OldSchool

Does anyone know the whereabouts of OJ Simpson??????

cuda

That made me bust out laughing!

Dean Ferry

Here's what the $MC had to say about the recent Manatee Downlisting by the FFWCC! Man, they are PANICKING about losing their jobs!

This is straight from there website!


Commission Ignores Public Outcry and
Downlists Manatees in Florida
For more information please contact:



Patrick Rose, Save the Manatee Club, 850-570-1373

Laurie MacDonald, Defenders of Wildlife, 727-823-3888

Martha Collins, attorney for the groups, 727-643-7746



For Immediate Release: June 8, 2006

On June 7, the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) at its regular quarterly meeting in West Palm Beach, Florida, ignored public outcry and unanimously voted to downlist manatees from “Endangered” status to “Threatened” over the objections of numerous scientists and manatee advocates. Seventeen conservation, animal welfare, and public interest groups from Florida and around the nation have filed a legal petition with the FWC, urging the state to revise its imperiled species classification system and also asking the agency to delay any species’ reclassifications, like the manatee’s, that recommended a lesser status of imperilment.

The action of the FWC may prevent the actual recovery of the manatee population and the conservation community fears that the same fate may await other at-risk species in Florida like the northern right whale, Florida panther, and Florida black bear.


The $MC can kiss my a$$, they are more worried about their cushy jobs going away, then they are about the Manatee!
Dean

CigDaze

Where do they come up with this sht? Everyone I talk to is fed up and sick and tired of hearing about manatees. They're more worried about their homes, their cities and their rights to the water, not the goddamned manatee.

That's some shtty journalism right there:
- "public outcry" [what about the other side - public rejoice]
- "the objections of numerous scientists and manatee advocates." [no sht, of course advocates are pissed - what about human advocates rejoicing]

Edward R. Cozzi

Let's face it.

Idle zones, seatbelt laws, HOV lanes,...all revenue generators. The Man doesn't give a fiddler's fukk about us...just our money.

David

Let's see: Manatee, as in "West Indian Manatee"? To me, this indicates the the manatee is not native to this country's waterways. Why then is it not treated in the same manner as any other pest species that has infested other bodies of water? Also, since the species is "native" to the West Indies, why not deport them, as they should, like any other "illegal" aliens that abuse the resources of the taxpayer.

Shorgasm

It's a fat bastard that provides more fat lazy bastards a means of money.....kinda like the gubment.

Shane

Dean Dean Dean....how MANY times must I tell you that confusing things with the FACTS does nothing to support a hidden agenda. I think it is time you take the following college courses:

Liberal Agendas and the media 101

How to manipulate public opinion with completely false and fabricated data 201

If you are not as successful as you want to be, how to make everyone else's life miserable 301.

Perhaps then you will have a heightened level of understanding as do these self righteous liberals.

Shane

I have a fairly simple question....if you fit a manatee with an outdrive or outboard, hard enough to inflict the damage supposedly done, would you not sustain SIGNIFICANT damage to the boat, drive and prop? This alone should raise significant doubt as to the "club's" claims. Hey POWERBOAT MAG! Why not right an article on why the SMC should heralded as the savior of the sea!? You guys in Cali. are just nuts as these freaks in Florida! NIT WITS!

gdfatha

Doesn't the timing indicate a set-up???

First a report downgrading the manatees...

THEN shortly after three are "discoverd " injured/killed/dead???

Looks phony to me...