"ahem"

considering Canada seems to enjoy following the US in most everything it does, we really should start watching out for lunatics like this
again from this website


The Bottom Line

Tons of additional air pollutants permitted to be released by 2020 under Bush's "Clear Skies" plan:
42 million
Estimated number of premature deaths that will result:
100,000
Estimated amount that Clear Skies-related health problems will cost taxpayers, per year:
$115 billion
Days after Bush took office that he reneged on his campaign promise to regulate CO2 emissions from power plants:
53
Days after the U.S. Geological Survey released a 12-year study indicating that drilling in the Arctic Refuge would pose "significant harm to wildlife" that the agency reversed itself:
7
Years that the Bush administration says global warming must be further studied before substantive action can be taken:
5
Number of members of the 63-person energy advisory team Bush convened early in his administration who did not have ties to corporate energy interests:
1
Amount that energy team members gave to Republican candidates in the 2000 election:
$8 million
Percentage of "replacement wetlands" developers are required to create that end up failing, according to the General Accounting Office:
80
Area, in acres, of wetlands, lakes, and streams opened to development under a proposal to end federal oversight of "isolated waters":
20 million
Area, in acres, of Lake Superior:
20.3 million
Estimated acres of public land the administration announced in April it will open to logging, road building, and mining:
220 million
Acreage of California and Texas, combined:
267 million
Number of snowmobiles allowed in Yellowstone National Park this winter, per day:
1,100
Percentage of the 360,000 public comments received by the Park Service that were against repealing the Clinton-era ban on snowmobiles in the park:
80
Percentage of Superfund cleanup costs paid for by corporate polluters in 1996:
82
Percentage that will be paid for by taxpayers under Bush's 2004 budget:
79
Amount at which the EPA historically valued each human life when conducting economic analyses of proposed regulations:
$6.1 million
Amount the EPA considers each person worth as of 2003:
$3.7 million
Average annual number of species added to the Endangered and Threatened Species list between 1991 and 2000:
68.4
Number voluntarily added by the Bush administration since taking office:
0
Grade Bush received on the League of Conservation Voters' 2002 presidential report card:
D-
Grade he received in 2003:
F


Sources: Center for Responsive Politics, Clear the Air, Department of the Interior, Earthjustice, General Accounting Office, League of Conservation Voters, National Park Service, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
© 2003 The Foundation for National Progress


bastard!

Interesting tidbit, the movie Casshern is basically the updated and live action movie of the 1970's anime of the same name. The anime is cooler because the main hero Casshern (guy kicking the robots ass) has a transforming robot dog... kind of like Rush from Megaman... I have way too much time...

Thanks for bringing up that male or female variable. I suppose it would have to be the sex that is the most adept at fighting/hunting. So I suppose the fight would have to be between two females if they do the all the hunting. Another thing darn you Tony! I saw the trailer for Casshern and bow I want to see it. This is the exact same thing like with Versus! The story is some post-apocalyptic humanity dying story. Some scientists creates mutant "neo-humans" and they run amok and try to take over the world. Those robots are fighting for the "normal" humans and trying to bring down the mutants. Anyway robots, "Neo-humans", post-apocalypse...stir in a big pot, add crazy Japanese directing and you get Casshern.

do they have to fight? I mean, what's the gain for them? I suppose the area isn't too huge, but still, a whole square mile? That's fairly large... yes, not large enough for most large territorial animals, but it could work...

Anyway, my bet's with the tiger too. That mane could work to a serious disadvantage for the lion. And besides, if it is two males fighting (the most territorial option, I'd think), it's usually the female lions who do the most hunting/killing and therefore the guy's at a disadvantage in this fight to the death, not just the fight for territory (which often doesn't kill).

hmm... had something else to say... oh well, I'll post again if I remember

Lion Vs Tiger

First post of the day! Look I'm actually using my real name for once. Any ways here is a question for everyone to answer. If a lion and a tiger were thrown together in a fight to the death who would win? This question is based off a documentry that is soon coming on the discovery channel called Lion Vs Tiger. My money would be on the tiger because tigers are meaner, stonger, and more ferocious. Well I wait for your reply. To make the situation more debatable I'll put the fight conditions down.

1)Fight takes place in a cube shaped room with a base of 1 mile squared.
2)Room is empty ie. no trees, grass, basically no animal gets a terrain advantage.
3)Floor of the room is flat
4)Winner is the one that survies no matter how badly injured.
5)Loser is the animal which is dead! There brain doesn't work, blood isn't flowing they are basically a lawn ornament.

well I hope everyone has a nice day!

I miss the comfort in being sad

And this i know his teeth as white as snow

I miss the comfort in being sad

DUDE... c'mon! Now is SO not the time to be making fun of the Mars rovers! It's in poor taste (no dasani pun intended) to belittle one of the most amazing discoveries of our lifetimes; the confirmed existence of salt-water on Mars and the understanding that it once harboured seas and waterways and very possibly LIFE. This spells certain advancement for the space program and a new field of space-study that makes me giddy like a catholic schoolboy in the head-nun's office... EXTRATERRESTRIAL/MARTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY!!!!!!!!

This has been the best week of my life. Except for those damn Oilers fucking it up in OT tonight.



...and in other news, Kunal convinces some chick he owns the Red Planet. Oh wait, that wasn't funny, right.

interesting commentary cartoon on the American (and likely soon to follow Canadian) education system.

plus this is just such a good site to begin with.

... and E, don't forget the E