Chertoff Waives Environmental Laws for Border Fence (Action Item)
As explained yesterday in Voteharder's diary, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff is imposing a blanket waiver of environmental and land management laws along 470 miles of the U.S./Mexico border so the...
View ArticleHelp Stop the Poaching of U.S. Bears
Earth Day is officially marked tomorrow, April 22, but we are constantly reminded that every day should be Earth Day when the environment and particular species are threatened. Here is yet another...
View ArticleIdaho will slaughter 428 wolves this year unless you help
I want to make a plea for people of conscience to support a federal lawsuit by 12 prominent conservation groups to challenge the federal governments delisting of gray wolves from the Endangered Species...
View ArticleStop being distracted by the XX! ~(video heavy diary)
Please everyone, stop being distracted by the two X chromosomes that are now on the republican ticket. John McCain's Vice Presidential pick is the exact opposite of putting "Country First". He...
View ArticlePalin Paid $150 to Murder Wolves
Defenders of Wildlife Asks Judge to Shut Down Palin's Wolf Bounty Program"The Governor is overstepping her legal authority by offering cash payments for each wolf killed by aerial gunners," stated Tom...
View Articlemurder of innocents
I don't need to mention her name again. I do believe that we are spending too much time on the prospective vp. And then I took a peek at docudharma and found a link to this...
View ArticlePalin's Cruel Streak
You might have heard last summer about Mitt Romney’s strapping his dog to his roof on family vacations, which created a bit of a kerfuffle in the primary campaign last summer. But we haven’t heard too...
View ArticleDefenders of Wildlife Endorses Obama - Slam Palin for Her Savagery
Gang -- Ben Smith at the Politico notes:An unusual, gruesome new ad, which the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, which just endorsed Obama, says is airing in swing states, attacks Sarah Palin for...
View ArticleDefenders of Wildlife goes after Palin w/ shocking ad
This is an ad by Defenders of Wildlife that is going up in Ohio. This is a very effective ad that I think is what has been missing during this campaign. Perhaps we will see more hard hitting ads from...
View ArticleFUR RAGE! Hit Palin the Wolf Killer Hard with $40
Americans may or may not punish the McCain/Palin ticket for lying to them, pandering to them, dragging our democracy further into the mud.Most people probably aren't moved enough by issues, even the...
View ArticleWolf Ad Is Working Updated With Links
Source: Media CurvesAfter viewing a recent ad on "Palin's Wildlife Record" published by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, a national focus group consisting of 312 self-reported Democrats, Republicans...
View ArticleWolfsbane: The Wider Implications of Aerial Hunting
I am not an adept diarist. Often I am awestruck by the sheer level of hyper-competence exhibited by those who diary here regularly. My own few diaries tend to the lighter side – mere fluff, rather...
View Article2008: No tolerance, no excuses, no swearing.
They year started off with a bang, when the Chicago Sun-Times ran a front page photo of Clinton and Obama and the word “Race.” The photo was unmistakably Photoshopped— Hillary had bright red lipstick...
View ArticlePalin thinks opposing aerial wolf hunting is "fringe"
You want to know how far Sarah Palin is from the mainstream? Apparently she thinks that speaking out against hunting wolves from airplanes is an "extreme fringe" position.Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R)...
View ArticleSarah Palin: Poster Girl for Enemy of the Environment?
Governor Sarah Palin has released a public statement attacking the mainsteam environmental organization Defenders of Wildlife as "an extreme fringe group."She has done so in response to an ad featuring...
View ArticleBorder Wall Impact Documented by Conservation Photographers
As some Kossacks know, I normally write diaries about issues that concern the National Wildlife Refuge System, and one issue that has fallen under the radar lately is the impact that the border wall is...
View ArticleKen Salazar Approves Wolf Hunt in Northern Rockies
Well, I knew Ken Salazar was a mistake for Interior Secretary, because as a rancher, he's been more like a republican than a democrat. That mistake is confirmed in yesterday's alert from Defenders of...
View ArticlePalin increases her war on the Wolves with Poisonous Gas!
Last Fall I became involved with Defenders of Wildlife,, when it became news that Palin was promoting the killing of Wolves from airplanes. That was one donation that I made that truly made me feel...
View Article'Hundreds of Wolves will be shot in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho starting...
A good friend of mine who is on the board of 'Defenders of Wild Life' is frantically sending out the following email to everyone she knows, trying to stop this bill (written by Bush administration), a...
View ArticleSarah Palin's Alaska?
This is old news which needs to be rehashed because of the moral corruption involved here. As we all are fully aware of, the folks at The Discovery Channel are planning on producing a series of...
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