It is official:THIS never existed

[underpants]

Intriguing huh?



This is an undated photo of a Prebles meadow jumping mouse captured in the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site buffer zone. The Preble's meadow jumping mouse, once seen as a costly impediment to development, is now viewed by the government as a critter that never really existed - and no longer in need of federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. The Interior Department said that new DNA research shows the nine-inch mouse that can launch itself a foot and a half into the air and switch direction in mid-flight is probably identical to another variety of mouse common enough not to need protection. (AP Photo/Boulder Daily Camera, ho)

Jumping Mouse Loses Federal Protection
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/jumping_mouse

Nearly 31,000 acres have been designated critical mouse habitat for the Preble's mouse along streams in Colorado and Wyoming, including large parts of Colorado's Front Range, where sprawl is booming amid the foothills and the prairie. The mouse also has blocked construction of reservoirs despite a continued drought there.

[slor]

1. How could anyone want to hurt...

such a cute little thing? Shit like this is going to make me a misanthropist!

[hippiechick]

2. The scary thing is ....

Pretty soon they'll be telling us that THIS never existed either:

[bread_and_roses]

4. Got that right (n/t)

[BiggJawn]

7. They already are.

Dontcha know? there's a TREASURE MAP on the back of that! I done seen a movie about that!

That's an old image. the current image would have PNAC's shit-stains all over it.

[underpants]

10. $5 says W thinks that is true and is going to sell the rights to it

There's money to be made? It's so simple even I can't screw it up?*


*this was probably said by W pre-Iraq war.

[leftchick]

3. This is only the beginning...

The death and destruction at the direction of the WH** in the next four years is going to be catastrophic. Soon they will be saying the Bald Eagle is the Same as a Golden Eagle...

:(

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Maybe bald eagles are OLD goldens

[Obviousman]

5. Remember, they are not reality based

[Shopaholic]

8. Again--where is the public outrage over this?

How exactly did the people of this country become so blinded to what was really going on and what this administration's true agenda is??

[underpants]

9. The RW will make a joke out of it

The jumping mouse? hahahahaha

[peacetalksforall]

12. Yeah you can just hear the Brit Hume four sneering including CC and

Mora.

[peacetalksforall]

11. I know people who still say that we didn't go to Iraq for oil.

We know there are four overlapping reasons, but earth resources are always at the source of this cabal's existence - whether it is to pave it over or speed through it or to chop it down or to extract it from the earth and own it.

They don't have any flash of sensitivity to the 'religions' of the first inhabitants of this continent - to touch the earth lightly.

[shadowknows69]

13. of course we didn't go for oil

our gas would be cheaper if that were the case right?

[underpants]

14. Hell THEIR gas would be cheaper

Peter Jennings has been reporting from Iraq all week and last night he was in the South and they have to wait for DAYS to get gas.