http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5260493



Okay, as most of you know, I'm a very conservative gun-loving Virginia boy, but the one issue that I most often side with the granola-crunchers on is the environment and the preservation of wild areas, our national foresets, and endangered species. I find the premise of this article to be absolutely absurd. The flooding is not the work of the unstoppable forces of nature, the damage not a reflection of the inability of the corps to contain the flood nor a result of bad planning or even global warming. The flood, my friends, is the work of the dastardly muskrat!



The current irony is that even as we finally begin to accept the reality of global warming, our insatiable need for energy and other natural resources will increasingly put us in an adversarial position with nature as we seek to harvest every last forest, obliterate every mountain in a quest for coal, and remove every last drop of precious oil from beneath our oceans and wild areas.



I'm not for a minute saying that muskrats are endangered. I'm not even denying that the notion of a muskrat destroying the levee could be true. I just think it's damn funny.

personally i think we need to stick with our war on the environment, we can win, to reduce emissions, find other energy sources would simply be a cut and run. we're america, we don't give up no matter what the cost.

Have a couple rotary guys idle their TII's in the field over there that should cut the population of anything living.

As much as I agree we need to change our ways to save the world, we can't. And until we have reasonably-priced alternative energy, I have no problem obliterating the Earth to rape every last drop of oil from it. By the time it's all gone I'll be dead anyway. I'm not having kids, so **** Y'ALL!

it seems like it rains at sevenstock. LA in the summer + 300 uncorked rotaries + the 2 stock ones + and 75repu! = rain

Mmm that special rain that makes plants die!