I'm not happy about them being endangered either.

He's just pissed because he can't build a bridge to see them.

Quick! Everyone send Ted Stevens an internet and tell him to STFU.

Drunked up?

They all died from drinking Coca Cola and eating fishbiscuits. The polar bear equivalent of diet soda and Mentos.

Sleeping Monkey: If Ted Stevens is against it, it must be a good thing.

Maybe he'll get so upset he'll have a massive stroke and will never be able to come out of his oil-company built house.

/one can hope

We can float the bears on tubes!!

Imagine that, Environmentalists (aka liberals) distorting facts and using fear mongering for political gain! Gee Golly, that's never happened before!

jimibrooks: Drunked up?


I guess it's what happens after one drinked up 2 or 3 six packs.

Sleeping Monkey: If Ted Stevens is against it, it must be a good thing.

Comments like this make me want to punch babies. You know that Pork-Barrel bridge-to-nowhere plan for Ketchikan that everyone likes to mouth-breathe over in regards to Stephens´ pork? It´s a bridge to an international airport, which is always conveniently left out. Ted Stevens is a fine senator, and the only thing keeping Alaska´s infrastructure from abjectly falling apart.

/I side with the locals, in regards to domestic politics

getting drunked up and chasing them on snowmobiles


I pictured a polar bear riding a snowmobile, and chortled.

I love every time Ted Stevens talks. He is the "Joker" of our empire. Unfortunately he also has some power.

Quick everyone! Stop sending pictures of polar bears to each other over the Internet! They're getting stuck in the tubes!

Ted Stevens reportedly looking for a giant truck to dump the carcasses in.

fta via Stevens- "Scientists have observed that there are now three times as many polar bears in the Arctic than there were in the 1970s."

Anyone know where the source of this info may have come from?

Sounds like a report from the Making Crap Up University Department of Science offhand, but hey, I'm willing to see the bibliography.

threatened doesn't exactly mean endangered.

Polar bears aren't endangered. There's an etimated 20K+ of them running around up there. The whole thing is based on what could possibly happen to the habitat assuming the ice melts over the next 50 years.

If I remember correctly, the call them Snow Machines in Alaska, and they get a little stabby if you call it a snowmobile.
Maybe not stabby, but you'll get the "outsider" sneer.

At least that's how I remembered it when I lived up there.

/I could be wrong
//I drank a lot more back then
///Arctic slashies!

They were listed as "threatened" not "endangered". Two different things.

Eat a bag of dicks, subby.

Love the strategically placed Polar Bear statuettes...

"This is the California extreme environmentalists who've decided to use the polar bear as an example of global warming. They're gonna say this is global warming. It has nothing to do with global warming. This is a concept called climate change. It is a concept of a process that's been going on for years....This species is not endangered."

Thats funny, cause I thought global warming WAS climate change.

Ted Stevens sucks donkey balls. He is an oil company whore. Along with Frank "the skank" murkowski, his daughter and oh yea Don I shoot caribou oout of season Young.

don't you know that polar bears are the most dangerous member of the animal kingdom?

The beauty of marking polar bears as threatened is that now you can use the endangered species laws to stop any kind of industrial activity anywhere in the world (where the law applies, of course ;-)). Anything that can be argued to contribute to global warming is a danger to the polar bears! OMG! Time to ban cars.

You thought oil was expensive now, didn't you? Just wait...

Excen: It´s a bridge to an international airport, which is always conveniently left out.

IIRC, It's a bridge to an international airport that is currently being adequately serviced by a ferry system. As catchy of a moniker as a "bridge to nowhere" is, the problem was not so much the bridge's destination as it was the bridge's superfluousness combined with cost.

"The problem isn't too serious right now. Sure, it's heading that way, but that's like 50 years away. We don't need to even think about this for at least 40 or 45 years, right?"

Nice logic, Alaskans.
What's the saying about an ounce of prevention?

I don't usually get "drunked up" I get drunk and well the chasing polar bears part it's aight, but got old after I found out that they can kill you. Go figure

Staypuft_Mushmallow_Manz: threatened doesn't exactly mean endangered.

THIS

Fun Fact:

Polar bear fur isn't white, it's clear.

Hey, this is a natural order of things. Survival of the fittest and all right?

/Darwin

vernonFL - The ice is melting now. If it keeps melting at this rate, then yes in 50 years the bears and lots of other critters will have serious problems.

That's a big if though. There must be far better ways to go about achieving the overall goal. Putting polar bears on the endangered list is nothing more than a pre-emptive strike to what might happen.

The Homer Tax Fun Fact:

Polar bear fur isn't white, it's clear.

Polar Bears actually enjoy human meat and will hunt for it

/Don't know how they know that
//but I read it so it has to be true

The Homer Tax - Fun Fact:

Polar bear fur isn't white, it's clear.

Fun fact #2:

Polar bears have black skin.

abuttino: I love every time Ted Stevens talks. He is the "Joker" of our empire. Unfortunately he also has some power.

And along with rep Young is a congressman for life.
AK, you need to seriously impose term limits.
These two jokers have been AK's congressman during my entire lifespan so far.

/used to get drunked up and chase moose, no polar bears around Anchor-town.

masterskip: They all died from drinking Coca Cola and eating fishbiscuits. The polar bear equivalent of diet soda and Mentos.

Ahh, Fishbiscuits. The highlight of the past 3 seasons of Lost.


Wasn't there a report the other day that Polar Bear numbers were up? I may be mistaken about that, but this whole "their habitat is shrinking" so they must be all dead or dying reasoning is a little soft.

It protects the bears from hunting, so I'm all for it.

Polar Bear (pops). I think he just heard he's part of a dying species.

Excen: Ted Stevens is a fine senator

OMGWTFLOL.