Found here. Short version: now that the subsidies are drying up they’re killing those wind farms with fire. Also, Watchdog.org will in fact edit out my hysterical laughter on this topic. Good to know.
Tag: wind farms
Richard Nixon saved endangered birds; @BarackObama has ’em killed in job lots.
Kind of odd, don’t ya think?
40 Years Ago Today — Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act: http://t.co/e0ATIUWtUT
— Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) December 28, 2013
Say what you like about Tricky Dick, but at least he didn’t put the needs of crony capitalists above endangered species. Unlike Barack Obama, who’s all Keep those Scythes of Spinning Death humming there, me boyos!
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Wind Farms: Bald Eagle Killers (God help us, there’s a video).
I don’t know where Breitbart.com got this one. Of course, I also don’t know how they found Socialist Realism Bald Eagle for the main picture, but that’s just funny. This is alarming:
(It was also autoloading)
There were a lot of opportunities for Dark Humor in that video, but possibly the worst part was when the hapless zoo spokeswoman had to try to justify the whole thing in the name of scientific research. Madam, I believe that the hypothesis Eagles can as a species learn to get out of the way of rotating scythes of death has been definitively disproved at this point…
Moe Lane
PS: It’s not like the damned wind farms are particularly cost-effective, either. There’s a reason why they’re subsidized to a fare-thee-well.
The Obama administration IS TRYING TO KILL THE CALIFORNIA CONDOR.
What. The. Hell?
OK. Very quickly: this is a short video about the California Condor.
To summarize said video: they are an incredibly endangered species of bird whose ugliness on the ground and up close is easily matched by their beauty in the sky. And I mean incredibly endangered: there are about 300 of them left*. This is… this is one of the birds that the environmentalists are trying to keep alive, all right? As in, some of the more radical ones are prepared to lose fingers if that’s what it’d take. And I’m not criticizing! I don’t mind making a little room for the damn condors! The Greenies can win this one!
So I don’t get what the heck is going on in the Obama administration’s decision-making process, here: Continue reading The Obama administration IS TRYING TO KILL THE CALIFORNIA CONDOR.