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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Crazy Horse on January 24, 2008, 05:14:29 PM
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I think I'm starting to see how other than they being unemployable rack up their post
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-24-08 04:24 PM
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Judge: U.S. military must consider threats to sea cow near base
Edited on Thu Jan-24-08 04:26 PM by Bonobo
Source: Associated Press
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 01/24/2008 11:48:32 AM PST
SAN FRANCISCO—A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Defense to consider the impact of its proposed military base in Japan on an endangered sea cow that lives in waters around the island of Okinawa.
U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled Thursday that the U.S. military violated federal law when it failed to evaluate the air station's potential effects on the Okinawa dugong, a 1,000-pound marine mammal related to the manatee.
The judge sided with environmentalists who claimed plans to relocate the Futenma Air Station would threaten the dugong, which is listed as a "natural monument" on the Japanese Register of Cultural Properties.
The U.S. government had asked the judge to dismiss the case, saying the issue should be left to the Japanese and U.S. governments.
What a damn idiot..............US judge tells us Navy what they can do in Japan :mental:
Only San Fran
QuestionAll (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-24-08 04:57 PM
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3. "proposed military base in japan"?
instead of building still MORE overseas military installations- we should be bringing virtually ALL of our armed forces stationed overseas HOME, and shrinking the size of the Dept. of War Defense, if we want to have any hope of salvaging our economy.
Is this a Paulista or Moonbat, I have a hard time telling lately/
Bonobo (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-24-08 04:59 PM
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4. Yeah, and they take all the very best real estate in poor Okinawa.
And there ain't that much to begin with. Like the rest of the world, the locals don't want us.
This person has no idea
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-24-08 04:32 PM
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Save the critically endangered Okinawa Dugong
http://www.okinawa-u.ac.jp/~tsuchida/Save-Dugong/englis...
The US is forcing the Japanese to allow them to open another base in the vicinity of the critically endangered Nothernmost Dugong. The Dugong are loved and revered in Japan as the "mermaid of the sea".
Glorfindel (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-24-08 04:34 PM
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1. Really? They slaughter whales and revere dugongs?
How civilized of them.
Bonobo (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-24-08 04:36 PM
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2. Kind of like how we do. Weird, isn't it?
Bonobo (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-24-08 04:48 PM
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3. Sounds like you really care a lot!
Is it me our is this pansy liberal jackass talkin to itself??
As for these sea creatures I revere them just as I do Sea Turtles (I hate the Kemp Ridley) I love to watch em swim with the potatos and onions
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I think I'm starting to see how other than they being unemployable rack up their post
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As for these sea creatures I revere them just as I do Sea Turtles (I hate the Kemp Ridley) I love to watch em swim with the potatos and onions
Yeah but Sea Cow milk taste terrible. :p
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I think I'm starting to see how other than they being unemployable rack up their post
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As for these sea creatures I revere them just as I do Sea Turtles (I hate the Kemp Ridley) I love to watch em swim with the potatos and onions
Yeah but Sea Cow milk taste terrible. :p
That certainly raises the question: how do you know that? ;)
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QuestionAll (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-24-08 04:57 PM
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3. "proposed military base in japan"?
instead of building still MORE overseas military installations- we should be bringing virtually ALL of our armed forces stationed overseas HOME, and shrinking the size of the Dept. of War Defense, if we want to have any hope of salvaging our economy.
And yet when Rumsfeld tried to realign our deployments into more sensible configurations the libs squealed like sodomized pigs.
BTW - Why do animals get due process rights?
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(http://raven.subsume.com/mu/ohTheHugeManatee.jpg)
Had to be done...
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Ahhh....................speechless
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-25-08 11:11 AM
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U.S. Airbase in Okinawa Dugong Habitat on Hold
Source: Environment News Service
SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 24, 2008 (ENS) - The seagrass habitat of the endangered Okinawa dugong is safe from the U.S. Department of Defense, at least for the next 90 days. The sea mammal, cousin to the Florida manatee, will continue to swim in Henoko Bay off the Japanese island of Okinawa in the place where the United States plans to build an airbase.
A federal judge in San Francisco Wednesday ruled that the Department of Defense, DOD, is in violation of the National Historic Preservation Act for failing to consider the impacts of a new airbase on the dugong in order to avoid or mitigate any harm.
The dugong is significant in Okinawan culture. It is associated with traditional Okinawan creation mythology, and is sometimes considered to be the progenitor of the local people. Because of its cultural significance, the dugong is listed as a protected "natural monument" on the Japanese Register of Cultural Properties.
The lawsuit was brought by three individual Japanese citizens, six American and Japanese environmental associations, and the Okinawa dugong, which is listed as a plaintiff in court documents
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The sea cow is a plaintiff :rotf:
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As testy as the Japanese have been about basing issues over the past couple of decades, I'm having a really hard time believing they give a rat's ass about this critter. Or possibly they do, and don't see this plan as actually affecting it in any way that matters.