her praise from conservatives, compliments from some would-be Republican opponents back home and scorn from some members of her own party who nonetheless will be hard-pressed to vote against her.

Uh, hello? Good morning Dave! Coffee smell good? In case you hadn't noticed, isn't this about what Hillary has been doing for a while?

With some of that bipartisan legislative conduct, Herseth says conditions could be favorable next year for Democrats to take back at least one of the chambers of Congress, now both controlled by Republicans. "First, we have to have a more concise message that mirrors the centrists in the party," Herseth said. That message might make some a little uncomfortable, she said.

Again: this is a case of changing the message to get some sucker votes - when in office the Donks will be Donks - and no holds will be barred.

Consider the impact on say, judicial appointments, to say nothing on national security issues. Does anyone with a lick of sense and a knowledge of history REALLY think that the Donks will do anything better than they have in the past?

Based on the performances of Dingy Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, and others of their ilk on the left, would helping to give these people MAJORITY status in either house of Congress be beneficial? No matter WHAT Stephanie says or does, she and others like her, are just another brick in the Donks' wall of closet socialism, political correctness, and appeasement.

South Dakota War College recently had a very reasonable post on the culture wars. The essential point, I think, is that as long as parents feel as though their parental authority is under assault from certain parts of the culture...

From the National Ledger: Did defense intelligence officials identify ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as al Qaeda members more than a year before 09/11? That?s what Lee Hamilton, co-chair of the now disbanded 09/11 Commission, wants to know....

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