[Vision2020] Walruses

Tue Sep 14 07:35:18 PDT 2010

"Thousands of walruses flee melting sea ice for shore Stampede killing females, children feared; 'no sign of Arctic recovery,' expert says"

Children????  Who in the hell would let teir children go play among walruses? 

Whoever wrote that headline should be kicked. Hard. In the balls, if male.

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> From: "Saundra Lund" <v2020 at ssl.fastmail.fm>
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> Thousands of walruses flee melting sea ice for shore
> Stampede killing females, children feared; 'no sign of Arctic recovery,'
> expert says
> 
> By Seth Borenstein
> AP
> 
> WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in northwest
> Alaska because the sea ice they normally rest on has melted. 
> 
> U.S. government scientists say this massive move to shore by walruses is
> unusual in the United States. But it has happened at least twice before, in
> 2007 and 2009. In those years Arctic sea ice also was at or near record low
> levels.
> 
> The walruses "stretch out for one mile or more. This is just packed
> shoulder-to-shoulder," U.S. Geological Survey biologist Anthony Fischbach
> said in a telephone interview from Alaska. He estimated their number at tens
> of thousands.
> 
> Scientists with two federal agencies are most concerned about the one-ton
> female walruses stampeding and crushing each other and their smaller calves
> near Point Lay, Alaska, on the Chukchi Sea. 
> 
> The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to change airplane flight
> patterns to avoid spooking the animals. Officials have also asked locals to
> be judicious about hunting, said agency spokesman Bruce Woods.
> 
> The federal government is in a year-long process to determine if walruses
> should be put on the endangered species list.
> 
> Fischbach said scientists do not know how long the walrus camp-out will
> last, but there should be enough food for all of them.
> 
> During normal summers, the males go off to play in the Bering Sea, while the
> females raise their young in the Chukchi. The females rest on sea ice and
> dive from it to the sea floor for clams and worms.
> 
> "When they no longer have a place to rest, they need to go some place and
> it's a long commute," Fischbach said. "This is directly related to the lack
> of sea ice."
> 
> Loss of sea ice in the Chukchi this summer has surprised scientists because
> last winter lots of old established sea ice floated into the region, said
> Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder,
> Colo. But that has disappeared.
> 
> Although last year was a slight improvement over previous years, Serreze
> says there's been a long-term decline that he blames on global warming.
> 
> "We'll likely see more summers like this," he said. "There is no sign of
> Arctic recovery."
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> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:21:30 -0700
> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?
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> "What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you
> understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together
> [his actions]?...This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how
> the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of
> which he is now president."
> 
> 
> 
> - Newt Gingrich
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> http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_09/025625.php
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
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> 
> Tom Hansen
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> Moscow, Idaho
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> 
> "Corporations are an oppressed minority forced to move headquarters from
> state to state in search of friendlier tax codes--sometimes being forced to
> live just off our shores in tiny mailboxes." 
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> - John Oliver, The Daily Show
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> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:32:44 -0700
> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> Subject: [Vision2020] The Human Toll
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> Courtesy of the September 20, 2010 edition of the Army Times -
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The following U.S. service members died while supporting Operation New Dawn
> in Iraq, confirmed by the Defense Department from September 3, 2010 through
> September 9, 2010:
> 
> 
> 
> Army Sgt. Philip C. Jenkins, 26, of Decatur, Indiana; assigned to the 1st
> Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Advise and Assist Brigade,
> 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. 
> 
> 
> 
> Army Pvt. James F. McClamrock, 22, of Huntersville, North Carolina; assigned
> to the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Advise and Assist
> Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. 
> 
> 
> 
> September 3, 2010 - September 9, 2010
> 
> Killed: 2; Wounded in action: 5
> 
> 
> 
> March 19, 2003 - September 9, 2010 
> 
> Killed: 4,421; wounded in action: 31,934
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> The following U.S. service members died while supporting Operation Enduring
> Freedom combat operations in Afghanistan, confirmed by the Defense
> Department from September 3, 2010 through September 9, 2010:
> 
> 
> 
> Marine Sgt. Jesse M. Balthaser, 23, of Columbus, Ohio; assigned to the 3rd
> Combat Engineer Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary
> Force, based at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms,
> California.
> 
> 
> 
> Marine Cpl. John C. Bishop, 25, of Columbus, Indiana; assigned to 2nd
> Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary
> Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
> 
> 
> 
> Marine Lance Cpl. Ross S. Carver, 21, of Rocky Point, North Carolina;
> assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II
> Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
> 
> 
> 
> Marine Cpl. Philip G. E. Charte, 22, of Goffstown, New Hampshire; assigned
> to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine
> Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
> 
> 
> 
> Army 1st Lt. Todd W. Weaver, 26, of Hampton, Virginia; assigned to the 1st
> Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st
> Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
> 
> 
> 
> September 3, 2010 - September 9, 2010
> 
> Killed: 5; Wounded in action: 131
> 
> 
> 
> October 10, 2001 - September 9, 2010
> 
> Killed: 1,270; Wounded in action: 7,951
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> National Guard (in Federal Status) and Reserve Activated 
> 
> (as of September 7, 2010)
> 
> 
> 
> <http://www.defense.gov/news/d20100907ngr.pdf>
> http://www.defense.gov/news/d20100907ngr.pdf
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> 
> And the beat goes on . . . 
> 
> 
> 
> Bring 'em Home"
> 
> 
> 
> <http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Bring_em_Home.mp3>
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Bring_em_Home.mp3
> 
> 
> 
> "If you love this land of the free 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> Bring them back from overseas 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> 
> 
> It will make the politicians sad, I know 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> They wanna tangle with their foe 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> 
> 
> They wanna test their grand theories 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> With the blood of you and me 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> 
> 
> Now we'll give no more brave young lives 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> For the gleam in someone else's eyes 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> 
> 
> The men will cheer and the boys will shout 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> Yeah and we will all turn out 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> 
> 
> The church bells will ring with joy 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> To welcome our darlin' girls and boys 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> 
> 
> We will lift our voice and sound 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home 
> 
> Yeah, when Johnny comes marching home 
> 
> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home." 
> 
> 
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> 
> Pro patria, 
> 
> 
> 
> Tom Hansen
> 
> SFC, US Army (Retired)
> 
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> 
> 
> "Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil
> and steady dedication of a lifetime." 
> 
> 
> 
> -- Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.
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