{"id":196394,"date":"2008-05-01T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/01\/because-dick-cheney-likes-death\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T23:00:00","slug":"because-dick-cheney-likes-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/01\/because-dick-cheney-likes-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Because Dick Cheney Likes Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Cheney is a busy, busy man.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to outing a CIA agent, authoring torture policy, selling out the nation to oil companies, shooting people in the face, and taking payments from Halliburton, it&#8217;s nice to know that he can still <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/04\/cheneys_office_do_not_save_the.php\">taking time out to kill whales<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Another internal document shows that the officials working for the Vice President also raised spurious objections to the science. According to this document, the Vice President&#8217;s staff &#8220;contends that we have no evidence (i.e., hard data) that lowering the speeds of &#8216;large ships&#8217; will actually make a difference. NOAA rejected these objections, writing that both a statistical analysis of ship strike records and the peer-reviewed literature justified the final rule. In its response to the objections from the Vice President&#8217;s staff, NOAA reported that there is &#8220;no basis to overturn our previous conclusion that imposing a speed limit on large vessels would be beneficial to whales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is there even the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">smallest<\/span> bit of evil that is done by Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#038;trade<\/sup> has to have Cheney&#8217;s finger prints all over this?<\/p>\n<p>I feel like stunned like that cow that just stepped on it&#8217;s own udder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Cheney is a busy, busy man. In addition to outing a CIA agent, authoring torture policy, selling out the nation to oil companies, shooting people in the face, and taking payments from Halliburton, it&#8217;s nice to know that he can still taking time out to kill whales: Another internal document shows that the officials &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1079,969,1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-evil","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}