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2009-07-10 Home Front: Politix

Pelosi sets aside $16.1M of Stimulus money to restore Bay Area mouse habitat

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-07-10 11:53|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think."

"To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote."

Carl Spackler - Caddyshack

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-07-10 12:25|| 2009-07-10 12:25|| Front Page Top

#2 "About $7.6 million went to restore more than 1,990 acres comprising three former salt ponds in the southern end of San Francisco Bay "

Yup. And now the people who live nearby are complaining about the stink and the mosquitoes.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-07-10 12:37|| 2009-07-10 12:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Is their habitat, by chance, in or near the spotted Owl Preserve?

You DO know that owl's food is rodents?

For the city dwellers, Mice and Squirrels are both rodents.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-07-10 14:16|| 2009-07-10 14:16|| Front Page Top

#4 ...restore more than 1,990 acres comprising three former salt ponds in the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

Alviso and the surrounding area. The stench from that place is amazing.

Posted by Angeck Barnsmell4965 2009-07-10 15:28|| 2009-07-10 15:28|| Front Page Top

#5 No big deal, it's not like California is short of money or something.

Posted by DMFD 2009-07-10 17:19|| 2009-07-10 17:19|| Front Page Top

#6 This sort of thing explains why my Texas uncle classifies "treehuggers" with wild hogs, fire ants, and other varmints.

Posted by mom">mom 2009-07-10 18:36|| 2009-07-10 18:36|| Front Page Top

#7 OTOH, I would support some advance funding for a Bay Area hippy reservation, so we can begin the process of restoring the rest of this scenic region to its natural pre-60s configuration.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-07-10 21:55|| 2009-07-10 21:55|| Front Page Top

#8 "Wetlands restoration projects, such as this one, not only create jobs, but improve the environment,"

The Romans spent resources to drain swamps to remove the source of illness. The first steps of modern sanitation and public health. The Donks spend resources to introduce more breeding grounds for vectors. The problem of 20/21st Century accomplishments is how quick the memory disappears on 'why' we did such things. I'd say a plague on their house, but it looks like they're actively working on that themselves.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-10 22:53|| 2009-07-10 22:53|| Front Page Top

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