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<EM>"Thousands of walruses flee melting sea ice for shore Stampede killing females, children feared; 'no sign of Arctic recovery,' expert says"</EM><BR>
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<STRONG>Children????</STRONG> Who in the hell would let teir children go play among walruses? <BR>
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Whoever wrote that headline should be kicked. Hard. In the balls, if male.<BR>
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> From: vision2020-request@moscow.com<BR>> Subject: Vision2020 Digest, Vol 51, Issue 48<BR>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:32:58 -0700<BR>> <BR>> Send Vision2020 mailing list submissions to<BR>> vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> <BR>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<BR>> http://mailman.fsr.com/mailman/listinfo/vision2020<BR>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<BR>> vision2020-request@moscow.com<BR>> <BR>> You can reach the person managing the list at<BR>> vision2020-owner@moscow.com<BR>> <BR>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<BR>> than "Re: Contents of Vision2020 digest..."<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Today's Topics:<BR>> <BR>> 1. Thousands of walruses flee melting sea ice for shore<BR>> (Saundra Lund)<BR>> 2. Say What? (Tom Hansen)<BR>> 3. The Human Toll (Tom Hansen)<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> Message: 1<BR>> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:47:24 -0700<BR>> From: "Saundra Lund" <v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm><BR>> Subject: [Vision2020] Thousands of walruses flee melting sea ice for<BR>> shore<BR>> To: "'Vision 2020'" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>> Message-ID: <00c901cb53bf$8bac1280$a3043780$@ssl.fastmail.fm><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"<BR>> <BR>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39157633/ns/us_news-environment/<BR>> <BR>> Thousands of walruses flee melting sea ice for shore<BR>> Stampede killing females, children feared; 'no sign of Arctic recovery,'<BR>> expert says<BR>> <BR>> By Seth Borenstein<BR>> AP<BR>> <BR>> WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in northwest<BR>> Alaska because the sea ice they normally rest on has melted. <BR>> <BR>> U.S. government scientists say this massive move to shore by walruses is<BR>> unusual in the United States. But it has happened at least twice before, in<BR>> 2007 and 2009. In those years Arctic sea ice also was at or near record low<BR>> levels.<BR>> <BR>> The walruses "stretch out for one mile or more. This is just packed<BR>> shoulder-to-shoulder," U.S. Geological Survey biologist Anthony Fischbach<BR>> said in a telephone interview from Alaska. He estimated their number at tens<BR>> of thousands.<BR>> <BR>> Scientists with two federal agencies are most concerned about the one-ton<BR>> female walruses stampeding and crushing each other and their smaller calves<BR>> near Point Lay, Alaska, on the Chukchi Sea. <BR>> <BR>> The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to change airplane flight<BR>> patterns to avoid spooking the animals. Officials have also asked locals to<BR>> be judicious about hunting, said agency spokesman Bruce Woods.<BR>> <BR>> The federal government is in a year-long process to determine if walruses<BR>> should be put on the endangered species list.<BR>> <BR>> Fischbach said scientists do not know how long the walrus camp-out will<BR>> last, but there should be enough food for all of them.<BR>> <BR>> During normal summers, the males go off to play in the Bering Sea, while the<BR>> females raise their young in the Chukchi. The females rest on sea ice and<BR>> dive from it to the sea floor for clams and worms.<BR>> <BR>> "When they no longer have a place to rest, they need to go some place and<BR>> it's a long commute," Fischbach said. "This is directly related to the lack<BR>> of sea ice."<BR>> <BR>> Loss of sea ice in the Chukchi this summer has surprised scientists because<BR>> last winter lots of old established sea ice floated into the region, said<BR>> Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder,<BR>> Colo. But that has disappeared.<BR>> <BR>> Although last year was a slight improvement over previous years, Serreze<BR>> says there's been a long-term decline that he blames on global warming.<BR>> <BR>> "We'll likely see more summers like this," he said. "There is no sign of<BR>> Arctic recovery."<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> Message: 2<BR>> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:21:30 -0700<BR>> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com><BR>> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?<BR>> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>> Message-ID: <001001cb5407$5cf25240$16d6f6c0$@com><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<BR>> <BR>> "What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you<BR>> understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together<BR>> [his actions]?...This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how<BR>> the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of<BR>> which he is now president."<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> - Newt Gingrich<BR>> <BR>> http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_09/025625.php<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> ---------------------<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Seeya round town, Moscow.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Tom Hansen<BR>> <BR>> Moscow, Idaho<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> "Corporations are an oppressed minority forced to move headquarters from<BR>> state to state in search of friendlier tax codes--sometimes being forced to<BR>> live just off our shores in tiny mailboxes." <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> - John Oliver, The Daily Show<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -------------- next part --------------<BR>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>> URL: http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/attachments/20100914/9e9bccd8/attachment-0001.html <BR>> <BR>> ------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> Message: 3<BR>> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:32:44 -0700<BR>> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com><BR>> Subject: [Vision2020] The Human Toll<BR>> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>> Message-ID: <001501cb5408$ee752fc0$cb5f8f40$@com><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<BR>> <BR>> Courtesy of the September 20, 2010 edition of the Army Times -<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> The following U.S. service members died while supporting Operation New Dawn<BR>> in Iraq, confirmed by the Defense Department from September 3, 2010 through<BR>> September 9, 2010:<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Army Sgt. Philip C. Jenkins, 26, of Decatur, Indiana; assigned to the 1st<BR>> Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Advise and Assist Brigade,<BR>> 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Army Pvt. James F. McClamrock, 22, of Huntersville, North Carolina; assigned<BR>> to the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Advise and Assist<BR>> Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> September 3, 2010 - September 9, 2010<BR>> <BR>> Killed: 2; Wounded in action: 5<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> March 19, 2003 - September 9, 2010 <BR>> <BR>> Killed: 4,421; wounded in action: 31,934<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> The following U.S. service members died while supporting Operation Enduring<BR>> Freedom combat operations in Afghanistan, confirmed by the Defense<BR>> Department from September 3, 2010 through September 9, 2010:<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Marine Sgt. Jesse M. Balthaser, 23, of Columbus, Ohio; assigned to the 3rd<BR>> Combat Engineer Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary<BR>> Force, based at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms,<BR>> California.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Marine Cpl. John C. Bishop, 25, of Columbus, Indiana; assigned to 2nd<BR>> Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary<BR>> Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Marine Lance Cpl. Ross S. Carver, 21, of Rocky Point, North Carolina;<BR>> assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II<BR>> Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Marine Cpl. Philip G. E. Charte, 22, of Goffstown, New Hampshire; assigned<BR>> to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine<BR>> Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Army 1st Lt. Todd W. Weaver, 26, of Hampton, Virginia; assigned to the 1st<BR>> Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st<BR>> Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> September 3, 2010 - September 9, 2010<BR>> <BR>> Killed: 5; Wounded in action: 131<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> October 10, 2001 - September 9, 2010<BR>> <BR>> Killed: 1,270; Wounded in action: 7,951<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> National Guard (in Federal Status) and Reserve Activated <BR>> <BR>> (as of September 7, 2010)<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <http://www.defense.gov/news/d20100907ngr.pdf><BR>> http://www.defense.gov/news/d20100907ngr.pdf<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> And the beat goes on . . . <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em Home"<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Bring_em_Home.mp3><BR>> http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Bring_em_Home.mp3<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> "If you love this land of the free <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> Bring them back from overseas <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> It will make the politicians sad, I know <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> They wanna tangle with their foe <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> They wanna test their grand theories <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> With the blood of you and me <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Now we'll give no more brave young lives <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> For the gleam in someone else's eyes <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> The men will cheer and the boys will shout <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> Yeah and we will all turn out <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> The church bells will ring with joy <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> To welcome our darlin' girls and boys <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> We will lift our voice and sound <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home <BR>> <BR>> Yeah, when Johnny comes marching home <BR>> <BR>> Bring 'em home, bring 'em home." <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Pro patria, <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Tom Hansen<BR>> <BR>> SFC, US Army (Retired)<BR>> <BR>> Moscow, Idaho<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> "Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil<BR>> and steady dedication of a lifetime." <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -- Adlai E. 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