Fish Fry...

After some time for R&R, I'm back.

So, apparently, is GW Bush, the man who ran for president in 2000, referring to himself as the "environmental president."

Of course, we all know that that was just one of many lies GW told over the past four years.

But yep, Bush is back, and one month after his apparent re-election, he's also back to trashing the environment and making sure that most of God's creatures, with the exception of white, male, heterosexual homosapiens, become extinct or near-extinct.

Now, it's the salmon of the Pacific Northwest, being hit with a vicious one-two punch.

U.S. Rules Out Dam Removal for Salmon Recovery

A Bush administration decision to eliminate the possibility of removing dams to save endangered U.S. Pacific Northwest salmon species is a huge blow to protection efforts, an environmental group said on Wednesday.

"The decision is a giant setback, essentially it is a plan for extinction," said Todd True, an attorney for the EarthJustice law firm.

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday found that hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Lower Snake rivers were built before a dozen salmon species were listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Therefore they are "pre-existing conditions" and part of the basic environment.

Massive salmon habitat cuts proposed
Bush administration plans more than 80 percent reduction in Northwest

GRANTS PASS, Oregon (AP) -- The Bush administration Tuesday proposed large cuts in federally designated areas in the Northwest and California meant to aid the recovery of threatened or endangered salmon. Protection would focus instead on rivers where the fish now thrive.

The critical habitat designation originally included rivers accessible to salmon, even if no fish occupied them, and covered most of Washington, Oregon and California and parts of Idaho.

Under the federal plan, critical habitats would be cut by more than 80 percent in the Northwest and 50 percent in California -- and more cuts might be ordered based on public comments over the next six months, said Bob Lohn, northwest regional administrator for NOAA Fisheries, the federal agency responsible for saving salmon from extinction.

Large areas could be cut where state and federal habitat protections are already in place, such as national forests and places where the economic benefits of development outweigh the biological benefits of habitat.

After a lawsuit brought by the National Association of Home Builders, the federal agency agreed to reconsider critical habitat designations for 13 groups of threatened or endangered salmon in the Northwest, and seven in California.

The home builders association has been chafing under the costs of getting federal permits for development in wetlands.

Fuck the fish, they ain't people. So they're just not anywhere near as important.

When your kids are eatting genetically modified crap because there isn't anything natural left, you'll be able to thank yourself for being so fucking stupid as to vote for GW Bush, who is determined to destroy this planet morally, economically, and physically, one way or another...