Enviro-Weenie Update
This is CNN:
Amy and Steve LeSatz want to be able to teach their clients the finer points of riding and roping without having to trailer their animals 25 miles to the nearest public indoor arena whenever the weather turns miserable.
But the LeSatzes aren't able to build their own riding arena. The only decent site on their property in southeastern Wyoming lies within 300 feet of Chugwater Creek, and building there is far too expensive because of Endangered Species Act restrictions intended to protect the Preble's meadow jumping mouse.
"The mouse that doesn't exist," Amy LeSatz noted drily.
After six years of regulations and restrictions that have cost builders, local governments and landowners on the western fringe of the Great Plains as much as $100 million by some estimates, new research suggests the Preble's mouse in fact never existed. It instead seems to be genetically identical to one of its cousins, the Bear Lodge meadow jumping mouse, which is considered common enough not to need protection.
Matt's Chat
How 'bout that!? We're protecting animals that don't exist... Money well spent...Mark's Remarks
Yes, more useless, intrusive, hindering, out and out stupid overregulation by the federal government, courtesy of the same people who teach evolution (you know, the idea of natural selection, only the adaptable survive) who at the same time want to manipulate things to keep species alive, just to show how awesome they are.
The hypocrisy of their position continues to amaze me.
It is my opinion that while we should not purposely destroy habitats, that we humans were placed in dominion over the animals (in my opinion, by God) if only by the fact that we are the most evolved. We should use the resources to our best ability and be stewards, not psycho-enviro weenies who would rather see humans suffer than some non-existent freakin' mouse!
